<TITLE>10. Par 114-125</TITLE>L-114   Now, the Gentiles, we Gentiles, we Anglo-Saxon, we wasn't even looking for no Messiah; we were heathens, with clubs on our back, we were worshiping idols. But both Jew and Samaritan was looking for a Messiah.

L-115 And He only comes to those who are looking for Him. Bear that in mind through this meeting, He will only meet those who are looking for Him!

L-116   Finally, then He is need... was going to Jericho one day, and had need go by Samaria, that's up around the mountains. He got down to the place... Now, we seen Him identify Hisself as the Messianic, showing His Messianic sign, and they blasphemed it, so He need go by Samaria. They was looking for a Messiah, too. So He came to a city called Sychar, along about twelve o'clock.

L-117 The well, still there, they just sit down by it, just outside the city gate. Where, the public pump, they all come to get their water; it isn't a pump, they just let it down with a windle and draw out the water. And they have them big jars, do it yet today. And talk about a balance, some of you women walking with books on your head? You ought to see how them women can put a five-gallon jar on top of their head, and one on each hip; and just walk along, talk, and balancing it just as perfect.

L-118   And going down, along about eleven o'clock in the day, when they got there around noon, and He sent the disciples into the city to buy victuals.

L-119 And there was a woman in the city, of ill fame, she wasn't allowed to be with the rest of the women, so she came out to the well to get her portion of water. And when she was about to let the waterpot down, she looked, sitting over against the wall, at a Man that spoke to her, said, "Woman, bring Me a drink."

L-120 Now, they had straight segregation, Jews and--and Samaritans. And she let Him know, right quick, that--that it wasn't customary for a Man of His type to ask a woman of her, Samaritan, any favor, because the Jews and Samaritans had no feeling one for the other, had no things in common. He said, "But if you knew Who you were talking to, you would ask Me for a drink, and I would give you water you don't come here to draw."

L-121   What was He doing? Contacting the woman's spirit. He was a prophet. And the discussion was whether they should worship in Jerusalem or in the mountain. He said, "The Father seeks those to worship in Spirit and Truth."

L-122 And He went on till He found what the woman's trouble was. He went right down till He found her trouble. We all know what it was, who reads the Bible, Saint John 4. What did we find? She had too many husbands. He said, "Go get your husband and come here."
She said, "I don't have any husband."
He said, "Thou has said the truth, for you've had five."

L-123 Look at the difference to that little woman and those priests in that day. She said, "Sir, I perceive that Thou art a prophet. Now we haven't had one for four hundred years. I perceive that You are a prophet. We know when the Messiah cometh, this is the thing He'll do." Is that right? "He will show us these things. He will tell us this."
He said, "I am He, that speaks with you."

L-124   Just an ordinary Man sitting there, just thirty years old; probably looked fifty, 'cause they had just said, in Saint John 6, "You're a Man not over fifty years old, and say You've seen Abraham, now we know You got a devil."
But He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM."

L-125 And, yeah, there He was, just a young fellow, probably graying a little in his beard, His work; His human body was frail, "no beauty we should desire Him," an old badger skin again; but what was on the inside of it was Shekinah, what was on the inside of it was God. God! What was it? There He was identified, the Word of God, knowing the secret of their heart. See, that was the Word of God. He was the Word of God.


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