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Speaker 1 (00:00):
But Jesus the spiritual trump.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
The physical, Doctor Tony Evans, is when we prioritize God's kingdom,
everything else falls into place.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
If you could ever get this and operate on that principle,
the reality of God would expand.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings
from the archives of doctor Tony Evans. A road sign
isn't the destination, but it points the way there. Today,
doctor Evans looks at how Jesus used physical acts as
signposts to reveal deeper spiritual truths. Let's join him as
(00:39):
he unpacks how these object lessons can continue to guide
us today.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
The good news of eternal life. That's what the Book
of John is about, and it is designed to show
you the giver of this life, Jesus Christ, the Son
of God, the Messiah. It is surrounded by a number
of miracles that God did to verify or validate his
(01:08):
messianic role that he is the fulfillment of the Old
Testament prophecies regarding the coming of Messiah. We will see
some of that in John chapter four. John the Baptist
has now been leading the way of shifting the focus
(01:30):
from himself over to Jesus Christ because his job was
the forerunner. He was out in front running interference, letting
them know that the Messiah had come and that the
Lamb of God had arrived. When the Jewish leaders verse
one of chapter four discovered that Jesus was making and
(01:52):
baptizing more disciples than John because the shift is a
cured Jesus, not ready to to a confrontation with them
at this time, makes his way from Judea in the
south verse three, to Galilee in the north. He has
to pass through Samaria, which was not the normal custom.
(02:15):
Usually it was Judea, Samaria Galilee that would generally skipped Samaria,
even though it was the direct route, because of who
lived there, the Samaritans. He comes to the city verse
five called Seichar, the parcel of ground that Jacob gave
to his son Joseph. Jacob's well was there, so Jesus,
(02:37):
being wearied from his journey, Jesus is a hundred percent
God and one hundred percent man. He is the God man.
We call that in theology the hypostatic union, two natures
in one person, unmixed forever. So you have this unique being,
Jesus Christ. So he's weary from his journey because he's man.
(03:01):
In this weariness, he comes to the well about the
sixth hour. That means noon six hour and Jewish time
clock it's twelve noon now. Typically Jewish women would not
come and draw water in the heat of the day.
They would come in the evening time to draw water.
She comes in the heat of the day when nobody
else is there. Because this is a very questionable lady.
(03:23):
Jesus then says, give me a drink. Verse seven, Let
me have some of your water, for his disciples had
gone into town to buy food. So they'd gone into town.
It's about a five mile walk by the way from
the well to the city of Seychar. The Somaritan woman says,
how is it that you, being a Jew? Verse nine,
(03:45):
asks me for a drink since I am a Samaritan woman,
for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans. The
Jews and the Samaritans did not like each other. It
was the racial divide of the first century. Jesus says
to her, if you knew the gift of God, remember
grace as a gift and who it was who says,
(04:08):
do you give me a drink? You would have asked him,
and he would have given you living water. Well, she
doesn't understand what he's saying now, so she says to
him in verse eleven, women, you don't have anything to
draw water with. What you're talking about where you're getting
this water from. Then Jesus moves her a little bit
further to the spiritual. Everyone who drinks this water will
(04:28):
thirst again. Everybody who drinks out of your water, they
gonna get thirsty again. The water I give becomes its own. Well,
so the woman says, well, I want some of this water.
So but she still doesn't get the point yet. She says,
so that verse fifteen, I will not be thirsty, nor
come all the way here to draw. You're gonna save
me a lot of hard work. He says, go call
(04:52):
your husband and come here. The woman answered and said,
I have no husband. Well that's half true, and have not.
Jesus said, you've said correctly, you have no husband, for
you've had five husbands, and the one whom you now
have is not your husband. So you're living in an
(05:15):
im moral relationship. Now he's speaking from his deity. He's
speaking from his deity. So we saw him in his
humanity he's tired, but now we see him in his deity.
He knows all about this woman who he's just met
for the first time, and he knows specifically how many
times she been married and how she living. Right now,
(05:36):
the woman says, Sir, I perceive you are a prophet.
I guess so our fathers worship in this mountain. Now
behind her is Mount Gerzeum. Mount Gerzium is where the
Samaritan temple was located. So when she says we worship
in this mountain our fathers, she's talking about the mountain
(05:57):
behind her where the Samaritan temple was Guersium. She says,
you people say that in Jerusalem is the place where
we are to worship. So we got this worship issue
where you go to church, we're divided by faith. Who's right?
Jesus answers her and says, woman, believe me an our
(06:18):
is coming. When neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem
will you worship the Father now? Regularly Jesus talks about
the hour. Remember he told his mother marry, my hour
has not yet come. So when he talks about the hour,
he's talking about his death and resurrection. Okay, so the
hour is coming after my death and resurrection, when the
(06:43):
physical location will not matter anymore. He says, you worship
what you do not know. We worship what we know.
For salvation is from the Jews, that is Messiah, what's
going to come out from the Jewish lineage. But an
hour is coming, that is after his death and resurrection,
when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and
(07:03):
in truth. For such people, the Father seeks to be
his worshippers. One of the major reasons for your salvation
is to become a true worshiper. In order for worship
to be authentic or true and therefore acceptable to God,
it must be the kind of worship he can receive,
(07:24):
and the kind of worship he can receive, he says,
is worshiping him in spirit and in truth. God is
a spirit, So God at his core essence is a
spirit being. So that requires a spiritual relationship and a
spiritual perspective in order to worship God spiritually. That's why
(07:48):
God never allowed any images to be made of him.
God never allowed God shall not make any image be
idolatry because He is a spirit. He is invisible. Of course,
he became visible in Jesus Christ. But in his essence
he is invisible as a being, and he operates in
a totally different realm, a spiritual realm. Now he gives
(08:11):
us physical things, physical illustrations to help us to grab
the spiritual, like when he told Nicodemus, you must be
born again. He uses something that he can identify with physically,
as Jesus did with the water, identify physically to help
take us to a spiritual realm. So unless the physical
takes you to the spiritual, you're not yet a true worshiper.
(08:33):
If your worship is only limited to the five senses,
then you haven't gone to the level of authentic worship.
And then worship must also be in truth. That must
be according to his guidelines and according to his standards
that set forth in his word. What is staggering about
this passage is that He is looking for them, such
(08:56):
worshiper as the Father seeks. So God is on the hunt.
He's on the hunt for some real worshipers who are
worshiping him spiritually based on his truth. The woman says,
I know that when Messiah is coming, who is called Christ.
(09:20):
When that one comes, he will declare all things to us,
so she knew enough to know to expect Messiah. Now
this is very important. There was a Messianic expectation by
this Samaritan woman while Jesus is being rejected by his
(09:43):
own people. So Jesus meets her at the well at
twelve noon, as opposed to what a Jew would normally do,
meets her at the well on purpose. It wasn't just
he happened to be there. He went there on purpose
to meet this woman. And the reason he goes to
(10:05):
meet this woman is that as messed up as her
life is, there is a Messianic expectation. We know that
when Messiah comes, point being, God will meet you if
you want to be met. He'll meet you if you
(10:32):
want to be met. Even though this is a flawed lady,
she's in a sinful situation, but there is a Messianic expectation.
And so who is called the Christ, which means Messiah,
When that one comes, he will declare all things to us.
I'm looking for I'm looking for Messiah to straighten it's out,
because we I'm all confused about where the worship and
(10:55):
all that. Jesus said to her, I who speak to you?
Am he? So here is Jesus's self declaration he is Messiah.
Of course, any Old Testament Messiah is God, so it
is another way of claiming deity. But he speaks in
terms of his Messianic mission, and so he says, I
(11:18):
am the Messiah that you're expecting. He reveals himself to
a lady who's looking for him.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
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Speaker 3 (11:32):
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Speaker 2 (12:01):
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Speaker 1 (13:06):
Now at this point verse twenty seven, I love this.
The disciples were amazed. He was speaking with a woman,
and yet no one said, what do you seek or
why do you speak with her? What's taking them office?
He's talking to a Samaritan woman. Because that's the problem,
the youth and the Samaritans. Why are you hanging out
with them people? Okay, which now tells you why he
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let them go into town to buy food. He wasn't
gonna have him racist hanging around while he's trying to
do his father's work verse twenty eight. So the woman
left her water pot and went into the city and
said to the men, come see a man who told
me all the things I've done verse thirty. So they
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went out of the city and were coming to him.
So they love the city. They're comeing in. The disciples
were saying, ry by eight because we went to town
to buy lunch. That was a low walk. Time for
you to eat. And he said to them, I have
food to eat that you do not know about. Because
for Jesus, the spiritual trump the physical, because they bringing
(14:13):
him food physical. The spiritual trump's the physical. If you
could ever get this, if you could ever get Matthew
six point thirty three, seek ye first the Kingdom of
God and his righteousness, and all these things will be
added to you. If we could ever get and operate
on that principle, the reality of God would expand because
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the spiritual he says, I'm my satisfaction. My food is
to fulfill God's will. So these men come, and many believe.
Many of the Samaritans bleeded in him, that is, responded
to the good news of the Gospel, the good news
of eternal life, because of the word of the woman
who testified. So she testified even though she's brand new
(14:59):
to the faith. He told me of all the things
I've done. So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they
were asking him to stay with them, and he stayed
there two days. Please notice that the Jews and Samaritans
don't have dealings with each other, and in a couple
of hours they hang it out and spending the weekend together.
Because racial reconciliation doesn't take that law doesn't take two
(15:24):
hundred and forty four years, and generally doesn't take that long,
not when you're operating spiritually, but if you're operating in
the flesh, it takes forever. Many more believe verse forty
one because of his word. And they said to the
woman of verse forty two, it's not long. Because of
your word, we've heard for ourselves. So it comes to
(15:45):
Kingdom Galilee, where he had performed the miracle of turning
water into wine in verse forty six. And there is
this a man, official royal official six says, who wanted
Jesus to heal his son, for he was at the
(16:07):
point of death. Verse forty seven says Jesus says to
the man, unless you people see signs and wonders, you
simply will not believe. And why does he respond to
this man like this when the man is saying, I
want you to come heal my son. Jesus had been
(16:28):
doing all of these miracles, and Jesus had been proclaiming
that he was who he declared himself to be. What
they kept doing is asking for more miracles after miracles
in order to believe. His point is, have you seen
what I've been doing, and have you heard what I've
(16:49):
been saying? You ought to be believing by now. But
still even with that clarification, because he was talking about
more than this man, he says, you people, he's talking
about this atmosphere that he's in. He says, sir, come
down before my child dies. Jesus said to him, go,
(17:10):
your son lives. The man believed the word that Jesus
spoke to him and started off. Okay, watch this. The
man went into faith and believed Jesus because of his word.
This is the second sign that Jesus performed when he
(17:30):
came to Judea in Galilee. So we come to chapter five.
Jesus is still performing miracles as a means of validating
his messiahship. He goes to Jerusalem, and Jerusalem by the
sheep gate, there is this pool of Bethesda verse two,
having five porticos. A man was there who had been
(17:51):
ill thirty eight years. Jesus sees him there, and he
asked him a very interesting question, do you wish to
get well? Verse six? Have you ever run into anybody
who doesn't want to get better, don't want to change.
(18:14):
They have become so stuck in their circumstances that they
have given up hope that things can ever change. Well,
that's our friend here, because for thirty eight years he's
been in the same place and nothing has changed. The
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sick man said, Sir, I have no man to put
me into the pool when the water is stirred up.
But while I am coming, another steps down before me
says I can't get there. And not only can I
not get there, I don't have anybody to help me.
(18:57):
This man said. When I'm coming, I try to do
a little something, but I can't get there. So that's
the status of this guy and he's in a hopeless situation,
and Jesus says, get up, pick up your palette and walk.
The palette's a little mad that you sleep on like
(19:19):
a beggar you see a homeless person says you get up,
You get up, and you walk. Immediately the man became
well and picked up his palette and began to walk.
So he's responding to a divine command. The problem is
(19:40):
it was the Sabbath. So the Jews were saying to
the man who was cured, it is the Sabbath, and
it is not permissible for you to carry your palette.
Then this man been laying down for thirty eight years
and you're telling me it's not permissible for him to
carry bry up his bed. See that's what religion will
(20:03):
do for you. Religion will keep you stuck right where
you are, okay. But he answered, he who made me well,
said to me, pick up your palate and walk. So
Jesus finds the man in the temple afterwards, because he
slips away and not wanting to deal with the Jewish leaders.
(20:23):
Right then he found him in a place in the temple. Behold,
you have become well, Do not sin anymore so that
nothing worse happens to you. So the reason he was
stuck for thirty eight years was because of an unaddressed
sin in his life. Because sin will keep you crippled.
(20:45):
The man went away and told the Jews that it
was Jesus who had made him well, and for this
reason the Jews were persecuting Jesus. Now you would have
thought the religious leaders would have been excited, but they
were persecuting Jesus because he was doing things on the sap.
But they're playing religion and Jesus is changing lives. Whenever
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you're not in the business of changing lives, you're not
in the Jesus business, no matter how much religious protocol
you may be engaged in. So you can believe in
God all you want. If there is a rejection of Jesus,
the Father has been dishonored. It's a family matter. Closing verse, Truly, Truly,
(21:32):
I say to you, he who hears my word and
believes him who sent me has eternal life. So we're
back to the good news of eternal life and does
not come into judgment, but has passed from death unto life.
So when you hear the word and you believe what
(21:55):
God says about the Son and his offer of eternal
life life. You do not come into judgment eternal security.
You don't come into judgment anymore, but has passed from
death to life. Faith in God's promise of eternal life
through Jesus Christ guarantees the person who bleeds in him
(22:18):
that eternal life. That is the simple summary of the
good news of.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
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thought when he returns with his closing comments in just
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us that understanding scripture is not just about learning, it's
about embracing the life it offers. Right now, though, he's
back with this follow up for today's message.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
The greatest need in all of our lives is for
the forgiveness of sins, and there's only one person who
can do that. That's Jesus Christ. That's why I died
on the cross and rows from the dead, and he
offers forgiveness of sins. If you carrying guilt for what
you've done, fear for what you've done, Jesus Christ is
(24:04):
right here right now. If you go to him, confess
your sinfulness to him and trust him to forgive you,
he will do it on the spot and also grant
you eternal life.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
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to help in your journey.
But Jesus the spiritual trump.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
The physical, Doctor Tony Evans, is when we prioritize God's kingdom,
everything else falls into place.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
If you could ever get this and operate on that principle,
the reality of God would expand.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings
from the archives of doctor Tony Evans. A road sign
isn't the destination, but it points the way there. Today,
doctor Evans looks at how Jesus used physical acts as
signposts to reveal deeper spiritual truths. Let's join him as
(00:39):
he unpacks how these object lessons can continue to guide
us today.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
The good news of eternal life. That's what the Book
of John is about, and it is designed to show
you the giver of this life, Jesus Christ, the Son
of God, the Messiah. It is surrounded by a number
of miracles that God did to verify or validate his
(01:08):
messianic role that he is the fulfillment of the Old
Testament prophecies regarding the coming of Messiah. We will see
some of that in John chapter four. John the Baptist
has now been leading the way of shifting the focus
(01:30):
from himself over to Jesus Christ because his job was
the forerunner. He was out in front running interference, letting
them know that the Messiah had come and that the
Lamb of God had arrived. When the Jewish leaders verse
one of chapter four discovered that Jesus was making and
(01:52):
baptizing more disciples than John because the shift is a
cured Jesus, not ready to to a confrontation with them
at this time, makes his way from Judea in the
south verse three, to Galilee in the north. He has
to pass through Samaria, which was not the normal custom.
(02:15):
Usually it was Judea, Samaria Galilee that would generally skipped Samaria,
even though it was the direct route, because of who
lived there, the Samaritans. He comes to the city verse
five called Seichar, the parcel of ground that Jacob gave
to his son Joseph. Jacob's well was there, so Jesus,
(02:37):
being wearied from his journey, Jesus is a hundred percent
God and one hundred percent man. He is the God man.
We call that in theology the hypostatic union, two natures
in one person, unmixed forever. So you have this unique being,
Jesus Christ. So he's weary from his journey because he's man.
(03:01):
In this weariness, he comes to the well about the
sixth hour. That means noon six hour and Jewish time
clock it's twelve noon now. Typically Jewish women would not
come and draw water in the heat of the day.
They would come in the evening time to draw water.
She comes in the heat of the day when nobody
else is there. Because this is a very questionable lady.
(03:23):
Jesus then says, give me a drink. Verse seven, Let
me have some of your water, for his disciples had
gone into town to buy food. So they'd gone into town.
It's about a five mile walk by the way from
the well to the city of Seychar. The Somaritan woman says,
how is it that you, being a Jew? Verse nine,
(03:45):
asks me for a drink since I am a Samaritan woman,
for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans. The
Jews and the Samaritans did not like each other. It
was the racial divide of the first century. Jesus says
to her, if you knew the gift of God, remember
grace as a gift and who it was who says,
(04:08):
do you give me a drink? You would have asked him,
and he would have given you living water. Well, she
doesn't understand what he's saying now, so she says to
him in verse eleven, women, you don't have anything to
draw water with. What you're talking about where you're getting
this water from. Then Jesus moves her a little bit
further to the spiritual. Everyone who drinks this water will
(04:28):
thirst again. Everybody who drinks out of your water, they
gonna get thirsty again. The water I give becomes its own. Well,
so the woman says, well, I want some of this water.
So but she still doesn't get the point yet. She says,
so that verse fifteen, I will not be thirsty, nor
come all the way here to draw. You're gonna save
me a lot of hard work. He says, go call
(04:52):
your husband and come here. The woman answered and said,
I have no husband. Well that's half true, and have not.
Jesus said, you've said correctly, you have no husband, for
you've had five husbands, and the one whom you now
have is not your husband. So you're living in an
(05:15):
im moral relationship. Now he's speaking from his deity. He's
speaking from his deity. So we saw him in his
humanity he's tired, but now we see him in his deity.
He knows all about this woman who he's just met
for the first time, and he knows specifically how many
times she been married and how she living. Right now,
(05:36):
the woman says, Sir, I perceive you are a prophet.
I guess so our fathers worship in this mountain. Now
behind her is Mount Gerzeum. Mount Gerzium is where the
Samaritan temple was located. So when she says we worship
in this mountain our fathers, she's talking about the mountain
(05:57):
behind her where the Samaritan temple was Guersium. She says,
you people say that in Jerusalem is the place where
we are to worship. So we got this worship issue
where you go to church, we're divided by faith. Who's right?
Jesus answers her and says, woman, believe me an our
(06:18):
is coming. When neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem
will you worship the Father now? Regularly Jesus talks about
the hour. Remember he told his mother marry, my hour
has not yet come. So when he talks about the hour,
he's talking about his death and resurrection. Okay, so the
hour is coming after my death and resurrection, when the
(06:43):
physical location will not matter anymore. He says, you worship
what you do not know. We worship what we know.
For salvation is from the Jews, that is Messiah, what's
going to come out from the Jewish lineage. But an
hour is coming, that is after his death and resurrection,
when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and
(07:03):
in truth. For such people, the Father seeks to be
his worshippers. One of the major reasons for your salvation
is to become a true worshiper. In order for worship
to be authentic or true and therefore acceptable to God,
it must be the kind of worship he can receive,
(07:24):
and the kind of worship he can receive, he says,
is worshiping him in spirit and in truth. God is
a spirit, So God at his core essence is a
spirit being. So that requires a spiritual relationship and a
spiritual perspective in order to worship God spiritually. That's why
(07:48):
God never allowed any images to be made of him.
God never allowed God shall not make any image be
idolatry because He is a spirit. He is invisible. Of course,
he became visible in Jesus Christ. But in his essence
he is invisible as a being, and he operates in
a totally different realm, a spiritual realm. Now he gives
(08:11):
us physical things, physical illustrations to help us to grab
the spiritual, like when he told Nicodemus, you must be
born again. He uses something that he can identify with physically,
as Jesus did with the water, identify physically to help
take us to a spiritual realm. So unless the physical
takes you to the spiritual, you're not yet a true worshiper.
(08:33):
If your worship is only limited to the five senses,
then you haven't gone to the level of authentic worship.
And then worship must also be in truth. That must
be according to his guidelines and according to his standards
that set forth in his word. What is staggering about
this passage is that He is looking for them, such
(08:56):
worshiper as the Father seeks. So God is on the hunt.
He's on the hunt for some real worshipers who are
worshiping him spiritually based on his truth. The woman says,
I know that when Messiah is coming, who is called Christ.
(09:20):
When that one comes, he will declare all things to us,
so she knew enough to know to expect Messiah. Now
this is very important. There was a Messianic expectation by
this Samaritan woman while Jesus is being rejected by his
(09:43):
own people. So Jesus meets her at the well at
twelve noon, as opposed to what a Jew would normally do,
meets her at the well on purpose. It wasn't just
he happened to be there. He went there on purpose
to meet this woman. And the reason he goes to
(10:05):
meet this woman is that as messed up as her
life is, there is a Messianic expectation. We know that
when Messiah comes, point being, God will meet you if
you want to be met. He'll meet you if you
(10:32):
want to be met. Even though this is a flawed lady,
she's in a sinful situation, but there is a Messianic expectation.
And so who is called the Christ, which means Messiah,
When that one comes, he will declare all things to us.
I'm looking for I'm looking for Messiah to straighten it's out,
because we I'm all confused about where the worship and
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all that. Jesus said to her, I who speak to you?
Am he? So here is Jesus's self declaration he is Messiah.
Of course, any Old Testament Messiah is God, so it
is another way of claiming deity. But he speaks in
terms of his Messianic mission, and so he says, I
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am the Messiah that you're expecting. He reveals himself to
a lady who's looking for him.
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Now at this point verse twenty seven, I love this.
The disciples were amazed. He was speaking with a woman,
and yet no one said, what do you seek or
why do you speak with her? What's taking them office?
He's talking to a Samaritan woman. Because that's the problem,
the youth and the Samaritans. Why are you hanging out
with them people? Okay, which now tells you why he
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let them go into town to buy food. He wasn't
gonna have him racist hanging around while he's trying to
do his father's work verse twenty eight. So the woman
left her water pot and went into the city and
said to the men, come see a man who told
me all the things I've done verse thirty. So they
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went out of the city and were coming to him.
So they love the city. They're comeing in. The disciples
were saying, ry by eight because we went to town
to buy lunch. That was a low walk. Time for
you to eat. And he said to them, I have
food to eat that you do not know about. Because
for Jesus, the spiritual trump the physical, because they bringing
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him food physical. The spiritual trump's the physical. If you
could ever get this, if you could ever get Matthew
six point thirty three, seek ye first the Kingdom of
God and his righteousness, and all these things will be
added to you. If we could ever get and operate
on that principle, the reality of God would expand because
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the spiritual he says, I'm my satisfaction. My food is
to fulfill God's will. So these men come, and many believe.
Many of the Samaritans bleeded in him, that is, responded
to the good news of the Gospel, the good news
of eternal life, because of the word of the woman
who testified. So she testified even though she's brand new
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to the faith. He told me of all the things
I've done. So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they
were asking him to stay with them, and he stayed
there two days. Please notice that the Jews and Samaritans
don't have dealings with each other, and in a couple
of hours they hang it out and spending the weekend together.
Because racial reconciliation doesn't take that law doesn't take two
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hundred and forty four years, and generally doesn't take that long,
not when you're operating spiritually, but if you're operating in
the flesh, it takes forever. Many more believe verse forty
one because of his word. And they said to the
woman of verse forty two, it's not long. Because of
your word, we've heard for ourselves. So it comes to
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Kingdom Galilee, where he had performed the miracle of turning
water into wine in verse forty six. And there is
this a man, official royal official six says, who wanted
Jesus to heal his son, for he was at the
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point of death. Verse forty seven says Jesus says to
the man, unless you people see signs and wonders, you
simply will not believe. And why does he respond to
this man like this when the man is saying, I
want you to come heal my son. Jesus had been
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doing all of these miracles, and Jesus had been proclaiming
that he was who he declared himself to be. What
they kept doing is asking for more miracles after miracles
in order to believe. His point is, have you seen
what I've been doing, and have you heard what I've
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been saying? You ought to be believing by now. But
still even with that clarification, because he was talking about
more than this man, he says, you people, he's talking
about this atmosphere that he's in. He says, sir, come
down before my child dies. Jesus said to him, go,
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your son lives. The man believed the word that Jesus
spoke to him and started off. Okay, watch this. The
man went into faith and believed Jesus because of his word.
This is the second sign that Jesus performed when he
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came to Judea in Galilee. So we come to chapter five.
Jesus is still performing miracles as a means of validating
his messiahship. He goes to Jerusalem, and Jerusalem by the
sheep gate, there is this pool of Bethesda verse two,
having five porticos. A man was there who had been
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ill thirty eight years. Jesus sees him there, and he
asked him a very interesting question, do you wish to
get well? Verse six? Have you ever run into anybody
who doesn't want to get better, don't want to change.
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They have become so stuck in their circumstances that they
have given up hope that things can ever change. Well,
that's our friend here, because for thirty eight years he's
been in the same place and nothing has changed. The
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sick man said, Sir, I have no man to put
me into the pool when the water is stirred up.
But while I am coming, another steps down before me
says I can't get there. And not only can I
not get there, I don't have anybody to help me.
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This man said. When I'm coming, I try to do
a little something, but I can't get there. So that's
the status of this guy and he's in a hopeless situation,
and Jesus says, get up, pick up your palette and walk.
The palette's a little mad that you sleep on like
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a beggar you see a homeless person says you get up,
You get up, and you walk. Immediately the man became
well and picked up his palette and began to walk.
So he's responding to a divine command. The problem is
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it was the Sabbath. So the Jews were saying to
the man who was cured, it is the Sabbath, and
it is not permissible for you to carry your palette.
Then this man been laying down for thirty eight years
and you're telling me it's not permissible for him to
carry bry up his bed. See that's what religion will
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do for you. Religion will keep you stuck right where
you are, okay. But he answered, he who made me well,
said to me, pick up your palate and walk. So
Jesus finds the man in the temple afterwards, because he
slips away and not wanting to deal with the Jewish leaders.
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Right then he found him in a place in the temple. Behold,
you have become well, Do not sin anymore so that
nothing worse happens to you. So the reason he was
stuck for thirty eight years was because of an unaddressed
sin in his life. Because sin will keep you crippled.
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The man went away and told the Jews that it
was Jesus who had made him well, and for this
reason the Jews were persecuting Jesus. Now you would have
thought the religious leaders would have been excited, but they
were persecuting Jesus because he was doing things on the sap.
But they're playing religion and Jesus is changing lives. Whenever
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you're not in the business of changing lives, you're not
in the Jesus business, no matter how much religious protocol
you may be engaged in. So you can believe in
God all you want. If there is a rejection of Jesus,
the Father has been dishonored. It's a family matter. Closing verse, Truly, Truly,
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I say to you, he who hears my word and
believes him who sent me has eternal life. So we're
back to the good news of eternal life and does
not come into judgment, but has passed from death unto life.
So when you hear the word and you believe what
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God says about the Son and his offer of eternal
life life. You do not come into judgment eternal security.
You don't come into judgment anymore, but has passed from
death to life. Faith in God's promise of eternal life
through Jesus Christ guarantees the person who bleeds in him
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that eternal life. That is the simple summary of the
good news of.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
The Gospel, and Doctor Evans will have more on that
thought when he returns with his closing comments in just
a moment. First, though, don't miss out on your chance
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as the promise of a harvest is contained in a
single seed, one accepted truth has the ability to transform
the course of a life. Next time, doctor Evans reminds
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us that understanding scripture is not just about learning, it's
about embracing the life it offers. Right now, though, he's
back with this follow up for today's message.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
The greatest need in all of our lives is for
the forgiveness of sins, and there's only one person who
can do that. That's Jesus Christ. That's why I died
on the cross and rows from the dead, and he
offers forgiveness of sins. If you carrying guilt for what
you've done, fear for what you've done, Jesus Christ is
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right here right now. If you go to him, confess
your sinfulness to him and trust him to forgive you,
he will do it on the spot and also grant
you eternal life.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
If you're ready to accept that offer of salvation and forgiveness,
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