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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Breaking Down Walls | October 6, 2025
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- Dr. ed young: right at the beginning of the earthly
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- Ministry of jesus, we read in john chapter number 3 and john
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- Chapter number 4, about two individuals who came to
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- Know christ.
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- These two individuals could not be more different.
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- The first was nicodemus, came to jesus by night on a rooftop.
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- He asked, he made that request.
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- The second is in john chapter 4. there's a woman whom jesus
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- Sought out in the middle of the day by a well.
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- And nicodemus and the woman at the well could not be
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- Too different.
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- Nicodemus had everything, economically, politically,
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- Socially, religiously.
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- You couldn't find any area of life in which nicodemus was not
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- At the very pinnacle in human terms of success.
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- Now, the woman at the well, yeah, different story.
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- Look on the internet to see about her, you'd probably find
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- A blank.
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- Married five times, living with someone who wasn't her husband,
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- Had no standing, no position, her biographical sketch would be
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- About one sentence.
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- Nicodemus would have pages and pages of his accomplishments.
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- Totally two different people.
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- Nicodemus, a somebody, right?
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- Nicodemus was a somebody.
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- The woman at the well, by any measure, she was a nobody.
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- Nobody.
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- But notice something.
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- They both had exactly the same need.
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- Both of them did.
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- And what was that?
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- It involves two words.
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- It involves spirit, and truth.
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- Now we come to the fourth chapter of the gospel, john,
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- Fourth chapter, we read there in an amazing little verse right up
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- Front, verse 3. first he, jesus, left judea and went again
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- Into galilee.
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- And he, jesus, had to pass through samaria.
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- Now, it sounds like, as he was making that journey, he had no
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- Choice, if he were going from judea, jerusalem to galilee, he
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- Had to go through samaria.
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- But the orthodox jews, they would not go through the land
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- Of samaria.
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- You say, why was that?
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- You see, samaria was roughly the location of the northern kingdom
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- Of israel.
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- And when the assyrians came, they conquered that area, it
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- Became a part of assyria, and now we have samaria is there
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- Owned by another country.
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- And what the assyrians did, they would take people from all over
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- The world in their battles, and they would ship them and put
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- Them into samaria with the remnant of jews that were there.
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- And therefore, they inter-married.
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- So we have people from all over the world who were brought to
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- Samaria, and they intermarried with the remnant of jews that
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- Were there, and, therefore, they had a religion that was not
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- Completely jewish.
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- The samaritans believed in the first five books of the bible.
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- They did not believe in joshua to malachi.
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- And they lived on that basis.
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- And the other religion, they took in from all the different
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- Cults and pagan worship situations, and they
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- Incorporated that into judaism.
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- And, therefore, the samaritans had a
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- Half-jewish, half-pick-a-number.
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- And, therefore, when the southern kingdom of judah was
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- Taken away into captivity, into babylonian, when the jews went
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- Back to reinhabit the southern kingdom, they were rebuilding
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- The temple.
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- Remember, we've read about it.
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- There we have jeremiah rebuilding the temple, ezra
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- Rebuilding the temple, and those samaritans came down and said,
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- We want to help you.
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- You need help.
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- We're willing to help and work with you.
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- And nehemiah said, we won't have nothing to do with you, you're
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- No longer jews!
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- You sold out to other religions, you're not jewish, get
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- Outta here!
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- And, therefore, it began a racial divide, it began a
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- Religious divide, they began a prejudice and hatred that grew
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- And grew through the years.
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- Therefore, you know the story jesus told about the
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- Good samaritan.
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- When the jews heard that story, they said, good samaritan, they
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- Said, that's an oxymoron, no samaritan's good.
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- They were evil.
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- They built their own temple on mount garrison.
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- Whereas a temple was meant on mount zion, and they were
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- In competition.
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- And the samaritans were the first i know of to engage in
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- Revisionist history.
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- What is that?
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- They took everything that happened in the temple, and they
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- Transported it and said, no, it didn't happen on zion, it
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- Happened on garrison, it happened in our
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- Samaritan temple.
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- So there was hatred, competition, they had nothing to
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- Do with one another, and no jew would travel through samaria,
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- They just didn't do it.
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- Here we read in the gospel of john, jesus says, i must go
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- Through samaria.
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- Now, when i first looked at this fourth chapter of john, i built
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- In a little outline that demonstrated how jesus was
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- Always breaking down barriers that divided people.
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- He broke down racial barriers, religious barriers, cultural
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- Barriers, language barriers, intellectual barriers.
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- You can look at that whole chapter, you see jesus was
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- Always going against the grain.
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- All the people were moving this way and he was swimming upstream
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- In the name of god.
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- And now we see he must needs go to samaria.
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- And then he went to samaria, and he goes into sychar, and there
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- Is a well, and look at verse 6 of chapter 4 john, it says, and
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- Jacob's well was there.
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- By the way, just as an aside, i've been to jacob's well.
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- I've had 'em drop a bucket down and draw water from the bottom
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- Of the well, it's 105 feet deep.
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- It is clear water, clean water, but i confess i took only a sip
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- Out of a cup.
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- I didn't know about what kind of water that really was, but i
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- Discovered it's very clean, very clear, it was cool water.
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- Another thing i remembered about being there is on one occasion i
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- Went across the street and had a vegetarian meal right there in a
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- Little cafe.
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- But that doesn't have anything to do with the sermon.
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- [congregation laughing]
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- So i know jacob's well very, very well from
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- Personal experience.
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- So, and he says, jesus was weary.
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- Notice that in the sixth verse.
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- Jesus being wearied from his journey.
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- Is it any wonder?
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- Jesus got tired, ladies and gentlemen.
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- That was the humanity in him.
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- I'm sure he was thirsty.
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- And the apostles had went to get some food, and jesus sat down by
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- The well there, tired and weary.
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- And then there was this samaritan woman.
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- If that had been me, i don't think i would have paid any
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- Attention to her.
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- You see, we use fatigue as an excuse for not doing a lot of
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- Things, don't we?
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- The best teaching comes from tired teachers.
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- Football games are always won usually by tired players in the
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- Fourth quarter, have you noticed that?
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- And many times, we use fatigue, and we turn our eyes, we close
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- Our eyes, we close our ears, and we shut down our hearts, because
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- If we see that there is need out there, there's someone who's
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- Hurting, we say, i, i, i just, i just don't want to get
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- Involved there.
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- Oh, we hear a cry for help.
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- Oh, i just can't, i'm tired, i've got all i can do.
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- You know, and we close our hearts.
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- Jesus was fatigued, but he had his eyes open, he had his
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- Heart open.
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- And that's just what we are to do.
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- I know people in this body of faith, and they seek out the
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- Least, the last, the lost, the broken, the dying, the hurting,
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- The abused, those who are struggling, and they go there
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- With everything they have.
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- You see, we're reticent to do that because it's gonna take
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- Some of my time from this or that or the other, and family,
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- And beside that, i'm already tired.
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- Jesus was weary, but look what happened.
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- And then we see an interesting dialogue here, a give and take.
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- Verse 7. there came a woman of samaria to draw water.
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- Jesus said to her, give me a drink.
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- In other words, he requested from her what?
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- Kindness.
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- A request of kindness.
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- And look at her response.
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- How is it that you, being a jew, ask of me a drink since i am a
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- Samaritan woman?
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- For jews have no dealings with samaritans.
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- Look at everything he was breaking down.
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- He was talking not only to a samaritan, but to a samaritan
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- Woman in public.
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- Listen, the jews were taught never to look at another woman
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- When you are in public.
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- They were taught that.
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- In fact, if you were walking down the streets of jerusalem in
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- Jesus' day, and you saw a woman pass, you should close your eyes
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- And look away.
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- It would not matter if that woman were your wife, or your
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- Mother, or your sister, or your aunt, didn't make any
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- Difference, you were not to look at that woman on the streets.
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- You are to close your eyes and that's the reason, that's how
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- The pharisees operated.
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- They call them the bruised and battered pharisees, because
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- They'd close their eyes, they were always falling down,
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- Stumbling over things, and they were all beat up.
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- I know some men who stumble and fall when they come in contact
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- With a woman, but it's not because they have their
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- Eyes closed.
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- [congregation laughing]
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- And this is what happened there.
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- Jesus said, give me a drink.
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- Act of kindness.
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- She responded, man, you are a jew and i'm a samaritan, i'm a
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- Woman and you're a man, what in the world.
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- I mean, look at that.
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- But you know, i woulda just stopped there had i been jesus,
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- Wouldn't you?
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- But he didn't.
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- Look at the next request he makes.
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- Jesus answered and said to her, if you knew the gift of god, who
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- It is that says to you give me a drink, you would have asked him,
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- And he would have given you living water.
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- And then look at how she responds.
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- And this is he appealed to her curiosity.
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- He said, you know, i would give you living water.
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- By the way, you know difference between still water and
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- Living water?
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- Still water is just water you have in a well, a water where
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- There's no spring.
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- If there's a spring, it's living water.
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- When you drive around and you look at lakes or ponds in the
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- Distance, you know how you can tell whether it's a spring-fed
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- Lake or not?
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- You can tell by whether or not there are lily pads.
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- If there are lily pads, it's spring-fed, if there's no
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- Lily pads, in all probability it's catch basin.
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- How many of you knew that?
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- That's what i thought, very few.
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- Jesus said, i would have given you living water.
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- He perked her curiosity.
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- And she said, sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the
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- Well is deep.
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- Where then, do you get living water?
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- Are you greater than our father jacob?
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- Are you?
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- Who gave us the well and drank of it himself, and his sons, and
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- His cattle?
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- In other words, now she reprimands him again.
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- Said, are you bigger than jacob the prophet?
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- By the way, remember they had only five books in the bible,
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- All the samaritans recognized.
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- The only prophet they knew was moses.
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- Only prophet they knew was moses.
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- She said, who do you think you are?
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- And then jesus, and he keeps on, then he appeals to her desire.
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- Verse 13.
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- Jesus answered and said to her, everyone who drinks of this
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- Water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that
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- I will give him shall never thirst.
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- But the water that i will give him will become in him a well of
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- Water springing up to eternal life.
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- See, he moved to spiritual things, a well within her that
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- Would flow through her, it was the holy spirit, the water of
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- The spirit flowing through her.
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- Said, that's what i am offering, but she interpreted what jesus
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- Was saying, literally, just like nicodemus had.
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- Remember nicodemus?
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- You must be born again, he said, well, it's a geriatric thing,
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- You go by and-- you see, he interpreted that literally.
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- She did the same thing.
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- This water, i'll have to go back to the well and get
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- Thirsty again.
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- Literal.
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- And jesus was showing them he was talking about living water,
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- The holy spirit, which keeps on cleansing and welling up and
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- Filling us up inside, and look at the response of that.
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- The woman said to him, sir, give me this water so i will not be
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- Thirsty nor come all this way to draw water.
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- See, she responded literally.
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- And then jesus changed the whole thing with his next request.
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- Look at this.
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- He said to her, go to your husband and come here.
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- The woman answered and said, i have no husband.
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- Jesus said to her, you have correctly said.
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- In other words, you told the truth, i have no husband, for
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- You have had five husbands, and the one with him you now have is
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- Not your husband.
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- For this you have said truly.
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- And the woman said to him, sir, i perceive that you are
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- A prophet.
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- What is that all about?
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- This was a sorry woman.
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- She'd been through five marriages, she was living with
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- Someone who she wasn't even married to.
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- To have that understanding of it is not to understand the culture
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- Of that day.
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- Listen, in that day, a woman was nothing.
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- She was property.
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- She had no voice at all as to who she would marry.
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- There was no grounds for a woman to leave a man.
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- She'd been through five marriages.
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- Maybe her first husband had died, by law it would be some
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- Next of kin, maybe they died.
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- We don't know the circumstances, but this woman had nothing to do
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- With her marital life at all, zero, nitch, by the culture of
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- That day.
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- And she was living with a man who was not her husband.
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- I can tell you, she had no choice in that as well.
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- So we made her some kind of street-walker.
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- Man, she was a prostitute, we've heard that all of our lives when
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- This has been taught, and that understanding, in my opinion,
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- Biblically is totally invalid.
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- Now, jesus when he asked about her husband, she said, i have no
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- Husband, jesus said, you've had five, and the man you're living
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- With is not your husband, she felt guilty about that.
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- But i can tell you, i do not believe for one minute that was
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- What she desired to the lifestyle that she wanted.
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- You know that by all the rest of the context of what this
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- Woman said.
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- She was uneducated, women were not allowed to be educated, she
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- Had no theological understanding from the temple or the religious
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- Structure, the samaritans, but i'm telling you, she was quite a
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- Wonderful woman in so many areas, as we'll soon discover.
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- Now, when jesus asked her about her husband, and said she was
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- Living with a man that wasn't her husband, she felt guilty of
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- That, because she knew the commandments.
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- And then she said, i see you are a prophet, a man of god.
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- And then she goes and she asked him about what she now must do.
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- I think about that sin in her life.
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- We see it clearly there in the verse.
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- She said, our fathers worshiped in this mountain, garrison, and
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- You people say in jerusalem, zion is the place where men
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- Ought to worship.
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- People say, well, she was distracting jesus from
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- The issue.
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- No, she wasn't.
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- She realized that this was a man of god, a messenger of god,
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- Divinity in her presence, and she said, look, i want to take
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- Care of this sin.
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- I know where i must go to take care of this sin, you're a jew,
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- You say i go and offer sacrifice for sin in zion, but she said, i
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- Say i offer a sacrifice of sin in the mountain here in samaria.
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- How can i go and get right with god?
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- Look at jesus' answer to this, it is so magnificent.
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- Jesus said to her, woman, believe me, an hour is coming
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- When, whether in this mountain or in jerusalem, you will
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- Worship the father.
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- Verse 22.
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- You worship what you do not know, in other words, she had
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- Only part of the truth in the old testament, we worship what
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- We know, for salvation is from the jews, genesis to malachi in
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- That day.
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- But the hour is coming, and look at this, and now is.
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- The hour is coming, but it's already here, when the true
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- Worshipers will worship the father in spirit and in truth,
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- For such people the father seeks to be his worshiper.
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- God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship him in
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- Spirit and in truth.
- 00:19:25.444 --> 00:19:27.646
- And the woman said to him, i know the messiah is coming, he
- 00:19:27.646 --> 00:19:31.116
- Who is called the christ, when the one comes, he will declare
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- All things to us.
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- You see what happened?
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- Now, she, remember the words we start off with, have you
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- Got them?
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- Spirit and truth!
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- Nicodemus, born again of spirit, lived a life of truth, that was
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- His thing.
- 00:19:49.434 --> 00:19:50.769
- The woman needs to be born again, and the water is a symbol
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- Of cleansing in her life of the holy spirit, and then she should
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- Worship him in spirit and in truth.
- 00:19:56.475 --> 00:19:59.278
- Isn't that something?
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- Her heart was right, her motive right, and then she truly
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- Worships him.
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- And then this further gives me proof of she was a kind of
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- Quality woman that i know that she was.
- 00:20:09.688 --> 00:20:14.026
- And jesus said to her, i who speak to you am he, i
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- Am messiah.
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- Whew!
- 00:20:23.635 --> 00:20:24.970
- At this point his disciples came, and they were amazed that
- 00:20:24.970 --> 00:20:27.639
- He had been speaking with a woman, and no one said to him,
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- What you see?
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- Why do you speak with her?
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- Verse 28.
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- So the woman left her waterpot, went into the city and said to
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- The men, come see a man who told me all the things i've ever
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- Done, this is not the christ, is it?
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- And they went out of the city, and were coming to jesus.
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- Verse 39.
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- From the city many of the samaritans believed in him
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- Because of the word of the woman who testified.
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- He told me all the things that i have done.
- 00:20:57.135 --> 00:20:59.638
- So when the samaritans came to jesus, they were asking him to
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- Stay with them, and jesus stayed with them two days.
- 00:21:03.542 --> 00:21:08.380
- Many more believed because of his word, and they were saying
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- To the woman, it is no longer because of what you said that
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- We believe.
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- For we heard for ourselves and know that this one is indeed the
- 00:21:16.688 --> 00:21:20.158
- Savior of the world.
- 00:21:20.158 --> 00:21:22.694
- Let me tell ya, she started off calling him a jew, then she
- 00:21:22.694 --> 00:21:26.064
- Called him sir, then she called him lord, then she called him
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- Prophet, then she talked about the messiah, and they came up
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- Saying, he's the savior of the world.
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- [clapping]
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- What a story of god's power and god's grace!
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- So what's the bottom line here?
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- All of us who think some of us we're more like nicodemus than
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- We are the woman at the well, it doesn't matter, they both needed
- 00:21:49.755 --> 00:21:54.226
- Jesus, and they both needed to have a new life inside of them
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- Born of the spirit and born into a worshiper who worships
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- In truth.
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- That's the whole thing.
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- Let me tell you something.
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- We have to worship narrowly before we can effectively
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- Worship broadly.
- 00:22:16.281 --> 00:22:18.950
- Somebody said, what did you do sunday morning?
- 00:22:18.950 --> 00:22:20.952
- Well, i went to worship. did you?
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- Or did you just go to church?
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- Ladies and gentlemen, when you and i worship every day
- 00:22:25.791 --> 00:22:28.894
- Narrowly, i, thou, bible, prayer time, quiet time with him, have
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- Our prayer at our meals and worship narrowly every day, if
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- All of us had worshipped narrowly every day, when we come
- 00:22:38.603 --> 00:22:42.307
- To worship on sunday morning, man, it's broad worship, what
- 00:22:42.307 --> 00:22:46.244
- Would be the difference?
- 00:22:46.244 --> 00:22:48.346
- We'd come with expectation, we'd come with joy, we'd come with
- 00:22:48.346 --> 00:22:51.817
- Celebration, and church would have new meaning, new value, new
- 00:22:51.817 --> 00:22:55.320
- Power that we never dreamed of when we worship broadly, because
- 00:22:55.320 --> 00:22:59.124
- We've been worshiping all during the week narrowly.
- 00:22:59.124 --> 00:23:02.594
- Worship narrowly, and then broad worship begins to have more
- 00:23:02.594 --> 00:23:07.232
- Supernatural significance.
- 00:23:07.232 --> 00:23:10.435
- And we have to worship all of god, that's worshiping him
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- In truth.
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- All of god. what do you mean?
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- Oh, i like to worship god who blesses and heals.
- 00:23:17.409 --> 00:23:22.714
- Don't you like that part of god, he?
- 00:23:22.714 --> 00:23:24.249
- Blesses us and he heals us.
- 00:23:24.249 --> 00:23:26.418
- But also there are commandments of god, and there's a judgment
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- Of god.
- 00:23:30.622 --> 00:23:31.957
- I want to worship blessing and healing, i don't wanna hear
- 00:23:31.957 --> 00:23:34.926
- About commandments and judgment.
- 00:23:34.926 --> 00:23:36.962
- But we see we have to worship all of god.
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- All of god.
- 00:23:39.664 --> 00:23:41.166
- Some people want to worship god, he is transcendent.
- 00:23:41.166 --> 00:23:44.736
- We want him way up there, holy, reverent, awesome.
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- And we worship him and assemble and in reading and in a
- 00:23:49.574 --> 00:23:53.245
- Formalized type of worship, and that's fine.
- 00:23:53.245 --> 00:23:57.015
- Some want to keep god way up there, others want to bring god
- 00:23:57.015 --> 00:24:01.620
- Right down here.
- 00:24:01.620 --> 00:24:03.421
- Palsey walsey god, oh, we talk every day, he's my buddy, oh,
- 00:24:03.421 --> 00:24:07.959
- We, you know, i'm a part of it, we want him right here, meeting
- 00:24:07.959 --> 00:24:11.229
- Your needs and my needs.
- 00:24:11.229 --> 00:24:13.365
- But hey, god is awesome.
- 00:24:13.365 --> 00:24:15.467
- Yes, that's a part of worship.
- 00:24:15.467 --> 00:24:16.968
- And god is imminent, he's right here, that's a part of worship.
- 00:24:16.968 --> 00:24:21.039
- We can't compartmentalize, and we have to worship him in spirit
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- Narrowly day by day, and broadly in church and in truth.
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- All of god.
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- All the characteristics of god.
- 00:24:32.984 --> 00:24:35.320
- When we do that, guess what?
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- We can be confident we are born again, inside out, and the
- 00:24:40.058 --> 00:24:48.066
- Water, which is the holy spirit, keeps flowing through you and
- 00:24:48.066 --> 00:24:53.338
- Flowing through me day by day by day, because we worship him in
- 00:24:53.338 --> 00:25:01.079
- Spirit and in truth.
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- Dr. young: romans 3:23 tells us that all have sinned,
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