<TITLE>15. Par 132-143</TITLE>L-132   She had an opportunity presented to her. She remembered a story that someone told her. Another woman of her trade, one time, up in--in Samaria, the city of Sychar, had been forgiven of every sin. And she realized that that might be an opportunity for her. So how is she going to get to Him now? She seen He was needy, and she wanted to serve Him, and couldn't get to Him. That's about the way it is. So she thought, "What can I do? He has no anointing. His feet is dirty. Nobody is paying any attention. Oh, if I could only get in there!" That's the real penitent heart. "If I could only get to it!" Now, she think, get...

L-133 Her mind catches something. "You know what I believe I'll do? I know."

L-134   Down the street she goes, just as quick as she can, down through the alley, up this old creaky steps, and opens the door. Goes in there and gets a--a stocking top, you know, and pulls it out, counts how much money she's got. She said, "I, is that enough to buy some anointing oil? Let's see if it is. There's twenty pieces of Roman Denarii. Perhaps that's enough. But, wait, I can't do that. He's a prophet, and He'll know where I got that money. He'll know how I got it. I just can't do it." So, she perhaps laid it back, again.

L-135 And when she laid it back, there was something kept speaking to her heart. "But would you let Him set there dirty, like that? Would you let the only Man that can take away your sins, set dirty, when you can give Him service?"
So she says to herself, "Whether He knows or not, I'm going."

L-136 And down the street she went and run into a store where there's a little old hooked-nosed fellow setting in there. "And, well, what do you want in here?"

L-137 She said, "I want the best alabaster ointment that you got. Not the cheapest, I want the best." She had a special reason.

L-138 And that's what we ought to do. We ought to give Him our best, everything we are, our youthful life, not wait till we're old and dying. Give the best we got, to Him.

L-139 And there she got the very best. He went up, said, "Let's see how much money that is. Have you got the money, first." He knew her, also. So he said... Yes, she had the money. "So, where you going with this?"
"I have it for a special occasion."

L-140   So, she goes up. Now, she has no invitation. But how is she going to get in? But, somehow, if you want to do a service for Jesus, He'll make a way for you to get in. Somehow or another, she got in.

L-141 And there was Jesus setting there, yet. And she happened to think when she got in there, her heart beating real fast, "Oh, my! What if He'd happen to turn me down?" There's a lot of things to think about. "What if He'd come up here and say, 'Say, you foul woman, what are you doing here in My Presence? Know ye not that I'm the Son of God? You shouldn't be here in My Presence'?" Her heart had almost failed. And she thought, "What can I do? But I've got to get to Him. I can't pass this time. This may be the last opportunity I'll have." And it might be yours, too. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]

L-142   Looked down, and her heart begin to swell up. She--she knowed she was in His Presence. There is something happens when you get in His Presence. She noticed the tears begin to fall off of her cheeks. And she was standing there, shaking, with this box in her hand. And--and she fell down at His feet. And she thought, "I can't look up. I'm so guilty and dirty, I can't look up." So she started crying. They begin to fall upon His feet. And she begin to wash them, like that, with her hands; wipe, trying to wipe the tears off of His feet, and washing His feet with her tears. And after while...

L-143   She didn't have no towel to--to wipe His feet with. So, her hair was hanging down, and she begin to wipe His feet with the hair that was on her head.


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