>>BILL: JONATHAN WHITFIELD WAS PREACHING TO 00:00:31.83\00:00:32.73 COAL MINERS IN ENGLAND. HE ASKED ONE MAN, "WHAT DO 00:00:32.73\00:00:35.36 YOU BELIEVE?" "WELL, I BELIEVE THE SAME AS THE 00:00:35.36\00:00:41.03 CHURCH." "AND WHAT DOES THE CHURCH BELIEVE?" 00:00:41.03\00:00:42.00 "WELL, THEY BELIEVE THE SAME AS ME." SEEING HE WAS 00:00:42.00\00:00:47.13 GETTING NOWHERE, WHITFIELD SAID, "AND WHAT IS IT THAT 00:00:47.13\00:00:51.16 YOU BOTH BELIEVE?" "WELL, I SUPPOSE THE SAME THING." 00:00:51.16\00:00:58.43 (MUSIC) 00:01:00.43\00:01:08.03 >>ANNOUNCER: IT HAS STOOD THE TEST OF TIME. 00:01:09.10\00:01:11.16 GOD'S BOOK THE BIBLE. 00:01:11.66\00:01:14.50 STILL RELEVANT IN TODAY'S COMPLEX WORLD. 00:01:14.80\00:01:19.00 IT IS WRITTEN. 00:01:19.36\00:01:21.50 SHARING MESSAGES OF HOPE AROUND THE WORLD. 00:01:22.06\00:01:27.83 (MUSIC) 00:01:28.70\00:01:46.30 22% OF AMERICANS BELIEVE PRESIDENT BUSH KNEW 00:01:46.73\00:01:47.80 ABOUT THE 9/11 ATTACKS IN ADVANCE. 30% BELIEVE 00:01:47.80\00:01:52.66 SADDAM HAD WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION. 23% BELIEVE 00:01:52.66\00:01:59.30 THEY'VE BEEN IN THE PRESENCE OF A GHOST.?18% 00:01:59.30\00:02:00.30 BELIEVE THE SUN REVOLVES AROUND THE EARTH. 48% 00:02:00.30\00:02:05.36 OF CANADIANS BELIEVE IN GHOSTS AND 10% ARE 00:02:05.36\00:02:09.16 CONVINCED THEIR OWN RESIDENCE IS HOME TO A 00:02:09.16\00:02:10.10 SUPERNATURAL PRESENCE. 00:02:10.10\00:02:11.13 PEOPLE WILL BELIEVE ANYTHING, BUT THEY WILL 00:02:11.13\00:02:12.10 STOP SHORT OF BELIEVING THE MOST IMPORTANT 00:02:12.10\00:02:14.00 THING. PEOPLE WILL ACCEPT ALL KINDS OF THEORIES AND 00:02:14.00\00:02:16.53 BELIEFS, BUT THEY WON'T ACCEPT WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS 00:02:16.53\00:02:17.60 ABOUT JESUS CHRIST. THE FACT IS, PEOPLE ARE JADED! 00:02:17.60\00:02:23.30 OUR TEXT TODAY PRESENTS TO US A WOMAN WHO IS JADED AS 00:02:23.30\00:02:29.20 WELL. SHE HAS BEEN AROUND AND AROUND, RIDING THE 00:02:29.20\00:02:30.20 MERRY-GO-ROUND OF LIFE AND SHE WORN OUT FROM IT. 00:02:30.20\00:02:34.46 BUT, ONE DAY, JESUS CHRIST SHOWED UP OUTSIDE HER 00:02:34.46\00:02:38.73 LITTLE TOWN. SHE MEETS HIM AND HE OPENS HER EYES TO 00:02:38.73\00:02:39.76 THE FACT THAT THERE IS A NEW LIFE. A LIFE THAT IS 00:02:39.76\00:02:44.43 FREE FROM THE BURDENS AND PROBLEMS OF THE LIFE SHE 00:02:44.43\00:02:49.36 IS NOW LIVING. JESUS TAKES THIS JADED, HARDENED WOMAN 00:02:49.36\00:02:50.46 AND HE LEADS HER TO A PLACE OF TRUST. 00:02:50.46\00:02:55.86 JOHN 4: 7 - 18 00:02:55.86\00:03:03.60 THIS WOMAN CAME TO JACOB'S WELL TO DRAW WATER. BUT, 00:04:43.20\00:04:44.23 SHE DID NOT COME WHEN ALL THE OTHER WOMEN CAME. 00:04:44.23\00:04:47.73 THE WOMEN CAME TO DRAW THEIR WATER EARLY IN THE 00:04:47.73\00:04:52.06 MORNING, BEFORE THE SUN ROSE HIGH INTO THE SKY 00:04:52.06\00:04:53.06 THEY CAME WHILE IT WAS STILL COOL. HISTORY TELLS 00:04:53.06\00:04:56.40 US THAT IT WAS ABOUT A MILE FROM TOWN TO THE WELL 00:04:56.40\00:05:01.70 WHERE THEY CAME FOR WATER. 00:05:01.70\00:05:02.36 DRAWING AND CARRYING WATER FOR THE DAY WAS HOT, 00:05:02.36\00:05:06.06 SWEATY WORK. WHILE THEY WERE THERE, THEY CAUGHT 00:05:06.06\00:05:07.10 UP ON THE LOCAL GOSSIP AND ENJOYED A FEW MINUTES BY 00:05:07.10\00:05:12.06 THEMSELVES, AWAY FROM THE PRESSURES OF LIVING IN A 00:05:12.06\00:05:16.33 MALE DOMINATED SOCIETY. 00:05:16.33\00:05:16.86 WHY DID THIS ONE WOMAN NOT COME WITH THE OTHERS? 00:05:16.86\00:05:22.20 VERSE 17 TELLS US THAT SHE IS A WOMAN OF MUCH 00:05:22.20\00:05:23.16 EXPERIENCE. PERHAPS SHE HAD BEEN WITH MEN WHO 00:05:23.16\00:05:28.20 BELONGED TO SOME OF THE OTHER WOMEN. PERHAPS SHE 00:05:28.20\00:05:32.50 WAS OFTEN THE TOPIC OF THEIR GOSSIP AS THEY DREW 00:05:32.50\00:05:33.50 WATER FROM THE WELL. WHEN SHE MEETS JESUS AND WANTS 00:05:33.50\00:05:38.06 TO TELL THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY THAT THE MESSIAH HAS 00:05:38.06\00:05:41.83 COME, SHE DOES NOT GO TO THE OTHER WOMEN OF THE 00:05:41.83\00:05:42.83 TOWN, BUT SHE RUNS TO THE MEN, VERSE 28 SAYS: 00:05:42.83\00:05:46.26 "SO THE WOMAN LEFT HER WATERPOT, AND WENT INTO 00:05:46.26\00:05:50.03 THE CITY AND SAID TO THE MEN." IT WOULD SEEM THAT 00:05:50.03\00:05:51.00 THIS WOMAN WAS AN OUTCAST SOCIALLY. 00:05:51.00\00:05:58.86 IN THE COURSE OF HER CONVERSATION WITH JESUS, 00:06:01.73\00:06:02.66 HE TELLS HER THAT SHE IS EVEN ISOLATED FROM GOD. 00:06:02.66\00:06:05.16 EVEN THE LITTLE WORSHIP SHE MANAGED TO WORK INTO 00:06:05.16\00:06:10.36 HER SINFUL LIFE WAS OF NO USE FOR HER SPIRITUALLY 00:06:10.36\00:06:11.40 SHE WAS AN OUTCAST SPIRITUALLY AS 00:06:11.40\00:06:17.70 WELL. VERSES 20 - 22 00:06:17.70\00:06:23.80 IN THESE VERSES, THIS POOR WOMAN TRIES TO ARGUE 00:06:47.66\00:06:48.66 RELIGION WITH JESUS. AT FIRST, SHE SEES HIM AS 00:06:48.66\00:06:53.30 JUST ANOTHER JEW, AND SHE WANTS HIM TO KNOW THAT SHE 00:06:53.30\00:06:58.00 HAS SOME IDEAS ABOUT RELIGION TOO. SHE TALKS 00:06:58.00\00:06:58.96 ABOUT THEIR RELIGIOUS DIFFERENCES. SHE USES 00:06:58.96\00:07:02.56 SARCASM AND RIDICULE. 00:07:02.56\00:07:03.03 SHE TRIES TO BRING UP A RELIGIOUS DISPUTE IN 00:07:03.03\00:07:09.00 AN ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE THE PENETRATING STATEMENTS OF 00:07:09.00\00:07:14.20 JESUS. THROUGH ALL OF THIS, JESUS SHOWS HER JUST 00:07:14.20\00:07:15.23 HOW LITTLE SHE KNOWS ABOUT GOD, ABOUT WORSHIP AND 00:07:15.23\00:07:21.73 ABOUT HERSELF. NOTICE THE LITTLE WORD "IF" IN VERSE 00:07:21.73\00:07:30.63 10 "IF YOU KNEW .... 00:07:30.63\00:07:31.10 REGARDLESS OF WHAT SHE THOUGHT SHE KNEW, JESUS 00:07:31.10\00:07:36.63 POINTS OUT TO HER THAT THERE IS ONE THING SHE 00:07:36.63\00:07:37.60 DOES NOT KNOW. SHE DOES NOT KNOW WHO JESUS IS AND 00:07:37.60\00:07:41.96 THAT IS THE MAIN THING JESUS TELLS HER THAT "IF" 00:07:41.96\00:07:48.10 SHE ONLY KNEW, SHE COULD ASK JESUS FOR "LIVING 00:07:48.10\00:07:49.06 WATER" AND SHE WOULD BE FOREVER SATISFIED! LEFT TO 00:07:49.06\00:07:54.66 HERSELF, THIS WOMAN MIGHT HAVE DIED THINKING THAT 00:07:54.66\00:08:00.10 SHE WAS ALRIGHT SPIRITUALLY. THANK GOD 00:08:00.10\00:08:00.96 THAT JESUS REACHED INTO HER DARKNESS AND DISPELLED 00:08:00.96\00:08:06.06 HER IGNORANCE ABOUT HIMSELF AND ABOUT THE WAY 00:08:06.06\00:08:09.96 OF SALVATION! HERE SHE IS, A WOMAN WITH A CHECKERED 00:08:09.96\00:08:11.16 PAST, LIVING A WICKED LIFE YET SHE FEELS THAT SHE 00:08:11.16\00:08:17.46 IS QUALIFIED TO ARGUE RELIGION WITH THE LORD 00:08:17.46\00:08:21.93 JESUS CHRIST. SHE DEMONSTRATES A CLEAR 00:08:21.93\00:08:22.76 PICTURE OF HYPOCRISY IN ACTION! 00:08:22.76\00:08:29.06 PEOPLE ATTEMPT TO DO THIS KIND OF THING ALL THE 00:08:29.70\00:08:30.70 TIME! EVERYBODY THINKS THEY ARE QUALIFIED TO 00:08:30.70\00:08:34.16 ARGUE WITH GOD. THEY SAY, "WELL, I THINK THIS OR 00:08:34.16\00:08:37.63 THAT", OR "I BELIEVE THIS WAY OR THAT WAY", OR "I 00:08:37.63\00:08:38.66 KNOW WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS, BUT." WHAT FOOLISHNESS! 00:08:38.66\00:08:43.46 HERE IS THE BOTTOM LINE: GOD SAID IT AND IT IS 00:08:44.20\00:08:45.26 SETTLED FOREVER, PSALM 119: 89 00:08:45.26\00:08:54.06 HE HAS ALREADY TOLD US THAT THE ONLY WAY TO 00:08:59.60\00:09:00.63 HEAVEN WAS THROUGH JESUS. 00:09:00.63\00:09:03.90 HE HAS ALREADY TOLD US THAT WORKS WILL NOT GET 00:09:03.90\00:09:04.90 ANYONE IN. HE HAS MADE HIS PLAN OF SALVATION CRYSTAL 00:09:04.90\00:09:08.33 CLEAR. GOD DID NOT LEAVE THIS THING OPEN TO DEBATE, 00:09:08.33\00:09:14.20 BUT HE CLEARLY, CONCISELY AND CONCRETELY STATED 00:09:14.20\00:09:15.20 HOW THINGS ARE AND IT IS SETTLED! ARGUE IF YOU 00:09:15.20\00:09:20.63 WILL, BUT IT WILL DO NO GOOD! BESIDES, WHO ARE WE 00:09:20.63\00:09:28.30 TO ARGUE WITH HIM, ROMANS 9: 20 00:09:28.30\00:09:33.30 MOST JEWS WENT MILES OUT OF THEIR WAY TO GO AROUND 00:09:49.60\00:09:50.60 SAMARIA TO AVOID COMING INTO CONTACT WITH THEM. 00:09:50.60\00:09:54.83 THE JEWS HATED THE SAMARITANS! THEY WERE 00:09:54.83\00:09:59.20 CONSIDERED TO BE AN INFERIOR RACE BECAUSE THEY 00:09:59.20\00:10:00.20 WERE DESCENDED FROM JEWS WHO HAD INTERMARRIED WITH 00:10:00.20\00:10:03.96 GENTILES THAT HAD BEEN PLACED IN THE LAND BY THE 00:10:03.96\00:10:08.40 ASSYRIANS. THANK GOD THAT JESUS DOES NOT OPERATE 00:10:08.40\00:10:09.40 LIKE OTHER MEN! HE DID NOT CARE ABOUT THEIR HERITAGE. 00:10:09.40\00:10:14.90 HE DID NOT CARE ABOUT THE HATRED OF OTHERS. HE DID 00:10:14.90\00:10:19.63 NOT CARE ABOUT THE RACIAL LINES DRAWN BY IGNORANT 00:10:19.63\00:10:20.66 MEN. HE OPERATES IN THE REALM OF GRACE! JESUS 00:10:20.66\00:10:26.10 WENT TO THAT PLACE AND SAT ON THAT WELL BECAUSE HE 00:10:26.10\00:10:31.63 WANTED TO SAVE THIS POOR WOMAN! EVEN HIS DISCIPLES 00:10:31.63\00:10:32.73 WERE SHOCKED BY WHAT JESUS HAD DONE. IF JESUS HAD 00:10:32.73\00:10:37.40 ACTED LIKE ANY OTHER JEW, HE WOULD HAVE PASSED THIS 00:10:37.40\00:10:43.93 WOMAN AND HER TOWN BY. 00:10:43.93\00:10:44.43 IF YOU AND I GOT WHAT WE DESERVED, WE WOULD HAVE 00:10:44.43\00:10:51.70 NEVER GOTTEN A SECOND LOOK FROM GOD. HE LOOKS AT US 00:10:51.70\00:10:52.73 THROUGH EYES OF LOVE AND GRACE! HE IS NOT BLIND 00:10:52.73\00:10:57.56 TO OUR SIN, BECAUSE IT SEPARATES US FROM HIM, BUT 00:10:57.56\00:11:02.76 HIS GRACE BRIDGES THE GAP BETWEEN US AND BRINGS HIM 00:11:02.76\00:11:03.80 NEAR TO OFFER SALVATION TO YOU AND TO ME. 00:11:03.80\00:11:14.43 A MISSIONARY WAS TRYING TO TRANSLATE THE NEW 00:11:15.13\00:11:16.23 TESTAMENT IN A LOCAL DIALECT IN AFRICA. WHEN 00:11:16.23\00:11:18.33 HE CAME TO JOHN 3:16, HE BECAME STUCK ON THE WORD 00:11:18.33\00:11:22.56 "BELIEVETH". THERE WAS NO EQUIVALENT IN THE NATIVE 00:11:22.56\00:11:23.56 TONGUE. AFTER SEVERAL WEEKS OF WAITING, PRAYING 00:11:23.56\00:11:29.30 AND WORKING, HE STILL COULD NOT THINK OF A WAY 00:11:29.30\00:11:32.56 TO ACCURATELY TRANSLATE THAT WORD IN A WAY THE 00:11:32.56\00:11:33.56 PEOPLE OF THE VILLAGE COULD UNDERSTAND. THEN ONE 00:11:33.56\00:11:37.23 DAY AS HE SAT ON THE PORCH OF HIS HOUSE PONDERING 00:11:37.23\00:11:41.43 THIS WORD, A LOCAL BOY CAME RUNNING DOWN THE DIRT 00:11:41.43\00:11:42.46 PATH TO THE MISSIONARY'S HOUSE. THE BOY CAME UP 00:11:42.46\00:11:47.20 ONTO THE PORCH AND FLOPPED DOWN INTO A CHAIR AND SAID 00:11:47.20\00:11:52.00 BREATHLESSLY, "IT IS GOOD TO CAST MY ENTIRE 00:11:52.00\00:11:52.93 WEIGHT UPON THIS CHAIR!" 00:11:52.93\00:11:58.10 INSTANTLY, THE MISSIONARY KNEW THAT HE HAD THIS 00:11:58.10\00:11:59.20 TRANSLATION. FOR, THAT IS WHAT FAITH IN JESUS IS 00:11:59.20\00:12:03.56 ALL ABOUT! IT IS ABOUT OUR CASTING THE ENTIRETY OF 00:12:03.56\00:12:07.83 OUR LIVES UPON HIM AND TRUSTING HIS GRACE TO 00:12:07.83\00:12:08.80 SUPPORT US. JESUS WORKS WITH THIS WOMAN PATIENTLY. 00:12:08.80\00:12:14.93 HE TOOK HER WHERE HE FOUND HER AND GENTLY LED HER TO 00:12:14.93\00:12:21.40 WHERE SHE NEEDED TO BE. HE BROUGHT HER TO THE PLACE 00:12:21.40\00:12:22.43 WHERE SHE WAS READY TO HEAR ABOUT HIM AND ABOUT 00:12:22.43\00:12:27.33 WHO HE WAS. THEN, WHEN HE REVEALED HIMSELF TO HER 00:12:27.33\00:12:31.20 SHE WAS AT A PLACE WHERE SHE WAS READY TO BELIEVE 00:12:31.20\00:12:32.16 ON HIM. JESUS PROMISED THIS WOMAN THAT HE 00:12:32.16\00:12:37.70 COULD GIVE HER A DRINK OF "LIVING WATER". HE 00:12:37.70\00:12:41.50 PROMISED HER THAT THIS WATER WOULD SATISFY HER IN 00:12:41.50\00:12:42.53 THE DEPTHS OF HER SOUL. I WOULD IMAGINE THAT THIS 00:12:42.53\00:12:48.90 PROBABLY APPEALED TO HER SHE HAD TRIED ALL TYPES OF 00:12:48.90\00:12:53.13 PHYSICAL RELATIONSHIPS TO SATISFY THE DEEP LONGINGS 00:12:53.13\00:12:54.16 OF HER SOUL AND THEY HAD ALL LEFT HER EMPTY AND 00:12:54.16\00:12:59.16 THIRSTY. SEX HAD NOT SATISFIED HER. MARRIAGE 00:12:59.16\00:13:04.03 HAD FAILED FIVE TIMES TO SATISFY HER. LIVING IN 00:13:04.03\00:13:05.00 THE DEPTHS OF SIN ON THE FRINGES OF SOCIETY HAD 00:13:05.00\00:13:09.73 FAILED TO BRING HER HAPPINESS. HERE, JESUS 00:13:09.73\00:13:14.56 OFFERS HER AN OPPORTUNITY TO FIND EVERYTHING SHE 00:13:14.56\00:13:15.56 HAS BEEN LOOKING FOR, BY MERELY RECEIVING 00:13:15.56\00:13:20.66 HIS OFFER. 00:13:20.66\00:13:24.96 THE WORDS "DRINKS" IN VERSES 13 AND 14 ARE WORTH 00:13:26.93\00:13:28.06 NOTING TODAY. IN VERSE 13, THE WORD "DRINKS" IS IN 00:13:28.06\00:13:34.46 THE "PRESENT TENSE, ACTIVE VOICE". WHAT JESUS IS 00:13:34.46\00:13:41.26 SAYING IN VERSE 13 IS THIS, "EVEN IF YOU KEEP 00:13:41.26\00:13:42.33 ON DRINKING THE WATER FROM THIS WELL, YOU WILL GET 00:13:42.33\00:13:46.50 THIRSTY AGAIN." HOWEVER, THE WORD "DRINKS" IN VERSE 00:13:46.50\00:13:50.73 14 IS IN THE "AORIST TENSE, ACTIVE VOICE". IN 00:13:50.73\00:13:51.66 VERSE 14, JESUS IS SAYING, "BUT WHOSOEVER TAKES JUST 00:13:51.66\00:13:58.30 ONE DRINK OF THE WATER THAT I SHALL GIVE HIM 00:13:58.30\00:14:01.73 SHALL NEVER THIRST." IN OTHER WORDS, JESUS IS 00:14:01.73\00:14:02.73 PROMISING THAT JUST ONE TRIP TO HIM WILL SATISFY 00:14:02.73\00:14:09.20 THE SOUL FOREVER. WOULD YOU RATHER KEEP DRINKING 00:14:09.20\00:14:15.20 FROM A WELL THAT CAN NEVER SATISFY, OR WOULD YOU 00:14:15.20\00:14:16.23 RATHER TAKE ONE DRINK FROM A FOUNTAIN THAT NEVER 00:14:16.23\00:14:20.66 FAILS TO GIVE PERFECT AND ABSOLUTE SATISFACTION? 00:14:20.66\00:14:27.26 WHEN SHE HEARS THAT JESUS IS THE MESSIAH SHE HAS ALL 00:14:27.26\00:14:28.33 THE INFORMATION SHE NEEDS. 00:14:28.33\00:14:34.76 SHE FORGETS ABOUT HER MISSION TO GET SOME WATER 00:14:34.76\00:14:35.86 FROM THE WELL, NOW, SHE WANTS TO TELL OTHERS ABOUT 00:14:35.86\00:14:39.43 THE WELL OF LIVING WATER SHE HAS EXPERIENCED! THAT 00:14:39.43\00:14:44.30 "ARTESIAN WELL" JESUS SPOKE OF IN VERSE14 IS 00:14:44.30\00:14:45.26 STARTING TO FLOW AND SHE CANNOT KEEP IT IN. SHE IS 00:14:45.26\00:14:50.26 DIFFERENT AND SHE WANTS OTHERS TO EXPERIENCE IT 00:14:50.26\00:14:54.43 TOO! NOTICE THAT SHE RUNS TO TELL THE MEN ABOUT 00:14:54.43\00:14:55.43 JESUS. WHY THE MEN? THEY ALL KNEW HER, MANY 00:14:55.43\00:15:04.90 PROBABLY KNEW HER INTIMATELY! THE OTHER 00:15:04.90\00:15:10.23 WOMEN HATED HER, BUT THE MEN LOVED HER. SO, SHE 00:15:10.23\00:15:11.20 RUNS TO THE VERY PEOPLE WHO HAD SHARED HER LIFE 00:15:11.20\00:15:15.13 OF SIN. IMAGINE HOW THEIR CURIOSITY IS PIQUED WHEN 00:15:15.13\00:15:21.10 SHE COMES RUNNING IN THEIR DIRECTION. HOWEVER, THIS 00:15:21.10\00:15:22.13 TIME THINGS ARE DIFFERENT! 00:15:22.13\00:15:25.50 NOW, SHE ISN'T TALKING ABOUT A RENDEZVOUS; SHE IS 00:15:25.50\00:15:26.53 TALKING ABOUT REDEMPTION. 00:15:26.53\00:15:31.60 SHE HASN'T COME TO ARRANGE AN AFFAIR WITH A GUY; 00:15:31.60\00:15:32.63 SHE HAS COME TO TELL ABOUT AMAZING GRACE. HE HASN'T 00:15:32.63\00:15:39.13 COME LOOKING FOR A DATE; SHE HAS COME TO TALK ABOUT 00:15:39.13\00:15:46.36 A DELIVERER! YES, SHE IS DIFFERENT, AND THE ONES 00:15:46.36\00:15:47.36 WHO KNEW HER BEST SEE THE CHANGE FIRST! 00:15:47.36\00:15:54.40 NOTICE HOW THIS WOMAN MOVED FROM NOT KNOWING 00:15:55.56\00:15:56.63 JESUS TO PROCLAIMING HIM AS THE MESSIAH. IN VERSE 00:15:56.63\00:16:00.90 9, HE IS A "JEW". IN VERSE 11, SHE CALLS HIM "SIR". 00:16:00.90\00:16:05.10 IN VERSE 19, SHE SEES HIM AS A "PROPHET". BY VERSE 00:16:05.10\00:16:06.23 29, SHE HAS REACHED THE PLACE WHERE SHE CALLS HIM 00:16:06.23\00:16:12.00 "CHRIST". SHE SEES HIM AS THE NEED OF HER SOUL. HOW 00:16:12.00\00:16:19.73 DID SHE MAKE THE PROGRESSION FROM 00:16:19.73\00:16:20.63 ANTAGONISM TO ACCEPTANCE? 00:16:20.63\00:16:26.30 SHE WAS LED ALONG GENTLY, BY THE LORD. HE BROUGHT 00:16:26.30\00:16:27.46 HER FROM KNOWING NOTHING ABOUT HIM TO SEEING HIM 00:16:27.46\00:16:32.50 AS HER ONLY HOPE IN JUST A FEW MINUTES. IT WAS A WORK 00:16:32.50\00:16:38.76 OF GRACE! IF YOU EXPECT TO EVER BE SAVED, YOU MUST 00:16:38.76\00:16:39.83 COME TO THE PLACE WHERE YOU UNDERSTAND THAT JESUS 00:16:39.83\00:16:45.20 IS YOUR ONLY HOPE. IF YOU WILL FOLLOW THE LIGHT THE 00:16:45.20\00:16:50.00 LORD GIVES YOU, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THAT PLACE! 00:16:50.00\00:16:51.03 "THERE IS SALVATION IN NO ONE ELSE! GOD HAS GIVEN NO 00:16:51.03\00:16:58.96 OTHER NAME UNDER HEAVEN BY WHICH WE MUST BE SAVED." 00:16:58.96\00:17:05.93 (ACTS 4:12) HAVE YOU COME TO THE PLACE IN YOUR LIFE 00:17:05.93\00:17:06.96 WHERE YOU ARE TRUSTING JESUS AND HIM ALONE FOR 00:17:06.96\00:17:11.33 YOUR SALVATION? IF NOT, THEN YOU NEED TO DO THAT 00:17:11.33\00:17:17.33 RIGHT NOW. IF YOU WILL COME TO HIM, 00:17:17.33\00:17:18.10 HE WILL SAVE YOU. 00:17:18.10\00:17:23.06 YOUR FEELING SO SMALL AND FORGOTTEN 00:17:25.43\00:17:33.86 REACH OUT TO THE ARMS OF THE LORD 00:17:34.20\00:17:42.80 HIS LIGHT LEADS YOUR SOUL FROM THE SHADOWS 00:17:43.30\00:17:51.73 YOUR LIFE WILL BE SAFE IN HIS HANDS 00:17:52.03\00:18:00.10 HE KNOWS WHEN YOU SUFFER IN SILENCE 00:18:00.46\00:18:09.00 HE FEELS ALL THE PAIN THAT YOU BARE 00:18:09.36\00:18:17.63 HE COMFORTS YOUR HEART IN YOUR SORROWS 00:18:17.93\00:18:26.13 HE HEARS WHEN YOU CRY OUT IN PRAYER 00:18:26.40\00:18:35.33 HE KNOWS WHEN YOU SUFFER IN SILENCE 00:18:35.76\00:18:44.93 HE FEELS ALL THE PAIN THAT YOU BARE 00:18:45.26\00:18:53.50 HE COMFORTS YOUR HEART IN YOUR SORROW 00:18:53.93\00:19:02.66 HE KNOWS YOU 00:19:02.96\00:19:05.76 HE LOVES YOU 00:19:06.10\00:19:08.30 HE CARES 00:19:08.60\00:19:13.60 THE DREAMS THAT YOU DREAMED HAVE 00:19:18.00\00:19:18.73 BEEN SHATTERED 00:19:18.73\00:19:25.46 YOUR MANSIONS WERE CASTLES OF SAND 00:19:25.73\00:19:33.40 DON'T LET SATAN'S POWER DEFEAT YOU 00:19:33.73\00:19:41.46 PLACE ALL OF YOUR DREAMS IN GOD'S HANDS 00:19:41.80\00:19:49.36 HE KNOWS WHEN YOU SUFFER IN SILENCE 00:19:49.70\00:19:57.83 HE FEELS ALL THE PAIN THAT YOU BARE 00:19:58.16\00:20:06.40 HE COMFORTS YOUR HEART IN YOUR SORROWS 00:20:06.66\00:20:14.90 HE HEARS WHEN YOU CRY OUT IN PRAYER 00:20:15.20\00:20:23.96 HE KNOWS WHEN YOU SUFFER IN SILENCE 00:20:24.30\00:20:33.16 HE FEELS ALL THE PAIN THAT YOU BARE 00:20:33.50\00:20:42.33 HE COMFORTS YOUR HEART IN YOUR SORROW 00:20:42.63\00:20:51.13 HE KNOWS YOU 00:20:52.10\00:20:55.06 HE LOVES YOU 00:20:55.36\00:20:57.53 HE CARES 00:20:58.03\00:21:09.80 >>BILL: LET US PRAY. 00:21:11.26\00:21:11.73 FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE THANK YOU FOR JESUS, WE THANK 00:21:11.73\00:21:14.90 YOU FOR THE GIFT OF LIFE THAT HE IS OFFERING TO ALL 00:21:14.90\00:21:15.93 THOSE THAT WILL COME. I PRAY THAT THE VIEWERS WILL 00:21:15.93\00:21:22.40 DO AS THIS WOMAN, COME TO THE SOURCE OF ALL WATER, 00:21:22.40\00:21:28.40 DRINK FROM IT AND NEVER THIRST AGAIN. I PRAY 00:21:28.40\00:21:29.36 IN JESUS NAME, AMEN. 00:21:29.36\00:21:36.06 (MUSIC) 00:21:37.23\00:22:01.53 >>BEV: FISH SWIM IN IT, FLOWERS LOVE TO BE 00:22:19.60\00:22:20.53 DRENCHED IN IT, AND YOU AND I ARE MADE UP OF ABOUT 00:22:20.53\00:22:24.46 70% OF IT! WATER HAS BEEN CALLED THE MOST ESSENTIAL 00:22:24.46\00:22:28.53 NUTRIENT, AND WITH GOOD REASON BECAUSE EVERY ONE 00:22:28.53\00:22:29.53 OF YOUR BODILY FUNCTIONS REQUIRES WATER. BREATHING, 00:22:29.53\00:22:33.90 DIGESTION, ELIMINATION - ALL REQUIRE WATER! EVERY 00:22:33.90\00:22:40.23 ONE OF YOUR BILLIONS OF CELLS NEEDS WATER 00:22:40.23\00:22:41.13 DRINKING ENOUGH WATER EACH DAY HELPS TO DECREASE THE 00:22:41.13\00:22:46.23 RISK OF KIDNEY STONES, AND URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS. 00:22:46.23\00:22:50.36 IN A UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON STUDY, IT WAS 00:22:50.36\00:22:51.26 SHOWN THAT JUST ONE GLASS OF WATER SHUT DOWN THE 00:22:51.26\00:22:56.66 HUNGER PANGS FOR ALMOST 100% OF THE STUDY 00:22:56.66\00:23:00.20 PARTICIPANTS! DID YOU KNOW THAT BY THE TIME YOU FEEL 00:23:00.20\00:23:01.40 THIRSTY, YOU'RE ACTUALLY ALREADY DEHYDRATED? MANY 00:23:01.40\00:23:05.70 OF US ARE WALKING AROUND TOTALLY PARCHED, AND WE 00:23:05.70\00:23:11.06 DON'T EVEN REALIZE IT! 00:23:11.06\00:23:11.56 AND, DO YOU KNOW THAT LACK OF WATER IS THE NUMBER ONE 00:23:11.56\00:23:15.70 TRIGGER OF DAYTIME FATIGUE? SO, HOW MUCH 00:23:15.70\00:23:16.60 WATER DO WE NEED? THERE ARE LOTS OF DIFFERENT 00:23:16.60\00:23:21.43 EQUATIONS, BUT IT'S PROBABLY SAFE TO SAY THAT 00:23:21.43\00:23:25.16 DEPENDING ON YOUR BODY SIZE AND YOUR ACTIVITY 00:23:25.16\00:23:26.26 LEVEL, YOUR BODY NEEDS BETWEEN 6 - 10 CUPS 00:23:26.26\00:23:29.03 OF WATER EACH DAY. A GOOD RULE OF THUMB IS TO DRINK 00:23:29.03\00:23:34.53 ENOUGH TO KEEP YOUR URINE PALE. I KNOW, THAT MAY 00:23:34.53\00:23:35.53 SOUND LIKE A LOT, BUT HERE ARE SOME TIPS TO KEEP YOU 00:23:35.53\00:23:40.20 NICELY HYDRATED: DRINK TWO CUPS FIRST THING IN THE 00:23:40.20\00:23:46.13 MORNING. IT WILL HELP TO CLEANSE YOUR BODY AFTER 00:23:46.13\00:23:47.13 YOUR NIGHTLY REST. DRINK WATER BETWEEN YOUR MEALS, 00:23:47.13\00:23:50.56 NOT WITH YOUR MEALS. WHY DO I SAY THAT? IF YOU'RE 00:23:50.56\00:23:54.86 DRINKING WITH YOUR MEALS, YOU ARE DILUTING THOSE 00:23:54.86\00:23:55.86 POWERFUL GASTRIC JUICES THAT ARE NECESSARY TO 00:23:55.86\00:23:59.73 REALLY GET YOUR FOOD FULLY DIGESTED. SO, TRY TO WAIT 00:23:59.73\00:24:04.46 AT LEAST AN HOUR AFTER YOU FINISH YOUR MEALS TO START 00:24:04.46\00:24:05.56 DRINKING. FOR THOSE 6-10 CUPS, IT REALLY IS BEST 00:24:05.56\00:24:09.96 TO DRINK PLAIN WATER. BY THAT, I MEAN NOT JUICE, 00:24:09.96\00:24:16.73 NOT POP, NOT MILK, JUST PLAIN WATER. YOUR BODY 00:24:16.73\00:24:17.73 WILL THANK YOU FOR IT. YOU KNOW, IN JOHN 4:10, JESUS 00:24:17.73\00:24:23.73 TELLS US THAT HE IS THE SOURCE OF LIVING WATER AND 00:24:23.73\00:24:29.30 THAT ANYONE WHO DRINKS FROM HIM WILL NEVER THIRST 00:24:29.30\00:24:30.33 AGAIN. SO, CHEERS! DRINK UP! IF YOU WANT ADDITIONAL 00:24:30.33\00:24:36.03 INFORMATION ON HEALTHY EATING, VISIT OUR IT IS 00:24:36.03\00:24:40.30 WRITTEN WEBSITE AT WWW.IIW.CA, GO TO THE LIVE 00:24:40.30\00:24:41.40 HEALTHY PAGE, AND YOU'LL FIND LINKS TO LOTS 00:24:41.40\00:24:46.83 OF GREAT RESOURCES. 00:24:46.83\00:24:47.26 SEE YOU NEXT TIME! 00:24:47.26\00:24:51.43 >>MATTHEW: PHILIP YANCEY ONCE SAID, NO-ONE WHO 00:25:26.90\00:25:27.86 MEETS JESUS EVER STAYS THE SAME. WE SAW FIRST HAND IN 00:25:27.86\00:25:31.23 TODAY'S STORY. WHEN THIS CHILD OF GOD CAME FACE TO 00:25:31.23\00:25:36.70 FACE WITH JESUS, THEY WERE TRANSFORMED IN A MOMENT 00:25:36.70\00:25:37.76 IN THEIR ENCOUNTER WITH JESUS, THEY GOT A GLIMPS 00:25:37.76\00:25:43.13 OF WHAT THEIR LIVES COULD BE LIKE WITH HIM AS THEIR 00:25:43.13\00:25:46.60 LORD AND THEY CHOSE A LIFE WITH JESUS. THIS IS 00:25:46.60\00:25:47.56 EXACTLY WHY JESUS CAME INTO THIS WORLD. ANYONE 00:25:47.56\00:25:53.66 WHO SPENT ANY TIME WITH HIM AT ALL, HEARD DIRECTLY 00:25:53.66\00:25:58.00 FROM HIS LIPS, "FOR THE SON OF MAN CAME TO SEEK 00:25:58.00\00:25:59.13 AND SAVE THAT WHICH WAS LOST". PASTOR BILL SANTOS 00:25:59.13\00:26:05.26 HAS WRITTEN A SMALL BOOK AND WE WOULD LIKE TO SEND 00:26:05.26\00:26:09.43 IT TO YOU AS A GIFT, HERE IS THE INFORMATION YOU 00:26:09.43\00:26:10.56 NEED TO GET YOUR COPY. 00:26:10.56\00:26:13.63 >>BILL: WELL, ANOTHER IT IS WRITTEN PROGRAM HAS 00:27:17.50\00:27:18.46 COME TO AN END AND I'M GLAD YOU WERE HERE 00:27:18.46\00:27:21.10 WITH US. REMEMBER TO VISIT THE WEB-SIT 00:27:21.10\00:27:23.60 WWW.ITISWRITTENCANADA.CA. 00:27:23.60\00:27:24.23 OUR PLAN IS TO BE BACK HERE AGAIN NEXT WEEK AND 00:27:24.23\00:27:30.03 WE ARE PRAYING THAT THAT WILL BE A REALITY, I HOPE 00:27:30.03\00:27:31.03 YOU WILL JOIN US. UNTIL THEN, REMEMBER, IT 00:27:31.03\00:27:33.23 IS WRITTEN, MAN SHALL NO LIVE BY BREAD ALONE BUT BY 00:27:33.23\00:27:38.66 EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS FROM THE MOUTH OF GOD. 00:27:38.66\00:27:44.53