Living Water & A Nobleman's Son John 4

We talked about what a difficult life she had, a hard life, married five times, and now living with some guy. And the people around her, perhaps her family and her friends, certainly the townspeople consider so immoral. They ostracized her that when she went to get water at the city well, she had to go by herself in the heat of the Middle Eastern sun at noontime because she couldn't go in the morning when all the other women went there because they ostracized her. They would sneer. They might even picked up stones and thrown it at her. Get away from here. You I won't say it. [00:43:46] (36 seconds)  #ShunnedYetSeen

Well, these 12, they cracked me up. I am so grateful that Jesus didn't go to a university and pick up the high and mighty people of Israel. He picked up guys like you and me to be his main representatives to propagate the gospel of Jesus Christ. Ordinary guys who did some crazy things and like me a little slow on the uptake and sometimes prone to absurdity. [00:45:55] (28 seconds)  #CalledNotQualified

But I love the fact that she ran to tell the rest of the town. This is the same town that shunned her, that hated her, called her immoral. But she's not a trained evangelist as she goes into town. She hasn't been trained in Sunday school, let alone bible college. She doesn't know the four spiritual laws. She's never heard of the road to Romans. But at this one point in time, all she needed to know is that Jesus loved her and forgave her of all her sins. [00:51:51] (30 seconds)  #ForgivenAndBold

The church in America, the church in Sacramento, how we need to open our eyes and see the fields of harvest, the souls that are ready and longing to believe in something. And I sadly, I see so many so hungry to have something to to hang on to, they believe in anything. Feeling of hopelessness, craving for truth, craving to understand what is it all about. And I think so many in America today have never even heard the gospel, never heard that there is a god who loved them so much that died for them. [00:59:52] (39 seconds)  #HungryForTruth

What an epilogue to the Samaritan story. She is so overwhelmed with the encounter with Jesus. She runs to tell people. There amazes this woman who used to walk around with her head and and stay away from the crowds, and she runs in to shout, I have found the messiah. A completely different person who went up that well, who ran out of town. It's almost like she was born again. Wouldn't you say? [01:03:23] (26 seconds)  #FromShameToShout

Nothing Jesus ever did or said was in vain. Jesus, when he would heal the body like that little boy, it was more important to him that he would heal the soul of that child. Jesus loved that man. Jesus loved that little boy and was gracious to heal. But more so that this man who was entrapped by his own positions of power and the politics of his prominence as a worker of the king, the purpose behind the healing was able to see that family in heaven. [01:20:43] (36 seconds)  #HealingForTheSoul

I know so many in this building and so many listening at home, our hearts ache, and our hearts will be mourning for weeks to come, if not for years, for those who have passed. And we're walking in a faith that's in crisis. And I hope that you can have a confident faith knowing that in the light of eternity, God is still sovereign. And he knows your pain, and he knows our sorrow, and he knows and he keeps track of every tear that falls from our eyes. [01:21:35] (45 seconds)  #GodSeesYourTears

``And no matter where you're at, Jesus desires to have that one on one meeting with you just like he did with Nicodemus, just like he did with the Samaritan woman, and just how he looked into the eyes of that nobleman that changed his life. I know some of you are hurting, but don't give up. The same Jesus who went out of his way to meet that woman in a well is waiting for you to daily call upon him and let him give you strength. [01:23:21] (38 seconds)  #JesusMeetsYou