October 7, 2025 • 28 mins
We're in John 4 looking into Jesus' encounter with the Samaritan woman to gain insight on how we should be reaching people today. Don't overlook the outcast. Don't think of yourself as higher than the homeless. These are the people that Jesus Himself went out of His way to speak to and to save: We should all take His example. Watch this to find out how we can all effectively reach anyone in society with the Gospel.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi everyone, Welcome back to the Amani Talks podcast. You're
here with your host Amani on the podcast where we
discuss our Christian based topics and deepening our relationship with
the Lord.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
All right, so we.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Are back on the podcast, you guys, and I really
wanted to start a little mini series.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I was traveling and I was.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
In Syracuse a few weeks ago, and of course I'm
in my home church and the preacher is preaching about
the Samaritan Woman, or some people refer to her as
the Woman at the Well. This is an account that
we see in the Book of John John chapter four.
This account for me, when I was being refreshed on
it while I was in church, it just reminded me.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Of exactly who God is.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
I think that the story of the Woman at the
Well just totally embodies who Jesus is to us, what
we do like his transforming power within us, and how
that power that He used to transform us is then
transferred to other people based on our accounts of our
account with Him. And that's just the entirety of the
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Christian lights. So yeah, I just think that this story
is just so good. And I was like, man, there
are so many things that I was capturing from that message.
And when I'm in church a lot of times, church
is what gives me the inspiration for the podcast, which
to me just makes sense because church should be giving
us inspiration for our lives. And that's why I'm always
telling y'all, like, get in church. It's not good enough
to just sit at home, and you know, like get
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in church being there every Sunday, because just being there,
having someone speak to you, speak the word of life
to you, it just inspires you. You should never have
amnesia as soon as you walk out of the Sunday
morning service, like oh well, time to go eat, and
now you got amnesia after Sunday morning. Like the word
that you get Sunday it should be like you're refresher.
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It should be your reset, and it should also be
the point into where you're like, Okay, I'm going to
take what was said today and I'm going to utilize
it towards my life. So yeah, we are going to
do a three part series on the Samaritan Woman or
the Woman at the Well, starting in John chapter four.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
So if you're going to follow.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Along with the Bible reading of this three part series,
you are going to want to read John chapter four
versus one through forty two, So I'm.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Giving you guys a little bit of homework.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
You definitely need to go read that to be able
to have context for what we're talking about today. I
will be reading some scripture to go along with this
three episode series, but you want to read it in
its entirety because I might not read every single verse.
I'm just gonna highlight key versus to get to what
we are going to be discussing for every episode. So
definitely go and read that by yourself. Reading your Bible
by yourself is just so important. Don't let anyone give
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you their contact, their understanding of what the Word is saying.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Make sure that you get it yourself because the Holy
Spirit will.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Tell you things that it might not necessarily tell your
pastor it might not tell your friend, it might not
tell me on this podcast, it will reveal very specific
things to you. So definitely go read John chapter four,
versus one through forty two. But we are going to
get into the first part of this series, and I've
titled this.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Part one Go and to Reach the Outcast.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
So let's go and read the scripture to start off
with and get into our topic for the day. So
we are going to read John chapter four. We're gonna
start in verse five. So he referring to Jesus, came
to a city of Samaria, which is called Sikar, near
the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus, therefore, being wearied from
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his journey, sat thus by the well.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
It was about the sixth hour.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Girl, No, you cannot be here, No, I need to focus.
By go. A woman of Samaria came to draw water.
Jesus said to her, give me a drink, for his
disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Then the woman of Samaria.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Said to him, how is it that you, being a Jew,
asked a drink from me, a Samaritan woman, For Jews
have no dealings with Samaritans. Jesus answered and said to her,
if you knew the gift of God and who it
is who says to you give me a drink, you
would have asked him and he would have given you
living water. The woman said to him, Sir, you have
nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where
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then do you get that living water? Are you greater
than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and
drink from it himself, as well as his son's in
his livestock. Jesus answered and said to her, whoever drinks
of this water will thirst again. But whoever drinks of
the water that I shall give him will never thirst.
But the water that I shall give him will become
in him a fountain of water, springing up into everlasting life.
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The woman said to him, Sir, give me this water,
that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw.
Jesus said to her, go call your husband and come here.
The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus
said to her, you have said, well, I have no husband,
for you have had five husbands, and the one whom
you now have is not your husband. In that you
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spoke truly. The woman said to him, Sir, I perceive
that you are a prophet.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Our Father is worshiped.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
On this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem
is the place where we ought to worship. Jesus said
to her, woman, believe me, the hour is coming when
you will neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem worship
the father you worship.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
What you do not know.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
We know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews.
But the hour is coming, and now is when the
true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth.
For the Father is seeking such to worship him. God
is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in
spirit and truth. The woman said to him, I know
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that Messiah is coming, who is called Christ. When he comes,
he will tell us all things. Jesus said to her,
I who speak to you, am he. So that's what
we're going to end in verse twenty six, and I
want to talk about this first chunk of this story
of Jesus speaking to this Samaritan woman. First of all,
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let's talk about who this woman was. We already know
that she's a Samaritan. You have to go back and
read a lot of the Old Testament to understand and
why the Samaritans and the Jewish people. I mean, the
Samaritans were part of the Jewish people, I believe, but
you have to understand why this cast of people, the Samaritans,
were outcast to Jewish people. So we know that she's
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a woman, we know that she is Samaritan, and we
know that she's a woman of ill repute. Jesus said
to her, Yeah, you've had five husbands, and who you
got in your house right now ain't even your husband.
So very clearly this woman is an outcast. She is
kind of a social pariah. Just the fact that she
is out in the middle of the day drawing water
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from the well. If you know anything about the Middle East,
you know it's hot. Even in modern times today, the
Middle East really thrives at night. They have night markets
that go into the hours of the night because people
don't really do business during the afternoon because that's when
the sun is highest in the sky. You know, that's
when the temperature is up. It gets so hot there
that you can't just be out in the middle of
the day. They will go out in the morning or
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at night. So the fact that this woman is drawing
water in the middle of the day tells us that
she is a social outcast, because why would she not
be drawing water in the evening or in the morning
when the other women did it. We know that women
were the ones that drew water for the most part.
I mean, we see like stories in the Old Testament,
Isaac and Rebecca, when Isaac's servant went out to go
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find a wife for Isaac. When Isaac's servant went out
to go find a wife for him, he saw women drawing.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Water at the well.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Rebecca was out there drawing water, and he was like, Lord,
let the person that is supposed to be the husband
or the wife for Isaac be the one that says,
I will give you water, and everyone with you, and
also your camels. So we know that drawing water was
a woman's job. In Exodus with Moses, he ended up
finding his wife because I think her and her family,
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her and her sisters were out drawing water and there
were men trying to mess with them. I don't know
what they was trying to do, child, but they were
messing with them, and Moses kind of like drew the
men off and rescued them. So there are just several
accounts that we realized that drawing water was kind of
like a woman's.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Thing, right.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
So the fact that she's not out with the rest
of the women drawing water at a more appropriate time
says to me that she did not want to be
with them because there was probably making fun of her.
They were probably gossiping about her. Oh you know her,
She over here got four or five husbands. She's shocking
up the way that we gotsap about people right now.
They probably were mean to her, They probably didn't want
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to help her, They probably wanted nothing to do with her.
She was like, I don't God to deal with this.
I will go and draw water in the middle of
the day when ain't nobody out here to make fun
of me. So, you know, just the fact that she's alone,
she's in the middle of the day drawing water when
it was not the appropriate time for her. We know
that she was just not only you know, an outcast
to the Jewish people, but just an outcast in her
own community as well, because they're in Samia right now.
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Her own people wanted nothing to do with her because
of her life and sin. I mean, she's living in
sin pretty much. And I know that it's normalized today
for us to shack up with boyfriends and have sex
before marriage.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
That was not the norm back then.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
The fact that she even found multiple men to even
marry her, that says to me, like, wow, like that surprising,
even though I don't I'm not really sure if marriage
in this context was the men that she's had sex
with and have lived with her or actual husbands. I'm
not really sure. So this is the context for the
woman that.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Jesus is speaking with.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
First of all, back in these days, you would never
catch a religious leader talking to a woman in public.
Jesus at this time was a religious leader. He had disciples,
he had people following him. It's crazy for him to
even be speaking to a woman in public by himself
to begin with. It's even crazier for him, once again,
to be a Jewish religious leader, to be speaking to
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a Samaritan. That's why she says what versus it? In
verse nine, she says, how is it that you, being
a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?
For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. So even she
acknowledges like she's shocked, like what you know, this is
not the norm. Jesus is really breaking societal norms by
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talking to a woman and going across those jew gentile
lines and talking to a Samaritan at that and in
this simple exchange that we look at as simple, really
back in those times was revolutionary. And I think I
did an episode a few months ago talking about how
Jesus is a girl dad, how God is a girl Dad,
because I think a lot of people look at Christianity
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as really oppressive towards women, oppressive war when we see
that Jesus himself, the founder of our faith, the finisher
of our faith, went out of his way to go
against what people would tell him, don't speak to women
in public, and he's like, no, this is my child,
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I'm going to speak to her. There are so many
times that we can look at accounts of Jesus going
against religious norms, societal norms, cultural norms to show that
there is no partiality in the body of Christ. He
is no respector of persons. There is no greater than
less than with him, and we are all equal to him.
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In a society to where classism, sexism, even religious standards
and boundaries were so great, you didn't go against those
things because you would be an outcast like her. You
know how they say like bring back shame, bring bring
back bullying, bring back shame, because people don't know how
to act. I mean this was that, this was that
cultural norm of yeah, you were shamed, you were a pariah.
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People did not talk to you. You broke these societal norms.
There was no going back. People wanted nothing to do
with you. And we see Jesus going out of his
way to speak to women, to reveal himself to women,
to heal women, to touch women. That was not the
norm back then, before feminism, before feminism was accepted in society,
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before we had this push for equal rights for women,
Jesus was already giving equal rights to women.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
And that's just so revealing.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Of his character that he loves all, he does not
see anyone as less than And that really speaks to
me specifically because I look at the society that we're
in today. We might not have social outcasts when it
comes to having sex before marriage and having multiple husbands. Shoot,
like you got nine husbands in your celebrity you know,
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Lizabeth Taylor, how many times.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Does she marry?
Speaker 1 (12:16):
So that's not really judged harshly whatsoever in today's society.
I mean, if this woman had five to six bodies today,
that's low. I know people that fifteen, twenty thirty, and
they talk about it and they brag about it, you know.
So that's not really what we see as uh the
edge of society or people that we don't want to
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mingle with or talk to. So who do we consider
to be our social outcast of today. If this portion
of our three part series is talking about go and
reach the outcast, like Jesus did with this woman, who
are our outcasts? The first thing that came to my
mind are the homeless. How many times have we, on
our day to day going out running errands overlooked the homeless.
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We do it all the time. I do it all
the time. There's a ups USPS by my house. Every
single time I go to the USPS, there's a homeless
man outside that outside the door. Sometimes it's the same guy,
sometimes it's a different guy, and I feel myself. Sometimes
if I pull up and he's standing outside already, I
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instantly get irritated because I know they're gonna ask me
for something. Right. Sometimes if I pull up and they're
not there, I try to rush inside just so that
when I leave out, they're not there. But I'm telling y'all, like,
it don't matter how bad I try to dodge.
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Homeless people.
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They're just always there, USPS, CBS on the street corners.
They're asking you for money, and my initial reaction is
to immediately turn the other way.
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Oh I don't see you.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Oh I'm on my phone. Oh, I'm too busy. I'm sorry,
Oh I don't have the cash. And I just last week,
maybe a couple weeks ago. I remember thinking, why is
that my mindset when it comes to homeless people? Why
do I feel instantly irritated when I see a homeless
person asking me for something? Are these not people too?
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Why do we as a society treat homeless people as
less than just because they lack something physical?
Speaker 2 (14:18):
And when I really sat with this and I really.
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Thought about it from my perspective, or at least for me,
I think that we see homelessness as their problem. We
look at them and we say, I don't want to
give you any of my money because you didn't work
hard enough. You're gonna spin it on drugs. Drugs is
the reason that you're here to begin with.
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You were lazy.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
We all need to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps.
I did it, why can't you? And when that is
our perspective of what makes people homeless? Oh, it's your
fault that you're homeless. That's why I don't want to
help you. That also says that the fact that we
are not homeless is because of us. We know that
that is not true. If you have strength, if you
have a sound mind, if you have any kind of
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financial provision that did not come from you. James one
point seventeen says, every good gift and every perfect gift
is from above and cometh down from the Father of Lights,
with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Sometimes
we tend to think that the only reason that we
are not outcasts is because of what we did for ourselves.
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I know that this false sense of self sufficiency and
self dependency was definitely my thing, and I've already talked
about this area of my life a few times on
the pod, specifically in the first half of this year,
because I was struggling financially so bad in this first
half of the year, and I'm talking so bad that
month after month after month, I did not have my
rent money, and I would be crying like God, like
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why are you letting me struggle like this?
Speaker 2 (15:47):
You know I need this money, you know, YadA YadA,
and the Lord.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Will always come through. But for months, it took me
months to realize I'm struggling this bad financially so that
I can realize that everything that I have comes from Him.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
I remember one time.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
I said on my social media, I think it was
my TikTok or my Instagram story, and I was like,
I'm cute and I'm smart, so I'll never be messed
up like I have pretty privilege.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
I am book smart, I went to college.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
I will never be in a situation to where I
am lacking because between those two things, Oh, Baby, I
am it. And one thing that the Lord had to
reveal to me is that I'm not that cute. I'm
not that smart right because I was broke. I was
broke the first half of the year. So if I
was that cute and smart, I wouldn't have been broke, right.
And the Lord really revealed to me all things come
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from him James one, p.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Seventeen.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
If it's good, it came from him. So while I'm
over here thinking that my opportunities with me being a
full time content creator is because I'm so cute and
creative and people want to hear me talk, the Lord
very quickly humbled me. And that's what happens when you
begin to think too highly of yourself. The Lord will
humble you if he's trying to bring you back to him.
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That humility is needed. And Baby I very specifically remember
being humbled in the way that I had to.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Finally, I remember.
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It like it was yesterday, because I prayed the prayer, Lord,
I don't even care anymore. You could take everything that
I got, like take the car, take the apartment. I
remember praying, as long as you just give me a
roof over my head, God, that is enough. Like I
totally released all the physical things I had in my
life one hundred percent.
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I was holding on to.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Them so bad because I felt like the things that
I had made me better than the next person. And
I think that that's what we feel about homeless people.
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We are better than.
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Them because we have these things, not acknowledging that the
only reason I have these things is because of God.
So when we fix that mindset, when we get our
minds right and correct with humility, and we realize, man,
that could be me, it is only by the grace
of God and his plan for what he wants to
do through me that that's not me. I'm just pointing
out the reality of we think that we're so great
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and that's why we had the things that we have
in life. We're not that great. I had to realize
that my life experience, my college education, my pretty privilege
would not give me the favor in this world that
the Lord could give me. His favor goes above and
beyond all those things. So why do we look at
people that have less than like that's their fault and
because of that, oh, I don't.
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Want to be around you.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
I think we look at homeless people as less than
We look at them as pariahs.
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We don't want to be bothered by them.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
We feel like it's their fault that they're in that
position because we think that we've done things for ourselves.
I really had to readjust my mind, like why do
I feel like this? Why do I feel instantly irritated
when really I should be glad about the opportunity that
they're already where I am. Like, if I'm pulling up
the CVS and I see a homeless person there, I
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should be like, oh, bet, I am prepared, I got
a Bible track in my car. I have a few
dollars to give to them, because for real, foraroal, I
think we also think, oh, I'm not going to give
to this person because I don't want them spending it
on drugs. That's none of your business. You don't know
what they're going to spend it on. Let's go to
Matthew and start in verse thirty five. And this is
Jesus speaking. For I was hungry and you gave me food.
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I was thirsty and you gave me drink. I was
a stranger and you took me in. I was naked
and you clothed me. I was sick and you visited me.
I was in prison and you came to me. Then
the righteous will answer him, saying, Lord, when did we
see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give
you drink? When did we see you a stranger and
take you in, or naked and clothe you. Or when
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did we see you sick or in prison and come
to you. And the King will answer and say to
them assuredly, I say to you, inas much as you
did it to one of the least of these, my brethren,
you did it to me. Then he will also say
to those on the left hand, depart from me. You
cursed into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and
his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me
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no food. I was thirsty and you gave me no drink.
I was a stranger, and you did not take me
in naked, and you did not clothe me sick and
in prison, and you did not visit me. And they
will also answer him saying, Lord, when did we see
you hungry or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or
sick or in prison, and did not minister to you.
Then he will answer them saying, assuredly, I say to you,
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inasmuch as you did not do it to one of
the least of these, you did not do it to me.
And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the
righteous into everlasting life. So we see the Lord saying
that when we minister to people his creation, we're doing
it to him. This is our ministry to help other people.
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When he says, when you do it to the least
of these, my brethren, he's talking about the outcast. He's
talking about the homeless, the people that we walk past
every day. Jesus went out of his way to go
speak to this woman. In the beginning of that chapter
talks about he spoke to him while his disciples were
out getting food. He made sure that he was alone.
He was intentional, of course, he's the Lord. He knew
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that she was going to be coming out and getting water.
He knew her name before he ever saw her walking
up to him. He knew that we don't always have
that information. But what we do know is that it's
our job to go out and be intentional about reaching
the outcast. It is our job to clothe the naked,
to feed the hungry, to go and visit those in prison,
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to give medicine and healing to those who are sick
while preaching the word. Because we have physical needs. Yeah,
this woman is drawing water from the well. She's thirsty,
she needs water. She's talking about the physical aspects of
her life. He's saying, I will give you living water.
A fountain will then spring up inside of you eternally.
I'm giving you living water. You will never thirst again.
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He's talking spiritually. Yeah, we need water, we need food.
We're humans, we're on earth, but we need a lot
more than that. So when we go out, when we
try to intentionally reach.
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The outcast of society, reach the homeless, reach.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
The people that we look over and get irritated by
and step over every single day, those are the people
that the Lord is like, you should be going to
these people when you do it to the least of these,
my brethren, you.
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Have done it to me the least.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
So when we evangelize, and notice I said, when we evangelize,
it's not an option for the believer, it's your job.
It's the whole reason that you are saved and you
remained on earth to go out and make more disciples.
When we evangelize effectively, when we evangelize, like Jesus, we
go to the outcast. We make it our mission to
speak to the people that we don't really want to
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speak to, the people that society brushes away. Those are
the people that we should really be focused on. And
it's really convicted me like, Okay, what am I going
to do? Then? If I'm going to talk about reaching
the outcast like Jesus did with this woman at the well,
how does that look in my life for me personally?
And I think that this is a good start for
any believer, any person period. When you are going to
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make an intention, go out of your way to do
the Lord's work, which is evangelism, winning souls, making disciples,
clothing the needy, and feeding the hungry. When that's your job,
you first have to look at, Okay, who are these
people that lack these resources. When the Word says that
perfect and undefiled religion is to go visit the widows
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and the orphans in their time of need. I see
over and over again that the Lord specifically tells us
to go to people who lack what we have every
single day. Go to those who lack something physically, Go
to people who the world will look at as outcasts.
Make it my mission to minister to those people. And
so mentally, I'm making a list who are social outcasts
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to us? Who are people that we feel like we
don't want to be bothered by? The elderly, the homeless,
sometimes young children, and the poor. And so I'm like, Okay,
what can I do to help these people? Meals on wheels?
If you guys are looking at my vlogs, tomorrow, I'm
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going to be blogging about doing more volunteer work, I'm like, Okay,
what can I do practically in my community? The Lord
placed me here for a reason. What can I do
in Atlanta to reach the homeless, children, the elderly, and
the poor. The elderly meals on wheels? There are so
many seniors in our cities that don't have family. Maybe
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they never had kids. Maybe they had a small family,
they outlived their family, they don't have anyone taking care
of them. We know that. You know, government assistance sometimes
doesn't really help those in need. So what can I
do to kind of bridge that gap? Okay, meals on wheels.
I can deliver meals to senior citizens that really need it.
Go and talk to people while I'm doing that. Bible
tracks right in my car.
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I'm delivering a meal.
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I can also speak to them about Jesus. I don't know, icebreakers,
like little ways that we can sneak some Jesus in there,
but be intentional about it. And when I think about kids,
I think about mentoring, I'm like, okay, I can kind
of hit two birds with one stone if I go
into lower income schools and try to become a mentor.
I'm looking into doing stuff like that, mentoring like younger girls.
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When I think.
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About people that are maybe on the poor or homeless side,
can be very intentional with joining organizations that feed them,
or in the very simple ways of just not ignoring
the homeless people that I see every single day. Why
am I irritated when I see homeless people when they're
right there? That's easy pickings very easily. They gonna ask
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me for a few dollars. Yeah, I got a few
dollars for you. You're also gonna get some Jesus. You're
also gonna have someone pray for you. That's five minutes
out of your day. It's literally five minutes out of
your day to make sure that you have a few
dollars inside of a Bible track in your car so
that when you see a homeless person you give it
to them, but you stop and say, what's your name?
My name's John, John. I'm gonna pray for you really quick. Lord,
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Please provide John with all his needs, his spiritual needs. Lord,
please let him know that he is loved. A little prayer,
nothing crazy, nothing crazy. But when we start with those
very small things of intentional preaching to the outcast, it's
only up from there. You can only grow from there.
It might start off small, but you never know what
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the Lord can grow that into. That could become your
whole ministry. Somebody could get saved off of that. You
just never know how the Lord works with our what
we see as small intentional acts of reaching the outcast.
When we look at evangelism, we have to look at
what Jesus did. His effectiveness is the reason that you
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and I are saved today. So if we want to
be effected, we got to look at what Jesus did.
Part one of this series of the Woman at the Well,
we see that he went out of his way to
go reach the outcast. How are you going to do
that in your life? What systems are you going to
set up very practically in your life to make sure
that there are very consistent ways that you reach the outcast.
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We need to have these very practical plans of what
we will be doing to be effective in the kingdom.
Without an actual plan set up for some kind of success.
It's not that you don't have I have a plan.
Oh you have a plan. If you don't plan to succeed,
you plan to fail. And if I want my life
to be affected for the Kingdom, I need a plan
for evangelism. I need a plan to reach the outcast,
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just like Jesus did. So I want you all to
just sit with this, think of very effective and practical
ways that you can reach all of society with your gifts.
We all have different gifts, and the gift that the
Lord gave you is your effectiveness. Ask him to reveal
it to you, ask him what he wants you to do,
and you get that plan in place. The Lord can't
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do nothing with you if you don't do it. Okay,
So I'm gonna end up there part one of our
mini series, our three episode series speaking about John four
and the Woman at the Well. I hope that you
guys have gained something from this and that you are
going to make a plan for evangelism in your everyday life.
I will see you guys next week.
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Love you all.
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Make sure that you are watching the vlogs, and I
have a very special announcement about the Christian Girls Trip.
I just had my meet up kind of solidifying everything
for our twenty twenty six trips. So if you have
not already, go ahead and followed the Instagram and the
TikTok for Christian Girls Trip. I'll be uploading a lot
more content about the Bali trip, the Morocco trip, and
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you know, spoilers for our upcoming trip. I still have
not revealed exactly where we're going. I hope that you
guys are just getting hype and excited about it. The
women that came on the Bali trip absolutely loved it.
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It was an amazing trip.
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We are going to make this an annual thing and
that's very exciting for me. So yeah, definitely head over
to Christian Girls Trip on your social media platforms. Definitely
go into the bio, into the link tree, and subscribe
to the emails as well that I'll be sending out
weekly with updates and just motivation for your week. And yeah,
so go ahead and do all that. Make sure that
you'd like comment and subscribe to this channel and I
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will see you guys. Lay up.
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Bye,
Hi everyone, Welcome back to the Amani Talks podcast. You're
here with your host Amani on the podcast where we
discuss our Christian based topics and deepening our relationship with
the Lord.
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All right, so we.
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Are back on the podcast, you guys, and I really
wanted to start a little mini series.
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I was traveling and I was.
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In Syracuse a few weeks ago, and of course I'm
in my home church and the preacher is preaching about
the Samaritan Woman, or some people refer to her as
the Woman at the Well. This is an account that
we see in the Book of John John chapter four.
This account for me, when I was being refreshed on
it while I was in church, it just reminded me.
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Of exactly who God is.
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I think that the story of the Woman at the
Well just totally embodies who Jesus is to us, what
we do like his transforming power within us, and how
that power that He used to transform us is then
transferred to other people based on our accounts of our
account with Him. And that's just the entirety of the
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Christian lights. So yeah, I just think that this story
is just so good. And I was like, man, there
are so many things that I was capturing from that message.
And when I'm in church a lot of times, church
is what gives me the inspiration for the podcast, which
to me just makes sense because church should be giving
us inspiration for our lives. And that's why I'm always
telling y'all, like, get in church. It's not good enough
to just sit at home, and you know, like get
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in church being there every Sunday, because just being there,
having someone speak to you, speak the word of life
to you, it just inspires you. You should never have
amnesia as soon as you walk out of the Sunday
morning service, like oh well, time to go eat, and
now you got amnesia after Sunday morning. Like the word
that you get Sunday it should be like you're refresher.
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It should be your reset, and it should also be
the point into where you're like, Okay, I'm going to
take what was said today and I'm going to utilize
it towards my life. So yeah, we are going to
do a three part series on the Samaritan Woman or
the Woman at the Well, starting in John chapter four.
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So if you're going to follow.
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Along with the Bible reading of this three part series,
you are going to want to read John chapter four
versus one through forty two, So I'm.
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Giving you guys a little bit of homework.
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You definitely need to go read that to be able
to have context for what we're talking about today. I
will be reading some scripture to go along with this
three episode series, but you want to read it in
its entirety because I might not read every single verse.
I'm just gonna highlight key versus to get to what
we are going to be discussing for every episode. So
definitely go and read that by yourself. Reading your Bible
by yourself is just so important. Don't let anyone give
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you their contact, their understanding of what the Word is saying.
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Make sure that you get it yourself because the Holy
Spirit will.
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Tell you things that it might not necessarily tell your
pastor it might not tell your friend, it might not
tell me on this podcast, it will reveal very specific
things to you. So definitely go read John chapter four,
versus one through forty two. But we are going to
get into the first part of this series, and I've
titled this.
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Part one Go and to Reach the Outcast.
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So let's go and read the scripture to start off
with and get into our topic for the day. So
we are going to read John chapter four. We're gonna
start in verse five. So he referring to Jesus, came
to a city of Samaria, which is called Sikar, near
the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus, therefore, being wearied from
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his journey, sat thus by the well.
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It was about the sixth hour.
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Girl, No, you cannot be here, No, I need to focus.
By go. A woman of Samaria came to draw water.
Jesus said to her, give me a drink, for his
disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
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Then the woman of Samaria.
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Said to him, how is it that you, being a Jew,
asked a drink from me, a Samaritan woman, For Jews
have no dealings with Samaritans. Jesus answered and said to her,
if you knew the gift of God and who it
is who says to you give me a drink, you
would have asked him and he would have given you
living water. The woman said to him, Sir, you have
nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where
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then do you get that living water? Are you greater
than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and
drink from it himself, as well as his son's in
his livestock. Jesus answered and said to her, whoever drinks
of this water will thirst again. But whoever drinks of
the water that I shall give him will never thirst.
But the water that I shall give him will become
in him a fountain of water, springing up into everlasting life.
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The woman said to him, Sir, give me this water,
that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw.
Jesus said to her, go call your husband and come here.
The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus
said to her, you have said, well, I have no husband,
for you have had five husbands, and the one whom
you now have is not your husband. In that you
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spoke truly. The woman said to him, Sir, I perceive
that you are a prophet.
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Our Father is worshiped.
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On this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem
is the place where we ought to worship. Jesus said
to her, woman, believe me, the hour is coming when
you will neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem worship
the father you worship.
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What you do not know.
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We know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews.
But the hour is coming, and now is when the
true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth.
For the Father is seeking such to worship him. God
is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in
spirit and truth. The woman said to him, I know
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that Messiah is coming, who is called Christ. When he comes,
he will tell us all things. Jesus said to her,
I who speak to you, am he. So that's what
we're going to end in verse twenty six, and I
want to talk about this first chunk of this story
of Jesus speaking to this Samaritan woman. First of all,
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let's talk about who this woman was. We already know
that she's a Samaritan. You have to go back and
read a lot of the Old Testament to understand and
why the Samaritans and the Jewish people. I mean, the
Samaritans were part of the Jewish people, I believe, but
you have to understand why this cast of people, the Samaritans,
were outcast to Jewish people. So we know that she's
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a woman, we know that she is Samaritan, and we
know that she's a woman of ill repute. Jesus said
to her, Yeah, you've had five husbands, and who you
got in your house right now ain't even your husband.
So very clearly this woman is an outcast. She is
kind of a social pariah. Just the fact that she
is out in the middle of the day drawing water
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from the well. If you know anything about the Middle East,
you know it's hot. Even in modern times today, the
Middle East really thrives at night. They have night markets
that go into the hours of the night because people
don't really do business during the afternoon because that's when
the sun is highest in the sky. You know, that's
when the temperature is up. It gets so hot there
that you can't just be out in the middle of
the day. They will go out in the morning or
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at night. So the fact that this woman is drawing
water in the middle of the day tells us that
she is a social outcast, because why would she not
be drawing water in the evening or in the morning
when the other women did it. We know that women
were the ones that drew water for the most part.
I mean, we see like stories in the Old Testament,
Isaac and Rebecca, when Isaac's servant went out to go
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find a wife for Isaac. When Isaac's servant went out
to go find a wife for him, he saw women drawing.
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Water at the well.
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Rebecca was out there drawing water, and he was like, Lord,
let the person that is supposed to be the husband
or the wife for Isaac be the one that says,
I will give you water, and everyone with you, and
also your camels. So we know that drawing water was
a woman's job. In Exodus with Moses, he ended up
finding his wife because I think her and her family,
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her and her sisters were out drawing water and there
were men trying to mess with them. I don't know
what they was trying to do, child, but they were
messing with them, and Moses kind of like drew the
men off and rescued them. So there are just several
accounts that we realized that drawing water was kind of
like a woman's.
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Thing, right.
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So the fact that she's not out with the rest
of the women drawing water at a more appropriate time
says to me that she did not want to be
with them because there was probably making fun of her.
They were probably gossiping about her. Oh you know her,
She over here got four or five husbands. She's shocking
up the way that we gotsap about people right now.
They probably were mean to her, They probably didn't want
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to help her, They probably wanted nothing to do with her.
She was like, I don't God to deal with this.
I will go and draw water in the middle of
the day when ain't nobody out here to make fun
of me. So, you know, just the fact that she's alone,
she's in the middle of the day drawing water when
it was not the appropriate time for her. We know
that she was just not only you know, an outcast
to the Jewish people, but just an outcast in her
own community as well, because they're in Samia right now.
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Her own people wanted nothing to do with her because
of her life and sin. I mean, she's living in
sin pretty much. And I know that it's normalized today
for us to shack up with boyfriends and have sex
before marriage.
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That was not the norm back then.
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The fact that she even found multiple men to even
marry her, that says to me, like, wow, like that surprising,
even though I don't I'm not really sure if marriage
in this context was the men that she's had sex
with and have lived with her or actual husbands. I'm
not really sure. So this is the context for the
woman that.
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Jesus is speaking with.
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First of all, back in these days, you would never
catch a religious leader talking to a woman in public.
Jesus at this time was a religious leader. He had disciples,
he had people following him. It's crazy for him to
even be speaking to a woman in public by himself
to begin with. It's even crazier for him, once again,
to be a Jewish religious leader, to be speaking to
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a Samaritan. That's why she says what versus it? In
verse nine, she says, how is it that you, being
a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?
For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. So even she
acknowledges like she's shocked, like what you know, this is
not the norm. Jesus is really breaking societal norms by
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talking to a woman and going across those jew gentile
lines and talking to a Samaritan at that and in
this simple exchange that we look at as simple, really
back in those times was revolutionary. And I think I
did an episode a few months ago talking about how
Jesus is a girl dad, how God is a girl Dad,
because I think a lot of people look at Christianity
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as really oppressive towards women, oppressive war when we see
that Jesus himself, the founder of our faith, the finisher
of our faith, went out of his way to go
against what people would tell him, don't speak to women
in public, and he's like, no, this is my child,
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I'm going to speak to her. There are so many
times that we can look at accounts of Jesus going
against religious norms, societal norms, cultural norms to show that
there is no partiality in the body of Christ. He
is no respector of persons. There is no greater than
less than with him, and we are all equal to him.
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In a society to where classism, sexism, even religious standards
and boundaries were so great, you didn't go against those
things because you would be an outcast like her. You
know how they say like bring back shame, bring bring
back bullying, bring back shame, because people don't know how
to act. I mean this was that, this was that
cultural norm of yeah, you were shamed, you were a pariah.
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People did not talk to you. You broke these societal norms.
There was no going back. People wanted nothing to do
with you. And we see Jesus going out of his
way to speak to women, to reveal himself to women,
to heal women, to touch women. That was not the
norm back then, before feminism, before feminism was accepted in society,
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before we had this push for equal rights for women,
Jesus was already giving equal rights to women.
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And that's just so revealing.
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Of his character that he loves all, he does not
see anyone as less than And that really speaks to
me specifically because I look at the society that we're
in today. We might not have social outcasts when it
comes to having sex before marriage and having multiple husbands. Shoot,
like you got nine husbands in your celebrity you know,
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Lizabeth Taylor, how many times.
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Does she marry?
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So that's not really judged harshly whatsoever in today's society.
I mean, if this woman had five to six bodies today,
that's low. I know people that fifteen, twenty thirty, and
they talk about it and they brag about it, you know.
So that's not really what we see as uh the
edge of society or people that we don't want to
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mingle with or talk to. So who do we consider
to be our social outcast of today. If this portion
of our three part series is talking about go and
reach the outcast, like Jesus did with this woman, who
are our outcasts? The first thing that came to my
mind are the homeless. How many times have we, on
our day to day going out running errands overlooked the homeless.
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We do it all the time. I do it all
the time. There's a ups USPS by my house. Every
single time I go to the USPS, there's a homeless
man outside that outside the door. Sometimes it's the same guy,
sometimes it's a different guy, and I feel myself. Sometimes
if I pull up and he's standing outside already, I
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instantly get irritated because I know they're gonna ask me
for something. Right. Sometimes if I pull up and they're
not there, I try to rush inside just so that
when I leave out, they're not there. But I'm telling y'all, like,
it don't matter how bad I try to dodge.
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Homeless people.
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They're just always there, USPS, CBS on the street corners.
They're asking you for money, and my initial reaction is
to immediately turn the other way.
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Oh I don't see you.
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Oh I'm on my phone. Oh, I'm too busy. I'm sorry,
Oh I don't have the cash. And I just last week,
maybe a couple weeks ago. I remember thinking, why is
that my mindset when it comes to homeless people? Why
do I feel instantly irritated when I see a homeless
person asking me for something? Are these not people too?
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Why do we as a society treat homeless people as
less than just because they lack something physical?
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And when I really sat with this and I really.
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Thought about it from my perspective, or at least for me,
I think that we see homelessness as their problem. We
look at them and we say, I don't want to
give you any of my money because you didn't work
hard enough. You're gonna spin it on drugs. Drugs is
the reason that you're here to begin with.
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You were lazy.
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We all need to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps.
I did it, why can't you? And when that is
our perspective of what makes people homeless? Oh, it's your
fault that you're homeless. That's why I don't want to
help you. That also says that the fact that we
are not homeless is because of us. We know that
that is not true. If you have strength, if you
have a sound mind, if you have any kind of
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financial provision that did not come from you. James one
point seventeen says, every good gift and every perfect gift
is from above and cometh down from the Father of Lights,
with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Sometimes
we tend to think that the only reason that we
are not outcasts is because of what we did for ourselves.
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I know that this false sense of self sufficiency and
self dependency was definitely my thing, and I've already talked
about this area of my life a few times on
the pod, specifically in the first half of this year,
because I was struggling financially so bad in this first
half of the year, and I'm talking so bad that
month after month after month, I did not have my
rent money, and I would be crying like God, like
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why are you letting me struggle like this?
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You know I need this money, you know, YadA YadA,
and the Lord.
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Will always come through. But for months, it took me
months to realize I'm struggling this bad financially so that
I can realize that everything that I have comes from Him.
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I remember one time.
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I said on my social media, I think it was
my TikTok or my Instagram story, and I was like,
I'm cute and I'm smart, so I'll never be messed
up like I have pretty privilege.
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I am book smart, I went to college.
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I will never be in a situation to where I
am lacking because between those two things, Oh, Baby, I
am it. And one thing that the Lord had to
reveal to me is that I'm not that cute. I'm
not that smart right because I was broke. I was
broke the first half of the year. So if I
was that cute and smart, I wouldn't have been broke, right.
And the Lord really revealed to me all things come
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from him James one, p.
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Seventeen.
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If it's good, it came from him. So while I'm
over here thinking that my opportunities with me being a
full time content creator is because I'm so cute and
creative and people want to hear me talk, the Lord
very quickly humbled me. And that's what happens when you
begin to think too highly of yourself. The Lord will
humble you if he's trying to bring you back to him.
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That humility is needed. And Baby I very specifically remember
being humbled in the way that I had to.
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Finally, I remember.
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It like it was yesterday, because I prayed the prayer, Lord,
I don't even care anymore. You could take everything that
I got, like take the car, take the apartment. I
remember praying, as long as you just give me a
roof over my head, God, that is enough. Like I
totally released all the physical things I had in my
life one hundred percent.
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I was holding on to.
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Them so bad because I felt like the things that
I had made me better than the next person. And
I think that that's what we feel about homeless people.
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We are better than.
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Them because we have these things, not acknowledging that the
only reason I have these things is because of God.
So when we fix that mindset, when we get our
minds right and correct with humility, and we realize, man,
that could be me, it is only by the grace
of God and his plan for what he wants to
do through me that that's not me. I'm just pointing
out the reality of we think that we're so great
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and that's why we had the things that we have
in life. We're not that great. I had to realize
that my life experience, my college education, my pretty privilege
would not give me the favor in this world that
the Lord could give me. His favor goes above and
beyond all those things. So why do we look at
people that have less than like that's their fault and
because of that, oh, I don't.
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Want to be around you.
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I think we look at homeless people as less than
We look at them as pariahs.
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We don't want to be bothered by them.
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We feel like it's their fault that they're in that
position because we think that we've done things for ourselves.
I really had to readjust my mind, like why do
I feel like this? Why do I feel instantly irritated
when really I should be glad about the opportunity that
they're already where I am. Like, if I'm pulling up
the CVS and I see a homeless person there, I
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should be like, oh, bet, I am prepared, I got
a Bible track in my car. I have a few
dollars to give to them, because for real, foraroal, I
think we also think, oh, I'm not going to give
to this person because I don't want them spending it
on drugs. That's none of your business. You don't know
what they're going to spend it on. Let's go to
Matthew and start in verse thirty five. And this is
Jesus speaking. For I was hungry and you gave me food.
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I was thirsty and you gave me drink. I was
a stranger and you took me in. I was naked
and you clothed me. I was sick and you visited me.
I was in prison and you came to me. Then
the righteous will answer him, saying, Lord, when did we
see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give
you drink? When did we see you a stranger and
take you in, or naked and clothe you. Or when
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did we see you sick or in prison and come
to you. And the King will answer and say to
them assuredly, I say to you, inas much as you
did it to one of the least of these, my brethren,
you did it to me. Then he will also say
to those on the left hand, depart from me. You
cursed into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and
his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me
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no food. I was thirsty and you gave me no drink.
I was a stranger, and you did not take me
in naked, and you did not clothe me sick and
in prison, and you did not visit me. And they
will also answer him saying, Lord, when did we see
you hungry or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or
sick or in prison, and did not minister to you.
Then he will answer them saying, assuredly, I say to you,
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inasmuch as you did not do it to one of
the least of these, you did not do it to me.
And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the
righteous into everlasting life. So we see the Lord saying
that when we minister to people his creation, we're doing
it to him. This is our ministry to help other people.
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When he says, when you do it to the least
of these, my brethren, he's talking about the outcast. He's
talking about the homeless, the people that we walk past
every day. Jesus went out of his way to go
speak to this woman. In the beginning of that chapter
talks about he spoke to him while his disciples were
out getting food. He made sure that he was alone.
He was intentional, of course, he's the Lord. He knew
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that she was going to be coming out and getting water.
He knew her name before he ever saw her walking
up to him. He knew that we don't always have
that information. But what we do know is that it's
our job to go out and be intentional about reaching
the outcast. It is our job to clothe the naked,
to feed the hungry, to go and visit those in prison,
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to give medicine and healing to those who are sick
while preaching the word. Because we have physical needs. Yeah,
this woman is drawing water from the well. She's thirsty,
she needs water. She's talking about the physical aspects of
her life. He's saying, I will give you living water.
A fountain will then spring up inside of you eternally.
I'm giving you living water. You will never thirst again.
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He's talking spiritually. Yeah, we need water, we need food.
We're humans, we're on earth, but we need a lot
more than that. So when we go out, when we
try to intentionally reach.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
The outcast of society, reach the homeless, reach.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
The people that we look over and get irritated by
and step over every single day, those are the people
that the Lord is like, you should be going to
these people when you do it to the least of these,
my brethren, you.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Have done it to me the least.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
So when we evangelize, and notice I said, when we evangelize,
it's not an option for the believer, it's your job.
It's the whole reason that you are saved and you
remained on earth to go out and make more disciples.
When we evangelize effectively, when we evangelize, like Jesus, we
go to the outcast. We make it our mission to
speak to the people that we don't really want to
(22:23):
speak to, the people that society brushes away. Those are
the people that we should really be focused on. And
it's really convicted me like, Okay, what am I going
to do? Then? If I'm going to talk about reaching
the outcast like Jesus did with this woman at the well,
how does that look in my life for me personally?
And I think that this is a good start for
any believer, any person period. When you are going to
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make an intention, go out of your way to do
the Lord's work, which is evangelism, winning souls, making disciples,
clothing the needy, and feeding the hungry. When that's your job,
you first have to look at, Okay, who are these
people that lack these resources. When the Word says that
perfect and undefiled religion is to go visit the widows
(23:07):
and the orphans in their time of need. I see
over and over again that the Lord specifically tells us
to go to people who lack what we have every
single day. Go to those who lack something physically, Go
to people who the world will look at as outcasts.
Make it my mission to minister to those people. And
so mentally, I'm making a list who are social outcasts
(23:27):
to us? Who are people that we feel like we
don't want to be bothered by? The elderly, the homeless,
sometimes young children, and the poor. And so I'm like, Okay,
what can I do to help these people? Meals on wheels?
If you guys are looking at my vlogs, tomorrow, I'm
(23:47):
going to be blogging about doing more volunteer work, I'm like, Okay,
what can I do practically in my community? The Lord
placed me here for a reason. What can I do
in Atlanta to reach the homeless, children, the elderly, and
the poor. The elderly meals on wheels? There are so
many seniors in our cities that don't have family. Maybe
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they never had kids. Maybe they had a small family,
they outlived their family, they don't have anyone taking care
of them. We know that. You know, government assistance sometimes
doesn't really help those in need. So what can I
do to kind of bridge that gap? Okay, meals on wheels.
I can deliver meals to senior citizens that really need it.
Go and talk to people while I'm doing that. Bible
tracks right in my car.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
I'm delivering a meal.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
I can also speak to them about Jesus. I don't know, icebreakers,
like little ways that we can sneak some Jesus in there,
but be intentional about it. And when I think about kids,
I think about mentoring, I'm like, okay, I can kind
of hit two birds with one stone if I go
into lower income schools and try to become a mentor.
I'm looking into doing stuff like that, mentoring like younger girls.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
When I think.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
About people that are maybe on the poor or homeless side,
can be very intentional with joining organizations that feed them,
or in the very simple ways of just not ignoring
the homeless people that I see every single day. Why
am I irritated when I see homeless people when they're
right there? That's easy pickings very easily. They gonna ask
(25:20):
me for a few dollars. Yeah, I got a few
dollars for you. You're also gonna get some Jesus. You're
also gonna have someone pray for you. That's five minutes
out of your day. It's literally five minutes out of
your day to make sure that you have a few
dollars inside of a Bible track in your car so
that when you see a homeless person you give it
to them, but you stop and say, what's your name?
My name's John, John. I'm gonna pray for you really quick. Lord,
(25:42):
Please provide John with all his needs, his spiritual needs. Lord,
please let him know that he is loved. A little prayer,
nothing crazy, nothing crazy. But when we start with those
very small things of intentional preaching to the outcast, it's
only up from there. You can only grow from there.
It might start off small, but you never know what
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the Lord can grow that into. That could become your
whole ministry. Somebody could get saved off of that. You
just never know how the Lord works with our what
we see as small intentional acts of reaching the outcast.
When we look at evangelism, we have to look at
what Jesus did. His effectiveness is the reason that you
(26:26):
and I are saved today. So if we want to
be effected, we got to look at what Jesus did.
Part one of this series of the Woman at the Well,
we see that he went out of his way to
go reach the outcast. How are you going to do
that in your life? What systems are you going to
set up very practically in your life to make sure
that there are very consistent ways that you reach the outcast.
(26:49):
We need to have these very practical plans of what
we will be doing to be effective in the kingdom.
Without an actual plan set up for some kind of success.
It's not that you don't have I have a plan.
Oh you have a plan. If you don't plan to succeed,
you plan to fail. And if I want my life
to be affected for the Kingdom, I need a plan
for evangelism. I need a plan to reach the outcast,
(27:12):
just like Jesus did. So I want you all to
just sit with this, think of very effective and practical
ways that you can reach all of society with your gifts.
We all have different gifts, and the gift that the
Lord gave you is your effectiveness. Ask him to reveal
it to you, ask him what he wants you to do,
and you get that plan in place. The Lord can't
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do nothing with you if you don't do it. Okay,
So I'm gonna end up there part one of our
mini series, our three episode series speaking about John four
and the Woman at the Well. I hope that you
guys have gained something from this and that you are
going to make a plan for evangelism in your everyday life.
I will see you guys next week.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Love you all.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Make sure that you are watching the vlogs, and I
have a very special announcement about the Christian Girls Trip.
I just had my meet up kind of solidifying everything
for our twenty twenty six trips. So if you have
not already, go ahead and followed the Instagram and the
TikTok for Christian Girls Trip. I'll be uploading a lot
more content about the Bali trip, the Morocco trip, and
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you know, spoilers for our upcoming trip. I still have
not revealed exactly where we're going. I hope that you
guys are just getting hype and excited about it. The
women that came on the Bali trip absolutely loved it.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
It was an amazing trip.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
We are going to make this an annual thing and
that's very exciting for me. So yeah, definitely head over
to Christian Girls Trip on your social media platforms. Definitely
go into the bio, into the link tree, and subscribe
to the emails as well that I'll be sending out
weekly with updates and just motivation for your week. And yeah,
so go ahead and do all that. Make sure that
you'd like comment and subscribe to this channel and I
(28:47):
will see you guys. Lay up.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Bye,
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