 Amen Speaking of Pentecostals by the way if you see the the pictures pinned up on the back wall the kids had a Joel Osteen drawing competition So there's all these like monster pictures back there So that's what that's all about my favorite one. I was just looking at him My favorite one is the one kid didn't even draw a drawing. He just he just wrote Joel stinky Winner Anyway, okay John chapter 4 John chapter 4 so the miracle that we're talking about this evening in John chapter 4 is I guess maybe some people wouldn't consider it a miracle. I think that it is still a miracle But we're going to talk about the woman at the well this evening We're going to talk about the woman at the well not the miracle at the end of the chapter We're going to talk about it. It's not a typical miracle, which is why Maybe it doesn't get counted sometimes However people are counting as far as miracles because you know Jesus doesn't heal somebody or raise somebody from the dead or heal Somebody's relative or something like that in this case I'll point out where the miracle was but it's just a very interesting story a very interesting interaction between Jesus and This woman at the well So let's go ahead and get into the the story this evening in John chapter 4 And then we'll see how we can apply that in our sermon series miracles of Jesus look down to John chapter 4 in verse Number 1 the Bible says when therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus had made and baptized more Disciples than John and then in verse number 2. It's interesting We're gonna do a little bit of a Bible study through this and then we'll apply it at the end It's interesting in verse number 2 it says though Jesus himself baptized not but his disciples Turn to Romans chapter 6 in verse number 4 and what I'll explain to you on why that is so Jesus It says that the Pharisees they heard that Jesus made more disciples and was Baptizing more people than even John the Baptist. So here comes somebody greater than John the Baptist Which is why John the Baptist said that and then in verse number 2 it points out that Jesus didn't baptize himself He had his disciples baptized and Romans chapter 6 in verse number 4 kind of explains why it would be a little strange if Jesus did the baptizing because of what? Baptism actually stands for look at Romans chapter 6 and verse number 4 the Bible says therefore We are buried with him by baptism into death So baptism as we go into the water it pictures us being buried with Christ The Bible says that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father Even so we also should walk in newness of life. So as we go into the water. We're being buried It's a picture of us being buried with Jesus and then as we come out of the water, it's a picture of us You know coming out and walking in newness of life being born again into a new life that we should Be living that's why baptism comes after salvation So baptism identifies us with Christ death on the cross his burial and his resurrection Look at John chapter 1 in verse number 4 John chapter. I'm jump John chapter 4 and verse number 3 So we see that Jesus, you know He was making a name for himself and he wasn't baptizing people the disciples were doing it for him But he was already getting a lot of attention here look at verse number 3 He left Judea and departed again into Galilee and he must needs go through Samaria So what this means is so Jesus left Judea and you kind of got to have a map in your head right now Jesus left Judea which was in the south and he was headed to Galilee well, there was this spot if you look at a map you'll see that it's Judea It's Samaria and then it's Galilee so what verse number 4 means is that he must needs go through Samaria It wasn't that Jesus, you know wanted to stop over in Samaria It's that he literally had to go through Samaria to get to Galilee. So it's kind of like, you know if we drove to Washington we would have to go through Oregon kind of the same thing it just kind of sits in the center of those two Territories so he goes through Samaria and he meets this Samaritan woman So the first thing I want to kind of study out a little bit turn to 2nd Kings chapter 17 is who are these Samaritans? Where did the Samaritans come from where is Samaria Samaria is the land right in between? Judea and Galilee look at 2nd Kings chapter 17 and let's look back at the invasion of the northern kingdom of Israel By the Assyrian Empire so the Assyrian Empire of course came in to judge the northern kingdom of Israel I think close to 200 years before you know Babylon came and took over the lower kingdom of Judah, but the northern kingdom was much more wicked They were much more fallen away of course Jeroboam from the very beginning set up calves of gold And they left the Lord almost from the birth of the northern kingdom And they just never got it right and finally God judged that nation look at 2nd Kings chapter 17 And when the Assyrian Empire came in and took over the northern kingdom It was not just you know this simple It was much more brutal and it was much more complete than what happened in the Babylonian captivity look at 2nd Kings 17 in verse 24 the Bible says this it says and the king of Assyria Brought men from Babylon and from Kutah and from Ava and from Hamath and from Sepharvah, and I'm not saying that right I'm sure and place them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel and they possessed Samaria and dwelt in the cities Thereof so basically the if you want to think about the land of Ephraim just north of the kingdom of Judah That is where what became this this land of Samaria and these became a mixed People so to speak because the Assyrians brought in their own people and they carried most of the Israelites away So the northern kingdom here you have this situation where the northern kingdom has already gone Apostate they've already left the Lord they were carried off and all these Assyrians come in they take over and they just they basically Take over the land they mix in with all these people that remain there Okay, and look fast-forward 700 and some years is where we're at when Jesus meets this woman at the well So basically what I'm trying to get you to understand is at this point you had an apostate kingdom Taken over by a heathen people they all moved in and you know Who knows what we have here as far as the culture of people, you know, they were considered turn to John chapter 8 They were considered to be To the Israelites to the Jews that were at you know in the time of Jesus They were considered to be a very low people. They were considered to be you know They were they were seriously looked down upon because of this History of where they came from look at John chapter 8 and Verse number we'll go back to verse number 47 and the Bible says he that is of God Heareth God's words you therefore hear them not because you are not of God So here's the Pharisees getting mixed up, you know getting into the mix with Jesus and Jesus is kind of rebuking them they in verse Number 47 he's saying look if you were of God you would hear God's words and then in verse 48 Then answered the Jews and said unto him say well say we not well that thou art a Samaritan and hast a devil They're saying they're like you know Why don't we just you know aren't we aren't we correct when we're just going to call you a Samaritan and demon possessed So they're kind of like comparing, you know Samaritans they're using this They're they're using a low term for Jesus when they call him a Samaritan and then also call him You know demon possessed as well. So Jesus by the way was from Galilee which was you know if you were in Judah that was a northern part that was past Samaria So they're kind of you know not recognized as people of Israel first of all and you know That's why Jesus himself was kind of looked down upon we'll get to that a little bit later because he was from Galilee But remember where was Jesus born? Remember Jesus was born actually in Bethlehem, you know His parents traveled south for the census that Caesar called to be taxed Right and he was born in Bethlehem go back to John chapter 4 So we see who the Samaritans are we see that they're considered a very low people We can see you see that even the Pharisees used it to insult Jesus by calling him a Samaritan They're just you know They weren't even Someone you should talk to if you were a Jew of Jesus's time look at John chapter 4 and verse number 5 Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sikkar near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph now Jacob's well was there Therefore Jesus therefore being wearied on his journey sat thus on the well and it was about the sixth Hour so whenever you see the sixth hour the ninth hour this type of thing You know the Bible says that you know there was darkness over the land when Jesus was crucified from the sixth to the ninth hour You start measuring from 6 a.m. So six the sixth hour would be noon So when Jesus was crucified think about you know the the centurion standing, you know at the cross You know it was dark from noon to 3 o'clock. That is strange Okay, that's a miraculous event that people would notice that all of a sudden we're crucifying this guy and Like the Sun is not shining so I mean that is something that people would take notice to but anyway here back to the story It's the sixth hour. It's about noon. Okay. Look at verse number seven There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water Jesus saith on Jesus saith unto her give me to drink for his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy Meat so Jesus is by himself and his disciples are off buying food look at verse 9 Then saith the woman the woman of Samaria unto him. How is it that thou? Being a Jew ask a drink of me which am a woman of Samaria for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans So first of all, this is the first like major Point to bring up here So this woman basically sees Jesus and I'm sure it's the way that he looks the way he's dressed the way he talks She recognizes that he is a Jew and she says why would a Jew even be talking to me because I am you know She's basically saying I am nobody is what this woman is saying So I mean look first of all, she's very humble which is a key to this story here And especially as the conversation continues with Jesus we see how her humility Really plays into how things turn out in this story. I mean think about this You know soul winners think about this how you know How do conversations go at the door when you meet somebody that is a very proud person? When you meet somebody that you know you just meet that person that either they have all kinds of things to tell you or You know, they're just a very proud person about their you know their house or their their possessions or whatever it is that they have Look those are quick conversations those conversations do not go anywhere You know, I know everything have a nice day is basically how those conversations go You aren't telling these people anything just because of their pride So humility was the key to this woman's eternity literally here Go back to John chapter 4 look at verse number 10 So she says why would a Jew even be talking to someone like me? I'm just a Samaritan and Jesus answered. He's gonna tell her now He's gonna tell I'm gonna tell you why I'm talking to you Jesus answered and said under her if thou knewest the gift of God and Who it is that sayeth to thee give me to drink now wouldest have asked of him And he would have given thee living water Basically, Jesus says, you know, Jesus basically points out I mean now we see a turn where we see that Jesus is not really interested in getting a drink Jesus's soul winning here Jesus is out and he's interested in this woman's soul And he basically says to her to start things off. He says you have no idea Who you're talking to it's like if you knew who you were talking to you would be asking me For you know, he basically the gift of God is what he says look at verse number 11 The woman sayeth unto him, you know, she doesn't get it. She doesn't understand Sir thou has nothing to draw with she's still talking about physical water at this point And the well is deep from whence then has thou that living water You know She's still talking about getting water from the well a certain type of special water and in verse number 12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob which gave us the well and drank thereof himself and his children and his cattle Jesus answered and said unto her, whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again So he's trying to get her now off the physical onto the spiritual look at verse 14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst But the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into Everlasting life turn to John chapter 7. So Jesus is saying that he's trying to give her This well of water now He's trying to give her the water remember and to give her this water that springs into everlasting life Jesus is literally talking about her salvation here. He's trying to give her Salvation he's trying to get this woman saved look at verse number John chapter 7 in verse number 38. So we see Another time when Jesus talks about, you know water and water of life look at verse 38 He that believeth on me As the scripture had said out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water So here we see this rivers of living water Equals salvation. How do we get salvation by believing on the Lord Jesus Christ? But he's spake he of the spirit Which they that believe on him should receive for the Holy Ghost was not yet given because that Jesus was not yet glorified Many of the people therefore when they heard this saying said of a truth. This is a prophet Others said this is the Christ But some said shall Christ come out of Galilee and the only reason I read those last couple verses there It's because once again We see that Jesus was considered lower because he was from these northern Territories Samaria and Galilee another reference there and again Jesus was born in Bethlehem, you know just as the bible prophesied go back to John chapter 4 John chapter 4 look at verse 15 So he continues with this woman And the woman saith unto him sir. Give me this water. So now she sees okay. He's offering me Something special here sir. Give me this water that I thirst not neither come hither to draw And Jesus saith unto her go call thy husband And come hither and the woman answered and said I have no husband And Jesus said unto her thou hast well said I have no husband now. Here's the miracle Now here's the miracle on why I can use it in this series in verse number 18 He says for thou has had five husbands And he who now has And he whom thou now hast Is not thy husband And that said thou truly so basically Jesus tells her she's like I have no husband and he said You don't have a husband. You've been married five times. He tells her and the guy that you're with now You're not even married to so he's basically pointing out like this. He basically just Shows her her life story in sin Right in front of her face in you know a couple sentences here. That's a unique miracle. There's no healing There's no raising from the dead, but it's definitely not something that you or I could ever do Look, Jesus wasn't stalking her on facebook or anything like that. There's none of that This was just just god in the flesh Just telling this woman that he knows everything about her Okay, and basically it's interesting because as Jesus is soul-winning here. What does he start out with? What does he start out with? He basically starts out with saying you're a sinner To this woman Look back at verse 19. Not so different than us You know, what's the first thing that we do we point out to people that you know all have sinned And there's none righteous. No, not one No one is righteous So he points out her sin to her in a pretty I mean In a pretty like in your face type of way I would say You know, I mean you will be out soul-winning and you will find that as you get more experienced soul-winning You will find those moments those people where you can feel comfortable You know kind of being a little bit more bold with them if they're not understanding things You know, I just did this on wednesday night We were we were talking with a lady and she was not understanding the difference between what you know Her pentecostal church believed and what we were explaining she was really twisted up and she's like well It's pretty much the same and look sometimes you can just kind of feel that you can take these liberties And I was like no, it's actually not the same It is the difference what we are talking about to you and what you told us at the door is the difference between Eternal life and eternal damnation It's not even close It's not close and look you can find Moments and you kind of just have to perceive these things when you can be sort of bold and and really you know Stretch and beg for people's souls in that way By being bold in a loving way in that way Jesus was pretty in in her face with this But going back to the first part when we see this woman she was very humble She was a very humble woman. So how does she take it? How does she take it? Does she say to him? Does she say to him? Who do you think you're talking to buddy? You know say how dare you say something like that look at verse 19 And through her humility The conversation goes in the direction where we know that this woman is just going to receive The truth look at verse 19 the woman saith unto him Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet She says to him You know you must be a prophet you you've you called it you called my sin This is the fruit of her humility right here. She doesn't say get out of here She doesn't say you know how dare you say that look at verse 20. She says yes. She says yes You're right. I am a sinner You're correct. You must be a prophet look at verse 20 Our father she says our father's worshiped in this mountain And ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship turn to Deuteronomy chapter 27 now she brings up an interesting She says, you know, you're a prophet and now she brings up like where the jews worship versus where the samaritans worship So the samaritans kind of had a different area set up where they worship. They obviously Judah or Judea is where Jerusalem was at, you know to the south That's where the jews were in Deuteronomy chapter 27 Let's look at what mountain she's talking about look at Deuteronomy 27 in verse number 11 So the samaritans had a mountain set up They had a a temple a place of worship in a certain mountain look at Deuteronomy 27 in verse number 11 And this is just uh, you know just for sake of bible study here So you know what she's talking about look at verse number 11 and moses charged the people the same day saying moses is delivering the law here He's delivering the law and within delivering the law in Deuteronomy He says in verse number 12 These shall stand upon mount gyrism to bless the people when you're come over jordan and he lists six tribes of You know the children of israel and then in verse 13 He says and these shall stand upon mount ebol to curse, you know, and he lists six more tribes Moses is prophesying here that when they get into the promised land They are going to they're gonna they're gonna go to this place where there's these two mountains And six of the tribes are going to stand up on this mountain and they're going to deliver the blessings of god And six are going to stand on this mountain and they're going to deliver the curses of gods The levites are in the middle in the valley and they're kind of dishing out Both but that is what um one of the mountains that she's talking about turn to joshua chapter 8 joshua chapter 8 Turn to joshua chapter 8 and look down at verse number 30 These these mountains uh ebol and gyrism have many other Spiritual, you know aspects to them throughout the bible. We'll just hit a few more I can't really get to all of them for sake of time But look at joshua chapter 8 and verse number 30 The bible says then joshua built an altar unto the lord god of israel in mount ebol And as moses the servant of the lord commanded the children of israel As it is written in the book of the law of moses We just read this this is the this is this prophecy that moses gave in deuteronomy chapter 27 It is coming to pass here in joshua chapter 8 because remember we're studying through joshua. They're now in the promise land This is now happening Okay, as moses the servant of the lord commanded the children of israel As it is written in the book of the law of moses an altar of whole stones over which no man Have lift up any iron and they offered there on a burnt offerings unto the lord and sacrificed peace offerings And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of moses Which he wrote in the presence of the children of israel and all israel and their elders and officers and their judges Stood on this side of the ark on that side before the priests and the levites Which bear the ark of the covenant of the lord as well as the stranger as he that was born among them Half of them over against mount gear is in and half of them over against mount Ebal as moses the servant of the lord had commanded before that they should bless The children or the people of israel so the point i'm trying to make is this area that the samaritans had set up to worship Has great spiritual significance the lord actually appeared to abraham The first time telling him he would give him the promise land in this same area. Look at genesis chapter 12 Hundreds of years earlier before they would even come into the promise land. Look at genesis chapter 12 Genesis chapter 12. So this area is not some area that was just unknown to the israelites Look at genesis chapter 12 and verse number six Genesis chapter 12 and verse number six And abram abram. He's not yet abraham passed through the land onto the place of sisham Onto the plain of mora and the canaanite was in the land was then in the land. So this is before Way before hundreds and hundreds of years before abraham's Descendants would actually come into the promise land which we're studying in joshua And the lord appeared to abraham and said unto thy seed will i give this land And he there builded he an altar unto the lord who appeared Under him turned to genesis chapter 33. It's also where jacob settled You know, obviously jacob's well was there that was well known even to this Samaritan woman and the people in the area. Look at genesis chapter 33 Genesis chapter 33 And look at verse number 18 Where the bible says and jacob Came to shalom a city of shah session Which was in the land of canaan and we came from Pateranam and pitched his tent before the city And he bought a parcel of the field where he spread his tent at the hand of the children of haimor Setchum's father for a hundred pieces of money and he erected there an altar and called it elahet israel It's a special place is what i'm trying to get at and it turned into this special You know the special spiritual place that had this special place in you know the the combined tribe or combined nation of israel It turned into a separation point between how the samaritans were worshiping and how the jews were worshiping So basically she was saying, you know, you're a prophet and she's saying why you know, shouldn't you be worshiping in Jerusalem that's where the jews say you should worship and we worship in this mountain Okay, so jesus basically says to her go back to john chapter four He's like it doesn't really matter where you worship He's like because what i'm going to tell you is much more important look at verse 21 Verse 21 of john chapter four and jesus saith under her woman Believe me the hour cometh when you shall neither in this mountain nor yet at jerusalem worship the father And then he says you worship you know, not what? We know what we worship for salvation is of the jews I mean Again, this woman must be pretty pretty humble because jesus is saying You samaritans. You don't even know what you're worshiping up there Jesus says you you worship you're up there worshiping you're sitting here telling me that we shouldn't be worshiping in Jerusalem and he's like you guys are up on this mountain. You don't even know what you're worshiping up there You're just worshiping something You know and he says to her, you know, he says, you know, how I can talk he's talking about the samaritans in general Why because he says ye? And ye is plural by the way So I mean this is why you know the yeas and the these and the vows. I mean this is important It's important in the bible because jesus says ye worship Ye know not what he's like you samaritans You samaritans as a plural group you guys you don't even know what you're doing You're up there worshiping whatever a wall or a building or you know a calf or whatever He's like And you know, he's he's just saying you know salvation is of the jews. Now. This is kind of a test This is kind of a test. He says salvation is of the jews. What does he mean by that? He's saying do you know what i'm saying when I say salvation Is of the jews look at verse 23 Look at verse 23 But the hour cometh and now is when the true worshipers show worship the father in spirit And in truth he's like it's not about it's not about your mountain or our city He's like it's about the truth. It's about, you know, the salvation of the jews. What that means look at verse 24 God is a spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth now look at verse 25 Now the woman so he's testing her He's like, do you know what that means that salvation is of the jews and how it doesn't matter You know up on the mountain in the city and he says the woman says to him. She kind of like she's heard of this before She says I know that messiah cometh Which is called christ when he has come He will tell us all things She says i've i've heard of this messiah That's called the christ. She's like i've heard that he's coming when he comes. He'll explain everything To us Is what she says so i mean she kind of gets a c On the test here. She's heard of the messiah the idea of the messiah the christ And jesus saith under her i to speak unto the m he Says it's me i'm the christ I mean Well, first of all, this is like one of the best passages. You ever heard the stupid argument that like jesus never claimed to be the christ I mean it just jesus claimed to be god jesus claimed to be the christ like so many times But this is a pretty direct one right here where you know she says i know that you know the messiah cometh Well, which messiah she could have been talking about any messiah which is called christ and jesus says I You know that speak unto the m he i mean You know i mean it's not you know you don't have to be a bible scholar to figure that one out jesus just said i am the christ Right here to this woman bam. There's the gospel There's the gospel by jesus look at verse 27 So i mean that was a pretty simple, you know gospel presentation by jesus basically You know jesus walking up to a door, you know saying have you heard of you know Do you know what all this you know salvation of the jews is all about you know you you know that you know You've been into all this sin and people are yeah, and you've heard about you know the salvation of the jews You know what that means and she and people say at the door they're like Yeah, i've heard that maybe there's going to be a messiah and jesus would just be like i'm the messiah You know and jesus just knew this woman's heart look at verse 27 Look at verse 27 and came and upon this came his disciples And marveled that he talked with the woman yet no man said what seeketh thou or why talk us thou with her The woman then left her water pot and went her way into the city and say it to the men Come see a man, which told me all things that i ever did Is this not the christ? Then they went out of the city and came unto him so she goes to the city and she's like i found the christ I mean how could this have been look she basically says this man performed a miracle For me and this must be the christ she goes and tells all these people Therefore said the disciples one to another have any man brought him to eat And well first let me just back it up just for a second here and then they went out of the city And came unto him so this woman let me just go back for a second this woman This woman who's been married five times And is in fornication with the current man that she's with she is clearly a woman that is probably not you know The upper echelon of people when people think of someone's reputation in this town this woman goes she Finds out who jesus is and the first thing she does is runs to the entire town and gets basically the entire town to come over to jesus You know it reminds me a little bit of a story we just read in joshua about a woman called rahab A woman called rahab who basically the bible says she just packs her house with her brethren Because anybody that was not going to be inside the walls Of her house was going to be killed and it says they went and they got rahab and all her brethren and her kid I mean every she got everybody Into her house It's funny. It's funny how we may look down on certain people, but it's funny how some people will get saved There's just a side note that I just thought of when I was writing this sermon It's funny how some people will get saved and just like just like Just hammer the gospel home to all their family and all their friends and all this and just be able to get everybody On board lot lot couldn't get hardly anybody You know it makes you wonder you know, maybe you know, we should just Not judge people after they get saved and just see what they can do in their families They as they grow as they you know, I mean because you'll see that you'll see that today You'll see people get saved and just like just push and just get all their families saved Or a large portion of their family saved and just be this incredible blessing Upon the people that were in their lives So that's a great thing and this woman was a great example of this look at verse 33 Therefore say at the disciples one to another have any man brought him to eat But you know Jesus had already said I have meat to eat that you know not of Jesus say other than my meat is due to the is to do the will of him that sent me and to finish his work Say not be that yet there are yet four months and then come at the harvest Behold I say and you lift up your eyes and look under the fields for they are white already to harvest Jesus when he was on this earth was constantly doing an accounting of souls He was constantly doing an accounting of you know all I mean he saw the damn nation in front of him He saw the guilty in front of him and he was always Redirecting people to the real problem here and the real problem is that everybody's unsaved and the fields are white under harvest That means that look if you go harvest it you've got it Meaning if these people knew the truth they would accept the truth And he that reapeth receiveeth wages and he that and gathereth fruit under life eternal That both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice Together and here in the saying that is true one soweth and another reapeth I say you to reap where on you bestowed no labor other men labored and you're entered into their labors You know what this says here this says that when you go out maybe maybe you go out two three four weeks in a row And like nobody gets saved it means that you're still sowing It means that you're still out there sowing because look you have any people I know that are that are just sold out Christians today that they had to get the gospel given to them like several times Somebody had to come and knock on their door or give them the gospel again and again and again That's exactly what jesus is talking about here So if you have somebody that gets the gospel and they need they need to hear the gospel four times Before it'll finally all click and they can finally you know They hear the gospel and then maybe they need to you know Because look if you've been raised your whole life in a false belief, you know, that's a long bridge to cross in 25 minutes So don't forget that when you're out there and don't feel like you have to slam that person across the finish line Because you know we're out there to sow And if somebody has spent 35 years 40 years 45 years 50 years in a false gospel and false beliefs and a false religion of whatever kind of system that it is look They may just have to think on that I mean they may have to listen just what what you need to do is make sure you get it across Clearly and completely And then if they're thinking on it you just let them think You just let them think let that thing soak in Let that seed You know soak there for a while And germinate and then somebody else will come along And then they will sow again and then somebody will harvest So the bible is saying here that there's a lot of people like that look at verse 39 Verse 39 and many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman So this woman went out and she got a whole bunch of people saved here She got a whole bunch of people now there's two groups of people here This go this woman goes out immediately after she got saved and she's like Can you believe it and look? I mean you should kind of feel like that after you got saved quite honestly If you really got it If you really got it and you understand that okay, I just trusted in Jesus And now if I walk outside and get hit by a car because look it's pretty easy to die today I mean we're pretty fragile people we're pretty fragile machines here It's pretty easy that you know we could just be done tomorrow And you know she goes out she realizes what she's been given Look if you realize that you know you're no longer in risk of going to hell forever You should have that same feeling like you want to run out And tell other people about this I mean if you don't you know if you don't are you even saved? No, I'm just kidding. I'm not going there But my point is this okay. My point is this you should have that feeling You should have that feeling within you that you know what you've been given You know that you're no longer in danger of hanging you're no longer hanging over that fire So to speak And that's this woman she went out and got all these people saved And then the Samaritans verse 40 They were come unto him they besought him that he would tarry with them that he would stay And he abode there two days they asked him to stay for two days And many more believed because of his word So here they beg him to stay for two more days and look not every you know You know not every word that jesus said is in the bible I mean he stayed there for two days and preached to these people and got a whole bunch more people saved So you know Half the people got saved not half but a bunch of people got saved from this woman's words And then the rest came to him or the group came to him and then he got a bunch more saved by his own words Okay, and said unto the woman now we believe Not because of thy saying for we have heard him ourselves And we know that this is indeed the christ the savior of the world even the samaritans knew About jesus or about the about not jesus about the christ the coming christ So look he abode there two days. He got all these people saved What's the application of this story? What's the application of this story? So we see jesus soul winning here. This is a great example for us in the bible We see i mean we see the lord jesus christ out soul winning I mean what can we learn from this first of all? What does he do? He says you're a sinner? I mean he had a much more Simple approach. He says basically you're a sinner to this woman and I am the messiah But as we can see the samaritans already knew about the coming messiah They already knew the stories of the you know, they had either heard about it But basically that was his message. You are all sinners and I am him That was his message But here's the thing jesus knew what she believed And he knew where her heart was So the first point is this when we're out soul winning, you know remember this you are not jesus You are not jesus. We do not give soul winning presentations here And I've said this maybe a million times and I'll say it a million and one But we don't give soul winning presentations here based on what we think people need to hear Okay, we don't go out and give soul winning presentations because Because here's the thing. We're not jesus We can't tell where the holes are and here's the problem just like the soul winning tip today. Here's the problem People are so twisted up That look that's the downside of 99 of these churches having a false gospel Is that they've all got it twisted in just a little bit different way? It's nearly impossible To figure out just on where somebody goes to church where their shortfalls are I mean that would be an impossible task. So look We must be thorough. That's a culture here We must be thorough soul winners or look we're going to have false converts I mean if we want to go out we just want to rack up a bunch of you know Salvations on maps. We want to get our number in the bulletin just skyrocketing like crazy. That's one thing But I have no interest in that none And we keep track of the salvations because it's kind of a way for us to kind of see You know the labor that we're doing but I mean the point is we don't want false converts I mean you can't look after I mean even talking about the tip this afternoon We can't take for granted that people Understand eternal security. You can't take that for granted Why because of the culture that we live in today? That's why Because of this this Protestant culture This Protestant culture where you know people will literally tell you. Oh, yeah, it's grace through faith You know, but yeah. Oh, but yeah. Oh, no, you can't do that Well, you can't you can't do that. You better have some works or the works or a lot of works or it depends on who you talk to Or you can lose that grace You can fall from grace and they'll define redefine falling from grace As you know losing your salvation Look, it's this crazy veiled Works mix that's out there with everybody. So we can't take anything for granted You know, I mean look Some people will say some people will say. Yeah, you know, you're right I mean people will confuse you to the point of saying you're right. God will never let you go. Yep. I agree Grace through faith. God will never let you go But you can walk away from him I mean there's all I mean all this stuff you will hear all of these different things So eternal security along with the rest of the gospel what there's so many hangups today There's so many hangups today. Here's another one. Just you know, this fear of damnation Or belief in damnation. That's a hang up If people don't have a belief in damnation That's a hang up If people don't believe that, you know, I mean here's how many times you heard this how many times you heard this Yes, you have to you have to do x y and z and it's all different things for whoever you talk to to get to heaven Or to stay saved or to whatever right and then I always look I spend a lot of time up front Trying to get to the bottom of what these people actually believe because it's the only chance you have of getting them saved You got to figure out It's kind of like you ever go fishing with your kids and like all you ever do is untangle fishing lines Like everybody gets all their lines crossed up. You got to really concentrate and figure out Okay, I mean you can't just sit there with two lines that are tangled up and just start spinning them You got to like sit there and look and be like, okay, this one You know in five foot seas, you know, that's fun You know, but I mean you have to literally figure out every single turn to get the hook Oh, the hook's got to go through that loop this and you got to spend like, you know Time doing that to unwrap look you got to unwrap these people So you got to figure out exactly how tangled they are That's why I spend that time up front But here's these people you got to do x y and z to get to heaven or to stay saved or whatever and then at least say Okay, what if let's say they said you have to get baptized Person we met today. You have to get baptized to be saved. Okay. What if I don't get baptized? And then I get you know hit by a car or I should die the next day and I was not baptized What I'm trying to get these people to say is then yes, you would go to hell Yes, you would not go to heaven But what you will get is this what you will get many times Maybe 90 of the time you meet these people is is this They just don't believe that there's damnation You see, okay What if I don't get baptized and then I end up dying tomorrow unbaptized and then you get those most people will say Well, I think God will forgive you This is a person that does not believe in damnation This is a hang up This is a major Hangup why why is it a major hang up because what what am I going to convince them to be saved from? What am I going to convince somebody that thinks that they just listed all the things that you have to do to get to heaven? And I say what if I do none of those things? Well, and then I die. Well, I go to heaven. Oh, I think God will still forgive you There's a person that doesn't believe in damnation. They don't believe in a god that would ever throw anybody in hell That's a hang up. Why because why would they want to be saved? Say from what? They're not hanging over any cliff. Everyone's going to heaven. I'll I'll continue with this person I'll continue with this person and I'll you know, I'll finish this thought and I'll say do you think everyone goes to heaven And then at that point they'll be like, well, you know I'll try to get them to really actually tell me what they believe. Look, here's the thing folks Most people just have a lot of contradictory thoughts in their mind You know, I hate to say this. I don't like I don't like having two thoughts that I can't logically connect In my head, but there's a lot of people that just haven't thought this through Because they're like they know All people aren't going to heaven. They know that because that would be seem absurd And Jesus actually answered that question and said that, you know, most people aren't going to heaven But they know that but then they yet they have this foolish belief so that the two but here's the thing I mean we have to unwrap these people Just because most people are idiots And they don't think through And come up with, you know, the logical connectors to make to find a philosophy that at least makes sense Which the gospel lines up all that So, I mean I'm just trying to find out what they think it takes to get to heaven because Once you find that out Then you can start with the gospel with these people and you can say look I'm going to start at the beginning I'm going to start at the beginning and I'll point out a lot of this may be review for you I'm sure you've heard of a lot of this before but I'm going to point out Where the bible says something a little bit different from what you told me And then that's why you need that information that they gave you up front So you can say when you get to Ephesians 2 when you get to romans 6 23 You know the second part of it you can say do you see how that's different? Then what you told me at the door when you said x y and z That's the only chance it's the best chance that you have of getting these people unwrapped And like I'm not saying it's a hundred percent effective But it's it's the best chance. So look, here's the thing. Here's the methodology of this church is that Here's the methodology. This is all you have to remember the methodology this church out so many is anybody that is unsaved gets the whole thing They get the whole thing Let's start at the beginning and you just go through it and look here's the thing Romans 3 10 you just go right to the center And they may have heard it, but you can say that okay, here's the thing If somebody's not going to listen to you for 20 25 minutes Don't get into this habit of you know, this will just take me a couple minutes And then pretty soon you're rushing Pretty soon you're dropping stuff out of your soul winning presentation and pretty soon you get used to doing that And pretty soon you're given a four minute gospel presentation We don't ever want to be those people Look, I mean There is I I get it folks You want this person at the door to get saved? I get it and when they're when they're when they're Busy looking at something else. They're not giving you their full attention You just feel like maybe they have a five minute attention span look you can't give the gospel in five minutes It's just that's not your fault That's not your fault And I understand that we have the hearts We want to see every single door that we knock on have those people be saved But we give the whole thing that's our culture here And then you tell those people you see how that's different from what you told me at the door And you know what you'll have people say Yeah, I do see how that's different. You know what now we're looking at repentance That's what you're facing now when you get that person that says you know what I do see the difference there and I and then you can you can show them that The right way and they can turn From that belief that they gave you at the door What and then you know you let them decide you let them decide if they're going to repent or not Look jesus can look jesus can see the heart This is the whole point that i'm trying to get and and I will even point that out before I pray with people I will even point out before I pray with people. I will say look I will say look I'd like to lead you into short prayer And these aren't magical words As a matter of fact it this is a prayer between you and god you are telling god what you believe in your heart The sky is not going to open lightning is not going to come down as a matter of fact i'm just a man I can't see your heart jesus could see your heart Jesus could see this woman's heart look it's all about it's not about you know speaking you know a chant It's about what you believe in telling god that with your mouth We're not magical prayer people and we're never going to be magical prayer people So the point is we see jesus can see the heart And I just want to make the point tonight that you know we are ambassadors of the gospel In this church it is a huge Responsibility it is a huge responsibility we are ambassadors for christ brothers and sisters So we're going to do a good job We're always going to be thorough with the gospel here people are unsaved they get the whole thing Every time let's bow our heads and have a word