Sunday Message (1st service) - Pastor Brad Neuschwander (October 11, 2026) | Life Bible Church

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enjoy this week's message. Father, we thank you

this morning for your great name and your great,

incredible loving kindness and goodness toward

us. Even now, Lord, as I stand before your people,

I pray, Lord, that your presence would continue

to multiply in this place. Lord, what we've experienced

in worship, Lord, as we've heard your thoughts

and intentions toward this house, even through

the prophetic word. God, I'm praying, Lord, we

would not get so calloused, Lord, of of spiritual

truth and of your glory that we would just, Lord,

we'd just settle in. I pray that you would remove,

Lord, any calluses that have come over our mind

and over our heart. And Lord, that we would be

sensitive to your leading Holy Spirit. You're

not only the one Holy Spirit who convicts of

sin. But Lord, you lead us into righteousness.

You lead us into truth. You guide us, Lord, to

bring us into what you have for us personally

and what you have for us in this church. As your

family, we come to you today and say, Lord, you

are our greatest treasure. Not the power that

we receive to do kingdom things. Not the authority

that we have to declare and make declarations

as the ecclesia. But the being with you. The

hearing you. The walking with you. The daily

interface. Lord, let us understand that you're

more with us than our phone. And I can feel them

on that. I want to make you more alive in my

heart's mind. than my phone, that I would know

you, that I would hear your voice, and that I

would respond, Lord, for you have the ability

to capture my attention better than any feed

and any scrolling. God, that my heart would be

moved by the things of your Spirit. I thank you.

Lord, I just say even now that In my own heart,

Lord, as much as I am dependent on communication

and information, Lord, I'm asking you to help

me make a turn even greater in a dial and frequency

of less dependence on that phone and that computer

and more dependence upon being totally connected

to you. Help us, Lord. This morning as we open

the scriptures, Lord, we can see in the context

of the passage, Lord, how simple it is to fall

under the weight of tradition, of religion, Lord,

and just come up with our own versions of how

you will respond and when you will respond. God,

today I'm asking for, I know it dates me, Somebody

may have to give an interpretation of what a

typewriter is. But Lord, we're pulling the paper

out of the typewriter and starting again. We're

pulling that sheet out and we're saying, my expectations

according to religion and tradition of what I

think I know, I'm pulling it out and I'm saying,

Lord, type afresh. Type afresh upon the letterhead

of my heart and my mind. In Jesus Christ's holy

name. Amen. Just as I said that, I just looked

down at my iPad and it said, the amount of hours

you spent this last week on, it wasn't good.

I'm not going to tell you. Hallelujah. Wow. Devil.

Anyway, would you open your Bibles to John chapter

four, please? John chapter four. I know we have

taken a look at this. passage of scripture. It's

a famous passage and it's something that can

be preached in a variety of ways and we've done

some of it and I'm going to continue to walk

through this passage and I'm praying that the

Holy Spirit will give us a fresh revelation this

morning of some of the things that need to be

freshly put on our mind. You know, you heard

me pray it, kind of conversational prayer. I

had an opportunity to be, as we're part of Ministers

Fellowship International, which is a relationship

-based organization of ministers and elders and

churches, but primarily started out for ministers

to have independent churches that had no denominational

affiliation to walk together that had similar

theology and doctrine. and that were filled with

the Holy Spirit, that wanted to have other people

that would join alongside of them so that we

didn't have to walk alone as independent churches.

And that was the original heart of the starting

of MFI, started by kind of our grandfather in

the faith, Brother Dick Iverson, and our pastor,

mentor, Pastor Frank, Dr. Frank DiMaggio. That

started about 30... Next year will be 40 years

that it started ago. And now, as Jenny and I

just finished attending that conference, I was

amazed. We had to do two conferences, so I was

there all week. We're now MFI that started with

just, I remember when it was 35, 40 churches.

I begin to hear the beginning of it. And then

I was shocked when Jenny and I came in, it was

about 80 to 100 churches. And now there's over

14 ,000 churches represented around the world

and more network affiliations. God is doing a

tremendous thing in the body of Christ around

the world. And getting to see, being with leaders

all around. Europe, but nations are taking the

mandate to disciple and to gather pastors in

countries. And we now have, I think, 20 different

affiliates that are like MFI America. We have

it all over the world in various continents.

And so God is doing amazing things. One thing

that I thought was particularly interesting,

and this always happens to me, and so I always

try to bring you into my mind, at least the good

part of it, bring you into my thought process

and what I believe God is speaking and saying

and doing. Part of my responsibility at MFI is

I'm a regional director of the Southern Oregon.

It's basically from the border of Idaho to the

Pacific Ocean, from Northern California up to

around Salem plus area. And in addition to that,

Jenny and I always get asked to do prophetic

ministry over pastors. And that's something that

they offer at the conference that we do, just

giving ourselves to that. And I did that two

times in about three hour sessions. For couples

that pastors that have signed up, whether they're

international or national, we don't know until

they get there who they are or what they're doing.

And we do that to really to not have any information

so that God's real word could actually speak

to them, right? that there's no data mining.

There's no information. Look at people. I don't

even, when people told me that, you know, people

are data mining things, I'm like, what does that

even mean? But I guess you have to have Facebook

and Instagram accounts and all that stuff to

do that. I don't have any of that. So when they

said, well, I said, well, can we have their names

this morning? And they go, no, we don't want

you to look them up. I said, look them up where?

And then it caught on. Oh, you don't. have any

accounts of that? I said, no. Well, you're probably

okay to know their name then. I guess that's

a thing in the body of Christ and it's a shame

because the Holy Spirit can actually speak to

you everything you need. That's the whole goal.

The legitimate expression of God doesn't need

any help. And in that process, as Jetty and I

were at the conference, I'm going to be careful

here because many times As you go into things

like this and you're ministering to pastors all

over the world and we're there not only as a

leadership team but representing our church and

representing what God has done with us in that

circle. I have to say this without, it has nothing

to do with Jenny and I. It has everything to

do with God's desire to do what he's longing

to do here as you're pulling on the rope of heaven.

I can't tell you, well, James was there and John

Rist was there. I can't tell you how incredible

it is. Just the worship service we had this morning,

the difference between, and I'm gonna say this

carefully because I know it's live, between those

that have given themselves to flow in the Spirit

and have chosen, they want the Spirit over time

and over agenda. It's a night and day difference.

It's a night and day difference. Now, what does

that mean? It costs you. It costs you. It costs

you, oh, what are we gonna do this afternoon?

Oh, Life Bible two -hour church versus the drive

-through. I'm telling you. I was in the room

with thousands and thousands of people for a

week. There's nothing like what we have here

on this morning. It's true. And it's not that

we don't value people's time. We do. But I value

the Holy Spirit's time more than my own. And

I think it's important. You know, sometimes as

a voice, a prophetic or maybe an apostolic voice

trying to As the Lord wants to use that, that's

up to him. But I'm amazed of what I feel and

what I see in the body of Christ. And I do believe

revival, or if you will, an outpouring, probably

better is an outpouring of the Holy Spirit is

coming. But I think in all of us, there is room

for us to have to grow in our love, and what

love actually means to the Holy Spirit. You know,

as you study the Ephesian church, and I'm just

kind of, these are not on my notes, so this is

my preamble here. You study what God came to

the Apostle John to speak to the seven churches

about the church of Ephesus and how incredible

that church was and the things that they were

doing. When you study a little bit of history

about Ephesus, they were an incredible congregation.

However, they lost something that God had to

bring a word to them right in the very beginning.

They're the first church that God would speak

to through the apostle John. Getting revelation

on the Isle of Patmos. He said I need you to

send a message to these seven churches. First

church he would send a message. It wasn't Laodicea

was the last church. But the first church was

Ephesus. Which was a spiritually minded. Kingdom

of God advancing. destroying principalities,

powers, and strongholds. The only book, Ephesus,

Ephesian church, the only book that he wrote

specifically hierarchy and how to defeat certain

things because they were there fighting the temple

of Diana or Artemis, this worldwide thing that

went around the world of this idol that was sent

because they saw something fall from the ground

and that was their religion and this demonic

entity. He had to come into a church and say,

you've done a lot of great things, but you're

missing an element. You're missing an element

that I will have to, in the midst of your greatness

and advancing the kingdom and your stellar understanding

of church government and ferreting out the false

apostles and prophets, I'm still gonna have to

come in and remove your lampstand if this doesn't

shift. Now that's a big deal because we're talking

about, are you all right? I'm just kind of speaking

to you a little bit this morning, but we'll get

to the text in a bit. We're talking now about

another text, Revelation chapter two, verse one

through four. Okay. The reality is, is I'm going

to remove you. I'm going to have to remove your

lampstand. They have to understand when we see

the picture of Jesus, as the, as the scriptures

open up and John sees Jesus totally different.

That he saw them on earth. He saw him in his

rule. He saw him in his power. He saw him in

his glory. That's why he said his hair was white

as wool. His feet as fine brass. His garments

as white and a golden sash. And his eyes were

like flame of fire. He was looking into the reality

of the purity of the son of God. Who now had

the authority. Not only the power. The authority.

But the title. of you now have all authority

in heaven and earth from the father and when

john sees him was radically different than how

that very same truth was hidden in the humanity

yet they had glimpses from time to time one being

the mountain of transfiguration and one of the

things that overwhelmed john was the title that

jesus would give john in the very beginning I

am the first and the last. I am. And he would

go through these various processes of titles.

Those all represent the reality of who Jesus

is. Fact is, if you just turn there right now,

Trent, to the process of Revelation chapter one,

are you there? Okay. Can I see it? What kind

of translation are you reading here? ESV, okay.

You still have a job. All right. Let me read

this. John to the seven churches, grace to you

and peace from him who was, grace and peace from

him who is, who was and who is to come. Notice

the first thing. that the Holy Spirit says from

Jesus, and I need you to get this, the very first

thing that John's revelation begins with is what?

He's the one who is. That's where the church,

it's where you and I have to begin to tap into

a fresh reality of walking with him daily. Because

it's very easy in the church to talk about who

Jesus was. And it's very easy to talk about who

Jesus will be when he comes. You think about

all the things that you listen to in church and

it focuses on what? Most of the time it focuses

on who was and who is to come. But the big moment

right now, and this is all that I, I'll give

this back to you. The big moment right now is

what? I'm finally getting warmed up. Is the,

is the reality of do you know him as he is right

now? Is he talking to you? Is he leading you?

Is he guiding you? And are you in a communion

relationship with him, not just once every month

at communion Sunday, but communing with his spirit

on a daily basis? Because see, if we believe

that the era of one, man or one woman having

a ministry that's platform and that everybody

else receives, if we believe that that era is

over, and I do, that it's not about the big evangelist

anymore. It's about the church being the evangelist.

It's not about the big healing ministry. It's

the church having the healing ministry. It's

not about, right, only a few prophets. No, it's

about All of God's people should learn to prophesy

correctly. Man, there's a lot I want to say on

that right now, but I'm going to, you need to

be all coming to my Wednesday night class on

the prophetic because a lot of what you're getting

on the internet is mixed with divination. A lot

of it. In fact, as most of the things that are

driving the political stuff that's being said

through the body of Christ is a mixture of divination.

Because why? It's devoid of the cross. And it's

devoid of the church. And it's devoid of it actually

operating to change your character and move you

toward being formed in the image of Christ. It

is entertainment driven. It is fear and entertainment

driven, which is divination. Welcome back, Pastor.

Hallelujah. You see, the spirit of prophecy is

the what? Testimony of Jesus. Jesus comes to

what? transform your heart transform your mind

transform your life to bring inside of you the

work of glory on the inside not to give you insight

of what's coming because you want to get rid

of anxiety and you want to get rid of something

so you get a prophetic word that calms you that

you keep going back to be entertained much like

you'd pull out your phone to get a newsreel hello

And if that's how you listen to prophecy, you've

actually come under a curse. Because you didn't

actually go there to hear how God can actually

work in you the power of his cross, the power

of resurrection, and the power to transform you

that brings the encouragement from the Holy Spirit,

the strength of the Holy Spirit, the future of

the Holy Spirit to work in you no matter the

situation. And when the prophetic disconnects

from the cross, the resurrection, and the building

of the church, which is not a building, it's

people, through edification, comfort, strength,

it's moved to have a mixture of entertainment

so that fear gets removed. Because why? I didn't

come to it in faith. I came to it just to get

calmed. Okay, I'm going to keep moving. I'm just

dropping a few bombs and then we'll just move

on. But come Wednesday night, that's my plug

to hear how you, because see, listening to the

voice of God is imperative. We're all supposed

to have that gift. It's a gift that comes automatically

with salvation. My sheep hear my voice. So the

goal of the prophetic is to what? Deepen the

river of God inside of you to hear him more accurately.

Which leads us to our text in John chapter 4.

John 4 · chapter mention

John chapter 4. I'm going to start in verse 3.

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Jesus left Judea and departed again for Galilee.

And he had to pass through Samaria. So Jesus

came down to a town of Samaria called Sychar.

Near the field that Jacob had given to his son

Joseph. And Jacob's well was there. I'm tempted

just to speak on the field and the well, but

let's just note it in the journey. Notice there's

a field of inheritance and there's a well of

inheritance. Why is that important? Because God

says, There's an inheritance in you as well.

This is not just some Old Testament story that

is now in the Gospels that represent prior to

Jesus' cross and his resurrection. This just

isn't that which was the inheritance. This is

talking about your and my inheritance. Why? 1

Corinthians 3, 9. You are God's field. And if

anybody should get excited in this room about

what I'm teaching, it should be us. Why? Because

he's going to Samaria. He's going to the ones

that were not. Just the ones that were born according

to natural descent. He was coming to a region

that had mixture. He was coming to a people that

had been rejected. He was coming to a people

that had Gentile influence. And he was about

to show that the inheritance according to the

old field and the old well is going to be superseded

by him doing something in the field of the person

and developing a well of the spirit inside of

them. You see, you don't have to come to one

place to get a well on the inheritance of something

of yesterday. God comes, oh man, God comes to

drill a well in you. Come on. There's so many

ways to preach that, but just hear it. He comes

to sink a well in your field. That's the beauty

of this story. And I even hate to say, I get

ticked off and I tell Jen this all the time.

Stop, tell the preacher to quit saying it's a

story. It's an account. It's history. It actually

happened. It's not some made up. So shame on

me. Okay. In this account, God is looking to

make a parallel. Between the one that had been

a complete outcast. At every level. Woman. Adulterer.

Gentile. You can't find a narrative in more of

the religious setting. Than the person that Jesus

met at the well in John 4. She's excluded at

every part of society. As the Jews would look

at it. And Jesus, if we just take it as the woman

herself, and we don't actually expand the context

and see it, that it is all of us. See, John 4,

oh man. Okay, John 4, let me say it the most

simplest way. It's only two chapters away from

John 2. I know, brilliant, deep, amazing. Okay.

Why would I reference, I know, Trent, grab a

hold of this. It's changing your life right now.

Okay. John 2 was what? The first miracle Jesus

did in Cana of where? Where? Galilee. Jesus was

going back again. He had left Cana. Now he's

going back again. Where is he going back to?

He's going back to Galilee. And now Cana of Galilee

has to do with what? Well, we'll talk about it.

John 2, well, we won't talk about it today, but

we will talk about it. John 2 was what? The miracle

of what? Water into wine. Now he's coming back

in John 4, and he's coming back to land and to

a well. to a people that had access to natural

things of yesterday, of generations who knew

their God. But now he's coming back to stand

by a well of natural water to the one who himself

is living water. You see, it's not removed from

John 2. John 2 miracle of water into wine is

absolutely connected to... John 4, I, if you

knew who it was that was talking with you, you'd

ask me for a drink and I would give you living

water. It's connected to the same experience.

It's connected to the same understanding that

people had been locked into. natural thinking,

natural traditions according to what they knew

from generation to generation past, what was

protocol, what was not protocol, how to live

based on that understanding of the covenant that

was given by God through Moses versus now Jesus

coming and in John removing the religion and

the tradition to open them up to actually have

a relationship, here it is, to the God who is.

You see, everything that had happened in the

law of Moses in their generations, not Moses'

generation, because in Moses' generation, in

the giving of the law, he was the God who is.

The God who is what? Took him up on the mountain.

The God who is what? Showed him the vision. The

God who is said, make this according to what

you have seen and heard. Doesn't that sound familiar

to New Testament minds? Make sure that you're

both seeing and hearing. Isn't that what John

the Revelator? I know, I'm just tying some things

together. Isn't that what John the Revelator

actually heard? Revelation chapter four, verse

one. I heard a voice like the sound of mighty

rushing waters. Cana, waters into wine. John

four, you would ask me to drink and I would give

you rivers of living water. John seven, pouring

out the pitcher. Out of your innermost being

shall flow rivers of living water. Why was it

significant that John, that Revelation 4 .1,

I heard the voice behind me sound like mighty

rushing waters and I turned and I looked and

I saw. You see the difference? Moses went up,

he heard, he saw. Now we're coming to a new covenant

and it's still connected to the same principle.

Hearing and seeing to the one who is living waters.

All right, haven't even got out of verse four

yet. Okay, John 4, 4. And he passed through Samaria.

He came to a town called Sychar near the field

that Jacob had given his son Joseph. Jacob's

well was there. All right, let's keep going on.

So Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey,

was sitting by the well. Stop. This proves that

Jesus was not operating in the manifested nature

of his attributes with God as the eternal word

operating in his God divinity while he was on

the earth. It proves he got weary. God doesn't

get weary. If God was going to get weary, he'd

have got weary a long time ago with our complaints.

So this absolutely speaks to the nature that

Jesus laid down or stepped out of his prerogative

of being co -equal with the Father and submitted

himself as a son of God to the direction of the

Father through the capacity of hearing the Holy

Spirit. Why? It's a model for you and I. It's

a remind this well. And Jesus is a reminder that

he was made like us. Turn to somebody and say,

he's like you. And guess what? In his flesh,

he could get weary like you do, which is we can

just preach off this statement that taking long

walks are not godly. No, just, I'm just kidding.

Kidding. He got weary with a long walk. Jesus

was weary. I know, wow. Anyway, I have so many

things I'd like to say at this point, but we're

going to keep going in the text. Jesus was weary

from the journey, from his journey, and was sitting

beside a well. I mean, look at the prophetic

picture in the scriptures. Here is the well of

heaven sitting. On the well of the earth. Here's

the well of heaven. I mean just. Jesus. The very

well spring of heaven. Sits on the side. Of a

well given by the. Ancestors to give water. As

natural relief. And here. In the midst of a place

that everyone would go. To drink for their natural

life. Is the life of God. Sitting. on the side

of a well. So many times we, we miss the little

details that, that the scripture brings to bring

this, this, this account to life. It's, it's,

if we could say it this way, it's prophetic.

Meaning when I use the word prophetic, I'm not

talking, I'm talking about it's insightful that

everything God does in the scriptures speaks

way deeper than just a casual read. There are

layers to the revelation in the word as you begin

to move through context, as you move through

the historicity of it, as you move through why

would these people come? What was their inheritance?

Why was this so important? The levels keep going

of how God begins to now bring Jesus into our

now. Because remember, we started this morning

off with the one who is. Yes, we could spend

sermon after sermon on the God who was, formed

before time, co -equal with the Father, giving

all of his plan that was hidden and yet manifested.

And sometimes when we read the scriptures, we

still... gravitate back to even in our new testament

understanding we gravitate back to the god who

was where i believe the holy spirit's trying

to move his church to be able to be the company

of people that do what that actually do the works

in jesus name they can't do that off a god who

was revelation and they can't do that in an understanding

of the one who's coming revelation. They have

to be able to do that as the one who is because

they're walking with him. And in that journey

of walking with him, they're hearing the now

voice of God. They know their doctrine. They

know what was written as Jesus would use to substantiate

things. Is it not written? That's a reference

to the God who was. and who is and who is to

come, but it's focusing on the was. Is it not

written? Bring you back to what was the revelation

that's still in play today. See, everything that

we see in scripture, everything that, and this

should help you with your doctrinal understanding,

at least it helps me with mine, in the fact of

even how I minister, is everything of how I minister

is in the God who was, is, and is to come. Because

if I don't have that understanding that God works

within the framework of was bringing it now,

is bringing it to the conclusion, I'm going to

be blind. I'm going to miss dimensions of how

God can speak to me and speak to others. Because

the goal, and I'm kind of getting off track here,

but it's on track. The goal is if I'm laying

hands on somebody, again, I don't mean like at

that level. I'm not laying hands on there to

impart a prayer. I should be sensitive that the

Holy Spirit will be speaking to three areas.

And this is how the true prophetic works. It

speaks of the area of the cross. It speaks of

the area of transformation. And it speaks of

God's awareness. And then it speaks of God's

awareness in all of her life. And then it speaks

to her future and it leaves an impartation. That's

why I say true prophetic impartation is like

a Holy Ghost three -speed transmission. First

gear is what was. That God will be able to speak

to you what has happened in your life. Only he'll

be gracious about the things that you walk through

and he'll reveal how he was there and reveal

instances that only you can know. that he was

there. Because he sees in the dark as well as

the light. Things that you walk through, he'll

be able to speak through. If you receive a true,

genuine word from the Lord, he will let you know

he was there in those times. And then he'll speak

to your now. He'll speak to your, I'm gonna move

over here. He'll speak to what's happening in

your life right now. And then he moves to the

future. And that only God can give an appropriate

future. Only God can speak what is needed for

you in your next seasons because he holds all

of them in your hand. Are you there? If you understand

what Jesus is about to do with the woman at the

well, you're going to see that Jesus speaks to

the past, to the present, and to the future.

He actually moves through the prophetic transmission

of the Holy Ghost. in what she has been, what

she has done, how he views her and what he wants

to do in her life after the encounter. That is

the nature of true prophetic. What often, I'm

getting pulled back to this. What often happens,

and there's nothing wrong with a now word, an

is word, but what happens when you go to a prophetic

meeting or, and it's not. you see this transmit,

let me just say it this way. You see the Holy

Spirit transmission in operation when there are

what we call presbytery meetings. What's a presbytery?

It means that where there's three, two, three,

four prophetic voices waiting on God to hear

what to speak over a person's life. Usually for

a setting in or promotion of ministry. Because

they've passed the test or they've moved into

a place of effectiveness or God wants to call

them out. And normally when you get in that setting,

you'll listen to who God was in their life, what

he did in the bringing them forward, what he's

doing right now, and then what they're designed

to do. And that's where you begin to really see

the, I call the full canopy of the prophetic.

Oftentimes we go to prophetic meeting. And we

only get the now touch. And there's nothing wrong

with a now touch. How many would take a touch

from Jesus right now, right? Okay. There's nothing

wrong with the now touch. But the now touch does

not deal usually with your future. It usually,

if it's genuine from the Lord, it will settle

some issues and be confirmation to you. And it's

a conformational moment in your now. thing that

you're facing. But it oftentimes does not go

back and bring an awareness of who God was as

he walked you through to that point. It's a sign

of God just touching you in your now moment,

giving you strength and encouragement to keep

on. Jesus with the woman at the well, and I want

you to see this as part of the effective process

of how Jesus ministers salvation. among the Gentiles

or among the mixed is what? He brought the full

package. He brought the God who was, he brought

the God who is, and he brings the God who is

to come. Now, as he's sitting beside this well,

about the sixth hour, there came a woman of Samaria

to draw water. And Jesus said to her, give me

a drink. For his disciples had gone away into

the city to buy a subway. No, to buy food. And

the Samaritan woman said to Jesus, how is it

that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman

of Samaria? For the Jews had no dealings with

the Samaritans. Now I'm looking at the time and

I'm gonna need to get somebody up here. Who's

the, okay. Play me some mysterious Samaritan

woman type compromised music. Hallelujah. I bring

you into 33 years of wonderful marriage of the

things that I've asked of her on the stage over

33 years of ministry. Can you play it like this?

Why don't you come over here and do it, buddy?

Anyways, it's a little banter we have back and

forth. Anyway, I enjoy it. I'm not so sure how

much she does, but I need you to, in the text

here, I need you to understand that Jesus is

actually speaking to you this morning. Because

the woman's response is most likely in some sort

related to any response that you're going to

run into. As you get divine appointments and

listening to Jesus personally. A little more

compromised. Can you play minor? Maybe minor.

That is minor. Can you go down? Just a little

more depressive. There we go. Here's this woman

coming. Laden down. The sixth hour of the day

in the hot sun. When nobody comes to the well.

Carrying her. There you go. Kind of carrying

the jars and nobody's around. Okay, that's a

little dark. Nobody's around to have fellowship

with. She's by herself. She's carrying what she

needed to try to recognize the only thing that

she needed to sustain life at that moment was

water. But everything in her life had nothing

that was sustaining of life. And this is who

the church is going to. This is who we're running

into. This is your this afternoon or tomorrow

morning. Is you're running into people who have

come to just think survival. Fact is, I can prophesy

to you this morning what's in me. What is coming

on the earth. What Christians think. Things that

will shake. Water supplies. Food supplies. storage

supplies, financial supplies. And we're going

to have to have enough Jesus inside of us to

be able to sit at those wells where people are

coming out of survival, having a different supply.

I don't yet feel like my job this morning is

to prophesy what I see coming. But what I tell

you, I'm telling you right now. It has to look

different than the church has looked because

the church has thought we'll do it in abundance

of natural things. We'll do it in abundance the

way the world wants to solve poverty and homelessness.

Why do you think the push for socialism is happening

so hard right now? If you would just lift your

eyes and come up above it just a little bit.

you would see that the devil is absolutely showing

you what he knows is about to come from the heart

of God. And he's moving people to try to shift

them in the natural, to be dependent upon natural

things instead of actually the heart of God that

actually says, doesn't mean that we don't, of

course we come with natural things and natural

resources, but that's not what comes first. Did

you notice? That Jesus didn't come in what is

the temporary evangelism of most seeker sensitive

churches. I know I just stepped in a big pile

here. He didn't come with, oh, here's your free

water supply. And here's some food too. Can I

pray for you? That's what Jesus did. The exact

opposite. I need something from you. What? I

thought you were supposed to be there for me.

Give me something. Well, I want to give you something.

But you. You need something different than what

you're striving for. You actually need something

that has been missing all along that doesn't

come with a little grocery bag and a couple of

pre -water supply bottles of why you came to

this well. Now, I know I overemphasize and I'm

gonna get emails. It's pastorscott at lifebiblechurch

.org. What did Jesus do? Jesus put a demand on

something that shocked her, number one. That

he would ask something of her. That he, number

one, had a conversation with her. Number two,

would ask something before he ever gave something.

How many church programs have we heard over the

last 25 years that it's all about us giving something

so they're willing to receive something? John

4 seems to disagree with that. Now, do I believe

in giving to the poor? Absolutely. Do we give

to the poor? Do we feed? Yes. Do we do all sorts

of things around the world and here locally?

Yes. That's why we do God's storehouse every

month. That's why we sow into it generously every

year. None of these things escape me. But what

I'm pushing at this morning is, do you see how

Jesus does things different? Because it's got

to be different than what was. It has to move

into what is. And it has to move into being sensitive

to the Holy Spirit and not being afraid to ask

questions or ask to move into a deeper relationship

of what really is the hindrances. How is it that

you, a Jew, for a drink from me, a Samaritan,

you see every one of you, Every one of you that

has the real Jesus inside of you looks and feels

different to those that don't. They'll know.

They'll know. Even though one wears a baseball

cap and one is flaunting his hair to me. By the

simple relationship with Jesus, they're going

to look different to their age group. The question

is, are they flesh? Yeah, he has some flesh still.

I won't name it out. Not today, at least. Okay.

Are they still growing? Yes. Are they being transformed?

Yes. But just even in the midst of all of our

journeys, because we all have flesh and we're

all being saved by grace, just the fact of what's

inside of both of these young men automatically

speaks out loud and they'll know a difference.

Our problem is we've trained ourselves to try

to fit in with the crowd rather than fit in with

Jesus. And that was the difference. The world

automatically recognized soon as Jesus just being

who he was. He didn't announce, oh, by the way,

let me introduce myself. I'm the word that always

has been and with God from the beginning. Nice

to meet you. He didn't start there by giving

his fact that he is co -equal with God, the Father

and the Holy Spirit. He just was in his normal

clothes, not in some, he wasn't in priestly garb.

Folks, he was on a walk. I don't know, maybe

even wearing some Lululemon type of athletic

gear. I don't know. Probably not. But the reality

was he had dressed for what? Walking. He was

tired. Every element that you and I experienced.

He wasn't going to the temple. He didn't put

on his Sunday best. He was not operating in priestly

robes. There was no distinction that somehow

he was the elevated Shemekah rabbi that everyone...

No, no, no. He was just in his normal... Resting

pulls a Jewish male now traveling on a road through

a foreign country. I don't know about you, but

if I've traveled through a foreign country, I

am not trying to stick out. The fact is, it's

the opposite. I stick out automatically. Okay?

I remember traveling through Cambodia. We're

walking through the market, and I'm in my just

travel pants and a shirt and a little thing,

and he goes, Hey! And he's talking to his little

Cambodian friends. He goes, no Buddha, no Buddha.

This one, Buddha. Pointing at my figure, my bald

head. I said, come here. The point is, you stick

out in your everyday journey just because of

what's inside of you. Jesus stuck out to her

because he obviously was different. He was a

male. He wasn't trying to be female. Come on.

He wasn't trying to, he wasn't cross -dressing,

he wasn't doing any of that crazy stuff. He was

being just Jesus dressed in appropriate clothing,

now sitting at the well, the spiritual well,

sitting at the natural well, and just interaction,

interaction from a person who knows God in itself

is shocking. Why? Because most people expect

us to be What happens in the Samaritan account,

we walk along the other side of the road. Why?

Because we got to get going someplace. I got

appointments to take care of. I got things to

do. I don't have time to sit down and engage

with people. How many of us has fallen guilty

as charged? All sometimes we have to do is in

the moment of where we're at, just ask ourselves

in that moment. I'm going to pray for us in a

second. And Holy Spirit, I haven't been thinking

about I'm tired. I got to go to work. I'm on

my lunch break. But you know what, Lord? I'm

sitting here at this table. I just want to eat

my lunch in peace. But honestly, I've trained

myself to want peace for my own self when others

are not living in any peace that I know. Now

speak to me while I'm eating my lunch. Is there

anybody you need me to have a conversation with?

And show me. I need you. See that's the beginning

of John chapter 4. Is to take the things that

John 4 · chapter mention

we take for granted. The natural things. And

recognize that what's in us. If you've accepted

Jesus. And been filled with the spirit of God.

You have that eternal spring in you. And God

wants to actually use you. He desires to use

you. The fact is. It's in this next season of

the church's history that Christians will come

back to what they had in the first century. All

of God's people being used to evangelize, to

share the testimony of Jesus. He's got to change

our heart. He's got to change our heart to want

to be with him connected every moment. The Wi

-Fi signal of your spirit needs to be boosted.

so that you're constantly aware. It should be

a conscious thought. I'm having to train myself

the same way I'm talking to you because it's

really easy with all the appointments, all the

schedule, all the needs to not give room to the

now. Would you pray with me this morning? Father,

in Jesus' name, Lord, this morning, Lord, in

the midst of thoughts, in the midst of the text,

I'm asking now, according to your great word,

that we would be conscious. You would open our

minds, our hearts to conscious thoughts of Jesus

who is. Who is right now. Who is right here in

the moment. Who is right with me. Who is speaking

to me. Who is wanting just to fellowship with

me. Wanting me to be aware of his will and his

desire. actually use me, that I'm a vessel to

be used. Change me, Jesus. I'm no longer that

old religious pot of water in John 2. I'm now

a vessel that contains the new wine that's made

to be drank from. Take out of my life, Lord,

that which you've changed. and let people sip

it and say, if he can do that for him or her,

what can he do for me? Let me not be afraid of

conversations. Let me not be afraid of not fitting

in in the flesh. Let my heart's intent be to

fit in with the Jesus who's now walking on the

earth in me. I pray this now for this church

family as we move forward. In a new season. We've

celebrated 25 years. Of your goodness. And now

we move into a new season. Of Jesus. The one

who is. And the one who is to come. And who was.

But our is. Jesus is. Is expanding. And we are.

Walking with him. As he walks in us. On the earth.

Wherever we go. We love you Lord. I bless these

precious people. In Jesus' name we pray. We would

love to pray with you.