Sunday Message (1st service) - Pastor Brad Neuschwander (August 16, 2026) | Life Bible Church

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Jesus Christ, Heavenly Father, we thank you.

Thank you for your amazing grace. Thank you,

sir. Thank you for your love for us that is beyond

what we can even understand. Lord, I just simply

thank you today. that you remain unchangeable

and ever faithful. You are our rock, the rock

of our strength, our faith. You are the shelter

that we run to. And I pray for each and every

person this morning as we open the very word

of God and we go through the scriptures. Jesus,

you are the master teacher preacher. And I'm

asking Lord that you would release your illumination

to every heart and mind that's in this room.

Fresh thoughts. Lord, that would come to us fresh

bread of heaven. Oh Lord, as we open the word

of God, you are the one that multiplies it and

feeds us. God, we bring our little understanding.

And we're asking you to expand it with your great

illumination revelation of who you are as the

living word of God. We welcome it today. We welcome

your presence. We love you. In Jesus name. Amen.

Amen. Would you turn to the gospel of John chapter

John 4 · chapter mention

4 please. Thank you Jesus. Well, we've been in

a little series here talking about Jesus and

the journey to Pentecost. And it's taken him

a long time to get to where we've been going.

I'm just kidding. Some of you got that. But we're

talking about the genius of Jesus. We're talking

about the reality of how amazing. Not only was

the ministry and the life of Jesus as the one

who came to be the gift from the Father, to be

our gift that would breach, excuse me, close

the breach for us to have relationship back with

the Father, but Jesus' intentional focus on God,

the Father, and the nature of God, the Father,

Son, and Holy Spirit of being gift givers. And

it's interesting this last week and the week

before as I was studying this passage, the nature

of God's gift giving has been so muted and hindered

in our understanding as Western believers. My

hope here, as I've been just thinking about this

and pondering and allowing it to set in my spirit,

is that God would begin to move inside of us

to unpin. Some of the restrictions and hindrances

that thought processes and culture and experience

and disappointment have tried to just bring God's

gift only down to just Jesus. I am grateful for

this gift. This gift, it hinges on everything.

My life hinges on that gift, but there's more.

in Jesus Christ because he's of the same nature

as the father. And there's more in him. Please

don't get nervous if you're visiting today thinking

that I'm going to be talking on money. I'm not.

Relax. Tell your neighbor, praise God. Okay.

That's not what we're talking about. We're talking

about Jesus giving of himself and us being ready

and having a platform to always be willing to

receive the gifts of his grace and of his nature.

And the Holy Spirit is the primary gift and the

giftings within the Holy Spirit that Jesus actually

gives. It's mind -boggling to me the arguments

and the mindsets that have come to restrict the

Father's gift of Jesus simply only to salvation.

It is pivotal. It is the cornerstone. It is the

first and essential, most holy, righteous gift

that all have to start our born -again life with.

But it should be added to, like, I would say

it this way, like a beautiful diamond in a string

of pearls should be the gift of salvation, each

pearl representing the truth of God's gifts and

graces that we all should be wearing. It's beautiful.

And so the genius of Jesus is that in his teaching

and in his ministry for the three and a half

years as he was anointed, he highlights the nature

of God, revealing a key component about God,

that God himself is a giver. And Jesus is separating

out of the disciples their wrong perspectives

about the Father, which in turn bring wrong perspectives

about the Son and wrong perspectives about the

Holy Spirit. Because if you get off not knowing

the trail, you get off the trail of not actually

understanding and receiving the nature of the

Father, you cannot embrace the nature fully of

the Son and of the Holy Spirit. And so we have

to go back to this truth. There's no better truth

to highlight this than Romans 11, 28. I know

you got your finger in John 4. We're going to

go there, a very famous passage. Romans 11, 28

is probably, well, for the context today and

in the political realm of, even in theological

realms, this verse speaks to a hotbed of issues.

Romans 11, 28 says this, concerning the gospel,

they, meaning what? Israel. are enemies for your

sake. But concerning the election, we're not

talking American election, okay? Some of you

are like, well, what election did they win? No,

the election meaning of the foreknowledge of

God. Concerning their election in the foreknowledge

of God, they are beloved. for the sake of the

fathers. Now, I don't want to spend too much

time on this this morning, but I want us to drill

down on this because it is such a topic that

gets hit from every angle. And if you take it

to the extreme on the concert, if you would say

Jewish only side of extremism, it becomes out

of balance. If you take it well there, it's there.

They've missed their boat. It's all now fulfilled

in the church. You've taken it to extremism and

missed the boat on that. There is a reality here

that God is saying, Paul is saying something

to us in the saying to the Roman Jewish believers.

He said, you need to understand that if God is

actually holding intention, his promises, In

the midst why his people who he coveted with

are enemies. And that promise becomes an anchor

to you for you to look at. Yes, in the flesh,

they're your enemy and they don't see or appreciate

what you see in Jesus. So he's saying here, concerning

the gospel, Israel are your enemies for your

sake. gives you enemies. For your sake. To have,

listen, to just kind of crumple it up as used

aluminum and to say, well, that's done. No. He's

going to keep that group of people on the basis

Of his foreknowledge and election. And I'm going

to drill down on one part of this. So that you

understand it. It is on the basis of his promise.

Of his character. That it's impossible for him

to lie. So therefore what God promised. As it

says in the word. These two things are immutable,

that God cannot lie and God swears by himself

there is no higher realm. If he was to violate

this tenet, then all of our promises are void.

Please hear me on that for those that are trying

to understand the theology of how does Israel

and Palestine and where does all of this come

into play? You have to understand that God understood

that there was going to be enemies all the way

through, even until the very end. Many will end

up turning at the end, but not all. And the all

doesn't mean that it's all of Israel that is

all Israel. It also means all of Israel that

believes, that has become Israel as Jew and Gentile

in the Israel of God, the church. But it certainly

includes Jews that are born again and choose

Jesus as the Messiah. Listen, I'm highlighting

this because your promises, my promises, are

actually based out of this verse. But concerning

election, they are beloved for the sake of the

fathers. When you go, you see, oh man, there's

so many trails, I can see them. I feel like I'm

on the Oregon coast and there's just trails over

sand dunes everywhere. The reality is this. Notice

he says they are beloved. Beloved for the sake

of the fathers. And it goes back to, again, we're

highlighting, remember, Pentecost, Jesus' journey

to Pentecost. In Romans 11, right here, verse

28, it's actually highlighting something that

happened in Genesis 12. Paul is bringing back

to the mind of Jewish believers that are in Rome

and Gentile believers, that the promise that

when God turned, so to speak, and gave up the

nations at the Tower of Babel and scattered them,

and instead chose Abraham and built from Abraham

a people, the fathers are not just random fathers.

There were three fathers that he was talking

to, representing a type, and I'm gonna say this

carefully, representing a type and shadow of

God himself in triune nature. The fathers were

Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. So the promise to

the fathers that were a type of, every time God

refers to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, he's referring

to that he sees them before them. He doesn't

just refer to Israel as the 12 tribes. and look

at their each identity, although he does, but

in his heart, he refers to Abraham, Isaac, and

Jacob, because when he made covenant with Abraham,

he then reaffirmed it with Isaac and he reaffirmed

it with Jacob. So anytime you read in the scriptures,

he's made the election sake for the fathers.

It's not any other fathers. It's those three.

And in that truth, in that Abraham, Isaac, and

Jacob of that, if you will, earthly type and

shadow of father, son, Holy spirit. Notice what,

what, what we highlighted Abraham, Isaac, and

Jacob, the father who had what a promise who

had the. Only begotten son. That's why God would

not allow Ishmael to stand before him. Why? Because

he was made out of mixture. He wasn't made out

according to the promise. Ishmael was made according

to the flesh. Isaac was birthed supernaturally

by the spirit. When things were dead and impossible

inside of the flesh, that there was no hope.

God touched the womb. God touched the man. Listen.

Is there any woman in here at 90 years old that

would just ask God for a baby? Okay, just even

that in itself is, I mean, that's partly why

her name was changed to laughter. All right?

It's like, are you stinking kidding me? I literally,

she says it, after I'm all dried up. You ladies

know what that means. Again, many trails are

before me. I mean, literally, at that point,

God supernaturally quickens her body and supernaturally

quickens Abraham's seed to do what? Bring the

promised son. And then what? The hole in the

womb, two nations struggle. One that would represent

the arm and the work of the flesh versus one

that started off a deceiver and a manipulator

who God would take and train his backside for

about 20 years under Laban until he actually

gets a limp and says, I can't be like my brother.

I actually have to walk in the favor and in the

grace of covenant. God shows his covenant. True

to the fathers. And that's why he brings it.

All the way through. And the people that were

born. Of that. Now listen. There was no Jewish

person. Prior to Abraham. He was. Are you ready

for this? Made a Jew. Let me just say that again.

He was made. A Jew. And therefore. The promises

because he was willing to come out of idolatry,

come out of the system, come out from his father,

come out from the land, come out from everything.

God promised and validated it every step. Now

God said it, but each time tested him and re

-promised and covenanted himself to Abraham and

then to Isaac and then to Jacob. So when you

read, I'm getting a little excited here. I'm

not mad at anybody. I'm just preaching myself

happy. For your sake, but concerning the election,

they are beloved for the sake of the fathers.

For the ones God coveted. You have to keep, please,

I beg of thee. You have to keep this picture.

Oh, my goodness. Oh, there's so much. I got to

get it out and make sense. You have to keep the

picture of the flood and what happened after

the flood in your mind when you read these scriptures.

Because if you don't, you miss a gigantic key

to the whole scripture of the promise to the

fathers. Because God wiped out all of humanity.

Except for the eight that were in the ark. Right?

Noah, his wife, his three sons, and their three

wives. Eight. Eight being the number of what?

New beginnings. A few of you. Bible college students

should have just spoke up here. Eight is the

number of what? There we go. Thank you. New beginnings.

Cleared the decks. I'm not planning on preaching

Genesis 6 today, but man, I got a lot of stuff

on that. The sons of God came into the daughters

of men, created giants on the earth, calling

Nephilim. And from that point of time of sinful

humanity, plus now wickedness from a fallen nature

that should have never breached in, the Bible

says man's thoughts were evil continually. And

that perversion of thought, of sexuality, of

everything. Every form and thing destroyed all

that God had wanted. So he had to do what? Destroy

the earth with a flood. Then you read, after

Noah gets out of the ark and all the stupid stuff

that happens when he builds a vineyard and drinks

from his own vineyard. Let me just preach a message

on that. Are you with me this morning? Because

there's a lot of messages coming out here. The

reality is, if you want to create havoc in your

home, build a vineyard and keep drinking in front

of your kids. That's a good word, preacher. It's

not today's message, but it is a message. If

you want to just cause havoc and open the doors,

just read Genesis 8 and 9. Moving on. Then we

get to the passages of Genesis 10 and 11. Now,

we don't spend a lot of time in Genesis 10. And

we should. Why? Because in Genesis 10, it tells

us crazy, funky things. I like to read the Bible

for the obscure things. Right? Now, I know we

don't build doctrine on the obscure things, but

I kind of like the stuff that makes people go,

hmm. I've always, I like that stuff. It's bizarre.

It's cool and weird at the same time. And it

means that somewhere the writers of the scriptures,

they... understood something that potentially

they didn't put down that should have either

a been a given and a known, or they left out

intentionally because they didn't want us to

focus on it. How many ever grabbed a cookie when

you were told not to grab a cookie? Sometimes

I just like diving into the stuff that says it's

not very clear. Let me ponder. Let me think.

Let me research. Let me. Find out what is there.

So in this process of Genesis 10, it says, and

in the days, and please, don't name your kid

this name. In the days of Peg Leg. Not a very

popular name today. How you doing, little Peg

Leg? I mean, in the days of Peg Leg, the earth

was divided. Say what? days of peg leg, the earth

was divided. That's a big statement in itself.

So there's a whole lot of stuff going on that

somewhere most scholars believe that the earth

in our continents actually drifted apart. That

was probably more landmass that was together.

And in that day, God divided the earth. Why did

he divide it? Because he's getting ready to do

something that he saw. In his foreknowledge that

people would do. They chose after everyone was

destroyed and only eight people started. You

can read in Genesis 10 of about 70 different

nations now that came out of that family. 70

different people groups. You can begin to read

it. Not because they were new people groups,

but that they came out of Ham, Shem, Japheth

the sons of Noah and you begin to read and then

what is the what is the result of it and this

is the part that we fail to grasp the result

is what they chose to and it's not written you

have to catch it on the inference they chose

to do what listen to a voice to build a tower

and a system that was opposite of what God had

done for them and chose how they should live

and in fellowship with him. If you miss, and

I'm gonna call this the big gap theory, if you

miss the gap that they were listening to something

else, you see, you wonder, and I don't wanna

go too deep into it, but you wonder, why did

giants appear after the flood? Hmm. How could

giants appear after the flood? Hmm. Was it possible

that the same voices and the same influence that

caused that which came down to the daughters

of men, even though those Nephilim were wiped

out, is it possible that the same spirits that

are fallen actually look to communicate with

people on the earth? Yeah. Duh. Spirit. and angels

come on spirits and angels don't die their voice

of fallenness still speaks and all of Genesis

11 Babel which is the root of Babylon is a reference

to that which is fallen and a reference to that

which is man made man's approach to mixture to

make God accessible the way I want to get to

him, not the way he asked me to get to him. And

if you don't get that peace, if you don't get

that peace, you don't understand foreknowledge

and election. Because God's next choice would

just say, I'm messing up your languages. You

will be scattered because you can't understand

or communicate with one another. And I'm going

to now step away from the other ones that chose

clearly. Folks, let me say what this is just

in a nutshell. Genesis 11 was the mark. You need

to hear in type and shadow. It wasn't actually

a mark on their wrist or their head, but it was

a mark of what? Do not accept God's way, God's

will, and God's word. I will make for myself.

That is the essence of the mark. And that's why

Babel is the root of Babylon. And what the scripture

calls, and forgive me here, the mother of all

harlots. Why is she called the mother of all

harlots? It's not just because of sexual sin,

that's included. She's called the mother of all

harlots because she's the one that gives birth

to an approach to go and try to gain access to

God rather than the one pure way through Christ.

It's a spiritual issue. And then if you don't

see God turning from the nations and now saying,

all right, I will choose one for myself. One

that will believe me by faith. One that will

operate in the midst of a culture and in a world

system. Because why? God could have chosen another

way to destroy the world, but he had already

promised that he wouldn't flood the earth again.

See, we take that as, well, he didn't do that.

We forget that he was looking at what would take

place even in his foreknowledge. And he reminded

himself, I'm not going to wipe them out again

because they're going to do the same thing. And

he chose Abraham. And in Abraham, he saw the

promised son. And in the promised son, he saw

Jacob. that would be changed and represent the

12 tribes. And the 12 tribes owe everything to

the covenant of the fathers that learned to walk

with God, follow God from faith. And it is from

that point alone that we get Romans 11, 28. It

says, for the gospel, they, Israel, are enemies

for your sake. But concerning the election, They

are beloved for the sake of the fathers. And

then he adds this and he ties it right to us.

He says, for the gifts and callings of God are

irrevocable. This should answer the question

of why does God still put up with their rejection

of Jesus the Messiah, Because it doesn't mean

that God forgives their sin until they actually

ask for the blood of Jesus. But he is fond toward

them and blesses them and chooses for them not

to be eliminated. Why? Because the gifts and

callings of God are irrevocable. And if he says

those are revocable there, then yours are revocable.

If he can revoke his promises that he made to

the fathers there, then what promise can he revoke

with you? But God by his nature chooses to be

what? Faithful even when we're not faithful.

Remains true when we're not true. That's the

whole. tenor of the scripture that God himself

does not change. And if he spoke it and he validated

by swearing within himself, which I don't even

know how that happens, but the issue is it's

for us really. It's not for him to remind us

that if I say this and I do this and I, by my

own word, granted the covenant, gave the covenant,

and I made the promise and you really had nothing

to do with it, but just say yes. then I who made

the covenant will uphold the covenant by my everlasting

life. That's why you can say if you know Jesus

and you walk in fellowship with him, there's

no one that can breach that covenant. No one.

Why? Because the gift and the calling of God

is irrevocable. That's why when he made Abraham

the promise, even though circumstances, life,

body, time, everything that Abraham was waiting

on that the world says, ha, God is not gonna

do, just make yourself the provision. Have a

son with your maidservant. Dumbest move ever.

Trails are before me. To think that God will

prosper you out of a work of the flesh that you

will prove him right is simply deception and

stupidity. You can't make God's covenant promise

come to pass. Your job in that covenant is to

believe and to trust and to obey that which is

holy and the boundaries of what he says is holy.

To try to reach into the world, reach into mixture,

reach into other circumstances to make his promise

procured for you will always bring heartache.

Just ask Sarah how that went. I mean, that's

a whole message in itself. How many spouses have,

let's just talk on that. Take this one trail.

How many spouses have talked? their other spouse

into a decision because of their desire for something

that they wanted, that when they finally got

it, they loathed it when they finally got it.

I'm not looking. Come on. You allowed your children

to talk you into something that you knew in your

gut. In the spirit of God inside of you that

that shouldn't happen, that you shouldn't do

it, but because of pressure and because of your

own sense of, well, maybe, and you stretch out

beyond what you thought you should have done

because God gave you wisdom and understanding

for a season you didn't even see or know, you

wished you would have never done that decision.

That's Sarah. The gifts and callings of God,

let's get back on track. The gifts of callings

of God are irrevocable. The English word irrevocable,

okay, in the Greek means, that word that's used

there, means without regret or without repentance.

Now this is key because it says the gifts of

callings, we use the word irrevocable meaning

it's limited. But if you take the Greek understanding

of it, it says the gifts and callings of God

are without regret. Meaning that every good and

perfect gift that comes to you and every promise

that God made with you and the covenant of promise,

you'll never, it'll never have regret to it.

It'll never have. regret it. And also if it's

from God and it's really his gift, it will never

need repentance. You say, well, what does that

mean? I mean, repentance means you'll never have

to change the way you think of why you asked

for it and why God gave it. If it's from him,

you'll never change your thinking on it because

repentance really means. changing my thought

process before I actually walk different. That's

what most people, most people think repentance

is, well, just walking away from it. No, no,

no, no. It's the changing of your mind before

you ever actually walk out repentance. So repentance

has two stages to it for it actually to be real

repentance. You can walk away from something

and not be repentful. It's the changing of the

way you think that you surrendered your thoughts

and embrace God's thoughts about that issue and

about that section or that truth of your life.

And in that point, the Bible says the gifts and

callings of God are without repentance. Meaning

what? There is no place to turn to have a different

angle or a different thought. It will always

be pure, true, and connected to his nature. Hmm.

So when we understand that now we can actually

get to our message in John chapter four, you're

doing okay. Okay. I know. Listen, I'm a firm

believer in good appetizers prior to the meal.

Okay. I live that message. Hallelujah. All right.

John, John chapter four, verse 10. I'm going

to start there. Because this passage is so incredible.

Let me just say this about John 4. And I think

it needs to be said. It possibly could be one

of the most preached scriptures in Christendom.

But I believe it's one of the most unmind scriptures

preached. That the treasury of the nuggets of

truth that Jesus was revealing. If you have no

understanding of the Holy Spirit and the gifts

of the Holy Spirit, you'll only go so deep in

the revelation of this passage. The understanding

of the Holy Spirit and God as a gift giver will

expand the understanding of what Jesus was dealing

with with this woman at the well who was a Samaritan

woman. John 4, 10 says, and Jesus, Answered her.

John 4 .10. And Jesus answered her. If you knew.

Can you say that with me? If you knew. What?

The gift of God. And who it is. And who it is.

We missed that phrase. Most of us automatically.

put Jesus as the gift of God, and he is. But

here, Jesus is referring to something that he

wants her to make a distinction or at least understand

that the two are connected. If you knew the gift

of God and who it is that is saying to you, give

me a drink, You would have asked him and he would

have given you living water. Jesus is revealing

himself. He's revealing himself as the gift of

God and as the giver. Please, theologically,

put that, maybe just write that on the note.

He is the gift. He is the giver. And in doing

so, Jesus is declaring the heart of the father

to this woman. He's declaring the heart of the

father. Remember, because you have to take the

theology of what Jesus said. If you've seen me,

you've seen the father. If you've heard me. You've

heard the father. If you see the, if you don't

believe in the words that I do, believe in the

works that I do for the works testify that I

come from the father and these works are done

in him. So Jesus is now in John four. He's talking

with the woman at the well. He's talking with

a number one, a, a Mick. I want you to say this

word mixed. Can we say that together? A mixed

up woman. Mixed in her understanding of faith.

Mixed in her understanding of covenant. Mixed

in her understanding of how to navigate life.

Mixed in personal relationships. Mixed in community

relationships. She is mixed at. every level,

not to mention she's a Samaritan, which means

what? She's mixed in the mindset of the Jews

that she did not stay pure to where they were

once a whole nation of Israel. She's part of

the tribe that left and went to worship the Baals,

the golden calf gods that were set up in Dan

and set up in Bethel. Jeroboam took the people

and Rehoboam was only left with just a small

portion of Israel. Mixed at every level. Jesus

saying, if you knew who it was, if you knew the

gift and who it was that says this to you. Jesus

was revealing that the nature of the father was

totally different than anything she'd experienced

on earth. Because the nature of the heavenly

father was to what? Give of himself. So Jesus

is meeting her against every form of religious

boundary. Every form, I mean, this is amazing.

Every form of protocol, every form of taboo.

Jesus is... Not that he's doing anything weird.

He's just encountering her with conversation.

And prophetically, by the word of God, by the

knowledge of God, by the love of God, he is revealing

and showing her that who he is is connected to

someone. that she says she's after and thinks

she's connected to, that she has no idea who

God actually is. This is probably, just preaching

this passage, this is probably the biggest issue

in our culture, is that there is so much mixture.

Mixture in the mind's mixture of what they believe.

Here a little, there a little. I'll make a potpourri

of Christian faith. And it smells horrible. Why?

Because it's not pure. But then that mixture

gets passed on. It gets passed on to children.

And pretty soon, the very lifestyles that they

live, that they say, I am a Christian, it's supposed

to be a Christ follower, doesn't even look like

a Christ follower at any level. Because everything

they do, every value that they have is contrary

to what is written of what it means to be close

and have a fellowship and a relationship with

God. Yet they would be hard pressed and they

would defend their statement that they were.

This is where the Samaritan woman was. This is

2026 right here. Jesus was revealing the father's

nature of giving himself through his son and

what his son came to bring. And there is no greater

gift than to receive something that is from God

and of God. Please put that in your understanding.

There is no greater gift than to receive something

that is from God and of God. Meaning of all the

gifts that you have been ever given in the world

of your life, there is nothing greater than getting

something from God and of God. That includes

and starts with salvation, but it also includes

everything that's connected to God that he has

for you. So what does it also say to us? Well,

number two, the gift of God wants to be known.

It should be right clear from this point. That

as Jesus is doing this, he is declaring to this

woman, I come to declare to you by breaking social

norms, by breaking religious norms, by acting

totally different than every other group that

would just stay in their box to what they think,

that I am letting you know the reason I am breaking

every barrier is because God wants, the Father

wants to be known through the Son and the Son's

gift. to whoever will ask. The whole goal of

the father is to be known. This is the very weight

of this precious gift is that God wants to be

known. Jesus is saying to the woman and to all

Gentiles, my people Israel, now hear me say this,

this is important. My people Israel know that

God gives gifts. You see, they knew that. You

could not ask a person that had a Jewish background

and was trained going to synagogue and operating

in the Sabbath and in their whole life as they

were dedicated to know Jehovah God or Yahweh,

the one true God. You could not find a answer

in any genuine believer of a Jewish believer,

they would all say that God plans to give us

a gift. Every prophet that prophesied was prophesying

in accordance to God is going to give a gift

of the Messiah. A king is coming. God will establish.

one that will rule on the throne of David. God

will establish the covenant of the fathers. They

believed in what? They would get land. They believed

they would have favor. They believed there would

be a king that was coming and they would all

share in the bounty of that king as a gift to

them. That was the whole platform. Everything

about their fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob's

covenant expression was what was coming to the

family. So it was passed down not only from oral

history from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob through

the 400 years of Israel and then at the giving

of the law in Exodus 23 and 24 of what God was

actually giving was to do what? Be my own special

treasure, my own holy people that the nations

of the world now would see that God dwells among

the people and you would give the gift. You would

be a gift to the peoples. That was the promise.

So in their DNA, Tyler, in their DNA was put,

sorry, you're just looking right at me. In their

DNA, right from the beginning of how they were

raised, it was put inside of them, you're a gift.

You're a gift. Not just in your circle that mom

and dad would say, Tyler's a gift. Right from

the get -go. What was put into them based on

everything around them. On covenant. On rehearsing

it. On everything that they would read from the

holy book of God. And read from the Torah. Everything

would reinforce what? Not just a gift. You're

a gift to the world. That was your impartation.

You're a gift to the world. And you're carrying.

a message, and a relationship that is supposed

to provoke the people of the world to want what

you want, to want what you have. You see, if

that was the old covenant, folks, if that was

what was absolutely put in them right from the

beginning, that God said, I'm putting in you

my declaration, over the promise to the fathers

of everyone that would be born of Abraham, Isaac,

and Jacob, I put in them that they are a gift

to the world. And they will carry my word and

my presence. And I see them as a gift and they

should see themselves as a gift. Why don't we

believe that? We have a better covenant. We actually

have been born from above. We're not born of

natural birth into that gift. We're now born

of a superior birth spiritually by faith in Jesus,

which is a better covenant. And that same mark

is actually on you. You are a gift. Yes. To your

parents. To your spouse. To each other, thank

you. I was struggling. Thank you, James. And

you're thinking to yourself, oh yeah, you're

a gift, oh boy. But you're a gift to the world.

And the very core, now I want you to see this.

We've chosen to believe that salvation is just

for us and for our getting Jesus and for our

hell insurance to be paid up. But that is only

part of the equation. You've got half a perspective.

Your perspective is right. But the other perspective

is not only does he save you, but he then in

doing so accepts you, AJ, loves you, and gives

himself to you as a personal gift and grace and

fellowship and removes the handwriting of the

law that was against you and puts your name in

the Lamb's book of life. That's half of it. And

we've been guilty as the church. Unfortunately,

I say the church as in, the Western church, that

that's the only half we preach. It's all about

me. Jesus, salvation is only for me. And what

you'll do in my world. That's half the song.

When the other part of the song is, it's all

about them. and I've been given as a gift. As

the son of man was given to do only what he could

do, now those that are found faith in him are

given a gift to do what he said he needed us

to finish. And if we miss the call and the impartation

and the infusion that you're a gift to the world.

You're a gift to the nations. You're a gift to

the lost. You're a gift. We've got to get back

to that. Yes, it starts with you having security

in the blood of Jesus, in his covenant, and in

his promise that you'll be with him forever.

has to start there. It cannot start anywhere

else. You can't work your way around it. You

can't earn it. It's a gift of God. It's free.

It's his mercy. It's his grace. It's his truth.

And he always starts with you, but the impartation

has to be received. I am a gift. Now, trust me,

there will be people in this church that will

help you not get proud if you get too big for

that. But the reality is that's what the Lord

is looking to impart to us as he was imparting

this to the Samaritan woman. He said, my people

know this. This was the big shift that we failed

to see in the dialogue with the Samaritan woman

and with Jesus. He was getting at the root system.

Why? Because she kept pulling up arguments about,

Where they believed they worshipped. And what

you guys believe over here. And constantly diverting

things. Because it was about going to a place.

Or being part of a culture. That God just accepts

everything. Versus Jesus saying listen. Salvation

is of the Jews. They he knew. And it was purposeful

that they understood their covenant with God

made them a gift. They received the blessing.

It's in their DNA. I don't want to go too far.

on this, but you can just see it throughout history.

Even if they don't have faith, that DNA of covenant

of being blessed because they knew they were

a gift based on covenant to the fathers has followed

them irrevocably all the way through even to

today. And you want to ask, well, why does it

seem that they're always in positions of favor

and money and dah, dah, dah, dah, and yet they

do some crazy things? Because right from the

DNA of their start. They were declared a gift

to the nations. Well if that's true. And the

gifts of callings of God are irrevocable. How

much more true. That's what the scripture says

in Hebrews. It said if the old covenant that

was. administrated by angels proved true how

much more to the God who's living who now has

promises gave his only son we've got to get inside

of us that from the very DNA see Jesus started

with this Samaritan woman pulling the mixture

to get to a place where she could actually live,

not bound still by the religion, the poles of

society, the mindset of her past. She could actually

live in the truth that she was born to be a gift.

Jesus was saying, Jenny, come to the piano. That's

what Jesus was saying. Thank you, honey. Jesus

is saying, if you really knew, if you knew God's

nature, if you knew his heart, you would want

what he has. You would want who he is. And you

would want all that he has for you. You would

want who he is. You would want what he has. And

you would want all that he has for you. If you

knew. It means that if there's places in your

life right now where you have not wanted all

that he is and all that he has for you, it means

what? It means you don't know. In some area.

You don't actually know. What does that mean?

Well. You better come to church next week. To

find out the answer. He was. He was speaking

to something. That in the Greek languages. There

were two words for it. No. There's one that was

known just as fact and having information. There

was another word that means to know by experience

relationship that actually is something that

touches you on the inside. Jesus was going to

start off with the woman of the well, not giving

her. Only an understanding of information. Because

when you get information alone, you revert back

to your old practices. Please think that through.

When you get information alone about Jesus, it's

wonderful. But it doesn't transform you. The

knowing him part of relational experience through

his salvation and grace is the part that actually

transforms you. Then the information increases

your love for him because the real knowing happened.

If you only know him at a distance and never

have the experience of having him come and live

and be transformational, You'll never really

know all or have a desire to have all the gifts

God has for you. Would you bow your head and

close your eyes just for a moment? This is really

important this morning because the call is going

out. The God of heaven has never revoked. His

salvation, his call and his desire to know you,

to save you, to fill you with his love and to

bring you past the gap and the breach that has

been created. He gave of his son to not only

pay for sin, but not to leave you on the other

side, but to draw you near. And he says to you,

as he said to the Samaritan woman today here

in 2006, 26, sorry, 2026. He said it in 2006

too, but in 2026, he says what? If you knew the

gift of God and who it is that speaks to you,

you would have asked of me and I would have given

you a drink. Of the living water. He is the giver.

Of living water. We all know that our bodies

without water. Will die. And our soul. Without

living water. Will die as well. He is the giver

of living water. He invites you to know him.

He invites you because all of the barriers that

like the Samaritan woman had, all the barriers

that you and I think that we have, he sets aside

because he wants you to know he's the giver of

life, the giver of grace, the giver of love,

the giver of forgiveness, the giver of identity.

and the giver of hope, and the giver of eternal

life, that you will bypass the experience of

eternal death. Not only that, but enjoy the riches

of fellowship with the one who is life himself.

He invites you to that place. That's what the

cross of Christ and the resurrection of Jesus

from the dead did. He opened the door. through

his son, that you might know living true life.

If you're here this morning, and you find your

place having drifted from what you knew to be

a real relationship with Jesus, he's inviting

you back. If you're here this morning and you

have not encountered and known the Lord, As truth

comes into you and it's experienced in his person

and in his forgiveness and love, if you've never

known him in what the Greek would say in the

word noisko, a relational exchange with Jesus,

he's inviting you this morning. He opens his

arms, he opens his life, and he invites you to

come. Now, in just a moment, I'm going to ask

you to lift your hands. We've got pastors, we've

got prayer team members stationed all over. You

don't need to come forward, but you do need to

take a step of faith. And I'm asking you now,

if that's you this morning, and you would receive

Jesus as life, as the water of life experience,

I'm asking you now just to lift your hand. above

your head so that I can see it and send somebody

to you. Thank you, sir. Back here. Thank you.

If you begin to move. David, thank you. Anyone

else? I'm looking. Help me out. Thank you, sir.

I got someone coming to you. Anyone else? Mom,

this is your time. If you knew the gift of God

and who it was that is speaking to you, it's

not me. This ain't me. I have nothing to do.

I'm just simply a conduit that he speaks through.

If you knew who the gift of God was and who it

was that says to you, give me a drink of your

life and I'll give you living water. Amen. Derek.

Come on, it's time to get life back. It's time

to get living water back. Father, I want to thank

you this morning. That you know every one of

our hearts. Just like you, on purpose, stopped

it that well. Let the disciples go on into town.

Do the things that they needed to do to take

care of daily needs. But you had a purpose. And

Jesus, you quoted it. I had food to eat that

you do not know of. to do the will of my Father.

It is the Father's good will that Jesus stop

and give you living water, if you'll ask. We

bless them now. We bless them now. Let the joy

of salvation come. Let the joy of salvation,

Lord, begin to flow and bubble up inside of them

as they meet with the Lord, as they encounter

the one who is life. We bless these now and we

bless the church as we pursue Christ and all

the gifts of the Spirit of God together in Jesus'

holy name. Amen. Thank you for taking the time

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