March 19, 2025 • 35 mins
The Woman at the Well was so transformed by her encounter with Jesus that she couldn't help but tell everyone—even those who had rejected her. What would happen if we shared our stories with the same boldness? New episode available now on all platforms. 🎧 #Hope #FaithStories
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Speaker 1 (00:18):
Hi and welcome to the Cheer Up Podcast.
I am your host, Kara R Hunt,and with me today, as always, is
the beautiful and glamorous andfabulous Sherri Swalwell.
How are you doing today, Sherri?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I am doing great, and can you believe that we are?
It is almost a month to the daywell, not day of the week, but
day of the calendar for Easter,so almost a month away.
So we're right in the heart ofLent season and it's getting to
where it's more sunny and warmout, at least kind of around our
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neck of the woods.
And I just can't believe that weare almost at Easter of 2025.
Can you believe it?
A month from now, a month and aday, April 20th will be Easter,
and today is March 19th Crazy.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I know, like, can you just believe it?
Like I don't know, I don't know.
Time is just going by so, sofast.
And speaking of time, we justwant to take this time to thank
all of our podcast listeners,whether you're new or whether
you've been listening to us thepast couple of seasons.
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of your day, whether it'smorning, afternoon or night, but
just taking the time out ofyour day to listen to our
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Thank you so much.
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We love you all.
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It blesses us more than youknow, and we pray that, if
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you're blessed by it, that youwould take the time to share it
so that someone else may be too.
Thank you so much.
Okay, so, oh, sherry, wow,we're still talking about
biblical figures from the NewTestament, am I right?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yes, and I am loving it.
Right, yes, and I am loving it.
I just it's so neat because weand I know you and I did not
talk about Josiah a king who waseight years old when he became
king, by the way, and this wasin the Old Testament but one of
our pastors did a sermon onJosiah and because God started
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me reading through the Biblebefore you and I decided to do
this so that I actually was moreprepared.
So he was giving me homeworkfor the podcast long before you
and I decided that we were goingto do biblical figures on the
podcast.
But, as God gave me homework forthat, I learned all about
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Josiah, so that when I heard thesermon I wasn't like Josiah.
Who in the world is Josiah?
I have known nothing about thisguy, josiah, and he was eight
years old to boot.
Like, seriously, like I hadsome context and it just made
the sermon that much richer.
And that, I think, is why wecontinue to do Old Testament and
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New Testament biblical figures,because we want you to grow to
love reading the Bible foryourself and discovering all the
nuggets and the gems of theBible and the people in the
Bible, just like we're doing.
That, and a shameless plug, yes, but if you want to, if you
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don't, if reading the Bibleyourself and studying the Bible
yourself feels too overwhelming,I get that.
I would never have stuck withit Probably the way that I have,
if I didn't have a group ofwomen who, um, read the Bible
with me.
So as a result of that, ofbeing blessed myself as woman, I
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then God had me create theJesus in the Everyday membership
, and that part of themembership, part of the perks of
the membership, is readingthrough the Bible and having
somebody to read it through withyou, so that if you have
questions, or you just have thataha moment where you're like,
really God said that.
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Like you have no idea howimportant that is to me and you
just want to share that withsomebody because you're so
excited.
Well, jesus in the Everyday isa great place for you to do that
.
So head on over to my websiteand you can look up the Jesus in
the Everyday membership, and Iwould be so thrilled to have you
join that family.
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So, having said that, I knowthat was a shameless plug and I
didn't mean it to be, but in allhonesty, kara, it's so true.
Like I love reading the Biblebecause I have people to read it
with and I am discovering somany more things and, like I
said, it makes sermons moreinteresting because I understand
the context behind it.
I said it makes sermons moreinteresting because I understand
the context behind it.
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I mean, our pastors do a greatjob don't get me wrong of giving
the background, but when youhave read it yourself, you have
this additional layers that justmake it so much more impactful.
God can speak at a differentlevel to me because he's already
laid the groundwork.
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So, yeah, I mean I love that weare still doing biblical
figures.
That is a very, very longanswer to an agreement of you of
yes, I love it but you knowwhat it's also important.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
And, as women, I just think now I know I can't say
this about all women andeverything else, and I can't
even say in general women, but Ithink I can say that a lot of
women, maybe the majority ofwomen, we're social people and
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when we do things, we like to dothem together.
Rarely will you see, I think,women, you know, wanting to see
a movie, and they just go bythemselves.
Now again, I know there arewomen out there like that, you
know, but usually they'recalling up a friend or a group
of friends, right, and hey, Ireally want to see this new
movie that's out.
Hey, you want to come with.
Or, oh, I just read this greatbook, you guys want to discuss
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it in a book club.
Or, hey, I just cooked a big,huge pot of chili and you girls
want to come over for lunch, youknow, and we just have some fun
, you know, or something likethat.
Women, we just tend to bewhat's the word?
I'm looking like this Friendly,social.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Social like that.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Okay, yes, that's the word.
Okay, I was trying to figureout if that was the right word.
But yeah, we tend to be verysocial like that and it's the
same thing when it comes toBible study.
So you're absolutely right.
If, when people, when you'reable to be able to do that time
and spend that time with someonewho, may you know, have already
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studied a lot of it before you,or you may know a whole lot,
and you can contribute to thecommunity type environment, and
yet you're able to, every dayyou look forward to that email,
to that text, and yet you'reable to, every day you look
forward to that email, to thattext, to that conversation, to
continue that conversation thatyou've been having with someone
else you know, women that is somuch up our alley and we just
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really, really enjoy that.
So do you need a communitygroup to study the Bible or to
talk with someone like that?
I think, some of us do Honestly.
I really really do, because Ithink sometimes we'll just of us
do Honestly.
I really really do, because Ithink sometimes we'll just put
it off.
Oh, I get to it tomorrow.
But when you have made acommitment and you're like you
know what I'm going to see thisthrough, and when you do it,
you'll just be amazed at how faryou grow.
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It's just we're reallycommunity nature, by nature, I
believe, with women and thingslike that and then wow, just the
growth when you're able to doit with a group of people or
someone else is justastronomical.
You'll be so blessed by it.
Okay, I'm done.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Yeah, I completely agree.
There are so many things inlife that I would not have stuck
and followed through with if Idid not have that community.
And that segues really wellinto the woman at the well today
, because the well was not justthe place where the women got
the water for the day and thewater they needed, the well to
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water the livestock they woulduse the well to cook with, they
would use the well to gatherwater for their whole entire day
and most women went to that.
They would wake up and lookforward to going to the well
because that was where you knowthey had that.
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It was kind of like the watercooler.
They had that place to to justkind of chat with Sally for a
minute and find out how did shedo, you know, did she finish?
Okay, back then they didn'thave books, but if they, did the
conversation would go somethinglike did you finish Lydia last
night?
Because I did, and it wasfantastic.
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I couldn't believe how theauthor, kara R Hunt, was able to
make that twist so amazinglybelievable.
It was fabulous.
I cannot wait now for the nextone in the series for Eve.
So I mean, like that was kind oflike the you know what it was
like back then, or community wasjust huge.
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And that is one of the reasonswhy this story, the Woman at the
Well, is so important.
And that is one of the reasonswhy this story, the woman at the
well, is so important.
And I think that it's a reallygood one to follow, to piggyback
on the woman, the woman withthe issue of the blood that we
talked about last week.
So I looked it up and you canonly find the woman at the well
in John.
So it was John four one through42.
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And that seems like it's, youknow, a huge amount of stuff to
read, but it really wasn't,because it reads as a story.
So it's basically one chapterin a fiction book.
To be honest with you, it's notlong at all, but it's packed
with so much truth.
So Jesus, well, first off, youkind of have to know that Jesus
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was and you got to help me withthis for a second, kara, because
I am drawing a blank what washe like?
What was his?
Not his culture, but what was?
He was a.
He was from Nazareth, but whathe was?
A Jew.
Okay, nevermind.
So it was just sorry.
I get kind of confusedsometimes, but this is why I
need a Bible study, because Ineed people to think about them
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this is real life people.
This is just real life, reallife.
Sherry, she needs help.
Anyway, jesus was a Jew.
I digress.
Let's get back to the story.
So Jesus was a Jew, thedisciples were a Jew.
And back to the story.
So Jesus was a Jew, thedisciples were a Jew and they
were going through Samaria.
Well, samarians and Jews didnot mix because of the different
cultures and I believe againdon't quote me if I'm doing this
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completely wrong, kara, stop me, but I think that the
Samaritans were a mixture ofJews and other people, I don't
remember who, but anyway, theydidn't like each other at all,
like and so if you were a Jewyou did not talk to a Samaritan
and if you were a Samaritan youwould not be talked to by a Jew.
So Jesus told the disciples togo find something to eat and he
went and sat by the.
Well, he knew this woman wasgoing to come at noon.
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Well, there was a lot of a lotof distinction about her coming
at noon, because one, like Isaid, they always went in the
morning, early morning, beforeit got super hot.
She came at noon because nobodywas there, so she would like
sneak in, grab the water thatshe needed and sneak back out.
And he knew she was going to bethere and he wanted to have
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that conversation with her.
So he approached her first.
And the fact that he did thatis huge because, like I said,
jews did not talk to Samaritans.
A Samaritan could probablyattempt to talk to a Jew, but
Jews did not talk to Samaritansand Jesus was a Jew and he
started the conversation and heasked her.
He said will you give mesomething to drink?
And she was taken aback becauseshe's like what do you mean?
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I'm like vile to you Like?
you can't drink from my, mycistern or my jar or whatever
they're called.
And he was like no, he's like Iwant you to.
And then he continued talkingto her and he said you know, go
get your husband and I'll talkto you about this living water
that I have that you'll neverhave to thirst again.
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And at first she didn't get it.
At first she took it literallyand she's like, oh, this would
be awesome.
I'll never have to come hereagain and have these people look
at me, you know mean andhorrible and all that stuff.
And I'll tell you in a minutewhy they scorned her or why they
didn't like her.
And he said go get your husband.
And she says I don't have ahusband.
And he goes you're right, youdon't.
You've had five and the onethat you're living with right
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now is not your husband.
Well, living together outside ofmarriage back then was a major
taboo and that's what this womanwas doing and we don't know why
.
We don't know if she was likeproud and rebellious, we don't
know if she was desperate, wedon't know why she was living
with a man outside of marriage,but we know that custom-wise,
their customs back then, thatwas a big, big no-no, you just
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don't do it.
And so, basically, the bottomline of the story is that Jesus,
just like with the woman withthe issue of blood, he gives her
so much more than she couldhave ever given him.
So she gives him a drink ofwater and he gives her eternal
life.
He gives her, he shows her thathe is the true Messiah and she
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believes in him.
And then her testimony she goesback and she tells the rest of
the town, the rest of thecommunity, that she's living in
the village, what he did for herand how he helped transform her
life.
And that in and of itself, ifthat was the whole story, that
would be enough, and then some.
That would be a miracle and ablessing, because she's now
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going to heaven and she now has,she surrendered her life and
she is a completely differentperson.
But God never stops there, likeGod doesn't just stop at the
basics, he doesn't just stop atthe finale, but to get to the
finale he shows us so much more.
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So one of the parts that I wantto highlight about this story
and about Jesus's compassion isI have heard so many times on
Facebook and on social media andso on and so forth, that if
you're like, like so.
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I've heard Jesus beingcondemned.
I've heard Jesus being beingdescribed as somebody who is
very mean, who's very judgmental, who, um, do it my way or the
highway.
Yes, jesus knows that his wayis the only way.
But Jesus does not condemn.
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He never once condemned thiswoman for living in sin.
He never once condemned herthat she should not be living
with the man.
Now, did he tell her the truth?
Did he speak about the truth?
Did he call a spade a spade?
Absolutely.
But everything that Jesus doesis in love.
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Jesus would not be loving if hedoesn't matter that you're
living with him, it doesn'tmatter that you are going for
less than and what's not thebest in your life, because
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living in sin or living withsomebody who wasn't her husband
back then was not living herbest life.
And in the Bible it tells usthat we are not to be living or
committing adultery.
Well, sorry, fornication, it'sfornication if you're both not
married to anybody else it'sadultery if one of you is
married.
So I think people throw aroundthe word adultery, but in this
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case it's fornication life.
That is not our best guess andI'm not going to go into that.
That's not the point of thestory today, but the point that
I'm highlighting.
The point that I'm bringing outis that Jesus always told the
truth.
We were just talking the otherday, kara, you and I personally
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privately that we are not goodparents if we allow our kids to
just run roughshod.
That is not being a lovingparent.
If we bail them out or if wecontinually and consistently
make excuses for their behavior,that is not being a good parent
.
Well, jesus would not be aloving father if he bailed her
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out or if he said oh, it doesn'tmatter, if you're still living
in sin, you know you can do this, that or the other.
Jesus was the epitome of lovebecause he doesn't want us to
stay in the pig's love, which isa great we'll be talking about
that in a couple of weeks whenwe talk about the prodigal son.
You'll know what I mean bypig's love.
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But he does not want us stayingin a life of sin.
But he does not want us stayingin a life of sin.
He wants us to live the bestlife.
In John 10, 10, it says that theenemy comes to steal, kill and
destroy, but I've come that youmay have life and have it more
abundantly.
And that's Jesus talking again,he wants us to have life and
have it more abundantly.
He knows that there's paininvolved if you live with
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somebody before you get married.
He knows there's pain involvedif you cheat on your taxes and,
you know, go to bed at nightworried that it's going to catch
up with you.
He knows that all of thesethings that we run to and that
we chase to make us feel betterin the long run are going to
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make us more miserable.
He knows these things, and sothe thing that I love the most,
the way that I want to be themost like Jesus, to be
completely honest, is to becompletely honest, like I want
to be able to speak the truthand love the way Jesus does and
not act like I'm apologizing.
Oh, I'm so sorry that you'resinning.
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It's really not that big of adeal.
Well, it kind of is a big deal,not because I'm judging you for
it.
It has nothing to do with meand everything to do with I want
you to have that abundant lifethat Jesus calls us to.
Will I still love youregardless, absolutely.
Jesus was going to love thatwoman, the woman at the well, no
matter what choices she made.
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He just knew that he had abetter alternative for her if
she chose to accept it, if shechose to walk in it.
He wanted the best for her.
We want the best for ourfriends, we want the best for
those around us, and we need tolive in a society.
We need to step up as a societyto want the best for those
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around us, even if we don'tagree with them or disagree with
them.
I believe that Jesus would havehad the same exact reaction
towards her even if she had notaccepted what he was offering.
But I'll tell you what he wasoffering such a deal that she
could not not accept it becauseit was given to her in love.
It was um, or I should say itwas presented to her in love.
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It was presented in such a waythat he knew that um, or she
knew that he cared, she knewthat he wasn't judging her, she
knew that he loved herregardless.
And who doesn't want to acceptthe best for your life when you
have somebody who loves youregardless?
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Who doesn't?
So I mean, I could literallytalk about this the woman with
the or the woman at the well,for much, much, much, much
longer.
But those are just some of the,some of the areas that just
really stood out to me.
Oh, and the last one, before Itoss it over to you, kara, that
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I forgot about was she then wasso filled with Jesus and with
his love and with hisforgiveness that she couldn't
help but go to those people whohad shunned her, go to those
people she had been hiding fromjust that morning.
Hey, look at what, look at whocame into town and look at what
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he's offering.
And I'm not keeping it tomyself because it's too good.
I will risk having you turnyour back on me or talk bad
about me or whatever it is,because this is too good not to
share it with you.
So those are just some of thehighlights that I got from the
woman at the well story.
What about you, kara?
Speaker 1 (22:10):
I think one of the things that I just love about
this story is he didn't go tothe women that were there before
you know, oh, I never thoughtof that.
Yeah, you know the women whowere married and you know and
everything else and everythingelse.
He went to this one.
So I mean he obviouslyphysically saw the woman at the
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well, like they were sitting infront of each other, next to
each other, you know, orstanding next to each other and
everything else.
So he obviously saw herphysically, but he saw her
spiritually as well, meaning ifshe had gone with the other
women they would have just beenlike, oh there she is, there's
the adulterer, that's the womanthat had five husbands or
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whatever.
That's the woman that's livingwith a man.
That's not her husband.
You know, they would have justsaw her actions.
Jesus saw her heart.
He saw her heart.
He actually saw her not justphysically, he saw her
spiritually, and he's JesusChrist.
He knew exactly what was goingon in her life.
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Not only did, he knew what wasgoing on, he knew why it was
happening.
We all have a past thatsometimes we have allowed to
dictate our present.
Whether it was horribleparenting, whether it was an
abusive relationship, whether itwas neglect, whether we've been
deceived or lied to for yearsor decades.
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We all kind of let something ofthat just kind of infiltrate
our life and sometimes itaffects not just our current
situation and our current lifeand our current decisions, but
sometimes the future as well and, if we're not careful, down to
our children.
But he knew her reasons fordoing it.
We don't know.
The scriptures doesn'tnecessarily talk about why she
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decided to do these things.
Did she just have a rebelliousheart, you know, like everyone
else thought?
Was she just throwing it in herface?
Or has something happened thathad put her in that position?
Or did something happen in herchildhood that made her be that
way?
He saw her, he saw her.
He saw her.
He knew the who, the when, thewhy, the where, the
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circumstances that led up to it.
He knew all of it and he cared.
And he saw her.
He wasn't just judging her byher actions, like the other
women may have.
He saw her.
What made her up, what thebuilding blocks were that led
her to this point?
But you know, he saw her, hewas empathetic towards her, he
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loved her, he understood her andhe understood everything that
had led up to this point.
But you know what he didn't do.
He did make excuses for herbehavior.
He loved her too much to do so.
He loved her too much to do so.
He's like, hey, this is thecarrot translation.
Hey, I get it, it's been rough,and women here in the New
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Testament biblical days, like,of course he wouldn't have said
that.
But again, this is the carrottranslation.
You know, hey, it's rough, Iget it.
It hasn't been an easy road.
I know what laid your hair.
I know why you've made thedecisions that you made.
You know, and I know why you'reresisting, maybe making this
change or do something like that.
I get it, I understand it.
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What happened to you was wrong.
I get it, but you can'tcontinue like this, and I love
you too much to allow you tocontinue like this, because when
you drink the water that I'mabout to give you, it's going to
change your life forever and Ineed you to stop doing what
you're doing out of love, notjust for me, but also for
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yourself.
I have so much more to you, butI can't give it to you until
you stop doing these things.
You know he didn't pat her onthe back like, oh, I'm so sorry.
Oh, I get it, you poor thing.
No, and like you say, peoplesay well, jesus was masculine
toxicity at its worst, right, no, it was at its best.
You know, no matter how much wetry to deny it, we need and
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desire strong confidence andleadership and those who's going
to look out for us and protectus as women, and this was the
woman at the well.
She was a woman.
So that's why I'm going to saythis as women, we want someone
who's willing to lay down theirlives for us.
We want someone who's going toprotect us.
We want someone who wants thebest for us, and a male figure,
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we want someone who's going tosay hey, you know, you're better
than this, you're better thanthis, and I'm going to hold your
hand.
And boy, am I going to take youon an adventure that you never
even saw coming.
But to do that, you got to stopdoing this.
We crave that as human beingsand as women, we crave that even
more from the male figures inour life.
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And could there have been acase with her and the man that
she had been with?
I don't know, because life forwomen back then was so
drastically different than it isfor women today.
But he saw her, he cared abouther, he loved her, he knew the
who, what, when, where and whyshe was doing what she was doing
.
And he's saying, yeah, stop,cause I got plans, we got plans,
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I'm going to hold your hand,we're going to walk through this
, you know, and everything else,and I just love that.
So sometimes you may be like oh,I'm surrounded by people but no
one gets it.
No one knows what I've beenthrough.
No one knows why I'm doing whatI do.
Um, you know, you may be sayingI'm such a bad person I do
these bad things.
I don't even know why I'm doingthese bad things.
You know, like they say, I'mnot that bad, I'm just messed up
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.
You know, some things happen.
No one knows what happened tome when I was four years old.
No one knows what happened tome when I was eight.
No one knows that I wasabandoned, neglected.
No-transcript.
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That was a very long answer toa short question, but I just
want people to know women, menalike, young and old, reach out
to God.
It doesn't matter what you'vedone, it doesn't matter what
you're in the midst of doingAmen, it doesn't matter.
He loves you too much.
He wants you to reach out tohim, call out to him and let him
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talk to you and minister to you, and your life will never be
the same.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
And the best way to do that is well, we want to give
you that opportunity right now.
Well, we want to give you thatopportunity right now.
Romans 10, 9 tells us if youconfess with your mouth and
believe in your heart that Jesusis Lord, you will be saved.
It's not the words that we saythat makes the difference and
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that bring us into God's kingdom, it's the heart behind the
words.
So if that's something that youare feeling drawn to, if you're
feeling drawn to Jesus, likethe woman at the well was drawn
to Jesus, and you want to startthat relationship with him the
way that she did, then please,we invite you right now to pray
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this prayer with us, and yourlife will never be the same, and
your life will never be thesame.
Oh Heavenly Father, I come toyou in Jesus' name.
I believe you died on the crossand that you rose again and
you're seated on the throne.
Jesus, forgive me for all thatI have done wrong and I choose
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to forgive all others.
Come into my life today andforever.
I am yours In Jesus' name, amen.
If you just prayed that prayer,would you email us at
cheeruppodcast at gmailcom andlet us know that you made that
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decision.
We want to rejoice with you.
You made that decision.
We want to rejoice with you.
We also encourage you to join aBible-believing church and if
you want to head over tosherryswellwellcom and you'll
see the monthly membershipConsider joining that and making
that a commitment of yourselfto grow your relationship with
God, to grow your relationshipwith Him while walking alongside
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other people who are in thesame boat.
We're also growing ourrelationship and you know what?
It's not a race.
We all are going to grow atdifferent paces and we're all
going to grow in different ways.
And that's the beauty ofcommunity is that we can grow
together while separate.
We can grow together at our ownpace in the way that that works
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best for us all.
That matters is that we're allmoving forward.
I wow, I think I love the storyof the woman at the well even
more now than I did before.
And give you a little insider'stip Kara and I talked ahead of
time and we're like, okay, whowants to take which story, which
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biblical events from the Bibleto share with you all?
I mean, I'm sure that you'veprobably figured that out,
because some weeks I talk aboutsome and some weeks Tara talks
more about others and I reallywanted to talk about the woman
at the well, because I don'tknow.
There's just something abouther that Jesus saw her.
The woman with the issue of theblood.
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Jesus saw her.
Jesus sees us, jesus loves us.
He loves us so much that hewill come looking for us, that
he wants to let us know how muchhe loves us.
And I'll tell you what you willnever get that from any human
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being.
You may be loved amazingly by aspouse, by a parent, by a
friend, but nobody can love theway that Jesus can love, nobody,
because we are, we'reinfallible no, we're fallible
imperfect human beings, andJesus is not.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
He is the perfect creator and he loves us in spite
of us.
He knows all our deep downdirty secrets.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
That's right, and he loves us despite them, and that
is what unconditional love isall about.
Absolutely, he is the only onethat can love us unconditionally
, and once you have experiencedthat love, there's no going back
.
So that's just what I want toleave you with today.
We can find peace in him, wecan find abundant joy in him, we
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can find unconditional lovethrough him, and once you've
made that decision, like I said,there's no going back.
We're not saying that life'sgoing to be easy.
We're not saying that you'retrading in problems for a peachy
, keen, worry-free life.
Nope, your life might getharder, but I'll tell you what
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it will never be better.
I would never, ever want tolive this life that we live
without him and without himbeing in charge.
I know that from experienceAnd's there's nothing like it.
So, having said all of that,next week we are going to
continue on with another womanin the Bible and we're going to
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talk about the woman who wascaught in adultery.
So the woman at the well wasliving in sin with a man who
wasn't married, but he wasn'ther husband.
Next week, we're going to betalking about a woman who
actually was caught in adultery.
We don't know the circumstancesbehind it, or maybe we do, but
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you will find out next week whatwe know and I hope you come and
tune in next week what we know.
And, um, and I hope you comeand tune in and um, just kind of
let us know through emailing usor um, starting a conversation
on the facebook group cheer upcheer up podcast on facebook and
letting us know what you knowabout the woman who was caught
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in adultery.
Um, I know that it's going tobe an amazing time together and
I know that we are.
I know that I will be blessedand I pray that you will be
blessed as well.
So have a great rest of yourday, have a great week and join
us next week for anotherexciting episode of the Cheer Up
Podcast podcast.
Hi and welcome to the Cheer Up Podcast.
I am your host, Kara R Hunt,and with me today, as always, is
the beautiful and glamorous andfabulous Sherri Swalwell.
How are you doing today, Sherri?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I am doing great, and can you believe that we are?
It is almost a month to the daywell, not day of the week, but
day of the calendar for Easter,so almost a month away.
So we're right in the heart ofLent season and it's getting to
where it's more sunny and warmout, at least kind of around our
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neck of the woods.
And I just can't believe that weare almost at Easter of 2025.
Can you believe it?
A month from now, a month and aday, April 20th will be Easter,
and today is March 19th Crazy.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I know, like, can you just believe it?
Like I don't know, I don't know.
Time is just going by so, sofast.
And speaking of time, we justwant to take this time to thank
all of our podcast listeners,whether you're new or whether
you've been listening to us thepast couple of seasons.
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We just want to take the timeto just say hi, thank you for
tuning in every week, thank youfor joining us today if this is
your first time, and thank allof you for taking the time out
of your day, whether it'smorning, afternoon or night, but
just taking the time out ofyour day to listen to our
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podcast.
Thank you so much.
And thank you for all of youwho have taken the time to like
to leave a review, to subscribe,to download on the various
podcasts and platforms excuse meon the various platforms that
the podcasts are played on anduploaded to, and we just want to
say thank you, thank you, thankyou, thank you.
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I've heard it said many times inthe past that time is when
someone gives you their timethat's so much more valuable
than any type of money that theycould give you, and I don't
want anyone, any of ourlisteners, to ever think that we
take that for granted and thatwe appreciate you.
We love you all.
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We may not have met all of you,but we love you all.
Our hearts are with you, and weknow that we have global
listeners as well as nationalones, and we just want to say
thank you, thank you, thank youfor taking the time out of your
week, your day, to just sit andlisten to the Cheer Up podcast.
It blesses us more than youknow, and we pray that, if
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you're blessed by it, that youwould take the time to share it
so that someone else may be too.
Thank you so much.
Okay, so, oh, sherry, wow,we're still talking about
biblical figures from the NewTestament, am I right?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yes, and I am loving it.
Right, yes, and I am loving it.
I just it's so neat because weand I know you and I did not
talk about Josiah a king who waseight years old when he became
king, by the way, and this wasin the Old Testament but one of
our pastors did a sermon onJosiah and because God started
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me reading through the Biblebefore you and I decided to do
this so that I actually was moreprepared.
So he was giving me homeworkfor the podcast long before you
and I decided that we were goingto do biblical figures on the
podcast.
But, as God gave me homework forthat, I learned all about
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Josiah, so that when I heard thesermon I wasn't like Josiah.
Who in the world is Josiah?
I have known nothing about thisguy, josiah, and he was eight
years old to boot.
Like, seriously, like I hadsome context and it just made
the sermon that much richer.
And that, I think, is why wecontinue to do Old Testament and
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New Testament biblical figures,because we want you to grow to
love reading the Bible foryourself and discovering all the
nuggets and the gems of theBible and the people in the
Bible, just like we're doing.
That, and a shameless plug, yes, but if you want to, if you
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don't, if reading the Bibleyourself and studying the Bible
yourself feels too overwhelming,I get that.
I would never have stuck withit Probably the way that I have,
if I didn't have a group ofwomen who, um, read the Bible
with me.
So as a result of that, ofbeing blessed myself as woman, I
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then God had me create theJesus in the Everyday membership
, and that part of themembership, part of the perks of
the membership, is readingthrough the Bible and having
somebody to read it through withyou, so that if you have
questions, or you just have thataha moment where you're like,
really God said that.
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Like you have no idea howimportant that is to me and you
just want to share that withsomebody because you're so
excited.
Well, jesus in the Everyday isa great place for you to do that
.
So head on over to my websiteand you can look up the Jesus in
the Everyday membership, and Iwould be so thrilled to have you
join that family.
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So, having said that, I knowthat was a shameless plug and I
didn't mean it to be, but in allhonesty, kara, it's so true.
Like I love reading the Biblebecause I have people to read it
with and I am discovering somany more things and, like I
said, it makes sermons moreinteresting because I understand
the context behind it.
I said it makes sermons moreinteresting because I understand
the context behind it.
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I mean, our pastors do a greatjob don't get me wrong of giving
the background, but when youhave read it yourself, you have
this additional layers that justmake it so much more impactful.
God can speak at a differentlevel to me because he's already
laid the groundwork.
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So, yeah, I mean I love that weare still doing biblical
figures.
That is a very, very longanswer to an agreement of you of
yes, I love it but you knowwhat it's also important.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
And, as women, I just think now I know I can't say
this about all women andeverything else, and I can't
even say in general women, but Ithink I can say that a lot of
women, maybe the majority ofwomen, we're social people and
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when we do things, we like to dothem together.
Rarely will you see, I think,women, you know, wanting to see
a movie, and they just go bythemselves.
Now again, I know there arewomen out there like that, you
know, but usually they'recalling up a friend or a group
of friends, right, and hey, Ireally want to see this new
movie that's out.
Hey, you want to come with.
Or, oh, I just read this greatbook, you guys want to discuss
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it in a book club.
Or, hey, I just cooked a big,huge pot of chili and you girls
want to come over for lunch, youknow, and we just have some fun
, you know, or something likethat.
Women, we just tend to bewhat's the word?
I'm looking like this Friendly,social.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Social like that.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Okay, yes, that's the word.
Okay, I was trying to figureout if that was the right word.
But yeah, we tend to be verysocial like that and it's the
same thing when it comes toBible study.
So you're absolutely right.
If, when people, when you'reable to be able to do that time
and spend that time with someonewho, may you know, have already
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studied a lot of it before you,or you may know a whole lot,
and you can contribute to thecommunity type environment, and
yet you're able to, every dayyou look forward to that email,
to that text, and yet you'reable to, every day you look
forward to that email, to thattext, to that conversation, to
continue that conversation thatyou've been having with someone
else you know, women that is somuch up our alley and we just
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really, really enjoy that.
So do you need a communitygroup to study the Bible or to
talk with someone like that?
I think, some of us do Honestly.
I really really do, because Ithink sometimes we'll just of us
do Honestly.
I really really do, because Ithink sometimes we'll just put
it off.
Oh, I get to it tomorrow.
But when you have made acommitment and you're like you
know what I'm going to see thisthrough, and when you do it,
you'll just be amazed at how faryou grow.
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It's just we're reallycommunity nature, by nature, I
believe, with women and thingslike that and then wow, just the
growth when you're able to doit with a group of people or
someone else is justastronomical.
You'll be so blessed by it.
Okay, I'm done.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Yeah, I completely agree.
There are so many things inlife that I would not have stuck
and followed through with if Idid not have that community.
And that segues really wellinto the woman at the well today
, because the well was not justthe place where the women got
the water for the day and thewater they needed, the well to
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water the livestock they woulduse the well to cook with, they
would use the well to gatherwater for their whole entire day
and most women went to that.
They would wake up and lookforward to going to the well
because that was where you knowthey had that.
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It was kind of like the watercooler.
They had that place to to justkind of chat with Sally for a
minute and find out how did shedo, you know, did she finish?
Okay, back then they didn'thave books, but if they, did the
conversation would go somethinglike did you finish Lydia last
night?
Because I did, and it wasfantastic.
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I couldn't believe how theauthor, kara R Hunt, was able to
make that twist so amazinglybelievable.
It was fabulous.
I cannot wait now for the nextone in the series for Eve.
So I mean, like that was kind oflike the you know what it was
like back then, or community wasjust huge.
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And that is one of the reasonswhy this story, the Woman at the
Well, is so important.
And that is one of the reasonswhy this story, the woman at the
well, is so important.
And I think that it's a reallygood one to follow, to piggyback
on the woman, the woman withthe issue of the blood that we
talked about last week.
So I looked it up and you canonly find the woman at the well
in John.
So it was John four one through42.
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And that seems like it's, youknow, a huge amount of stuff to
read, but it really wasn't,because it reads as a story.
So it's basically one chapterin a fiction book.
To be honest with you, it's notlong at all, but it's packed
with so much truth.
So Jesus, well, first off, youkind of have to know that Jesus
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was and you got to help me withthis for a second, kara, because
I am drawing a blank what washe like?
What was his?
Not his culture, but what was?
He was a.
He was from Nazareth, but whathe was?
A Jew.
Okay, nevermind.
So it was just sorry.
I get kind of confusedsometimes, but this is why I
need a Bible study, because Ineed people to think about them
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this is real life people.
This is just real life, reallife.
Sherry, she needs help.
Anyway, jesus was a Jew.
I digress.
Let's get back to the story.
So Jesus was a Jew, thedisciples were a Jew.
And back to the story.
So Jesus was a Jew, thedisciples were a Jew and they
were going through Samaria.
Well, samarians and Jews didnot mix because of the different
cultures and I believe againdon't quote me if I'm doing this
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completely wrong, kara, stop me, but I think that the
Samaritans were a mixture ofJews and other people, I don't
remember who, but anyway, theydidn't like each other at all,
like and so if you were a Jewyou did not talk to a Samaritan
and if you were a Samaritan youwould not be talked to by a Jew.
So Jesus told the disciples togo find something to eat and he
went and sat by the.
Well, he knew this woman wasgoing to come at noon.
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Well, there was a lot of a lotof distinction about her coming
at noon, because one, like Isaid, they always went in the
morning, early morning, beforeit got super hot.
She came at noon because nobodywas there, so she would like
sneak in, grab the water thatshe needed and sneak back out.
And he knew she was going to bethere and he wanted to have
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that conversation with her.
So he approached her first.
And the fact that he did thatis huge because, like I said,
jews did not talk to Samaritans.
A Samaritan could probablyattempt to talk to a Jew, but
Jews did not talk to Samaritansand Jesus was a Jew and he
started the conversation and heasked her.
He said will you give mesomething to drink?
And she was taken aback becauseshe's like what do you mean?
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I'm like vile to you Like?
you can't drink from my, mycistern or my jar or whatever
they're called.
And he was like no, he's like Iwant you to.
And then he continued talkingto her and he said you know, go
get your husband and I'll talkto you about this living water
that I have that you'll neverhave to thirst again.
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And at first she didn't get it.
At first she took it literallyand she's like, oh, this would
be awesome.
I'll never have to come hereagain and have these people look
at me, you know mean andhorrible and all that stuff.
And I'll tell you in a minutewhy they scorned her or why they
didn't like her.
And he said go get your husband.
And she says I don't have ahusband.
And he goes you're right, youdon't.
You've had five and the onethat you're living with right
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now is not your husband.
Well, living together outside ofmarriage back then was a major
taboo and that's what this womanwas doing and we don't know why
.
We don't know if she was likeproud and rebellious, we don't
know if she was desperate, wedon't know why she was living
with a man outside of marriage,but we know that custom-wise,
their customs back then, thatwas a big, big no-no, you just
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don't do it.
And so, basically, the bottomline of the story is that Jesus,
just like with the woman withthe issue of blood, he gives her
so much more than she couldhave ever given him.
So she gives him a drink ofwater and he gives her eternal
life.
He gives her, he shows her thathe is the true Messiah and she
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believes in him.
And then her testimony she goesback and she tells the rest of
the town, the rest of thecommunity, that she's living in
the village, what he did for herand how he helped transform her
life.
And that in and of itself, ifthat was the whole story, that
would be enough, and then some.
That would be a miracle and ablessing, because she's now
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going to heaven and she now has,she surrendered her life and
she is a completely differentperson.
But God never stops there, likeGod doesn't just stop at the
basics, he doesn't just stop atthe finale, but to get to the
finale he shows us so much more.
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So one of the parts that I wantto highlight about this story
and about Jesus's compassion isI have heard so many times on
Facebook and on social media andso on and so forth, that if
you're like, like so.
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I've heard Jesus beingcondemned.
I've heard Jesus being beingdescribed as somebody who is
very mean, who's very judgmental, who, um, do it my way or the
highway.
Yes, jesus knows that his wayis the only way.
But Jesus does not condemn.
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He never once condemned thiswoman for living in sin.
He never once condemned herthat she should not be living
with the man.
Now, did he tell her the truth?
Did he speak about the truth?
Did he call a spade a spade?
Absolutely.
But everything that Jesus doesis in love.
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Jesus would not be loving if hedoesn't matter that you're
living with him, it doesn'tmatter that you are going for
less than and what's not thebest in your life, because
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living in sin or living withsomebody who wasn't her husband
back then was not living herbest life.
And in the Bible it tells usthat we are not to be living or
committing adultery.
Well, sorry, fornication, it'sfornication if you're both not
married to anybody else it'sadultery if one of you is
married.
So I think people throw aroundthe word adultery, but in this
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case it's fornication life.
That is not our best guess andI'm not going to go into that.
That's not the point of thestory today, but the point that
I'm highlighting.
The point that I'm bringing outis that Jesus always told the
truth.
We were just talking the otherday, kara, you and I personally
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privately that we are not goodparents if we allow our kids to
just run roughshod.
That is not being a lovingparent.
If we bail them out or if wecontinually and consistently
make excuses for their behavior,that is not being a good parent
.
Well, jesus would not be aloving father if he bailed her
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out or if he said oh, it doesn'tmatter, if you're still living
in sin, you know you can do this, that or the other.
Jesus was the epitome of lovebecause he doesn't want us to
stay in the pig's love, which isa great we'll be talking about
that in a couple of weeks whenwe talk about the prodigal son.
You'll know what I mean bypig's love.
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But he does not want us stayingin a life of sin.
But he does not want us stayingin a life of sin.
He wants us to live the bestlife.
In John 10, 10, it says that theenemy comes to steal, kill and
destroy, but I've come that youmay have life and have it more
abundantly.
And that's Jesus talking again,he wants us to have life and
have it more abundantly.
He knows that there's paininvolved if you live with
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somebody before you get married.
He knows there's pain involvedif you cheat on your taxes and,
you know, go to bed at nightworried that it's going to catch
up with you.
He knows that all of thesethings that we run to and that
we chase to make us feel betterin the long run are going to
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make us more miserable.
He knows these things, and sothe thing that I love the most,
the way that I want to be themost like Jesus, to be
completely honest, is to becompletely honest, like I want
to be able to speak the truthand love the way Jesus does and
not act like I'm apologizing.
Oh, I'm so sorry that you'resinning.
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It's really not that big of adeal.
Well, it kind of is a big deal,not because I'm judging you for
it.
It has nothing to do with meand everything to do with I want
you to have that abundant lifethat Jesus calls us to.
Will I still love youregardless, absolutely.
Jesus was going to love thatwoman, the woman at the well, no
matter what choices she made.
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He just knew that he had abetter alternative for her if
she chose to accept it, if shechose to walk in it.
He wanted the best for her.
We want the best for ourfriends, we want the best for
those around us, and we need tolive in a society.
We need to step up as a societyto want the best for those
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around us, even if we don'tagree with them or disagree with
them.
I believe that Jesus would havehad the same exact reaction
towards her even if she had notaccepted what he was offering.
But I'll tell you what he wasoffering such a deal that she
could not not accept it becauseit was given to her in love.
It was um, or I should say itwas presented to her in love.
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It was presented in such a waythat he knew that um, or she
knew that he cared, she knewthat he wasn't judging her, she
knew that he loved herregardless.
And who doesn't want to acceptthe best for your life when you
have somebody who loves youregardless?
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Who doesn't?
So I mean, I could literallytalk about this the woman with
the or the woman at the well,for much, much, much, much
longer.
But those are just some of the,some of the areas that just
really stood out to me.
Oh, and the last one, before Itoss it over to you, kara, that
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I forgot about was she then wasso filled with Jesus and with
his love and with hisforgiveness that she couldn't
help but go to those people whohad shunned her, go to those
people she had been hiding fromjust that morning.
Hey, look at what, look at whocame into town and look at what
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he's offering.
And I'm not keeping it tomyself because it's too good.
I will risk having you turnyour back on me or talk bad
about me or whatever it is,because this is too good not to
share it with you.
So those are just some of thehighlights that I got from the
woman at the well story.
What about you, kara?
Speaker 1 (22:10):
I think one of the things that I just love about
this story is he didn't go tothe women that were there before
you know, oh, I never thoughtof that.
Yeah, you know the women whowere married and you know and
everything else and everythingelse.
He went to this one.
So I mean he obviouslyphysically saw the woman at the
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well, like they were sitting infront of each other, next to
each other, you know, orstanding next to each other and
everything else.
So he obviously saw herphysically, but he saw her
spiritually as well, meaning ifshe had gone with the other
women they would have just beenlike, oh there she is, there's
the adulterer, that's the womanthat had five husbands or
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whatever.
That's the woman that's livingwith a man.
That's not her husband.
You know, they would have justsaw her actions.
Jesus saw her heart.
He saw her heart.
He actually saw her not justphysically, he saw her
spiritually, and he's JesusChrist.
He knew exactly what was goingon in her life.
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Not only did, he knew what wasgoing on, he knew why it was
happening.
We all have a past thatsometimes we have allowed to
dictate our present.
Whether it was horribleparenting, whether it was an
abusive relationship, whether itwas neglect, whether we've been
deceived or lied to for yearsor decades.
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We all kind of let something ofthat just kind of infiltrate
our life and sometimes itaffects not just our current
situation and our current lifeand our current decisions, but
sometimes the future as well and, if we're not careful, down to
our children.
But he knew her reasons fordoing it.
We don't know.
The scriptures doesn'tnecessarily talk about why she
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decided to do these things.
Did she just have a rebelliousheart, you know, like everyone
else thought?
Was she just throwing it in herface?
Or has something happened thathad put her in that position?
Or did something happen in herchildhood that made her be that
way?
He saw her, he saw her.
He saw her.
He knew the who, the when, thewhy, the where, the
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circumstances that led up to it.
He knew all of it and he cared.
And he saw her.
He wasn't just judging her byher actions, like the other
women may have.
He saw her.
What made her up, what thebuilding blocks were that led
her to this point?
But you know, he saw her, hewas empathetic towards her, he
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loved her, he understood her andhe understood everything that
had led up to this point.
But you know what he didn't do.
He did make excuses for herbehavior.
He loved her too much to do so.
He loved her too much to do so.
He's like, hey, this is thecarrot translation.
Hey, I get it, it's been rough,and women here in the New
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Testament biblical days, like,of course he wouldn't have said
that.
But again, this is the carrottranslation.
You know, hey, it's rough, Iget it.
It hasn't been an easy road.
I know what laid your hair.
I know why you've made thedecisions that you made.
You know, and I know why you'reresisting, maybe making this
change or do something like that.
I get it, I understand it.
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What happened to you was wrong.
I get it, but you can'tcontinue like this, and I love
you too much to allow you tocontinue like this, because when
you drink the water that I'mabout to give you, it's going to
change your life forever and Ineed you to stop doing what
you're doing out of love, notjust for me, but also for
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yourself.
I have so much more to you, butI can't give it to you until
you stop doing these things.
You know he didn't pat her onthe back like, oh, I'm so sorry.
Oh, I get it, you poor thing.
No, and like you say, peoplesay well, jesus was masculine
toxicity at its worst, right, no, it was at its best.
You know, no matter how much wetry to deny it, we need and
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desire strong confidence andleadership and those who's going
to look out for us and protectus as women, and this was the
woman at the well.
She was a woman.
So that's why I'm going to saythis as women, we want someone
who's willing to lay down theirlives for us.
We want someone who's going toprotect us.
We want someone who wants thebest for us, and a male figure,
(26:39):
we want someone who's going tosay hey, you know, you're better
than this, you're better thanthis, and I'm going to hold your
hand.
And boy, am I going to take youon an adventure that you never
even saw coming.
But to do that, you got to stopdoing this.
We crave that as human beingsand as women, we crave that even
more from the male figures inour life.
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And could there have been acase with her and the man that
she had been with?
I don't know, because life forwomen back then was so
drastically different than it isfor women today.
But he saw her, he cared abouther, he loved her, he knew the
who, what, when, where and whyshe was doing what she was doing
.
And he's saying, yeah, stop,cause I got plans, we got plans,
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I'm going to hold your hand,we're going to walk through this
, you know, and everything else,and I just love that.
So sometimes you may be like oh,I'm surrounded by people but no
one gets it.
No one knows what I've beenthrough.
No one knows why I'm doing whatI do.
Um, you know, you may be sayingI'm such a bad person I do
these bad things.
I don't even know why I'm doingthese bad things.
You know, like they say, I'mnot that bad, I'm just messed up
(27:44):
.
You know, some things happen.
No one knows what happened tome when I was four years old.
No one knows what happened tome when I was eight.
No one knows that I wasabandoned, neglected.
No-transcript.
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That was a very long answer toa short question, but I just
want people to know women, menalike, young and old, reach out
to God.
It doesn't matter what you'vedone, it doesn't matter what
you're in the midst of doingAmen, it doesn't matter.
He loves you too much.
He wants you to reach out tohim, call out to him and let him
(28:41):
talk to you and minister to you, and your life will never be
the same.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
And the best way to do that is well, we want to give
you that opportunity right now.
Well, we want to give you thatopportunity right now.
Romans 10, 9 tells us if youconfess with your mouth and
believe in your heart that Jesusis Lord, you will be saved.
It's not the words that we saythat makes the difference and
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that bring us into God's kingdom, it's the heart behind the
words.
So if that's something that youare feeling drawn to, if you're
feeling drawn to Jesus, likethe woman at the well was drawn
to Jesus, and you want to startthat relationship with him the
way that she did, then please,we invite you right now to pray
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this prayer with us, and yourlife will never be the same, and
your life will never be thesame.
Oh Heavenly Father, I come toyou in Jesus' name.
I believe you died on the crossand that you rose again and
you're seated on the throne.
Jesus, forgive me for all thatI have done wrong and I choose
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to forgive all others.
Come into my life today andforever.
I am yours In Jesus' name, amen.
If you just prayed that prayer,would you email us at
cheeruppodcast at gmailcom andlet us know that you made that
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decision.
We want to rejoice with you.
You made that decision.
We want to rejoice with you.
We also encourage you to join aBible-believing church and if
you want to head over tosherryswellwellcom and you'll
see the monthly membershipConsider joining that and making
that a commitment of yourselfto grow your relationship with
God, to grow your relationshipwith Him while walking alongside
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other people who are in thesame boat.
We're also growing ourrelationship and you know what?
It's not a race.
We all are going to grow atdifferent paces and we're all
going to grow in different ways.
And that's the beauty ofcommunity is that we can grow
together while separate.
We can grow together at our ownpace in the way that that works
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best for us all.
That matters is that we're allmoving forward.
I wow, I think I love the storyof the woman at the well even
more now than I did before.
And give you a little insider'stip Kara and I talked ahead of
time and we're like, okay, whowants to take which story, which
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biblical events from the Bibleto share with you all?
I mean, I'm sure that you'veprobably figured that out,
because some weeks I talk aboutsome and some weeks Tara talks
more about others and I reallywanted to talk about the woman
at the well, because I don'tknow.
There's just something abouther that Jesus saw her.
The woman with the issue of theblood.
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Jesus saw her.
Jesus sees us, jesus loves us.
He loves us so much that hewill come looking for us, that
he wants to let us know how muchhe loves us.
And I'll tell you what you willnever get that from any human
(32:13):
being.
You may be loved amazingly by aspouse, by a parent, by a
friend, but nobody can love theway that Jesus can love, nobody,
because we are, we'reinfallible no, we're fallible
imperfect human beings, andJesus is not.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
He is the perfect creator and he loves us in spite
of us.
He knows all our deep downdirty secrets.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
That's right, and he loves us despite them, and that
is what unconditional love isall about.
Absolutely, he is the only onethat can love us unconditionally
, and once you have experiencedthat love, there's no going back
.
So that's just what I want toleave you with today.
We can find peace in him, wecan find abundant joy in him, we
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can find unconditional lovethrough him, and once you've
made that decision, like I said,there's no going back.
We're not saying that life'sgoing to be easy.
We're not saying that you'retrading in problems for a peachy
, keen, worry-free life.
Nope, your life might getharder, but I'll tell you what
(33:28):
it will never be better.
I would never, ever want tolive this life that we live
without him and without himbeing in charge.
I know that from experienceAnd's there's nothing like it.
So, having said all of that,next week we are going to
continue on with another womanin the Bible and we're going to
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talk about the woman who wascaught in adultery.
So the woman at the well wasliving in sin with a man who
wasn't married, but he wasn'ther husband.
Next week, we're going to betalking about a woman who
actually was caught in adultery.
We don't know the circumstancesbehind it, or maybe we do, but
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you will find out next week whatwe know and I hope you come and
tune in next week what we know.
And, um, and I hope you comeand tune in and um, just kind of
let us know through emailing usor um, starting a conversation
on the facebook group cheer upcheer up podcast on facebook and
letting us know what you knowabout the woman who was caught
(34:34):
in adultery.
Um, I know that it's going tobe an amazing time together and
I know that we are.
I know that I will be blessedand I pray that you will be
blessed as well.
So have a great rest of yourday, have a great week and join
us next week for anotherexciting episode of the Cheer Up
Podcast podcast.
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