1 00:00:01,200 --> 00:00:04,300 We Are One church. We love God love. 2 00:00:04,300 --> 00:00:07,100 People love his mission and love his church. 3 00:00:07,500 --> 00:00:09,700 Welcome to the one Church podcast. 4 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:19,700 Hello, I'm Tom and welcome to the one Church podcast today. 5 00:00:19,700 --> 00:00:24,200 It's Monday the 6th of February. And yesterday that Sunday, the 6 00:00:24,200 --> 00:00:27,500 fifth we gathered from one church together, and if you were 7 00:00:27,500 --> 00:00:30,700 there, you'll know, it was a precious time for a youngest 8 00:00:30,700 --> 00:00:34,700 child up to our oldest grown up. And if you didn't, you can catch 9 00:00:34,700 --> 00:00:38,400 up with the whole of our 11:30 service on the One Church 10 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:40,900 YouTube channel. So head there and you could 11 00:00:40,900 --> 00:00:44,000 watch the whole service. But today, if you're out and 12 00:00:44,008 --> 00:00:47,500 about at home, however, you're tuning in, we're so glad you 13 00:00:47,500 --> 00:00:52,500 could join us for the podcast in Romans 8, we read that we can 14 00:00:52,500 --> 00:00:56,700 come to our guard and because we have been brought about to an 15 00:00:56,700 --> 00:01:02,800 adoption to sonship. We can cry Abba, Father, today, 16 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:06,200 let it sink into your heart and would, you know, again, the 17 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:10,800 Because of Jesus, by the power of the spirit, every one of us 18 00:01:10,900 --> 00:01:15,000 can come to God. And cry Abba Father and met. 19 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:18,400 You know the love of God closer and deeper today. 20 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:23,200 Coming up now is a message from Josh Smith spoken, a Taiwan 21 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:26,600 church together, Gatherings. It's a message that introduces 22 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:31,700 the introducing Jesus Series, so be inspired Again by The Wonder, 23 00:01:31,900 --> 00:01:34,000 and the OR at the person of Jesus. 24 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:40,100 Enjoy. Well, if you don't know me, my 25 00:01:40,100 --> 00:01:43,200 name is Josh, married to Alice. He's my little boy. 26 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:46,900 Levi is out with kids for the second service in a row. 27 00:01:47,100 --> 00:01:49,800 He came to me at the end of the first service and he said to me, 28 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:52,800 dalla time to pack down now. So I want to, we got one more 29 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:54,800 kid, is very excited to pack the drums away. 30 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:57,200 He's always up for helping and serving in the house. 31 00:01:57,500 --> 00:02:00,900 I don't know whether he's helpful or a nuisance, but the 32 00:02:00,908 --> 00:02:03,900 heart is good and Ezra are little one on the front row. 33 00:02:03,900 --> 00:02:06,700 Six months slept through my message, last time is about to 34 00:02:06,700 --> 00:02:10,699 sleep through it again. Oh, man. 35 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:14,200 And I get the opportunity and the privilege to open the Bible 36 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:17,700 with us this afternoon. The last service in this 37 00:02:17,700 --> 00:02:20,000 building, as we know, and it just feels an immense honor to 38 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:23,000 do so standing on the shoulders of giants and all that kind of 39 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:26,000 stuff. Thank you, Pastor D, pasta us, 40 00:02:26,300 --> 00:02:27,700 the privilege of allow me to speak. 41 00:02:28,300 --> 00:02:31,100 What an amazing example of leadership. 42 00:02:31,100 --> 00:02:33,900 You guys are empowering us. We're very grateful. 43 00:02:34,700 --> 00:02:37,300 I have the privilege of starting our series that we're going to 44 00:02:37,300 --> 00:02:39,800 continue in our sights next week called in. 45 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:41,600 Reducing. Jesus. 46 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:43,600 This morning. We're in John 4. 47 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:46,900 This is possibly one of my favorite passages in the entire 48 00:02:46,900 --> 00:02:50,000 Bible. Verses 3 through 242. 49 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:51,700 I'll read the majority of it with you. 50 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:54,200 We're in the NLT. This is what it says. 51 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:58,600 So he Jesus left Judea and returned to Galilee. 52 00:02:58,900 --> 00:03:02,900 He had to go through Samaria on the way as I thought when I was 53 00:03:02,900 --> 00:03:05,000 a child. I thought it was some area. 54 00:03:05,300 --> 00:03:09,100 This is a general piece of land. He had to go through Samaria on 55 00:03:09,100 --> 00:03:10,900 the way. Eventually he came to the 56 00:03:10,900 --> 00:03:12,800 Samaritan Village of sychar Jacob's. 57 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:15,800 Well, was there? And Jesus tired from the long 58 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:20,300 walks at wearily beside the well around new time soon as 59 00:03:20,300 --> 00:03:22,400 Samaritan woman came to draw water. 60 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:25,600 And Jesus said to her, please give me a drink. 61 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:28,500 He was alone at the time because it's disciples had gone to the 62 00:03:28,500 --> 00:03:31,600 Village to buy some food. The woman was surprised for 63 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:34,200 Jews, refused to have anything to do with Samaritans. 64 00:03:34,700 --> 00:03:38,400 She said to Jesus you're a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. 65 00:03:38,500 --> 00:03:42,000 Why are you asking me for? Drink Jesus replied. 66 00:03:42,300 --> 00:03:45,300 If you only knew the gift, God has for you and who you're 67 00:03:45,300 --> 00:03:47,500 speaking to you? You would ask me and I would 68 00:03:47,500 --> 00:03:52,700 give you living water, but sir, you don't have a rope or a 69 00:03:52,700 --> 00:03:55,300 bucket. She said, and this well, is very 70 00:03:55,300 --> 00:03:57,300 deep. Where were you get this living 71 00:03:57,300 --> 00:04:00,100 water and besides to you think that your greater than our 72 00:04:00,100 --> 00:04:01,700 ancestor? Jacob, who gave us this? 73 00:04:01,700 --> 00:04:05,700 Well, how can you offer better water than he and his sons and 74 00:04:05,700 --> 00:04:09,700 animals enjoyed? I said this in the first seven, 75 00:04:09,700 --> 00:04:12,400 so I feel it's important to say. Again, I was reading this again 76 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:15,100 last night as I was do the last bit of prep for this morning and 77 00:04:15,300 --> 00:04:18,100 I've read this passage of the Bible more times than I can 78 00:04:18,100 --> 00:04:19,600 count. And I can count up to at least 79 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:23,100 eight and I've never been struck with this in the same way that 80 00:04:23,100 --> 00:04:24,900 it was. As, I was reading it last night. 81 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:28,200 Jacob. After whom the, well, is named 82 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:31,700 was the man who wrestled with God and out of that, he was 83 00:04:31,700 --> 00:04:36,700 renamed Israel out of him. Israel came the 12 tribes of 84 00:04:36,700 --> 00:04:39,500 which Jesus Jesus, the lion of Judah is now sitting at this 85 00:04:39,500 --> 00:04:44,400 very well and here Jesus. The lion of Judah is sat at the 86 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:48,700 site of Israel's well, about to open the gates of Living Water 87 00:04:48,700 --> 00:04:53,000 to the Gentiles out of The Well of Israel comes Abundant Life 88 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:55,100 for those who are not born into the family of Abraham. 89 00:04:55,900 --> 00:04:59,200 And what a moment Jesus is sat there, and he knows this, he 90 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:01,300 knows it, he's seeing the journey has seen the beginning. 91 00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:04,100 He saw Jacob, dig the well, and he goes one down going to stand 92 00:05:04,100 --> 00:05:05,400 there. And I'm going to Proclaim that 93 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:07,000 salvation is not just for the Jews. 94 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:12,200 Hold on a moment, I'm so thankful Jesus replied the 95 00:05:12,207 --> 00:05:15,100 woman, anyone who drinks this water will soon become thirsty 96 00:05:15,100 --> 00:05:18,500 again but those who drink the water I give will never thirst 97 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:22,000 it, becomes a fresh bubbling spring within them, giving them 98 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:24,200 eternal life. Please, sir. 99 00:05:24,300 --> 00:05:28,300 The woman said, give me this water then I'll never be thirsty 100 00:05:28,300 --> 00:05:30,900 again and I won't have to come here to get water. 101 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:35,900 Go and get your husband's Jesus told her I don't have a husband. 102 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:39,000 The woman replies. Jesus said, you're right. 103 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:41,700 You don't have a husband for you, have had five husbands. 104 00:05:41,700 --> 00:05:43,700 And you aren't even married to the man that you're living with. 105 00:05:43,700 --> 00:05:46,000 Now, you certainly spoke. The truth. 106 00:05:47,700 --> 00:05:51,300 I really enjoy that in the middle of this conversation, 107 00:05:51,500 --> 00:05:55,100 Jesus affirms her for telling the truth, rather than rejecting 108 00:05:55,100 --> 00:05:59,200 her for having five husbands, He doesn't, he doesn't focus in on 109 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:01,500 her sin and I passed no mistakes rather what he does. 110 00:06:01,500 --> 00:06:03,400 He said you've been honest with me in the little that you've 111 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:06,800 given away. He sees the detail. 112 00:06:08,100 --> 00:06:10,200 Sir, the woman said you must be a prophet. 113 00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:12,900 I've cut this part out in the middle but feel free to read in 114 00:06:12,907 --> 00:06:15,400 your own time they have a conversation about worshiping. 115 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:17,800 There's a great takeaway here because women at the time would 116 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:20,500 not be allowed to sit at the feet of a rabbi and listen. 117 00:06:20,700 --> 00:06:23,300 But yet she sat there at the feet of the Messiah here in 118 00:06:23,300 --> 00:06:25,900 about true and proper worship, something that her husband would 119 00:06:25,900 --> 00:06:30,100 have never yet heard, the woman said, I know the Messiah is 120 00:06:30,100 --> 00:06:32,800 coming. The one who is called the 121 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:36,200 Christ, when he comes he will explain everything to us. 122 00:06:36,700 --> 00:06:38,900 Then Jesus told her. Can you can you picture the 123 00:06:38,900 --> 00:06:41,600 scene? I am the Messiah. 124 00:06:42,900 --> 00:06:47,600 A moment has been 400 years of Silence between the last 125 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:49,600 prophetic words about the coming Christ. 126 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:52,600 And Jesus conversation with this woman. 127 00:06:53,700 --> 00:06:57,500 In a moment, everything changed. I wonder how she felt. the one 128 00:06:57,500 --> 00:07:00,800 that she's been waiting for a longing for suddenly appears to 129 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:05,700 her, if there's ever a mic drop moment in the Bible, is this 130 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:09,900 He's coming. I know he's coming, I don't know 131 00:07:09,900 --> 00:07:12,000 when he's coming back, I believe there's a messiah. 132 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:18,100 I am the Messiah. So dropped an atomic bomb on my 133 00:07:18,100 --> 00:07:19,400 goodness. The world on never look the 134 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:20,900 same. There's only one place in 135 00:07:20,900 --> 00:07:25,100 Scripture that potentially has a better mic drop and that is ax5 136 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:27,400 with ananias and Sapphira. If you know the passage of your 137 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:28,500 of Christian, you've read it before. 138 00:07:28,700 --> 00:07:32,100 The story is one of them's already come in and we've given 139 00:07:32,100 --> 00:07:33,500 all that. We have all that we receive for 140 00:07:33,500 --> 00:07:38,400 the land, lied dead. The best bit now, best bit. 141 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:39,800 It's a bit harsh to call it the best bit. 142 00:07:39,900 --> 00:07:42,400 Anyway, they've dragged the drag that body out body. 143 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:45,900 Number one, high body count in this story, incomes person. 144 00:07:45,900 --> 00:07:48,400 Number two. Are you sure that that's all the 145 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:50,700 money received from the land? Yeah, it's all the money we 146 00:07:50,700 --> 00:07:54,700 receive Milan's, the apostles. But number one is already 147 00:07:54,700 --> 00:07:57,800 outside and you will now join them dead. 148 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:01,700 Whoa, what am I drop? Moment very sad. 149 00:08:01,700 --> 00:08:05,600 But also pretty cool that the power not the powder. 150 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:07,100 They had the power that Jesus gave them. 151 00:08:07,100 --> 00:08:08,000 Hallelujah. Our men. 152 00:08:08,300 --> 00:08:13,900 Anyway, just then in the first story not ananias and Sapphira, 153 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:16,400 Jesus disciples came back and they were shocked to find him 154 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:19,400 talking to a woman but none of them have the nerve to ask. 155 00:08:19,500 --> 00:08:22,800 What do you want with her? Or why are you talking to her at 156 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:24,000 that moment? I meant that woman left her 157 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:26,500 water jar beside the world, and ran back to the Village. 158 00:08:26,500 --> 00:08:29,700 Telling everyone come and see a man who told me everything I 159 00:08:29,700 --> 00:08:34,000 ever did, could he possibly be the Messiah fast forward a 160 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:35,799 little. It says this many Samaritans 161 00:08:35,799 --> 00:08:38,900 from the village believed in Jesus, because the woman had 162 00:08:38,900 --> 00:08:40,700 said, he told me everything I ever did. 163 00:08:41,900 --> 00:08:44,500 Then they came out to see him, They begged him to stay in their 164 00:08:44,500 --> 00:08:47,600 Village so he stayed for two days long enough for many more 165 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:50,700 to hear his message and believe, then they said to the woman. 166 00:08:50,900 --> 00:08:55,100 Now, we believe not just because of what you told us that because 167 00:08:55,100 --> 00:08:59,400 we have heard him ourselves. Now we know he indeed is the 168 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:02,100 savior of the world. Father, I pray over these next 169 00:09:02,100 --> 00:09:03,700 few minutes and moments that we have together. 170 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:05,500 Do you speak to me? And through me? 171 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:07,700 Would you receive all the glory? The honor and the praise. 172 00:09:07,700 --> 00:09:10,200 Give us ears to hear a nice to see what you're doing is saying 173 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:16,600 in Jesus, beautiful name. I love going on a journey for a 174 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:17,600 honeymoon. Alison died. 175 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:20,200 Which is now 8 years ago. Whoa. 176 00:09:20,300 --> 00:09:21,100 You're all thinking. Why? 177 00:09:21,100 --> 00:09:23,700 You don't look that old. The none of you are thinking 178 00:09:23,700 --> 00:09:26,800 that that's encouraging. We decided instead of spending 179 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:28,800 lots of money on a fly instead, we'll spend a little bit of 180 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:30,100 money on buying a second-hand car. 181 00:09:30,100 --> 00:09:32,400 We bought a Mazda MX-5 which we named Ruby. 182 00:09:32,500 --> 00:09:36,700 We decided to drive to Italy. We were incredibly ill-prepared. 183 00:09:37,100 --> 00:09:40,500 We had no map. We had no Breakdown Cover. 184 00:09:41,100 --> 00:09:43,800 We had books, no, accommodation for the drive there or the 185 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:46,000 return journey. And to be honest, I don't even 186 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:49,200 know if I was legally old enough to drive in Europe but we set 187 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:52,600 off and the Lord kept us safe, we did a road trip a couple of 188 00:09:52,608 --> 00:09:55,900 years after that against Italy that time did have Breakdown 189 00:09:55,900 --> 00:10:00,400 Cover and that time did break down sketchy. 190 00:10:00,500 --> 00:10:03,900 We were up one of the mountains in the Alps and the brake discs 191 00:10:03,900 --> 00:10:07,300 clamp shirts and it was very very sweaty indeed. 192 00:10:07,300 --> 00:10:09,800 Anyway on this trip day one. One France. 193 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:12,700 No problem. It's been a breeze day to 194 00:10:12,700 --> 00:10:13,900 Switzerland. Lovely. 195 00:10:13,900 --> 00:10:16,800 Beautiful views day. 3, Italy. And we're heading to our 196 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:20,500 accommodation via Lake Como for a pit stop over lunch. 197 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:22,800 Suppose one of the most breathtaking views and all of 198 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:25,400 the world it was decidedly average. 199 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:30,700 Maybe that's just it was an overcast day and we put the 200 00:10:30,700 --> 00:10:33,000 details of the Villa, into our sat-nav in the sat-nav said to 201 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:37,100 us will arrive at 8:15. Last check-in. 9 p.m. happy days 202 00:10:37,100 --> 00:10:39,100 will make it on time. Everything's going to be okay. 203 00:10:39,300 --> 00:10:42,700 And we arrived to our Villa to see this absolutely glorious 204 00:10:42,700 --> 00:10:45,500 building to get out of our car and realize that that was not 205 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:50,100 actually our Villa. And so what we did was we drove 206 00:10:50,100 --> 00:10:52,600 around in circles hoping to speak to an Italian who spoke 207 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:54,700 English. In fact, what we found in Italy, 208 00:10:54,700 --> 00:10:58,400 funny enough was Italians, who spoke Italian it's very 209 00:10:58,400 --> 00:11:02,400 unhelpful for me. Do you know that's what all 210 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:03,700 British people do a broad, isn't it? 211 00:11:03,800 --> 00:11:05,800 We speak to them in English. Hello. 212 00:11:05,900 --> 00:11:08,500 Do you know where this Villa is? And if they don't understand, we 213 00:11:08,500 --> 00:11:11,000 say, even louder still in English. 214 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:15,700 Hello Yes, I can hear you anyway I learn a phrase. 215 00:11:15,900 --> 00:11:19,500 I had translation app on my phone side of a La Vela 216 00:11:19,500 --> 00:11:23,600 Argentina / for a come on, come on. 217 00:11:25,300 --> 00:11:28,500 To my dismay. Nobody understood a word of what 218 00:11:28,500 --> 00:11:31,200 I said. And nobody knew our Villa was. 219 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:34,200 So we aimlessly drove around until he came to a moment where 220 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:36,800 we were stuck. And there's a cliff face on one 221 00:11:36,800 --> 00:11:39,300 side and a drop on the other. And we didn't know what to do at 222 00:11:39,300 --> 00:11:40,600 this point. Alice was looking on the stat. 223 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:46,500 Now, for nearby hotels, And Along came a little yellow Fiat. 224 00:11:47,700 --> 00:11:51,000 Drove up towards us and a guy got out of the fear and he said 225 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:53,700 to us in Italian, are you looking for this Villa and the 226 00:11:53,700 --> 00:11:55,200 name the place where were supposed to say? 227 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:56,700 Yes. Yeah, we are. 228 00:11:56,700 --> 00:11:57,500 We are. We are. 229 00:11:57,600 --> 00:12:00,500 Yeah, so we got in our car, he got in his car and we followed 230 00:12:00,500 --> 00:12:03,300 him. He drove us to the gates of the 231 00:12:03,300 --> 00:12:05,500 Villa complex. And then I promise you, this is 232 00:12:05,500 --> 00:12:08,200 a true story. We got out of the car to say, 233 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:11,800 thank you to him and the car. And the man will just simply 234 00:12:11,800 --> 00:12:17,400 vanished I believe that we were led to our honeymoon Villa by an 235 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:19,300 Angel. Pretty cool, right? 236 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:20,500 Pretty cool. But that's not, that's not the 237 00:12:20,508 --> 00:12:22,100 point of the story, The Point, the stories to illustrate the 238 00:12:22,100 --> 00:12:23,800 Journey of Jesus, but we'll get there in a moment. 239 00:12:24,100 --> 00:12:26,900 You see, when we tell the story of our honeymoon, we don't often 240 00:12:26,900 --> 00:12:29,700 talk about the destination but it often talk about the Villa. 241 00:12:29,700 --> 00:12:32,000 We don't talk about the day, I am Royal more Sienna. 242 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:35,500 What we talk about is the small Italian man in the little yellow 243 00:12:35,500 --> 00:12:39,300 fear in the middle of the story because often the journey is 244 00:12:39,300 --> 00:12:40,700 more important than the destination. 245 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:43,500 In this passage, Jesus is on a journey. 246 00:12:43,500 --> 00:12:47,100 He is headed from Judea to Galilee what I find. 247 00:12:47,100 --> 00:12:51,000 So, interesting In this passage is that John writing says he had 248 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:53,800 to go through Samaria. Now, if you do the research, he 249 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:57,100 didn't have to there were in fact, two ways to get from Judea 250 00:12:57,200 --> 00:13:00,100 to Galilee only one of which led through Samaria. 251 00:13:00,500 --> 00:13:03,200 So, is it, is it there a discrepancy in John's writing? 252 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:06,200 As he got something wrong? Or is it trying to emphasize the 253 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:09,600 need for Jesus mission? Which was much more important 254 00:13:09,700 --> 00:13:12,200 than Jesus navigation. I feel that he was trying to 255 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:13,600 say. He didn't have to go through 256 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:17,000 Samaria, but he had to go. Go through because a destination 257 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:20,000 was going to be more important when he met the woman at the 258 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:24,900 well in sychar. And just to give you a bit of 259 00:13:24,908 --> 00:13:27,300 background for the passage, we're looking at this morning 260 00:13:27,700 --> 00:13:29,700 Jews and Samaritans, did not get on. 261 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:35,500 So for Jesus, to go through, Samaria felt like an ill-made 262 00:13:35,500 --> 00:13:37,800 decision. As he said, it's the boys were 263 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:39,100 following him. I imagine they would have been 264 00:13:39,100 --> 00:13:40,400 going. Are you sure? 265 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:44,100 You know, they're not like us. And that part of the world 266 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:45,800 there. There is another way. 267 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:49,600 Jesus said, we have to go and there was a boundary line, there 268 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:53,100 would have been an impasse There was passed down from generation 269 00:13:53,100 --> 00:13:55,800 to generation. The Samaritans hated the Jews 270 00:13:55,800 --> 00:13:58,500 and the Jews. Hated the Samaritans, both were 271 00:13:58,500 --> 00:14:02,200 taught systemic racism from birth, they were brought up to 272 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:06,600 despise and reject that other opposing culture, you see. 273 00:14:06,600 --> 00:14:09,400 Samaritans believed they had a right to the Messiah, but the 274 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:13,600 Jews believe they did not and their forms the impasse yet 275 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:15,900 everything within Jesus required him to take The Road Less 276 00:14:15,900 --> 00:14:18,600 Traveled. I want to say, if you feel in 277 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:21,900 the room this morning that you are out of the reach Of the love 278 00:14:21,900 --> 00:14:23,500 of God. I'm going to say that he came 279 00:14:23,500 --> 00:14:27,700 here just for you, just like he had to go to Samaria to meet the 280 00:14:27,700 --> 00:14:29,700 woman at the. Well, he had to also come to the 281 00:14:29,700 --> 00:14:31,900 cross for you, and I, you are not out of the reach of the love 282 00:14:31,900 --> 00:14:34,300 of God. Maybe you're here in the 283 00:14:34,308 --> 00:14:38,900 morning, you don't feel good enough, you're not. but Jesus 284 00:14:38,900 --> 00:14:42,600 has It's not on your merits, not my achievements. 285 00:14:42,900 --> 00:14:45,200 It's all on who he is. Maybe you feel ashamed of your 286 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:47,700 past you live in fear of your future or started this woman, 287 00:14:47,700 --> 00:14:50,200 sat at the well, and threw her have Village and then the 288 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:54,500 generations after her were transformed You see, Jesus 289 00:14:54,500 --> 00:14:58,400 worried little about cultural Customs, social scripts, or 290 00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:01,400 religious restrictions. Rather he cared about those who 291 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:04,900 are cast out, he saved those who have shunt and He restored, 292 00:15:04,900 --> 00:15:08,400 those who have been rejected. This is who he is. 293 00:15:08,400 --> 00:15:10,700 I'm going to give you three thoughts from this passage and I 294 00:15:10,700 --> 00:15:13,000 pray that make sense to you as we go through them together. 295 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:17,800 My first thought for us is this that Jesus sees her if you're 296 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:19,200 making notes, that's Point number one. 297 00:15:19,700 --> 00:15:23,300 The passage says, the woman was surprised for Jews. 298 00:15:23,300 --> 00:15:25,400 Refused to have anything to do with Samaritans. 299 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:29,200 She said to Jesus, you're a Jew and I'm a Samaritan woman. 300 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:31,400 Why are you asking me for a drink? 301 00:15:33,700 --> 00:15:36,600 See this conversation with a Samaritan woman would have led 302 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:40,400 Jesus to be condemned by the Jewish law and the claim that he 303 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:44,700 makes after this to be the Messiah, was the very reason why 304 00:15:44,700 --> 00:15:47,700 those in Nazareth attempted to push him off the hillside in the 305 00:15:47,700 --> 00:15:51,600 Book of Luke. But he went to Samaria, just for 306 00:15:51,608 --> 00:15:55,100 her. Before Alice and I got married. 307 00:15:55,100 --> 00:15:58,500 We were headed to Nottingham to meet a photographer and in the 308 00:15:58,500 --> 00:16:01,100 city center, does a man selling big issues and you've seen them 309 00:16:01,100 --> 00:16:04,500 around people that need to make some money in order to live. 310 00:16:05,700 --> 00:16:09,300 But I've also seen probably how a lot of secular culture and at 311 00:16:09,300 --> 00:16:12,100 times us if we're in a rush treat, these kind of people and 312 00:16:12,100 --> 00:16:14,400 he was in the middle of not again, Rashad and big issue, big 313 00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:16,500 issue and everybody's walked past. 314 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:20,900 No one gave him any attention. Now we had no money and what we 315 00:16:20,900 --> 00:16:24,700 did next was not groundbreaking I simply The man and I said I'm 316 00:16:24,700 --> 00:16:27,200 really sorry I have nothing to give you but have a great day 317 00:16:27,300 --> 00:16:30,500 and he turned around and he said to me thank you for noticing me. 318 00:16:31,700 --> 00:16:34,400 And it chilled me in that moment and it lives within our we live 319 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:37,300 in a society of people that long to be seeing that long to be 320 00:16:37,300 --> 00:16:40,500 noticed and Jesus lived in the same society and yet he wanders 321 00:16:40,700 --> 00:16:43,200 all the way to this dangerous area to meet with one woman. 322 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:45,400 Why? Because he sees her, I want to 323 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:47,800 say that if you're sat in the room, if you don't know him this 324 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:50,900 afternoon, he sees you and he knows you and he came from 325 00:16:50,900 --> 00:16:54,300 Heaven through to Ascension via the cross just for you. 326 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:01,800 Jesus sees you, he said to the woman go and get your husband, 327 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:04,500 she responded. I don't have a husband to, which 328 00:17:04,500 --> 00:17:07,500 Jesus said, you're correct. You've had five husbands and 329 00:17:07,500 --> 00:17:09,099 you're not married some money to live with. 330 00:17:09,099 --> 00:17:10,700 Now, you've certainly spoke the truth. 331 00:17:10,900 --> 00:17:15,099 You see in Middle Eastern culture, a woman would not have 332 00:17:15,099 --> 00:17:17,000 the legal right to file for divorce. 333 00:17:18,300 --> 00:17:20,900 So the fact that she has had five husbands does not mean that 334 00:17:20,900 --> 00:17:23,599 she's finished with them. It's means that they have told 335 00:17:23,599 --> 00:17:24,900 her that they are finished with her. 336 00:17:25,099 --> 00:17:27,599 She's been rejected by five different men on five different 337 00:17:27,599 --> 00:17:30,400 occasions and now the man that she's currently living with and 338 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:32,700 sleeping with does not even give it a Dignity of being called 339 00:17:32,700 --> 00:17:39,800 wife She is defiled discarded, unwanted, and unmarried, and 340 00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:42,900 Jesus sees her mess. And he chooses to sit with her 341 00:17:42,900 --> 00:17:48,300 in the middle of it. Anyway, Wherever you find 342 00:17:48,300 --> 00:17:50,400 yourself this afternoon, he sees you. 343 00:17:52,100 --> 00:17:55,900 He sees you. I wonder if there's someone in 344 00:17:55,908 --> 00:17:58,400 the room and if I'm wrong on this, it's all right. 345 00:17:58,400 --> 00:18:00,700 But is there someone in the room? 346 00:18:00,700 --> 00:18:04,200 You some of the story of this woman feels quite irrelevant to 347 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:05,900 you. You were, you're abused by a 348 00:18:05,908 --> 00:18:09,200 family member at the age of five or six and it's left a trauma, 349 00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:12,500 any that you can't quite Shake. I'm not asking you to put your 350 00:18:12,500 --> 00:18:15,200 hand up now or respond, but just in the quiet of this moment on 351 00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:19,100 say that he sees you. And that he's here for you in 352 00:18:19,100 --> 00:18:21,500 the same way that He restored this woman, he wants to restore 353 00:18:21,500 --> 00:18:22,600 you. He wants to take you back to 354 00:18:22,600 --> 00:18:26,400 that moment and fix you and and bring you to Holiness. 355 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:29,300 He's got a plan for your life, that is not determined by your 356 00:18:29,300 --> 00:18:31,100 past. If that is you if you're in the 357 00:18:31,108 --> 00:18:33,400 room which you cannot find one of our prayer team at the end of 358 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:35,600 would love to pray with you and journey through with you. 359 00:18:35,600 --> 00:18:36,700 And I is that. All right? 360 00:18:37,700 --> 00:18:39,800 Point number one for us this afternoon. 361 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:42,700 He sees her Point number two, he saves her. 362 00:18:42,900 --> 00:18:45,000 The woman said, I know the Messiah is coming, the one who 363 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:48,400 is called Christ and when he comes, he will explain 364 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:51,400 everything to us. She's told her I am the Messiah. 365 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:54,800 Now, she's been waiting longing and hoping for one who would see 366 00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:57,900 her and love her, she's found failed, affection, and five 367 00:18:57,900 --> 00:19:00,200 different men. Yet a long walks Jesus, and in 368 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:02,200 the middle of her mess, he sees it, but then he also brings the 369 00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:07,000 through to Salvation what she's looked for in human effort, what 370 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:08,400 she said. Attempt to Define in her own 371 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:11,000 strength and understanding has not been possible until one 372 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:15,500 encounter with Jesus. And here at the, well of Israel 373 00:19:15,900 --> 00:19:19,100 salvation is opened for the Gentiles, he saves her. 374 00:19:19,700 --> 00:19:23,200 He knows her past, he sees her shame, he loves her in the 375 00:19:23,200 --> 00:19:27,300 middle of it, See this one was condemned even by her own people 376 00:19:27,700 --> 00:19:32,700 yet Jewish Jesus would die to pay the price of her sin to 377 00:19:32,700 --> 00:19:35,100 bring her Restoration in the love of the father. 378 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:38,300 In one moment, she was transformed. 379 00:19:39,800 --> 00:19:43,700 If you read the passage before, you may be aware, she used to go 380 00:19:43,700 --> 00:19:45,600 and draw water and the Heat of the day. 381 00:19:46,300 --> 00:19:49,200 This was not to top up her tan. You know, the phrase, Mad Dogs 382 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:51,600 and Englishmen only got and the midday Sun that's because it's 383 00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:53,300 actually hot into the parts of the world. 384 00:19:53,500 --> 00:19:56,200 She would've avoided normal society doesn't go out to draw 385 00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:58,400 water in the middle of the day. You got to draw water in the 386 00:19:58,400 --> 00:20:00,900 cool of the morning of the call of the evening yet, she's here 387 00:20:01,100 --> 00:20:04,000 on her own isolated abandoned by her community. 388 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:11,200 Yet, one encounter with the Messiah, sends her running back 389 00:20:11,500 --> 00:20:14,700 shouting to the ones, who condemned to the ones who no 390 00:20:14,700 --> 00:20:19,200 longer wanted her. She's transformed in a moment. 391 00:20:20,300 --> 00:20:22,300 I believe the disciples would have told this story. 392 00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:26,000 Can you imagine the conversation between Peter and mrs. 393 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:31,200 Peter How was the trip? Yeah, it was really good. 394 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:34,100 We saw some cool things. Jesus did some amazing stuff and 395 00:20:34,100 --> 00:20:37,200 then we went to this well in Samaria and the Miss Peter goes 396 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:45,600 What area? They don't like us there. 397 00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:49,000 And Peter goes that was what I told Jesus. 398 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:52,000 We didn't seem to care. We went there and then we went 399 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:53,900 out to get food because me and the boys were hungry because 400 00:20:53,900 --> 00:20:56,200 it's been a long walk and you see Jesus he's not too fussed 401 00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:58,600 about eating real food because he only eats with his father 402 00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:00,800 gives him. But we went out to get food and 403 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:04,100 then we came back and we find him talking to a Samaritan 404 00:21:04,100 --> 00:21:09,200 woman. Mrs. Peter goes I would have 405 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:13,600 told the story. And Peter says, you know, 406 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:16,300 thinking about it, he did say that we had to go through 407 00:21:16,300 --> 00:21:20,900 Samaria, and I told him, I said, boss there's two Roots, one of 408 00:21:20,900 --> 00:21:23,400 them leads around, would have to go through. 409 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:25,800 And he says, I've got a mission there and then we got back and 410 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:27,900 we find him talking with this woman at the well, and then 411 00:21:27,900 --> 00:21:29,500 believe it or not. She's got a load of husbands, 412 00:21:29,500 --> 00:21:32,400 our life's, a mess and hey, mrs. Pete, you'll never guess this, 413 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:35,300 but after she met Jesus, she ran back to her Village and they all 414 00:21:35,300 --> 00:21:39,300 got saved, and then they fed us for free for two days. 415 00:21:40,100 --> 00:21:45,700 Whoa, See when we talk about our honeymoon, we don't often talk 416 00:21:45,700 --> 00:21:48,200 about the views, we don't often talk about the Villa. 417 00:21:48,700 --> 00:21:51,300 We talk about the little Italian Man in the Yellow Fiat. 418 00:21:52,100 --> 00:21:57,500 I believe that this group of lads, after this trip, probably 419 00:21:57,500 --> 00:22:00,000 didn't talk too much about Judea for. 420 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:02,400 He didn't talk too much about Galilee, but when they were 421 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:04,900 asked the question, they would have remembered the story of the 422 00:22:04,900 --> 00:22:07,600 rejected Samaritan woman by The Well of Israel. 423 00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:12,300 The journey I want to tell you that Jesus is still passing 424 00:22:12,300 --> 00:22:14,800 through. He still passing through his 425 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:17,400 passing through our City's past ensure our nation, he's still 426 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:19,500 walking on the face of our Earth, by the power of Holy 427 00:22:19,500 --> 00:22:22,400 Spirit, embodied in the church and he is still on a mission. 428 00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:28,200 He came here for you. See the Journey of Christ was 429 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:32,400 not just from Judea to Galilee a via Samaria, but it was in fact 430 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:35,200 from Heaven to Ascension via the cross. 431 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:38,900 And this story gives a beautiful glimpse of what's about to 432 00:22:38,900 --> 00:22:43,300 happen. And the same way he had to go to 433 00:22:43,300 --> 00:22:45,300 Samaria for the sake of this Village. 434 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:49,200 He also had to come to the cross for the sake of you and me. 435 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:53,500 And this is who he is fully. God fully, man, the all-powerful 436 00:22:53,500 --> 00:22:57,000 Creator and sustainer of the cosmos who was born in the body 437 00:22:57,100 --> 00:23:00,000 of a baby destined to pass through the cross, to open the 438 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:03,300 door of relationship between God, the father and Humanity. 439 00:23:03,900 --> 00:23:07,800 This is Jesus, the God who sees the God, who saves The God, Who 440 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:09,400 restores The God? Who heals? 441 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:12,600 And in the same way that he saved her, he's here in the 442 00:23:12,608 --> 00:23:14,400 room. If you don't know him to save 443 00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:17,800 you, firstly, he sees her. Secondly, he saves her thirdly. 444 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:19,500 And lastly, as we come to land, he sensor. 445 00:23:21,700 --> 00:23:24,900 The woman left her water jar beside the well, and ran back to 446 00:23:24,900 --> 00:23:27,900 the Village, telling everyone come and see a man who told me 447 00:23:27,900 --> 00:23:31,000 everything I ever did, could he possibly be the Messiah? 448 00:23:34,700 --> 00:23:37,000 The passes goes on to say many Samaritans, The Village believe 449 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:40,500 in Jesus because the woman had said he told me everything I 450 00:23:40,500 --> 00:23:44,100 ever did her testimony transform the lives of those with in her 451 00:23:44,100 --> 00:23:47,000 Village. She went from being someone who 452 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:50,500 was scared. To being someone who is sent. 453 00:23:52,300 --> 00:23:53,900 I wonder do, you know, him this afternoon. 454 00:23:53,900 --> 00:23:59,000 He wants to send you again. Relationship with Jesus is not 455 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:02,700 just for your Eternal salvation it is but it's that we can be 456 00:24:02,700 --> 00:24:04,500 sent to bring others to Eternity with him. 457 00:24:07,100 --> 00:24:09,300 Her life was never the same after meeting Jesus. 458 00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:12,800 Her eternity was secured her past was covered and her future 459 00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:15,300 was for the first time filled with promise. 460 00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:18,600 The turnaround is utterly remarkable. 461 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:24,600 We had a guy come into the city site about a year ago and he had 462 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:28,400 a bit of a past. He was involved in a number of 463 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:31,100 gangs and some drug related stuff and he was currently 464 00:24:31,100 --> 00:24:34,300 awaiting trial. And he came to church and he 465 00:24:34,308 --> 00:24:38,700 found Jesus. And the transformation in his 466 00:24:38,700 --> 00:24:42,500 life was remarkable. When you see someone's life, 467 00:24:42,500 --> 00:24:45,200 flipped upside down by the grace of God, and suddenly feeling 468 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:47,600 that they are sent, instead of sentence, let me tell you, 469 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:50,100 everything begins to change and he came to me at the back end of 470 00:24:50,100 --> 00:24:54,600 last year. Hindi Hindi, that he was going 471 00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:57,400 to prison, you know. That was that was that was how 472 00:24:57,400 --> 00:24:59,600 the rolling was going to go. It had to go because of what had 473 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:03,000 previously done and he came to me, he said can you baptize me? 474 00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:06,100 Because I want to go to prison knowing that I'm right with God 475 00:25:06,100 --> 00:25:07,400 and sent out to make a difference. 476 00:25:08,100 --> 00:25:09,900 And we got the privilege of baptizing him at the back end of 477 00:25:09,908 --> 00:25:13,400 last year, he called me on Saturday morning, last week. 478 00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:15,800 First, I've heard from him since he's been inside and he said 479 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:18,400 Josh, it's not fun, but I'm here to make a difference. 480 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:27,100 Come on. Because once we meet Jesus, we 481 00:25:27,100 --> 00:25:29,200 can never be the same. I want to tell you. 482 00:25:29,208 --> 00:25:32,200 If you're here in the room and your sat on the fence, the fence 483 00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:37,800 is a destination. Indecision is your decision 484 00:25:38,900 --> 00:25:41,700 either you're in or you're out, Jesus says himself there, either 485 00:25:41,700 --> 00:25:44,500 for us. Or against us. 486 00:25:44,500 --> 00:25:49,900 Where do you sit this morning? The Samaritan lady rejected. 487 00:25:49,900 --> 00:25:53,500 Defiled abused abandoned became the first biblically documented 488 00:25:53,500 --> 00:25:57,300 evangelist. A woman who was uneducated, 489 00:25:59,100 --> 00:26:04,600 despised who the Jews would have said had no share and no right 490 00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:08,300 to the Messiah. Brings absolute transformation, 491 00:26:08,300 --> 00:26:12,200 tear Town her community, and the Gentile World from that moment. 492 00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:16,600 Forts he saves her. And then he sensor. 493 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:22,400 If you know, Jesus this afternoon, let me encourage you, 494 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:25,700 we are called to go. So I was celebrated at the start 495 00:26:25,700 --> 00:26:28,000 of the message, the guys, on the see you are about to do events 496 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:30,800 week. Doing what they can to make a 497 00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:34,400 difference. What about you? 498 00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:36,800 And I, and our places of work and our influence in our 499 00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:39,400 families with our friendships in our football clubs. 500 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:45,600 He sees her, he saves her. He Sunset, that's my place of 501 00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:46,700 influence. What's yours? 502 00:26:46,700 --> 00:26:49,700 What is your Samaria? Not some area. 503 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:53,500 But some area where you are deliberately sent and called by 504 00:26:53,500 --> 00:26:55,500 the purpose of God's make a difference, some of you in the 505 00:26:55,508 --> 00:26:57,600 room, work in education, work in the NHS. 506 00:26:57,700 --> 00:27:00,900 Some of you who may be working on the bins, come on your sent 507 00:27:00,900 --> 00:27:04,300 to an area to make a difference for such a time as this because 508 00:27:04,300 --> 00:27:07,600 why does a path that leads to destruction and many? 509 00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:23,300 Many find it. I called to show people the 510 00:27:23,300 --> 00:27:26,300 narrow way. I want to maybe you need a new 511 00:27:26,300 --> 00:27:28,300 commissioning this morning, not a new commission. 512 00:27:28,300 --> 00:27:30,900 What it says in Matthew 28, is more than sufficient going to 513 00:27:30,900 --> 00:27:32,500 world and make disciples actually oh cool. 514 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:35,000 That's why we're still on Earth. That's why we're not transformed 515 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:39,600 and transported to heaven when he finds us the world around. 516 00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:44,500 You is heading to a lost eternity and we hold the key to 517 00:27:44,500 --> 00:27:46,500 eternal life. I wonder do you need to be sent 518 00:27:46,500 --> 00:27:47,700 again church? This morning. 519 00:27:48,300 --> 00:27:50,100 Let's be bolder than we've ever been before. 520 00:27:51,500 --> 00:27:53,200 Let's take more risks in our faith. 521 00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:57,900 He is the god who sees you. He saves you and his son, gee. 522 00:27:58,100 --> 00:27:59,800 I wonder all around the room. Just for a moment. 523 00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:02,200 As we respond, why don't you bow, your head and close your 524 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:03,500 eyes? It's not for any religious 525 00:28:03,500 --> 00:28:05,500 reason. It's just to protect the privacy 526 00:28:05,500 --> 00:28:09,400 of the people around you. I'm going to give you the 527 00:28:09,408 --> 00:28:10,800 opportunity to respond to things. 528 00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:15,200 Firstly, maybe you need to come to him to find your salvation 529 00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:19,200 this morning, either, you don't know Jesus at all and maybe this 530 00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:21,200 is your first experience in church. 531 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:23,200 I pray that you've had a great time with us. 532 00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:28,900 If it is, but you're here and he is here for you and maybe you 533 00:28:28,900 --> 00:28:30,700 used to walk with God, but you've lost your way. 534 00:28:30,700 --> 00:28:33,000 You've been caught up in some stuff and you've found yourself 535 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:34,600 drifting. I want to say that this morning. 536 00:28:34,700 --> 00:28:37,500 He is here for you to bring you in to bring you home to restore 537 00:28:37,500 --> 00:28:42,400 you to then You again. So if you're not a Christian or 538 00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:44,700 a long way from God, I'm going to give you a chance to say I'm 539 00:28:44,700 --> 00:28:48,400 in I want this Jesus the source of eternal life, the source of 540 00:28:48,500 --> 00:28:50,800 Living Water who's going to transform me from the inside 541 00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:52,800 out. I want him I'm going to give you 542 00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:55,300 the chance to respond and secondly if you are here and you 543 00:28:55,300 --> 00:28:58,300 are a Christian you are a follower of Jesus and maybe 544 00:28:58,300 --> 00:29:00,200 you're getting excited about being sent again. 545 00:29:00,900 --> 00:29:03,800 Then I'm going to give all of us a chance to respond as well. 546 00:29:06,700 --> 00:29:10,600 You see this Jesus Who Sat by The Well of Israel with the 547 00:29:10,608 --> 00:29:13,800 Samaritan woman to open the gates of salvation for those who 548 00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:20,000 are gentiles Went on a journey from Heaven to Ascension via the 549 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:22,600 cross. Then the story and the 550 00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:25,300 understanding of Christianity is incredibly simple guard at the 551 00:29:25,308 --> 00:29:28,600 beginning out of his love made humankind for relationship and 552 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:31,500 in relationship. The beginning, he walked to the 553 00:29:31,508 --> 00:29:36,500 Adam and Eve in the garden and they lived together And then 554 00:29:36,500 --> 00:29:38,800 Genesis cells that sin entered the world. 555 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:44,400 Sin is anything that I do that is contrary to his will and his 556 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:46,900 agenda. It's about independence. 557 00:29:46,900 --> 00:29:50,900 The root of sin is Independence. I choose I want, I need 558 00:29:51,300 --> 00:29:55,200 regardless of what he says and When sin entered the world, it 559 00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:57,700 caused a fracture in the relationship between God and 560 00:29:57,700 --> 00:30:00,200 between Humanity because God is perfect. 561 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:02,700 He can't be near anything imperfect that because he's so 562 00:30:02,700 --> 00:30:04,400 desperately loves the ones he created. 563 00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:10,700 He could never look away. God gave his people rules to 564 00:30:10,708 --> 00:30:12,800 live by. And if you obeyed each one of 565 00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:15,600 these, you'd attained, the status of perfect, and then we 566 00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:17,800 can have relationship because Perfection can be near 567 00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:21,200 Perfection again, but it was never the case because Humanity 568 00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:25,800 keeps on messing up. And then enter Jesus. 569 00:30:26,900 --> 00:30:30,800 The man sat here by the side of the well ready to lead this 570 00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:34,900 broken beaten woman. Into relationship with the 571 00:30:34,900 --> 00:30:37,400 heavenly father, for which she has craved, and long as he is 572 00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:41,100 the same Jesus, who died on a cross to carry your sin, your 573 00:30:41,100 --> 00:30:46,300 shame, my mistakes, my terrors. The Bible tells us that the 574 00:30:46,300 --> 00:30:50,800 penalty for sin or the wages of sin is death, you and I deserve 575 00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:54,700 to die. For the wrong that we do. 576 00:30:56,400 --> 00:31:00,000 But Jesus died to pay the price that we could never fulfill. 577 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:05,400 The passage goes on to say, but the gift of God, the gift free 578 00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:10,100 gift is eternal life in Christ Jesus, because of the sacrifice 579 00:31:10,100 --> 00:31:12,400 of Christ on the cross. And because of his resurrection, 580 00:31:12,500 --> 00:31:16,000 when the father looks at you, if you choose to accept Jesus, he 581 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:18,500 doesn't see you in eyes, our sins deserve rather, he sees us 582 00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:21,100 as of righteousness, and the Perfection of Christ's that, 583 00:31:21,100 --> 00:31:23,700 once more, perfect, God and perfect, Humanity can come 584 00:31:23,700 --> 00:31:26,300 together through the sacrifice and atoning death of Jesus. 585 00:31:26,900 --> 00:31:30,100 That's the gospel. But we will have a decision to 586 00:31:30,100 --> 00:31:33,100 make. Yes, God, I want the gift that 587 00:31:33,100 --> 00:31:37,100 you've given or I'm content to walk on my own. 588 00:31:42,100 --> 00:31:45,700 Jesus also says this that if you try to hang on to your life you 589 00:31:45,700 --> 00:31:48,000 will lose it, but if you give up your life, for my sake will find 590 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:51,400 it. See coming to Jesus Through the 591 00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:53,600 cross. It's not just about him being 592 00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:56,700 your savior. It's also about being your lord, 593 00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:59,800 your king, the one who, then dictates your steps. 594 00:32:01,100 --> 00:32:03,900 If you're in the room this morning this afternoon and 595 00:32:03,900 --> 00:32:06,800 you're not yet a Christian or you used to what we've got and 596 00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:08,800 you've lost your way, I'm going to give you an opportunity to 597 00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:11,100 stand up in your seat. There's just a couple of Marty 598 00:32:11,100 --> 00:32:13,500 I'm looking so we can know and then we're going to pray for you 599 00:32:13,500 --> 00:32:16,500 and by standing what you're saying is I want to get myself 600 00:32:16,500 --> 00:32:20,500 right with God this afternoon, I'll make a decision to say yes 601 00:32:20,500 --> 00:32:26,200 to Jesus and accept the eternal life that he brings some simply 602 00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:27,400 going to count from three, two, one. 603 00:32:28,300 --> 00:32:32,000 And if that she not a Christian or a long way from God and this 604 00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:34,200 afternoon you're saying yes I want this. 605 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:37,300 Jesus then stand and I get two one. 606 00:32:37,300 --> 00:32:40,700 Are you ready? If that's you 321, why don't you 607 00:32:40,700 --> 00:32:42,700 stand right now? If that she got you buddy, well 608 00:32:42,700 --> 00:32:44,100 done, see you over there. Well done. 609 00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:45,300 See you mate. Well done. 610 00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:48,600 Is there anyone else this morning this afternoon before we 611 00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:51,200 pray? You're a long way from God or 612 00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:54,200 you've never met him wild. And I see is that anybody else? 613 00:32:58,700 --> 00:32:59,700 One. Last opportunity. 614 00:32:59,700 --> 00:33:02,600 Before we pray. Well done, guys. 615 00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:04,600 Alden. Well done water. 616 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:15,000 Well done. he came here for you, but without knowing that you 617 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:18,800 came here to meet with him, And the same God who loves that 618 00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:21,600 woman is the same God who loves you and just as he transforms a 619 00:33:21,608 --> 00:33:23,600 he wants to transform you from the inside out. 620 00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:25,800 Why don't you pray? This with me if you're able to 621 00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:28,100 do? So either internally or 622 00:33:28,100 --> 00:33:30,400 externally, in fact Church, why don't we all pray this together 623 00:33:30,500 --> 00:33:32,400 to encourage those who are standing say this out loud with 624 00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:34,000 me. Thank you, God, that you love 625 00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:38,300 me. Thank you that you know me. 626 00:33:40,100 --> 00:33:44,500 That you see me? Thank you for Jesus. 627 00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:53,300 Today, I understand that I have done wrong and it has a price to 628 00:33:53,300 --> 00:33:57,100 pay. Today, I accept the gift of 629 00:33:57,100 --> 00:34:01,100 Jesus. Come into my life. 630 00:34:02,300 --> 00:34:06,700 Be my God, my savior and my king. 631 00:34:07,900 --> 00:34:12,699 I give you me. Almond butter, you give these 632 00:34:12,699 --> 00:34:14,400 guys a Round of Applause. Well, done for being brave. 633 00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:15,900 This morning, feel free to take your seats. 634 00:34:16,300 --> 00:34:18,400 If you stood up there, I want to pray with you at the end. 635 00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:21,100 And lastly, if you're a Christian in the room, the 636 00:34:21,107 --> 00:34:23,500 response for us together is really simple. 637 00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:27,500 I'm excited to be sense again. I am also very frustrated that 638 00:34:27,500 --> 00:34:31,000 Alice has more recent stories of her sharing the gospel than I 639 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:33,199 do. I need to be sent again. 640 00:34:33,199 --> 00:34:35,300 Maybe you need to be sin again. She came in from going to the 641 00:34:35,300 --> 00:34:38,400 dentist the other day. She took Ezra and Levi with her 642 00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:41,199 and the way back from the dentist they went to X and in 643 00:34:41,199 --> 00:34:43,500 walks this elderly, man. And somehow they have an 644 00:34:43,500 --> 00:34:45,000 hour-long conversation. While. 645 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,699 Levi was just sitting there eating cake, and as we seems 646 00:34:47,699 --> 00:34:50,100 quite content with a dummy and then Alice eventually talk to 647 00:34:50,107 --> 00:34:52,900 this man about Jesus, and then get some signed up to go to O, 648 00:34:52,900 --> 00:34:56,199 be a pretty cool. Let's be a cent for people. 649 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:02,900 How are you? Tell more stories? 650 00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:08,100 Maybe that's your heart this morning, you know, Jesus and I'm 651 00:35:08,100 --> 00:35:11,000 going to ask you if you know him and you want to say, I'm gonna 652 00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:12,800 go out and be sent to make a difference. 653 00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:13,600 Why don't you stand to your feet? 654 00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:14,800 If that's your heart this morning? 655 00:35:19,100 --> 00:35:22,600 Let me pray for us before I pass it back over to pass the DNS and 656 00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:26,900 we celebrate a moment father thank you that you send us out 657 00:35:27,900 --> 00:35:31,300 as you've had written in Matthew to make disciples of all 658 00:35:31,300 --> 00:35:32,400 Nations. Lord, thank you. 659 00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:34,300 That all the nations of the Earth are on our doorstep and 660 00:35:34,300 --> 00:35:37,100 you send us to go to make a difference whether you put your 661 00:35:37,100 --> 00:35:39,100 hands in front of your father. I ask right now that you give a 662 00:35:39,100 --> 00:35:42,500 bonus to go just as that woman at the well was transformed in a 663 00:35:42,500 --> 00:35:45,300 moment, having seen you and haven't been saved by you. 664 00:35:45,300 --> 00:35:48,200 She then became sent by you. Father, would you thank you that 665 00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:51,100 you see us, thank you, you save us but Lord, send us out again, 666 00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:54,200 not give us a passion and a desperation for the loss in our 667 00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:57,300 workplaces, in our universities, and our families, and our 668 00:35:57,300 --> 00:35:59,400 football teams and our Sports societies. 669 00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:01,000 And I'll give us a burden for lost. 670 00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:05,400 People, that we wouldn't be able to shake it long as you, wake us 671 00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:08,700 up in the morning, feeling, cooled to make a difference. 672 00:36:09,300 --> 00:36:13,100 Father, we say yes to you again. We say yes to be in the people 673 00:36:13,100 --> 00:36:16,400 that you sent in Jesus, beautiful name, amen. 674 00:36:20,100 --> 00:36:22,800 Thank you Josh. What a powerful message. 675 00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:26,800 Now, next week, wherever you are get ready for the second part of 676 00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:30,200 our introducing Jesus series. But for now maybe there's 677 00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:33,500 something that was said today that really struck a chord with 678 00:36:33,500 --> 00:36:37,600 you and if you'd like to respond in any way know that we're here. 679 00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:41,500 Get in touch with us by email call or let someone know we 680 00:36:41,500 --> 00:36:44,300 would love to pray with you and support you in your journey with 681 00:36:44,300 --> 00:36:47,500 Jesus. And now we want to keep you 682 00:36:47,700 --> 00:36:49,800 Updated with what's happening in church life. 683 00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:57,100 So here's your family news for the renovations, at 10:00 frog 684 00:36:57,100 --> 00:37:00,400 Island have begun. And the one Center is about to 685 00:37:00,408 --> 00:37:03,300 be transformed. If you'd like to stay up to 686 00:37:03,300 --> 00:37:07,100 date, will be posting some photos each week to a shared 687 00:37:07,100 --> 00:37:09,000 drive. And if you need the link to 688 00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:12,200 that, just ask today because we'd love you to stay in touch 689 00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:15,400 with what is going on and the changes that are taking place. 690 00:37:16,300 --> 00:37:20,400 Next week We Gather in every one of our one Church sites, five 691 00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:24,300 sites with seven services. And we're believing for amazing 692 00:37:24,300 --> 00:37:27,100 things. So we hope to see you in person, 693 00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:34,300 in bronston Central City north or owed be on the 17th of 694 00:37:34,300 --> 00:37:36,900 February. We have United, young adults As 695 00:37:36,900 --> 00:37:40,400 We Gather with churches, from around the county for a night of 696 00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:43,800 encounter worship and growth together. 697 00:37:44,100 --> 00:37:48,400 So, if you are of the age 18, 25 and want to know more, just ask 698 00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:51,400 and we'd love to welcome you on the 17th of February. 699 00:37:52,900 --> 00:37:56,800 And finally scores out, our half-term holiday clubs are 700 00:37:56,800 --> 00:38:00,700 coming up in the February, half term, and the 21st to the 23rd 701 00:38:00,700 --> 00:38:04,200 of February, we would love you to come invite any children 702 00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:07,000 that, you know, who are in primary school, you can come and 703 00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:10,200 volunteer, and if you're not able to come, then why not be 704 00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:15,000 praying that we see amazing moments of Jesus impacting the 705 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:18,200 lives of children and Families, all around leicestershire, this 706 00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:21,400 half term and that is your family News 4. 707 00:38:22,900 --> 00:38:25,500 The Lord bless you and keep you the Lord. 708 00:38:25,500 --> 00:38:28,900 Make his face shine upon you, and be gracious to you. 709 00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:32,700 The Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace. 710 00:38:22,900 --> 00:38:25,500 The Lord bless you and keep you the Lord. 711 00:38:25,500 --> 00:38:28,900 Make his face shine upon you, and be gracious to you. 712 00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:32,700 The Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace.