June 4, 2025 • 59 mins
The purpose of the Messianic Age was to usher in the return to a free-flowing relationship between God and His children. That began on the day of Pentecost. The Lord gave us an indicator of what was to come in His interaction with the Samaritan woman at the well in John Chapter 4.
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Speaker 1 (00:21):
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Remember we care about you. We start out with praise
and prayer and then the sound of the show far So,
first of all, praise my heavenly Father for being my Abba,
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my papa, my daddy. I am thankful that he wanted
to be that again, not just with me, but with
all of us. He wanted reconciliation with his children. He
didn't want that wall of separation that the temple Vale offered,
and that he could never be with his children. But
now we can boldly approach the throne of grace and mercy,
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saying Abbah Papa Daddy, I praise him for Yashila, for
sending him to die for us on the cross, to
shed his blood, to set us free from the curse
of sin and death and from the bondage of the enemy.
I praise him for sending back the Holy Spirit to
walk with us and the Goddess and to guide us
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and to teach us. I praise him for all the
things he's given us, given me my family, my home,
my wife, our furry kids, all of our children, grandchildren,
their wives, family, the family of God, and the family
that he's given us. He wants to bless us. I'm
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thankful that he did that. I pray that he would
protect us, each and every one of us. Heal us,
bless us inside and out, give us the ability to
bless others, protect all that is ours, our homes, lands, families, pets, possessions.
That he would bless and protect this technology, and that
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his spirit would be embedded into it so that it
goes forth in his name for his glory, to do
what he would desire it to do. And I pray
all these things, and you show his name. Amen.
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So get ready to open those bibles. However you follow
a lot. All was still talking about the Messianic age.
We have been redeemed from sin and death. We've been
reconciled to God, our Father. We have liberty and freedom.
Our bondages are broken, and we've been rescued from darkness.
And most of all, we are free to praise and
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worship our Abbah in spirit and truth. We've been set free,
and we help him in setting people free to worship
their Father in spirit and truth. Now are we just
finished celebrated Pentecost? And the reality of Pentecost was indicated
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to us in John chapter four and the story of
the Woman at the Well. Now, normally I would go
right to the Book of X and we'd get right
into it. But over the last couple of days, the
Lord has been putting this upon my heart, and in
working on this Bible study today, I hope you get
as excited as I became when I was done, to
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see that He, at the beginning of his ministry, was
giving everybody a preview of what was to come. So
go with me to John chapter four, and we will
start at verse seven. A woman of Samaria came to
draw water. Yashua has said to her, give me drink,
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for his disciples had gone away into the city to
buy food. And the woman of Samaria 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. And Yshua answered and said to her,
if you knew the gift of God, who it is
who says to you give me drink, you would have
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asked him and he would have given you living water.
The woman said, Sir, you have nothing to draw with
and the well is deep. Where then do you get
that living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob,
who gave us the well and drank from it himself,
as well as his son's and his live stock. Yashua
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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. The woman
said to him, Sir, give me this water, that I
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may not thirst nor come here to draw. And y
she has said to her, go call your husband and
come here. The woman answered and said, I have no husband.
And Yeshu has said to her. You have well said
I have no husband, for you've had five husbands, and
the one whom you now have is not your husband.
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In that you spoke truly. And the woman said to him, Sir,
I perceive that you are a prophet. Our Father is
worshiped on this mountain, and you Jews say that in
Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship. And ye,
she has said to a woman, believe me, the hour
is now coming when you will neither on this mountain
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nor in Jerusalem worship the Father. You worship what you
do not know, and we know what we worship, for
salvation is of the Jews. But the hour is coming,
and now is when true worshipers will worship the Father
in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such
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to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship
him must worship in spirit and truth. The woman said
to him, I know that the Messiah is coming, and
when he comes, he will tell us all things. And you,
she has said to her, I who speak to you?
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Am he so much going on there? Let's break it
down and see what we can learn from it. So
our unnamed woman appears with her clay jar in hand,
and Yashua simply says, please give me a drink. And
her response, is you being a Jew asked from me
a Samaritan woman? Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. See,
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Jews weren't supposed to speak to Samaritans. Men weren't permitted
to address women without their husband's presence, and rabbis had
no business speaking the shady ladies such as this one.
Yet Yashua was willing to toss out the rules. But
the woman at the well wasn't. She reminds him of
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the law. Yet your shoe is focused on grace. Religion
keeps us focused on the letter of the law, and
the Lord and his grace remind us of the spirit
behind it. If you knew the gift of God, who
it is who says, do you give me drink, you
would have asked of him and he would have given
you living water. He's telling her, I have a gift,
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the gift of God. First gift is the promised Messiah.
See this takes us back to the scripture that we've
been talking about for three or four weeks. Now. Look
Chapter four, verses eighteen and nineteen. The spirit of the
Lord is upon me, the Messiah, because he has anointed
me to preach the good news to the poor. He
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has sent me to announce, to announce release pardon, forgiveness
to the captives, recovery of sight to the blind, to
set those free who are oppressed, who are downtrodden, bruised,
crushed by tragedy, and to proclaim the favorable year of
the Lord, the day when salvation and the favor of
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God abound greatly. Is this not happening right now with
the Samaritan woman, that release that pardon, that forgiveness to
the captives, setting free those who are oppressed, down trodden, bruised,
crushed by tragedy. This woman at the well is down
trodden and crushed she's coming to the well at noon,
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at the heat of the day. It was customary for
women to come draw water early in the morning or
at dusk when the sun was going down and things
became cooler. But she can't. She's an outcast, she's isolated,
she's rejected because of her life circumstances and that gift
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of living water, the Holy Spirit. If you knew the
gift of God, who it is who says to you,
give me a drink, you would have asked of him
and he would have given you living water. As I
sat here today, in all the years I've known him,
in all the years I've had the blessings interact with him,
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I immediately said, Lord, give me drink, Give me another
sip of this water. The believer's Study Bible tells us
the significance of Yashuah's offer as provider is grounded in
the Old Testament, of which this Samaritan woman seems to
have knowledge, where Yahweh is referred to as the fountain
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of living waters in Jeremiah chapter two, verse thirteen. For
my people have committed two evils. They have forsaken me
the fountain of living waters and hewn for themselves cisterns, broken,
cisterns that can hold no water. Again. In Jeremiah seventeen thirteen,
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O Lord, the Hope of Israel, the prophet says, all
who forsake you shall be ashamed. Those who depart from
me shall be written in the earth, because they have
forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living waters. So for
him to indicate a fountain of living waters, her ears
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perked up. Now we know from John seventeen the living
water is identified as the Holy Spirit, whose presence results
in all the blessings of eternal life and the endless supply. Indeed,
and see John seven, my notes here are incorrect. We're
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going to have to fire whoever did them. Oops, that
was me. Go with me, John chapter seven, Verses thirty
seven and thirty nine. On the last day, that great
day of the feast, feast of Tabernacles, she has stood
and cried out, saying, if anyone thirsts, let him come
to me and drink. He who believes in me, as
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the scripture has said, out of his heart will flow
rivers of living water. But this he spoke concerning the
spirit whom those believing in him would receive. For the
Holy Spirit was not yet given, and because the Yeshua
was not yet glorified, he never said anything that didn't
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mean something, nor did he waste his words. He who
believes in me, who adheres to trust in, relies on me,
as the Scripture has said, from his or her innermost being,
will flow continually rivers of living water. It's that inside
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out thing we're talking about, that constant flow, you know.
During the Feast of Tabernacles, part of the joyous celebration
was when the priest brought the water from the pool
of Siloam in a golden pitcher to symbolize the water
supplied from the Rock in Exodus seventeen. Well, this is
water coming from the rock, the rock of Ages, and
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those who are satisfied by Yeshua will themselves become channels
of supernatural refreshment for others. That should excite you, because
inside of you is the ability to offer refreshment to others.
So let it flow, Let it go now, I'm not
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going to start No, I won't do it. I won't
start singing. But let it flow. The flowing power and
the freedom of the water of the spirit give people drink.
So the figure of rivers. Contrast with a fountain. Whoever
drinks the water that I will give him will never
be thirsty again. But the water that I give him
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will become in him a spring of water, satisfying his
thirst for God, welling up, continually flowing, bubbling within him
to eternal life. This illustrates the difference between one's new
birth and one's experience of the overflowing fullness of the
spirit filled life. The notion of a fresh, bubbling spring
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was a powerful image in Israel's dry climate. Those who
come to God will neither hunger nor thirst Isaiah forty nine,
starting verse seven. Thus says the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel,
their Holy One, to whom man despises, to whom the
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nations abhor, to the servant of rulers. Kings shall see
and arise. Princes also shall worship because of the Lord
who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, and he
has chosen you. Thus says the Lord. In inacceptable time,
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I have heard you, and in the day of salvation
I have helped you. I will preserve you and give
you as a covenant to this the people. Now you
know he's speaking to you. Shul to restore the earth
to cause them to inherit the desolate heritage. That you
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may say to the prisoners, go forth to those who
are in darkness, show yourselves. They shall feed along the roads,
and their pastures shall be on all the desolate heights.
They shall neither hunger nor thirst, neither heat nor sun
shall strike them, For he who has mercy on them
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will lead them, even by the springs of water. He
will guide them. The blessing of Messiah came from Israel,
and that's why Satan hates Israel so much. Out of
this nation, out of this small group of people, came
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not only the one that would defeat him, but the
ones that would keep him at bay when he wants
to run loose. That would be a fly in his ointment,
that would get in his way, that would set the
captives free, that would plunder his kingdom. The NLT Study
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Bible says in the Jewish culture, dead water referred to
standing and stored water. Living water referred to moving water,
as in rivers and springs and rainfall. Such water was
precious because it was fresh, because it came directly from God.
It was used for ritual washings. The distinctions between dead
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and living water. Explains why the woman of Samaria was
so perplexed when Yeshoe offered her living water. Samaria had
no river, and if Jacob had to dig a well there,
how could you Shoe offer superior water than that. That's
why she says to them, are you greater than our
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father Jacob who gave us the well and drank from
it himself, as well as his son's and his livestocks.
She's still thinking naturally even today when you witness the people,
their natural mind cannot receive what you're saying. See the
woman caught up In tradition, Jacob had dug this well
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about one hundred and five feet deep, nine feet in diameter,
and contained fifteen feet of water carved out of solid rock, showcasing,
of course, some amazing engineering skills in ancient times. But
no matter what, it's man made. As she was offering
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more than that to her, He's offering her a fountain
springing up into eternal life, which suggests the availability and
the accessibility of a divine life for all believers. The
expression into everlasting life probably means resulting in eternal life,
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the result of drinking the water you sure I freely gives.
Is that the drinker receives eternal life. We're talking salvation
in feeling of the Holy Spirit, the cross, the empty tomb,
the upper room. Set free from the religious ritual and
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the blockages and the interference that keeps us from direct
interaction from God, we can drink freely from his fountain. Now,
some of you I know will say to me, I
hear you, Richard, but I've never experienced this, or if
I have, I don't realize it. Well, this is what
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I want you to do, each and every day. You
keep asking for it until it happens. This woman, still
thinking naturally Verse fifteen, Sir, give me this water that
I may not thurst nor come here to draw. She does,
won't do this anymore. She's tired, she's rejected. Unfortunately, she
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wants something precious that in her unredeemed state she cannot have.
She doesn't grasp the spiritual implications of his words. So
to overcome that, the spiritual barrier, she addresses what's keeping
her from this water her sin. First sixteen, go call
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your husband and come here. I have no husband, and
you have well said I have no husband, for you've
had five husbands and the one whom you have now
is not your husband, and that you spoke truly. He
went right to the root of the issue because he
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wants to offer her salvation. But he can't do that.
The Holy Spirit, through the gift of revelation knowledge, exposes
to him her life, both in the past and her
current choices. Five marriages possibly ended in divorce, and she's
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currently living with someone that she's not married to, who
possibly is even married to someone else. This is a
woman that apparently has no other choices, or she's made
a lot of bad ones, but sin has blocked her
understanding and her ability to receive what is being offered.
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So many times in offering the truth and the freedom
to people the natural mind can grasp it, it's blocked
from them. But when he does what he does when
he reads her mail, when he says these things to her,
she picks up, Sir, I perceive you are a prophet.
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But instead of asking for help, she flips it back, Well,
our father's worshiped on this mountains, and you Jews say
that in Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.
She could have been startled by his supernatural knowledge of
her past life and current living conditions. Maybe she wants
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to deflect, maybe she wants to push him in a
different direction. She knows he's a Jew, she calls him sir,
and because that revelation knowledge, she concludes he's a prophet.
And she tries to change the subject. And what she does,
she deflects back to religion. That's a very common thing
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now if you don't know who the Samaritans are, they
were a remnant of the Northern Jewish kingdom who went
intermarried with foreigners after the chiefs and nobles had been
carried away into exile in seven twenty nine BC. The
animosity towards Jews was centuries old. In effect, it's one
religious spirit fighting against another. So the Samaritans established a
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rival worship to Jerusalem. They accepted the Pentateuck as their Bible,
but the great controversy between Jews and Samaritans centered on
whether to worship on Mount Gherrazem, located in Chechem, the
mountain she's on, or Mount Mariah in Jerusalem. So Massai's
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words have proved him to be a prophet, and so
the woman uses that opportunity, maybe to get the question answered.
I think more likely she's using it as a distraction,
but he sure doesn't answer her as the thing. The
scripture is that to me set this whole lesson in
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motion that began, I began to see Pentecost. Woman, Believe me,
a time is coming, and now is when you will
worship the Father. Neither merely in this mountain nor merely
in Jerusalem. You smountains don't know what you're worshiping. You
worship what you do not comprehend. We do know what
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we are worshiping. We worship what we have knowledge of
and understand. For after all, salvation comes from among the Jews.
A time will come, however, indeed, it's already here when
the true, genuine worshipers will worship the Father in spirit
and in truth. For the Father is seeking such people
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as these as his worshipers. God is a spirit a
spiritual being, and those who worship him must worship him
in spirit and in truth. In reality, the Father is
seeking such people as these as his worshipers. That cannot
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happen with the unredeemed person. It can only happen through Yeshua.
So Yeshua confirms that the Jews understood the worship of
the One True God. He identifies and says we, meaning
he's a Jew. Salvation will come from them through the Messiah,
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the line of David, the tribe of Judah. So by
recognizing him as a prophet, she's on the road to
recognizing him as Messiah. But the answer in bodies a
greater principle than that. The true worship is a matter
of the heart, not of any particular place. And it's
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so easy to get caught up in that. It's so easy,
like the disciples on the Mount of Transfiguration. Oh my goodness,
this is so amazing. Let's build a tabernacle here. No,
it has nothing to do with the place that you're at.
It has to do with the person that you're with.
You can worship the Lord in your home. You can
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worship the Lord in your car. You can worship the
Father and Spirit and Truth on a beach. You can
worship him anywhere, because he's never ever out of reach.
I want a spiritual doctor, Seuss there. It's about true worship.
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It's from your heart. Nelson study Bible says God is
not limited by time and space. When people are born
of the spirit, they can commune with God anywhere. The
spirit is the opposite of what is material and earthly,
for example, like Mount Garyzine, whether at that moment you're
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sure the Messiah makes worship a matter of the heart.
Truth is what is in harmony with the nature and
the will of God. It's the opposite of all that
is false. And I believe all religious ritual is false
because it's done from all the wrong reasons. And he
didn't want it anyway, at least not after the cross.
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Here the truth is specifically the worship of God through
his son Jesus, the Messiah. It's not an issue of
where a person worships, but how and whom. So when
you do it tonight, when you go to bed, maybe
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in the morning, when you get up, whatever your time is,
that you're alone with the Lord and you begin to
worship him. Start out from that perspective in spirit and truth,
worship your heavenly Father through Yeshuah. So when he says
the hour is coming, he's speaking of a specific hour,
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the hour of suffering, the cross, the death of Messiah
to remove the barrier of sin. And he says, there,
it's here now because he was there. He was unraveling
this concept, this spiritual issue, from the minute he walked
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in that synagogue in Nazareth and made that proclamation. He
began unraveling it. He began heading towards the hour of suffering.
True worship is in contrast with false religious worship. As
I've talked about, I've been in true worship where it's
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all spirit, and I've been in worship that's false and religious,
and it's dead and it's awful. When you're in the spirit,
it's your whole soul, your mind, your feelings, your emotions,
and your desires from the inside out, not based on
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outward appearances or places, places, or relics or icons or
all these things men want to focused on. It's truth
in truth, in harmony with the revelation of the Messiah
and the presence of His Holy Spirit, the Roka Kardesh.
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That should be your heart's cry. Father, I want to
worship you in spirit and truth. Take anything from me
that hinders that experience. The hour has come. That's the
phrase you see it in John chapter twelve, studying verse
twenty three says the hour has come. The son of
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Man should be glorified most assuredly. I say to you,
unless the grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies,
it remains alone. But if it dies, it produces much grain.
He who loves his life will lose it, and he
who hates his life and this world will keep it
for eternal life. If anyone serves me, let him follow me,
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and where I am there my servant will be. Also
if anyone serves me him, my father will honor. Now
my soul is troubled, and what shall I say, Father,
save me from this hour? But for this purpose I
came to this hour. Father, save me from this hour
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of trial and agony. But it is for this very
purpose that I have come to this hour, to this time,
to this place, to do what I have said about
to do, to tear down that religious wall of separation
between God and man, to set the captives free, to
give sight to the blind, both naturally and spiritually, to
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help the lame walk, leap, dance, and worship. True worship
could only come after the hour, after this hour, after
the Messiah's death, and the spirit of God could be
released back into humanity. You know, when Adam fell and
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was separated from God and banished from the garden, began
that separation. No longer did we have that intimacy, No
longer did we have that interaction, which for me, as
I've said many times, was vital to me, was the first,
very first thing that I sought was interaction with my
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heavenly Father. The New Living Translation Study Bible says spirit
and in truth is actually one Greek preposition govern both
words literally in spirit and truth. It's a singular concept,
and true worship occurs as God's Spirit reveals God's truth
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and reality to the worshiper. What is that truth? Is sure?
Jesus the Messiah is the truth. You can only see
that through the Holy Spirit. He said in John fourteen six,
I am the Way of the Truth and the Life.
No one comes to the Father except through me. Later
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on in verse sixteen and seventeen of John fourteen, and
I will pray the Father, and he will give you
another helper that he may abide with you forever, permanent residence,
the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive because
it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him,
for he dwells with you and will be in you
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John fifteen, Verses twenty six and twenty seven. But when
the helper, the power Claytas comes whom I will send
to you from the Father, the spirit of truth, who
proceeds from the Father. He will testify of me, and
you will also bear witness, because you have been with
me from the beginning. It's constantly talking about the Father,
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His constantly indicating relationship. Is Sure uses the word Father
one hundred and eighty times in referring to and addressing
God in prayer, one hundred and twelve times in John alone,
which is the gospel that says so much about the
divine Father and Son. The rest are found forty four
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times in Matthew, five times in Mark, seventeen times in Luke,
two times in Acts. Gee. It must mean something. Others
refer to God as Father eighty eight times, Father, Abbah, Papa, Daddy.
We are desperate for that. We're desperate to have that
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feeling again. That's the whole in our hearts which gets
filled when we get saved down. Four twenty five. The
woman says to him, I know that the Messiah is coming,
and when he comes, he will tell us all things.
So she knows that the arrival of the Messiah will
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answer all her questions. I know that the Messiah is coming,
so she knows this is a Samaritan woman who's waiting
for the Messiah, and he will tell us everything we
need to know and make it clear to us. See,
Samaritans believed in the prophet mentioned in Deuteronomy eighteen fifteen.
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New prophet like Moses, the Lord your God will raise
up for you a prophet like me from your mists,
from your brethren him you shall hear, And your shoe
says I who speak to you, am he. This is
the progression. Notice the progression of your Shoe's revelation of
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himself to this woman and her growing comprehension of who
he is. He doesn't immediately hit her with hey, you're
talking to the Messiah. Get it right, Get on your knees,
bow before me. No, he draws her in through love.
He draws her in through grace. He draws her in
through caring about her. He's fulfilling prophecy Isaiah thirty five,
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verses five through seven. Then the eyes of the blind
shall be opened, and the ears of the death shall
be unstopped. Then the lamb shall leap like a deer
in the tongue of the dumbs sing, for waters shall
burst forth in the wilderness and streams. In the desert,
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the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty
land springs of water. In the habitation of jackals, where
each lay there shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
This is his servant, This is the coming servant of God,
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to open blind eyes, to bring prisoners from the prisons.
Those that sit in darkness have seen a great light.
This is what it's been all about, and it's still
all about as long as the church is here. That's
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the job to open blind eyes, to set free those
who are oppressed, and to give them water, to drink
spiritual water from any eternal spring. And so what does
the woman do Verses twenty eight through thirty. She leaves
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her water pot, this clay pot which she's been carrying
up there every day, very important to her. And she
runs back to the city to the very people that
have rejected her, to the very people that want nothing
to do to her. And she goes in and she says,
come see a man who told me all things that
I ever did. Could this be the Messiah? And then
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they went out of the city and came to him.
I'm going to leave out the interaction with the apostles
that's not pertinent to what we're talking about. And jump
down to verse thirty nine, because by now they've come back,
they've come back from the city and them thinking, wow,
we went into town, we went to get him food,
and somehow he's got something to drink. He's talking to
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the Samaritan woman what's going on here, and he's got
to explain to them, guys, you really don't get it
to you. You really don't understand what this is all about.
And they didn't. They were in the process of learning
John four thirty nine, and many of the Samaritans of
that city. I'm sorry this is I was so excited
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when I was done working on this to see that
within this message early on in John, he was pointing
towards Pentecost, He was pointing towards what we take so
for granted. And many of the Samaritans of that city
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believed in him because of the word of the woman
who testified. He told me all that I ever did.
So when the Samaritans had come to him, they urged
him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days,
and many more believed because of his own word, and
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they said to the woman, now we believe not because
of what you said, for we have heard him for ourselves,
and we know that this is indeed the Messiah, the
Savior of the world. Many more believed in, adhered to,
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and relied on him because of his personal message of
what he himself said. Now we no longer believe, We
no longer trust or have faith just because of what
you've said. We have heard him ourselves personally, and we
know that he truly is the Savior of the world,
the Messiah. Two groups got saved, essentially, one by her
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testimony and one by hearing for themselves. That's pretty amazing
to me, coming from this outcast, this woman, five husbands
living with the man now doesn't matter. He will use
who he will use. And the title of the Savior
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of the world is only used here and in one
John four or fourteen, first John four starting verse thirteen.
To back it up by this, we come to know,
we perceive, we recognize, and understand that we abide, we
live and remain in Him, and he in us, because
He has given us, he has imparted to us his
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Holy Spirit. And besides, we ourselves have seen, have deliberately
and steadfastly contemplated and bear witness that the Father has
sent the Son as the savior of the world. Anyone
who confesses and acknowledge acknowledges that Jesus Yeshua is the
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Son of God. God abides lives, makes his home in him,
and he abides lives, makes his home in God. And
we know, we understand, we recognize for ourselves by observation
and by experience, and believe we adhere to and put
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faith on and rely on the fact the love of
God cherishes for us. God is love, and he who
dwells and continues that love dwells and continues in God.
God dwells and continues in Him. This is what it's
been all about, not about religion, not about form or
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fumality or all these other things man tries to make
it into. And I believe that satanically inspired the Jews
of his day taught to approach God, one first had
to be a Jew. But by including this incident in
the Gospel remonstrates that Yeshia is for everyone, for all
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the people of the world. It's pretty astounding to me
that the religiously knowledgeable, sophisticated, chosen people of Jerusalem, they
did not respond to Yushu with this kind of faith,
but many believed in him because of the testimony of
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this woman, an outcast, rejected, despised. And remember, she could
have kept it to herself. What does she do. She
wants to share it. She runs back to town to
tell everyone else. That's what the spirit does. That's that
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free flow of the spirit. Oh, my goodness, I have
had the best water in the world. You should try it.
You gotta try it too. We have heard him for
ourselves personally, and we know that he truly is the
savior of the world, the Messiah. That's what I tell
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everybody when I talk about my relationship with him, especially
with my Jewish brothers and sisters. He is the Messiah.
I am living proof of that. I am the fulfillment
of all those prophecies of what he would do when
he came. Besides that, he fulfilled all the prophecies of
the Old Testament in regard to the Messiah, and no
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one else could fulfill those prophecies. So he stayed with
them for two days before he continued on to Galilee.
So he is just flouting religious rules all over the place,
first by talking to the woman and then by staying
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there for two more days. This woman at the well,
who is she? We don't know. We don't know her
name or her age. We got to figure she's probably
an adult to be, you know, married five times. And
but that none of that matters. What matters is her
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conversation with the Lord. And this one on one chat
is one of the longest in scriptures, and I believe
one of the most important conversations in the Bible, all
because of the testimony of the town outcast, who probably
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won more people to the Lord than most preachers do
in a lifetime. And I don't say that to be critical.
I say that as a direct factual obligation. Can't tell
you how many people I've met who preach or teach.
When I ask them, how many people have you actually
led to the Lord? They can't tell you. Oh, that's
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not what I do. Really, you have a different Bible
than I do. We're all called to do that. And
no matter how powerful Satan is the rule of this world,
who rules in the hearts of unregenerate people and blinds
their minds, he couldn't stop this. He couldn't stop this interaction,
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which was a divine appointment. When you read it all
the way from the beginning. You see that you should
have went out of his way to go this direction,
to take this path. He knew he had a divine
appointment there. The disciples not so much. They're too busy
being busy doing their thing. He knew where he needed
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to be at that time of day, sitting at that well,
was waiting on this woman. You sure the Messiah waited
for this woman. So Satan can't stop anything. He can't
defeat the power and the presence of the Holy Spirit
in opening their eyes and their minds. That's why, as
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long as the church is here, he can't get the
job done. But when we get snatched out, and I
believe the church will be snatched out, because what's coming
is not for the church, it's for the unsaved world
and for Israel, then that which restrains him, when it's removed,
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he can come forth and do what he's been planning
to do all this time. Throughout this fourth chapter of John,
we're seeing a preview, an indicator of what the mission
was all about. Remember what I said, he doesn't waste words,
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and he doesn't waste his time. Everything has a purpose.
We need to find that in our lives. We need
to stop wasting times on wasting time on things that
have no eternal value. If you're going to get caught
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up in something, in a topic, in a prophetic comment
or a teaching or whatever is going on, you need
to measure for yourself. Does it have eternal value? Is
what I'm wasting my time on? Is it going to
get someone saved, healed and delivered? Is it going to
bring me closer to the Lord? Or am I entertaining?
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Am I tickling my own ears? You know, when I
had those Sunday Night podcast Reflections in the Dark, I
paid attention and everything. I kept track of everything. I
saved everything so that I could talk about it. And
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I see those things now, and not just because I
don't have the podcast, but I realized they have no value.
They have no eternal value. Everything I see, whether it's AI,
what is it pointing me towards, pointing me towards the
coming of the Lord, the coming of the Sun, a perdition,
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the Antichrist? It's all about prophecy. What does this indicate
to me? Where are we in the timeline? What's the
next steps? What do I need to be doing? Is
this an indicator. I need to be working harder. Everything
for me is about his return, getting the church ready,
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setting the captives free, living out Luke four eighteen, helping
getting the remnant prepared for what's coming, raising up others
that can do what we do with SRT, which is
about spreading the gospel, clearing the way, rescuing people. Sometimes
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people see me post something or they see how I look,
and they go, oh, he's on a mission from God.
And of course there's that phrase from the Blues brothers.
You know, we're on a mission from God. But we're
all in a mission from God. We've been given that
mission from the Lord. It's why he endured what he did.
It's why he raised up the disciples. It's why all
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those stories that have been written for us and saved
so many more unsaved. I wish somebody would have kept
another ledger somewhere, another book somewhere, that at some point
we could hear all the other stories. But he wanted
to to know the ones that we know. So then
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he gets to Jerusalem, he gets captured, he gets goourged,
he gets beaten, he gets nailed to the cross. He
becomes the Messiah, the Lamb of God, and he dies,
he's put in a tomb, and on the third day
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he rises from the dead, and then he returns to
his father to sit at the right hand of God.
And that is the sign it's about over. The mission
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is over Acts one starting verse four. And being assembled
together with them on the Mount of Olives is where
they are, in case you have not learned that by
now commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to
wait for the promise of the Father, which he said,
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you have heard from me. For John truly baptized with water,
but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not
many days from now. Therefore, when they had come together,
they asked him, saying, Lord, will you at this time
restore the kingdom to Israel? And he said to them,
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it's not for you to know times or seasons which
the Father has put in his own authority. But you
shall receive power. You shall receive dunamous. You shall receive explosive,
self replicating, supernatural power when the Holy Spirit has come
upon you, and you shall be witnesses to me in
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Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the
end of the earth. This is when Pentecost comes upon
them and becomes permanent. This is what it's been all about,
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reconnecting God with his children supernaturally from the inside, permanent
until we are restored physically to what we once were.
Until then we walk in this, we live in this,
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This the infilling of the Holy Spirit, which we'll start,
we'll go into next week and will continue to talk
about permanent Pentecost, that until the Lord comes back, until
the Church is snatched out of here. We are in Pentecost.
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We are in a time of restoration, reconciliation, and reconstruction,
plus the destruction of the enemy and all that the
Kingdom of Darkness has built. This is what it's all about.
And as I sat here today when it was over,
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and I just have to piecing this all together and
seeing the picture of seeing the tapestry, I've seen how
all the puzzles fit, some of which I had not
seen before. How important it is that we understand that
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we receive. Now as you look at yourself, you may say,
and I've heard people say, well, I don't you know,
I'm not like you. I don't deserve to have that.
I'm this or I'm that. If he can use a
woman at the well. He can use you. Doesn't matter
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what you've done, once you see him as Savior, as Messiah,
Once you receive him as your savior, as your Messiah
and you become born again, you are a new creation.
All you have to do is what she did. Let
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me tell you about a man. He knew everything about me,
and he cared about me anyway. Father, Abah Papa, thank
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you for going to so much trouble to restore your
relationship with us. We didn't deserve it, but that didn't
matter to you. Your heart's cry was to have us
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home with you, so you sent your shore who did
so much, so much that we can never ever say
thank you enough, or that we love you enough, but
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to just keep doing it, keep worshiping you in spirit
and truth. I pray that my brothers and sisters would
not only understand, but would receive. Lord, Thank you, Thank
you for this knowledge, thank you for this word. Thank
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you for what you had them right down, for the
message that John gave, not just in this gospel, but
in his letters. Thank you for using us. I wouldn't
have used me, but you saw what I could not see.
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Still what I don't see, I pray my brothers and
my sisters would feel that that they would feel worthy,
that they would feel accepted, that the weight, like that
woman at the well that jar, they would put the
weight down and not pick it back up. Let me
tell you about a man who knew everything about me
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and he loved me anyway. Holy Spirit, have you a
way touch on those areas now that we need to
look at that we need to repent of maybe things
that we keep carrying with us. Heal those wounds, set
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us free so that we can run and not grow weary,
walk and not faint. We could rise up in your
power with wings as eagles, and we can shake this
world one last time, one tremendously powerful moving time before
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the return of the King, our Lord and Savior, Jesus
the Messiah. You see a homociach and I pray all
these things, and you show his name a men. May
the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord
make his face to shine upon you and be gracious
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to you. May the Lord lift up his countenance upon
you and give you peace. Give you shalam. I'm Richard Grund.
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all of us. He wanted reconciliation with his children. He
didn't want that wall of separation that the temple Vale offered,
and that he could never be with his children. But
now we can boldly approach the throne of grace and mercy,
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saying Abbah Papa Daddy, I praise him for Yashila, for
sending him to die for us on the cross, to
shed his blood, to set us free from the curse
of sin and death and from the bondage of the enemy.
I praise him for sending back the Holy Spirit to
walk with us and the Goddess and to guide us
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and to teach us. I praise him for all the
things he's given us, given me my family, my home,
my wife, our furry kids, all of our children, grandchildren,
their wives, family, the family of God, and the family
that he's given us. He wants to bless us. I'm
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bless us inside and out, give us the ability to
bless others, protect all that is ours, our homes, lands, families, pets, possessions.
That he would bless and protect this technology, and that
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his spirit would be embedded into it so that it
goes forth in his name for his glory, to do
what he would desire it to do. And I pray
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So get ready to open those bibles. However you follow
a lot. All was still talking about the Messianic age.
We have been redeemed from sin and death. We've been
reconciled to God, our Father. We have liberty and freedom.
Our bondages are broken, and we've been rescued from darkness.
And most of all, we are free to praise and
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worship our Abbah in spirit and truth. We've been set free,
and we help him in setting people free to worship
their Father in spirit and truth. Now are we just
finished celebrated Pentecost? And the reality of Pentecost was indicated
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to us in John chapter four and the story of
the Woman at the Well. Now, normally I would go
right to the Book of X and we'd get right
into it. But over the last couple of days, the
Lord has been putting this upon my heart, and in
working on this Bible study today, I hope you get
as excited as I became when I was done, to
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see that He, at the beginning of his ministry, was
giving everybody a preview of what was to come. So
go with me to John chapter four, and we will
start at verse seven. A woman of Samaria came to
draw water. Yashua has said to her, give me drink,
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for his disciples had gone away into the city to
buy food. And the woman of Samaria 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. And Yshua answered and said to her,
if you knew the gift of God, who it is
who says to you give me drink, you would have
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asked him and he would have given you living water.
The woman said, Sir, you have nothing to draw with
and the well is deep. Where then do you get
that living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob,
who gave us the well and drank from it himself,
as well as his son's and his live stock. Yashua
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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. The woman
said to him, Sir, give me this water, that I
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may not thirst nor come here to draw. And y
she has said to her, go call your husband and
come here. The woman answered and said, I have no husband.
And Yeshu has said to her. You have well said
I have no husband, for you've had five husbands, and
the one whom you now have is not your husband.
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In that you spoke truly. And the woman said to him, Sir,
I perceive that you are a prophet. Our Father is
worshiped on this mountain, and you Jews say that in
Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship. And ye,
she has said to a woman, believe me, the hour
is now coming when you will neither on this mountain
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nor in Jerusalem worship the Father. You worship what you
do not know, and we know what we worship, for
salvation is of the Jews. But the hour is coming,
and now is when true worshipers will worship the Father
in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such
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to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship
him must worship in spirit and truth. The woman said
to him, I know that the Messiah is coming, and
when he comes, he will tell us all things. And you,
she has said to her, I who speak to you?
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Am he so much going on there? Let's break it
down and see what we can learn from it. So
our unnamed woman appears with her clay jar in hand,
and Yashua simply says, please give me a drink. And
her response, is you being a Jew asked from me
a Samaritan woman? Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. See,
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Jews weren't supposed to speak to Samaritans. Men weren't permitted
to address women without their husband's presence, and rabbis had
no business speaking the shady ladies such as this one.
Yet Yashua was willing to toss out the rules. But
the woman at the well wasn't. She reminds him of
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the law. Yet your shoe is focused on grace. Religion
keeps us focused on the letter of the law, and
the Lord and his grace remind us of the spirit
behind it. If you knew the gift of God, who
it is who says, do you give me drink, you
would have asked of him and he would have given
you living water. He's telling her, I have a gift,
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the gift of God. First gift is the promised Messiah.
See this takes us back to the scripture that we've
been talking about for three or four weeks. Now. Look
Chapter four, verses eighteen and nineteen. The spirit of the
Lord is upon me, the Messiah, because he has anointed
me to preach the good news to the poor. He
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has sent me to announce, to announce release pardon, forgiveness
to the captives, recovery of sight to the blind, to
set those free who are oppressed, who are downtrodden, bruised,
crushed by tragedy, and to proclaim the favorable year of
the Lord, the day when salvation and the favor of
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God abound greatly. Is this not happening right now with
the Samaritan woman, that release that pardon, that forgiveness to
the captives, setting free those who are oppressed, down trodden, bruised,
crushed by tragedy. This woman at the well is down
trodden and crushed she's coming to the well at noon,
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at the heat of the day. It was customary for
women to come draw water early in the morning or
at dusk when the sun was going down and things
became cooler. But she can't. She's an outcast, she's isolated,
she's rejected because of her life circumstances and that gift
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of living water, the Holy Spirit. If you knew the
gift of God, who it is who says to you,
give me a drink, you would have asked of him
and he would have given you living water. As I
sat here today, in all the years I've known him,
in all the years I've had the blessings interact with him,
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I immediately said, Lord, give me drink, Give me another
sip of this water. The believer's Study Bible tells us
the significance of Yashuah's offer as provider is grounded in
the Old Testament, of which this Samaritan woman seems to
have knowledge, where Yahweh is referred to as the fountain
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of living waters in Jeremiah chapter two, verse thirteen. For
my people have committed two evils. They have forsaken me
the fountain of living waters and hewn for themselves cisterns, broken,
cisterns that can hold no water. Again. In Jeremiah seventeen thirteen,
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O Lord, the Hope of Israel, the prophet says, all
who forsake you shall be ashamed. Those who depart from
me shall be written in the earth, because they have
forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living waters. So for
him to indicate a fountain of living waters, her ears
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perked up. Now we know from John seventeen the living
water is identified as the Holy Spirit, whose presence results
in all the blessings of eternal life and the endless supply. Indeed,
and see John seven, my notes here are incorrect. We're
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going to have to fire whoever did them. Oops, that
was me. Go with me, John chapter seven, Verses thirty
seven and thirty nine. On the last day, that great
day of the feast, feast of Tabernacles, she has stood
and cried out, saying, if anyone thirsts, let him come
to me and drink. He who believes in me, as
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the scripture has said, out of his heart will flow
rivers of living water. But this he spoke concerning the
spirit whom those believing in him would receive. For the
Holy Spirit was not yet given, and because the Yeshua
was not yet glorified, he never said anything that didn't
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mean something, nor did he waste his words. He who
believes in me, who adheres to trust in, relies on me,
as the Scripture has said, from his or her innermost being,
will flow continually rivers of living water. It's that inside
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out thing we're talking about, that constant flow, you know.
During the Feast of Tabernacles, part of the joyous celebration
was when the priest brought the water from the pool
of Siloam in a golden pitcher to symbolize the water
supplied from the Rock in Exodus seventeen. Well, this is
water coming from the rock, the rock of Ages, and
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those who are satisfied by Yeshua will themselves become channels
of supernatural refreshment for others. That should excite you, because
inside of you is the ability to offer refreshment to others.
So let it flow, Let it go now, I'm not
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going to start No, I won't do it. I won't
start singing. But let it flow. The flowing power and
the freedom of the water of the spirit give people drink.
So the figure of rivers. Contrast with a fountain. Whoever
drinks the water that I will give him will never
be thirsty again. But the water that I give him
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will become in him a spring of water, satisfying his
thirst for God, welling up, continually flowing, bubbling within him
to eternal life. This illustrates the difference between one's new
birth and one's experience of the overflowing fullness of the
spirit filled life. The notion of a fresh, bubbling spring
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was a powerful image in Israel's dry climate. Those who
come to God will neither hunger nor thirst Isaiah forty nine,
starting verse seven. Thus says the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel,
their Holy One, to whom man despises, to whom the
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nations abhor, to the servant of rulers. Kings shall see
and arise. Princes also shall worship because of the Lord
who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, and he
has chosen you. Thus says the Lord. In inacceptable time,
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I have heard you, and in the day of salvation
I have helped you. I will preserve you and give
you as a covenant to this the people. Now you
know he's speaking to you. Shul to restore the earth
to cause them to inherit the desolate heritage. That you
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may say to the prisoners, go forth to those who
are in darkness, show yourselves. They shall feed along the roads,
and their pastures shall be on all the desolate heights.
They shall neither hunger nor thirst, neither heat nor sun
shall strike them, For he who has mercy on them
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will lead them, even by the springs of water. He
will guide them. The blessing of Messiah came from Israel,
and that's why Satan hates Israel so much. Out of
this nation, out of this small group of people, came
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not only the one that would defeat him, but the
ones that would keep him at bay when he wants
to run loose. That would be a fly in his ointment,
that would get in his way, that would set the
captives free, that would plunder his kingdom. The NLT Study
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Bible says in the Jewish culture, dead water referred to
standing and stored water. Living water referred to moving water,
as in rivers and springs and rainfall. Such water was
precious because it was fresh, because it came directly from God.
It was used for ritual washings. The distinctions between dead
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and living water. Explains why the woman of Samaria was
so perplexed when Yeshoe offered her living water. Samaria had
no river, and if Jacob had to dig a well there,
how could you Shoe offer superior water than that. That's
why she says to them, are you greater than our
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father Jacob who gave us the well and drank from
it himself, as well as his son's and his livestocks.
She's still thinking naturally even today when you witness the people,
their natural mind cannot receive what you're saying. See the
woman caught up In tradition, Jacob had dug this well
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about one hundred and five feet deep, nine feet in diameter,
and contained fifteen feet of water carved out of solid rock, showcasing,
of course, some amazing engineering skills in ancient times. But
no matter what, it's man made. As she was offering
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more than that to her, He's offering her a fountain
springing up into eternal life, which suggests the availability and
the accessibility of a divine life for all believers. The
expression into everlasting life probably means resulting in eternal life,
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the result of drinking the water you sure I freely gives.
Is that the drinker receives eternal life. We're talking salvation
in feeling of the Holy Spirit, the cross, the empty tomb,
the upper room. Set free from the religious ritual and
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the blockages and the interference that keeps us from direct
interaction from God, we can drink freely from his fountain. Now,
some of you I know will say to me, I
hear you, Richard, but I've never experienced this, or if
I have, I don't realize it. Well, this is what
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I want you to do, each and every day. You
keep asking for it until it happens. This woman, still
thinking naturally Verse fifteen, Sir, give me this water that
I may not thurst nor come here to draw. She does,
won't do this anymore. She's tired, she's rejected. Unfortunately, she
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wants something precious that in her unredeemed state she cannot have.
She doesn't grasp the spiritual implications of his words. So
to overcome that, the spiritual barrier, she addresses what's keeping
her from this water her sin. First sixteen, go call
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your husband and come here. I have no husband, and
you have well said I have no husband, for you've
had five husbands and the one whom you have now
is not your husband, and that you spoke truly. He
went right to the root of the issue because he
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wants to offer her salvation. But he can't do that.
The Holy Spirit, through the gift of revelation knowledge, exposes
to him her life, both in the past and her
current choices. Five marriages possibly ended in divorce, and she's
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currently living with someone that she's not married to, who
possibly is even married to someone else. This is a
woman that apparently has no other choices, or she's made
a lot of bad ones, but sin has blocked her
understanding and her ability to receive what is being offered.
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So many times in offering the truth and the freedom
to people the natural mind can grasp it, it's blocked
from them. But when he does what he does when
he reads her mail, when he says these things to her,
she picks up, Sir, I perceive you are a prophet.
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But instead of asking for help, she flips it back, Well,
our father's worshiped on this mountains, and you Jews say
that in Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.
She could have been startled by his supernatural knowledge of
her past life and current living conditions. Maybe she wants
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to deflect, maybe she wants to push him in a
different direction. She knows he's a Jew, she calls him sir,
and because that revelation knowledge, she concludes he's a prophet.
And she tries to change the subject. And what she does,
she deflects back to religion. That's a very common thing
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now if you don't know who the Samaritans are, they
were a remnant of the Northern Jewish kingdom who went
intermarried with foreigners after the chiefs and nobles had been
carried away into exile in seven twenty nine BC. The
animosity towards Jews was centuries old. In effect, it's one
religious spirit fighting against another. So the Samaritans established a
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rival worship to Jerusalem. They accepted the Pentateuck as their Bible,
but the great controversy between Jews and Samaritans centered on
whether to worship on Mount Gherrazem, located in Chechem, the
mountain she's on, or Mount Mariah in Jerusalem. So Massai's
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words have proved him to be a prophet, and so
the woman uses that opportunity, maybe to get the question answered.
I think more likely she's using it as a distraction,
but he sure doesn't answer her as the thing. The
scripture is that to me set this whole lesson in
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motion that began, I began to see Pentecost. Woman, Believe me,
a time is coming, and now is when you will
worship the Father. Neither merely in this mountain nor merely
in Jerusalem. You smountains don't know what you're worshiping. You
worship what you do not comprehend. We do know what
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we are worshiping. We worship what we have knowledge of
and understand. For after all, salvation comes from among the Jews.
A time will come, however, indeed, it's already here when
the true, genuine worshipers will worship the Father in spirit
and in truth. For the Father is seeking such people
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as these as his worshipers. God is a spirit a
spiritual being, and those who worship him must worship him
in spirit and in truth. In reality, the Father is
seeking such people as these as his worshipers. That cannot
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happen with the unredeemed person. It can only happen through Yeshua.
So Yeshua confirms that the Jews understood the worship of
the One True God. He identifies and says we, meaning
he's a Jew. Salvation will come from them through the Messiah,
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the line of David, the tribe of Judah. So by
recognizing him as a prophet, she's on the road to
recognizing him as Messiah. But the answer in bodies a
greater principle than that. The true worship is a matter
of the heart, not of any particular place. And it's
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so easy to get caught up in that. It's so easy,
like the disciples on the Mount of Transfiguration. Oh my goodness,
this is so amazing. Let's build a tabernacle here. No,
it has nothing to do with the place that you're at.
It has to do with the person that you're with.
You can worship the Lord in your home. You can
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worship the Lord in your car. You can worship the
Father and Spirit and Truth on a beach. You can
worship him anywhere, because he's never ever out of reach.
I want a spiritual doctor, Seuss there. It's about true worship.
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It's from your heart. Nelson study Bible says God is
not limited by time and space. When people are born
of the spirit, they can commune with God anywhere. The
spirit is the opposite of what is material and earthly,
for example, like Mount Garyzine, whether at that moment you're
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sure the Messiah makes worship a matter of the heart.
Truth is what is in harmony with the nature and
the will of God. It's the opposite of all that
is false. And I believe all religious ritual is false
because it's done from all the wrong reasons. And he
didn't want it anyway, at least not after the cross.
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Here the truth is specifically the worship of God through
his son Jesus, the Messiah. It's not an issue of
where a person worships, but how and whom. So when
you do it tonight, when you go to bed, maybe
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in the morning, when you get up, whatever your time is,
that you're alone with the Lord and you begin to
worship him. Start out from that perspective in spirit and truth,
worship your heavenly Father through Yeshuah. So when he says
the hour is coming, he's speaking of a specific hour,
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the hour of suffering, the cross, the death of Messiah
to remove the barrier of sin. And he says, there,
it's here now because he was there. He was unraveling
this concept, this spiritual issue, from the minute he walked
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in that synagogue in Nazareth and made that proclamation. He
began unraveling it. He began heading towards the hour of suffering.
True worship is in contrast with false religious worship. As
I've talked about, I've been in true worship where it's
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all spirit, and I've been in worship that's false and religious,
and it's dead and it's awful. When you're in the spirit,
it's your whole soul, your mind, your feelings, your emotions,
and your desires from the inside out, not based on
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outward appearances or places, places, or relics or icons or
all these things men want to focused on. It's truth
in truth, in harmony with the revelation of the Messiah
and the presence of His Holy Spirit, the Roka Kardesh.
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That should be your heart's cry. Father, I want to
worship you in spirit and truth. Take anything from me
that hinders that experience. The hour has come. That's the
phrase you see it in John chapter twelve, studying verse
twenty three says the hour has come. The son of
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Man should be glorified most assuredly. I say to you,
unless the grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies,
it remains alone. But if it dies, it produces much grain.
He who loves his life will lose it, and he
who hates his life and this world will keep it
for eternal life. If anyone serves me, let him follow me,
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and where I am there my servant will be. Also
if anyone serves me him, my father will honor. Now
my soul is troubled, and what shall I say, Father,
save me from this hour? But for this purpose I
came to this hour. Father, save me from this hour
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of trial and agony. But it is for this very
purpose that I have come to this hour, to this time,
to this place, to do what I have said about
to do, to tear down that religious wall of separation
between God and man, to set the captives free, to
give sight to the blind, both naturally and spiritually, to
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help the lame walk, leap, dance, and worship. True worship
could only come after the hour, after this hour, after
the Messiah's death, and the spirit of God could be
released back into humanity. You know, when Adam fell and
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was separated from God and banished from the garden, began
that separation. No longer did we have that intimacy, No
longer did we have that interaction, which for me, as
I've said many times, was vital to me, was the first,
very first thing that I sought was interaction with my
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heavenly Father. The New Living Translation Study Bible says spirit
and in truth is actually one Greek preposition govern both
words literally in spirit and truth. It's a singular concept,
and true worship occurs as God's Spirit reveals God's truth
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and reality to the worshiper. What is that truth? Is sure?
Jesus the Messiah is the truth. You can only see
that through the Holy Spirit. He said in John fourteen six,
I am the Way of the Truth and the Life.
No one comes to the Father except through me. Later
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on in verse sixteen and seventeen of John fourteen, and
I will pray the Father, and he will give you
another helper that he may abide with you forever, permanent residence,
the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive because
it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him,
for he dwells with you and will be in you
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John fifteen, Verses twenty six and twenty seven. But when
the helper, the power Claytas comes whom I will send
to you from the Father, the spirit of truth, who
proceeds from the Father. He will testify of me, and
you will also bear witness, because you have been with
me from the beginning. It's constantly talking about the Father,
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His constantly indicating relationship. Is Sure uses the word Father
one hundred and eighty times in referring to and addressing
God in prayer, one hundred and twelve times in John alone,
which is the gospel that says so much about the
divine Father and Son. The rest are found forty four
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times in Matthew, five times in Mark, seventeen times in Luke,
two times in Acts. Gee. It must mean something. Others
refer to God as Father eighty eight times, Father, Abbah, Papa, Daddy.
We are desperate for that. We're desperate to have that
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feeling again. That's the whole in our hearts which gets
filled when we get saved down. Four twenty five. The
woman says to him, I know that the Messiah is coming,
and when he comes, he will tell us all things.
So she knows that the arrival of the Messiah will
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answer all her questions. I know that the Messiah is coming,
so she knows this is a Samaritan woman who's waiting
for the Messiah, and he will tell us everything we
need to know and make it clear to us. See,
Samaritans believed in the prophet mentioned in Deuteronomy eighteen fifteen.
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New prophet like Moses, the Lord your God will raise
up for you a prophet like me from your mists,
from your brethren him you shall hear, And your shoe
says I who speak to you, am he. This is
the progression. Notice the progression of your Shoe's revelation of
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himself to this woman and her growing comprehension of who
he is. He doesn't immediately hit her with hey, you're
talking to the Messiah. Get it right, Get on your knees,
bow before me. No, he draws her in through love.
He draws her in through grace. He draws her in
through caring about her. He's fulfilling prophecy Isaiah thirty five,
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verses five through seven. Then the eyes of the blind
shall be opened, and the ears of the death shall
be unstopped. Then the lamb shall leap like a deer
in the tongue of the dumbs sing, for waters shall
burst forth in the wilderness and streams. In the desert,
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the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty
land springs of water. In the habitation of jackals, where
each lay there shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
This is his servant, This is the coming servant of God,
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to open blind eyes, to bring prisoners from the prisons.
Those that sit in darkness have seen a great light.
This is what it's been all about, and it's still
all about as long as the church is here. That's
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the job to open blind eyes, to set free those
who are oppressed, and to give them water, to drink
spiritual water from any eternal spring. And so what does
the woman do Verses twenty eight through thirty. She leaves
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her water pot, this clay pot which she's been carrying
up there every day, very important to her. And she
runs back to the city to the very people that
have rejected her, to the very people that want nothing
to do to her. And she goes in and she says,
come see a man who told me all things that
I ever did. Could this be the Messiah? And then
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they went out of the city and came to him.
I'm going to leave out the interaction with the apostles
that's not pertinent to what we're talking about. And jump
down to verse thirty nine, because by now they've come back,
they've come back from the city and them thinking, wow,
we went into town, we went to get him food,
and somehow he's got something to drink. He's talking to
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the Samaritan woman what's going on here, and he's got
to explain to them, guys, you really don't get it
to you. You really don't understand what this is all about.
And they didn't. They were in the process of learning
John four thirty nine, and many of the Samaritans of
that city. I'm sorry this is I was so excited
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when I was done working on this to see that
within this message early on in John, he was pointing
towards Pentecost, He was pointing towards what we take so
for granted. And many of the Samaritans of that city
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believed in him because of the word of the woman
who testified. He told me all that I ever did.
So when the Samaritans had come to him, they urged
him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days,
and many more believed because of his own word, and
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they said to the woman, now we believe not because
of what you said, for we have heard him for ourselves,
and we know that this is indeed the Messiah, the
Savior of the world. Many more believed in, adhered to,
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and relied on him because of his personal message of
what he himself said. Now we no longer believe, We
no longer trust or have faith just because of what
you've said. We have heard him ourselves personally, and we
know that he truly is the Savior of the world,
the Messiah. Two groups got saved, essentially, one by her
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testimony and one by hearing for themselves. That's pretty amazing
to me, coming from this outcast, this woman, five husbands
living with the man now doesn't matter. He will use
who he will use. And the title of the Savior
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of the world is only used here and in one
John four or fourteen, first John four starting verse thirteen.
To back it up by this, we come to know,
we perceive, we recognize, and understand that we abide, we
live and remain in Him, and he in us, because
He has given us, he has imparted to us his
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Holy Spirit. And besides, we ourselves have seen, have deliberately
and steadfastly contemplated and bear witness that the Father has
sent the Son as the savior of the world. Anyone
who confesses and acknowledge acknowledges that Jesus Yeshua is the
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Son of God. God abides lives, makes his home in him,
and he abides lives, makes his home in God. And
we know, we understand, we recognize for ourselves by observation
and by experience, and believe we adhere to and put
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faith on and rely on the fact the love of
God cherishes for us. God is love, and he who
dwells and continues that love dwells and continues in God.
God dwells and continues in Him. This is what it's
been all about, not about religion, not about form or
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fumality or all these other things man tries to make
it into. And I believe that satanically inspired the Jews
of his day taught to approach God, one first had
to be a Jew. But by including this incident in
the Gospel remonstrates that Yeshia is for everyone, for all
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the people of the world. It's pretty astounding to me
that the religiously knowledgeable, sophisticated, chosen people of Jerusalem, they
did not respond to Yushu with this kind of faith,
but many believed in him because of the testimony of
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this woman, an outcast, rejected, despised. And remember, she could
have kept it to herself. What does she do. She
wants to share it. She runs back to town to
tell everyone else. That's what the spirit does. That's that
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free flow of the spirit. Oh, my goodness, I have
had the best water in the world. You should try it.
You gotta try it too. We have heard him for
ourselves personally, and we know that he truly is the
savior of the world, the Messiah. That's what I tell
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everybody when I talk about my relationship with him, especially
with my Jewish brothers and sisters. He is the Messiah.
I am living proof of that. I am the fulfillment
of all those prophecies of what he would do when
he came. Besides that, he fulfilled all the prophecies of
the Old Testament in regard to the Messiah, and no
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one else could fulfill those prophecies. So he stayed with
them for two days before he continued on to Galilee.
So he is just flouting religious rules all over the place,
first by talking to the woman and then by staying
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there for two more days. This woman at the well,
who is she? We don't know. We don't know her
name or her age. We got to figure she's probably
an adult to be, you know, married five times. And
but that none of that matters. What matters is her
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conversation with the Lord. And this one on one chat
is one of the longest in scriptures, and I believe
one of the most important conversations in the Bible, all
because of the testimony of the town outcast, who probably
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won more people to the Lord than most preachers do
in a lifetime. And I don't say that to be critical.
I say that as a direct factual obligation. Can't tell
you how many people I've met who preach or teach.
When I ask them, how many people have you actually
led to the Lord? They can't tell you. Oh, that's
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not what I do. Really, you have a different Bible
than I do. We're all called to do that. And
no matter how powerful Satan is the rule of this world,
who rules in the hearts of unregenerate people and blinds
their minds, he couldn't stop this. He couldn't stop this interaction,
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which was a divine appointment. When you read it all
the way from the beginning. You see that you should
have went out of his way to go this direction,
to take this path. He knew he had a divine
appointment there. The disciples not so much. They're too busy
being busy doing their thing. He knew where he needed
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to be at that time of day, sitting at that well,
was waiting on this woman. You sure the Messiah waited
for this woman. So Satan can't stop anything. He can't
defeat the power and the presence of the Holy Spirit
in opening their eyes and their minds. That's why, as
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long as the church is here, he can't get the
job done. But when we get snatched out, and I
believe the church will be snatched out, because what's coming
is not for the church, it's for the unsaved world
and for Israel, then that which restrains him, when it's removed,
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he can come forth and do what he's been planning
to do all this time. Throughout this fourth chapter of John,
we're seeing a preview, an indicator of what the mission
was all about. Remember what I said, he doesn't waste words,
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and he doesn't waste his time. Everything has a purpose.
We need to find that in our lives. We need
to stop wasting times on wasting time on things that
have no eternal value. If you're going to get caught
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up in something, in a topic, in a prophetic comment
or a teaching or whatever is going on, you need
to measure for yourself. Does it have eternal value? Is
what I'm wasting my time on? Is it going to
get someone saved, healed and delivered? Is it going to
bring me closer to the Lord? Or am I entertaining?
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Am I tickling my own ears? You know, when I
had those Sunday Night podcast Reflections in the Dark, I
paid attention and everything. I kept track of everything. I
saved everything so that I could talk about it. And
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I see those things now, and not just because I
don't have the podcast, but I realized they have no value.
They have no eternal value. Everything I see, whether it's AI,
what is it pointing me towards, pointing me towards the
coming of the Lord, the coming of the Sun, a perdition,
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the Antichrist? It's all about prophecy. What does this indicate
to me? Where are we in the timeline? What's the
next steps? What do I need to be doing? Is
this an indicator. I need to be working harder. Everything
for me is about his return, getting the church ready,
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setting the captives free, living out Luke four eighteen, helping
getting the remnant prepared for what's coming, raising up others
that can do what we do with SRT, which is
about spreading the gospel, clearing the way, rescuing people. Sometimes
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people see me post something or they see how I look,
and they go, oh, he's on a mission from God.
And of course there's that phrase from the Blues brothers.
You know, we're on a mission from God. But we're
all in a mission from God. We've been given that
mission from the Lord. It's why he endured what he did.
It's why he raised up the disciples. It's why all
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those stories that have been written for us and saved
so many more unsaved. I wish somebody would have kept
another ledger somewhere, another book somewhere, that at some point
we could hear all the other stories. But he wanted
to to know the ones that we know. So then
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he gets to Jerusalem, he gets captured, he gets goourged,
he gets beaten, he gets nailed to the cross. He
becomes the Messiah, the Lamb of God, and he dies,
he's put in a tomb, and on the third day
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he rises from the dead, and then he returns to
his father to sit at the right hand of God.
And that is the sign it's about over. The mission
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is over Acts one starting verse four. And being assembled
together with them on the Mount of Olives is where
they are, in case you have not learned that by
now commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to
wait for the promise of the Father, which he said,
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you have heard from me. For John truly baptized with water,
but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not
many days from now. Therefore, when they had come together,
they asked him, saying, Lord, will you at this time
restore the kingdom to Israel? And he said to them,
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it's not for you to know times or seasons which
the Father has put in his own authority. But you
shall receive power. You shall receive dunamous. You shall receive explosive,
self replicating, supernatural power when the Holy Spirit has come
upon you, and you shall be witnesses to me in
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Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the
end of the earth. This is when Pentecost comes upon
them and becomes permanent. This is what it's been all about,
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reconnecting God with his children supernaturally from the inside, permanent
until we are restored physically to what we once were.
Until then we walk in this, we live in this,
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This the infilling of the Holy Spirit, which we'll start,
we'll go into next week and will continue to talk
about permanent Pentecost, that until the Lord comes back, until
the Church is snatched out of here. We are in Pentecost.
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We are in a time of restoration, reconciliation, and reconstruction,
plus the destruction of the enemy and all that the
Kingdom of Darkness has built. This is what it's all about.
And as I sat here today when it was over,
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and I just have to piecing this all together and
seeing the picture of seeing the tapestry, I've seen how
all the puzzles fit, some of which I had not
seen before. How important it is that we understand that
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we receive. Now as you look at yourself, you may say,
and I've heard people say, well, I don't you know,
I'm not like you. I don't deserve to have that.
I'm this or I'm that. If he can use a
woman at the well. He can use you. Doesn't matter
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what you've done, once you see him as Savior, as Messiah,
Once you receive him as your savior, as your Messiah
and you become born again, you are a new creation.
All you have to do is what she did. Let
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me tell you about a man. He knew everything about me,
and he cared about me anyway. Father, Abah Papa, thank
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you for going to so much trouble to restore your
relationship with us. We didn't deserve it, but that didn't
matter to you. Your heart's cry was to have us
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home with you, so you sent your shore who did
so much, so much that we can never ever say
thank you enough, or that we love you enough, but
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to just keep doing it, keep worshiping you in spirit
and truth. I pray that my brothers and sisters would
not only understand, but would receive. Lord, Thank you, Thank
you for this knowledge, thank you for this word. Thank
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you for what you had them right down, for the
message that John gave, not just in this gospel, but
in his letters. Thank you for using us. I wouldn't
have used me, but you saw what I could not see.
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Still what I don't see, I pray my brothers and
my sisters would feel that that they would feel worthy,
that they would feel accepted, that the weight, like that
woman at the well that jar, they would put the
weight down and not pick it back up. Let me
tell you about a man who knew everything about me
(57:46):
and he loved me anyway. Holy Spirit, have you a
way touch on those areas now that we need to
look at that we need to repent of maybe things
that we keep carrying with us. Heal those wounds, set
(58:08):
us free so that we can run and not grow weary,
walk and not faint. We could rise up in your
power with wings as eagles, and we can shake this
world one last time, one tremendously powerful moving time before
(58:30):
the return of the King, our Lord and Savior, Jesus
the Messiah. You see a homociach and I pray all
these things, and you show his name a men. May
the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord
make his face to shine upon you and be gracious
(58:51):
to you. May the Lord lift up his countenance upon
you and give you peace. Give you shalam. I'm Richard Grund.
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