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Jesus Has A Need | Elder Terrence

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  1. You're listening to a message to go from acts church.

  2. We hope this message will light up your day.

  3. Jesus has a need and it's We're going to be

  4. reading from John chapter one, pretty much the first half

  5. of the chapter, maybe even close to the whole chapter.

  6. But don't worry about that. We'll do it one step

  7. at a time, you know, yes, one step at a time.

  8. So this morning, you know, God is good and God

  9. knows how to confirm his word. All right, So I

  10. prayed and I told the Lord Lord, can you wake

  11. me up to the prey? So I got up around

  12. four o'clock and then I said to the Lord Lord,

  13. I'm a little bit tired. I want to sleep a

  14. little bit more. Can you wake me up at five

  15. Jesus' name? Thank you? So I knocked up to sleep,

  16. and then I opened my eyes and I looked at

  17. my time. Five point zero zero. Isn't that good? And

  18. really it's about what I want to share with you today.

  19. It just gave me encouragement that the Lord knows, AHD.

  20. Let's turn to the word John chapter four, reading from

  21. verse one. Therefore, when the Lord knew that the Pharisees

  22. had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John,

  23. though Jesus himself did not baptize but his disciples. He

  24. left you there and departed again to Galilee. I must

  25. tell you that probably this scripture that I'm going to

  26. be doing today is something you might already know, and

  27. most likely it's going to be a reminder. But that's okay,

  28. because God is big on remind us. You know, he

  29. keeps saying, remember, remember, remember, So God knows something, let's

  30. run with it, all right. So here we find that

  31. Jesus was listening to things being said. Oh he's hearing ah,

  32. you know, this guy is baptizing and actually Jesus, you know,

  33. they made it very clear Jesus didn't do the baptizing. Okay,

  34. But this thing that was going around, this rumor that

  35. was going around, this conversation that was going around, was

  36. that Jesus was doing it. How many of us, when

  37. we are in our daily lives, have people talking about us? Right,

  38. You're just doing your business. You're going about doing your work,

  39. and you hear some chatter. No, not all chatter is bad, Okay,

  40. Sometimes you hear good things. And isn't it true that

  41. when you hear good things, you want to linger. Keep

  42. it coming. You don't want to move, You just to

  43. sock in all the good things that are being said

  44. about you, right, do not. And then when the conversation

  45. is not so good, you also don't want to run away.

  46. You want to linger this guy saying this, just wait,

  47. my turn will come. And conversations like this tend to

  48. stop you. But not Jesus. You see, conversations that were

  49. going on was just noise, white noise. Because the scripture

  50. tells me he left. Jesus was not interested in the chatter.

  51. He was not interested in the background noise. He was

  52. interested in something much more. So we got to understand. Then,

  53. we got to get in touch with what is Jesus

  54. looking for that's going to get him to take notice.

  55. Because chick chat, it's not it. Chick chat, I'm not

  56. I'm not telling you not to check chat. Okay, by

  57. all means converse with one another, by all means, you know,

  58. spend time with one another. But Jesus had something more important,

  59. all right, Because where Jesus was concerned, a man's got

  60. to do what a man's got to do. He was focused.

  61. Nothing stopped him from accomplishing what he wanted to do.

  62. Let's go on to the next verse. Next verse, okay,

  63. but he needed to go through some area Jesus needed. Wow,

  64. the Lord of Lords in the King of Kings needed something.

  65. He needed. The Bible didn't say he wanted to go through.

  66. The Bible didn't say he thought about going through. The

  67. Bible didn't say he sauntered along. The Bible made it

  68. very clear Jesus needed Jesus needed. Ah. This happened maybe

  69. a few days ago, and myself we went for dinner.

  70. Dinner is a Rabbato saying appum, okay, that's my go

  71. to dinner when I go outside, because I like the chatneyer. Okay. Anyway,

  72. so we went for dinner and then after dinner, Ale say,

  73. we need to go to ninety nine yearby I need

  74. to get something. Okay. We went to ninety nine. When

  75. we came and when we were about to pay, there

  76. was this There were these poor There was this poor

  77. lady and I think it was her mother. Poor lady

  78. and her mother poor all right, and they bought. They

  79. brought a bag of rice to the counter to pay,

  80. and the person at the counter said, I'm sorry you

  81. cannot buy this rice. It's only for Malaysians. Have you

  82. ever heard of that? Have anyone of you ever heard

  83. of that? You'll have experienced this. It's the first time

  84. held a mable in myself. We were we were shocked,

  85. you know, and a heart immediately felt something. But do

  86. you know that when you feel something, your heart feel something,

  87. sometimes you don't do the right thing. This is one

  88. of those cases, right, So we did not feel good.

  89. And when we pay for our stuff, we came out

  90. and Elder mabeled myself look at one another and said,

  91. that is so odd. I mean, they just want a

  92. bag of rice to feed their family. So I said,

  93. just give her the money, because they're supposed to buy

  94. the more expensive rice, you know that. So we the

  95. Mables went in. We gave money to her and say,

  96. never mind, buy the rice that that you know they

  97. allow you to buy. So we gave her money and

  98. then we came out. We got in the car and

  99. we drove off, but our hearts were not set up.

  100. Elder Mabel and myself we just will been discussing, is

  101. this is this is so odd? We so as we

  102. drove off, we said, why didn't we just buy her

  103. the bag of rice. That was the right thing to do.

  104. We missed it, man, we missed it. So as we

  105. came out of the Taman and we went back on

  106. the main road and we were discussing it, and the

  107. both of us just said, our hearts are not right

  108. with this. Let's go back. So we went back and

  109. you know that that whole turn must have taken maybe

  110. three minutes. Four minutes. We came back to the shop

  111. and we could not find her. For some reason. All

  112. the the people who are making the you know, from

  113. the from the restaurant came up. What is that problem?

  114. Because they see her come a car coming back and

  115. we're looking, and we explained to them there's this poor

  116. piece people. They didn't have rice. You know. We took

  117. the car and we went to every shop in that

  118. vicinity and we couldn't find the people. We couldn't find

  119. that lady and her mother, and we were feeling so upset.

  120. But you see, we went back because it is something

  121. we needed to do. We needed to have. Well. Hopefully

  122. that that money that we gave, you know, allowed them

  123. to buy rice for the family. But sometimes you're just

  124. you know, you don't at the moment your mind doesn't

  125. work so well. I mean, we should have bought the

  126. rise and just given it to them. Learning moment. That

  127. is a learning moment. I can tell you, Elder Mable

  128. and myself will not get caught like that again. And

  129. the next time we encounter something like that, you know

  130. what we'll do. We'll buy them the rice. I mean,

  131. in Malaysia people are not allowed to buy food. I

  132. couldn't believe it. God, Jesus needed to do something. It

  133. was heavy on his hand. He just wanted to get

  134. something done. So he came to the city of Samaria,

  135. which is called Seicha, near the plot of ground that

  136. Jacob gave to his son. Now Jacob's wealth was there,

  137. and Jesus, therefore, being wearied from his journey, set us

  138. by the well. It was about the sixth hour. Jesus

  139. never makes a mistake. Everything that he does is intentional

  140. where you and I are concerned, and let me tell you,

  141. what he was about to do was so intentional, so exciting.

  142. How can your lives be the same. Man, when you

  143. understand what Jesus wanted to do for this person he

  144. was about to me, it's the same thing he wants

  145. to do for us. Now, a woman came to draw water,

  146. so Jesus said to her, give me a drink, for

  147. his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.

  148. You know that Jesus is the master conversational starter. If

  149. you think that he really wanted a drink, study the

  150. whole scripture. He never tells that he drank anything from

  151. the well. So was he interested in the water? No,

  152. what was he interested in doing? He was interested in

  153. creating a conversation with a person that he needed to meet.

  154. Jesus needed to meet this person. How many times has

  155. Jesus needed to meet us and we said forget about it?

  156. I thank God. You know when I woke up and

  157. for something I didn't tell the Lord. I'm so tired,

  158. I just want to sleep. I realized that Jesus needed

  159. to have a conversation with me this morning. So five o'clock,

  160. according to my asking him, he woke me up, not

  161. five oh one, not four oh fi nine five point

  162. zero zero. You know everything that I tell you, it

  163. really doesn't matter whether anybody believes me or not, because

  164. I'm I'm not interested in whether somebody believes what I say.

  165. You know what I'm interested in. God knows, So when

  166. I tell you these things. I'm not telling you these

  167. things because I want you to think I'm somebody great.

  168. No far from it. I want you to tell a

  169. rotten person like me can see God work in his life,

  170. he can work in your life. And trust me, I'm

  171. not saying you're are rotten. So we can work in

  172. my life. He's ready to work in yours. Jesus did

  173. not come to save good people. He came to save

  174. those that were not good. And in case you're thinking, whoa,

  175. there's such a bad thing to say, not really, because

  176. the Bible say that that everybody was bad. There's no good, no,

  177. not one. So everybody qualified for Jesus coming, you see.

  178. So the thing is this, give me a drink for

  179. his disciples had gone away to buy food. Do you

  180. know that Jesus does want to have a conversation with

  181. you and me and we say we're too busy. When

  182. Jesus has a conversation with us, your lives will change.

  183. Do you know that it's him who starts the conversation first?

  184. You know? Do you know that? You know how you

  185. know he started the conversation first. For God to love

  186. the world, that he gave his only begotten son, that

  187. whosoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life.

  188. Remember the testimony about badminton and how that person got

  189. saved because I said, do you like badminton? He said yes.

  190. I said, well, Jesus already said the shuttle to you

  191. when he died on the cross. He's waiting for you

  192. to return it. But otherwise he can't play the game. Guys,

  193. Jesus has already given his life for you, and you

  194. don't want to speak to him. You don't have to

  195. be all like me to speak to him. Okay, you

  196. can be young like you because Jesus likes to have

  197. You know how Jesus starts a conversation, do you do

  198. you think he comes to you and he says life

  199. is what you make it. No, he comes in and

  200. asks you can I have a drink? Or when Jesus

  201. starts a conversation you like footballer? Yeah? I also like football.

  202. You know? Do you know why I invented the ball?

  203. Because if I didn't have invent the ball, you won't

  204. be playing football. Who invented the ball? Jesus? Thank god

  205. Jesus invented the ball, otherwise cannot play tennis. Do you

  206. know that almost half of the games that you and

  207. I play on this earth today is because of the

  208. event on the ball. So when Jesus comes and he

  209. has a conversation with you, you like football, he knows

  210. what he's talking about. Did you think of that? So

  211. Jesus will start a conversation with you that you can

  212. connect with. You know how Jesus started a conversation with me,

  213. You see, because for many years I was fighting against him.

  214. For many years, I was saying, no, I'm already a Christian,

  215. I said. I was already a Christian. I was from

  216. a nominal background, but I had never personally accepted Jesus

  217. Christ's personal Lord and Savior. So when I went to

  218. this church in the jungle, and literally it was a

  219. you know, really small church, and the Lord came, the

  220. presence came, and I heard his voice. And you know

  221. how Jesus starts the conversation. He hits the thing that

  222. I was already looking out for. I mean, it's interested

  223. in it, he says. And this is how literally, this

  224. is how it was. Terence, you're not a Christian? Why

  225. didn't you accept me? Now I heard that, That's what

  226. he said, to me. It wasn't in my heart. I

  227. heard it in my ear. And you know what I did.

  228. I just accepted the Lord quietly without anybody knowing. Yes, Lord,

  229. I accept you use the person Lord and Savien conversation.

  230. I don't know what conversation he is going to start

  231. with you. You know you can talk to him about

  232. the art that you do. Come on, you design stuff.

  233. You can talk to him Lord, how but giving me

  234. a designer that no one has ever thought of before

  235. in this world? You mean to say he can't because

  236. if man can decide it, he's got other things. This

  237. guy Kentucky Fried Chicken, Connel Saunders Sanders. You know at

  238. what age he sold his he made his name. He

  239. was in his midd or late sixties, and Kentucky Fried

  240. Chicken took off and he became a multi millionaire. I mean,

  241. all these years he was frying chicken. But when he

  242. went to the Lord, and the Lord gave it to him.

  243. So he ended up giving ninety percent of all that

  244. he earned to the Lord, and he only kept ten

  245. percent for himself. How do you like that? Good study

  246. his testimony? Guys, So your desire is to be what

  247. what's your desire. You want to study hard, you want

  248. to be successful. He God can help you. You know,

  249. had that conversation with him, talk over with him. You

  250. know I wasn't all that great a student. Well, I

  251. was okay when I went to Singapore to study. That's

  252. when I had to have That's when I had conversations

  253. with the Lord about my studies. It took off me.

  254. I was good in my studies. Everything came so easy.

  255. Was it my intelligence? No? I knew whom I believed

  256. and who was able to help that which I've committed

  257. unto him. It was Jesus' conversations. Right then, the woman

  258. of Samaria said to him, how is it that you,

  259. being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman,

  260. For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. You see, I

  261. love this about Jesus. Jesus didn't care about norms. He

  262. didn't care what people thought. He didn't care if others

  263. believed it was right or wrong. Jesus did what was

  264. necessary to help. You know, we think, ah, we shouldn't

  265. touch I mean, should I have thought this lady is

  266. an Indonesian? Why should I help her? I mean, why

  267. should I help her? By Rice. She is not even

  268. a militian. I mean that lady said, don't sell, don't buy,

  269. don't we cannot tell you. But did I care? No,

  270. because there was a person that needed food, how slower.

  271. But he didn't care that this person knew me or

  272. didn't know me. It didn't matter to me whether she

  273. was Indonesian, she was from Sri Lanka or from wherever.

  274. I didn't care. All I knew was this person needed help. Jesus.

  275. Can you imagine he made the time he needed to

  276. be with someone whom he's people rejected, and here he

  277. is wanting to spend time with you. I feel I'm

  278. a reject. I do. I always tell Elder maioble H,

  279. I'm probably one of the most dislike persons around. Why

  280. you're feeling sorry for your eyes? You? No say. Everybody

  281. I've ever had a conversation with always says I didn't

  282. like you. It's true. It's true my own friends in school. Hey,

  283. when you first walked in, I didn't like you. I say, why,

  284. I didn't do anything to you. I smile, I said hello, No,

  285. it's just like you carried yourself like you knew everything,

  286. And I thought this was unusual okay, because this was

  287. now in Singapore, but in Malaysia was exactly the same thing.

  288. I'm playing tennis in my friends. One of them just come.

  289. You know what, Terrence, when you first came, I just

  290. didn't like you. Why what did I do? Nothing? It's

  291. just that I didn't like your face. It's okay if

  292. people don't like us, But there is someone who wants

  293. to have that conversation with us. It's Jesus. See, the

  294. world may reject you, your friends may well, friends reject Well,

  295. that's why my friends told me Laha, okay, well, friends

  296. may reject you, but Jesus will always love you. So

  297. when you are feeling I'm so bad, I can't go

  298. to you Lord with this problem. It's okay. That's exactly

  299. the reason he came. Because everybody else didn't understand. He understands.

  300. So this woman, now Cossell, was beginning to ask how come?

  301. And this is when I asked the Lord all the time,

  302. you know, why would you help me? Like I said,

  303. five one kilometer is spent thanking God for what he

  304. does in my life when I do my morning walks,

  305. so I always tell him why would you come after me?

  306. And say Lord, you know, all my friends don't like me.

  307. At first, then I say, even my family members I

  308. think don't like me. What's the problem. Then the Lord said,

  309. it's okay. I still came for you. I still love you,

  310. the one who fought with his brothers and sisters the most.

  311. You know, I'm at the center of every fight. Why

  312. I don't know? You know, I tell you a story.

  313. So the other day I was driving Kleg you know, Tamagibiau.

  314. You know. So I was driving Tiber. So I just

  315. told elder Maeole, you see this house. This house is

  316. the house my friend's father's house. He was a doctor.

  317. He's the one who had to open his cleaning at

  318. eight something or nine something in the night to fix

  319. my head. Why so, because I was playing table tennis

  320. on the dining table with my elder brother and when

  321. I say I don't want to play anymore, he took

  322. the bat and he threw it me, hit my head

  323. and cut my eyes, bleeding like like man. So my

  324. mate had to carry me like that the white tower,

  325. now full of blood to this doctor's house. This doctor

  326. put me in his car, drove me to his cleaning,

  327. open up the clings, teached me up close. The cling

  328. drove me back. You see what I mean playing table tennis.

  329. Also the fellow wants to hit me. What's wrong? Family members?

  330. Are my brother? Elder brother? There you go. So now

  331. Jesus answered and said to her, And this is how

  332. Jesus answers us. If you knew the gift of God,

  333. and who is it who says to you give me

  334. a drink, you would ask him and he would give

  335. you a living water. He would give you a living water.

  336. You know. Now Jesus is beginning to go deeper. So

  337. he started the conversation. So now this lady is saying.

  338. The lady asked this question, how come you? Then Jesus

  339. goes a little bit deeper and he is actually introducing himself.

  340. He is saying, I am God and I'm interested in you. Wow,

  341. God's interested in us. I am God and I am

  342. interested in you. Why would Jesus be interested in us?

  343. I give you an answer, right, because he is God

  344. and he doesn't do things the way we do things.

  345. You see, the woman said to him, sir, you have

  346. nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where

  347. do you get this living water? Are you greater than

  348. our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank

  349. from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock.

  350. So now the woman, you see, because because Jesus said,

  351. I am someone who's going to be special in your life.

  352. So this woman now begins to compare and say, are

  353. you greater than what I consider is great? We ask

  354. this question to the Lord all the time, but in

  355. different ways. Are you able to help me with this

  356. thing that I have failed for so long? You know

  357. when you ask that question, you know what you're telling

  358. God God, if I fail, you can't do it? Do

  359. you think about it? I feel that this so long,

  360. what you can help me? You are actually telling yourself

  361. or telling God God, I'm better than you, and me

  362. being better than you, I couldn't do it. You can

  363. help me? Can you help me? I love Jesus. Okay,

  364. you see, we are concerned with the normal and natural.

  365. Now he is concerned with the true meaning of life.

  366. Because Jesus is able to answer that question. If you

  367. dare to ask the Lord a question, he dares to

  368. answer it. If you dare to ask the Lord a question,

  369. he will dare to answer it. So now the woman says,

  370. Are you greater? Jesus is about to tell you better

  371. believe it. You had better believe it. I am greater,

  372. because Jesus says this. Jesus answered and said to her,

  373. whoever drinks of this water, whom you considered came from Jacob,

  374. that great man, they will trust again. But whoever drinks

  375. of the water that I gave will never thirst because

  376. I am greater than Jacob, whom you're talking about, the

  377. water that I shall give him will become a fountain

  378. of water springing up into everlasting life. You see. The

  379. woman asked the question, are you greater? What was Jesus' answer?

  380. You better believe it. I mean, you drink from this world,

  381. you're gonna be thirsty, and you drink from me, You're

  382. gonna have all that you need. His ways are greater

  383. and supernatural. Answering her question, yes, I am greater. Guys, today,

  384. if you forget everything that I share, always remember this.

  385. Jesus needs to have a conversation with you. He needs

  386. to have a conversation with you, as young as you

  387. are or as old as I am. He wants to

  388. have a conversation with us. Okay, And then he says,

  389. I am able to give you the answer. I am

  390. able to address your need. I am able to help

  391. you in a way that lasts. You know, our solutions

  392. and most of the time they don't last. How many

  393. of you know what a video player is? Katty young ones?

  394. Do you know what a videotape player is? Right? And

  395. now everything on YouTube everything those days are this this

  396. cassette you take and you put it in the machine.

  397. It goes in and goes down, and a tape place

  398. and you see a movie, right, you see a firm Gosh,

  399. can you mentione it? You know? Do you know what

  400. a videotape player is? No? No, can you mention? We're

  401. really old man, it's frightening. So anyway, there's this video player,

  402. this video player, and the rubber band burst. So now

  403. the tape cannot come out or with busy cannot go in.

  404. So I'm thinking to myself, God, send you the shop.

  405. Gonna costs a lot of money, right, So you know

  406. what I did. I opened a video player. Okay, saw

  407. which is the rubber Then my kids had a balloon,

  408. you know, had a balloon. I cut off the top

  409. of the balloon because the balloon, the top of the

  410. balloon looks like a rubber band. I took it, put

  411. it on, and what's fine? It worked fine. But you

  412. wanna know something, It works fine for a few months

  413. and then it'll burst again. You see, because my solution

  414. is not perfect. But jesus solution is perfect. Because what

  415. does he say, Those that drink from me will never

  416. thirst again. He gives you the perfect solution. Other guys

  417. like me give you temporary solution. Wish you one. You

  418. want a permanent solution, right, go to Jesus. He wants

  419. to have a conversation. The woman said to him, Sir, sir,

  420. give me this water that I may not thirst, not

  421. come here to draw. She still didn't get it. Now

  422. she thinks he's talking about water. But at least he

  423. has interested her that now she wants something from him,

  424. all right. And Jesus said to her, go call your

  425. husband to come here. And the woman answered and said,

  426. I have no husband. You know, Jesus invites you to

  427. be interested. He invites us to partake of a conversation

  428. with him, and then he asks us a question. The

  429. question that Jesus asks always desires us to be truthful

  430. to him. You see, if you want God to work

  431. for you. No point telling him you're good when you're not.

  432. You know, if you have to hide yourself, hide who

  433. you are from everybody else, but do not hide yourself

  434. from God. From God, be exactly as you are. Lord.

  435. This is me, This is who I am. The world

  436. is heming like this, But between you and me, this

  437. is exactly me. I will not hide myself from you.

  438. Because when he asked that question, what did Jesus? What

  439. did she answer? She says, I have no husband. And

  440. then I like jesus response. Jesus said to her, you

  441. have said, well you have no husband if you have,

  442. for you have had five husbands and the one whom

  443. you now have is not your husband. In that you

  444. spoke truly. You know. One thing we got to understand

  445. about Jesus is he already knows everything. When he asks

  446. you a question, not because he wants him to know.

  447. You know, when Jesus asks us a question, it's not

  448. because he wants to know the answer. When Jesus asks

  449. us a question, he wants us to know. If we

  450. know the answer, he is giving us an opportunity to

  451. be square with him. He is giving an opportunity to

  452. create an environment where he can do a miracle. You

  453. know what is that thing that is needed for him

  454. to do miracle? Truth? Truth, Because he said, you have

  455. spoken truly, and the moment this woman spoke truth, Jesus

  456. then starts to show off a bit, just to show you.

  457. I am who I say, I am. This is what

  458. you were doing. No, no, no, no no no wow,

  459. God Jesus owed her. She got a taste of the

  460. supernatural power of God. There is this word running in

  461. my head which I hope to turn into a song.

  462. I am, says I am, I am. It is I

  463. am who say uh? I am says I am, so

  464. I am. I am says I am, so I am.

  465. When Gideon was thrashing wheat in the wine press the

  466. other time I shared this, I said in the in

  467. the threshing, No, it's the wine press because he was afraid.

  468. What did God say, you, mighty man of Vala, I

  469. am says I am, so I am. That that will

  470. be the title of the song, be a country in

  471. Western song. There's kind of songs sort of this kind

  472. of title. Right when I've written it, I'll pray for

  473. you one day already crying my head. So anyway, Jesus said,

  474. you have done well. You have told the truth. So

  475. now when we want to get deeper in the conversation,

  476. as Jesus is going to ask us some questions. And

  477. when he asks us some questions, what do you do? Lie?

  478. Come on, he already knows everything. The woman said, I

  479. have no husband. He said, you have told the truth.

  480. I'm so glad, I'm so pleased. The woman said to

  481. HIMSELFE perceive that you are a prophet. Isa. Now the

  482. woman is beginning slowly to see who Jesus is. Faith

  483. is beginning to build in her. What did she say?

  484. She says, I believe. I perceive you are a prophet

  485. our father's work. Now Jesus needed to see the woman.

  486. Why because this woman had a need. It was the

  487. desire for worship. So you want to know what attracts

  488. the Lord and distract and so he doesn't care about

  489. the noise around. It's the desire to worship God. You see.

  490. Because now when this woman begins to perceive that Jesus

  491. is special, she gets to the heart of the man.

  492. She should have said, Lord, I want ten cows. Can

  493. you give me ten cows? No, what did she say?

  494. She said, our Father's worship on the mountain, and you

  495. Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one

  496. ought to worship. She shared to him with him what

  497. was important upon her heart. This woman, who had five

  498. husbands and now living with another man, still had a

  499. heart to worship. Never look down on anybody, never judge anybody,

  500. because God looks differently or looks at her heart. And

  501. Jesus said to a woman, believe me. Let's do it.

  502. In the voice of Jesus, woman, believe me. The hour

  503. is coming when you will neither on this mountain nor

  504. in Jerusalem worship the Father. You worship what you do

  505. not know. We know what we worship. For Salvation is

  506. of the Jews. I like doing that because even when

  507. I do my quiet, when I do it like that,

  508. you know, this is how I make it exciting for me. Laha, Okay,

  509. So now Jesus is beginning to introduce salvation to her.

  510. You see, the question of worship in a heart led

  511. the Lord to change his direction. He needed to go

  512. to a land that nobody would go to to meet

  513. with this one woman so that he could share salvation

  514. with her. Don't be afraid to go into territories you

  515. do not know when you need to share salvation with

  516. someone overcome your personal fear. Then Jesus continues, But the

  517. hour is coming, and now is when the true worshipers

  518. will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. For

  519. the Father is seeking such to worship him. God is spirit,

  520. and those who worship him must worship him in spirit

  521. and in truth. You see, worship is the key. Worship

  522. drew the Lord. Jesus started a conversation with her to

  523. draw out from her what she needed. And as she

  524. began to have more faith and perceive and and and

  525. you know, more revelation came into her spirit. She shares

  526. with the Lord what's deep in her heart. She's truthful,

  527. and the Lord responds because he is after true worship.

  528. You know, God is never interested in show or religiosity,

  529. but one of heartfelt reverence. You know, you can go

  530. to a church service and you get these guys dancing

  531. up there. You can see it. You know a lot

  532. of these videos. All right, People worshiping is like a

  533. big concert if they're doing it, because they really are

  534. worshiping the Lord. Praise the Lord. He receives it. But

  535. do you know if it's a show he's not there.

  536. Jesus is not in any church for a show. He's

  537. in church for true worship. So it doesn't matter whether

  538. you are good at what you're doing. But if your

  539. heart is to worship the Lord, he will receive you.

  540. When I first started worshiping that first church, that I

  541. wish I couldn't sing. In fact, the worship leader had

  542. to tell tenants, can you keep quiet because you're throwing

  543. everybody off? The pastor heard that. You know what the

  544. pastor said. Stop you continue to sing, whether you sound

  545. bad or not, because one day they will bring a

  546. dead body in front of you, and because you worship

  547. the Lord like how you're worshiping now, the dead body

  548. will come to life. Well, I continued, as terrible as

  549. it sounded, but you will know something. The Lord taught

  550. me how to sing, and after that, not only how

  551. to sing, but to sing how many is? And not

  552. only that, to sing how many is? While I was

  553. playing the drums. How cool is that God's able to

  554. do all things? The woman said to him, I know

  555. that the Messiah is coming, so now she is getting

  556. personal with him who is called the Christ. When it comes,

  557. he will tell us, Jesus said, to her, I who

  558. speak to you, am wow. And now the climax I

  559. need to be saved. Jesus introduces himself as the Savior.

  560. Isn't it wonderful this Lord of lords and king of

  561. kings come to have a conversation with someone as ordinary

  562. as you and me. I love it, especially for the

  563. young kids that I hear you got many many, many

  564. years of getting to know who Jesus is. The more

  565. you get to know him now, the better your life

  566. is going to be. For those of us who are older,

  567. it takes a little bit more effort to take out

  568. the nonsense before we can put in the right things.

  569. But you at the stop get it done right the

  570. first time, and your life will never be the same.

  571. And at this point, you see, I love these disciples.

  572. His disciples were always on time. You know when they

  573. were on time because they were always off time. So

  574. now after the work has taken place, they come and

  575. they marveled that he talked to women, which means tells

  576. me that this was a special event. It was something

  577. extraordinary because they were surprised that he was talking to

  578. a woman, which means that he didn't do such things.

  579. It was special. M Uh yet no one said what

  580. do you seek? Or why are you talking with her?

  581. There's no record you see it. Listen to this. The

  582. woman then left her water pot and ran into the

  583. city and said to the man, come see a man

  584. who told me all that I have, all that I

  585. ever did? Could this be the Christ? She left the

  586. water pot the script she said, he drank from it.

  587. So when Jesus asked her for a water for water,

  588. was he interested in the drink? So I told you

  589. it was a conversational starter. Jesus wants to have conversations

  590. with us. And I want you to know this. One

  591. meeting with Jesus will turn you and I into evangelists.

  592. Look what happened to her. What is an evangelist person

  593. who tells about Christ? Isn't it? She ran in the

  594. town and she told the people. She went telling everybody

  595. he told me all that I ever Did you know

  596. what this is discipleship? Because what was she saying? She

  597. was telling things she had just learned. Was she saying

  598. things she did not know? That's what discipleship is all about.

  599. We teach what we know, what we learn, we teach.

  600. You are young as a believer, it's okay when you

  601. share what you learn to a young believer, they will learn.

  602. This woman was not even a few minutes as a believer.

  603. She already ran to do the Lord's work. He turned

  604. her and to an evangelist. Then they went out of

  605. the city and came to him. This is reading from

  606. verse thirty. In the meantime, his disciples urged him, raherebi it.

  607. Now the disciples were concerned about him. They were concerned

  608. that he was hungry. But he said to them my

  609. food to eat that you do not know. Then you

  610. gotta love the disciples, because they said to one another,

  611. as somebody else brought him food, you got to love them.

  612. They didn't get it. They still didn't get it that

  613. the Lord gets full and satisfied on doing the work

  614. which he came for. And then Jesus said to him,

  615. my food is to do the will of him who

  616. sent me, and to finish his work. I imagine that

  617. Jesus has been actually speaking to all of us and

  618. telling us in our own way, in a language that

  619. we understand in the conversation, that we understand that he

  620. wants to talk to us. Today you get that sense,

  621. respond and many was thirty nine, and many of the

  622. Samaritans of that city believed in him because of the

  623. word of the woman who testified. He told me all

  624. that I ever did. Do you know? All she said

  625. was he told me what I did, and the people believed.

  626. And here, we don't want to share Jesus with someone

  627. because we are shy. They would say, no, no, just

  628. tell people will believe. So when the Samaritans had come

  629. to him, now you see it. They believed before they

  630. met him. You know, they believed in him before they

  631. met him. So when the Samaritans had come to him,

  632. they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed

  633. there two days, in the place where Jews never be.

  634. He stayed with them two days, and many believe because

  635. of his own word. Then they said to the woman,

  636. now we believe not because of what you said, for

  637. we ourselves have heard him, and we know and indeed

  638. that this is this is, indeed the Christ, the Savior

  639. of the world. People were getting saved because one woman

  640. wanted the truth about worship, and she was searching for

  641. the Savior. Imagine what we can accomplish if we desire

  642. to worship and have a relationship with Jesus. You know,

  643. we expect. I expect to hear great stories about each

  644. and every one of you, because as you go on

  645. your life talking about Jesus, we're going to hear the

  646. testimonies of all the great works that He can do

  647. through you. The thing is this, we should just get

  648. over our face. So what if we lose face. It's okay.

  649. Jesus has our face in his side. Jesus is all

  650. the time looking at our face. He is the only

  651. one we need looking at our face. The rest all

  652. that don't look at our face. It's okay. Just do

  653. what he wants you to do. I promise you guys,

  654. especially your students here, he will make you successful students.

  655. Try asking him to help you with your most difficult

  656. subject and see if there's improvement you'll find that is

  657. What about those of us who go to work, What

  658. about that difficult situation that we're having. Will you talk

  659. to Jesus about it? Because if you talk to Jesus

  660. about it, he's interested in that conversation and he will

  661. help you. So people have come to the end of

  662. the word. Even as the musicians come up again, I

  663. say to you, if you do not remember anything of

  664. what I've said today, You only need to remember one thing.

  665. Jesus wants to have a conversation with you and me.

  666. He wants it and when he has that conversation with you,

  667. just be honest with him and he will change your life.

  668. We hope you've been blessed by this message. For more

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  671. this week is going to be a good week, a

  672. hit for you. God bless