Class 3 from this series was used in GCT Episode 367.<\/p>\n
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\nfirst grade teachers by the Greg
\nRobinson. <\/p>\n
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\nHis general topic is Now We
\nbelieve, John’s guide to growing<\/p>\n
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\nour faith.
\nToday’s topic is in Spirit and <\/p>\n
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\nTruth for the Great.
\nAll right. <\/p>\n
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\nGood morning, everyone.
\nAll right, Impressive how quiet <\/p>\n
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\neverybody got there.
\nAt first I thought that was <\/p>\n
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\nmaybe a stunt or something like
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\nBut all right, so we’re going to
\nbe looking at the woman at the <\/p>\n
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\nwell this morning.
\nBefore we start out with that, <\/p>\n
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\njust a quick reminder about
\nyesterday’s lesson. <\/p>\n
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\nA lot of similarities actually
\nthat have have been noted by by <\/p>\n
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\npeople between Nicodemus and the
\nwoman at the well. <\/p>\n
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\nSo our key lesson from yesterday
\nwas unless we’re born of water <\/p>\n
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\nand the Spirit, we cannot enter
\ninto the Kingdom of God. <\/p>\n
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\nSo today then we’re going to be
\nlooking at the woman at the <\/p>\n
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\nwell, and she’s a woman that
\nbelonged to a group that had an <\/p>\n
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\nincredible spiritual heritage.
\nAnd that’s brought out in John. <\/p>\n
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\nJust with some of the details
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\nIt was a heritage full of
\nbrethren that had incredible <\/p>\n
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\nfaith.
\nAnd the woman was very proud. <\/p>\n
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\nYou can tell of that heritage
\nand she subscribed to its <\/p>\n
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\nrituals.
\nShe subscribed to the traditions<\/p>\n
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\nof her group.
\nYou might say that she actually <\/p>\n
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\nfights for those things, but
\nJesus shows her in this chapter <\/p>\n
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\nthat her worship wasn’t what God
\nwas looking for. <\/p>\n
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\nIt had to be more than rituals
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\nIt had to be life changing.
\nThat’s the the key lesson that <\/p>\n
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\nwe’re going to see, I think this
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\nat the well, the Samaritan woman
\nat the well. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so our our 4th class is
\ntitled in spirit and in truth <\/p>\n
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\nand it’s found, as you know, in
\nJohn chapter 4. <\/p>\n
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\nSo let’s let’s open our Bibles
\nup to John chapter 4, the end of<\/p>\n
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\nat the end of chapter 3.
\nJesus work in Judea has met with<\/p>\n
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\na lot of success.
\nYou’ll remember that his work is<\/p>\n
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\neclipsing the work of John the
\nBaptist. <\/p>\n
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\nHis disciples are baptizing more
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\nbut I must decrease.
\nAnd at the beginning of chapter <\/p>\n
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\n4, Jesus seems to be getting
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\nHe seems to be getting noticed
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\nAnd so he decides he’s going to
\nhead back to Galilee. <\/p>\n
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\nNow John chapter 4 verse 4 says
\nthat he had he had to pass <\/p>\n
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\nthrough Samaria.
\nThe King James Version says he <\/p>\n
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\nmust needs go through Samaria.
\nSo this gives us the idea that <\/p>\n
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\nthat somehow Jesus maybe was
\ndirected to go through Samaria. <\/p>\n
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\nUsually the Jews would travel
\naround Samaria they wouldn’t go <\/p>\n
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\nthrough.
\nIf you look at the map there, <\/p>\n
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\nyou’ll see there’s a a green
\nroute that went on the left side<\/p>\n
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\ngoing around on the West side of
\nSamaria. <\/p>\n
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\nIn the red, there was a a route
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\nJordan, but the white route was
\nthe one that was the quickest <\/p>\n
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\nroute, and that’s the one
\nthrough Samaria. <\/p>\n
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\nIf they were going up to
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\nthere, they would never take
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\nNow why would they do that?
\nWhy would they always go way <\/p>\n
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\naround Samaria instead of going
\nthrough Samaria? <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s because the Jews and the
\nSamaritans would have nothing to<\/p>\n
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\ndo with each other.
\nNow, what do we know about the <\/p>\n
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\nSamaritans?
\nWell, the Samaritans had their <\/p>\n
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\nown version of the Law of Moses.
\nThey used the first five books <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s all they used. <\/p>\n
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\nThat was their Bible, the laws
\nin the Samaritan Bible, the <\/p>\n
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\nPentateuch.
\nThe first five books were mostly<\/p>\n
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\nJewish Pentateuch. <\/p>\n
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\nSo it’s interesting, the
\nSamaritans observed the laws of <\/p>\n
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\nMoses with the same attention to
\ndetail as the Jews, but they <\/p>\n
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\neach had their own traditions
\nand rituals, and they each had <\/p>\n
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\nsurprisingly their own temple.
\nSo here’s what Josephus tells <\/p>\n
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\nus.
\nThis is from Easton’s <\/p>\n
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\ndictionary.
\nIt says Josephus relates that <\/p>\n
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\nsand ballot built a temple for
\nthe Samaritans on this mountain.<\/p>\n
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\nThat’s Speaking of of Mount
\nGerizim, which was where their <\/p>\n
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\ntemple was as as that says, who
\nwas Sand Ballot? <\/p>\n
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\nYep.
\nHoran Knight. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat was the what’s the thing <\/p>\n
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\nYeah, for certain.
\nRight. <\/p>\n
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\nWhen they were, when they were
\ntrying to rebuild the wall, when<\/p>\n
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\nNehemiah’s time, he was always <\/p>\n
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\nin the way of the work and
\nalways trying to stop the work. <\/p>\n
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\nWell, at the same time, guess
\nwhat he’s doing. <\/p>\n
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\nHe’s building this temple for
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\nSo he builds his own and <\/p>\n
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\ninstituted A priesthood as
\nrivals to those of the Jews at <\/p>\n
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\nJerusalem.
\nHis temple was destroyed after <\/p>\n
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\nit stood for 200 years, and it
\nwas afterwards built by Herod <\/p>\n
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\nthe Great.
\nThere is a Samaritan tradition <\/p>\n
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\nthat Mount Gerizim was the scene
\nof the incident recorded in <\/p>\n
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\nGenesis chapter 22.
\nDo you know what the incident of<\/p>\n
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\nGenesis 22 is?
\nThat’s Abraham going to OfferUp <\/p>\n
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\nIsaac, right?
\nSo they believed that that <\/p>\n
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\nGerizim, which is where their <\/p>\n
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\ntemple was built.
\nAll right, so that’s that’s what<\/p>\n
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\nExcuse me. <\/p>\n
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\nbelieved in God, but their <\/p>\n
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\nrituals and traditions. <\/p>\n
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\nSamaria.
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\nsays so.
\nHe came to a town of Samaria <\/p>\n
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\ncalled Sicar.
\nSicar is thought to have been a <\/p>\n
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\nsmall village, possibly by
\nShechem. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s thought to have been even
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\nShechem.
\nSo we know where this is. <\/p>\n
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\nHe’s at Shechem, and it says
\nthat it’s near the field that <\/p>\n
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\nJacob had given to his son
\nJoseph. <\/p>\n
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\nNow we have to do a little bit
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\nSo we’re going to go through <\/p>\n
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\njust a few verses to get a feel
\nfor this field that Jacob gave <\/p>\n
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\nto his son Joseph.
\nAnd 1st we’re going to go to <\/p>\n
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\nJoshua chapter 24.
\nSo Joshua chapter 24 is the <\/p>\n
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\ngathered. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s at the end of Joshua, all
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\nJoshua calls them, you remember
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\nchoose who they’re going to
\nserve. <\/p>\n
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\nHe says, As for me and my house,
\nwe will serve the Lord, We will <\/p>\n
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\nserve Yahweh.
\nSo I think it’s it’s worth <\/p>\n
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\nmaking a note of this in your
\nBible in John four and maybe <\/p>\n
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\nmaybe back in in Joshua as well.
\nSo Joshua chapter 24, verse 22 <\/p>\n
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\ntells us about the field that
\nJacob gave to Joseph at Shechem.<\/p>\n
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\nJoshua 24 verse 32 says, As for
\nthe bones of Joseph, which the <\/p>\n
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\npeople of Israel brought up from
\nEgypt, they buried them at <\/p>\n
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\nShechem.
\nSo not only did Jacob give the <\/p>\n
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\nland to Joseph, but Joseph in
\nthe end ends up being buried <\/p>\n
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\nthere, it says in the piece of
\nland that Jacob bought from the <\/p>\n
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\nsons of Hamor, the father of
\nShechem, for 100 pieces of <\/p>\n
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\nmoney.
\nSo this is one of those rare <\/p>\n
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\ntimes when, when the one of the
\npatriarchs actually owns land in<\/p>\n
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\nthe promised land, it became an
\ninheritance of the descendants <\/p>\n
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\nof Joseph, we’re told.
\nSo the field that Jacob bought, <\/p>\n
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\nhe gives as an inheritance
\nspecially to Joseph and Israel. <\/p>\n
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\nThe nation takes Joseph’s bones
\nmany years later, there to be <\/p>\n
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\nburied.
\nAll right, so that gives us some<\/p>\n
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\ninformation.
\nLet’s go over to Genesis 33. <\/p>\n
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\nSo now we’re looking at the
\ncontext. <\/p>\n
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\nThe context is of Jacob just
\nafter he’d met up with Esau, <\/p>\n
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\nGenesis 33 and 19.
\nAnd he has come now safely to <\/p>\n
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\nShechem, Genesis 3319, it says.
\nAnd from the sons of Hamor, <\/p>\n
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\nShechem’s father, he bought for
\n100 pieces of money the piece of<\/p>\n
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\nland on which he had pitched his
\ntent. <\/p>\n
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\nSo he bought the land.
\nAnd what does he do? <\/p>\n
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\nIt says there he erected an
\naltar and he called it El Elohi <\/p>\n
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\nIsrael.
\nIt’s interesting to know that at<\/p>\n
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\nthis place.
\nSo Jacob buys it and he buys it <\/p>\n
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\nso that he can build an altar
\nthere. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd it’s also the place where
\nAbraham had built an altar back <\/p>\n
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\nin Genesis chapter 12.
\nHe builds an altar there when he<\/p>\n
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\nfirst comes into the land.
\nAnd then we’ll, we’ll, we saw <\/p>\n
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\nas, as in the reading this
\nmorning that there’s a, there’s <\/p>\n
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\na well that Jacob digs in that
\nsame place. <\/p>\n
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\nSo Jacob gave his son Joseph
\nthis field. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s got a well on it.
\nIt’s got an altar on it. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd Abraham had also built an
\naltar on the same place. <\/p>\n
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\nSo this is a very, very
\nimportant place. <\/p>\n
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\nThe this place that is, is so
\nimportant to Joseph that he asks<\/p>\n
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\nfor his bones to be carried
\nthere. <\/p>\n
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\nSo come with me to Genesis
\nchapter 50, Genesis 50. <\/p>\n
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\nJoseph is is about to to die and
\nhe says to his brothers, I’m <\/p>\n
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\nabout to die, but God will visit
\nyou. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is verse 24.
\nGod will visit you and bring you<\/p>\n
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\nup out of this land to the land
\nthat he swore to Abraham, to <\/p>\n
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\nIsaac and to Jacob.
\nAnd then Joseph made his sons, <\/p>\n
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\nthe sons of Israel swear saying,
\nGod will surely visit you and <\/p>\n
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\nyou should carry up my bones
\nfrom here. <\/p>\n
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\nSo Joseph died being 110 years
\nold. <\/p>\n
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\nThey embalmed him and he was put
\nin a coffin in Egypt. <\/p>\n
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\nSo Joseph is saying, I believe
\nthat we are going back to the <\/p>\n
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\npromised land and I believe that
\nI will be there, that I will be <\/p>\n
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\nraised to life again.
\nI want that to be where I am <\/p>\n
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\nraised to life again.
\nJoseph never forgot the hope of <\/p>\n
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\nthe Kingdom and he wanted Israel
\nnever to forget the hope, the <\/p>\n
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\nSo I think this highlights for <\/p>\n
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\nus the the faith that Joseph had
\nabout God’s promises. <\/p>\n
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\nHe’d spent 85% of his life in
\nEgypt, but all he wanted was to <\/p>\n
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\nend up in the promised land.
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\nAnd so he asks the whole nation
\nthen to take him back to this <\/p>\n
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\nIn fact, this is is such an <\/p>\n
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\nthis is what Hebrews 11 picks up<\/p>\n
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\nas the key moment of his faith.
\nSo let’s go to Hebrews 11, verse<\/p>\n
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\nJoseph when he died, made
\nmention of the departing of the <\/p>\n
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\nbones.
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\nland.
\nAnd one more verse that we’ll <\/p>\n
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\nlook at just as as we’re
\nresearching this is back in <\/p>\n
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\nGenesis 49.
\nIt’s a prophecy made by Jacob <\/p>\n
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\nand Jacob makes those prophecies
\nabout his sons. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd here’s what he says about
\nJoseph. <\/p>\n
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\nSo this is Genesis 49, verse 22.
\nIt says Joseph is a fruitful bow<\/p>\n
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\nor a fruitful tree, a fruitful
\nbow by a spring. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s an allusion to this well
\nthat we’re going to read about <\/p>\n
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\nhere in John chapter 4, an
\nallusion to this this spring. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd it’s not just a, a, a
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\nsay this is a, a spring.
\nSo this is a fountain. <\/p>\n
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\nWell, and his branches will run
\nover the wall. <\/p>\n
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\nSo I want you to keep that in
\nmind as well, because Jacob <\/p>\n
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\nmakes this prophecy about
\nJoseph. <\/p>\n
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\nSo to Joseph, Shechem is not
\nnostalgia. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s not the tradition of his
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\nIt’s not something nice that’s
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\nto him.
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\nof God and it’s the purpose of <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s Shechem to Joseph. <\/p>\n
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\nSo here’s a picture of where
\nShechem is located. <\/p>\n
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\nShechem is is known as the city
\nof choice. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s between Mount Gerizim.
\nYou’ll see that on the left <\/p>\n
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\nthere the the, the mountain of
\nblessing and Mount evil, the <\/p>\n
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\nmountain of cursing between the
\nthe blessings that were were <\/p>\n
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\npromised for obedience and the
\ncursings for disobedience. <\/p>\n
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\nIt was a very important city in
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\nall the different things that <\/p>\n
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\nwould brag about Shechem.
\nThis is the place where all <\/p>\n
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\nhappened. <\/p>\n
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\nNow, have you ever gone through
\na city where people bragged <\/p>\n
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\nabout famous events that took
\nplace in their city? <\/p>\n
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\nYou ever gone through those?
\nYeah. <\/p>\n
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\nSo I’m from Brantford, ON
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\nDoes anybody know any famous
\nthings that happened in <\/p>\n
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\nOK, that’s one, right.
\nDoes it say that on the water <\/p>\n
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\ntower now the home of Wayne?
\nProbably not. <\/p>\n
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\nThousand Oaks, actually. <\/p>\n
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\nBrantford? <\/p>\n
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\nYeah. <\/p>\n
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\nSo as I was growing up in
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\ntower, and it said on the water
\ntower Brantford, the telephone <\/p>\n
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\ncity, is what it said on the
\nwater tower as I went by there. <\/p>\n
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\nSo anyway, you get the idea.
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\nin Shechem?
\nOn the sign in Shechem, it would<\/p>\n
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\nsay Shechem, the place where
\nAbraham built an altar. <\/p>\n
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\nHe had to choose between the
\nCanaanites, the cursed people, <\/p>\n
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\nor the blessings of the
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\nIt was the place where Jacob
\nbought the land so he could <\/p>\n
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\nbuild an altar.
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\nburied.
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\nDoes anybody know the Egyptian <\/p>\n
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\nname?
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\nJoseph.
\nYeah. <\/p>\n
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\nSo Zath. <\/p>\n
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\nAnath Penia.
\nRight. <\/p>\n
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\nDoes anybody know what it means?
\nSavior of the world. <\/p>\n
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\nOK, excellent.
\nSo that would probably be on the<\/p>\n
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\nside too, if we, if they were
\ntalking about it. <\/p>\n
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\nIt was a place where the
\nblessings and the cursings were <\/p>\n
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\nread, and it’s also the place
\nthat Joshua called Israel to <\/p>\n
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\nchoose whom they were going to
\nserve in Joshua chapter 24, <\/p>\n
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\nwhere he says now therefore fear
\nYahweh, serve him in sincerity <\/p>\n
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\nand in faithfulness.
\nPut away the gods that your <\/p>\n
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\nfather’s have served beyond the
\nriver and in Egypt and serve the<\/p>\n
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\nJoshua says, As for me in my <\/p>\n
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\nSo it’s a it’s a really <\/p>\n
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\nremarkable place and the
\nSamaritan woman had come from <\/p>\n
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\nthis remarkable, remarkable
\nspiritual heritage. <\/p>\n
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\nAll right, with that in mind,
\nthis is this is kind of her <\/p>\n
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\nframe of reference, her frame of
\nthinking. <\/p>\n
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\nHere we go to verse 6 of John
\nchapter 4. <\/p>\n
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\nIt says now Jacob’s well was
\nthere. <\/p>\n
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\nJesus therefore, being wearied
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\nAnd it was about the 6th hour. <\/p>\n
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\nSo one of the things that we
\nfind when we research these <\/p>\n
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\nfar has already pointed at this,<\/p>\n
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\nWell, actually John uses 1 and <\/p>\n
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\ndifferent word for this well. <\/p>\n
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\nSo the one that John uses the
\nwell is the Greek word pegay. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the word that John that John
\nuses for Jacob’s well means a <\/p>\n
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\nfountain.
\nIt’s a a, a well that’s that has<\/p>\n
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\nSo it has flowing water, which <\/p>\n
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\nwater in this well. <\/p>\n
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\nSo John calls Jacob’s well a
\nfountain. <\/p>\n
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\nBut the whole story gets more
\ninteresting when we realize that<\/p>\n
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\nthis well is a Greek word freer.<\/p>\n
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\nAnd that means a hole in the
\nground. <\/p>\n
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\nYou see the difference.
\nSo John says, no, this, this is <\/p>\n
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\na this is a fountain.
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\nhole in the ground.
\nLet me show you So John four and<\/p>\n
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\nwe’re going to look at verse
\nsix. <\/p>\n
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\nFirst of all, so it says now
\nJacob’s well, and that’s the <\/p>\n
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\nJohn, the writer of the Gospel <\/p>\n
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\nhere the narrative is saying,
\nJesus therefore being wearied <\/p>\n
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\nwith his journey, set thus on
\nthe well on the fountain, and it<\/p>\n
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\nwas about the 6th hour.
\nThen we go down to verse 11, and<\/p>\n
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\nit says, And the woman said to
\nhim, Sir, thou hast nothing to <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the well the hole in the <\/p>\n
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\nground is deep.
\nFrom whence then hast thou that <\/p>\n
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\nliving water we go over to?
\nTo verse 12 Then so the woman <\/p>\n
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\nspeaking again, and she says,
\nArt thou greater than our Father<\/p>\n
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\nJacob, which gave us the well,
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\nAnd then of course we go down to<\/p>\n
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\nverse 14, where Jesus expands
\nthis idea of this fountain. <\/p>\n
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\nIt says, But whosoever drinketh
\nof the water that I shall give <\/p>\n
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\nhim, she’ll never thirst, but
\nthe water that I shall give him <\/p>\n
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\nshall be unto him a well, a
\nfountain of water springing up <\/p>\n
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\ninto everlasting life.
\nAnd that’s the verse that kind <\/p>\n
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\nof clues you into the difference
\nbetween the perspectives about <\/p>\n
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\nthis well.
\nSo John is telling us that God’s<\/p>\n
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\npromises, which this well <\/p>\n
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\nrepresents, are viewed
\ndifferently by different people.<\/p>\n
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\nTo some people, his promises and
\nhis word is a a flowing well of <\/p>\n
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\nliving water.
\nThey’re from God. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd to other people, the word of
\nGod is just water. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s something that comes from
\nthe ground. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s something that comes in, in
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\nsomething that our ancestor <\/p>\n
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\nJacob has dug.
\nBut it’s not something that <\/p>\n
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\nlife. <\/p>\n
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\nShe sees it as as something to <\/p>\n
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\nbe proud of that heritage,
\nsomething that makes her group <\/p>\n
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\nsuperior to to other groups.
\nAnd so the woman at the well, to<\/p>\n
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\nher, it’s just a hole in the
\nground that they got water from.<\/p>\n
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\nNow, I think there’s an
\nexpectation already in that for <\/p>\n
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\nus, how do we see the word of
\nGod? <\/p>\n
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\nHow do we see the hope of the
\nKingdom of God? <\/p>\n
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\nWhat is our worship like?
\nDo we look at the promises like <\/p>\n
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\na fountain of living water?
\nLike Joseph who who wanted to be<\/p>\n
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\nbrought back to that place?
\nLike Joseph who who wanted to be<\/p>\n
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\nburied because that was his
\nhope, buried there because that <\/p>\n
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\nwas his hope?
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\nHow valuable is the water to us?<\/p>\n
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\nSo that brings us back to John
\n4:00 and 7:00. <\/p>\n
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\nSo Jesus is is sitting on the
\nwell and a woman from Samaria <\/p>\n
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\ncame to draw water and Jesus
\nsays to her, give me to drink. <\/p>\n
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\nSo here we have a Jew asking a
\nSamaritan to draw water from the<\/p>\n
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\nNow if Jesus wanted to instantly<\/p>\n
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\nopen up a can of worms with this
\nwoman, that was absolutely the <\/p>\n
338
\n00:20:00,000 –> 00:20:01,920
\nright thing to say.
\nAnd I think that’s exactly what <\/p>\n
339
\n00:20:01,920 –> 00:20:05,600
\nhe wanted to do.
\nVerse 8 tells us that the <\/p>\n
340
\n00:20:05,600 –> 00:20:07,840
\ndisciples are not there.
\nIt says for his disciples had <\/p>\n
341
\n00:20:07,840 –> 00:20:10,360
\ngone away into the city to buy
\nfood. <\/p>\n
342
\n00:20:11,960 –> 00:20:14,280
\nWe won’t look at it in any real
\ndetail, but later on the <\/p>\n
343
\n00:20:14,280 –> 00:20:17,960
\ndisciples have really almost the
\nsame problem to deal with as the<\/p>\n
344
\n00:20:17,960 –> 00:20:21,080
\nwoman has to deal with in the
\nword their perspective on <\/p>\n
345
\n00:20:21,080 –> 00:20:24,280
\nthings.
\nSo Jesus asks her for some water<\/p>\n
346
\n00:20:24,800 –> 00:20:31,240
\nand she responds in verse 9 she
\nsays, how is it that you, a Jew,<\/p>\n
347
\n00:20:32,240 –> 00:20:37,480
\nask for a drink from me, a woman
\nof Samaria, for the Jews have no<\/p>\n
348
\n00:20:37,480 –> 00:20:41,680
\ndealings with the Samaritans.
\nShe says, are you serious? <\/p>\n
349
\n00:20:43,400 –> 00:20:45,520
\nYou guys have nothing to do with
\nus. <\/p>\n
350
\n00:20:46,000 –> 00:20:49,440
\nYou guys make a point of going
\nall the way around our country <\/p>\n
351
\n00:20:50,040 –> 00:20:53,960
\nand here you are asking me to
\ndraw water for you. <\/p>\n
352
\n00:20:54,800 –> 00:20:58,280
\nWhy would I do that for you?
\nAnd she gets all fired up <\/p>\n
353
\n00:20:58,440 –> 00:21:02,360
\nbecause Jesus has asked her for
\nsome, some water. <\/p>\n
354
\n00:21:04,000 –> 00:21:06,280
\nNow, of course, she has the
\nwrong perspective on things. <\/p>\n
355
\n00:21:06,720 –> 00:21:10,280
\nWhat, what do you think she
\ncould have said to this, this <\/p>\n
356
\n00:21:10,280 –> 00:21:12,560
\nstranger that came up to her on
\nthis? <\/p>\n
357
\n00:21:12,560 –> 00:21:15,440
\nWell, well, maybe even from her
\nperspective, she could have, <\/p>\n
358
\n00:21:15,600 –> 00:21:18,640
\ncould have said something like,
\nis this your first time in <\/p>\n
359
\n00:21:18,640 –> 00:21:22,320
\nShechem?
\nDo you know the hope of, of <\/p>\n
360
\n00:21:22,320 –> 00:21:24,760
\nJoseph who’s buried here?
\nDo you know why he wanted his <\/p>\n
361
\n00:21:24,760 –> 00:21:28,320
\nbones to be brought back here?
\nBut that’s not, that’s not what <\/p>\n
362
\n00:21:28,320 –> 00:21:29,920
\nshe says, right?
\nThere’s there’s something else <\/p>\n
363
\n00:21:29,920 –> 00:21:32,000
\nthat’s on her mind that’s that’s
\ngreater than that. <\/p>\n
364
\n00:21:32,720 –> 00:21:36,840
\nSo verse 10, Jesus answers and
\nsays to her, if you knew the <\/p>\n
365
\n00:21:36,840 –> 00:21:41,400
\ngift of God, if you had
\nspiritual understanding of God’s<\/p>\n
366
\n00:21:41,400 –> 00:21:49,680
\nplan, like Abraham, like Jacob,
\nlike Joseph, like Joshua had, <\/p>\n
367
\n00:21:50,440 –> 00:21:53,840
\nand who it is that says to you,
\ngive me to drink, you would have<\/p>\n
368
\n00:21:53,840 –> 00:21:58,360
\nasked him and he would have
\ngiven you living water. <\/p>\n
369
\n00:21:59,320 –> 00:22:04,840
\nIf you knew about the Kingdom
\nand if you knew who I am, your <\/p>\n
370
\n00:22:05,000 –> 00:22:06,640
\nanswer would have been a lot
\ndifferent. <\/p>\n
371
\n00:22:06,840 –> 00:22:09,520
\nWhen I asked you to give me a
\ndrink of water, you would have <\/p>\n
372
\n00:22:09,520 –> 00:22:14,200
\nbeen asking me for living water,
\nfor the words of eternal life. <\/p>\n
373
\n00:22:14,680 –> 00:22:18,880
\nAnd so Jesus reframes, reframes
\nthe whole conversation to a <\/p>\n
374
\n00:22:18,880 –> 00:22:24,080
\nspiritual level, but her
\nthinking is still on earthly <\/p>\n
375
\n00:22:24,080 –> 00:22:28,400
\nthings in in verse 11.
\nAnd the woman says to him, Sir, <\/p>\n
376
\n00:22:28,600 –> 00:22:31,440
\nyou have nothing to draw water
\nwith and the wells is deep. <\/p>\n
377
\n00:22:32,160 –> 00:22:33,720
\nIt’s a it’s a deep hole in the
\nground. <\/p>\n
378
\n00:22:33,720 –> 00:22:36,560
\nShe says, where do you get that
\nliving water? <\/p>\n
379
\n00:22:37,240 –> 00:22:39,960
\nYou don’t even have a bucket.
\nWhere could you get that water <\/p>\n
380
\n00:22:39,960 –> 00:22:44,920
\nfrom?
\nWell, she says, are you greater <\/p>\n
381
\n00:22:44,920 –> 00:22:49,320
\nthan our father Jacob?
\nHe gave us the well and he drank<\/p>\n
382
\n00:22:49,320 –> 00:22:52,680
\nfrom it himself, as did his sons
\nand his livestock. <\/p>\n
383
\n00:22:53,400 –> 00:22:58,440
\nShe says Jacob dug this well.
\nAre you greater than Jacob? <\/p>\n
384
\n00:22:59,440 –> 00:23:03,240
\nDo you think that your water is
\ngreater than the water that <\/p>\n
385
\n00:23:03,240 –> 00:23:07,440
\ncomes from Jacob’s well, from
\nJacob’s hole in the ground? <\/p>\n
386
\n00:23:08,840 –> 00:23:13,760
\nAnd Jesus says to her, everyone
\nthat drinks of this water will <\/p>\n
387
\n00:23:13,760 –> 00:23:18,040
\nbe thirsty again.
\nYour water is just water. <\/p>\n
388
\n00:23:18,760 –> 00:23:21,440
\nYou’re going to have to come
\nback for more tomorrow. <\/p>\n
389
\n00:23:21,440 –> 00:23:23,800
\nYou’re going to have to come
\nback every day. <\/p>\n
390
\n00:23:24,560 –> 00:23:28,560
\nYou’ll be putting all of your
\nenergy into drawing water, and <\/p>\n
391
\n00:23:28,560 –> 00:23:32,720
\nyou’ll still need to come back
\nagain and again to draw water. <\/p>\n
392
\n00:23:34,120 –> 00:23:36,200
\nThat’s the water I think that
\nthe whole world is drinking, <\/p>\n
393
\n00:23:36,200 –> 00:23:39,440
\nisn’t it?
\nWater from a hole in the ground,<\/p>\n
394
\n00:23:40,520 –> 00:23:43,640
\ndrawn daily, day after day after
\nday. <\/p>\n
395
\n00:23:44,360 –> 00:23:46,600
\nTheir lives are pointless.
\nThere’s nothing they’re <\/p>\n
396
\n00:23:46,600 –> 00:23:50,120
\naccomplishing with their life.
\nAnd Jesus is trying to introduce<\/p>\n
397
\n00:23:50,120 –> 00:23:53,120
\nher to something far better.
\nHe says For who’s? <\/p>\n
398
\n00:23:53,160 –> 00:23:57,520
\nBut whosoever drinks of the
\nwater that I will give, she’ll <\/p>\n
399
\n00:23:57,520 –> 00:24:00,680
\nnever thirst.
\nYou’ll never want anything else.<\/p>\n
400
\n00:24:01,400 –> 00:24:06,280
\nOnce you learn about the Kingdom
\nand about eternal life, and once<\/p>\n
401
\n00:24:06,280 –> 00:24:12,160
\nyou believe in those things like
\nJoseph did, you’ll be fully <\/p>\n
402
\n00:24:12,160 –> 00:24:16,080
\nsatisfied and the purpose of
\nyour life will completely <\/p>\n
403
\n00:24:16,080 –> 00:24:20,840
\nchange.
\nYou will not want anything else.<\/p>\n
404
\n00:24:21,520 –> 00:24:25,080
\nYou’ll want to get out of Egypt
\nand come to the promised land. <\/p>\n
405
\n00:24:26,280 –> 00:24:29,640
\nSo Jesus continues, But the
\nwater that I should give him <\/p>\n
406
\n00:24:29,640 –> 00:24:34,040
\nshall be in him, a well of
\nspringing water, springing up <\/p>\n
407
\n00:24:34,080 –> 00:24:37,880
\nunto everlasting life.
\nThe water that I can give you, <\/p>\n
408
\n00:24:38,440 –> 00:24:42,720
\nthis faith that I can give you
\nwill be something that you can <\/p>\n
409
\n00:24:42,720 –> 00:24:46,960
\ngive to other people and your
\nfaith will still be flowing. <\/p>\n
410
\n00:24:47,440 –> 00:24:52,280
\nYou yourself will be a fountain.
\nAnd so the woman says in verse <\/p>\n
411
\n00:24:52,280 –> 00:24:55,800
\n15, Sir, give me this water.
\nShe says, that sounds really <\/p>\n
412
\n00:24:55,800 –> 00:24:56,800
\ngood.
\nI want this water. <\/p>\n
413
\n00:24:57,240 –> 00:24:59,520
\nI will get thirsty again and I
\nwon’t have to draw water. <\/p>\n
414
\n00:24:59,520 –> 00:25:03,280
\nThis is this is perfect.
\nSo she’s still in the dark with <\/p>\n
415
\n00:25:03,280 –> 00:25:06,120
\nthis conversation with Jesus.
\nShe’s not getting it. <\/p>\n
416
\n00:25:06,360 –> 00:25:08,800
\nShe doesn’t realize what Jesus
\nis talking about. <\/p>\n
417
\n00:25:09,800 –> 00:25:13,360
\nSo Jesus decides to say
\nsomething to her that that calls<\/p>\n
418
\n00:25:13,360 –> 00:25:18,640
\nher out, that gets her
\nattention, to show her the <\/p>\n
419
\n00:25:18,640 –> 00:25:23,400
\nproblem that she had, that her
\nworship had to be more than just<\/p>\n
420
\n00:25:23,560 –> 00:25:27,800
\nrituals and traditions.
\nIn a way, what he says to her is<\/p>\n
421
\n00:25:27,800 –> 00:25:29,800
\ngiving her some of that living
\nwater. <\/p>\n
422
\n00:25:30,400 –> 00:25:35,160
\nSo verse 16, Jesus says to her,
\ngo call your husband and come <\/p>\n
423
\n00:25:35,160 –> 00:25:38,080
\nhere.
\nNow that would have shocked her.<\/p>\n
424
\n00:25:39,320 –> 00:25:42,280
\nWhere did that come from?
\nWhy do you want me to call my <\/p>\n
425
\n00:25:42,280 –> 00:25:44,840
\nhusband?
\nAnd, and you can hear the tone. <\/p>\n
426
\n00:25:44,840 –> 00:25:47,600
\nYou can feel the tone change in
\nher response. <\/p>\n
427
\n00:25:48,640 –> 00:25:52,880
\nThe conversation is no longer a
\nSamaritan debating about her <\/p>\n
428
\n00:25:52,880 –> 00:25:57,000
\ngroup being better.
\nThe woman answers and says to <\/p>\n
429
\n00:25:57,000 –> 00:26:00,920
\nhim, I have no husband.
\nShe’s thinking, you know, maybe <\/p>\n
430
\n00:26:00,920 –> 00:26:02,920
\nI can kind of deflect the
\nquestion. <\/p>\n
431
\n00:26:04,000 –> 00:26:06,880
\nBut Jesus, he’s not going to let
\nher get off that easy, is he? <\/p>\n
432
\n00:26:07,240 –> 00:26:09,480
\nAnd Jesus says to her, you’re
\nright in saying I have no <\/p>\n
433
\n00:26:09,480 –> 00:26:14,040
\nhusband, for you have 5 husbands
\nand the one you have now is not <\/p>\n
434
\n00:26:14,040 –> 00:26:16,560
\nyour husband.
\nWhat you said is true. <\/p>\n
435
\n00:26:18,800 –> 00:26:21,800
\nWow.
\nA minute ago they were debating <\/p>\n
436
\n00:26:21,800 –> 00:26:26,520
\nabout whose water was better, a
\nJew and a Samaritan, whose <\/p>\n
437
\n00:26:26,520 –> 00:26:30,160
\nworship was better in a way
\nwhose ecclesia was better. <\/p>\n
438
\n00:26:30,760 –> 00:26:36,120
\nAnd Jesus looks right into her
\nheart and he sees her adulterous<\/p>\n
439
\n00:26:36,120 –> 00:26:40,560
\nlife and the conversation goes
\ndeep, deep into that heart. <\/p>\n
440
\n00:26:41,400 –> 00:26:46,960
\nAnd he says, if your worship is
\ngreater, if your, if your water <\/p>\n
441
\n00:26:46,960 –> 00:26:52,440
\nis greater, then why hasn’t it
\nhad an effect on your life? <\/p>\n
442
\n00:26:54,360 –> 00:26:56,440
\nWhy aren’t you developing the
\nfruit of the spirit? <\/p>\n
443
\n00:26:57,720 –> 00:26:59,920
\nYou know, we, we said earlier
\nthat a lot of people compare the<\/p>\n
444
\n00:26:59,920 –> 00:27:01,840
\nstory of Nicodemus and the
\nSamaritan woman. <\/p>\n
445
\n00:27:02,400 –> 00:27:04,640
\nExactly right.
\nThey, they both have the same <\/p>\n
446
\n00:27:04,640 –> 00:27:08,720
\nproblem, don’t they?
\nAnd Jesus has said exactly what <\/p>\n
447
\n00:27:08,720 –> 00:27:14,880
\nwas necessary to get her to stop
\nand to actually think about the <\/p>\n
448
\n00:27:14,880 –> 00:27:18,080
\nchallenges that she had and to
\nthink about the impact her <\/p>\n
449
\n00:27:18,080 –> 00:27:22,160
\nworship was having on her life.
\nNow, how often has that happened<\/p>\n
450
\n00:27:22,920 –> 00:27:27,000
\nin your lives when someone says
\nsomething to you that wakes you <\/p>\n
451
\n00:27:27,120 –> 00:27:32,680
\nup about yourself, that that
\nfreezes you in your tracks and <\/p>\n
452
\n00:27:32,680 –> 00:27:36,520
\nthat hopes hopefully makes you
\nquestion your sincerity and <\/p>\n
453
\n00:27:36,520 –> 00:27:38,440
\nhopefully makes you get back on
\nthe right track. <\/p>\n
454
\n00:27:39,560 –> 00:27:41,640
\nI want to tell you a little
\nstory about when, when I was a <\/p>\n
455
\n00:27:41,640 –> 00:27:48,960
\nteenager a long time ago and I
\nwasn’t baptized and I wasn’t <\/p>\n
456
\n00:27:48,960 –> 00:27:53,640
\nmoving toward baptized and I was
\nwalking along with my cousin. <\/p>\n
457
\n00:27:54,880 –> 00:28:01,840
\nMy cousin was about 10 years old
\nand my uncle, her dad was a <\/p>\n
458
\n00:28:01,840 –> 00:28:03,840
\nleader of our CYC.
\nMany of you will have will <\/p>\n
459
\n00:28:03,840 –> 00:28:07,720
\nremember Brother Colin Badger.
\nSo brother Colin Badger was our <\/p>\n
460
\n00:28:07,720 –> 00:28:11,480
\nCYC leader and I had a lot of
\nrespect for for Uncle Colin. <\/p>\n
461
\n00:28:12,240 –> 00:28:15,760
\nAnyway, so my cousin and I are
\nwalking along and she says to <\/p>\n
462
\n00:28:15,760 –> 00:28:19,240
\nme, she’s 10 years old.
\nShe says to me, you know, my dad<\/p>\n
463
\n00:28:19,240 –> 00:28:22,160
\nsays that you’re not interested
\nin the truth. <\/p>\n
464
\n00:28:24,160 –> 00:28:29,640
\nOf course my dad says right.
\nAnd I thought, that’s not true. <\/p>\n
465
\n00:28:30,240 –> 00:28:33,400
\nI am interested in the truth,
\nbut of course I wasn’t <\/p>\n
466
\n00:28:33,560 –> 00:28:35,840
\ninterested in the truth as I as
\nI should have been. <\/p>\n
467
\n00:28:36,360 –> 00:28:39,280
\nAnd when I really thought about
\nit, I realized that my cousin, <\/p>\n
468
\n00:28:39,280 –> 00:28:43,680
\nmy 10 year old cousin was right,
\nthat my my uncle was right. <\/p>\n
469
\n00:28:44,720 –> 00:28:47,680
\nNow that made me make big
\nchanges in my life. <\/p>\n
470
\n00:28:47,680 –> 00:28:51,360
\nThat that conversation that I
\nkind of had with my uncle made <\/p>\n
471
\n00:28:51,360 –> 00:28:55,480
\nme make big changes in my life.
\nNow, maybe it’s not the best <\/p>\n
472
\n00:28:55,480 –> 00:29:01,080
\nidea to say things like that to
\nyour 10 year old kid, but I <\/p>\n
473
\n00:29:01,080 –> 00:29:03,640
\nthink sometimes words can make a
\nbig difference. <\/p>\n
474
\n00:29:04,320 –> 00:29:06,720
\nI was talking to some some young
\nbrethren recently. <\/p>\n
475
\n00:29:07,600 –> 00:29:10,840
\nWe were at a school of the
\nprophets and I asked a group of <\/p>\n
476
\n00:29:10,840 –> 00:29:15,400
\nthem what had had the biggest
\nimpact on bringing them to <\/p>\n
477
\n00:29:15,400 –> 00:29:17,440
\nbelief.
\nAnd we went over from the room <\/p>\n
478
\n00:29:17,440 –> 00:29:19,920
\nand everybody was describing the
\nthing that had had the biggest <\/p>\n
479
\n00:29:19,920 –> 00:29:22,840
\nimpact.
\nAnd these are, you know, mostly <\/p>\n
480
\n00:29:23,640 –> 00:29:27,920
\n20s, twenty year old guys, early
\n20s, mid 20s. <\/p>\n
481
\n00:29:29,040 –> 00:29:32,800
\nAbout a third of them said that
\nthey got to a point where <\/p>\n
482
\n00:29:32,800 –> 00:29:36,720
\nsomeone had actually asked them,
\na brother in the ecclesia, a <\/p>\n
483
\n00:29:36,720 –> 00:29:40,600
\nsister in the ecclesia, someone
\nhad asked, actually asked them <\/p>\n
484
\n00:29:41,280 –> 00:29:44,920
\nabout whether or not they were
\nthinking about being baptized. <\/p>\n
485
\n00:29:46,280 –> 00:29:48,840
\nAnd they said that when that
\nhappened, it made them think, <\/p>\n
486
\n00:29:49,960 –> 00:29:54,920
\nwow, I need to think about that.
\nMaybe I need to be baptized. <\/p>\n
487
\n00:29:55,240 –> 00:29:58,240
\nI was just, I was very surprised
\nat how many people had done that<\/p>\n
488
\n00:29:58,240 –> 00:30:01,560
\nbecause that’s not something
\nthat’s that’s my normal thing to<\/p>\n
489
\n00:30:01,560 –> 00:30:03,840
\ndo.
\nAnd yet how helpful it actually <\/p>\n
490
\n00:30:03,840 –> 00:30:06,400
\nwas to to to these young
\nbrethren. <\/p>\n
491
\n00:30:07,680 –> 00:30:09,040
\nAll right, so back to our story
\nthen. <\/p>\n
492
\n00:30:09,040 –> 00:30:13,280
\nSo Jesus has asked the woman
\nabout her husband’s and then in <\/p>\n
493
\n00:30:13,280 –> 00:30:18,880
\nverse 9, the woman said to him,
\nSir, I perceive that you’re a <\/p>\n
494
\n00:30:18,880 –> 00:30:22,440
\nprophet.
\nShe could see that Jesus had <\/p>\n
495
\n00:30:22,440 –> 00:30:25,480
\npower from God just like
\nNicodemus had seen. <\/p>\n
496
\n00:30:25,480 –> 00:30:27,720
\nAnd so she says you must be a
\nprophet. <\/p>\n
497
\n00:30:28,720 –> 00:30:31,000
\nBut she still holds on to the
\nworship of the Samaritans. <\/p>\n
498
\n00:30:31,000 –> 00:30:35,480
\nAnd she figures who better to
\nask about whether the Jews have <\/p>\n
499
\n00:30:35,480 –> 00:30:38,160
\nit right or the Samaritans have
\nit right. <\/p>\n
500
\n00:30:38,800 –> 00:30:40,720
\nAnd so she wants to ask this
\nprophet about that. <\/p>\n
501
\n00:30:40,720 –> 00:30:43,920
\nSo that’s verse 20.
\nOur fathers worshiped in this <\/p>\n
502
\n00:30:43,920 –> 00:30:46,880
\nmountain, on this mountain.
\nBut you say that in Jerusalem is<\/p>\n
503
\n00:30:46,880 –> 00:30:48,280
\nthe place where people ought to
\nworship. <\/p>\n
504
\n00:30:49,000 –> 00:30:54,360
\nShe’s thinking Abraham, Jacob,
\nJoseph all worshipped here. <\/p>\n
505
\n00:30:54,800 –> 00:30:57,440
\nSurely this must be the right
\nplace to worship. <\/p>\n
506
\n00:30:57,800 –> 00:31:02,480
\nJoseph is even buried here.
\nSurely Gerizim must be the right<\/p>\n
507
\n00:31:02,480 –> 00:31:05,640
\nplace and not Jerusalem.
\nThat first of all, I think <\/p>\n
508
\n00:31:05,640 –> 00:31:08,840
\nthat’s pretty bold that she asks
\na Jew this question, right? <\/p>\n
509
\n00:31:08,840 –> 00:31:10,680
\nBecause Jesus is obviously a
\nJew. <\/p>\n
510
\n00:31:11,440 –> 00:31:16,000
\nSo Jesus says to her, woman,
\nbelieve me, the hour is coming <\/p>\n
511
\n00:31:16,000 –> 00:31:21,560
\nwhen neither on this mountain
\nnor in Jerusalem will thou <\/p>\n
512
\n00:31:21,560 –> 00:31:25,800
\nworship the Father.
\nSoon you won’t be worshipping in<\/p>\n
513
\n00:31:25,800 –> 00:31:28,600
\neither place.
\nWhy not? <\/p>\n
514
\n00:31:29,880 –> 00:31:32,160
\nWhy wouldn’t she be worshipping
\nin either place? <\/p>\n
515
\n00:31:32,680 –> 00:31:35,960
\nWhy does he say that?
\nWhat was going to soon happen to<\/p>\n
516
\n00:31:35,960 –> 00:31:39,960
\nboth of those places?
\n8070, right? <\/p>\n
517
\n00:31:40,240 –> 00:31:42,960
\nThey would both be destroyed by
\nthe Romans and there would be no<\/p>\n
518
\n00:31:42,960 –> 00:31:45,080
\nplace for them to go and to
\nworship. <\/p>\n
519
\n00:31:46,320 –> 00:31:49,920
\nSo verse 22, he says you worship
\nwhat you don’t know. <\/p>\n
520
\n00:31:51,080 –> 00:31:55,520
\nWe worship what we know for
\nsalvation is from the Jews. <\/p>\n
521
\n00:31:56,200 –> 00:32:00,200
\nHe says the problem is that you
\nworship what you don’t know, you<\/p>\n
522
\n00:32:00,200 –> 00:32:03,680
\ndon’t understand.
\nWe think of the Samaritans. <\/p>\n
523
\n00:32:04,240 –> 00:32:07,920
\nThey believed in, in just the
\nfive books of the Bible that <\/p>\n
524
\n00:32:07,920 –> 00:32:11,240
\nwere from from God.
\nThe Samaritans didn’t have the <\/p>\n
525
\n00:32:11,240 –> 00:32:14,560
\npromises to David.
\nThey didn’t have the prophets, <\/p>\n
526
\n00:32:15,080 –> 00:32:18,840
\nthey didn’t have the Psalms,
\nthey didn’t have a full picture <\/p>\n
527
\n00:32:18,840 –> 00:32:21,440
\nof the Kingdom like the Jews
\ndid. <\/p>\n
528
\n00:32:22,200 –> 00:32:24,440
\nSalvation clearly was of the
\nJews. <\/p>\n
529
\n00:32:24,960 –> 00:32:27,440
\nIn fact, the Savior was going to
\nbe a Jew. <\/p>\n
530
\n00:32:28,520 –> 00:32:32,240
\nBut it’s not Gerizim or
\nJerusalem that really matters. <\/p>\n
531
\n00:32:32,240 –> 00:32:36,160
\nJesus is saying, he says the
\nhour’s coming, that now here is <\/p>\n
532
\n00:32:36,160 –> 00:32:41,600
\nwhen true worshippers will
\nworship the Father in spirit and<\/p>\n
533
\n00:32:41,600 –> 00:32:44,520
\ntruth.
\nFor the Father is seeking such <\/p>\n
534
\n00:32:44,520 –> 00:32:49,640
\npeople to worship him.
\nTrue worshippers, real <\/p>\n
535
\n00:32:49,680 –> 00:32:54,720
\nworshippers, those who really
\nhonor God, those who do what God<\/p>\n
536
\n00:32:54,720 –> 00:32:58,680
\nsays, that’s those are the
\npeople that God is looking for. <\/p>\n
537
\n00:32:59,480 –> 00:33:03,480
\nTrue worshippers, he says, will
\nworship in spirit and in truth. <\/p>\n
538
\n00:33:04,000 –> 00:33:09,520
\nIn spirit, not just for other
\npeople to see, like the <\/p>\n
539
\n00:33:09,520 –> 00:33:13,760
\nadulterous woman who came to the
\nhole in the ground, who bragged <\/p>\n
540
\n00:33:13,760 –> 00:33:18,480
\nabout the well of Jacob, but
\nthey will worship genuinely. <\/p>\n
541
\n00:33:19,520 –> 00:33:22,520
\nShe needed to be like Abraham,
\nlike Jacob, like Joseph, like <\/p>\n
542
\n00:33:22,520 –> 00:33:26,560
\nJoshua, who saw the truth as a
\nfountain of living water. <\/p>\n
543
\n00:33:27,520 –> 00:33:33,000
\nThey’ll worship in truth.
\nThink of a ritual or a tradition<\/p>\n
544
\n00:33:33,600 –> 00:33:38,040
\nlike like eating animals, clean
\nanimals versus unclean animals. <\/p>\n
545
\n00:33:38,840 –> 00:33:42,600
\nThat was a ritual, but the
\nritual was given to teach a <\/p>\n
546
\n00:33:42,600 –> 00:33:47,080
\nlesson, and some people got so
\ncaught up in the ritual that <\/p>\n
547
\n00:33:47,080 –> 00:33:49,160
\nthey didn’t see the lesson that
\nwas behind it. <\/p>\n
548
\n00:33:49,360 –> 00:33:51,520
\nWhat should have actually
\nchanged their behavior? <\/p>\n
549
\n00:33:52,280 –> 00:33:55,360
\nThe ritual of of unclean and
\nclean gives was given to <\/p>\n
550
\n00:33:55,360 –> 00:33:59,480
\nillustrate people the need to to
\nwatch what they put into their <\/p>\n
551
\n00:33:59,480 –> 00:34:03,160
\nminds.
\nThe the Samaritans and the Jews <\/p>\n
552
\n00:34:03,160 –> 00:34:07,280
\nwere careful about what they
\nate, but they were not careful <\/p>\n
553
\n00:34:07,280 –> 00:34:09,080
\nabout what they were putting
\ninto their minds. <\/p>\n
554
\n00:34:10,080 –> 00:34:13,320
\nThe Samaritans of the Jews had
\ntraditions that kept them apart,<\/p>\n
555
\n00:34:13,560 –> 00:34:16,920
\nways of worshipping that were
\ndifferent, but it wasn’t the <\/p>\n
556
\n00:34:16,920 –> 00:34:19,120
\ntraditions that God was looking
\nfor. <\/p>\n
557
\n00:34:19,639 –> 00:34:25,760
\nGod is looking for people who
\nare being changed by his word. <\/p>\n
558
\n00:34:27,040 –> 00:34:29,120
\nIt’s a lesson, a really
\nimportant lesson for us. <\/p>\n
559
\n00:34:29,719 –> 00:34:33,239
\nIf we’re worshipping in spirit
\nand in truth, it should be <\/p>\n
560
\n00:34:33,239 –> 00:34:37,760
\nchanging our lives.
\nAnd that point would have rang <\/p>\n
561
\n00:34:37,760 –> 00:34:43,760
\nout in the ears of a woman.
\nIn verse 24, Jesus continues, <\/p>\n
562
\n00:34:43,760 –> 00:34:50,040
\nGod is spirit, God is holy, He’s
\ngenuine, and those who worship <\/p>\n
563
\n00:34:50,040 –> 00:34:52,040
\nhim must worship him in spirit
\nand truth. <\/p>\n
564
\n00:34:53,000 –> 00:34:56,760
\nWe’ve got to follow his example.
\nWe should reflect his character.<\/p>\n
565
\n00:34:57,800 –> 00:35:02,040
\nAnd so the woman says in in
\nverse 25, I know that Messiah is<\/p>\n
566
\n00:35:02,040 –> 00:35:05,000
\ncoming.
\nHe who is called Christ when he <\/p>\n
567
\n00:35:05,000 –> 00:35:09,120
\ncomes, he’ll tell us all things
\nand she’s still responding back <\/p>\n
568
\n00:35:09,120 –> 00:35:12,720
\nto, to to verse 22.
\nYou worship, you know, not what <\/p>\n
569
\n00:35:12,720 –> 00:35:15,640
\nthe words of Jesus.
\nShe believed that the Messiah <\/p>\n
570
\n00:35:15,640 –> 00:35:19,880
\nwould come and teach them and
\nthen they would know and she was<\/p>\n
571
\n00:35:19,880 –> 00:35:21,560
\nready for spiritual
\nunderstanding. <\/p>\n
572
\n00:35:22,680 –> 00:35:28,360
\nAnd so Jesus says to her, I who
\nspeak to you, I’m he. <\/p>\n
573
\n00:35:29,280 –> 00:35:36,320
\nHe says, yes, I’m the Messiah,
\nand she believed him. <\/p>\n
574
\n00:35:38,440 –> 00:35:42,000
\nIt was an amazing conversation.
\nBut then the story’s <\/p>\n
575
\n00:35:42,000 –> 00:35:44,000
\ninterrupted, isn’t it, by the
\ndisciples returning? <\/p>\n
576
\n00:35:44,680 –> 00:35:47,720
\nWe look at verse 27.
\nJust then his disciples came <\/p>\n
577
\n00:35:47,720 –> 00:35:51,640
\nback and they marvelled that he
\nwas talking with a woman. <\/p>\n
578
\n00:35:52,640 –> 00:35:55,720
\nThey’ve also got to learn the
\nlesson about worshipping in <\/p>\n
579
\n00:35:55,720 –> 00:35:58,360
\nspirit and truth.
\nHow could he be talking to a <\/p>\n
580
\n00:35:58,360 –> 00:36:00,760
\nSamaritan woman?
\nThey weren’t supposed to be <\/p>\n
581
\n00:36:00,760 –> 00:36:04,320
\nhaving any dealings with with
\nthe Samaritans, the disciples. <\/p>\n
582
\n00:36:04,320 –> 00:36:06,520
\nThe disciples were stuck in
\ntheir traditions. <\/p>\n
583
\n00:36:07,240 –> 00:36:09,720
\nAnd that comes out loud and
\nclear to us later on. <\/p>\n
584
\n00:36:11,240 –> 00:36:15,400
\nBut no one said, what do you
\nseek or why are you talking to <\/p>\n
585
\n00:36:15,400 –> 00:36:17,520
\nher?
\nI think that’s pretty smart that<\/p>\n
586
\n00:36:17,520 –> 00:36:19,920
\nthey didn’t say much at that
\npoint, wasn’t it? <\/p>\n
587
\n00:36:20,880 –> 00:36:22,360
\nBut look what the woman does
\nnext. <\/p>\n
588
\n00:36:25,120 –> 00:36:32,840
\nThe woman left or water jar.
\nWow, wow, wow. <\/p>\n
589
\n00:36:34,080 –> 00:36:36,640
\nShe believed.
\nThere it is. <\/p>\n
590
\n00:36:37,400 –> 00:36:38,880
\nThere’s the moment that we’ve
\nbeen looking for. <\/p>\n
591
\n00:36:39,080 –> 00:36:44,360
\nShe had no use for the water
\nfrom the well anymore. <\/p>\n
592
\n00:36:45,280 –> 00:36:48,200
\nShe left her water jug right
\nthere by the well. <\/p>\n
593
\n00:36:48,680 –> 00:36:50,480
\nShe was no longer thirsty for
\nthat water. <\/p>\n
594
\n00:36:51,200 –> 00:36:55,560
\nTraditions and rituals are
\nnothing compared to true belief.<\/p>\n
595
\n00:36:55,840 –> 00:36:58,680
\nAnd now she had true belief.
\nShe had living water. <\/p>\n
596
\n00:36:59,200 –> 00:37:01,560
\nAnd so she left her water pot
\nbehind. <\/p>\n
597
\n00:37:03,360 –> 00:37:06,600
\nOnce you’ve tasted faith,
\nnothing compares to it. <\/p>\n
598
\n00:37:06,960 –> 00:37:11,960
\nNothing satisfies like it.
\nAnd she was going now to share <\/p>\n
599
\n00:37:12,080 –> 00:37:15,280
\nthat water, that faith with her
\npeople. <\/p>\n
600
\n00:37:15,760 –> 00:37:20,080
\nIt had become, it was becoming a
\nspring that was flowing from <\/p>\n
601
\n00:37:20,160 –> 00:37:22,440
\nher.
\nAnd so she went away into the <\/p>\n
602
\n00:37:22,440 –> 00:37:26,720
\ntown and said to the people,
\ncome see a man who told me all <\/p>\n
603
\n00:37:26,720 –> 00:37:29,680
\nthat I ever did.
\nCan this be the Christ? <\/p>\n
604
\n00:37:30,160 –> 00:37:32,680
\nShe says, I’ve just been talking
\nto the Messiah. <\/p>\n
605
\n00:37:33,280 –> 00:37:36,040
\nCan you imagine that?
\nAnd her belief is, is so <\/p>\n
606
\n00:37:36,040 –> 00:37:38,040
\ncontagious that the people
\nbelieve too. <\/p>\n
607
\n00:37:38,560 –> 00:37:41,120
\nVerse 30, they went out of the
\ntown and they were coming to <\/p>\n
608
\n00:37:41,120 –> 00:37:43,720
\nhim.
\nLet’s let’s skip down from there<\/p>\n
609
\n00:37:43,720 –> 00:37:48,920
\nto verse 35 because in verse 31
\nto 34, the disciples are going <\/p>\n
610
\n00:37:48,920 –> 00:37:51,400
\nto actually be taught the same
\nlesson as the woman. <\/p>\n
611
\n00:37:51,640 –> 00:37:54,200
\nAnd it’s interesting to follow
\nthat and see the parallels <\/p>\n
612
\n00:37:54,200 –> 00:37:56,280
\nthere.
\nBut in verse 35, the men of the <\/p>\n
613
\n00:37:56,280 –> 00:38:01,000
\ncity are coming out to the well
\nwhere Jesus is because they also<\/p>\n
614
\n00:38:01,000 –> 00:38:03,440
\nbelieve because of the belief of
\nthe woman. <\/p>\n
615
\n00:38:03,920 –> 00:38:06,360
\nAnd Jesus is talking to his
\ndisciples. <\/p>\n
616
\n00:38:06,760 –> 00:38:11,480
\nAnd verse 35 he says, say not
\nye, there are yet four months. <\/p>\n
617
\n00:38:11,680 –> 00:38:14,760
\nAnd then harvest comes.
\nJesus says to his disciples, <\/p>\n
618
\n00:38:15,200 –> 00:38:18,880
\ndoesn’t it usually take four
\nmonths for grain to grow? <\/p>\n
619
\n00:38:19,880 –> 00:38:24,320
\nBehold, I say to you, lift up
\nyour eyes, look on the fields <\/p>\n
620
\n00:38:24,320 –> 00:38:26,240
\nfor their white already with
\nharvest. <\/p>\n
621
\n00:38:26,720 –> 00:38:31,520
\nHe says we’ll take a look and
\ncoming toward them are a bunch <\/p>\n
622
\n00:38:31,560 –> 00:38:34,160
\nof Samaritans.
\nThey’re coming because they’ve <\/p>\n
623
\n00:38:34,160 –> 00:38:36,880
\nthey’ve learned from the woman
\nthey believe and they want to <\/p>\n
624
\n00:38:36,880 –> 00:38:40,240
\nhear more.
\nNow one commentary I stumbled on<\/p>\n
625
\n00:38:40,240 –> 00:38:43,240
\ntrying to make this connection
\nwith this, this fields that <\/p>\n
626
\n00:38:43,240 –> 00:38:46,400
\nwe’re ready for harvest.
\nAnd one commentary explains that<\/p>\n
627
\n00:38:46,560 –> 00:38:49,960
\nthat these, these people would
\nall have been wearing white and <\/p>\n
628
\n00:38:49,960 –> 00:38:52,960
\nas they walked a, a big group of
\npeople walking towards Jesus, <\/p>\n
629
\n00:38:52,960 –> 00:38:55,960
\ntowards the well, they would
\nhave looked like a, a, a field <\/p>\n
630
\n00:38:56,120 –> 00:38:59,040
\nof grain that was moving.
\nAnd so Jesus points to them and <\/p>\n
631
\n00:38:59,040 –> 00:39:01,200
\nsays, Hey, it’s time for us to
\nget busy. <\/p>\n
632
\n00:39:01,360 –> 00:39:05,000
\nIt’s time for us to get work.
\nVerse 36, it says, and he <\/p>\n
633
\n00:39:05,000 –> 00:39:07,000
\nreapeth.
\nHe that reapeth receiveth, <\/p>\n
634
\n00:39:07,200 –> 00:39:11,280
\nreceiveth wages and gathereth
\nfruit unto eternal life, that <\/p>\n
635
\n00:39:11,280 –> 00:39:15,880
\nboth he that soweth and he that
\nreapeth may rejoice together. <\/p>\n
636
\n00:39:16,720 –> 00:39:20,120
\nJesus says to the disciples,
\nthere are already people coming <\/p>\n
637
\n00:39:20,120 –> 00:39:24,080
\nto learn about salvation and we
\nshould be rejoicing with the <\/p>\n
638
\n00:39:24,080 –> 00:39:27,040
\nSamaritan woman.
\nLet’s get out there and let’s <\/p>\n
639
\n00:39:27,040 –> 00:39:30,520
\nhelp her.
\nHe says, and herein is that <\/p>\n
640
\n00:39:30,520 –> 00:39:34,320
\nsaying true.
\nVerse 37 one soweth and another <\/p>\n
641
\n00:39:34,320 –> 00:39:37,120
\nreapeth.
\nThe saying is talking about <\/p>\n
642
\n00:39:37,120 –> 00:39:40,920
\npeople working together.
\nVerse 38, he says, I sent you to<\/p>\n
643
\n00:39:40,920 –> 00:39:45,200
\nreap whereon that, Whereon
\nyou’ve bestowed no labor, other <\/p>\n
644
\n00:39:45,200 –> 00:39:47,760
\nmen labored, and you are entered
\ninto their laborers. <\/p>\n
645
\n00:39:48,400 –> 00:39:50,880
\nWe’re Jews.
\nShe’s a Samaritan. <\/p>\n
646
\n00:39:51,160 –> 00:39:55,560
\nOne of us sows, another reaps.
\nBut look at the great harvest. <\/p>\n
647
\n00:39:56,560 –> 00:40:01,800
\nSo, my disciples, let’s rejoice
\nwith her, and let’s get out and <\/p>\n
648
\n00:40:01,800 –> 00:40:06,760
\nwork with her.
\nVerse 36 to 38 gives us a <\/p>\n
649
\n00:40:06,760 –> 00:40:11,840
\npowerful example, then, of
\nworking in spirit and in truth <\/p>\n
650
\n00:40:11,840 –> 00:40:14,160
\nand worshiping in that in
\nspirit. <\/p>\n
651
\n00:40:14,160 –> 00:40:18,640
\nOur our service to God cannot be
\nmotivated by how we look. <\/p>\n
652
\n00:40:19,280 –> 00:40:23,320
\nIt has to be genuine, real.
\nIt has to be glorifying God. <\/p>\n
653
\n00:40:23,600 –> 00:40:28,920
\nIt has to be rejoicing in God’s
\nsuccess, in truth, not following<\/p>\n
654
\n00:40:29,000 –> 00:40:33,200
\nrituals and traditions, but in
\ngetting the job done. <\/p>\n
655
\n00:40:34,400 –> 00:40:38,880
\nAnd look what the result is in
\nverse 39 and many of the <\/p>\n
656
\n00:40:38,880 –> 00:40:42,040
\nSamaritans of that city
\nbelieved. <\/p>\n
657
\n00:40:42,040 –> 00:40:43,480
\nGet your marking pencil out
\nright. <\/p>\n
658
\n00:40:43,480 –> 00:40:46,360
\nThis is a good chapter for this.
\nThey believed on him for the <\/p>\n
659
\n00:40:46,360 –> 00:40:48,280
\nsaying of the woman which
\ntestified. <\/p>\n
660
\n00:40:48,760 –> 00:40:52,840
\nHe told me all that I ever did.
\nMany Samaritans of the city <\/p>\n
661
\n00:40:52,840 –> 00:40:55,560
\nbelieved because of the
\ntestimony of the woman. <\/p>\n
662
\n00:40:56,240 –> 00:40:58,120
\nShe got the fire started then
\nwith them. <\/p>\n
663
\n00:40:59,120 –> 00:41:01,000
\nVerse 40.
\nSo when the Samaritans came to <\/p>\n
664
\n00:41:01,000 –> 00:41:03,800
\nhim, they asked him to stay with
\nthem, and he stayed there two <\/p>\n
665
\n00:41:03,800 –> 00:41:07,000
\ndays.
\nAnd many more believed because <\/p>\n
666
\n00:41:07,000 –> 00:41:10,840
\nof his own word, they believed
\nthemselves. <\/p>\n
667
\n00:41:12,280 –> 00:41:15,960
\nWhat a time that must have been
\nfor the disciples, for the <\/p>\n
668
\n00:41:15,960 –> 00:41:21,480
\nSamaritans, and for Jesus.
\nAnd then they said to the woman,<\/p>\n
669
\n00:41:22,280 –> 00:41:25,520
\nverse 42, It’s no longer because
\nof what you said that we <\/p>\n
670
\n00:41:25,520 –> 00:41:33,360
\nbelieve, for we have heard for
\nourselves and we know this is <\/p>\n
671
\n00:41:33,360 –> 00:41:38,840
\nindeed the Savior of the world.
\nThey believed. <\/p>\n
672
\n00:41:40,480 –> 00:41:44,200
\nAnd John gives us this little
\ncherry on top of the whole <\/p>\n
673
\n00:41:44,200 –> 00:41:47,720
\nstory, doesn’t he?
\nIn that last phrase, we know <\/p>\n
674
\n00:41:47,720 –> 00:41:51,320
\nindeed that this is indeed the
\nSavior of the world. <\/p>\n
675
\n00:41:52,520 –> 00:41:56,920
\nThey said of Jesus, He is the
\nSavior of the world. <\/p>\n
676
\n00:41:58,120 –> 00:42:00,680
\nWhat’s that a reference to?
\nWhat’s he, what’s he calling <\/p>\n
677
\n00:42:00,680 –> 00:42:04,200
\ntheir attention back to?
\nIt’s back to Joseph, isn’t it? <\/p>\n
678
\n00:42:04,960 –> 00:42:09,360
\nThe Savior of the world?
\nBut now they had a new Joseph. <\/p>\n
679
\n00:42:10,520 –> 00:42:12,240
\nThey had a new savior of the
\nworld. <\/p>\n
680
\n00:42:13,720 –> 00:42:20,200
\nAnd that savior was Jesus, the
\nMessiah, the Son of God. <\/p>\n
681
\n00:42:21,360 –> 00:42:24,360
\nI think it’s an incredibly
\nexciting story to look through <\/p>\n
682
\n00:42:24,360 –> 00:42:26,360
\nas we as we understand the
\nbackground to it. <\/p>\n
683
\n00:42:27,080 –> 00:42:29,240
\nSo what are some of the take
\naway lessons that we could get <\/p>\n
684
\n00:42:29,520 –> 00:42:34,360
\nfrom from this today?
\nWell, first of all, real belief <\/p>\n
685
\n00:42:34,360 –> 00:42:37,720
\nmotivates us to make changes in
\nour life. <\/p>\n
686
\n00:42:37,720 –> 00:42:39,640
\nAnd that’s a a good way for us
\nto measure that. <\/p>\n
687
\n00:42:39,640 –> 00:42:41,840
\nIt’s like thinking about
\nyesterday that the fruit of the <\/p>\n
688
\n00:42:41,840 –> 00:42:47,400
\nspirit belief based on man made
\nrituals and traditions is weak. <\/p>\n
689
\n00:42:48,400 –> 00:42:49,720
\nIt’s like a hole in the ground,
\nisn’t it? <\/p>\n
690
\n00:42:50,320 –> 00:42:52,280
\nAnd it’s hesitant to make
\nchanges to us. <\/p>\n
691
\n00:42:52,280 –> 00:42:59,720
\nIt’s hesitant to combat sin, but
\nworship based on faith is life <\/p>\n
692
\n00:42:59,720 –> 00:43:02,440
\nchanging and it’s filled with
\npassion. <\/p>\n
693
\n00:43:04,240 –> 00:43:08,800
\nThe Word of God has the power to
\nshow us what we’re really like. <\/p>\n
694
\n00:43:10,040 –> 00:43:13,800
\nIt has the power for us to have
\na conversation with it, just <\/p>\n
695
\n00:43:13,800 –> 00:43:18,320
\nlike Jesus had with a woman.
\nAnd that scripture can actually <\/p>\n
696
\n00:43:18,320 –> 00:43:20,160
\ncall us out if we’ll listen to
\nit. <\/p>\n
697
\n00:43:20,800 –> 00:43:23,480
\nAnd it can help to inspire
\nchange in US. <\/p>\n
698
\n00:43:24,760 –> 00:43:27,680
\nI think then we’ve we’ve been
\nthrough an incredible chapter <\/p>\n
699
\n00:43:27,680 –> 00:43:31,280
\nhere and a great lesson for us.
\nAnd we look forward to tomorrow <\/p>\n
700
\n00:43:31,280 –> 00:43:34,040
\nwhen we’ll look at at the
\ndisciples, the feeding of the <\/p>\n
701
\n00:43:34,040 –> 00:43:37,440
\n5000 and Jesus walking on the
\nwater. <\/p>\n
702
\n00:43:38,040 –> 00:43:38,400
\nThank you.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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