Tonight, our subject is entitled
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"Living Water."
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The Bible says that when
you and I come to Christ,
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that we become streams
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of living water,
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then out of us flows
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a river of living water.
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And tonight,
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Michael Harris is
going to sing for us
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that beautiful song, I heard,
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"There is a river."
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There
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Is a river
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And it flows
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From deep within
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There
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Is a fountain
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That frees the soul
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From sin
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Come
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To this water
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There is a vast supply
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There
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Is a river
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That never shall run dry
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One day
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A thirsty woman
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She was drawing
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From the well
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You see her life was ruined
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And wasted
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And her soul
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Was bound for hell
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Oh, but then
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She met the master
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And He told her
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Of her sin
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He said if you drink
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Of this water
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You'll never
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Thirst Again
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There
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Is a river
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And it flows
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From deep Within
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There is a fountain
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That frees the soul from sin
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Come
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To this water
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There is a vast supply
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There
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Is a river
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That never shall
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Run dry
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Gracious Father, tonight,
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we're thankful
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that the water of
life is given to us
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as a river that
never will run dry.
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Lord, help us this evening
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to drink
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and to drink deeply
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of the water of life.
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Give us ears to hear,
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hearts that are open,
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minds that are clear
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that we may accept Your Word,
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for this we pray in
Christ's name, amen.
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Once, a year,
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the Jewish people made their way
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from all over Israel.
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They're coming up to Jerusalem,
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and they're coming to
Jerusalem for the Feast
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of the Tabernacles.
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It's also
referred to in scripture
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as the Feast of Booze.
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And so from every
little village and hamlet,
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all across Israel,
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little groups
are making their way
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towards Jerusalem.
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This is a very festive time,
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because the climate
at this time of the year
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is just about ideal.
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And they're gonna
come to Jerusalem.
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Everybody, everybody is
gonna move out of their house,
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and they're
gonna in the backyard
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or out in the vacant field,
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maybe even up on
top of the house,
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they're gonna
build a little tabernacle
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or a little booth.
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And they're gonna
move into this tabernacle,
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and they're gonna
live in it for a week.
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It's to remind
them of the 40 years
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that their forefathers
spend in the wilderness.
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This is a very,
very special time
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because they can visit
with relatives and friends,
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and just have a
good time visiting.
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But every morning,
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they make their way
up the mountain side
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to the temple.
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And there in the
courtyard of the temple,
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they worship God
and they sing songs,
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and they spend time,
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they're praising the Lord
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and reading the
scripture together,
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and then during the day
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they visit with
friends and family.
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But when they come down
to the last day of this feast
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early that morning,
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they all gather there in
the courtyard of the temple.
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And a couple priests
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take two large jugs and
set them on their shoulder.
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And then those
priests begin to march
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around the courtyard.
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And other priests begin
to following behind them,
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and then the people
begin to march with them.
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And they march
around the courtyard
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as they sing songs
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and as they play
musical instruments,
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and they march
around the courtyard.
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And then
outside the temple gate,
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down through the
streets of Jerusalem,
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outside the gates of
the city of Jerusalem,
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and down the hillside
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till they come to a brook
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called Kidron.
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And there those two priests
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now take those two large jugs,
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and they dip them into the brook
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and fill them with water,
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place them on their shoulder,
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and they begin to make their way
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back up the hillside,
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singing songs
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and repeating scripture together
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until they've arrived
in the courtyard again.
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Now one of those priest
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takes one of those jugs of water
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and other priests
takes a jug of wine
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and they make
their way up the stairway
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of the altar of sacrifice.
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And they walk right
out to the very front of it
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and there in the front
of it is a large funnel
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and they begin to pour
water and wine into that funnel.
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Just at that moment,
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while they're pouring the water
and the wine into that funnel,
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someone out in the crowd
of people begin to shout.
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And you find his words
recorded in the Book of John.
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John 7:37,
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and it says, "On the last day,
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that great day of the feast,
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Jesus stood and cried out,
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saying, 'If anyone thirst,
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let him come to me and drink.'"
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You can just imagine,
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here that whole courtyard
is just crowded with people.
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And Jesus is shouting
out across that whole crowd,
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if anybody's thirsty,
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let him come unto me and drink.
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Marvelous promise that
He gives to you and me.
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"He who believes in Me,
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as the scripture has said,
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out of his heart will
flow rivers of living water."
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So it says that
out of you and me
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will flow
rivers of living water,
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marvelous promise that
God gives to each one of us.
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Jesus and His disciples,
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they have left Israel.
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They've gone over into Samaria.
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They're approaching a
city by the name of Sychar.
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Jesus has sent the
disciples into town
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to buy something to eat.
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And He has gone over
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and had a seat
beside Jacob's well.
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A woman of Samaria
from the city of Sychar
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has come to the
well to draw water.
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As she approaches the well,
she sees Jesus sitting there,
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but she doesn't pay
any attention to Him.
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You see, Jesus is a
Jew, and she's a Samaritan.
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And the scripture
puts it very politely,
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it says that
they had no dealings.
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That's what the scripture says.
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You want me to
tell you how it was.
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Well, if you were a Jew,
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and you were eating,
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and a Samaritan walk by,
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and his shadow
fell on your food,
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you turn the plate upside down.
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So she didn't expect
Jesus to speak to her.
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But Jesus knew
that in the Middle East,
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there's a request
that you cannot refuse
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doesn't make any difference
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how much you dislike the person,
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how much they
might be your enemy.
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You cannot refuse
request for a drink of water.
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And so Jesus said to
her, "Give me a drink."
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And she
couldn't understand that.
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She said, "How is
it that you being a Jew
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would ask me a
Samaritan for a drink of water?"
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And Jesus said, "If
you knew who was asking,
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you would have asked of Him,
and He would have given you."
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Listen.
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"And Jesus
answered and said to her,
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'If you knew the gift of God,
and who it is who says to you,
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'Give me a drink,' you
would have asked of Him,
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and He would have
given you living water.'"
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Oh, He said, if
you just knew that
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you would have asked of Him,
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and He would have
given you living water.
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It's a promise.
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Over and over in this book,
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God gives you and I
an invitation to come
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and drink and drink
of the water of life.
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And it says that
out of us will flow
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rivers of living water,
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Isaiah, Isaiah 55:1.
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"Ho! Everyone who
thirsts, come to the waters,
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you who have no
money, come buy and eat.
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Yes, come, buy wine
and milk without money
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and without price."
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So it says come,
come to the waters.
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What is that
going to do for you?
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Revelation 22:17,
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"And the Spirit
and the bride say,
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'Come!'
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And let him who
hears say, 'Come!'
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And let him who thirsts come.
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Whoever desires, let him
take the water of life freely."
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Totally free, dear friends,
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there's no other way
tonight that you can get it.
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It's free.
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You understand what I mean?
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It's free.
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You see, money can't buy it.
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Wisdom can't impart it.
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Impossible.
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Merit will not procure it.
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The only way you can receive it
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is by what?
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Do you know?
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The only way you can
get it is by accepting it.
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You can't buy,
you can't work for it.
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It is given to you
totally and completely free.
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It's given on
the basis of grace.
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And God offers to you and says,
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"Come, come to me
and I will give you
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the water of life."
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And out of you will
flow rivers of living water.
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This woman, she
couldn't understand this.
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She couldn't understand it.
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She said, "You
don't have a rope.
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You don't have
anything to draw with."
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What do you mean?
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You would give me water of life.
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Jesus answered and said to her,
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"Whoever drinks of this
water will thirst again."
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"Whoever drinks of this
water will thirst again."
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Oh, I find so many people today
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that are trying to
drink the water of this life
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and find satisfaction.
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Flying on the
plane the other day,
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picked up a magazine
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and was thumbing
through the magazine.
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And here was a full
page ad in the magazine.
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And it said, find
happiness, lay linoleum.
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Is that the way
you find happiness?
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Lay linoleum?
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We get the idea
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that satisfaction in life
can be found in these things.
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I have people
say, Oh, Brother Cox,
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if I just had a
better job, I'd be happy.
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No, you wouldn't.
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That didn't what
produces happiness.
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I have people say,
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"Well, well, if I
just made more money,
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I'd be happy."
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No, you wouldn't.
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That isn't what
produces happiness.
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An individual say, "Well,
if my spouse just loved me,
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I'd be happy."
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No, you won't.
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That isn't what makes happiness.
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He that drinks of this
water shall thirst again.
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You see, that's what happens.
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The waters of this
life, dear friends,
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only take place
when the showers come.
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When the shower
comes, the pond overflows.
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But you let the
heat of hard times come
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and that water goes dry.
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It's only the well.
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Only the well that has
water in winter and summer.
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You see, he that
drinks of the water
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that I shall give
him shall never thirst.
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Listen.
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Jesus promises and says,
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"Whoever drinks of the
water that I shall give him
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shall never thirst.
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But the water
that I shall give him
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will become in him
a fountain of water
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springing up into
everlasting life."
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Oh, He just says,
if you come to me,
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the water that I will
give you will come in you.
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And, dear
friends, please understand,
00:17:02.85\00:17:05.55
it doesn't say
it will be from you.
00:17:05.59\00:17:09.32
It doesn't say it
will be around you.
00:17:09.36\00:17:11.96
It doesn't say it
will be about you.
00:17:11.99\00:17:14.46
It says it will be in you
00:17:14.50\00:17:18.00
springing up
unto everlasting life.
00:17:18.03\00:17:21.87
You see, when you
and I drink water,
00:17:21.90\00:17:25.34
it goes into our
system, it goes into our blood,
00:17:25.37\00:17:28.14
it becomes part of our blood.
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It infuses every
cell of our body.
00:17:29.88\00:17:34.55
So when I come to Christ,
00:17:34.58\00:17:36.45
and I drink of
the water of life,
00:17:36.48\00:17:38.45
it becomes part of me.
00:17:38.49\00:17:40.66
It infuses every
part of our body.
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You see, folks,
00:17:45.03\00:17:50.07
I don't hear music.
00:17:50.10\00:17:53.03
I don't feel music.
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And that's just
not part of my being,
00:17:57.44\00:17:59.77
it's just not there.
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You could give me
music lessons for 10 years,
00:18:02.51\00:18:05.91
and I still wouldn't
ever feel it or anything.
00:18:05.95\00:18:09.25
It just not part of me.
00:18:09.28\00:18:11.62
When I was in school,
00:18:11.65\00:18:12.99
I had to take a
class called conducting.
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I was in college.
00:18:15.26\00:18:16.93
And I will never forget,
00:18:16.96\00:18:18.79
the teacher had a
girl sat down at the piano,
00:18:18.83\00:18:22.06
and she had her play
a piece and she said,
00:18:22.10\00:18:24.17
when she got through, she said,
00:18:24.20\00:18:25.60
"Tell me, what time
was that played in?"
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I said, "You've got to be crazy.
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What are you talking about?
00:18:29.14\00:18:30.47
I don't know what
time that was played in.
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It just not in my being."
00:18:32.61\00:18:36.24
But let me tell you something.
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These people like Donna Klein,
00:18:38.38\00:18:41.22
Myrna Haynes, Adrian Westney,
00:18:41.25\00:18:45.75
Michael Harris,
it's part of them.
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They feel it.
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It's in their inmost being.
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That's what I'm talking about.
00:18:53.76\00:18:55.33
This is what
Christ is talking about
00:18:55.36\00:18:57.60
when you drink
the water of life,
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it becomes part of you.
00:18:59.83\00:19:01.80
It's in your inmost being.
00:19:01.84\00:19:04.81
And, dear friends, if
it is not, if it is not,
00:19:04.84\00:19:09.38
then it is
totally external religion.
00:19:09.41\00:19:14.88
You see, music, I'm sorry,
00:19:14.92\00:19:17.75
will always be external with me
00:19:17.79\00:19:21.62
'cause it's just not in me.
00:19:21.66\00:19:23.63
God didn't give that to me.
00:19:23.66\00:19:25.43
But, dear friend, He did
give me the water of life
00:19:25.46\00:19:28.83
and He gives to each one
of you the water of life.
00:19:28.86\00:19:31.43
And tonight, if it is
not that to you tonight,
00:19:31.47\00:19:35.14
then your religion is external.
00:19:35.17\00:19:37.97
And you're missing
the joy that's there,
00:19:38.01\00:19:40.84
you're missing
what it's all about.
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When I grew up as a boy,
we had a phrase that we said,
00:19:43.51\00:19:48.38
we talked about people
00:19:48.42\00:19:49.75
putting on their
Sunday go to meeting hats.
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You know what I'm talking about?
00:19:53.56\00:19:55.22
Put on their
Sunday go to meeting hats
00:19:55.26\00:19:57.06
and they go to church, see,
00:19:57.09\00:20:00.40
but it's all external.
00:20:00.43\00:20:02.46
'Cause when Sunday was passed,
00:20:02.50\00:20:03.90
well then they
put on their work hat.
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There was no difference.
00:20:06.10\00:20:07.44
You see, they changed.
00:20:07.47\00:20:10.07
They didn't, it wasn't internal,
00:20:10.11\00:20:12.27
it wasn't part of their being.
00:20:12.31\00:20:14.44
That's what I'm
talking about tonight.
00:20:14.48\00:20:16.41
This is what
Christ is talking about
00:20:16.44\00:20:19.65
in the Book of Jeremiah.
00:20:19.68\00:20:22.08
He talks about this very thing.
00:20:22.12\00:20:25.35
Says here in Jeremiah 2:13,
00:20:25.39\00:20:28.42
"For my people
have committed," what?
00:20:28.46\00:20:31.73
"Two evils."
00:20:31.76\00:20:33.09
Let's see what
those two evils are.
00:20:33.13\00:20:34.80
"They have forsaken Me,
the fountain of living water,
00:20:34.83\00:20:40.04
hewn themselves cisterns,
00:20:40.07\00:20:41.64
broken cisterns
that can hold no water."
00:20:41.67\00:20:44.84
So He said one thing,
"They have forsaken Me,
00:20:44.87\00:20:48.34
the fountain of living water."
00:20:48.38\00:20:50.75
You see, I talked to
people who go to church,
00:20:50.78\00:20:54.15
who keep people who
claim to be Christians,
00:20:54.18\00:20:57.39
and they say to me,
00:20:57.42\00:20:58.75
"Oh, Brother Cox, I'm so busy.
00:20:58.79\00:21:01.86
I'm so busy. I
don't have time to pray."
00:21:01.89\00:21:07.20
Let me tell you something.
00:21:07.23\00:21:09.06
If you're so busy, you
don't have time to pray,
00:21:09.10\00:21:12.23
you're too busy.
00:21:12.27\00:21:16.34
Okay?
00:21:16.37\00:21:17.71
If you don't have time
to pray, you're too busy.
00:21:17.74\00:21:22.21
I don't care what you do.
00:21:22.24\00:21:24.28
I don't care what your work is.
00:21:24.31\00:21:26.82
I don't care if
you're a preacher.
00:21:26.85\00:21:29.02
I don't care if you're an
elder or a deacon in the church.
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If you don't have time to pray,
00:21:33.29\00:21:35.42
you're too busy.
00:21:35.46\00:21:39.73
It's absolutely necessary
if you are going to understand
00:21:39.76\00:21:43.10
what Jesus Christ
will do in your life.
00:21:43.13\00:21:46.00
You must take time to pray.
00:21:46.03\00:21:49.87
I have people say,
"Well, Brother Cox,
00:21:49.90\00:21:52.54
I don't have time
to read God's Word."
00:21:52.57\00:21:57.68
You have time to eat, don't you?
00:21:57.71\00:22:00.82
I don't see any of you
starving to death out there.
00:22:00.85\00:22:05.19
If you have time to
eat, then dear friends,
00:22:05.22\00:22:07.69
you need to take
time to eat spiritually.
00:22:07.72\00:22:11.86
You put it in your schedule.
00:22:11.89\00:22:13.23
You see, I'm one
of these individuals
00:22:13.26\00:22:15.76
that I cannot do
something on a haphazard basis.
00:22:15.80\00:22:21.30
I've got to know
exactly what I'm gonna do
00:22:21.34\00:22:24.74
when it comes to God's Word.
00:22:24.77\00:22:26.11
I've got to know what
I'm gonna do tomorrow.
00:22:26.14\00:22:28.44
I got to know what
I'm gonna do the next day.
00:22:28.48\00:22:30.81
I've got to know
00:22:30.85\00:22:32.18
what my devotional
life is the end of the year.
00:22:32.21\00:22:34.48
So before next year starts,
00:22:34.52\00:22:36.42
I will plan that whole thing out
00:22:36.45\00:22:38.19
and I will know
exactly what I'm gonna read.
00:22:38.22\00:22:40.99
I will know exactly
because I am going to eat,
00:22:41.02\00:22:44.99
I'm gonna feast on
God's Word every day.
00:22:45.03\00:22:50.07
And if you want your
spiritual experience to grow,
00:22:50.10\00:22:53.67
you got to spend some
time in the Word of God.
00:22:53.70\00:22:57.77
If you are not praying,
00:22:57.81\00:22:59.87
if you are not spending
time in the Word of God,
00:22:59.91\00:23:03.11
then dear friend,
your religion is external.
00:23:03.14\00:23:08.22
You understand me?
00:23:08.25\00:23:09.58
That is external religion.
00:23:09.62\00:23:12.29
And that's what
he's talking about here.
00:23:12.32\00:23:14.82
They have forsaken Me,
the fountain of living water.
00:23:14.86\00:23:20.70
But he goes on talks about it.
00:23:20.73\00:23:22.86
Jesus makes some
comparisons to it
00:23:22.90\00:23:24.87
here in Matthew 13:22.
00:23:24.90\00:23:27.40
"Now he who received
seed among the thorns
00:23:27.44\00:23:31.71
is He who hears the word..."
00:23:31.74\00:23:34.51
Okay, you person hears the word,
00:23:34.54\00:23:37.48
"And the cares of this world..."
00:23:37.51\00:23:40.85
What is that?
00:23:40.88\00:23:42.98
What's the cares of this world?
00:23:43.02\00:23:45.75
Well, the cares of this
world are clothing and food.
00:23:45.79\00:23:50.36
That's what cares
of this world are.
00:23:50.39\00:23:52.93
Okay, shelter.
00:23:52.96\00:23:54.30
Those are all
cares of this world.
00:23:54.33\00:23:56.26
"The cares of this world
00:23:56.30\00:23:58.67
and the deceitfulness
of riches choke the..."
00:23:58.70\00:24:04.44
What chokes the word?
00:24:04.47\00:24:07.08
Huh? What chokes the word?
00:24:07.11\00:24:09.64
Cares of this world,
deceitfulness of riches.
00:24:09.68\00:24:13.11
That's what
chokes the Word of God.
00:24:13.15\00:24:18.09
And, dear
friends, I hope tonight,
00:24:18.12\00:24:20.66
that you're not
letting those things keep you
00:24:20.69\00:24:23.12
from spending time
in the Word of God.
00:24:23.16\00:24:27.40
I can assure you,
00:24:27.43\00:24:29.53
I can tell you right now,
00:24:29.56\00:24:31.70
you're much better off
00:24:31.73\00:24:33.97
if you spend time with the Lord.
00:24:34.00\00:24:37.14
Much better off
00:24:37.17\00:24:39.64
and he becomes what?
00:24:39.67\00:24:42.14
Unfruitful.
00:24:42.18\00:24:43.71
So dear friends, take time.
00:24:43.75\00:24:46.18
The Bible speaks
about these people
00:24:46.21\00:24:47.85
whose their
religion is totally external.
00:24:47.88\00:24:51.02
And it makes some comparison
of them like in Jude here.
00:24:51.05\00:24:54.56
Jude 1:12, it says,
00:24:54.59\00:24:56.89
"They are clouds without water,
00:24:56.93\00:25:01.46
carried about by every winds,
00:25:01.50\00:25:03.63
late autumn trees without fruit,
00:25:03.67\00:25:05.50
twice dead,
pulled out by the roots."
00:25:05.53\00:25:08.97
I don't know here in Chicago,
00:25:09.00\00:25:10.94
do you have
clouds without water?
00:25:10.97\00:25:14.31
You ever have that?
00:25:14.34\00:25:15.68
California we have
clouds without water.
00:25:15.71\00:25:18.01
You know,
00:25:18.05\00:25:19.38
get up in the morning here
some great big beautiful clouds
00:25:19.41\00:25:21.72
and sun comes out
00:25:21.75\00:25:23.18
and they just all kind of dry up
00:25:23.22\00:25:24.55
and disappear.
00:25:24.59\00:25:26.15
Clouds without water
00:25:26.19\00:25:27.99
says that's the
way you and I are.
00:25:28.02\00:25:30.13
If you're not
spending time in God's Word,
00:25:30.16\00:25:32.26
if you're not
spending time in prayer.
00:25:32.29\00:25:34.60
It says, "For you shall
be as the terebinth tree,"
00:25:34.63\00:25:38.63
that's a tree,
00:25:38.67\00:25:40.00
"whose leaf fades,
00:25:40.04\00:25:41.37
and as a garden
that has no water."
00:25:41.40\00:25:46.21
You know, what a
gardens like without water.
00:25:46.24\00:25:50.08
Boy, Oklahoma.
00:25:50.11\00:25:52.11
What was it?
00:25:52.15\00:25:53.48
The last of March,
00:25:53.52\00:25:54.85
first of April
00:25:54.88\00:25:56.25
that we planted the garden,
00:25:56.28\00:25:58.62
plowed the ground,
planted the garden.
00:25:58.65\00:26:01.86
April rains came,
00:26:01.89\00:26:04.83
garden begin to come up.
00:26:04.86\00:26:06.80
It's vibrant.
00:26:06.83\00:26:08.20
It's green.
00:26:08.23\00:26:09.56
It's growing.
00:26:09.60\00:26:10.93
And usually by...
00:26:10.97\00:26:12.73
Oh, in May sometime
00:26:12.77\00:26:14.14
we're eating some
things from the garden.
00:26:14.17\00:26:16.81
It still is the rains
and it's nice and green
00:26:16.84\00:26:20.28
and we're eating from it.
00:26:20.31\00:26:23.91
End of May,
00:26:23.95\00:26:26.85
June the garden is
really bearing now,
00:26:26.88\00:26:29.85
all of it.
00:26:29.88\00:26:31.49
But we hit July
00:26:31.52\00:26:33.76
and you can begin to see
around the edges of the garden
00:26:33.79\00:26:36.32
a little bit of brown.
00:26:36.36\00:26:37.69
August comes, there is no rain.
00:26:40.96\00:26:45.27
No rain in August
00:26:45.30\00:26:47.04
and the old
garden just dries up.
00:26:47.07\00:26:50.67
Is that way your
Christian experience is?
00:26:50.71\00:26:53.41
Like a garden without water dry.
00:26:56.44\00:27:00.05
Dry as the hills of Gilboa.
00:27:00.08\00:27:05.22
That's the way
he's talking about,
00:27:05.25\00:27:06.76
that's external religion.
00:27:06.79\00:27:09.89
That's what I'm talking about.
00:27:09.92\00:27:11.26
It's when I don't
spend time with the Lord.
00:27:11.29\00:27:14.50
He says that these people,
00:27:14.53\00:27:17.83
"They hewn themselves cisterns,
00:27:17.87\00:27:20.27
broken cisterns
that can hold no water."
00:27:20.30\00:27:24.77
Broken cisterns
that hold no water.
00:27:24.81\00:27:27.71
Jesus talked about these
type of people in His day.
00:27:27.74\00:27:31.01
Listen,
00:27:31.05\00:27:32.38
"Woe to you, Scribes and
Pharisees, and hypocrites!
00:27:32.41\00:27:35.42
For you are like
whitewashed tombs
00:27:35.45\00:27:39.62
which indeed appear
beautiful outwardly."
00:27:39.65\00:27:44.46
You ever been to Jerusalem,
you'll understand what I mean?
00:27:44.49\00:27:48.13
Whitewashed tombs,
they have tombs there,
00:27:48.16\00:27:50.17
they whitewashed them all.
00:27:50.20\00:27:51.93
Whitewashed tombs,
00:27:51.97\00:27:53.30
"but inside are full of
00:27:53.34\00:27:56.14
dead men's bones and
all and cleanliness."
00:27:56.17\00:27:59.97
You see,
00:28:00.01\00:28:02.44
if you're going to church,
00:28:02.48\00:28:06.55
but you don't have
any joy in your heart.
00:28:06.58\00:28:10.52
If you're going to
church out of habit.
00:28:10.55\00:28:15.82
If you're going to
church just because
00:28:15.86\00:28:19.96
its tradition
00:28:20.00\00:28:22.93
and your
relationship with Jesus Christ
00:28:22.96\00:28:26.50
is totally lacking,
00:28:26.53\00:28:29.20
then dear friend,
you're like a whitewashed tomb
00:28:29.24\00:28:33.98
full of dead man's bones.
00:28:34.01\00:28:37.68
"Even so you
also outwardly appear
00:28:37.71\00:28:41.98
righteous to man
00:28:42.02\00:28:45.79
but inside you
are full of hypocrisy
00:28:45.82\00:28:48.76
and lawlessness."
00:28:48.79\00:28:51.29
This is what
Jesus talking about.
00:28:51.33\00:28:52.83
You see, this is why He
said that they are cisterns,
00:28:52.86\00:28:56.30
broken cisterns
that can hold no water
00:28:56.33\00:28:59.07
'cause they don't take any time
00:28:59.10\00:29:01.00
to spend with the
Lord Jesus Christ.
00:29:01.04\00:29:05.14
Talked about one
of the Pharisees,
00:29:05.17\00:29:06.74
he told the story
about this Pharisee,
00:29:06.78\00:29:10.21
who went down
the temple to pray.
00:29:10.25\00:29:13.11
"The Pharisee stood and
prayed thus within himself,
00:29:13.15\00:29:16.99
God, I thank you
00:29:17.02\00:29:18.89
that I am not like other men,
00:29:18.92\00:29:24.06
extortioners,
unjust, adulterers,
00:29:24.09\00:29:27.30
or even as this,"
00:29:27.33\00:29:29.76
say over on the side
00:29:29.80\00:29:31.43
there was a
poor, "tax collector."
00:29:31.47\00:29:35.10
He may not have been poor,
00:29:35.14\00:29:36.47
he may have been rich
tax collector, I don't know.
00:29:36.50\00:29:38.97
But he was over there
and this Pharisee said,
00:29:39.01\00:29:42.14
"Sure glad I'm not like him."
00:29:42.18\00:29:44.28
"I fast twice every week.
00:29:48.62\00:29:52.65
I give tithes of
all that I possess."
00:29:52.69\00:29:58.36
If any of you here tonight,
00:29:58.39\00:30:00.63
think for one moment
00:30:00.66\00:30:05.37
what you give
makes you righteous,
00:30:05.40\00:30:09.57
then dear friend,
your religion is external.
00:30:09.60\00:30:12.67
Sorry.
00:30:12.71\00:30:14.04
Said I'm not glad I'm
not like this tax collector.
00:30:18.35\00:30:22.75
But that tax collector
says just beat on his chest
00:30:22.78\00:30:26.35
and said, "God be
merciful to me a sinner."
00:30:26.39\00:30:32.33
And it says
00:30:32.36\00:30:33.83
that he went down
to his home justified.
00:30:33.86\00:30:37.97
You see, I'll never forget,
00:30:38.00\00:30:39.33
I was speaking to a
room full of fifth graders.
00:30:39.37\00:30:43.61
And I was trying
to explain to them
00:30:43.64\00:30:46.71
the grace of Jesus Christ
00:30:46.74\00:30:48.14
and what the Lord
Jesus Christ does for them.
00:30:48.18\00:30:51.08
And how that it was
a gift that Jesus gave
00:30:51.11\00:30:53.68
and how all they had
to do is just reach out
00:30:53.72\00:30:56.95
and accept
Jesus into their heart
00:30:56.99\00:30:58.72
and all that he
would do for them
00:30:58.75\00:31:00.46
and this little fifth
grade boy raised his hand.
00:31:00.49\00:31:04.69
He said, "Are you
trying to tell me that
00:31:04.73\00:31:06.19
all this stuff my
parents have been telling me
00:31:06.23\00:31:08.10
I've got to do is not true."
00:31:08.13\00:31:10.73
You talk about
a loaded question.
00:31:10.77\00:31:14.30
And I said, "Well, I don't know
00:31:14.34\00:31:15.67
what your parents
have been telling you.
00:31:15.70\00:31:18.04
But I'm telling you that
00:31:18.07\00:31:19.41
the only people
that are gonna be saved
00:31:19.44\00:31:22.11
is those that qualify."
00:31:22.14\00:31:25.41
And he got a
downcast look on his face.
00:31:25.45\00:31:28.58
And he said to me, "Okay,
00:31:28.62\00:31:30.05
what do I have
to do to qualify?"
00:31:30.09\00:31:33.19
And I said, "The only people
that qualify are sinners."
00:31:33.22\00:31:37.43
He smiled and he
said, "I qualify."
00:31:37.46\00:31:41.83
That's what I'm
trying to tell you tonight,
00:31:41.86\00:31:43.37
dear friend.
00:31:43.40\00:31:45.23
You see, it's the grace of God
00:31:45.27\00:31:47.74
that must come in
and fill your heart.
00:31:47.77\00:31:50.51
It's the grace of God
that must work in your life
00:31:50.54\00:31:52.71
and only as it
takes place that way,
00:31:52.74\00:31:55.08
will anything happen.
00:31:55.11\00:31:56.44
The children of Israel
couldn't understand this.
00:31:56.48\00:31:58.38
It was external watch.
00:31:58.41\00:32:00.52
Romans 9:31
00:32:00.55\00:32:02.78
"But Israel, pursuing
the law of righteousness,
00:32:02.82\00:32:05.32
has not attained to
the law of righteousness."
00:32:05.35\00:32:08.89
What were they pursuing?
00:32:08.92\00:32:11.66
They were pursuing
the law of righteousness.
00:32:11.69\00:32:14.56
And as a result what?
00:32:14.60\00:32:16.93
They weren't finding it.
00:32:16.97\00:32:19.83
"Why?
00:32:19.87\00:32:21.20
Because they did
not seek it by faith,
00:32:21.24\00:32:24.91
but as it were, by
the works of the law."
00:32:24.94\00:32:27.94
They said, "Oh, if I
do this, this and this,
00:32:27.98\00:32:30.61
I'm gonna make it."
00:32:30.65\00:32:31.98
No, you're not. No, you're not.
00:32:32.01\00:32:36.55
Let me tell you
right now, dear friend,
00:32:36.58\00:32:38.85
if you don't know Jesus
Christ, you've missed it.
00:32:38.89\00:32:43.59
You can pursue the
works of the law all day long.
00:32:43.63\00:32:47.86
But if you don't know Jesus,
00:32:47.90\00:32:51.17
you're not gonna make it
into the kingdom of heaven.
00:32:51.20\00:32:54.90
It's what it takes.
00:32:54.94\00:32:57.41
For they stumble at
the stumbling stone,
00:32:57.44\00:33:01.84
who was the stumbling stone?
00:33:01.88\00:33:04.38
Jesus Christ.
00:33:04.41\00:33:07.32
Now let me talk to you
just a little bit about
00:33:07.35\00:33:09.18
internal religion.
00:33:09.22\00:33:11.25
We've talked about external,
let's talk about internal.
00:33:11.29\00:33:15.59
What takes place, what happens?
00:33:15.62\00:33:19.89
"And being found in Him,
00:33:19.93\00:33:22.63
not having my
own righteousness,"
00:33:22.66\00:33:27.10
I don't have many folks.
00:33:27.14\00:33:29.64
I don't have any.
00:33:29.67\00:33:32.37
Bible makes that very clear,
00:33:32.41\00:33:33.81
my righteousness
is as filthy rags,
00:33:33.84\00:33:37.75
don't have any.
00:33:37.78\00:33:40.28
"Not having my
own righteousness,
00:33:40.32\00:33:41.95
which is from the law,
00:33:41.98\00:33:45.85
but that which is
through faith," what?
00:33:45.89\00:33:50.83
"Faith in Christ."
00:33:50.86\00:33:52.96
Yes, that's the way
it comes faith in Christ,
00:33:52.99\00:33:55.60
"the righteousness
which is from God by faith."
00:33:55.63\00:34:00.14
You see, I reached out
00:34:00.17\00:34:02.20
and I claim Jesus
Christ and His righteousness.
00:34:02.24\00:34:08.18
Then something begins to happen,
00:34:08.21\00:34:10.95
begins to take place.
00:34:10.98\00:34:12.68
Eternal, internal
religion takes place by faith.
00:34:12.71\00:34:17.95
That's the way you get
it, folks, is by faith.
00:34:17.99\00:34:20.56
Let me tell you something.
00:34:20.59\00:34:22.52
Quit. Quit.
00:34:22.56\00:34:24.76
Living lives that inefficient.
00:34:24.79\00:34:29.53
Quit living weak lives.
00:34:29.56\00:34:33.64
What do I mean?
00:34:33.67\00:34:35.00
Faith.
00:34:35.04\00:34:36.37
Faith requires that you
have something in your hand
00:34:36.40\00:34:38.51
that's bigger than
you can accomplish.
00:34:38.54\00:34:41.14
Move out in faith
and do something for God.
00:34:41.18\00:34:45.51
Take Him in His Word.
00:34:45.55\00:34:47.12
If His Word says, "This
is what I want you to do.
00:34:47.15\00:34:50.39
Then step out in
faith and say, "Okay, Lord,
00:34:50.42\00:34:53.36
I can do that
not of my strength,
00:34:53.39\00:34:55.46
not what I can do,
00:34:55.49\00:34:56.83
but what you can do in my life."
00:34:56.86\00:35:00.33
That's faith.
00:35:00.36\00:35:03.97
If you don't do it that way,
00:35:04.00\00:35:05.33
you're like a
garden without water.
00:35:05.37\00:35:08.27
But if you do it by faith,
00:35:08.30\00:35:10.61
this is what internal
religion will do for you.
00:35:10.64\00:35:13.27
Instead of being a
garden without water,
00:35:17.31\00:35:20.78
it says, "The Lord
will guide you continually,
00:35:20.82\00:35:23.75
and satisfy your
soul in drought,"
00:35:23.79\00:35:28.02
you see the well of
water has water during drought,
00:35:28.06\00:35:32.36
okay?
00:35:32.39\00:35:33.93
"Satisfy your soul in
drought, strengthen your bones,
00:35:33.96\00:35:38.20
you shall be
like a watered garden,
00:35:38.23\00:35:41.84
and like a spring of water,
00:35:41.87\00:35:43.20
whose waters do not fail."
00:35:43.24\00:35:47.58
Never fail.
00:35:47.61\00:35:48.94
Never will
00:35:48.98\00:35:50.55
'cause that's what the
Lord does for you and for me.
00:35:50.58\00:35:54.25
Internal religion must
be a work of the heart.
00:35:54.28\00:36:00.72
It's where it has to be.
00:36:00.76\00:36:02.19
It is not external, has
to be work of the heart.
00:36:02.22\00:36:08.36
"For he is not a Jew
00:36:08.40\00:36:10.47
who is one outwardly,
00:36:10.50\00:36:13.94
nor is circumcision that
which is outward in the flesh.
00:36:13.97\00:36:18.77
But he is a Jew
who is one inwardly,
00:36:18.81\00:36:22.81
and circumcision
is that of the heart."
00:36:22.84\00:36:27.62
Okay, that's internal.
00:36:27.65\00:36:30.89
So tonight,
00:36:30.92\00:36:32.25
and guess what I'm
trying to tell you.
00:36:32.29\00:36:35.72
If you've been going
to church all these years,
00:36:35.76\00:36:39.13
and it's been boring to you,
00:36:39.16\00:36:42.56
and you go to church
00:36:42.60\00:36:43.93
and you kind of
have to make yourself go,
00:36:43.97\00:36:46.63
well, then, dear
friend, the problem is,
00:36:46.67\00:36:49.37
you don't know Jesus.
00:36:49.40\00:36:51.74
Sorry.
00:36:51.77\00:36:53.31
You don't know Jesus.
00:36:53.34\00:36:55.94
Because if you know
Jesus, He changes that.
00:36:55.98\00:37:00.22
Jesus Christ is the one
that puts joy in your heart.
00:37:00.25\00:37:03.79
He puts a spring in your step.
00:37:03.82\00:37:06.12
He makes the sky bluer,
makes the birds sing sweeter.
00:37:06.15\00:37:11.19
And then if you don't know him,
00:37:11.23\00:37:13.40
then your religion
will never be joyous,
00:37:13.43\00:37:17.23
will never be happy.
00:37:17.27\00:37:18.63
You go and you come back home
00:37:18.67\00:37:21.37
and it hasn't
done anything for you.
00:37:21.40\00:37:25.77
That's all external
00:37:25.81\00:37:29.21
has to be a work of the heart.
00:37:29.24\00:37:31.71
"In the spirit,
00:37:31.75\00:37:33.11
not in the letter,
00:37:33.15\00:37:35.78
whose praise is not
from men but from God?"
00:37:35.82\00:37:40.36
That's what it is.
00:37:40.39\00:37:41.72
When I do that,
00:37:41.76\00:37:43.83
all things begin to change,
my life begins to change,
00:37:43.86\00:37:47.40
I begin,
00:37:47.43\00:37:49.13
define a life that
I've never known before.
00:37:49.16\00:37:54.54
And so to you
tonight, I just say,
00:37:54.57\00:37:59.57
take time.
00:37:59.61\00:38:01.74
Take time to get
acquainted with Jesus Christ.
00:38:01.78\00:38:06.95
Don't get so busy,
00:38:06.98\00:38:09.15
that you can't
spend time with Him.
00:38:09.18\00:38:13.46
"That the righteous
requirements of the law
00:38:13.49\00:38:16.56
might be fulfilled in us
00:38:16.59\00:38:21.06
who do not walk
according to the flesh
00:38:21.10\00:38:23.16
but according to the Spirit."
00:38:23.20\00:38:26.80
You see, if
you're keeping God's law
00:38:26.84\00:38:29.47
because you think you have to.
00:38:29.50\00:38:31.87
That's drudgery.
00:38:31.91\00:38:34.31
Yeah, that's total drudgery
00:38:34.34\00:38:35.84
if you're keeping the law of God
00:38:35.88\00:38:37.21
because you think I have to.
00:38:37.25\00:38:39.25
I talked to people they say,
"Well, I keep the commandments.
00:38:39.28\00:38:44.22
I keep the Ten Commandments."
00:38:44.25\00:38:47.66
Oh, bless your heart, you may
00:38:47.69\00:38:49.59
but you may be miserable.
00:38:49.62\00:38:51.13
I don't keep the
commandments of God.
00:38:54.70\00:38:57.97
I do not keep the
commandments of God
00:38:58.00\00:39:00.30
to be saved.
00:39:00.34\00:39:01.67
I keep them because I am saved.
00:39:04.44\00:39:09.74
Okay, keep them
because I am saved.
00:39:09.78\00:39:14.52
That's a total
different situation.
00:39:14.55\00:39:18.12
You see, God says to
each one of you here tonight,
00:39:18.15\00:39:20.66
"Come to me and I will make you,
00:39:20.69\00:39:25.06
I will make you priest.
00:39:25.09\00:39:28.83
I will make you kings."
00:39:28.86\00:39:31.13
He promises that He
will do that for you.
00:39:31.17\00:39:33.30
That is His work.
00:39:33.34\00:39:36.14
If you come to Him,
00:39:36.17\00:39:37.51
He says He will take His law
00:39:37.54\00:39:39.37
and He will
write it on your heart.
00:39:39.41\00:39:43.95
If He writes it on the
heart, then dear friend,
00:39:43.98\00:39:47.02
that's an internal experience.
00:39:47.05\00:39:49.12
And I'm gladly keep His law.
00:39:49.15\00:39:52.42
Gladly keep it.
00:39:52.45\00:39:55.76
"Then I will
give them one heart,
00:39:55.79\00:39:58.83
and I will put a
new spirit within them."
00:39:58.86\00:40:03.57
Gonna do what?
00:40:03.60\00:40:05.27
Put a new spirit within you.
00:40:05.30\00:40:06.63
I'm talking about
the water of life.
00:40:06.67\00:40:08.07
He puts that new spirit in you
00:40:08.10\00:40:11.41
"and take the stony
heart out of their flesh,
00:40:11.44\00:40:13.74
and I'll give
them a heart of flesh."
00:40:13.78\00:40:17.91
Dear friend, when Jesus comes
into your life and does that,
00:40:17.95\00:40:22.85
what a
difference, what a difference.
00:40:22.88\00:40:25.79
It changes you, makes
you totally different.
00:40:25.82\00:40:30.83
"And they may
walk in My statutes
00:40:30.86\00:40:33.70
and keep my
judgments and do them."
00:40:33.73\00:40:37.27
Why?
00:40:37.30\00:40:39.40
Why are they gonna
walk in His statutes
00:40:39.43\00:40:41.20
and keep His commandments,
00:40:41.24\00:40:42.57
His judgments, and do them?
00:40:42.60\00:40:43.94
Why? Why are they gonna do this?
00:40:43.97\00:40:45.31
'Cause He wrote
it on their hearts,
00:40:48.24\00:40:51.08
He came in and He
wrote it down in their heart.
00:40:51.11\00:40:54.22
And because it's in your
heart, you're gonna do it.
00:40:54.25\00:40:56.82
That's what the
scripture is simply telling you.
00:40:56.85\00:40:59.12
"And they shall be My people,
00:40:59.15\00:41:02.69
and I will be their God."
00:41:02.72\00:41:05.99
You better
believe, they're His people.
00:41:06.03\00:41:09.06
"Keeping the law
of God is the fruit,
00:41:09.10\00:41:13.37
it's the fruit of
an inward experience."
00:41:13.40\00:41:17.61
Are you with me?
00:41:17.64\00:41:18.97
It's the fruit of it.
00:41:19.01\00:41:21.54
"For this is the covenant
00:41:21.58\00:41:22.91
that I will make
with the house of Israel
00:41:22.94\00:41:24.28
after those days, says the Lord.
00:41:24.31\00:41:26.21
I will put My law in their mind
and write them on their hearts.
00:41:26.25\00:41:31.82
I will be their God,
00:41:31.85\00:41:33.82
they shall be My people."
00:41:33.86\00:41:37.43
And so to many of you here
00:41:37.46\00:41:40.56
who have been
watching by television,
00:41:40.60\00:41:43.47
or you've been
coming here to the meeting,
00:41:43.50\00:41:46.53
and maybe you've been struggling
00:41:46.57\00:41:47.90
over some of the
things you've been hearing.
00:41:47.94\00:41:50.91
Dear friend, let me tell you,
00:41:50.94\00:41:52.87
the answer to that comes
00:41:52.91\00:41:55.01
in surrendering your
heart to Jesus Christ.
00:41:55.04\00:41:58.21
That's where the answer comes.
00:41:58.25\00:42:01.05
You see, if you try
to face it on your own.
00:42:01.08\00:42:06.42
And if you try to reason out
00:42:06.45\00:42:08.99
all the reasons
why it won't work,
00:42:09.02\00:42:11.69
it won't work.
00:42:11.73\00:42:13.86
But if you come in faith,
00:42:13.90\00:42:16.06
and surrender your
heart to Jesus Christ,
00:42:16.10\00:42:19.27
marvelous will be the results
of what He'll do in your life.
00:42:19.30\00:42:24.64
For He says,
00:42:24.67\00:42:28.31
"I delight in thy law of God
00:42:28.34\00:42:31.25
according to the inward man."
00:42:31.28\00:42:34.45
Says I delight to do.
00:42:34.48\00:42:36.89
I delight to
keep the law of God.
00:42:36.92\00:42:40.56
You see, when I
first became a Christian,
00:42:40.59\00:42:42.22
I had trouble with that.
00:42:42.26\00:42:44.63
Because I'd pick up
my Bible and read it.
00:42:44.66\00:42:48.96
You know something
strange about the Bible.
00:42:49.00\00:42:51.53
It says the same thing
every time you read it.
00:42:51.57\00:42:54.37
You ever noticed that?
00:42:54.40\00:42:56.50
I'd read this text and,
man, it just hit me hard.
00:42:56.54\00:43:00.74
I mean, just hit me
right between the eyes.
00:43:00.78\00:43:02.58
And so I go read
some other place,
00:43:02.61\00:43:04.41
and then read there.
00:43:04.45\00:43:06.55
And then later, I'd be
reading again and there it was,
00:43:06.58\00:43:08.82
again, it said
the same thing again,
00:43:08.85\00:43:11.12
you know, and I
said, "Listen, Lord,
00:43:11.15\00:43:14.52
listen, I love you.
00:43:14.56\00:43:17.16
But I don't like some of
these things that it says."
00:43:17.19\00:43:21.33
You know,
00:43:21.36\00:43:22.86
but it wasn't until I understood
00:43:22.90\00:43:26.63
that it wasn't what I had to do.
00:43:26.67\00:43:29.44
It was what Jesus did.
00:43:29.47\00:43:31.97
That all of a sudden,
00:43:32.01\00:43:33.41
it begin to do something for me.
00:43:33.44\00:43:35.78
All of a sudden, I
begin to understand
00:43:35.81\00:43:37.81
that He was saying,
00:43:37.85\00:43:39.18
"Listen, open up your heart,
00:43:39.21\00:43:40.82
accept Me by faith,
00:43:40.85\00:43:42.62
surrender your life to Me,
00:43:42.65\00:43:44.35
and I'll change you
and make you different."
00:43:44.39\00:43:47.66
And the law of God was
no longer offensive to me.
00:43:47.69\00:43:51.89
I could say, "Lord,
write it on my heart."
00:43:51.93\00:43:55.63
Go ahead, put it there.
00:43:55.66\00:43:57.70
And when I did that,
changed the whole thing.
00:43:57.73\00:44:01.47
You see, if the law of
God is to you this way,
00:44:01.50\00:44:06.27
we'll take a look
at what is external
00:44:06.31\00:44:08.74
and what's internal.
00:44:08.78\00:44:12.65
If it's written on stone,
00:44:12.68\00:44:15.05
like with me,
00:44:15.08\00:44:17.12
it was written
here on these pages.
00:44:17.15\00:44:19.12
And I read it and I
said, I don't like it, you see.
00:44:19.15\00:44:22.56
That was totally external.
00:44:22.59\00:44:25.33
It graded, it went
against what I want to do.
00:44:25.36\00:44:30.33
But when I surrendered my heart,
00:44:30.37\00:44:34.17
gave my life to the Lord
and surrendered my heart.
00:44:34.20\00:44:37.31
And He wrote it on my heart,
it was no longer offensive.
00:44:37.34\00:44:41.78
That's internal.
00:44:41.81\00:44:43.31
You with me?
00:44:43.35\00:44:46.31
You see,
00:44:46.35\00:44:47.98
if circumcision
00:44:48.02\00:44:51.45
is strictly
external, that's all it is.
00:44:51.49\00:44:56.09
That's all it is with you.
00:44:56.12\00:44:58.19
But if it's
circumcision of the heart,
00:44:58.23\00:45:00.50
that's internal.
00:45:00.53\00:45:03.87
If your religion is legalism,
00:45:03.90\00:45:08.27
you understand
what I mean by legalism?
00:45:08.30\00:45:11.91
And I understand,
I run on to people
00:45:11.94\00:45:13.61
who don't understand legalism.
00:45:13.64\00:45:16.64
Legalism is when I
want to do my own thing.
00:45:16.68\00:45:22.92
I want to act like I want to,
00:45:22.95\00:45:24.42
I want to do what
it might be a good,
00:45:24.45\00:45:26.52
I might go to
church, do all that
00:45:26.55\00:45:28.82
but if it's what I wanna
do, that's legalism, okay?
00:45:28.86\00:45:35.70
Righteousness by faith
00:45:35.73\00:45:38.43
is when I simply say here, Lord.
00:45:38.47\00:45:42.24
I don't have one
thing in this world,
00:45:42.27\00:45:46.74
to recommend myself to You.
00:45:46.78\00:45:49.34
Accept my great need.
00:45:49.38\00:45:53.21
Come into my heart.
00:45:53.25\00:45:55.08
Take possession of my life.
00:45:55.12\00:45:57.25
I'm yours.
00:45:57.29\00:45:58.69
That's internal religion.
00:45:58.72\00:46:03.46
Our Bible says the letter kills.
00:46:03.49\00:46:07.36
Spirit gives life.
00:46:07.40\00:46:10.43
See, I can keep
folks, listen to me.
00:46:10.47\00:46:14.34
I can keep
00:46:14.37\00:46:16.87
the Ten
Commandments by willpower.
00:46:16.91\00:46:22.11
I can do that.
00:46:22.14\00:46:24.25
I can just, you know,
00:46:24.28\00:46:25.61
say I'm not gonna do this
and have strong willpower.
00:46:25.65\00:46:29.55
I run on to
some of these people,
00:46:29.58\00:46:31.22
man they have
willpowers like you
00:46:31.25\00:46:33.19
I have never seen in my life.
00:46:33.22\00:46:35.39
Just nobody can live with them.
00:46:35.42\00:46:36.93
You know, they're just,
00:46:36.96\00:46:39.13
but I can keep
the Ten Commandments
00:46:39.16\00:46:41.20
by willpower, okay?
00:46:41.23\00:46:44.23
But let me tell you
something, you cannot,
00:46:44.27\00:46:47.40
you cannot keep
the spirit of the law
00:46:47.44\00:46:51.71
by willpower.
00:46:51.74\00:46:54.91
You can't do that.
00:46:54.94\00:46:56.81
You can keep the letter
of the law by willpower,
00:46:56.85\00:46:59.98
but you can't keep
the spirit of the law
00:47:00.02\00:47:01.88
by willpower.
00:47:01.92\00:47:03.25
But if you keep
the spirit of the law,
00:47:03.28\00:47:05.62
you keep the letter of the law.
00:47:05.65\00:47:09.16
Come and go together.
00:47:09.19\00:47:11.39
Old covenant
00:47:11.43\00:47:14.30
works.
00:47:14.33\00:47:16.33
That's the old
covenant, new covenant,
00:47:16.36\00:47:19.67
faith.
00:47:19.70\00:47:21.54
Internal, external.
00:47:21.57\00:47:24.31
Works of man, works of grace.
00:47:24.34\00:47:29.68
That's the difference.
00:47:29.71\00:47:31.31
You see,
00:47:31.35\00:47:33.82
give me a man
00:47:33.85\00:47:37.79
or woman
00:47:37.82\00:47:40.16
who does not
base their experience
00:47:40.19\00:47:46.49
upon the preacher.
00:47:46.53\00:47:47.86
Give me a man or woman
00:47:50.77\00:47:54.17
who do not gather inspiration
00:47:54.20\00:47:57.51
from a warm-hearted friend,
00:47:57.54\00:48:00.28
or from a large meeting.
00:48:00.31\00:48:03.91
Like give me a man or a woman
00:48:03.95\00:48:07.32
who has a personal
relationship with Jesus Christ
00:48:07.35\00:48:12.32
and know Him personally.
00:48:12.35\00:48:15.12
And that man
and woman will stand
00:48:15.16\00:48:17.73
if every preacher dies.
00:48:17.76\00:48:20.76
You see, that's
what God is looking for.
00:48:20.80\00:48:24.13
He's looking for somebody
00:48:24.17\00:48:25.53
that's willing
to come to know Him
00:48:25.57\00:48:28.14
in a close experience.
00:48:28.17\00:48:31.04
And if you do that, dear friend,
00:48:31.07\00:48:32.94
then you're
talking about religion,
00:48:32.97\00:48:35.44
then you're talking
about the water of life,
00:48:35.48\00:48:37.48
then you're talking about
00:48:37.51\00:48:38.85
what Jesus Christ
will do in your life.
00:48:38.88\00:48:41.82
What will it do to you?
00:48:45.45\00:48:47.16
Let me explain
what it do to you?
00:48:47.19\00:48:48.72
This is out of the
Ezekiel the 47th Chapter,
00:48:48.76\00:48:50.99
you may have
read it, never known
00:48:51.03\00:48:52.36
what it was talking about.
00:48:52.39\00:48:53.96
Watch what it says.
00:48:54.00\00:48:56.43
"And he brought me back
to the door of the temple,
00:48:56.46\00:48:59.10
and there was water,
00:48:59.13\00:49:00.47
flowing from under the threshold
00:49:00.50\00:49:02.00
of the temple towards the east,
00:49:02.04\00:49:05.34
for the front of
the temple faced east,
00:49:05.37\00:49:07.14
and water was flowing
00:49:07.18\00:49:08.51
from under the
right side of the temple,
00:49:08.54\00:49:09.88
south of the altar."
00:49:09.91\00:49:11.25
Now this text just simply saying
00:49:11.28\00:49:12.78
that Ezekiel got there
00:49:12.81\00:49:14.15
to the front door of the church.
00:49:14.18\00:49:16.48
And here water was
seeping out under the threshold.
00:49:16.52\00:49:20.56
That's what it says.
00:49:20.59\00:49:21.96
The angel takes
Ezekiel for a walk
00:49:21.99\00:49:26.06
around the church, okay.
00:49:26.09\00:49:29.66
"He brought me out by
the way of the north gate,
00:49:29.70\00:49:33.80
and led me around on the outside
00:49:33.84\00:49:37.17
to the outer
gate that faces east,
00:49:37.21\00:49:39.47
and there was water,
running out on the right side.
00:49:39.51\00:49:43.31
And when the man
went out to the east
00:49:43.35\00:49:45.61
with a line in his hand,
00:49:45.65\00:49:47.28
he measured one
thousand cubits."
00:49:47.32\00:49:49.58
So it just simply says,
00:49:49.62\00:49:50.95
he took him for a
walk around the church,
00:49:50.99\00:49:52.95
one thousand cubits,
00:49:52.99\00:49:55.72
"and he brought me
through the waters,
00:49:55.76\00:49:57.73
and the waters
came up to my ankles."
00:49:57.76\00:50:01.86
Now they've gotten back
to the front of the church
00:50:01.90\00:50:04.93
and here water was
ankle deep, like tonight.
00:50:04.97\00:50:09.74
If we would have come
here and water was seeping out
00:50:09.77\00:50:12.07
under the front door out there
00:50:12.11\00:50:13.44
we would say that's catastrophe,
00:50:13.48\00:50:15.08
you see.
00:50:15.11\00:50:16.44
Well, here it is.
Now it's flowing out.
00:50:16.48\00:50:18.45
Now it's ankle deep.
00:50:18.48\00:50:20.82
They take another
walk around the church.
00:50:20.85\00:50:24.32
"Again, he measured one thousand
00:50:24.35\00:50:25.99
and brought me
through the waters,
00:50:26.02\00:50:27.36
and the waters
came to my knees."
00:50:27.39\00:50:30.29
You see the water's rising.
00:50:30.33\00:50:33.83
"Again he measured one thousand
00:50:33.86\00:50:35.73
and brought me
through the waters
00:50:35.76\00:50:37.60
they came up to my waist."
00:50:37.63\00:50:41.10
It's getting deep.
00:50:41.14\00:50:43.57
"Again, he measured one thousand
00:50:43.61\00:50:45.27
and it was a
river I could not cross,
00:50:45.31\00:50:51.21
for the water was too deep,
00:50:51.25\00:50:52.95
water in which one must swim,
00:50:52.98\00:50:55.08
a river that
could not be crossed."
00:50:55.12\00:50:58.19
What's he talking about?
00:50:58.22\00:51:01.02
He's talking about you,
and he's talking about me.
00:51:01.06\00:51:05.29
You see, when you
come to Jesus Christ,
00:51:05.33\00:51:09.86
and you open up your heart,
00:51:09.90\00:51:12.80
and you invite
Him into your heart,
00:51:12.83\00:51:15.14
the Bible says,
"You become a spring
00:51:15.17\00:51:17.51
of living water."
00:51:17.54\00:51:19.37
When Jesus comes in your heart,
and by the way, dear friends,
00:51:19.41\00:51:23.61
when you drink,
00:51:23.65\00:51:26.25
you drink, okay.
00:51:26.28\00:51:29.25
You got to drink.
00:51:29.28\00:51:31.62
Let me tell you
a secret tonight.
00:51:31.65\00:51:33.96
If your cup is only half full,
00:51:33.99\00:51:38.73
you don't have
anything to share with anybody.
00:51:38.76\00:51:41.96
But when you drink and you drink
00:51:42.00\00:51:44.33
until your cup runs over,
00:51:44.37\00:51:46.84
then you can't help yourself.
00:51:46.87\00:51:48.90
That's what this
text is talking about.
00:51:48.94\00:51:50.51
You come to Jesus
Christ and you drink the water,
00:51:50.54\00:51:54.34
swim in, lots of
water, it's a river flowing.
00:51:54.38\00:51:57.65
And out of you will
flow streams of living water,
00:51:57.68\00:52:01.92
and when that
religion is internal,
00:52:01.95\00:52:05.79
and it flows out of you,
00:52:05.82\00:52:07.62
then you're gonna say something
to that neighbor next door.
00:52:07.66\00:52:12.76
And you're gonna say
something to that loved one.
00:52:12.79\00:52:15.60
And you're gonna say
something to that person
00:52:15.63\00:52:17.50
about what Jesus means to you,
00:52:17.53\00:52:19.87
and the wonderful experience
that you have in Christ Jesus,
00:52:19.90\00:52:23.41
and all the joy
and the happiness
00:52:23.44\00:52:25.27
that He brings to your heart.
00:52:25.31\00:52:26.91
And as you witness to them,
00:52:26.94\00:52:28.64
you're gonna find
other people gonna say,
00:52:28.68\00:52:31.08
man, I'd love to have
what that person's got.
00:52:31.11\00:52:35.52
I'd love to have that.
00:52:35.55\00:52:36.89
And you're gonna
find men and women
00:52:36.92\00:52:38.72
reaching out to
accept Jesus Christ.
00:52:38.75\00:52:41.19
And when they
accept Jesus Christ,
00:52:41.22\00:52:42.92
do you know what just happened?
00:52:42.96\00:52:46.03
The stream just rose, see.
00:52:46.06\00:52:49.90
And then the two of them,
00:52:49.93\00:52:51.27
they bring people to Christ
and the stream rises again,
00:52:51.30\00:52:54.74
until it's ankle deep,
and then it's knee deep,
00:52:54.77\00:52:57.54
and then it's waist
deep, and then it's a river.
00:52:57.57\00:53:00.51
That's what God has called
00:53:00.54\00:53:02.48
every one of you
here tonight to do.
00:53:02.51\00:53:05.31
That's what He's asked us to do.
00:53:05.35\00:53:07.08
Become rivers of life.
00:53:07.12\00:53:08.95
"And the Spirit and
the bride say, 'Come!'
00:53:08.98\00:53:11.99
Let him who hears say, 'Come!'
00:53:12.02\00:53:14.76
Let him who thirsts come.
00:53:14.79\00:53:16.89
Whoever desires,
00:53:16.93\00:53:18.26
let him take the water of life
00:53:18.29\00:53:21.16
freely."
00:53:21.20\00:53:22.90
You see tonight.
00:53:22.93\00:53:24.97
God's inviting you to
take the water of life.
00:53:25.00\00:53:28.87
Oh dear friend.
00:53:28.90\00:53:31.71
I hope it won't be an
external experience with you.
00:53:31.74\00:53:36.48
I hope tonight
you'll open up your heart,
00:53:36.51\00:53:39.88
let Jesus in,
00:53:39.91\00:53:42.65
that you will accept Him
00:53:42.68\00:53:44.89
like the woman
00:53:44.92\00:53:46.92
at the well reach out
00:53:46.96\00:53:50.16
accept the water of life.
00:53:50.19\00:53:54.10
Like the woman at the well
00:53:54.13\00:53:58.23
I was seeking
00:53:58.27\00:54:02.74
For things
00:54:02.77\00:54:05.61
That could not satisfy
00:54:05.64\00:54:11.85
And then
00:54:11.88\00:54:15.02
I heard the Savior speaking
00:54:15.05\00:54:21.19
Draw from the well
00:54:21.22\00:54:26.36
That never
00:54:26.39\00:54:28.46
Shall run dry
00:54:28.50\00:54:35.24
Let's bow our
heads for word of prayer.
00:54:35.27\00:54:37.24
Father, we thank You
00:54:37.27\00:54:39.57
for Your love,
00:54:39.61\00:54:41.78
for the hope that
we have in Christ.
00:54:41.81\00:54:44.48
Tonight, Lord,
00:54:44.51\00:54:46.75
we ask that You would give to us
00:54:46.78\00:54:48.38
the living water,
00:54:48.42\00:54:50.32
that it might spring up,
00:54:50.35\00:54:53.86
become a fountain of
life in each one of us,
00:54:53.89\00:54:58.59
and that we might be joyful,
00:54:58.63\00:55:01.83
and the wonderful
grace that we find
00:55:01.86\00:55:04.47
in Jesus Christ our Lord.
00:55:04.50\00:55:06.63
For this we ask in His name,
00:55:06.67\00:55:08.90
amen.
00:55:08.94\00:55:10.51
Although they're small
and seemingly insignificant,
00:55:10.54\00:55:14.04
soybean pods filled the farm
fields of the United States.
00:55:14.08\00:55:18.38
What a treasure they are
for the farmer at harvest time.
00:55:18.41\00:55:22.38
Nearly all
soybeans in this country
00:55:22.42\00:55:24.95
are processed for their oil,
00:55:24.99\00:55:27.09
which is then
refined for cooking
00:55:27.12\00:55:29.36
or sold for
biodiesel production,
00:55:29.39\00:55:31.89
as well as for many
other industrial uses.
00:55:31.93\00:55:34.86
Because of the high
demand for soybeans,
00:55:34.90\00:55:37.90
a farmer must be able
to harvest large quantities
00:55:37.93\00:55:41.24
in the most efficient
and cost-effective manner.
00:55:41.27\00:55:44.61
One of the best ways to do this
is to use a combine harvester.
00:55:44.64\00:55:49.44
These massive machines
00:55:49.48\00:55:51.11
give the farmer the
ability to quickly harvest
00:55:51.15\00:55:54.15
and haul the beans
at an incredible rate.
00:55:54.18\00:55:57.95
Have you ever considered
what one farmer can do today
00:55:57.99\00:56:01.06
with the help of modern tools?
00:56:01.09\00:56:03.29
The farmer if the past
could hardly imagine it.
00:56:03.32\00:56:06.19
Within hours,
00:56:06.23\00:56:07.70
one man and machine
can harvest and deliver
00:56:07.73\00:56:10.27
untold bushels of
soybeans to the market.
00:56:10.30\00:56:13.80
His goal is to obtain
the largest yield possible
00:56:13.84\00:56:17.41
at harvest time.
00:56:17.44\00:56:19.04
Like the farmer
today, we must do the same.
00:56:19.07\00:56:22.74
In Luke 10:2, Jesus said,
"The harvest truly is great,
00:56:22.78\00:56:27.52
but the laborers are few."
00:56:27.55\00:56:29.55
And in John 4:35,
00:56:29.58\00:56:31.69
"He looked over the wheat fields
00:56:31.72\00:56:33.22
and said to His disciples,
00:56:33.25\00:56:35.02
'Lift up your eyes
and look at the fields,
00:56:35.06\00:56:37.89
for they are ready
quite for harvest."
00:56:37.93\00:56:41.00
In both passages,
00:56:41.03\00:56:42.60
Jesus referred to men
and women of this world
00:56:42.63\00:56:45.57
as He proclaim that
the harvest is here,
00:56:45.60\00:56:48.27
and the work must be done.
00:56:48.30\00:56:50.74
When I was a boy,
00:56:50.77\00:56:52.21
the corn harvest
was all done by hand.
00:56:52.24\00:56:55.28
We literally had
a horse-drawn wagon,
00:56:55.31\00:56:58.18
and we would
walk along beside it
00:56:58.21\00:57:00.02
and pull the corn off the stock
and throw it onto the wagon.
00:57:00.05\00:57:03.82
But folks, the time is short.
00:57:03.85\00:57:06.65
So the Lord has provided
the most marvelous technology
00:57:06.69\00:57:10.13
to enable us to
harvest more souls
00:57:10.16\00:57:13.03
through television,
radio, and other media.
00:57:13.06\00:57:16.26
Today we can take the message
00:57:16.30\00:57:17.90
to the
multitudes around the world
00:57:17.93\00:57:20.17
at the speed of light.
00:57:20.20\00:57:21.97
Such ability was far
beyond the imagination
00:57:22.00\00:57:25.77
of the evangelist of the past.
00:57:25.81\00:57:29.41
The harvest is here
00:57:29.44\00:57:31.98
but we can't do it without you.
00:57:32.01\00:57:34.28
Won't you help us?
00:57:34.32\00:57:35.65
Please consider
what you can do for those
00:57:35.68\00:57:37.79
who still don't
know about Jesus.
00:57:37.82\00:57:39.89
As the Holy Spirit impresses,
00:57:39.92\00:57:41.62
please send your
tax-deductible gifts
00:57:41.66\00:57:43.66
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00:57:43.69\00:57:45.39
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00:57:45.43\00:57:50.80
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00:57:50.83\00:57:56.00
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00:57:56.04\00:57:58.37
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00:57:58.41\00:58:00.21
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00:58:00.24\00:58:02.48
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00:58:02.51\00:58:04.55