1 00:00:00,193 --> 00:00:00,194 Dr. Gregg Marutzky: 2 00:00:00,194 --> 00:00:02,764 Well, good morning, church Good morning. 3 00:00:03,034 --> 00:00:06,024 It is great to be together to worship. 4 00:00:06,034 --> 00:00:11,204 It is great to be together with you as brothers and sisters in Christ, 5 00:00:11,204 --> 00:00:16,324 as disciplers, disciples, and followers of our Lord Jesus Christ. 6 00:00:16,514 --> 00:00:18,444 Don't ever take worship for granted. 7 00:00:19,233 --> 00:00:23,034 Don't take for granted the privilege of coming together with other 8 00:00:23,053 --> 00:00:28,253 believers and taking communion, and this, the, the importance of the 9 00:00:28,253 --> 00:00:31,233 profundity, how important it is. 10 00:00:31,233 --> 00:00:34,584 And thank you so much, Ian, for leading us. 11 00:00:34,584 --> 00:00:36,663 You led me to a good place this morning. 12 00:00:36,674 --> 00:00:36,694 Yeah. 13 00:00:37,313 --> 00:00:38,513 Really good place. 14 00:00:38,514 --> 00:00:44,414 I, I got choked up and teared up as I was taking my bread and my cup. 15 00:00:44,414 --> 00:00:45,993 And so thank you, brother. 16 00:00:46,433 --> 00:00:48,154 You made it come alive for us. 17 00:00:48,654 --> 00:00:48,663 Mm. 18 00:00:48,893 --> 00:00:52,503 And I pray that I can do the same for the whole congregation, 19 00:00:52,503 --> 00:00:53,623 all of you this morning. 20 00:00:53,654 --> 00:00:57,554 As we look at a familiar passage, and any time you look at a familiar passage, 21 00:00:57,554 --> 00:01:00,233 you gotta be careful you don't tune out. 22 00:01:01,143 --> 00:01:01,163 Yeah. 23 00:01:01,244 --> 00:01:02,523 "Oh, I've heard this sermon. 24 00:01:03,283 --> 00:01:06,794 Oh yeah, I've read this so many times, probably thousands of times. 25 00:01:07,133 --> 00:01:10,604 I mean, what can he say that I haven't heard?" 26 00:01:11,843 --> 00:01:17,164 Well, I, I, I think the Lord said some things to me this week from this 27 00:01:17,174 --> 00:01:18,603 verse that I'd never heard of- Wow 28 00:01:19,283 --> 00:01:20,652 and I'd never thought of. 29 00:01:20,652 --> 00:01:21,223 Yeah. 30 00:01:21,223 --> 00:01:24,183 And I think the Lord spoke to me in several ways. 31 00:01:24,183 --> 00:01:28,674 I was at a scholars conference this week in North Carolina. 32 00:01:28,674 --> 00:01:30,994 Our churches put this on every year. 33 00:01:31,394 --> 00:01:38,893 And I went there to gain some depth, some real deeper truths of the scripture, 34 00:01:39,863 --> 00:01:45,850 and all I heard were testimonials And I thought, "This is a different conference." 35 00:01:46,810 --> 00:01:51,039 But it was so profound, and I'll share a little bit of that as 36 00:01:51,039 --> 00:01:54,259 we get into the sermon, but I thought, "This is different." 37 00:01:55,369 --> 00:01:58,570 But it helped me, it helped my heart, and it spoke to me in 38 00:01:58,570 --> 00:02:00,450 what to say to you this morning. 39 00:02:01,689 --> 00:02:04,840 And the more I went through the conference, the more I thought, "Oh, I 40 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:06,799 don't know if I wanna preach this week." 41 00:02:07,540 --> 00:02:10,049 'Cause I'm gonna be getting in late, I was supposed to get in 42 00:02:10,050 --> 00:02:12,159 at 10:00, I got in at 11:30. 43 00:02:12,189 --> 00:02:15,230 Don't you love the airlines always being right on time? 44 00:02:15,769 --> 00:02:16,299 You know? 45 00:02:17,670 --> 00:02:22,728 And yet I think I'm prepared because the Lord's always discipling all of us. 46 00:02:23,159 --> 00:02:23,199 Amen. 47 00:02:23,260 --> 00:02:24,829 He's always working on our lives. 48 00:02:24,829 --> 00:02:26,679 He's always speaking to us. 49 00:02:26,749 --> 00:02:33,049 And so this morning we're gonna come and see the Messiah, the Anointed One, 50 00:02:33,859 --> 00:02:40,539 the one spoke about for the ages, that they were looking forward to, to come 51 00:02:40,539 --> 00:02:46,880 and save them, to bring them the answers to life, to bring them salvation, 52 00:02:47,799 --> 00:02:56,820 to help this little bitty country that was just a gas station in life. 53 00:02:57,019 --> 00:03:03,840 I mean, Canaan and the, the Promised Land was really just a highway for 54 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:09,879 the power countries of the world at that time, for Babylon, for Assyria, 55 00:03:09,890 --> 00:03:12,899 for Egypt, for Rome, for Greece. 56 00:03:13,649 --> 00:03:17,970 It was a country that was not respected, that was not honored. 57 00:03:17,970 --> 00:03:20,049 They were a people that had been nomads. 58 00:03:20,069 --> 00:03:22,019 They had been desert dwellers. 59 00:03:22,060 --> 00:03:26,779 The Hebrew, that's what it literally means, means tent dwellers, all right? 60 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:31,849 The He- Hebrew people were just nomads without a home. 61 00:03:32,839 --> 00:03:36,990 And sen- then God gave them the Promised Land, but it was just a 62 00:03:36,990 --> 00:03:40,759 place that people passed through going to one of the big countries. 63 00:03:41,459 --> 00:03:41,978 All right? 64 00:03:42,819 --> 00:03:47,019 And so the Messiah was gonna make them somebody. 65 00:03:48,179 --> 00:03:52,879 And, you know, I g- I always try to do some work on the plane and, and I 66 00:03:52,879 --> 00:03:57,750 always try to reach out to the people around me, and, uh, I, I tried to do 67 00:03:57,750 --> 00:04:02,409 that, and once I mention I'm a minister, people seem to put on their headphones 68 00:04:04,470 --> 00:04:09,180 And so I put on my headphones and I watched a great movie. 69 00:04:09,770 --> 00:04:14,520 It's called Flamin' Hot, and I'd never heard of it before. 70 00:04:15,109 --> 00:04:15,650 All right? 71 00:04:15,689 --> 00:04:20,108 And, and you know, I'd, I'd wa- I'd seen everything else they were offering, 72 00:04:20,140 --> 00:04:23,360 you know, at least the cl- you know, the, the, the ones I wanted to see. 73 00:04:23,410 --> 00:04:24,599 So I thought, "I'll try this." 74 00:04:24,629 --> 00:04:28,889 It, they said it's his, uh, Hispanic h- Appreciation Month, and so 75 00:04:29,180 --> 00:04:32,629 being, uh, part Hispanic, I thought, "I'm gonna, I'm gonna watch this." 76 00:04:32,699 --> 00:04:35,470 And it's about a guy named, uh, Richard. 77 00:04:36,139 --> 00:04:38,939 Uh, and let me get his name right, all right? 78 00:04:38,950 --> 00:04:41,550 Had to look it up again this morning, okay? 79 00:04:42,189 --> 00:04:48,290 But, uh, uh, Richard Montañez, and he was a janitor for Frito-Lay, and he's 80 00:04:48,290 --> 00:04:52,670 really glad to get that job because he, he couldn't get a job for a long 81 00:04:52,670 --> 00:04:56,429 time and he went into doing drugs and pushing drugs and that kind of thing. 82 00:04:56,430 --> 00:04:57,599 Got in all kinds of troubles. 83 00:04:57,599 --> 00:05:02,379 Then he ha- he, he, he had a baby, and he married his wife, and they had a baby, 84 00:05:02,379 --> 00:05:06,709 and he wanted to turn over a new life, so he, he, he got a, finally got a job. 85 00:05:06,779 --> 00:05:11,680 One of his buddies helped him get a job at Frito-Lay in, uh, Rancho Cucamonga. 86 00:05:12,349 --> 00:05:13,790 And, uh, he loved the job. 87 00:05:13,790 --> 00:05:14,940 He really worked hard. 88 00:05:15,330 --> 00:05:19,479 But he was a thinker, and his dad had taught him how to fix engines and fix 89 00:05:19,489 --> 00:05:23,739 things, and so he was always trying to learn what, what the process was 90 00:05:24,309 --> 00:05:27,179 and w- w- how they were making these chips and all that kind of thing. 91 00:05:27,769 --> 00:05:32,720 And, and the, the, the, the f- the chip industry went up and down and up 92 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:36,109 and down, and people were getting laid off, and he was always fearful of his 93 00:05:36,110 --> 00:05:39,360 job, and, but he worked so hard he always was able to keep it, but all 94 00:05:39,369 --> 00:05:41,409 of, a lot of his friends got laid off. 95 00:05:41,989 --> 00:05:45,449 And so he was thinking, "How can we be more successful as a plant?" 96 00:05:45,449 --> 00:05:48,629 And they were competing against the Bakersfield plant, all right? 97 00:05:48,639 --> 00:05:52,230 So it's pretty cool, all these places right here in Southern California 98 00:05:52,230 --> 00:05:54,239 that, that I relate to, you know? 99 00:05:54,449 --> 00:05:59,820 And so I'm getting into this movie, and, uh, uh, he, uh, he finally 100 00:05:59,820 --> 00:06:04,399 figured out that they weren't making chips for Hispanic people. 101 00:06:05,259 --> 00:06:09,439 Because Hispanic people would go to their picnics and their family gatherings 102 00:06:09,439 --> 00:06:13,380 and stuff and put all this hot salsa on their chips, on the Cheetos and all the, 103 00:06:13,650 --> 00:06:15,919 all the, the tortilla chips and stuff. 104 00:06:16,359 --> 00:06:18,710 And he says, "They're not making any for us. 105 00:06:18,999 --> 00:06:20,400 Maybe that's the market. 106 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:23,249 If we get into that market, we can save Frito-Lay. 107 00:06:23,249 --> 00:06:26,930 We can save the country, the company, and we won't get laid off." 108 00:06:26,930 --> 00:06:33,058 And so, so he, he watched a video from the president of Frito-Lay from, I think 109 00:06:33,058 --> 00:06:35,320 he's in Atlanta, a guy named Enrico. 110 00:06:35,709 --> 00:06:36,189 All right? 111 00:06:36,219 --> 00:06:37,509 He was an Italian guy. 112 00:06:38,019 --> 00:06:42,889 And, and, and, and he said in that, that video, "Think like a CEO." 113 00:06:43,279 --> 00:06:45,859 And so Richard decided, "I'm gonna think like a CEO." 114 00:06:46,090 --> 00:06:50,049 So he started looking around the plant, thought, "How can we improve this?" 115 00:06:50,129 --> 00:06:55,409 And, and so he talked his wife into, to, to coming up with this, this recipe 116 00:06:55,799 --> 00:06:57,510 for Chi- uh, Flamin' Hot Cheetos. 117 00:07:00,044 --> 00:07:03,434 And he, and he, and he, and they had their little son. 118 00:07:03,434 --> 00:07:05,044 He looked like he was about two or three. 119 00:07:05,144 --> 00:07:07,684 Well, he could talk, so he was probably about four or five years 120 00:07:07,684 --> 00:07:09,854 old, and he would be the taste tester. 121 00:07:10,854 --> 00:07:13,513 And he would eat it and said, "No, no, not hot enough." 122 00:07:13,844 --> 00:07:14,284 You know? 123 00:07:14,424 --> 00:07:17,484 And he'd eat it and he, "Oh, too hot, too hot, too hot, too hot." 124 00:07:17,924 --> 00:07:18,332 You know? 125 00:07:18,643 --> 00:07:20,343 And he was the taste tester. 126 00:07:20,364 --> 00:07:24,624 So they ma- they, they refined this, this recipe and the rest 127 00:07:24,624 --> 00:07:25,814 of the story I'll finish it. 128 00:07:25,814 --> 00:07:28,234 I ex- e- elongated it there a little bit. 129 00:07:30,293 --> 00:07:35,614 Is he called up the CEO, and you could see the secretary's like, "Who's this? 130 00:07:36,133 --> 00:07:39,293 You're the vice president of marketing for Southern California?" 131 00:07:39,363 --> 00:07:39,763 "No. 132 00:07:40,433 --> 00:07:42,134 No, I just, I work at the plant." 133 00:07:42,543 --> 00:07:44,063 "Are you, are you the plant manager?" 134 00:07:44,163 --> 00:07:44,613 "No. 135 00:07:44,813 --> 00:07:45,343 No, uh…" 136 00:07:45,744 --> 00:07:47,264 "Are, are you one of the directors of the…" 137 00:07:47,534 --> 00:07:48,373 "No, no." 138 00:07:49,053 --> 00:07:51,234 And she go, he goes, "What do you do?" 139 00:07:51,244 --> 00:07:55,923 He goes, "I'm the janitor, but I'm gonna save the country- company. 140 00:07:55,963 --> 00:07:56,733 I'm gonna save it. 141 00:07:56,733 --> 00:07:58,563 I'm f- I'm gonna save Frito-Lay. 142 00:07:58,744 --> 00:07:59,703 Let me talk to him." 143 00:08:00,123 --> 00:08:02,843 And she's like, "I'm gonna put this guy through." 144 00:08:04,153 --> 00:08:05,644 Put him through to the president. 145 00:08:05,753 --> 00:08:11,494 The president listened to him, came and visited him, tasted it, let 146 00:08:11,494 --> 00:08:16,713 him make it there at that plant, and at first it wasn't selling 147 00:08:16,844 --> 00:08:17,933 'cause nobody knew about it. 148 00:08:18,023 --> 00:08:23,183 So then he got all the neighborhood guys to start eating it and ga- he gave away 149 00:08:23,183 --> 00:08:27,794 all, everything that didn't sell initially for free, and then it just exploded. 150 00:08:28,164 --> 00:08:32,082 And he, he moved from janitor to a marketing director. 151 00:08:32,092 --> 00:08:32,102 Oh. 152 00:08:33,133 --> 00:08:35,832 And he retired at, like, 59 years old. 153 00:08:36,773 --> 00:08:37,943 Is that cool or what? 154 00:08:37,943 --> 00:08:39,203 I, I mean, I got teared up. 155 00:08:39,203 --> 00:08:41,092 I'm like, "This is a great story. 156 00:08:41,092 --> 00:08:42,533 Way to go, Richard." 157 00:08:45,736 --> 00:08:51,685 And the reason that he told Enrico that he had to do it is because he cared about 158 00:08:51,685 --> 00:08:59,126 his, his neighbors, and he was not gonna be denied 'cause he was not a loser. 159 00:09:00,415 --> 00:09:06,675 He had been made to feel like a loser all his life, and he knew he wasn't. 160 00:09:08,236 --> 00:09:13,305 And the story we're gonna look at today, guys, is about a couple of, of 161 00:09:13,305 --> 00:09:18,805 losers, people at least thought they were, and Jesus told them they weren't. 162 00:09:19,825 --> 00:09:22,595 So pray with me and let's look at the scriptures together. 163 00:09:23,225 --> 00:09:26,925 God and Father, please bless us this morning as we read your Word. 164 00:09:27,315 --> 00:09:28,855 Father, may it change our hearts. 165 00:09:28,855 --> 00:09:31,295 May we meet Jesus at the well. 166 00:09:32,025 --> 00:09:36,695 Father, may we clear our minds of all the distractions and all 167 00:09:36,705 --> 00:09:40,475 the things that pull us away from your truth and from your Word. 168 00:09:40,935 --> 00:09:45,445 And Father, may it show us some things that we need to see. 169 00:09:46,135 --> 00:09:47,095 Thank you, Father. 170 00:09:47,396 --> 00:09:48,925 In Jesus' name we pray, amen. 171 00:09:48,925 --> 00:09:49,165 Amen. 172 00:09:50,756 --> 00:09:55,185 And so I'm giving you the reference that we have. 173 00:09:55,576 --> 00:10:00,005 You know, if you wanna read that, you wanna look at it, uh, it, uh, will help 174 00:10:00,006 --> 00:10:02,545 you go deeper into the Book of John. 175 00:10:03,215 --> 00:10:10,165 But, uh, re- to remind you of the theme, it's in John 21, "Jesus did many other 176 00:10:10,165 --> 00:10:14,645 signs and miracles that are not written in this book, but these are written that 177 00:10:14,646 --> 00:10:18,535 you might," you and me, "might believe." 178 00:10:19,305 --> 00:10:24,525 Believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, the Messiah. 179 00:10:25,585 --> 00:10:27,695 And so I don't want us to ever forget that. 180 00:10:27,695 --> 00:10:31,005 In all these lessons, He's trying to feed our faith. 181 00:10:31,015 --> 00:10:34,665 He's trying to get our faith to grow, to get our faith to be stronger. 182 00:10:34,775 --> 00:10:39,555 What's wrong with most people is they've had a crisis of faith at some point 183 00:10:39,555 --> 00:10:42,005 in their life, and they've lost faith. 184 00:10:42,015 --> 00:10:42,045 Right. 185 00:10:43,006 --> 00:10:44,385 Why have we lost members? 186 00:10:44,425 --> 00:10:45,395 Crisis of faith. 187 00:10:45,405 --> 00:10:45,735 Yes. 188 00:10:46,815 --> 00:10:51,755 God disappointed them in some way, the church disappointed them in some way, 189 00:10:52,665 --> 00:10:56,016 and they're looking for a different place where they won't be disappointed. 190 00:10:58,126 --> 00:11:02,346 We gotta look at the right place to build our faith, and we're 191 00:11:02,346 --> 00:11:06,415 gonna, we're gonna look at the well this morning to see Jesus. 192 00:11:06,456 --> 00:11:10,726 But this is the, the poster, and I'm afraid to… 193 00:11:10,805 --> 00:11:15,066 A little bit afraid to, to recommend this movie or this TV series, 194 00:11:15,095 --> 00:11:16,915 'cause it's got some bad language. 195 00:11:17,265 --> 00:11:20,295 Old Roy can't, can't, can't clean up his mouth. 196 00:11:20,366 --> 00:11:20,855 All right? 197 00:11:21,356 --> 00:11:26,135 But Ted Lasso is, i- i- is, is, is a soccer football show. 198 00:11:26,136 --> 00:11:30,045 He's a coach, so I, I, I watched it during COVID, and now I'm 199 00:11:30,305 --> 00:11:31,795 back into watching a little bit. 200 00:11:31,795 --> 00:11:34,905 And this is the, the sign he has in the locker room. 201 00:11:35,405 --> 00:11:40,175 And I'm not gonna ruin the f- the season finale for you, but they added to this 202 00:11:40,185 --> 00:11:43,285 sign, and it's the right addition. 203 00:11:43,696 --> 00:11:44,645 Let me just say that. 204 00:11:44,646 --> 00:11:46,935 It's gonna come out in the sermon a little bit, all right? 205 00:11:47,295 --> 00:11:49,746 So we gotta believe. 206 00:11:50,455 --> 00:11:52,985 But we're looking at who is Jesus this morning. 207 00:11:53,646 --> 00:11:58,045 And in this chapter, in verse 29, the Samaritan woman, and 208 00:11:58,045 --> 00:11:59,345 we're gonna call her Samantha. 209 00:11:59,345 --> 00:11:59,726 All right? 210 00:11:59,726 --> 00:12:01,155 We're gonna personalize this. 211 00:12:01,155 --> 00:12:04,555 We're gonna get practical and real with it, so let's call her Samantha. 212 00:12:04,565 --> 00:12:04,926 All right? 213 00:12:04,926 --> 00:12:07,356 I have a bro- a dad named Samuel. 214 00:12:07,636 --> 00:12:08,886 We called him Joe. 215 00:12:09,085 --> 00:12:10,746 You know, I had a brother named Sammy. 216 00:12:10,746 --> 00:12:11,815 We called him Sam. 217 00:12:12,115 --> 00:12:15,605 And so Samantha, we'll call Samantha. 218 00:12:15,695 --> 00:12:16,145 All right? 219 00:12:16,776 --> 00:12:20,215 'Cause we're gonna call the nobleman in this story Sam. 220 00:12:20,585 --> 00:12:22,905 So we're gonna talk about Sam and Samantha this morning. 221 00:12:23,126 --> 00:12:27,075 And usually, when you preach John chapter 4, it's such a long chapter, 222 00:12:27,075 --> 00:12:28,805 nobody talks about the nobleman. 223 00:12:29,475 --> 00:12:32,505 But there's an important point what, that I wanna make about the 224 00:12:32,505 --> 00:12:34,125 nobleman, but we won't go long. 225 00:12:34,346 --> 00:12:34,936 All right? 226 00:12:35,806 --> 00:12:41,705 Co- But she said, "Come and see a man who told me everything I ever did." 227 00:12:42,765 --> 00:12:44,506 Do we really like truth tellers? 228 00:12:46,395 --> 00:12:50,975 Do we really like people that tell us the truth about ourselves? 229 00:12:53,665 --> 00:12:55,665 Or would we rather be in denial? 230 00:12:57,966 --> 00:13:02,956 You know, I, I think a lot of us, we vacillate. 231 00:13:03,496 --> 00:13:04,506 "Yeah, tell me the truth. 232 00:13:04,546 --> 00:13:07,006 Ooh, not, not, not that mu- not that way." 233 00:13:07,016 --> 00:13:07,036 Yeah. 234 00:13:07,596 --> 00:13:08,876 "Be nice about it." 235 00:13:09,506 --> 00:13:10,206 Right? 236 00:13:11,636 --> 00:13:14,745 Or they start telling us and we're like, "That isn't true. 237 00:13:14,796 --> 00:13:15,875 I don't agree with that." 238 00:13:17,675 --> 00:13:23,246 And then we have to be told older, over and over some things before we ever get it 239 00:13:25,358 --> 00:13:30,647 But the special thing about Samantha is what Jesus said to her, I… 240 00:13:30,887 --> 00:13:32,818 If you read it, it's very blunt. 241 00:13:33,167 --> 00:13:34,277 It seems harsh. 242 00:13:34,387 --> 00:13:35,608 It seems shaming. 243 00:13:36,588 --> 00:13:37,537 It really does. 244 00:13:39,598 --> 00:13:41,217 And yet she loved it. 245 00:13:42,617 --> 00:13:49,397 Because Jesus later on in the book says, "The truth will set you free." 246 00:13:49,397 --> 00:13:49,522 Yeah. 247 00:13:49,522 --> 00:13:49,677 That's right. 248 00:13:50,817 --> 00:13:52,727 And we've got to always remember that. 249 00:13:53,417 --> 00:13:53,507 Right. 250 00:13:54,137 --> 00:13:57,798 That anything less than truth will not set you free. 251 00:13:57,808 --> 00:13:57,838 Right. 252 00:13:58,817 --> 00:14:02,507 And so even though sometimes the truth is hard to, to hear, and the 253 00:14:02,507 --> 00:14:06,987 truth hurts, and I know it had to hurt this woman a little bit- Yes 254 00:14:07,358 --> 00:14:08,337 it set her free. 255 00:14:08,937 --> 00:14:12,568 She said, "Come and see a man that told me everything I ever did. 256 00:14:12,637 --> 00:14:13,688 Could he be…?" 257 00:14:14,558 --> 00:14:17,557 She thinks he is, but she's still doubting a little bit. 258 00:14:17,987 --> 00:14:21,067 Could he be the Savior, the Messiah? 259 00:14:21,608 --> 00:14:25,187 And Messiah means the Anointed One, the Chosen One. 260 00:14:25,687 --> 00:14:32,147 It's from the Hebrew word Mishkayah, M- Mishkayak, and then the Greek Kristos. 261 00:14:32,597 --> 00:14:38,017 And so, uh, we need to do a little review though before we get into this chapter. 262 00:14:38,027 --> 00:14:39,557 You always gotta get the context. 263 00:14:39,557 --> 00:14:41,747 Don't proof text the scriptures, guys. 264 00:14:42,197 --> 00:14:45,957 And don't believe what you believe just because you pulled a verse out 265 00:14:45,957 --> 00:14:50,717 of context and it sort of confirms your already predisposed beliefs. 266 00:14:50,717 --> 00:14:50,737 All right? 267 00:14:50,737 --> 00:14:51,147 All right. 268 00:14:51,597 --> 00:14:52,477 Look at the context. 269 00:14:52,487 --> 00:14:55,527 So let's look at the context of John chapter four. 270 00:14:55,887 --> 00:15:00,447 And if we review what we've looked at in chapter one, two, and three and four, 271 00:15:01,288 --> 00:15:03,147 there's this character, John the Baptist. 272 00:15:03,148 --> 00:15:05,247 What's the main thing about John chapter one? 273 00:15:05,898 --> 00:15:06,887 The incarnation. 274 00:15:06,887 --> 00:15:07,847 God with us. 275 00:15:08,127 --> 00:15:09,517 The Logos has come. 276 00:15:10,358 --> 00:15:14,157 And then all these people witness in John chapter one that Jesus 277 00:15:14,177 --> 00:15:17,337 came full of grace and truth. 278 00:15:18,297 --> 00:15:21,697 But he, he's saying the world is in darkness. 279 00:15:21,777 --> 00:15:23,867 There's empty souls out there. 280 00:15:24,667 --> 00:15:28,397 And so all of a sudden this thought came to me this week that, you 281 00:15:28,398 --> 00:15:33,887 know, John is trying to tell us how to have abundant life, full life. 282 00:15:34,957 --> 00:15:35,317 Why? 283 00:15:35,337 --> 00:15:41,657 Because he sees a bunch of emptiness, a bunch of people that don't feel good 284 00:15:41,658 --> 00:15:45,107 enough or have enough or just feel empty. 285 00:15:45,507 --> 00:15:49,138 In John chapter two, the jars run out of wine. 286 00:15:49,997 --> 00:15:51,257 The jars are empty. 287 00:15:51,628 --> 00:15:53,517 And so Jesus turns water into wine. 288 00:15:53,518 --> 00:15:56,858 That's his first miracle, and his mother asks him to do it. 289 00:15:57,227 --> 00:16:01,747 And then he clears the temple, and he says he didn't want… 290 00:16:01,867 --> 00:16:04,167 God doesn't want empty worship. 291 00:16:04,718 --> 00:16:10,778 "Don't make my house of prayer a house of robbers, a house 292 00:16:10,778 --> 00:16:12,638 of deceivers and charlatans." 293 00:16:14,057 --> 00:16:16,907 And that, then chapter three, Nicodemus. 294 00:16:17,777 --> 00:16:18,467 Nick at night- 295 00:16:20,661 --> 00:16:21,692 He came at night 296 00:16:23,915 --> 00:16:25,786 And he's an empty soul. 297 00:16:25,815 --> 00:16:27,435 He's, uh, got an empty spirit. 298 00:16:27,736 --> 00:16:29,315 And so what does Jesus say to him? 299 00:16:30,216 --> 00:16:31,516 "I wanna fill your spirit. 300 00:16:31,626 --> 00:16:37,045 I want you to be born again, born of water and spirit, water 301 00:16:37,305 --> 00:16:39,715 and wine, grace and truth. 302 00:16:40,646 --> 00:16:44,695 You've gotta be born again or you're gonna stay empty, Nicodemus." 303 00:16:45,595 --> 00:16:52,705 And then he meets the Samaritan woman and the noble official in John, chapter 4. 304 00:16:53,435 --> 00:16:56,815 The noble official at the end of the book is desperate because his 305 00:16:56,815 --> 00:17:01,086 son is dying, and so many of us as, as parents relate to this. 306 00:17:01,415 --> 00:17:05,645 We're so concerned about our kids, and you never stop being a parent. 307 00:17:06,015 --> 00:17:12,036 And I have a angst every day about one of my children, you know? 308 00:17:13,395 --> 00:17:17,766 And I, um, a lot of parents in this audience, we have angst over our children. 309 00:17:18,505 --> 00:17:19,474 We have concern. 310 00:17:20,224 --> 00:17:23,714 And so we'll relate to him, and we, I need to preach him today. 311 00:17:24,665 --> 00:17:30,626 And then the Samaritan woman, it's this person that she's 312 00:17:30,626 --> 00:17:31,575 having a crisis of faith. 313 00:17:31,615 --> 00:17:33,556 How could she have a crisis of faith, Dr. 314 00:17:33,556 --> 00:17:33,845 Craig? 315 00:17:34,085 --> 00:17:35,786 She, she doesn't have any faith. 316 00:17:36,695 --> 00:17:38,115 She's given up on God. 317 00:17:39,956 --> 00:17:42,785 No, people without faith have crisis of faith. 318 00:17:42,825 --> 00:17:47,085 They want faith, they just know they don't have it anymore. 319 00:17:48,075 --> 00:17:49,045 And what has she got? 320 00:17:49,055 --> 00:17:50,445 She's got an empty heart. 321 00:17:51,805 --> 00:17:57,458 She's been looking for love in all the wrong places Urban cowboy. 322 00:17:57,468 --> 00:18:00,318 Some of you remember country music back then. 323 00:18:00,458 --> 00:18:07,137 John Travolta, you know, looking for love at Gilley's in Houston, right? 324 00:18:07,817 --> 00:18:08,277 Yeah. 325 00:18:08,848 --> 00:18:10,718 Most of you have never been there. 326 00:18:11,548 --> 00:18:13,618 But it is a sweet song. 327 00:18:13,847 --> 00:18:14,808 It's a true song. 328 00:18:15,708 --> 00:18:20,538 People look for love in all the wrong places, and that's what Samantha did. 329 00:18:20,538 --> 00:18:24,137 And so that's where our story begins this morning. 330 00:18:25,077 --> 00:18:26,288 And Jesus always contrasts… 331 00:18:26,288 --> 00:18:31,478 There's always a contrast in all of his lessons between f- And 332 00:18:31,488 --> 00:18:34,937 here in John, it's always almost always gonna be full and empty. 333 00:18:35,718 --> 00:18:37,297 Are you full or are you empty? 334 00:18:38,157 --> 00:18:39,397 Are you full or are you empty? 335 00:18:39,398 --> 00:18:41,648 Do you have life or do you not have life? 336 00:18:42,117 --> 00:18:46,757 It says in John 10:10, "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. 337 00:18:46,797 --> 00:18:51,278 But I've come that you may have life, and have it to the full." 338 00:18:51,767 --> 00:18:54,937 Now, I'm not saying today you have full life. 339 00:18:56,097 --> 00:18:59,778 By the time you get to heaven, you'll have full life, all right? 340 00:18:59,788 --> 00:18:59,828 Amen. 341 00:19:00,267 --> 00:19:04,177 So I'm not gonna promise you something that I can't promise you, 342 00:19:04,947 --> 00:19:06,747 but this is what God wants for you. 343 00:19:06,747 --> 00:19:08,598 This is what Jesus wants for you. 344 00:19:08,717 --> 00:19:13,557 And you may not have it right now, but this is the promise of the Savior, of the 345 00:19:13,558 --> 00:19:16,937 Messiah, that I can make your life better. 346 00:19:17,037 --> 00:19:18,537 I can fill the void. 347 00:19:18,537 --> 00:19:18,767 Right. 348 00:19:18,778 --> 00:19:18,818 Amen. 349 00:19:19,778 --> 00:19:21,548 I can fill the emptiness. 350 00:19:21,587 --> 00:19:25,197 And even I, though I can't change all of your circumstances, 'cause 351 00:19:25,197 --> 00:19:26,758 life isn't fair in this life. 352 00:19:26,778 --> 00:19:30,217 That's why we're going to heaven, and that's why we look forward to heaven. 353 00:19:30,857 --> 00:19:34,858 But I'll even help you to redeem the circumstances so the 354 00:19:34,858 --> 00:19:36,377 circumstances don't kill you. 355 00:19:36,378 --> 00:19:36,548 Yes. 356 00:19:37,517 --> 00:19:42,027 So you can survive them, and even be full and be happy in this 357 00:19:42,028 --> 00:19:46,437 life, even with the challenges. 358 00:19:46,887 --> 00:19:46,927 Amen? 359 00:19:47,887 --> 00:19:48,517 Amen. 360 00:19:49,367 --> 00:19:52,437 So now let's get into our passage, John 4. 361 00:19:53,587 --> 00:19:58,668 "Now Jesus learned that the, the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining 362 00:19:58,668 --> 00:20:03,057 and baptizing more disciples than John, although in fact it was not Jesus 363 00:20:03,058 --> 00:20:04,917 who had baptized but his disciples. 364 00:20:04,918 --> 00:20:08,897 So he left Judea and went back once more to J- Galilee." 365 00:20:09,987 --> 00:20:10,727 Where's he going? 366 00:20:11,507 --> 00:20:12,337 He's going home. 367 00:20:13,418 --> 00:20:14,458 Why is he going home? 368 00:20:16,078 --> 00:20:20,788 Now he had to go through Samaria, and so he came to a town in Samaria 369 00:20:20,788 --> 00:20:25,667 called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son, Joseph. 370 00:20:26,418 --> 00:20:28,238 See, and you remember the story of Jacob. 371 00:20:29,467 --> 00:20:33,447 He bought this land so when he went to Egypt, he could be brought back 372 00:20:33,447 --> 00:20:35,947 so he could be buried in his home. 373 00:20:36,867 --> 00:20:37,487 All right? 374 00:20:38,617 --> 00:20:41,937 Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the 375 00:20:41,937 --> 00:20:44,557 journey, sat down by the well. 376 00:20:45,068 --> 00:20:46,707 It was about noon. 377 00:20:47,687 --> 00:20:50,598 And I, I started studying this passage this week, and I got stuck. 378 00:20:51,558 --> 00:20:52,397 Why'd he go? 379 00:20:52,808 --> 00:20:53,358 Why'd he leave Judea? 380 00:20:54,078 --> 00:20:55,307 Why'd he go back to Galilee? 381 00:20:56,247 --> 00:21:00,007 Oh, because he didn't want the competition with John the Baptist? 382 00:21:00,017 --> 00:21:04,347 'Cause, you know, he didn't want John to feel bad that he was 383 00:21:04,377 --> 00:21:08,027 bap- his group was baptizing and growing faster than John's group? 384 00:21:09,157 --> 00:21:10,347 I don't think that was it. 385 00:21:10,648 --> 00:21:12,907 I don't think he wanted competition with John. 386 00:21:13,277 --> 00:21:17,478 He knew John's purpose and destiny to prepare the way for him. 387 00:21:18,258 --> 00:21:21,427 I think he wanted John to be able to finish his work, and so he didn't 388 00:21:21,427 --> 00:21:24,237 want that kind of competition, so he got out of the way. 389 00:21:24,467 --> 00:21:28,098 I think he went back to Galilee to get out of the way 'cause 390 00:21:28,098 --> 00:21:30,577 his time wasn't right yet. 391 00:21:30,588 --> 00:21:33,027 He w- he didn't wanna go to Jerusalem, stay in Jerusalem. 392 00:21:33,148 --> 00:21:34,927 He knew what was gonna happen in Jerusalem. 393 00:21:34,927 --> 00:21:38,837 He was gonna get crucified in Jerusalem, so he wanted to go 394 00:21:38,837 --> 00:21:40,017 back home for a little while. 395 00:21:40,167 --> 00:21:44,737 But he also knew when he goes home, a prophet is not at home in his own country. 396 00:21:45,758 --> 00:21:46,707 He's not honored. 397 00:21:47,758 --> 00:21:52,827 And so Jesus' actual home was in heaven, just like us. 398 00:21:53,648 --> 00:21:58,258 We're just strangers in a strange land wherever we are, just like Jesus. 399 00:21:59,048 --> 00:21:59,588 All right? 400 00:22:00,677 --> 00:22:04,697 But I think he went back home for the same reason that yesterday at 401 00:22:04,697 --> 00:22:07,657 the Denver Airport I bought this 402 00:22:10,286 --> 00:22:11,846 And I had to weigh the decision. 403 00:22:12,386 --> 00:22:14,876 It cost $6.98 404 00:22:18,094 --> 00:22:20,124 And I thought, "I don't need another keyring. 405 00:22:21,494 --> 00:22:22,774 I don't need another keychain. 406 00:22:22,844 --> 00:22:23,714 I have plenty." 407 00:22:24,864 --> 00:22:25,614 But I wanted it. 408 00:22:27,244 --> 00:22:28,424 And why did I want it? 409 00:22:29,653 --> 00:22:31,373 'Cause this is my home. 410 00:22:32,164 --> 00:22:33,024 Not now. 411 00:22:34,004 --> 00:22:37,724 Won't ever be again, 'cause I don't have any grandkids there, right? 412 00:22:38,664 --> 00:22:42,334 And Cathy has informed me we're gonna live in California or Texas. 413 00:22:42,363 --> 00:22:43,954 We're not moving back to Colorado. 414 00:22:44,414 --> 00:22:47,873 And when you're married, you do what your wife says. 415 00:22:49,383 --> 00:22:50,873 If you're a smart husband. 416 00:22:51,583 --> 00:22:51,603 Yeah. 417 00:22:51,684 --> 00:22:53,494 Especially when they don't give you… 418 00:22:53,553 --> 00:22:57,143 They gave you, gave me, she gave me a choice, so I chose here. 419 00:22:57,504 --> 00:22:57,874 All right? 420 00:23:00,110 --> 00:23:03,990 But the last time I was in Colorado about five years ago, I bought a keychain. 421 00:23:05,919 --> 00:23:06,949 Says Colorado on it. 422 00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:09,429 Just a little bit of home. 423 00:23:09,959 --> 00:23:11,750 And I didn't buy a cheap one that would break. 424 00:23:11,750 --> 00:23:14,699 I wanted a metal one that might last a little while. 425 00:23:14,770 --> 00:23:15,139 All right? 426 00:23:17,304 --> 00:23:18,834 Jesus wanted to go home for a little while 427 00:23:21,614 --> 00:23:27,304 But it also says, gives me some insight, that he didn't baptize. 428 00:23:27,784 --> 00:23:29,803 His disciples were baptizing. 429 00:23:29,804 --> 00:23:33,144 And that reminded me, that was an echo of another verse. 430 00:23:33,583 --> 00:23:39,714 And we know that verse in, in 1 Corinthians 1:13-17. 431 00:23:39,764 --> 00:23:42,144 It says, "Is Christ divided? 432 00:23:42,544 --> 00:23:44,343 Was Paul crucified for you? 433 00:23:44,344 --> 00:23:46,494 Were you baptized in the name of Paul? 434 00:23:46,944 --> 00:23:51,153 I thank God I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius, so that no one 435 00:23:51,153 --> 00:23:52,973 can say that you were baptized in my name. 436 00:23:52,973 --> 00:23:56,984 Yes, oh, also I baptized, uh, the household of Stephanas. 437 00:23:57,024 --> 00:23:59,453 Beyond that, I don't remember everybody I baptized." 438 00:23:59,803 --> 00:24:00,223 Why? 439 00:24:00,753 --> 00:24:04,343 "Christ did not send me to baptize." 440 00:24:04,993 --> 00:24:07,173 Oh yeah, I thought he sent us all to baptize. 441 00:24:07,704 --> 00:24:10,454 "Go and make disciples, baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son, 442 00:24:10,454 --> 00:24:13,473 and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to obey everything I've commanded you. 443 00:24:13,634 --> 00:24:16,623 And lo, I will be with you always, to the very end of the age." 444 00:24:19,246 --> 00:24:20,556 That's the response 445 00:24:23,682 --> 00:24:26,672 He really sends us to go preach the gospel. 446 00:24:26,852 --> 00:24:26,952 Right. 447 00:24:28,242 --> 00:24:34,421 The start of every gospel, it says, "Jesus began his ministry preaching the 448 00:24:34,422 --> 00:24:36,572 good news about the Kingdom of God." 449 00:24:37,222 --> 00:24:37,362 Yes. 450 00:24:37,381 --> 00:24:40,022 Preaching the good news about the Kingdom of God. 451 00:24:40,441 --> 00:24:42,952 Preaching the good news about the Kingdom of God. 452 00:24:43,342 --> 00:24:47,832 Preach, guys, the gospel, not the response. 453 00:24:47,871 --> 00:24:49,351 You'll get the response. 454 00:24:49,361 --> 00:24:49,391 Right. 455 00:24:49,871 --> 00:24:54,612 And the response is this next slide, believe, confess, repent, and be baptized. 456 00:24:55,781 --> 00:25:00,221 You will get baptisms, but you won't by telling people, "Get bath. 457 00:25:00,301 --> 00:25:00,892 Get a bath. 458 00:25:00,932 --> 00:25:01,981 You need a new bath. 459 00:25:03,311 --> 00:25:04,421 You need to get dunked in water. 460 00:25:04,421 --> 00:25:05,321 You need immersed." 461 00:25:06,671 --> 00:25:08,871 Don't tell them to have a religious ritual. 462 00:25:08,881 --> 00:25:08,911 Right. 463 00:25:10,461 --> 00:25:13,231 Tell them to fall in love with Jesus. 464 00:25:13,612 --> 00:25:13,652 Amen. 465 00:25:13,951 --> 00:25:17,882 Tell them to accept the good news, the gospel, and then 466 00:25:17,882 --> 00:25:19,471 they a- well, how do I do that? 467 00:25:19,611 --> 00:25:21,072 And then you tell them, "Repent." 468 00:25:21,491 --> 00:25:25,601 Believe, confess, repent, be bapt- But if you don't believe Jesus 469 00:25:25,601 --> 00:25:29,871 is the Son of God, the Messiah, the Chosen One, why get baptized? 470 00:25:30,041 --> 00:25:30,091 Right. 471 00:25:31,261 --> 00:25:34,241 You don't have faith in the Messiah. 472 00:25:35,312 --> 00:25:37,291 So it all begins with belief. 473 00:25:38,351 --> 00:25:42,012 If Tad- Ted Lasso knows it, we should know it. 474 00:25:42,012 --> 00:25:43,251 That's true. 475 00:25:43,251 --> 00:25:45,101 That's what I think, right? 476 00:25:45,101 --> 00:25:45,621 Right. 477 00:25:46,452 --> 00:25:47,412 Believe. 478 00:25:48,401 --> 00:25:52,761 Believe Jesus is the Son of God. 479 00:25:52,791 --> 00:25:53,631 Confess him. 480 00:25:54,141 --> 00:25:54,901 Repent. 481 00:25:55,022 --> 00:25:56,801 But preach the gospel. 482 00:25:57,261 --> 00:26:02,511 And so that's why w- we're in this book, to d- to understand, 483 00:26:02,511 --> 00:26:04,131 to embrace the gospel. 484 00:26:05,181 --> 00:26:09,421 And so this story starts in John 4:6, "Jacob's well was there. 485 00:26:09,912 --> 00:26:14,801 And Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. 486 00:26:15,371 --> 00:26:16,911 It was about noon." 487 00:26:19,246 --> 00:26:23,676 And I did get something from the conference about wells. 488 00:26:24,286 --> 00:26:28,006 I went to a class about clear the debris. 489 00:26:28,925 --> 00:26:29,976 Now, what is that about? 490 00:26:31,436 --> 00:26:36,836 And Steve Staton and his daughter Talia taught a great class that what they would 491 00:26:36,846 --> 00:26:44,335 do when they'd conquer a people is they'd fill in their well with dirt, and that 492 00:26:44,336 --> 00:26:48,825 would kill all the crops, and that would, that would create famine in the land, and 493 00:26:48,826 --> 00:26:50,535 it would, it would destroy the people. 494 00:26:51,035 --> 00:26:55,856 And so when you're rebuilding and trying to revive the land, you 495 00:26:55,856 --> 00:26:57,895 have to dig out the well again. 496 00:26:57,955 --> 00:26:58,955 You have to dig it out. 497 00:26:59,125 --> 00:27:00,595 And I've been to Jacob's Well. 498 00:27:00,795 --> 00:27:01,935 I've been to Sychar. 499 00:27:01,965 --> 00:27:07,035 Kathy and I went on a Holy Land tour years ago, and I've been there, and I 500 00:27:07,035 --> 00:27:10,536 even bought some water from Jacob's Well. 501 00:27:10,746 --> 00:27:14,046 And I took it back, and I thought, "I'm gonna use this 502 00:27:14,055 --> 00:27:15,746 for a sermon at some point." 503 00:27:16,295 --> 00:27:20,975 And so I, I kept it for about a year, and then I preached John chapter four, and 504 00:27:20,976 --> 00:27:28,036 I put my, my, my clay jar on the podium, and I opened it, and it smelled so bad. 505 00:27:29,435 --> 00:27:30,506 I had to put it back 506 00:27:35,662 --> 00:27:38,212 So that's why there's no clay jar up here this morning 507 00:27:41,230 --> 00:27:42,780 But what happened at a well? 508 00:27:43,180 --> 00:27:48,610 When you're a desert people, when you live in a dry land, water is everything. 509 00:27:48,620 --> 00:27:48,640 Yeah. 510 00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:50,850 Where would they get married? 511 00:27:50,990 --> 00:27:51,920 By the well. 512 00:27:52,539 --> 00:27:53,910 Where would they get engaged? 513 00:27:54,029 --> 00:27:54,990 By the well. 514 00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:57,969 Where would they announce the birth? 515 00:27:58,160 --> 00:27:59,329 By the well. 516 00:27:59,980 --> 00:28:05,769 Everything big happened at the well, especially love. 517 00:28:07,210 --> 00:28:07,960 Love. 518 00:28:09,249 --> 00:28:11,519 Oh, and we love a love story, don't we? 519 00:28:11,539 --> 00:28:11,569 Yes. 520 00:28:13,089 --> 00:28:16,069 Don't you like to h- t- tell us about how you fell in love. 521 00:28:17,949 --> 00:28:18,739 Don't we love it? 522 00:28:19,070 --> 00:28:21,559 I go over to people's house, "How'd you guys meet? 523 00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:25,009 Who liked each other first?" 524 00:28:26,379 --> 00:28:27,859 "Was it love at first sight?" 525 00:28:28,739 --> 00:28:30,090 I always put them on the spot. 526 00:28:31,140 --> 00:28:32,689 When you're older, you do that. 527 00:28:33,579 --> 00:28:33,739 Okay? 528 00:28:35,399 --> 00:28:40,809 And so at the well, Jesus spoke to the woman. 529 00:28:41,259 --> 00:28:44,040 And so let's, uh, uh- 530 00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:49,060 Go to the next one here. 531 00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:51,590 John 4:7. 532 00:28:52,230 --> 00:28:55,910 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, 533 00:28:56,180 --> 00:28:57,220 "Will you give me a drink?" 534 00:28:57,280 --> 00:28:58,249 We know this story. 535 00:28:58,729 --> 00:29:00,709 The disciples had gone into town to buy food. 536 00:29:00,710 --> 00:29:01,680 The Samaritan woman… 537 00:29:02,030 --> 00:29:04,710 And I want you to notice the questions. 538 00:29:04,829 --> 00:29:09,009 John uses questions to keep our attention in this passage. 539 00:29:09,550 --> 00:29:12,980 The first one, "You're a Jew and I'm a Samaritan woman. 540 00:29:13,269 --> 00:29:15,750 How can you ask me for a drink?" 541 00:29:16,979 --> 00:29:17,489 You know? 542 00:29:17,979 --> 00:29:24,039 Just like, "Oh, Richard Montanez, how can you provide a marketing 543 00:29:24,049 --> 00:29:29,990 strategy for this huge multinational corporation when you're just a janitor?" 544 00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:36,669 Because you haven't tapped into the market of my people, and that's how he 545 00:29:36,669 --> 00:29:41,226 convinced him Prejudice, discrimination. 546 00:29:42,586 --> 00:29:43,966 Who do we associate with? 547 00:29:43,976 --> 00:29:44,946 Who do we not? 548 00:29:45,646 --> 00:29:50,296 I don't want this church to become an all-white church, an all-Hispanic church, 549 00:29:50,296 --> 00:29:52,586 an all-Black church, all-Asian church. 550 00:29:52,885 --> 00:29:56,286 But it could be if we're prejudice- Yep. 551 00:29:56,785 --> 00:30:00,775 Yeah … if we have discrimination, if we don't love everybody. 552 00:30:01,726 --> 00:30:03,176 We need to love everybody. 553 00:30:03,185 --> 00:30:04,286 That's right. 554 00:30:04,286 --> 00:30:04,955 Right? 555 00:30:04,955 --> 00:30:06,025 Jesus did. 556 00:30:06,115 --> 00:30:06,915 He loved everybody. 557 00:30:06,926 --> 00:30:10,596 Verse 10, "Jesus answered her, 'If you knew the gift of God and who it 558 00:30:10,596 --> 00:30:14,355 is that asks you for drink, you would a- you would have asked him and he 559 00:30:14,356 --> 00:30:15,975 would have gave you living water.'" 560 00:30:16,705 --> 00:30:17,885 Here's her second question. 561 00:30:18,115 --> 00:30:22,065 "'Sir,' the woman said, 'you have nothing to draw from, and the well is deep. 562 00:30:22,345 --> 00:30:24,195 Where can you get this living water? 563 00:30:24,336 --> 00:30:26,965 Are you greater than our father Jacob?'" 564 00:30:27,185 --> 00:30:29,226 Are you gonna create a well here? 565 00:30:29,476 --> 00:30:32,795 You know, she's mocking him a little bit, okay. 566 00:30:33,375 --> 00:30:37,365 "'Who gave us this well, and drank from it himself, as did his sons?'" 567 00:30:38,726 --> 00:30:40,555 Jesus was a barrier breaker. 568 00:30:41,365 --> 00:30:43,015 You need to be a barrier breaker. 569 00:30:43,185 --> 00:30:43,425 That's right. 570 00:30:44,235 --> 00:30:44,696 You know? 571 00:30:44,705 --> 00:30:48,676 Right now, there's so much tribalism in our country and in our community. 572 00:30:49,566 --> 00:30:52,265 I hope your best friends aren't all your same race. 573 00:30:53,316 --> 00:30:58,345 See, that what was great about being an athlete, you didn't choose your teammates. 574 00:30:59,525 --> 00:31:04,655 I mean, you just got put together with people, uh, who could play, and you didn't 575 00:31:04,655 --> 00:31:09,745 care what color they were, you didn't c- care about the food they ate, you 576 00:31:09,746 --> 00:31:14,695 didn't care about the- their background or their accent, because they were your 577 00:31:14,695 --> 00:31:17,315 teammates, and you became a brotherhood. 578 00:31:18,375 --> 00:31:22,645 And the- and I- that's why I encourage k- k- kids, get on teams, 579 00:31:22,645 --> 00:31:25,425 and get on g- good teams, you know? 580 00:31:26,606 --> 00:31:31,845 Because on the good teams, there's gonna be people of all different flavors. 581 00:31:32,405 --> 00:31:33,035 All right? 582 00:31:34,295 --> 00:31:40,256 But deep down in us, deep down in every one of us, is a bias. 583 00:31:41,426 --> 00:31:46,205 We understand ourselves, we think, and we're more drawn 584 00:31:46,215 --> 00:31:47,855 sometimes to people like us. 585 00:31:50,062 --> 00:31:53,752 But with the Holy Spirit, we should be transformed to be drawn to everybody. 586 00:31:54,242 --> 00:31:54,282 Amen. 587 00:31:54,851 --> 00:31:59,322 And I'm gonna go after this factionism, and I'm gonna go after this cliquey 588 00:32:00,062 --> 00:32:04,211 mentality Yeah And our church isn't gonna be full of that kind of 589 00:32:04,212 --> 00:32:06,301 worldliness and that kind of garbage. 590 00:32:06,312 --> 00:32:06,331 Yeah. 591 00:32:06,831 --> 00:32:07,331 All right? 592 00:32:08,331 --> 00:32:10,192 We're gonna be barrier breakers. 593 00:32:10,201 --> 00:32:10,221 Yeah. 594 00:32:10,572 --> 00:32:11,851 And we're gonna love everybody. 595 00:32:11,851 --> 00:32:13,301 Jesus loved this woman. 596 00:32:13,722 --> 00:32:15,741 He wasn't surprised by her question. 597 00:32:16,062 --> 00:32:19,711 She was like, "Hey, another man trying to hit on me." 598 00:32:22,474 --> 00:32:25,244 I mean, there must have been something going for this, this woman because 599 00:32:25,254 --> 00:32:29,014 she'd been married and divorced five times and, and still got another man. 600 00:32:29,014 --> 00:32:33,634 So she- I'm thinking she was probably attractive if she 601 00:32:33,684 --> 00:32:35,044 could keep getting a man. 602 00:32:35,604 --> 00:32:36,023 All right? 603 00:32:36,723 --> 00:32:38,794 Now, she was hard to live with, I think 604 00:32:41,014 --> 00:32:41,374 I don't know. 605 00:32:41,374 --> 00:32:42,674 I don't wanna read too much. 606 00:32:42,674 --> 00:32:43,994 I don't wanna be judgmental. 607 00:32:44,354 --> 00:32:44,833 All right 608 00:32:47,630 --> 00:32:53,890 But according to 1 Timothy 1:5, the goal of this command, Paul told Timothy, and he 609 00:32:53,890 --> 00:32:59,330 tells me, "Which comes from a pure heart, a good conscience, and a sincere faith." 610 00:32:59,580 --> 00:33:05,600 That's the only way we're gonna not be prejudiced and factious, to have 611 00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:08,979 these three things, a pure heart. 612 00:33:10,079 --> 00:33:15,470 When my heart's hard, I'm probably pretty biased, you know? 613 00:33:17,269 --> 00:33:22,432 If you don't like my sports team, I don't like you But when I have 614 00:33:22,432 --> 00:33:24,502 a good heart, I like everybody. 615 00:33:26,182 --> 00:33:31,662 I'm sorry your team lost, 'cause I know how it feels, 'cause my teams lose a lot. 616 00:33:32,501 --> 00:33:32,851 Right? 617 00:33:33,092 --> 00:33:34,521 So I'm not gonna rub it in. 618 00:33:35,871 --> 00:33:38,722 Comes from a pure heart, a good conscience. 619 00:33:39,281 --> 00:33:42,812 When we have guilty conscience, we're mad at the world, we're defensive, 620 00:33:42,892 --> 00:33:44,221 we don't wanna be found out. 621 00:33:44,582 --> 00:33:47,051 But when you have a clear conscience, you love everybody. 622 00:33:48,091 --> 00:33:48,131 Amen. 623 00:33:48,132 --> 00:33:48,582 All right? 624 00:33:49,191 --> 00:33:53,392 And when you're s- have a sincere faith that you're trying to do what's right 625 00:33:53,431 --> 00:33:58,611 even though you may f- not, you may be indoctrinated a bad way or raised a 626 00:33:58,611 --> 00:34:03,831 different way, you have a sincere faith and you're trying to love everybody. 627 00:34:03,832 --> 00:34:06,941 That's the way we'll be barrier breakers, brothers and sisters. 628 00:34:07,321 --> 00:34:10,110 And he goes on in verse 46, "Once mor-…" 629 00:34:10,951 --> 00:34:12,411 Who else did he associate with? 630 00:34:12,422 --> 00:34:14,681 We're gonna jump to the last story. 631 00:34:15,251 --> 00:34:18,721 "Once more he visited Canaan in Galilee, went home, where he 632 00:34:18,731 --> 00:34:20,610 had turned the water into wine." 633 00:34:20,652 --> 00:34:22,360 So here comes a second sign. 634 00:34:23,511 --> 00:34:29,161 "There was a certain royal official and s- his son lay sick at Capernaum. 635 00:34:30,021 --> 00:34:34,460 When this man heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went 636 00:34:34,460 --> 00:34:39,232 to him and he begged him to come and heal his son who was close to death. 637 00:34:39,521 --> 00:34:44,762 'Unless you people see signs and wonders,' Jesus told him, 'you will never believe.' 638 00:34:45,031 --> 00:34:48,722 The royal official said, 'Sir, come down before my child dies.' 639 00:34:49,071 --> 00:34:52,272 'Go,' Jesus replied, 'your son will live.'" 640 00:34:52,751 --> 00:34:56,321 And what did he do that you and I need to do? 641 00:34:57,302 --> 00:34:59,771 The man took Jesus at his word. 642 00:35:00,771 --> 00:35:02,692 The man took Jesus at his word. 643 00:35:02,701 --> 00:35:03,611 He believed. 644 00:35:04,381 --> 00:35:06,822 Because Jesus said so, he believed. 645 00:35:07,281 --> 00:35:11,311 "And he departed and while he was still on the way, his servants met him with 646 00:35:11,311 --> 00:35:14,421 the news that the boy was living." 647 00:35:15,291 --> 00:35:18,921 See, Jesus was a barrier breaker and he was a bridge builder. 648 00:35:19,871 --> 00:35:23,951 He cared for the powerless and the powerful. 649 00:35:24,231 --> 00:35:32,321 I am so tired of hearing sermons that Jesus only came for poor people, that 650 00:35:32,452 --> 00:35:38,211 he only came for marginalized people, that he only came for desperate people. 651 00:35:38,271 --> 00:35:40,061 He came for all people. 652 00:35:41,031 --> 00:35:41,071 Amen. 653 00:35:41,262 --> 00:35:45,811 All people, rich and poor, good and bad, man and woman. 654 00:35:46,181 --> 00:35:46,231 Come on. 655 00:35:46,331 --> 00:35:47,992 He came for everybody. 656 00:35:48,571 --> 00:35:51,001 And that's the gospel, folks. 657 00:35:51,012 --> 00:35:51,042 Right. 658 00:35:51,541 --> 00:35:56,901 And if we preach any other gospel, then we're going to not be preaching 659 00:35:56,902 --> 00:35:58,521 the go- It won't be good news. 660 00:35:58,941 --> 00:35:59,651 That's right. 661 00:35:59,652 --> 00:35:59,672 Wow. 662 00:35:59,672 --> 00:36:00,841 It won't be good news. 663 00:36:00,841 --> 00:36:00,901 Right. 664 00:36:02,111 --> 00:36:05,011 And this movement was started by good news. 665 00:36:05,021 --> 00:36:05,051 Right. 666 00:36:05,652 --> 00:36:07,501 And that's why it's so diverse. 667 00:36:08,041 --> 00:36:09,021 How'd you get here? 668 00:36:11,016 --> 00:36:20,055 Because a bunch of upper middle class white kids in pretty good schools created 669 00:36:20,125 --> 00:36:25,065 a diverse movement that went around the world to save the whole world. 670 00:36:26,496 --> 00:36:30,286 A bunch of Southerners from Florida 671 00:36:33,166 --> 00:36:33,976 A bunch of rednecks. 672 00:36:36,416 --> 00:36:37,726 And I knew Chuck Lucas. 673 00:36:37,726 --> 00:36:40,346 I'm gonna have to just stop right there, all right? 674 00:36:41,725 --> 00:36:46,426 I mean, these were Floridians, guys, that went all over America and started 675 00:36:46,426 --> 00:36:51,106 campus ministers, ministries, and I was second generation, not first. 676 00:36:51,986 --> 00:36:53,535 I was converted at Boulder. 677 00:36:54,686 --> 00:37:00,555 I mean, why would a bunch of Southerners go to Boulder, a hippie school, you know? 678 00:37:01,195 --> 00:37:02,845 Because we, they didn't care. 679 00:37:03,646 --> 00:37:07,246 They're out to save the world, everybody. 680 00:37:07,565 --> 00:37:08,986 And let's not lose that. 681 00:37:08,986 --> 00:37:09,456 Amen? 682 00:37:09,456 --> 00:37:10,076 Amen. 683 00:37:10,076 --> 00:37:12,616 And I'm not putting down the poor. 684 00:37:12,616 --> 00:37:13,825 I came from poor 685 00:37:15,982 --> 00:37:17,242 My family was poor. 686 00:37:19,212 --> 00:37:20,082 Came from nothing. 687 00:37:20,442 --> 00:37:21,592 Came from trailer park. 688 00:37:21,942 --> 00:37:25,842 That's why I liked Richard's story, 'cause I could relate. 689 00:37:27,442 --> 00:37:30,382 I was embarrassed when my mom dropped me off at school. 690 00:37:30,821 --> 00:37:32,341 I'd rather walk to school. 691 00:37:33,732 --> 00:37:35,652 How many of you know what a Studebaker is? 692 00:37:37,710 --> 00:37:43,730 That was our family car, a green army-colored Studebaker. 693 00:37:44,740 --> 00:37:49,730 When we'd drive downtown, I'd get in the backseat, and I would slump down and hide 694 00:37:52,394 --> 00:37:53,913 I was a low rider 695 00:37:57,166 --> 00:37:58,126 Because I was embarrassed 696 00:38:01,974 --> 00:38:03,024 I know what poor is. 697 00:38:04,734 --> 00:38:05,834 I came from poor. 698 00:38:06,364 --> 00:38:11,644 Why was I so driven to go to school and to live a different life? 699 00:38:12,214 --> 00:38:13,394 'Cause I didn't wanna be poor 700 00:38:15,470 --> 00:38:17,020 And that's why many of us were. 701 00:38:17,529 --> 00:38:19,730 But let's be big bridge builders. 702 00:38:20,359 --> 00:38:24,009 This was a nobleman, this was a rich man, this was a Galilean 703 00:38:26,904 --> 00:38:29,754 And he was powerful, but he was also desperate. 704 00:38:30,203 --> 00:38:32,113 Everybody is desperate. 705 00:38:33,154 --> 00:38:37,733 This conference that I went to just described that. 706 00:38:38,723 --> 00:38:43,783 Jesus associated at the wedding party with his neighbors, his friends. 707 00:38:43,933 --> 00:38:45,033 He loved his friends. 708 00:38:45,073 --> 00:38:46,453 God cares. 709 00:38:46,553 --> 00:38:51,144 But Nicodemus was of the party that was always attacking him, of the 710 00:38:51,144 --> 00:38:54,683 ruling religious party, and he, so he could be considered an enemy. 711 00:38:54,894 --> 00:38:55,943 But what did Jesus do? 712 00:38:55,943 --> 00:38:57,763 He loved him and told him the truth. 713 00:38:58,023 --> 00:39:02,323 This Samaritan woman was powerless, and marginalized, and poor, and an 714 00:39:02,333 --> 00:39:08,643 outcast, and a s- sinner, divorced many times, and Jesus forgave her. 715 00:39:09,043 --> 00:39:14,243 And the nobleman was powerful and rich, but he could not fix his son. 716 00:39:16,013 --> 00:39:18,903 He could not heal him, and God heals. 717 00:39:19,543 --> 00:39:25,043 God and Christ are for everybody because he loves everybody, because at some point 718 00:39:25,043 --> 00:39:27,883 in all of our lives, we get desperate 719 00:39:30,424 --> 00:39:32,844 What was so great about this scholarly conference? 720 00:39:33,234 --> 00:39:34,914 No scholarship hardly at all. 721 00:39:36,414 --> 00:39:39,883 They, they did quote some theologians in every lesson, 722 00:39:40,004 --> 00:39:41,354 but they gave their testimony. 723 00:39:41,374 --> 00:39:42,923 First guy gave his testimony. 724 00:39:43,234 --> 00:39:47,154 He says, "I, I don't know why I'm in the ministry and I don't know why I'm 725 00:39:47,154 --> 00:39:52,143 a teacher, 'cause I'm an introvert and I hate standing up here and speaking." 726 00:39:54,688 --> 00:39:55,278 I hate it 727 00:39:57,602 --> 00:40:01,031 And I don't know why I'm in the ministry, because I hate people 728 00:40:05,182 --> 00:40:06,892 Oh, I love persons. 729 00:40:08,432 --> 00:40:13,982 I love persons, but I hate people and I hate crowds and I hate being here. 730 00:40:14,942 --> 00:40:18,221 But this is the only conference I come to, 'cause this is the 731 00:40:18,221 --> 00:40:19,982 conference for the introverts 732 00:40:22,254 --> 00:40:23,584 And I thought, "What am I doing here then?" 733 00:40:26,504 --> 00:40:30,223 Because that's not me And then the next guy gets up and 734 00:40:30,223 --> 00:40:31,404 he goes, "I'm an introvert." 735 00:40:31,413 --> 00:40:35,114 And I go, "Boy, I don't feel at home," you know? 736 00:40:38,206 --> 00:40:42,976 And then I thought, you know, I helped start this conference, and they, somewhere 737 00:40:42,976 --> 00:40:47,916 along the line, 'cause I got sick and I got cancer, I sort of dripped it off the 738 00:40:47,926 --> 00:40:50,916 committee, and I never got asked back on 739 00:40:53,902 --> 00:40:59,832 And so they started excluding the extroverts and the evangelists. 740 00:41:00,502 --> 00:41:06,552 And in our movement, we've got teachers, elders, evangelists, and I'm always 741 00:41:06,552 --> 00:41:08,662 trying to pull everybody together. 742 00:41:09,982 --> 00:41:11,341 'Cause I've been each. 743 00:41:12,031 --> 00:41:16,352 I've been an elder here in LA on the west side, and in Dallas. 744 00:41:16,861 --> 00:41:19,831 I'm a teacher, and I'm an evangelist. 745 00:41:20,691 --> 00:41:23,692 The teachers think I'm an evangelist, so they don't care what I say. 746 00:41:24,812 --> 00:41:27,171 The evangelists think I'm a teacher, they don't… 747 00:41:27,532 --> 00:41:30,271 They do care, but I, I don't wanna overstate it. 748 00:41:31,071 --> 00:41:32,472 Let's be br- realders, amen? 749 00:41:32,472 --> 00:41:32,912 Amen. 750 00:41:33,531 --> 00:41:35,861 Because Jesus loves everybody. 751 00:41:35,871 --> 00:41:38,832 Sam and Samantha, you get the point. 752 00:41:38,841 --> 00:41:39,861 You're way ahead of me. 753 00:41:39,861 --> 00:41:40,921 You're smarter than that. 754 00:41:41,821 --> 00:41:45,892 But these questions, something was said at the conference. 755 00:41:47,152 --> 00:41:49,231 There's always something behind a question. 756 00:41:50,762 --> 00:41:52,771 There's always something be- behind a question. 757 00:41:53,351 --> 00:41:59,962 When the Samaritan woman asked Jesus, "Why are you asking me for a drink?" 758 00:42:00,652 --> 00:42:04,511 She's really asking , "You don't accept me." 759 00:42:06,798 --> 00:42:07,317 You know? 760 00:42:08,488 --> 00:42:13,647 And especially the more they talked and the more she found out he was a prophet, 761 00:42:13,658 --> 00:42:18,138 she's like, "Yeah, you're the, you're the guy that condemns me to hell." 762 00:42:19,627 --> 00:42:20,098 You know? 763 00:42:22,446 --> 00:42:25,665 But he was still talking to her, and somehow how he came 764 00:42:25,665 --> 00:42:28,016 across to her drew her in. 765 00:42:28,966 --> 00:42:29,776 It drew her in. 766 00:42:31,266 --> 00:42:34,375 And then when she said, "How are you gonna give me this living water?" 767 00:42:34,375 --> 00:42:36,215 She wanted water. 768 00:42:36,435 --> 00:42:40,346 She'd love pipes and not have to walk and carry jars. 769 00:42:40,956 --> 00:42:43,135 I love living in the 20th century. 770 00:42:43,135 --> 00:42:45,105 I, I'm glad we don't have to go to wells. 771 00:42:45,585 --> 00:42:48,076 I like turning on my faucet, right? 772 00:42:48,676 --> 00:42:52,195 But this was a different kind of water. 773 00:42:52,196 --> 00:42:54,346 This was the Holy Spirit inside. 774 00:42:55,716 --> 00:42:58,946 And then later she says, "Are you greater than Jacob?" 775 00:43:00,295 --> 00:43:01,725 She's starting to get it. 776 00:43:02,385 --> 00:43:08,665 If you're promising this, then you must be somebody, somebody wealthy. 777 00:43:09,615 --> 00:43:11,495 Don't make me f- promises. 778 00:43:11,495 --> 00:43:15,745 Men have been making me promises my whole life, and they've not c- delivered. 779 00:43:16,135 --> 00:43:19,016 That's why I keep discarding them and looking for somebody else. 780 00:43:19,745 --> 00:43:20,196 All right? 781 00:43:21,295 --> 00:43:24,755 She's the Zsa Zsa Gabor of the first century, right? 782 00:43:25,426 --> 00:43:27,376 And if you don't know who that is, Google her. 783 00:43:27,575 --> 00:43:28,096 All right? 784 00:43:30,736 --> 00:43:35,006 But so she's asking, "You're making me this gra- grand 785 00:43:35,006 --> 00:43:37,656 promise," like churches do. 786 00:43:38,935 --> 00:43:40,965 We make grand promises, don't we? 787 00:43:42,096 --> 00:43:44,325 Well, we can't deliver it, but Jesus can 788 00:43:46,574 --> 00:43:48,744 But she's sort of asking, "Are you greater?" 789 00:43:48,784 --> 00:43:50,124 And he is. 790 00:43:50,824 --> 00:43:54,804 And then later on in this story, she asks, "Where should I go to church? 791 00:43:56,304 --> 00:43:59,223 We Samaritans say we worship on Mount Gerizim. 792 00:43:59,484 --> 00:44:03,303 You Jews say we should worship on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. 793 00:44:03,404 --> 00:44:04,753 Where should I go to church?" 794 00:44:05,344 --> 00:44:11,334 And Jesus is saying, he says to her, "There's gonna be a time where, after I 795 00:44:11,343 --> 00:44:17,824 die, where you go to church is more about where the Spirit is than the place." 796 00:44:17,883 --> 00:44:17,963 Right. 797 00:44:18,684 --> 00:44:21,663 "And more about you than the place. 798 00:44:22,644 --> 00:44:28,753 Because the kind of worshipers the Father seeks are those that worship in spirit…" 799 00:44:29,213 --> 00:44:32,664 Listen to me now, this is the point of the whole sermon, "Those that 800 00:44:32,673 --> 00:44:35,743 worship in spirit and in truth." 801 00:44:35,833 --> 00:44:35,903 That's good. 802 00:44:37,133 --> 00:44:43,103 In spirit with the right heart, the right posture, the right humility. 803 00:44:43,963 --> 00:44:44,003 Amen. 804 00:44:44,353 --> 00:44:45,634 Not consumers. 805 00:44:46,594 --> 00:44:47,933 What can I get out of it? 806 00:44:48,664 --> 00:44:49,403 Is it worth it? 807 00:44:49,403 --> 00:44:51,844 I'll only get, contribute as much as I get. 808 00:44:52,423 --> 00:44:54,543 Uh, it's this quid pro quo. 809 00:44:54,553 --> 00:44:57,933 No, that isn't worshiping in spirit and in truth. 810 00:44:59,053 --> 00:45:03,583 Worshiping in spirit and in truth is coming to give yourself to God. 811 00:45:03,754 --> 00:45:03,794 Amen. 812 00:45:04,963 --> 00:45:06,574 And God, speak to me. 813 00:45:07,273 --> 00:45:09,613 I'm your servant, speak to me. 814 00:45:09,623 --> 00:45:09,643 Yeah. 815 00:45:10,553 --> 00:45:12,913 I'll do whatever you ask. 816 00:45:13,563 --> 00:45:14,833 True worshipers. 817 00:45:15,693 --> 00:45:17,123 And then the woman gets… 818 00:45:17,193 --> 00:45:22,523 She says, "Hey, I hear there's a Messiah coming, gonna give us all the answers." 819 00:45:23,803 --> 00:45:25,914 And Jesus says, "That's me." 820 00:45:28,142 --> 00:45:28,582 That's me. 821 00:45:28,611 --> 00:45:31,672 I wish people today were looking for truth that way. 822 00:45:32,582 --> 00:45:35,571 On the plane back, two women sat next to me 823 00:45:38,254 --> 00:45:39,334 They were Samanthas. 824 00:45:40,654 --> 00:45:43,973 The first one had lost her husband tragically, quickly. 825 00:45:44,424 --> 00:45:46,734 One of those widow-maker heart attacks. 826 00:45:47,384 --> 00:45:55,523 They were at his reunion, the 20th or 30th Colorado football reunion. 827 00:45:55,533 --> 00:45:59,363 He played football, defensive tackle in the Orange Bowl. 828 00:45:59,373 --> 00:46:00,963 They won, 1976. 829 00:46:02,764 --> 00:46:06,553 He was, he was, he was a famous athlete c- in my home state. 830 00:46:07,783 --> 00:46:12,913 I'm sitting there a seat away from his wife, and she says, "Yeah, we went. 831 00:46:13,324 --> 00:46:15,703 We got to Boulder and he died." 832 00:46:16,973 --> 00:46:19,674 He was only 56 years old 833 00:46:21,678 --> 00:46:25,798 And then come to find out he was roommates with Pete Cyphers, who was 834 00:46:25,808 --> 00:46:30,147 the quarterback on my ri- the rival high school team that I played against. 835 00:46:30,627 --> 00:46:33,867 And I worked for Pete's dad at the Hertz car lot. 836 00:46:33,868 --> 00:46:37,047 I washed cars for Mr. 837 00:46:37,828 --> 00:46:38,448 Cyphers. 838 00:46:38,448 --> 00:46:42,417 And she goes, "Oh, was that, you know, George Cyphers?" 839 00:46:42,617 --> 00:46:44,477 I go, "I don't know his first name. 840 00:46:44,477 --> 00:46:45,458 I was a kid. 841 00:46:45,518 --> 00:46:46,177 It was Mr. 842 00:46:46,178 --> 00:46:48,038 Cyphers to me," you know? 843 00:46:50,422 --> 00:46:51,832 And so it's a small world. 844 00:46:51,832 --> 00:46:52,592 We're all connected 845 00:46:55,022 --> 00:46:59,212 And I f- I felt bad 'cause then all of a sudden, another woman came and sat 846 00:46:59,212 --> 00:47:01,962 between us, and they started talking. 847 00:47:03,072 --> 00:47:04,452 And I tried to get in there. 848 00:47:04,542 --> 00:47:07,282 I thought, "You know, gotta share my faith," you know? 849 00:47:08,602 --> 00:47:11,671 And they asked me, "So, so what do you do?" 850 00:47:12,462 --> 00:47:14,032 And I go, "I'm… 851 00:47:14,102 --> 00:47:15,192 You know, I do a lot of things. 852 00:47:15,192 --> 00:47:16,161 I'm a minister. 853 00:47:16,161 --> 00:47:18,041 I'm a professor, you know?" 854 00:47:18,041 --> 00:47:23,361 And, and first thing the woman that sat right next to me says 855 00:47:23,381 --> 00:47:25,551 is, "Oh, I'm not religious. 856 00:47:26,961 --> 00:47:28,062 I'm not religious." 857 00:47:28,961 --> 00:47:29,661 Samantha. 858 00:47:30,972 --> 00:47:31,991 She wasn't religious. 859 00:47:33,382 --> 00:47:38,922 And so they got talking, and so I started watching the SC football game. 860 00:47:40,241 --> 00:47:41,241 And then I felt bad. 861 00:47:41,241 --> 00:47:45,302 I felt guilty that I didn't even tell the lady who'd lost 862 00:47:45,302 --> 00:47:47,021 her husband I'm sorry he died. 863 00:47:47,752 --> 00:47:48,602 I'm a chaplain. 864 00:47:49,651 --> 00:47:50,961 I should have said that. 865 00:47:51,991 --> 00:47:59,252 And so the, the hostess comes by and, and asks us for, if we wanna 866 00:47:59,252 --> 00:48:03,141 drink anything, and I got two f- free drink cards when I checked in 867 00:48:05,334 --> 00:48:05,944 I'm special 868 00:48:08,493 --> 00:48:10,493 I just fly on Southwest a lot. 869 00:48:11,214 --> 00:48:12,334 And I didn't want them. 870 00:48:12,334 --> 00:48:17,464 I had a tummy ache, and I didn't wanna drink any alcohol, and, you know, 871 00:48:18,154 --> 00:48:19,594 well, yeah, I just didn't want to. 872 00:48:20,104 --> 00:48:21,654 So I gave them… 873 00:48:21,734 --> 00:48:23,333 I said, "Would you guys like these?" 874 00:48:23,694 --> 00:48:25,523 And then all of a sudden they like me. 875 00:48:26,674 --> 00:48:30,393 Oh, yeah, and they ordered the same thing, and then they turned 876 00:48:30,433 --> 00:48:32,214 towards each other and ignored me. 877 00:48:32,713 --> 00:48:33,053 All right? 878 00:48:36,686 --> 00:48:40,796 But this morning, as I'm preparing, praying about this, I'm thinking 879 00:48:43,928 --> 00:48:45,438 I missed an opportunity. 880 00:48:46,388 --> 00:48:47,658 A couple of Samaritan women. 881 00:48:48,898 --> 00:48:50,678 Should have shared the gospel. 882 00:48:51,068 --> 00:48:52,547 And I told them I was preaching. 883 00:48:52,548 --> 00:48:56,688 I told them even what I was preaching, but they didn't seem that interested. 884 00:48:57,387 --> 00:49:03,627 I gotta figure out a better way to talk to people, and I've been trying for 40 years. 885 00:49:03,877 --> 00:49:06,157 So don't give up trying is the point. 886 00:49:06,818 --> 00:49:07,917 Don't give up trying 887 00:49:10,926 --> 00:49:12,976 There's always something behind it. 888 00:49:14,206 --> 00:49:16,766 The last little bit here, John 4 889 00:49:19,566 --> 00:49:22,596 It talks about the five husbands. 890 00:49:22,596 --> 00:49:24,185 We've already talked about that. 891 00:49:24,596 --> 00:49:27,386 Talked about word of worship, we've talked about that. 892 00:49:28,455 --> 00:49:32,616 And then Jesus declares He's the one, we talked about that. 893 00:49:33,296 --> 00:49:37,475 And then this whole thing of both in. 894 00:49:38,316 --> 00:49:40,435 And that's what we gotta believe. 895 00:49:40,435 --> 00:49:45,225 We gotta believe that Jesus is Lord and Savior. 896 00:49:45,875 --> 00:49:46,405 Amen. 897 00:49:46,615 --> 00:49:46,655 Amen? 898 00:49:46,655 --> 00:49:47,296 Amen. 899 00:49:47,296 --> 00:49:48,535 For us personally. 900 00:49:48,546 --> 00:49:48,576 Yes. 901 00:49:49,275 --> 00:49:52,606 He will help our life be full. 902 00:49:53,235 --> 00:49:54,576 Thank you for your patience. 903 00:49:54,576 --> 00:49:55,866 Thank you for listening. 904 00:49:56,475 --> 00:49:59,185 I hope you've enjoyed going to the well this morning. 905 00:49:59,525 --> 00:50:03,815 It's helped bless me because we're all pilgrims. 906 00:50:04,165 --> 00:50:06,735 And I know I said some strong things, but they're truth. 907 00:50:06,745 --> 00:50:06,785 Amen. 908 00:50:07,435 --> 00:50:07,475 Amen. 909 00:50:07,705 --> 00:50:08,576 It's gospel. 910 00:50:08,755 --> 00:50:09,455 God bless you. 911 00:50:09,516 --> 00:50:09,856 Amen.