Sermon
Why am I so dry? - Bro Jeremy Howell 5-12-2024
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We miss Sister Donna tonight. We missed her this morning she lets us to
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howell know that she was going to be out of town. So we miss
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you, Sister Donald's so much. It's been so good to have our visitors
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today. Appreciate everybody doing their part. If you have your bibles, will
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you turn with me to Saint John's Gospel. Mad direct her attention to the
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fourth chapter and the thirteenth verse. Brother Nathaniel John chapter number four and verse
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number fourteen, and Brother Jesse John chapter number nineteen and verse number twenty eight.
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If you're happy, and you know what say, I am happy in
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Jesus, Praise the Lord, all right, Brother Nathaniel John, chapter number
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four, verse number fourteen. Please, my brother, But who's whoever drinking
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of the water that I shall give him, shall never thirst With the water
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that I shall give him, shall be in him well of water springing up
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into every asking life. Oh, praise the Lord for that satisfying well out
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of which comes living water. I want to preach a message the Holy Ghost
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titled why am I so try? Why am I so try? And I
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want to be honest with you. While I'm a little bit concerned about how
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this may go, Because only about an hour and a half before service started
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tonight did the Lord give me this text that I'll be using here momentarily,
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Brother Jesse John, chapter number nineteen and verse number twenty eight. After this,
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Jesus, knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture my
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beafulfilled saith I thirst Jesus Christ himself, speaking on behalf of every person within
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humanity, past, present, future, They say, I'm thirst And immediately
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after that proclamation and declaration of the need of humanity, thirst, I am
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thirsty, Jesus cried out. It is finished in the well erupted living water
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came forth. Let's stand for the reading of our text. John, chapter
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number four, verse number thirteen. The Bible said, Jesus answered and said,
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unto her, whoever believes that church is not for women too on to
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look at this verse. Jesus answered and said, unto her, whost whoever
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drinketh of this water shall thirst again. I want to tell you why you're
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so thirsty and why you're so dry. You're not where the well is,
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You're not at the oasis. Let's pray Heaven and Father, we love it,
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We praise you. We thank you for the opportunity to be in your
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house. I pray, Lord, that you would annoy this thy servant,
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set a guard in my mouth and help me to say the things that you
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would have me to say, nothing more or less. Anoint the ears of
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this thy peaceful that they might hear what it is the spirit of God say
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it under the church through the preach word of God, through your blessed both.
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Not of my words, God, but let them hear your words.
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I pray and use me. I desire you called me to do this.
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I ask you to enable me. You have every time you've equipped us through
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your holy ghost power. Would you help us, Lord, not only to
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hear, but to heed. And may we depart this place joyfully and not
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sorrowly in Jesus name. And the church says amen again. Reading our text,
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the Bible says Jesus answered and said it to her, whosoever drinketh of
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this water shall thirst again without a doubt. If you drink of the water
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coming from that physical well, you well, without a doubt, get thirsty
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yet again. Our text is found in a New Testament book of the Holy
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Bible. This is the fourth book of the New Testament. The Book of
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John, the writer of the Fourth Gospel, did not have much to say
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about the nativity of our Savior Jesus Christ. Again, the author of John,
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he did not have a lot to say about the nativity of our Lord
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and Savior Jesus Christ, but he had so much to say about his divinity.
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He believed in the unity of the triune Godhead and the divinity of Jesus
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Christ. In the twentieth chapter of the Book of John, the author John
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said that Jesus did many things in the presence of his disciples, which are
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not written in this holy book. But he said concerning the things that were
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written in this Gospel, and they were given to us the believers, that
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we might believe that Jesus Christ is in fact the Son of God. Our
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text has found in the fourth chapter of this Gospel. This chapter begins with
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the Son of God, knowing that some of the religious leaders of his day
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had heard some things about him, things that have been told about Jesus.
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Hoving of you are glad that you have heard the stories of Jesus. When
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I was a little boy, I would be ushered into a Sunday school classroom,
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and there I would hear about Jesus. I have privileged in that I
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can say that I did not hear of Jesus first in a Sunday school classroom.
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But I heard of Jesus first in my mother's lap, as her arms
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were wrapped around men, as she held in her arms the blessed word of
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God, and her child heard her tell me first about Jesus. This man
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had heard so many things about Jesus. He had been an eye and an
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ear witness to the wonderful workings of Jesus. This man knew that Jesus was
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the son of God, his cohort, his partner in crime, if you
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would, Because most of the religious leaders of that day considered the disciples of
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Jesus Christ, the Apostolic Brethren, to be criminals, men that were going
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against the law. They did not approve of these men and their ministries.
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This man John, he let them know that Jesus had brought joy to the
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hearts of many. He let them know that Jesus had caused people to be
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very happy. Those that were laying were healed. Those who brought their wounded
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family members to Christ walked away with their wounded faith. Remember having been made
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whole. Those that were demon possessed had been delivered, and Jesus had brought
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smiles to many people's faces. You see, this man knew how to tell
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a good story. John the Beloved had stayed close to the bosom of Jesus,
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and he had heard every word that Jesus uttered out of his mouth when
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he was nearby. I would say that John was a careful listener. He
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was also a student of our Lord's character. I'm talking about the author of
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this book of the Bible again. I want to point out that the Lord
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and Savior Jesus Christ, did not impress upon the heart of John, the
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author of Disguspel, to record or to write hardly anything at all about the
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Nativity. But John's focus was on the deity of Christ, the divinity.
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I believe the road cap that there are people today, and so Brother ray
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Asher has told me there are people within the Holiness and Pentecostal movements that do
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not believe in the deity of Christ. Heaven of you know that the divinity
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of Christ, the deity of Christ, is so important. Jesus was divine.
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Jesus was divine. This is the divine library, the sweet word of
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God, it's the Word himself, and the Word himself put the emphasis on
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himself. And in this book of the Bible we see this. And Brother
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Nathaniel, I was so encouraged and so happy to find some of the things
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I've found about an hour and a half before this service started. Those things
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that I found were in dis Gospel, and I got to looking at the
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beginning of this Fourth Child. In the very beginning, at the first verse,
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you see that Jesus had been busy helping people. They have praying through
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in a sense, they had not been butt off or born again, but
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they had accepted an answer to a message of repentance. We found here at
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the very beginning of this fourth chapter where the Lord had been busy alone with
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his disciples. Even though he himself had not done any baptizing, his disciples
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had baptized more people than John the Baptists. Concerning this fourth chapter, it
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begins with a sumptal reference to water. I was sitting there in my office
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about an hour before church, and I said, God, all that I
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had to go on is this thought that you have impregnated in myself. Why
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am I so drive? And I got to thinking about this fourth chapter of
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the Book of Charm, and God brought this text to mine our golden text
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answer Jesus entering and speaking to a woman and saying, whosoever drinking up this
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water shall thirst again again. At the beginning of this chapter we get this
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subtle hint, a reference of water. The imagery is seekers and followers of
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truth are descending into the muddy river Jordan, and after they were baptized,
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they climb up the base until they are back off solid ground. Undoubtedly,
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these candidates for baptism and entered into the muddy Jordan river drive that poons and
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their persons were drive. But after that they had been baptized, they came
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out and walked out drenched, unmoaning this somebody that God ws me preach to
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the night, and you're asking yourself this question, why am I so tried?
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Every person within humanity who is an honest person will say, as some
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boy they've asked her themself this question as well. Why do I feel so
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parts to inside? Why is there this in schuble desire for something more?
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Oh? Come on now, why are so many today content to be tried
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when they can be did and come up drenched? I'm seeking by and puts
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it out hearing from people that attend churches, and they call themselves the children
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of God. They admit that they are professors, but they are not possessors.
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They profess to have her the living water inside of them, but yet
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there is her. Just try us why hain't tried her and not trinched her?
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It's because her. They're not dipping trip in their proper places. If
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you're dipping her in a try, whoever did, you cannot expect them to
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come up corect. As we read on now we see that they came to
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a place of called Sykar for their road camper. We find the son of
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Goddam being desirous to get to the scene named Sakar. A scenario and some
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of you in this building to say, I go to a church in the
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bear fordam and there is a well there and that way is her? Not
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try who purchased the who say in eighteen years she's never been to her?
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A try? My servant say that befalls in the sing Pisa for this oasis.
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So he is saying, a wal, it's a living wail. He
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ain't not living well, there is living water. I want you to know
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if you're going. Well, hey, call suit you Todd. You will
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find that a well there. You see, this morning she had an appointment
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with a muster, and the muster he had an appointment with this woman.
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It's y car A Samaria. I must come there. Somebody saying I can't
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go there? Here can I go there? I know that geographic location,
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a certain place where there is gall I want you to know. You cannot
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tell her and could a been okay for the desert and a strict to fight
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a wall. It's somebody. As I tell you that there's somebody that they're
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not purpose, then there would be a water sauce there. Well, I
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want to go over here. It should work for me. I want to
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go over there. It shouldn't work for me. But at that purpose,
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it's not that there would be water there. If the purpose is not that
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there would be a well there. Oh, I'm telling you you can't get
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much out of the sand if you don't dig deep enough, if you don't
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work hard enough, that sand is not going to turn into a well,
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nor is he going to turn into a water surface of what a surcer you
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see, we find the son of God desiring to go through Samaria and one
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person had a need that needed to be met. I think it was Wednesday
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night. I preached a servant, tellawell God, may it was who needs?
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And God knows how to meet dozen needs. Somebody would say, it's
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not CONT's real. Let you do this, it's not CON's wallet. You
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do that because we've got a well here. But my question is is it
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a reliable water sauce? Sure leave us out to service. Can your deep
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crystal clear water and nurse's a soul and satisfies him? Here? You leave
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how to dip and turn out tricks? Say he come on now, I'm
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telling somebody to lie there can be that's certain sive that you're supposed to be
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at the water yourself could not have been anywhere utter that morning time. He
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had to be there. Well, I'll just trot the road. The preacher
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said something a hair lift me. The preacher said something to cut me.
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Upsets my sitting down on him. I WoT say, amen, do you
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want God to try up for a well while you sitting a saving news?
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The power not? Come on? Now? You a well to try.
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Jesus needed to be in Sakar of Samaria. Jesus had to be there.
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The Bible said that the son of God that knew all things that could be
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at every place at every time, he had to go there. I feel
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like some of you have made strategic moods, and you have moved here because
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you feel like her it is a well watered place. I hope that is
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true. I know that my wife and I some eighteen plus years ago,
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we set out trying to get that the mind of color and follow the play,
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and that God hath given us a sister. How what we felt like
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God desired for us to have was a spiritual oasis, a place may beware
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the desert surround it, in that we knew that we were with it her.
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He'll wear a water place. Notice our golden text John for at thirteen,
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who's ever drinking of this water shall thirst again. Whoever attends a holiness
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in a Pentecostal church where they're pumping and priming and empty, well, they
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shall walk out and satisfied, And the very next day they will feel parts
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of Herand's sister won't say. Many times, several days after the good service,
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she would say, I'm still feasting, and what God did for me
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Sunday nine, And perhaps it was Wednesday night. Don't come on now,
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hey the productal sun news. If you can get in the Father's house,
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don't be bred enhing and enough to stare. Then I feel like the same
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thing to be said that about the Lord's way. This never mean the kindness
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somebody man leaves that service. It may say there was nothing enough for me.
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Oh yes, sir, that's thing. Just get out of this spout.
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There's Norman, what come out? Just par cat hopping underneath it.
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I'm telling you there's no reason whatsoever for you to be dry? Why am
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I so dry? When they turn that gospel music and the singing of the
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red black huminal songs into rock and roll tunes with gospel music lyrics, you
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can walk out of there being thirsty again. Who you go somewhere where the
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Norton it's not pays. It's okay for you to walk out of there and
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say I am thirsty again. Where they're out of dusty and roll. Who
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waits up in the morning and they saying her, I gotta quick fixed last
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night when a kidnaped, Sir that I'm thirsty again. That promiscuous loming that's
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giving us something. So many at the end of the day see can say
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out a deep takes her that I'm deeper steel, I'm as thirsty now as
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I've ever been. I just cannot be satisfied. Who try the saxon can?
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All of these are top me things. We'll never have the satisfied somebody,
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No, won't forever be a fighter in the heart of the unsatisfier of
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hi doors. I remember attendant services that were dry. I remember visiting church
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people's houses and leaving feeling so parched because of the things that they talked about.
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Text my soul. You don't know the story of this woman of Samaria.
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Y'all know a little bit about this city of Sokar. This woman is
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a Samaritan. She's half Jewish and half Gentile. She's torn between two nationalities.
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She is an outcast. She is unaccepted. They do not want to
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have him her around. In fact, apparently one husband after another did not
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want to have him her around. Brother, dear Lave. We find that
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she had had five husbands, and the one that she had then was not
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necessarily desires to enter a commitment with her. You know what she interested her
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and entering a commitment with him. Oh come on, now, somebody listening
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to the preacher hereing in life, she was dissatisfied that she had been drinking
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out of was not a satisfying well. And I know that the words of
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Jesus are true. His words to this woman is whosoever, it does not
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matter if you're a conscious king or a popular It must not matter for a
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preacher or a little boy or a little prayer in that chas if you're not
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where the way he is. If you're not where the what a says is
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that you're going back to thirst again. The nature heck ho, the spiritual
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man and the natural man is the same in this regard. You real allways,
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me thirsty. Her deal you have to use the fucking you alive pray
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for me. That's a little bit discerned about preaching this. You're at the
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last minute. You know the story of the woman of Samaria in this city
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of Psyclon, and you know that she was one that frequented the well called
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Jacob's well. The patriarch of the Israelites. Hath of her ancestry would have
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been buried for me or with Jacob's well, Jacob dog or well, with
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good intentions that those who would come on behind him would have some sorcer to
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go to in order to draw water out of it. It was there to
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sustain the descendants of Jacob and how old boys, let me tell you something.
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The purpose of this well that your mother and I have dog is to
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sustain you and your children and your family said for many, many, many
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days, this is not Jeremy's well. Have come on now. It will
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not be enough for somebody to say this Jeremy's well, no more than for
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somebody to say it was Jacob's well. This woman that was an outcast,
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somebody that was unabcectable man and lost Ayle was unctab on that she comes out
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during the day and the head of the day the time Dona Geral. But
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it's not conducive to draw water. You know why, because she did not
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want to be seen. There's a lot of people drawing water from things they
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don't want nobody to see. I'm telling somebody there right now. Instead of
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turning the living water, some turn ahead to alcohol, Some turn to fortification.
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Now, some turn to drums nor earnest, turned to gambling, some
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even research to overeating, some just shining. Some need to new long tabler,
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and some need to mood tip. No, do you not turn to
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the living water instead of ending apera in the money waters, try some drives
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because you have a DiPT. It's because you have a dept. It's been
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a while since I've been in a good service, and so I'll live an
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hour for the podcast of this holdness church over here, this holdness church over
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here, this podcast from this to the custom of church over there, this
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program from this holdingess churchill overseas. I get a little drip heaper now and
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then Why would you be satisfied with a trip when you can get depth or
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come on down? If you knew that the well spring of life was only
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an hour up to road and you can have a satisfied through all your soul?
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Who did not be worth throwing to it? And defer from you rather
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than being satisfied with a trip, tell a story. Listening to this message
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tonight, you don't only need to need depth. You mean to be tricks.
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That's father Sundry. Why if I wanted to do things I've never wanted
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to do before, why am I battling in ways I've never fought before?
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Who swear and drinking to this water? Shall sirs again? Jacob had good
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intentions. Some pastors had good intentions. Some parents have good intentions. But
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I know where the water source is for come Noll. She had drinking from
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the water taken from Jacob's well numerous times. Let after she did the preaching.
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After a while, she wants drive again. And I'm a sure I
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heard no who it ghost to whispering this expression her while I was playing in
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my office parts parishioneries, how pinapont partsche parishioneries, how pitapot? If I
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was that preacher, and especially a postor, then we not on week I
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did not have to water that I needed to pour into the spiritual trussle on
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my people. I would talk to the saucer near water. Oh, come
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on now, Price Musting did the trick? Thirsty before you a minister for
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somebody else? We rest our, stay, you shall thirst again, you
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shall thirst a your how many people in this building locked water? Sister Hannah,
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my precious daughter, said to Daniels fast dead, teach her how to
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lock water. For years she did not lock water. What a lot of
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you know. I don't particularly care for water, but you let me get
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dry enough, you won't see it. Usually after I get done preaching,
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I slump down one of these bottles of Zepha Hills water. I don't know
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how many ounces that is, brother, The thing gonna tell me how many
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it is? How about that? How many is it? Brother, Lathamiel?
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He answers, And usually I took one of them down right quickly,
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and then I grab another one. And I'm almost tempted to chug in as
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well, because I'm drying after excerning myself, after preaching, after pushing.
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This is why i gotta come back to church. You go out into this
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world. Oh come on, now, you're rough shoulders with him as you're
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working with him, and you say, I feel part, sir, I
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feel tried. I'm in such pinniper shape. I need some water. Somebody
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find me some water. Back when George w Busher, he was trying to
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be reinterting as president, I took my family to her one of his rallies
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in Lakeland Forwarda And I believe the name of that stadium was Dodger Stadium.
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I can't really remember. But he, George Bush showed up and we had
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waited for Solona for him to get there. There he was there at his
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side was his brother chip bussher and we listened to person after person, politician
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after politician talk until we got parts and somebody in the crowd they started crying
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out her water, I need water, and I want you to know.
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The security team made sure that they started moving bottles her of water to that
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person's crime. They couldn't see the short lady that was standing her in front
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of me, but she said, I'm hot, I'm feeling dry, I'm
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parts up and don't even water. She got so much water given to her.
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She gave something to me. She gave son to sister Howell, and
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then with a slip little spy man, she said, I fe the little
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baby needing some water. She could not get to it, but she could
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cry out after it. And that shut this morning. This the wheel she
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could not put down to the water sasa that she needed to get to.
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She couldn't make attack to Chaco's water, but she needed more. He no,
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what was here Chaco's way and control. They need more, They need
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more. They don't put out, they need something coming ahead to the living
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water sauce. How many people in this field rock gatorade? Huh. When
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you need to rehydrate, you get Gatorade. How many of you like dot
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coke? How many of you lock sweet tea? I don't want to ask
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any of you diabetics APT don't dare raise your hand? Whatever do you do?
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Well? How? And if you lock these new cells? These drinks
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the pastors been turned on too. I love them. I have not found
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a flavor that I do not lock. I lock them off. Some a
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lot better than others. And you know, some of them drinks that I
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just mention you will quench your thirst. And old timers used to say,
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you can drink this cold drink. Some would call it soda, some would
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call it pop, some would call it this, and some call it that.
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They depending on where you were from. But they would tell us you
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can drink all that pop and all that soda that you want to, but
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until you get some water in you, you are not going to be satisfied,
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and your thirst is not going to be quinch You might go to a
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gospel music concert. You might go here, and you might go there,
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and if that lift and water is not falling, now, oh come,
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I've seen holding us churches holding us, meaning that the custom churches resort to
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rock and roar, beata and concert top sounds in the church truck, trying
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to get a world that bust up. The only thing laying up with is
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a spiritual Quaker and a concis tamper in the armful of the song. You
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can split the earth, you can split the emotions, you can split the
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affection. You can split it. But that doesn't mean the water is gonna
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be there. What are you drinking? I'm tired of trying preaching. I'm
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tired of try singing. I'm tired of it. I'm preaching the message the
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Holy Ghost, tired of fly and my soul dry. I used to tell
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people when we first come down here, I'd say, the reason why you
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don't get satisfied during the surface, it is because of what you're sunking on
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and what you're drinking and ingesting and knowlging in before you come to church.
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You come to church so satisfied on the things of this world. You're literally
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trunking on the cares of this life and trunking on the cares of this world
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that you don't even have a desire to get anything from God. Your richer
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increast look good tool. You have need of nothing, but you don't realize
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her just how parts your soul is, how parts of your family is.
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Parts parishoners are pitiful. How many walk to the middle of the church property
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today with a bucket in your hand. How man, ever, you filled
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that bucket up with water from the water well in the pump house out there
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behind the fellowship hall. No one you went to the refrigerator today, or
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you went to the little tank over there that the brothers had sat on that
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table and you open that's about that nose when you pour that unsweet sweet tea
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into your cup. The people of this day have runing water. The people
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of this day have refrigerators with all types of drinks in it, all kind
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of choices for hydration. The people of the Son of God's day, they
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did not have running water in the house. And this is what God gave
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me today. They did not have running water in the house, and they
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had to run to the water. And it's okay. When you feel the
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need, you got to run to the water. This woman could not get
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to the water where she was staying out, but she came with her bucket
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to the well. She came and running to the water. This samititant woman
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came to the well with a bucket, but Jesus had no need of a
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bucket. I remember reading some years ago they said that these these type of
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buckets that they had were lied with goat and sheepskin, and they would retrieve
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the water from the well and then they would carry it many miles back into
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the city. Now, I guess that jesus disciples had went into town to
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buy some things that they had a need of. Apparently they took the bucket
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with them. Because Jesus did not have a bucket. This woman did.
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And there's a lot of people in the church today they come without them their
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bucket. You are not the well water? Is he your bucket? Come
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to the house and come up expecting something from the Lord, and take home
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with you a satisfying as This woman had a divine appointment with Jesus at the
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water well, not of her choice, but at the water well of his
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divine appointment. Certainly she needed water for herself and the others in her household.
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Bonnie, it's not okay that you're drying. Your children are gonna need
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you to find the water. So she is in your living room. Your
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children are gonna need you to find that water source. That's besides your bed.
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It was around three o'clock this morning. I heard my wife get out
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of bed. And recently we've had some security concerns concerning things in our yard,
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and I hear about anything that moves, and so I got up to
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investigate, and I said, wait a minute, where are you at?
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She said, I'm down here, and she was up praying. She was
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visiting that satisfying well, no doubt. She was praying for somebody that's been
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in these services today. No doubt. There was a divine appointment for her
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to keep, and she met that appointment. Now, what was the reason
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for this woman being there? I'm telling you it was not a mistake.
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She had not got lost to bing the thing that she showed up right here
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because she had a need. She was thirsty. This woman was thirsty.
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A lot of you have showed up at the House of Garda, and you
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have admitted I am thirsty, the Bible said in John chapter number nineteen and
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Most number twenty eight. After this, Jesus, knowing that all things were
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accomplishing that the scripture might be fulfilled, he said, ah, thirst at
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this moment, in the final moment of his life, while upon the cross.
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The Lord Jesus, who knows everything, he knew the scripture had been
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fulfilled. And then he concluded with this my first he declared. Shortly after
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that statement, it has finished. He completed the work. The well had
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been instituted and placed perfectly in this world. It is to be the centerpiece
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of the oasis of life. There's a place for thirsty souls to quench their
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thirst with living water. The story of a dog comes to myrin. I
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heard this story many many, many many years ago. This man stumbled upon
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a dog that had been kicked out at in a rural area where an old
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pinty lived, where farmers owned hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of acres. Brother
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Richard Jacob would say, I'm no stranger to that, for he told me
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today that you could go fifteen miles in about any direction before you really saw
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anything in one of the areas that he was raised in. And somebody,
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in their cruelty, had kicked this little dog off. And it's a terrible
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sight to see a dog suffering because of malnourishment, if it hasn't had any
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water to drink, if it hasn't had anything to eat since the Howell has
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been trying to revive a puppy that has come down with the palm of a
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virus. And I showed her years ago that if you mixed the right minerals
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and vitamins, and you give them the right into accids and keep that stuff
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from burning them up, and give them the right concoction, you will get
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that stomach heated up just enough that they will drink water that they do not
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want to drink. Sister Howard was saying, when she put the food bowl
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down, the dog would literally run the other way. Is that right?
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Says the howl. When she would put the water bowl down, the dog
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would run the other way. But now we've got that little puppy whose sides
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are caving in, and I mean, it just looks like one of them
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victims of the Holocaust. That dog, just five days a dog was so
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good and so beautiful, but now it's shriveling up to nothing. And then
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you have ever visited somebody or been somewhere, been to a church somewhere,
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and you walked in and you said, Wow, these are not the well
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fed calfs of the stall that I remember. Why is there a famine in
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the land? Why are people so thirsty? Why are they so hungry?
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For a genuine, true move of God on to say that this dog,
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when they picked it up, it could not even lap any water in their
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hand that they poured into their hand from the canteen, because it was so
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weak. And one man he said, it's thirsty. Nevertheless, even though
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it doesn't have the strength to drink, it's thirsty. It is still there
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and still needs the water. It knows it needs the water, but it
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just doesn't have enough strength. And I remember hearing this, and they said
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that that man would put his finger in the water and he would put it
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in the dog's mouth, and he kept doing that till it got that old
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dry tongue hydrated, and it got things limbered up and loosen up, and
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the old dog could get that larnix and all the esophagus to work. And
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again that thing's got the functioning properly, and pretty soon he was able to
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pull for a little bit down. How many of you have ever been so
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try? I'm telling you you get't try enough. Even the water of a
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mud puddle will look good. I've been on some chop sites before, and
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being what the com bear caught to the point that you have caught in mouth
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and your temperatures elevating and your I'm feeling terrible at that time, and somebody
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brings you something cool to drink, brother Anu, and at that point you
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know you better not chuck it. You're thirsty, but you better not pour
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the eurs cold water into that overheat body. You better sip it just a
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a little bit at a time. The same thing, when you're coming off
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of a fast, you better just start introducing food and liquids to your diet
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and yourself. I put it at a pretty slow rate, otherwise you're gonna
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have some consequences. But now, when you come to the House of God
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and you come to this water source of you come to this satisfying well.
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And nowhere can I find in the Bible where you are not allowed to drink.
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Come on that you want to. I come from a generation to drink
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out of a water hoser, and I know what it's like to drink water
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that tastes suff like it was flavored with rubber, and drinking until my belly
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was floating, and when I ran off, I could hear her it's slashing
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in there. There's anybody know what I'm talking about you can get a better
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fool longing. They set it out to a while. That man was pouring
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that water into that dog, and that dog was being rehydrated. That's what
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a samaritan they considered themself to me right in the world, Who too?
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A you? He talking to me? A gentile, A samaritan? A
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dog? Ho? Come on, now, you ought to receive what God
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is telling you here tonight. You don't have to wither alone. You don't
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I up to be pots up. We can't be satisfied, sir pitifore look
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at that little dog at the house. Soon as we go in the house,
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Sister Howell heads straight to it. She opens that back door and she
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calls out to see is it's still alive? I told her yesterday. I
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said that part of ovirus lasts for about seventy two hours. If you can
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keep them alive for seventy two hours, they usually survive. My first experience
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with that, I saved the puppy name Oreo. Oreo had got where he
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could keep food down or liquids or anything. As soon as it went in,
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it came out. And I decided that even though I had certain responsibilities,
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that I was gonna just take this upart of myself to see if I
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could save this dog. And the vet said, if you'll pass one thousand
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dollars, we'll put it in our vent and we'll hook it up to an
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IV. We'll put it to sleep, and we'll rehydrate it, try to
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keep it alive or seven two hours. I said, no, I'm gonna
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go the cheaper route, and I'm gonna try to see if I can keep
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this dog alive. And it was about every hour and a half. Every
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two hours, I would get that dog up and I'd put it in my
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arms and I just put it in there and hold it and caress it and
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rub on it and try to just get that blood flowing. And sister Hell,
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try to get a little nutrients in it, a little liquid in it.
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And I remember one night in particular, that dog was literally teeter tottering
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at the point of death, at the brink of destruction, and I said,
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oreo, and that old dog looked up with me with the biggest brown
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eyes you've ever seen in your life, and they were pitiful eyes. And
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I said, buddy, if you'll just hold on just a few more hours,
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I'm gonna help you live. Oreo lived, and that wouldcome a gloved
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dog of our community. The Howl children remember him very well. He lived
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and became a horse of a dog. If you want, these kids would
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rideing like a horse. But I remember a time and over those life.
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If you would, brother, you're a mind. When if he could have
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spoken to said master, I thirst, And that's what Jesus was saying.
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Here, who'soever drenated of this water? Shall thirst again? Talking about that
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natural water. But Jesus is saying tonight, why sit you there until you
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die? Talk to the oasis any college here. An oasis is a fertile
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area of desert environment. This sustains plant, animal and human life. It
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provides habitime for those who care enough to stay. If you care enough to
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stay, you will find enough that there is water for you. And you're
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a family if you care enough to stay alone with us. The woman not
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just an ordinary world. When this special woman, the woman of psychar the
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outcast, she could leave that well and forget her bucket and walk away with
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a well and her soul. That woman who had been parched emotionally and mentally,
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she's walking away satisfied. How many religious people have made it their practice
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to shun people. I felt the Holy goes so strong when he began to
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minister to me in my office at last hour and a half she sent me
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down this direction. He began to minister to me about these people in the
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holiness of Pentecostal movements and of course within other denominations and organizations, they think
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that it's their privilege and their honor to shun people. These religious leaders had
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no doubt shunned to this woman. She was surprised that she's that's what he
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would talk to her. Why are you but you talking to me who's half
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jew and half gentile. Now I've seen some self righteous religious people to call
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themselves holding this in Pentecostal act just like the two good charismatic charlies and the
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Roman Catholic popes and his parishioners and followers. It seems like it brings them
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great joy to shun people. That's what the armist do. That's not what
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the good Samaritan does. There's some people, and I can preach a message
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title right now titled shunning the Samaritan. Jesus didn't shun this woman. Here's
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what Jesus said I've got some water for you. If you've got some water,
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give it to him. Don't shun them. If you've got some living
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water, give it to them and share it where I'm going. Matthew ten
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and Eh said, he'll the sick. Mister Shunner cleans the lepers. Mister
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Shunner raised the dead. Mister Shunner cast out devils. Mister Shunner, freely
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ye have received. Freely give mister all powerful Shunner. John four and fourteen
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says, but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never
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thirst. But the water that I shall give him shall be in him a
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well of water springing up into everlasting life. Not to take anything from Jacob
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and as well. But if Jacob's well isn't cutting it, then try Jesus
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as well. If where you're a wondering at it isn't working, then try
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Jesus as well. The water Jesus told the woman of Samary about could not
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be drawn from the earth of well. But the water that she got a
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hold of refreshed her, It renewed her, it restored her. So why
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are you so dry? Because when I look at sister Howl When I look
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at Sister Wood, when I look at these other brothers and sisters, they
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don't appear to be dry. So why are you dry? Because our preach
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tonight there's water in this way. But if you're getting satisfied, And I
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used to tell them down here when we were helping some people that were coming
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from the world into Christianity, I used to tell them, if you're getting
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satisfied with the rodeos on Friday night, you get satisfied with a shop of
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bar Saturday night, then you had no desire to show up on Sunday morning
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because you're so full of the world. You don't mean what the church has
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on Sunday school. But that will leave you parched. That will leave you
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parched. Let's stand tonight, that will leave you marched. Well, what
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I need is a new relationship. Now, you know what I need is
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a new church. Maybe I think it was in October in nineteen ninety three,
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November of maybe nineteen ninety three, about ninety fourth, November ninety fourth,
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I'm not sure, but God spoke to us about that worldly church of
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God we were in. It's just to how and I was married, so
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it would have been in October and November ninety four told us to get up
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and get out because the head was sick. The Church of God, denomination
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of the Church of God, fellowship that we had was not holding us.
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I understand there's a few good brothers and sisters here and there that are living
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good and there's a couple of Church of God's here and there were good people.
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They loved Jesus. But God told us way back then, over thirty
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years ago to get out because the head was sick. And Sister how and
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I newly married, brother would That's where my granddaddy's went to church was within
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the Church of God. But God is letting us know, Brother Jeremiah,
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the well, the water in the well of his tamed and we had to
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ease on. Now. I want us to bow our heads tonight, and
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I need to pray in church. You've asked the question, why am I
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say drive? And you're turning to YouTube, turning Amazon. You're turning into
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this relationship, and this relationship when you need to come to the water and
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drink, Go to the well, take some water and drink. We saw
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a young women pray today this morning, and these alls. I thank God
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for that. Brother stare at song. Someone trail the street corner this record,
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and I thank God for them. But somebody to kite needs to pray
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the way the service is gone to them. Somebody needs to drive. If
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that is you, as we all close our eyes, bow our heads,
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if that is you, I want you to come knee at these altars.
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Brothers on this side, sisters on the side that dissatisfaction. Why am I
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so dry? You should be walking out of every service here have a DiPT
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and being drunks every service. But if you're feeling dry, come to the
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well. Tonight is the somebody in this building that needs to come to the
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well. It is full of the Holy ghost. Everybody filled with the Holy
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ghost. If you're not your dry, everybody's saying to five, we could
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not be drying because and I shouldn't have to tell you that for you to
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move, you'll sit there and dry. If you don't learn her, come
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to the well on your own. And that's what we're dealing with tonight,
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sister weakness, dealing with you waiting until you're being watched. Right now,
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We're gonna give the musicians a break tonight, the singers a break. I
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want us just to do some soul searching, and I want us to ask
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God, why do we have these silly substitutes. Why are you drinking diet
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coke? Why are you drinking sweet tea? Why are you drinking red bull?
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So to speak, expirits and speaking instead of living water. I'm not
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speaking against the natural drinks, dot coke or gave Way. Understand what I'm
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saying. Why are you satisfying yourself on YouTube and videos and shock them?
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Alcohol, drugs, gambling? Why are you so drunk? Woman? If
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you knew who it is standing around with, you would ask me to give
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you a drink when you ask the Lord to give you a drink tonight