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We are continuing our series for
Wicked. 

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We're going to do one more 
Sunday in this and and a big 

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reason why we're doing one more 
on Sunday is we had the 14th got

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snowed out and and I think that 
message is good for us to hear. 

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And also Tiny little Paisley 
learned a song from Wicked and 

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and it's the song popular and 
it's a hard song to sing and 

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there's a lot of words and she's
like in second grade and she 

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worked really hard on learning 
that and I want her to be able 

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to sing it for everyone. 
So we're going to be doing that 

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next week and that will wrap up 
our Wicked series here. 

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OK. 
And then after that, we'll move 

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on to other topics. 
Today we are talking about 

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feelings and particularly this 
question, what is this feeling? 

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What is this feelings? 
One of the songs sung early on 

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and wicked, and it's a song that
Elphaba and Glenda sing 

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together. 
We have Elphaba and Glenda with 

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us today. 
Emma and Elena will be singing. 

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What is this feeling In a little
bit. 

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And I'm really excited. 
They've sung it twice already. 

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There. 
It's dynamite. 

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Are you really going to do the 
variation we had talked about on

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the way? 
No, no, not going to do that. 

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OK. 
All right, all right. 

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They had a fun variation they 
thought they might try. 

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I thought that's a bold move to 
make at this stage in the game. 

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Yeah. 
Not dynamite. 

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No dynamite. 
So. 

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But that would truly be an 
explosive experience. 

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Yeah, you're absolutely right. 
Absolutely right. 

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So they're going to sing that in
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But I want to talk about 
feelings before we listen to the

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song because feelings are one of
God's greatest gift to us. 

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Feelings, emotions are so, so 
important not only for the 

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richness that they bring to our 
lives, but also for the 

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information that they bring to 
our lives. 

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Feelings. 
Yeah. 

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What's up? 
That's what I thought too. 

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So I hope that wasn't an 
appropriate response. 

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Did you pick that or was it 
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This was just, I bought this. 
Like this? 

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No, I did. 
I'm not that good an artist, 

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but. 
But thank you for the compliment

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that that so. 
So one of the things feelings do

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is they give us an incredible 
amount of information about our 

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interior life, what's going on 
inside of us. 

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When? 
Yes. 

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Right. 
Yeah. 

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Awesome. 
You can tell me later. 

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OK. 
All right, what's going? 

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If we're afraid, that tells us 
that tells us what we feel 

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threatened by. 
If we're excited, it tells us 

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what what we feel excited about 
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It tells us what's important to 
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It tells us all different things
about our interior life. 

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What emotions are lousy at is 
telling us anything about 

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external reality. 
They're not good at that at all.

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For example, got a friend. 
I'm going to call him Bob. 

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That's not Bob's real name. 
I'm going to use a different 

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name because I didn't get 
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calling Bob to tell this story. 
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there you go. 
Anyway, so I knew Bob years ago,

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back when I lived in Tiffin. 
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inches tall and and Bob is 
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Bob is fit. 
Bob is muscular. 

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Bob is broad shoulder. 
Bob's a white dude covered with 

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tattoos and Bob shared with me 
one day, he said. 

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Pastor Cott, I just don't 
understand. 

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I go downtown and, and these 
little old ladies act like 

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they're afraid of Maine. 
They'll cross the street to walk

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on the other side of the street 
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Yeah. 
I was standing at an 

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intersection the other day 
waiting for the light to change.

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Someone pulled up the other 
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This little lady looked out her 
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rolled her window up like she 
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Did you see how I did that? 
How many? 

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Raise your hand if you've never 
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There's a few people that. 
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OK, maybe I'm just. 
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but for whatever reason, that 
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Rolled up the window and I had 
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One I kept to myself, which was 
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You're a scary looking guy. 
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little old ladies want to avoid 
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You look scary. 
But Bob had touched on a very, 

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very real thing. 
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there was nothing in Bob that 
would ever threaten those little

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old ladies. 
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kindest, most compassionate 
people I've ever met and and he 

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was in no way a threat to them. 
I can understand when they see a

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six foot seven tatted up dude 
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them that they would feel fear. 
But that fear, that fear was an 

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indication of what was going on 
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And it said nothing at all about
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was really a threat to them. 
Does that make sense? 

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Does that make sense? 
And so Glenda and Alphaba faced 

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this same dynamic, not the 
exactly, but a very similar 

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dynamic in Wicked. 
They grew up apart from each 

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other. 
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together. 
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assigned as roommates. 
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assignments at Shizz, but there 
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Put Glenda and Alphaba together 
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more different. 
They had a very strong emotional

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response to each other and 
that's what they sing about. 

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And what is this feeling? 
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to come up and sing for us and, 
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Thank you ladies for doing this.
At this point in the sermon, we 

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listen to Emma Taylor and Elena 
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What is this Feeling? 
From the movie Wicked, Emma and 

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Elena. 
Did a great job with it, but due

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to technical limitations I was 
not able to get a good recording

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of them singing. 
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Cynthia Revo version on YouTube 
and all major music platforms 

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though and I hope you'll listen 
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It's a fun song about two young 
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Upon first impressions, loathed 
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Now back to the sermon. 
Well done ladies. 

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Thank you again. 
Let's give it one more round 

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here. 
Their initial emotional reaction

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to each other Clearly loathing, 
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loathing. 
However, it didn't last. 

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It didn't last. 
They actually took time, did the

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work, process their emotions, 
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became very good friends that 
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other for good, for good. 
It's a beautiful story. 

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Again, if you haven't seen the 
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the movies, watch them. 
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But Alphaba and Glenda worked 
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initial feelings, became close 
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And by doing that, they give us 
an example of God's way of 

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relating to people. 
And that's really what we want 

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to get at today, is what is 
God's way of relating to people?

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Because God, God has emotions 
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We hear about that in the Bible.
We read about it in the Bible. 

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I suppose if it's an audio book,
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but we read about it in the 
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expressing those emotions, 
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feeling those emotions. 
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people out of His emotions. 
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God relates to people 
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We see it in Samuel, First 
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This is actually God speaking 
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and God, there's been a king in 
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The first king of Israel was 
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Saul was making a lot of bad 
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need a new king. 
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He sent his prophet Samuel to 
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one of Jesse's sons. 
Jesse got all of his sons 

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together except one, because 
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youngest son David had a chance 
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And and Samuel, God through 
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The Lord does not look at things
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People look at outward 
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at the heart. 
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God sees people for who they 
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Rather than seeing people out of
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Glinda and Elphaba initially 
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through their own emotional 
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It wasn't until they looked past
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the other's heart that they were
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fast and close friends. 
And this is what God invites us 

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to. 
To look at the heart, to look 

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beyond our own emotions, to see 
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respond to them accordingly. 
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He could never get this when 
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faced with the Philistine army 
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By the way, I'm, I'm, I'm 
hearing good things about the 

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new David movie. 
Has anyone seen the David movie 

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yet? 
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I don't have any first hand 
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But David as as a as a young 
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seize the army, seize Goliath 
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Goliath and Saul and others look
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You're a kid. 
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You can't do this. 
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no chance. 
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the way. 
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down that particular rabbit 
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This morning David defeated 
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Then David ended up being very 
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warrior, very successful as a 
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And now Saul feels not contempt 
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He feels threatened by David. 
He has a fear response to David.

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Now, remember, David knew that 
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the next king. 
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would not usurp Saul's place. 
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him. 
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He was not going to. 
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all of that. 
But Saul was afraid, and so he 

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tried to kill David, operating 
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bothered or was never able to 
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responses with David and look at
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really was. 
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there was no reason for him to 
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But he didn't. 
This is the thing that God 

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invites us to. 
This is the challenge that God 

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puts before us, that Jesus calls
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way rather than Saul's way, 
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And we see Jesus doing this and,
and John read part of the story 

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of the of Jesus's encounter with
the woman at the well, the 

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Samaritan woman. 
And we see Jesus modeling this 

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exact kind of behavior. 
Here's a woman, she's coming to 

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the well at noon, the heat of 
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when nobody else would be there 
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early in the morning before it 
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But this woman wanted to avoid 
all the other people because the

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people in her community looked 
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contempt, with this Dane, with 
judgement, this emotional 

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response to a woman they saw as 
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And she didn't want to deal with
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So she came to the well in the 
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Jesus. 
And Jesus spoke to her, asked 

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her to get him some water out of
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And her response to Jesus, you 
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there. 
And that emotional response was 

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ick, this strange man, this 
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And that's what she said. 
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Why are you even speaking to me?
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hated each other. 
They were a threat to each 

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other, are perceived to be a 
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And men in that day and in that 
culture did not speak to a woman

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in public unless they were 
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And even often, not even then, 
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speak to her. 
And so here's this Jewish man 

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talking to her. 
Oh ick, leave me alone and 

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remember what Jesus's response 
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Jesus's response. 
Jesus answered her. 

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If you knew, if you knew, if you
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knew who it is that asked you 
for a drink, you would have 

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given him, you would have asked 
him, and he would have given you

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living water. 
Jesus is inviting her to look 

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past her emotions and see his 
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And in his heart there was no 
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contempt, there was no disdain. 
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or religious hatred. 
There was just a man who was God

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in the flesh, who loved her and 
wanted the best for her, who saw

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her as a child of God and a 
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And that's how Jesus related to 
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And because she accepted Jesus's
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that way, she was then able to 
go back to all of those folks 

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that she had was afraid of and 
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children of God and people of 
worth and invite them to come 

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and get to know this Jesus as 
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This is the way God invites us. 
This is the way Jesus invites us

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to live and relate to other 
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This Jesus has an advantage. 
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flesh, anyone, anyone not sure 
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either. 
Jesus is the third for second 

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person of the Trinity, God the 
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Holy Spirit. 
He's got an advantage in this. 

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Jesus can look at people and 
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For us, it's not so easy. 
We have to work at this. 

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We have to work at processing 
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We have to work at seeing what 
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myself as I'm encountering this 
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and having worked through that 
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do the work of seeing them for 
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their heart. 
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sort of romantic fluff and 
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of of heart. 
This is not modern day Valentine

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heart, the heart for the ancient
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It was the seat, it was the core
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emotions, it was their 
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character, it was their will, 
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It was all of those things that 
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that make a person who they are.
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And when God says he's looking 
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the real person, not the 
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And that's what Jesus did. 
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this. 
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traveling through Samaria again 
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village to refresh themselves 
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the village saying, ick, oh, 
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We don't want you here, Jesus. 
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Jesus's disciples were like, 
hey, we want us to pray to God 

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and ask him to call down and 
send down fire and kill them 

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all. 
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I have no biblical evidence for 
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All we're told is that Jesus 
rebuked them and we get no 

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content. 
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I feel like Jesus's response was
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rebuked them and they went to 
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stayed there because his 
disciples were responding out of

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emotion. 
What did his disciples emotional

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response reveal? 
It revealed that they were 

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afraid of the Samaritans, even 
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It revealed that they saw 
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Samaritans. 
How dare these Samaritan dogs 

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insult Jesus the Christ, the 
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We must punish them. 
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contempt for them. 
It said absolutely nothing about

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the Samaritans. 
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the hearts of Jesus's disciples,
which is why Jesus rebuked them 

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and said get over yourselves. 
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Samaritan village. 
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This is the way Jesus asks us to
live in all times and all places

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and relating to other people as 
much as we're able to get past 

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our emotions, whether we're 
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group, whether it's face to face
and in person or on TV or 

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through social media. 
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differences are ethnic 
differences or gender 

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differences or or political 
differences or cultural 

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differences or language 
differences or racial, whatever 

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the differences are, Jesus says 
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Take a good look at that, 
because that's telling you a lot

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about yourself and your 
attitudes toward that person or 

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group, but it's telling you 
nothing about that person or 

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group. 
Instead, get to know them. 

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Get to know yourself through 
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And then from that place of 
stability, get to know them and 

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know their hearts for who they 
really are and love them and 

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receive them as I would. 
This is what Jesus calls us to. 

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What is this feeling? 
This feeling is a great tool for

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for sorting out what's going on 
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It's a lousy tool for sorting 
out what's going on outside of 

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us. 
So we have to do the hard work 

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of getting to know people's 
hearts, of seeing them for who 

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they really are and like Jesus 
responding to them that way. 

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In Jesus name, Amen. 
Amen.