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Good morning. 
Church is always. 

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It's a joy to be with you all 
want to welcome you again, to 

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this Gathering of new Eden 
shirts church. 

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As Kevin said, my name is Joel 
McCarty. 

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I have the privilege of serving 
as one of the pastor's here at 

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new Eden Church, specifically 
the pastor for preaching and 

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oversight and it's an honor to 
be able to walk with life, with 

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walk through life, with each of 
you. 

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For those of you that don't know
yesterday marked a new holiday 

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called Juneteenth. 
Now, this name comes from the 

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words June and 19th combined to 
make one word. 

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And this is a day that is been 
recognized for quite a while 

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now, especially within the black
community. 

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But this last week it was 
recognized as an official 

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holiday and signed into law or 
whatever. 

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And so this holiday is a time to
look back to June 19th in 1865, 

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which is when the last slaves 
were released from captivity, 

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which was in the state of Texas 
and they were allowed to go 

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free. 
And so even though Abraham 

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Lincoln had signed the 
Emancipation Proclamation, In 

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over two years earlier, it took 
a while for the proclamation to 

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take effect, especially in many 
of the southern states is 

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obviously there was pushback 
from the slaveholders. 

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So this day, which was 
yesterday, especially for our 

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black brothers and sisters is a 
day to celebrate Liberation and 

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freedom, and I'm personally I'm 
glad that we have this as an 

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official holiday alongside, July
4th or Independence Day because 

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for some in our country that day
1776 didn't actually represent 

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true freedom because they were 
Still enslaved and in Chains. 

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And so yesterday, some of us, 
some of us from new Eden had the

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privilege of going to a local 
Juneteenth celebration here in 

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Decatur. 
It was a great experience. 

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We were able to supply some door
prizes for the bingo game. 

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That my wife got roped into 
leading, my wife hates being a 

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front of people and she hates 
conflict. 

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And I found out yesterday. 
She hates conflict. 

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Just a little more than she 
hates being in front of people 

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because somebody grabbed her and
said, hey you want to run this 

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bingo game and she couldn't say 
no and so she got stuck up there

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running this. 
No games. 

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Like I'm you know how to do 
Bingo. 

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But okay. 
So it was a great time. 

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The whole event was actually put
on to raise money for the 

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building of the museum to tell 
the story of the Scottsboro 

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boys. 
And as a church, we've committed

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to donate some money as a part 
of our missional Outreach. 

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Now, for those of you who don't 
know, the story of the 

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Scottsboro, boys, I encourage 
you to look it up. 

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They were nine black teenagers. 
Who are all falsely accused of 

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raping a white woman back in the
1930s in the Scottsboro area. 

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Hence the name, the Scots, 
Burro, boys. 

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Now, many years later. 
They were eventually exonerated 

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but not before many of them died
in prison and went through 

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horrible situations. 
But one of the Lesser known 

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facts about that story is that 
the trials actually took place 

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right here in Decatur at the 
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It was a horrific thing. 
All the black jurors were struck

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from jury duty and an all-white 
jury just convicted them. 

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The youngest boy, being only 14 
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They also the KKK would come in 
and burn crosses on the lawn. 

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Of the prominent black citizens 
that spoke out and actually ran 

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many of the black businessmen 
away. 

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And on Bank Street today, 
there's business names, like 

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Sykes Place Sykes was a 
prominent black Citizen here 

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indicator. 
That was run off through this 

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event. 
And so we can talk about that 

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more later, but we're supporting
the efforts to tell that story 

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because it's important that we 
speak truth that as we look back

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at our past. 
We don't gloss over the history 

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and the horrors of History. 
At the same time, I'm thankful 

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for holidays like Juneteenth 
where we can look at the 

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progress that by the grace of 
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While we still look ahead to the
work of justice, that still 

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needs to be done here, locally 
in our own Community nationally 

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and around the world. 
See every culture has these 

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markers and days, right? 
No matter your time or place 

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that you can spend time looking 
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right? 
And so these festivals and 

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celebrations are these Times are
we can recount stories for 

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future Generations. 
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but also it energizes us to 
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future. 
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through the Gospel of John, 
we've seen this in the Gospel of

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John, the last few weeks that 
there is a festival taking place

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and it was this same type of 
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Israel. 
The nation of Israel to remember

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looking back and also to look 
forward it was this Festival of 

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shelters as its called. 
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opportunity that was celebrated 
annually for them to come 

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together and remember what God 
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So, John's already mentioned 
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we've been in the Gospel of 
John, that this conversation has

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taken place at the festival of 
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But today in our text, he wants 
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this has incredible significance
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So as we read earlier, we're 
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verses 37 through 52. 
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way there in your copy of the 
scriptures on your phone, 

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whatever will also have the 
verses on the screen if you want

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to follow along that way. 
So, let's reread again, verses 

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37 and 38 as we dive into our 
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It says on the last and most 
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So John makes this note. 
Jesus stood up and cried out. 

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If anyone is thirsty. 
Let him come to me and drink the

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one who believes in me. 
As the scripture has said, will 

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have streams of Living Water. 
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So for us to notice and see the 
scandalous nature of what Jesus 

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says here, we need to look a 
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this holiday, this Festival of 
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Tabernacles. 
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along with like six or seven 
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of Israel on Mount Sinai when 
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nation of Egypt and they are 
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on Mount Sinai. 
They're told to celebrate this 

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Festival of shelters. 
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week-long festival. 
What they were to do is to take 

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these handmade shelters like 
these little tents and they were

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to live in them for that entire 
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And so right the whole family's 
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essentially, right? 
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your kids in the backyard, this 
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And so they're building these 
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And we're told that they are to 
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future generations of how they 
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they were delivered from the 
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And so they are Not forget how 
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passed. 
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to the day when God would dwell 
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So they would have all these 
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taking place. 
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year's Harvest so around the 
fall time and it was an 

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opportunity. 
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as he did in the past also 
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This would have been a fun week 
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They would all come to 
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live there, they would come and 
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temporary booths. 
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partying and feasting all week 
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Just an opportunity to say God 
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He's provided, let's party, 
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Like that's what this is 
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That's what's happening here. 
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To The Feast that's important 
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person who read this in the time
it was written, would have known

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about was this water pouring 
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And so on the very first day of 
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priest would leave this 
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Siloam. 
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they would go up to the temple 
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They would fill up this water 
pitcher and they would get water

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from this pool of Siloam. 
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with fresh running spring water 
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right from the spring of gihon 
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golden picture with clean water 
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the water gate up to the altar 
at the temple courts and all the

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people would lead in this 
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They were celebrating and they 
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Halal. 
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we know as that passage. 
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Altar and the priest would take 
this water and they would pour 

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it out on the Altar and they 
would pour this out on the altar

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every day of the feast, and it 
would build to its climax on the

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seventh day of the Fest. 
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festival de priest, would March 
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and then pour out the water. 
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dependence on God to provide 
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satisfy their needs. 
God, bring the rain, which 

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signified provision for the 
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And so, this is the scene and 
the setting that we see on the 

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last and most important day of 
the festival, when all this is 

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building up. 
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hearts and minds of everybody 
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Maybe now, we can see a little 
clearer what this would have 

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meant for the people who hear 
Jesus stand up, and say what he 

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said in verses 37 and 38. 
If anyone is thirsty, if anyone 

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wants provision, let him come to
me and drink, the one who 

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believes in me. 
As the scripture has said, will 

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have streams of living water 
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Maybe a comparable thing would 
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Juneteenth party or a Fourth of 
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When all the fireworks are going
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wants true Freedom, if anybody 
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anybody wants true Independence,
let him come to me. 

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This declaration that Jesus 
makes is incredible and it sets 

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the stage for the rest of our 
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He is saying that he is the one 
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satisfaction and he's the only 
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actually be fulfilled. 
We saw this with the woman at 

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the, well, you remember that. 
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Hey, if you want to drink of 
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again, come drink of me, I'm 
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I will grant you living water. 
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John, our author points out 
specifically for us, what Jesus 

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meant by Living Water? 
See, Jesus is the way to living 

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water. 
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told in. 
John 39, is actually the Holy 

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Spirit, The Gift of the Holy 
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Look at verse 39, our author, 
John inserts, his own commentary

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and he says, he said this, Jesus
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those who believed in Jesus were
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the spirit had. 
Not yet, been given because 

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Jesus had not yet been 
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Jesus is saying that those that 
come to faith in him, those who 

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believe in Jesus. 
And the gospel that they would 

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receive the very Spirit of the 
Living God in their being in 

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their person. 
And we're going to get to see 

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the Holy Spirit Come to play 
later in the Book of John will 

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get to look at some of the 
Theology of this Spirit later, 

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but there's a couple things that
we need to see here. 

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Jesus taught about the Theology 
of the Holy It before he even 

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left Earth. 
See everything that you're 

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called to do. 
As a follower of Jesus is 

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absolutely impossible without 
the power of the spirit. 

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If you have a Christianity that 
teaches you is just about morals

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or you can do it all in your own
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That's not Christianity. 
You can't do what Jesus calls 

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you to do without the very power
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That's why our prayer for new 
eating constantly is that we 

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would drink deeply of The Well 
of the spirit and that we would 

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be completely dependent on him 
for our success. 

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Us and even our definition of 
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We'll talk more about the spirit
as we work through John and what

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will teach how to think properly
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But let me say this, more 
dependence on the spirit and 

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more awareness of the spirit and
his presence is never a bad 

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thing. 
We don't need to be scared of 

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that or skeptical that it's 
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Like the spirits not going to 
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among us. 
We might mess it up, but he will

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not. 
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Jesus in our own strength. 
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We're told that the one who 
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streams of Living Water, the 
spirit flow from deep within 

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him. 
Remember the visual of the water

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being poured out on the altar. 
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spring of gihon flow in clean? 
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in this culture because they 
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So this is living flowing water 
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And life-giving. 
Jesus is saying, hey, if you 

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believe in me, you get that 
flowing from deep within Within 

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you and it's not the spirit that
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It is a gift from Jesus to US 
based on the belief in him 

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alone. 
And so here, we see Jesus, teach

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us about the amount of the 
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See the amount of the spirit is,
abundant. 

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Jesus, doesn't skimp out on 
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It's overflowing. 
It's flowing from deep within 

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us. 
He gives us his spirit. 

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Your dad's an abundant offering 
over our lives to comfort us to 

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convict us when need us, when 
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And I think is important for us 
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the spirit, cannot be skeptical 
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It's almost like we're afraid of
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spirit. 
Like what like, that's the power

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source for the Christian. 
How can we be scared of that are

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skeptical of that? 
See as a follower of Jesus, if 

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you believed in him you get 
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this is good news. 
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not X or we can't grieve him 
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But it does mean that the gift 
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we have to kind of earn our way 
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you know, for those super 
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When we believe in Jesus, we are
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the spirit immediately and that 
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Even the truth that you can 
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The, holy spirit means, he's 
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points, even in your sin. 
He's there. 

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Now how all of this Spirit stuff
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believer. 
I'll be honest. 

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I don't completely understand 
how it all works. 

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Some of this is a mystery, 
probably on purpose. 

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So you depend on him and not 
your own strengths and not your 

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own intellect. 
Kind of putting a spirit into a 

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box, right? 
Which people have tried to do 

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this, right? 
He won't stay. 

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It's why Christians have argued 
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centuries, but we need to 
understand that the spirit is 

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still alive and active, and in 
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and he moves as he wishes. 
Pouring out himself abundantly 

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on us corporately as a body 
whenever he chooses and in your 

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own life. 
We also know that when he does 

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when he pours himself out in 
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He can't just reside in you, 
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You're an opportunity for the 
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threw you to the world around 
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You aren't meant to keep it just
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It's abundant. 
It's overflowing. 

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You're so full of the spirit of 
God that as Kevin has has said 

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before that as you walk and 
bounce with other people that 

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you Splash Jesus on them because
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The amount of the spirit is 
abundant and this is good news 

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for us, but it's not even the 
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Jesus said. 
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crowds and angered the Pharisees
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Let's look at it again closer. 

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If anyone. 
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Let him come to me, and drink. 
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spirit. 
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of the spirit. 
We're told that Jesus stands 

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before this loud crowd with a 
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And says that, anyone not just 
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Israel. 
Not just the healthy, not just 

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the religious. 
But anyone, the only requirement

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is that, you know, you're 
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and you can come and Drink 
freely and this message, when it

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gets everything that the 
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that they had set up. 
And it goes against everything 

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that our culture in America of 
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This goes against the message 
that keeps people on the fringes

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because they're not the right 
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The right ethnicity. 
They're not smart enough. 

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Healthy enough or Rich enough. 
Jesus stands up and says the 

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only requirement to receive 
abundant gift of the spirit is 

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to know, you're thirsty and come
to him. 

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The amount of the spirit is 
abundant and they Avail 

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availability is for any and all 
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That's why in verses 42 44, the 
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They don't know what to do with 
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Message. 
Some are like, maybe this is the

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Messiah. 
Maybe it's a profit. 

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Some here. 
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Good news. 
Probably those who are thirsty 

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and those who have been kept on 
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Like what would we get access to
this living water? 

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You're talking about me. 
The religious system has kept us

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on the outside this whole time 
and you're saying I can partake 

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but then others who set up this 
religious system, especially the

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Pharisees in the chief priests 
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Most of these guys had probably 
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water that had just become 
empty, meaningless acts of 

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worship, just going through the 
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And now Jesus is saying that, 
hey, all these rituals all these

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sacrifices, they're going away 
because I'm the Fulfillment of 

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those. 
Those have always been pointing 

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to me and Jesus saying any can 
come drink freely. 

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This goes against everything, 
the chief priests believed and 

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taught. 
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they had already gotten upset at
Jesus, and they sent guards or 

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servants as they're called in 
our text, to arrest, Jesus and 

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stop him from teaching. 
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comes back here in verse 44 and 
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unsuccessful. 
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We're told in verse 44 that they
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And in verse 45, the servants 
come to the chief priests and 

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Pharisees, who ask them. 
Where's Jesus? 

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Why don't you bring them? 
We told you to go arrest him. 

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We're sick of what he's 
teaching. 

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The servants answered. 
No, man, ever spoke like this. 

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And the Pharisees responded 
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Are you full to have any of the 
rulers are Pharisees believed in

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him? 
But this crowd these 

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rabble-rousers, these common 
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They don't know the law, they're
cursed and you want to listen to

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them over us. 
The guards admit we couldn't 

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bring ourselves to arrest them. 
No one's ever spoken like this 

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man. 
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And this make the makes the 
Pharisees mad that they start 

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showing their true colors. 
They start showing their true 

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arrogance. 
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Are you fool to they said, hey 
guys, you can't believe Jesus is

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the Messiah without us first, 
you know, kind of being the way 

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to God and telling you how to 
worship God and who the Messiah 

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is. 
The word crowd they use here is 

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like rabble-rousers. 
This was a, very inferior term 

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the way they use this, they saw 
the common Focus inferior 

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because they were uneducated. 
They weren't a studied, as these

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Pharisees, who knew the Torah 
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And this crowd was a cursed 
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law, like, we did their world 
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The world cannot even begin to 
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Living Water, the gift of the 
spirit would be given to just 

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common. 
Read a ignorant. 

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Nobody's this infuriates them. 
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Nicodemus, who was actually a 
ruler of the Jews came to Jesus 

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by night in the past, 
eventually. 

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It seems from Jean that he'll 
come to Faith and he. 

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So he's in this wrestling stage,
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in verse 52. 
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He defends them, and in verse 
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Nicodemus. 
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Nicodemus. 
You aren't From Galilee to. 

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Are you? 
They replied investigating. 

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You will see that no Prophet 
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Not them over there. 
There's no way a profit could 

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come from there. 
There's are you from there, too?

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And they start using this ethnic
slur, this you're not surely 

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taking the side of those 
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Are you? 
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thought they had an inside track
to Yahweh based on their 

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intellect. 
They had studied the law. 

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They knew the tour inside and 
out. 

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And not only that, but they 
thought they had a standing with

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God based on their position. 
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elite, they had Insider access 
but not only did they have 

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intellectual pride and 
positional Pride. 

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They also had ethnic Pride. 
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real chosen ones, right? 
They were the ones that God 

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chose. 
So God Favored them above all 

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the others. 
And Jesus stands up and says, 

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look, my spirit is gifted. 
Not based on your intellect, 

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your standing, your position or 
your place of birth or 

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ethnicity, but instead, based 
solely on, if you come to me, 

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based on belief, in me alone. 
This is the good news of the 

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Gospel. 
This is good news for all of us 

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who have been stripped of our 
own self reliance and our own 

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pride and realize that we have a
longing and a thirst that this 

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world cannot satisfy. 
And we say I thirst where do I 

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find satisfaction? 
And we come to Jesus and say, we

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need a savior and he stands up 
and proclaims laude loudly, that

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I am the Fulfillment of all the 
hopes and dreams that the people

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of God ever longed for As Jesus 
stood up and made the scandalous

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Proclamation, those in the crowd
would have remembered Isaiah 

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chapter 12 verses 2 & 3. 
It says, indeed, God is my 

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salvation. 
Not some ritual, not some right.

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But God I will trust him and not
be afraid for the Lord. 

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The Lord himself is my strength 
and my song, he has become my 

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salvation. 
You, the people of God will 

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joyfully draw water from the 
Springs of Salvation has. 

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The priests are drawing water 
from the pool of Siloam. 

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Jesus saying, drink of me. 
I am the salvation. 

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That you long for and as we 
drink of him, we find true 

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satisfaction and joy. 
As he grants us his Spirit. 

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Jesus also Echoes the words of 
Isaiah 55, which say, come 

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everyone who is thirsty. 
Come to the water and you 

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without silver. 
You don't need no money. 

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You need to buy this, you'll 
need to earn it. 

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Just come and eat. 
You don't need money to purchase

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this come, buy wine and milk 
without silver and without cost 

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pay attention. 
And come to me. 

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Listen, so that you will live. 
You want Springs of Living Water

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come to Jesus. 
And Isaiah goes on to say, that,

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the Nations that did not know, 
God will be given the spirit of 

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God. 
This was always the plan that 

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the spirit of God would go forth
to all people. 

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All nations, all tribes, and all
tongues. 

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And the beauty of it is that the
reception of the spirit. 

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The receiving of the spirit is 
based on his Covenant work, not 

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ours. 
See we could never earn access 

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to God. 
I mean think about the fact it's

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crazy that the spirit indwells 
you I mean, you know your own 

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Brokenness. 
I don't have to remind you of 

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it. 
The Same Spirit that raised 

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Jesus from the dead, the spirit 
of the Living God is in dwelt in

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your person. 
Seeing on her own. 

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We could never be clean enough 
for the spirit to make his 

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dwelling among us. 
See, as the Pharisees spoke of 

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the crowd, when they said they 
were a curse, they were 

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prophesying without even knowing
it, but they weren't just 

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talking about the crowd reality.
Is they themselves were accursed

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along with all of humanity. 
We need a savior. 

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We need someone to save us from 
ourselves. 

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And that's what Jesus came to 
do. 

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Jesus made his dwelling, his his
Booth is temporary tabernacled 

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among us, became flesh made his 
home as one of us so that he 

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might become the perfect human 
on our behalf so that we would 

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not have to stay a curse. 
This is why Jesus went to the 

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Cross. 
He didn't just stand up and 

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Proclaim some message loudly to 
get the crowds riled up. 

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No, he actually lived this. 
He accomplished salvation for 

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all, who believe. 
He walked the path that we 

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couldn't walk. 
He brought Heaven down to us 

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this. 
What the Tabernacle represented 

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represented. 
It's the place where Heaven met 

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Earth. 
And Jesus is saying I am it. 

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I'm the true Temple. 
Jesus is bringing satisfaction 

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for us later in the Gospel of 
John Hill record for us. 

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Jesus on the cross, toward the 
end of his death and he cries 

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out loudly. 
And he says I thirst And yes, 

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the shows us is humanity. 
But there was more than a 

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physical aspect to his thirst. 
We see in this, these two words.

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I thirst that Jesus was 
completely emptied so that we 

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might be filled. 
He enters into the emptiness of 

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humanity, as he becomes sin. 
He becomes the accursed one on 

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our behalf and all these Idols 
that we Chase seeking to satisfy

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us and they leave us empty every
time. 

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Jesus willingly, walks into the 
results of that emptying himself

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as the hymn, says, of all but 
love. 

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So that we might receive the 
Abundant filling of his spirit 

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and that same Spirit, that's 
granted to you. 

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And me is the Same Spirit that 
in the Tomb, breathe life, back 

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into the dead, bones of Jesus, 
and causes him to raise up 

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again, and he conquers death, 
and he'll, and your sin. 

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So that the spirit might end. 
Well, you and when he ascends 

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back to the father, he doesn't 
leave us alone. 

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He says it's better for me to go
cause I want the spirit inside. 

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Each of my Believers this temple
on building where I'm the 

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Cornerstone and all of you has 
the church aren't dwelt by the 

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spirit. 
The hands and feet of Jesus in 

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the Earth today. 
He breathes on in the spirit. 

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He brings Heaven down and he 
places eternity in our hearts. 

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This can only be fulfilled by 
the water, the spirit, that 

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quenches our Eternal longing. 
Jesus is the Fulfillment of all 

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of this. 
It's all about him. 

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It's always about him. 
That's why everything we do here

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is about him. 
The psalm that was chanted as 

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the priest poured out, the water
on. 

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The altar was Psalm 118, as they
got to the end of this Halal. 

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And that's the song that says 
the stone that the builders 

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rejected has become the 
Cornerstone. 

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And it even says that the stone 
being rejected, Jesus being 

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rejected was from the Lord, and 
that it's a cause for 

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celebration wait what? 
Him being emptied him dying is 

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an opportunity for us to 
celebrate and throw a freakin 

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party. 
Yes, because that is our 

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Salvation. 
That's our hope, his death 

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brought life to us. 
Jesus is the true one who was 

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poured out on the altar of the 
Cross. 

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He was emptied completely so 
that we might be overflowing 

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with his Spirit and the 
invitation to us. 

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Today is to lay aside, all pride
and self, whether that be pride 

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in your theology. 
Pride and how much you studied 

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the texter, how good you are at 
your reading plan, pride in your

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position or your wealth or your 
status National Pride of what 

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nation you were born into lay 
this, all the side and come 

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thirsty to the only one who can 
satisfy. 

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That's what we see at the end of
the entire story in revelation, 

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22. 
Look at it with me. 

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It'll be on the screens. 
Then he showed me the river of 

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the Water of Life, clear as 
Crystal flowing from the Throne 

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of God, and of the Lamb down, 
the middle of the city's Main 

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Street, and we're told that this
this water of life brings forth 

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trees that are for the healing 
of the Nations. 

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And then look at verse 17. 
It says, both the spirit. 

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And the bride say come, let 
anyone who hears say come, let 

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the one who is thirsty. 
Come, let the one who desires 

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take the Water of Life freely. 
This invitation is open to all 

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and if you've not come and drunk
of the water of life together, 

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the spirit and the bride, the 
church that's us. 

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Like we stand and implore you to
come drink. 

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You don't need money. 
You don't need status. 

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Just bring your emptiness. 
And he will fill you because 

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Jesus was emptied on the cross. 
You can be filled. 

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And for those of us who've 
received this, Jesus, our 

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prayers that we would surrender 
our own interest. 

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Lay them, aside surrender. 
Our members are gifts, whatever 

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we have to the spirit so that he
can flow from us to the world 

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around us. 
Growing into a greater awareness

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of the spirits work and our 
other need for dependence on him

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will absolutely change us as we 
say all the time. 

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If the spirit was removed from 
your life. 

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Would you even notice our lives 
reflecting the fact that we 

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can't do this on our own when 
people want to give us credit 

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and glory for anything that 
happens? 

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We say it's all Jesus. 
It's all the work of his Spirit 

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within us flowing from within us
as a gift from him. 

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And this happens in all of life,
right? 

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Not just the things that we 
deemed sacred, you know, stuff 

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like Sunday morning, when we 
show up, you know, we're all 

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singing and praising which I 
love doing, right. 

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But it's also in the everyday, 
as the spirit, works at your job

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and your career, and your 
education, whatever it is that 

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you do, where you find yourself,
you're displaying and declaring 

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to the world, the beauty of 
Jesus. 

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We need him, but the good news 
is that he is available to all 

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and given in abundance. 
So come drink freely without 

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price.