<TITLE>18. Par 176-191</TITLE>L-176 But that little woman was better versed in the Scripture than any of the priests. She said, "Sir, I perceive that You're a prophet. We haven't had one for four hundred years, since in Malachi. But," said, "we have looked for one, and we know there is one coming, the Messiah. And when He comes, this will be what He will do."
Jesus said, "I am He." Amen.

L-177 Did you notice, she left her bucket at Jacob's cistern, run down into the city; full of an artesian well! She had seen it perfectly vindicated, and He was that Fountain of Life. Let me introduce her to you. She left that; when He was proved to be the Word of Life. She left it; and had discovered that the same Rock, that was smitten in the wilderness, was proven to be present then.

L-178   Let me say, that same God that was in the days gone by, that we speak so much of, He is present here now; not by some theological understanding, but by a personal knowledge of His vindication that He would pour out in this last days, the Holy Spirit upon His church. He is not an "I was." He is still the "I AM," present tense, always.

L-179 Then the cistern lost its taste. And so does every man who ever falls into the power of God, by the baptism of the Holy Ghost, the denominational systems lose their taste. You don't want no more of that stagnated frogs, and lizards, and bugs, and so forth. You're drinking from a Fountain that's fresh and pure, the Word of God, fresh every hour in your soul. The same as now, when the Word has been proven to be the Truth, taste and see if it's not right.

L-180 Though the cistern had served its well, served its time well; but, you see, the Fountain of Life was there, not Jacob's well no more, for spiritual drinking. What they thought, if they drank from that well, why, it would be all right; but now the Fountain of Life Itself was sitting there.

L-181   Now we don't need systems and organizations that we had. We're at the end time. And God promised, in this end time, the things that He would do. And we see it fulfilled, to the Word. We hear the man of military might, stand up, and shivering, and saying, they, "Something is fixing to happen." We feel the Holy Spirit warning us that something is fixing to happen. We see everything set in order. Then, leave that system and come to the Fountain. Yes, sir.

L-182 Served its purpose, but now she was face to face with the Fountain Itself.

L-183   In John 7:37-38, Jesus said in the last days of the feast of the tabernacle (what did He say?), "If any man thirst, let him come to Me, and drink." Right in a bunch of theologians! "If any man thirst, let him come to Me, and drink. For the Scriptures has said, out of His innermost being shall flow rivers of living Water."

L-184 There's the living Fountain. That's the Fountain that the people has forsaken today. For the creed, they have forsaken the Fountain of living Water. Let me introduce you to Him. He, to me... And I'm closing.

L-185 He, to me, is that Fountain that saved Hagar's life, and the child, when they were dying in the wilderness.

L-186 I believe He is that Rock, in Isaiah 32, He is that Rock in a weary land. He's the shelter in the time of storm.

L-187 Zechariah 13, He is the Fountain that's open in the House of David, for sin. I believe Him to be that. Don't you? [Congregation says, "Amen."Ed.]

L-188 In Psalms 36:9, He is David's fountain of Life. He is the still Waters of David, and the green pastures. He is the Water by the brookside, for David.

L-189   In Genesis 17, He is Abraham's nursing breast, El Shaddai. But when his life was gone from him, still he... God said.

L-190 "A man of a hundred years old, how will this thing be? I am old, my wife is old, how can these things be?"

L-191 He said, "I am El Shaddai." Now, El is "the," and--and Shaddai is "breast," and Shaddai is plural, which means "I am the breasted God."


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