1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:03,400 Good morning everybody. It's good to be here with you 2 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:06,100 today to worship together and I'm looking forward to our 3 00:00:06,100 --> 00:00:08,300 study. We have together in John chapter 4 00:00:08,300 --> 00:00:11,100 4, if you'll get your Bibles, their turn with me to John 5 00:00:11,100 --> 00:00:15,900 chapter 4, we have some really interesting things to consider. 6 00:00:16,500 --> 00:00:19,400 I just hope I don't get in the way of what God has for us 7 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:21,000 because these are the words of life. 8 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:25,900 These are words from God himself that he penned for us and if we 9 00:00:25,900 --> 00:00:28,600 ever lose sight of that, if I ever lose sight of that, then 10 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:31,100 I'm missing the whole point. So I hope I just don't get in 11 00:00:31,100 --> 00:00:33,400 the way that this morning and we're going to study through a 12 00:00:33,408 --> 00:00:36,900 little bit of John chapter 4 beginning in verse 5 will go 13 00:00:36,900 --> 00:00:40,100 through almost to the end of the chapter and we'll cover a little 14 00:00:40,100 --> 00:00:42,800 bit from Hebrews chapter. 12, will take a little bit of a 15 00:00:42,808 --> 00:00:46,300 detour but those are going to be the two places we spend pretty 16 00:00:46,300 --> 00:00:47,800 much all of our time this morning. 17 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:53,100 So John chapter 4 beginning in verse 5, we're going to start 18 00:00:53,100 --> 00:00:56,200 reading there. It says, so he came to a city of 19 00:00:56,200 --> 00:00:59,800 Samaria, which is called sychar near the plot of ground that 20 00:00:59,800 --> 00:01:01,600 Jacob gave to his son. Joseph. 21 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:05,500 Now Jacob's, Well, was there, Jesus, therefore being wearied 22 00:01:05,500 --> 00:01:07,700 from his journey set this by the will? 23 00:01:08,100 --> 00:01:12,200 I like that little detail that Jesus was tired, he felt the, 24 00:01:12,700 --> 00:01:15,900 the pains and the tires of his traveling of the things he deals 25 00:01:15,900 --> 00:01:18,600 with on a daily basis. There are simple things like 26 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:21,200 that, that shows Humanity of Jesus just a little nugget. 27 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:25,100 He said, thus, by the will, it was about the sixth hour and now 28 00:01:25,100 --> 00:01:28,800 with their time keeping this was about noon, it's about the six 29 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:31,500 six hours after day right after daylight. 30 00:01:31,500 --> 00:01:36,000 So, about noon, a woman of Samaria came to draw water. 31 00:01:36,300 --> 00:01:40,200 Jesus said to her, give me a drink for his disciples had gone 32 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:44,100 away into the city to buy food. Then the woman of Samaria said 33 00:01:44,100 --> 00:01:46,200 to him, how is that you being a Jew? 34 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:50,100 Ask a drink for me, a Samaritan woman for Jews have no dealings 35 00:01:50,100 --> 00:01:52,600 with Samaritans. So we're going to start to see 36 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:55,100 the who this woman is that. He's talking to. 37 00:01:55,600 --> 00:01:58,900 I want you to picture and going outside the city letting his 38 00:01:59,700 --> 00:02:02,600 disciples, his friends, go off into the city, to get some food. 39 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:06,100 He's got some business to take care of outside and he goes and 40 00:02:06,100 --> 00:02:09,600 he sits and he waits. And this woman comes by Now this 41 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:11,300 is the Middle East. So if you want to picture them, 42 00:02:11,300 --> 00:02:14,600 these are not white people. These are Middle Eastern and she 43 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:17,900 comes along in the middle of the day and a couple things we have 44 00:02:17,900 --> 00:02:21,000 so far about her. And that this is noon, and that 45 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:24,400 she's a Samaritan. And she first of all, she brings 46 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:27,200 up this this controversy. She's like I'm a Samaritan. 47 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:28,900 You guys are Jews. You don't have anything to do 48 00:02:28,900 --> 00:02:32,300 with us now for a little background that this goes back 49 00:02:32,300 --> 00:02:34,600 to a lot of history between the two. 50 00:02:34,700 --> 00:02:37,200 You had the northern and the southern kingdoms that kind of 51 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:41,500 divided under some some Shoes. The Samaritans broke off and 52 00:02:41,500 --> 00:02:44,200 when they were taken into captivity by the Assyrians, this 53 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:48,000 warning people, the Samaritans kind of got Unfaithful. 54 00:02:48,300 --> 00:02:51,100 The Jews kind of stuck with it. They dealt with all the 55 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:54,000 struggles of being an under captivity and they handled it 56 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:56,300 pretty well. But the Samaritans, they started 57 00:02:56,300 --> 00:02:58,400 intermarrying, they didn't really hold on to their faith. 58 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:02,300 They didn't really stand strong. And so the juice all that they 59 00:03:02,300 --> 00:03:05,200 have when you guys doing that's just compromise and so they look 60 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:07,800 down on them but when they finally got free when the 61 00:03:07,808 --> 00:03:10,200 Israelites were all free. And out of this captivity. 62 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:12,900 They wanted to rebuild the Temple. 63 00:03:12,900 --> 00:03:16,500 They were in to rebuild Jerusalem and and the 64 00:03:16,500 --> 00:03:19,100 Samaritans, tried to hop on board with the juice plans and 65 00:03:19,100 --> 00:03:22,300 the Jews were like, no, you guys left us, you were Unfaithful and 66 00:03:22,300 --> 00:03:24,700 you didn't hold on to things like we did you, you were 67 00:03:24,700 --> 00:03:26,600 compromising. So no, we don't want your help 68 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:29,500 and that, turnaround, that made the Samaritans mags, they just 69 00:03:29,500 --> 00:03:31,900 wanted to help. And so they started sabotaging 70 00:03:31,900 --> 00:03:35,300 their building process and so this cause just a lot of beef 71 00:03:35,300 --> 00:03:38,300 between these two groups and so that's kind of the backdrop for 72 00:03:38,300 --> 00:03:42,100 this, this woman comes and this this Jew Who wants to talk to 73 00:03:42,100 --> 00:03:43,000 you and she's like, what are you doing? 74 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:45,100 Talking to me? Then there's, you're going to 75 00:03:45,100 --> 00:03:47,400 kind of see there's an edge about her that she just she's 76 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:49,900 got a lot of things that make this kind of a conversation. 77 00:03:49,900 --> 00:03:51,300 She doesn't really want to be happy. 78 00:03:53,100 --> 00:03:55,500 And there's a. So she's an outcast based on 79 00:03:55,500 --> 00:03:58,600 her, subgroup of God's people, you have the juice, you have 80 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:01,000 God's people, then you have the Samaritans within that they're 81 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:04,500 kind of an outcast group. But there's another detail. 82 00:04:04,500 --> 00:04:07,700 She came at noon. Now, during this time and this 83 00:04:07,700 --> 00:04:10,000 place in the world when they would go to draw water, they 84 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:11,900 don't you don't want to be spending that much time out in 85 00:04:11,900 --> 00:04:13,900 the desert, in the middle of the day because it's hot. 86 00:04:14,300 --> 00:04:16,100 And so what they would do is they would go to draw water in 87 00:04:16,100 --> 00:04:17,899 the mornings. They would go out before got 88 00:04:17,899 --> 00:04:22,100 real hot but this woman came out at noon, that's the heat of the 89 00:04:22,108 --> 00:04:24,400 day. That's the middle of the day and 90 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:26,700 so what we can learn from this kind of picture that's being 91 00:04:26,700 --> 00:04:29,700 created is that as that this woman doesn't want to be out 92 00:04:29,700 --> 00:04:34,100 there when everybody else is out there, She was an outcast even 93 00:04:34,100 --> 00:04:36,100 within our own subgroup of the Samaritans. 94 00:04:37,300 --> 00:04:41,300 She was out there trying to avoid all the the group that 95 00:04:41,300 --> 00:04:43,300 goes out in the morning. She didn't want to go out with 96 00:04:43,300 --> 00:04:46,100 everyone when they all went together and talk either had 97 00:04:46,100 --> 00:04:48,500 their interaction. She was avoiding that she went 98 00:04:48,500 --> 00:04:51,700 out by herself. And we're going to see why in a 99 00:04:51,700 --> 00:04:53,500 little bit, has a lot to do with how she's handled her 100 00:04:53,500 --> 00:04:56,400 relationships. So, you have this woman, who is 101 00:04:56,400 --> 00:04:59,600 really an outcast of the outcast, and Jesus wants to talk 102 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:03,300 to her. Jesus answered and said, to her 103 00:05:03,300 --> 00:05:07,600 verse 10, if you knew the gift of God and who it is, who says 104 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:10,100 to you give me a drink, you would have asked him and he 105 00:05:10,100 --> 00:05:11,500 would have given you living water. 106 00:05:12,100 --> 00:05:15,800 So he came up asking for her to get him some water and he starts 107 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:18,100 to turn into a spiritual conversation and she doesn't 108 00:05:18,100 --> 00:05:20,600 quite get it yet, but he's telling her that he has the 109 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:22,900 Living Water she needs. We'll get to more of that in a 110 00:05:22,907 --> 00:05:25,300 minute. The woman said to him, sir, you 111 00:05:25,300 --> 00:05:27,100 have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. 112 00:05:27,100 --> 00:05:28,600 You don't have a bucket, you don't got rope, what you gonna 113 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:31,400 do? You are you greater than our 114 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:33,200 father? Jacob, who gave us the well, and 115 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:35,900 drank from himself, as well as his sons and his livestock, 116 00:05:36,300 --> 00:05:38,200 she's got this Edge about her. Like what are you gonna do? 117 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:40,300 What do you have your? You can't handle this. 118 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:43,700 You don't have anything to get the water with Jesus answered 119 00:05:43,700 --> 00:05:48,300 and said to her, whoever drinks of this water will thirst again. 120 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:53,300 but whoever drinks of the water, I shall give him will never 121 00:05:53,300 --> 00:05:57,900 thirst, but the water that I shall give him will become in 122 00:05:57,900 --> 00:06:01,700 him, a fountain of water springing up into everlasting 123 00:06:01,700 --> 00:06:04,900 life, He gets real deep right here. 124 00:06:04,900 --> 00:06:07,800 The woman says to him, sir, give me this water that I made that I 125 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:10,100 may not thirst nor come here to draw. 126 00:06:10,100 --> 00:06:12,100 She's like, I don't want to have to keep making this trip. 127 00:06:12,100 --> 00:06:14,200 We just flip on the tap and we got water right there. 128 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:16,200 But this lady's, like, I don't wanna have to keep walking out 129 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:18,200 here in the middle of the day and the heat, avoiding the 130 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:19,800 public, avoiding all these people. 131 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:21,500 I don't really want to talk to you because they're too good for 132 00:06:21,500 --> 00:06:23,400 me. Can you just give me that water? 133 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:29,500 Jesus said to her, go call your husband and come here. the one 134 00:06:29,500 --> 00:06:33,800 the woman answered and said, I have no husband Jesus said, to 135 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:36,900 her, you have well said, I have no husband for you have had five 136 00:06:36,900 --> 00:06:39,800 husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband in 137 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:43,400 that you spoke true. So, Jesus is getting all in her 138 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:46,700 business, the woman said to him, sir I perceive you're a prophet 139 00:06:46,700 --> 00:06:49,600 our fathers worshiped on this mountain and you Jews say that 140 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:51,800 in Jerusalem is the place where we're not to worship. 141 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:56,600 Before we go on to that, he calls her out, he brings up her 142 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:59,000 life and so she starts to see that he's different. 143 00:06:59,100 --> 00:07:02,000 But why is she different? Why is she the outcasts she's 144 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:03,300 had five. Ins. 145 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:07,200 And she's now living with this guy who's not even her husband. 146 00:07:08,700 --> 00:07:11,300 We're starting to see more of a picture of this woman and why 147 00:07:11,300 --> 00:07:14,100 Jesus comes to her this woman came out to get water 148 00:07:14,100 --> 00:07:17,900 physically. She was thirsty, physically, but 149 00:07:17,900 --> 00:07:20,300 Jesus is coming to her for a more important reason because 150 00:07:20,300 --> 00:07:24,200 she's thirsty spiritually. He comes out to this woman, 151 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:27,800 who's going through his been through the wringer, trying to 152 00:07:27,808 --> 00:07:30,400 be satisfied by her relationships, trying to get the 153 00:07:30,400 --> 00:07:34,100 intimacy, the love, the appreciation, and the affection 154 00:07:34,100 --> 00:07:37,100 of these men, and she's running through them. 155 00:07:37,700 --> 00:07:40,400 And she's on her sixth right now, and she's not even married 156 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:41,700 to him. It's like she's given up on 157 00:07:41,700 --> 00:07:44,800 that. Maybe she's cynical, maybe she's 158 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:47,600 frustrated, she's been through it. 159 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:53,100 And she wants more than that. She's tired of where she's been. 160 00:07:53,100 --> 00:07:57,800 She's tired of what, she's seen and Jesus came to provide what 161 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:00,200 she really needed. This whole dialogue is Jesus 162 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:02,100 trying to show her that he has Living Water. 163 00:08:02,100 --> 00:08:05,700 She knees, he has the water that's going to satisfy her. 164 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:08,000 It's not these relationships, it's not these. 165 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:10,100 The love from these guys that's gonna do it. 166 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:14,200 It's the love from God that's going to replace and push out 167 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:17,600 that need for all the love from these guys from these people. 168 00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:20,500 And I want you to start to consider for yourself, I want to 169 00:08:20,500 --> 00:08:23,000 consider for myself. What are things in my life like 170 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:26,400 that? What are things that I look to 171 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:29,800 for my value things, I Look to to give me validation things 172 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:34,400 that I'm trying to take my self-worth in because Jesus 173 00:08:34,400 --> 00:08:36,100 says, you're gonna drink of that water. 174 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:38,799 In a metaphorical sense, you're gonna keep drinking from this. 175 00:08:38,799 --> 00:08:43,700 Well of these guys, you're just trying to leech off of, but it's 176 00:08:43,700 --> 00:08:45,900 like wringing out a dry rag. You're not going to get anything 177 00:08:45,900 --> 00:08:49,400 out of them. What are areas in my life like 178 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:52,800 that areas that I'm trying to take identity in areas. 179 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:55,700 I'm trying to take satisfaction in the aren't Christ. 180 00:08:56,900 --> 00:09:01,300 He says, I am that well of Living Water, you come to me, 181 00:09:01,300 --> 00:09:02,800 and I will provide what you need. 182 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:05,100 I will give you that water. That'll let you never thirst 183 00:09:05,100 --> 00:09:09,300 again. Don't go to the dryer racks and 184 00:09:09,300 --> 00:09:12,000 try to get water from those. He's right here, waiting for us. 185 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:19,400 And to this, she sees that he calls her out for her life, but 186 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:23,500 this is how she responds, sir. I perceive you're a prophet, our 187 00:09:23,500 --> 00:09:25,100 fathers worshiped on this mountain. 188 00:09:25,300 --> 00:09:28,200 And you Jews say that in Jerusalem is where one is, is 189 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:29,800 the place where one ought to worship. 190 00:09:30,300 --> 00:09:32,200 So people have always read this and I've always heard this 191 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:34,500 taught like she's asking him. Oh wow. 192 00:09:34,500 --> 00:09:37,000 I have this profit from to. Here's a chance for me to ask, 193 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:39,200 you know, you guys say to worship here, we say to worship 194 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:41,400 here. What's right what's truth? 195 00:09:42,300 --> 00:09:45,500 But she never asks a question. There's no question mark there. 196 00:09:46,900 --> 00:09:50,300 She just brings up to me a religious defense or a religious 197 00:09:50,300 --> 00:09:52,500 issue to kind of deflect from the situation. 198 00:09:53,900 --> 00:09:56,300 I've heard that plane whenever you try to start a Biblical 199 00:09:56,300 --> 00:09:58,500 discussion with somebody, they can start to see and they're 200 00:09:58,500 --> 00:10:01,100 like, okay I see a religious. Well here is this religious 201 00:10:01,100 --> 00:10:03,000 difference. I have you know what you guys 202 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:05,200 say this you know the Buddhists say this the Muslims say this 203 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:08,300 what you can really know they. Go high-level Theology and they 204 00:10:08,308 --> 00:10:10,800 just want to kind of glaze over and say, well what can we even 205 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:13,400 know you guys say this? We say this and I think that's 206 00:10:13,400 --> 00:10:16,200 what this woman is doing. She's deflecting from the guilt 207 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:19,200 and the sin that she sees in her life, she's deflecting from the 208 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:21,800 mess that's in front of her because she doesn't want to deal 209 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:25,100 with this. That's how I see her responding. 210 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:29,800 Jesus said, to her woman, believe me the hour is coming. 211 00:10:30,400 --> 00:10:32,800 When you will neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem 212 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:36,800 worship the father, you worship, what you do not know. 213 00:10:38,100 --> 00:10:40,500 So, she wanted to bring up these differences and try to get into 214 00:10:40,500 --> 00:10:42,200 this conversation. That kind of takes it away from 215 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:44,000 her and more to who can really know. 216 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:47,600 But Jesus says, the problem is, let's not even start there. 217 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:50,300 He's not even going to get into the question of the specifics 218 00:10:50,300 --> 00:10:51,800 yet. He's going to start by saying 219 00:10:51,900 --> 00:10:53,500 you don't even know who you're worshipping. 220 00:10:54,500 --> 00:10:57,300 So how can you please God, how can you really do? 221 00:10:57,300 --> 00:10:59,000 What God wants. If you don't even know who he 222 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:01,500 is, he says, you're worshiping me. 223 00:11:01,500 --> 00:11:05,100 You don't even know. We're going to get into this 224 00:11:05,100 --> 00:11:08,000 more in a minute, but that's where the root of all this 225 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:12,000 starts. And before we really need to, I 226 00:11:12,008 --> 00:11:13,800 don't know. Get consumed with the rest of 227 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:15,300 things. We have to focus on that first. 228 00:11:15,300 --> 00:11:17,400 Do we know who we came into worship this morning? 229 00:11:19,100 --> 00:11:21,500 It's so easy to come in here and just sit down and start singing 230 00:11:21,500 --> 00:11:23,600 the words and open your book and sit there. 231 00:11:23,600 --> 00:11:25,700 And amen, the prayer or whatever, sit there through all 232 00:11:25,700 --> 00:11:28,100 this. But do we really know? 233 00:11:29,300 --> 00:11:30,900 Who we came into worship this morning. 234 00:11:32,100 --> 00:11:34,800 Because otherwise, Jesus says, yeah, you do it, like all these 235 00:11:34,800 --> 00:11:37,600 other things, maybe you have the cup, you got this stuff, right? 236 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:39,800 You're singing. You're doing things well, but do 237 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:43,600 you even know me? That's where we have to start. 238 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:45,100 We have to prepare a heart for this. 239 00:11:45,900 --> 00:11:48,000 We'll get to more. We're going to get into that a 240 00:11:48,008 --> 00:11:51,000 little bit more in a second. What he says in verse 23, the 241 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:52,700 hour is coming. And now is when the true 242 00:11:52,700 --> 00:11:57,600 worshipers will worship the father in spirit and Truth for 243 00:11:57,600 --> 00:11:59,800 the father is seeking such to worship Him. 244 00:12:01,100 --> 00:12:04,700 So he takes this conversation and he's trying to show her that 245 00:12:04,700 --> 00:12:07,800 God is looking for a deeper relationship with her. 246 00:12:08,700 --> 00:12:12,100 He doesn't just want this this facade that she's created. 247 00:12:12,200 --> 00:12:14,500 He doesn't just want this facade of a religious life where she's 248 00:12:14,500 --> 00:12:16,900 in kind of the nation where people are religious. 249 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:22,300 But she's not really in it. He says you got to be spirit and 250 00:12:22,300 --> 00:12:25,100 Truth. There's true that we have to 251 00:12:25,100 --> 00:12:28,200 follow, of course, but he wants to get into her spirit. 252 00:12:28,900 --> 00:12:32,400 He wants to dive deeper and he wants her to know, God and her 253 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:37,900 spirit, and he's trying to weed out the sin and the mess. 254 00:12:37,900 --> 00:12:41,300 That is in her life, by showing her that God has loved ones in. 255 00:12:41,800 --> 00:12:45,300 He wants the spear because if he's not in a spirit, he's not 256 00:12:45,300 --> 00:12:48,600 even there. He's not even really there with 257 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:51,100 her because she doesn't really even understand who she's coming 258 00:12:51,100 --> 00:12:54,100 to. My question for us is, do we 259 00:12:54,100 --> 00:12:57,300 know God? Are we doing things? 260 00:12:58,100 --> 00:13:00,400 Because we see like this rigid outline of what's supposed to 261 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:02,100 happen and we're kind of following the outline but 262 00:13:02,100 --> 00:13:03,800 there's nothing really filling the center. 263 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:08,900 Is there anything coloring in the outline that is God's plan. 264 00:13:09,600 --> 00:13:11,600 Is there a spirit in you? That is filled with God's 265 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:13,200 spirit? Is there life in you? 266 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:16,600 That's from God. Or is it a facade where you 267 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:20,300 live, like the Samaritans inside, but this woman was 268 00:13:20,300 --> 00:13:24,600 really outside. Jesus wanted to come to her. 269 00:13:25,700 --> 00:13:29,300 Jesus specifically went outside and waited to come under. 270 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:33,200 So if that is you, if that is me, Jesus sitting here waiting 271 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:36,600 for us, he's gonna meet us at a point of time and maybe this is 272 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:40,100 that point in time, maybe we all needed to be right here to hear 273 00:13:40,100 --> 00:13:42,800 this right now. Like Jesus is waiting for us. 274 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:47,100 To show us right now. He wants us to refocus. 275 00:13:47,900 --> 00:13:52,800 He wants us to redirect. The woman said to him, I know 276 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:56,300 that Messiah is coming verse 25, who is called Christ when he 277 00:13:56,300 --> 00:13:57,800 comes, he will tell us all things. 278 00:13:57,800 --> 00:14:00,300 So she just kind of still wants to put her arms length and she 279 00:14:00,300 --> 00:14:03,600 says, well the Messiah is going to come and he'll handle it all 280 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:06,900 and he'll tell us I just just wait till that happens. 281 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:10,500 And I see more deflection. She just she wants him at arm's 282 00:14:10,500 --> 00:14:12,300 length, L doing the Messiah comes. 283 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:16,600 Jesus said to her, I who speak to you and he Can you imagine 284 00:14:16,600 --> 00:14:18,400 how she felt? They've been looking forward to 285 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:20,400 him this whole time. Looking forward to this guy 286 00:14:20,400 --> 00:14:22,500 who's gonna come and he's going to save them from their sins. 287 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:28,100 Is gonna come and save them. And being Everlasting savior, a 288 00:14:28,100 --> 00:14:30,500 mighty God. He would be there with them and 289 00:14:30,500 --> 00:14:32,900 he's standing right in front of her and she didn't even realize 290 00:14:32,900 --> 00:14:37,800 it says, yeah, it's me. I can imagine the look on her 291 00:14:37,800 --> 00:14:40,500 face. Now word, I am, he is the same 292 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:42,300 phrase used in the Old Testament. 293 00:14:42,300 --> 00:14:45,700 When Moses said, you know, what am I going to do when they ask 294 00:14:45,700 --> 00:14:48,500 me, you know why, how can we really believe that God sent 295 00:14:48,500 --> 00:14:50,100 you? And he said, tell them I am sent 296 00:14:50,100 --> 00:14:53,200 you. My translation says I am he, but 297 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:55,800 that's really italicized that he is not there. 298 00:14:55,900 --> 00:14:59,700 He just says, I who speak to you a.m., he's using the phrase. 299 00:14:59,700 --> 00:15:04,600 I am a phrase that only God can say I was I am and I will be his 300 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:07,900 the present at all times. and Jesus said that right in her 301 00:15:07,900 --> 00:15:12,000 face, At this point his disciples came and they marveled 302 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:14,900 that he talked with a woman yet. No one said what do you seek or 303 00:15:14,900 --> 00:15:17,700 why you talking her maybe it would have looked suspicious 304 00:15:18,200 --> 00:15:20,800 looks suspicious, but nobody said anything verse 28, the 305 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:24,300 woman left, her water pot, went her way into the City and said 306 00:15:24,300 --> 00:15:27,200 to the men come, see a man who told me all the things I ever 307 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:29,800 did? Could this be the Christ? 308 00:15:30,700 --> 00:15:32,500 Then they went out of the city and came to him. 309 00:15:33,300 --> 00:15:35,800 So while that's going on verse 31, in the meantime, his 310 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:37,900 disciples urged him saying Rabbi eat. 311 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:39,500 So they went and got him. Some Food. 312 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:41,700 They came out and they're like, you gotta eat something. 313 00:15:41,700 --> 00:15:43,600 You're already tired from all this walking. 314 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:45,300 What are you doing? Get some food. 315 00:15:45,900 --> 00:15:49,800 Jesus said to them, my food is to do. 316 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:53,300 The will of him who sent me. And to finish his work. 317 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:56,700 I want to zero in, on this, because this is something that 318 00:15:56,700 --> 00:15:59,100 is, you know, very unique. And when Jesus says, that's 319 00:15:59,100 --> 00:16:02,000 different from most of the others in this account, and if 320 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:04,500 we're going to call ourselves Christians, that's that's a real 321 00:16:04,500 --> 00:16:05,700 thing. It means christ-like. 322 00:16:05,700 --> 00:16:08,300 And so Jesus is mentality right here, we need to have. 323 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:12,500 He says, my food is to do the will of him who sent me and to 324 00:16:12,508 --> 00:16:15,400 finish his work. Do you not say? 325 00:16:15,400 --> 00:16:17,500 There are still four months and then comes the Harvest. 326 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:19,200 Behold? I say to you, lift up your eyes, 327 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:22,100 and look at the fields for their already, white for Harvest. 328 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:24,600 Jesus is food. What gets him going? 329 00:16:24,700 --> 00:16:27,000 What makes him satisfied? What takes care of him? 330 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:29,900 What gives his Spirit going and serving God. 331 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:32,600 Can we say we're christ-like in that? 332 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:36,900 Can I say I'm a Christian if I don't have that mentality. 333 00:16:39,300 --> 00:16:41,100 Let's contrasted with the woman. What was she got? 334 00:16:41,100 --> 00:16:44,000 Satisfaction was these guys. She was running through trying 335 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:45,400 to get her love and affection from them. 336 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:48,100 But Jesus said, the thing that gets me going to thing that 337 00:16:48,100 --> 00:16:50,800 sustains me and what I need to survive. 338 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:56,900 Is to do God's Will and to serve God here to do the will of him 339 00:16:56,900 --> 00:17:00,700 who sent me. He says, you know, you guys are 340 00:17:00,700 --> 00:17:02,600 looking at this Harvest. Like, you understand, you know, 341 00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:04,800 we in the valley, have a lot of AG, we understand, you know, 342 00:17:04,800 --> 00:17:08,099 it's tomato Seasons about here for the harvesting and stuff you 343 00:17:08,099 --> 00:17:10,300 guys say, well, we got about this long and the tomatoes are 344 00:17:10,300 --> 00:17:12,300 going to come off. Will start the plant operations 345 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:14,000 will start getting the crap out of that. 346 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:17,400 He's like, you pay attention, open your eyes. 347 00:17:17,700 --> 00:17:19,500 You're looking at all these physical things, you know, when 348 00:17:19,500 --> 00:17:21,900 the Harvest is here, you know, the crops are coming, but you 349 00:17:21,900 --> 00:17:24,400 don't even realize the Harvest is already here. 350 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:28,800 Behold, I say to you the open your eyes, look at the fields 351 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:30,800 for our that are already white for Harvest. 352 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:34,500 And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal 353 00:17:34,500 --> 00:17:38,400 life that both he who sews and he who reaps may Rejoice 354 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:40,700 together. He's going next level right 355 00:17:40,700 --> 00:17:42,300 here. He says, you can labor for 356 00:17:42,300 --> 00:17:44,000 something that's gonna last forever. 357 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:47,100 And you're a lot of times, I think, the way I see, and I 358 00:17:47,100 --> 00:17:49,700 think many of kind of people in my circle, see is like, what we 359 00:17:49,700 --> 00:17:50,800 got. All this work to do to try to 360 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:52,200 convert people and trying to save people. 361 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:56,300 He's like, it's already white and I've seen that in some of 362 00:17:56,300 --> 00:17:59,100 our Circle, some of the young guys who've been converted 363 00:17:59,100 --> 00:18:03,900 recently, they they've kind of come to us and they kind of fall 364 00:18:03,900 --> 00:18:05,900 in your lap and you feel like I got all this work to do all the 365 00:18:05,900 --> 00:18:07,600 sudden they're they're, they're growing and they're with you. 366 00:18:07,700 --> 00:18:10,500 So it's not like we have to all the time. 367 00:18:10,500 --> 00:18:13,600 Just do all the work. Put in all this effort to get 368 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:16,200 everybody where they need to be. Maybe we just need to realize, 369 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:18,500 we need to be out there. Planting watering doing what we 370 00:18:18,500 --> 00:18:21,400 can. And it's going to say that God's 371 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:22,700 already started. This work. 372 00:18:22,700 --> 00:18:24,200 Other people have already labored for this. 373 00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:27,600 There's already a lot going on. What's an interesting fact of 374 00:18:27,600 --> 00:18:30,400 our existence is that we we share information. 375 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:33,000 So it's not like each person has no idea what's going on the 376 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:34,500 world. They understand that there's 377 00:18:34,500 --> 00:18:37,000 this man named Jesus. They understand that they have 378 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:38,400 guilt. They feel guilt. 379 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:42,100 There's a lot of things that we all share that we can use to 380 00:18:42,100 --> 00:18:44,600 balance off of. There's already a work going on 381 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:47,200 in people's lives. He says, it's already white for 382 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:49,700 Harvest like the I think that idea. 383 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:51,100 Is kind of like cotton. Like it's already. 384 00:18:51,100 --> 00:18:52,500 The cotton has already sent on top. 385 00:18:52,500 --> 00:18:55,600 Just go get it. Are we doing that? 386 00:18:56,700 --> 00:18:59,000 Always sitting in the on the tractor I do it. 387 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:01,000 Just waiting for everything to happen like we got a lot of work 388 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:04,500 to do today. Got a lot of sweat is about to 389 00:19:04,500 --> 00:19:06,000 happen. I don't really want to do it. 390 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:09,300 I think I'll take another break. He said the fields are already 391 00:19:09,300 --> 00:19:11,700 white for Harvest. Get out there and get going for 392 00:19:11,700 --> 00:19:15,200 in the saying, is true one sows. And another reaps I sent you to 393 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:18,500 reap for that which you have not labored others have labored and 394 00:19:18,500 --> 00:19:21,300 you have entered into their labors, that's the mentality. 395 00:19:21,300 --> 00:19:24,600 We've got to have is that we're not the only ones working here, 396 00:19:25,300 --> 00:19:27,500 we just need to put in our effort, do our part and good 397 00:19:27,500 --> 00:19:30,700 things will happen. Jesus said, I am the True Vine. 398 00:19:30,700 --> 00:19:33,900 If you abide in me you will bear fruit. 399 00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:39,500 Jesus, guaranteed us that He guaranteed us, we will bear 400 00:19:39,500 --> 00:19:41,900 fruit if we are in the vine if we are in him. 401 00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:45,100 Now if we try to do work apart from the vine if we try to do it 402 00:19:45,108 --> 00:19:47,700 work on our own and just say you know Jesus I got this. 403 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:50,200 He's like you're not gonna have any fruit obviously he's if a 404 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:52,000 branch is laying on the ground. It's not going to do anything. 405 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:53,400 It's not going to grow obviously. 406 00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:58,200 Says, but if you are in Christ, if you put in the effort, you 407 00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:02,400 put in your time and work and try to reap for him, try to. 408 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:04,700 So for him, it's gonna happen. Good. 409 00:20:04,700 --> 00:20:07,500 Things are gonna come for me. We can be guaranteed to that. 410 00:20:08,700 --> 00:20:10,900 And many of the Samaritans of that City believed in him 411 00:20:10,900 --> 00:20:14,000 because of the word of the woman who testified, he told me all 412 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:16,400 that I ever did. So this woman went in and she 413 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:18,400 told people specifically what happened to her. 414 00:20:18,700 --> 00:20:21,900 She went and got real with people and she didn't just say, 415 00:20:21,900 --> 00:20:24,300 you know this guy Jesus she said here's what he told. 416 00:20:25,700 --> 00:20:29,100 She got specific and showed exactly how he had affected her. 417 00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:33,000 So when the Samaritans had come to him, they urged him to stay 418 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:35,300 with them. And he stayed there two days and 419 00:20:35,300 --> 00:20:37,500 many more believed because of his own word. 420 00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:40,100 So, this woman started a big change. 421 00:20:40,100 --> 00:20:42,600 Many people started coming to them because she just walked in 422 00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:45,300 and was like, guys, this is the savior and this is what he did 423 00:20:45,300 --> 00:20:48,100 for me. That's pretty simple for us to 424 00:20:48,100 --> 00:20:51,400 follow. If we show people our lives and 425 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:53,500 say, you know what, this is, how where my life was? 426 00:20:53,900 --> 00:20:55,700 This is what I was doing, this is what I was feeling. 427 00:20:55,700 --> 00:20:58,900 This is what happened in my heart and then Jesus came and 428 00:20:58,900 --> 00:21:02,800 everything changed. They're going to respond because 429 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:04,200 they're going to want that. They're going to see that. 430 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:06,100 We have feelings that everybody shares. 431 00:21:06,100 --> 00:21:08,800 We have guilt. We have feelings of depression, 432 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:11,200 we have feelings of struggles that everybody can relate to. 433 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:14,600 So if we share with them, how it works specifically with us, get 434 00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:17,000 out there to share with people because things will happen. 435 00:21:17,700 --> 00:21:19,000 And that's what happened with this woman. 436 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:23,500 She just got out and shared it and many more believed because 437 00:21:23,500 --> 00:21:26,600 of his own word. Then they said to the woman. 438 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:30,000 Now we believe not because of what you said for, we ourselves 439 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:33,500 have heard him and we know that this indeed is the Christ, the 440 00:21:33,500 --> 00:21:36,500 savior of the world. So it started with her bringing 441 00:21:36,700 --> 00:21:38,900 them around showing in the Christ but they went and they 442 00:21:38,900 --> 00:21:42,100 looked for themselves and they were like, wow, you're right we 443 00:21:42,100 --> 00:21:44,500 ourselves have heard. If seen this we found this out 444 00:21:44,500 --> 00:21:47,200 for ourselves and people were all going to have to. 445 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:49,400 We're all gonna have to do that. People are going to have to do 446 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:51,100 that when they come to Christ, they're gonna have to find him 447 00:21:51,100 --> 00:21:53,700 for themself. There can't be some surface 448 00:21:53,700 --> 00:21:56,900 level facade about this, We're all going to have to do that. 449 00:21:58,100 --> 00:22:01,000 Have we all done that? Or is this something someone 450 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:02,200 else has told us? So we've kind of gone. 451 00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:05,600 Okay, yeah, I'll go with that. They said we ourselves have 452 00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:12,400 learned as we've seen I want to go back a little bit to what 453 00:22:12,500 --> 00:22:15,500 Jesus said in verse 22. You worship what you do not 454 00:22:15,500 --> 00:22:18,600 know. And as I think about, you know, 455 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:20,400 some of the things we can take from this one of the first 456 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:24,300 things is understanding who who God is and and trying to get a 457 00:22:24,308 --> 00:22:26,400 better picture. So we can kind of make some 458 00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:28,100 ground in this process of me being more. 459 00:22:28,100 --> 00:22:30,200 Like he wants us to be and Hebrews. 460 00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:33,100 Chapter 12, helps me get there with this if you want to turn 461 00:22:33,100 --> 00:22:37,200 over there with me now, I want us to get a, just a picture of 462 00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:40,600 who that God is this morning. So if we're not there yet, we 463 00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:42,800 can get our hearts ready for the rest of the worship, get our 464 00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:45,800 hearts ready to see God for the rest of the week in the way he 465 00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:50,000 truly is. Hebrews 12 verse 18, the writer 466 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:53,200 there says, for you have not come to the mountain. 467 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:57,000 That may be touched and that burned with fire and to 468 00:22:57,000 --> 00:23:00,400 Blackness and darkness in the Tempest and the sound of trumpet 469 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:02,800 and the voice of words so that those who heard it begged, that 470 00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:05,600 the word should not be spoken to them anymore for they could not 471 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:06,900 endure. What was commanded? 472 00:23:06,900 --> 00:23:09,500 And if so much as a beast touches that mountain it shall 473 00:23:09,500 --> 00:23:13,400 be stoned or shot with an arrow. And so terrifying was the sight. 474 00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:18,400 That Moses said, I'm exceedingly afraid and trembling The writer 475 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:21,000 of Hebrews is like getting in our face and he's trying to show 476 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:25,100 us who were dealing with when we come to God, who were dealing 477 00:23:25,100 --> 00:23:26,500 with. When we come to this almighty, 478 00:23:26,500 --> 00:23:30,300 God, and he references back to the Old Testament when Moses was 479 00:23:30,300 --> 00:23:33,700 going up to get the the word from God and God said, I'm going 480 00:23:33,700 --> 00:23:36,700 to be up on this mountain. You come up to me and just you 481 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:39,600 and tell everybody. If anyone comes up to that 482 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:43,500 mountain touches it, they die. Okay, if it's an animal, I don't 483 00:23:43,500 --> 00:23:45,600 care if it's a person, you shoot him with an arrow, don't even go 484 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:48,000 get him thorough Stoneham from there. 485 00:23:49,100 --> 00:23:52,200 They need to die and they couldn't handle that. 486 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:54,600 That was too much for them. Like whoa, this is crazy. 487 00:23:58,000 --> 00:23:59,400 And that's how God has shown here is. 488 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:02,600 He's this glad he's this Tempest, he's this storm, he's 489 00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:07,200 this Darkness, this Blackness, this fire, You're typically we 490 00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:08,800 deal with things that we can just go up and touch. 491 00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:13,700 We can handle, we can manage the writer of Hebrews has shown us 492 00:24:13,700 --> 00:24:15,300 that you can't just deal with God like that. 493 00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:17,400 We can't just go up and touch him. 494 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:23,400 He says, he's like a storm. And the closest thing I can 495 00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:25,800 remember to this is when I was at backpacking with my dad and 496 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:29,200 my brothers during deer season quite a while back. 497 00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:31,400 I think I was like 12 years old. As my first trip. 498 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:34,200 We were up glassing this Ridge, sitting on top of this mountain, 499 00:24:34,900 --> 00:24:37,600 looking for deer and off. In the distance, we were kind of 500 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:40,100 watching a storm that was way off out. 501 00:24:40,100 --> 00:24:42,000 And but it was a clear day for all around. 502 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:45,200 Us, is blue skies and stuff. And while we were sitting there, 503 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:48,300 one of those storm cells came in behind us and we didn't see it 504 00:24:48,900 --> 00:24:51,300 and it came on the top of the mountain where we were sitting 505 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:53,900 and it started. Dropping hail and got dark 506 00:24:53,900 --> 00:24:55,700 quick. Lightening was dropping all 507 00:24:55,700 --> 00:24:58,300 around this trees, were blowing up the tree, my brother was 508 00:24:58,300 --> 00:25:01,700 sitting under blew up and the logs were flying past his head. 509 00:25:01,700 --> 00:25:04,800 When he was running down the mountain, it got dark, it got 510 00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:08,300 scary and hail was dropping, and I thought I was gonna die. 511 00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:12,100 It was absolutely Madness. The lightning. 512 00:25:12,100 --> 00:25:14,400 You could just feel it wasn't just like you saw lightning on 513 00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:16,100 the distance and then you heard the strike. 514 00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:19,100 It was around you, when it hit and everything, went white when 515 00:25:19,100 --> 00:25:22,500 it hit. That's the closest I've ever 516 00:25:22,500 --> 00:25:26,800 felt to this kind of power. And that's what Moses said. 517 00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:30,400 Moses said, I'm literally shaking coming before this. 518 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:34,500 God, I'm trembling just being here. 519 00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:38,300 And that kind of power in front of that presents. 520 00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:45,500 He goes on to say but you have come to Mount Zion and to the 521 00:25:45,508 --> 00:25:48,800 city of the Living. God, the heavenly Jerusalem to 522 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:52,100 innumerable company of angels to the general assembly and Church 523 00:25:52,100 --> 00:25:55,500 of the firstborn who are registered or enrolled in 524 00:25:55,500 --> 00:26:01,100 heaven, to God. The judge of all to the spirits 525 00:26:01,100 --> 00:26:04,300 of just men made perfect to Jesus, the mediator of the New 526 00:26:04,300 --> 00:26:06,800 Covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better 527 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:10,300 things than that of Abel. When we go through our days, the 528 00:26:10,300 --> 00:26:13,500 world takes the edge off. Off of God, they want to soften 529 00:26:13,500 --> 00:26:15,800 them out, making kind of this idea. 530 00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:18,400 You can kind of capture and say, well, I believe, in this thing, 531 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:22,900 I like to believe in God or whatever, but God has an edge to 532 00:26:22,900 --> 00:26:25,400 him that we can see from the descriptions of him as a fire. 533 00:26:25,500 --> 00:26:30,300 And it's consuming thing But he goes on to say as we just read 534 00:26:30,300 --> 00:26:34,200 he kind of has a change of tone. He says, but you come to this 535 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:37,800 innumerable company of angels and like a festival Gathering, 536 00:26:38,500 --> 00:26:40,900 it's like a celebration, you're coming to your coming to this. 537 00:26:40,900 --> 00:26:44,100 God, who wants to bring you in? Yes, he's dangerous. 538 00:26:44,100 --> 00:26:48,400 He's terrifying but now we see him starting to gather us to 539 00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:52,000 start of Welcome us in We learn from the New Testament that 540 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:54,700 Jesus brought us near by his blood. 541 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:59,300 He brought us close to this God, that's terrifying and scary and 542 00:26:59,300 --> 00:27:03,100 real and big. To where we can come to this 543 00:27:03,100 --> 00:27:05,000 mountain style and he welcomes us. 544 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:10,200 Can you believe that that's written for you? 545 00:27:12,300 --> 00:27:16,300 He's welcoming you. Whatever situation you're in and 546 00:27:16,300 --> 00:27:18,400 life. However, big your your struggles 547 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:20,200 or whatever you're going through seems right now that's the 548 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:24,700 reality for you. To Jesus, the mediator of the 549 00:27:24,700 --> 00:27:27,100 New Covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks 550 00:27:27,100 --> 00:27:30,000 better things than that of Abel. See that you do not refuse him, 551 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:32,800 who speaks for they did not Escape, who refused him, who 552 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:36,500 spoke on Earth, much more, shall we not Escape if we turn away 553 00:27:36,500 --> 00:27:38,400 from him? Who speaks from Heaven, whose 554 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:41,400 voice, then shook the Earth. So he's saying these people who 555 00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:43,600 are down here when they heard the command, hey, don't come 556 00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:46,400 near this mountain. Or you'll die. 557 00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:49,200 Don't come touch this mountain or you'll die and when they 558 00:27:49,208 --> 00:27:51,100 heard that they're like, this is too much, this is crazy. 559 00:27:51,100 --> 00:27:53,500 That's nuts. Your your your irrational? 560 00:27:53,500 --> 00:27:55,700 I'm not dealing with that and they want to just turn away from 561 00:27:55,700 --> 00:27:57,400 that reality. They didn't want to deal with 562 00:27:57,400 --> 00:27:59,800 it. He says don't turn away like 563 00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:03,300 they did because God didn't just let them go for that. 564 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:05,400 They were held accountable for that mentality. 565 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:07,700 And for that reality, they wanted to push out. 566 00:28:08,300 --> 00:28:10,900 So we have to see this reality of God and we can't just push it 567 00:28:10,900 --> 00:28:12,600 away. We have to deal with it. 568 00:28:13,900 --> 00:28:16,500 He says Don't just run away because they're just like it 569 00:28:16,500 --> 00:28:18,500 happened on Earth. God didn't hold him Guiltless 570 00:28:18,500 --> 00:28:21,500 for that. God speaking from heaven right 571 00:28:21,500 --> 00:28:23,700 now and he says you're not going to be held guilty as if you walk 572 00:28:23,700 --> 00:28:25,800 away from it. Now either we're in the same 573 00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:28,500 boat as then we have to take this information, we got to take 574 00:28:28,500 --> 00:28:31,400 this even though it's even though it's hard to process even 575 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:33,800 though it's hard to kind of understand and keep it the 576 00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:35,800 Forefront and keep God in that place. 577 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:38,200 He says, we have to deal with it. 578 00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:39,700 We can't walk away from the Earl's. 579 00:28:39,700 --> 00:28:41,000 God's not going to hold us Guiltless. 580 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:47,100 But now he has promised saying, yet once more, I shake not only 581 00:28:47,100 --> 00:28:50,600 the Earth, but also heaven. Now, this yet once more 582 00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:53,900 indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as 583 00:28:53,900 --> 00:28:56,700 of things that are made that the things which cannot be shaken. 584 00:28:56,700 --> 00:28:58,100 May remain. What do you just say? 585 00:28:58,300 --> 00:29:00,800 Is that everything else is going to be shaken up? 586 00:29:01,300 --> 00:29:02,900 Everything's going to go away the ground. 587 00:29:02,900 --> 00:29:04,500 You're standing on is going to go away. 588 00:29:05,100 --> 00:29:07,300 Whether it's from Life, circumstances, it breaks, you 589 00:29:07,300 --> 00:29:09,900 down it, messes up your life, whether it's from just the 590 00:29:09,900 --> 00:29:11,800 reality that God is going to burn up this Earth. 591 00:29:12,300 --> 00:29:14,900 This is To be left standing showing us the everything we 592 00:29:14,900 --> 00:29:16,800 typically deal with is temporary. 593 00:29:18,100 --> 00:29:20,800 He's saying so hold on to what can't be shaken. 594 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:24,000 All this is going to go away, but if we hold on to the thing 595 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,700 that's above us, that's not going to be shaken. 596 00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:29,500 We need something that to hold onto that when the ground goes 597 00:29:29,500 --> 00:29:31,500 out from underneath our feet. We can hold on to something 598 00:29:31,500 --> 00:29:36,700 stronger and bigger and above us. hold on to God, he's saying, 599 00:29:39,100 --> 00:29:41,600 Therefore since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be 600 00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:44,500 shaken. Let us have Grace or let us be 601 00:29:44,500 --> 00:29:48,200 thankful another translation. Says by which we may serve God 602 00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:51,700 acceptably with reverence and godly fear. 603 00:29:52,700 --> 00:29:58,800 For our God is a consuming fire. That helps my perspective a lot 604 00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:02,400 because when I read that it makes me amazed that he would 605 00:30:02,500 --> 00:30:05,700 even care about. He is that big, that terrifying 606 00:30:05,700 --> 00:30:08,600 that awesome. And yet he would send his most 607 00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:10,800 precious thing. He owned the most precious thing 608 00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:16,200 he could offer his son. Who also came from free will. 609 00:30:17,700 --> 00:30:20,400 Like that's who I'm dealing with and they did that for me. 610 00:30:20,700 --> 00:30:23,400 Typically, we have relationship where someone's either big and 611 00:30:23,408 --> 00:30:25,400 above you, and they could do something great for you, but 612 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:27,300 they won't because they don't care about you. 613 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:32,100 God combine the two and he says, yes, I'm big, I'm great and I'm 614 00:30:32,100 --> 00:30:34,300 amazing, I'm terrifying all those things. 615 00:30:34,300 --> 00:30:37,400 But he's also like, Come All You weaken, or have you laid? 616 00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:39,200 And I'll take care of you. I'll give you rest. 617 00:30:39,700 --> 00:30:41,500 Take your yoke upon me and learn from me for. 618 00:30:41,500 --> 00:30:45,600 I am gentle and lowly in heart. God is the most beautiful. 619 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:47,500 Come on combination of those two things. 620 00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:50,600 So, do we know that God this morning? 621 00:30:52,100 --> 00:30:54,000 Jesus said you don't even know who you're worshipping. 622 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:56,600 Our perspective, I think really needs to start there to realize 623 00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:59,400 the magnitude of God, because then we can start to see the 624 00:30:59,408 --> 00:31:04,000 beauty of the rest of it. so, few lessons, we learned this 625 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:08,100 morning that I just want to highlight Is that we need to see 626 00:31:08,100 --> 00:31:11,900 God for all that he is to really worship and like he wants us to, 627 00:31:12,500 --> 00:31:14,900 we can all see him and all this power and all his might. 628 00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:18,300 Because so we can know that when we do the things we do, when we 629 00:31:18,300 --> 00:31:21,800 worship the way we do that that matters and it's not just 630 00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:23,300 saying, yeah, you're doing things right? 631 00:31:23,300 --> 00:31:26,500 But do you even know me? I think we've looked a little 632 00:31:26,500 --> 00:31:30,000 bit into that this morning and a little process for us is we're 633 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:34,200 trying to put these things into a into our lives is Jesus said 634 00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:37,500 told the woman to drink of that living water, and she would not 635 00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:41,500 thirst again and that if she did, that, it will become in her 636 00:31:41,500 --> 00:31:45,900 a Fountain of Living Water. He said that would happen, but I 637 00:31:45,908 --> 00:31:50,100 wanted to add one more step. Because if you don't, if you're 638 00:31:50,100 --> 00:31:51,900 not thirsty, you're not going to drink, right? 639 00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:54,700 Like if you're full, and you're feeling kind of, you know, 640 00:31:55,100 --> 00:31:57,700 Waterlogged or whatever it is. You don't if you're not thirsty, 641 00:31:57,700 --> 00:32:00,300 you don't want to drink. So, what we got to do is we got 642 00:32:00,300 --> 00:32:04,100 to get thirsty first and Matthew 5, Jesus says that whoever 643 00:32:04,100 --> 00:32:06,400 hungers, and thirsts for righteousness, will be filled. 644 00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:07,800 So if you're hungry, you're going to eat. 645 00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:09,400 If you're thirsty, you're going to drink it simple. 646 00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:13,400 Are you thirsty this morning for righteousness? 647 00:32:15,500 --> 00:32:18,600 That's a question. I have to ask myself today, are 648 00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:20,400 you, am I hungry my thirsty for it? 649 00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:23,700 I, if physically, I don't have to ask myself if I'm hungry or 650 00:32:23,700 --> 00:32:24,800 not. I didn't eat breakfast this 651 00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:25,900 morning. So well, I'm hungry. 652 00:32:25,900 --> 00:32:27,400 It's a simple. Yes, or no question. 653 00:32:28,900 --> 00:32:31,500 But sometimes I can convolute that when I think about, you 654 00:32:31,500 --> 00:32:33,700 know, my spiritually thirsty. Hmm, no. 655 00:32:33,700 --> 00:32:36,300 Its you know what? You know what, you're not if 656 00:32:36,300 --> 00:32:38,500 you're hungry and you're thirsty you're getting after it, you 657 00:32:38,500 --> 00:32:41,700 know, I need this for my day, if you don't read one day you're 658 00:32:41,708 --> 00:32:44,800 like man I don't feel right. If you're not reading the Bible 659 00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:46,800 York, man, I miss the don't feel, right? 660 00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:49,900 I have spent time to talk to God today, I don't feel right? 661 00:32:50,500 --> 00:32:53,200 That's how you know, you're hungry for it, you're thirsty 662 00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:55,500 for it. But what Satan can do is you can 663 00:32:55,500 --> 00:32:58,200 draw us away to where we're not even hungry for it and we can 664 00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:02,000 starve without even knowing it. So we got to get thirsty and 665 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:04,600 went for thirsty for we will drink of that living water. 666 00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:06,500 And he says, we're going to be satisfied in him. 667 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:11,700 We're not going to need that. That self-esteem kick that that 668 00:33:11,700 --> 00:33:14,900 self-image kick were, I have to create this image of myself 669 00:33:14,900 --> 00:33:16,900 because that's what's really going to be great for me and 670 00:33:16,900 --> 00:33:19,700 everyone will see me this way. Know we come to Christ for our 671 00:33:19,700 --> 00:33:22,300 value, we come to him to satisfy our needs. 672 00:33:23,900 --> 00:33:26,900 And like this woman and became a fountain inside of her, and she 673 00:33:26,900 --> 00:33:30,200 just went and showed people. And it changes them, and many 674 00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:34,100 came to know Jesus. Is this happening in us tonight? 675 00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:38,300 If it's not happening, if it's not coming out of you, Then in 676 00:33:38,300 --> 00:33:39,800 reality, we're probably not even drinking. 677 00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:41,900 Because Jesus says, if you do drink, it will come out. 678 00:33:41,900 --> 00:33:44,100 It's a fountain effect. You can't put water in a 679 00:33:44,100 --> 00:33:46,200 fountain and not come out. It has to go somewhere. 680 00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:50,500 So, if it's not coming out, are we really drinking? 681 00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:55,700 Because Jesus says it will, and if we're not drinking, are we 682 00:33:55,708 --> 00:33:58,500 really thirsty? Do we really want it? 683 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:01,400 Because Jesus said, that's the person who's going to be filled. 684 00:34:02,100 --> 00:34:04,400 That's the person who's going to be satisfied in this life. 685 00:34:06,900 --> 00:34:08,000 And from not you can start there. 686 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:09,400 That's a great place for me to start. 687 00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:11,699 It's like the root of all of it and that's one of the prayers. 688 00:34:11,699 --> 00:34:13,199 I'm going to add to my prayer list. 689 00:34:13,199 --> 00:34:16,699 This week is like, help me one more, help me to be thirsty for 690 00:34:16,699 --> 00:34:19,100 it to, I actually feel the need for and I will come get it. 691 00:34:20,900 --> 00:34:23,600 And the Harvest is here, he told us that it's ready for us to 692 00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:26,800 come get we got to go out and get people because they're 693 00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:28,100 ready. Don't feel like all the burden 694 00:34:28,100 --> 00:34:30,800 is on. You God is has already put in a 695 00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:33,600 lot of things into place. All the people who are in our 696 00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:37,600 circles can be reached in certain ways, just trust that 697 00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:43,400 and back to this woman, God used this woman where she was at, 698 00:34:44,100 --> 00:34:47,000 maybe you feel like your life's a mess, maybe you feel like 699 00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:50,300 you've gone through the wringer. This woman came to a point where 700 00:34:50,300 --> 00:34:52,699 she had five husbands. She was living with a man, she 701 00:34:52,699 --> 00:34:56,800 wasn't married to And Jesus used this woman for all these things 702 00:34:57,100 --> 00:34:59,700 and she is in the Bible as an example for us. 703 00:35:00,900 --> 00:35:02,800 She didn't have to get things straightened up at home. 704 00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:04,700 She'd have to go work out all of the mess. 705 00:35:04,700 --> 00:35:08,000 That was created. Before, she could have this, 706 00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:10,900 this relationship with Jesus. Before she could have this 707 00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:14,900 living water, fill her She didn't have to go unweave that 708 00:35:14,900 --> 00:35:19,100 web of family messes. She had created, none of that 709 00:35:19,100 --> 00:35:21,400 happened before. She had all these good things 710 00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:24,600 happen to her. She'd have to fix everyone's 711 00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:27,400 opinion of her. All at once. 712 00:35:28,700 --> 00:35:31,600 She have to get her life to a certain place before God could 713 00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:33,400 work in her. That's what the things I think 714 00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:36,400 we struggle with a lot is you know, when I get my life to this 715 00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:38,200 place and this time and everything works out, then I'm 716 00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:40,100 going to go and I'm going to talk to somebody about God. 717 00:35:41,300 --> 00:35:44,600 No, she was in the middle of all this and she just went and told 718 00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:47,200 people, it was right in the middle of a parched life, a 719 00:35:47,207 --> 00:35:51,400 broken home and outcasts spirit that this woman found Christ and 720 00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:55,600 let others to Christ. Don't hold yourself back from 721 00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:59,000 coming to this and for making yourself useful to God, we can 722 00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:03,000 be Our Own Worst Enemy. That's how God works throughout 723 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:04,900 the Bible. He uses that Harlot not 724 00:36:04,900 --> 00:36:07,600 prostitute in the in the lineage of Jesus. 725 00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:10,300 He uses the the people who are at the lowest of the low, the 726 00:36:10,300 --> 00:36:12,700 outcasts of the outcast of whatever your situation is, from 727 00:36:12,700 --> 00:36:16,400 top to bottom, Jesus will use you and he has time time again 728 00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:20,000 and that's the message from this woman and great things can 729 00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:22,700 happen your life from here forward, if you'll just let it 730 00:36:22,700 --> 00:36:24,700 happen. If you're not a part of this, 731 00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:29,100 this family, if you're not adds Jesus body to to learn him, you 732 00:36:29,100 --> 00:36:32,100 can do that right now. We learn from these from the New 733 00:36:32,100 --> 00:36:34,300 Testament. If we hear the word and we 734 00:36:34,300 --> 00:36:38,700 believe it, we can be saved that we can repent of our past lives 735 00:36:38,700 --> 00:36:40,800 change, and be added to the church. 736 00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:43,400 After we confess that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. 737 00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:46,200 And before, baptized for the remission of our sins is our 738 00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:51,100 brother parade and Acts 2:38. We see examples of this and you 739 00:36:51,100 --> 00:36:52,600 can be added to Christ's body that way. 740 00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:55,800 You can contact his blood and you and if you've already done 741 00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:57,900 that but you're like, you know what, I need to refocus. 742 00:36:58,300 --> 00:37:00,300 I need to get to where I am feeding off. 743 00:37:00,500 --> 00:37:02,900 Living water again. You can pray to God from your 744 00:37:02,900 --> 00:37:04,300 seat. You can take care of that by 745 00:37:04,300 --> 00:37:07,400 yourself, but if you want to do that with us, you need anything. 746 00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:10,000 You need to work out publicly. We can do that with you if you 747 00:37:10,008 --> 00:37:11,600 like while we stand while we see. 748 00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:15,600 We thank you for listening to our podcast, put on by the 749 00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:21,400 Church of Christ at 22:15 plans. Road in Bakersfield, if you 750 00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:24,600 would like any additional information or you would like to 751 00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:27,600 receive a free Bible correspondence, course by mail. 752 00:37:28,300 --> 00:37:32,100 Please email us at info at True Church of Christ 753 00:37:32,100 --> 00:37:36,100 Bakersfield.com. Our service times are on Sundays 754 00:37:36,100 --> 00:37:41,700 at 10:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. and Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. 755 00:37:42,300 --> 00:37:45,800 Please make plans to join us. 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