<TITLE>24. Par 165-181</TITLE>L-165   One time standing in the midst, where another man a few days later went and got a buddy around the mountain, about fifteen miles from where they was preaching, brought him back the next day. He was standing there amongst, and come up to where Jesus was. Jesus looked around, He was God, see, He had discernment. That showed that, see, making the Word right, He proved the Word.
Now, some of them say, "You know, that man's the Word."

L-166 "Nonsense," them priests said, "that guy ain't. No. That ain't the Word."

L-167 Said, "You know what the Scripture says, 'The Lord our God shall raise up a prophet like unto Moses.' And that's Him. Listen at Him."

L-168 Well, He said, "You're, behold, an Israelite, in whom there's no guile."
This fellow said, "Rabbi, when did You know me?"

L-169 He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." He knowed who would believe It.

L-170 He said, "Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God. You are the Word." Jesus proved He was the Word, by the Word.

L-171   Notice the little woman at the well. She was looking for a Messiah. She had nothing to do with their big crowds and denominations, and so forth, they had in them days. She was looking for the Word. So a Man, one time, sitting over there, an ordinary Man, sitting over against the way, said--said, "Woman, bring Me a drink."

L-172 She said, "Now, wait a minute, He's probably trying to get fresh with me," she might have thought in heart, 'cause she was marked a woman of ill fame. Said, "Why, You have... Why do You ask me a question like that? We got segregation here. You're--You're--You're just a... You're a Jew, we're Samaritans, not... it's not custom, it's not right for You to ask me like that." See?

L-173 He said, "Woman, if you knew who were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink."

L-174 She said, "You, for a drink? I don't even see a bucket or a rope. How would You ever give me any water from this well?"
He said, "That's not the well I was talking about." See?

L-175 After a while, she said, "This is a strange Fellow." So she started letting the water pot up, pulling.

L-176 Said, "Well, the water that I give would be springs of water, geysers, gushing up into Eternal Life, and in your soul."

L-177   "Well," she said, "now, wait a minute, I--I understand, You being a Jew." Said, "Now, you Jews," said, "You mean to tell me that You're greater than our father, Jacob, who dug this well?" He was the God of Jacob. See? Said, "Do You mean that You are greater than--than Jacob, that dug this well?" An ordinary Man, see, looked like. That's all you seen, an ordinary man. Said, "You say You're greater than our father, Jacob, who dug the well, and he drank from it himself, and his cattle? Well, we are just blessed by drinking this well where that prophet digged."
He said, "Uh-huh," He said.
"And we worship in this mountain. You say 'at Jerusalem.'"

L-178 He said, "Salvation is of the Jew, woman, we know what we're talking about." He said, "You worship you don't know what." A Jew's suppose to know the Word, see, how It was suppose to be. But, see, He was watching now. Why? He's going to... What is He going to do? Prove His Word. See? Why, she said... He said, "By the way, go get your husband and come here."
And she said, "I don't have any husband."

L-179 "Why," He said, "you've told the truth, see, because you've had five, and the one you now have is not your husband." See? Watch! Something happened, see, something took Life. Now, if it hadn't a-been in there to begin with, if she hadn't a-had representation from predestination, it'd a-never took hold.

L-180   There stood priests there, said, "This man is Beelzebub." See, no representation.

L-181 Eternal Life, "you always was." See, you have Eternal Life, there's only one form of it, that's God. You were His attribute, He thought of you and knowed you before the foundation of the world, in His mind. See?


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