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Amen

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The title of today’s message is well springs of living water

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I have a deep conviction in my heart

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that the spirit of the Lord is working to birth a great awakening

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And that sounds like a pretty bold statement

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But I know the things the Lord has shown me and I’ve spoken to others that the Lord has spoken really clearly too in the amount of

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agreement between the things that the Lord is showing is not coincidental

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A lot of the people that I’ve spoken to have had actual specific revelations from God about this geographical region

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And again they were so similar in the details that you just can’t write it off as just imagination and wishful thinking

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I understand that a lot of times people talk about God is going to move that there’s going to be a revival And a lot of times people feel like we’ve heard this all before and nothing ever seems to happen and nothing ever seems to change

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But many people here remember the Jesus movement

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in our church which is a pretty exciting thing that we have people in our church that actually were there

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Many of us remember the Charismatic Renewal

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And there are times when the spirit of God starts moving in a manner

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that is spectacular And I really believe that we are on the brink of God doing something amazing

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I believe that every great awakening begins with a revelation from God’s Word

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because it’s a revelation that brings transformation

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I mean really when you think of even better than revival or awakening is the reformation

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you know by grace alone through faith alone according to God’s word alone we realize that we’re saved by grace through faith And we found freedom and liberty in Jesus Christ And it was transformational

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I think a lot of the other moves of God it came when people had a revelation in God’s of God’s Word and it started to transform lives in a way that people took notice and said wow he’s alive He’s real I can see he’s at work because I can see it in the change that I see in the people of God

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And I believe that God is doing that right now

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No I won’t lie that this message is also going to be a shameless plug for our Thursday Night life group

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And we and I actually chucked the message I was going to preach because I thought we need to plug the Thursday Night life group

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And while we were there on Thursday night

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it just dawned on me This is the perfect context to frame the thing that the Lord has put in my heart because really a lot of scriptures teach the same thing if that makes sense A revelation of Jesus an encounter with Jesus brings total life transformation

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I just the truth

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I also wanted to reconnect with the

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word that’s been on my heart that we started recently And it is how stories shape lives

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the stories that we read the stories that we listen to the stories that we watch the stories that we share and that we tell they create our worldview and our values and they shape how we live and how we act

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And a lot of people are feeding on a lot of stories that don’t bring life they bring death

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And the story that brings the greatest life and life transformation is found in the Word of God

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And every other story as it reflects that story brings life and transformation

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I find it really amazing that Western civilization in many ways was built through Western literature

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And if you want to talk about the word of God being the fountain of all light because it’s the very voice of God If the spirit quickens it to us

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but when the spirit doesn’t quicken it to us then it can be dead

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And that’s what scripture says But when the spirit of God quickens his word it’s total transformation And then you it’s kind of like you have emanations from God’s Word then we have Christian books like the one we gave out for Mother’s Day You know you can see the clear

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inheritance from the Bible when you read a Christian book But then what you find western civilization was built through fiction where it wasn’t Christian literature but the values and ideas of scripture were

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the various fountain of that literature Does that make sense And anywhere that the stories that we feed on agree with the word of God they bring life and transformation

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but they’re still

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back to the source

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the word of God

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So I’m gonna read a story that

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I believe is a model for a great awakening

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because I believe we’re going to see a great awakening and I’m gonna read John 4 28 to 30

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The woman then left her water Pott and went on her way to the city And she said to the men come see a man who told me all things that I ever did Could this be the Christ

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Then they went out of the city and came to him

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John 4 42

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Then they said to the woman Now we believe not because of what you said for We ourselves have heard him and we know that this is indeed the Christ

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the savior of the world

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That woman went to a whole city

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and the whole city listened to this woman and that whole city went out to see Jesus And after they met Jesus and heard his words

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they said now we know and believe this is the Christ the Savior of the world

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How quickly did that whole city become transformed

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That whole city had a great awakening or revival or whatever whatever language you like to use to talk about it all Because one woman first experienced an awakening

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one woman had an encounter with Jesus one

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and now the whole city is transformed

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Do the math on that

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How many months How many years did that woman pray How many years did she speak to them and try to persuade them and convince them that Jesus is the Christ

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And a suddenly because she had an encounter and a revelation of Jesus she now had such light

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and became a living testimony

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in the most profound way

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that the whole city took notice

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and came out to meet Jesus

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And they also had an encounter because they saw the transformation in this woman

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as a sign

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or a miracle of the transformative power of Jesus Christ

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pretty powerful isn’t it

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Now what I did There was kind of gave the story out of context And I get that because I wanted to highlight the actual principle of great awakening

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An encounter with Jesus brings transformation and out of that authentic encounter with Jesus

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out of an abundance of life because I’ve experienced him

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a whole city can be transformed like that

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Don’t think God can’t do it again today

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and don’t think it has to come from an unbeliever having an encounter with God

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Any one of us here

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today

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this week

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could have an encounter with God

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that could change everything

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into the level of the revelation of Jesus Christ that we receive and it changes our heart you could almost say would be the level that it’s going to make an impact

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I’ve already been hearing stories

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in the last couple of weeks about some of the truths that we’re talking about here this morning as people have been putting them into practice how miracles have been happening Isn’t that right

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And it’s exciting to me

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So let’s talk a little bit about the woman at the Well

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the beginning of the story kind of begins at the end of John chapter three because you first have to ask the question what is Jesus doing here in Samaria

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What is he doing here at the Well I mean he was busy having a wonderful baptizing ministry

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in Israel

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And then it says at the end of John chapter three that when Jesus heard of the Pharisees debate with the disciples of John he departed

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John the baptist was baptizing a whole bunch of people and Jesus and his disciples were baptizing a whole bunch of people

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And when Jesus heard that the Pharisees were troubling

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the disciples of John saying hey disciples of John guess what

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His disciples are baptizing more than you Your disciples are

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trying to sow division trying to sow controversy trying to get into debate trying to get into an argument

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And the disciples of John got into the argument

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and John gave a great response He must increase and I must decrease

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But Jesus just wanders off time to go Why Because people need to have an encounter with me an encounter with life not an argument

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or an intellectual debate

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Interesting isn’t it

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And so Jesus says I we I have need to go through Samaria I have to go through Samaria And that was the first thing that caught my attention like well no you didn’t

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you didn’t have to go through Samaria when you look at it one way Well what do you mean Well the Jews know how unclean Samaria is We can’t have anything to do with those Samaritans So we will go all the way around Samaria

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But Jesus goes right through Samaria

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I need to go through Samaria

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Well why do you need to go through Samaria

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Because the father’s heart

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is going to bring a great awakening

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not just to a city but first to a woman

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I need to go meet with this woman

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and it was a divine appointment

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And whether is that Jacobs Well

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this woman comes

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in Jesus the scripture tells us was thirsty

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But in that moment he heard the father in that moment his compassion was awakened In that moment he could see I mean he could see from the context as pastor Mike brought out in the last couple of weeks she was coming to the well at a time that only an outcast would come somebody who was not part of the greater community

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So just from that he could have known But I think that even more than that he knew he could see the continence on that woman

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When somebody walks in the presence of God and walks in the love of God you can see Brokenness and your heart goes out with compassion

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not judgmentalism

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And so Jesus

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asks her for a drink

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and she can tell he’s a rabbi

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and she’s like how is it that you being a Jew

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are asking me for a drink because it was provocative

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She was a woman He was a man and they were alone Somebody forgot to tell Jesus the rules

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but he starts up a conversation with her

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And as he gets into that conversation he said if you knew who it was who asked you to give me a drink you would have asked him and he would have given you living waters

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huh

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Whoever drinks of this water from this well will thirst again But whoever drinks the water that I shall give will never thirst again

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And that that whole word I could get sidetracked in a rabbit trail because that is such a profound and weighty word isn’t it But it is the truth that when we drink of the Holy Spirit

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when we drink of his presence We find the deepest level satisfaction

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We find the greatest dignity and self worth We find the it it really is Well said it is a pearl of great price or a treasure hidden in a field that when you find it you sell all you have to possess it

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because it’s just like the light turning on and the darkness You know it’s like all the colors and beauty and it’s like passing from death to life It is so good to know him

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and to experience him and have a relationship with him

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It’s transformative

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But I mean I could also just say

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the whole idea of never having to drink water again is a good curiosity isn’t it And so she said give me some of this water

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give me some of this water Sure I’ll take some of this water maybe say water that you’ll never have to drink from again Sure Give me some of this water I mean you really can’t tell from scripture what the spirit of what was said was we just get the literal words But

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I think either one would be is probably accurate Like yes let me have some of that water like yeah let me have some of that water

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And what Jesus said to her was so profound

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go call your husband and come here

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and she says I don’t have a husband

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And he said well said you don’t have a husband You’ve had five husbands and the man you’re with now is not your husband

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It’s that point

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of how we interpret that part of the encounter that I believe is where the changing of the wine skin is happening

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so that new wine can be poured out

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A lot of the ways we perceive scripture a lot of the ways that we relate to one another A lot of the ways we present the gospel comes from inherited traditions

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We might not even realize their inherited traditions because they’re so deeply ingrained

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And so one of the traditions is that he is calling out her sin

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You want the living water first I need to make you feel really bad

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I need to point out how sinful and wretched you are

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but he never talks about forgiveness or anything else in this passage Does he

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there’s no this encounter created the transformation in her

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Now I believe that what we were seeing was a word of knowledge

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And I really when I read a lot of the passages of scripture I believe that Jesus operated this way often

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Like when another woman says you know is asking Jesus for healing

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and he says to the woman it’s not good to give the children’s bread to dogs

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One you’re like wow Jesus you’re mean right

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But I think when I study scripture that what Jesus is doing is he knows that people usually have an angel on one side and a devil on the other What do you mean

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Hey have you heard about the angel Hey have you heard about Jesus Yeah he’s healing people Yeah He’s a Jewish rabbi

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He could heal you

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He’s speaking well

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Then the devil he won’t heal you You’re no good You have no worth You’re a gentile

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And so they she’s wrestling with the truth and the lie

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Do you see what I’m saying

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But she does the right thing She comes to Jesus

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And I think when Jesus said that he was giving voice to what she was saying in her heart this wrestling between

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a conversation she was already having and she he Jesus voiced what she was wrestling with and then she voiced but yes even the dogs eat the scraps She was voicing her little piece of hope

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that maybe Jesus would be different

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And sure enough her hope did not disappoint

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He was giving her a revelation

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of the character and nature of God He wasn’t being a jerk

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And I think that’s what was happening here

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This woman came to the well she was already an outcast She had been with five husbands and now I I’m not even gonna get bothered bothered to get married again because they’ve all failed I don’t know what’s going on But I know she already felt guilt and shame She had been living under guilt and shame She did not need to be made to feel more guilty and to experience more shame

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But I think the Lord gave that word to let her know I know you

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and I’m here talking with you

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I know you I know everything you’ve done

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but I love you

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And if you will receive this revelation

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of the Father

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it will transform your whole life

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And then they kind of have a little more dialogue and encounter

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He doesn’t hardly do this anywhere

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But for this woman

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we know when the Christ comes

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he who speaks to you is he

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boom

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This woman who was an outcast who lived in so much shame

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She leaves her water pot and runs into the city

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She had just experienced the breaking of guilt and shame in her life by how Jesus received her

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And she is so overflowing with this encounter with Jesus that living water is now flowing from her It’s that wellspring of living water even though the Holy Spirit has not yet fully been poured out this encounter with Jesus changed everything And now the people in the city see the woman coming who normally would have been too ashamed to show her face

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Here is this woman coming and they can see her whole continent has changed The guilt is gone The shame is gone

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When you’re ashamed you don’t want to have any contact with anyone

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When you’re ashamed you don’t have real depth of friendship and relationship

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When you have shame you want to isolate and disconnect and keep everybody at arm’s length

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But in that encounter with Jesus her guilt and shame was broken And it was such a blessing in her life that she had to share it with somebody She has to share it with everybody

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It wasn’t Well now that you know that I’m the Christ now it’s your moral obligation to go and tell everybody that you know that I am the Christ

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driven by the law driven by legalism

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You didn’t go and tell everybody you should feel bad

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We’re seeing an image of how living water flows

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so different

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an encounter with Jesus where the love of God filled her heart and she went he didn’t tell her to go She went she couldn’t contain it I’m overflowing I got to go tell everybody We found that Christ is so exciting and she was so transformed She doesn’t even realize I should be ashamed to go talk to these people

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If he has forgiven me I am forgiven If he’s not ashamed of me then my shame is gone because the only one who matters has received me

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And I just want them to know the same Jesus that I know

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I want them to experience the same love of God in Jesus Christ I want them to have the same encounter that I have had This is an awakening this is revival This is rivers of living water beginning to flow the wells being unstopped It’s a completely different church

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than a church driven by legalism driven by fear driven by guilt driven by even duty

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It’s a church driven by the love of God has possessed our hearts and we cannot contain it

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And it all the epicenter is how do we see Jesus dealt with this woman at the well

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to awaken those rivers of living water

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It’s pretty wild isn’t it

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It’s a revelation of the heart of God

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And and I really find that exciting because when we began the book of John there it was John 3 16 through 18 the most well known scripture in the Bible

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So well known that we all have it memorized but it’s good to read again for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life for God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world but that the world through Him might be saved He who believes in Him is not condemned

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but he who does not believe is condemned already because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God

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There’s a reason why that is the most popular scripture

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It speaks to the very heart of God doesn’t it

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The greatest event Well

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the greatest events in history were all around the life of Jesus One of the greatest events in history was the incarnation

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but this is not the only talking about the incarnation it’s also talking about the crucifixion

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God so loved the world

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that he gave his only begotten son

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While we were yet enemies Christ died for us

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to let the weight of that message sink in

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We we can look at the world we can look out at the world everything that’s happening in the world Look at all the people in the world look at the people in our lives and we can get focused on the negatives We can join the accuser of the brethren the great fault finder The one who finds wrong in everything

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God chooses to remember the good

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and forget what is wrong to cover faults and love And he looked down on this broken mess of humanity

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and he saw what we read here A condemned building What do you mean It’s dilapidated it’s falling apart They’re perishing

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They are already perishing before I sent my son they are falling to pieces condemned It’s a condemned house right

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He did not come to this world to dilapidate the house He didn’t come into the world to condemn it

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He came to save it and he’s the only way that they might be saved

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And God looked at these people that were trashing the house

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and he saw something

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worth loving

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He saw something that was worth loving and he found so valuable that he said I will give my only son

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to redeem them

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Please get this love into your heart

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because this is the kind of love that breaks through the darkness of the world that is out there

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This is the love that tears down walls

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that sets at liberty the captive that

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brings that total life transformation He so loved the world that he gave his only son

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And we see it there at that woman at the well he loved her

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and he called her from death to life

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It’s beautiful isn’t it It’s beautiful

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And and that’s what we see John starts the gospel that way

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And then he tells stories that flesh it out

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If we can read it under the heart of God in the grace of God

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I believe that God is creating new wine skins for new wine

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that he’s trying to be a revelation of the grace of God that will become a well of living water flowing out of this region

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I’ve already seen it as we’ve been talking about these truths People have told me what has happened in their life and it’s been nothing short of miraculous

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instead of bringing judgmentalism instead of bringing criticism instead of bringing fault

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and you’re not good enough

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and you should be ashamed of yourself And you are the problem

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Simple things like when Mike told somebody I love you brother

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and it started a snowball rolling hasn’t it

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Pastor David telling stories

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about how this has been bringing transformation and changing cultures

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in our in our lives

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This truth of the heart of God

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that can look into this world and see something worth dying for something worth loving something of value even in the dirt admire of fallen humanity God put that heart into us put that love into us Lord God teach us to love Well

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teach us to have compassion and mercy and grace and teach us how to overflow with rivers of living water so that we would go

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and bring an awakening so that others can know him too

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As I was saying earlier much of the way that we see interpret scripture comes from deeply ingrained traditions We often read of the challenges the church has faced in the past and sometimes even the Old Testament believers don’t we

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And we do not realize that we fight the same challenges today in different forms

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And we were talking about this on Thursday night It it I’ve always found it intriguing

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you like when we talk about the selling of indulgences one of the great stories of history the reformation of the church right When the coin in the coffer rings a soul out of purgatory springs What are you doing Well somebody bought a position and we need to build a Sistine chapel So we’re raising money through manipulation through fear through intimidation through control through things that are out of bounds things that are contrary to the kingdom

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and a monk is so provoked

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that it lights a fire

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But do you ever ask why did this work with the people

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because they wanted to be express their devotion to God

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That’s the part that’s often missed

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They wanted to express their devotion to God

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And you can you know when you start to think about how the selling of indulgences becomes easy grace how we we bought our indulgence we can go do what we want

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And then we see today

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I’ve been saved I can do what I want

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We we have the same

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challenges facing the church today It hasn’t changed

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And the one that we were really talking about on Thursday was self flagellation

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You know where a monk would get down on his knees have a bare back get a whip and whip it until it bleeds

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doing penance for his sins because I have to feel really bad about my sin I have to show God how bad I really feel and how awful I feel and I have to be beaten up really bad for my sin

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And we and we look at that and we go are you kidding me

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You’re missing it monk

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You don’t get it You’re missing the heart of God You’re missing the heart of grace You’re missing what Christ has done Rivers of living water are not flowing out of that

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But then but it was but it was driven by piety

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Do you see what I’m saying Driven by piety It was sincere 100% sincere But if you want to take a cup and get some water from it You’re not going to find any there’s no living water out of that And you say well what’s your point We do the same thing with ourselves and with each other

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If I don’t beat you up really bad about your sin and make you feel really bad and don’t even guilt you and condemn you and manipulate you into acting better

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Then we haven’t had church

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and we don’t realize that where you become addicted to the very same experiences

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it is just shown up in another form And then if we don’t get that experience that makes us feel like we’ve done our duty then we feel like we haven’t done church

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But that has never changed the world It never gave us a woman at the well it never turned around a whole city in the snap of a finger

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But that’s what we do don’t we

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And as we’ve been talking about these ideas people have been telling more and more stories like on Thursday again a pastor who started hearing these truths and he started what what he said is well if I actually trust grace

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and let people exhibit free will and make their own choices then they’re gonna go sinning

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I’ve got to control them

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I gotta keep them in line

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But he became convinced by the word of God and did different

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and they went about sinning

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and then he realized

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this was in their heart all along

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All he did was make a white washed supper

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We like things to look good on the outside

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When inwardly they’re full of dead men bones

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I’ll read that a little later

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But I want to read Colossians two 21st

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Because what we’re talking about is living under the Principalities and powers We’re talking about living under bondage and in slavery command cultures authoritarianism externals making ourselves feeling good feel good because we’ve kept the rules but there’s no living water

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Colossians 2 20 to 23 Therefore if you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world why is though living in the world do you subject yourselves to regulations Do not touch do not taste do not handle which all concern the things which perish with the using according to the commandments and doctrines of men These things indeed have an appearance of wisdom

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in self imposed religion false humility and neglect of the body but are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh

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Wasn’t that what I was just talking about God wants to break us out of the old wine skins that make us feel good by feeling really bad

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and get hold of the heart of God

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And it is offensive

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It’s offensive I won’t lie It’s offensive but we have to really trust God don’t we

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God has to work for a person to be born again They have to be begotten of imperishable Seed that’s his seed Not ours

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Once they are born again they become his Children Ok People who know me know I kind of have a bad sense of humor

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and when I’m in a kind of that mood it it just hit me I was talking to somebody the other day and I said you know you see these these slogans right Guns don’t kill people

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husbands who come home early

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And I said oh that has a sorry Yes sorry Yes I I my wife told me I crossed the line Happy Mother’s Day

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But no I was thinking of see you gotta be able to think about everything because I was thinking about that because there’s really an interesting thought there for the church

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it’s his bride don’t touch

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it’s his bride don’t touch It’s his people it’s his flock

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They’re his Children

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now makes sense right The rabbit trail

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But I say this because controlling manipulating

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that’s what that pastor is afraid of

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But it was just whitewashed supple curse It wasn’t getting to the heart it wasn’t transforming it was creating dependence It wasn’t raising people mature in Christ

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You could you could have an argument God God why did you let the protocol go with the in the parable right Why did you let the protocol go Why didn’t you beat him down Why didn’t you control him Why didn’t you dominate him and for the love of God why did you give him his inheritance

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And why didn’t you make him feel like total rubbish when he came home

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Because I’m trying to let you know the heart of the father so that you can reproduce it for God so loved the world Lord let that love get into us let this wisdom get into us God lets people make their own choices He lets them go their own way And when somebody comes to church when they come to Christ you know like this is the proverbial pastor’s kid problem

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I think the pastor kids problem has been revealing a deeper problem We care more about how people act on the outside than what’s happening in the heart And so we put all kinds of pressure on how they need to behave externally

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to make it look good to the people so that we won’t be stoned by the people

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and don’t realize that if it’s not if it’s not real in a person and they’re you’re making them put on a form it’s hypocrisy

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It’s a whitewash sepal

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But we we would you have to have a whitewash sale because if they saw what was really in the heart

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But that’s what Jesus did with that word of knowledge wasn’t it I know what’s really in your heart and I love you

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I know what’s really in your heart and I love you

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And that is the shame that so many people live under

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If they really knew me

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if they really knew what I was like If they really understood who I am

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they would hate me

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bondage

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death

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And we were just talking about how these forms are killing the church We have these forms that make us feel like we did church and we feel good

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and it says but it has no power against the indulgence of the flesh It’s not looking at the outcome It’s not looking is a life really being transformed It it’s not really looking if wherever of living water are flowing

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as long as my religious observance have made has made me feel holy or good or righteous

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And at some point it’s got a shift I know him whom I believe and he has been good to me and he loves me and he is faithful And when I mess up his grace comes back and and when I mess up again his grace comes back again And then and I say Lord I don’t wanna take your grace in vain but

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his mercy and grace

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changes you from the inside out

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when he knows everything about you And he does And he says I love you

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and I died for you and I’ve forgiven you and I care about you

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It changes you from the inside out

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and the church needs to be really about outcome being outcome driven rather than rules regulations and

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the things that I just read about in Colossians our lives being changed Are we growing in love Are we growing in compassion

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And I I’ve been talking a lot about Bob Mumford lately because I’ve been thinking about him

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and uh you know because I’ve

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really enjoyed listening to his messages when I was a young believer

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And then many years later I thought I’m gonna look up Bob Mumford and find out what he was talking about at the time I haven’t looked him up in I won’t tell you how long but it’s been a long time His time goes by fast doesn’t it

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And when I looked him up again because he had got into the shepherding movement Like a lot of people who love the Lord did and made a lot of shipwrecks of a lot of people’s lives and destroyed families Legalism kills

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legalism kills people need to hear God for themselves Follow God for themselves trust God for themselves and have the freedom to make mistakes and still be loved

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and appreciated

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And when I had looked him up many years later he was teaching about agape

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agape love And we hear about that What you know in the scripture a whole new word for love agape love And you hear it defined in many ways And you know one of the ways that it’s often defined is the very love that God has in himself is that very love that we were just talking about for God so loved the world that he gave

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and he

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had built a whole ministry around this idea of agape love

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and the way he described it is it’s love without a hook

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that the gospel or the grace of God or Jesus Christ takes the hooks out of love I do for what’s in it for me

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I give for what I will receive

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Hm There’s a lot of hooks in the church aren’t there

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It’s all about me and what will I get Me me me me me

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And I and I really make a point in my conviction that Jesus healed just because he loved

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he didn’t heal to prove he is almighty God and powerful and able to heal He healed because he loved and he didn’t expect you to come and become his disciple You owe me now because I healed you Now you better follow me He healed went away 10 lepers cleansed Only one came back

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He was OK with that outcome

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because he came back out of his free will And if you asked him Lord would you do it again after they were not grateful at all And they didn’t become your disciples I would do it again and again and again because God so loves the world

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Wow

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rivers of living water When we get hold of these truths

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rivers of living water

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You see I think that what we’re talking about here like recently a number of you know time flies doesn’t it

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A while back when we were preaching on Sunday And I said one of the things that is really special about life Springs Church is there’s authenticity

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A lot of people really authentically committed to living for Jesus loving one another trying to be real

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and really having a heart after God Authenticity

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I think the world is dying and looking for authenticity

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And the other side of authenticity is hypocrisy

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It’s putting on a mask that’s what it means to put on a mask to be an actor

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Matthew 23 27 through 28 Who do you scribes and Pharisees hypocrites

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You are like whitewashed tombs which indeed appear beautiful outwardly but inside are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness even So you also outwardly appear righteous to men but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness

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White washed seal curse

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A lot of the church is living in that realm and doesn’t realize it

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It’s not it’s not insincere A lot of the Pharisees were not insincere

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but it’s not realizing that we need to learn how to get to the heart

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You can get people following the rules externally through coercion You remove that coercion you have no idea what you’ll really have left

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When you remove the coercion we find what’s really in the heart

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And if we’re not developing what is real what is authentic and deep life covenant and commitment and relationship with Jesus Christ

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then we’re missing It

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lives are not becoming more and more like him

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then we’re missing it

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If we’re not growing in love and mercy and grace and compassion and we’re just putting on a show we’re missing it

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But you know what I think that a lot of times people will do the whitewash seal curve because inwardly they’re filled with guilt and shame

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It’s really hard to think about that isn’t it

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And it’s only when he says to that woman I know you

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and I love you

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I know you and I love you

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And to think that he says to each one of us and every one of us I know you

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and I love you

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That’s what breaks down the wall so that we can tear down the whitewash seal Curs and go for authenticity

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In reality

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It has to be about life transformation reproducing the life of Christ not talking about it

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It’s about loving Well it may actually include laughing Well it may include enjoying each other’s company and celebrating life together and being full of righteousness Peace and joy

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Exactly The joy of the Lord is my strength How can you have any joy when you’re full of guilt and shame How can you have any joy when you are playing an actor

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A hypocrite

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when you’re pretending

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Why are you pretending Because I am hurt because I am broken because I’m no good I’m gonna go get water when nobody else is around because I don’t even want I don’t want them to see me I am so ashamed

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I don’t want anybody to see me I’m so ashamed I’m going to whitewash the supper because I don’t want them to see me Because if they do they’ll never love me There’s a world out there that is living in that reality

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And only those that have this love of God in Jesus Christ are gonna wake him up

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They need an encounter with Jesus

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What we’re trying to build in this church is a context for life transformation

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One of the things I love about community

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is it’s the opportunity to forgive isn’t it Dave

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Even on a Sunday morning

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It it’s it’s a it’s a context to deal with conflict and crisis And people say oh that’s a terrible thing If there’s conflict no the the the opportunities where we learn to love and forgive And if they were more like Jesus they wouldn’t they wouldn’t be such a pain in the air

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If I was more like Jesus I might love him anyway because they’re not they don’t live to please me or you they live to please the Lord And if he hasn’t changed their hearts yet then he’s called us to love them like he loves them

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and forgive them But we’re not talking about license to sin We’re talking about loving a broken fallen world into life

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But that’s what we’re trying to build Here is authentic Christian community It’s not yes programs can be helpful but we treat it like I passed this course This course this course this course Now I’ve got my degree mature Christian

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We’d like program program program

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God can use programs But it’s usually because in the programs we’re making friends

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it’s the relationships that matter

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It’s the word of God

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illuminated by the Holy Spirit transforming us It’s that

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life of Christ embodied in one another experience in the context of relationship That’s what’s transformative And if a program brings that praise the Lord

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but if you have a program with a bunch of Pharisees all you’re going to do is make them 10 times the devil

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It’s about authenticity in life You see where I’m going

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It’s and so I would say authentic friendships are so important But I mentioned before that this would be a shameless plug for the life group because I’ve we’ve really been enjoying it haven’t we That people have been there And it is a time to have fellowship and to get around God’s word and to be together and to build relationship to connect to know one another

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I wrap it up with transformation comes from an encounter with in revelation of Jesus

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That’s what happened at the well that day

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the woman that woman had an encounter with Jesus the Christ

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she had a revelation

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He is the Christ

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She had a revelation

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of the heart of the father Jesus said have you been with me so long And you don’t know whoever has seen me

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has seen the Father

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What we just read was a revelation of the Father for God so loved the world that encounter at the well was a revelation of our father who art in heaven

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And that revelation

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transformed her instantly

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and became a wellspring of living water

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that she went

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to the city

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to she trampled on her guilt and shame It was gone Where was it I don’t know I lost it somewhere where probably with that guy Jesus

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come and see

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We have found the Christ

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great awakening

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not months not years

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but in an instant

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from a transformed life Lord let that revelation get into us because that can happen today

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That can happen to any one of us today

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A greater revelation of Jesus a greater revelation of his heart a greater revelation of his love for us

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And now rivers will start to flow

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and we can’t contain them

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and it can impact whole communities

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It can become a fire that can burn through the nations rivers flowing washing away sin not through condemnation

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put through an encounter

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and a revelation

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in Jesus mighty name

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Hallelujah