Trascrizione completa di The Gospel of St. John - Chapter 4, Part 2 - Bro. John "Ernie" Perez

their God, who was their source of living waters. 00:05:26.319 --> 00:05:40.560 We noted that Jesus advised the Samaritan woman, if she really knew who he was, she could experience the living water that all Israel had forsaken. 00:05:40.879 --> 00:05:45.680 And I put a little side note here that the Hebrew word for water is myyim. 00:05:46.480 --> 00:05:50.160 It is always used in the plural. 00:05:50.319 --> 00:05:57.600 For example, we say a glass of water, but in Hebrew it would be a glass of waters. 00:05:58.079 --> 00:06:09.360 Now myself, I can easily, in my mind, I imagine that Jesus probably purposely used the word myyim for water, the Hebrew word instead of the Greek word hydor. 00:06:09.519 --> 00:06:20.079 But we know that, you know, in his day and time, common languages were Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic, spoken freely within the culture. 00:06:20.560 --> 00:06:28.000 Now, try thinking of it this way water can adapt to an infinite number of forms. 00:06:29.279 --> 00:06:33.759 But it is never anything except water. 00:06:34.160 --> 00:06:39.759 You can pour it into a cube, it is water, but in the shape of a cube. 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:42.399 Pour it into a circle, it is still water. 00:06:42.560 --> 00:06:52.160 No matter what kind of container you pour water into, no matter what form it takes, it is always water. 00:06:52.959 --> 00:06:56.560 Isn't that what happens with the Spirit of God? 00:06:59.519 --> 00:07:11.360 No matter how the Spirit of God shows up through a particular prophet, apostle, evangelist, or through one of the saints testifying, it's still the Spirit of God. 00:07:12.639 --> 00:07:14.319 God doesn't change. 00:07:14.480 --> 00:07:18.319 No matter what form, he's always the same God. 00:07:18.879 --> 00:07:24.959 No matter the object the Spirit inhabits, the essence or identity of the Spirit never changes. 00:07:25.199 --> 00:07:28.720 Only the outer appearance differs from form to form. 00:07:28.959 --> 00:07:36.480 So it is with the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, he who fills all time and space. 00:07:37.120 --> 00:07:41.120 The invisible God who fills all time and space. 00:07:41.279 --> 00:07:43.360 How about audio? 00:07:43.439 --> 00:07:46.800 We get you to read Colossians 1 and 15. 00:07:48.720 --> 00:07:52.639 And Anne will get you to read Colossians 2, 8 through 9. 00:07:52.800 --> 00:07:54.480 These are going to be familiar scriptures. 00:07:54.639 --> 00:07:57.600 I just felt like they tied in well to the lesson. 00:08:02.240 --> 00:08:03.920 So are you ready, Audia? 00:08:04.160 --> 00:08:04.800 Colossians 1. 00:08:05.040 --> 00:08:09.279 I'm sorry, I'm here, but Okay, 1 and verse 15. 00:08:11.360 --> 00:08:17.600 He is the image of the invisible God, the first, the firstborn over all creation. 00:08:17.839 --> 00:08:21.920 So Jesus is the image of the invisible God. 00:08:22.160 --> 00:08:24.160 Colossians 2, 8 and 9. 00:08:24.959 --> 00:08:38.480 Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ. 00:08:38.799 --> 00:08:43.759 For in him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. 00:08:44.080 --> 00:08:53.600 So in Jesus Christ, then is a complete revelation of the God who fills all time and space, all the fullness of the Godhead. 00:08:53.759 --> 00:08:58.480 Now, we know that that can't be all of God who fills the universe. 00:08:58.639 --> 00:09:17.919 So the fullness, it only reads logical that it's a complete expression of who God is: of his grace, his mercy, his power, his judgment, his redemption, his healing virtue, his righteousness, his holiness, all reflected in the only begotten Son of God. 00:09:18.639 --> 00:09:19.600 So in St. 00:09:19.759 --> 00:09:29.200 John 4 and 10, that scripture is used by Jesus to launch his conversation with the Samaritan woman into a new direction. 00:09:30.159 --> 00:09:37.279 This conversation is now heading towards an experience of personal revelation. 00:09:37.679 --> 00:09:45.679 Let me encourage you to anticipate that our God is a personal God. 00:09:47.039 --> 00:09:58.720 He's not just the God of conference, camp meeting, revival service, Sunday morning service, Sunday evening, He's the God of our life. 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:05.519 And you need to anticipate God going with you in your car, meeting with you in your home. 00:10:06.960 --> 00:10:12.240 And wherever you may be when you have a need for God, He's there. 00:10:13.120 --> 00:10:24.000 If the only time we can hear from Him is when we're in the church house or at a conference, we're gonna be in trouble driving down the road when that car in front of us goes crazy. 00:10:25.519 --> 00:10:27.600 Because we need Jesus with us every day. 00:10:28.159 --> 00:10:29.200 Buckle up, buttercup. 00:10:29.600 --> 00:10:33.120 So verse 10, that's not scripture. 00:10:33.759 --> 00:10:35.120 Buckle up, buttercup. 00:10:35.519 --> 00:10:36.960 Jesus answered, John. 00:10:37.440 --> 00:10:38.320 I disagree. 00:10:39.679 --> 00:10:41.120 John 4, verse 10. 00:10:43.200 --> 00:10:59.600 Jesus answered and saith unto her, if thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith unto thee, give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. 00:11:01.600 --> 00:11:07.120 That is like a segue and an introduction to where the conversation is about to go. 00:11:07.360 --> 00:11:12.159 So now we're gonna read verses 11 through, I believe it's 20. 00:11:12.320 --> 00:11:13.919 Yes, 11 through 20. 00:11:14.080 --> 00:11:20.480 Then we're gonna come back, as our habit is, go over the scriptures and talk about them a little more. 00:11:20.720 --> 00:11:26.879 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. 00:11:27.120 --> 00:11:30.879 From whence then hast thou that living water? 00:11:31.279 --> 00:11:40.559 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which

gave us the well, and drank thereof himself and his children, and his cattle? 00:11:41.120 --> 00:11:49.600 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again. 00:11:49.919 --> 00:11:56.240 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst. 00:11:56.720 --> 00:12:05.279 But the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. 00:12:06.159 --> 00:12:14.320 The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw. 00:12:14.799 --> 00:12:20.559 Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband and come hither. 00:12:21.200 --> 00:12:24.879 The woman answered and said, I have no husband. 00:12:25.279 --> 00:12:39.120 Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband, for thou hast had five husbands, and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband. 00:12:39.440 --> 00:12:42.240 And that saidest thou truly. 00:12:42.639 --> 00:12:47.759 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. 00:12:48.639 --> 00:12:56.960 Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. 00:12:59.120 --> 00:13:01.440 That's the end of our reading for today. 00:13:01.679 --> 00:13:05.840 So let's go back now and talk about what we've read. 00:13:06.000 --> 00:13:08.480 I'm going to read verses eleven and twelve. 00:13:08.720 --> 00:13:14.559 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. 00:13:14.720 --> 00:13:17.360 From whence hast thou this living water? 00:13:17.600 --> 00:13:25.519 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well and drank thereof himself and his children and his cattle? 00:13:25.679 --> 00:13:31.679 So this lady who lugs gallons of water all the way home. 00:13:31.919 --> 00:13:46.399 We don't know if she had to go to the well every day or three times a week, but she drags this water all the way home, and we have no idea how far she traveled and how much water, how many gallons she had to carry. 00:13:47.360 --> 00:13:51.679 And she hears this man talking to her about living water. 00:13:52.799 --> 00:13:57.679 This statement touches her, but notice it's not from a scriptural standpoint. 00:13:57.840 --> 00:14:03.679 All the scriptures we read about God being the source of living waters, she doesn't reference. 00:14:04.000 --> 00:14:06.000 That doesn't spring up in her mind. 00:14:06.320 --> 00:14:08.480 Is it that she never read them? 00:14:09.679 --> 00:14:12.240 Or is it that she just couldn't remember? 00:14:12.639 --> 00:14:15.039 But in either case, it didn't come up. 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:28.399 No, she knows, though, the common heritage of the Samaritans and the Jews, and that it is tied to their common ancestor, Jacob. 00:14:29.279 --> 00:14:36.960 So she's saying, We Samaritans, we're tied to Jacob just like you Jews. 00:14:39.519 --> 00:14:48.480 Is there sarcasm in her

voice when she says to Jesus, You have nothing to draw water with. 00:14:49.200 --> 00:14:50.720 And the well is deep. 00:14:50.960 --> 00:14:54.000 Just where will you be getting this living water? 00:14:55.120 --> 00:14:58.320 Sometimes when I'm reading scripture, I hear things. 00:14:58.559 --> 00:15:00.720 I hear a tone of voice. 00:15:01.759 --> 00:15:04.080 I hear a gasp in my mind. 00:15:04.240 --> 00:15:06.960 I I hear almost a stutter. 00:15:07.039 --> 00:15:12.000 I kind of get into it like that, and I consider it a joy. 00:15:12.799 --> 00:15:18.000 And I can't prove to you those expressions, but it's just what happens when I'm reading the Word of God. 00:15:18.240 --> 00:15:19.519 So she continues. 00:15:20.879 --> 00:15:26.480 Do you think you are equal to or more powerful than our ancestor Jacob? 00:15:27.120 --> 00:15:35.919 So even though Jews and Samaritans hate each other, they understand the common heritage that they're both related to Jacob. 00:15:37.679 --> 00:15:52.159 This well is only here because he, Jacob, he and his personally dug this well, did the work, provided this water that nurtured his family and his livestock. 00:15:52.480 --> 00:15:57.279 But you have living water to give me. 00:15:58.480 --> 00:16:00.879 This is the way I hear the conversation. 00:16:01.200 --> 00:16:03.440 Where are you getting this water from? 00:16:04.960 --> 00:16:07.840 Sound like she's not really persuaded yet. 00:16:09.600 --> 00:16:12.799 She reminds me of Anne and Audia. 00:16:17.519 --> 00:16:21.600 Because I'm sitting more than arm's distance away. 00:16:23.759 --> 00:16:25.840 So verse thirteen. 00:16:26.559 --> 00:16:35.200 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again. 00:16:38.240 --> 00:16:40.960 Whosoever drinks of this water shall thirst again. 00:16:41.120 --> 00:16:42.080 Verse 14. 00:16:42.639 --> 00:16:50.879 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst. 00:16:51.679 --> 00:17:00.559 But the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. 00:17:02.399 --> 00:17:12.400 So then it will begin to spring up from within you, lady, like a continuously overflowing well. 00:17:12.640 --> 00:17:18.400 You're going to experience this, producing much more than well water. 00:17:18.799 --> 00:17:24.720 This water will cause everlasting life to spring up from within you. 00:17:26.559 --> 00:17:31.200 Does anyone here remember reading about that in the book of Isaiah? 00:17:34.240 --> 00:17:34.880 Yes. 00:17:35.119 --> 00:17:35.599 Sorta. 00:17:36.000 --> 00:17:38.160 Is it Isaiah chapter 12? 00:17:38.640 --> 00:17:40.880 I'm just pulled that rabbit out of my hat. 00:17:41.759 --> 00:17:45.599 But since Anne says yes, I knew that she could turn right to it. 00:17:46.480 --> 00:17:47.440 Almost. 00:17:49.200 --> 00:17:51.039 The prophet speaks, Isaiah 12. 00:17:51.119 --> 00:17:51.680 Start reading. 00:17:51.759 --> 00:17:52.880 It's a short chapter. 00:17:53.279 --> 00:17:54.480 It is very short. 00:17:54.799 --> 00:18:01.440 O Lord, I will praise you, though you were angry with me, your anger is turned away and you comfort me. 00:18:01.680 --> 00:18:04.000 Behold, God is my salvation. 00:18:04.160 --> 00:18:06.559 I will trust and not be betrayed. 00:18:06.799 --> 00:18:10.000 For yea, the Lord is my strength in psalm. 00:18:10.319 --> 00:18:13.039 He also has become my salvation. 00:18:13.359 --> 00:18:34.000 Therefore, with joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation, and in that day you will say, Praise the Lord, call upon his name, declare his deeds among the peoples, make mention that his name is exalted, sing to the Lord, for he has done excellent things. 00:18:34.319 --> 00:18:37.359 This is known in all earth all the earth. 00:18:37.680 --> 00:18:45.119 Cry out and shout, O inhabitant of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel in your midst. 00:18:45.440 --> 00:18:50.000 Now, the waters of salvation come from the Holy One of Israel. 00:18:50.240 --> 00:18:50.880 Yes. 00:18:51.519 --> 00:18:55.359 And I had a buddy, brother in Christ, who was half Jewish. 00:18:56.559 --> 00:19:12.960 And he told me one day that in the copy of scriptures that the Jews read from, we call the Old Testament, their Bible, that in this chapter, every time you see the word salvation, they have the word Yeshua. 00:19:13.279 --> 00:19:13.839 Yeshua. 00:19:15.200 --> 00:19:16.559 Yes, is their salvation? 00:19:16.880 --> 00:19:17.519 Amen. 00:19:18.079 --> 00:19:28.960 So I, several years later, made friend with a librarian and asked that lady if she could get me a copy. 00:19:29.200 --> 00:19:31.839 This was in a small town, Pagosa Springs, Colorado. 00:19:31.920 --> 00:19:35.200 They didn't have a copy of that Bible in their library. 00:19:35.440 --> 00:19:36.799 So she ordered it. 00:19:37.359 --> 00:19:41.920 And I traced it down and read it for myself, and that's exactly the way it reads. 00:19:52.079 --> 00:20:03.440 The living water is the revelation of Yeshua within us, within our life. 00:20:04.640 --> 00:20:09.359 Now, she can't understand this yet. 00:20:09.759 --> 00:20:13.839 That this water will cause everlasting life to spring up within you. 00:20:14.000 --> 00:20:15.119 That's what he's telling her. 00:20:15.279 --> 00:20:17.200 She doesn't get a grip on that. 00:20:17.839 --> 00:20:29.440 Verse 15 the woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw. 00:20:29.599 --> 00:20:33.440 She cannot wrap her head around the statements Jesus makes. 00:20:34.240 --> 00:20:42.000 She evidently never learned what we read and we call those Old Testament references, or she couldn't remember them. 00:20:42.240 --> 00:20:45.599 It was foreign to her thinking for reasons we don't know. 00:20:45.839 --> 00:20:49.599 But at this point, I can't begin to guess. 00:20:50.000 --> 00:20:52.880 Is there sarcasm in her voice?

00:20:53.119 --> 00:20:55.839 Or is there wonder and awe? 00:20:56.640 --> 00:21:01.519 Do not think that Jesus spoke to people who were without emotion. 00:21:02.640 --> 00:21:05.519 Do not think he lived without emotion. 00:21:07.519 --> 00:21:11.039 That he was some sort of monotone personality. 00:21:14.400 --> 00:21:32.079 You have feeling, and it comes out in your conversation, in your tone of voice, in the way you nod your head, or tilt your head, or sit up straight, or arch your shoulders, or take aggressive posture because you don't like what was said. 00:21:32.240 --> 00:21:34.640 The people in the Bible are just like us. 00:21:37.200 --> 00:21:44.000 So don't assume that when you read it, there's nothing, you know, emotional to it. 00:21:44.240 --> 00:21:46.480 It's filled with emotion. 00:21:47.680 --> 00:21:51.119 Try to put yourself into the story. 00:21:51.359 --> 00:21:52.400 What's that, Ann? 00:21:52.640 --> 00:21:54.160 I was just thinking that. 00:21:55.440 --> 00:21:57.920 Go give us the comment you you were gonna make. 00:21:58.319 --> 00:22:16.880 I was just thinking that when I Read it, I try to put myself in that situation, and if it says you, I say Anne or me, but yeah, and then I'm kind of like, oh wow, if that was me, then yeah. 00:22:17.759 --> 00:22:20.160 Yeah, we need to understand these are real people. 00:22:20.400 --> 00:22:39.279 Yeah, and if it if I had grown up not knowing the not having been taught the Torah in the day, I might have this same sentence. 00:22:40.160 --> 00:22:42.160 I want some of that water. 00:22:43.279 --> 00:22:44.720 Sarcasm or awe. 00:22:45.279 --> 00:22:51.680 I think it's awe because she's a woman that does not really know what you think it's awe. 00:22:51.839 --> 00:22:52.559 I think it's awe. 00:22:52.799 --> 00:22:53.279 I do too. 00:22:53.519 --> 00:23:09.279 I think it's awe and curiosity, but wanting to know, because as Samaritans, they were ostracized, they were kept from knowing these things, right? 00:23:09.519 --> 00:23:14.160 But as being part Jew, they longed to know God. 00:23:14.960 --> 00:23:20.000 So how how did that translate in her conversation, Sandy? 00:23:20.319 --> 00:23:24.480 You you think she was just like a robot talking to Jesus? 00:23:25.440 --> 00:23:29.359 She was actually thinking. 00:23:30.559 --> 00:23:32.079 She was thinking and feeling. 00:23:33.039 --> 00:23:40.079 And she was craving that knowledge because it had been denied her all these years. 00:23:41.039 --> 00:23:41.279 Yeah. 00:23:41.599 --> 00:23:45.359 Yeah, so she cannot wrap her head around the statements Jesus makes. 00:23:46.240 --> 00:23:48.640 However, she makes it clear. 00:23:49.680 --> 00:23:53.519 I want some of that water. 00:23:55.599 --> 00:23:59.359 I would love to never be thirsty again. 00:23:59.599 --> 00:24:06.720 I would love to stop carrying water from this well all the way home every day or twice a week or three times a week. 00:24:07.119 --> 00:24:11.440 Because she hasn't grasped the concept yet of living water. 00:24:11.759 --> 00:24:12.400 No, she hasn't. 00:24:12.880 --> 00:24:19.279 She hasn't, because she's never been exposed to what to the scripture. 00:24:19.680 --> 00:24:20.640 Not like she should have been. 00:24:21.440 --> 00:24:21.680 Yeah. 00:24:21.920 --> 00:24:41.920 But I also think that I mean when you look at this and you see her confusion and and wanting to know, you see why the Samaritan people felt so, it wasn't their fault that they were ostracized. 00:24:42.079 --> 00:24:46.240 It was their ancestors' fault for what they did. 00:24:46.640 --> 00:24:48.000 The children, yeah. 00:24:48.240 --> 00:25:00.079 The children of indentured indentured slaves or African slaves, the the children of slaves have no concept of why am I here. 00:25:00.480 --> 00:25:07.680 And this, I didn't draw this, I nobody asked me, I didn't get an interview, I didn't get a resume turned in, I'm just born like that. 00:25:07.759 --> 00:25:08.559 Nobody. 00:25:09.200 --> 00:25:21.119 And here I am, the child of indentured slavery, the, you know, which was a scourge for the Europeans who came here, or African slaves, which was a diff disappointment like we could not imagine. 00:25:21.359 --> 00:25:35.759 Yeah, but you see, when they were when they were released and sent back to Samaria, they were it wasn't just all the Jewish people, it was others that were integrated with them. 00:25:36.000 --> 00:25:41.119 And Jeroboam tried to You are just trying to get ahead of the lesson. 00:25:43.039 --> 00:25:45.920 I don't know why we're not letting you teach this lesson. 00:25:46.240 --> 00:25:49.759 But I also see good insight, sister. 00:25:50.319 --> 00:26:01.119 That she's like, we were punished for the sins of our fathers, and we don't even understand what those sins were. 00:26:01.440 --> 00:26:15.119 But you know that's happened to all of us because we are born outside of the Garden of Eden because of our ancestors, Adam and Eve, and everyone on this planet earth, every human being has that common heritage. 00:26:15.680 --> 00:26:23.519 We are born imperfect, we all got the sin nature, we're all equally evil when it comes to that. 00:26:24.000 --> 00:26:24.480 Yeah. 00:26:25.039 --> 00:26:39.759 And it's how we choose, and and if you're never brought up to believe what Jesus is telling her is very confusing. 00:26:40.559 --> 00:26:45.039 So, how important is it then that we read this entire Bible? 00:26:45.839 --> 00:26:47.759 Extremely extremely important. 00:26:48.240 --> 00:27:05.119 You know, because a good understanding of the Old Testament makes the New Testament alive because so much of what is written in the New Testament is built upon what's recorded in the Old Testament and referenced time and time again. 00:27:05.359 --> 00:27:05.920 Oh, yeah. 00:27:06.160 --> 00:27:09.279 So we need an understanding of the entire word of God. 00:27:09.440 --> 00:27:12.480 Don't let people tell you, I'm a New Testament

Christian. 00:27:12.640 --> 00:27:14.640 Like the Old Testament has no value. 00:27:14.880 --> 00:27:15.119 Yeah. 00:27:16.079 --> 00:27:28.480 No, you know, and in order to understand my yeah, my question would be if you're New Testament, then that's fine and good, but do you know how they got there? 00:27:29.039 --> 00:27:34.240 That that's the purpose of the Old Testament, to give you a roadmap to the new covenant. 00:27:34.480 --> 00:27:34.960 Exactly. 00:27:35.200 --> 00:27:59.759 And I almost also see the fact that how the Jewish people, by saying, you can't be part of this, they were restricting, they they not only were restricting their faith within the secular area where they were, but they also were restricting the Messiah. 00:28:00.160 --> 00:28:02.799 That that was that was a misconception by them. 00:28:03.119 --> 00:28:04.880 And I'm gonna show you this. 00:28:05.519 --> 00:28:13.920 Rahab, who was evidently a very famous harlot, a madam in Jericho, known by the king. 00:28:14.799 --> 00:28:14.960 Right? 00:28:15.839 --> 00:28:16.000 Yeah. 00:28:16.400 --> 00:28:21.200 She she she the king evidently was acquainted. 00:28:23.680 --> 00:28:33.839 So so my point is not only was she spared from Jericho, she was incorporated in the heritage of Jesus Christ. 00:28:34.559 --> 00:28:37.359 So was Ruth, who was a Moabite. 00:28:37.599 --> 00:28:38.079 Right. 00:28:38.400 --> 00:28:42.960 We know that the scripture refers to one of David's mighty men, Uriah the Hittite. 00:28:43.119 --> 00:28:56.799 So either he was a Hittite who had become a Jew, who had become, well, they didn't call him Jews yet, who had become a Hebrew and was in David's army, or one of his ancestors became a servant of Jehovah. 00:28:57.039 --> 00:28:57.359 Yeah. 00:28:57.599 --> 00:29:01.920 And you'll find, you just, why you gotta read that Old Testament? 00:29:02.640 --> 00:29:18.559 That God states on more than one occasion, regarding sojourners and strangers who have become Israelites and have latched on to the covenant of Abraham, don't ever tell them they're strangers from the covenant. 00:29:19.599 --> 00:29:27.839 Because our relationship with God is based on faith, and if they have the faith, if it's a man, they'll go through circumcision and the rights. 00:29:27.920 --> 00:29:38.559 If it's a woman, they'll go through the rights, and they will espouse themselves to the God of Abraham as Isaac and Jacob, and will be his chosen people. 00:29:38.960 --> 00:29:40.640 Now, let's keep going. 00:29:40.960 --> 00:29:42.400 Verse 16. 00:29:46.160 --> 00:29:54.799 Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither. 00:29:56.400 --> 00:30:01.279 The woman answered, verse 17, and said, I have no husband. 00:30:02.720 --> 00:30:07.279 Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband. 00:30:07.599 --> 00:30:10.880 For thou hast had five husbands. 00:30:11.680 --> 00:30:15.359 And he whom thou now hast is not thy husband. 00:30:15.599 --> 00:30:19.200 And

that saidest thou truly. 00:30:20.319 --> 00:30:24.480 So Jesus is really sinking the hook in her jar right now. 00:30:24.640 --> 00:30:28.319 Didn't he tell the disciples, You follow me and I will make you fishers of men? 00:30:28.720 --> 00:30:31.839 Or pulling here into the net of that type of fisherman. 00:30:32.000 --> 00:30:33.359 We use the fish in the line. 00:30:33.440 --> 00:30:36.319 They use the hook in the line, they use nets. 00:30:36.640 --> 00:30:38.319 He's really pulling her in. 00:30:38.799 --> 00:30:45.039 Jesus says to her, Go find your husband and bring him back here to me so I can meet him. 00:30:46.079 --> 00:30:53.759 Jesus is about to pull her in with what I consider his magnificent mercy and grace. 00:30:55.359 --> 00:30:58.319 Notice the woman answers honestly. 00:30:58.799 --> 00:31:06.799 And it reads to me as if she could not keep from blurting out, I have no husband. 00:31:07.440 --> 00:31:10.000 You know, and I think that was set in sorrow. 00:31:11.839 --> 00:31:18.000 Could have been because being married and having a husband was honorable. 00:31:18.720 --> 00:31:19.359 Yeah. 00:31:20.000 --> 00:31:22.400 And it was an honor she didn't have. 00:31:24.960 --> 00:31:30.319 Okay, so she had been married four times and divorced. 00:31:30.640 --> 00:31:33.920 We don't there she goes teaching the lesson. 00:31:35.519 --> 00:31:36.960 I can't keep up with y'all. 00:31:37.039 --> 00:31:38.240 You're too sprite for me. 00:31:39.039 --> 00:31:40.559 So here's here's what we got. 00:31:40.720 --> 00:31:43.839 The woman answers, honestly, I have no husband. 00:31:44.640 --> 00:31:45.599 Tell me. 00:31:46.079 --> 00:31:46.880 Audia? 00:31:47.119 --> 00:31:47.359 Okay. 00:31:47.599 --> 00:31:52.319 Was this statement immediately followed by a sigh of relief? 00:31:56.480 --> 00:32:09.359 I think it was more uh followed by a sigh of wow, of awe, that you know all about me and I've never told you a thing. 00:32:09.680 --> 00:32:11.200 Awareness is happening. 00:32:11.279 --> 00:32:12.319 Is that right, Sandy? 00:32:12.640 --> 00:32:14.079 How would you say it? 00:32:15.440 --> 00:32:22.480 I would say she was um dumbfounded. 00:32:23.920 --> 00:32:24.319 Yeah. 00:32:25.039 --> 00:32:29.920 Okay, so put yourself in the scripture, put yourself on the spot. 00:32:31.519 --> 00:32:33.119 I have no husband. 00:32:33.359 --> 00:32:38.400 Was this statement immediately followed by a sigh of relief, a gasp of awareness? 00:32:38.559 --> 00:32:39.680 What was she thinking? 00:32:39.839 --> 00:32:40.640 How about? 00:32:41.039 --> 00:32:41.839 How about this? 00:32:42.000 --> 00:32:47.039 Well, I guess this conversation is over now that this pious Jew knows what I am. 00:32:47.359 --> 00:32:47.680 Yeah. 00:32:48.079 --> 00:32:49.519 And who ratted me out? 00:32:50.079 --> 00:32:50.880 How did he know? 00:32:51.279 --> 00:32:54.319 I don't think that that was her attitude. 00:32:54.480 --> 00:32:58.160 I think it was more of wow. 00:32:58.559 --> 00:33:01.039 All I'm telling you is that these are possibilities. 00:33:01.119 --> 00:33:01.279 Yeah. 00:33:01.759 --> 00:33:02.640 And thrust yourself. 00:33:03.839 --> 00:33:13.279 I mean, if I had put myself in that situation and I was talking to someone who said to me, I know for a fact you've had three husbands, and da da da. 00:33:13.920 --> 00:33:14.720 And you've never met him. 00:33:14.880 --> 00:33:20.240 And I've never met him, I'd be like, okay, how do you know this? 00:33:20.559 --> 00:33:22.240 So I love Jesus' response. 00:33:22.480 --> 00:33:27.279 He said, Thou hast well said, I have no husband. 00:33:28.400 --> 00:33:32.000 He is really sinking his hooks deeper into her. 00:33:32.480 --> 00:33:34.799 He said to her, Well, you know what? 00:33:34.880 --> 00:33:36.000 You're an honest woman. 00:33:36.559 --> 00:33:36.960 Yeah. 00:33:37.200 --> 00:33:38.160 You're being honest with me. 00:33:38.400 --> 00:33:40.480 You're being honest with yourself. 00:33:40.640 --> 00:33:44.799 And if we're not honest with ourselves, we can never find a place of repentance. 00:33:44.960 --> 00:33:50.559 You can't be honest with the God you cannot see if you can't be honest with yourself. 00:33:51.839 --> 00:33:54.480 This is why some people never come to repentance. 00:33:54.640 --> 00:33:56.240 They come to church all the time. 00:33:56.400 --> 00:33:58.880 They feel sorry for themselves in the altar. 00:33:59.119 --> 00:34:04.640 They may weep, they may cry, but they go home and their lives are never changed. 00:34:04.960 --> 00:34:08.079 They think it's okay because I put money in the offering? 00:34:08.159 --> 00:34:08.480 Yeah. 00:34:08.719 --> 00:34:10.559 Because I'm here attending. 00:34:11.840 --> 00:34:13.920 Then therefore I'm okay. 00:34:15.360 --> 00:34:17.199 And this is a common deception. 00:34:17.280 --> 00:34:34.079 So it's not picking on them like saying they're hypocrites, it's saying they haven't understood the value of repentance and how repentance is an act of real faith, of capitulation, of surrendering my will to the will of God. 00:34:34.800 --> 00:34:41.039 Old-time preachers in our country used to preach repentance as a death experience. 00:34:41.280 --> 00:34:52.960 And they would actually be walking around the altar praying over what they call the mourners or on the mourner's bench, praying over those people, praying out loud, oh Lord, kill them. 00:34:54.480 --> 00:35:02.320 Because they had preached repentance so strong as death to the carnal nature that the people understood. 00:35:02.480 --> 00:35:13.360 They're not saying they want God to shoot me, they're wanting me to die out to my sinful desires, to my sinful way of life. 00:35:13.599 --> 00:35:23.199 You realize if you went to church and someone was in the altar seeking the Lord and you stood over them and started praying out loud, oh Lord, kill them. 00:35:23.440 --> 00:35:25.360 Do you know what would happen to you? 00:35:26.400 -->

00:35:28.800 Somebody might be taking you out. 00:35:31.199 --> 00:35:33.920 Because we don't teach repentance hard enough. 00:35:34.320 --> 00:35:47.440 Well, but they're they're they're phrasing that that wrong that you're saying what they should be saying when they're praying over them is Lord, kill their sinful nature. 00:35:47.760 --> 00:35:48.079 Yes. 00:35:48.320 --> 00:35:50.719 Make them never want to go there again. 00:35:51.039 --> 00:36:00.719 But that was understood in bygone days because the evangelists and the pastors and the preachers taught so hard what repentance equals. 00:36:01.119 --> 00:36:06.880 It was kind of like Paul saying that he crucified himself daily. 00:36:07.280 --> 00:36:09.519 Yeah, crucified my flesh daily. 00:36:09.679 --> 00:36:10.000 Yes. 00:36:10.239 --> 00:36:13.760 And and you know So this woman then is in a good place. 00:36:13.920 --> 00:36:14.159 Yeah. 00:36:14.480 --> 00:36:17.519 She's in a good place now for whatever she doesn't know. 00:36:17.760 --> 00:36:22.480 Jesus is telling her, being honest with yourself is a great place for you to be. 00:36:22.719 --> 00:36:23.360 Exactly. 00:36:23.599 --> 00:36:23.920 Okay. 00:36:24.400 --> 00:36:28.079 So the woman answers honestly. 00:36:28.960 --> 00:36:32.159 She says that Jesus loves her response. 00:36:32.480 --> 00:36:34.159 He says, You're telling the truth now. 00:36:34.320 --> 00:36:37.920 In other words, you're telling the truth, not just to me, but to yourself. 00:36:38.159 --> 00:36:40.719 And you've answered me honestly. 00:36:41.039 --> 00:36:47.840 And honesty with self is a necessity before we can be honest with God. 00:36:48.880 --> 00:37:14.800 And you know, this is why I understand this is making it should make this very clear to people when they come to the altar to ask for Jesus to come into their life, that maybe when you get up from there, it's like, I mean, I know my experience was like, man, I never want to go back to that life I just had. 00:37:15.280 --> 00:37:18.480 What we don't do enough is explain what it means. 00:37:19.599 --> 00:37:21.920 To say, stand up and raise your hand. 00:37:22.159 --> 00:37:22.480 Yeah. 00:37:22.719 --> 00:37:24.480 Ask Jesus to come into my heart. 00:37:24.559 --> 00:37:27.039 That doesn't mean they don't do that in sincerity. 00:37:27.199 --> 00:37:31.519 But if they don't learn the value of repentance, they don't know what to do with that request. 00:37:31.840 --> 00:37:41.599 Yeah, and for a lot of people, yes, they want Jesus, but do they want him enough to walk away from the life they were living? 00:37:41.840 --> 00:37:42.320 Amen. 00:37:42.400 --> 00:37:45.199 All right, now we're going to get to verse 19. 00:37:46.480 --> 00:37:53.360 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. 00:37:53.760 --> 00:38:03.599 Now, for me myself, I hear the sharp, excuse me, the sharp gasp of excitement escape from her lungs and burst out of her mouth. 00:38:03.679 --> 00:38:03.920 Why? 00:38:04.079 --> 00:38:11.360 Because she can't imagine a prophet coming to the Samaritans, a Jewish prophet carrying about Samaritans. 00:38:12.639 --> 00:38:15.519 She says, Oh, oh, I know you're a prophet. 00:38:15.760 --> 00:38:18.719 She goes on to say, I believe you're a prophet. 00:38:19.119 --> 00:38:20.480 What was her past? 00:38:20.800 --> 00:38:25.920 We know she was widowed five times, or she was divorced five times. 00:38:26.159 --> 00:38:33.920 If she was widowed five times, how deep is the damage by the amount of loss that she has suffered? 00:38:34.239 --> 00:38:38.880 Well, even if she was divorced five times, she she could not stomach any more hurt. 00:38:39.519 --> 00:38:39.760 Yeah. 00:38:40.000 --> 00:38:45.280 And so perhaps this is the reason why the man she is with right now is not her husband. 00:38:45.440 --> 00:38:47.760 Because she doesn't want to be without another husband. 00:38:47.920 --> 00:38:54.400 Whether it was through death or through divorce and lascivious living, it left the same mark. 00:38:54.880 --> 00:38:58.639 Now, was she a woman just filled with lust and liquor? 00:38:58.800 --> 00:38:59.840 We don't know. 00:39:00.719 --> 00:39:02.239 It really does not matter. 00:39:02.400 --> 00:39:10.800 What does matter is that Jesus was preparing this person to understand living water. 00:39:11.599 --> 00:39:16.000 She was going to, in my mind, she was going to be able to sniff it. 00:39:16.880 --> 00:39:19.360 Maybe barely, even almost sipping it. 00:39:19.519 --> 00:39:24.719 But after Pentecost, we're swimming in living water. 00:39:24.880 --> 00:39:26.159 Why do I say that? 00:39:26.480 --> 00:39:33.440 Because when John prophesied about Jesus, he said, and he will baptize you with the Holy Ghost. 00:39:33.519 --> 00:39:43.840 That means immerse you into the Spirit, that we would be overwhelmed by the Holy Ghost like a man who's dragged down under the water. 00:39:47.760 --> 00:39:54.719 So being baptized in the Holy Ghost is not only sipping the living water, it's being immersed into it. 00:39:58.000 --> 00:40:03.519 Being swallowed up by the Spirit of God, like Jonah was swallowed up by the whale. 00:40:03.920 --> 00:40:06.719 Or the great fish, more appropriately. 00:40:07.760 --> 00:40:10.480 So her next question, verse 20. 00:40:12.159 --> 00:40:15.039 Our fathers worshiped in this mountain. 00:40:15.599 --> 00:40:21.280 And ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where man ought to worship. 00:40:21.440 --> 00:40:23.599 Okay, you're the Jewish prophet. 00:40:24.719 --> 00:40:26.000 I got that. 00:40:26.400 --> 00:40:28.000 So I need to know. 00:40:29.440 --> 00:40:43.440 So whatever was in her life, whether she was a woman who was damaged by lewd living or just by a terrible roll of the dice, she is hungry for God. 00:40:45.039 --> 00:40:48.079 Did you know Jesus sees who's hungry for God? 00:40:50.000 --> 00:40:55.679 He sees this so well that he must needs go through Samaria. 00:40:56.000 -->

00:40:56.559 Why? 00:40:56.800 --> 00:41:04.079 To meet this one Samaritan woman because the angels rejoice over a single soul that repents. 00:41:04.320 --> 00:41:06.639 Jesus didn't said over a single Jew. 00:41:07.840 --> 00:41:11.360 He said over a single soul that repents. 00:41:12.639 --> 00:41:15.119 So he is drawn to this woman. 00:41:15.440 --> 00:41:16.480 She is drawn to him. 00:41:16.639 --> 00:41:18.880 It's like a magnetic force. 00:41:22.639 --> 00:41:24.480 Her next question about worship. 00:41:24.639 --> 00:41:27.360 This was a big question because of her heritage. 00:41:27.840 --> 00:41:29.679 You could blame Jeroboam. 00:41:30.239 --> 00:41:33.840 If you did the homework, you know who Jeroboam was. 00:41:35.519 --> 00:41:37.440 You could blame Jeroboam. 00:41:38.320 --> 00:41:42.159 Certainly he could receive part of the blame. 00:41:43.920 --> 00:41:50.880 But her spiritual heritage wasn't just Jeroboam, it was also, you could blame it on Assyrian kings. 00:41:52.000 --> 00:41:57.039 Her spiritual heritage was a true obstacle between her and God. 00:41:57.280 --> 00:41:57.920 Why? 00:41:58.320 --> 00:42:04.880 Because her ancestors were so vile in their worship. 00:42:06.880 --> 00:42:09.199 That's what they passed on to her. 00:42:11.519 --> 00:42:14.159 At least that's what I read in her question. 00:42:14.480 --> 00:42:23.519 Her heritage has caused her to ask, where do I worship in order to worship effectively? 00:42:24.400 --> 00:42:27.119 She knows she was born to worship God. 00:42:28.880 --> 00:42:30.159 She knows it. 00:42:30.960 --> 00:42:34.239 She's a Samaritan, a despised individual. 00:42:34.719 --> 00:42:40.960 But she knows her common ancestry with Jacob is the same as the Jews. 00:42:41.039 --> 00:42:44.559 And she knows somehow she's attached to the God of Abraham. 00:42:50.880 --> 00:42:54.320 That's why you need to go back and read those scriptures. 00:42:55.280 --> 00:43:00.000 Now, the mountain the woman references is thought to be Mount Gerizim. 00:43:00.480 --> 00:43:07.519 So let's read Deuteronomy chapter 11, verses 26 through 29. 00:43:08.239 --> 00:43:09.440 Sandy, you haven't read. 00:43:09.599 --> 00:43:10.639 Would you like to read? 00:43:10.960 --> 00:43:11.920 Of course. 00:43:12.239 --> 00:43:13.119 Why not? 00:43:14.480 --> 00:43:18.559 Deuteronomy chapter 11, verses 26 through 29. 00:43:18.960 --> 00:43:30.880 Moses, Deuteronomy is Moses' final testimony to the nation of Israel before he dies and before they go into the promised land under the leadership of Joshua. 00:43:31.440 --> 00:43:34.159 Aaron's dead, Moses is about to die. 00:43:35.039 --> 00:43:35.360 Okay. 00:43:35.679 --> 00:43:36.639 Go ahead. 00:43:37.440 --> 00:43:42.800 See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse. 00:43:43.519 --> 00:44:04.159 The blessing, if you obey the commands of the Lord your God that I am giving you today, the curse, if you disobey the commands of the Lord your God and turn from the way that I command you today, by Following the other gods which you have not known. 00:44:04.639 --> 00:44:14.480 When the Lord your God has brought you into the land you are entering to possess, you are to proclaim on Mount Garizim. 00:44:14.719 --> 00:44:19.519 The blessings and on Mount Evil the curses. 00:44:19.920 --> 00:44:24.079 Mount Garazine was to be the mountain of blessing. 00:44:26.960 --> 00:44:30.320 Now I asked a question. 00:44:31.039 --> 00:44:35.199 And we'll we'll talk about this in our next podcast. 00:44:35.840 --> 00:44:41.039 Who built a temple on Mount Garizim and why was it built? 00:44:41.440 --> 00:44:44.559 And we'll we'll we can end this podcast on that note. 00:44:45.039 --> 00:44:48.559 That'll give us time to come back to briefly touch this. 00:44:48.800 --> 00:44:50.880 I know we have to watch the time today. 00:44:54.079 --> 00:44:55.440 All right, good stuff. 00:44:55.679 --> 00:44:57.519 Did y'all learn something new today? 00:44:58.400 --> 00:44:59.199 Yeah, me too. 00:44:59.280 --> 00:45:00.000 Let me tell you what. 00:45:00.079 --> 00:45:08.000 I love the story of the Samaritan woman because I don't know if I just kind of resonate with her or what, you know, we all have a past. 00:45:08.159 --> 00:45:09.280 We'll have to dig into it. 00:45:09.440 --> 00:45:14.159 But but the way I see her response is okay, here I am. 00:45:14.239 --> 00:45:16.559 I'm not going with the women at the regular time. 00:45:16.639 --> 00:45:19.679 And now I finally make it, and it's hot. 00:45:21.119 --> 00:45:22.239 It's a desert. 00:45:22.400 --> 00:45:25.760 I mean, everywhere you go, we just came back from there. 00:45:26.000 --> 00:45:27.119 Everywhere's a desert. 00:45:27.199 --> 00:45:28.159 It's hot, you know. 00:45:28.239 --> 00:45:33.920 And so she's lugging this to go get more water for whoever she's got to take care of. 00:45:34.159 --> 00:45:38.559 She can't be around nobody else, you know, because she just has this reputation. 00:45:38.800 --> 00:45:43.679 And then here you got some Jews sitting there and starts talking about water. 00:45:43.840 --> 00:45:45.760 It's like, is this a pickup line? 00:45:47.760 --> 00:45:49.039 It's not a very good one. 00:45:49.199 --> 00:45:50.159 You know what I'm saying? 00:45:51.440 --> 00:45:56.480 I haven't quite quite made it there in my imagination. 00:45:57.360 --> 00:46:02.159 This is how she's looking at Jesus saying, is this a pickup line? 00:46:03.679 --> 00:46:11.599 What is this Jew, a guy, not here blocking my water accident, you know, and then he wants to try to talk about water. 00:46:11.840 --> 00:46:12.880 What do you want? 00:46:13.039 --> 00:46:15.920 You know, what's the bottom line? 00:46:16.000 --> 00:46:17.119 That's the way I take it. 00:46:18.320 --> 00:46:20.559 Yeah, just tell me what you're wanting, you know. 00:46:21.039 --> 00:46:21.760 And I see that. 00:46:22.159 --> 00:46:24.400 Oh Lord, do we need deliverance or water? 00:46:25.280 --> 00:46:28.719 But

I mean, I can see her just say, okay, what's it gonna cost me today? 00:46:28.880 --> 00:46:35.119 Yeah, you know, because she's been used so much in her life that it's like, here we go again. 00:46:35.199 --> 00:46:47.119 You know, it it really doesn't matter if sorrow had struck her four or five times, or if she was a woman who just went from man to man, either way, it left her devastated. 00:46:47.360 --> 00:46:49.599 Yeah, but that's the side I see of her. 00:46:50.000 --> 00:46:53.440 Is what is what is somebody else want from me today? 00:46:53.920 --> 00:47:00.159 Yes, you know, and so if it had been because she was widowed, she wouldn't be isolated. 00:47:00.559 --> 00:47:00.880 No. 00:47:02.000 --> 00:47:03.199 That that's a good point. 00:47:03.440 --> 00:47:03.679 Yeah. 00:47:03.840 --> 00:47:10.000 That that it is uh actually I I've read after this out of other books where it's a toss-up. 00:47:10.239 --> 00:47:11.280 Was she widowed? 00:47:11.920 --> 00:47:17.039 And we'll get into it further in the chapter, why, yeah, or was she a loose woman? 00:47:17.280 --> 00:47:25.280 In either capacity, it left her so hungry for God that Jesus took note of it. 00:47:25.440 --> 00:47:25.679 Yeah. 00:47:26.079 --> 00:47:26.800 That's my whole point. 00:47:36.159 --> 00:47:36.880 That's what I say. 00:47:37.039 --> 00:47:39.760 She was probably ostracized because of her story. 00:47:39.920 --> 00:47:44.800 And so, I mean, you know, so I see in my mind that's the way I saw it. 00:47:44.960 --> 00:47:49.599 And then Jesus tell you it without saying who he is, he shows who he is. 00:47:50.159 --> 00:47:55.280 And not because he wanted anything from her, he brought her something. 00:47:55.599 --> 00:47:56.719 He brought something to give. 00:47:57.039 --> 00:48:03.119 And I think I think that is what drew her attention is oh well, wait a minute. 00:48:03.599 --> 00:48:10.800 He's not asking me for anything, he's not making me pay for something, he's not making me do something without nothing. 00:48:11.039 --> 00:48:13.599 I said you would have asked me and I would have given you. 00:48:14.559 --> 00:48:17.519 That's my point, and that's what I just love about the story. 00:48:17.840 --> 00:48:19.440 All right, so good study, y'all. 00:48:19.599 --> 00:48:20.320 Good study today. 00:48:20.400 --> 00:48:21.360 Thank you, Brother Ernie. 00:48:21.840 --> 00:48:22.719 Love you so much. 00:48:22.880 --> 00:48:24.719 So grateful for all you put into this. 00:48:24.880 --> 00:48:30.559 Listen, friends, if you have not gone back and started this study with us uh with the Gospel of St. 00:48:30.719 --> 00:48:35.039 John, go back and go to the beginning and begin and go all the way through this with us. 00:48:35.119 --> 00:48:42.480 They're all online, and you can follow the book of John all the way through to our current place in chapter, part two. 00:48:43.519 --> 00:48:46.559 They're all on Spotify or whatever, they're all in your platform. 00:48:46.800 --> 00:48:47.519 There's a playlist. 00:48:47.760 --> 00:48:49.599 There is a playlist, and you can go back. 00:48:49.760 --> 00:48:54.079 We have over 129 uh podcasts right now. 00:48:54.320 --> 00:48:55.360 And they're not all me. 00:48:55.599 --> 00:48:58.880 Nope, they're not all you, and you can go back and listen. 00:48:58.960 --> 00:49:04.960 And and and what I love too is I was on the oh, what was it? 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