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Ed Young - Breaking Down Walls

October 6, 2025 | 29:0

Ed Young - Breaking Down Walls
The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young is the international on-air and online teaching ministry of Dr. Ed Young. The Winning Walk proclaims the proven truth of God’s Word to give men and women the world over a winning way to live life.
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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?
  • 00:13:27.620 --> 00:13:28.954
  • 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,
  • 00:13:34.526 --> 00:13:37.396
  • 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.
  • 00:14:05.391 --> 00:14:08.060
  • See, he moved to spiritual things, a well within her that
  • 00:14:08.060 --> 00:14:11.897
  • Would flow through her, it was the holy spirit, the water of
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  • The spirit flowing through her.
  • 00:14:14.466 --> 00:14:16.568
  • Said, that's what i am offering, but she interpreted what jesus
  • 00:14:16.568 --> 00:14:20.472
  • 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.
  • 00:14:37.423 --> 00:14:38.757
  • 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.
  • 00:14:55.674 --> 00:15:00.212
  • See, she responded literally.
  • 00:15:00.212 --> 00:15:01.814
  • And then jesus changed the whole thing with his next request.
  • 00:15:01.814 --> 00:15:05.918
  • Look at this.
  • 00:15:05.918 --> 00:15:07.987
  • 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
  • 00:15:22.601 --> 00:15:26.572
  • 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.
  • 00:15:44.356 --> 00:15:48.093
  • 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.
  • 00:15:52.998 --> 00:15:56.935
  • She was property.
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  • She had no voice at all as to who she would marry.
  • 00:15:59.104 --> 00:16:04.109
  • There was no grounds for a woman to leave a man.
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  • She'd been through five marriages.
  • 00:16:07.413 --> 00:16:09.181
  • Maybe her first husband had died, by law it would be some
  • 00:16:09.181 --> 00:16:12.317
  • Next of kin, maybe they died.
  • 00:16:12.317 --> 00:16:14.653
  • 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
  • 00:16:18.524 --> 00:16:22.661
  • That day.
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  • And she was living with a man who was not her husband.
  • 00:16:23.996 --> 00:16:26.698
  • 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.
  • 00:16:30.669 --> 00:16:33.238
  • Man, she was a prostitute, we've heard that all of our lives when
  • 00:16:33.238 --> 00:16:37.476
  • This has been taught, and that understanding, in my opinion,
  • 00:16:37.476 --> 00:16:41.046
  • Biblically is totally invalid.
  • 00:16:41.046 --> 00:16:45.684
  • Now, jesus when he asked about her husband, she said, i have no
  • 00:16:45.684 --> 00:16:53.492
  • Husband, jesus said, you've had five, and the man you're living
  • 00:16:53.492 --> 00:16:56.995
  • 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
  • 00:17:01.200 --> 00:17:06.038
  • 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
  • 00:17:09.241 --> 00:17:12.444
  • Woman said.
  • 00:17:12.444 --> 00:17:13.779
  • She was uneducated, women were not allowed to be educated, she
  • 00:17:13.779 --> 00:17:17.816
  • Had no theological understanding from the temple or the religious
  • 00:17:17.816 --> 00:17:21.386
  • Structure, the samaritans, but i'm telling you, she was quite a
  • 00:17:21.386 --> 00:17:25.224
  • Wonderful woman in so many areas, as we'll soon discover.
  • 00:17:25.224 --> 00:17:29.962
  • Now, when jesus asked her about her husband, and said she was
  • 00:17:29.962 --> 00:17:36.235
  • Living with a man that wasn't her husband, she felt guilty of
  • 00:17:36.235 --> 00:17:39.404
  • That, because she knew the commandments.
  • 00:17:39.404 --> 00:17:42.975
  • And then she said, i see you are a prophet, a man of god.
  • 00:17:42.975 --> 00:17:47.980
  • And then she goes and she asked him about what she now must do.
  • 00:17:47.980 --> 00:17:52.651
  • I think about that sin in her life.
  • 00:17:52.651 --> 00:17:55.754
  • We see it clearly there in the verse.
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  • She said, our fathers worshiped in this mountain, garrison, and
  • 00:17:58.924 --> 00:18:03.162
  • You people say in jerusalem, zion is the place where men
  • 00:18:03.162 --> 00:18:06.832
  • Ought to worship.
  • 00:18:06.832 --> 00:18:08.634
  • People say, well, she was distracting jesus from
  • 00:18:08.634 --> 00:18:11.203
  • The issue.
  • 00:18:11.203 --> 00:18:12.538
  • No, she wasn't.
  • 00:18:12.538 --> 00:18:13.872
  • She realized that this was a man of god, a messenger of god,
  • 00:18:13.872 --> 00:18:16.375
  • Divinity in her presence, and she said, look, i want to take
  • 00:18:16.375 --> 00:18:20.512
  • Care of this sin.
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  • I know where i must go to take care of this sin, you're a jew,
  • 00:18:22.247 --> 00:18:25.150
  • You say i go and offer sacrifice for sin in zion, but she said, i
  • 00:18:25.150 --> 00:18:29.588
  • Say i offer a sacrifice of sin in the mountain here in samaria.
  • 00:18:29.588 --> 00:18:33.292
  • How can i go and get right with god?
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  • Look at jesus' answer to this, it is so magnificent.
  • 00:18:36.929 --> 00:18:40.866
  • Jesus said to her, woman, believe me, an hour is coming
  • 00:18:40.866 --> 00:18:45.904
  • When, whether in this mountain or in jerusalem, you will
  • 00:18:45.904 --> 00:18:50.042
  • Worship the father.
  • 00:18:50.042 --> 00:18:51.677
  • Verse 22.
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  • You worship what you do not know, in other words, she had
  • 00:18:53.011 --> 00:18:55.347
  • Only part of the truth in the old testament, we worship what
  • 00:18:55.347 --> 00:18:58.450
  • We know, for salvation is from the jews, genesis to malachi in
  • 00:18:58.450 --> 00:19:02.521
  • That day.
  • 00:19:02.521 --> 00:19:03.855
  • But the hour is coming, and look at this, and now is.
  • 00:19:03.855 --> 00:19:07.559
  • The hour is coming, but it's already here, when the true
  • 00:19:07.559 --> 00:19:11.530
  • Worshipers will worship the father in spirit and in truth,
  • 00:19:11.530 --> 00:19:15.901
  • For such people the father seeks to be his worshiper.
  • 00:19:15.901 --> 00:19:20.606
  • God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship him in
  • 00:19:20.606 --> 00:19:25.444
  • 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
  • 00:19:31.116 --> 00:19:34.419
  • All things to us.
  • 00:19:34.419 --> 00:19:35.988
  • You see what happened?
  • 00:19:35.988 --> 00:19:38.156
  • Now, she, remember the words we start off with, have you
  • 00:19:38.156 --> 00:19:40.692
  • Got them?
  • 00:19:40.692 --> 00:19:42.427
  • Spirit and truth!
  • 00:19:42.427 --> 00:19:45.797
  • Nicodemus, born again of spirit, lived a life of truth, that was
  • 00:19:45.797 --> 00:19:49.434
  • His thing.
  • 00:19:49.434 --> 00:19:50.769
  • The woman needs to be born again, and the water is a symbol
  • 00:19:50.769 --> 00:19:53.472
  • Of cleansing in her life of the holy spirit, and then she should
  • 00:19:53.472 --> 00:19:56.475
  • Worship him in spirit and in truth.
  • 00:19:56.475 --> 00:19:59.278
  • Isn't that something?
  • 00:19:59.278 --> 00:20:00.612
  • Her heart was right, her motive right, and then she truly
  • 00:20:00.612 --> 00:20:04.149
  • Worships him.
  • 00:20:04.149 --> 00:20:05.951
  • And then this further gives me proof of she was a kind of
  • 00:20:05.951 --> 00:20:09.688
  • 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
  • 00:20:14.026 --> 00:20:20.899
  • Am messiah.
  • 00:20:20.899 --> 00:20:23.635
  • 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,
  • 00:20:27.639 --> 00:20:31.009
  • What you see?
  • 00:20:31.009 --> 00:20:32.944
  • Why do you speak with her?
  • 00:20:32.944 --> 00:20:34.279
  • Verse 28.
  • 00:20:34.279 --> 00:20:35.614
  • So the woman left her waterpot, went into the city and said to
  • 00:20:35.614 --> 00:20:38.984
  • The men, come see a man who told me all the things i've ever
  • 00:20:38.984 --> 00:20:42.888
  • Done, this is not the christ, is it?
  • 00:20:42.888 --> 00:20:45.791
  • And they went out of the city, and were coming to jesus.
  • 00:20:45.791 --> 00:20:49.661
  • Verse 39.
  • 00:20:49.661 --> 00:20:51.163
  • From the city many of the samaritans believed in him
  • 00:20:51.163 --> 00:20:54.266
  • Because of the word of the woman who testified.
  • 00:20:54.266 --> 00:20:57.135
  • 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
  • 00:20:59.638 --> 00:21:03.542
  • 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
  • 00:21:08.380 --> 00:21:10.716
  • To the woman, it is no longer because of what you said that
  • 00:21:10.716 --> 00:21:15.354
  • We believe.
  • 00:21:15.354 --> 00:21:16.688
  • 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
  • 00:21:26.064 --> 00:21:30.035
  • Prophet, then she talked about the messiah, and they came up
  • 00:21:30.035 --> 00:21:33.505
  • Saying, he's the savior of the world.
  • 00:21:33.505 --> 00:21:35.140
  • [clapping]
  • 00:21:35.140 --> 00:21:37.809
  • What a story of god's power and god's grace!
  • 00:21:37.809 --> 00:21:43.181
  • So what's the bottom line here?
  • 00:21:43.181 --> 00:21:45.550
  • All of us who think some of us we're more like nicodemus than
  • 00:21:45.550 --> 00:21:49.755
  • 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
  • 00:21:54.226 --> 00:21:58.964
  • Born of the spirit and born into a worshiper who worships
  • 00:21:58.964 --> 00:22:03.368
  • In truth.
  • 00:22:03.368 --> 00:22:05.370
  • That's the whole thing.
  • 00:22:05.370 --> 00:22:07.706
  • Let me tell you something.
  • 00:22:07.706 --> 00:22:10.275
  • We have to worship narrowly before we can effectively
  • 00:22:10.275 --> 00:22:16.281
  • 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?
  • 00:22:20.952 --> 00:22:23.555
  • Or did you just go to church?
  • 00:22:23.555 --> 00:22:25.791
  • 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
  • 00:22:28.894 --> 00:22:34.866
  • Our prayer at our meals and worship narrowly every day, if
  • 00:22:34.866 --> 00:22:38.603
  • 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
  • 00:23:10.435 --> 00:23:13.338
  • In truth.
  • 00:23:13.338 --> 00:23:14.739
  • All of god. what do you mean?
  • 00:23:14.739 --> 00:23:17.409
  • 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
  • 00:23:26.418 --> 00:23:30.622
  • 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.
  • 00:23:36.962 --> 00:23:39.664
  • 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.
  • 00:23:44.736 --> 00:23:49.574
  • 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
  • 00:24:21.039 --> 00:24:25.443
  • Narrowly day by day, and broadly in church and in truth.
  • 00:24:25.443 --> 00:24:31.216
  • All of god.
  • 00:24:31.216 --> 00:24:32.984
  • All the characteristics of god.
  • 00:24:32.984 --> 00:24:35.320
  • When we do that, guess what?
  • 00:24:35.320 --> 00:24:40.058
  • 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.
  • 00:25:01.079 --> 00:25:05.050
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  • 00:25:06.351 --> 00:25:08.320
  • Always the quiet promises of god that lie just beyond
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  • The turbulence.
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  • Dr. young: romans 3:23 tells us that all have sinned,
  • 00:26:15.153 --> 00:26:18.390
  • That means everybody, and fallen short of the glory of god.
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  • Once presented with that fact, it is up to us to decide whether
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  • To accept him or to reject him.
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  • This was illustrated perfectly in the account
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  • Of the woman at the well.
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  • Once confronted with her need for the living water that only
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  • Jesus could provide, she acknowledged her need,
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  • Confessed her sin, and affirmed her faith.
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  • Remember what she did next?
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  • She told others so that they too could learn of god's love
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  • And god's grace.
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  • If you don't know about god's love,
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  • We would love to share that with you.
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  • Call the number on your screen.
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  • We're looking forward to hearing from you right now.
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  • Don't put it off.
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  • Let me also take this opportunity to thank you
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  • Personally for your continued support of "the winning walk."
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  • You make it possible for us to share the wonder of god's grace
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  • And the gift of his son, jesus, with people across the nation
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  • And around the world.
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  • Thank you.
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  • ♪♪♪
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