WEBVTT 00:00:05.599 --> 00:00:07.360 Hey, I'm Pastor Steve Hole. 00:00:07.679 --> 00:00:11.759 I want to empower you today to walk in your true identity as a worshiper and warrior. 00:00:11.919 --> 00:00:15.839 Today, embrace the power of God's Word and the Holy Spirit. 00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:19.120 Welcome to the Born for War podcast. 00:00:24.399 --> 00:00:27.280 I want to begin with a dream that I had on March 19th. 00:00:27.359 --> 00:00:31.760 I was in in Florida, and we were with Anna. 00:00:31.920 --> 00:00:33.200 Anna had had her baby. 00:00:33.359 --> 00:00:36.079 The baby was uh one-month preemie. 00:00:36.320 --> 00:00:42.079 So right when the baby, it's kind of cool how it worked out, Liz prayed, felt like she had a date to go and help Anna. 00:00:42.240 --> 00:00:48.640 And that that day, which she had to do it like a month before, was the exact day when the baby came home. 00:00:48.799 --> 00:00:50.000 And so it was really fun. 00:00:50.159 --> 00:00:53.280 Anyway, on March 19th, I joined up with her a week later. 00:00:53.439 --> 00:00:55.359 We were in Florida, had a dream. 00:00:55.600 --> 00:01:03.119 And in the dream, I was on my property, I live in Black Forest, and it's a very wooded property on six and a half acres. 00:01:03.280 --> 00:01:17.680 And I was walking uh from the west side of my property to the east side through the woods when suddenly there was there was a river coming out of the ground over on the center part of my property, and it was it was ripping, man. 00:01:17.840 --> 00:01:23.120 It was like a fast-moving stream going from the west to the east. 00:01:23.359 --> 00:01:37.599 And then I noticed right then that there was also a river just as big, about this wide, just flowing, that green, blue, crystal clear water from the west to the east, and then another one was coming from the north to the south. 00:01:37.760 --> 00:01:41.200 And they came and they intersected, and this flow was beautiful. 00:01:41.280 --> 00:01:43.680 I remember thinking in my dream, like I need a fly rod. 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:45.840 It was just, it was gorgeous, you know. 00:01:45.920 --> 00:01:50.159 And I'm looking at this, and then I look to my right, and there's a cave. 00:01:50.640 --> 00:02:02.879 The hill goes up, and you you wouldn't know this unless you've been on my property, but there's this one part where it slopes down, it comes up, and in that slope was a cave, and I looked into the cave, and there were bars. 00:02:03.040 --> 00:02:18.319 There were like jail house bars in that cave in the entranceway, and then there was a door, and it was a jail house door, and uh and it looked really spooky down there, and I remember thinking like there's I remember thinking in my mind like there's goblins in there. 00:02:18.400 --> 00:02:22.400 You know, is that kind of I mean I never think about goblins, but I I just remembered that. 00:02:22.479 --> 00:02:24.240 That was I remember thinking that in my dream. 00:02:24.400 --> 00:02:26.800 But I went in, so I went in to the cave. 00:02:26.879 --> 00:02:33.199 I knew that I was supposed to go in the cave, so I go in the cave, I open the door, and when I opened the door, I'm suddenly in a cavern. 00:02:33.280 --> 00:02:44.879 And the cavern's about the size of half of this stage, and there were these cave shelves, like natural shells that were around, and there were photographs of families in there. 00:02:45.039 --> 00:02:53.759 And there were uh and there were banners like ribbons on the sides of the pictures, and it was like whole families uh in this these pictures. 00:02:53.840 --> 00:03:01.840 And I remember knowing that these represented families in Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Hungary. 00:03:02.240 --> 00:03:10.080 And beside the pictures of families, like family reunion-like looking pictures, there was religious artifacts. 00:03:10.240 --> 00:03:16.560 So there was crucifixes and there were like necklaces and things like that that people had worn. 00:03:16.719 --> 00:03:22.080 There were prayer beads, there was um, there's rosaries, things like that hanging off of it. 00:03:22.240 --> 00:03:29.680 And I remember feeling confined and feeling sort of burdened, feeling a burden on me. 00:03:29.840 --> 00:03:33.439 And then I look over and there's a ski slope. 00:03:34.879 --> 00:03:36.479 I know this is weird, okay. 00:03:37.439 --> 00:03:38.800 Go with me on this, okay? 00:03:38.960 --> 00:03:44.960 So, and and now I've got skis on, and I get on the slope and I ski out. 00:03:45.039 --> 00:03:47.840 Just ski right out, okay? 00:03:48.159 --> 00:03:51.039 And I um and I woke up. 00:03:51.199 --> 00:04:00.319 So whenever I feel like I've got something that's a dream or a vision from the Lord, I always ask Liz what she thinks it means before I tell her what I think it means. 00:04:00.479 --> 00:04:12.000 So I asked her, and this was our conclusion, almost immediately, our interpretation, was that the streams represent the word and the spirit. 00:04:12.319 --> 00:04:17.120 The Holy Spirit stream and the word of God stream coming together. 00:04:17.279 --> 00:04:20.240 That's a hallmark of my ministry. 00:04:20.399 --> 00:04:22.720 It's a hallmark of the road. 00:04:22.959 --> 00:04:26.800 If you cut me, I bleed word and spirit. 00:04:27.279 --> 00:04:30.560 That's part of my vineyard background and my Bible church background. 00:04:30.720 --> 00:04:32.800 So you're gonna come to the road, and it's weird. 00:04:32.879 --> 00:04:49.680 We're a weird church because, you know, in one sense, I teach like you're in a sort of a fundamentalist Baptist church in the sense that I go chapter by chapter, verse by verse, because I love God's word so much, but we're also open to spirit, and we see people get healed all the time. 00:04:49.759 --> 00:04:53.279 And by the way, recently, tons of people have been getting healed like crazy. 00:04:53.439 --> 00:04:55.680 Um, we believe in the power of the Holy Spirit. 00:04:55.759 --> 00:04:57.279 We cast out demons regularly. 00:04:57.360 --> 00:05:00.560 I mean, we don't make a big show of it, but we do, okay? 00:05:00.639 --> 00:05:03.279 There's a lot more demons getting cast out here than you know. 00:05:03.360 --> 00:05:08.879 And some of you are packing some growlers too, and God's, and God's gonna set you free, okay? 00:05:09.040 --> 00:05:10.480 So, word and spirit. 00:05:10.639 --> 00:05:18.240 Then the cave, the cave represents religion, the confines of religion. 00:05:18.480 --> 00:05:26.240 And, you know, when we think about the communist Eastern Bloc countries, you that are old enough to remember that and know that, that was, it was very religious. 00:05:26.399 --> 00:05:38.480 It was very Catholic, it was very Eastern Orthodox, very, very much a religious area, which by the way was very fruitful and joyful in many ways. 00:05:38.639 --> 00:05:47.040 I mean, you could argue that the Iron Curtain coming down was because of the fired-up Roman Catholic Church in Poland. 00:05:47.120 --> 00:05:50.720 I mean, with uh Lech Walenza and the Solidarity Movement. 00:05:50.879 --> 00:05:59.600 So I'm not saying this all in one broad stroke, but what the dream meant was religion, kind of the confines of tradition and religion. 00:05:59.759 --> 00:06:02.560 And then God was speaking to me about me. 00:06:02.800 --> 00:06:08.399 And that's why I skied out was because I've come out of a religious background. 00:06:08.560 --> 00:06:12.399 I'm a word and spirit guy now, and I'm free. 00:06:12.639 --> 00:06:18.079 And I it was it was it was a work of the Lord to say, you're free now, you're out of that. 00:06:18.480 --> 00:06:39.199 So when I knew that in a month, month and a half, we were gonna be having the worship conference, one of the goals that I had in Florida, besides helping my daughter and her husband, was to take time to really get an ide get at least the basic ideas of the message I was supposed to give at the worship conference we just had the last three days. 00:06:39.439 --> 00:06:43.759 And I knew immediately from that dream what I was supposed to speak on. 00:06:43.920 --> 00:06:51.040 And that's what I'm gonna speak to you guys about, because I spoke at the worship conference and I was lazy and I didn't want to do two messages for the weekend. 00:06:51.279 --> 00:06:52.240 No, that's not true. 00:06:52.319 --> 00:07:01.279 I really felt strongly that what I shared on Friday afternoon I needed to share with you guys to the broader church because I haven't spoken on this before. 00:07:01.519 --> 00:07:04.000 So I wanna call this being a true worshiper. 00:07:04.160 --> 00:07:10.639 So that's the title of what we're gonna leave Romans for a couple weeks here, because next week's Mother's Day, but uh, then we'll get back to Romans. 00:07:10.720 --> 00:07:12.720 But true, the true worshiper. 00:07:12.879 --> 00:07:15.360 Now, here's what's interesting about the passage we're gonna look at. 00:07:15.519 --> 00:07:21.920 It's the only place in the New Testament where Jesus literally defines what worship is. 00:07:22.160 --> 00:07:30.160 I mean, I remember growing up in the 80s as a new believer, I didn't know it, but there were worship wars going on. 00:07:30.399 --> 00:07:48.959 You know, there were the hymn singing churches, there were the contemporary churches, there were the antiphonal reading churches and liturgical churches and high church churches, and then there was the low church churches where it was guitars and banjos and piano and stuff, and everybody's battling over it. 00:07:49.199 --> 00:07:54.720 Praise God, most of that's gone now, and we've kind of we've kind of synthesized our worship. 00:07:54.800 --> 00:07:56.000 But here's what's interesting. 00:07:56.240 --> 00:08:07.680 When Jesus talks about worship, he never talks about singing, he never talks about style, and he never talks about performance. 00:08:08.480 --> 00:08:13.199 Jesus is something is interested in something much deeper than that. 00:08:13.360 --> 00:08:20.639 And what's interesting is the lead up to what he's gonna say about true worship is this bizarre woman. 00:08:20.959 --> 00:08:27.759 This bizarre woman who is the, I argue, the first evangelist in the New Testament. 00:08:28.000 --> 00:08:37.039 And I have spoken at Jacob's well to uh a tour group that I led in 2008 to Israel on this passage. 00:08:37.200 --> 00:08:46.240 So turn in your Bibles to John chapter 4, and I'm just gonna warn you, you're gonna need to take notes because I got a lot of points. 00:08:46.320 --> 00:08:49.759 So I thought in the first service, oh, okay, this is gonna be a part one and a part two. 00:08:50.000 --> 00:08:50.480 But I did it. 00:08:50.639 --> 00:08:52.000 I did it in 35 minutes. 00:08:52.159 --> 00:08:56.639 So I want you to write at the title, I want you to write eight observations of true worship. 00:08:56.879 --> 00:08:58.639 Eight observations of true worship. 00:08:58.799 --> 00:09:06.879 Another way you could define it, if you were to give it two different definitions, you could say true worship leading to revival. 00:09:07.120 --> 00:09:10.720 True worship that leads to revival, because that's what happens in this story. 00:09:10.879 --> 00:09:14.080 So let's look at John 4, verse 5. 00:09:14.320 --> 00:09:23.679 He came to a city of Samaria, which is called Sikar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. 00:09:23.840 --> 00:09:26.159 Now Jacob's well was there. 00:09:26.480 --> 00:09:30.879 Jesus therefore, being wearied from his journey, sat thus by the well. 00:09:31.200 --> 00:09:33.440 It was about the sixth hour. 00:09:34.159 --> 00:09:36.559 A woman of Samaria, circle that. 00:09:36.639 --> 00:09:41.120 If you've got a pen and you've got a physical Bible in front of you, I want you to circle. 00:09:41.279 --> 00:09:44.799 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. 00:09:45.039 --> 00:09:47.360 Jesus said to her, give me a drink. 00:09:47.519 --> 00:09:50.080 Underline that, give me a drink. 00:09:50.399 --> 00:09:53.279 For his disciples had gone into the city to buy food. 00:09:53.360 --> 00:09:54.320 Here's the first point. 00:09:54.559 --> 00:09:57.759 The first point is that Jesus is thirsty. 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:01.759 Number one, Jesus is thirsty. 00:10:02.080 --> 00:10:04.639 He engages this woman from Samaria. 00:10:04.960 --> 00:10:06.480 Now, here's who the Samaritans were. 00:10:06.559 --> 00:10:18.559 The Samaritans were these half-breed Jews that had settled in around 721 BC when the Assyrians came over and took the northern kingdom. 00:10:18.799 --> 00:10:20.799 Some of the Jews did not leave. 00:10:20.960 --> 00:10:29.279 They did not escape, and they intermarried with the Samarians or the Assyrians, and they became known as Samaritans. 00:10:29.440 --> 00:10:43.279 Now, what makes them a problem for Israel as a whole was that they developed their own Bible, their own separate Bible, and their own separate temple as a place of worship. 00:10:43.519 --> 00:10:51.679 So, so for Jesus, first of all, to engage with this woman is a problem, and then to engage with a Samaritan woman is a double problem. 00:10:51.840 --> 00:10:54.879 But here's the deal: He says, Give me a drink. 00:10:55.200 --> 00:10:56.559 And why is that important? 00:10:56.799 --> 00:10:58.080 It's important on two fronts. 00:10:58.240 --> 00:11:05.919 First front is this that Jesus initiates with us in the arena of worship. 00:11:06.240 --> 00:11:07.600 He initiates with us. 00:11:07.759 --> 00:11:10.720 So he said to her, she didn't say anything to him. 00:11:10.879 --> 00:11:14.240 He initiates with her and he says, Give me a drink. 00:11:14.399 --> 00:11:20.799 Every time you come to the road to our services, the Lord would say, Are you ready to engage in worship? 00:11:21.279 --> 00:11:23.519 I'm initiating with you to come. 00:11:23.600 --> 00:11:26.639 And you initiated with him by coming. 00:11:26.960 --> 00:11:39.679 I mean, you came here on your way from your home, arguing with your spouse the whole time, which is a national tradition, and then you came in, you got coffee, you got a little bit calmed down, and now you have to listen to this guy from Georgia. 00:11:40.000 --> 00:11:40.320 Okay. 00:11:40.720 --> 00:11:41.360 Now listen. 00:11:41.600 --> 00:11:42.240 Listen what he said. 00:11:42.399 --> 00:11:44.720 He says, give me a drink. 00:11:44.879 --> 00:11:45.679 I'm thirsty. 00:11:46.000 --> 00:11:50.639 He's telling her that she has to do something. 00:11:51.039 --> 00:11:53.120 Church, you have to do something. 00:11:53.440 --> 00:11:58.480 You have to determine that you're gonna give Jesus a drink offering. 00:11:59.120 --> 00:12:03.519 He's thirsty for your worship, he's thirsty for interaction. 00:12:03.600 --> 00:12:05.039 And this is the main point. 00:12:05.279 --> 00:12:11.120 The main point here is that Jesus is initiating a relationship with her. 00:12:11.600 --> 00:12:12.720 That's the point of worship. 00:12:12.799 --> 00:12:13.919 Let me give you a definition of worship. 00:12:14.000 --> 00:12:16.240 Here's what I think the definition of worship is for Steve Hall. 00:12:16.480 --> 00:12:21.840 I think the Bible teaches that the definition of worship is focusing on Jesus. 00:12:22.480 --> 00:12:27.039 It has nothing to do with the songs you sing, it has nothing to do with how great your voice is. 00:12:27.279 --> 00:12:34.960 It has nothing to do with whether you like traditional hymns or contemporary worship, it has nothing to do with style, it has everything to do with focusing on Jesus. 00:12:35.039 --> 00:12:38.559 And the reason that's important is because you can focus on Jesus at work. 00:12:38.720 --> 00:12:41.360 You can focus on Jesus in your relationship with your spouse. 00:12:41.519 --> 00:12:43.600 You can focus on Jesus by being single. 00:12:43.759 --> 00:12:47.200 You can focus on Jesus by being a college student and worship him. 00:12:48.639 --> 00:12:51.360 When you do the right thing, that's worship. 00:12:51.759 --> 00:12:53.120 Because you're focused on Jesus. 00:12:53.200 --> 00:12:55.440 You're doing it for his glory, you're obeying him. 00:12:56.000 --> 00:12:56.320 Okay? 00:12:56.559 --> 00:12:58.000 So that's my first point. 00:12:58.320 --> 00:13:00.399 Jesus is thirsty for us. 00:13:00.639 --> 00:13:05.679 He's thirsty for your worship, and he's thirsty for a relationship with you. 00:13:05.919 --> 00:13:06.799 Number two. 00:13:07.440 --> 00:13:08.080 Verse 9. 00:13:08.240 --> 00:13:17.759 Then the woman of Samaria said to him, How is it that you, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman? 00:13:18.000 --> 00:13:20.879 For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. 00:13:21.039 --> 00:13:32.480 And then Jesus said to her, If you only knew the gift of God and who it is who says to you, give me a drink, you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water. 00:13:32.639 --> 00:13:34.879 Number two, listen guys, it's important. 00:13:35.120 --> 00:13:37.919 Jesus builds bridges to your heart. 00:13:38.159 --> 00:13:40.960 Jesus doesn't care about your cultural background. 00:13:41.120 --> 00:13:42.799 He doesn't care about your gender. 00:13:42.960 --> 00:13:44.879 He doesn't care about your brokenness. 00:13:45.120 --> 00:13:46.799 He doesn't care about your religion. 00:13:47.039 --> 00:13:48.240 Couldn't care less. 00:13:48.480 --> 00:13:50.639 He cares about your heart. 00:13:50.879 --> 00:13:58.480 And it's interesting, nowhere in scripture does Jesus ever engage a Pharisee or a Sadducee this way. 00:13:58.720 --> 00:14:01.919 He engages a Samaritan woman. 00:14:02.159 --> 00:14:04.159 He breaks cultural barriers. 00:14:04.399 --> 00:14:09.200 He breaks religious barriers to get to her heart, and that's what the Lord wants. 00:14:09.360 --> 00:14:10.159 He wants your heart. 00:14:10.320 --> 00:14:17.679 He wants a relationship with you by you allowing him to come in with his living water into your heart. 00:14:19.120 --> 00:14:20.720 He doesn't care if you're Catholic. 00:14:20.879 --> 00:14:22.399 He doesn't care if you're new age. 00:14:22.639 --> 00:14:26.240 He doesn't care if you're a Gnostic mystic. 00:14:27.519 --> 00:14:31.440 He doesn't care if you've been baptized as an infant, baptized as an adult. 00:14:31.600 --> 00:14:33.200 Never baptized. 00:14:34.240 --> 00:14:36.000 Baptized drunk. 00:14:38.000 --> 00:14:39.919 He's going after your heart. 00:14:40.240 --> 00:14:41.679 He's coming after your heart. 00:14:41.759 --> 00:14:42.720 And he loves you. 00:14:42.879 --> 00:14:44.000 And he's for you. 00:14:44.159 --> 00:14:46.080 And he initiates for your heart. 00:14:46.159 --> 00:14:48.000 And he cares about you. 00:14:48.879 --> 00:14:49.919 I mean, he doesn't care. 00:14:50.080 --> 00:14:53.039 All those things you say, well, I'm not good enough to be a Christian. 00:14:53.200 --> 00:14:55.279 I'm not good enough to follow Jesus. 00:14:55.440 --> 00:14:56.240 Yep, that's true. 00:14:56.320 --> 00:14:58.799 You're not good enough, but you can certainly be bad enough. 00:15:01.600 --> 00:15:03.840 Just admit that you're bad. 00:15:04.480 --> 00:15:06.399 Just admit that you haven't reached it. 00:15:06.480 --> 00:15:08.080 Just admit that you're not there yet. 00:15:08.320 --> 00:15:09.919 Man, that's the beginning of wisdom. 00:15:10.080 --> 00:15:11.440 That's the beginning of power. 00:15:11.679 --> 00:15:16.000 That's the beginning of a personal, intimate, powerful relationship with the living God. 00:15:17.519 --> 00:15:19.039 And so Jesus engages her. 00:15:20.159 --> 00:15:21.919 He doesn't answer any of her questions. 00:15:22.159 --> 00:15:24.320 He doesn't even care what she says. 00:15:24.559 --> 00:15:26.399 Like, he does not give a rip. 00:15:26.480 --> 00:15:29.840 And we're going to find out there's actually another big barrier that's going on here. 00:15:30.000 --> 00:15:32.399 It's going to come up later, and he knows what's going on. 00:15:33.279 --> 00:15:38.240 The woman said to him, Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. 00:15:38.559 --> 00:15:40.720 Where then do you get this living water? 00:15:40.960 --> 00:15:50.080 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock? 00:15:50.399 --> 00:15:51.200 Jesus answered. 00:15:51.279 --> 00:15:54.240 He said to her, Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again. 00:15:54.399 --> 00:16:00.000 But whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. 00:16:01.120 --> 00:16:02.799 Now, men and women, this is really important. 00:16:02.879 --> 00:16:05.279 I want you to circle Jacob. 00:16:05.600 --> 00:16:07.440 I wanted you to circle Jacob. 00:16:07.519 --> 00:16:08.799 That's really important here. 00:16:09.519 --> 00:16:10.799 Why is that important? 00:16:11.919 --> 00:16:13.279 Man, I love this part. 00:16:14.000 --> 00:16:17.200 Here, Jesus is the only one that quenches our thirst. 00:16:17.759 --> 00:16:19.600 Jesus is the only one, that's number three. 00:16:19.759 --> 00:16:22.159 Jesus is the only one that quenches our thirst. 00:16:22.639 --> 00:16:24.399 Religion can't do it. 00:16:24.799 --> 00:16:31.279 And I remember I was reading this for like the fifth or sixth time, preparing to give this message, and I'm reading it and I'm going, whoa, this is a good point. 00:16:31.440 --> 00:16:33.200 I took notes on myself. 00:16:33.679 --> 00:16:34.000 Okay? 00:16:34.480 --> 00:16:37.440 He's standing next to Jacob's well. 00:16:39.120 --> 00:16:42.960 And he says, drink from me, not that. 00:16:43.519 --> 00:16:49.039 You can drink from that, but you're going to keep getting thirsty, or you can drink from me, and I'll quench your thirst. 00:16:49.200 --> 00:16:50.720 That's religion, man. 00:16:50.879 --> 00:16:53.200 The religion is Jacob's well. 00:16:54.799 --> 00:17:03.759 It's structured, it's round, it's got the pulley system, it's got the bucket, it tells you everything you're supposed to do to get water. 00:17:04.079 --> 00:17:06.319 The only thing it doesn't do is quench your thirst. 00:17:07.839 --> 00:17:11.279 You see, religion is like eating bread when you're thirsty. 00:17:12.799 --> 00:17:16.319 And so what Jesus wants, He wants us to drink from Him. 00:17:16.400 --> 00:17:22.400 That's why worship and where He's going with this is that it's all about drinking from me. 00:17:23.359 --> 00:17:26.240 I'm the source you're looking for. 00:17:26.480 --> 00:17:28.480 I'm the forgiveness of sins. 00:17:28.799 --> 00:17:31.519 I'm the power to live a victorious life. 00:17:31.759 --> 00:17:33.680 I'm the one who gives you an abundant life. 00:17:33.759 --> 00:17:37.839 The enemy comes to steal, kill, and destroy, but I came that you might have a life and might have it abundantly. 00:17:38.000 --> 00:17:42.799 That abundant, vibrant, dynamic life never ends. 00:17:44.079 --> 00:17:51.119 It continues year after year after year, relationship after relationship, even with mistakes. 00:17:51.200 --> 00:17:54.640 It's always two steps forward or three steps forward and one step back. 00:17:54.960 --> 00:17:56.240 It's hard. 00:17:57.039 --> 00:17:58.400 It's difficult. 00:17:58.720 --> 00:18:02.240 Like I said in that last message where I said, you know, life is hard. 00:18:02.559 --> 00:18:03.920 Pick your heart. 00:18:04.319 --> 00:18:09.519 I would rather pick my heart with Jesus than pick my heart with Jacob's well. 00:18:11.039 --> 00:18:18.960 I would rather drink from him than keep lowering buckets down in the water every day with Phoetini. 00:18:19.200 --> 00:18:20.720 And that's her name, by the way. 00:18:20.960 --> 00:18:24.319 In the Orthodox Church, the woman at the well is known as Phootini. 00:18:24.640 --> 00:18:26.799 P-H-O-T-I-N I. 00:18:27.200 --> 00:18:28.480 Tradition tells us that was her name. 00:18:28.559 --> 00:18:30.960 So Fotini is at the well. 00:18:31.920 --> 00:18:36.079 Jesus says, drink from me. 00:18:37.119 --> 00:18:38.079 Verse 14. 00:18:38.240 --> 00:18:43.920 But whoever drinks of this water I shall give them will never thirst. 00:18:44.240 --> 00:18:47.920 Number four, the Holy Spirit is the fountainhead. 00:18:48.160 --> 00:18:51.920 The Holy Spirit is the fountainhead. 00:18:52.079 --> 00:18:54.799 That's the only place where living water comes forth. 00:18:54.960 --> 00:18:57.839 It comes forth from the tri-une God. 00:18:58.160 --> 00:19:03.200 Father, Son, Holy Spirit poured into you when you become a believer. 00:19:03.359 --> 00:19:07.359 When you put your faith in Christ, the fountainhead of the Spirit comes into your life. 00:19:07.519 --> 00:19:14.079 Now listen, probably about a month or two later in Jesus' life, he goes to Jerusalem. 00:19:14.240 --> 00:19:17.920 And he comes to Jerusalem at the Feast of the Tabernacles. 00:19:18.160 --> 00:19:19.680 The Feast of the Tabernacles. 00:19:19.759 --> 00:19:20.400 Now pick it up. 00:19:20.480 --> 00:19:21.599 It's going to be up on your screen. 00:19:21.680 --> 00:19:24.480 Write down John 7, 37 through 39. 00:19:24.559 --> 00:19:26.559 You can look at it later, but it's going to be up on the screen. 00:19:26.799 --> 00:19:27.920 Listen to what happens. 00:19:28.160 --> 00:19:37.680 On the last day of that great day of the feast, that's the Feast of Tabernacles, Jesus stood and he cried out, saying, If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. 00:19:37.839 --> 00:19:46.000 He who believes in me, as the scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water. 00:19:46.480 --> 00:19:53.920 But this he spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in him would receive. 00:19:54.400 --> 00:20:04.640 So, at the Feast of Tabernacles, they would take a golden pitcher and they would go to the pool of Salaam in Jerusalem and they would scoop up the water. 00:20:04.799 --> 00:20:19.599 They would go then, a big procession, everybody's worshiping and praising God, singing songs, songs of ascent, and they're coming up there, and then they would pour it out at the temple as a drink offering to the Lord several times during that day. 00:20:20.079 --> 00:20:22.720 And that was a picture of Exodus 17. 00:20:22.799 --> 00:20:23.359 Write that down. 00:20:23.519 --> 00:20:24.720 Write it down, Exodus 17. 00:20:24.799 --> 00:20:25.680 You can look it up later. 00:20:25.920 --> 00:20:30.319 Exodus 17 is where the water came out of the rock. 00:20:30.640 --> 00:20:34.960 Where Moses spoke to the rock, and the water came out of the rock. 00:20:35.039 --> 00:20:36.160 That's what they're celebrating. 00:20:36.319 --> 00:20:37.920 But it was a picture, guys. 00:20:38.079 --> 00:20:44.960 It was a prophetic picture of the fountainhead of the Holy Spirit being poured out upon Israel. 00:20:45.039 --> 00:20:51.359 And God's now pouring it out, and He's saying right here, look, I am, you're gonna drink from me. 00:20:51.519 --> 00:20:56.319 The Spirit's gonna come into your life, I am the fountainhead. 00:20:56.799 --> 00:20:58.400 And church, this is really important. 00:20:58.480 --> 00:20:59.519 Don't miss this. 00:21:00.480 --> 00:21:03.359 You receive the Holy Spirit when you believe. 00:21:03.599 --> 00:21:10.079 If you have not put a personal faith in Christ, you don't have the Holy Spirit. 00:21:10.400 --> 00:21:13.839 You have your Spirit, but you don't have the Holy Spirit. 00:21:13.920 --> 00:21:15.680 You're not born again yet. 00:21:16.160 --> 00:21:22.000 There are no grandchildren in the Christian faith. 00:21:22.240 --> 00:21:24.559 Just because your mom was a Christian doesn't mean anything. 00:21:24.720 --> 00:21:32.240 Just because your uncle was a Christian, just because your your aunt and your and your girlfriend or your boyfriend are Christians, daddy will not make you a Christian. 00:21:32.400 --> 00:21:37.200 That doesn't make you a Christian anymore than going to McDonald's is going to turn you into a hamburger. 00:21:38.640 --> 00:21:45.279 And so and so the reality is that you have to put your faith in Christ, and when you put your faith in Christ, you get the Holy Spirit. 00:21:45.359 --> 00:21:57.440 You get the fountainhead of life, joy, power, presence, forgiveness, the ability to love your neighbor as yourself. 00:21:58.400 --> 00:22:03.279 All the other stuff sounds really good, but when When you say to love my neighbors myself, I don't want to go there. 00:22:04.000 --> 00:22:05.440 Love your enemies? 00:22:06.559 --> 00:22:08.240 How in the world do you do that? 00:22:08.400 --> 00:22:09.279 Well, you can't. 00:22:10.240 --> 00:22:13.680 But Christ, through the Spirit flowing through you, you can. 00:22:14.640 --> 00:22:22.000 So he's saying there's this fountainhead flowing out, and I'm going to call it a spirit river. 00:22:22.480 --> 00:22:28.319 It's a spirit river that flows out of the rock into our lives. 00:22:30.160 --> 00:22:34.559 That leads into now the complicated part of our passage. 00:22:34.720 --> 00:22:36.880 This is where they really get into a dialogue. 00:22:37.200 --> 00:22:38.720 Look at verse 15. 00:22:39.680 --> 00:22:44.720 The woman said to him, Sir, give me this water that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw. 00:22:44.960 --> 00:22:47.839 And Jesus said to her, Go call your husband and come here. 00:22:48.000 --> 00:22:50.400 And the woman answered and said, I have no husband. 00:22:50.640 --> 00:22:58.880 And Jesus said to her, You have well said, I have no husband, for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband. 00:22:59.119 --> 00:23:01.200 In that you have truly spoken. 00:23:01.839 --> 00:23:05.039 The woman said to him, Sir, I perceive that you're a prophet. 00:23:05.279 --> 00:23:13.440 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship. 00:23:14.400 --> 00:23:16.160 Write this down, number five. 00:23:16.480 --> 00:23:20.079 Jesus initiates the shameful and the broken. 00:23:20.480 --> 00:23:25.440 Jesus initiates to the shameful and the broken. 00:23:25.680 --> 00:23:26.559 Imagine this. 00:23:26.799 --> 00:23:30.160 Here is a Samaritan, that's a religious barrier. 00:23:30.960 --> 00:23:34.079 She's a woman, that's a gender barrier. 00:23:34.480 --> 00:23:37.279 And now he's calling her out as immoral. 00:23:37.440 --> 00:23:39.279 That's a moral barrier. 00:23:39.599 --> 00:23:43.200 Jesus doesn't care about your background. 00:23:43.440 --> 00:23:53.119 Jesus doesn't care whether you're religious or non-religious, you're a drunk, you're a drug addict, you're messing around, and you got shame because of all the stuff that's happened to you. 00:23:53.359 --> 00:24:00.160 What he cares about is if you'll come to him, he'll start to clean you up from the inside out. 00:24:00.319 --> 00:24:01.200 That's what he does. 00:24:01.359 --> 00:24:04.480 And matter of fact, he does his best work with the most broken people. 00:24:04.799 --> 00:24:07.119 So if you think you're broken, man, you are set up. 00:24:07.200 --> 00:24:09.680 You're gonna be a trophy of God's grace. 00:24:09.920 --> 00:24:12.400 You're gonna be a trophy of God's grace. 00:24:13.599 --> 00:24:19.200 And for you that don't come out of that background, rejoice because you don't have as many scars as the rest of us. 00:24:20.240 --> 00:24:21.599 But he comes to her. 00:24:21.839 --> 00:24:23.200 Now listen, this is really good. 00:24:23.440 --> 00:24:24.960 I got a really good one here. 00:24:25.680 --> 00:24:26.000 Okay. 00:24:26.400 --> 00:24:27.119 This is another one. 00:24:27.200 --> 00:24:29.920 I was like meditating, I was saying, oh, that's good. 00:24:30.160 --> 00:24:32.000 Okay, Feast of the Tabernacle. 00:24:32.559 --> 00:24:33.440 Remember what I said? 00:24:33.680 --> 00:24:34.160 What was it? 00:24:34.480 --> 00:24:35.920 It was in Exodus 17. 00:24:36.160 --> 00:24:38.160 Remember what happened at Exodus 17? 00:24:38.400 --> 00:24:41.839 Is that he he commanded that water to come forth from what? 00:24:42.960 --> 00:24:44.720 It wasn't from a spring. 00:24:45.440 --> 00:24:47.119 It wasn't from a river. 00:24:47.359 --> 00:24:49.039 It wasn't from a lake. 00:24:49.759 --> 00:24:51.680 It was from a rock. 00:24:54.240 --> 00:24:55.839 Why is that significant? 00:24:56.640 --> 00:25:01.119 Because that's the heart of most of us when we come to Christ. 00:25:02.400 --> 00:25:03.920 We have a stony heart. 00:25:04.640 --> 00:25:08.160 And he's gonna pour forth his spirit through your stony heart. 00:25:08.400 --> 00:25:16.160 He's gonna take the rocks of your shame and the rocks of the sin that you come out of, and he's gonna make water come out of that. 00:25:16.480 --> 00:25:17.680 That's good, right? 00:25:18.160 --> 00:25:26.559 Because you, that fountainhead, the fountainhead of the spirit, go back to verse 14. 00:25:26.720 --> 00:25:29.599 But whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. 00:25:29.680 --> 00:25:38.000 But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up to everlasting life. 00:25:38.079 --> 00:25:39.119 Now listen to this. 00:25:39.359 --> 00:25:42.960 You can't be spirit-spilled until you're spirit-filled. 00:25:44.400 --> 00:25:49.200 When you, the purpose of getting spirit-filled is not so you can enjoy God. 00:25:49.440 --> 00:25:57.039 The purpose of being spirit-filled is that the fountainhead that you become, that fountainhead to others, and you become spirit-spilled. 00:25:57.279 --> 00:25:59.039 And we're going to find out this woman's got it. 00:25:59.119 --> 00:26:00.480 She really gets it. 00:26:00.799 --> 00:26:02.960 She's the first evangelist in the Bible. 00:26:03.039 --> 00:26:04.960 She's the first evangelist in the New Testament. 00:26:06.160 --> 00:26:09.759 And so, and so come with your stony heart today. 00:26:11.200 --> 00:26:12.960 Come with your unforgiveness. 00:26:14.160 --> 00:26:15.759 Come with your brokenness. 00:26:16.559 --> 00:26:17.599 Come with your anger. 00:26:17.759 --> 00:26:18.720 Come with your bitterness. 00:26:18.880 --> 00:26:20.720 Come with the betrayal you've been through. 00:26:21.279 --> 00:26:21.839 Come. 00:26:22.960 --> 00:26:36.799 Give your stones to the Lord and watch what He will do to transform that stone into a stone where a fountainhead of the Spirit comes forth. 00:26:37.599 --> 00:26:39.359 Is that exciting or what? 00:26:40.319 --> 00:26:42.160 I mean, you guys, come on. 00:26:42.480 --> 00:26:44.319 This is good stuff. 00:26:48.000 --> 00:26:49.839 The world can't do this. 00:26:50.480 --> 00:26:52.480 Psychology can't do this. 00:26:52.799 --> 00:26:54.240 Sociology can't do this. 00:26:54.400 --> 00:26:55.519 Politics can't do this. 00:26:55.680 --> 00:26:57.279 Only Jesus can do this. 00:26:57.759 --> 00:27:00.000 Jesus can change a person's life. 00:27:00.240 --> 00:27:01.920 Jesus can change culture. 00:27:02.160 --> 00:27:06.400 Jesus changes people one person at a time. 00:27:07.680 --> 00:27:14.640 Through the fountain head of his spirit bubbling up in our hearts and in our lives. 00:27:15.839 --> 00:27:16.720 Come on. 00:27:18.319 --> 00:27:19.039 21. 00:27:19.359 --> 00:27:27.200 Jesus said to her, woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem worship the Father. 00:27:27.440 --> 00:27:29.599 You worship what you do not know. 00:27:30.000 --> 00:27:39.680 We know what we worship for salvation is of the Jews, but the hour is coming, and now is when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. 00:27:39.759 --> 00:27:41.440 Now listen, this is a key part here. 00:27:49.119 --> 00:27:53.119 God's actually on the hunt for true worshipers. 00:27:53.279 --> 00:28:01.920 That's why God said to Samuel, quit bemoaning the fact, quit complaining about Saul as our king. 00:28:02.240 --> 00:28:09.279 I've raised up a man after my own heart who's in Bethlehem, who's a true worshiper. 00:28:09.519 --> 00:28:12.160 That's why I wrote the book, Worshiper Warrior. 00:28:12.319 --> 00:28:14.799 He was a true worshiper before he was a warrior. 00:28:14.960 --> 00:28:19.279 And so Samuel goes there, he comes to Jesse's house, he says, I want to anoint your son. 00:28:19.599 --> 00:28:20.880 That's why I'm here to anoint him. 00:28:20.960 --> 00:28:22.480 And he didn't even bring him in. 00:28:23.440 --> 00:28:25.279 Jesse forgets about David. 00:28:25.599 --> 00:28:31.759 And he goes, Well, and you know, and Samuel, being a normal guy, he looks at it and he goes, Well, it must be, you know, Eliab. 00:28:31.839 --> 00:28:34.640 It must be the oldest because he's tall and good, looking, kind of like Saul. 00:28:34.720 --> 00:28:37.039 And he says, No, I don't look at his appearance. 00:28:37.279 --> 00:28:43.440 I have a man that is not of that appearance who I'm looking at his heart. 00:28:43.519 --> 00:28:45.279