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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. So I'm going to be sharing from John chapter four

  4. very much between verses one and thirty eight, and I

  5. may not read everything, but I hope to touch on

  6. some of these things. And the title of today's word

  7. is Jesus has a need. Jesus has a need and

  8. it's just not moving. It's not moving. Yeah, okay, Jesus

  9. has a need. Do you know that even your Lord

  10. and Master can have needs. You're not wonderful. We are

  11. built like him. So when I share this word, we're

  12. going to learn something about the relationship that God that

  13. Jesus wants to have with us. All right, So let's

  14. start reading from verse one to verse three. Therefore, when

  15. the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus

  16. made and baptized more disciples than John, though Jesus himself

  17. did not baptize but his disciples, he left you, dear,

  18. and departed again to Galilee. Now Jesus always tells the truth,

  19. so even his disciples tell the truth. So you know,

  20. even though some things were attributed to him which might

  21. him been good, his disciples had made it, make it

  22. very clear it wasn't Jesus that baptized, but his disciples.

  23. So I want you to know that in life there's

  24. going to be a lot of noise, and at that moment,

  25. Jesus had a lot of noise. There was lots of

  26. things being said. Some of it was good, some of

  27. it maybe not so good. But you know, like us,

  28. when we when people are talking about us, have ever

  29. have you ever experiences and you know they are talking

  30. good about you, you sort of linger because you want

  31. to continue hearing the good stuff right now? At least

  32. that's mela is anyone am I speaking to people who

  33. are the same? Okay? What about bad stuff? Even more,

  34. when people are talking bad stuff, you also want to linger.

  35. What are they saying about me? What are they talking about?

  36. You know? And look at Jesus. Jesus was hearing stuff

  37. being said about him. But I want you to know

  38. that Jesus, as far as Jesus was concerned, a man's

  39. got to do what a man's got to do, and

  40. he did bother him at all. He was not concerned

  41. about the chatter. He was not concerned about what was

  42. going on, what was being said and we have to

  43. learn that from him, because you see, Jesus had a purpose.

  44. Jesus had a purpose, and it said that in Worse

  45. three he left Judea and departed again to Galilee. Jesus

  46. didn't care about the destruction and destruction distractions. Jesus didn't care. Hey,

  47. he had something to do and he was not going

  48. to let anything stop him. How many of us waste

  49. a lot of time? How many of us get distracted

  50. by the noise that surround us. I want you to know,

  51. time is so short. Jesus will come again soon, and

  52. are we gonna waste our time being distracted with white noise?

  53. And look, the noise may come in the form of

  54. good things being said about you, they may also come

  55. in the form of bad things being said about you.

  56. Don't waste your time with gossip. Don't waste your time

  57. listening to gossip. Because in verse four it says he

  58. needed to go through some area. Jesus needed something to

  59. be done, and he wasn't gonna let noise distract him.

  60. It's wonderful when Jesus needs to do something. Because when

  61. Jesus needs to do something, somebody is going to get blessed.

  62. The other day, alameable myself. We're having dinner and my

  63. go to dinner is ravatse one rava to one up

  64. them and the chutney, you know, to say that is

  65. my go to dinner. So anyway, we went to the shop,

  66. we had this dinner. Then you know, Ellen, we would say, come,

  67. let's go to the ninety nine by the side. We

  68. need to get something, okay, So we went. When we

  69. went to ninety nine, we got whatever we needed to

  70. get and we were at the counter and in front

  71. of us there was two poor women and they really

  72. looked poor, and they were Indonesia, and they wanted to

  73. buy a bag of rice. So they put this rice

  74. on the counter and they wanted to pay for it,

  75. and the person on the counter said, this rice is

  76. only for Malaysians, you cannot buy. Have any of you

  77. ever heard such thing? Have any of you ever experienced

  78. this before, where when you go to the counter and

  79. you see somebody being refused from buying a bag of rice,

  80. man I, it shocked shocked us, all right, and maybe

  81. the shock was what governed our thoughts for a few minutes.

  82. So we went thinking straight he was and you could

  83. look at these two ladies. I think one was maybe

  84. in her thirties or thirty five, and one may have

  85. been her mother, and all they wanted was rice to eat.

  86. So we paid for our stuff and we went in

  87. the car. But both our hearts were not settled. So

  88. I said, go back in, give them money, and whatever

  89. rise they can buy, it's more expensive rice. Obviously the

  90. rise that they are supposed to buy is the more.

  91. Give them money so that whatever the additional that they

  92. got to pay, they can pay. So elder Maebele went

  93. in and she gave them money. She says, but you

  94. know this won't be you know, thank you, But how

  95. is this going to help? So she says, whatever rise

  96. you're going to get, just get that. This is the

  97. extra money to pay. Then we got into the car

  98. and we drove off, and our hearts were not settled.

  99. As we drove off, we were still talking about it

  100. and we needed to do something. It was such a

  101. strong need that it didn't let go. So I already

  102. started the journey and I got back on the main

  103. road heading towards my house, and both of us were

  104. just not settled. Like Jesus, he needed to do something.

  105. We needed to do something. I turned the car around.

  106. I turned the car around, and I went back to

  107. where I mean, how dumb can I get right? Why

  108. didn't I just buy the bag of rice and give her?

  109. This is a learning moment for me, all right. I

  110. will never make this mistake again. Gosh, when somebody is

  111. poor and they have faced it by the bag of rice, duh.

  112. And I didn't do that, but my heart, we needed

  113. to go back. So turned the car around and we

  114. went back and away. We stopped the car. The people

  115. in the restaurant came out, the ones who were serving.

  116. Is anything the matter? Well, what's the matter? What's the matter?

  117. I said, So Eli Mabel explain to him. Know that

  118. these people they need food. So we went into the

  119. sh shop looking for them. We could not find them.

  120. Then we searched every shop in that whole area. We

  121. went shop to shop looking for them, and we could

  122. not find them. Opportunity gone. That's a lesson that we learned.

  123. And this happened because I was preparing this one, and

  124. I think John knows this. I actually prepared this as

  125. a devotion for Victory Academy, you know, our teacher's devotion.

  126. But and I thought that that was the end of it.

  127. The Lord said, no, this is what I want you

  128. to share. I want you to share. That's what it means,

  129. the word needed. When you need to do something, you

  130. will not stand stagnant. You will move. Jesus moved. You see,

  131. Jesus needed to go to a place that none of

  132. his people would go to. Do you realize that there

  133. are places that people will not allow you to go to,

  134. either because of you know, family restrictions or you know

  135. caste restrictions or whatever. This was it. The Jews had

  136. nothing to do with the Samaritans, but Jesus needed to

  137. go there. And in verse five, so he came to

  138. a city of Samaria, which is called Sacha, near the

  139. plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

  140. Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus, therefore, being wearied from

  141. his journey, set us by the well. And what was

  142. the other one? He was about the sixth hour? It

  143. was about the sixth hour. You know, Jesus didn't make

  144. any mistake. It was intentional. You see, he had a

  145. destiny with someone, so he needed to go there. Jesus

  146. has a destiny with us, and you know he has

  147. made the first move. Do you remember when I shared

  148. this testimony when this person was dying and didn't want

  149. to accept the Lord? And I said, God, what do

  150. I share with this person in person? And Jesus put

  151. in my heart talk Badminton? Remember that? Do you know

  152. when Jesus wants to have a conversation with us, he

  153. breaks it down to something very very simple? All right?

  154. It says here that he was wearied from his journey,

  155. so he sat by a well because he was waiting

  156. for someone. Hey, do you think that when you come

  157. to church, Jesus comes in only after you come? Do

  158. you realize that when you come on a Sunday, he

  159. has been waiting the whole day because he looks forward

  160. to his interaction with you. This scripture tells me Jesus

  161. made the move first. You know, Jesus was there sitting

  162. and waiting for someone to come to him. Now, a

  163. woman of Samaria. She's a Samaritan. You gotta love these Samaritans, okay,

  164. because they're kind of good people. You remember the good Samaritan.

  165. It was a Samaritan that had the Jew. All right.

  166. Here's another case of another Samaritan. So the Jews just

  167. didn't like Samaritans all right, but Jesus had a soft

  168. spot for them. Came to draw water and Jesus said

  169. to her, give me a drink for his day. Diciples

  170. had gone away into the city to buy food. This

  171. was a conversational starter. Jesus loves to start conversations with us.

  172. You know, do you think when Jesus comes and starts

  173. a conversation with us, he says, he equals MC squared?

  174. What's that? Lot? You see? This is the principle of

  175. nuclear vision, and from this you can create the atomic

  176. bomb most of us is flying over our head, or

  177. let's stop fusion. Fusion is when the atoms come together,

  178. and it's called power, no heat, no explosion. A Lord

  179. of do we care? We don't care. But when Jesus

  180. comes to talk to us, he comes with a conversational start,

  181. something that we can identify with many years ago, when

  182. I before I became a Christian, I thought I was one. Okay,

  183. I thought I was born as a Christian. I was

  184. in a nominal church. But how many of you know

  185. that you're a Christian only when you make a personal

  186. decision to have Jesus in your heart. It's not why

  187. you attend. It's not who you know, it's not who

  188. you rub shoulders with, it's not the work that you

  189. do in church. It is your personal relationship with the Lord.

  190. So I thought I was a Christian all right. So

  191. Jesus was waiting for me one day to go to

  192. this little church in a jungle, or right is a law,

  193. a little wooden church, which I attended for the first time.

  194. And it was during the worship the Lord had a

  195. conversation with me in my ear that I could hear.

  196. He didn't speak in my heart. I heard it, and

  197. very simple words. He said, Terence, you're not a Christian?

  198. Will you accept me? Now? The smooth, gentle voice. I

  199. heard it in my ears, quietly, without anybody knowing. I

  200. gave my life to Christ. I didn't wait for the

  201. altar call. Some of us wait for the altar call,

  202. and even when the altar call is given, we don't

  203. give our life to Christ. What's wrong with us? Jesus

  204. wanted to start a conversation, so he didn't ask the

  205. woman anything extraordinary, ask us some simple thing. Give me

  206. a drink. Do you think Jesus was interested in the water.

  207. Do you think Jesus was interested to have a drink.

  208. You studied that scripture, nohad does it say he took

  209. a drink? So he wasn't really interested in the drink.

  210. What was he interested in starting a conversation? He wanted

  211. to meet the woman where she was, you see, because

  212. she came to the well to draw water for a drink. Okay,

  213. right then the woman said to him, how is it

  214. that you, being a Jew, ask a drink from me,

  215. a Samaritan woman? For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.

  216. Jesus goes after the rejected. And in case you don't know,

  217. all of us are rejected. The Bible says, there's no good,

  218. no no no one. We are all uh in a

  219. way rejects. The Bible says, for God so loved the

  220. world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever

  221. believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life.

  222. So he came for all of us. We are rejected.

  223. No more. So if you feel all me, oh my,

  224. I'm nobody, I'm so sad. Gave it a program. Okay.

  225. I always tell Elder Maybel, I say, you know, nobody

  226. loves me. I was telling all my life people I

  227. have met, have come up to me and say I

  228. don't like you. It's true, even my own brothers. I mean,

  229. one day I'm playing table tennis and my brother at

  230. table yeah, table tennis on the dining table playing. Then

  231. I say I don't want to play. It takes the

  232. bad throws and make it my head and then I'm bleeding.

  233. What did I I just say I don't play table tennis.

  234. You're gonna whack me like that until eight pm in

  235. the night. My mate has to carry me. I'm eight

  236. years old, carry me with a towel hel to my head,

  237. carry it to my doctor's house is just down the road,

  238. and he has got to take me in his car,

  239. go to the cleanic, open the clinic, stitch my head up,

  240. bring me back home. All the friends I played tennis

  241. one day, they just came up to me, say, you know, Terrence,

  242. when you first met you, we just didn't like you.

  243. I said, what's wrong with you? What did I do? No, Li,

  244. it's just your face so sad, so sad, sad, I

  245. mean says it's terrible, terrible. I went to Singapore, Okay,

  246. first time I'm walking into the school. I'm walking into school.

  247. I'm doing my eight of us. I walk into the school,

  248. nobody wants to talk to me, so late on they

  249. became my friends. Okay, so ask him what was said?

  250. We just didn't like you, But why what did I

  251. do to you? You just carried yourself like you knew everything.

  252. Unfortunately it was true that I did not no, no, no,

  253. I was setting you all up for that one, but

  254. it was true. So el Maebel said, you're feeling sorry

  255. for yourselver. I said, no, I'm not feeling sorry. I'm

  256. actually wearing it like a badge because I said, it

  257. doesn't matter. I know one person at least who loved

  258. me for who I was, Jesus, So it didn't matter

  259. whether people like me or didn't like me. I wear

  260. it like a badge now, all these things that I say,

  261. It really doesn't matter whether people believe what I say

  262. or not, because I know God knows it's true and

  263. this is what it is. So when this woman came,

  264. how is it you who you are whant to have

  265. dealings with me? God? You're so good, you're so holy,

  266. you're so wonderful. What do you want with me? Who am? I?

  267. I can tell you? God comes for those that are

  268. not good. And you know what all of us qualify.

  269. As I said earlier on the Bible says, there is

  270. no good, no, not one. He came for us. So

  271. so Jesus said to her. Once the conversation has started,

  272. do you think Jesus is interested to keep it so

  273. so on the surface Jesus starts a conversation only to

  274. go deeper. He starts a conversation only to go deeper.

  275. Jesus answered and said to her, if you knew the

  276. gift of God, and who is it who says to

  277. you give me a drink, you would have asked him

  278. and he would have given you living water. Every time

  279. I do my quiet time, when it comes to what

  280. the words that Jesus says, I always imagine him to

  281. have this low, deep, soothing voice. You know it brings impact.

  282. When you read your Bible, don't just read it with

  283. your eyes. When you read it alouder. You are hearing,

  284. you are seeing, you are speaking the word of God.

  285. And since you're holding a Bible, you're touching as well.

  286. But don't go and taste her, don't, Okay, the Bible says,

  287. taste him, taste and see that the Lord is God

  288. so you see, give me a drink, So the woman said, sir.

  289. You see, the woman doesn't understand. So now Jesus is

  290. going to take her in to a better lesson. Hey,

  291. when the Lord starts his conversation with you, did it

  292. remain with terrence? You're not a Christian except me? Now? No,

  293. that was forty five years ago. Today, I know the

  294. Lord as a healer. I know someone who is as

  295. I know him as a savior. I know I know

  296. him for the good that he does. I know him

  297. as a no nonsense character. I know the Lord forty

  298. five years So here Jesus answered and said to her,

  299. he would have given you living. What the woman said

  300. to him, Sir, you have nothing to draw with. What

  301. are you talking about, Jesus? What do you know? You

  302. don't have the implements, you don't have the tools. What

  303. do you know about accountancy? What do you know about

  304. being a doctor? What do you know about aviation? Are

  305. you greater than our father Jacob who gave us the

  306. well and drank from it himself, as well as his

  307. sons and his livestock. Now the woman is accepting his

  308. invitation to go deeper, because now she is beginning to

  309. ask deeper questions. Jesus has first introduced himself to her,

  310. and now she is trying to find out who are

  311. you to answer those questions? Yeah, Jesus knows much about

  312. accountancy refer to the Book of Numbers. Jesus knows about

  313. aviation because he created the birds, so he knows those things,

  314. which is why those of us who need to know

  315. anything about anything can go to him and get answers.

  316. So this is what Jesus. Are you greater than her

  317. father Jacob? You see, because as far as the woman

  318. was concerned, Jacob was someone special, and if you're saying

  319. you are special, you should at least be better than him.

  320. It stuck. Okay, never mind, I'll look at it here.

  321. So Jesus answers say, okay, next one, go to the

  322. next light. Please. The woman said to her, Sir, give

  323. me this water that I may not thirst nor come

  324. here to draw. You. See, now Jesus has said first

  325. she asks him, are you greater than Jacob? You know

  326. how Jesus answers the question. Jesus is saying yes, because

  327. the water which I give you want thirst. I'm about

  328. to fulfill your desire. Do you think the desire that

  329. this woman was interested. One was water. She's about to

  330. let the Lord know exactly what is important to her.

  331. And Jesus was leading the conversation to that. All right,

  332. so he says, now I'm going to give you something

  333. you want thirst And every time we want something for

  334. the Lord, Jesus is going to demand something from us.

  335. You know what he's going to demand from us. Truth,

  336. Go and call your husband. Go and call your husband.

  337. The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Now

  338. the woman has responded, right, give me. I want to

  339. know more about you. Jesus requires truth. A if you

  340. have to hide yourself from anyone, do not hide who

  341. you are from Jesus. If the whole world doesn't see

  342. who you are, it's okay. But there must be one

  343. person who sees you exactly for who you are. Who

  344. is that Jesus, because he is the only one who's

  345. going to help. Look at what this woman said. This

  346. woman answered in truth, I have no husband. Go to

  347. the next slide. Jesus said to her, you have well

  348. said I have no husband, for you have had five husbands,

  349. and the one whom you now have is not your husband.

  350. In that you spoke truly So now that the woman

  351. has answered in truth, Jesus now shows off. Isn't it wonderful?

  352. When Jesus shows off, Jesus is actually showing us that

  353. he knew everything about us to begin with. You can't

  354. hide anything from him, So why do you even try? Guys,

  355. if you are a rogue, let's say you're a rogue,

  356. tell the Lord Lord, I am a rogue. He can

  357. work with that. But if you're a rogue and you say, God,

  358. I'm good, he can't work with that because he needs

  359. to work with truth. And when you speak the truth,

  360. even though it's bad, Jesus can work with it that

  361. you spoke truly. Look at what's next the woman and

  362. said to her, you see now when Jesus shows her

  363. that he knows about her, understanding is beginning to come

  364. into her heart. What kind of understanding. I am not

  365. dealing with somebody ordinary. This is somebody extraordinary, somebody special.

  366. You want to get to know Jesus. Speak truth to him.

  367. And the more truth you speak to him, he will

  368. reveal more of himself to you. It says here the

  369. woman said, I perceive that you're a prophet. So now

  370. she's beginning to see there's something godly about this man. Here.

  371. We go through life making our mistakes, We go through

  372. life missing on things. I mean, I you know, elder

  373. Maeoble and myself were kicking ourselves or not giving that

  374. woman rise. But you know God doesn't hold it against us.

  375. He allowed it to happen. Why so we will know

  376. the next time never to get caught in a situation

  377. like this. And I dare say, if you find poor

  378. people wanting to be by rise and they are not

  379. allowed to because of some law, you buy it for them.

  380. He says, Sir, I perceive that you're a prophet. When

  381. she begins to see who Jesus is, she now gets

  382. real with him. She goes deeper. You see, Jesus starts

  383. the conversation. She replies, Jesus reveals more of a self.

  384. Fate becomes begins to get into her, and Jesus gives

  385. more of himself. Now what does she do? She starts

  386. to get to the matter which Jesus attracted Jesus to

  387. her in the first place. Do you know that Jesus

  388. came to Samaria because of what's about to happen next?

  389. That's the reason he came. And what was the reason.

  390. The woman said to him, say, I perceive a prophet,

  391. our father's worship on this mountain, and you Jews say

  392. that in Jerusalem is the place we ought, where one

  393. ought to worship? Do you realize what the Jews had

  394. done the Jews in that statement towards the Samaritans. Remember,

  395. Samaritans were not allowed or were frowned upon, going to

  396. Jewish places. Right? What were the Jews actually telling her?

  397. You are not good enough to worship God, You are

  398. not good enough to worship God? You know what Jesus

  399. was saying? Thank God, you're not good enough, because now

  400. you can worship God. What drew Jesus to that place?

  401. This question? But you say where that you know? Where

  402. is this place we ought to worship? Tell me you

  403. know what was in a woman's heart worship? She wanted

  404. to worship. Out of everything she wanted to worship. She

  405. wasn't really interested in that drink. What was she interested

  406. in worship? And probably she was feeling bad because if

  407. the Jews were right that they could only worship in Jerusalem,

  408. they were not allowed in Jerusalem, they were frowned upon

  409. in Jerusalem, she would have no place to worship and

  410. Jesus came to answer the question of worship. Hey, we

  411. hear that Jesus is attracted to faith. That is true.

  412. That is true. There is one more thing that attracts

  413. Jesus where Jesus needs to do something about it. What

  414. is that, the desire to worship. Let's see what happens next.

  415. Jesus to her woman, Believe me, the hour is coming

  416. when you will neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem

  417. worship the Father. You worship what you do not know.

  418. We know what we worship for salvation is of the Jews.

  419. Jesus was speaking the truth because he is Jewish. He

  420. was a Jew. But then he was telling them, telling

  421. her the day is coming where it's not the place.

  422. We're not concerned about the place. We're concerned about the heart.

  423. Jesus concern about the heart. So the heart of all

  424. our issues is you know what, the heart. You want

  425. your life to make a difference, you want your life

  426. to change. It's very simple. Give the Lord your heart.

  427. It's your heart. He's after so much, so he needed

  428. to go to a place where nobody else of his

  429. kind wanted to go. Jesus willing to buck the trend.

  430. Jesus willing to go against the norm, aren't you in

  431. iye so pleased about that? Because if Jesus was not

  432. interested in going against the norm, we are not saved.

  433. We won't be saved. Salvation will only be for the Jews.

  434. But that was not the case. Let's see what happens next.

  435. But the hour is coming, and now is when the

  436. true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and it truth.

  437. For the Father is seeking such to worship him. God

  438. is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in

  439. spirit and truth. It's not about the place, man, It's

  440. never been about the place of worship. It has always

  441. been about the spirit and truth. You can worship while

  442. you're taking your shower. You know when I worship. I

  443. worship every Sunday at five am on my walks, on

  444. my walks. Why I do that? Like I say, I'm

  445. a fidgety person, so I take care of the fidgitanness

  446. of my body. So while I'm walking, I'm not concentrating

  447. on being fidgety. I can concentrate on the word, concentrate

  448. on the Lord. So take care of the fidgitanness, fidgetiness.

  449. I don't need to use a fidget spinner. God is

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

  451. spirit and truth. So now God has gone deeper with

  452. her because she was deep with him. God will respond

  453. to you when you come to him with truth, when

  454. you come to him, because He's already started the conversation.

  455. How many of you know that God has started conversations

  456. with you. How many of you know that He started

  457. conversations with you? And He is interrusted with what you

  458. have to say, because when you speak, as long as

  459. it's truth to you, he will respond. Let's see what

  460. happens next. The woman said to him, I know that

  461. the Messiah is coming. You see now that Jesus has

  462. responded to her about worship. Now she is going a

  463. step further. She says this, I know that the Messiah

  464. is coming, who is called Christ. When he comes, he

  465. will tell us all things. So, j this woman knew

  466. the word of God, so besides worship, she was looking

  467. for the Messiah and I love Jesus. Reply, he said,

  468. Jesus said to her, I who speak to you, And

  469. this sounds very I can only do this with Michael. Okay,

  470. you only do this with the mike. Okay, so I

  471. who speak to you? And he, Jesus now has revealed

  472. himself fully to the woman, someone whom he is kind,

  473. did not meet, did not have anything to do with.

  474. But he needed to come to a place where he

  475. could touch this woman. Let's see what happens next. Okay.

  476. And at this point his disciples came, and they marveled

  477. that he talked with a woman. Yet no one said,

  478. why do you seek or why are you talking with her?

  479. So this tells me that Jesus never talked with women alone.

  480. The marvel they knew him, They were with him for

  481. so many years, all right. They never saw him speak

  482. privately with a woman. So this surprised them. But you

  483. got to love the disciples. They're always on time late.

  484. The woman then left the water pot. Now you see

  485. her when something better has come, when your answers have

  486. been met, when the thing in your heart has been addressed,

  487. The things that you thought were important no longer have

  488. any meaning for you. She left the water pot. She

  489. came to the well right to draw water from the water.

  490. Do you think that was important to her? Now? She

  491. just left it? What did the scripture say? And when

  492. her way into the sea and said to the man,

  493. come and see a man who told me all things

  494. that I ever did. Could this be the Christ? I

  495. want you to know something. A real encounter with Jesus

  496. makes us evangelists. She could have kept that knowledge to herself,

  497. but she just gave up what she knew to run

  498. and tell others. I have met someone who is beyond extraordinary.

  499. I want you to know. That's what discipleship is, That's

  500. what a disciple relationship is. She just learned who Jesus was,

  501. and in the very next instant, what is she doing

  502. She's telling someone? Is she telling something she does not know?

  503. What is she doing? She's telling what she knows. I

  504. met someone. He told me everything I did. I believe

  505. he's the Christ. You gotta understand the poetric language. Could

  506. this be the Christ? Because you know later on she said,

  507. I don't believe you or what you say. I believe

  508. because I've met him. So she was actually saying, this

  509. is the Christ? Could this be the Christ? Next one

  510. thirty so the event of the Citian came to him.

  511. She must have been really persuasive. How many of you

  512. try to get your friends who come to church and

  513. they don't show up, true not. But look at this woman.

  514. She was so persuasive because she had a rail encounter

  515. with Jesus. The city came to him. In the meantime,

  516. his disciples a gym rabbi eat. You gotta love the

  517. disciples because they always one step out of it. They

  518. miss what's happening. And that's okay. They're like us, we

  519. kind of miss what's happening. We don't get it sometimes,

  520. so they said. But he said to them, I have

  521. food to eat, which you do not know. Therefore, the

  522. disciples said to one another, as any one brought him

  523. anything to eat, you gotta love the disciples. God has

  524. got a sense of human When you read things like this,

  525. it's meant for you to laugh, because you know, the

  526. disciples were the disciples like it was, there were always

  527. one step behind. They missed it. Actually, Jesus was having lunch.

  528. Did you know when Jesus was was sharing the you know,

  529. talking to her and sharing about himself. You know what

  530. he was doing. He was having lunch. I have food

  531. to know, food to eat which you don't know. What

  532. is it doing the work of God? What scriptures saying

  533. the next one, and he said to them, my food

  534. is to do the will of him who sent me

  535. and to finish his work. Wow. You know there's a food.

  536. It's it's a supernatural food. You know what was Jesus

  537. supernatural food doing the will and the work of God.

  538. These disciples would learn it later, but for now they

  539. kind of missed it. Next one, and many of the

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

  541. word of because of the word of the woman who testified.

  542. He told me all that I ever did. Did I

  543. not tell you that she was extraordined? She became an evangelist.

  544. She didn't let them talk her out of it. She said, no,

  545. you gotta know this man is special. He said everything

  546. that I ever did. Wow. And now they say to her.

  547. When it came to him, they urged him to stay

  548. with them, and he stayed there two days, and many

  549. more believed because of his own word. Next one, then

  550. they said to the woman, now we believe not because

  551. of what you said, for we ourselves have heard him,

  552. and we know that this is indeed the Christ, the

  553. same of the world. Jesus is not asking us a

  554. to share, you know, theater theological expositions with people. He

  555. equals MC squared. Is that important to you? No? But

  556. what is he saying? What's happening here? She's telling them

  557. what she knows. She's telling them how he touched her.

  558. When you tell people how the Lord touched you, that's

  559. enough they will come to the Lord, because that's what

  560. Scripture is showing us. Here, say what you know. And

  561. when she said what she knew, a whole city came

  562. to know Jesus. And look at what do you know?

  563. That faith in them came before they spoke to the Lord.

  564. It was in the worse before go back, go back,

  565. and many of the Samarians of the city believed in

  566. him because of the word of the woman. Because of

  567. the things that happen in your life, people will believe.

  568. And after they believe your words, when they get to

  569. know Jesus, they will tell you. Now, I believe for

  570. myself that's exactly what happened here. It's not just by

  571. your word. I believe because I know him. I believe

  572. because he has been real in my life. He has

  573. been special in my life. Guys, is there anymore after that? No? More?

  574. I want you to know something. The Lord loves us

  575. so much, He cares for us so much he wants

  576. to have a conversation. Now. That conversation could be one

  577. to save you. That conversation could be one that has

  578. to do with salvation. That conversation could also be one

  579. to help you with the problems you're facing. But you see,

  580. if you don't speak to him in truth, the woman

  581. took time out from her busy schedule. She came to

  582. get water, but she took time out to have a

  583. conversation with him. When you and I take time out

  584. to have a conversation with Jesus, he will go deeper

  585. and deeper and deeper until we connect in truth, and

  586. then the miracle happens. So the word this morning. If

  587. you've forgotten everything that I've said, if you can't remember

  588. anything that I've said, remember this, Jesus once to have

  589. conversations with you, and those conversations will bring great results.

  590. Some of you are young. I'm looking around. All of

  591. you are younger than me. Okay. The reason I say

  592. that is because I've seen the Lord do so much

  593. for me. But you want to know something. You're at

  594. the beginning of your lives. You're at the start where

  595. God's going to do supernatural things for you. He's going

  596. to astound you. You're gonna have forty to fifty years

  597. of the Lord blessing you beyond measure. Don't wait to

  598. take the time. It took me for me to learn

  599. all these things. Now we sharing you were telling you,

  600. so that you can start having those conversations and you

  601. get a head start. Forty years from now, you will

  602. achieve much more than I did during this time. So

  603. I want to praise the Lord. That's the word of

  604. the Lord this morning. I hope it has blessed you

  605. as much as it's blessed me sharing it.

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  609. this week is going to be a good week ahead

  610. for you. God bless