Greg Robinson – Now We Believe- John’s Guide to Growing Our Faith – Class 3 – In Spirit and Truth

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This is day four of the 2025
Idyllwild Bible School, our

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first grade teachers by the Greg
Robinson.

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His general topic is Now We
believe, John’s guide to growing

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our faith.
Today’s topic is in Spirit and

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Truth for the Great.
All right.

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Good morning, everyone.
All right, Impressive how quiet

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everybody got there.
At first I thought that was

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maybe a stunt or something like
that.

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But all right, so we’re going to
be looking at the woman at the

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well this morning.
Before we start out with that,

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just a quick reminder about
yesterday’s lesson.

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A lot of similarities actually
that have have been noted by by

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people between Nicodemus and the
woman at the well.

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So our key lesson from yesterday
was unless we’re born of water

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and the Spirit, we cannot enter
into the Kingdom of God.

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So today then we’re going to be
looking at the woman at the

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well, and she’s a woman that
belonged to a group that had an

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incredible spiritual heritage.
And that’s brought out in John.

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Just with some of the details
that we’re going to look at.

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It was a heritage full of
brethren that had incredible

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faith.
And the woman was very proud.

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You can tell of that heritage
and she subscribed to its

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rituals.
She subscribed to the traditions

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of her group.
You might say that she actually

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fights for those things, but
Jesus shows her in this chapter

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that her worship wasn’t what God
was looking for.

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It had to be more than rituals
and traditions.

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It had to be life changing.
That’s the the key lesson that

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we’re going to see, I think this
morning in looking at the woman

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at the well, the Samaritan woman
at the well.

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And so our our 4th class is
titled in spirit and in truth

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and it’s found, as you know, in
John chapter 4.

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So let’s let’s open our Bibles
up to John chapter 4, the end of

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at the end of chapter 3.
Jesus work in Judea has met with

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a lot of success.
You’ll remember that his work is

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eclipsing the work of John the
Baptist.

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His disciples are baptizing more
and John says he must increase,

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but I must decrease.
And at the beginning of chapter

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4, Jesus seems to be getting
pressure now.

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He seems to be getting noticed
by the Pharisees significantly.

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And so he decides he’s going to
head back to Galilee.

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Now John chapter 4 verse 4 says
that he had he had to pass

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through Samaria.
The King James Version says he

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must needs go through Samaria.
So this gives us the idea that

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that somehow Jesus maybe was
directed to go through Samaria.

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Usually the Jews would travel
around Samaria they wouldn’t go

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through.
If you look at the map there,

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you’ll see there’s a a green
route that went on the left side

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going around on the West side of
Samaria.

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In the red, there was a a route
that went to the east across the

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Jordan, but the white route was
the one that was the quickest

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route, and that’s the one
through Samaria.

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If they were going up to
Galilee, if they’re going up

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there, they would never take
because it went through Samaria.

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Now why would they do that?
Why would they always go way

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around Samaria instead of going
through Samaria?

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That’s because the Jews and the
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do with each other.
Now, what do we know about the

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Samaritans?
Well, the Samaritans had their

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own version of the Law of Moses.
They used the first five books

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of the Bible.
That’s all they used.

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That was their Bible, the laws
in the Samaritan Bible, the

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Pentateuch.
The first five books were mostly

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the same as the ones in the
Jewish Pentateuch.

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So it’s interesting, the
Samaritans observed the laws of

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Moses with the same attention to
detail as the Jews, but they

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each had their own traditions
and rituals, and they each had

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surprisingly their own temple.
So here’s what Josephus tells

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us.
This is from Easton’s

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dictionary.
It says Josephus relates that

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sand ballot built a temple for
the Samaritans on this mountain.

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That’s Speaking of of Mount
Gerizim, which was where their

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temple was as as that says, who
was Sand Ballot?

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Yep.
Horan Knight.

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What did he do?
What was the what’s the thing

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he’s famous for?
Maybe.

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Yeah, for certain.
Right.

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When they were, when they were
trying to rebuild the wall, when

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they were trying to do that in
Nehemiah’s time, he was always

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in the way of the work and
always trying to stop the work.

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Well, at the same time, guess
what he’s doing.

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He’s building this temple for
the Samaritans, of which he’s a

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group.
So he builds his own and

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instituted A priesthood as
rivals to those of the Jews at

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Jerusalem.
His temple was destroyed after

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it stood for 200 years, and it
was afterwards built by Herod

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the Great.
There is a Samaritan tradition

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that Mount Gerizim was the scene
of the incident recorded in

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Genesis chapter 22.
Do you know what the incident of

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Genesis 22 is?
That’s Abraham going to OfferUp

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Isaac, right?
So they believed that that

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actually happened on Mount
Gerizim, which is where their

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temple was built.
All right, so that’s that’s what

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he has to say about that.
Excuse me.

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All right, so the Samaritans
believed in God, but their

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belief was filled with man made
rituals and traditions.

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It was like the religion of the
Jews.

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It was a religion of appearance
in many ways, and most people in

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that religion did not end up
with a saving belief.

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So on his way to Galilee, Jesus
went the way that no one else

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would have gone.
And he goes right up through

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Samaria.
And verse 5 of of John chapter 4

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says so.
He came to a town of Samaria

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called Sicar.
Sicar is thought to have been a

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small village, possibly by
Shechem.

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It’s thought to have been even
maybe just another name for

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Shechem.
So we know where this is.

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He’s at Shechem, and it says
that it’s near the field that

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Jacob had given to his son
Joseph.

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Now we have to do a little bit
of digging, if you’re like me,

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to figure out exactly what that
story was and what’s involved

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with that.
But it’s important to the story

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to understand that.
So we’re going to go through

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just a few verses to get a feel
for this field that Jacob gave

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to his son Joseph.
And 1st we’re going to go to

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Joshua chapter 24.
So Joshua chapter 24 is the

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chapter when all of Israel
gathered.

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It’s at the end of Joshua, all
of Israel gathers together and

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Joshua calls them, you remember
the, the words he calls them to

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choose who they’re going to
serve.

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He says, As for me and my house,
we will serve the Lord, We will

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serve Yahweh.
So I think it’s it’s worth

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making a note of this in your
Bible in John four and maybe

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maybe back in in Joshua as well.
So Joshua chapter 24, verse 22

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tells us about the field that
Jacob gave to Joseph at Shechem.

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Joshua 24 verse 32 says, As for
the bones of Joseph, which the

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people of Israel brought up from
Egypt, they buried them at

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Shechem.
So not only did Jacob give the

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land to Joseph, but Joseph in
the end ends up being buried

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there, it says in the piece of
land that Jacob bought from the

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sons of Hamor, the father of
Shechem, for 100 pieces of

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money.
So this is one of those rare

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times when, when the one of the
patriarchs actually owns land in

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the promised land, it became an
inheritance of the descendants

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of Joseph, we’re told.
So the field that Jacob bought,

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he gives as an inheritance
specially to Joseph and Israel.

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The nation takes Joseph’s bones
many years later, there to be

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buried.
All right, so that gives us some

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information.
Let’s go over to Genesis 33.

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So now we’re looking at the
context.

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The context is of Jacob just
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Genesis 33 and 19.
And he has come now safely to

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Shechem, Genesis 3319, it says.
And from the sons of Hamor,

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Shechem’s father, he bought for
100 pieces of money the piece of

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land on which he had pitched his
tent.

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So he bought the land.
And what does he do?

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It says there he erected an
altar and he called it El Elohi

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Israel.
It’s interesting to know that at

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this place.
So Jacob buys it and he buys it

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so that he can build an altar
there.

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And it’s also the place where
Abraham had built an altar back

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in Genesis chapter 12.
He builds an altar there when he

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first comes into the land.
And then we’ll, we’ll, we saw

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as, as in the reading this
morning that there’s a, there’s

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a well that Jacob digs in that
same place.

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So Jacob gave his son Joseph
this field.

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It’s got a well on it.
It’s got an altar on it.

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And Abraham had also built an
altar on the same place.

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So this is a very, very
important place.

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The this place that is, is so
important to Joseph that he asks

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for his bones to be carried
there.

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So come with me to Genesis
chapter 50, Genesis 50.

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Joseph is is about to to die and
he says to his brothers, I’m

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about to die, but God will visit
you.

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This is verse 24.
God will visit you and bring you

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up out of this land to the land
that he swore to Abraham, to

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Isaac and to Jacob.
And then Joseph made his sons,

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the sons of Israel swear saying,
God will surely visit you and

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you should carry up my bones
from here.

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So Joseph died being 110 years
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They embalmed him and he was put
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So Joseph is saying, I believe
that we are going back to the

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promised land and I believe that
I will be there, that I will be

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raised to life again.
I want that to be where I am

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raised to life again.
Joseph never forgot the hope of

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the Kingdom and he wanted Israel
never to forget the hope, the

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promises that have been given.
So I think this highlights for

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us the the faith that Joseph had
about God’s promises.

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He’d spent 85% of his life in
Egypt, but all he wanted was to

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end up in the promised land.
That’s where his heart was.

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And so he asks the whole nation
then to take him back to this

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land.
In fact, this is is such an

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indication of his faith that
this is what Hebrews 11 picks up

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as the key moment of his faith.
So let’s go to Hebrews 11, verse

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22.
Hebrews 11/22 says by faith,

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Joseph when he died, made
mention of the departing of the

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children of Israel and gave
commandment concerning his

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bones.
So the time of his death, this

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was the only thing that was
important to him, the promised

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land.
And one more verse that we’ll

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look at just as as we’re
researching this is back in

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Genesis 49.
It’s a prophecy made by Jacob

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and Jacob makes those prophecies
about his sons.

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And here’s what he says about
Joseph.

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So this is Genesis 49, verse 22.
It says Joseph is a fruitful bow

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or a fruitful tree, a fruitful
bow by a spring.

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That’s an allusion to this well
that we’re going to read about

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here in John chapter 4, an
allusion to this this spring.

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And it’s not just a, a, a
normal, well, I guess you would

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say this is a, a spring.
So this is a fountain.

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Well, and his branches will run
over the wall.

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So I want you to keep that in
mind as well, because Jacob

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makes this prophecy about
Joseph.

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So to Joseph, Shechem is not
nostalgia.

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It’s not the tradition of his
father’s.

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It’s not something nice that’s
nice because his father gave it

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to him.
To Joseph, it’s a symbol of his

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resurrection and of the Kingdom
of God and it’s the purpose of

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his life.
That’s Shechem to Joseph.

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So here’s a picture of where
Shechem is located.

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Shechem is is known as the city
of choice.

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It’s between Mount Gerizim.
You’ll see that on the left

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there the the, the mountain of
blessing and Mount evil, the

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mountain of cursing between the
the blessings that were were

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promised for obedience and the
cursings for disobedience.

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It was a very important city in
Israel because of some of the

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things that happened there.
So if you were to think about

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Shechem, you would think about
all the different things that

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happened there.
And if you lived there, you

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would brag about Shechem.
This is the place where all

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these different things have
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Now, have you ever gone through
a city where people bragged

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about famous events that took
place in their city?

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You ever gone through those?
Yeah.

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So I’m from Brantford, ON
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Does anybody know any famous
things that happened in

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Brantford?
Yes.

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OK, that’s one, right.
Does it say that on the water

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tower now the home of Wayne?
Probably not.

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I think Wayne Gretzky lives in
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But does it what else in for
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Yeah, aha, too great things.
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So as I was growing up in
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tower, and it said on the water
tower Brantford, the telephone

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city, is what it said on the
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So anyway, you get the idea.
So what would it say if you were

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in Shechem?
On the sign in Shechem, it would

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say Shechem, the place where
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He had to choose between the
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or the blessings of the
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It was the place where Jacob
bought the land so he could

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build an altar.
It was the place where Joseph is

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buried.
And Joseph was a famous guy.

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Joseph was known.
Does anybody know the Egyptian

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name?
The name the Egyptians gave to

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Joseph.
Yeah.

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Right.
So Zath.

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Anath Penia.
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Does anybody know what it means?
Savior of the world.

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OK, excellent.
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side too, if we, if they were
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It was a place where the
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read, and it’s also the place
that Joshua called Israel to

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choose whom they were going to
serve in Joshua chapter 24,

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where he says now therefore fear
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and in faithfulness.
Put away the gods that your

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father’s have served beyond the
river and in Egypt and serve the

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Lord.
Joshua says, As for me in my

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house, we will serve the Lord.
So it’s a it’s a really

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remarkable place and the
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this remarkable, remarkable
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All right, with that in mind,
this is this is kind of her

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frame of reference, her frame of
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Here we go to verse 6 of John
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It says now Jacob’s well was
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Jesus therefore, being wearied
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the well.
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So one of the things that we
find when we research these

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wells, because our research so
far has already pointed at this,

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is that John uses two different
words for the wells in this

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story.
Well, actually John uses 1 and

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the woman uses a completely
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So the one that John uses the
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And the word that John that John
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fountain.
It’s a a, a well that’s that has

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a spring in it.
So it has flowing water, which

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they would actually call living
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So John calls Jacob’s well a
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But the whole story gets more
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what the woman actually calls
this well is a Greek word freer.

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And that means a hole in the
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You see the difference.
So John says, no, this, this is

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a this is a fountain.
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says.
This is what God recognizes it

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as.
And the woman looks at it as a

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hole in the ground.
Let me show you So John four and

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we’re going to look at verse
six.

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First of all, so it says now
Jacob’s well, and that’s the

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word fountain was there because
John, the writer of the Gospel

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here the narrative is saying,
Jesus therefore being wearied

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with his journey, set thus on
the well on the fountain, and it

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was about the 6th hour.
Then we go down to verse 11, and

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it says, And the woman said to
him, Sir, thou hast nothing to

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drink with.
And the well the hole in the

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ground is deep.
From whence then hast thou that

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living water we go over to?
To verse 12 Then so the woman

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speaking again, and she says,
Art thou greater than our Father

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Jacob, which gave us the well,
which gave us the hole in the

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ground, and drank thereof
himself and his children, and

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his cattle?
And then of course we go down to

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verse 14, where Jesus expands
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It says, But whosoever drinketh
of the water that I shall give

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him, she’ll never thirst, but
the water that I shall give him

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shall be unto him a well, a
fountain of water springing up

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into everlasting life.
And that’s the verse that kind

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of clues you into the difference
between the perspectives about

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this well.
So John is telling us that God’s

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that God’s Word and his
promises, which this well

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represents, are viewed
differently by different people.

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To some people, his promises and
his word is a a flowing well of

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living water.
They’re from God.

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And to other people, the word of
God is just water.

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It’s something that comes from
the ground.

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It’s something that comes in, in
this case, from a a pretty

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special piece of ground,
something that our ancestor

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Jacob has dug.
But it’s not something that

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would change the course of your
life.

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So the woman here, she doesn’t
look at God’s word and God’s

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promises like Joseph did.
She sees it as as something to

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be proud of that heritage,
something that makes her group

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superior to to other groups.
And so the woman at the well, to

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her, it’s just a hole in the
ground that they got water from.

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Now, I think there’s an
expectation already in that for

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us, how do we see the word of
God?

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How do we see the hope of the
Kingdom of God?

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What is our worship like?
Do we look at the promises like

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a fountain of living water?
Like Joseph who who wanted to be

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brought back to that place?
Like Joseph who who wanted to be

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buried because that was his
hope, buried there because that

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was his hope?
Or do we see it like the ground

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with just water in it?
How valuable is the water to us?

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So that brings us back to John
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So Jesus is is sitting on the
well and a woman from Samaria

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came to draw water and Jesus
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So here we have a Jew asking a
Samaritan to draw water from the

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well for him.
Now if Jesus wanted to instantly

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open up a can of worms with this
woman, that was absolutely the

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right thing to say.
And I think that’s exactly what

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he wanted to do.
Verse 8 tells us that the

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disciples are not there.
It says for his disciples had

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gone away into the city to buy
food.

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We won’t look at it in any real
detail, but later on the

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disciples have really almost the
same problem to deal with as the

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woman has to deal with in the
word their perspective on

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things.
So Jesus asks her for some water

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and she responds in verse 9 she
says, how is it that you, a Jew,

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ask for a drink from me, a woman
of Samaria, for the Jews have no

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dealings with the Samaritans.
She says, are you serious?

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You guys have nothing to do with
us.

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You guys make a point of going
all the way around our country

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and here you are asking me to
draw water for you.

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Why would I do that for you?
And she gets all fired up

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because Jesus has asked her for
some, some water.

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Now, of course, she has the
wrong perspective on things.

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What, what do you think she
could have said to this, this

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stranger that came up to her on
this?

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Well, well, maybe even from her
perspective, she could have,

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could have said something like,
is this your first time in

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Shechem?
Do you know the hope of, of

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Joseph who’s buried here?
Do you know why he wanted his

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bones to be brought back here?
But that’s not, that’s not what

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she says, right?
There’s there’s something else

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that’s on her mind that’s that’s
greater than that.

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So verse 10, Jesus answers and
says to her, if you knew the

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gift of God, if you had
spiritual understanding of God’s

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plan, like Abraham, like Jacob,
like Joseph, like Joshua had,

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and who it is that says to you,
give me to drink, you would have

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asked him and he would have
given you living water.

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If you knew about the Kingdom
and if you knew who I am, your

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answer would have been a lot
different.

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When I asked you to give me a
drink of water, you would have

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been asking me for living water,
for the words of eternal life.

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And so Jesus reframes, reframes
the whole conversation to a

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spiritual level, but her
thinking is still on earthly

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things in in verse 11.
And the woman says to him, Sir,

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you have nothing to draw water
with and the wells is deep.

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It’s a it’s a deep hole in the
ground.

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She says, where do you get that
living water?

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You don’t even have a bucket.
Where could you get that water

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from?
Well, she says, are you greater

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than our father Jacob?
He gave us the well and he drank

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from it himself, as did his sons
and his livestock.

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She says Jacob dug this well.
Are you greater than Jacob?

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Do you think that your water is
greater than the water that

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comes from Jacob’s well, from
Jacob’s hole in the ground?

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And Jesus says to her, everyone
that drinks of this water will

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be thirsty again.
Your water is just water.

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You’re going to have to come
back for more tomorrow.

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You’re going to have to come
back every day.

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You’ll be putting all of your
energy into drawing water, and

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you’ll still need to come back
again and again to draw water.

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That’s the water I think that
the whole world is drinking,

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isn’t it?
Water from a hole in the ground,

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drawn daily, day after day after
day.

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Their lives are pointless.
There’s nothing they’re

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accomplishing with their life.
And Jesus is trying to introduce

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her to something far better.
He says For who’s?

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But whosoever drinks of the
water that I will give, she’ll

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never thirst.
You’ll never want anything else.

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Once you learn about the Kingdom
and about eternal life, and once

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you believe in those things like
Joseph did, you’ll be fully

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satisfied and the purpose of
your life will completely

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change.
You will not want anything else.

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You’ll want to get out of Egypt
and come to the promised land.

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So Jesus continues, But the
water that I should give him

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shall be in him, a well of
springing water, springing up

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unto everlasting life.
The water that I can give you,

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this faith that I can give you
will be something that you can

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give to other people and your
faith will still be flowing.

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You yourself will be a fountain.
And so the woman says in verse

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15, Sir, give me this water.
She says, that sounds really

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good.
I want this water.

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I will get thirsty again and I
won’t have to draw water.

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This is this is perfect.
So she’s still in the dark with

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this conversation with Jesus.
She’s not getting it.

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She doesn’t realize what Jesus
is talking about.

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So Jesus decides to say
something to her that that calls

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her out, that gets her
attention, to show her the

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problem that she had, that her
worship had to be more than just

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rituals and traditions.
In a way, what he says to her is

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giving her some of that living
water.

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So verse 16, Jesus says to her,
go call your husband and come

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here.
Now that would have shocked her.

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Where did that come from?
Why do you want me to call my

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husband?
And, and you can hear the tone.

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You can feel the tone change in
her response.

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The conversation is no longer a
Samaritan debating about her

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group being better.
The woman answers and says to

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him, I have no husband.
She’s thinking, you know, maybe

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I can kind of deflect the
question.

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But Jesus, he’s not going to let
her get off that easy, is he?

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And Jesus says to her, you’re
right in saying I have no

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husband, for you have 5 husbands
and the one you have now is not

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your husband.
What you said is true.

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00:26:18,800 –> 00:26:21,800
Wow.
A minute ago they were debating

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00:26:21,800 –> 00:26:26,520
about whose water was better, a
Jew and a Samaritan, whose

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00:26:26,520 –> 00:26:30,160
worship was better in a way
whose ecclesia was better.

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And Jesus looks right into her
heart and he sees her adulterous

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00:26:36,120 –> 00:26:40,560
life and the conversation goes
deep, deep into that heart.

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00:26:41,400 –> 00:26:46,960
And he says, if your worship is
greater, if your, if your water

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00:26:46,960 –> 00:26:52,440
is greater, then why hasn’t it
had an effect on your life?

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00:26:54,360 –> 00:26:56,440
Why aren’t you developing the
fruit of the spirit?

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00:26:57,720 –> 00:26:59,920
You know, we, we said earlier
that a lot of people compare the

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story of Nicodemus and the
Samaritan woman.

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Exactly right.
They, they both have the same

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00:27:04,640 –> 00:27:08,720
problem, don’t they?
And Jesus has said exactly what

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was necessary to get her to stop
and to actually think about the

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00:27:14,880 –> 00:27:18,080
challenges that she had and to
think about the impact her

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00:27:18,080 –> 00:27:22,160
worship was having on her life.
Now, how often has that happened

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00:27:22,920 –> 00:27:27,000
in your lives when someone says
something to you that wakes you

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00:27:27,120 –> 00:27:32,680
up about yourself, that that
freezes you in your tracks and

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00:27:32,680 –> 00:27:36,520
that hopes hopefully makes you
question your sincerity and

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00:27:36,520 –> 00:27:38,440
hopefully makes you get back on
the right track.

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I want to tell you a little
story about when, when I was a

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teenager a long time ago and I
wasn’t baptized and I wasn’t

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00:27:48,960 –> 00:27:53,640
moving toward baptized and I was
walking along with my cousin.

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My cousin was about 10 years old
and my uncle, her dad was a

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leader of our CYC.
Many of you will have will

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00:28:03,840 –> 00:28:07,720
remember Brother Colin Badger.
So brother Colin Badger was our

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00:28:07,720 –> 00:28:11,480
CYC leader and I had a lot of
respect for for Uncle Colin.

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00:28:12,240 –> 00:28:15,760
Anyway, so my cousin and I are
walking along and she says to

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me, she’s 10 years old.
She says to me, you know, my dad

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00:28:19,240 –> 00:28:22,160
says that you’re not interested
in the truth.

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00:28:24,160 –> 00:28:29,640
Of course my dad says right.
And I thought, that’s not true.

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00:28:30,240 –> 00:28:33,400
I am interested in the truth,
but of course I wasn’t

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00:28:33,560 –> 00:28:35,840
interested in the truth as I as
I should have been.

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00:28:36,360 –> 00:28:39,280
And when I really thought about
it, I realized that my cousin,

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00:28:39,280 –> 00:28:43,680
my 10 year old cousin was right,
that my my uncle was right.

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Now that made me make big
changes in my life.

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00:28:47,680 –> 00:28:51,360
That that conversation that I
kind of had with my uncle made

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00:28:51,360 –> 00:28:55,480
me make big changes in my life.
Now, maybe it’s not the best

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00:28:55,480 –> 00:29:01,080
idea to say things like that to
your 10 year old kid, but I

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00:29:01,080 –> 00:29:03,640
think sometimes words can make a
big difference.

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00:29:04,320 –> 00:29:06,720
I was talking to some some young
brethren recently.

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00:29:07,600 –> 00:29:10,840
We were at a school of the
prophets and I asked a group of

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00:29:10,840 –> 00:29:15,400
them what had had the biggest
impact on bringing them to

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00:29:15,400 –> 00:29:17,440
belief.
And we went over from the room

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00:29:17,440 –> 00:29:19,920
and everybody was describing the
thing that had had the biggest

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00:29:19,920 –> 00:29:22,840
impact.
And these are, you know, mostly

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00:29:23,640 –> 00:29:27,920
20s, twenty year old guys, early
20s, mid 20s.

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00:29:29,040 –> 00:29:32,800
About a third of them said that
they got to a point where

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00:29:32,800 –> 00:29:36,720
someone had actually asked them,
a brother in the ecclesia, a

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00:29:36,720 –> 00:29:40,600
sister in the ecclesia, someone
had asked, actually asked them

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00:29:41,280 –> 00:29:44,920
about whether or not they were
thinking about being baptized.

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00:29:46,280 –> 00:29:48,840
And they said that when that
happened, it made them think,

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00:29:49,960 –> 00:29:54,920
wow, I need to think about that.
Maybe I need to be baptized.

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00:29:55,240 –> 00:29:58,240
I was just, I was very surprised
at how many people had done that

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00:29:58,240 –> 00:30:01,560
because that’s not something
that’s that’s my normal thing to

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00:30:01,560 –> 00:30:03,840
do.
And yet how helpful it actually

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00:30:03,840 –> 00:30:06,400
was to to to these young
brethren.

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00:30:07,680 –> 00:30:09,040
All right, so back to our story
then.

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00:30:09,040 –> 00:30:13,280
So Jesus has asked the woman
about her husband’s and then in

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00:30:13,280 –> 00:30:18,880
verse 9, the woman said to him,
Sir, I perceive that you’re a

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00:30:18,880 –> 00:30:22,440
prophet.
She could see that Jesus had

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00:30:22,440 –> 00:30:25,480
power from God just like
Nicodemus had seen.

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00:30:25,480 –> 00:30:27,720
And so she says you must be a
prophet.

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00:30:28,720 –> 00:30:31,000
But she still holds on to the
worship of the Samaritans.

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00:30:31,000 –> 00:30:35,480
And she figures who better to
ask about whether the Jews have

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00:30:35,480 –> 00:30:38,160
it right or the Samaritans have
it right.

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00:30:38,800 –> 00:30:40,720
And so she wants to ask this
prophet about that.

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00:30:40,720 –> 00:30:43,920
So that’s verse 20.
Our fathers worshiped in this

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00:30:43,920 –> 00:30:46,880
mountain, on this mountain.
But you say that in Jerusalem is

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00:30:46,880 –> 00:30:48,280
the place where people ought to
worship.

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00:30:49,000 –> 00:30:54,360
She’s thinking Abraham, Jacob,
Joseph all worshipped here.

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00:30:54,800 –> 00:30:57,440
Surely this must be the right
place to worship.

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00:30:57,800 –> 00:31:02,480
Joseph is even buried here.
Surely Gerizim must be the right

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00:31:02,480 –> 00:31:05,640
place and not Jerusalem.
That first of all, I think

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00:31:05,640 –> 00:31:08,840
that’s pretty bold that she asks
a Jew this question, right?

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00:31:08,840 –> 00:31:10,680
Because Jesus is obviously a
Jew.

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00:31:11,440 –> 00:31:16,000
So Jesus says to her, woman,
believe me, the hour is coming

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00:31:16,000 –> 00:31:21,560
when neither on this mountain
nor in Jerusalem will thou

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00:31:21,560 –> 00:31:25,800
worship the Father.
Soon you won’t be worshipping in

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00:31:25,800 –> 00:31:28,600
either place.
Why not?

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00:31:29,880 –> 00:31:32,160
Why wouldn’t she be worshipping
in either place?

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00:31:32,680 –> 00:31:35,960
Why does he say that?
What was going to soon happen to

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00:31:35,960 –> 00:31:39,960
both of those places?
8070, right?

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00:31:40,240 –> 00:31:42,960
They would both be destroyed by
the Romans and there would be no

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00:31:42,960 –> 00:31:45,080
place for them to go and to
worship.

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00:31:46,320 –> 00:31:49,920
So verse 22, he says you worship
what you don’t know.

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00:31:51,080 –> 00:31:55,520
We worship what we know for
salvation is from the Jews.

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00:31:56,200 –> 00:32:00,200
He says the problem is that you
worship what you don’t know, you

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00:32:00,200 –> 00:32:03,680
don’t understand.
We think of the Samaritans.

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00:32:04,240 –> 00:32:07,920
They believed in, in just the
five books of the Bible that

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00:32:07,920 –> 00:32:11,240
were from from God.
The Samaritans didn’t have the

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00:32:11,240 –> 00:32:14,560
promises to David.
They didn’t have the prophets,

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00:32:15,080 –> 00:32:18,840
they didn’t have the Psalms,
they didn’t have a full picture

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00:32:18,840 –> 00:32:21,440
of the Kingdom like the Jews
did.

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00:32:22,200 –> 00:32:24,440
Salvation clearly was of the
Jews.

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00:32:24,960 –> 00:32:27,440
In fact, the Savior was going to
be a Jew.

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00:32:28,520 –> 00:32:32,240
But it’s not Gerizim or
Jerusalem that really matters.

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00:32:32,240 –> 00:32:36,160
Jesus is saying, he says the
hour’s coming, that now here is

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00:32:36,160 –> 00:32:41,600
when true worshippers will
worship the Father in spirit and

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00:32:41,600 –> 00:32:44,520
truth.
For the Father is seeking such

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00:32:44,520 –> 00:32:49,640
people to worship him.
True worshippers, real

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00:32:49,680 –> 00:32:54,720
worshippers, those who really
honor God, those who do what God

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00:32:54,720 –> 00:32:58,680
says, that’s those are the
people that God is looking for.

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00:32:59,480 –> 00:33:03,480
True worshippers, he says, will
worship in spirit and in truth.

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00:33:04,000 –> 00:33:09,520
In spirit, not just for other
people to see, like the

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00:33:09,520 –> 00:33:13,760
adulterous woman who came to the
hole in the ground, who bragged

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00:33:13,760 –> 00:33:18,480
about the well of Jacob, but
they will worship genuinely.

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00:33:19,520 –> 00:33:22,520
She needed to be like Abraham,
like Jacob, like Joseph, like

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00:33:22,520 –> 00:33:26,560
Joshua, who saw the truth as a
fountain of living water.

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00:33:27,520 –> 00:33:33,000
They’ll worship in truth.
Think of a ritual or a tradition

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00:33:33,600 –> 00:33:38,040
like like eating animals, clean
animals versus unclean animals.

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00:33:38,840 –> 00:33:42,600
That was a ritual, but the
ritual was given to teach a

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00:33:42,600 –> 00:33:47,080
lesson, and some people got so
caught up in the ritual that

547
00:33:47,080 –> 00:33:49,160
they didn’t see the lesson that
was behind it.

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00:33:49,360 –> 00:33:51,520
What should have actually
changed their behavior?

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00:33:52,280 –> 00:33:55,360
The ritual of of unclean and
clean gives was given to

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00:33:55,360 –> 00:33:59,480
illustrate people the need to to
watch what they put into their

551
00:33:59,480 –> 00:34:03,160
minds.
The the Samaritans and the Jews

552
00:34:03,160 –> 00:34:07,280
were careful about what they
ate, but they were not careful

553
00:34:07,280 –> 00:34:09,080
about what they were putting
into their minds.

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00:34:10,080 –> 00:34:13,320
The Samaritans of the Jews had
traditions that kept them apart,

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00:34:13,560 –> 00:34:16,920
ways of worshipping that were
different, but it wasn’t the

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00:34:16,920 –> 00:34:19,120
traditions that God was looking
for.

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00:34:19,639 –> 00:34:25,760
God is looking for people who
are being changed by his word.

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00:34:27,040 –> 00:34:29,120
It’s a lesson, a really
important lesson for us.

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00:34:29,719 –> 00:34:33,239
If we’re worshipping in spirit
and in truth, it should be

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00:34:33,239 –> 00:34:37,760
changing our lives.
And that point would have rang

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00:34:37,760 –> 00:34:43,760
out in the ears of a woman.
In verse 24, Jesus continues,

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00:34:43,760 –> 00:34:50,040
God is spirit, God is holy, He’s
genuine, and those who worship

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00:34:50,040 –> 00:34:52,040
him must worship him in spirit
and truth.

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00:34:53,000 –> 00:34:56,760
We’ve got to follow his example.
We should reflect his character.

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00:34:57,800 –> 00:35:02,040
And so the woman says in in
verse 25, I know that Messiah is

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00:35:02,040 –> 00:35:05,000
coming.
He who is called Christ when he

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00:35:05,000 –> 00:35:09,120
comes, he’ll tell us all things
and she’s still responding back

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00:35:09,120 –> 00:35:12,720
to, to to verse 22.
You worship, you know, not what

569
00:35:12,720 –> 00:35:15,640
the words of Jesus.
She believed that the Messiah

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00:35:15,640 –> 00:35:19,880
would come and teach them and
then they would know and she was

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00:35:19,880 –> 00:35:21,560
ready for spiritual
understanding.

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00:35:22,680 –> 00:35:28,360
And so Jesus says to her, I who
speak to you, I’m he.

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00:35:29,280 –> 00:35:36,320
He says, yes, I’m the Messiah,
and she believed him.

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00:35:38,440 –> 00:35:42,000
It was an amazing conversation.
But then the story’s

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00:35:42,000 –> 00:35:44,000
interrupted, isn’t it, by the
disciples returning?

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00:35:44,680 –> 00:35:47,720
We look at verse 27.
Just then his disciples came

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00:35:47,720 –> 00:35:51,640
back and they marvelled that he
was talking with a woman.

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00:35:52,640 –> 00:35:55,720
They’ve also got to learn the
lesson about worshipping in

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00:35:55,720 –> 00:35:58,360
spirit and truth.
How could he be talking to a

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00:35:58,360 –> 00:36:00,760
Samaritan woman?
They weren’t supposed to be

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00:36:00,760 –> 00:36:04,320
having any dealings with with
the Samaritans, the disciples.

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00:36:04,320 –> 00:36:06,520
The disciples were stuck in
their traditions.

583
00:36:07,240 –> 00:36:09,720
And that comes out loud and
clear to us later on.

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00:36:11,240 –> 00:36:15,400
But no one said, what do you
seek or why are you talking to

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00:36:15,400 –> 00:36:17,520
her?
I think that’s pretty smart that

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00:36:17,520 –> 00:36:19,920
they didn’t say much at that
point, wasn’t it?

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00:36:20,880 –> 00:36:22,360
But look what the woman does
next.

588
00:36:25,120 –> 00:36:32,840
The woman left or water jar.
Wow, wow, wow.

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00:36:34,080 –> 00:36:36,640
She believed.
There it is.

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00:36:37,400 –> 00:36:38,880
There’s the moment that we’ve
been looking for.

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00:36:39,080 –> 00:36:44,360
She had no use for the water
from the well anymore.

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00:36:45,280 –> 00:36:48,200
She left her water jug right
there by the well.

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00:36:48,680 –> 00:36:50,480
She was no longer thirsty for
that water.

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00:36:51,200 –> 00:36:55,560
Traditions and rituals are
nothing compared to true belief.

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00:36:55,840 –> 00:36:58,680
And now she had true belief.
She had living water.

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00:36:59,200 –> 00:37:01,560
And so she left her water pot
behind.

597
00:37:03,360 –> 00:37:06,600
Once you’ve tasted faith,
nothing compares to it.

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00:37:06,960 –> 00:37:11,960
Nothing satisfies like it.
And she was going now to share

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00:37:12,080 –> 00:37:15,280
that water, that faith with her
people.

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00:37:15,760 –> 00:37:20,080
It had become, it was becoming a
spring that was flowing from

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00:37:20,160 –> 00:37:22,440
her.
And so she went away into the

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00:37:22,440 –> 00:37:26,720
town and said to the people,
come see a man who told me all

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00:37:26,720 –> 00:37:29,680
that I ever did.
Can this be the Christ?

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00:37:30,160 –> 00:37:32,680
She says, I’ve just been talking
to the Messiah.

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00:37:33,280 –> 00:37:36,040
Can you imagine that?
And her belief is, is so

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00:37:36,040 –> 00:37:38,040
contagious that the people
believe too.

607
00:37:38,560 –> 00:37:41,120
Verse 30, they went out of the
town and they were coming to

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00:37:41,120 –> 00:37:43,720
him.
Let’s let’s skip down from there

609
00:37:43,720 –> 00:37:48,920
to verse 35 because in verse 31
to 34, the disciples are going

610
00:37:48,920 –> 00:37:51,400
to actually be taught the same
lesson as the woman.

611
00:37:51,640 –> 00:37:54,200
And it’s interesting to follow
that and see the parallels

612
00:37:54,200 –> 00:37:56,280
there.
But in verse 35, the men of the

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00:37:56,280 –> 00:38:01,000
city are coming out to the well
where Jesus is because they also

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00:38:01,000 –> 00:38:03,440
believe because of the belief of
the woman.

615
00:38:03,920 –> 00:38:06,360
And Jesus is talking to his
disciples.

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00:38:06,760 –> 00:38:11,480
And verse 35 he says, say not
ye, there are yet four months.

617
00:38:11,680 –> 00:38:14,760
And then harvest comes.
Jesus says to his disciples,

618
00:38:15,200 –> 00:38:18,880
doesn’t it usually take four
months for grain to grow?

619
00:38:19,880 –> 00:38:24,320
Behold, I say to you, lift up
your eyes, look on the fields

620
00:38:24,320 –> 00:38:26,240
for their white already with
harvest.

621
00:38:26,720 –> 00:38:31,520
He says we’ll take a look and
coming toward them are a bunch

622
00:38:31,560 –> 00:38:34,160
of Samaritans.
They’re coming because they’ve

623
00:38:34,160 –> 00:38:36,880
they’ve learned from the woman
they believe and they want to

624
00:38:36,880 –> 00:38:40,240
hear more.
Now one commentary I stumbled on

625
00:38:40,240 –> 00:38:43,240
trying to make this connection
with this, this fields that

626
00:38:43,240 –> 00:38:46,400
we’re ready for harvest.
And one commentary explains that

627
00:38:46,560 –> 00:38:49,960
that these, these people would
all have been wearing white and

628
00:38:49,960 –> 00:38:52,960
as they walked a, a big group of
people walking towards Jesus,

629
00:38:52,960 –> 00:38:55,960
towards the well, they would
have looked like a, a, a field

630
00:38:56,120 –> 00:38:59,040
of grain that was moving.
And so Jesus points to them and

631
00:38:59,040 –> 00:39:01,200
says, Hey, it’s time for us to
get busy.

632
00:39:01,360 –> 00:39:05,000
It’s time for us to get work.
Verse 36, it says, and he

633
00:39:05,000 –> 00:39:07,000
reapeth.
He that reapeth receiveth,

634
00:39:07,200 –> 00:39:11,280
receiveth wages and gathereth
fruit unto eternal life, that

635
00:39:11,280 –> 00:39:15,880
both he that soweth and he that
reapeth may rejoice together.

636
00:39:16,720 –> 00:39:20,120
Jesus says to the disciples,
there are already people coming

637
00:39:20,120 –> 00:39:24,080
to learn about salvation and we
should be rejoicing with the

638
00:39:24,080 –> 00:39:27,040
Samaritan woman.
Let’s get out there and let’s

639
00:39:27,040 –> 00:39:30,520
help her.
He says, and herein is that

640
00:39:30,520 –> 00:39:34,320
saying true.
Verse 37 one soweth and another

641
00:39:34,320 –> 00:39:37,120
reapeth.
The saying is talking about

642
00:39:37,120 –> 00:39:40,920
people working together.
Verse 38, he says, I sent you to

643
00:39:40,920 –> 00:39:45,200
reap whereon that, Whereon
you’ve bestowed no labor, other

644
00:39:45,200 –> 00:39:47,760
men labored, and you are entered
into their laborers.

645
00:39:48,400 –> 00:39:50,880
We’re Jews.
She’s a Samaritan.

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00:39:51,160 –> 00:39:55,560
One of us sows, another reaps.
But look at the great harvest.

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00:39:56,560 –> 00:40:01,800
So, my disciples, let’s rejoice
with her, and let’s get out and

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work with her.
Verse 36 to 38 gives us a

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powerful example, then, of
working in spirit and in truth

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and worshiping in that in
spirit.

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Our our service to God cannot be
motivated by how we look.

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It has to be genuine, real.
It has to be glorifying God.

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It has to be rejoicing in God’s
success, in truth, not following

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rituals and traditions, but in
getting the job done.

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And look what the result is in
verse 39 and many of the

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Samaritans of that city
believed.

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Get your marking pencil out
right.

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This is a good chapter for this.
They believed on him for the

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saying of the woman which
testified.

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He told me all that I ever did.
Many Samaritans of the city

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believed because of the
testimony of the woman.

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She got the fire started then
with them.

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Verse 40.
So when the Samaritans came to

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him, they asked him to stay with
them, and he stayed there two

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days.
And many more believed because

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of his own word, they believed
themselves.

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What a time that must have been
for the disciples, for the

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Samaritans, and for Jesus.
And then they said to the woman,

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verse 42, It’s no longer because
of what you said that we

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believe, for we have heard for
ourselves and we know this is

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indeed the Savior of the world.
They believed.

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And John gives us this little
cherry on top of the whole

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story, doesn’t he?
In that last phrase, we know

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indeed that this is indeed the
Savior of the world.

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They said of Jesus, He is the
Savior of the world.

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What’s that a reference to?
What’s he, what’s he calling

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their attention back to?
It’s back to Joseph, isn’t it?

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The Savior of the world?
But now they had a new Joseph.

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They had a new savior of the
world.

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And that savior was Jesus, the
Messiah, the Son of God.

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I think it’s an incredibly
exciting story to look through

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as we as we understand the
background to it.

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So what are some of the take
away lessons that we could get

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from from this today?
Well, first of all, real belief

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motivates us to make changes in
our life.

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And that’s a a good way for us
to measure that.

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It’s like thinking about
yesterday that the fruit of the

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spirit belief based on man made
rituals and traditions is weak.

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It’s like a hole in the ground,
isn’t it?

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And it’s hesitant to make
changes to us.

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It’s hesitant to combat sin, but
worship based on faith is life

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changing and it’s filled with
passion.

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00:43:04,240 –> 00:43:08,800
The Word of God has the power to
show us what we’re really like.

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It has the power for us to have
a conversation with it, just

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like Jesus had with a woman.
And that scripture can actually

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call us out if we’ll listen to
it.

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And it can help to inspire
change in US.

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I think then we’ve we’ve been
through an incredible chapter

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here and a great lesson for us.
And we look forward to tomorrow

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when we’ll look at at the
disciples, the feeding of the

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5000 and Jesus walking on the
water.

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Thank you.