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I think you need a drink.

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If you believe God's going to speak today. Would you give him some praise in here, Father? Have your way. Give me strength to preach this word. Amen. You may be seated in the presence of the Lord. You need a drink. Social fam. I absolutely, positively love my job. I just want you to know that. I love my job. I feel like I have one of the greatest jobs on planet Earth, and yet it reverberates into eternity. I get to preach the gospel, not have to preach. Get to preach every single Sunday, stand on this pulpit, behind it, rather ten toes down and preach the infallible, incorruptible, everlasting, eternal, immutable word of God. I love my job. You ain't got to worry about me being frustrated on the job today. Ain't nothing worse than somebody got an attitude on their job. I don't got an attitude today because what I'm doing before you, I was created to do this right here. I was put on the Earth to do this right here. This is not a career choice for me. This is a calling. You do know there's a difference between a career and a calling? A career is what you get paid to do. A calling is the thing you were made to do. It's the thing that when you do it, your heart comes alive. It's the thing that when you do it, you say who to do. This is a paycheck because I was made to do this right here. In fact, I love what Paul writes to the church in Rome. And he says, faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. Y' all went to Sunday school. But then he goes on to say, how can they hear without a preacher? Somebody has to declare the word of God. I get to do that. He then goes on to say, how beautiful are the feet of those that carry the Gospel. The good news. That verse messed me up. Cause I seen my feet. I said, paul, you got me confused. How are my feet beautiful? That's why I gotta get pedicures. Then I realized that he's actually quoting what Isaiah said. And Isaiah says, how beautiful on the mountain are the feet of those who carry the good news. That there's power behind the metaphor. Because the metaphor speaks to a time whenever they would look on the mountain and they would wait for the messenger that was coming back from the battlefield. And they were waiting for the messenger to either bring good news, we won the victory, or bad news. We got defeated and we're going to be taken captive. And they noticed that when they're on the mountaintop looking for the messenger who was running with the news, they started to find out, you could tell by how fast his feet were moving, whether he was bringing good news or bad news, that if his feet were moving slow, it was like, oh, we lost. We better get ready. They taking us in. But if those feet were moving fast, they didn't even have to wait for the messenger to get there. They said, oh, look at them beautiful feet. We got the victory. We got the victory today. That's why you ought to look at a preacher's feet. Does he have some passion? Because I'm not declaring that you gonna get the victory. I'm letting you know today you already have the victory because of your champion. His name is Jesus. I feel like preaching.

Co-Pastor (10:11)

What a privilege.

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It is to declare the gospel of Jesus Christ. It's interesting. It reminds me of the end of our text today where Jesus makes this statement. He says when his disciples come to him and they say, hey, Rabbi, Rabbi, you need to eat. Get you some food. Jesus get you some food. And he says to them, I have food to eat that you know nothing about. And they were looking confused, talking about, wait a minute, did somebody doordash him somehow? How does he have food to eat that we know nothing about? He goes on to say, jesus does. My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. In other words, y' all trying to get a meal. You don't understand that my mission is my meal. You worried about lunch? I'm worried about changing lives. I don't get Energy by what I consume. I get energy by the contribution that I make and the transformation that I see in the people's lives that I'm ministering to. This mission is my meal. Let me not get ahead of myself today. Because although it is a privilege to declare and preach the gospel of Jesus Christ, it does not mean that it does not present challenges. There are challenges. Here's my challenge. My challenge every single week is to try to take something that is divine and put it into human language. That is my challenge is trying to take metaphors and see similes and found the words to articulate his kingdom that is so mysterious, that is so transcendent, that is so above us. That is some pressure, y'. All. It is like trying to describe the Grand Canyon through a text message. It's like trying to tell somebody about what pineapple tastes like that has never had pineapple. No matter what words you pick, they always fall short. Every Sunday, I stand here trying to articulate the kingdom that is so transcendent. And I often feel the weight and the pressure to do that. But can you imagine the pressure that Jesus felt? Because understand at least I am a human in flesh communicating to other humans in flesh. Imagine being Jesus who was God in flesh. Not 50% man, 50% God, 100% man and 100% God trying to communicate what his kingdom was like. Can you imagine the struggle? Can you imagine the fight, the tension that he had trying to get people to get who he really was, that he is the God of Son, Son of the living God, that he wasn't just a good man, he was a God man. God in flesh. Can I take my time just a little bit today? That's actually what the Gospel of John is trying to get you to get. John wants you to know that Jesus is the Son of God. He's not like Matthew, who wants you to know that he is a king and that he is the fulfillment of every Old Testament prophecy. He is not like Mark, trying to get you to understand that he is a servant that moves on your behalf and moves with action. He's not like Luke, who's trying to get you to understand that he is the Son, Son of man. And he can feel what you feel, and he understands suffering and pain. That is not what John is trying to do. He wants you to know, don't get it twisted. This is the Son of God. No wonder he begins his gospel not with mangers, but with majesty. And he says, in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word. Was God. All things were made by him. And without him was not anything made that has been made. In him was life. And the life was the light of man. And the light shined in the darkness, but the darkness could not comprehend it. This is too much word for some of y'. All. Like, can you get to a funny story I'm trying to tell you? The power of the Word of God. Verse 14, crescendo. And said, and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. The Word became flesh. He was always the Word. It just became flesh, dwelt among us. And we beheld the wonder of his glory, the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. This is what John is trying to get us to understand. And all throughout the Gospels, you will see this challenge of God trying to communicate to humanity who he is. You see this God who is infinite, clothed in finite flesh, speaking to people with no framework for the glory he's trying to reveal. And no wonder they kept getting confused, because he's talking on one level, but they can only understand on another level. And sometimes they looking at him like, is that the God talking or is that the humanity talking? Because right now we confused. I could spend all day just talking about that. You can't even get to his bar mitzvah before people get confused. Remember, he's 12 years old and he's in the temple, and his parents lose him. Mary and Joseph, they lose him in the temple. That ought to be encouragement to you parents. All right? If you ain't lost them, you killing it. They lose Jesus in the temple, and they're frantic trying to find him.

Co-Pastor (14:50)

Jesus, where are you? And when they find him, they find.

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Him in the temple, sitting, sitting among the scribes, listening and conversing with them. And Mary got an attitude. She said, we've been looking all over.

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You, me and your daddy.

Pastor (14:59)

What is wrong with you?

Co-Pastor (15:00)

What are you doing here?

Pastor (15:01)

And Jesus looks at his father and says, didn't you know that I must be about my father's business? Ooh, y' all read that part of the Bible?

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He looked at his father, who had.

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A business and said, didn't you know.

Co-Pastor (15:16)

I must be about my father's business? Joseph, you're my father, but don't get it twisted. I have a father. Joseph, you got a business, but I.

Pastor (15:23)

Ain'T really worried about your business. You building stuff. I know you're a great carpenter, but.

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I'm really about my father's business. Do you see that?

Pastor (15:29)

The conversation is on two different levels.

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It happens again in Matthew 15, I.

Pastor (15:33)

Believe is when Jesus does the incredible miracle of taking the two fish and the five loaves and he feeds everybody. Imagine being there that day.

Co-Pastor (15:41)

Woo.

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Cause that's different. That miracle is different. When you start multiplying bread and fish, that is a different miracle. This is not a blind eye opening. This isn't a death king ear opening. Come on. Everybody had the miracle in their stomach that day. Everybody tasted that fish and that bread that day. And right after it, he looked at his disciples after the miracle and says, be careful. They're like, for what? He says, watch out for the yeast of the Pharisees. And they looked at each other again, perplexed, saying, see, he mad cause we didn't bring bread. He mad. That's what. See, I told you to bring the bread, Peter, what's wrong with you? And he had to get them to understand. No, no, no, no. I'm not talking about carbs you consume. I'm talking about the content you consume. Be careful of the yeast. The doctrine of the Pharisees, because just a little bit of erroneous doctrine is like yeast, which is a fungus in bread that'll cause it to puff up and it'll. It'll contaminate the entire bread. So be careful what content you're feeling feeding on. Cause just a little bit can contaminate. This is all throughout the Gospel, he's talking on two different levels.

Co-Pastor (16:53)

You remember when he takes a whip and he cleanses the temple, says, all.

Pastor (16:57)

Y', all, get up out of here. Y' all like that Jesus, you just think he's just cuddly, giving hugs.

Co-Pastor (17:02)

No, he cleared a temple, said, no.

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Y' all ain't gonna stop people from worshiping.

Co-Pastor (17:06)

Get out, clear the temple. And then have the nerve to stand up and say, destroy this temple in three days and I'll raise it back up again.

Pastor (17:14)

They're like, huh?

Co-Pastor (17:15)

It took years to build this temple.

Pastor (17:18)

But he wasn't talking about that temple. He's talking about his body. Cause in three days he was gone. He's always talking on different levels. And it is the same when you get to the Gospel of John. Even in the conversation that precedes the conversation that we will unpack today, he's talking to Nicodemus. Remember him at night, Nick at night. And he comes to Jesus and he's confused because Jesus looks at a grown man and says, hey, you must be born again. And Nicodemus scratches his head, how am I going to go back in my mother's womb? But he's not talking about natural birth, he's talking about spiritual birth and saying, nicodemus, you got to start over. Because in the same way that you contributed nothing to your natural birth, please understand, you contribute nothing to your spiritual birth. It is a work of God. And Nicodemus went into the night still confused. Which brings me to my text today. The Gospel of John, chapter number four. We're entering a conversation with a woman at the well. It is undoubtedly one of the most famous conversations in your Bible. And it's interesting if you've been around church or been in Sunday school, you have heard somebody exegete this text and talk about the woman at the well. And so it's very interesting to me, this conversation, because it has different levels and it goes on detours. It's all, look at this conversation, it is crazy. It starts off with a woman talking to Jesus at the well and they start off talking about water. And then from water it detours into her past relationships. And then from the past relationship it goes to her current situationship. She got a situationship? Uh huh, yeah. Just keep looking straight ahead so nobody knows what you like. You can relate. And then it transitions from the situationship to the mountaintop. Now they're talking about where to worship. And so we started off talking about water and then we end up talking about worship and which mountain to worship on. Then all of a sudden it transitions again and this woman's life is so radically changed that she runs into the town that she had stayed away from and says, everybody, come see a man.

Co-Pastor (19:30)

That showed me everything that I've ever done. And then the water pot that she came to get water with, she ends up leaving. And then the man that she didn't want to talk to in the first place ends up being the man that she runs around saying, come see the. It is a confus conversation.

Pastor (19:43)

And welcome to conversations with the God man. Welcome to conversations. By the way, this is the longest recorded one on one conversation in the Bible. Welcome to the conversation with a woman. Bless God.

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This intrigues me. It intrigues me on so many different levels.

Pastor (20:00)

I told you I'm gonna get SG one day in here.

Co-Pastor (20:03)

It intrigues me on so many levels.

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That the longest recorded one on one conversation in the Bible is not with Jesus having a conversation with the religious elite. He didn't talk to the saying he. No, no, no, no. He talked to an outcast. He talked to somebody that was on the fringes. Look at the goodness of your God. That the longest recorded one on one conversation Would not be somebody that's on the inside, it's somebody that's on the outside. The society is overlooked. Look at our God. He's always looking for the overlooked. He's always looking for the ones that man and women have rejected. I love that he has the longest conversation with her. But we gotta be honest, it's a long conversation. Cause he's talking to a woman.

Co-Pastor (20:40)

Come on, I'm not knocking you ladies. This is fact. It's just we can't talk that long.

Pastor (20:45)

We don't have that capacity that will.

Co-Pastor (20:47)

Tell you that men use less words than women. This is just a reality. If you don't believe me, then do.

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The test today after service.

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Do the test after service today.

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Walk up to a man, walk up to a male and ask him how was church today? He will tell you, good, they finished it. Good.

Co-Pastor (21:06)

And God could have changed his life.

Pastor (21:07)

Good. That's all he got.

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Walk up to a lady after church today and ask her how was service.

Pastor (21:14)

She will tell you, you know what? Three weeks ago I was in my.

Co-Pastor (21:19)

Quiet time with the Lord.

Pastor (21:20)

I was praying.

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Yes, I was gonna go to Target, but I didn't go to Target. I stayed at home because I knew.

Pastor (21:24)

God was really stirring my spirit.

Co-Pastor (21:26)

He was doing something on the inside of me. And I knew even before Sunday, I knew sg one day God was going to do something powerful and woo. I'm telling you right when I walked on the Wind Spirit campus, God was moving. So I already had expectation before. And you'll be sitting there going, I didn't ask you all that. This is how, this is how we're wired. I'm not shocked that the longest conversation.

Pastor (21:55)

In the Bible is with a woman. We don't get sister girl's name. I wish we did. All that we get is that she is a Samaritan woman. We get her gender, we get her race mixed in with her, we get how she worships. And when you hear Samaritan woman, that doesn't resonate with you. But you have to understand, Jews and Samaritans did not fool with each other. This is centuries of hatred. This is centuries of bitterness and arguing and fighting and bickering. They had no dealings with each other. Just think about the group that you don't like. I know you're too spiritual to admit that is the tension that is between the Jews and the Samaritans. They saw the Samaritans as a half breed people because they were mixed with the blood of some of the Assyrians who had come into their region. And all of a sudden they said, y' all are not the pure bred Jewish people. You are half breed people. And Jews hated Samaritans, and Samaritans hated Jews. And they would go separate ways. They wouldn't come around each other. As a matter of fact, can you imagine with this tension what happens when you are a Jewish disciple following a Jewish Jesus and all of a sudden he says one day on the itinerary.

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Hey, y', all, real quick, I need.

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To go to Samaria. Huh?

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I need to go to the place.

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That you have been avoiding your entire life.

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I need to go to the place.

Pastor (23:27)

That you have not wanted to step foot in.

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He says, I need to go there.

Pastor (23:30)

What do you mean, Jesus, you need to go there. Understand? When he says he needs to go there, he is talking about he has a divine assignment there, that I have purpose there. I need to go there because there's a divine assignment. And I can see Peter and the other disciples going, oh, hold up. You don't need to go through Samaria. In fact, Jesus, let me help you. Let's pull up the Google maps. We can go a whole nother route. We don't have to go this way. Matter of fact, it's gonna take longer, Jesus.

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But that's all right. We don't go through Samaria.

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In fact, Jesus, let me help you. Come on, Jesus, follow me. You follow me. So we don't have to go, Jesus, you. Oh, wait a minute. That's not how it works. Jesus doesn't follow you. You have to follow him. And that messed some of y' all up right there. Because you don't understand that he will sometimes lead you into places you don't want to go.

Co-Pastor (24:14)

He will sometimes make you encounter people that you don't want to deal with. I know you don't like it because every time God talks to you, he sends you to Cracker Barrel and he takes you shopping. But this text says God will take.

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You some places you don't want to go. He says, I need to go to Samaria. Oh, what is the principle here? The place that they were trying to avoid was the very place God had a divine appointment. The avoided place was God's appointed place. How do we apply that today? Are there areas in your life that you are avoiding things? You go around. You rather take the long route, not realizing that the place you avoid is the place God wants to invade. That's where he has an appointment. And he will make sure that he has an appointment at the place that you've avoided, like some of you in here today, you avoid that father wound, and you don't want to deal with it. But God says, yeah, that avoided place, that's actually the appointed place. You've avoided your issues with authority. You avoided your. Like, you don't want to submit to anybody. That's why you jump from church to church and from job to job. And they don't know my entrepreneurial spirit. How come I. Every job, all 50 of them, you've had an issue. It's not them. It's always you. It's always. It's always some issue with them, not you. And it's an issue with you and authority not realizing that avoided place is the appointed place. And sometimes the things we want to avoid are the very places where God says, I want to go to that area. Look at them. Can you see the disciples with an attitude tomorrow? I can't believe we go on through here. And then he sees their faces and says, oh, by the way, you go get some food. Cause I don't want you messing up my mission. Go get some food in the city you don't want to be in and talk to the people you don't want to deal with and get you a sandwich. And don't bring me back anything because I got my meal. It's the mission. And he says, I'm going to go. I'm going to go over here, y' all, go, go get some food. He says, I'm going to go to a well. And it says, he was tired and he sat down on a well. And here it is. He waits. He waits, waiting long enough because somebody listening on the podcast, I want them to think that they podcast was messed up. No, you didn't mess up. I want to show you the power of a God. Watch this. Who waits not to talk to thousands of people, but waits to talk to one woman. Listen. The Savior of the universe who is only on planet Earth for 3, 33 years, 3 years of ministry to turn the world upside down and preach the gospel in such a powerful way that the gospel he preached back then is still being declared around the world today. Jesus was a busy man. He did not have time to waste. He was a man on a mission.

Co-Pastor (27:26)

If it was me, I would not have waited for anybody.

Pastor (27:29)

I would have been like, come on, let's go, let's go, let's go.

Co-Pastor (27:31)

I got to get up out of.

Pastor (27:31)

Here, go to the cross, go home.

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No, not Jesus. He sits and he waits to talk to one woman looking at our Savior. Look at his goodness, that he will wait for you even when you're not thinking about him. I came to tell you that God is thinking about you even when you don't have him on your Google calendar. He says, guess what? You on my calendar. This is a divine appointment. I've been waiting for you.

Pastor (27:55)

I don't know who this message is.

Co-Pastor (27:56)

For, but I believe that before we stepped in here today, the presence of God was waiting at the Wind Spear Opera House for somebody. And God said, oh, I can't wait till they get here. They don't even know what they about to run into. But I've been sitting here waiting for. I'm telling you, you praise God for his power. I want to praise God for his patience. I want to thank God for waiting on me. I want to thank God because sometimes it takes me a while to get the memo. It takes me a while to get the message. And I'm so glad I don't serve a God that gets frustrated and says, forget them, they taking too long. No, he will sit and he will wait for.

Pastor (28:36)

Look at him. Just waiting for sister girl to get there. Talking about, girl, hurry up, I got to go to the cross now. Come on and watch this. As he waits, she shows up at noon, Shows up in the middle of the day. Cuz you ever been in that mood? You ain't trying to fool with nobody. Act like you ain't never been there. It's like just today's one of those days. I don't feel like talking to nobody. That's why she comes in the middle of the day instead of in the morning or in the evening. She does not want to talk to anybody. She comes in the middle of the day with the blazing sun. Because I would rather deal with the blazing sun than the looks and the whispers of the other ladies at the well. So she comes to the middle of the day not wanting to fool with anybody, and look what she runs into. What is this man doing that well? That's already a red flag. It's a red flag. Do your due diligence when you get to the crib. Men did not go to the well. The well was a social gathering place for the ladies. Okay? Men did not go to the well. If a brother was at a well, you probably thought, oh, here he go. What he doing at the well? It was a gathering place for the lady. So she's already going, oh, what is this man doing at the well? And a Jewish man, no, we don't fool with him. I'm a Samaritan. Why he keeps staring at me? What are you looking like? Okay, look at that. I already had enough relational drama. I just need to get my water and go. Okay, Just. You know, she didn't speak. You know, she just went and said, let me just. Maybe if I don't talk to him and get my water and do what I need to do. But, you know, Jesus was looking at her the whole time. She's ignoring him, looking at her with that look. Like that look. You know those people that you sit next to on the plane? I call them the talkers.

Co-Pastor (30:29)

Have you seen these people?

Pastor (30:30)

Like, you can feel them as soon as you sit down. Cause they looking at you like they breathe, like they wait for a concert. These people trip me up. My wife is one of these people. I just.

Co-Pastor (30:43)

Will talk to anybody.

Pastor (30:45)

They ain't taking no clues.

Co-Pastor (30:46)

Hey, hey, where you headed?

Pastor (30:50)

Same place as you, fam.

Co-Pastor (30:54)

You trying to block them out.

Pastor (30:55)

Put in your headphones.

Co-Pastor (30:55)

Are those the new Apple AirPods? Can I?

Pastor (30:58)

Yeah. These the new ones. That's how Jesus is looking at this woman. Like.

Co-Pastor (31:08)

She ignores him, starts filling up.

Pastor (31:11)

Her water pot with water. And y' all laugh, fam. But I see it happen all the time. I see it happen all the time. People in the presence of God talking about how many songs they gonna sing. We get it. He the champion. Can we say that? Oh, people in the presence of God. People in the presence of God. Let me go to the bathroom. I thought it was going to be better sermon today. People in the presence of God, not realizing he has something that will change your life forever.

Co-Pastor (31:57)

I came to tell somebody, when you get in the presence of God, that is. That ain't time for you to play games. That ain't time for you to text your boo. That ain't time for you to worry about what somebody else has on. That's time for you to open up your mouth and say, God, I want to get everything that you have for me, because there's got to be more than what I have right now. I'm in a posture that's ready to receive. I wish somebody would give us some praise in this place today. Like you came to receive what God has for you. Oh, shout out to the savior who.

Pastor (32:27)

Refuses to be ignored.

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She wasn't even gonna talk. You know she wasn't gonna talk.

Pastor (32:32)

So he initiates the conversation, says, excuse me, will you give me a drink? Excuse me, will you give me a drink? Look at our Savior. This is a master's class on communication. He is the savior of the world and he initiates the conversation not with her need, but his need. He says, excuse me, would you give me a drink? He's showing us the power of connecting with somebody before you try to correct them. He's showing us the power of empathy and meeting people where they are. Because although I am the son of the living God, because I have confined my glory to this body, I get thirsty, too. And I'm wondering, can I get a drink from you? Can we take a lesson from Jesus in the church and connect with somebody on their human level before you start giving a word?

Co-Pastor (33:35)

Oh, if this was some of y'.

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All, you would have messed up the whole conversation. Because as soon as she sat down, uh, we know you messed up. Yep. I'm the living water son of the living God.

Co-Pastor (33:44)

You done have five husbands. Five husbands.

Pastor (33:47)

You need help, Boo Boo, let me help you. No. Look at our Savior. He takes time to connect with her and says, I thirst. And begins not with her need. Although it is vast, he begins with his need. Could you give me a drink? She says, look, this is my version. Don't play. You know we don't do this. Strike one, You're a Jew. I'm a Samaritan. We don't talk to each other. Strike two, you a man, I'm a woman. In that culture, men didn't talk to their own wives hardly in public. Strike three, I've got a past, and you are a holy rabbi. You're already contaminating yourself just by sitting close to me. So don't act like there aren't boundaries and rules for how we interact with each other. But look at our Savior. He says, I don't care what the the rules are. I will step over the boundaries to connect with one. I don't care who's going to walk by and say what they're doing. Let them say what they want. I believe there's something on the inside of you that's going to change you in this entire city. I love that God loves people so much that he don't care what anybody else think. He will break rules to get to you. He will over climb boundaries to get to you. It says you're a Jew. I'm a Samaritan. We don't have any dealings with each other. And look at what he says to her. If you knew the gift of God and who it is that says to you, give me a drink, you would have asked and he would have given you living water. In other words, if you knew the gift and if you knew the giver, you Would have flipped this conversation and not let me ask you for anything. You would have started asking me for stuff. See, if this was me, I jump in the Bible when I read the Bible. If this was me, this would been a whole nother Bible story right here. Because he wouldn't even got a question out. As soon as I would have seen him at the well, I would've said.

Co-Pastor (35:48)

Oh, omg, Omu. Oh, I know that hair from anywhere. I cannot believe it. Yes. Yes, you are. Oh, my God, you are incredible. The miracles you do. I read your book. Would you sign this for me? I just need. I would have lost my mind. Not this woman.

Pastor (36:07)

Not this woman. She ignores him, says, there's boundaries for us to communicate. And he has to remind her, watch this. If you knew the gift and if you knew the giver, you would ask me, in other words, I cannot receive from what I have not recognized. I cannot receive something when I've not perceived who it is that I'm talking to. No wonder the enemy is always after your perception of who Jesus really is. Cause he knows that if he can cloud your perception of who Jesus is, you won't receive what God has for you.

Co-Pastor (36:40)

He done got any new tricks he did in the Garden of Eden. He got that evil thought in Adam and Eve's mind that God is not good and he's not for you.

Pastor (36:49)

And once that thought got in their mind, it separated them from God. And I came to tell somebody.

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He wants to open up your eyes.

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To who he really is.

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Not the church person that hurts you. He is a good, good father. He is a loving. He is slow to anger. He is full of grace and truth. He is a good God.

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And if I was the enemy, I would cloud your perception of who he is so you wouldn't ask the right question. To receive what you need. This is where the conversation pivots. He says, girl, if you knew the gift and you knew the giver, you would ask the right question to get what it is that you need. Oh, this is the only metaphor that comes to mind. But y' all know those hats in Dallas that a few people have where the Dallas is turned upside down? You know the hats? Hillary, you know them hats? Yeah. So I remember seeing those hats, and I remember seeing that they would collab with people like Whataburger and the mask. And I just had this crazy thought. I think big. I'm like, hey, whoever makes these little hats with Dallas upside down, they should collab with social and we should drop some hats.

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Cause that's what we want to do.

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Turn this city upside down.

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I'm thinking, man, if I meet these.

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Hat people, we need a collab. So this summer we did Social at the movies. Anybody see that? Social at the movies. Remember that? Trying to get my acting on. And we go to the studio to record Social at the Movies. And guess who has the studio room.

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Before we get in?

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Somebody said, denzel. That'd be a different story. You would see a video of me and Denzel talking.

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The people that have the hats upside down. And so our creative director, Frank, introduced me.

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He's like, hey, this is the photographer that does the hat for the shoot.

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You need to meet him.

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So I'm talking to the photographer, and.

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I have a conversation. I'm like, man, I love yalls hats.

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It's amazing. And I'm thinking to myself, I want a collab, but I'm not going to drop it in right now.

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I'm like, so tell me about the company. So he starts talking.

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He starts, like, giving all these details about the company. Like a lot of details. Like a bunch of details to the.

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Point I had to ask a question. I was like, man, you know a.

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Lot for a photographer.

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He said, how long you been taking pictures for the Upside Down?

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Hi, people? He said, oh, no, I'm not a photographer. I'm the owner. So your pastor has so much on his mind that we about to record that.

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I thought our creative director said, photographer. I didn't know I was talking to the owner. And once I realized he was the owner, I said, hey, man, if you ever want to collab with a church.

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You know what I'm saying, we trying.

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To turn the city upside down.

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Isn't it crazy how once you get a revelation of who you're talking to, it changes the conversation?

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How crazy would I have looked talking.

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About, oh, can you take pictures of.

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Me one day when I got an opportunity to collapse? I'm telling you, if you don't know who he is.

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You won't know what question to ask to get what you need. He said, girl, if you knew the gift and you knew the giver, you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water. Look what she says, somebody come play so I can land a play. She says, sir, the well is deep and you got nothing to draw with. Where you gonna get this living water? You greater than our father Jacob. So the girl said, sir, the well is deep and you have nothing to draw with. Where you gonna get this living water? You're greater than our father Jacob. She telling on herself with what she said. Actually, ma', am, the well is deep and you have nothing to draw with because she came to two wells that day. One was in the ground, the other one was sitting on it. Ma', am, the well is deep, but.

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You don't have anything to draw with because you don't have a revelation of who you talking to. But if you got a revelation, you could start mining the depths of a God who is so powerful, who is better than the five that you had before and the one that you're with right now. But until you perceive who he is, you'll never receive. You can't receive cause you don't got nothing to draw with. And by the way, he is greater than Jacob. He's the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Before Abraham was He was. He is God and was before the beginning the preeminent pre existent incarnate word made. Yes, you're telling on yourself you ain't.

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Got nothing to draw with. And the well is deep and he was greater than Jacob because he was before Jacob. Where can I get this living water? You're looking at the living water. You're looking at it. You know how possible it is to be in proximity of your miracle and still not receive it. Later he will tell her you worship what you don't even know. And Jesus the master communicator is using the living water as a metaphor to show this woman, your soul is so dry and you've been going from relationship to relationship, trying. Here it is to quench a spiritual thirst with something in the natural. And it never works. You cannot quench a spiritual thirst with things in the natural. You can try, but you'll go from relationship to relationship, job to job, place to place, wondering, why isn't this quenching my thirst? It's because what you are longing for is spiritual. Spiritual. It can't be found here. Where do you go when your soul is thirsty? I know where to go when I need natural water. Where do you go? You say like the psalmist in Psalm 42. Two, my soul thirsts for God, the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?

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Or like Psalm 143, verse 6, I stretch out my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you like a parched land.

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The words of our Savior in Matthew chapter 5. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied. If I had time, I would just stand up for this woman because she has been castigated by many scholars and preachers throughout the years. Calling her immoral. And it's funny how people will take a headline and fill in the blanks that aren't even in the Bible. Imagine if this was your story in the Bible. Like this. This is a real woman.

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Imagine.

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I mean, we read your stuff, you know, because you post everything. But, like, imagine if it was like in the Bible, we made this woman some sinful, wretched woman. But it's interesting, Jesus never mentioned sin in the text. It's not like the woman caught in adultery. Remember, she was caught in the act. They pulled her out the bed and brought her in front of Jesus. He talked about sin, then said, hey, go and sin no more. After you saved her, go sin no more. Stop being ratchet. And called out the ratchet Pharisees, too. I love it. He's an equal opportunity offender. But he doesn't talk about sin with this woman. He talks about thirst. Which, by the way, while we judge her, understand that in that culture, women didn't even have the right to have a divorce. So let's not act like she walked away from five men. Five men walked away from her. And after you experience rejection after rejection, or we don't know the depths of her pain, what if the five husbands died and now she can't even hope again to walk down the aisle? So I'd rather settle for less than just like some of you have because you've been through so much. So I don't want to marry the sixth, but thank God for the seventh man. His name is Jesus. You do know seven is the number of completion? He says, I know the six before you depleted you. But baby girl, don't get it twisted. I am not like them. I came to complete you. I came to quench the thirst that your soul has really been longing for. You're in the presence of a living water, but you must take a drink.

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Somebody shout, you need a drink. Say you need a drink. Look at this cup right here. I'm landing.

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This is a cup.

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I know it's been messing with some.

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Of y' all the whole time. What is that doing up there? It's not just water. It's living water. We got it from Jerusalem early. No, it's not. I'm playing. This is gonna represent living water. And the whole time I've been preaching, I have been in proximity of this water. But how many know being in proximity of water does not quench your thirst.

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Thirst.

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Being in the proximity of church is.

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Not going to quench your thirst. You can be in church every Sunday and still have A dry soul. You can be in church every single Sunday and sing the song off the screen and still not have what your soul needs. You got to do more than just being in proximity of the living water. You can't just know about the living water. Some of you, you know scriptures more than anybody. We in the buckle of the Bible belt. You know scriptures and you can look at water and say, oh, I know all about water.

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I know it's primarily comp of two atoms of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen. I knew all about the water. And that was a problem with the Pharisees.

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They knew about the water, but they.

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Had never tasted the living water.

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And when you know about something you.

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Haven'T experienced, you will always be frustrated.

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It's not enough to know about the water.

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It's not enough, hear me, to just receive the water. Hear me. I have relationship with this water. I'm walking around with this water. This is a beautiful thing to receive. Receive the water.

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But how many know God wants to take you deeper? He has so much more in store for you.

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You can't just receive him.

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There's something more he has for you. Because I can still die of thirst with this water in my hand. Matter of fact, if you receive it.

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And you ain't drinking, before you know it, you will think it is your.

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Job to judge the people that need water.

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Don't act like you ain't met that person in church. You see her? Oh, my, look at what she has on. She needs water. Yes, sparkling. She needs it. Did you smell his breath? There's people who think they are ordained to judge the people that need water. We're in Dallas. So many people get stuck on styles of ministry and they argue. That's what she started arguing about, well, where's the place of worship? And people argue about, oh, I like this style of. I like this style of water. I like what the water is given to me with a Hammond B3. And they preach it like, hey, Lord, I thank you for the water.

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There's a water could satisfy.

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There's a water could touch your soul.

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If you ever got some of this water.

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Some people love that. They're like, oh, man, that's the water. I'm talking about. Other people, like, it's a bit much for me. Like, people that calm down, talk about the water, but that's still not enough. As a matter of fact. Hear me, those who want to be in ministry, ready to get your podcast popping, ready to preach. It's very dangerous when you're preaching about the Water. But you're not privately drinking what you're publicly preaching. Don't ask me how I know. Because whenever you are not privately drinking what you're publicly preaching, it's only a matter of time before you get dehydrated and you fall. Here's what we need. We need to go deeper. Conley. Come up here real quick. Because you know what I see? This is the one that I see the most. I see people like Conley who come to church every single week. And they come to the front and they're desperate for the living water. Their soul is dry. And so they come to church and. And they're at the front and their hands are lifted higher. Yeah. And they're crying out saying, God, I need you. Pour out your spirit all on me right now. Right now. And then nothing happened? No.

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You ever been there before?

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Before? Have you ever been at a place where your soul is so dry and you're like, God, I'll do whatever I need to do. I read the book of Leviticus.

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God, I'll do a 31 day fast.

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I'm doing a hokey pokey. You just feel so distant.

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And so I'm at the front and.

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I'm lifting up my hands, but you.

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Feel so distant and I feel so dry. And I want to know, where are you? Have you ever been there before? So you come again and your hands are lifted. You got them higher even this time. And you might even jump a little bit if it takes that. And you're like, God, I need you. I'm desperate for you. Pour out your spirit on me now and let that happen.

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Don't act like you ain't been there before. Don't act like you've not been in a place where you're like, God, I don't feel you. If you are the living water, then how can my soul be so thirsty right now?

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If you're my joy, why am I so depressed right now? If you are my confidence, then why have I. I've been so insecure in the season of blessing, and I don't know what to do. And I feel like I'm in a dark space. I don't know who this is for, but I know I'm preaching to somebody. It might just be one. And you feel like he's distant and your soul has been thirsty, but you come again and you lift up your hands again. There's a method to my madness. I'm teaching somebody right now. You got to keep pressing in even when you don't feel it. You Got to keep saying I'm seeking you. Even though you feel distant, you gotta say, like Job, though he slay me, yet will I trust him? I'm not gonna stop praising God. Cause my circumstance is not good. God, I know you are good. So even when I don't feel it, I'll lift up my hands. Even when I'm going through hell, I got a hallelujah. Even when my kids are acting crazy, I'm gonna trust you and bless your name. Cause my soul is thirsty for more. Have you ever had it happen when you open up your mouth even when you don't feel like it. And you keep seeking and you begin to find out that they that hunger and thirst for righteousness shall be filled. And God starts pouring his presence all over you. I wish somebody that wanted God to do it would get on your feet and open up your mouth like you are thirsty for the living. Don't you stop because you don't feel it.

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God still exists when you don't feel it. He's still the living water. Even when you feel like you're in a desert, in a wilderness season. Here's what I love about God. Just when you think you've experienced all you can experience. Just when you think that's it God, it don't get better than that. Here's what I love about him. He's always got so much more. Don't act like you knew that was back there. You had no clue that there was more back there.

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And I'm using that to tell somebody. You don't have a clue what God.

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Has in store for you.

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Eyes have not seen, ears have not heard. Neither has it entered into to the heart of men. The things that God has hidden and prepared for you. Don't you stop thinking you've had the best of your life. You ain't seen nothing yet God can do exceedingly, abundantly. Above all you can ask for. He's got more.

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Kly, you going to hate me today? Watch this. I ain't gonna pour nothing else on you. Chillax. Watch this. Please don't miss it. Gotta ask you a critical question, Conly. Actually, before I even ask you the question, I just want to say it's not an accident that you're doing this. Illustration. Connolly Conley has been a part of this church since 2019. Faithfully shows up every single Sunday. Pours out, pours out. Doesn't need to be recognized, doesn't need a hand clap, doesn't need a back massage. Just says, I'm going to be faithful Pastor, I would.

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You've been rocking with us since 2019. Shows up early in the morning, and as you pour out, God says, I'm pouring back into you.

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I'm pouring into your kids.

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I'm pouring into your family. You don't have a clue what you're about to step into. Don't you let the enemy beat you down with depression or wondering if God is not seeing you. He orchestrated this illustration to let you know he sees you. Those who refresh others will be refreshed. I wish somebody would give God some praise for what he's about to step into.

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Watch this. Conley, would you say you had a genuine experience with, illustratively, the living water? Yes. Would you say it's. It was undeniable? Yes, sir. Undeniable. We can see it. How many testify he had an encounter with the water? So it was real. It was authentic. Other people saw it. But do you know why I had no problem pouring all that water on Conley? Other than the fact I'll do anything to illustrate a point. What's going to happen to that water in less than 24 hours from now, huh?

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It's going to drop the living water.

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Oh, it's going to dry up. It was real. It was authentic, but it's going to dry up. Maybe that's why we come to service after service. We come to conference after conference. SG One day was powerful. I felt God move. I know what he said. It was real. But we wonder why weeks later, it's dried up. Because you got to have more than an emotional experience. The Bible does not say that you'll never thirst again if the water's poured on you. He said, you'll never thirst again if you.

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If you drink it.

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Watch this. This. I'm gonna hand this to you, Conley. You see that right there?

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Don't miss the power of that moment. I'm not pouring it on you. But you reach out your hand and you took it. That's the power of somebody that says, I'm not gonna let my experience with God be relegated to a Sunday God. If you're worthy on Sunday, you're worthy on Monday, on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday and Saturday. That's somebody that says, I ain't just waiting for a preacher to get in the word of God. God can speak to me. I'm getting this word myself. That's somebody that says, I'm gonna get in community and be connected to some other believers. I can't be in isolation. I need some other water carriers around me when I'm going through a dry season. I need somebody that'll lift up their voice and give God praise with.

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Don't underestimate the power of your day to day disciplines with the Lord that transcend the Sunday morning experience. Connolly, would you do me a favor? Would you get a drink of that living water? Do you see the difference? I can't get to that water right there. The devil can't get to that water right there. Don't stop drinking, Connolly, that water.

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Watch this.

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Out of your belly will flow rivers of living.

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How it's gonna flow? Cause it ain't just on me. It's in me. Is there anybody in here that says I want it in me? I don't just want an emotional experience on Sunday. I want this living water to well up on the inside of me while.

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Never thirst I can. Father, let us not be a church that only lives on the emotional highs of when we feel it. God, every single day we will come to you and we will drink. Thank you that you're a fountain that never runs dry. Thank you that you're enough. This woman realized that the hour had come where it's not time to argue about where to worship. Which mountain. Guess what? You're looking at the mountain. The whole mountain series is about connecting with God. You are in a new dispensation, woman. At the well, Moses had to go up to the mountain. But you are looking at the savior of the universe face to face. Do you realize the access you have to the living water? Why would you keep going to things that won't satisfy? How much money you gonna have to make to realize that the paycheck is not satisfying you? How many walks of shame are you gonna have to have? Being in the bed with somebody who is not in love with you but was in lust with you. And realizing that didn't quench your thirst. Until you understand there is only one. How much you gonna drink and smoke? Do you realize that bottle, that thing can't give you what your soul needs? There's only one place. It is the living water. His name is Jesus. Look at this woman. You know, she was changed. She left her water pot, ran into the same place. She was avoiding people she didn't want to fool with. Now she running to them. That's change. Left some stuff behind. I don't need that water pot. I got the living water. And this is the phrase that always threw me off. She runs to him and says, hey, come see a man that told me everything I ever did. What? Since when is that A good thing. Told me everything I ever did. Can you imagine somebody knowing everything you ever did? I bet you wouldn't be running to.

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A town saying, y' all come see.

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Somebody and show me everything I ever did. You'd be like, no, let me kill them real quick. They know stuff. It must mean she had such an encounter with this Savior that he restored her dignity. No more shame. I don't have a problem telling you that he told me everything ever did because he restored me. He's the seventh man that completed me. He's not like the ones before. This is the goodness of our Savior. And the city ended up believing on Jesus because of her testimony. What if somebody was waiting on your testimony? It only happens when you say, I need a drink. I'm going to ask every, head be bowed, eyes be closed in this place today. Nobody moving. Please honor this moment. I need to know who I came for today. I believe there's somebody in here who says, you know what I am. I'm thirsty. My soul is dry. You've been running to other things, natural things, to quench that spiritual thirst. And today the living water is waiting for you. This is your well moment. He's not upset with you. He's been waiting for you. But you have to respond. Heads about, eyes are closed today. But if you'd be so Honest, say, hey, P.R. this is for me. My soul's been dry. I need to receive Jesus as my Savior. That living water is what we've been saying all weekend. It is eternal life. We've been declaring since yesterday. Heaven will tell you will live in eternity somewhere. And here we have a savior who didn't wait for you to get it together to respond. He paid the price on a cross. He hung on a cross and even.

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Cried out on the cross, I thirst.

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So that we don't have to be thirsty anymore. If that's you and you say, hey, P.R. would you include me in this closing prayer? I need to surrender my life to Jesus, the fountain of living water. Would you just lift up your hand high enough and long enough to where I could see it? Thank you, God. Thank you, Lord. I'm seeing hands on every level. Thank you, God. Anybody else? Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, God. Thank you, God. Thank you, Lord. Thank you that we don't have to die of thirst. Thank you that you are the fountain that will never run dry. God, we refuse to build cracked cisterns that can hold no water at all. You are our fountain. You are what we need. Father, I thank you. Right now, you are opening our eyes to see you as you truly are. You are a good, good father. We know the gift of God. You are wonderful. You are marvelous. You are matchless in all your ways. Open up our eyes to see you so we can receive anybody else. Thank you, God. I'm gonna lead you in this prayer. Would you say these words from your heart? Would you say this on every floor? There's so many hands. I'm not gonna have you come forward, but let your seed be your altar today. Would you say this? Say, jesus, I need you. My soul is thirsty. And I know you're the only one that can quench this thirst. So, Jesus, today I surrender. I give you everything, Jesus. I forsake the whales that I've been running to. That will never satisfy. I'm coming to you today because I believe that you're the son of God. And that you lived the life that I was supposed to live. And you died the death I was supposed to die. You took my place. So from this moment forward, I'm walking with you. I will live to tell the world how you changed my life in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Come on. Can we give Jesus the best handcuff of praise today? Come on, you can do better than that.