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Creflo Dollar - Living Water

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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - Living Water | April 25, 2025

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Creflo dollar: as you continue to seek earthly things and seek
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The things that the world seeks because you're thinking that
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That water is better than what jesus has and what jesus has for
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You is the holy spirit on the inside of you that's gonna lead
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And guide you.
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He has the grace of god that's gonna teach you and all these
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Kind of things, but you prefer that other kind of water instead
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Of drinking this living water.
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And i'm talking about even physical water.
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You still gonna be thirsting again.
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He says, but when you drink of him, then you will never be
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Thirsty again, praise god.
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Creflo: i dare you say that someone's living so bad
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That god can't love them.
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Creflo: if you have your bibles, we're gonna be studying tonight
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The book of john chapter 4, you're gonna really, really
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Enjoy this.
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Saint john chapter 4 and i wanna start off tonight reading it.
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I wanna handle tonight more scripture by scripture because
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This is pretty, pretty big.
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John chapter 4, verse 1, says, "when therefore the lord knew
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How the pharisees had heard that jesus made and baptized more
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Disciples than john, (though jesus himself baptized not, but
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His disciples did.)
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He left judea, and he departed again to galilee."
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So now he's on his way where?
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To galilee.
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"but he must needs go through samaria."
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Now, he didn't go through samaria because it would make
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The trip shorter.
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He said, i'm on my way to galilee, but the will of god is
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For me to go through samaria.
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There's a divine appointment there.
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Now, here's what you gotta get as a child of god is when god
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Instructs you to do something and that's the will of god for
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Your life, you probably need to do it, amen.
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But he will instruct you where geographically, where to go.
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I mean, yesterday, i was dealing with that whether i'm supposed
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To go here, whether i'm not supposed to go there and he will
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Speak to you.
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It's not funny, but and, you know, i went to bed last night
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Saying, all right, god, i need to hear from you.
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I'm just focused, ready to go to sleep 'cause i figured god can
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Really speak to me at that time and he just start pouring out
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All of these illustrations in the bible.
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And in my mind, i had the nerve to say, "yeah, but lord, what do
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You want me to do?"
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And he says, "i'm talking to you now."
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I want you to look at these scriptures and see if god is
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Talking to you.
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He says, "it is the will of god for me to go to galilee but do
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It through samaria," all right.
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He says, "then cometh he to a city of the samarians, which is
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Called sychar, near to the parcel of ground that jacob gave
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To his son joseph.
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Now jacob's well was there.
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Jesus therefore, being wearied," please note that he was wearied,
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"with his journey, he sat thus on the well: and it was about
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The sixth hour.
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There cometh a woman of the samarian to draw water."
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Now let's pause here just for a moment.
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A couple of things about the samarian.
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Jesus passed through samaria because it was god's will to
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Have him interact with a woman there.
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It was more than the fastest track like we said, but there
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Was something that was between the samaritans and the
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Jewish people.
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They didn't see eye to eye.
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There was strong racism there.
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Now, the deal you have to deal with in every conflict is
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Probably gonna be over politics, race, and religion, okay.
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Those are the three areas of conflict.
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And there was a huge conflict between jewish people
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And samaritans.
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They hated one another and that's even translated all the
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Way up to today.
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So you didn't see jewish people mingling with samaritans and
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Vice versa.
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But now the issue here is that this woman was not only a
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Samaritan woman, she was a woman.
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And in this situation, you're gonna find out she offered jesus
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A cup of water.
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Had he taken that cup, they would have viewed him
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As unclean.
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So you gotta ask yourself, why would you show up at the well to
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Talk to somebody who is gonna, who can mess your reputation up?
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Who could cause you to be unclean?
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Even the disciples said--was shocked when they showed up and
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Said, "why are you talking to this woman?"
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She's cast out and she's unclean but jesus, oh my god.
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Isn't it amazing that god will send the grace, his grace to
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Anybody he wants to send it to.
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Remember, grace is a person, his name is jesus and grace showed
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Up in the life of somebody who didn't qualify.
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Now, later on, we're gonna make a comparison between nicodemus
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And this samaritan woman because this is john chapter 3.
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And then, right in john chapter 4, he's trying to show us
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Something, some similarities between those two.
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And then there was some differences between those two.
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All right, so he goes on here and he says, verse 7, "there
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Cometh a woman of the samaria to draw water: and jesus saith unto
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Her, give me to drink.
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(for his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)
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Then saith the woman of samaria unto him, how is it that thou,
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Being a jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of samaria?
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For the jews have no dealings with the samaritans."
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So you get the picture of what's going on here.
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"jesus answered and said unto her, if you knew the gift of
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God," now he was referring to himself.
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Jesus is the gift of god.
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Jesus who is grace, he's the gift of god.
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He says, "if you knowest the gift of god, and who it is that
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Saith to thee, give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him,
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And he would have given thee living water."
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Now, we're gonna break all that down tonight because i don't
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Know about you, but over and over again, people have taught
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And preached this, but they've not done it in an area of
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Great space.
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I made some notes.
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I wanna make sure i cover some of this.
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The samaritan woman considered ceremonially unclean, which we
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Read there in verse 9, and again, i already said to touch
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The cup offered to him would have made him unclean.
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So jesus had every reason to avoid this woman.
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You know, you gotta watch out because saved folks will give
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You every reason to avoid people.
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They'll say, "don't go there, y'all don't know what they did.
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Don't go there, y'all don't hear what they're talking about" and
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We've created a society where it's okay when somebody says,
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You know, you gonna look bad if you go there, all right.
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Now watch this.
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He says, and i wanna, before we read into it, let's make this
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Comparison between nicodemus in john chapter 3 and the samaritan
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Woman here in john chapter 4.
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First of all, nicodemus was a powerful jewish man
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Who had the potential to validate jesus's ministry, okay.
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You gotta understand, yeah, we know who jesus was now, but back
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Then it was like, you know, he's a prophet, okay.
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And so he could have validated his ministry, not that jesus
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Needed it, but nicodemus was educated, nicodemus was wealthy,
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He was respectable and all that kind of stuff.
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The samaritan woman on the other hand, jesus stood to gain
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Nothing from the interaction with the samaritan woman.
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Why would you show up?
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You will gain nothing.
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Jesus's reputation could have been lifted up by nicodemus
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While his interaction with this samaritan woman could have hurt
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His reputation.
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And nicodemus, he had the right ethnicity.
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He had the right group that had right religion.
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He had all of the right things of somebody that you would wanna
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Hang around.
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You know, i thought about this the other day.
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If a famous person got saved, you thought it was a big deal.
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But if a person who was just out in the street got saved, you
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Wouldn't say nothing about it.
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Okay, i just mentioned that.
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Okay, you gotta watch that.
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You see what i'm saying?
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Would you go out your way for a famous person that's in a movie
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But won't go out your way for somebody that's in the street?
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We need to check that, okay?
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And so here are the similarities here between nicodemus and
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This woman.
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Now, both situations were inconvenient.
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Both of them was.
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Nicodemus showing up late at night.
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It would be understandable if jesus said this is not a
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Good time.
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It was both inconvenience.
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Then he interacts with this woman after a long journey, hot,
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Exhausted, thirsty.
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He could have said it's not the time right now.
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Give me a chance to rest a little bit.
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So in both cases, the similarities were, it was an
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Inconvenient time.
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He's dehydrated just finished his journey.
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But jesus wasn't concerned, listen to me.
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He wasn't concerned about his reputation, nor was he concerned
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About his personal comforts--comfort, why?
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Because both nicodemus and the woman, they both needed him.
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Both of them needed jesus.
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Both of them needed the grace of god and jesus wasn't afraid to
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Show up.
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Would you be willing to show up if your reputation is on
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The line?
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So you're gonna have to learn that you're gonna be talked
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About anyway, but you're gonna have to make your mind up.
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You're gonna live by grace.
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Grace shows up in places where most people don't think it
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Should be there and you gotta get ready for that.
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And i feel like part of my last day ministry is showing up in
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Places where i'm not supposed to be there.
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If everybody else done, kicked you out, called you a dog, mess
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You up, dog you out, i'm probably gonna be the one god
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Called to say i need you to go there 'cause i'm like he is
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Right now.
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I don't care nothing about no reputation right now.
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I don't even care, all right.
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But what i do care about is that i can be a carrier of god's
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Grace to get it where it's supposed to be.
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All right, now, listen to this.
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Jesus goes out his way for the samaritan woman.
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Now, lots of christians in today's world are separated
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Or separate.
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Well, let me say it like this and i'm not being rude, but
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People are desperate for validation.
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Yeah, and i'm not talking about desperate for validation from
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The church.
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They're desperate to be validated by the world.
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You want somebody in the world to validate you and you're in
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Pursuit of that validation to the point where you might
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Overlook the samaritan woman type, okay?
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And so let's go on here in verse 10, he starts dealing with this
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Gift of god.
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And like i said, he says, if you knew the gift of god and he was
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The gift of god.
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And so what is he gonna be talking about here with this
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Living water?
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I wanna say this and i'll keep reading.
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Earthly things that you look to for satisfaction will never
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Truly satisfy you.
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That's the living water, okay?
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Now, i wanna give you an illustration before i continue
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To read.
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Most of the people just like nicodemus when he was talking
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About being born again, they were taking it literally.
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You gotta understand that the setting here.
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They didn't know what you and i know today.
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They took it literally.
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You know, jesus said, "you must be born again, nicodemus."
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And nicodemus responded, what?
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"do i need to go back into my mother's womb and come
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Out again?"
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He took it literally.
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Was the same thing happened with this samaritan woman.
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When she's talking about drinking living water, she
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Thought it was, you know, you know, actual water that was
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Coming out of the well, but that's not what jesus was
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Talking about.
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See what he was getting ready to show this woman is that you can
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Drink this literal water and you're gonna be thirsty again.
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It's almost like you're out in the middle of the ocean.
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You're out in the middle of the sea, isn't it something?
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And you're thirsty surrounded by water you can't drink.
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And if you're thirsty surrounded by seawater and you drink the
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Seawater, then what's gonna happen is gonna make you more
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Thirsty and you're trying to consume nothing that won't
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Sustain you and eventually drinking the sea water,
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Eventually it's gonna lead to death.
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So likewise, as you continue to seek earthly things and seek the
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Things that the world seeks because you're thinking that
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That water is better than what jesus has and what jesus has for
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You is the holy spirit on the inside of you that's gonna lead
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And guide you.
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He has the grace of god that's gonna teach you and all these
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Kind of things.
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But you prefer that other kind of water instead of drinking
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This living water.
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And i'm talking about even physical water, you still gonna
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Be thirsting again.
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He says, but when you drink of him, then you will never be
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Thirsty again.
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Praise god.
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All right now, let's read on here.
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Well, i think we got the, hopefully the foundation of all
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Of that and i want to make sure we got that foundation so we can
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Dig into this.
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He says, "so the woman saith unto him, sir, thou hast nothing
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To draw with, and the well is deep."
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So she's still thinking is literal.
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"from whence then hast thou that living water?"
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So where's the living water at, okay.
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"art thou greater than our father jacob, which gave us
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The well."
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And basically, she knew he was greater because he's got some
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Water better than the water in jacob's well.
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And verse 13, "jesus answered and said unto her, whosoever
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Drinketh of this water shall thirst again," jacob's water.
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"but whosoever drinketh of the water that i shall give him i'm
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Going to give him some water that he will never
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Thirst again."
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I'm gonna bring satisfaction.
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I'm gonna bring true satisfaction and what i have to
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Bring to your life, you're never gonna be thirsty again.
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So i'm not talking about the water in the well, baby, i'm
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Talking about me.
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I'm here to give you something to end your thirst.
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Grace has come in your presence when you're outcast and you're
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Thrown away and you're sitting out here in this well in this
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Hot day and nobody cares anything about you.
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And i just need you to locate yourself.
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I just need, i need to figure out how to get you to just
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Confess and to make jesus the lord of your life.
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Watch this now.
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"so the woman saith unto him, sir, give me this water, that i
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First not, neither come hither again."
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So she already hungry.
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I want this.
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Give me this.
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"and jesus said unto her, go, call thy husband."
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Look at him, look at him, look at him.
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"call your husband."
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See, he's so wise.
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"call your husband and come hither," all right.
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"and the woman answered and said, i have no husband.
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Jesus said," you got that right.
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"thou has well said, i have no husband: for thou has five
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Husbands; and he whom thou now has is not your husband; in that
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Saidst thou truly."
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So you spoke the truth.
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So we're dealing with truth now, all right.
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You're ready to open up and get some things.
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"so the woman saith unto him, sir, i perceive that thou art
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A prophet."
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That's all she knew.
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That's the only way she could--that's the highest she
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Could know or understand about somebody who did this.
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"i perceive that you are a prophet.
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Our fathers worshiped in this mountain; and you say that in
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Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship."
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So she's still looking at places.
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Before jesus died on the cross, you had to worship here and
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Worship there.
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But verse 21 said, "jesus said unto her, woman, believe me."
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This is it.
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"the hour is coming when you shall neither worship in this
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Mountain, nor yet at jerusalem, you worship the father because
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Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for
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Salvation is of the jews.
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But the hour is coming."
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Now, here's what jesus was saying.
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I hadn't died yet.
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The new covenant hadn't been released yet.
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So this is a perfect illustration of him fulfilling
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The law and getting ready for that new and living way.
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Yeah, i know they go to jerusalem and i know they go to
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That mountain, but oh you don't understand, boy, the hour is
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Coming where you ain't got to do that no more because i'm gonna
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Through my blood introduce a new and a living way.
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And then he goes on and he said, for the father, well, let me go
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Verse 23.
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"but the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshipers,
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True worshipers, true worshippers shall worship the
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Father in spirit and in truth."
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True worshipers, "for the father seeketh such to worship."
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People still don't know what that is.
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You're still trying to make it about music and songs, okay?
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What happens when jesus shows up after his death and after
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The cross?
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Okay, what happens is, is we can now get born again and we can
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Now receive the holy spirit.
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Now that we have the holy spirit on the inside of us, he can now
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Speak to us on what he wants us to do and lead us and guide us.
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Real worship is the individual that says, "all right, lord,
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Here i am.
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What do you wanna do with me today?
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Where do you wanna take me today?"
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He says, you ain't got to go to no mountain.
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You ain't got to go to jerusalem.
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The holy spirit is gonna move on the inside of you.
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And true worshipers are those who are born again as a result
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Of the new testament.
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Praise god.
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True worshipers are not somebody--now, that's a true
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Worshiper right there 'cause she sure can sing.
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No, true worshipers are first of all somebody who's born again
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And they carry the holy spirit.
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And you know, the bible says, "out of your belly shall flow
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Rivers of living water."
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That's what he said out of your belly.
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So you gotta understand the living water is located in
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Your belly.
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Well, who's in your belly?
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It's the holy ghost that's on the inside of you and out of
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Your belly, living water is going to flow and you won't have
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To depend on earthly thing because you're gonna have living
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Things flowing out of you.
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You're gonna have the fruit of the spirit flowing out of you.
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You're gonna have wisdom flowing out of you.
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You're gonna have all these things flowing out of you and
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Watch, once you get the holy spirit and learn how to worship
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As a true worshiper, true worship, worship him is, "here i
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Am lord.
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Do through me and what you want me to do.
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Here i am."
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We don't practice that.
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We don't practice.
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You will go right back to worshiping god's slow song and
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There's nothing wrong with that but you go right back to it.
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I heard what he said.
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But praise god, come on, let's worship god.
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You don't come to church to worship god.
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You come to church to be edified.
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You come to church to be built up.
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When you leave the church as a result of your being built up,
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You leave preparing yourself to worship in your everyday lives.
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But when religion hits in, it starts teaching you all of these
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Little weird fables and you think you still thinking your
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Worship is go to the church and worship.
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That's no difference in go to jerusalem and worship.
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Go to that mountain and worship.
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You don't have to go to the dome to worship.
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You don't have to go to bible study to worship.
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You can worship surrounded by a bunch of hellacious sinners
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Asking god what do you want to do?
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While they thirsting, you have living water that's going on in
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The inside of you.
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Does everybody understand what i'm saying?
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I apologize for, you know.
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"god is a spirit; and they that worship him must worship him
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In spirit."
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You see how we take christian.
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We just say them over.
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We don't look at, we worship him in spirit.
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All right, so those are people who are connected to the holy
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Spirit being led and guided by the holy spirit who is also
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Called the spirit of, come on, truth, okay.
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And they're just, there's so many fables that exist in church
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That if some of you who online, i think it was yesterday, i was
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Talking about scandalous grace and how people are outraged when
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They hear the truth about jesus.
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I receive you now by faith and i declare in jesus's name that i
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Thank you lord for saving me, amen."
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Creflo Dollar - Living Water

April 25, 2025 | 27:29

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