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August 6, 2025 · 1 hr
The fake you is doing just fine. But, the real Jesus died on a real cross for the real you.
Series Run over by the Grace Train August 6, 2025 · 1 hr · Run over by the Grace Train
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Joby Martin is the founder and lead pastor of The Church of Eleven22 in Jacksonville, Florida. Since launching the church in 2012, he has led a movement for all
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Heroes of Faith and the Call to Action 0:07 I'm not crying. You're crying. Austin and Amelia, you guys are heroes, heroes, heroes of the faith. Amen? Amen. This won't be true in every canvas at every service, but they're sitting right0:19 here on the front row. And I'm just telling you, if the writer of Hebrews wrote rewrote Hebrews chapter 11, which is called the Hall of Faith, you too would be in it, because by faith, you choose to do what God would0:29 have you to do. And in a world that worships at convenience, you honored, the sanctity of life, and so praise God for that. And I hope and I pray that your lives and your testimony is0:41 an inspiration really to every believer, especially believers in Florida. Every single 1 of us this November, we get to walk into a ballot box and we get to make a decision on whether we get to choose life or not. And I0:51 hope and pray if you call Jesus your lord and savior, that you will do that. And so thank you thank you thank you for what you have done. Praise God for you. For those of you watching online, we'll show their story maybe1:01 at the end of the sermon or something like that. If you got your bibles, I hope you do. We're gonna be in John chapter 4, and, I also just wanna give a shout out to all of the men and women families, inGrace for All: The Samaritan Woman 1:13 in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina that have been hit by both hurricane Milton and Helene, and our thoughts and prayers are with you. If you're part of 11 22 and you wanna get involved, there's 2 ways that you can do1:23 that. You can go to our website, c o e 2 2 dot dot com, and right there at the front page is is a way that you can click, you can go, we're gonna be sending teams to help people that are in need. Also, 1 of the1:35 things that you need to know is every single time you bring your first and best to the church of 11 22, every single time, a portion of those dollars go to support an organization called Convoy of Hope. And we give1:46 hundreds of thousands of dollars to Convoy of Hope every single year, and it is a Christian disaster relief organization. And so they are waiting on things like this to happen so that they can take food1:58 and water and medicine and the gospel and all of those kinds of things. So just know when you say what are we doing, not only are we gonna send teams, but we are always, meeting needs all over the world through partners2:10 that we have. So our our thoughts and prayers are with those folks for sure. Now we're in the fifth week of this series called run over by the grace train, and what we're gonna deal with today2:22 is this question that I think has probably come up in your mind, because we've been talking about grace after grace after grace after grace. So when you get run over by the grace train, then it changes everything about2:32 everything about everything, and there's some of us in the room that will begin to ask the question, Like, I know grace works for all those good church folks, but2:44 does it count for me? I mean, even look at that couple on the bumper video. They don't lose their faith when they lose a baby. And some believers are thinking, I kind of question my faith if I lose a parking2:56 spot. I mean, they they met at church camp. That ain't where me and my wife met. You understand? And you can kind of begin to think the grace is for those nice cleaned up church people, but does3:08 it really count for me? John chapter 4 is, an unbelievable event that happens in the life of Christ that3:20 shows just as well as any other event that he ever went through, that this thing that Jesus came to bring was a movement for all people to discover and deepen a relationship with Jesus Christ.3:32 We'll pick it up in John chapter 4 verse 1. It says this, now when Jesus now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John, although Jesus himself did not3:43 baptize, but only his disciples. See, Jesus was trying to remove himself for the comparison game. I mean, can you imagine how Christians would brag if they got baptized by Jesus? You know, like, Jesus baptized me. And so3:53 he's like, it doesn't matter who baptized you. It just matters in whose name you're baptized. Amen? Amen. Alright. So trust me on that 1. So he left Judea and departed again for Galilee. Judea is down here, Galilee4:05 is up here. And right in the middle, there's this place called Samaria, verse 4, and he had to pass through Samaria, underlines the word had to. And he had to4:17 pass through Samaria. Well, here's the only problem with this verse, is he didn't had to. People walked around Samaria all the time, in fact, very like, orthodox4:29 Jewish people, very conservative Jewish people, then they would take, like, 2 95, there was a beltway around Samaria and they skipped it all the time because the Jewish people and the Samaritan people hated 14:41 another. So from a geographical navigation standpoint, he didn't have to. It was a 3 day journey to get from Jerusalem to Galilee if you go through, but it was a 6 day journey if you went around. Now4:52 think about this, all you type a driven, gotta get there people. How much must you hate some people to add 3 days to your journey so that you didn't bump into any of those people that you didn't like? Well,5:05 it's not just that they didn't like each other, they socially hated each other, they religiously hated each other, they ethnically hated each other. What happened is way back, like, almost a thousand5:16 years before this, the people of God, God told them, you obey me, I'll protect you. But you take your eyes off me, I'm gonna take my hand of protection off of you. And he would be so patient with them. This is pretty5:27 much the story of Israel over and over and over and over. But in this 1 particular time, the nation of Israel begins to worship other gods and so God says, alright, alright, fine, fend for yourself. And then the5:37 Babylonians come in and they exile the nation of Israel. So think like Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego, if you've read about that, that's what was happening then. Years and years and years later,5:49 Nehemiah comes back from Jerusalem to I mean, comes back from exile, back to Jerusalem to rebuild the city walls, and meanwhile, that whole time that that's been going on, what happened was there were some people that6:00 were left behind. So they took the best and the brightest and the sharpest and the most athletic. They took them in Babylonian exile. All the rejects they left in town. Well, the rejects decided to just kinda start6:11 their own new religion. And what they began to do is they begin to intermarry, and this wasn't a racial thing. They begin to intermarry with people that worshiped other gods. And sure enough, they do a little bit of6:23 their worship and worship the 1 true God Yahweh, and then they would worship some other gods too and they begin to mix this thing together. Well, there's a bunch in the bible that's that's not okay with that, so then6:33 what they begin to do is they took their Bible, like many Christians do today, with a highlighter and some scissors, and they just cut the parts out that they didn't like. And so, ultimately, over hundreds of years, this6:43 group of people became known as the Samaritans. They were named after 1 of the cities there in that region. Well, when Nehemiah comes back to rebuild the city, they said, we'll help. And Nehemiah is like, there's no way6:53 because you haven't been faithful to God, so you're not gonna come in here and stink up our city. And so they were like, well forget you, we don't need you. We don't need your temple and we don't need your way of7:01 worship. And they used some bible verses, but not all the bible verses, and they created their own place of worship. And this is basically what you call a cult. And the problem was not7:13 ethnically that they intermarried, the problem was that religiously they intermarried. But what began to happen is that the Jewish people and the Samaritan people began to hate each other, they blamed7:25 ethnicity and also religion. Now there's this 1 phrase that gets used historically in the church to describe the Samaritans that I just think has no place in the church, period. Sometimes I've heard7:37 a whole bunch of especially older pastors who'll say that the Jews hated the Samaritans because and the word they will use is half breed. K. That phrase has no place in the kingdom of God. And let me tell you7:49 why. Because we're not breeds of people. Do you understand? There's 1 race, it's the human race. So I don't care what shade of color you are or where your parents are from or if 1 parent's from there and another parent's8:00 from it doesn't matter. That God designed you and he knew exactly what he was designing when he came up with the idea of you and that you are fearfully and wonderfully made and God's works, which you are 1 of them, are8:12 wonderful and we should know that full well. And so, here's a group of people and they have they have intermarried with some other people that worship other gods, and so, man, I mean, this really, really, really created8:24 a problem between the Jewish people and the Samaritan people. And yet, even with all of that, socially speaking, going on, Jesus had to go through8:36 Samaria. Well, what do you mean he had to if he didn't actually had to? Well, here's why he had to, because he had a divine appointment according to his heavenly father. What we're gonna find out, if you keep reading in8:47 the gospel of John, if you get to the next chapter, by the time you get to John 15, you'll hear the John 5 19, you'll hear these words. So Jesus said to them, truly, truly, I say to you, the son can do nothing of his own8:58 accord, but only what he sees the father doing for whatever the father does, that the son does likewise. So the reason that Jesus had to go to Samaria9:10 is because his father told him, I got an appointment with you with you tomorrow in Samaria. So my question to you is this, so what do you have to do? I mean,9:22 what is that thing that you have to do? Now you don't actually have to have to because he will let you be disobedient, but if you are obedient to God, what is that thing that you know that God is9:34 telling you to do? And dang it, every time you come to this church, it gets on you a little bit. You know what I'm talking about. Like it's you know, in a couple weeks, we're gonna talk about forgiveness and you're like,9:44 I'm gonna skip that week. Because every single time, the moment I say the word forgive, Sheila's face passes up in your mind. You're like, I should probably forgive her, but you're like, I ain't gonna do that. Or maybe9:55 maybe this is gonna make you real nervous. Nobody's gonna clap on this 1. Maybe every single time we talk about bringing our first and best to God, then you know that you know that you know God is calling you to do10:07 something radically generous. But you definitely don't come to the altar on that week. You're like, I'm not even gonna stay for the last song because it might get on me and I might have to change something about what I10:18 want to do. Or maybe maybe it's come to the altar. At the end of this service, I'm gonna give you an invitation to come to this altar. And some of you know that the god of the universe is like, won't10:30 you come to the altar and your pride's gonna get in the way. Or maybe it's lead that disciple group, or maybe it stopped drinking so much, or maybe it's cut off that whole toxic relationship, or maybe it's don't give up10:41 on your marriage, but keep fighting, or maybe it's sign up for that very first mission trip. See, here's the thing, man. The real preacher here ain't me. The real preacher is the spirit of God, and the10:53 holy spirit will tell you exactly what you need to do. And the greatest advices of the whole bible is in John chapter 2 verse 5 where Mary looks at the servants and Jesus is standing right there, and she says these11:03 words, do whatever he tells you to do. So let me ask you, what is he telling you to do? Do it. Verse 5. So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near11:15 the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph, and Jacob's well is was there. We'll come back to that in a little while. It's very significant. And Jacob's well was there, and so Jesus, wearied as he11:27 was from his journey, was sitting beside the well and it was about the sixth hour, that would be noon. Now here's something that the apostle John wants you to know, is that though Jesus is fully God, in the beginning11:39 was the word and the word was God and the word was with God, Jesus is also fully man and the word became flesh and dwelt among us. And so the almighty sovereign king of the universe, Jesus, who will judge11:51 all things, smoke all things into existence, and by his very power holds everything together that is The brother got tired And he's walking through on a 3 day12:03 journey and he needs somewhere to sit down and it's noontime. And listen, so many of us have such a terrible view of who Jesus the Christ walking around on this earth 2000 years12:15 ago actually was. In fact, if you, if you just Google Jesus, the first picture that will come up is the worst picture of Jesus I've ever seen. Have you ever seen the 1? He looks like12:27 a 16 year old Swedish kid, and he's, like, doing the pledge of allegiance at some scout's honor, you know what I mean? Real skinny, just Danish. I don't know how he's Danish. You can just almost hear him go, hello, I'm12:36 Jesus. Bro, that ain't Jesus. This is a Middle Eastern Jewish carpenter guy. You understand what I mean? And the almighty sovereign king of the universe would what the12:48 bible what what theologians call, he would condescend to come and be with us. That he would step out of the glory that is heaven. He would take off13:00 his royal robe. He would sit down his royal crown. He would lay down his scepter and he would be wrapped in flesh and be obedient to come here on a rescue mission for13:12 you and me. And he would be willing to come and meet with you. In fact, that's what 1 of the names of God is, Emmanuel, God13:24 with us. What this woman at the well that he's gonna meet with in just a little while, what she is going to experience is God is just not out there somewhere distant waiting for me to get my act together, but13:35 he takes the initiative upon himself to dress himself in humanity and make himself available for a lunch meeting with me and you. And so this is what he did, he sits13:47 down at Jacob's well. Verse 7, and a woman now if you if you knew first century culture and if you knew Greek, the moment it says a woman, you'd be like, oh, uh-oh.13:59 What's happening here? From Samaria, oh, even worse, came to draw water. Now, in case you're new to bible study, what we're going to see in back to back chapters is14:11 Jesus meeting with all different kind of people. In chapter 3, Jesus meets with a guy named Nicodemus. Nicodemus is rich. Nicodemus is a Pharisee. Nicodemus is externally speaking. He's14:23 pure. Nicodemus is all that in this culture. And Jesus is happy to meet with Nicodemus and explain to him it's not his external that is going to save14:35 him, but he needs to be born again. And yet, what we're gonna see here is that Jesus is also very very willing, in fact, goes out of his way to meet with somebody that he's not supposed to meet14:47 with. He's not just meeting with a rich and famous, he's also meeting with a Samaritan woman who has come to the well at noon to draw water. Why? Because Jesus came to institute a movement for all people to14:59 discover and deepen who he is. Amen. And so Jesus says to her, give me a drink. He didn't say it like, that sounded too aggressive. That's not what it was. In the Greek, it's more like, ma'am, could I please15:11 have some water? People so I've heard from this 1 girl that I need to walk and work on my tone. Okay? So I'm trying. So give me a drink. How about that? For his disciples had gone away into the city15:23 to buy food and the Samaritan woman said to him see, she's she's thrown off here. This is scandalous. She says, how is it that you, a Jew, asked for a drink for me,15:35 a woman of Samaria? I mean, this is scandalous. And then, John gives commentary here in the princes, for Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans. You see, here's the thing.15:48 When Jesus enters the scene, everything changes. Amen. You see, this woman knows ethnically, religiously, and culturally, we're not supposed to talk to 1 another because your people think my people are dirty,16:00 And if I touch you, then you're gonna become dirty. And if you drink out of my water bucket, then you are gonna become dirty. But you see, Jesus changes everything. You see, typically in our world, when dirty touches16:11 clean, the clean gets dirty. But when it comes to Jesus, when the clean touches the dirty, the dirty gets clean. And that's about what's that happened here. Now, it's very important, it says, that it's the sixth hour.16:23 Alright? Which means this is 12 o'clock. Well, there's a reason that she is there at noontime. In the first century, it was the job of either the children or the woman of the house to go and fetch water. And the16:35 typical time to do this would be early in the morning or late at or, like, late in the afternoon. Why? Because that's when it's cool. Listen, we know this very well in Jacksonville. I mean, this weekend is like the first16:45 time where it finally didn't feel like a million degrees. But remember remember back to June, July, and August? Or as we lovingly call it, the beast, the dragon, and the antichrist. You know what I'm saying? Right.16:55 Right. So if you have to walk your dog, when do you walk your dog? You walk it in the morning or in the evening? If you see somebody walking their dog at noon, what does that mean? They had their dog and they wanted to17:04 die. That's what they that's why. Okay? And so at the well early in the morning and late at night in the evening, there would be a lot of other women there. And this woman is tired17:16 of the looks and tired of the comments and tired of the gossiping about her. So as to avoid all the people because of the shame that she has in her life, she's17:28 gonna avoid all of these people and try to be alone and go there at noon. And so, not only is she, not a person of high moral17:39 character, Also, again, Jewish people didn't talk to Samaritans. And in the first century, men didn't talk to women, especially at wells. Like a well could often be a place where17:51 you would like meet a girl. This is where Abraham found a wife for Isaac. This is where Jacob finds his wife. This is where Moses finds his wife at a well. And I know some of y'all are like, where's that well? That's not18:02 this that's not that's not what we're talking about here. Okay? And here's what's crazy though, man. Jesus does not mind breaking down religion or tradition to get to his people.18:15 He breaks gender boundaries, cultural boundaries, ethnic boundaries, religious boundaries, moral boundaries. He does whatever it takes to reach people that think they're too far gone, but he knows they're not.18:28 My friend Brian Louritz, who preached here a bunch of years ago, he he's got this great quote. He says this, the gospel compels us to strange relationships. Let me tell you why this18:39 matters to me a lot, man. Because I get it. I've been on staff at a church for a long time. I'm 51. First time I was on staff was 19. Alright? That's a long time. And I've been to a bunch of places that seem18:51 to just be for church people. That ain't this place. Amen. This place is a movement for all people to discover and deepen a relationship with Jesus Christ. So every time you show up here, get ready because you're coming19:03 in the well. And so Jesus, he's gonna answer no time I mean, he's gonna waste no time. He's gonna dive right in. And Jesus answered her, if you knew the gift of God and who it was that is saying19:15 to you, give me a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water. Here's what Jesus is gonna do, particularly in the gospel of John, you see it over and over and over and over and over. He's19:25 gonna teach on 2 planes, 1 is he's gonna talk about something physical, temporary that's right in front of your face, but he's trying to connect the dots to the eternal to teach a greater gospel reality.19:37 That's what he's gonna do. He's like, listen lady, you keep showing up here because you have physical thirst, but you also have spiritual thirst and the temporary things of this world are never gonna fully and finally19:48 satisfy, but I've got something here for you that you really want and the water that I have for you can give you life and give it abundantly. You see, all through the gospel of John, really all 4 gospels, Jesus over20:00 and over and over is gonna connect with old testament realities and he's gonna connect with things that are right there in front of him. And Jesus ultimately is saying, those things are just the shadow and I am the20:10 substance. Jesus is saying, I am the better whatever thing you were looking for. Like for example, in the old covenant, there's a bunch of lambs that get slain and he's gonna say, you don't have to do the lamb thing20:21 anymore because I am the lamb of God. Behold the lamb of God who comes to take away the sin of the world. That in the old covenant, you had some ceremonial hand washing things and at the wedding of Cana, he's like, you20:31 don't have to do the hand wash thing anymore because I'm gonna take that dirty water, which is your nasty life, and I'm gonna transform it into something beautiful like the best wine you've ever had. Over and over and20:42 over, like when he talks to Nicodemus, he points back to Moses with the bronze serpent and he you might not know what that means but he would and he would say, listen, you don't have to have the bronze serpent anymore20:52 because I'm going to be the 1 that shows up and I'm going to be lifted up and whoever looks to me, I will be the 1 that cures the venom that runs on the inside of you. It's not an outside in thing, it's an inside out21:03 thing. And so over and over and over he is saying that I am I am the substance of everything that you've been looking for. So you've been coming to this well over and over and over that Jacob gave21:15 you and it can quench your thirst only momentarily, but what I can do for you is fully and finally satisfy you forever. That's what I'm here for. And the woman said to him, sir, you have nothing to draw21:26 water with. And the well is deep, and so he goes right over her head. Why? Well, God is so patient because his people are so dumb.21:39 And you're thinking, are you talking to me? You should pray about that. Yeah. She's so focused on the now and the near that she can't pick up what he's putting down. And then she asked this21:51 question, this is key. She's intrigued. She's been drawn to him. She says, so where do I get that living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us this the well and drank from22:03 it himself as did his sons and his livestock. You see, this is this is very, very interesting here that they're at Jacob's well. Because what you'll see is a ton of parallels between the22:15 life of this woman and the life of this old testament guy named Jacob. See, Jacob shows up in the book of Genesis. He he's he's a very prominent figure in God's redemptive plan for all humanity. And22:26 Jacob was constantly looking for satisfaction in the temporary things of this world. In fact, Jacob's name itself, Jacob means heel grabber or deceitful 1. You see, when when Jacob was being22:38 born, he had a twin. And the twin, his older brother came out first and in the old testament, they would just name you like what you are or what you were going to be. And so the first baby comes out, boom, and he's22:49 hairy, and so they named him Esau. That's what it means. Chewbacca wasn't around yet, so they go with Esau. And the bible says that Jacob in the womb is trying to, like, grab on to23:01 Esau's hill and pass him, like, going wide in turn 4 at Talladega to come out first because you got all kind of blessing if you were the first born, you didn't get near as much blessing if you were the second born. And23:11 so his name means heel grabber or deceitful 1 and sure enough he grows up to be a deceitful 1. Esau's kind of a stud, Esau is Isaac's favorite, Esau is hairy, Esau is a bowhunter23:23 so I like him already, Esau is buff. Esau likes to do stuff outside. Esau played linebacker. Like, that's who Esau is. Jacob was kind of a mama's boy. He'd hang around the tits. He made a nice stew. And so he23:35 was kinda, you know, real lives real housewives of Jerusalem. That's where he hung out. And so at 1 point a couple times in his life, he tricked his family to deceive them so that he23:47 could receive a blessing that wasn't his. And that's what's happening. So he tricked his dad to get to get the dad the father's blessing and he also tricked his brother to steal his birthright. Well, his big23:59 linebacker bow hunting brother got ticked at him and so 1 day, Jacob is on the run, running for his life. And as he's on the run, you've gotta think he's thinking, this was not my plan for my life. And he's on the run24:11 thinking his whole life is all jacked up and he finds himself in this place called Padama Ram, he lays his head down on a rock in order to go to sleep and God almighty shows up.24:23 I believe this is what's called a Christophany where the pre incarnate Jesus shows up and wrestles with Jacob. It was like the very first UFC. And so Jacob's just holding on to24:35 the Lord saying, I'm not letting go until you bless me and he's like, oh, I got your blessing and he touches his hip and and he has to tap out and for the rest of Jacob's life, everywhere he goes he walks with a24:47 limp. His whole life is changed by this encounter that he has with the Lord, which is a perfect picture of exactly what this woman is going through. This whole her whole life,24:59 she has been looking for satisfaction in places that will never ever bring it. She's only looking at the temporary and she's not trusting God for the eternal And then she's going to have this encounter with Jesus25:11 himself, the second person of the trinity in the flesh and when he grabs a hold of her, spiritually speaking, everything about her life is going to be changed forever. And so what he's saying is, listen, Jacob left25:23 you this well and it can quench your thirst for a minute, but I am greater than Jacob's well and that will that will quench your thirst temporarily, but I'll satisfy you for eternity. Verse 13, and25:35 Jesus said to her, everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I give him will become in him a25:46 spring of water welling up to eternal life. We talk about this all the time around here, the temporary will never satisfy. We have all kind of phrases that we use around here. 1 is the merry-go-round of normality.25:59 That this world spends billions of dollars a a day to get you to take your seat on the merry-go-round of normality so you'll just chase after the same thing everybody else does. Amen. And I don't know how26:10 many laps you gotta take until you realize, this ain't that merry. Now when you first get on your little hobby horse, you know, oh look, I got the shiny 1 with the unicorn horn, yay.26:22 And about 10 years of taking that lapse, you go, is this it? You ever been there? You see, I don't know what's more sad, the person that spends26:34 their whole life chasing after a goal that's not real or the person that actually achieves it and realize they've been duped. I mean, when you spend your all your whole life, which our entire26:46 system is set up for. Amen. For you to wake up every Monday and eat something, watch something, drive something, go sell some somethings, come home, watch something, go to sleep, eat something, do it again and again and26:56 again and again. And the biggest prayer of your whole week is thank God it's Friday. If that's you, you ain't doing it right. You're sitting around people right now that are like preach it27:08 because you've been there before. You lay your head on the pillow and you say, is this it? And you know the answer is this ain't it, man. And so all this world has to offer, we talk about this all the time, man,27:19 you can chase stuff, you can chase status, you can take chase sex, it'll never be enough. It's called lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. And this world spends billions of dollars a day to27:31 keep you going back to that same well that will never fully and finally satisfy and we buy into it all the time. I mean 1 of those lust of the flesh, Lust of the flesh is when we have this27:43 desire, if I could just feel a certain way, then I'll be fully and finally satisfied. And what's crazy is is it could be it could be popcorn or it could be pornography, you realize that? This is how27:55 tricky the enemy is. You begin to think, I deserve to feel this way. Or how about this 1? You you know, you could pour yourself into some addiction or you could pour yourself into working out too much and28:07 neither of them will fully, finally satisfy. Some of you actually believe, if I could just get to my ideal weight, then I would be happy. Have you met somebody at their ideal weight? They ain't28:18 happy. They're never happy. They're grumpy because they don't get to eat nothing. Don't you notice? And you're both jealous of each other. They want your cheesecake and you want their abs and you're like, if I only have28:29 that. Right. It'll never satisfy. For some of you it's less of the eyes and again we call this the cul de sac of stupidity, not because stuff is stupid because you're stupid. You think28:41 new pants, a new half bath, whatever they think, a cyber truck, that's my favorite 1 to pick on now. How many of you see a cyber truck and you're reminded constantly of how stupid people are? Why, is anything wrong with28:52 a cyber truck? Yes, dumb, but the real dumbness is anybody that puts their hope there as if anybody looks at them and think, oh they're arrived. Or the pride of life, when you begin to29:04 think, I make a name for myself at the expense of your family that you're related to and at the expense of your church family and the commission that God has given you. And it happens over and29:16 over and over. And so why do we continue to go to the temporary wells of this world that we know from our own experience don't have the capacity to satisfy?29:28 You see, the real problem though is these wells are not neutral like the like Jacob's well. You see, these wells that we go to for satisfaction and security,29:41 they only lead to brokenness and emptiness and dissatisfaction. Amen. See this woman's life as exhibit a. You see, when we were created, when God came up with the idea29:54 that he was going to make image bearers for his own glory and he fashions together the very first man and he breathes the breath of life into Adam, the ruah of life and30:05 Adam opens his eyes, he is face to face with his heavenly father, his creator. And this is what every single 1 of us were created for. This is why there's no temporary thing in this30:17 world that can fully and finally satisfy because if our life is an engine, the fuel by which we are supposed to run is a relationship with him. And if you put anything else in the30:29 engine of your life and try to run it on that, it's just gonna lead to breakdown. And this life, this woman's life has been broken down over and over and over. Verse 15, And the woman said to him, sir,30:41 give me this water so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water. And listen, man. I'm a professional Christian. I've been doing this for a long time. Okay? I don't know what 51 minus 19 is. That's a30:52 lot. I can't do that kind of math on my brain real quick, but if you are talking to somebody about the gospel and you have the kind of response this woman has let me just tell you. Okay? Let me just31:04 tell you. If I'm coaching you on evangelism, I'm telling you this is where you close the deal. I mean, everybody know in sales, the key is to close the deal. Right? And so she says, I'll take some of this living31:16 water and what you're supposed to do is go bingo. Jesus, what you should say now is every head bowed and every eye closed. If you're ready to surrender your life to me, raise your hand or do the thing. Right? That's what31:27 you're supposed to do. And listen, man, I, the bible talks about all kind of different gifts and 1 of the gifts God has given me is I have the gift of evangelism. I don't know why but I tend to lead a bunch of people to31:37 Christ. And a part of the reason is because I closed the deal. And I've done it in all kind of random places. I was in Walmart 1 time and I'm just standing there in the 10 items or less deal and there's a woman with a31:47 kid in front of me and, you know, I'm standing there counting her items just to be like, well, she can't count or read. I'm not sure which 1 it is, but okay. And the kid is trying to get all the snacks because Walmart31:57 hates you and they put all the the little sugary snacks at eye level to the toddlers and she's throwing ritzy pieces in and she's he's throwing them out. You know, it's back and forth, back and forth. And this woman32:06 looks at this kid and at the top of her lungs, she screams, relax. And I thought, well, he's never going to understand what that word means. Right? So I get my 1 or 2 things and she's still trying to wrangle the kid. She32:18 hasn't left yet. And you could tell, man, she's just having the worst day ever and I'm telling you, I don't I can't explain it, but I feel like the spirit of God says get her. So I go, alright. I here's what I don't32:28 wanna do, I don't wanna stand before the Lord 1 day and he go, why didn't you talk to that lady in Walmart? And I go, well, I didn't know it was you. Okay? I would rather be there and he'd be like, you made that up. I32:38 didn't tell you to do it. Well, it seemed like you'd be into it. Okay? I I just do that's kinda how I try to live my life. And so I'll ask her, I said, excuse me, ma'am. She looks at me and she goes I go, are you okay?32:47 And and she was like, what you mean? I mean just like I just go, woah, woah, woah, woah, woah, woah, woah, woah, woah, woah, hold on, hold on. And I did like this, I go, are you okay? She goes, no, my husband just left.32:57 Boom, waterworks. 30 seconds later I'm praying with her to receive Christ at Walmart, no problem. Okay? 1 time back in the day, I was doing door to door evangelism. Google that. Nobody does anymore, but we used to.33:08 Alright? So I got my lord's gym shirt on and I'm going door to door doing a survey thing for an FCA camp. I knock on this door. There's a lady in there and she's running like a little bootleg, daycare because there's no33:19 there's like a it's like the woman in the shoes. She got so many kids, she don't know what to do. They're everywhere. Alright? And there's snot and tears and and I asked her my little survey, I was supposed to ask this33:27 question, can I tell you about the peace I found in Jesus Christ? She goes, peace? You have peace? I go, I know him. She's like, I'll take peace. 30 seconds later, here we are praying to receive Christ. I didn't ask her33:39 about her life or anything, I just I just closed the deal. So she says I mean, look bro, she is she is tossing Jesus a softball. Where can I get some of this living33:51 water? And look what Jesus says to her. Jesus says to her, go call your husband and come here. Now you're like, alright, again, again. I'm34:03 a pro. I am a pro. So if Jesus was asking for a little bit of advice on evangelism, this is where I would step in and be like, hey, come here, son of God, maker of heaven and earth. Hey, I34:15 know you know the end of the story, but listen, I don't listen, don't worry about that. You see, that's called sanctification and we can worry about that later. Let's just worry about justification right now. Let's get34:24 her in the kingdom, we'll get her to the disciple group. Surely somebody in her disciple group will be like, honey, who you living with? Because I saw on Instagram some shady stuff and then we'll work it out later. Okay?34:34 Because I don't know if you know this Jesus, but you're actually asking her about the thing that's got her here at noon. This is the most shameful thing in her life.34:47 So why don't we just deal with that later? And I think Jesus might reply to me something like, hey, I'm not looking for a transaction, I'm looking for transformation. And the thing that she's most34:59 ashamed of, I'm not ashamed of at all. I don't I'm not here to just deal with the externals so she can show up to a meeting every, you know, twice a month or something, that's not what we're talking about.35:12 This is evidence that a real Jesus came to die on a real cross for the real me and you. Amen. And the fake you is doing just fine, man. He's not worried about this show that she's putting on here at the well. He is he35:24 is ultimately concerned about the details of this woman's life, especially the parts that she's most ashamed of, she's most embarrassed about, that she has been most defined by35:36 by all of those other people. And Jesus said just say, no. I want all of you. And the woman answered him, I have no husband. And Jesus said to her, you35:47 were right in saying that I have no husband for you have had 5 husbands and the 1 you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true. Listen, man. Jesus wants allShow more In this video 0:00 Heroes of Faith and the Call to Action1:03 Grace for All: The Samaritan Woman35:55 The Invitation to Transformation
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