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Speaker 2All right , welcome to day four in this interaction between Jesus and the woman at the well . So at this point Jesus meets with this woman , breaking through religious boundaries and societal boundaries , and then he digs into where she really is . That her whole life is pictured at this well . That the reason she's coming at noon is because she's made a train wreck of her life . She's on her sixth man . She's had five husbands . The guy she's living with now is not her husband , so she's ashamed . She comes in the middle of the day . Jesus does not wait for her to get her act together , but he pursues her and a little simple prayer ain't going to be enough . He digs into the deepest , darkest places of her life and she has freedom , she has healing , she has the peace of Christ sitting next to her , making the greatest offer of all time Put your faith in me and you will be fully and finally satisfied with a wellspring of life on the inside of you that leads to eternal life . And then what she is going to do and this happens all the time is that she is going to dodge the invitation with some kind of theological jujitsu here . Here's how this goes . This is a total deflection .
Speaker 2Verse 20 , the woman is speaking . Our fathers worshiped on this mountain , but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship . And Jesus said to her woman believe me , the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father . You worship what you do not know . We worship what we know , for salvation is from the Jews . But the hour is coming , and is now here , when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth . This is not an either or that we are supposed to worship God truly . This is why doctrine matters . You can't rightly love God without right thoughts about God . But we're also supposed to worship him in spirit , with all of our heart and all of our soul and all of our mind and all of our body . Four the father is seeking such people to worship him , thank God . God is not looking for a particular style of worship . He is looking for the saints to worship him .
Speaker 2Verse 24 , god is spirit and those who worship him must worship him in spirit and truth . And the woman said to him I know that Messiah is coming , he who is called Christ , and when he comes he will teach us all things . And Jesus said to him . I know that Messiah is coming , he who is called Christ , and when he comes he will teach us all things . And Jesus said to her I who speak to you , am he Now ? Anybody that ever claims that Jesus never claims to be God in the Bible has never read the Bible . So Jesus , right here in chapter four , verse 26 of the gospel of John , claims divinity . Right here he says I who speak to you am the Messiah , I am the Christ , I am the fulfillment of the Old Testament . All right , but here's what I want to talk about .
Speaker 2Jesus is talking to her about the most important thing in all of eternity her sin and her salvation . But what she wants to do ? The moment she finds her place herself in an uncomfortable place , she wants to deflect and she goes . Oh , I got theological questions . Our forefathers say we worship on this mountain , but your forefathers say it's about that mountain . And then , when Jesus gets to the heart of worship , she goes . Well , one day , you know , we don't know now , but one day somebody will tell us . Okay , oftentimes what begins to happen when people are confronted with the spirit of God and they begin to realize their way isn't working . And the spirit of God does that deep dive into their heart like Jesus just did , then they know , people know this woman knows if I actually follow this God that I'm talking to here at the well then something's got to change . At least my sex life has to change . My marriage situation is going to change , and so people will often dodge with theology when they don't want to deal with personally surrendering .
Speaker 2One time I was on an airplane actually a million times I was on an airplane . But at this particular time this younger girl comes and sits next to me . I had a layover in Amsterdam . I always travel with some people , but this girl sitting next to me , from Amsterdam . She sits down , I have a Bible out . She looks at me and says do you actually believe that ? And so I go . Of course I do . And I began to share the gospel with her .
Speaker 2And this girl had never seen a Bible . She was doing some shady stuff in Amsterdam and she began I'm telling you , the spirit of God began to woo this girl . I began to tell her about how much God loves her , no matter what she's done . And those things weren't working . And she knew deep down in her soul she was more than just a physical body , but she was a spiritual being and something was wrong and you could tell she was being drawn and drawn and drawn . The tears began to well up and then she pulled the woman at the well move .
Speaker 2She just begins to ask me theological questions and they're nothing but distractions . She throws it up hey well , why does God hate gay people ? And what about the dinosaurs ? I mean , how do you explain the dinosaurs if God created everything ? And what about a man on an island that's never heard about Jesus before ? Okay , these are legitimate questions . God doesn't hate gay people . There's an answer about dinosaurs and there's also an answer see Romans 9 and 10 , about the guy on the island . But in that moment I looked at the girl and says are you gay ? She says no , okay . Are you a paleontologist ? She says I am not . Are you a sociologist ? No , I am not . Then why don't we deal with you and God in this moment ? This is what Jesus is doing with this woman . Jesus says the Messiah , the Christ , the answer to everything that you were looking for is sitting right in front of you . Don't ever let somebody dodge a gospel conversation with some sort of theological distraction . You just get to the heart of it . Who is Jesus to you ? Amen .
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