Well, I is uh I'm so excited to be here with you this morning and share the word of the Lord. And I've just been thinking about the goodness of God. And you know, one of the greatest and most beautiful attributes of God, our Father, is that He wants to have relationship with us. He is a God who cares for us and wants to have relationship with us, to be close to us. He's not a far-off God, amen. But he is close to us, and he desires that we would know him and know him on a deep level. The purpose of the cross, the thing that we celebrated on Easter, is so that we could be restored to relationship with God our Father. Amen? Because he is good and he cares for us that much. Jesus came to have victory on the cross so that nothing can separate me from him. And how wonderful it is that God wants to spend time with his people. He wants to spend time with me and he wants to spend time with you. I was speaking to my good friend Milton Pierre this past week. He works with me, and Milton's from Haiti, and we had some worship music going on in the background, and he said, Man, I love the way you worship in this country. He said, It sends chills up my arm. And I said, Milton, that is awesome because I love the way you worship in Haiti. You know, I've been to Haiti, and um the church that we go to is small and it's hot and it's it's nice, but it's not nothing like here. It is uh, but the people come to worship with excitement and passion, and they praise the Lord with such joy. People who have little to nothing come to worship the Lord with excitement and power. And I said, uh Milton, I can't hardly go to a church service in Haiti without tears running down my eyes. And sometimes you might get it confused with the sweat or the tears, one or the other, because it is truly hot. It's hot. But the emotion of being in the presence of other believers, God's presence transcends boundaries. It doesn't matter the nation or the people you're around or the place you are in, God's presence is available for each and every person on this earth. Amen. And I remember a few years back for one of our anniversary trips, we um were in Scotland and we were eating at this little restaurant. And I don't know if any of you do, but uh listen, I just telling the truth here, we eavesdrop sometimes at restaurants. People are talking louder, like, what are they saying? Like, what's going on over there? And there were these two women having a conversation, they were each at their own tables. Um, but we could overhear that one lady was from California and she was visiting Scotland, and the other lady was a local, and uh the lady from California was talking about uh her trip, but she was also sharing like all of her stresses back home, and she was, it was just shortly after COVID, and so she was stressing about COVID, and she was stressing about the president and just laying all this stuff out on this poor Scottish woman. And in the middle of this conversation, this older Scottish woman just said, you know, I used to stress and worry about a lot of things. I had a lot of worries, and then I learned to lay it down before Jesus. And that's all she said, and the conversation went on from there. But it was just a beautiful moment, a reminder. God's presence is the same wherever you are. You can't get away from his goodness. He is available, and we might express it in different ways, we might experience it in different ways in different cultures, but he is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Amen. And he wants to know all of his creation, he wants all of his creation to know him. And so, what is a better way for me to return and praise God for his desire to know me than to live a life open and available, humbled in worship before God, my Father. Amen. Jesus discusses worship in an unexpected place in John chapter 4, and that's where we're our text is going to be today. He's going to this, the he's setting the stage for the heart of worship and what it's like to worship in truth in a place that wasn't necessarily expected for him to be in. In verse 4 of chapter 4, it says, Jesus, he had to pass through Samaria. Now, Jesus is on his way from Jerusalem back to Galilee, where he spent most of his time in ministry. And just to give you a quick picture of the map, Jerusalem is southern Israel, and Galilee is up north, and in the middle is Samaria. And so one of the most direct routes would be to go through Samaria to get back to Galilee. But as some of you may know, if you've heard this story before, the Jews would avoid Samaria. They would avoid the Samaritans. They didn't have anything to do with each other. And so they would take routes around Samaria. The Samaritans believed that Mount Gerizim, which is in this place, was the proper place for temple worship. And they also had a version of Torah, the Law of Moses, the first five books, that they believed was the unaltered form. And the Jews saw Samaritans as a mixed race with the Assyrians. When the Assyrians came in to overtake Israel way, way, way back in back when, centuries before this, they pulled some of the Israelites out and they brought Assyrians in to assimilate their culture. And the some of the people there, the Israelites, intermarried with the Assyrians. And so Jews, the Jews saw the Samaritans in Jesus' day as a mixed race. They saw them as a misguided people. And of course, the Jews believed that the correct place for temple worship was Jerusalem. A quick little fact here that I didn't know until I was like this week years old is that there's still 800 Samaritans alive today. And they live still around Mount Gerizim, which is located in the West Bank. But you could imagine the tension between these two groups of people with differences in theology, differences in understanding, ways of worship, and centuries upon centuries this tension had built. And so the Jews would go miles out of their way to avoid Samaria. But Jesus said he had to go through Samaria. This wasn't just about making it an easier route back to the Sea of Galilee. Jesus had an appointment that day. He had a particular individual in mind and a particular statement to make. How many are glad that Jesus never misses an appointment? Amen? He has appointments for each and every one of us for us to learn from him and for us to reach out to others. He has an appointment set, and we may miss them sometimes. I might overlook or miss the opportunities that Jesus has for me, but he never misses an appointment that he has for me. So we're going to pick up in verse 6, and again, this is John chapter 4. And it says, Jacob's well was there. So Jesus, worried as he was, wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour. A woman from Samaria came to draw water. And Jesus said to her, Give me a drink. For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. The Samaritan woman said to him, How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria? For Jews had no dealings with Samaritans. And Jesus answered her, If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, Give me a drink, you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water. The woman said to him, Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock stock. Now here's Jesus right before this woman, and he's saying, If you knew who it was who asked for a drink, you would ask for living water. How many times does Jesus have the answer right in front of us and we don't see it? Who has spiritual answers for spiritual problems and we try to answer for ourselves with physical things? Jesus is saying, I have living water available for you. And she says, Well, where's your bucket? Where's your bucket to get the water out? She's trying to answer a spiritual situation with a physical solution. I'm guilty of that often. Jesus continues in 13. He says, Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life. Do you know the gift of God this morning? What is the gift that God has for you? His name is Jesus. Jesus is the gift in this situation. He's pointing to eternal life, of course, but eternity without Jesus means nothing. Life through Jesus is what eternity is all about. He is the gift. Jesus is the living well that won't run dry. He's always available and he's never ending. See, oftentimes we're trying to run the race and do this thing. I'm trying to live out life every day in and out without the water that I need. So I start my day off at work with my big old jug of water and I'm ready to go. And somebody's teased me about having too much ice in my water before. But I like the sound of ice, okay? And I was like, so I fill my ice up and I've got my water, and Alyssa's like, you like your ice just because of the sound of it? And then they were teasing me the other day, so it was a whole thing. But anyway, I start out with my jug of water, but I get focused on the tasks at hand. I'm doing demo or we're framing walls or whatever we're doing that day. And I keep pushing myself to get the thing done. And by the end of the day, I have drank my water in the morning, and my mouth is dry and I'm worn out, and I don't go and fill my water again. And we do the same thing in the spiritual. We're trying to walk out the plan that Jesus has for us, but we don't refill our cup in the presence of God. We need to refill our water in the well that doesn't run dry. We need Jesus to run this race hydrated and saturated in his presence. Amen? If we want peace, we have to be willing to seek the forgiver and to be willing to forgive. If I want rest, but I don't sit in his presence, what's gonna take place? I want answers, but I read his word last. Jesus should be the first place I go. He should be the first source I turn to. We forget the source of refreshing spiritual water that Jesus is. So the life of the well that he's talking here isn't just eternal life, it's Jesus. I want to follow in the footsteps of uh Pastor James here, real quick, and talk about a rom-com. But has anybody watched uh the newer movie Eternity? And she she dies and her first husband's there and her second husband's there, and she's got to decide and all this mess. But the comedy part of it, uh, to me was they get to eternity, and like you have to choose what your favorite thing is and how you want to spend your eternity. So, like, some people choose the beach, some people choose sports, but once you choose that thing, you can't get out of it. So people are like in sports for eternity and they're trying to rush out and they get caught and get thrown back into their mess. And so, my point of it, what I took from that is I might love travel, but if I if heaven grants me what I like, if it's uh about me, if I get to travel for the rest of eternity, but Jesus is not there, it's gonna get real dull real fast. He is the reward, he is what the eternal life is that I want to experience. I just want I don't want to just live forever. I want Jesus. Amen. And so now watch this. Jesus is about to get up in her business a little bit. How many like when people get up in your business? No, we don't like it, right? But Jesus is going to go straight to the issue with this woman. The woman in verse 15 said to him, Sir, give me this water so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water. And Jesus said to her, Go call your husband and come here. The woman answered him, I have no husband. And Jesus said to her, You are right in saying, I have no husband, for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true. The woman said to him, Sir, I perceive you are a prophet. I always think it's funny that she says, Sir, I perceive you are a prophet, because she's he's just told her things that he couldn't possibly know, right? But I don't think it's just a simple statement that she is making, but she is recognizing that there is something different about this man, Jesus, that is talking to her in the moment. And a lot of times when I hear someone speak on this scripture or when we read it in the past, we talk about the sinful nature of the Samaritan woman, that she was a sinner, and that that's why she had had so many husbands. And aren't we all sinners? Haven't we all fallen short of the glory of God? I was thinking about this a little bit deeper, and I want you to kind of think here with me. The Samaritans followed the law of Moses, the first five books of the Bible, and so they would have fallen, followed the law of Deuteronomy. And Deuteronomy talks about what happens if you commit adultery or if you're uh unfaithful to your husband. What would happen to a woman if she was unfaithful in biblical times? Does anyone know? She would be stoned to death. She would be stoned to death. But this woman has been married how many times? Five times. So it couldn't have possibly, it would not have been likely that she was unfaithful to her husband, and that's why she has so many husbands, because the likely outcome would have been that she would have been put to death. Deuteronomy also talks about how a woman cannot present her husband with a certificate of divorce. She could not divorce her husband. But a man would have to present the certificate of divorce. And the reasons a man might present this certificate could simply be because he was unpleased with her. Could have been unpleasant with her for many different reasons. Maybe she didn't produce children. Maybe there was some, you know, maybe she was socially unfaithful. It could have been a number of reasons. It could have simply just been that he was done with her and he wanted to move on. And so I want to think about the fact that there were probably a lot of hurt and sorrowful situations that had happened in this woman's white life. Think about the humility or the humiliation of being passed back down this line of men. We tend to discredit people by what we think we know about them. But all we know about this woman is that she is a Samaritan and that she has had five husbands. We don't really know the story behind how that happened. We don't know the maybe the hurt and the trouble that she's gone through. And maybe she and probably had made some wrong decisions. But what was this the things, what were some of the things that had suffered, she had suffered that were deep and heavy on her heart? What were some of the sorrows that she had gone through? I'm thankful that Jesus knows my entire situation and yet he does not discredit me. He does not discredit you this morning. It doesn't matter how much you have messed up, it doesn't matter how much pain you have gone through, it doesn't matter how much sorrow rests in the innermost parts of your heart. He does not discredit you this morning. There is nothing that can separate me from the love of Jesus Christ. Think about the moments where you have to discuss the, you have had to discuss some of the deepest issues, some of those pains. We don't necessarily jump at the opportunity to be like, hey, you know, this really happened to me, and and and I've really been struggling with this, or I'm really weak in this area. We don't promote those things in our lives, right? Being vulnerable is against our nature. We want to be strong, we want to be guarded, we're like, it's uh I'm I'm doing good, I'm doing fine. And we don't want to take those times to talk about what's really going on in our lives. We avoid addressing our pain and we diminish the severity of our condition. But being vulnerable before the Lord is where change happens. There was a vulnerable moment in discussion between this woman and Jesus, and change began to happen. James 4.10 says, humble yourself before the Lord, and he will lift you up. I want to be vulnerable before Jesus, holding nothing back, saying, Lord, here I am, just as I am. Lord, would you would you speak to my innermost parts? Will you speak to the things that have given me trouble at night, the things that keep me up, and the things that cause me sorrow? Will you speak to this area where I'm weak? I want to worship him with a heart open and vulnerable and available before him. Amen? So that he can speak healing and life into my situation. And so she begins to question Jesus about the proper place of worship. And some commentators have said, well, she's trying to change the subject. Jesus has brought up her trouble in life, and she's like, Yeah, I know about the husbands, but let me ask you about where we should be worshiping. You say Jerusalem, I say Mount Gerizim. What's the answer? But I think she's realizing who it is that she is talking about, talking to. She's realizing, and her heart is stirring as he begins to speak directly to those pains and those troubles, her heart is opening up. And she wants to know the perspective of this prophet that's speaking to her, of this Savior called Jesus. Verse 20. She says, Our fathers worshiped on this mountain. But you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship. Jesus said to her, Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. We worship what we do not know, or you worship what you do not know, we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. But the hour is coming, the hour is coming and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. For the Father is seeking such people to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth. The woman said to him, I know the Messiah is coming. He who is called Christ. When he comes, he will teach us all things. And Jesus said to her, I who speak to you, am He. Amen. Amen. I am he and I'm speaking to you. I think her spirit was already dwelling, stirring up inside of her. She recognized who Jesus was. And I don't think she asked because she didn't know that he was the Messiah. I think she wanted that confirmation. Are you really the Messiah? Is this the Jesus that I've heard about? And there's a change that began to happen in her. And that stirring within her wanted to worship the Savior. And she's saying, How is it that I can worship you, Jesus? You've changed my heart. You've changed my perspective on who I am. You've spoken healing to my heart. You've spoken life to places in my life that were dark and dead. You've given new life and new hope to my circumstance. How do I worship you? How do I worship you, Jesus? She's crying out for something true, something new, something real. And he reveals to her that he is the Christ. He is the well of life. And so he tells her two things. He said, true worshipers will worship in what? Spirit and truth. First, true worshipers will worship in spirit. I think all the way back to the beginning in Genesis. And it says, the Spirit of God hovered over the water. Of the deep. And then the w the Spirit of God does something. It speaks. It speaks and there is life. It speaks and there is light. God created us by his spirit and by his word. Isn't it fitting that we should worship him that same way? By his spirit and by his word. John 7 37, on the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, If anyone thirsts, let him come to drink to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water. Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive. Are we believers this morning? We are believers in the Spirit and the living God in Jesus Christ. And he has given us the gift of the Holy Spirit so that wherever I go, wherever I am, his presence is with me. His presence is with you wherever you go. As you proclaim the goodness of the gospel, as you carry the Holy Spirit within you, his presence will follow. And so worship is not bound by the walls of this church. Worship isn't restricted by certain songs or practices. I love a good time of praise and worship. I love to sing songs and magnify his name and get excited and praise him. And all of that is part of my worship. But outside of the songs, outside of practice, it is my life laid bare before the Lord, the way that I live, the way that I speak that gives him worship. Worship is not bound by my understanding. It's not bound by the things that I know. Worship is my life alive in the spirit and the water of Jesus Christ. It's the actions I take to honor the Lord in my day-to-day life. And so if I worship in the Spirit, it might look a little like this: responding to the call to speak into others' lives. How many of you have had the spirit stir in you and kind of put a knot in your stomach to speak to someone when you don't really want to? But when you act on what the spirit's calling to you to do, you're speaking life into someone's life that they may not otherwise receive. The Spirit gives you new truths that you can speak into the lives of other people. And as you do that, as you act on the direction of the Holy Spirit, you are worshiping the Lord. Maybe it's praying with authority. The Bible says, where you don't have the words to say, the Spirit will give you the utterance. And so we pray with confidence and boldness that Jesus Christ is alive and that he is restoring mankind to relationship with him. And so when I pray, I pray with boldness and confidence that he will fulfill the things of his kingdom that he said he would. Taking time to listen to the word of the Lord. Sometimes we don't take the time to be silent and just listen. But there are beautiful moments in our my walk with Jesus when I just listen, don't say anything. Get to a place that is quiet, that is set apart, that is separate, and listen to the Spirit of Lord. That's worship. That's worshiping in the Spirit. Living the vision of restoration. We know that God is restoring all humanity and that he wants to redeem his people. And so the way that I live should be in a manner that causes that redemption to take place, that brings the word and the gospel to people who need to hear it, that represent the goodness of Jesus wherever I am. And that I would magnify the Lord without restriction. Those times of worship where I could just throw my hands up and say, Lord, you are good. Lord, you are faithful. Lord, it's your breath in my lungs. You're worthy of the praise. Worshiping in tune with what He has created us to do is worshiping in spirit. And I think it must have resonated with this Samaritan woman on this day. It doesn't matter, Jesus is telling her, whether you worship on Mount Gerizim or you worship in Jerusalem, a day is coming when those restrictions will not be put in place. But worship out of the connection that you have found in me. Worship out of the spirit that is now alive in you. Worship as a result of the rivers of living water flowing from your heart. How many want to be in tune with the rivers of living water flowing out of our hearts? Amen. That the spirit would have its way in us. He didn't have to explain to her what that meant on that day. I think her heart was so overwhelmed by the presence of the mighty counselor. So overwhelmed by Jesus' presence and the healing that she was receiving that she was just ready to pour it out. Ready to pour out her worship. Second, he tells her they will worship in truth. Before he could talk to the Samaritan woman about worship, they first had to talk about her condition. If I want to experience genuine relationship with Jesus, I have to be genuine with him myself. Listen, don't be phony before the Lord. I think I've probably done it sometimes, trying to just go through the motion and look like I've got everything together. But the Lord knows. What do I have to gain by putting on a show before the Lord? Nothing. What I am doing, if I'm trying to just go through the emotions, is withholding my healing, withholding the truth that the Lord wants to reveal to me. I'm withholding blessings that God has in store for me for myself by trying to act like I've got it all together. And so I want to be free from the having it all together. I want to be available before the Lord and come as I am, to lay it all out before him. In the moments where I've been broken and where I've struggled in life are some of the greatest moments in worship that I've ever had. Just to be broken before his presence is okay. Just to tell him how it is, the nitty-gritty of what's going on, my pains and my sorrows, the things that I'm weak at, the things I need his help in, worshiping in truth. Now look at what the woman does in response to this conversation she's having with Jesus. Verse 28, it says, So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people, Come see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ? Sorry, I lost my notes. Can this be the Christ? She leaves behind her physical utensil. She lives behind her physical tool. And she runs into the people with this truth that God had just given her. She runs into the town. And this is not something, if you had just been told every failure that you've ever committed and everything you've done wrong, this is not a normal response to that. She's not running into town and saying, look, hey, this man told me that I've been married to several different husbands and I failed here and there. And you should hear it for yourself how you failed and messed up. That would be weird, right? No, there was a truth. There was a new revelation in her that she wanted to share. She wanted to tell people how this conversation with Jesus had changed her perspective and brought healing to her. And she says, come see a man. Come see a man who's not just a man, who can speak into your sorrow, who can speak into your failures, who can speak into the trouble that you have in your life and can bring you out of it, who can give you a new identity and a new hope. I want to be so in tune with the truth that Jesus is speaking to my life that I have that kind of response. That I can't help but tell my friends and my family and the people around me the goodness of this man called Jesus who is Savior. When Jesus speaks to your situation, it always leads to healing. It always leads to new fruit in your life. The word of God is truth. And it will bring new understanding, new passion in your worship. Jesus is not a condemner, he's a redeemer. He wants to redeem your situation. You just have to be available. You have to bring it to him. How many of you remember the times Jesus spoke new truth to you when there was something new that you heard in the Lord and it changed your perspective of your walk with him? There are so many in my life. So many. I just want to share a few this morning. When I was little, like seventh grade, I was littler than I am now, believe it or not. I was a tiny little boy. And a lot of you remember me that that little, but I was small and I was a little bit of a dork. And seventh grade is hard on middle school kids. It's just a hard time of life. And uh so to try to fit in and try to measure up, I was always trying to do everything just right, to make sure I had everything figured out. But there was a moment in that time of my life when I really grabbed a hold of what the grace of God meant to me. That I leaned on his strength and not my own ability. And there was a shift in that moment, even in my young life, to trust the Lord more and to walk in the truth that he's got it under control. And my confidence switched like that. I remember that change in my life. When fruit is produced and worship grows from one truth to another, we learn more truth and we more learn more truth. This is the progress, the process of our life with Jesus. One truth leads to another. And so I was had this newfound relationship and love for Jesus and His Word, and because He grace covered me. And I remember as a teenager experiencing a lot of just some dark times in our household, in our family, and and things were just not at rest, not at peace. And I would go to my room by myself and just pray to the Lord and cry out the name of Jesus. And those moments are when I learned the peace of God that surpasses understanding. I knew what it meant. I had heard it before, but it became real to me in that moment. And so when I faced other dark times in my life, I was able to hold on to that peace, hold on and remember how his peace showed up for me. I could worship in the truth of his peace. There's been some times in my life where we've lost some people really, really close to us. My dad passed away when he was young, and shortly after my father-in-law passed away, and it was a time of just really heavy sorrow. But I remember God working through people around me, working in worship, in the service, and feeling his presence just wrap around me and around my wife, and show his love and his compassion. And it was in those moments, in one of my deepest times of sorrow, that I remember, I realized what it really meant that we do not grieve as those who have no hope. But we believe in the eternal life of Jesus Christ our Lord, and we have hope and strength in that. And in that moment, I was girded up and strengthened to praise the Lord and continue to worship in my sorrow. This one's a little more funny, I guess for me it is, but I thought for a while that I would not get married. I had dated some people, but there was a time of uh where I wasn't dating anybody, and I was just kind of frustrated by it when in my younger years, and um I was praying, Lord, like I want to have a partner, I want to have someone to experience his life with, and and uh so it was just a struggle of mine. And I remember the Spirit saying, Am I enough for you? Will you be satisfied in me? Or do you have to have someone? And I said, Lord, you're more than enough. You're more than enough. And I kid you not, it was like within the next month that things started progressing with Alyssa and I, and and you know the rest from there. I've been blessed with the most beautiful wife and the most beautiful marriage, and she's like shying away, like, don't talk about me. But the Lord blessed me in that moment, and so it was a truth that I carried in my marriage that Jesus, I was satisfied in him first, and then in my earthly relationships. I watched several people that I love so dearly serve in Haiti and serve in Africa, serve here in the United States, and that has revealed to me the truth of a servant's heart in me that I want to serve God's people, and I want to speak encouragement into their lives. All of these times that Jesus has spoken truth and revealed himself in me, has called me to worship in a different way. And I know that so many of you have different moments in your lives that he's spoken truth and shaped the trajectory of your worship. Worship is responding to and with all these truths that we have to the beautiful honor to grow in. Worship is so much more than a song. Worship is when I receive and act on every truth he has given me. Sometimes it may look like just a simple cry of praise to exalt and magnify his name. Sometimes it looks like a quiet prayer, sometimes it looks like loving a neighbor. It may be just keeping your head up this week and doing what the Lord's called you to do. The woman at the well was ready to worship because of the new truth she had received. I want to be so in tune to the Holy Spirit that I am connected with him on a day-to-day basis. That my life is worship and pleasing to God most high. That I respond to his desire to have relationship with me. Will you stand with me this morning? As we stand, I want us to look at the result of what happened in verse 39. It says, Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony. He told me all that I ever did. So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with him with them, and he stayed there two days. And many more believed because of his word. The woman said to him, It is no longer because of what you said. They said to the woman, It is no longer because of what you said that we believe. For we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world. I want my worship and my testimony to reach to the ends of the earth. Wherever I go, I want it to reach my family. I want to worship in a way that they recognize something different in me. They recognize that the Savior is alive, and then they hear the word for themselves. They hear a transformational truth of Jesus for themselves, that it changes lives. The presence of God changes our lives, changes our perspective on worship. I would say it demands, but it causes a result in our hearts to just be abandoned before him. I can't help but praise him because he's been so good to me. I can't help to live a life for him because he's been so good. And he cares for me, he cares for you this morning. How many can testify that the Lord's been good to you this morning? I just want to encourage you. If you want to just take a moment at this altar to show gratitude for the truth that Jesus has given you, to show gratitude for his spirit, will you come down this morning? If maybe you're like the Samaritan woman and you've got some pain that you haven't dealt with, and you just want to hear some counsel from Jesus this morning. He's here.