(MUSIC)
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>>WELCOME TO
SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR.
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WE ARE SO THRILLED THAT YOU HAVE
JOINED US TO STUDY GOD'S WORD
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TOGETHER - TO OPEN UP HIS WORD
- THE WORDS OF LIFE THAT WE CAN
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GET TO KNOW HIM
BETTER, AS A FAMILY.
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WHETHER YOU'RE JOINING US
LIVE ON THE INTERNET, ACROSS THE
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COUNTRY, AROUND THE WORLD,
IT IS BY NO ACCIDENT THAT WE ARE
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STUDYING TOGETHER AND SOON AND
VERY SOON WE WILL BE IN HEAVEN
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TOGETHER WORSHIPING OUR LORD.
I CAN HARDLY WAIT FOR THAT DAY.
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LET'S SING TOGETHER
BEFORE WE GET INTO OUR STUDY.
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WE ARE STUDYING, THIS QUARTER,
ON MISSIONARIES AND WHAT IT
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MEANS TO BE A MISSIONARY AND THE
MISSIONARIES THROUGH THE BIBLE.
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SO OUR SONGS KIND
OF GO IN THAT THEME.
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HYMN #358 - FAR AND
NEAR THE FIELDS ARE TEEMING .
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LET'S SING THE - ALL
THREE VERSES OF HYMN #358
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(MUSIC)
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>>FAR AND NEAR THE FIELDS
ARE TEEMING WITH THE SHEAVES OF
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RIPENED GRAIN; FAR AND NEAR
THEIR GOLD IS GLEAMING O'ER THE
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SUNNY SLOPE AND PLAIN. LORD
OF HARVEST, SEND FORTH REAPERS!
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HEAR US, LORD, TO THEE WE CRY;
SEND THEM NOW THE SHEAVES TO
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GATHER, ERE THE HARVEST TIME
PASS BY. SEND THEM FORTH WITH
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MORN'S FIRST BEAMING, SEND THEM
IN THE NOON-TIDE'S GLARE; WHEN
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THE SUN'S LAST RAYS ARE
STREAMING, BID THEM GATHER
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EVERYWHERE. LORD OF
HARVEST, SEND FORTH REAPERS!
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HEAR US, LORD, TO THEE WE CRY;
SEND THEM NOW THE SHEAVES TO
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GATHER, ERE THE
HARVEST TIME PASS BY.
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O THOU, WHOM THY LORD IS
SENDING, GATHER NOW THE SHEAVES
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OF GOLD; HEAVEN-WARD THEN AT
EVENING WENDING THOU SHALT COME
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WITH JOY UNTOLD. LORD OF
HARVEST, SEND FORTH REAPERS!
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HEAR US, LORD, TO THEE WE CRY;
SEND THEM NOW THE SHEAVES TO
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GATHER, ERE THE
HARVEST TIME PASS BY.
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>>YOU KNOW, WE ARE LIVING IN THE
VERY LAST DAYS AND WE ALL HAVE A
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PART TO PLAY IN BEING PART
OF THAT HARVEST - PART OF THE
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REAPERS - OF DOING GOD'S WORK
AND FINISHING THE WORK SO HE CAN
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COME. HYMN #361 - HARK! 'TIS
THE SHEPHERD'S VOICE I HEAR -
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LET'S SING ALL
THREE VERSES OF HYMN #361.
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(MUSIC) >>HARK!
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TIS THE SHEPHERD'S VOICE I
HEAR, OUT IN THE DESERT DARK AND
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DREAR, CALLING THE SHEEP
WHO'VE GONE ASTRAY, FAR FROM THE
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SHEPHERD'S FOLD AWAY.
BRING THEM IN, BRING THEM IN,
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BRING THEM IN FROM THE FIELDS OF
SIN; BRING THEM IN, BRING THEM
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IN, BRING THE
WANDERERS TO JESUS.
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WHO'LL GO AND HELP THE SHEPHERD
KIND, HELP HIM THE WANDERING
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ONES TO FIND? WHO'LL
BRING THEM BACK INTO THE
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FOLD, WHERE THEY'LL BE
SHELTERED FROM THE COLD?
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BRING THEM IN, BRING THEM IN,
BRING THEM IN FROM THE FIELDS OF
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SIN; BRING THEM IN, BRING
THEM IN, BRING THE WANDERERS TO
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JESUS. OUT IN THE DESERT HEAR
THEIR CRY, OUT ON THE MOUNTAIN
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WILD AND HIGH, HARK! 'TIS
THE MASTER SPEAKS TO THEE,
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"GO, FIND MY SHEEP WHER-E'ER
THEY BE." BRING THEM IN, BRING
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THEM IN, BRING THEM IN FROM THE
FIELDS OF SIN; BRING THEM IN,
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BRING THEM IN, BRING
THE WANDERERS TO JESUS.
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>>AT THIS TIME WE'LL
TURN OUR LESSON STUDY OVER TO
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PASTOR JËAN ROSS.
>>WELL GOOD MORNING EVERYONE,
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AND WELCOME AGAIN TO
SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR.
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I'D LIKE TO THANK OUR SONG
LEADERS FOR LEADING US IN OUR
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MUSIC THIS MORNING.
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AND, OF COURSE, A VERY WELCOME
TO OUR CHURCH MEMBERS HERE AT
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THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH AND ALSO
OUR FRIENDS JOINING US ACROSS
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THE COUNTRY AND AROUND THE
WORLD, THANK YOU FOR BEING PART
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OF OUR STUDY
TIME TOGETHER TODAY.
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NOW WE'VE BEEN GOING
THROUGH THE LESSON DEALING WITH
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MISSIONARIES, ENTITLED
BIBLICAL MISSIONARIES .
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TODAY WE FIND OURSELVES
ON LESSON #8 ENTITLED CROSS
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CULTURAL MISSIONARIES.
WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT
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SOME EXAMPLES OF JESUS
MINISTERING TO PEOPLE WHO ARE
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FROM THE VARIOUS GENTILE
NATIONS THAT SURROUNDED ISRAEL.
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BUT BEFORE WE GET INTO OUR
LESSON, I'D LIKE TO INVITE YOU
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JUST TO BOW YOUR
HEADS FOR A WORD OF PRAYER.
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DEAR FATHER, ONCE AGAIN WE
THANK YOU THAT WE HAVE THIS
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OPPORTUNITY TO GATHER TOGETHER
TO STUDY THE BIBLE AND ASK FOR
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THE HOLY SPIRIT, ONCE AGAIN, TO
GUIDE OUR HEARTS AND OUR MINDS.
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LET US LEARN FROM THE
GREAT MISSIONARY HIMSELF.
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LET US LEARN FROM JESUS AND HIS
EXAMPLE THAT HE HAS GIVEN US,
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THAT WE CAN BE EFFECTIVE
WITNESSES FOR YOU, FOR WE ASK
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THIS IN JESUS' NAME. AMEN.
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WE HAVE A FREE OFFER THAT GOES
ALONG WITH OUR STUDY FOR THIS
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MORNING, IT'S CALLED ALONE IN
THE CROWD AND WE'LL BE HAPPY TO
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SEND THIS TO
ANYBODY WHO CALLS AND ASKS.
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THOSE WHO ARE WATCHING, ALL YOU
HAVE TO DO IS GIVE US A CALL ON
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OUR RESOURCE LINE. THE
NUMBER IS 866-788-3966 AND
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YOU CAN ASK FOR OFFER #714
- 7-1-4. THE NUMBER, AGAIN, IS
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866-788-3966 AND ASK FOR
THE BOOK ALONE IN THE CROWD AND
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WE'LL BE HAPPY
TO SEND THAT TO YOU.
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IT GOES ALONG WITH OUR STUDY FOR
TODAY. WELL, IF YOU HAVE YOUR
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LESSON QUARTERLIES YOU CAN OPEN
UP TO LESSON #8 - IT'S PAGE 64
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IN THE LESSON QUARTERLY.
AND AGAIN, AS MENTIONED EARLIER,
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IT'S ENTITLED
CROSS-CULTURAL MISSIONARIES .
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WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE - MATTHEW
CHAPTER 12 AND VERSE 18 AND IF
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YOU HAVE IT IN FRONT OF YOU,
YOU CAN READ IT ALONG WITH ME -
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MATTHEW CHAPTER
12, VERSE 18. "BEHOLD!
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MY SERVANT WHOM I HAVE CHOSEN,
MY BELOVED IN WHOM MY SOUL IS
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WELL PLEASED! I WILL
PUT MY SPIRIT UPON HIM,
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AND HE WILL DECLARE
JUSTICE TO THE GENTILES."
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NOW WE READ THIS VERSE IN
MATTHEW CHAPTER 12, VERSE 18,
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BUT IT REALLY IS A QUOTE
FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT AND WE'RE
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GOING TO BE GETTING TO THAT
HERE IN JUST A FEW MOMENTS AND
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STUDYING THAT A
LITTLE BIT FURTHER.
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I ALSO WANT YOU TO NOTICE, ON
SABBATH AFTERNOON, THIS IS PAGE
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64, HALFWAY THROUGH THE SECOND
PARAGRAPH OR THE LAST PARAGRAPH
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ON THAT PAGE. I'D
LIKE TO JUST READ SORT OF A
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SUMMARY STATEMENT OF OUR
FOCUS FOR THIS WEEK'S STUDY.
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"EVEN THOUGH HE,
JESUS, FOCUSED ON ISRAEL,
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THE WIDER WORLD WAS HIS CONCERN.
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DURING THE MORE THAN THREE YEARS
OF HIS MINISTRY, BETWEEN THE
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BAPTISM AND THE ASCENSION, ON
AT LEAST SIX OCCASIONS JESUS HAD
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DIRECT CONTACT WITH
PERSONS OF GENTILE NATIONS.
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WE WILL LOOK THIS WEEK AT
THE GOSPEL ACCOUNTS OF THESE
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CONTACTS. SO
WE'LL LOOK AT SOME GREAT
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STORIES THAT I THINK MOST OF
US ARE FAMILIAR WITH, OF JESUS
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INTERACTING WITH SOME OF
THE GENTILE FOLKS AROUND ISRAEL.
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ON SUNDAY, THE LESSON IS
ENTITLED THE SAMARITAN WOMAN AND
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OUR KEY PASSAGE OF STUDY IS
GOING TO BE JOHN CHAPTER 4 AND
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WE'RE GOING TO BEGIN HERE
IN VERSE 1, SO IF YOU HAVE YOUR
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BIBLES, I INVITE YOU TO
OPEN UP TO JOHN CHAPTER 4.
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WE'RE GOING TO TAKE THIS VERSE
BY VERSE AND WE'RE GOING TO SEE
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WHAT LESSONS WE CAN LEARN
FROM CHRIST'S ENCOUNTER WITH THE
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WOMAN AT THE WELL. JOHN
CHAPTER 4, AND WE'RE GOING
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TO BEGIN READING HERE IN VERSE
1. AS YOU TURN TO THAT PASSAGE
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LET ME GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT
OF THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND TO
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OUR STORY. THE DATE
FOR THIS IS SOMEWHERE
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BETWEEN A.D. 28 AND A.D.
29. SOME FEEL THAT IT WAS
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DECEMBER OR JANUARY OF THOSE
TWO YEARS WHEN THIS STORY TOOK
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PLACE. AT THE
TIME, ISRAEL WAS DIVIDED
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UP INTO THREE
DIFFERENT PROVINCES.
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DOWN CLOSE TO THE AREA OF
JERUSALEM WAS THE PROVINCE OF
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JUDEA, AND THEN JUST ABOVE JUDEA
WAS SAMARIA, WHERE OUR STORY
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TAKES PLACE, AND
ABOVE THAT WAS GALILEE.
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NOW ALL OF THESE THREE PROVINCES
WERE RULED BY ROMAN RULERS, BUT
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THE TWO PROVINCES OF JUDEA AND
SAMARIA WERE BOTH GOVERNED BY
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PONTIUS PILATE. YES,
THE SAME PONTIUS PILATE
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THAT YOU READ ABOUT
LATER ON IN THE GOSPELS.
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SO LET'S BEGIN IN VERSE 1 -
WE'RE IN JOHN CHAPTER 4 - AND
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WE'RE GOING TO BEGIN
READING HERE IN VERSE 1.
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"THEREFORE, WHEN THE LORD KNEW
THAT THE PHARISEES HAD HEARD
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THAT JESUS MADE AND BAPTIZED
MORE DISCIPLES THAN JOHN (THOUGH
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JESUS HIMSELF DID NOT BAPTIZE,
BUT HIS DISCIPLES), HE LEFT
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JUDEA AND
DEPARTED AGAIN TO GALILEE."
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SO THIS IS CHRIST'S SECOND
MISSIONARY TRIP UP TO THE REGION
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OF GALILEE. PRIOR
TO THIS, ON THE FIRST
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GALILEAN TRIP
EARLIER IN THE YEAR A.D. 28,
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JESUS PERFORMED HIS FIRST
MIRACLE IN THE TOWN OF CANA OF
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GALILEE. DO YOU
REMEMBER WHAT CHRIST'S
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FIRST MIRACLE WAS?
TURNING THE WATER INTO WINE.
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THAT, SORT OF, BEGAN HIS
PUBLIC MINISTRY IN THE AREA.
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SO NOW JESUS IS GOING BACK UP
TO THE AREA OF GALILEE FOR HIS
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SECOND GALILEAN MISSIONARY TOUR.
THE QUESTION IS SOMETIMES ASKED
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WHY - ACCORDING TO THE TEXT HERE
- WHY DOES JESUS LEAVE THE AREA
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OF JERUSALEM OR JUDEA
AND TRAVEL UP TO GALILEE?
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WELL, THERE'S TWO REASONS GIVEN:
#1) TO AVOID CONFLICT WITH THE
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PHARISEES. #2) TO
AVOID CONFLICT WITH
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JOHN'S DISCIPLES. YOU
SEE, THE PHARISEES THOUGHT
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THAT THEY COULD BUILD ON THE
GROWING POPULARITY OF JESUS BY
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AWAKENING JEALOUSY IN THE
HEARTS OF JOHN'S DISCIPLES.
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NOW FOLLOWING THE BAPTISM OF
JESUS, JESUS WENT UP INTO THE
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WILDERNESS FOR 40 DAYS, HE
CAME BACK, SOME OF THOSE EARLY
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DISCIPLES THEN WENT WITH JESUS
UP TO THE REGION OF GALILEE
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WHERE CHRIST PERFORMED HIS FIRST
MIRACLE AND DID SOME PREACHING
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AND TEACHING IN
THE AREA OF GALILEE.
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JESUS IS NOW BACK IN THE AREA OF
JUDEA, BACK CLOSE TO JERUSALEM.
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HE'S PREACHING - THE PEOPLE
ARE COMING TO HEAR JESUS AND
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CHRIST'S
DISCIPLES ARE BAPTIZING.
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AT THAT SAME TIME, JOHN WAS ALSO
PREACHING A SHORT DISTANCE AWAY
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AND JOHN WAS BAPTIZING. SO
WORD GOT TO THE DISCIPLES OF
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JOHN THAT CHRIST'S DISCIPLES
WERE ALSO BAPTIZING AND THE
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PEOPLE WERE FLOCKING TO
HEAR JESUS AND JOHN'S DISCIPLES,
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ZEALOUS TO DEFEND THE REPUTATION
OF THEIR MASTER - OF JOHN THE
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BAPTIST - BEGIN TO GRUMBLE
ABOUT WHAT CHRIST WAS DOING.
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AND, OF COURSE, THE PHARISEES,
THEY WERE JUST PLAYING UP ON
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THIS AND SAYING, 'HAVE YOU
HEARD THAT JESUS IS DRAWING MORE
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PEOPLE THAN JOHN THE BAPTIST
AND HIS DISCIPLES ARE ALSO
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BAPTIZING?' SO WHEN
JESUS FOUND OUT ABOUT
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THIS, HE WITHDREW FROM THE AREA
OF JUDEA AND TRAVELED BACK UP TO
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GALILEE. THERE'S
AN EXAMPLE IN THAT FOR
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US. AS
CHRISTIANS, WE WANT TO DO ALL
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THAT WE CAN TO AVOID
CONTROVERSY, ESPECIALLY AMONGST
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THE BRETHREN, AMEN?
AMONGST CHURCH MEMBERS - BECAUSE
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THE DEVIL WILL USE THAT TO
STIR UP ISSUES WHENEVER HE CAN.
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WE WANT TO FOLLOW
THE EXAMPLE OF JESUS.
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ALRIGHT, LOOKING AT VERSE 4
- JOHN CHAPTER 4, BEGINNING IN
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VERSE 4 NOW IT SAYS, "BUT HE
NEEDED TO GO THROUGH SAMARIA.
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SO HE CAME TO A CITY OF SAMARIA
WHICH IS CALLED SYCHAR, NEAR THE
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PLOT OF GROUND THAT
JACOB GAVE TO HIS SON JOSEPH."
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NOW WHAT WAS THE RELATIONSHIP
BETWEEN THE JEWS AND THE
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SAMARITANS? DID THEY GET ALONG
PRETTY GOOD? NO THEY DIDN'T.
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MATTER OF FACT, IF YOU WERE A
GOOD JEW AND YOU WERE LIVING IN
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THE AREA OF GALILEE, AND
YOU NEEDED TO TRAVEL DOWN TO
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JERUSALEM, WHICH IS IN
JUDEA, FOR ONE OF THOSE NATIONAL
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FESTIVALS, THE APPROPRIATE THING
TO DO WAS TO TRAVEL ALL THE WAY
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AROUND SAMARIA. EVEN
THOUGH THE SHORTEST ROUTE
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WAS DIRECTLY THROUGH SAMARIA,
THEY WOULD OFTEN GO DOWN TO THE
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JORDAN VALLEY AND TRAVEL
AROUND SO THEY WOULDN'T HAVE TO
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ENCOUNTER OR
INTERACT WITH SAMARITANS.
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THE JEWS AND THE SAMARITANS DID
NOT GET ALONG, TO SAY THE LEAST.
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WHAT WAS THE HISTORY
BETWEEN THESE GROUPS OF PEOPLE?
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WELL, IT GOES ALL THE WAY
BACK TO THE DAYS OF REHOBOAM.
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DO YOU REMEMBER
REHOBOAM WAS THE SON OF SOLOMON?
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HE RULED THE UNITED KINGDOM
FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF SOLOMON,
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BUT IT WAS AT THAT TIME THAT
THE KINGDOM DIVIDED, DURING THE
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REIGN OF REHOBOAM.
PART OF THE KINGDOM, THE TEN
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TRIBES OF THE NORTH,
WERE RULED BY JEROBOAM.
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THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM WAS RULED
BY REHOBOAM, BUT BECAUSE OF
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APOSTASY IN THE NORTHERN
KINGDOM, EVENTUALLY SEVERAL
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YEARS LATER, THE ASSYRIANS CAME
AROUND 740 YEARS BEFORE CHRIST
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AND THEY CONQUERED THE NORTHERN
KINGDOM AND MANY OF THE JEWS
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WERE TAKEN CAPTIVES INTO SYRIA.
SOME OF THE ASSYRIANS CAME AND
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INTERMARRIED WITH THE JEWS
AND SETTLED IN THE AREA THAT WAS
00:14:39.27\00:14:43.18
ONCE OCCUPIED BY THE
TEN TRIBES OF THE NORTH.
00:14:43.21\00:14:46.41
AS TIME PROGRESSED, SOME OF
THE PAGAN IDEAS OF THOSE NATIONS
00:14:46.45\00:14:52.25
SURROUNDING THE AREA MIXED IN
WITH SOME OF THE TEACHINGS THAT
00:14:52.29\00:14:55.89
THE JEWS HAD AND THE SAMARITANS
ARE THE DESCENDENTS OF THOSE WHO
00:14:55.92\00:14:58.83
INTERMARRIED - JEWS THAT
INTERMARRIED WITH SOME OF THESE
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NATIONS SURROUNDING THEM
AND THEY CAME UP WITH A KIND OF
00:15:01.70\00:15:03.97
HYBRID-TYPE OF RELIGION WHERE
THEY CLAIMED TO WORSHIP THE SAME
00:15:04.00\00:15:08.24
GOD, BUT THEY INCORPORATED IN
THEIR WORSHIP VARIOUS FORMS OF
00:15:08.27\00:15:11.87
IDOLATRY. AND
THEN, SOME YEARS LATER,
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AFTER THE WAR THAT CAME AGAINST
THE TRIBES OF THE NORTH, YOU
00:15:14.31\00:15:19.38
HAVE BABYLON, AROUND 600 YEARS
BEFORE CHRIST, THAT CAME AND
00:15:19.41\00:15:22.88
CONQUERED THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM
AND THE JEWS WERE TAKEN INTO
00:15:22.92\00:15:25.35
CAPTIVITY INTO
BABYLON FOR 70 YEARS.
00:15:25.39\00:15:27.42
AT THE END OF THAT 70-YEAR
BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY, THE JEWS
00:15:27.46\00:15:30.69
CAME BACK AND THEY BEGAN TO
RESTORE AND REBUILD JERUSALEM
00:15:30.73\00:15:33.46
AND THE TEMPLE. AT
THAT TIME, THE SAMARITANS
00:15:33.50\00:15:36.20
CAME AND ASKED THE JEWS IF THEY
COULD HELP IN THE BUILDING OF
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THE TEMPLE BUT THE JEWS REFUSED
AND SAID, 'YOU CAN'T HELP US
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BUILD THE TEMPLE BECAUSE YOU
DON'T WORSHIP THE SAME GOD THAT
00:15:43.37\00:15:46.04
WE WORSHIP.' WELL, THIS UPSET
THE SAMARITANS AND FOR A WHILE
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THEY TRIED TO STOP THE
BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE.
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EVENTUALLY, THE SAMARITANS WENT
OFF AND THEY BUILT THEIR OWN
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TEMPLE ON MT. GERIZIM.
AND YOU'LL SEE HOW THAT COMES
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INTO PLAY A LITTLE LATER ON
IN OUR STORY, WHERE JESUS IS
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TALKING TO THE
WOMAN AT THE WELL.
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AND THE SAMARITANS CLAIMED
THAT THE PLACE TO WORSHIP WAS ON
00:16:03.36\00:16:06.26
MOUNT GERIZIM AND THE JEWS
CLAIMED THE PLACE TO WORSHIP WAS
00:16:06.29\00:16:08.93
IN JERUSALEM. AND
AS TIME WENT ON, THE
00:16:08.96\00:16:11.80
ANIMOSITY BETWEEN THESE
TWO GROUPS ONLY GREW UNTIL THEY
00:16:11.83\00:16:15.27
HATED ONE ANOTHER. SO
THAT'S WHY THE JEWS WOULD
00:16:15.30\00:16:17.97
TRAVEL ALL THE WAY AROUND
SAMARIA; THEY DIDN'T WANT TO
00:16:18.01\00:16:20.74
INTERACT WITH THE SAMARITANS.
SO NOW VERSE 6 - JOHN CHAPTER 4,
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VERSE 6 - IT SAYS,
"NOW JACOB'S WELL WAS THERE.
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JESUS THEREFORE, BEING WEARIED
FROM HIS JOURNEY, SAT THUS BY
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THE WELL. IT WAS
ABOUT THE SIXTH HOUR."
00:16:32.05\00:16:34.52
NOW THIS WELL
STILL EXISTS TODAY.
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MATTER OF FACT, IT PROVIDES
WATER FOR A MONASTERY GARDEN
00:16:37.79\00:16:40.63
THAT IS BASED AT THE
FOOT OF MOUNT GERIZIM.
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IT'S A VERY OLD WELL. AT
THE TIME OF JESUS, WHEN HE
00:16:43.37\00:16:48.14
INTERACTED WITH THE WOMAN AT THE
WELL, IT WAS ABOUT 1,300 YEARS
00:16:48.17\00:16:53.54
OLD - MAYBE EVEN A LITTLE BIT
MORE. SO TODAY IT'S OVER 3,000
00:16:53.58\00:16:58.15
YEARS OLD AND STILL IT PRODUCES
WATER, THIS WELL OVER THERE.
00:16:58.18\00:17:01.72
IT SAYS JESUS WAS
WEARIED FROM HIS JOURNEY.
00:17:01.75\00:17:04.79
CHRIST AND THE DISCIPLES HAD
HEADED OUT EARLY IN THE MORNING
00:17:04.82\00:17:07.62
FROM THE AREA OF
JUDEA UP TO GALILEE.
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THEY HAD WALKED ABOUT 15
OR 20 MILES AT THIS POINT.
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IT'S ALSO INTERESTING TO NOTE
THAT JESUS HAD NEVER USED HIS
00:17:13.26\00:17:16.20
DIVINE POWER TO MEET ANY
OF HIS OWN PHYSICAL NEEDS.
00:17:16.23\00:17:19.27
HE DIDN'T USE HIS DIVINE POWER
TO MEET HUNGER OR THIRST FOR
00:17:19.30\00:17:23.87
HIMSELF, BUT HE TRUSTED FULLY
UPON HIS FATHER TO PROVIDE FOR
00:17:23.91\00:17:26.78
ALL OF HIS NEEDS. IT TALKS ABOUT
THE SIXTH HOUR OF THE DAY -
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THAT IS AROUND MID-DAY - PART
OF THE HOTTEST TIME OF THE DAY -
00:17:30.91\00:17:34.55
THAT JESUS GETS TO THE WELL. SO
THE DISCIPLES GO ON TO BUY FOOD
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AND JESUS IS AT THE WELL
- VERSE 7 - JOHN 4, VERSE 7.
00:17:38.02\00:17:42.69
IT SAYS, "A WOMAN OF
SAMARIA CAME TO DRAW WATER.
00:17:42.72\00:17:46.16
JESUS SAID TO HER, 'GIVE ME A
DRINK.'" NOW IT WAS CONSIDERED
00:17:46.19\00:17:51.23
PART OF A GOD-GIVEN DUTY FOR
A PERSON IN THE MIDDLE EAST, IN
00:17:51.27\00:17:55.14
THOSE DAYS, TO GIVE A DRINK
TO SOMEONE WHO WAS TRAVELING OR
00:17:55.17\00:17:58.64
SOMEBODY WHO WAS THIRSTY.
BUT IT WAS INTERESTING THAT
00:17:58.67\00:18:01.54
JESUS, BEING A JEW, ASKED THIS
FAVOR OF A WOMAN OF SAMARIA.
00:18:01.58\00:18:05.71
WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT
THAT HERE IN JUST A FEW MINUTES.
00:18:05.75\00:18:08.52
THERE ARE FOUR THINGS I ALSO
WANT YOU TO NOTE AS WE LOOK AT
00:18:08.55\00:18:11.49
THE INTERACTION BETWEEN CHRIST
AND THE WOMAN AT THE WELL.
00:18:11.52\00:18:14.16
FOUR STEPS THAT I THINK ARE
IMPORTANT TO EVERYBODY WHO WANTS
00:18:14.19\00:18:17.43
TO SHARE THEIR FAITH -
FOUR PRINCIPLES OF SOUL WINNING.
00:18:17.46\00:18:21.83
THE FIRST IS THIS: JESUS
AWAKENED A DESIRE FOR SOMETHING
00:18:21.86\00:18:26.30
BETTER. THAT'S THE
FIRST THING THAT HE
00:18:26.33\00:18:28.80
DID WHEN HE
INTERACTED WITH THE WOMAN.
00:18:28.84\00:18:30.47
NUMBER 2, HE THEN LED HER TO
A POINT OF CONVICTION WHERE SHE
00:18:30.51\00:18:33.88
REALIZED HER NEED
FOR SOMETHING BETTER.
00:18:33.91\00:18:37.21
HE CALLED FOR A DECISION,
THIRDLY, AND THAT DECISION WAS
00:18:37.25\00:18:41.18
TO ACCEPT AND ACKNOWLEDGE HIM AS
THE MESSIAH AND THEN, FOURTHLY,
00:18:41.22\00:18:45.55
HE ENCOURAGED HER TO ACTION.
00:18:45.59\00:18:47.42
SHE HAD TO DO
SOMETHING ABOUT THAT DECISION.
00:18:47.46\00:18:50.46
SO THE FIRST THING JESUS DID WAS
TO AWAKEN IN HER A DESIRE FOR
00:18:50.49\00:18:53.16
SOMETHING BETTER, TO LEAD HER
TO THE POINT OF CONVICTION WHERE
00:18:53.19\00:18:57.40
SHE SENSED HER NEED OF A
SAVIOR, THIRDLY, HE CALLED FOR A
00:18:57.43\00:19:02.14
DECISION, AND THEN, FOURTHLY, HE
ENCOURAGED HER TO ACT UPON THAT.
00:19:02.17\00:19:06.88
OF COURSE, JESUS BEGAN THE
CONVERSATION BY ASKING FOR A
00:19:06.91\00:19:10.68
FAVOR. HE ASKED HER FOR A DRINK.
VERSE 9 - IT SAYS, "THEN THE
00:19:10.71\00:19:16.92
WOMAN OF SAMARIA SAID TO HIM,
'HOW IS IT THAT YOU, BEING A
00:19:16.95\00:19:20.59
JEW, ASK A DRINK FROM
ME, A SAMARITAN WOMAN?'
00:19:20.62\00:19:25.23
FOR JEWS HAVE NO
DEALINGS WITH SAMARITANS."
00:19:25.26\00:19:29.23
NOW WE HAVE ALREADY TALKED ABOUT
WHY THE JEWS AND THE SAMARITANS
00:19:29.26\00:19:32.50
DIDN'T GET ALONG; NOT ONLY
WAS JESUS A JEW AND SHE WAS A
00:19:32.53\00:19:35.60
SAMARITAN, BUT CHRIST WAS A MAN
AND SHE WAS A WOMAN AND EVEN IN
00:19:35.64\00:19:40.41
SOCIETY, EVEN AMONGST THE
JEWS, DURING THAT TIME, IT WAS
00:19:40.44\00:19:44.01
INAPPROPRIATE FOR A MAN
TO TALK TO A WOMAN IN PUBLIC.
00:19:44.05\00:19:47.65
MAYBE HIS WIFE - THAT
WAS PERMITTED - BUT JUST, IN
00:19:47.68\00:19:50.85
GENERAL, TO TALK TO A WOMAN
ONE ON ONE, THAT WAS TABOO OR IT
00:19:50.89\00:19:55.59
WAS AGAINST THE TRADITION
OR THE CULTURE OF THE TIME.
00:19:55.62\00:19:58.06
SO JESUS IS TALKING TO
THIS WOMAN - MORE THAN THAT -
00:19:58.09\00:20:00.63
SHE'S A SAMARITAN.
THERE ARE A FEW OTHER NOTABLE
00:20:00.66\00:20:02.60
SAMARITAN STORIES THAT WE
HAVE IN THE GOSPEL THAT TEACH US
00:20:02.63\00:20:05.90
LESSONS. IN LUKE
CHAPTER 10, VERSE 33,
00:20:05.93\00:20:08.67
JESUS TELLS THE STORY
OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN.
00:20:08.70\00:20:12.04
I THINK WE'RE ALL FAMILIAR
WITH THAT STORY. JESUS TELLS THE
00:20:12.07\00:20:14.41
STORY - A PARABLE - ABOUT A MAN
WHO WAS TRAVELING FROM JERUSALEM
00:20:14.44\00:20:17.51
DOWN TO JERICHO AND HE FELL
AMONGST THIEVES AND THE THIEVES
00:20:17.55\00:20:20.42
STRIP THE MAN OF HIS RAIMENT,
BEAT HIM, AND LEFT HIM HALF
00:20:20.45\00:20:23.35
DEAD. AND THEN IN THE STORY, THE
PRIEST CAME BY AND HE COULDN'T
00:20:23.39\00:20:27.02
HELP. THE LEVI CAME BY AND HE
COULDN'T HELP, BUT THE SAMARITAN
00:20:27.06\00:20:30.53
CAME BY. AND WHEN THE SAMARITAN
SAW THE MAN THAT HAD FALLEN
00:20:30.56\00:20:34.13
AMONGST THE THIEVES, THE BIBLE
SAYS HE HAD COMPASSION UPON HIM
00:20:34.20\00:20:38.17
AND HE WENT AND
MINISTERED UNTO HIM.
00:20:38.20\00:20:40.50
BUT IT ALSO SAYS THAT THE GOOD
SAMARITAN POURED IN OIL AND WINE
00:20:40.54\00:20:44.07
- INTO THE MAN'S WOUNDS -
PROBABLY COVERED HIM WITH HIS
00:20:44.11\00:20:47.78
OWN CLOAK, PUT HIM ON A
DONKEY AND TOOK HIM TO THE INN.
00:20:47.81\00:20:51.41
AND THEN HE TOOK CARE OF THE
MAN, AT THE INN, AND WHEN HE WAS
00:20:51.45\00:20:54.22
TO LEAVE HE GAVE THE INNKEEPER
SOME MONEY AND SAID, 'YOU TAKE
00:20:54.25\00:20:56.89
CARE OF THE MAN AND IF YOU SPEND
ANYTHING MORE THAT I HAVE NOT
00:20:56.92\00:20:59.52
GIVEN YOU, I WILL REPAY YOU
WHEN I COME BACK AGAIN.' NOW, OF
00:20:59.55\00:21:03.63
COURSE, JESUS TOLD THAT PARABLE
TO ILLUSTRATE HOW WE OUGHT TO
00:21:03.66\00:21:06.46
SHARE, OR TAKE CARE OF
OUR FELLOW MAN - HOW WE ARE TO
00:21:06.49\00:21:09.80
INTERACT WITH OTHERS.
THE JEWS AND THE SAMARITANS,
00:21:09.83\00:21:13.03
THEY CONSIDERED EACH OTHER
ENEMIES AND YET JESUS SAID YOU
00:21:13.07\00:21:15.67
NEED TO CARE FOR ONE ANOTHER.
YOU NEED TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER.
00:21:15.70\00:21:18.04
IN THAT STORY, HOWEVER, NOT ONLY
IS THERE AN IMPORTANT LESSON ON
00:21:18.07\00:21:21.81
HOW WE OUGHT TO CARE AND
INTERACT WITH ONE ANOTHER, BUT
00:21:21.84\00:21:25.21
IT'S ALSO A
PRESENTATION OF THE GOSPEL.
00:21:25.25\00:21:27.88
IN THE STORY, THE GOOD
SAMARITAN REPRESENTS JESUS.
00:21:27.92\00:21:30.72
JESUS IS THE ONE THAT LEFT THE
GLORIES OF HEAVEN, CAME TO THIS
00:21:30.75\00:21:33.62
SIN-POLLUTED EARTH WHERE HE
TALKS ABOUT THE GOOD SAMARITAN
00:21:33.66\00:21:36.83
POURING OIL AND WINE.
OIL IS A SYMBOL OF THE HOLY
00:21:36.86\00:21:39.83
SPIRIT, WINE A SYMBOL OF
THE ATONING BLOOD OF CHRIST.
00:21:39.86\00:21:42.56
JESUS GAVE HIS LIFE
AND HE GIVES US THE SPIRIT.
00:21:42.60\00:21:46.23
HE MINISTERS TO US. HE HEALS
US FROM OUR SICKNESS OF SIN.
00:21:46.27\00:21:50.84
OF COURSE, THE THIEF IN THIS
STORY WOULD REPRESENT THE DEVIL
00:21:50.87\00:21:53.44
AND WE'RE ALL DOOMED TO DEATH.
BUT JESUS COMES TO OUR RESCUE
00:21:53.48\00:21:58.11
AND TAKES CARE OF US. HE
MINISTERS TO US. SO IN THAT
00:21:58.15\00:22:01.35
PARABLE, WE HAVE THE GOOD
SAMARITAN, REALLY A SYMBOL
00:22:01.38\00:22:04.09
OF CHRIST. ON ONE OCCASION IN
JOHN CHAPTER 8, VERSE 48, IT'S
00:22:04.12\00:22:08.22
INTERESTING TO NOTE THAT
THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS WERE VERY
00:22:08.26\00:22:10.96
ANGRY WITH JESUS - ACCUSED
JESUS OF BEING A SAMARITAN.
00:22:10.99\00:22:14.56
IT'S PROBABLY THE WORST INSULT
THAT THEY COULD COME UP WITH.
00:22:14.56\00:22:17.13
'OH, HE'S A
SAMARITAN' THEY SAID.
00:22:17.17\00:22:19.17
SO THERE ARE SOME INTERESTING
INCIDENTS LISTED IN THE GOSPELS
00:22:19.20\00:22:22.40
THAT INVOLVED SAMARITANS.
NOW, LOOK AT VERSE 10.
00:22:22.44\00:22:25.77
"JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID TO HER,
'IF YOU KNEW THE GIFT OF GOD,'"
00:22:25.81\00:22:30.51
- BY THE WAY, WHO
IS THE GIFT OF GOD?
00:22:30.55\00:22:33.45
JESUS IS THE GIFT OF GOD - JOHN
3:16 - "FOR GOD SO LOVED THE
00:22:33.48\00:22:37.52
WORLD THAT HE GAVE
HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON."
00:22:37.55\00:22:41.26
"'IF YOU KNEW THE GIFT OF GOD,
AND WHO IT IS WHO SAYS TO YOU,
00:22:41.29\00:22:44.49
'GIVE ME A DRINK,' YOU WOULD
HAVE ASKED HIM, AND HE WOULD
00:22:44.53\00:22:46.86
HAVE GIVEN YOU'" - WHAT? -
"'LIVING WATER.'" NOW THE IDEA
00:22:46.90\00:22:51.37
OF LIVING WATER
WAS NOT NEW WITH JESUS.
00:22:51.40\00:22:54.04
JESUS WAS ACTUALLY
QUOTING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT.
00:22:54.07\00:22:56.67
ISAIAH CHAPTER 12, VERSE 3 SAYS
THIS: "THEREFORE WITH JOY YOU
00:22:56.71\00:23:01.21
WILL DRAW WATER FROM
THE WELLS OF SALVATION."
00:23:01.24\00:23:05.51
JEREMIAH 2, VERSE 13,
"THEY HAVE FORSAKEN ME, THE
00:23:05.55\00:23:09.28
FOUNTAIN OF LIVING
WATERS," - SPEAKING OF GOD.
00:23:09.32\00:23:12.95
JOHN 7:38, "HE WHO BELIEVES IN
ME, AS THE SCRIPTURE HAS SAID,
00:23:12.99\00:23:17.59
OUT OF HIS HEART WILL
FLOW RIVERS OF LIVING WATER."
00:23:17.63\00:23:21.46
SO THE IDEA OF LIVING WATER -
LIFE-GIVING WATER - IS FOUND ALL
00:23:21.50\00:23:26.00
THE WAY BACK IN
THE OLD TESTAMENT.
00:23:26.03\00:23:27.64
OF COURSE, WHEN THE CHILDREN
OF ISRAEL WERE WANDERING THROUGH
00:23:27.67\00:23:29.67
THE WILDERNESS AND THEY WERE
DESPERATELY IN NEED OF WATER,
00:23:29.70\00:23:32.51
THE BIBLE SPEAKS ABOUT THE
WATER COMING FROM THE ROCK.
00:23:32.54\00:23:36.28
THAT ROCK REPRESENTS CHRIST.
THAT WATER REPRESENTS THE GIFT
00:23:36.31\00:23:39.78
OF SALVATION THAT
JESUS WANTS TO GIVE.
00:23:39.81\00:23:42.72
LET'S LOOK AT VERSE 11, "THE
WOMAN SAID TO HIM, 'SIR, YOU
00:23:42.75\00:23:46.92
HAVE NOTHING TO DRAW
WITH, AND THE WELL IS DEEP.
00:23:46.96\00:23:51.33
WHERE THEN DO YOU
GET THAT LIVING WATER?'"
00:23:51.36\00:23:54.83
NOW THE WOMAN IS STILL CURIOUS
ABOUT WHERE HE WOULD GET THIS
00:23:54.83\00:23:58.70
LIVING WATER FROM.
SHE BEGAN TO UNDERSTAND
00:23:58.73\00:24:01.87
SOMETHING OF
WHAT JESUS WAS SAYING.
00:24:01.90\00:24:04.11
SHE RECOGNIZED A NEED - SHE FELT
LIKE HE HAD SOMETHING THAT COULD
00:24:04.14\00:24:07.71
HELP HER, BUT WHEN JESUS OFFERED
LIVING WATER, SHE WASN'T QUITE
00:24:07.74\00:24:11.71
SURE AS TO THE
NATURE OF THIS LIVING WATER.
00:24:11.75\00:24:14.82
SHE SAID, 'THE WELL IS DEEP.
HOW ARE YOU GOING TO GET THE
00:24:14.85\00:24:17.39
LIVING WATER?' JACOB'S
WELL WAS ABOUT A HUNDRED
00:24:17.42\00:24:19.42
FEET DEEP. PERHAPS
THERE WAS SOME SPRING
00:24:19.45\00:24:22.02
THAT JESUS KNEW OF THAT SHE
DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT THAT COULD
00:24:22.06\00:24:25.99
PROVIDE THIS FRESH,
REFRESHING, LIVING WATER.
00:24:26.03\00:24:28.70
IN A SIMILAR WAY, NICODEMUS
ASKED JESUS, 'HOW CAN A MAN BE
00:24:28.73\00:24:32.60
BORN AGAIN?' ALSO, HE
DIDN'T FULLY UNDERSTAND
00:24:32.63\00:24:35.40
OR COMPREHEND THE GIFT
THAT WAS BEING OFFERED.
00:24:35.44\00:24:38.97
VERSE 12 - SHE GOES ON -
"ARE YOU" - SPEAKING TO JESUS -
00:24:39.01\00:24:44.11
"GREATER THAN OUR FATHER JACOB,
WHO GAVE US THE WELL, AND DRANK
00:24:44.15\00:24:48.02
FROM IT HIMSELF, AS WELL
AS HIS SONS AND HIS LIVESTOCK?
00:24:48.05\00:24:53.12
JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID TO HER,
'WHOEVER DRINKS OF THIS WATER
00:24:53.15\00:24:56.19
WILL THIRST AGAIN,'" - VERSE
14 - "'BUT WHOEVER DRINKS OF THE
00:24:56.22\00:25:01.13
WATER THAT I SHALL
GIVE HIM WILL NEVER THIRST.
00:25:01.16\00:25:04.23
BUT THE WATER THAT I SHALL
GIVE HIM WILL COME UP IN HIM A
00:25:04.27\00:25:07.47
FOUNTAIN OF WATER SPRINGING
UP INTO EVERLASTING LIFE.'" SO
00:25:07.50\00:25:12.61
JESUS IS OFFERING HER LIVING
WATER THAT NOT ONLY MEETS OUR
00:25:12.64\00:25:15.84
NEEDS NOW BUT, MORE IMPORTANTLY,
OFFERS FOR US ETERNAL LIFE -
00:25:15.88\00:25:20.42
ETERNAL - ETERNALLY IN THE
PRESENCE OF JESUS - ETERNAL JOY
00:25:20.45\00:25:24.49
AND PEACE, THIS
FOUNTAIN OF LIVING WATER.
00:25:24.52\00:25:27.76
JOHN CHAPTER 7, VERSE 37, "ON
THE LAST DAY, THAT GREAT DAY OF
00:25:27.79\00:25:32.66
THE FEAST, JESUS STOOD AND CRIED
OUT, SAYING, 'IF ANYONE THIRSTS,
00:25:32.69\00:25:37.07
LET HIM COME TO ME AND DRINK.'"
JESUS IS THE ONE OFFERING THIS
00:25:37.10\00:25:40.87
LIFE-GIVING WATER
THAT BRINGS JOY AND PEACE.
00:25:40.90\00:25:43.87
NOW LET'S LOOK AT VERSE 15.
00:25:43.91\00:25:46.98
"THE WOMAN SAID TO HIM, 'SIR,
GIVE ME THIS WATER,'" - SHE
00:25:47.01\00:25:53.65
BEGAN TO REALIZE THAT THERE'S
SOMETHING SPECIAL ABOUT WHAT
00:25:53.68\00:25:55.82
JESUS WAS OFFERING HER - "'THAT
I MAY NOT THIRST, NOR COME HERE
00:25:55.85\00:25:59.82
TO DRAW.' JESUS SAID TO HER,
'GO, CALL YOUR HUSBAND, AND COME
00:25:59.85\00:26:05.53
HERE.' THE WOMAN ANSWERED AND
SAID, 'I HAVE NO HUSBAND.'" NOW
00:26:05.56\00:26:09.60
REMEMBER THE STEPS THAT WE
MENTIONED A LITTLE EARLIER?
00:26:09.63\00:26:11.90
THE FIRST IS AWAKENING A DESIRE
FOR SOMETHING BETTER AND SO
00:26:11.93\00:26:15.34
JESUS HAS DONE THAT. HE'S
OFFERED HER THIS LIVING WATER.
00:26:15.37\00:26:18.07
SHE REALIZES SHE NEEDS THE
LIVING WATER SO SHE ASKS JESUS,
00:26:18.11\00:26:21.18
'GIVE THIS TO ME.' JESUS, NOW,
WANTS TO LEAD HER TO A POINT OF
00:26:21.21\00:26:24.25
CONVICTION WHERE SHE SEES HER
NEED OF SALVATION, AND HE DOES
00:26:24.28\00:26:28.62
SO BY ASKING HER TO GO GET
HER HUSBAND. WELL THAT WAS A
00:26:28.65\00:26:32.05
SENSITIVE POINT WITH THIS WOMAN
BECAUSE SHE HAD SEVERAL HUSBANDS
00:26:32.09\00:26:36.22
IN THE PAST AND THE MAN THAT
SHE WAS WITH WASN'T HER HUSBAND.
00:26:36.26\00:26:39.53
LOOK, IF YOU WOULD, IN VERSE 17,
"THE WOMAN ANSWERED AND SAID, 'I
00:26:39.56\00:26:44.20
HAVE NO HUSBAND.' JESUS SAID
TO HER, 'YOU HAVE WELL SAID, 'I
00:26:44.23\00:26:47.44
HAVE NO HUSBAND,' FOR YOU HAVE
HAD FIVE HUSBANDS, AND THE ONE
00:26:47.47\00:26:51.24
WHOM YOU NOW HAVE IS NOT
YOUR HUSBAND; IN THAT YOU SPOKE
00:26:51.27\00:26:55.24
TRULY.'" SO NOW
SHE'S UNDER CONVICTION.
00:26:55.28\00:26:58.45
THIS MAN KNOWS ABOUT MY
PERSONAL LIFE. HOW DOES HE KNOW?
00:26:58.48\00:27:02.62
AND THEN SHE GOES ON, "THE WOMAN
SAID TO HIM, 'SIR, I PERCEIVE
00:27:02.65\00:27:06.35
THAT YOU ARE A PROPHET.'" -
'WELL, FOR SOMEBODY TO KNOW THAT
00:27:06.39\00:27:09.42
MUCH ABOUT ME, HE MUST
HAVE DIVINE HELP - HE MUST BE A
00:27:09.46\00:27:13.09
PROPHET.' JESUS IS LEADING HER
STEP BY STEP - FIRST AWAKENING A
00:27:13.13\00:27:16.93
DESIRE FOR SOMETHING BETTER,
NEXT HE'S LEADING HER TO A POINT
00:27:16.97\00:27:19.80
OF CONVICTION THAT SHE NEEDS
A SAVIOR, NOW HE'S DIRECTING HER
00:27:19.83\00:27:24.21
ATTENTION TO THE FACT THAT HE
IS THE SOLUTION. HE CAN HELP HER
00:27:24.24\00:27:27.71
BOTH IN THIS PHYSICAL AREA
- THIS LIVING WATER - BUT EVEN
00:27:27.74\00:27:31.71
MORE IMPORTANT, SPIRITUALLY
HE CAN MEET HER NEED.
00:27:31.75\00:27:34.62
BUT NOW SHE WANTS TO GET INTO
A LITTLE BIT OF A CONTROVERSY TO
00:27:34.65\00:27:37.82
CHANGE THE SUBJECT AND IN
VERSE 20 SHE SAYS, "OUR FATHERS
00:27:37.85\00:27:41.59
WORSHIPED ON THIS MOUNTAIN, AND
YOU JEWS SAY THAT IN JERUSALEM
00:27:41.62\00:27:46.19
IS THE PLACE WHERE ONE OUGHT
TO WORSHIP." IN OTHER WORDS,
00:27:46.23\00:27:49.10
MOVING THE ATTENTION AWAY FROM
HER AND HER LIFE, TO SOMETHING
00:27:49.13\00:27:52.23
ELSE. THERE WAS AN
ONGOING CONTROVERSY
00:27:52.27\00:27:53.90
BETWEEN THE JEWS AND THE
SAMARITANS, CONCERNING THE
00:27:53.94\00:27:56.27
PROPER PLACE FOR WORSHIP.
AS MENTIONED A LITTLE EARLIER,
00:27:56.30\00:27:59.11
THE JEWS SAID JERUSALEM
IS THE PLACE TO WORSHIP.
00:27:59.14\00:28:01.21
THE SAMARITANS SAID, 'NO, DON'T
WORSHIP IN JERUSALEM, WORSHIP ON
00:28:01.24\00:28:04.48
THIS MOUNTAIN.' AT THE TIME
OF JESUS, THE TEMPLE THAT THE
00:28:04.51\00:28:08.12
SAMARITANS HAD BUILT ON MOUNT
GERIZIM HAD BEEN BROKEN DOWN,
00:28:08.15\00:28:11.95
BUT THE SAMARITANS WOULD STILL
GO UP ONTO THE MOUNTAIN AND THEY
00:28:11.99\00:28:15.22
WOULD OFFER SACRIFICES AND THEY
CLAIMED THAT TO BE THE PLACE OF
00:28:15.26\00:28:17.76
WORSHIP. SO SHE'S
BEGINNING TO TALK TO
00:28:17.79\00:28:20.80
JESUS, NOW, ABOUT WORSHIP.
VERSE 21, "JESUS SAID TO HER,
00:28:20.83\00:28:24.67
'WOMAN, BELIEVE ME, THE HOUR IS
COMING WHEN YOU WILL NEITHER ON
00:28:24.70\00:28:28.87
THIS MOUNTAIN, NOR IN JERUSALEM,
WORSHIP THE FATHER.'" - VERSE 22
00:28:28.90\00:28:34.31
- "'YOU WORSHIP WHAT YOU DO NOT
KNOW; WE KNOW WHAT WE WORSHIP,
00:28:34.34\00:28:38.41
FOR SALVATION IS OF THE
JEWS.'" IN OTHER WORDS, JESUS IS
00:28:38.45\00:28:42.75
CLARIFYING THAT SALVATION
IS TO COME THROUGH THE JEWS.
00:28:42.78\00:28:45.92
OUR ONLY HOPE OF SALVATION IS TO
RECEIVE THE MESSIAH - TO RECEIVE
00:28:45.95\00:28:50.06
JESUS WHO CAME
THROUGH THE LINEAGE OF DAVID.
00:28:50.09\00:28:52.96
VERSE 23 - JESUS SAYS, "'BUT THE
HOUR IS COMING, AND NOW IS, WHEN
00:28:52.99\00:28:57.50
THE TRUE WORSHIPERS WILL WORSHIP
THE FATHER IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH;
00:28:57.53\00:29:03.44
FOR THE FATHER IS SEEKING
SUCH TO WORSHIP HIM.'" IN OTHER
00:29:03.47\00:29:07.91
WORDS, JESUS IS EMPHASIZING
THE POINT THAT IT'S NOT SO MUCH
00:29:07.94\00:29:10.41
WHERE A PERSON WORSHIPS, WHAT'S
MORE IMPORTANT IS HOW THE PERSON
00:29:10.45\00:29:15.52
WORSHIPS. WHAT'S THE
CONDITION OF THE HEART.
00:29:15.55\00:29:20.16
THE JEWS, THEY
WORSHIPED IN JERUSALEM.
00:29:20.19\00:29:23.26
THEY HAD THE RIGHT PLACE TO
WORSHIP, BUT WITH REFERENCE TO
00:29:23.29\00:29:27.03
THE FORM OF WORSHIP, JESUS SAID
TO THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS, 'IN
00:29:27.10\00:29:30.20
VAIN YOU WORSHIP ME, TEACHING
FOR DOCTRINES THE COMMANDMENTS
00:29:30.23\00:29:33.74
OF MEN.' THEY HAD THE RIGHT
PLACE BUT THEY HAD THE WRONG
00:29:33.77\00:29:37.41
TYPE OF WORSHIP. IT
WAS NOT HEART-FELT WORSHIP.
00:29:37.44\00:29:41.21
FRIENDS, IT'S EASY FOR US TO
FALL INTO THAT SAME TRAP OF JUST
00:29:41.24\00:29:44.35
SIMPLY GOING THROUGH THE
MOTIONS, WEEK AFTER WEEK, COMING
00:29:44.38\00:29:47.35
TO CHURCH, SINGING THE HYMNS,
READING THE SCRIPTURE, AND WE
00:29:47.38\00:29:51.35
LACK THAT TRUE
HEART-FELT WORSHIP.
00:29:51.39\00:29:53.92
IT'S NOT SO MUCH THE PLACE, IT'S
THE ATTITUDE - IT'S THE HEART -
00:29:53.96\00:29:58.23
WHEN WE COME TO WORSHIP GOD.
00:29:58.26\00:30:00.53
THAT'S WHAT
JESUS IS EMPHASIZING.
00:30:00.56\00:30:02.20
THE TIME HAS COME FOR US TO
WORSHIP IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH.
00:30:02.23\00:30:07.17
NOW I THINK THIS MESSAGE IS
VERY APPROPRIATE FOR US TODAY.
00:30:07.20\00:30:10.37
JESUS SPEAKS TO THE CHURCH OF
LAODICEA IN REVELATION CHAPTER 3
00:30:10.41\00:30:14.31
- THE CHURCH OF LAODICEA - THE
SEVENTH CHURCH, WHICH REPRESENTS
00:30:14.34\00:30:18.28
THE CHURCH TODAY. THE
CHURCH THINKS THAT SHE'S
00:30:18.31\00:30:21.22
DOING WELL, THAT
SHE HAS NEED OF NOTHING.
00:30:21.25\00:30:23.85
AND JESUS SAID, 'YOU DON'T
- YOU DO NOT KNOW THAT YOU ARE
00:30:23.89\00:30:26.32
WRETCHED, MISERABLE,
POOR, BLIND, AND NAKED.
00:30:26.35\00:30:29.29
I COUNSEL OF YOU,' - JESUS SAID
- 'BUY OF ME GOLD REFINED IN THE
00:30:29.32\00:30:33.46
FIRE THAT YOU MIGHT BE RICH.'
WHAT IS THAT GOLD THAT WE AS
00:30:33.50\00:30:37.07
ADVENTISTS, AS
CHRISTIANS, NEED TODAY.
00:30:37.10\00:30:40.34
IT IS FAITH AND LOVE.
JESUS SAYS, 'BUY OF ME WHITE
00:30:40.37\00:30:45.04
RAIMENT.' WHAT IS
THAT WHITE RAIMENT?
00:30:45.07\00:30:47.34
IT'S THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF JESUS,
BOTH IMPUTED AND IMPARTED TO THE
00:30:47.38\00:30:51.71
BELIEVER. AND
JESUS SAYS, 'ANOINT YOUR
00:30:51.75\00:30:54.62
EYES WITH EYE
SALVE' - OR OINTMENT.
00:30:54.65\00:30:57.32
WHAT DOES THAT
EYE SALVE REPRESENT?
00:30:57.35\00:30:59.39
SPIRITUAL DISCERNMENT.
IT'S THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:30:59.42\00:31:02.89
SO JESUS SAYS 'YOU LOOK GOOD ON
THE OUTSIDE. YOU THINK YOU ARE
00:31:02.92\00:31:06.36
RICH, INCREASED WITH GOODS, BUT
YOU'RE IN NEED OF A CHANGE OF
00:31:06.39\00:31:10.03
HEART.' AND THAT CHANGE OF
HEART ONLY COMES FROM JESUS.
00:31:10.07\00:31:13.97
AND THEN JESUS GIVES US THIS
GRAND SOLUTION TO OUR PROBLEM
00:31:14.00\00:31:18.57
WHEN HE SAYS, 'BEHOLD, I
STAND AT THE DOOR AND KNOCK.
00:31:18.61\00:31:22.54
WHEREVER ONE HEARS MY VOICE AND
OPENS THE DOOR, I WILL COME UNTO
00:31:22.58\00:31:26.01
HIM AND I WILL DINE WITH HIM' -
I'LL EAT WITH HIM - 'AND HE WITH
00:31:26.05\00:31:29.48
ME.' YOU SEE, JESUS WANTS
THAT INTIMATE FELLOWSHIP - THAT
00:31:29.52\00:31:33.66
RELATIONSHIP - WITH US.
THAT MAKES WORSHIP OF VALUE, IN
00:31:33.69\00:31:38.66
GOD'S SIGHT. NOT
JUST SIMPLY GOING THROUGH
00:31:38.69\00:31:41.43
THE ACTIONS, BUT HAVING
HEART-FELT COMMUNION WITH JESUS.
00:31:41.46\00:31:45.70
THAT'S WHAT
WORSHIP IS ALL ABOUT.
00:31:45.73\00:31:47.87
NOW, BY THE WAY, TRUE WORSHIP IS
NOT JUST SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS
00:31:47.90\00:31:50.27
SABBATH MORNING
WHEN YOU COME TO CHURCH.
00:31:50.31\00:31:52.61
IT'S NOT LIKE A SWITCH THAT YOU
TURN ON WHEN YOU WALK INTO THE
00:31:52.64\00:31:55.51
CHURCH BUILDING, BUT GENUINE
WORSHIP REALLY BEGINS ON YOUR
00:31:55.54\00:31:58.65
KNEES, BESIDE YOUR
BED, THROUGHOUT THE WEEK.
00:31:58.68\00:32:02.22
AND WHEN YOU COME TO CHURCH
ON SABBATH MORNING, IT IS SIMPLY
00:32:02.25\00:32:05.19
THE OUTFLOWING OF WHAT GOD
IS DOING IN YOUR HEART AND LIFE.
00:32:05.22\00:32:09.59
DOES THAT MAKE SENSE?
IT'S NOT ABOUT THE MUSIC.
00:32:09.62\00:32:12.23
YES, WE WANT GOOD MUSIC, FOR THE
MUSIC REFLECTS THE GLORY OF GOD.
00:32:12.26\00:32:17.13
SO WE WANT TO DO
THE BEST THAT WE CAN.
00:32:17.17\00:32:18.57
BUT IT'S NOT ABOUT
THE MUSIC OR THE SINGING.
00:32:18.60\00:32:21.00
THAT'S NOT WHAT
WORSHIP IS ALL ABOUT.
00:32:21.04\00:32:22.87
IT'S THAT CONNECTION WITH
GOD. THAT'S WHY YOU CAN HAVE TWO
00:32:22.90\00:32:26.01
PEOPLE IN CHURCH
SINGING THE VERY SAME HYMN.
00:32:26.04\00:32:29.91
THE ONE PERSON IS BORED TO DEATH
AND THE OTHER PERSON HAS TEARS
00:32:29.94\00:32:34.15
COMING DOWN THEIR CHEEKS.
WHAT MAKES THE DIFFERENCE?
00:32:34.18\00:32:38.19
DO YOU UNDERSTAND? IT'S
THE HEART. IT'S THE HEART.
00:32:38.22\00:32:41.82
AND JESUS SAID TO THE WOMAN
AT THE WELL, 'THE TIME HAS COME
00:32:41.86\00:32:45.49
WHEN WE ARE TO WORSHIP GOD IN
SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH.' HE WANTS
00:32:45.53\00:32:51.33
THAT CHANGE OF HEART -
THAT GENUINE HEART-FELT WORSHIP.
00:32:51.37\00:32:56.47
WELL, GOING ON WITH OUR STORY
THEN, VERSE 25, THE WOMAN SAYS,
00:32:56.50\00:33:00.21
"'I KNOW THAT MESSIAH IS COMING'
(WHO IS CALLED THE CHRIST).
00:33:00.24\00:33:05.38
'WHEN HE COMES, HE WILL
TELL US ALL THINGS.'" NOW, IT'S
00:33:05.41\00:33:10.22
INTERESTING TO NOTE THAT
THE WOMAN OF SAMARIA LINKED THE
00:33:10.25\00:33:13.09
COMING OF THE MESSIAH WITH
THE RESTORATION OF TRUE WORSHIP.
00:33:13.12\00:33:16.79
AND RIGHTFULLY SO.
ACTUALLY, THE WORD THAT'S USED
00:33:16.83\00:33:19.56
BY THE SAMARITANS FOR MESSIAH
IS ACTUALLY 'THE RESTORER' - THE
00:33:19.59\00:33:24.23
ONE WHO WOULD COME AND SET ALL
THINGS RIGHT - WHO'D RESOLVE ALL
00:33:24.27\00:33:27.77
OF THE CONTROVERSIES - THAT
INVOLVE TRUE WORSHIP - BETWEEN
00:33:27.80\00:33:32.11
THE SAMARITANS AND THE JEWS.
THE MESSIAH WOULD COME AND FIX
00:33:32.14\00:33:35.21
ALL OF THAT. AND
JESUS SAYS, IN VERSE 26,
00:33:35.24\00:33:38.05
"JESUS SAID TO HER, 'I
WHO SPEAK TO YOU AM HE.'"
00:33:38.08\00:33:42.78
I AM THE
RESTORER. I AM THE CHRIST.
00:33:42.82\00:33:45.02
I AM THE MESSIAH. I'M
THE ONE WHO WILL DEFINE WHAT
00:33:45.05\00:33:47.32
TRUE WORSHIP IS.'
IT'S NOT ABOUT THE PLACE.
00:33:47.36\00:33:50.16
IT'S NOT HOW YOU WORSHIP ON THIS
MOUNTAIN OR OVER IN JERUSALEM,
00:33:50.19\00:33:53.73
BUT IT'S THE ATTITUDE OF THE
HEART. IT'S A WILLINGNESS TO DO
00:33:53.76\00:33:56.93
THOSE THINGS THAT GOD ASKS
US TO DO. THAT'S TRUE WORSHIP.
00:33:56.97\00:34:00.77
VERSE 27 - IT SAYS, "AND AT THIS
POINT HIS DISCIPLES CAME, AND
00:34:00.80\00:34:05.94
THEY MARVELED THAT HE TALKED
WITH A WOMAN;" - AGAIN, IT WAS
00:34:05.97\00:34:09.88
CONSIDERED HIGHLY IMPROPER
FOR A MAN TO SPEAK TO A WOMAN IN
00:34:09.91\00:34:13.15
PUBLIC, LET ALONE A JEW
TO SPEAK TO A SAMARITAN.
00:34:13.18\00:34:17.35
THE DISCIPLES DIDN'T SAY
ANYTHING, BUT THEY MARVELED
00:34:17.39\00:34:20.06
THAT JESUS WOULD
TALK TO THIS WOMAN.
00:34:20.09\00:34:22.29
VERSE 28 - IT SAYS, "THE WOMAN
THEN LEFT HER WATER POT," -
00:34:22.32\00:34:25.43
THERE BY THE WELL - AND
SHE WENT HER WAY INTO THE CITY.
00:34:25.46\00:34:28.30
SHE WAS SO EAGER ABOUT FINDING
THE MESSIAH AND THIS OFFER OF
00:34:28.33\00:34:33.47
LIVING WATER THAT JESUS WAS
EXTENDING, THAT SHE LEFT HER
00:34:33.50\00:34:36.94
WATER POT AND RAN OFF TO TOWN
TO TELL EVERYBODY THAT SHE HAD
00:34:36.97\00:34:39.77
FOUND THE MESSIAH -
SHE HAD FOUND THE CHRIST.
00:34:39.81\00:34:43.28
AND LOOK AT VERSE 29 - SHE SAID
TO THE PEOPLE, "COME, SEE A MAN
00:34:43.31\00:34:48.18
WHO TOLD ME ALL
THINGS THAT I EVER DID.
00:34:48.22\00:34:51.55
COULD THIS BE THE CHRIST?"
00:34:51.59\00:34:54.42
SO SHE WAS A MISSIONARY.
SHE ENCOUNTERED JESUS.
00:34:54.46\00:34:57.73
SHE RECEIVED THE GIFT THAT JESUS
WANTED TO GIVE HER, AND SHE NOW
00:34:57.76\00:35:01.30
WANTED TO SHARE THAT
GOOD NEWS WITH SOMEBODY ELSE.
00:35:01.33\00:35:05.93
YOU SEE, EVANGELISM AND
WITNESSING AT ITS VERY CORE, IS
00:35:05.97\00:35:09.60
REALLY SHARING WITH OTHERS
WHAT JESUS HAS DONE FOR YOU.
00:35:09.64\00:35:13.78
IF YOU'VE NEVER EXPERIENCED THAT
LIVING WATER - THAT PEACE AND
00:35:13.81\00:35:17.68
THAT JOY THAT COMES FROM BEING
RIGHT WITH GOD - THAT JOY OF
00:35:17.71\00:35:22.48
FORGIVENESS, CLEANSING.
HOW ARE YOU GOING TO SHARE THAT
00:35:22.52\00:35:26.62
WITH SOMEBODY ELSE? BUT
IF WE COME TO JESUS JUST THE
00:35:26.65\00:35:29.49
WAY THAT WE ARE AND WE
RECEIVE THAT FORGIVENESS, THAT
00:35:29.52\00:35:32.69
CLEANSING, THAT GIFT OF LIFE
THAT CHRIST WANTS TO GIVE US,
00:35:32.73\00:35:35.10
THEN WE CAN'T HELP BUT
SHARE IT WITH SOMEBODY ELSE.
00:35:35.13\00:35:38.57
AND THAT WAS HER EXPERIENCE.
SHE HAD TASTED THE GOOD LIVING
00:35:38.60\00:35:42.77
WATER FROM CHRIST AND NOW SHE
HAD TO TELL EVERYBODY ABOUT IT.
00:35:42.80\00:35:47.94
WELL ON TUESDAY THE LESSON IS
ENTITLED DEALING WITH DEMONS AND
00:35:47.98\00:35:51.91
THERE ARE ACTUALLY TWO BIBLE
STORIES HERE - TWO ENCOUNTERS
00:35:51.95\00:35:54.72
THAT JESUS HAD WITH
PEOPLE WHO WERE NOT JEWS.
00:35:54.75\00:35:57.92
AND I WANT US TO TAKE A LOOK
AT THAT. THE FIRST ONE IS IN
00:35:57.95\00:36:00.42
LUKE CHAPTER 8, SO LET'S GO
TO THAT JUST A CHAPTER FORWARD -
00:36:00.46\00:36:05.49
LUKE CHAPTER 8 AND WE'RE
GOING TO LOOK AT VERSE 26.
00:36:05.53\00:36:08.73
LUKE CHAPTER 8,
BEGINNING HERE IN VERSE 26.
00:36:08.76\00:36:12.47
WE HAVE ANOTHER STORY OF
JESUS DEALING WITH A NON-JEW.
00:36:12.50\00:36:16.20
LUKE CHAPTER 8, BEGINNING IN
VERSE 26, "THEN THEY" - THAT'S
00:36:16.24\00:36:22.98
CHRIST AND THE DISCIPLES -
SAILED TO THE COUNTRY OF THE
00:36:23.01\00:36:25.88
GADARENES, WHICH
IS OPPOSITE GALILEE."
00:36:25.91\00:36:30.45
NOW I JUST WANT YOU TO PICTURE
THIS IN YOUR MIND, IF YOU CAN
00:36:30.49\00:36:33.05
SEE THE - IN YOUR MIND'S EYE -
THE SEA - GALILEE AND THE AREA -
00:36:33.09\00:36:38.26
AND THEN YOU HAVE THE SEA
AND THEN YOU HAVE THE JORDAN
00:36:38.29\00:36:40.66
CONNECTING THE SEA OF
GALILEE DOWN TO THE DEAD SEA.
00:36:40.70\00:36:42.33
JERUSALEM OR JUDEA IS, OF
COURSE, DOWN CLOSER TO THE DEAD
00:36:42.36\00:36:45.67
SEA. THE AREA OF GALILEE ON THE
00:36:45.70\00:36:47.74
WESTERN SIDE OF THE SEA OF
GALILEE, THAT'S WHERE MOST OF
00:36:47.77\00:36:53.71
THE FISHING VILLAGES WERE
LOCATED AND THAT'S WHERE MOST OF
00:36:53.74\00:36:57.51
THE JEWS LIVED. BUT ON
THE EASTERN SIDE OF THE
00:36:57.55\00:37:00.35
SEA OF GALILEE IT WAS VERY
DESERT-LIKE TERRAIN - STEEP
00:37:00.38\00:37:03.15
CLIFFS, SOMEWHAT ROCKY - NOT
MUCH GREW ON THE EASTERN SIDE OF
00:37:03.18\00:37:08.69
THE SEA OF GALILEE AND
THAT'S MOSTLY WHERE SOME OF THE
00:37:08.72\00:37:12.03
HEATHENS LIVED - THE
GENTILES LIVED IN THAT AREA.
00:37:12.06\00:37:15.20
SO JESUS AND HIS DISCIPLES
HAD GOTTEN INTO A BOAT AND
00:37:15.23\00:37:18.30
THEY'D CROSSED
OVER THE SEA OF GALILEE.
00:37:18.33\00:37:20.00
IT WAS DURING THAT TRIP, WHERE
THERE WAS THIS TERRIBLE STORM ON
00:37:20.04\00:37:23.14
THE SEA - JESUS WAS ASLEEP
IN THE BACK OF THE BOAT AND THE
00:37:23.17\00:37:26.34
DISCIPLES WOKE JESUS UP AND
SAID, 'LORD, DON'T YOU CARE THAT
00:37:26.37\00:37:28.58
WE PERISH?'
JESUS CALMED THE STORM.
00:37:28.61\00:37:31.18
SO THE DISCIPLES ARE STILL
SHAKEN UP BY THAT EXPERIENCE
00:37:31.21\00:37:33.95
THEY'D HAD THE NIGHT BEFORE AND
THEY ARE NOW COMING TO SHORE AND
00:37:33.98\00:37:36.95
THEY'RE BRINGING THEIR BOAT ONTO
SHORE AND THEY ENCOUNTER THIS
00:37:36.99\00:37:40.22
DEMON-POSSESSED MAN.
ACTUALLY, IT'S TWO OF THEM, AS
00:37:40.26\00:37:43.29
YOU READ SOME OF THE OTHER
GOSPEL ACCOUNTS - IN MATTHEW AND
00:37:43.32\00:37:46.19
IN MARK. LET'S LOOK AT VERSE 27.
00:37:46.23\00:37:49.00
IT SAYS, "AND WHEN HE STEPPED
OUT ON THE LAND, THERE MET HIM A
00:37:49.03\00:37:52.57
CERTAIN MAN FROM THE CITY
WHO HAD DEMONS FOR A LONG TIME.
00:37:52.60\00:37:56.57
AND HE WORE NO CLOTHES, NOR DID
HE LIVE IN A HOUSE BUT IN THE
00:37:56.60\00:37:59.71
TOMBS." IN THE AREA
ON THAT EASTERN SIDE
00:37:59.74\00:38:04.05
OF THE SEA OF GALILEE, THERE
WERE A NUMBER OF LIMESTONE ROCKS
00:38:04.08\00:38:07.65
AND THEY COULD DIG OUT THESE
CAVES OR THESE TOMBS IN THIS
00:38:07.68\00:38:11.32
LIMESTONE, SO IT WAS ALL
OVER THE PLACE. NOW THERE IS ONE
00:38:11.35\00:38:14.36
PLACE, IN PARTICULAR, THAT BIBLE
SCHOLARS FEEL IS THE VERY PLACE
00:38:14.39\00:38:18.73
WHERE THIS STORY TOOK -
OCCURRED. THERE IS A LITTLE
00:38:18.76\00:38:22.23
BEACH AREA WHERE A BOAT COULD
ACTUALLY LAND AND JUST OFF TO
00:38:22.26\00:38:24.93
THE SIDE THERE IS A STEEP CLIFF
THAT GOES STRAIGHT DOWN INTO THE
00:38:24.97\00:38:29.07
WATER. THE TOP OF THE CLIFF HAS
A FLAT AREA AND THEN IT KIND OF
00:38:29.10\00:38:32.91
GOES DOWN INTO THE WATER.
IT'S THE ONLY PLACE ON THE
00:38:32.94\00:38:35.38
EASTERN SIDE OF THE SEA OF
GALILEE WHERE THIS STORY COULD
00:38:35.41\00:38:38.01
ACTUALLY TAKE PLACE AND SO
THEY FEEL THIS IS THE SPOT.
00:38:38.05\00:38:40.88
AND IT IS CLOSE TO A TOWN - NOT
FAR AWAY - WHICH WAS OCCUPIED BY
00:38:40.92\00:38:44.19
GENTILES DURING
THE TIME OF JESUS.
00:38:44.22\00:38:48.16
NOW MATTHEW TALKS ABOUT TWO MEN,
HERE WE FIND IN LUKE JUST ONE.
00:38:48.19\00:38:53.50
AND SOME HAVE SAID,
'WELL, WHY THE DIFFERENCE?'
00:38:53.53\00:38:56.33
MOST LIKELY THIS WAS THE ONE
WHO WAS THE LEADER OF THE GROUP.
00:38:56.36\00:38:59.50
MAYBE HE WAS THE ONE THAT
SUFFERED THE MOST - AND HE
00:38:59.53\00:39:02.67
APPEARS TO BE THE SPOKESMAN OF
THE TWO. AND SO THAT'S THE ONE
00:39:02.70\00:39:06.41
THAT HE'S FOCUSED ON
HERE IN THE GOSPEL OF LUKE.
00:39:06.44\00:39:08.54
VERSE 28 - IT SAYS, "WHEN HE SAW
JESUS, HE CRIED OUT, FELL DOWN
00:39:08.58\00:39:13.72
BEFORE HIM, AND WITH A LOUD
VOICE SAID, 'WHAT HAVE I TO DO
00:39:13.75\00:39:17.29
WITH YOU, JESUS, SON OF THE
MOST HIGH GOD? I BEG YOU, DO NOT
00:39:17.32\00:39:21.09
TORMENT ME!'" CAN YOU THINK OF
A STORY ELSEWHERE IN THE GOSPELS
00:39:21.12\00:39:24.59
WHERE SOMEONE WHO WAS POSSESSED
WITH AN EVIL SPIRIT SAID
00:39:24.63\00:39:28.06
SOMETHING VERY SIMILAR TO JESUS?
CAN YOU THINK OF AN INSTANCE?
00:39:28.10\00:39:32.20
YES, IT WAS IN CAPERNAUM, JESUS
WAS JUST BEGINNING HIS GALILEAN
00:39:32.23\00:39:36.97
MINISTRY AND HE WENT INTO
THE SYNAGOGUE ON THE SABBATH AND
00:39:37.01\00:39:39.31
WHILE HE WAS PREACHING A
DEMON-POSSESSED MAN INTERRUPTED
00:39:39.34\00:39:42.38
THE SERVICE. DO YOU
REMEMBER THAT STORY?
00:39:42.41\00:39:44.21
AND HE CAME RUNNING
FORWARD AND JESUS REBUKED HIM.
00:39:44.25\00:39:47.98
HE HAD MANY SPIRITS WITHIN
HIM, BUT THOSE EVIL SPIRITS ALSO
00:39:48.02\00:39:51.59
CONFESSED JESUS
TO BE THE SON OF GOD.
00:39:51.62\00:39:54.46
AND JESUS TOLD THOSE EVIL
SPIRITS TO BE QUIET, SIMILAR TO
00:39:54.49\00:39:58.36
WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE, WHERE
THESE EVIL SPIRITS ACKNOWLEDGE
00:39:58.39\00:40:00.73
JESUS AS THE HOLY ONE OF GOD.
VERSE 29, "FOR HE HAD COMMANDED
00:40:00.76\00:40:06.33
THE UNCLEAN SPIRIT
TO COME OUT OF THE MAN.
00:40:06.37\00:40:08.40
FOR IT HAD OFTEN SEIZED HIM, AND
HE WAS KEPT UNDER GUARD, BOUND
00:40:08.44\00:40:12.97
WITH CHAINS AND SHACKLES; AND HE
BROKE THE BONDS AND WAS DRIVEN
00:40:13.01\00:40:16.64
BY THE DEMON
INTO THE WILDERNESS."
00:40:16.68\00:40:18.35
NOW THESE CHAINS,
REALLY, ARE A SYMBOL OF SIN.
00:40:18.38\00:40:22.12
IN HIS CASE THERE WERE LITERAL
CHAINS, BUT ALSO JESUS CAME TO
00:40:22.15\00:40:25.55
BREAK THE CHAINS OF
SIN IN THE LIVES OF PEOPLE.
00:40:25.59\00:40:29.56
IN LUKE CHAPTER 4, VERSES 18 AND
19 YOU HAVE THE STORY OF JESUS,
00:40:29.59\00:40:34.36
NOW IN NAZARETH - IT'S ON THE
SABBATH - AND HE ENTERS INTO THE
00:40:34.36\00:40:37.93
SYNAGOGUE AND HE'S GIVEN A
SCROLL TO READ, OF THE PROPHET
00:40:37.97\00:40:41.07
ISAIAH. AND JESUS
QUOTES - OR READS -
00:40:41.10\00:40:44.34
FROM ISAIAH CHAPTER 61,
VERSES 1 AND 2, WHICH SAYS THIS:
00:40:44.37\00:40:47.28
"...BECAUSE THE LORD HAS
ANOINTED ME TO PREACH GOOD
00:40:47.31\00:40:50.75
TIDINGS TO THE POOR; HE HAS SENT
ME TO HEAL THE BROKENHEARTED, TO
00:40:50.78\00:40:54.62
PROCLAIM LIBERTY TO THE
CAPTIVES," - THAT'S WHAT JESUS
00:40:54.65\00:40:58.35
IS DOING IN THIS STORY - THE
RECOVERY OF SIGHT TO THE BLIND
00:40:58.39\00:41:01.49
AND TO SET AT LIBERTY
THOSE WHO WERE OPPRESSED.
00:41:01.52\00:41:04.76
SO PART OF CHRIST'S MISSION WAS
TO COME AND SET AT LIBERTY THOSE
00:41:04.79\00:41:07.96
WHO WERE
OPPRESSED BY THE EVIL ONE.
00:41:07.96\00:41:10.60
VERSE 30 - "JESUS ASKED HIM,
SAYING, 'WHAT IS YOUR NAME?'
00:41:10.63\00:41:14.64
AND HE SAID, 'LEGION,' BECAUSE
MANY DEMONS HAD ENTERED HIM."
00:41:14.67\00:41:21.58
A LEGION, BACK IN ROMAN TIMES,
CONSISTED OF ABOUT 6,000 FOOT
00:41:21.61\00:41:26.48
SOLDIERS AND ABOUT 7,000 - OR
700 HORSEMEN. 6,000 FOOTMEN AND
00:41:26.51\00:41:32.42
ABOUT 700 HORSEMEN - THAT WAS
A LEGION. SO THESE DEMONS, THEY
00:41:32.45\00:41:35.89
WERE MANY AND THEY REFERRED
TO THEMSELVES AS 'LEGION'.
00:41:35.92\00:41:40.20
VERSE 31, "AND THEY BEGGED HIM"
- SPEAKING OF JESUS - "THAT HE
00:41:40.23\00:41:44.07
WOULD NOT COMMAND THEM
TO GO OUT INTO THE ABYSS."
00:41:44.10\00:41:45.97
IN THE GREEK THERE, IT'S
THE SAME WORD THAT'S USED IN
00:41:46.00\00:41:48.84
REVELATION CHAPTER
20 FOR BOTTOMLESS PIT.
00:41:48.87\00:41:51.01
IT JUST MEANS A DARK,
EMPTY, DESOLATE REGION.
00:41:51.04\00:41:55.54
AND THEY BEGGED HIM, 'DON'T LET
US JUST GO OUT THERE, SEND US TO
00:41:55.58\00:41:59.21
A PLACE.' AND THERE WAS A HERD
OF SWINE - VERSE 32 - THAT WAS
00:41:59.25\00:42:03.25
FEEDING THERE ON THE MOUNTAINS.
SO THEY BEGGED HIM THAT HE WOULD
00:42:03.28\00:42:06.42
PERMIT THEM TO ENTER INTO THEM
AND HE PERMITTED THEM TO DO SO.
00:42:06.45\00:42:10.43
NOW, OF COURSE, THE DEVIL WAS
ALWAYS TRYING TO HINDER THE WORK
00:42:10.46\00:42:14.36
THAT JESUS WAS TRYING TO
DO. AND THE THINKING WAS, IF THE
00:42:14.36\00:42:18.03
EVIL SPIRITS ENTERED INTO THIS
HERD OF SWINE AND PIGS RAN OFF
00:42:18.07\00:42:21.37
AND DROWN THEMSELVES - AS THEY
DID - THAT, OF COURSE, WOULD
00:42:21.40\00:42:25.04
CREATE SOME FEELINGS IN THE
HEARTS OF THE PEOPLE THAT LIVED
00:42:25.07\00:42:28.68
THERE AND THEY
WOULDN'T LISTEN TO JESUS.
00:42:28.71\00:42:31.21
BUT JESUS OVERRULED AND,
ACTUALLY, THIS TURNED OUT TO BE
00:42:31.25\00:42:36.38
A GOOD THING, AS YOU'LL
FIND OUT LATER ON IN THE STORY.
00:42:36.42\00:42:39.15
VERSE 33 SAYS, "THEN THE DEMONS
WENT OUT OF THE MAN AND ENTERED
00:42:39.19\00:42:42.46
THE SWINE, AND THE HERD RAN
VIOLENTLY DOWN THE STEEP PLACE
00:42:42.49\00:42:45.89
INTO THE LAKE AND DROWNED.
00:42:45.93\00:42:48.16
WHEN THOSE WHO FED THEM SAW WHAT
HAD HAPPENED, THEY FLED AND TOLD
00:42:48.20\00:42:51.30
IT IN THE CITY
AND IN THE COUNTRY.
00:42:51.33\00:42:53.40
VERSE 35, "THEN THEY WENT OUT TO
SEE WHAT HAD HAPPENED, AND CAME
00:42:53.44\00:42:57.54
TO JESUS, AND FOUND THE MAN FROM
WHOM THE DEMONS HAD DEPARTED,
00:42:57.57\00:43:01.31
SITTING AT THE FEET OF JESUS,
CLOTHED AND IN HIS RIGHT MIND.
00:43:01.34\00:43:06.11
AND THEY WERE AFRAID." SO
HERE THE MAN IS IN HIS RIGHT
00:43:06.15\00:43:09.95
MIND, SITTING AND LISTENING
TO THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS.
00:43:09.98\00:43:13.15
VERSE 36 SAYS, "THEY ALSO WHO
HAD SEEN IT TOLD THEM BY WHAT
00:43:13.19\00:43:18.43
MEANS HE WHO HAD BEEN
DEMON-POSSESSED WAS HEALED."
00:43:18.46\00:43:24.00
VERSE 37, "THEN THE WHOLE
MULTITUDE OF THE SURROUNDING
00:43:24.03\00:43:26.77
REGION OF THE GADARENES ASKED
HIM TO DEPART FROM THEM, FOR
00:43:26.80\00:43:30.84
THEY WERE
SEIZED WITH GREAT FEAR.
00:43:30.87\00:43:33.17
AND HE GOT INTO
THE BOAT AND RETURNED."
00:43:33.21\00:43:35.41
NOW, OF COURSE, THE DESTRUCTION
OF THEIR PIGS HAD SOMETHING TO
00:43:35.44\00:43:38.28
DO WITH THE REASON WHY THEY
WANTED JESUS TO LEAVE, BUT IT
00:43:38.31\00:43:40.42
WAS GOOD FOR JESUS TO LEAVE,
BECAUSE THAT GAVE THE ONE WHO
00:43:40.45\00:43:44.22
HAD JUST BEEN HEALED THE
OPPORTUNITY TO TESTIFY OF WHAT
00:43:44.25\00:43:46.69
JESUS HAD DONE FOR HIM AND
TO PREPARE THE WAY FOR CHRIST'S
00:43:46.72\00:43:50.29
NEXT VISIT, AND
THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED.
00:43:50.33\00:43:52.66
VERSE 38 - IT SAYS, "NOW
THE MAN FROM WHOM THE DEMONS HAD
00:43:52.69\00:43:56.20
DEPARTED BEGGED HIM
THAT HE MIGHT BE WITH HIM.
00:43:56.23\00:44:00.44
BUT JESUS SENT HIM AWAY, SAYING,
'RETURN TO YOUR OWN HOUSE, AND
00:44:00.47\00:44:04.84
TELL WHAT GREAT
THINGS GOD HAS DONE FOR YOU.'
00:44:04.87\00:44:08.48
AND HE WENT HIS WAY AND
PROCLAIMED THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE
00:44:08.51\00:44:11.01
CITY WHAT GREAT THINGS
JESUS HAD DONE FOR HIM.
00:44:11.05\00:44:13.62
SO IT WAS, WHEN JESUS RETURNED,
THAT THE MULTITUDE WELCOMED HIM,
00:44:13.65\00:44:17.59
FOR THEY WERE
ALL WAITING FOR HIM."
00:44:17.62\00:44:20.72
I SAID A LITTLE EARLIER,
EVANGELISM, AT ITS REAL CORE, IS
00:44:20.76\00:44:24.23
SHARING WITH OTHERS
WHAT JESUS HAS DONE FOR YOU.
00:44:24.26\00:44:27.73
NOW YOU MIGHT THINK, WELL,
YOU KNOW, I JUST DON'T HAVE
00:44:27.76\00:44:30.00
SUFFICIENT BIBLE KNOWLEDGE
TO REALLY GET INTO A THEOLOGICAL
00:44:30.03\00:44:33.00
DISCUSSION WITH SOMEONE.
WHAT HAPPENS IF THEY ASK ME A
00:44:33.03\00:44:35.94
QUESTION AND I
DON'T HAVE THE ANSWER?
00:44:35.97\00:44:38.27
WELL, REALLY
FRIENDS, YOU SHOULDN'T WORRY.
00:44:38.31\00:44:41.14
YES, YOU WANT TO LEARN AS MUCH
AS YOU CAN, BUT YOU SHOULDN'T
00:44:41.18\00:44:43.24
ALLOW YOUR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE
TO STOP YOU FROM SHARING YOUR
00:44:43.28\00:44:47.68
FAITH. ULTIMATELY, YOU HAVE AN
00:44:47.72\00:44:50.02
EXPERIENCE WITH JESUS, AMEN?
AND THAT'S WHAT YOU CAN SHARE
00:44:50.05\00:44:54.46
WITH SOMEBODY ELSE. BY
THE WAY, NOBODY CAN REALLY
00:44:54.49\00:44:56.86
ARGUE WITH YOUR EXPERIENCE
WITH JESUS BECAUSE IT'S YOUR
00:44:56.89\00:45:00.30
EXPERIENCE. YOU'RE
SHARING WHAT JESUS HAS
00:45:00.33\00:45:02.33
DONE FOR YOU. PEOPLE
NOT ONLY WANT TO KNOW THE
00:45:02.36\00:45:05.03
TRUTH, THEY WANT
TO SEE THE TRUTH.
00:45:05.07\00:45:09.10
MATTER OF FACT, SEEING THE TRUTH
DEMONSTRATED IN SOMEBODY'S LIFE,
00:45:09.14\00:45:11.84
IS FAR MORE COMPELLING
THAN JUST HEARING THE TRUTH.
00:45:11.87\00:45:15.98
SO EVANGELISM IS SHOWING, OR
SHARING, WHAT JESUS HAS DONE FOR
00:45:16.01\00:45:20.25
YOU PERSONALLY. WHEN WE SHARE
OUR FAITH, THERE IS A POWER TO
00:45:20.28\00:45:23.59
REALLY DRAW SOMEBODY'S HEART AND
TO AWAKEN A DESIRE WITHIN THAT
00:45:23.62\00:45:27.66
PERSON TO HEAR MORE AND STUDY
FURTHER. SO HERE WE HAVE THIS
00:45:27.69\00:45:32.03
ENCOUNTER WITH THESE NON-JEWS
AND, OF COURSE, THE RESULTS -
00:45:32.06\00:45:35.66
REMARKABLE. NEXT TIME JESUS
COMES THE WHOLE VILLAGE WAS
00:45:35.70\00:45:38.87
READY TO HEAR THE
TEACHINGS OF CHRIST.
00:45:38.90\00:45:41.84
THERE IS ONE OTHER STORY
THAT I WANT US TO LOOK AT.
00:45:41.87\00:45:44.17
HOPEFULLY WE'LL
HAVE TIME TO FINISH IT.
00:45:44.21\00:45:46.04
IT'S IN MATTHEW
CHAPTER 15, VERSE 21.
00:45:46.07\00:45:49.54
THIS IS WHERE JESUS MEETS
A NON-JEWISH WOMAN WHO HAS A
00:45:49.58\00:45:53.48
SPECIAL REQUEST OF HIM
AND CHRIST RESPONDS SOMEWHAT
00:45:53.52\00:45:57.45
DIFFERENTLY TO HER AT FIRST.
MATTHEW CHAPTER 15 AND WE'RE
00:45:57.49\00:46:01.79
GOING TO BEGIN READING HERE
IN VERSE 21 - MATTHEW 15:21 - IT
00:46:01.82\00:46:07.36
SAYS, "THEN JESUS WENT OUT FROM
THERE AND DEPARTED TO THE REGION
00:46:07.40\00:46:10.93
OF TYRE AND SIDON." -
VERSE 22 - "AND BEHOLD, A
00:46:10.97\00:46:14.77
WOMAN OF CANAAN" - A NON-JEW -
"CAME FROM THAT REGION AND CRIED
00:46:14.80\00:46:18.41
OUT TO HIM, SAYING, 'HAVE MERCY
ON ME, O LORD, SON OF DAVID!
00:46:18.44\00:46:23.45
MY DAUGHTER IS SEVERELY
DEMON-POSSESSED.'" A COUPLE OF
00:46:23.48\00:46:28.52
THINGS I WANT YOU TO NOTICE
ABOUT THIS VERSE: HERE WE HAVE
00:46:28.55\00:46:30.72
THIS NON-JEW THAT IS COMING
TO JESUS AND SHE'S CRYING OUT
00:46:30.75\00:46:33.25
SAYING, 'LORD, SON OF DAVID.'
WHAT'S THE SIGNIFICANCE OF HER
00:46:33.29\00:46:37.56
CALLING JESUS THE SON OF
DAVID? WHO IS THE SON OF DAVID?
00:46:37.59\00:46:41.93
THE SON OF DAVID WAS TO BE THE
PROMISED MESSIAH - THE CHRIST
00:46:41.96\00:46:45.73
WOULD COME THROUGH
THE LINEAGE OF DAVID.
00:46:45.77\00:46:48.20
SO SHE RECOGNIZES JESUS AS
BEING FULFILLMENT OF THOSE OLD
00:46:48.24\00:46:52.01
TESTAMENT PROPHETS. SHE
SAID, 'HE IS THE SON OF DAVID.
00:46:52.04\00:46:56.08
HE IS THE MESSIAH. HE'S
THE ONE THAT CAN HELP.' THE
00:46:56.11\00:46:59.48
JEWS REFUSED TO ACKNOWLEDGE
JESUS AS THE SON OF DAVID - AS
00:46:59.51\00:47:03.08
THE MESSIAH - BUT HERE A NON-JEW
SEES IN JESUS THE FACT THAT HE
00:47:03.12\00:47:07.92
IS THE CHRIST -
THE SON OF DAVID.
00:47:07.96\00:47:09.49
SHE COMES AND ASKS FOR
HELP. HER DAUGHTER WAS SEVERELY
00:47:09.52\00:47:11.93
POSSESSED BY AN EVIL
SPIRIT. LOOK AT VERSE 23.
00:47:11.96\00:47:15.50
"BUT HE" - JESUS -
"ANSWERED HER NOT A WORD.
00:47:15.53\00:47:19.37
AND HIS DISCIPLES CAME AND URGED
HIM, SAYING, 'SEND HER AWAY, FOR
00:47:19.40\00:47:23.24
SHE CRIES OUT AFTER US.'" HAVE
YOU EVER FELT IGNORED BY GOD?
00:47:23.27\00:47:29.91
I'M SURE SHE MUST
HAVE FELT IGNORED BY JESUS.
00:47:29.94\00:47:32.98
SHE CAME AND SHE HAD THIS URGENT
REQUEST AND SHE CRIED OUT AND
00:47:33.01\00:47:36.65
SAID, 'LORD, SON OF DAVID, HAVE
MERCY ON ME.' AND JESUS JUST
00:47:36.69\00:47:40.22
KEPT GOING. HE ACTED
AS THOUGH HE HADN'T HEARD.
00:47:40.26\00:47:44.63
HAD JESUS HEARD HER? YES HE HAD.
00:47:44.66\00:47:47.96
MATTER OF FACT, IF YOU READ ON
IN THE STORY, THIS IS THE ONLY
00:47:47.96\00:47:50.27
THING THAT JESUS
DID IN THIS REGION.
00:47:50.30\00:47:52.87
SO HE LEFT ISRAEL, WENT UP INTO
THIS REGION OUTSIDE OF ISRAEL,
00:47:52.90\00:47:57.37
PERFORMED THIS MIRACLE
AND THEN CAME STRAIGHT BACK.
00:47:57.41\00:47:59.64
JESUS KNEW HER NEED AND HE
ACTUALLY WENT UP THERE TO MEET
00:47:59.67\00:48:02.51
HER TO MEET HER NEED, BUT WHEN
SHE CAME WITH HER REQUEST, JESUS
00:48:02.54\00:48:06.15
SAID NOTHING. YOU
KNOW, WE'RE NOT ALONE IF WE
00:48:06.18\00:48:10.22
FEEL AS THOUGH GOD IS IGNORING
US AND, OF COURSE, HE ISN'T.
00:48:10.25\00:48:13.59
BUT THERE ARE MANY INSTANCES
WHERE GOD-FEARING MEN AND WOMEN
00:48:13.62\00:48:17.46
EXPERIENCE THE SILENCE OF GOD
- WHERE THEY ASKED AND NOTHING
00:48:17.49\00:48:21.93
HAPPENED. ABRAHAM
EXPERIENCED THE SILENCE OF GOD.
00:48:21.96\00:48:25.33
AFTER GOD HAD TOLD HIM TO
TAKE HIS SON AND OFFER HIM AS A
00:48:25.37\00:48:28.34
SACRIFICE, ABRAHAM MUST HAVE
PRAYED EARNESTLY FOR THOSE THREE
00:48:28.37\00:48:31.84
AND A HALF DAYS AS THEY
JOURNEYED TO MOUNT MORIAH AND
00:48:31.87\00:48:34.48
NOTHING WAS SAID. HE
EXPERIENCED THE SILENCE OF GOD.
00:48:34.51\00:48:37.81
YOU HAVE JOB, IN HIS SUFFERING,
WHO CRIED OUT AND HE EXPERIENCED
00:48:37.85\00:48:41.52
THE SILENCE OF GOD. IT SEEMED
THAT GOD WAS IGNORING HIM.
00:48:41.55\00:48:44.29
OF COURSE, GOD EVENTUALLY
ANSWERED BUT NOT WHEN JOB
00:48:44.32\00:48:47.36
THOUGHT HE SHOULD.
YOU HAVE THE EXPERIENCE OF
00:48:47.39\00:48:50.93
JOSEPH - THERE HE IS IN A PRISON
FOR MANY YEARS - CRYING OUT FOR
00:48:50.96\00:48:55.53
DELIVERANCE AND IT SEEMS
THAT GOD ISN'T LISTENING.
00:48:55.56\00:48:58.63
EVEN JESUS
EXPERIENCED THE SILENCE OF GOD.
00:48:58.67\00:49:02.67
IN THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE
HE CRIED OUT, 'FATHER IF IT IS
00:49:02.70\00:49:05.47
POSSIBLE, REMOVE THIS CUP FROM
ME. NOT MY WILL, THY WILL BE
00:49:05.51\00:49:08.68
DONE.' AND ON THE CROSS JESUS
SAID, 'MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAST
00:49:08.71\00:49:11.51
THOU FORSAKEN ME?' THE
LESSON IS THIS: THE SILENCE
00:49:11.55\00:49:14.62
OF GOD IS THERE
TO TEST OUR FAITH.
00:49:14.65\00:49:19.32
DON'T GET DISCOURAGED IF YOU'RE
PRAYING ABOUT SOMETHING AND IT
00:49:19.35\00:49:22.89
SEEMS THAT NOTHING IS
HAPPENING. JUST KEEP PRAYING.
00:49:22.92\00:49:27.13
AND THIS WOMAN WAS VERY
PERSISTENT IN HER REQUEST.
00:49:27.20\00:49:30.67
AFTER ALL, SHE WAS ASKING FOR
HER DAUGHTER AND JESUS WAS HER
00:49:30.70\00:49:34.64
LAST HOPE. AND SO
SHE WAS PERSISTENT - SHE
00:49:34.67\00:49:37.91
KEPT ASKING AND
ASKING AND ASKING.
00:49:37.94\00:49:39.71
THERE'S AN EXAMPLE FOR US,
ESPECIALLY AS PARENTS, DON'T
00:49:39.74\00:49:42.88
GIVE UP ASKING FOR
YOUR CHILDREN, AMEN?
00:49:42.91\00:49:45.55
JUST KEEP ASKING - KEEP ASKING.
THE NEXT PART OF THE VERSE SAYS
00:49:45.58\00:49:50.39
THE DISCIPLES CAME TO JESUS
AND THEY SAID, 'SEND HER AWAY
00:49:50.42\00:49:55.12
BECAUSE SHE'S BOTHERING US.'
MATTER OF FACT, THEY LOOK AT
00:49:55.16\00:49:57.63
JESUS AND IT LOOKS AS
THOUGH JESUS IS IGNORING HER.
00:49:57.66\00:49:59.46
THE DISCIPLES
THOUGHT, 'JUST SEND HER AWAY.
00:49:59.49\00:50:01.96
SHE'S IRRITATING US.' HAVE
YOU EVER BEEN DISCOURAGED BY
00:50:02.00\00:50:05.10
CHRISTIANS - BY
THE DISCIPLES OF JESUS?
00:50:05.13\00:50:09.34
WHEN THEY DON'T RESPOND THE
WAY THAT YOU THINK THEY SHOULD
00:50:09.37\00:50:12.47
RESPOND? SURE. WE'VE
ALL EXPERIENCED THAT.
00:50:12.51\00:50:15.44
SOMETIMES THOSE WHO ARE THE
CLOSEST TO US PROVE TO BE SOME
00:50:15.48\00:50:19.81
OF OUR GREATEST DISCOURAGEMENTS.
JESUS WAS DESERTED BY HIS
00:50:19.85\00:50:24.62
DISCIPLES. DON'T
LOOK AT PEOPLE - EVEN
00:50:24.65\00:50:28.26
FELLOW CHURCH MEMBERS - DON'T
ALLOW THEM TO DISCOURAGE YOU.
00:50:28.29\00:50:31.16
KEEP YOUR REQUESTS
BEFORE GOD. KEEP ASKING.
00:50:31.19\00:50:34.60
OTHERS ARE SOMETIMES
THERE TO TEST OUR FAITH.
00:50:34.63\00:50:38.40
AND THEN VERSE 24, "BUT HE
ANSWERED AND SAID, 'I WAS NOT
00:50:38.43\00:50:42.34
SENT EXCEPT TO THE LOST SHEEP OF
THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL.'" AND THEN,
00:50:42.37\00:50:47.58
VERSE 25, "THEN SHE CAME
AND WORSHIPED HIM, SAYING,
00:50:47.61\00:50:51.38
'LORD, HELP ME!'" HER
CIRCUMSTANCES WERE NOT
00:50:51.41\00:50:56.12
FAVORABLE, FOR
SHE WAS NOT A JEW.
00:50:56.15\00:50:58.75
IT LOOKED AS THOUGH
JESUS WASN'T LISTENING.
00:50:58.79\00:51:02.52
EVEN THE DISCIPLES WERE TRYING
TO TELL HER TO GO AWAY AND ALL
00:51:02.56\00:51:07.13
SHE HAD LEFT WAS SIMPLY CASTING
HERSELF ON THE MERCY OF JESUS.
00:51:07.20\00:51:12.17
SHE COMES AND SHE WORSHIPS AND
SAYS, 'LORD, PLEASE HELP ME.'
00:51:12.20\00:51:16.34
ONE OF THE MOST COMMON PHRASES
THAT YOU READ ABOUT IN THE BOOK
00:51:16.37\00:51:19.34
OF PSALMS IS THE PHRASE, 'HIS
MERCY ENDURES FOREVER.' WHEN YOU
00:51:19.37\00:51:23.71
HAVE NOTHING THAT YOU CAN
PRESENT TO GOD, JUST PRESENT HIS
00:51:23.75\00:51:28.72
MERCY BACK TO GOD. ASK FOR
MERCY. HE LOVES US TO COME TO
00:51:28.75\00:51:32.82
HIM JUST THE WAY THAT WE
ARE AND WE CAN PLEAD HIS MERCY.
00:51:32.85\00:51:36.12
VERSE 26, "BUT HE ANSWERED AND
SAID, (JESUS SAID) 'IT IS NOT
00:51:36.16\00:51:39.96
GOOD TO TAKE THE CHILDREN'S
BREAD AND THROW IT TO THE LITTLE
00:51:40.00\00:51:43.16
DOGS.'" NOW, NOTICE HER RESPONSE
- VERSE 27 - "AND SHE SAID,
00:51:43.20\00:51:47.24
'YES, LORD, YET EVEN THE LITTLE
DOGS EAT THE CRUMBS WHICH FALL
00:51:47.27\00:51:51.74
FROM THEIR MASTER'S TABLE.'"
WHAT AN INCREDIBLE RESPONSE.
00:51:51.77\00:51:56.34
SHE SAID, 'YES, LORD, IT'S TRUE,
I'M NOT DESERVING OF THE BEST,
00:51:56.38\00:52:00.38
BUT LORD, I'LL TAKE JUST THAT
WHICH FALLS FROM THE TABLE.' OH,
00:52:00.42\00:52:04.82
BY THE WAY, SHE'S ALSO
ACKNOWLEDGING THAT EVEN THE DOGS
00:52:04.85\00:52:07.42
IN THE MASTER'S HOUSE ARE
UNDER THE CARE OF THE MASTER.
00:52:07.46\00:52:11.29
YES, JESUS HAD COME FOR THE
JEWS, BUT THE WHOLE WORLD WAS
00:52:11.33\00:52:14.60
UNDER HIS CARE. AND
SHE ACKNOWLEDGED THAT.
00:52:14.63\00:52:18.13
SHE SAID, 'LORD, YOU ARE OUR
MASTER TOO AND WE DON'T DESERVE
00:52:18.17\00:52:21.97
THE BEST PORTION, BUT WE'LL TAKE
THE CRUMBS THAT COME OUR WAY.'
00:52:22.00\00:52:26.27
AND JESUS, AGAIN,
MARVELED AT HER FAITH.
00:52:26.31\00:52:29.01
IF YOU LOOK IN VERSE 28, "THEN
JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID TO HER,
00:52:29.04\00:52:32.41
'O WOMAN, GREAT IS YOUR
FAITH!'" - HE DIDN'T SAY THIS
00:52:32.45\00:52:35.88
TO MANY OF THE JEWS. HE
SAID THIS WITH REFERENCE TO
00:52:35.92\00:52:38.55
THE CENTURION, BUT HE
DIDN'T SAY THIS TO THE JEWS.
00:52:38.59\00:52:41.36
THEY WERE THE ONES
THAT HAD ALL THE BLESSINGS.
00:52:41.39\00:52:43.09
AND YET, THIS NON-JEW
RECOGNIZED JESUS AS A SAVIOR.
00:52:43.12\00:52:47.03
"LET IT BE TO YOU AS YOU
DESIRE.'" AND THE BIBLE SAYS,
00:52:47.10\00:52:50.67
"AND HER DAUGHTER WAS
HEALED FROM THAT VERY HOUR."
00:52:50.70\00:52:54.77
SHE TRUSTED IN THE
POWER OF THE WORD OF GOD.
00:52:54.80\00:52:57.54
SHE DIDN'T GIVE
UP WITH HER REQUESTS.
00:52:57.57\00:52:59.61
SHE KEPT PRESSING INTO THE
THRONE OF GOD AND GOD HEARD AND
00:52:59.64\00:53:02.88
ANSWERED HER REQUEST.
WHAT A WONDERFUL STORY THAT
00:53:02.91\00:53:06.48
ENCOURAGES US TO KEEP ASKING
- KEEP RELYING UPON GOD'S MERCY.
00:53:06.51\00:53:11.19
DON'T LOOK TO YOUR OWN GOODNESS
BUT TRUST IN THE GOODNESS OF
00:53:11.22\00:53:14.16
JESUS. IN THE
BOOK DESIRE OF AGES ON
00:53:14.19\00:53:17.33
PAGE 401, WE HAVE A COMMENTARY
ON THE STORY THAT WE JUST LOOKED
00:53:17.36\00:53:20.56
AT. LET ME READ IT. IT
SAYS, "THE SAVIOR IS SATISFIED."
00:53:20.60\00:53:24.37
THAT'S AFTER THIS EXCHANGE,
THE WOMAN IS PERSISTENT.
00:53:24.40\00:53:27.40
"HE HAS TESTED HER FAITH IN HIM.
BY HIS DEALINGS WITH HER, HE HAS
00:53:27.44\00:53:32.14
SHOWN THAT SHE, WHO HAD
BEEN REGARDED AS AN OUTCAST FROM
00:53:32.17\00:53:35.58
ISRAEL, IS NO LONGER AN ALIEN,
BUT A CHILD IN GOD'S HOUSEHOLD.
00:53:35.61\00:53:40.28
AND, AS A CHILD, IT IS
HER PRIVILEGE TO SHARE IN THE
00:53:40.32\00:53:42.45
FATHER'S GIFTS.
CHRIST NOW GRANTS HER REQUEST
00:53:42.48\00:53:46.25
AND FINISHES THE
LESSON TO HIS DISCIPLES."
00:53:46.29\00:53:49.46
SO NOT ONLY WAS THIS AN
IMPORTANT LESSON TO THE WOMAN
00:53:49.49\00:53:52.63
HERSELF, BUT IT WAS ALSO
AN IMPORTANT LESSON TO THE
00:53:52.66\00:53:54.93
DISCIPLES - THAT THEY WERE TO
REALIZE THAT JESUS WOULD COME,
00:53:54.96\00:53:59.20
NOT JUST FOR THEM, BUT
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00:53:59.23\00:54:03.61
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00:54:03.64\00:54:06.31
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