1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:02,080 Well, good morning. It's great to see everybody 2 00:00:02,080 --> 00:00:04,760 who's here today. I am excited to lead our study 3 00:00:04,760 --> 00:00:07,520 again because I have the best thing to talk about there is 4 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:09,520 this. God's Word is good, man. 5 00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:12,240 It is a beautiful section of scriptures we have to cover this 6 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:14,240 morning. And thank you for being here. 7 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:17,040 If you're a visitor, thank you for joining us for worship. 8 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:19,000 If you're from the community, we welcome you. 9 00:00:19,240 --> 00:00:22,000 And what a great day to be together, to worship. 10 00:00:22,480 --> 00:00:25,560 We're going to be taking all of our texts in John chapter 4. 11 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:27,400 We're not even going to do any reference scriptures. 12 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:29,440 I don't think this morning, I don't think I had any reference 13 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:31,240 scriptures. So if you want to stay in one 14 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:34,000 place, have your Bible open, we're going to be right there in 15 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:37,240 John chapter 4. And this morning I'm just kind 16 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:41,280 of continuing A spontaneous series that originated from, we 17 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:44,440 started in Nicodemus in John chapter 3, talking about the man 18 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:47,640 and his God meeting together. Then I went back and talked 19 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:50,120 about John chapter 1 and we learned some lessons of 20 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:53,680 evangelism from John chapter 1. And I'm just kind of keeping the 21 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:55,120 flow. I'm just moving on through 22 00:00:55,360 --> 00:00:58,640 because I found too much good stuff in John chapter 4 to pass 23 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:00,360 it up as an opportunity to study. 24 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:05,000 So if we remember back, we're trying to get the flow of how 25 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:09,200 this book is written. John is a, his writings are very 26 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:12,760 deifying. They focus on the divinity of 27 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:14,800 Jesus. And the other gospels have 28 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:18,040 different, you know, focuses or different angles, points of view 29 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:21,560 this letter or this, this epistle is very much for the 30 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:25,400 point of view of God's deity and Jesus's deity. 31 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:29,360 And so we noticed that how it applied to God coming down the 32 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:31,640 word became flesh, which is Jesus himself. 33 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:34,800 God enters, he provides, he spreads his word 34 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:38,160 evangelistically through people. John chapter 2 talks about a 35 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:41,520 wedding feast, how Jesus comes in and he's actually supporting 36 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:44,880 the celebration. He's he's doing his miracle, his 37 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:49,720 miraculous work in celebration. And then he moves right into 38 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:52,440 cleansing the temple. Jesus cleansed the temple. 39 00:01:52,520 --> 00:01:54,840 He, he supported the celebration, but cleansed the 40 00:01:54,840 --> 00:01:56,440 temple. The place you might think he'd 41 00:01:56,440 --> 00:01:59,760 be happy with, He actually came in and ripped into him. 42 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:02,440 He drove him out. You remember Brooks Cristwell is 43 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:04,840 not here too long ago. He covered that. 44 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:06,880 And so I wasn't going to dive back in. 45 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:09,919 Brooks covered when Jesus cleansed the temple. 46 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:12,840 Then we're working our way into John chapter 3. 47 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:17,680 You have Jesus speaking with Nicodemus, and now we have Jesus 48 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:20,560 not just speaking with a Pharisee, Nicodemus, but 49 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:23,760 speaking with a woman and a very specific type of woman. 50 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:27,480 That's where we land in this grand view of this deity coming 51 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:30,920 down and spreading amongst men. So let's start here. 52 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:33,320 Here's our outline. We're going to cover another 53 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:36,320 man's treasure. We're going to cover spirit and 54 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:38,000 truth. We sing about that this morning. 55 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:40,000 It's been mentioned in our prayers a lot lately. 56 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:42,360 Where does that come from? It comes from this chapter. 57 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:46,680 Section 3 is going to be a work that sustains Section 4. 58 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:51,280 The model works. So section one, another man's 59 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:54,040 treasure. Starting in verse 3, it says, 60 00:02:54,040 --> 00:02:58,760 Speaking of Jesus, he left Judea and departed again to Galilee. 61 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:02,720 So here's Jesus's journey. He's travelling from Ephraim all 62 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:06,320 the way up to Galilee where he's headed, and here is the path 63 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:09,800 that he takes. It says verse 4, but he needed 64 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:14,920 to go through Samaria. You can notice there's there's a 65 00:03:14,920 --> 00:03:17,680 pretty direct path if you're going to go straight from here 66 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:19,800 all the way through. We know there's terrain. 67 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:21,560 They had to navigate lots of mountains. 68 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:26,840 Jesus chose the direct path through, but most people did it 69 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:30,280 because most people travelling here were also Jews. 70 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:32,760 That's where Jerusalem was. This is the Pharisees. 71 00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:36,400 This is the religious leaders. This is their cream of the crop 72 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:42,240 and what most people do coming from from from Jerusalem and 73 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:46,640 Judea is they take a path and they go all the way around 74 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:50,000 Samaria or they go around the coastline. 75 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:54,040 If you take the coastal path from Judea all the way up to 76 00:03:54,040 --> 00:03:58,160 Galilee, it's about 120 mile journey on foot or however they 77 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:01,080 travelled. Likely Jesus and his apostles, 78 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:06,600 his disciples were on foot. So Jesus takes this direct path 79 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:10,560 where other people would have gone 120 miles this way, or some 80 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:13,600 others would take the Jordan River Valley and go over here to 81 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:16,720 the to the east and take 100 mile journey. 82 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:20,160 The journey Jesus took was actually the straightest shot, a 83 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:24,760 70 mile journey, 70 to 80 miles. So there were Jews who would 84 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:29,720 have gone an extra 30 to 50 miles in the other direction to 85 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:33,000 avoid going through Samaria. You're like, what's going on? 86 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:34,640 What's wrong with Samaria? Is it stink? 87 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:37,160 Kind of kind of to them it's stink. 88 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:40,160 It said Jesus needed to go through Samaria. 89 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:41,720 We just established he didn't need to. 90 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:45,080 There's other ways around. He could have gone another way, 91 00:04:45,280 --> 00:04:48,200 but Jesus needed to not for a physical reason. 92 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:50,440 He needed to go through there for a spiritual reason. 93 00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:53,400 He had a path. He had an appointment to make 94 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:55,640 and he had an appointment with this woman. 95 00:04:56,920 --> 00:04:59,560 Verse 5. So he came to a city of Samaria, 96 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:03,920 which is called Cycar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave 97 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:08,280 to his son Joseph. Now Jacob's well was there. 98 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:12,280 Jesus therefore, being wearied from his journey, sat thus by 99 00:05:12,280 --> 00:05:15,360 the well. It was about the 6th hour. 100 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:18,080 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. 101 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:21,400 I'm going to come back to this. So don't don't forget about 102 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:23,040 Jacob's well and what we've read so far. 103 00:05:27,280 --> 00:05:29,120 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. 104 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:33,280 Jesus said to her, give me a drink, for his disciples had 105 00:05:33,280 --> 00:05:35,360 gone away into the city to buy food. 106 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:39,720 Then the woman of Samaria said to him, how is it that you being 107 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:44,160 a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman, for Jews have 108 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:47,280 no dealings with Samaritans. OK, this is where we're going to 109 00:05:47,280 --> 00:05:49,560 get the context and we're going to go back and read what we just 110 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:51,960 read through. So what is going on with this 111 00:05:51,960 --> 00:05:54,040 situation? Number one, there are at least 112 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:57,720 three barriers here that Jesus is absolutely plowing right 113 00:05:57,720 --> 00:05:59,320 through. Here's the first barrier. 114 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:04,840 There is the cultural rift. This is the biggest one that she 115 00:06:04,840 --> 00:06:08,040 is calling out when she says Jews have no dealings with 116 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:09,520 Samaritans. What is the barrier? 117 00:06:10,520 --> 00:06:14,600 During the Jewish history, there was a period, several times, 118 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:17,800 there were several periods where the Jews were taken into 119 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:21,520 captivity. Because God said if you will but 120 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:25,120 do my will, you will flourish, you will grow, you will be 121 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:27,360 provided for. Nations will fear you. 122 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:31,600 Everyone will get out of your way and the world will be yours, 123 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:35,320 so to speak. But they would sin, he says. 124 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:38,520 If you sin, then I will bring on all the destruction and the 125 00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:41,440 plagues that you've seen. I will crush you. 126 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:43,360 I will make you a laughing stock. 127 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:45,600 God tells them this, So what happens? 128 00:06:45,760 --> 00:06:47,960 They don't listen. And So what happens? 129 00:06:47,960 --> 00:06:49,960 They go into captivity multiple times. 130 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:52,560 They lose their freedom. They lose their homeland. 131 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:54,520 To who? To the Assyrians. 132 00:06:54,520 --> 00:06:57,040 There are several empires. They were just kind of like 133 00:06:57,040 --> 00:07:00,840 getting whooped by every empire that came through and the most, 134 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:03,080 the last one, the most recent one was the Roman Empire. 135 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:06,640 It just kept happening. The Assyrians, though, captured 136 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:09,520 them and they were sent into exile out of their nation. 137 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:19,040 They were sent out when they wanted to, well, when they 138 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:21,920 wanted to come back. So they, when they're, they 139 00:07:21,920 --> 00:07:25,200 turned back to God, God restored them and they're starting to 140 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:28,080 rebuild their nation. The Jews wanted to rebuild their 141 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:32,080 temple and they say we want to erect the structure and we're 142 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:36,880 ready to, to honour God again. Well, there's a problem here 143 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:40,960 because the Samaritans were a group inside of of the Jewish 144 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:45,680 nation that wanted to help. They wanted to help build this 145 00:07:45,680 --> 00:07:47,640 temple too. But you know what happened when 146 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:51,800 they were in exile, instead of staying separate and apart from 147 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:55,920 the nations, the Assyrians that captured them, the Samaritans 148 00:07:55,920 --> 00:07:58,160 just kind of said, well, we'll just intermarry with them. 149 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:00,160 We're just going to, we're going to adapt some of their cultures 150 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:01,560 and we're just going to kind of assimilate. 151 00:08:01,880 --> 00:08:04,800 We're going to become like this, this worldly nation. 152 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:08,400 And the Jews were like, what are you guys doing? 153 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:11,360 We're in captivity here. Why are you intermarrying? 154 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:14,280 And remember, during this time, the Jews were supposed to be 155 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:16,960 separate and apart. Today we are a melting pot. 156 00:08:16,960 --> 00:08:18,560 There is no neither Jew nor Greek. 157 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:21,960 We are all one in Christ Jesus. But that's not how it was back 158 00:08:21,960 --> 00:08:24,560 then. They were by law supposed to be 159 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:26,200 separate from the nations around them. 160 00:08:27,440 --> 00:08:30,640 So the people, the Jews were right in a sense when they said 161 00:08:31,440 --> 00:08:33,400 you, you shouldn't be intermarrying with these people 162 00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:35,919 and just accepting that this heathen culture. 163 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:40,720 And so the Jews had a disdain for what the Samaritans did. 164 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:43,360 So guess what? Hey guys, let's rebuild the 165 00:08:43,360 --> 00:08:45,720 temple. Let's all get back together and 166 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:49,000 and build this thing back again. The Jews say no, you guys, you 167 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:50,680 guys stay away. You were separate from us. 168 00:08:50,680 --> 00:08:54,240 Now you made your decision. You sided with the enemy, you 169 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:58,360 sided with sin itself. And the Jews opposed them 170 00:08:58,520 --> 00:09:01,160 because of their unfaithfulness. They perceived. 171 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:05,560 Well, guess what? Then the then the Samaritan 172 00:09:05,560 --> 00:09:07,800 said, well, forget you guys, then we're going to stop you 173 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:10,480 from building the temple. And they actively opposed read 174 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:13,360 the book of Ezra. They actively fought against the 175 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:15,080 rest of the Jews rebuilding the temple. 176 00:09:15,880 --> 00:09:18,880 So you have this head to head. You're you're judging us. 177 00:09:18,960 --> 00:09:21,160 You're going to be hard on us. We're going to come right back 178 00:09:21,160 --> 00:09:22,560 on you and we're going to fight you too. 179 00:09:23,040 --> 00:09:26,840 And so the Jews and Samaritans have this age-old conflict that 180 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:28,800 has established a long time before. 181 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:35,440 And that's the biggest factor in which this woman is saying, why 182 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:37,760 are you even talking to me? You have nothing to do with us. 183 00:09:39,160 --> 00:09:42,360 Now let's go back. Why is he here? 184 00:09:42,640 --> 00:09:45,600 Jesus could have chosen any path and he could have chosen any 185 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:48,560 location to meet this woman at. What did he choose? 186 00:09:48,680 --> 00:09:52,160 He chose Jacob's well. Why did he choose this place? 187 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:56,120 Jacob's Well in the Bible is a place where a theme of where 188 00:09:56,120 --> 00:10:02,160 special relationships are built. You think about where Moses met 189 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:05,040 his wife Zipporah. They met at a well. 190 00:10:05,560 --> 00:10:09,160 You think about Isaac meeting his wife Rebecca. 191 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:11,440 It was at a well. That's where the interaction, 192 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:13,120 the the key interaction happened. 193 00:10:13,480 --> 00:10:17,040 His servant met at the well. These new relationships are 194 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:19,560 started at the well and there's a new relationship about to be 195 00:10:19,560 --> 00:10:22,480 built with this woman at Jacob's Well. 196 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:26,120 Jacob's well was a place of common ground. 197 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:29,600 So where these Jews and Samaritans both had common 198 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:33,720 history was at this place. They both revered this place as 199 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:37,520 a special heritage point. Jacob's well, the one he dug 200 00:10:37,520 --> 00:10:42,360 himself. Jesus goes out of his way to 201 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:47,600 find a place of common ground in a foreign, a foreign people's 202 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:50,600 land, a place where relationships historically 203 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:52,880 begin. And why the well? 204 00:10:52,880 --> 00:10:55,160 I also think it's because he's going to build the perfect 205 00:10:55,160 --> 00:10:58,640 illustration for a sermon. Jesus was brilliant with this. 206 00:10:58,840 --> 00:11:03,080 He set up a sermon about living water by walking to a well. 207 00:11:03,640 --> 00:11:07,320 And I think fourthly, and maybe just as significant as the 208 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:13,000 others, Jesus is teaching that worship was no longer going to 209 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:17,960 be about a physical place. They had their temple, they had 210 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:21,760 their well, this place that was revered and it's no longer going 211 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:23,840 to be a physical place of significance. 212 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:27,040 Jesus is going to teach her that it's in spirit and in truth. 213 00:11:27,240 --> 00:11:31,040 It's going to be a spiritual person that is the location and 214 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:34,600 the object of their worship. This location is not an 215 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:37,560 accident. The Bible says that God, if you 216 00:11:37,560 --> 00:11:40,160 tried to write down all the things that Jesus did, the world 217 00:11:40,160 --> 00:11:42,040 cannot contain this, the scrolls, right? 218 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:45,960 So he chose these things to show us because it's all significant. 219 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:54,080 OK, so we're at Jacob's well and Jesus therefore being wearied 220 00:11:54,080 --> 00:11:56,640 from his journey, sat thus by the well. 221 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:01,080 It's likely that Jesus had just travelled about 30 or 40 miles 222 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:04,600 up to this point and going through this mountainous region, 223 00:12:04,760 --> 00:12:09,120 he was wiped out. And as kind of the two main 224 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:11,160 points we're going to make about this lesson, this is one of 225 00:12:11,160 --> 00:12:13,960 them. Your work and your weariness. 226 00:12:14,360 --> 00:12:17,560 Jesus was no stranger to that. Jesus comes into the scenario 227 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:20,480 already dog tired, and when is it? 228 00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:23,640 He sits by the well about the 6th hour. 229 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:26,800 So that should tell you how Jesus is feeling. 230 00:12:26,800 --> 00:12:29,200 It's the middle of the day, it's hot, He's been hiking, he's been 231 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:32,760 climbing, but what else does it tell us? 232 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:35,680 It tells us something about this woman. 233 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:40,520 Would you go in the middle of the desert in the middle of a 234 00:12:40,520 --> 00:12:43,680 hot day to get water in the middle of the day? 235 00:12:43,680 --> 00:12:47,040 You want to do that. For those of you who have the 236 00:12:47,040 --> 00:12:49,600 schedule flexibility, you do your grocery shopping in the 237 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:52,360 morning, you get your walk in in the morning or in the evening. 238 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:55,600 So why is this woman coming in the middle of the day? 239 00:12:57,560 --> 00:12:59,280 Seems to be that she's trying to avoid people. 240 00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:02,480 She's trying to avoid the rest of the crowd that's going out 241 00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:04,320 there to get water themselves in the morning. 242 00:13:05,240 --> 00:13:07,480 Why is this woman trying to avoid other people? 243 00:13:07,920 --> 00:13:12,120 We're going to find out. Jesus said to her, give me a 244 00:13:12,120 --> 00:13:15,240 drink for his disciples. I got away into the city to buy 245 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:16,720 food. It's so convenient that he 246 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:19,440 didn't have a somewhat thing to put his water in, right, Jesus, 247 00:13:19,720 --> 00:13:21,760 he did that on purpose. He didn't have anything to get 248 00:13:21,760 --> 00:13:23,160 water with. So he had to ask her. 249 00:13:23,160 --> 00:13:26,200 He had to engage this woman. He had to set up a strategic 250 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:28,960 interaction with this woman to make some ground with her. 251 00:13:30,280 --> 00:13:33,520 And what happens the woman says, how is that you being a Jew, ask 252 00:13:33,520 --> 00:13:35,160 a drink for me, a Samaritan woman. 253 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:39,760 So the only it wasn't just the barrier of the Samaritan rift. 254 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:43,680 She's a woman. Women don't talk to the rabbi's 255 00:13:44,320 --> 00:13:46,640 in this culture. It was even more separate. 256 00:13:46,640 --> 00:13:50,120 You think the men versus women thing is, is something today. 257 00:13:50,280 --> 00:13:52,280 It was bigger, big, big back then. 258 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:55,640 A rabbi would not have talked to a woman in public like this. 259 00:13:56,080 --> 00:13:58,960 So you have the woman to man barrier, you have the Samaritan 260 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:03,480 to Jew barrier, you have the immoral and pure barrier, and 261 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:06,440 you have the private past to open truth barrier. 262 00:14:06,920 --> 00:14:09,800 Jesus has plowed right through all this to talk to this woman 263 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:12,040 and she is confused. She's like, what are you doing? 264 00:14:13,520 --> 00:14:17,800 Why is this Jesus showing us that there is no category you 265 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:20,360 can put yourself in when he can't get to you? 266 00:14:21,920 --> 00:14:25,840 There's nothing he's going to, he's going to shy away from. 267 00:14:25,880 --> 00:14:28,200 There's no hard thing that she's going to shy away from. 268 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:32,560 He comes to all and He came to this woman despite all the 269 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:34,360 things that were between her and him. 270 00:14:38,480 --> 00:14:42,800 Verse 10 Jesus answered and said to her, if you knew the gift of 271 00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:46,760 God and who it is who says to you, give me a drink, you would 272 00:14:46,760 --> 00:14:50,200 have asked him and he would have given you living water. 273 00:14:50,560 --> 00:14:53,160 And so here's where the the devil speak comes out. 274 00:14:53,160 --> 00:14:56,080 You're starting to see probably the the metaphor starting to pop 275 00:14:56,080 --> 00:14:58,080 in here. He's talking to her about water, 276 00:14:58,160 --> 00:14:59,640 but he's talking out of both sides of his mouth. 277 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:01,680 It's no longer just about water anymore. 278 00:15:02,120 --> 00:15:05,120 And it's it's unclear whether she really understands that or 279 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:06,760 not. Sometimes these people just as 280 00:15:06,760 --> 00:15:09,160 talking to her confused sometimes maybe they're getting 281 00:15:09,160 --> 00:15:13,560 the hint, but he says he's basically saying I'm the gift of 282 00:15:13,560 --> 00:15:16,840 God and I'm coming to you with with something more with living 283 00:15:16,840 --> 00:15:21,040 water. Verse 11, the woman said to him, 284 00:15:21,600 --> 00:15:24,720 Sir, you have nothing to draw with You didn't you didn't bring 285 00:15:24,720 --> 00:15:26,040 a you didn't bring a bucket here. 286 00:15:26,040 --> 00:15:29,040 You didn't bring a jar and the well is deep. 287 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:31,800 Where then do you get that living water? 288 00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:34,680 I believe the metaphors continue here. 289 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:39,640 He is seeking to draw into this woman's heart, but there's a lot 290 00:15:39,640 --> 00:15:42,640 deep there. This well is deep. 291 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:44,960 There's a lot of problems here. There's a lot of stuff. 292 00:15:45,520 --> 00:15:48,560 And I don't even know if she realizes what she's saying, but 293 00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:52,120 Jesus knows the well is deep. Where then do you get that 294 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:55,840 living water? Are you greater than our father 295 00:15:55,840 --> 00:15:59,400 Jacob who gave us the well and drank from it his self as well 296 00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:04,760 as his sons and his livestock? Jesus answered and said to her, 297 00:16:05,560 --> 00:16:10,880 Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever 298 00:16:10,880 --> 00:16:14,600 drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. 299 00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:18,800 What's the spiritual parallel He's drawing out here? 300 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:22,760 She He is coming to her in her daily routine. 301 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:25,040 He's coming to her in the monotony. 302 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:27,560 He's coming to her on any old Tuesday. 303 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:32,320 She's not coming in seeking truth, asking questions. 304 00:16:32,720 --> 00:16:34,920 You know, he meets her on the way praying like sometimes 305 00:16:34,920 --> 00:16:36,240 happens. This is not one of those 306 00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:38,520 situations. Jesus meets this woman in the in 307 00:16:38,520 --> 00:16:43,400 the normal, in the mundane and she is going back to the same 308 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:45,920 place she's always gone to for sustenance. 309 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:48,240 And we're going to find out in a minute. 310 00:16:48,320 --> 00:16:52,120 It wasn't just water she kept going back to, she kept going 311 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:56,080 back to man about to find out this this woman has a history 312 00:16:57,120 --> 00:16:59,800 and she keeps going back to the same old place. 313 00:17:01,280 --> 00:17:05,359 How about us? How about our vices, our 314 00:17:05,359 --> 00:17:10,160 addictions, whether it's emotional or spiritual 315 00:17:10,640 --> 00:17:14,359 entertainment, whether it's substance, whatever it might be, 316 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:18,400 our habits, habits, habits that might work into our life and 317 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:23,400 take over and control us. What do we keep going back to 318 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:26,400 for sustenance to keep us going? That's really just not working. 319 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:28,960 We just keep trying to add more and more things to our 320 00:17:28,960 --> 00:17:31,760 collection of stuff we do to fill that hole. 321 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:37,080 It's all the metaphors. She's going back to water again, 322 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:42,720 But Jesus says I will give water that will make you never thirst 323 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:45,960 again. We see what he's saying, right? 324 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:50,480 We see he's saying that only Jesus will satisfy. 325 00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:55,160 He has the living water. He has the only thing that's 326 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:59,320 going to fill. But the water that I shall give 327 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:03,800 him will become in him a fountain of water springing up 328 00:18:03,840 --> 00:18:08,640 into everlasting life. What he's saying is if if you 329 00:18:08,680 --> 00:18:11,440 have the living water of this kind, it's going to come out of 330 00:18:11,440 --> 00:18:13,120 you too. What happens with the fountain? 331 00:18:13,120 --> 00:18:15,120 You push water in, you get water pressure in. 332 00:18:15,120 --> 00:18:18,040 You get water pressure out. If fountains everywhere, it 333 00:18:18,040 --> 00:18:21,760 waters other things besides just the channel that took the water 334 00:18:21,760 --> 00:18:24,120 in. He's making kind of a 335 00:18:24,120 --> 00:18:26,000 foreshadowing here, too. What's about to happen with this 336 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:29,760 woman? I would ask you if you really 337 00:18:29,760 --> 00:18:32,640 have living water in you, it should be coming out. 338 00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:39,360 And if it's not coming out of you, if it's not coming out of 339 00:18:39,360 --> 00:18:41,560 me, I better be asking some really tough questions. 340 00:18:43,160 --> 00:18:47,880 Is there really living water in me, or is it a dried up pool? 341 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:54,360 Is it an empty well that used to be tapped into the right source 342 00:18:54,360 --> 00:18:56,160 but is no longer tapped in there anymore? 343 00:18:56,440 --> 00:19:00,320 Or maybe never was? Maybe the the dig started and 344 00:19:00,320 --> 00:19:03,440 you got just above the water table and never struck water. 345 00:19:04,040 --> 00:19:06,560 Maybe you dug but never tapped into that source of living 346 00:19:06,560 --> 00:19:12,040 water. Jesus says if you tap into this 347 00:19:12,040 --> 00:19:14,280 living water, what will naturally happen is it will 348 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:17,240 become as fountain of living water springing up into 349 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:20,120 everlasting life. We're going to see more. 350 00:19:20,120 --> 00:19:22,920 He's going to expand upon what he's saying in just a minute. 351 00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:29,480 Verse 15, the woman said to him, Sir, give me this water, then I 352 00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:31,320 may not thirst nor come here to draw. 353 00:19:31,480 --> 00:19:32,840 So she's still stuck on the physical. 354 00:19:32,840 --> 00:19:35,200 She's like, yeah, I love to not keep walking out here all the 355 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:37,680 time. Can you give me some this this 356 00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:41,440 special invention you have where I don't have to keep trekking 357 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:42,680 out here in the middle of a hot day. 358 00:19:44,040 --> 00:19:48,400 Now you go watch out. Whenever you ask Jesus to give 359 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:52,600 you something, you better watch out because he's about to cut a 360 00:19:52,600 --> 00:19:54,080 little bit. As Tanner said this morning, 361 00:19:55,040 --> 00:19:57,240 he's about to cut a little bit and she better be ready. 362 00:19:57,360 --> 00:19:59,600 But he's going to expose without condemning. 363 00:20:00,720 --> 00:20:03,640 He's going to heal and not humiliate. 364 00:20:03,760 --> 00:20:07,240 He's exposing for the purpose of healing and not humiliation. 365 00:20:08,560 --> 00:20:14,920 You cannot heal what you hide. And so Jesus presses in. 366 00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:19,560 Jesus said to her, go call your husband and come here. 367 00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:24,080 So it's kind of like he he's, he's doing what would typically 368 00:20:24,080 --> 00:20:26,760 be said like, hey, you know, bring another man with you 369 00:20:26,760 --> 00:20:29,160 because it's always appropriate to, you know, man and woman 370 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:30,680 interaction because sometimes be inappropriate. 371 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:32,520 So you just want to bring, you know, bring someone else with 372 00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:34,360 you so we can talk and make sure this is all appropriate. 373 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:37,400 Totally normal thing to say, but brilliant for him because he 374 00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:42,400 knows what's going on with her. The woman answered and said, I 375 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:45,960 have no husband. OK, She thinks that's the end of 376 00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:48,680 it, right? Jesus said to her, you have well 377 00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:52,800 said you have no husband, for you have had five husbands, and 378 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:55,760 the one whom you now have is not your husband. 379 00:20:56,760 --> 00:21:00,040 In that you spoke truly. So yeah, you were telling the 380 00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:02,240 truth. But Jesus sees past her attempt 381 00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:04,400 to put up a wall as you're going to see this woman's going to 382 00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:07,080 deflect and she's going to put up walls quite a few times. 383 00:21:07,080 --> 00:21:11,120 And Jesus says, yeah, you're right, but that's not the whole 384 00:21:11,120 --> 00:21:14,920 story. This is why she's shamed. 385 00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:18,440 This is likely why she's coming in the middle of the day in the 386 00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:23,040 hot burning sun to draw water, because she's ashamed that 387 00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:25,720 people know her. People know her past. 388 00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:30,400 Now, we don't know what exactly is the cause, but no matter what 389 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:33,440 the cause is, it's shameful. It is shameful. 390 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:36,040 It is. It is embarrassing to have been 391 00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:37,600 through this many men. Now. 392 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:41,000 Maybe it's because these men were were dirtbags. 393 00:21:41,560 --> 00:21:45,040 It is true that the Old Testament had had started with a 394 00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:48,000 permission to divorce because of the hardness of their hearts. 395 00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:51,360 We learned that from the Scriptures that Moses, Jesus 396 00:21:51,360 --> 00:21:54,720 said permitted them to divorce because of their own hardness. 397 00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:57,560 And that's not God's will. Divorce period is not God's 398 00:21:57,560 --> 00:21:58,840 will. But you know what these Jews 399 00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:01,480 started doing? They made a list of what they 400 00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:03,400 said was a reason you could divorce. 401 00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:08,080 The list is ridiculous. It is the most minute things 402 00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:10,520 that were obviously, this is a list written by men who want to 403 00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:12,640 get out of their marriages. It's ridiculous. 404 00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:16,640 It's things as simple as like, basically the equivalent of they 405 00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:20,000 like the dinner she cooked. The list of ways these men could 406 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:22,760 have divorced her was extensive and ridiculous. 407 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:27,200 It may have been these men who are just jerks, but there's 408 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:28,160 always the other side. We don't know. 409 00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:32,920 She could have had her own, you know, her own part in that. 410 00:22:34,360 --> 00:22:35,640 It doesn't matter what the cause was. 411 00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:38,240 It's embarrassing. It's shameful. 412 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:40,000 She doesn't want people to see that. 413 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:41,120 She doesn't want to let people in. 414 00:22:41,120 --> 00:22:42,400 Other people might not even know. 415 00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:44,720 And so they just doubt her. They just look at her with a 416 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:51,000 side eye. Jesus talks to her, though he 417 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:53,280 doesn't walk away. He has a conversation with her 418 00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:57,680 Section 2 spirit. And in truth, the woman said to 419 00:22:57,680 --> 00:22:59,640 him, Sir, I perceive that you're a prophet. 420 00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:03,760 So we talk about deflections. She it goes from her life and 421 00:23:03,760 --> 00:23:06,680 she immediately kind of starts a different conversation. 422 00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:09,320 She wants to kind of move the conversation away from her life 423 00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:13,040 and she brings up a religious disagreement. 424 00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:17,720 Is this really a question she has or is she trying to deflect? 425 00:23:18,120 --> 00:23:20,000 You know, a lot of times what people do when they feel 426 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:23,080 convicted by the word of God, they want to talk about how much 427 00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:27,280 church is bad and hypocritical and how much it's just a bunch 428 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:29,640 of cheaters. And they just want to bring up 429 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:31,880 all the disagreements. They want to bring up the 430 00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:34,160 conflicts. And I think that's what this 431 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:35,840 woman is doing. She's bringing up religious 432 00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:38,840 conflict in an attempt to kind of excuse her own responsibility 433 00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:43,040 in the situation. And she says, our fathers 434 00:23:43,040 --> 00:23:46,280 worshipped on this mountain. So where you're standing, this 435 00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:47,560 is where we say we should worship. 436 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:51,160 And you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one 437 00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:53,280 ought to worship. You're like, how does this even 438 00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:56,000 happen? Well, back in the old Law, they 439 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:58,160 were supposed to worship in the holy city of Jerusalem. 440 00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:00,720 They were unified in one place. They're all supposed to come 441 00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:02,880 back there. But what happened is the kings 442 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:05,880 got, the Kingdom got divided, and they started saying, oh, 443 00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:07,680 just come over here and worship instead. 444 00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:09,640 And we set up worship places over here and here. 445 00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:13,080 And so it's easier for you. They had divided up where they 446 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:17,080 were supposed to be worshipping. And so it was confusing at this 447 00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:18,840 point. This lady's like, what do you 448 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:19,760 say? What's right? 449 00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:24,600 You Jews say it's supposed to be Jerusalem. 450 00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:27,960 But notice she didn't really ask the question. 451 00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:31,720 I think that's a deflection. Jesus says to her, woman, 452 00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:35,640 believe me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this 453 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:38,360 mountain nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father. 454 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:41,400 You worship what you do not know. 455 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:45,480 So what he's saying is he's, here's the transition point 456 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:48,080 we've talked about. He's taking it from a place of 457 00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:50,720 physical importance. Jacob's well, or even the 458 00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:53,880 mountain that they worshipped on, or even Jerusalem. 459 00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:55,880 He says it's not going to be about that anymore. 460 00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:58,840 It's not going to be about this, this physical place of 461 00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:03,000 significance. It's going to be about who 462 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:06,840 you're worshipping. It's going to be about the 463 00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:13,240 spiritual side of their worship. And here's their whole problem. 464 00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:16,520 You worship what you do not know. 465 00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:21,440 And I think this is kind of a clue as to where Jesus said that 466 00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:23,440 the Jews are maybe a little bit right about the Samaritans. 467 00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:28,080 By drifting from God, they no longer knew God and they're 468 00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:31,640 calling them out for the, I'm not even going to get into the 469 00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:33,760 location problem first. He's like, you've got more than 470 00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:36,280 a location problem. You don't even know who you're 471 00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:38,000 worshipping. That's the first problem. 472 00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:41,320 And that's the problem that transcends generations, that 473 00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:44,040 transcends covenants when you don't know the God you're 474 00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:46,320 worshipping. And when we say no, we mean 475 00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:49,960 relationally, we mean obedience wise because that's what the 476 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:52,280 book of John says. First John says, how do you know 477 00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:53,960 that you love him, that you know him, that you keep his 478 00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:55,800 commandments? It's he's like, these people 479 00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:59,640 don't even know me. You worship what you do not 480 00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:02,240 know. We know what we worship for 481 00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:09,240 salvation is of the Jews. Verse 23 But the hour is coming 482 00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:12,680 and now is when true worshippers will worship the Father in 483 00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:15,960 spirit and truth. There it is. 484 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:17,720 He doesn't one side her argument. 485 00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:20,560 He doesn't say it doesn't matter where you worship, it just 486 00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:22,160 matters that you know God. He didn't say that. 487 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:24,760 He says spirit and truth. You got to have both. 488 00:26:26,120 --> 00:26:28,240 You can't miss either piece of this puzzle. 489 00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:32,440 And He's building toward a Kingdom where the ethic of the 490 00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:35,560 new Kingdom is going to be rebuilt on this foundation. 491 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:38,200 They should have known this in the Old Testament. 492 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:40,760 They should have known that it was important to obey God and 493 00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:43,280 have a heart for God. But he's rebuilding that 494 00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:46,360 foundation, stripping away the physical. 495 00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:50,280 There's no more temple. We could worship on the grass 496 00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:51,760 outside here in a park out there. 497 00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:53,080 It doesn't matter where we're at. 498 00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:56,880 We could be in in my house. We unfit my house. 499 00:26:56,880 --> 00:27:00,520 My house isn't big enough, but for the Father is seeking such 500 00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:05,800 to worship him. How cool is that Then throughout 501 00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:08,640 generations, people have always sought to do grand things, 502 00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:13,520 especially for God. You know, the the the ascetics 503 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:18,360 would go into the mountains and fast for for for days upon days, 504 00:27:18,360 --> 00:27:20,000 weeks upon weeks, they would do great things. 505 00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:24,440 And God says, I'm just seeking people who will worship me in 506 00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:28,640 spirit and in truth. Makes you feel like what you're 507 00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:32,000 doing is pretty important. It's not something big, it's not 508 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:35,080 something complicated. It's just worship in spirit and 509 00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:37,000 truth. We don't have to do something 510 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:40,440 enormous to be what God is looking for us to be. 511 00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:46,880 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in 512 00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:51,000 spirit. The woman said to him, I know 513 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:52,720 that the Messiah is coming, who is called Christ. 514 00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:54,200 When he comes, he will tell us all things. 515 00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:58,680 Do we see like a fourth wall come up as soon as he hits some 516 00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:03,280 some tender spot here? She's like, whatever, he'll come 517 00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:04,400 tell us later, the Messiah is coming. 518 00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:08,480 She's deflecting at every turn, her life, her worship, her 519 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:14,080 current situation. And little does she know her 520 00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:17,760 last deflection tool doesn't work because this is actually 521 00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:21,720 the Messiah. Jesus said to her, I who speak 522 00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:27,560 to you am he? What did her face look like? 523 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:33,320 Can you imagine? And we don't know what her face 524 00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:35,760 looked like because I said at this point his disciples came. 525 00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:37,840 You see, like a, you know, in the movie, sometimes they'll 526 00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:39,880 have a scene cut in where the big thing happens and people 527 00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:42,040 walk in and all of a sudden you're left at that tension of 528 00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:45,120 what just happened. The disciples roll in and they 529 00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:46,720 marvelled. They're just talking to a woman. 530 00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:50,520 Yet no one said, what do you seek or why are you talking with 531 00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:53,720 her? The woman then left her water 532 00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:57,920 pot, went her way into the city and said to the men, So she she 533 00:28:57,920 --> 00:28:59,480 drops the reason she was even there. 534 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:01,400 She didn't care about this water anymore. 535 00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:03,000 There was something more important happening. 536 00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:07,880 She said to the men, Come see a man who told me all the things 537 00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:11,640 that I ever did. Could this be the Christ? 538 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:17,000 She still has questions. In fact, the thing that she 539 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:19,840 tells them is a question. She doesn't have all the 540 00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:22,120 answers, but she's telling people she's becoming the 541 00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:26,920 fountain already. Just tell people what Jesus did 542 00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:29,600 for you. Don't overcomplicate it. 543 00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:33,840 Don't doubt yourself the living water's in you. 544 00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:37,640 Just tell them what happened. And if you're not excited about 545 00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:40,800 Jesus to where living water's coming out, dive deeper to where 546 00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:43,200 you get excited. And if that doesn't work, you 547 00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:45,240 probably need to be more involved because you get excited 548 00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:47,840 about what you're committed to, what you're involved with, what 549 00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:51,720 you're putting your time and energy into where your treasure 550 00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:52,800 is there your heart will be also. 551 00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:54,720 Your heart follows what you put stuff into. 552 00:29:55,520 --> 00:30:00,760 And this woman is becoming the fountain and what she tell them, 553 00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:03,960 not something good she's confessing. 554 00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:06,800 Actually, she's putting herself in vulnerability, saying he told 555 00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:10,080 me all the things I ever did. Could this be the I think it got 556 00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:13,480 cut off the Christ. So section 3A work that 557 00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:16,920 sustains. Then they went out of the city 558 00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:19,200 and came to him. These people heard this woman 559 00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:23,720 talk and they they come and see. In the meantime, his disciples 560 00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:28,960 urged him, saying, Rabbi, eat. But he said to them, I have food 561 00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:34,120 to eat of which you do not know. Likely he just walked 15 to 20 562 00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:36,400 miles in the mountains. They're like, you got to eat 563 00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:40,800 something, man. I have food to eat of which you 564 00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:47,240 do not know. Everything he's saying is 565 00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:51,080 intentional. He's giving us the model for how 566 00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:55,520 we should as his apostles, little a those who reach the 567 00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:57,360 World, how we should be functioning. 568 00:30:57,560 --> 00:31:01,200 How does it work? You get tired, but you know 569 00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:06,760 what, there's food to eat. There's spiritual sustenance 570 00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:11,200 that you don't even know about. He tells them, So if Jesus is 571 00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:14,000 talking to the people who are literally eating with him and 572 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:17,920 talking to him and learning from his teachings, and even they had 573 00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:23,000 no idea about this spiritual food, I'd say there's a pretty 574 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,440 high percentage of us in this room who might not have enough 575 00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:30,760 spiritual nourishment. Even his closest friends did not 576 00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:36,120 understand this. But let's look deeper. 577 00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:40,120 Let's find it. Let's find the spiritual 578 00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:43,680 sustenance and find it in him instead of all the the wells. 579 00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:47,160 We keep going back to verse 33. Therefore, his disciples said to 580 00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:49,040 one another, has anyone brought him anything to eat? 581 00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:53,520 Right over their heads, Right over their heads. 582 00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:59,040 He's taking it from immediate needs of food or water at a 583 00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:01,840 well, and He's making an eternal analogy out of it. 584 00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:06,160 Jesus said to them, My food is to do the will of him who sent 585 00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:13,360 me and to finish his work. When we engage in God's work, 586 00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:16,480 helping, serving, sharing the truth, we begin to experience a 587 00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:18,840 kind of life that outweighs the exhaustion. 588 00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:25,000 That's what Jesus is saying from what drains to what sustains. 589 00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:31,040 We can be exhausted because we're not sharing your thought 590 00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:33,440 about that. Sometimes we don't start working 591 00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:35,720 because we're too tired. But maybe we're too tired 592 00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:41,760 because we're not working because Jesus says the stuff 593 00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:44,480 he's doing is what sustains him. It's all backwards. 594 00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:45,920 Jesus whole kingdom's upside down. 595 00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:51,160 The way up is down. We already know that we will 596 00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:56,080 still have jobs that tire us, responsibilities that stretch us 597 00:32:56,080 --> 00:33:01,840 in days where we feel depleted. But alongside that, you and I 598 00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:03,920 are invited into a different kind of work. 599 00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:10,840 A work that aligns with God's will, a work that impacts others 600 00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:16,000 eternally, and a work that feeds your soul even when your body 601 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:21,120 and mind are spent. From what drains to what 602 00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:23,560 sustained. The goal is not to escape during 603 00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:27,760 work, but to anchor your life in a sustaining work. 604 00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:35,640 Because that's what Jesus did. If you need to be more 605 00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:39,760 sustained, I'd be very surprised if a lot of people didn't feel 606 00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:42,000 like that. I I me too. 607 00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:46,760 If you need to be more sustained, check your alignment 608 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:51,280 1st. In every single area of our 609 00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:54,880 life, check it. If there's one thing you're 610 00:33:54,880 --> 00:34:01,320 doing that doesn't have a way to align with God's will, maybe 611 00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:03,640 it's not alignment. Does that mean you can't have 612 00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:06,680 fun? No, God give us all good things 613 00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:09,600 to enjoy. Don't like many people have this 614 00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:11,560 wrong perception of God? Like he just wants us to be 615 00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:13,719 miserable and don't ever have any fun. 616 00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:17,080 That's not God's will. Maybe in my fun I can glorify 617 00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:20,080 God. Maybe in my recreation I can 618 00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:24,480 glorify him. So every area, maybe your 619 00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:27,560 family's making you tired, maybe your job, maybe your commute, 620 00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:30,480 maybe maybe in your commute you can you can be kind toward 621 00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:33,159 people who are on the road. It's every little thing could 622 00:34:33,159 --> 00:34:35,120 have a way that aligns with God's will. 623 00:34:35,639 --> 00:34:40,960 It all goes back to alignment. But it's not just for the 624 00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:43,480 masters benefit. It's for your and my benefit 625 00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:46,639 because we're not sustained when we don't align. 626 00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:51,320 We are not sustained when we don't align. 627 00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:57,040 We break down, we get brittle, we get tired, we get bitter when 628 00:34:57,040 --> 00:34:59,880 we are not, when we are not aligned with him, it's going to 629 00:34:59,880 --> 00:35:01,680 happen to us. It's not just for his benefit, 630 00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:03,720 the master's work. It's for our benefit. 631 00:35:05,240 --> 00:35:08,120 Now, remember, this is a quality check for alignment. 632 00:35:08,720 --> 00:35:10,920 We're not saying you need to do a bunch of more stuff. 633 00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:14,640 It may be the case, but right now let's check for the quality 634 00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:17,120 of what we're doing. Is the work you're already doing 635 00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:20,560 aligned to God? That's the first and most 636 00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:24,120 important question. Is the work that I'm already 637 00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:29,200 doing aligning with God somehow? We're not into quantity of work 638 00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:32,280 yet. Doing the same job versus more 639 00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:33,400 jobs. We're talking about the same 640 00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:35,800 job. Number 2, if you need to be more 641 00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:39,760 devoted, don't be afraid. He will sustain. 642 00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:43,840 Maybe you do need to pick up your quantity. 643 00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:47,680 Jesus challenges his disciples at every turn. 644 00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:49,600 He does. He really does and and he 645 00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:53,280 provides grace for the process, but he challenges quantity. 646 00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:55,240 Maybe some of you don't need more quantity. 647 00:35:55,240 --> 00:35:57,840 Maybe some of you are maxed out. It's true, it happens. 648 00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:02,280 But if you do need to pick up your quantity, because we all 649 00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:05,680 know, I think in our heart of hearts, we all know, don't be 650 00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:07,480 afraid. He will sustain you in that 651 00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:13,040 number three, if you're working, just be aware He is sustaining 652 00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:16,280 you in whatever capacity is. You might not think I'm getting 653 00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:19,600 enough, but He is sustaining you. 654 00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:22,160 In the Old Testament, when they finish their wilderness 655 00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:25,200 wanderings, they come out of that wilderness and they were 656 00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:28,080 just probably dog tired after those 40 years of wandering 657 00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:31,600 around. And God tells them, did you not 658 00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:36,480 recognise the soles of your shoes did not wear out, your 659 00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:38,440 feet did not swell? Those 40 years? 660 00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:42,320 Yeah, there were areas where they were absolutely beat. 661 00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:45,800 But he, they needed to realize that there was a lot of areas 662 00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:48,280 where God had kept them completely sustained that they 663 00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:49,440 might not have even thought about. 664 00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:53,600 God is sustaining you. Praise him in that and, and 665 00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:57,240 think and meditate on that so that you are more aware and in 666 00:36:57,240 --> 00:36:58,680 tune with what He's doing for us. 667 00:37:00,720 --> 00:37:04,400 And #4 what if you just can't see what he's doing? 668 00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:07,800 What if you can't see it? What if you can't see the 669 00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:10,480 benefit of what he's doing for you? 670 00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:14,720 This is a life of faith. That's kind of point. 671 00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:18,720 Have faith even when you can't see the fruit. 672 00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:23,760 Verse 35, Do you not say there are still four months and then 673 00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:27,160 comes the harvest. Behold, I say to you, lift up 674 00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:30,120 your eyes and look to the fields for they're already white for 675 00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:33,440 harvest. He he's talking about how they 676 00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:36,160 understand the crops in this in the valley. 677 00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:37,800 We know when almond season's coming. 678 00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:40,720 We can tell you the timelines. We can tell you how long. 679 00:37:40,720 --> 00:37:44,160 We know when it's ready. He's saying you guys can do that 680 00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:47,200 with your crops, but you don't see the spiritual crop that's 681 00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:51,280 right in front of you blossoming and blooming and ready for for 682 00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:54,240 picking. It's right in front of you. 683 00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:59,160 What's he's saying? Maybe in our day's terms, you're 684 00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:01,800 planning for next quarter, but the deal is ready to close 685 00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:04,360 today. You're still in prep mode, but 686 00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:05,880 the launch window is already open. 687 00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:08,440 You're waiting for perfect conditions, but you already have 688 00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:11,160 what you need. You're waiting for a sign, but 689 00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:14,800 this is it. Maybe we just need to get up and 690 00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:16,720 go. That's what he's telling them. 691 00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:19,800 Get to work now. What's their work, though? 692 00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:22,800 Do they have to start from scratch and do this huge, 693 00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:24,840 massive project of tilling this fuel? 694 00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:31,280 No, because he says next, he who reaps receives wages and gathers 695 00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:35,400 fruit for eternal life, and he reaps, receives wages and 696 00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:40,440 gathers fruit, that both he who sows and he who reaps may 697 00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:43,240 rejoice together and keep going first. 698 00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:47,080 For in this thing is true, 1 sows and another reaps. 699 00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:49,760 I sent you to reap that for which you have not laboured. 700 00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:53,000 Others have laboured and you have entered into their labours. 701 00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:57,520 What's he saying? You're coming through. 702 00:38:57,720 --> 00:38:59,560 It's already right. Pick the fruit. 703 00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:03,000 Don't overestimate what's in front of you to do. 704 00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:07,560 You know, when people don't start a project, they're 705 00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:10,640 overwhelmed and why people don't finish projects because they 706 00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:12,720 never start. So what's he saying? 707 00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:15,560 Pick up the fruit. I've got a lot of students who 708 00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:18,000 in the summers in their breaks work in the fields, picking, 709 00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:21,440 doing the great packing. They didn't till the field. 710 00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:24,280 They didn't do all the work that led up to that. 711 00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:26,360 They just come through and they pick the fruit or they pack the 712 00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:30,760 fruit. He's saying we're just doing our 713 00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:35,160 little part, reaping for what other people have already put in 714 00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:39,200 the hard work for, and it's for eternal life. 715 00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:43,400 It's not just a an immediate benefit, it's eternal benefit 716 00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:47,880 that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. 717 00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:50,840 The shared labour equals shared joy. 718 00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:56,120 How cool is that, that the person who tows the field, who 719 00:39:56,120 --> 00:39:59,000 works hard, the person who goes out and picks it, they all get 720 00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:03,200 to share at the table. I just picture an eternal 721 00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:06,840 scenario where where you're high fiving the apostles because what 722 00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:11,440 they did so many years ago, you got to kind of connect and link 723 00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:13,240 up with them on. And we were working together the 724 00:40:13,240 --> 00:40:14,760 whole time, even whether we knew it or not. 725 00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:19,120 But we are working together. Maybe it's just generations 726 00:40:19,120 --> 00:40:23,480 before someone from the 1700s. Who God was using somehow to 727 00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:27,440 bring about the present fruit. God's God's working through it, 728 00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:30,600 all right. And so we one day will be able 729 00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:33,080 to look back with all these people who've worked before us 730 00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:35,480 and celebrate and share in that joy. 731 00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:41,680 Maybe that means in this congregation, to the elders who 732 00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:45,480 are here, the work you put in, the faithfulness you have 733 00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:48,080 embodied all these years. We get to share in the in the 734 00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:51,280 growth, any positive growth that's happened here, we share 735 00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:55,440 together. It's not whoever one person 736 00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:56,840 might have been the lead contact. 737 00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:03,040 It's the mutual work together. And maybe it's just two people 738 00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:08,000 working side by side because the Bible says some, some have 739 00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:10,040 water, planted water and others have reaped. 740 00:41:10,240 --> 00:41:12,680 Some people are better planters and waters and some people are 741 00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:15,920 better reapers. Maybe it's people working side 742 00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:19,440 by side, but we all get to share in the joy of our labour. 743 00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:23,800 We're almost finished here. This remind us you're not 744 00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:27,160 carrying everything alone. God is already at work before 745 00:41:27,160 --> 00:41:29,640 you arrive. Others have laboured and others 746 00:41:29,640 --> 00:41:32,440 will continue after you. It's not the end of the line. 747 00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:36,720 This kind of work sustains because it connects you to 748 00:41:36,720 --> 00:41:40,120 something bigger than yourself. It removes the pressure of doing 749 00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:43,280 everything and allows you to participate and not control. 750 00:41:44,720 --> 00:41:46,200 That's the that's the good stuff. 751 00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:50,520 Finally, just wrapping up right here with the section of model 752 00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:55,160 that works. Let's just remember nothing 753 00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:57,640 anybody has done in the situation is super impressive. 754 00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:02,000 I would even argue Jesus as human effort on this whole 755 00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:06,840 scenario is pretty basic. He's talked to a woman, he had 756 00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:09,280 supernatural knowledge, which is amazing, but he didn't do 757 00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:13,920 something extreme effort wise. He's showing us a human model of 758 00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:19,040 how simple it can be. Verse 39 and many of the 759 00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:21,760 Samaritans of that city believed in him because of the word of 760 00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:25,960 the woman who testified. He told me all that I ever did. 761 00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:31,880 One of Jesus first high producing outreach tolls was a 762 00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:36,040 woman. He went straight to a Pharisee, 763 00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:39,240 Nicodemus, top dog, important guy. 764 00:42:39,720 --> 00:42:41,200 Then he immediately went to a woman. 765 00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:43,720 This isn't an accident. He's showing you your part in 766 00:42:43,720 --> 00:42:48,640 the Kingdom is huge. Do you feel like I can't teach 767 00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:50,640 or convert anybody because I'm not allowed to give a sermon at 768 00:42:50,640 --> 00:42:56,400 church and that's not my job? Wrong, absolutely wrong. 769 00:42:57,480 --> 00:43:00,760 Jesus went to a woman and she produced big time. 770 00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:03,160 It wasn't the same place, the same role. 771 00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:06,680 It's true. But apart from the worship she 772 00:43:06,680 --> 00:43:11,400 was teaching and talking to people, I don't see any less 773 00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:15,480 fruit coming for her. We all have different talents, 774 00:43:16,240 --> 00:43:18,240 so I'm not saying everybody needs to bring in a whole 775 00:43:18,240 --> 00:43:20,880 truckload of people. It's not what we all may be 776 00:43:21,040 --> 00:43:22,480 blessed with the opportunity to do. 777 00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:26,280 But keep in mind verse 40. So when the Samaritans had come 778 00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:28,600 to him, they urged him to stay with them. 779 00:43:30,640 --> 00:43:33,800 We might be surprised who would welcome us in if we would first 780 00:43:33,800 --> 00:43:38,720 step over into their scenario to first make the effort and go out 781 00:43:38,720 --> 00:43:40,240 of our way. We may be surprised. 782 00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:44,560 They urged him to stay. They didn't like Jews either, 783 00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:49,200 but they urged him to stay. And he stayed there two days, 784 00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:51,760 and many more believed because of his own word. 785 00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:55,320 Then they said to the woman, Now we believe not because of what 786 00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:59,320 you have said, for we ourselves have heard him, and we know that 787 00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:03,320 we are indeed that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour 788 00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:06,560 of the world. It took its own seed from the 789 00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:08,720 right source. Sometimes we could be worried. 790 00:44:08,960 --> 00:44:11,480 Well, if I plan it this way, this person's not working out. 791 00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:14,720 They're not really, you know, growing into Christ in the 792 00:44:14,720 --> 00:44:17,400 foundation they need to have. I'm afraid it's too much about 793 00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:18,320 me. You know what? 794 00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:22,760 You plant new water. A good hearted person will seek 795 00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:25,760 to find foundation in Christ themselves. 796 00:44:26,240 --> 00:44:30,520 It's not all our job to take over their part because these 797 00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:33,200 people, they learn from her. But then they took it further 798 00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:35,040 and they went into Jesus themselves. 799 00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:41,120 Here is our outline today. This woman was just another 800 00:44:41,120 --> 00:44:45,960 man's treasure, one man to the next, but she didn't know that 801 00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:47,880 she was really the treasure of another. 802 00:44:48,520 --> 00:44:51,920 She was the treasure of the King himself, another man. 803 00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:55,200 And we learned that actually the work that sustains when most 804 00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:57,520 people see their work as a weariness and a drag. 805 00:44:58,120 --> 00:45:01,000 Jesus saw his work as his treasure. 806 00:45:02,240 --> 00:45:03,840 He saw it as work that could sustain. 807 00:45:06,480 --> 00:45:09,560 Maybe if we leave here with a prayer on hearts today that we 808 00:45:09,560 --> 00:45:12,880 can take to God going from this place, God, maybe it's prepare 809 00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:16,000 us to seek these encounters with graceful hearts and holy 810 00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:19,160 strategy. Jesus was good at that. 811 00:45:19,320 --> 00:45:22,560 He had omniscience, which we don't have, but we can ask for 812 00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:25,040 guidance and we can solicit that too. 813 00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:27,280 I don't see why God wouldn't answer that. 814 00:45:27,280 --> 00:45:30,000 Prayer for guidance seems like pretty well aligned to his will. 815 00:45:30,480 --> 00:45:34,120 Maybe a second prayer is help help us to welcome draining work 816 00:45:34,120 --> 00:45:38,480 for you and we trust you will provide sustaining for your 817 00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:41,960 purpose. If you've heard the word today 818 00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:44,720 and you are not tapped into the living water.