1 00:00:01,360 --> 00:00:03,200 Hey, good morning, everybody. How are you? 2 00:00:04,520 --> 00:00:06,600 Good, good, good. Glad you're here. 3 00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:10,520 If you don't know me, if we've not met, my name is Gordon. 4 00:00:10,520 --> 00:00:13,200 I'm one of the pastors here. I just want to say thanks for 5 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:17,040 coming and glad you're checking out Vita Springs and hope you 6 00:00:17,040 --> 00:00:20,240 enjoy the morning. Go ahead and open up your Bible 7 00:00:20,240 --> 00:00:24,000 to the book of John. We're in John for a while. 8 00:00:24,160 --> 00:00:27,600 We're in chapter 4 by now. If you don't have your own 9 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:31,000 Bible, grab one from the seat in front of you and there's 10 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:35,840 actually the page up on the screen today will be in John 11 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:42,440 chapter 416 through 30, page 889 in the the hard black Bibles. 12 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:49,400 If you haven't been with us in the book of John, John has given 13 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:53,080 us a very specific purpose for why he writes this whole gospel 14 00:00:53,080 --> 00:00:55,640 and why it's different than some of the other gospels. 15 00:00:55,960 --> 00:01:01,640 He is showing us those signs and miracles and interactions with 16 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:08,000 Jesus that most help us see that he is God, He's the Christ so 17 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:11,000 that we can receive life. And it'll be really clear today 18 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:15,320 that the only way to receive true eternal life is through 19 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:18,600 Jesus. And so John is helping us see 20 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:22,240 that. Last week we went through Part 1 21 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:25,680 of the story of the woman at the well, if you weren't here last 22 00:01:25,680 --> 00:01:29,240 week, we just put all our teachings on Spotify. 23 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:30,840 So it'd be really easy to go back. 24 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:33,640 And I would encourage you go back and listen because we 25 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:38,200 really need last week and this week to, to understand what 26 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:40,680 Jesus is saying. But if you're here and you 27 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:44,320 weren't here last week, don't worry, I'll, I'll, you know, try 28 00:01:44,320 --> 00:01:48,160 to try to make it clear what's happened up to this point. 29 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:54,400 What we learned last week is Stanley's are bad. 30 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:58,240 Coffee is bad. If you were here last week, it's 31 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:00,520 an inside joke. If you weren't, you'll catch it 32 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:03,560 on Spotify. No, there are those things that 33 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:06,240 we go to for life that can't satisfy us. 34 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:08,960 And Jesus is the only thing that can satisfy us. 35 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:10,919 And so here's the things we learned from last week. 36 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:17,880 Jesus left Judea and went to Samaria, an unclean non Jewish 37 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:20,520 region. Also that he could have this 38 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:24,280 interaction with the Sumerian woman at a well and he knew she 39 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:27,320 was thirsty, like on a soul level she's thirsty. 40 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:32,480 And through this interaction he uses brilliant brilliantly. 41 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:37,560 He uses the idea of physical thirst for physical water to get 42 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:44,000 at this deeper hidden soul level thirst that only he can satisfy. 43 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:48,600 And so she's still stumped by the end of the teaching and not 44 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:52,000 quite getting it. And so we pick up in verse 16 45 00:02:52,640 --> 00:02:55,760 and he gets a little more underneath the surface trying to 46 00:02:55,760 --> 00:03:02,000 get at her heart against because Jesus loves the Samaritan woman 47 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:05,200 and he wants her to receive his living water. 48 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:08,920 So this last week the take away was only Jesus. 49 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:11,480 Jesus can satisfy our spiritual thirst. 50 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:16,040 This week the take away is that only Jesus can bring us into 51 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:20,000 true worship. Worship in the fullest sense of 52 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:24,400 the word, like not just worship through singing, but worship in 53 00:03:24,640 --> 00:03:27,280 like how we honor God, how we live our life. 54 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:29,840 It's our thinking, it's our actions, it's our heart, our 55 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:33,040 motives. All of that is our worship to 56 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:35,240 God. And only Jesus can bring us into 57 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:39,000 true worship. Someone once said we're all 58 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:41,680 heretic somewhere, we just don't know where yet. 59 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:46,960 And the take away would also be only Jesus can show us where we 60 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:50,440 have imbalances in our thinking. We have contradictions between 61 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:54,600 our head and our heart, we have errors, we're flawed, we're for 62 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:58,120 the rest of our life, we're steadily trying to grow to full 63 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:01,240 knowledge, which then effects our worship. 64 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:04,040 So we're all heretic somewhere and we need Jesus to help us 65 00:04:04,040 --> 00:04:07,600 today to know where. So before we start reading, I'm 66 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:11,960 just going to give us a moment to quiet our hearts, to tune 67 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:15,640 into God, to push away distractions, whatever you come 68 00:04:15,640 --> 00:04:18,880 in dealing with which it might be different for all of us, but 69 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:21,160 just have those things come to mind and bring it to Jesus in 70 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:24,440 prayer. And then I'll read and pray for 71 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:48,840 us and teach. All right, verse 16 Jesus now 72 00:04:48,840 --> 00:04:52,520 says to her, all right, go call your husband and come here. 73 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:54,680 And the woman answered him, I have no husband. 74 00:04:55,280 --> 00:04:58,360 Jesus said to her, you are right and saying, I have no husband, 75 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:01,800 for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not 76 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:04,240 your husband. What you have said is true. 77 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:08,400 The woman said to him, Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. 78 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:12,120 Our fathers worshipped on this mountain, but you say that in 79 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:14,480 Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship. 80 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:18,720 Jesus said to her, Woman, believe me, the hour is coming 81 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:21,240 when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you 82 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:24,360 worship the Father. You worship what you do not 83 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:27,360 know. We worship what we know, for 84 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:32,200 salvation is from the Jews. But the hour is coming and is 85 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:36,120 now here, when the true worshippers will worship the 86 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:40,960 Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such 87 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:44,480 people to worship Him. God is spirit, and those who 88 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:47,200 worship Him must worship in spirit and truth. 89 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:52,040 The woman said to him, I know that Messiah is coming, He who 90 00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:55,640 is called Christ. When he comes he will tell us 91 00:05:55,720 --> 00:06:01,160 all things Jesus said to her, I who speak to you am He. 92 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:04,920 Just then as disciples came back, they marvelled that he was 93 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:08,640 talking with a woman, but no one said, what do you seek or why 94 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:11,840 are you talking with her? So the woman left her water jar 95 00:06:11,840 --> 00:06:15,400 and went away into the town and said to the people, come see a 96 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:19,400 man who told me all that I ever did, can this be the Christ? 97 00:06:19,840 --> 00:06:22,440 And they went out of the town and we're coming to him. 98 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:31,880 Let's pray, Jesus, we don't want to just come to you today with 99 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:36,040 just our minds. We don't want to just worship 100 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:42,160 you with our actions. We bring you our hearts today. 101 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:47,360 Lord, we need you to change us from the inside out. 102 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:52,240 We can try and try and try to worship you in a way that is 103 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:55,440 honoring and still fall short without your help. 104 00:06:55,880 --> 00:07:00,280 And so help us from the least mature to the most mature this 105 00:07:00,280 --> 00:07:04,840 morning. Help us, let me, even as I teach 106 00:07:04,840 --> 00:07:09,040 Lord, not just speak truth things from a a clear head, but 107 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:13,400 also let it be rightly affected by the truth. 108 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:20,120 I pray, Lord, that all of us would experience more of your 109 00:07:20,120 --> 00:07:25,240 living water, be brought into greater, fuller, more abundant 110 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:30,680 life and anything else you want to do on us today. 111 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:34,440 Lord, we give you permission, we pray all these things in your 112 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:41,880 name, Amen. All right, so we start out and 113 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:44,840 again, the woman was not getting it. 114 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:47,680 She's still thinking of physical water at a physical well. 115 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:52,400 And so Jesus changes subject and he says in verse 16, they've 116 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:54,960 been talking about water. They haven't said a thing about 117 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:58,960 a husband or her life or and he just goes for it. 118 00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:00,960 Go call your husband and come here. 119 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:03,800 The woman answered him. I have no husband. 120 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:06,440 Jesus said to her, you are right. 121 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:09,440 You've actually had five husbands and the man you're now 122 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:14,640 with is not your husband. And the way that's read, he's 123 00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:18,160 not just simply like you're dating a guy that's not your 124 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:20,600 husband. You've been seeing a guy. 125 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:24,280 The way he says it, she is romantically, physically 126 00:08:24,280 --> 00:08:27,400 involved. You could say she's she's living 127 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:29,800 with her boyfriend, a man who is not her husband. 128 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:33,880 And so Jesus cut straight to her heart and he exposes her sin 129 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:40,559 quickly. The Bible teaches pretty clearly 130 00:08:40,559 --> 00:08:44,680 that all sexual contact outside of a marriage between one man, 131 00:08:44,680 --> 00:08:48,000 one woman, is sin. That's something that God has 132 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:55,280 deemed wrong. And so for the woman to be 133 00:08:55,280 --> 00:09:01,280 called out by Jesus as living in a sexual relationship with a man 134 00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:03,680 who's not her husband, immediately he's cut to her 135 00:09:03,680 --> 00:09:06,920 heart and she knows it. I don't think she's fighting on 136 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:08,760 him. It's probably why when he first 137 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:11,800 mentioned go call your husband, she held back. 138 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:13,240 She just said, well, I have no husband. 139 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:16,440 She didn't share any other details, just just that. 140 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:20,520 But the woman's busted and Jesus calls out her sin. 141 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:24,360 Now why would Jesus, meek and mild, call out a woman's 142 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:28,720 sinfulness? We like the sight of Jesus, that 143 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:35,040 is forgiveness and grace, and he is all of those things, yes, and 144 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:39,840 yet all of us squirm when someone starts to like, poke at 145 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:43,040 those hidden areas that we try to keep buttoned up. 146 00:09:43,680 --> 00:09:48,640 And Jesus, even though he is meek and mild, he is full of 147 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:53,840 justice and he is holy, and he knows that sin holds us back 148 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:56,880 from life. And so in order to get to living 149 00:09:56,880 --> 00:10:00,160 water, sin has to be dealt with. It has to be exposed. 150 00:10:00,560 --> 00:10:05,240 And so you, I, I see this as Jesus's kindness to the woman. 151 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:11,480 Now he went all the way from Judea to Samaria, compelled by 152 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:14,680 God, I believe, to interact with this woman. 153 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:17,560 And so it's not coming to condemn you. 154 00:10:17,560 --> 00:10:21,400 Remember a few weeks ago, John 316, He did not come into the 155 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:24,080 world to condemn the world, but in order to save it. 156 00:10:24,680 --> 00:10:28,640 Jesus is coming. He's kindly exposing sin so that 157 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:33,120 he can apply his forgiveness to her personally, individually. 158 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:39,160 The first application for today. Until our sin is dealt with, we 159 00:10:39,160 --> 00:10:42,200 cannot receive living water and we cannot become God's true 160 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:44,560 worshippers until our sin is dealt with. 161 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:49,000 Now, to help us today with where we're going, I want to show a 162 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:51,640 grid up on the screen. Go ahead and put that up there, 163 00:10:51,640 --> 00:10:54,680 David. So to be God's true worshippers, 164 00:10:54,680 --> 00:10:57,040 we need to worship in spirit and truth, and we're going to kind 165 00:10:57,040 --> 00:10:59,120 of steadily work through these different quadrants. 166 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:01,160 This was just what was helpful for my brain. 167 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:03,720 So I was trying to figure out like, wait, so where's the 168 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:06,640 Samaritan woman in all of this? And why is she not a true 169 00:11:06,640 --> 00:11:09,240 worshipper yet? And where are we? 170 00:11:09,240 --> 00:11:13,960 And I think Jesus is saying there is one quadrant that is 171 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:18,480 true life, that is living water. One quadrant, all the others are 172 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:21,200 false worship. Until our sin is dealt with, we 173 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:24,560 cannot receive living water. And we're going to learn about 174 00:11:24,560 --> 00:11:28,920 what is true worship and how to get there. 175 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:33,600 But as I was making this, I was thinking of the verse in Matthew 176 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:35,720 7. Jesus talks about broad is the 177 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:38,880 path that leads to destruction, but narrow is the road that 178 00:11:38,880 --> 00:11:40,880 leads to life and only if you find it. 179 00:11:41,520 --> 00:11:44,840 And if you just looked at that graph, it's a small portion. 180 00:11:45,240 --> 00:11:50,000 There's a lot of people that either, well, I'll, I'll get 181 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:52,480 into explaining, but there's a lot of people that fall in the 182 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:54,320 truth, no spirit. There's a lot of people that 183 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:58,720 fall in the spirit, no truth. And Jesus is helping expose, 184 00:11:58,720 --> 00:12:03,440 reveal what is true worship. So the first category we're 185 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:06,120 going to look at, go ahead and show us the bottom left. 186 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:09,200 This is no spirit, no truth. This is where we all start out 187 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:11,320 as Christians. The Bible teaches us we're full 188 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:13,640 of sin. Jesus here is getting at her 189 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:15,920 sinfulness because this is where we have to start. 190 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:18,680 You could say step one is repentance. 191 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:22,760 Ephesians 2, one through 3 says about all of us. 192 00:12:23,080 --> 00:12:26,040 And you were dead in your trespasses and sins in which you 193 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:29,360 once walked, following the course of this world, following 194 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:32,960 the Prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at 195 00:12:32,960 --> 00:12:34,920 work in the sons of disobedience. 196 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:39,440 That's what we were before Jesus, among whom we all once 197 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:42,360 lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires 198 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:45,880 of the body and the mind. And we're by nature children of 199 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:49,600 wrath like the rest of mankind. Until sin is dealt with, we 200 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:52,080 cannot become Jesus's true worshippers. 201 00:12:53,760 --> 00:12:57,760 And so a real quick application for us, whether you're Christian 202 00:12:57,760 --> 00:13:00,240 or not a Christian sin holds us back from life. 203 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:05,880 And so where are you hiding sin? What does Jesus need to expose 204 00:13:05,960 --> 00:13:08,440 in order that you can receive life? 205 00:13:09,040 --> 00:13:11,480 And it could be all kinds of things. 206 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:16,040 Maybe it is sexual sin. Maybe it's holding on to 207 00:13:16,040 --> 00:13:18,400 bitterness. Maybe it's been lying to a 208 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:21,960 spouse or a friend. Maybe it's a harsh word to a 209 00:13:21,960 --> 00:13:24,640 kid. I mean, anything we let Jesus 210 00:13:24,640 --> 00:13:29,000 expose what he says is sinful and we turn from it so that we 211 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:33,200 can have life. And so just a quick moment for 212 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:36,520 any of you that Jesus is catching in sin and maybe he's 213 00:13:36,520 --> 00:13:39,800 using this moment to expose it. What are you going to do? 214 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:44,000 You going to hold on to it, keep it hidden and hold yourself back 215 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:46,120 from life? Or are you going to bring it to 216 00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:49,760 Jesus and ask for forgiveness? Let him deal with it. 217 00:13:53,560 --> 00:13:55,960 So let's go on in the verses, Jesus shines light on her 218 00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:59,240 sinfulness and then also he shines light on what is false 219 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:03,280 worship and true worship. So verse 19, she says, Sir, I 220 00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:07,920 perceive that you are a prophet. You think he's just called out 221 00:14:07,920 --> 00:14:10,600 something that no one else that he could not have known. 222 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:12,640 He's she's never met this man in her life. 223 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:15,080 Sir, I perceive you are a prophet. 224 00:14:15,960 --> 00:14:19,520 And then she brings up a theological question, a question 225 00:14:19,520 --> 00:14:24,440 of worship, true worship. Our fathers, the Samaritan 226 00:14:24,440 --> 00:14:27,200 people, our fathers worshipped on this mountain. 227 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:30,680 But you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to 228 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:33,480 worship. And so which one is true? 229 00:14:33,560 --> 00:14:37,800 Please help sort it out for me. You seem like a prophet. 230 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:41,760 I trust what you say. She's not ready to call him God 231 00:14:41,760 --> 00:14:44,000 or Messiah yet, but she recognizes that He could 232 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:48,160 probably help sort this out. 1st, we need to realize what 233 00:14:48,160 --> 00:14:51,800 mountains were in this time. Mountains represented this place 234 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:54,080 that you go up to to meet with God. 235 00:14:54,080 --> 00:14:57,480 You're closer to Him. You're drawing near to Him. 236 00:14:57,880 --> 00:15:03,040 And for the Samaritan people, they would have recognized Mount 237 00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:07,360 Jerusalem as the mountain where you go to worship. 238 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:10,640 And the Jews would have recognized Jerusalem that is up 239 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:12,280 on a hill in the temple at the top. 240 00:15:12,280 --> 00:15:16,280 That's where you go to worship, and worship here literally means 241 00:15:16,280 --> 00:15:19,320 to kiss the hand. Have any of you seen the old 242 00:15:19,320 --> 00:15:22,880 animated Robin Hood movie? I was a 90s kid and so I don't 243 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:25,240 remember when it came out, but I just remember that was like one 244 00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:28,040 of my favorite movies where Robin Hood, the Little Fox and 245 00:15:28,640 --> 00:15:32,360 his guys, they like go to King Louie and they kiss his hand and 246 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:34,000 they steal his rings while they're at it. 247 00:15:34,400 --> 00:15:37,960 But it's it's the sign to kiss the hand to worship. 248 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:42,120 It's the sign of coming to pay your respects, bowing in 249 00:15:42,120 --> 00:15:45,880 reverence, acknowledging he's king, he's authority. 250 00:15:46,280 --> 00:15:48,960 It's honoring him as he deserves. 251 00:15:48,960 --> 00:15:51,680 That's worship. We could define it simply as 252 00:15:51,960 --> 00:15:54,720 worship is bringing honor to God. 253 00:15:58,280 --> 00:16:01,680 So each group believed the other was engaging in false worship. 254 00:16:02,240 --> 00:16:06,520 And I think by her asking this question, actually bringing it 255 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:09,000 up, it shows that she's seeking what is true. 256 00:16:09,480 --> 00:16:13,400 She's trying to sort out, I want to be a true worshipper of God. 257 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:15,600 Show me, is it this mountain or that mountain? 258 00:16:15,960 --> 00:16:19,800 Possibly even it's maybe her asking which mountain am I 259 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:23,200 supposed to go to, to sacrifice for the sin that you just 260 00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:28,080 exposed, Which altar would bring me back into right relationship 261 00:16:28,080 --> 00:16:30,720 with God at this point? That's how you dealt with your 262 00:16:30,720 --> 00:16:32,800 sin. You sacrificed an animal and 263 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:37,720 that blood paid for your guilt. And so is it the Jerusalem or 264 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:42,440 Mount Jerusalem mountain? Jesus said back to her, woman, 265 00:16:42,440 --> 00:16:45,920 believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain 266 00:16:45,920 --> 00:16:47,960 nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. 267 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:50,320 You worship what you do not know. 268 00:16:50,640 --> 00:16:54,000 We worship what we know for salvation is from the Jews. 269 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:57,320 So in response to her question, Jesus says a few things here. 270 00:16:57,360 --> 00:17:01,640 One, believe me, she does not know who she's talking to right 271 00:17:01,640 --> 00:17:04,040 now. But do you realize who she's 272 00:17:04,040 --> 00:17:10,520 talking to right now? She is looking God in the face, 273 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:14,839 asking what is true, honoring worship. 274 00:17:16,319 --> 00:17:23,319 And Jesus is saying, woman or Madam, believe me, Jesus is the 275 00:17:23,319 --> 00:17:27,480 perfect one to sort out what is true worship and who are God's 276 00:17:27,480 --> 00:17:32,120 true worshippers. Chapter 1, John, the apostle 277 00:17:32,120 --> 00:17:35,720 John who writes this, he introduces Jesus as the true 278 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:39,320 light and lights reveal or expose. 279 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:42,720 They show what's hidden and they shine light on what's real, 280 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:46,280 what's true. And so Jesus here has exposed 281 00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:51,360 sinfulness, and now he's exposing, revealing what is 282 00:17:51,360 --> 00:17:55,520 false worship. He doesn't shy away from saying, 283 00:17:55,520 --> 00:17:58,320 like, OK, soon the mountains are going to be irrelevant. 284 00:17:58,320 --> 00:18:00,880 It's not going to matter if you go to Jerusalem or here. 285 00:18:01,240 --> 00:18:04,120 It's about worshipping in truth and in your heart. 286 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:10,600 OK, that's coming. But still he's saying there is 287 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:12,720 such a thing as true and false worship. 288 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:16,080 He doesn't shy away from saying look up until this point the 289 00:18:16,080 --> 00:18:18,720 Jews have actually been God's true worshippers. 290 00:18:19,120 --> 00:18:21,200 The Samaritans. You guys got it wrong. 291 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:25,760 Someone interpreted the Bible incorrectly as that future place 292 00:18:25,760 --> 00:18:27,560 that God would choose to bring him worship. 293 00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:32,240 It's not Mount Jerusalem and Jews are actually the ones who 294 00:18:32,600 --> 00:18:37,320 have salvation. And so I, I just think that's 295 00:18:37,320 --> 00:18:40,320 important for us cuz we live in a day where truth is up for 296 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:44,400 grabs. OK, people would say, well, it's 297 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:46,160 great that you have your religion. 298 00:18:46,400 --> 00:18:49,480 I love that for you, but don't tell me what I'm supposed to 299 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:54,240 believe or I love that you have that belief. 300 00:18:54,320 --> 00:18:57,160 I don't quite, it's clearly stated in the Bible. 301 00:18:57,160 --> 00:19:00,320 I don't quite agree with that. It doesn't feel right for me. 302 00:19:00,920 --> 00:19:03,920 OK, truth is all up for grabs and this is important for us. 303 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:06,560 The Bible lays out objective truth. 304 00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:11,840 It just makes sense that if God created the universe, the 305 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:15,720 heavens and the stars with a word, and He created us to be in 306 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:19,920 relationship with them, that He's the one who defines how we 307 00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:22,400 honor him. We go to him and say, God, what 308 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:26,000 do you require of me? What do you require of me? 309 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:28,160 Not What am I willing to bring to you? 310 00:19:28,440 --> 00:19:29,960 What am I not willing to bring to you? 311 00:19:30,360 --> 00:19:32,240 I'll do this, but I won't do that. 312 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:37,640 Jesus is the one who shines light on what is true worship 313 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:39,240 and the fullest sense of the Word. 314 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:43,840 So God's defined truth, including the true object of 315 00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:46,360 worship. And Jesus tells the woman you 316 00:19:46,360 --> 00:19:48,960 worship what you don't know. You don't quite have the right 317 00:19:48,960 --> 00:19:51,720 object of worship. You don't quite have the right 318 00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:54,000 way of worship. You worship what you don't know. 319 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:59,560 Now, I love bow hunting and so I need to practice to get better 320 00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:04,080 at shooting my bow and arrow. If I don't know what to aim at, 321 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:06,160 there is no shot. I'm going to hit the target. 322 00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:08,280 Right, it starts with what you know. 323 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:10,840 You could say belief guides, practice. 324 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:15,640 If you don't know what is truth and what to worship, there is no 325 00:20:15,640 --> 00:20:19,840 chance that your life is going to be lived in honoring worship 326 00:20:19,840 --> 00:20:23,400 to the right object. If I don't know the right thing 327 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:27,640 to be aiming at, well, here's a story not about bow hunting, but 328 00:20:28,080 --> 00:20:30,080 it's just a fun story from my childhood. 329 00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:34,680 I came home one time with dad and it was dark and I saw an 330 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:36,600 armadillo. And we lived out in the country, 331 00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:40,480 and anytime we saw an armadillo that tore up Mom's garden, we 332 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:43,240 killed it. And so dad ran in to get the 333 00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:46,320 gun, and he gave it to me. And I was like trying to find it 334 00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:48,320 and couldn't. And so he just snatches the gun 335 00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:50,800 and tries to get the armadillo. And I'm like, pointing out like, 336 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:53,840 no, it's over there. It's like, OK, I think I see it 337 00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:57,120 boom. And he shoots and my football 338 00:20:57,120 --> 00:21:01,440 goes flying up in the air. He was aiming at the wrong 339 00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:04,360 target there. It was unclear. 340 00:21:04,360 --> 00:21:07,680 He was aiming at what He didn't know, and he didn't hit the 341 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:11,520 right thing. And so for us, if we're going to 342 00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:15,720 live our lives in true worship to the right object, we have to 343 00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:19,320 know the right object, and we have to go to objective truth 344 00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:22,760 about what He lays out for us. God, who are you? 345 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:26,720 Who do you say that we are? What do you say is sin? 346 00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:30,560 How do we deal with sin? What do you require of us? 347 00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:33,240 What is worship? What do you want from me? 348 00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:40,640 OK, I'll give it. True worship must be informed by 349 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:42,960 God. Worship that is not informed by 350 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:46,120 God is false worship. This category, if you put the 351 00:21:46,120 --> 00:21:49,040 second one up here with the woman, this is where she's at. 352 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:53,280 She's not in true worship. She has some spiritual 353 00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:55,800 practices. She does go to an altar. 354 00:21:56,240 --> 00:22:00,320 She does sacrifice, presumably, and yet it's not. 355 00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:02,760 It's worshipping what she doesn't know, and so it's false 356 00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:05,680 worship. So where do you get your truth? 357 00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:10,880 Who's told you how to worship the Internet, the world, the 358 00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:14,200 culture? Did you know, by the way, that I 359 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:19,360 learned this on the Internet? The world's smartest man said in 360 00:22:19,360 --> 00:22:23,680 a few years AI will confess that Jesus is the Christ. 361 00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:28,240 He just reasoned out that it's the most supported logical 362 00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:31,240 conclusion about who is truly God. 363 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:34,440 And so he, I think his name, his name, I wrote it down. 364 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:38,440 Young Hoon Kim believes that AI will eventually believe in Jesus 365 00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:41,840 Christ. But who do you get your truth 366 00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:44,000 from? Is it another person? 367 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:47,120 Joseph Smith can't tell you true religion. 368 00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:50,800 Buddha can't tell you true religion. 369 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:54,520 Muhammad can't tell you true religion, only Jesus Christ can 370 00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:59,520 lead us into true worship. Let's go on. 371 00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:04,040 In the story verse 23, Jesus says the hour is coming and he 372 00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:08,000 adds, and it's now here I'm bringing it, it's through me 373 00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:12,160 when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and 374 00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:15,160 truth, for the Father is seeking. 375 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:20,960 Think about how the Father sent Jesus from Judea to Samaria to 376 00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:25,000 interact with this woman. The Father is seeking such 377 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:29,000 people to worship Him. God is spirit, and those who 378 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:32,040 worship Him must worship in spirit and truth. 379 00:23:33,120 --> 00:23:38,080 So Jesus adds the hour's coming and it's now here to hint to her 380 00:23:38,360 --> 00:23:41,080 about His death and resurrection, which is still 381 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:43,160 hidden, but He knows it's coming. 382 00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:48,520 Upon my death and then my raising myself back to life, 383 00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:52,320 worship and the nature of worship will forever change. 384 00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:55,680 It'll be different. He's saying there's a new era in 385 00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:58,640 salvation history. The Jews have had it right up 386 00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:01,160 until this point. But everything's going to 387 00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:03,360 change. And if you just think about one 388 00:24:03,360 --> 00:24:06,920 example, when Jesus said it is finished, what happened to the 389 00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:11,080 curtain in the temple? It tore in two and the temples 390 00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:12,680 irrelevant. It's not about this mountain or 391 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:15,680 that mountain. And then Jesus becomes our 392 00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:18,920 temple. He sets up resident in us 393 00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:21,480 through the Holy Spirit. And now it doesn't matter where 394 00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:24,680 we are. We can come to God and honor him 395 00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:28,440 from our hearts. It's irrelevant this place or 396 00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:30,120 that place. So that's what he's telling the 397 00:24:30,120 --> 00:24:32,880 woman. So if you want to receive living 398 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:36,040 water and be a true worshipper, here's how. 399 00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:39,720 Worship in truth and worship in spirit. 400 00:24:40,120 --> 00:24:43,920 And so let's go to quadrant 3 and let's just talk about what 401 00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:45,840 it would look like to be all truth. 402 00:24:45,840 --> 00:24:48,680 But let's assume for now, no spirit. 403 00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:51,280 What would this be? Worship and truth. 404 00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:54,960 It's having the right object, maybe even the right manner of 405 00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:57,280 worship. You know what you're worshiping, 406 00:24:57,480 --> 00:24:59,440 and maybe you even know how to do it. 407 00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:04,560 You do the right things. This is knowing the one true 408 00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:08,280 God, but with a cold, lifeless, unregenerate heart. 409 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:14,080 It's dutiful religion. It's lukewarm Christianity 410 00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:18,840 without a heart that's engaged. That's not what God's seeking. 411 00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:22,560 That's not true worship. This is the Pharisees that we 412 00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:25,360 see characterized all through the New Testament. 413 00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:30,520 They follow the law to a tee. They memorize the whole Old 414 00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:32,040 Testament. You look at them and you're 415 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:35,000 like, man, you are packed full of truth. 416 00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:40,000 You, you certainly know your stuff, and yet they miss the 417 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:43,960 point, they miss the heart of it, they miss God's intentions, 418 00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:52,120 everything that a Pharisee would do, it's unpleasing to God. 419 00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:57,880 Maybe everything is too extreme, but I I think it's what's saying 420 00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:01,000 it's going to be void at the end of your life if you don't also 421 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:04,880 come to God in your heart. This is Nicodemus from a few 422 00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:07,920 weeks ago who's wrestling to try and figure out Jesus. 423 00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:12,480 What are you saying born again? You remember that week? 424 00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:15,880 Just like unless you're born again, unless you have a 425 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:20,560 spiritual rebirth, you will not inherit eternal life. 426 00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:24,280 You do not have living water. This is the story of the rich 427 00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:26,840 young ruler kept coming to mind as I was thinking about these 428 00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:28,840 verses. And again, if you're not 429 00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:31,360 familiar with Christianity or the Bible, that's OK. 430 00:26:31,360 --> 00:26:34,680 These are just they're stories that Jesus and interactions that 431 00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:38,880 Jesus has that inform us, tell us so much about the nature of 432 00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:40,920 worship. If you do know the story of the 433 00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:45,880 rich young ruler, he comes to Jesus and he says, teacher, I've 434 00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:48,520 followed all the commandments from my youth. 435 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:51,360 He was blameless. He was religious. 436 00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:55,080 What must I do to inherit eternal life and Jesus tests his 437 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:57,440 heart. He says go sell all your 438 00:26:57,440 --> 00:26:59,200 possessions and come and follow me. 439 00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:04,640 Follow me with your heart. And at the end it's it's 440 00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:07,120 troubling for him. He leaves sorrowful. 441 00:27:07,120 --> 00:27:10,920 He's not willing to do it. You can do everything right and 442 00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:14,600 you can have the correct object of worship that today this would 443 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:17,640 be. You can give a credible 444 00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:21,320 profession of faith. You can tell me about the 445 00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:29,200 gospel, and yet that alone does not equate to true worship. 446 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:32,200 This one's hard. This was hard for people in 447 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:35,360 Jesus's day who were morally good and did all the right 448 00:27:35,360 --> 00:27:37,200 things, and this is hard for us today. 449 00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:40,080 What do you mean a good person doesn't have eternal life? 450 00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:44,480 What does God lay out for true worship? 451 00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:49,440 This was really frustrating for the disciples. 452 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:52,280 After the rich young ruler, he went away and Jesus says 453 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:56,480 something like how difficult it will be for a rich person to 454 00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:59,800 enter the Kingdom of God. And the disciples are like, well 455 00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:02,680 they literally say who then can be saved? 456 00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:05,920 If it's not the rich guy who followed all the commands from 457 00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:07,760 his youth, then who can be saved? 458 00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:11,400 And if I look back on my life, if you don't know me, I grew up 459 00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:13,800 in church. My great grandpa moved from 460 00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:17,400 Delaware to Florida to be a part of a Mennonite church planting 461 00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:19,920 movement. He helped establish a healthy 462 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:22,440 church in the Panhandle of Florida and that's how the 463 00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:25,640 yoder's got there. And then my grandpa grew up in 464 00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:28,520 that church. He was even an interim pastor 465 00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:31,560 for a time and heavily involved my whole life. 466 00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:34,760 My dad, my family heavily involved my whole life. 467 00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:38,680 I'm pretty sure I was born and then like a week or two later 468 00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:42,720 I'm in church and we did not miss a church service and I love 469 00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:44,520 the church. It was a great experience. 470 00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:47,640 I served in youth when I was old enough you couldn't serve until 471 00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:50,160 you were in 6th grade. So as soon as I became 1/6 472 00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:53,920 grader, I started helping in the nursery and then youth group. 473 00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:56,880 And then I would sit there for all three services and be behind 474 00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:59,720 the camera and put the thing up on the screen. 475 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:05,480 And I, I think of like what Paul says at one point, the apostle 476 00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:08,600 Paul, I was a Hebrew of Hebrews. I was a non denominational 477 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:10,760 Christian of non denominational Christians. 478 00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:13,840 I did everything right. And if you looked at me from the 479 00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:16,800 outside, you'd say, oh, certainly Gordon's a true 480 00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:19,400 worshipper. And it bugged me because I had 481 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:21,600 people that would come up to me and they would look at the 482 00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:25,040 outside and they had no clue what was going on in the in the 483 00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:27,080 inside, but they would look on the outside. 484 00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:29,800 Oh, Gordon, you're so mature for your age. 485 00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:34,880 And it went to my head and all I can tell you really love God. 486 00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:37,400 And that's the part that bugged me because I knew what was going 487 00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:40,400 on in the inside. And you would say, like the 488 00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:44,560 disciples in frustration, if they can't make it into eternal 489 00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:48,880 life, then who can be saved? It's frustrating, It's hard. 490 00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:57,080 The conclusion that Jesus gives to the disciples in that story, 491 00:29:57,080 --> 00:30:01,120 he looks at them and said with man it is impossible. 492 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:05,920 He confirms their theory. Who then can be saved with man? 493 00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:09,440 No one. No amount of your efforts, no 494 00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:12,280 amount of your good deeds. You can spend your whole life 495 00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:17,840 doing all the right things to the right person and it's still 496 00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:21,640 impossible to be saved. But Jesus adds thankfully, but 497 00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:23,800 with God all things are possible. 498 00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:27,640 Only Jesus can bring us into true religion. 499 00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:31,080 The frustration is good because it gets us to a point where 500 00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:33,680 we're just like I'm at the end of myself. 501 00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:37,080 I OK Jesus. I give up, I surrender, I'll 502 00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:41,440 quit trying to do it myself. I know that I can do everything 503 00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:45,120 perfectly and yet still my heart has selfish motives. 504 00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:49,520 I do things just for me. I lie, I cheat, I steal, I lust, 505 00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:54,840 I can't fix my heart. It is Jesus indeed impossible. 506 00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:59,520 Help me. You exhaust yourself just trying 507 00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:02,880 to do it yourself. And it's really good when Jesus 508 00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:05,760 gets us to a breaking point where we come to him and say, 509 00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:08,680 Jesus, please help me, what must I do? 510 00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:14,040 And then Jesus adds the second part of true worship. 511 00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:25,280 Show quadrant 4. In order to receive living water 512 00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:29,200 and become God's true worshippers, we must worship in 513 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:34,880 truth and and spirit. We need both. 514 00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:37,280 All the other quadrants are false worship. 515 00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:39,960 Only this one's true. We have to worship in truth. 516 00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:43,520 We have to know the right object and we have to worship in a way 517 00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:46,080 that He is laid out as truly honoring to Him. 518 00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:51,440 And this word spirit, it refers to that inner part of us, our 519 00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:55,440 heart, our soul. It's why He brings up the fact 520 00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:58,000 that God is spirit. Have any of you seen God the 521 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:00,760 Father? He's spirit. 522 00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:04,440 He's everywhere He's felt, but you can't see Him. 523 00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:08,200 It's like God, like Jesus saying to Nicodemus a few weeks ago, 524 00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:10,920 it's like the wind. You sense that it's going, but 525 00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:14,600 you don't know where. God is spirit, He's immaterial, 526 00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:18,320 He's invisible. And in the same way God created 527 00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:22,560 humans in his image with the spirit, we're more than just 528 00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:26,040 skin and bones. We're more than just a mind with 529 00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:28,800 reason. There is a inner hidden 530 00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:33,200 spiritual reality to all of us. All of us have a spirit. 531 00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:37,960 When our flesh and our bone and our brain dies, we still have a 532 00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:42,200 spirit. And so Jesus is teaching us, you 533 00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:44,000 can't just worship God with part of you. 534 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:46,480 You can't like compartmentalize and break it off. 535 00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:51,360 And I'll give you my mind, I'll give you my even my actions, but 536 00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:54,400 you can't have my heart, Jesus saying you need both. 537 00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:58,960 Now that inner part of us, we've already made clear it's full of 538 00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:02,200 sin. Our thoughts, they come out of a 539 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:05,960 perverse heart. Our actions, they come out of a 540 00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:09,920 prideful heart. Our behaviors, they come out of 541 00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:14,600 a selfish motive. And so until he fixes our heart, 542 00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:17,320 we cannot be worshippers in spirit. 543 00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:23,280 Listen to what Ezekiel 36. This is a word that God spoke 544 00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:26,560 through the prophet Ezekiel long before Jesus came. 545 00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:33,080 It says, I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be 546 00:33:33,080 --> 00:33:37,400 clean from all of your uncleanness or sin and from all 547 00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:39,040 your idols. I will cleanse you. 548 00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:44,160 And I will give you a new heart and a new spirit I will put 549 00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:46,640 within you. And I will remove the heart of 550 00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:50,200 stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 551 00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:54,680 And I will put my spirit, capital S spirit within you and 552 00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:59,040 cause you to walk in My statutes and be careful to obey my rules. 553 00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:03,600 Now we're getting somewhere. If you trust in Jesus, if you 554 00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:06,800 get to the end of yourself, Jesus, it's impossible, please 555 00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:11,080 save me. And he gives you a new spirit. 556 00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:16,600 He takes out that sinful heart. Now that new spirit causes you 557 00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:18,480 to worship in a way that honors God. 558 00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:22,040 Now you can worship in spirit and truth, but you need both. 559 00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:24,760 And until that happens, you are not God's true worshipper. 560 00:34:25,199 --> 00:34:27,719 And this is what he's bringing the Samaritan woman to. 561 00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:34,760 It's why he goes after her sin. It's why he highlights her 562 00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:36,960 thirst. And when she's still just 563 00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:40,880 thinking physical thirst, he's like, no, your sinful heart is 564 00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:42,639 thirsty. And it cannot be satisfied 565 00:34:42,639 --> 00:34:46,080 without me. It's impossible without Jesus. 566 00:34:50,199 --> 00:34:52,880 Only Jesus can lead us into worship in spirit. 567 00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:57,480 You can say only Jesus can bring us into the 4th quadrant which 568 00:34:57,480 --> 00:34:59,480 is spirit and truth, true worship. 569 00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:05,480 I kept thinking of Jesus talking about I am the way, the truth 570 00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:07,560 and the life, or even I am the door. 571 00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:10,880 Like if you see that, can you put that last image up again? 572 00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:15,040 We all start at the bottom and we're all trying to get to the 573 00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:17,880 top, and Jesus is the only way to get in. 574 00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:20,840 You can be so close. You can be the Samaritan woman 575 00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:23,880 right there at the gate. You can be Nicodemus so close 576 00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:26,840 right there at the gate. And unless you go through Jesus, 577 00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:28,720 you do not have living water or eternal life. 578 00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:35,960 Now I want to close with the woman's response, how the story 579 00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:37,520 finishes. And then I want to come back 580 00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:41,440 around to what it looks like to worship in spirit and truth for 581 00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:45,040 the Christians. But first I hope that if you 582 00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:50,760 realize I do not have living water, I am not a true 583 00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:53,960 worshipper, but I want to be in your heart. 584 00:35:55,120 --> 00:36:00,040 Come to Jesus and ask him. Jesus, would you cleanse my 585 00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:03,680 sinful heart? I realize it is impossible to be 586 00:36:03,680 --> 00:36:07,000 satisfied and impossible to know you unless you do it. 587 00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:10,480 Put your trust in Him. It doesn't mean you have to go 588 00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:12,800 to Jerusalem or Mount Jerusalem. You can do it right there in 589 00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:15,120 your seat. Come to Jesus in your heart and 590 00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:21,520 ask for salvation. Verse 25 the woman said to him, 591 00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:24,960 I know that Messiah is coming. He who is called Christ. 592 00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:28,600 When he comes he will tell us all things and Jesus said to 593 00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:33,680 her, I who speak to you am he. You are looking at the face of 594 00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:37,200 God. This whole conversation about 595 00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:40,480 true worship, it prompts her to think about Messiah. 596 00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:44,880 Like I think she's realizing what just came out of his mouth 597 00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:49,000 and how this feels right now. This is, this is not just a 598 00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:51,920 prophet. This might be the prophet, the 599 00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:56,400 prophet, promised prophet who will come and tell us all 600 00:36:56,400 --> 00:36:59,040 things. And so she like, I think she 601 00:36:59,040 --> 00:37:02,640 fishes for something from Jesus. I know that Messiah is coming 602 00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:05,520 and when he comes, he's going to tell us all things. 603 00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:10,120 And then Jesus takes the bait. I know it's me. 604 00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:16,160 Just then the disciples come back. 605 00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:19,080 They marvel that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, 606 00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:21,320 what do you seek or why are you talking with her? 607 00:37:21,720 --> 00:37:24,880 So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said 608 00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:28,640 to the people, come see a man who told me all that I ever did. 609 00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:31,960 Can this be the Christ? And they went out of the town 610 00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:34,800 and we're coming to him. The woman does three things. 611 00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:37,760 First, she leaves her water jar. She throws her Stanley away. 612 00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:41,400 I think, I think it's a double meaning from John. 613 00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:44,600 I think he's trying to tell us like she left those things that 614 00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:47,520 would not satisfy her. She didn't care about the water 615 00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:49,440 anymore. That's number one. 616 00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:54,200 Number two, she she's working out. 617 00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:57,760 Is this the Christ? She is in the process of being 618 00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:00,680 saved. She doesn't flat out say it, but 619 00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:02,640 you can hear it from her heart, right? 620 00:38:02,720 --> 00:38:06,880 Her proclamation, Can this be the Christ and she goes in and I 621 00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:09,080 and she ends up there. I have to believe she ends up 622 00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:12,600 there and she goes into the town and she tells that's the third 623 00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:16,400 thing and we'll see in the next couple weeks or next week, I 624 00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:21,400 think that the the Samaritans are coming to him and it results 625 00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:25,160 in an unclean city seeing Jesus and receiving living water. 626 00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:29,680 Wow, wow. The disciples wanted to stay in 627 00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:35,240 Judea. Let's talk about worshipping in 628 00:38:35,240 --> 00:38:37,480 spirit and truth. How do these come together? 629 00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:42,240 I want to read a quote from a guy we all know and love. 630 00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:46,200 His name's Tony Randestel. Tony. 631 00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:48,840 Tony's our lead pastor. And we were working out. 632 00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:50,320 We were talking about this teaching. 633 00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:54,320 And he had just read a book about worship and truth and 634 00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:56,960 spirit and had his own thoughts written down. 635 00:38:57,200 --> 00:38:59,600 And I kept trying to come up with my own way to say it. 636 00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:03,000 And this was just super helpful. So, Tony, can I read your 637 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:05,400 scribbles? OK. 638 00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:09,600 Worship in spirit and in truth. Here's I think a summary of what 639 00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:12,560 we've been talking about. True worship is not about a 640 00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:16,200 location. It's primarily a spiritual 641 00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:20,640 action that depends on truth. Example, you could be in an 642 00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:25,120 ornate cathedral in Jerusalem, bringing bars of pure gold to 643 00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:29,720 God, believing that that is what will please God because it is 644 00:39:29,720 --> 00:39:33,160 not rooted in truth. It's it won't please them. 645 00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:36,320 It's not true worship. Or you could also be in the most 646 00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:40,000 theologically sound church in all the world, singing the most 647 00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:45,760 theologically tight lyrics, but without any faith or spirit, 648 00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:49,040 without your heart engaged. It's not worship to God. 649 00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:53,160 True worship is not about a location or a style. 650 00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:56,760 It's about one, a person. And Jesus says I am he. 651 00:39:57,320 --> 00:40:01,360 Two, it must be rooted in truth. It's not just a feeling or an 652 00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:04,800 experience. Three, it must be in spirit. 653 00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:08,200 It's a soul activity that comes from a regenerate heart. 654 00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:10,280 Doesn't that pretty much sum up what we learned? 655 00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:14,840 And so how do we come together in spirit and truth? 656 00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:18,240 Christians, I'm just going to keep throwing the graph up 657 00:40:18,240 --> 00:40:21,280 there, David. Christians, our goal through our 658 00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:23,360 whole life, we're in the 4th quadrant. 659 00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:25,480 Our goal is to get to the very tip top. 660 00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:29,840 That's where Jesus is. He's our Good Shepherd who leads 661 00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:32,800 us through this life to full maturity. 662 00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:34,800 And it's not just one or the other. 663 00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:37,640 We get that mixed up. We look at someone who is full 664 00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:41,320 of truth and they can spat off Bible verses and they do all the 665 00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:43,560 right things. And we say, whoa, he's so 666 00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:47,720 mature. Or we look at someone that is 667 00:40:48,240 --> 00:40:52,760 they're on fire, they're running hard, they do everything. 668 00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:56,040 They've got all these stories and if it's not grounded in 669 00:40:56,040 --> 00:41:01,560 truth, we we call that maturity. Maturity is both. 670 00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:05,320 God is seeking worshippers who have truth. 671 00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:08,120 They have a good foundation. They love the Bible. 672 00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:11,560 They know what he says. Till their last day, they are 673 00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:17,080 scouring the pages of Scripture. Jesus form me, shape me, teach 674 00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:22,080 me, help me. And we are constantly checking 675 00:41:22,080 --> 00:41:25,280 our heart to make sure that it's engaged and alive, not letting 676 00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:28,440 it fall behind. And you could say even with the 677 00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:31,240 Holy Spirit in us, we're not just working on our own physical 678 00:41:31,240 --> 00:41:34,000 strength. We're constantly asking the Holy 679 00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:36,880 Spirit to be our help, our power, our strength. 680 00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:40,400 It's both. And so where do you fall? 681 00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:43,000 If you put yourself somewhere on that graph, where are you? 682 00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:46,040 Jesus wants us in the middle, balanced up and to the right 683 00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:49,720 till we reach full maturity. Now, if I was to talk to some of 684 00:41:49,720 --> 00:41:51,680 you who are new Christians, you're new in your faith 685 00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:55,800 typically. Typically there's a lot of fire. 686 00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:59,000 You're on a high, everything's exciting, and you just want to 687 00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:00,560 run hard. You want to go do everything. 688 00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:03,200 And that's great. Keep all of that. 689 00:42:03,520 --> 00:42:06,440 And yet you need to pack yourself with truth. 690 00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:09,800 You need to develop good Bible habits. 691 00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:13,080 You need to make sure you're aiming at the right target, 692 00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:16,040 you're doing the right things. Otherwise your arrows are going 693 00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:20,440 to end up all over the place. And then I think typically, 694 00:42:20,600 --> 00:42:24,120 typically for mature Christians who have been at it for a while, 695 00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:27,040 it's hard to keep a fire stoked, isn't it? 696 00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:29,560 You ever tried to keep a fire stoked? 697 00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:32,920 It's hard. It's like constant putting more 698 00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:35,440 wood and fuel on the fire to keep it hot. 699 00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:40,080 And as older Christians, it it feels hard. 700 00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:44,280 We can kind of depend on our knowledge or our truth or our 701 00:42:44,280 --> 00:42:48,280 foundation and forget that what's pleasing to God is that 702 00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:50,800 we come to Him in humility, with a heart that's alive. 703 00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:55,200 We need both. Our whole life is journeying to 704 00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:59,920 the top and we're constantly catching where where there's 705 00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:06,520 lack. Let me try to figure out what 706 00:43:06,520 --> 00:43:14,840 else to say and wraps up. I had examples of what those 707 00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:20,120 look like, but I guess my point, I'll just trust trust on it. 708 00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:23,280 Jesus is the only one that can lead us into true worship. 709 00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:27,600 I would encourage you during prayer ministry, reflect on 710 00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:31,600 where you're at in your Christian journey and where does 711 00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:33,280 he want to help you grow and mature? 712 00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:37,320 Do you want to help your heart? Have you been in a rut? 713 00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:40,320 Are you experiencing apathy? Are things dry? 714 00:43:40,720 --> 00:43:44,040 Seek Jesus. One of the best things for me 715 00:43:44,040 --> 00:43:48,800 was people giving me good books, like good books from people, 716 00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:52,280 like biographies of people who lived a life on fire. 717 00:43:53,080 --> 00:43:54,760 And it inspires me. It wakes me up. 718 00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:57,600 One time Kurt gave me a book called Gospel Wakefulness. 719 00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:01,360 I think he could tell that my heart was a little cold. 720 00:44:01,680 --> 00:44:05,440 Gospel Wakefulness, I forgot it on a plane and never finished 721 00:44:05,440 --> 00:44:08,000 it. But sorry, Kurt. 722 00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:12,200 Thankfully Jesus helped my heart to come alive. 723 00:44:12,520 --> 00:44:16,120 But Holy Fire by RT Kendall, man, was that helpful for my 724 00:44:16,120 --> 00:44:21,760 spirit to come alive. And are you maybe your spirits 725 00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:25,040 alive and you, it's been a while since you've been in your Bible. 726 00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:28,360 You had a good habit for a while and it's kind of falling through 727 00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:30,360 the cracks. You feel like you could use some 728 00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:34,360 meat again. It's kind of just maybe that's 729 00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:37,360 what it is, but only Jesus can lead you into true worship and 730 00:44:37,360 --> 00:44:39,080 only Jesus can lead you into maturity. 731 00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:45,360 So seek him, ask him for help. At Vita, we want to strike the 732 00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:48,280 balance of both because this is the kind of worshipper that 733 00:44:48,280 --> 00:44:51,120 God's looking for. And so we teach from the Bible 734 00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:53,480 at every gathering. We open up and we go straight 735 00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:56,200 verse through verse and our small groups. 736 00:44:56,200 --> 00:44:59,120 We love the Bible and we want as a people, we want to love the 737 00:44:59,120 --> 00:45:01,320 Bible. And then even in worship through 738 00:45:01,320 --> 00:45:06,280 song, we want truth packed songs, not just the ones that 739 00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:09,680 tickle our emotions. If our emotions are tickled, we 740 00:45:09,680 --> 00:45:11,720 want it to be because of the truth that we sing. 741 00:45:11,880 --> 00:45:14,560 Does that make sense? We don't want smoke and hype. 742 00:45:14,560 --> 00:45:17,800 We don't want to like woo you to worship God. 743 00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:23,840 We want a truth packed songs and authentic from the heart 744 00:45:23,840 --> 00:45:27,360 worship. And so I want to challenge all 745 00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:30,960 of you to do that now. What a great time to like seek 746 00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:34,760 God and ask Him for help that He would engage our heart and our 747 00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:36,440 mind through song. So why don't y'all stand with 748 00:45:36,440 --> 00:45:40,080 me? We're going to worship to a few 749 00:45:40,080 --> 00:45:42,080 songs and then I'll come up to lead us through prayer.