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- Today on Crossroads,
Paco gets into a bar fight.
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- You didn't see
that coming, did you?
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You ever been in a bar fight?
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Me neither.
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And in fact, this isn't
even about bar fights,
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this isn't even about bars.
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This is about Jesus showing up
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in the most unexpected places.
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- Hey, bud, what's wrong?
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- I'm not the only one.
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- You're not the only one what?
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- That Jesus loves.
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- Well, yeah. He loves
everybody. That's okay.
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- I'm John. Nice to meet you.
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You may have heard of me,
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I'm kind of Jesus's
best friend. No big deal.
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In the past week, I've watched
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every single Marvel movie,
every single DC movie,
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and also Star Wars.
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By the way, that part,
when Luke finds out
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who his dad was, crazy.
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Almost as crazy when I
found out who Jesus's dad was.
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Rough day for Joseph.
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But Jesus could also
call you out on your crap.
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One time in Samaria, Jesus
met this woman at a well
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and let's just say
she'd been pretty social.
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Rather than condemning
her for her past,
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Jesus sat down with
her and talked with her
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and showed her how
to live a better way.
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Kind of like Yoda. [tone]
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- That story doesn't mean
that Jesus doesn't love you.
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He does. You're special.
Come on. You know that.
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- That's what mom always says.
- Yeah.
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- Just that He thinks
everyone's special
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and He loves everyone
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and there's nothing
He wouldn't do
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and nowhere He
wouldn't go to help anyone,
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even like go to a bar.
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- And that's what Paco's
going to talk about right now.
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- There's my guy. Come
on. Come on. Yeah.
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- What is Jesus like?
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You think He'd like it here?
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I know I wouldn't have
chosen this location.
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I don't even like bars really.
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And it's not because
I'm anti alcohol,
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I'm just anti-overpaying
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for subpar drinks in
crowded environments.
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But I have learned a life
hack, though, in my old age.
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Come to the bar at off hours.
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Tuesday at 4:00 you get
the same overpriced drinks,
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but more elbow room.
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Now you don't show
up to a bar on accident,
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something brings you there.
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Whether it's a breakup,
whether it's to meet people,
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whether it's to
celebrate something.
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Something brings
you to places like this.
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And often times, unexpected
relationships happen
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in environments like this.
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And today, we're going to
explore a story in scripture
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where Jesus has this
interaction with a woman
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who is not expecting
this interaction,
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and she ends up with
some unexpected freedom.
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It's an unexpected place
with an unexpected person
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and an unexpected result.
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And the passage of
we're going to break down
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in John 4 today
is going to show us
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something about Jesus
that we all need now
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in our world more than ever.
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The principle in the passage
might be the missing link
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that you and I need
to grow our faith
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and grow the church.
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- And actually, before
we get started with Paco,
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I want to talk about
giving really quick,
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because everything at
Crossroads is funded by givers,
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people just like you
and me, who step in
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to make sure that more
people can hear this message.
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By the way, about 10% of people
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who watch this
episode will do that.
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That's not to guilt
trip you by any means,
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just to say there's
an opportunity,
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if you want to to step
in and help more people
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hear this life changing
message. Here's Paco.
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- All right, it's
John Chapter four.
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Let me set the context of
where this story takes place.
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This story takes place at a well
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in the middle of the day with
a woman who's a Samaritan.
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Now, why is this unexpected?
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Well, culturally, rabbis,
Jesus was a rabbi,
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didn't really mess around
with pailing water at the well.
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Secondly, it's the
middle of the day.
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You wouldn't have been at a well
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in the middle of the
day anyway. It's hot.
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You should have already
had your day started.
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Third, He has this
interaction with a woman.
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Now we've come a long way
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in our male to
female interactions.
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Don't get me wrong.
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Back then, they had not come
as far as we've come today.
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So men and women
didn't really interact
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in public like that.
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And lastly, this woman,
she's a Samaritan.
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That means she's
half Jew, half gentile.
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She would have been a sworn
enemy to a Jewish person.
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And so in verse
seven, we pick this up
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where Jesus is on a
trip with His disciples,
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and they stop at this well.
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Jesus sends them on a food run.
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He goes, Look,
the delivery service
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over here is terrible.
Go do some pickup,
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do some carryout, get some
fish sandwiches or whatever.
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Right?
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So disciples head over
there to do the thing.
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As Jesus is taking a
break, this Samaritan woman
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comes and has this
interaction with Jesus.
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Jesus sees her and goes,
"Hey, can you give me a drink?"
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And the woman is
looking around going,
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"He can't be talking -- I
guess He is talking to me.
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I'm the only other person here."
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First time she
says this, she says:
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Jesus is looking at
her going, "Okay, cool.
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If you would have asked Me,
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I would have given
you something better."
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Here's what he
says in verse ten.
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This woman's
looking at Jesus going,
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"Living water. What is
He even talking about?"
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She says back
to Him in verse 11:
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She's looking at Jesus
going, "Living water.
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What are you talking about?
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You don't even have a
bucket. What are you saying?"
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Jesus replied to
her in verse 13:
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Jesus ups the ante
in this conversation.
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He goes, "Listen, lady,
you're talking about water
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in a well, I'm talking about
water in your existence,
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in your spirit.
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I'm talking about living water
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that will well up
to eternal life.
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I'm talking about different
stuff than you are."
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And this woman,
it's important to know,
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that she is definitely a loner.
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Why do we know she's a loner?
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Well, we know she's a
loner because she's coming
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to a well in the middle
of the day to get water.
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It's hard for us to
understand this because
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we live in this
cultural phenomenon
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called running water,
where we turn a faucet on
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whatever time it is and
we get water out of it.
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Well, back in ancient
times, it wasn't like that.
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You had to get up early,
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you had to get your
buckets together.
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You had to go to
the nearest well.
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You had to get all the water.
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And all of the village
would come kind of together
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because they were
all trying to get there
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before it got super hot.
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Well, this lady shows up
in the middle of the day,
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so clearly she is
uncomfortable with being
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in the crowd of
the other villagers
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getting water in the morning.
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Or maybe they've shunned her.
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Or maybe she's just too
ashamed to show her face.
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Whatever it might
be, she's a loner.
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And there's something
about the way
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that Jesus is treating her
that sparks her interest.
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So in verse 15, she says this:
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Jesus hears that and
he goes, "Okay, cool.
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You asked for it. Here we go."
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She's had five husbands
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and the guy she's with
now is not her husband.
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Could you imagine the shame?
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No one likes getting
called out, right?
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And Jesus calls it out.
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It's easy to put all the
blame on the woman here
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in this situation because,
like, you know, you think,
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"Well, she's had five husbands
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and the guy she's
with is not her husband,
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she's clearly loose."
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Yeah, that might be true.
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But it's important
to know culturally,
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she would have had
to have been married
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and/or maybe even sold
into marriage to survive.
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Jesus isn't just calling
her out personally here,
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He's recognizing her pain.
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He's recognizing that, yeah,
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there's some decisions
that she's probably made
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along the way that would
leave her in this situation.
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But there's also
decisions culturally that
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have been made that
have put her in this situation.
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And when Jesus calls her out,
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she has this moment
of breakthrough where
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she realizes Jesus is
different than all the others.
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Verse 19:
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She starts to have this
religious conversation
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with Jesus about like,
"Where should we worship?
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Should it be on a mountain?
Should it be in a temple?
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Should it be over here
or over there?"
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Jesus says, "Listen, listen.
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You're having the
wrong conversation, lady,
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because God is Spirit.
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And if we're going
to worship God,
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we've got to worship
Him in spirit and in truth.
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See all the stuff that
you're experiencing.
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Yeah, that's all good
and fine culturally.
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But I'm Jesus, I'm
calling you to more."
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And the woman said
to Him in verse 25:
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He'll make all of this
make sense to us.
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Jesus says to her, Yeah,
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that Messiah you're looking for,
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"I who speak to you am He."
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Jesus says, "Yeah, yeah.
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The person that you're
looking for for answers,
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the person you're trying
to make sense of your life,
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the person who is the
person you're hoping for,
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I'm that guy."
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He says, "Hey, hey, hey.
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You're looking for deliverance?
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That's where
you'll find it in me.
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Hey, you're looking for
hope. You'll find it in me.
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Hey, you're looking for purpose.
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You're looking to take
some of the shame
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and guilt off of
your life. I am He."
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Now, could you imagine
what this woman is doing
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right now in her head?
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She came up here like on
a regular day to get water
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and go back to her regular life.
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And she has this moment
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with the son of
God in the flesh.
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Can you imagine, like,
what's happening in her head?
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And then just as
that's happening,
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the disciples come
back from their food run.
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They got the fish
sandwiches, like, what's up?
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And the woman
is talking to Jesus.
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And the guys, the disciples
see them interacting
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and they're like,
well, this is weird.
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They look at Jesus like,
well, Jesus doesn't look fazed.
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Now imagine what the
woman is thinking, right?
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She's having this
moment with Jesus here
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and having this breakthrough.
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And then these
other guys come over
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and now she's like,
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"I'm not supposed to be
interacting with people.
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I'm supposed to be
here by myself. I --"
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All the guilt, all the shame,
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all the stuff starts coming,
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and she does something
that's absolutely incredible.
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Verse 29:
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The people went out of the town,
and they were coming to Him.
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This woman at that
moment takes her jug,
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puts it down and
says, "You know,
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I don't need to do
this alone anymore.
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I got to go tell people
about this living water.
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This water is cool for now,
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but there's living water now.
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I'm going to go tell people
about this living water."
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She takes off in
the town and goes,
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"You've got to
come meet this guy."
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Now, what is this
all have to do with
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the character of Jesus?
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What does this show us
about what Jesus was like?
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Well, I think it shows
us a lot of stuff, right?
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I mean, Jesus can redeem us.
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Jesus can give us
hope, all of that stuff.
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But I'm going to say
the number one thing
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that this passage shows us
about what Jesus was like,
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and I bet when I say it
you are going to eyeroll,
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either eye roll this
way or eye roll that way.
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Jesus, in this moment with
all of this stuff happening,
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all of this breakthrough
starts because
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Jesus, He was kind.
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Yeah, I know. Here
come the eye rolls. Right?
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When you say the
word kindness today,
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you shift in the two
major camps. Right?
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We have really bad
cultural examples
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of what kindness means. Right?
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Because one camp is
over here and they're, like,
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"Yeah, kindness. That
means like tolerance
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and flattery and
being a pushover
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and people pleasing
and being soft."
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And then the other
side of the spectrum,
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you've got people like,
"Yeah, kindness, woo.
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It's my hall pass to call
everyone out at all times,
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no matter what in
the name of kindness."
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Both camps are wrong.
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See both camps are operating
at a place of selfishness
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and/or maybe even
self preservation.
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If you and I are
going to follow Jesus,
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He calls us to kindness.
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- Over the past two
years of the pandemic,
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more than half of all educators
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have considered
quitting their jobs.
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Yet they've responded
to these challenging times
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in many courageous ways.
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And despite uncertainty,
exhaustion and discouragement,
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they've continued
to provide safe
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and encouraging
learning environments
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for their students,
impacting the lives
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of thousands in
the next generation.
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We see you.
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We applaud you.
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We are grateful for you.
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Join us this spring
when for one week
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we'll pack ourselves a
brown bag lunch every day
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and give the money we
save from not eating out
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straight to hard
working educators.
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Go to Crossroads.net/educators
for more info.
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This is for you.
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- Pretty cool, right?
- Yeah.
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- We're just going
to help our educators.
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- I love that. If we ever
forgot to pack our lunch,
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Jesus had to, like,
make some bread and,
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like, bless it. It was crazy.
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- Yeah. And if you
want to be part of it,
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you can get all the details
at Crossroads.net/educators.
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- Yeah, it seems like Crossroads
is doing a lot of good
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and a lot of life change
is happening around here.
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Here's actually something
I just heard about recently.
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Check it out.
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- Nelson Mandela said:
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Education is the
most powerful weapon
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which you can use
to change the world.
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We've been partnering
with Build the Future
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in South Africa for
the last 15 years
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where their focus is
providing educational services
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and nutrition to children in
impoverished communities.
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One of the largest problems
that communities face
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is a lack of resources.
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Build the Future, helps
the people they serve
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get the most out of
the land around them.
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You'll find Build the Future
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where the streets have no names
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and the people are forgotten.
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- In 2014, we put
our first school here
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and we started with seven
kids in a small container.
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And it was always about taking
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as many kids off the street
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and putting them in an
environment like this where
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they were going to be fed
healthy, nutritious meals,
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where they were
going to be protected,
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where they were going to
get really good education.
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And it was going
to be a place where
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from that foundation,
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they would be launched
into primary school.
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And right from the beginning,
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when when I first got
involved in community work,
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it was always the
kids that suffer.
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And it was, how can we
make an impact in these kids?
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How do we get these
kids off the streets?
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And that was the
reason for the school.
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It was how do we get
the kids off the street,
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educated and fed?
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And the two come together
and make the difference.
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- It is the relationship
with the teachers
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and their stories,
how they are lives
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that have come out
of this community
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started out as just
a helper, you know,
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became a teacher,
now she's the principal.
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And that's Elizabeth's
story. Right?
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And so it is about
the relationships.
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- From Kya Sand in
Johannesburg to Soweto,
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one of the big things,
apart from the financial aid,
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is the groups that come out
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and the trips that
come to South Africa.
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The folks on the
trips are blessed
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and they take away something.
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And the people here are blessed.
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Simply put, as you
know the Scripture,
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the fields are ready to harvest
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and the laborers are few.
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If that wasn't the case,
I'd see more vehicles
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like mine doing stuff,
and that's the bottom line.
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It changes your life.
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00:16:05
And this is more
than a vocation.
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00:16:07
It's more of a calling
than anything else.
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00:16:10
There's nothing
like planting a seed
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and seeing it grow and
watering it and nurturing it.
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And when you get the
response from the children,
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that's ridiculous.
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Small steps and you look back
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and we've made quite
an impact, I would say.
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- So kindness. Right/
It's a polarizing term.
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It might be a vague term,
but Jesus really models
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what kindness is in this
interaction with this woman.
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See, Jesus's kindness
calms the noise.
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This lady was dealing
with all kinds of societal
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and cultural norms and they
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were super loud and
it caused her to kind of
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box herself in because
it was really loud
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all the voices all around her.
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Jesus, before He
does any preaching
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or gives her a great lecture,
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He converses
with her as an equal
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and it immediately establishes
care and connection.
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Now. I love a good
religious combo
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as much as the next person.
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But Jesus doesn't start
there with this woman.
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He starts with connection
and it calms all the noise
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and all the rhetoric
so that she could hear
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and experience His kindness.
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Second thing is
kindness is clear.
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Jesus was super clear.
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He calls out the issues
this woman has in verse 16,
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and He makes the
claim, "I am the Messiah.
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I am the living water."
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And the third thing Jesus
does here is creates freedom.
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See, kindness creates freedom.
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00:17:37
Shame and guilt in our
past often times puts us
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in shackles and,
like, binds us to stuff.
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And this woman, she had
kind of accepted her reality
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of like, "This is just
going to be my existence.
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I'm going to come out
here alone every day.
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00:17:49
I'm going to carry a
giant jug of water back."
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But after this interaction
with Jesus, verse 28,
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she drops her jar. She
drops her big, huge bucket.
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She says, "I don't
need this anymore.
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I've got living water now.
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I'm not bound to this anymore.
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I've got this living
water inside of me."
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Now, why did she do that?
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Because she had met Jesus
and it changed everything.
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The spot where she
felt the most shame
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is the exact spot
where Jesus met her
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and His kindness
transformed her.
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So to answer the question,
What is Jesus like?
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He's kind,
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and His kindness calls
you to something better.
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Jesus was kind to her,
and He's kind to you, too.
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Here's how the rest of the
story plays out. Verse 42:
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The people in the
village said to the woman,
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This woman accepts Jesus's
kindness and it changes her.
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And from an outflow
of that, it changes
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everyone she
comes in contact with.
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Now the church is in
a unique spot, right?
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Especially right now in the US.
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If we want to see more
people exploring faith in Jesus,
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00:18:59
more people will
transform by Him,
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00:19:01
it's not going to
because we have sweet,
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00:19:04
awesome social pages and
over-the-top extravaganzas
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00:19:07
and awesome marketing.
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00:19:09
It's going to be because
they see our kindness
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toward each other, the way
Jesus has been kind to us.
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00:19:15
We should be doing
everything we can
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00:19:17
to reach new people,
but it's got to start
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from a place of
God being kind to us
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00:19:23
and Jesus transforming
us through that kindness.
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00:19:25
We only have the ability
to show this kindness
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because it's been shown to us.
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00:19:28
It's from an outflow,
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00:19:30
it's from an
overflow of the heart
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that's been changed
by the gospel
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and knows it's been given grace.
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00:19:35
And this has been God's
way of doing things all along.
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00:19:38
God has been kind
since the very beginning.
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00:19:40
He was kind in Creation.
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00:19:42
He was kind in the Fall.
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00:19:44
He was kind during the Flood.
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00:19:46
He was kind to guys like Paul,
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people in the early church.
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00:19:50
He's been kind all throughout
history, even now today.
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00:19:53
Anybody who has done
anything good in the world
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00:19:56
has experienced God's kindness.
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00:19:59
Anyone who's done
anything good in the world
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in the name of Jesus
has done that because
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00:20:04
they have experienced
God's kindness.
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00:20:07
In the book of Romans,
the writer puts it like this,
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says that God's kindness
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is meant to lead
us to repentance.
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00:20:14
It's meant to lead us
to turn from our ways
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00:20:16
and go to Him.
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00:20:18
I've seen that to
be true in my life.
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00:20:20
My relationship with
Jesus is a result of
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His patience, His love
and His kindness to me,
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00:20:26
even when I don't deserve it.
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00:20:29
And the best
news of all of this is
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you can have that too.
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00:20:32
You can experience
the kindness of Jesus.
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00:20:34
Maybe you've been
burned by unkind people,
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00:20:36
and somehow in your head
you've you put it together
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00:20:39
that, like, Jesus is going
to be unkind to you too,
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00:20:42
so you want to kind
of shy away from Him.
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00:20:45
I want you to take a
note from this woman:
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00:20:47
Jesus will meet you in the
most unexpected places,
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00:20:49
and His kindness can
and will transform you.
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00:20:53
So maybe it's time for
you today, even right now,
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00:20:55
to experience maybe
for the first time
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00:20:58
what living water is like.
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Well, I want to pray for you
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00:21:02
because Jesus wants
to come meet you.
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00:21:04
Jesus wants to come meet you,
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00:21:05
He wants to set you
free from the baggage
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00:21:06
and the shame and the
guilt that you've experienced.
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00:21:09
He wants to put something
inside of you, living water,
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00:21:11
that will transform your life
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00:21:13
and the life of
those around you.
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00:21:14
And it all starts
with His kindness.
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Let me pray for you.
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00:21:17
God, thank You
for Your kindness.
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00:21:19
Thank You that it is Your
kindness that leads us to You.
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00:21:23
I thank You that You
don't scold us or shame us
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00:21:26
or guilt us, God, that
You calm the noise,
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00:21:29
that You're clear in
what You're calling us to.
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00:21:31
God, we know that what
You're calling us to is freedom.
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00:21:34
So, God, I pray for freedom for
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all those experiencing
this right now.
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00:21:38
And I pray that Your living
water would fill them up,
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00:21:40
God, and that it would
well up in them eternal life.
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00:21:43
Amen.
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- As you watch this episode,
if you have any questions,
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feel free to mail
me a letter at my house.
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00:26:01
My mom will get it,
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00:26:02
but I'll make sure
to read it right away.
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00:26:03
- No, no, just chat
with us on our website.
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00:26:05
Just do that.
- Oh, yeah, Crossroads Net.
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00:26:07
- Crossroads.net,
actually. Yeah. Sure.
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00:26:09
Which is also, by the
way, where you can give.
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And I know giving
is a strange thing.
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00:26:13
I used to feel like,
where does the money go
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00:26:15
and why would it do
this in the first place?
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00:26:17
It was very confusing
until I understood that
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00:26:19
it's a core part
of -- thank you --
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following and trusting God.
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00:26:23
If you want to take a step
forward, Crossroads.net/give.
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