URGENT SHARE // The Great Reversal // John Wilson

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God.

Bless you. Thanks for tuning in.

This. My name is John. I'm wanted the leaders here

at the Movement Church, and.

I just wanted to say out front that I know

this might be a shocker, but I love Jesus. I

know it's crazy. We have some other folks that love

Jesus here this morning. If you hear nothing else from

me this morning, which is possible, I just.

Want to say if you have not had the.

Chance to meet to meet Jesus, today would be a

fabulous today to do that. Don't you think if you're

wrestling with that, or you just haven't thought about it

in a while, or you've been coming to church your

whole life and you haven't actually met the God that

we're talking about, and you sense in your soul that

it's time to do so, I'd love to talk about

that with you. I think there's a lot of people

in this church that would too. You can probably just

turn to your right and say, hey, can I talk

about that.

With you a little bit? And I promised you it

would be the best.

Decision that you've ever made in your life. I think

Jesus wants you. He wants a real relationship with you.

He wants to forgive you. He wants to begin a

relationship with you today, and just want to invite you

if you haven't had the chance to do that.

Like I said, if you hear nothing else, hear.

That that is time to begin a relationship with him.

We believe that here at the Movement Church, that God

is for you, that he wants great things for you,

and everybody in this church wants great things for you

as well. Like we believe that this life isn't meant

to be done alone. It's meant to be done with

everyone else around you that loves Jesus as well.

Is a team sport, like this is not a solo sport.

This is a team.

Sport, and we do this together and the people this

church are behind you as well. We are continuing our series.

We have been in this series a long time, haven't we.

We have been urgently moving through this series this summer.

We're on the last segment here, the share segment. We

heard from Tim Hawkins last week, former pastor of this

congregation last week, about sharing our faith, and we're going

to continue that idea today. And I want to look

at the life of a woman in the scripture who

I think we can learn from her response. So she

encountered Jesus in a very ordinary place, dipping water at

a well, if you will, And we want to look

at her response this morning and take a look and

see how we can learn for what she's done. So

I have this tradition I love to stand in the

honor of God's words, So if we could do that together. Now,

we'll stand up together and we're going to read through this.

If you got your physical Bible with you, you can

read through us. We're going to be in John chapter four,

beginning in verse four, and we'll be kind of doing

some jumping around a little bit.

So hanging there with me now.

As Pastor Fike says, if you've got eyeballs, you can

just look right up here. But if you prefer to

look through your physical Bible. Please do so, we're going

to read this through together. Says Now he had to

go through Samaria. Oh boy, go through Samaria. So he

came to a town in Samaria called Sidschar, and Jacob's

well was there. Jesus, tired as he was from the journey,

sat down by the well, and it was about noon,

very hot, by the way in this part of the world,

maybe not as hot as South Texas, I don't know.

When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said

to her, will you give me a drink? Let's skip

up a little bit. The Samaritan woman said to him,

you are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman.

How can you ask me for a drink? For Jews

do not associate with Samaritans. A lot of history there

verse ten. Jesus answered her, if you knew the gift

of God in who it is that asked you for

a drink, you would have asked him and he would

have given you living water. Let's jum him to Firse thirteen,

and Jesus answered, everyone who drinks this water will be

thirsty again. But whoever drinks the water I give them

will never thirst again. Indeed, the water I give them

will become in them a spring of water well up

to eternal life. And the woman said to him, sir,

give me this water. Give me this water.

It's jumped first twenty eight, then leaving her water jar.

The woman went back to the town and said to the.

People, come, come, come see a man who told me

everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah? She's

dropping the hands here. They came out of town, made

their way towards him.

Let's jump to thirty nine.

And many of the Samaritans from that town believed in

him because of the woman's testimony. He told me everything

that I ever did. Let's pray together. God, thank you,

Thank you that you meet us where we are, even.

By a well, in the depths of our need. You

meet us. God, you are amazing. We thank you in

Jesus name. Amen. All right, if I got to grab

a seat this morning.

Have you ever heard the age old expression that there's

three things that you don't talk about in company? Anybody

know what those three things are. We've got money, you

do money, politics, and religion. You don't talk about these things, right,

Because what's the quote never discussed politics or religion in

polite company. Is that kind of the quote and the

falcos The idea is, if you speak with your neighbors,

you speak with your friends, you're you got to hang

out at your house and you mention one of these things, it's.

Going to blow a hole in the whole thing.

Right, somebody's going to get passionate about their side of

the fence, and then the whole party is dominated by

whatever it is that the topic.

Is associated with this.

There's either kind of this idea that you avoid it

all together, and if everybody.

Else avoids it too, then.

Your relationships are going to be okay, like everybody's going

to be it. So again, this idea came from theoretically,

it came from Mark Twain. He was the one that

was said to have said this originally never discussed politics

or religion in Polite Coffey. However, we're not entirely sure

that he actually said that, and I'll give that into

that here in a moment. But again, the idea is

that you're you're there will be peace in your relationships

if you don't. There's another idea out there from a

man it's called Saint Francis of Asiss. Anybody know who

Saint Francis of a Cisi is. Okay, well, there's this

quote that he again theoretically said, he says, preach the

Gospel at all times, and if necessary, use words. You

know you've heard this idea that you know your actions

need to match.

Like what you do.

But often like this can be misconstrued as, oh, wait

a minute, I don't have to say anything. People should

just know by the way that I live that I

love Jesus and therefore will follow after him. It's a

good idea in the sense that your words should match

like what you do. However, it shouldn't be an out

necessarily to speak us. I want a myth bus for

just a second. These two gentlemen, mister Twain and Saint.

Francis as Cci. I think that's kind of what he

looked like.

I'm not sure, but both of these guys, it's actually

not really known whether they actually said these quotes at all,

Like it's it's more attributed to them, and it's an

idea that's been kind of circulated in our culture of hey,

don't talk about the things that are you know, more

in depth and inflammatory. If you will or there's the

idea of like they should just know like by the

way that I live, of what I do. It's it's interesting.

I think they're they're circulated for to keep us, or

at least we think to keep us from being this

person being the guy that's on the street in New

York City with a bullhorn saying turn or burn everybody,

like the time is now or go to Hell forever.

Like have you all seen folks do this?

Yeah, like for real, not just on TV right downtown Springs, Okay, cool,

So you've seen it Broncos Stadium right out front, okay cool?

Or like, yeah, I've seen.

This in New York City, bigger city areas as well,

you know, even rural areas. In some cases there's you know,

folks that get up and want to make sure everybody

knows that that they're going to Hell in a handbasket.

I suppose it's interesting.

The message here isn't necessarily false, right, like if we

don't know Jesus like hell is in our future, like

let's let's just state what it is, like that is

a reality that is like true. However, the approach here

is off putting inflammatory. It is a way to dig

into those around them. It's incredibly confrontational. And I don't

think we really want to be that guy. I think

most of us in the room like, we don't want

to be the person that is doing that. I think instead,

who would really rather be is this person. We would

rather be the woman at the well. And I want

to unpack this a little bit together. This was a

person who is messed up, like mess messed up like

she had been married five times, She's slept around, you know.

Jesus cut to the heart of it. He even just

said to her, Hey, go call your husband.

And come back.

This is during the dialogue at the Well, and she says, well,

I have no husband, and Jesus says, you know you're

right when you say you have no husband. The fact

is you've had five husbands and the man you have

you now have, is not your husband. What you have

said is quite true. Jesus isn't trying to be inflammatory here.

He's trying to show her that he knows her, he

knows she's at he knows what she's dealing with.

See, she messed up.

Like her marriage. She messed up her marriages. The people

around her saw her as the scum of the earth.

She wasn't pure, she wasn't holy, she wasn't perfect. In fact,

she had to come at the hottest part of the

day because she was trying to avoid everybody else that

was pointing fingers at her and telling her that she

was the scum of the earth.

That's where she was at. Tough life, like really tough life.

She was desperate. She was at the end of a rope.

And yet Jesus steps in rocks her world in that

our savior, guys, that's Jesus right. He meets you in

your desperation. He doesn't meet you when you think you

got it all together and you've pieced it all together.

He meets you when you're desperate for him. And that's

where he met her.

She said to him, I know that Messiah called the Christ,

is coming, and when he comes, he'll explain everything to us.

And then Jesus declared, I the ones.

Speaking to you. I am he see.

Jesus revealed himself to her. He met her where she was,

And not from her own effort or anything that she

could have done prior to this, was she able to

receive the grace of God.

But rather she was cut to the heart and Jesus

revealed who he was, and she received that experience thought,

I just want to turn it back to us for

a minute. Here is that you.

Are you at a place in your life where you

know you're desperate, You got things going on. You may

have been trying to prove to God for your whole

life that you're really okay, that maybe you're good enough

for him, trying to prove to him somehow that like

he should accept you, when in essence that's backwards. He

wants you now as you are in your desperation. I

just want to tell you God loves you, He forgives you.

He offers reconciliation with God, no strings attached, and that

good news.

Church, that's good news, right.

We want to like bust the lie in our culture

that says you have to perform for God and the

truth is nothing further from the truth. The woman in

the well right met her where she was in the

midst of her darkness, and brought light into her life

and revealed who he was. You remember this famous verse here.

For God so loved the world right, he gave his

one and only son, that whoever believes in him shall

not perish, but have everlasting life. I want to invite

you again. If you hear nothing else that I say today,

hear that God loves you, he wants a relationship with you. You

can't work at it to be worthy of his grace.

His grace is free and it's available for you to

receive today.

And in fact, I want to take just a second

if we could pray together. Everybody, just join me, back

your heads together, shut your eyes with me. If you're

in that place in your life and you need to

say something to God because you sense in your soul

that it's time to follow after Him, you can simply

say what's happening in your heart.

You can say to God, God, I want your forgiveness.

I believe Jesus died for me, and I want your forgiveness.

God. I turn away from striving to earn your love

and I'll follow you all the rest of my days

in Jesus name. Amen.

I just want to tell you if that type of

prayer is in your soul, or there's something rustling in

your heart in regard to your relationship with God, like

I'd love to talk to you some more. And there's

some other folks in this building that would as well,

And we would love to help guide you through the

life of following after Jesus for the first time, or

maybe you've decided.

Again that it's time to begin your relationship with him.

We would love to walk alongside you.

All right, let's go a little deeper with the woman

at the well for a moment, so Jesus reveals himself

to her, and let's look specifically like at her response.

This was her.

Response, WHOA, let's go right, there's the city and she

left her water jug it's done.

She went back to the town.

Right, it would be absurd if she encounters Jesus. And

then the first thing that she goes is, I'm not

gonna tell anybody. I'm gonna hold it right here, and

I'm just it's a private matter, like religion is just

something that I'm just gonna hold in my soul and

I'm not going to share it with anybody. That'd be silly. Right,

That's not what happened, right, There was great joy that

came up in her soul. The response was exuberance, it

was passion, it was hunger to share what had happened.

You remember what she said, She left her water jar

like just left it there, went back to town, and

she said, come and see Come see a man who

told me everything I ever did.

Could this be the Messiah?

So I think this is how we survive, or we

enjoy this world as we thrive on recommendations from other people. Right,

you're hanging out with your buddy. You're having your little

I guess, your little scone and your coffee and talking

about whatever.

And your friend.

Says, listen, I actually did this with Andrew a minute ago. Hey,

have you been to Rampart Reservoir?

Right?

Just right right there? Anybody been to Rampart Reservoir? Hey, okay,

we've got a couple right. Yeah, it's uh if you're

drinking water right now, that's our water supply. Yes, we

were in it. So yeah, it's purified.

Okay, don't worry, there's no swimming in it. Okay, you

just you know, do your thing. Uh.

I recommend it to Andrew, Hey you should go check

it out. So he wrote it down right, because we

recommend what we what we love. I don't know about

your business, but in my business, we thrive on promoters.

We call it promoters. You create a a great experience

for your customer, and then your customer goes to somebody

else and they say, hey, you got to go check

this out.

Old Sally down there at the Apple Store. She's amazing.

You got to go hang out with her. I'm telling you,

she's awesome. Uh So that's that's the way a business thrives.

That's the way, like anything that's great begins to thrive

is by word of mouth. It's when people like tell

other people how great the experience was. It spreads like

wildfire and people end up, you know, blowing up a

business with some incredible opportunity for that business, or just

enjoying themselves in life based on the recommendations of others.

So here's the thing. If you really enjoy something, or you.

Really have a great encounter, specifically with Jesus, why don't

we share about him?

Like what like.

Holds us back from saying, hey, you gotta like check

this out. I have I have like a few theories

about this, but the one that I think is really

holds us back from this is the enemy.

I think the enemy convinces you that is.

A bad idea to talk about him, that somehow it's

going to offend or harm or hurt somebody if you

mention something so personal like your faith. But it's a lie,

isn't it. There's nothing harmful about Jesus at all.

Yes, it is. He's going to challenge.

Somebody with where they're at because he's Jesus, right, that's

what he does, like he changes things. He's the change

maker inside of people. But there's nothing harmful about that

at all. It's powerful, it's life changing, It brings life

into people. It's beautiful. There's enormous reward for those that hear.

And that's what the passage says.

Right in Romans, it says, how then can they call

on the one that they've not believed in? And how

can they believe in the one whom they've not heard?

And how can they hear without without someone preaching to them?

And how can anyone preach unless their sense? As it

is written, How beautiful are the feet of those who

bring good news?

See? The idea is that faith comes through hearing.

Right, It's when people hear the word of God and

then their.

Life is changed.

It's different from hey, just live your life in front

of people, they'll figure it out.

No, that's it's not the idea.

Yes, they need to match, of course, but the idea

is that you share, you recommend, you bring something that's

life changing, just like the woman at the well. She said, come,

come and see a man who told me everything that

I ever did.

So here is the main idea I want you to

walk away with.

Besides giving your life to Jesus, of course, the main

idea I want you to walk away with today is

this idea, come and see, Come and see. I want

you to shift your mentality a little bit about sharing

your faith to be more like the woman at the well,

say she encountered Jesus, and then she said to everyone

that she knew, come and see. This has contrary to

that idea of like I'm going to hide it and

hold it because it's private. It's different from bullhorned guy

like in your face, like turn or burn today, Like

it's different than that. It's invitational. It's not confrontational. It's

a testimony, it's not an argument, and it's public. It's

not private. Did you get that it's invitational, it's not confrontational,

it's a testimony, not an argument.

It's public. It's not private. That's the idea. See, it's

like when people go public. Here at the Movement Church.

We call it going public. It's when you're.

Baptized, like this young man right over here, mister Luke Wilson,

being baptized here at the Movement Church in a troth.

Where's John Crestmanette. I don't even to see him over here?

Oh there he is right there. John's the one that

fills this troth up. We really appreciate that, John, thank

you so much for that. And he warms the water

up as well, so we're not frigid outside when we're

doing this.

I appreciate that.

But my boy Luke, you know, went public and was

baptized here at the Movement Church. And that's like, that's

an expression, that is a public display of something that

happened in your heart.

Luke's life was changed by Jesus. So Luke then steps

up and says, I'm a follower of Jesus. That's what

baptism is.

It's a way for you to say, this is what's

happened inside of my soul. And this is a shameless

plug for baptism. If you haven't been baptized, let's do it.

Let's go public. Let's let the world know what God

has done.

You're high again.

The idea is not that God wants you to be

a scholar. When you talk to your friends and be

able to answer every question that they have about God,

improving the existence of God for all time.

And answering every question.

That would be silly, right, Like there's that's not a

great expectation, and that wouldn't be a fair expectation of you.

But I think that what he wants from us is

this idea of invitation. Hey, this happened to me. I

encountered this. Come and see come see you.

With that side.

So we're gonna do a little bit of practice here. No,

I'm not gonna make you practice with your neighbor. I know,

y'all like shuddered there for a second as I said it.

I did that like three weeks ago. I'm gonna hold

off today. Okay, all right, So we're gonna do this

a little practice. This is just a little little scenario. Okay,

So we're here, we go. We're at the office. I

don't know where this is, and maybe downtown Spring. So

I guess if you work down there or maybe I

have a conference room. Wherever you are, you'll notice nice

some nice treats on the side. Here, you got the coffee.

This is maybe your Monday morning meeting.

Let's say you have a team.

We call ours like huddles is what we call them,

or we call them downloads is what we call them

in my business. I don't know whatever, whatever scenario, y'all

have a team meeting or whatever you want to call it.

And you know you're milling around, you've got your nine

am Q three preparation meeting, you know, if you will,

And you know you're talking about the weekends, and you said, hey,

I went to rampart reservoir this weekend, right, so I'm

recommending here a rampart reservoir. We got our paddle boards out,

we talked all about it. You grab your donut, you're

drinking your coffee. And then they asked you, Yeah, what

else did you do this week You're like, well, you know,

I went to church this weekend. I heard my goofy

pastor give all of his cultural references. If y'all know fight,

he always has something from you know, I don't know,

somebody from pop culture that he's talking about, and what's

that or if you get me in, yes, absolutely movie quotes.

Whatever.

I laughed, you know, during that, and then you mentioned like,

you know, and I'm kind of trying to figure out

how to pray, like, you know, I haven't really done that,

and he's kind of challenging me on my thoughts. Now,

that person you're talking to, they might do this and

be like, ha, that's great, beasts, I'm gone, you know,

and they might just leave the conversation because they don't

want to talk about God or you know whatever. They

might do that, but they also might say something like this,

They say, oh, really, you know, I used to pray,

but I don't really know what I think about that

anymore opportunity everybody. That person is going, hey, keep talking.

I'm interested in what you're saying.

Did you catch it? So I got the This is

a participation moment. Okay, what would you say next? Oh?

Hey, cool, I'm gonna get down the donut now, No, like,

what are you gonna say? Yeah?

What we got? Okay, conversation okay, hmmm? Why is that?

Yeah?

I love that? What you got? Men? Why are you

avoid to be all of a sudden if they walked away?

You do that? Man? Confrontational? Let's give him a bullhorn

And I'm just kidding. What you got men last time?

When was the last time you tried to pray?

They're like, I don't know, it's been a long time, right, yeah,

oh yeah, meetings about to start. Hey, Like, how when

the meeting's done, let's let's grab lunch.

I love that.

It's an opportunity, right, for a conversation. It's an opportunity

to go to go further.

Yeah what you got?

Yeah, yeah, invite them, Invite them. I love that you

could say something like literally like, hey, you know, I

don't know really all the answers to this, but I

think my pastor's onto something. Let me text you and

once you meet me, like, we'll go together, we'll learn,

and we're grilling some chicken afterwards, so you can come

over to my house and have some.

Chicken, you know whatever. Like, do you see that.

It's a conversation, right, it's nothing fancy, just like the

woman at the well, just hey, come and see, Come

see for yourself and have some dialogue. Come to lunch

with me. Hey, how long has it been since since

you prayed? It's an opportunity. It's as simple as that.

Let's give another scenario, all right, So you're in your neighborhood.

I don't know which neighborhood. This is wash Park kind of,

you know, Cherry Creek area. You're having a you know,

a little coffee. I don't know why he has the

disposable cups. She's got her fancy cups. She's like Christine,

she always has her cup with her.

Very nice. So you have a conversation.

You're talking about the summer plans, right, Oh, yeah, it

was a hot summer. Kids were in all these activities.

We played baseball, you know, this summer, you know whatever,

going through all that stuff. And then you'd share something like, yeah,

you know, I had this guy Chico, you know Chico

here in our church.

Yeah, this guy Chico in.

My house and he made the best pulled pork I've

ever had in my life.

If you all had his pool pork.

Yeah, if you went to the park thing we did,

yeah you had his pull pork.

Cool. So, yeah, he made some pulled pork. We had

it in my house.

You know, we were you know, kind of together, getting

you know, hanging out some folks, some church.

We prayed some together.

Now your neighbor might say something like uh, oh, good

for you, and then you know, walk away, you know,

for the conversation, you probably shouldn't chase them down at

that moment, like, hang on for a second, I'm gonna

have this conversation with you.

Uh.

Instead they might they might do that, or they might say, man,

I really I need something like that in my life.

I don't really have any friends or having what I'm

hanging out with right now. Opportunity right, Like they're saying,

keep talking, go further.

Like in this conversation. What would you say in that conversation?

What's up? Love to have you over easy? Right? Anybody else?

What would you say that? Yeah? Like that right? Yeah,

I love to have you.

Hey, why don't you bring the salad, you bring the dessert.

We're gonna meet on Friday night in my house and

I'd love to have you.

And let's let's get to know each other. Be open

about it.

Your faith, Like what you're doing, who you're spending time with,

the idea is invitational. Come and see, come and see

what we're doing.

It always knows the folks.

If you folks start church like this, it's like they

always bring somebody with them, like when they come because

it's like that, right, it's just hey, come, come see

what we're doing. So I want to challenge you to

try this. Just talk about your life a little bit.

I just work a lot, Like just talk about it. Hey,

I went and spent some time with my friend Ryan

and we were this was literally this past week, and

we rode our bikes down to Bella's Bagels and talked

about God for an hour. Like really, you know, it

begins conversation. It's not hostile, it's not harmful. It's helpful

and engages the idea that you have God in your

life and it's part of what you do. It's not

something that's separate or contained. It's something that spreads to

every part of your life and it raises curiosity with

other people.

So I want to challenge you look for those.

Small opportunities this week. Ask God to plant those opportunities.

You'll be amazed at how He opens the doors just

from normal conversation that you have all.

Along the way.

If you remember, there was a response from the folks

that the woman at the well had she left her

water jar.

She went back to town.

She said, hey, come and see, could this be the Messiah?

She's dropping hands here. They came out of the town,

they made their way toward him, and then many of

the Samaritans from that town believed in him because why

because of the woman's testimony. Powerful testimony is powerful, and

that testimony that each of you have that's so unique

could absolutely revolutionary, revolutionize somebody's life.

The wouldn't challenge you to do that.

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