WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:01.280 Well, good morning. 00:00:01.439 --> 00:00:06.639 We're uh so happy that we can be uh together and teaching and even in this setting. 00:00:06.719 --> 00:00:15.359 And I'm preaching in our small group room to an iPhone, but we're so happy that we can just throw this together and be together on Sunday morning. 00:00:15.519 --> 00:00:30.160 I know for a lot of us the last few days have been uh a a feasting on news and information and ongoing emails and text messages of what's canceled and what's not, what's going on, and uh all of that. 00:00:30.320 --> 00:00:31.199 It can be overwhelming. 00:00:31.280 --> 00:00:35.039 It can be overwhelming just because of the amount of information overwhelming because it's incredibly sad. 00:00:35.200 --> 00:00:42.320 It can be overwhelming because there's disappointments built into a lot of that, of things being canceled that meant something to you. 00:00:42.399 --> 00:00:43.920 And our conversations, right? 00:00:44.079 --> 00:00:47.679 Our conversations have been dominated by the coronavirus. 00:00:47.759 --> 00:00:54.799 Uh, how quickly any conversation just bounces right back into COVID-19 over the last few days. 00:00:54.880 --> 00:01:25.680 And our church, uh, as we've been emailing you and communicating to you guys, and thank you for your patience with us in that our church is so happy to suspend services for the next two Sundays in hopes for our state and in hopes for our country to resist a spike in COVID-19, especially for those of us and our friends and our family and in our state and our country or community that uh have lower immune systems or uh they're in the most more at-risk age demographic. 00:01:25.760 --> 00:01:29.599 And so uh we are happy to suspend and to worship together like this. 00:01:29.680 --> 00:01:37.359 We'll be in more communication about different ways uh for us to worship together, even though we can't physically be together. 00:01:37.519 --> 00:01:39.680 So it's an overwhelming issue, is what I'm saying. 00:01:39.840 --> 00:01:42.159 And at the same time, we're still in the season of Lent. 00:01:42.239 --> 00:01:45.920 The season of Lent is the 40 days leading up to Easter. 00:01:46.000 --> 00:01:51.439 Um, during the season of Lent, Sundays are feast days, is what they're called. 00:01:51.680 --> 00:02:02.159 So, yeah, we've been feasting on information and news and all of this COVID-19 that's so overwhelming for us, but we get to, on Sundays, feast on the goodness of God. 00:02:02.480 --> 00:02:17.919 We get to pause and rest and feast on his goodness to us in a world where these circumstances, right, we're seeing it more now than ever, these circumstances and the fragility of the world will not satisfy our souls. 00:02:18.159 --> 00:02:35.439 And yet, on a Sunday through Lynn, every Sunday, we get to gather, we get to remember, and feast and fill ourselves on God's goodness that is secure and is stable in and out of any circumstance. 00:02:35.759 --> 00:02:47.280 I was out walking this morning and up the hill from my house, and the walk I was taking, I saw Kenestone Hospital, and very sadly this week, just this very week, a man died of COVID-19 in that hospital. 00:02:47.439 --> 00:02:51.039 Uh he had other medical underlying issues as well. 00:02:51.280 --> 00:02:52.639 But he passed away this week. 00:02:52.719 --> 00:02:53.680 That's incredibly sad. 00:02:53.759 --> 00:03:02.639 And this morning I saw that, I remembered that, I remember how sad that was, and at the same time, I remembered babies are being born in that hospital today. 00:03:03.680 --> 00:03:06.560 Today, babies are being born. 00:03:06.639 --> 00:03:13.199 And I'm pretty sure over the course of the next two weeks, with a lot of us working from home, babies are gonna be made in the next two weeks. 00:03:13.280 --> 00:03:15.280 There's gonna happen a lot, right? 00:03:15.439 --> 00:03:21.439 I mean, there's happy, amazing things going on amidst sad and disappointing things, which is my point. 00:03:21.599 --> 00:03:24.000 Yes, people are getting sick. 00:03:24.240 --> 00:03:27.280 Uh, people will have increased loneliness. 00:03:27.520 --> 00:03:28.319 That will happen. 00:03:28.479 --> 00:03:31.280 At the same time today, somebody's getting married today. 00:03:31.520 --> 00:03:34.560 People are getting married, children are laughing. 00:03:35.039 --> 00:03:40.319 The flowers in my yard are still rising up out of the ground and they're blooming. 00:03:40.960 --> 00:03:42.400 People are loving each other. 00:03:42.560 --> 00:03:45.919 People are finding ways to serve each other and reach out to each other. 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:50.400 And so that's just a way to say that, yes, we live in a fragile world. 00:03:50.560 --> 00:03:56.240 We live in a fragile world that has both beautiful and broken experiences inside of it. 00:03:56.479 --> 00:03:59.759 And yet this morning we get to feast on the abundance of God's love for us. 00:03:59.840 --> 00:04:01.680 We see that in our passage this morning. 00:04:01.759 --> 00:04:13.759 Our passage this morning is John chapter 4, where Jesus comes and approaches and talks to this woman that nobody would have thought that he would have been talking to her. 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:22.160 And so if you have a Bible in your home or around you, or maybe on your phone or computer, you can just pull it up while I talk and we work our way through. 00:04:22.240 --> 00:04:25.519 I'll read a little bit of the passage and then I'll make a point and I'll talk. 00:04:25.680 --> 00:04:27.360 Read a little bit and make a point and I'll talk. 00:04:27.439 --> 00:04:29.199 That'll be how we work our way through it. 00:04:29.279 --> 00:04:32.079 So, John chapter 4, Jesus is headed to Galilee. 00:04:32.399 --> 00:04:35.759 He goes through this area called Samaria. 00:04:36.639 --> 00:04:44.079 And we have to remember that when the Jews went into exile, some of them stayed behind and they married these other people, these Canaanites. 00:04:44.160 --> 00:04:50.959 And so the Jews married these Canaanites, and when they married, they produced children, a new race called Samaritans. 00:04:51.680 --> 00:04:56.639 And so the Jews considered these Samaritans to be racially inferior to themselves. 00:04:56.800 --> 00:05:04.160 They were heretics, and yet as Jesus seeks this lady out, this Samaritan, that all the other Jews would have dismissed. 00:05:04.480 --> 00:05:07.759 So we jump into the story there at John 4, verse 7. 00:05:07.920 --> 00:05:10.000 A woman from Samaria came to draw water. 00:05:10.160 --> 00:05:12.319 Jesus said to her, Give me a drink. 00:05:12.480 --> 00:05:15.600 For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. 00:05:15.839 --> 00:05:22.800 The Samaritan woman said to him, How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria? 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:26.240 For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. 00:05:26.879 --> 00:05:36.560 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. 00:05:36.720 --> 00:05:40.160 And the woman said to him, Sir, you have nothing to draw water with. 00:05:40.319 --> 00:05:42.480 So she's not, she's not picking up on what's going on here. 00:05:42.639 --> 00:05:44.240 You have nothing to draw water with, is what she says. 00:05:44.319 --> 00:05:45.680 And the well's deep. 00:05:45.920 --> 00:05:48.079 Where do you get that living water? 00:05:48.399 --> 00:05:51.199 Verse 12, Are you greater than our father Jacob? 00:05:51.360 --> 00:05:55.439 He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock. 00:05:55.600 --> 00:06:01.040 Jesus said to her, Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again. 00:06:01.680 --> 00:06:07.120 But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. 00:06:07.439 --> 00:06:13.519 The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life. 00:06:13.680 --> 00:06:21.040 The woman said to him, Sir, give me this water so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water. 00:06:21.439 --> 00:06:22.639 So point number one is this. 00:06:22.800 --> 00:06:26.399 Point number one is our souls thirst for God alone. 00:06:26.639 --> 00:06:29.839 That's what our souls thirst for underneath it all. 00:06:30.000 --> 00:06:32.079 Our souls thirst for God alone. 00:06:32.399 --> 00:06:37.040 Other sources will always leave our souls thirsty. 00:06:37.279 --> 00:06:42.879 So that's point number one, and these points will be in the text underneath this video, so you can look at those sermon notes. 00:06:42.959 --> 00:06:44.079 That's point number one. 00:06:44.319 --> 00:06:45.199 I love this quote. 00:06:45.759 --> 00:06:49.439 This week I was reminded of this quote by the Christian faith writer Anne Lamont. 00:06:49.839 --> 00:06:56.480 And she she gave this as an announcement, a commencement address at Berkeley, and then it was put into one of her books later on. 00:06:56.560 --> 00:06:57.680 It's been passed all around the internet. 00:06:57.920 --> 00:06:59.439 This quote's so great. 00:07:00.079 --> 00:07:01.839 So here's what she says. 00:07:02.079 --> 00:07:16.480 At some point I finally started getting published and experiencing a meager, knock-need standing in the literary world, and I started to get almost everything that many of you graduates are hoping for, except the money. 00:07:16.720 --> 00:07:21.839 I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled. 00:07:22.079 --> 00:07:30.800 All the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside of you. 00:07:31.279 --> 00:07:36.000 Stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame. 00:07:36.480 --> 00:07:42.560 The culture says these things will save you as long as you also manage to keep your weight down. 00:07:43.199 --> 00:07:44.959 But the culture lies. 00:07:45.839 --> 00:07:51.439 So what Lamont was saying is what we all come to know and learn eventually. 00:07:51.839 --> 00:08:01.600 These supposed paths of satisfaction that the world sells us on, while we participate with them a lot and we give our hearts to them a lot. 00:08:02.319 --> 00:08:06.240 They can never ultimately satisfy our souls. 00:08:06.560 --> 00:08:08.319 We need a different kind of water. 00:08:08.399 --> 00:08:09.439 And that's what Jesus is saying. 00:08:09.519 --> 00:08:15.920 That's why in verse 14 he says, But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. 00:08:16.240 --> 00:08:22.800 The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life. 00:08:23.199 --> 00:08:25.920 It's a different level and kind of satisfaction. 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:36.320 And yet at the same time, while that verse is so beautiful, that truth is so beautiful, and while we're tapped into it and aware of it, it's incredibly restful and satisfying, it has to be understood in the reality of humanity. 00:08:36.480 --> 00:08:38.879 Meaning, Wednesday, I had a bad day. 00:08:39.200 --> 00:08:40.960 I had a horrible day on Wednesday. 00:08:41.039 --> 00:08:43.279 And you probably had a horrible day at some point this week. 00:08:43.360 --> 00:08:45.759 I can guarantee you had a bad day. 00:08:46.159 --> 00:08:52.000 I mean, a lot of us lost 10% of our net worth in one day when the stock market dropped. 00:08:52.559 --> 00:08:57.759 And if that is our satisfaction, then we're so unstable. 00:08:59.279 --> 00:09:02.639 And our humanity is we're going to have some bad days. 00:09:02.879 --> 00:09:12.799 And we're going to realize, oh, my heart's being aligned with circumstances to fulfill me rather than God's faithfulness and love, and then I'll deal with my circumstances. 00:09:13.679 --> 00:09:15.600 So I'm not always feeling verse 14. 00:09:15.679 --> 00:09:17.679 You're not always feeling verse 14. 00:09:17.840 --> 00:09:20.960 I think we can all admit and be honest about that. 00:09:21.200 --> 00:09:25.200 Too often we use the world to satisfy our souls. 00:09:25.759 --> 00:09:35.039 But the more that we grow in the grace of God and become aware of the very things we're placing our satisfaction in that don't deliver to us, the quicker we can confess of it and repent of it. 00:09:35.200 --> 00:09:39.440 That's what growth and grace is it's quicker repentance and quicker confession. 00:09:39.759 --> 00:09:46.320 As to remember again that satisfaction, our soul satisfaction, is then gonna be in God's love and Christ alone. 00:09:46.559 --> 00:09:56.320 Point number two is this God knows you and he continues to pursue you and accept you and delight in you. 00:09:56.639 --> 00:10:01.600 God knows you and continues to pursue you, accept you, and delight in you. 00:10:01.759 --> 00:10:03.440 Look at verses 16 through 18. 00:10:03.519 --> 00:10:06.399 Jesus said to her, Go call your husband and come here. 00:10:06.480 --> 00:10:07.840 So he knows something about her. 00:10:07.919 --> 00:10:08.639 He knows it all. 00:10:08.799 --> 00:10:10.240 He knows the storyline. 00:10:10.399 --> 00:10:12.320 Verse 17, the story starts to come out. 00:10:12.480 --> 00:10:15.840 The woman answered him, I have no husband, Jesus said to her. 00:10:16.080 --> 00:10:22.320 Then Jesus said to her, You are right in saying, I have no husband, for you have had five husbands. 00:10:22.799 --> 00:10:26.799 And the one now that you have is not your husband. 00:10:27.440 --> 00:10:29.440 What you have said is true. 00:10:29.759 --> 00:10:31.120 So what's Jesus doing here? 00:10:31.200 --> 00:10:38.879 He's not opening this up to condemn her, he's opening this up for her to become aware of her own narrative. 00:10:39.679 --> 00:10:47.360 This story is about Jesus lovingly leading this lady into her own narrative of sin and woundedness. 00:10:48.559 --> 00:11:00.639 Because our present-day idolatry, trying to get our soul satisfied in the world, that present-day idolatry that I have or you have, that is always gonna be found at the intersection of our sin and our woundedness. 00:11:00.799 --> 00:11:02.720 Look at this lady's life. 00:11:03.440 --> 00:11:06.320 This is a life of woundedness and sin, and it's both. 00:11:06.399 --> 00:11:08.000 It's not one or the other. 00:11:09.840 --> 00:11:15.279 Our path to healing, the soul satisfaction that Jesus is talking about and that we want. 00:11:16.720 --> 00:11:24.480 It's actually gonna be growing in the awareness of this and facing the very woundedness and the sin of our own narratives. 00:11:25.919 --> 00:11:33.759 And processing through that in the presence of God that knows you, pursues you, accepts you, and delights in you. 00:11:34.000 --> 00:11:41.360 So that in the kindness of God you feel free to repent and grow in the grace of God. 00:11:41.519 --> 00:11:46.720 We get to know this lady some in this passage, but we don't get to know nearly as much as we would like. 00:11:47.679 --> 00:11:48.000 Right? 00:11:48.159 --> 00:11:50.720 I mean, we know she had five husbands, she's living with another guy. 00:11:50.799 --> 00:11:52.320 We don't know how she grew up. 00:11:53.200 --> 00:11:56.559 We don't know what happened to her along the way, we don't know what these husbands were like. 00:11:56.720 --> 00:11:59.919 We don't know if these things, how much they were his fault or her fault. 00:12:00.000 --> 00:12:04.720 We don't know what her dad was like or her mom was like or her childhood was like or her teen years were like. 00:12:04.879 --> 00:12:07.360 We don't know a lot in this story. 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:12.960 But we do know that Jesus doesn't hold condemnation for her. 00:12:14.320 --> 00:12:21.919 He's inviting her to stop running from facing her narrative of sin and woundedness. 00:12:23.039 --> 00:12:35.279 But to face it and feel it and process it and confess it and repent of it so that she might know freedom, that she might know this soul satisfaction that's found in him, in him alone. 00:12:35.440 --> 00:12:37.919 There's a story about a mom who writes to C.S. 00:12:38.080 --> 00:12:38.559 Lewis. 00:12:38.720 --> 00:12:39.919 A mom writes to C.S. 00:12:40.080 --> 00:12:45.679 Lewis because she's so worried that her son loves Aslan more than Jesus. 00:12:45.840 --> 00:12:49.200 So remember, Aslan's the lion and the lion, the witch in the wardrobe. 00:12:49.360 --> 00:12:54.799 And that lion, Aslan, in that story and in that movie, I don't know if you read or you saw it. 00:12:55.039 --> 00:12:58.320 Aslan is this powerful, loving lion. 00:12:58.960 --> 00:13:07.279 And he is powerful and he's mighty and he is loving and he is endearing and gentle with the children. 00:13:08.799 --> 00:13:10.399 And then here is C.S. 00:13:10.559 --> 00:13:18.080 Lewis's reply to this mom's concern that her nerve boy loves Aslan more than Jesus. 00:13:18.240 --> 00:13:19.360 Here's her reply. 00:13:19.600 --> 00:13:23.519 Lawrence can't really love Aslan more than Jesus. 00:13:23.759 --> 00:13:26.799 Even if he feels that's what he's doing. 00:13:27.039 --> 00:13:34.240 For the things he loves Aslan for doing or saying are simply the things Jesus really did and said. 00:13:35.200 --> 00:13:44.639 So that when Lawrence thinks he's loving Aslan, he's really loving Jesus and perhaps loving him more than he ever did before. 00:13:46.240 --> 00:13:53.279 See, Lawrence and you and I, sometimes we just we need a metaphor to open us up to the reality of Jesus' delight in us. 00:13:53.679 --> 00:13:57.440 Sometimes we need that metaphor, we need that story, we need that parable. 00:13:57.519 --> 00:13:59.519 That's why Jesus is always teaching parables. 00:13:59.679 --> 00:14:07.840 We need these stories to invite us in and break down the walls we have, this resistance, this allergy to grace. 00:14:09.120 --> 00:14:18.159 That it could be possible that God actually fully knows me, like that lion knows those children, and still snuggles up to them. 00:14:19.039 --> 00:14:23.919 That God would know me and still delight in me. 00:14:25.120 --> 00:14:28.799 So the woman finally says to Jesus, I see that you're a prophet. 00:14:29.679 --> 00:14:40.080 And they get into this conversation about worship, and finally Jesus says in verse 22, You worship what you do not know, we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. 00:14:40.240 --> 00:14:43.440 So he's talking about himself being born to the Jewish people. 00:14:43.840 --> 00:14:50.080 So he is God incarnate that is headed toward the cross, the fulfillment of the law. 00:14:50.879 --> 00:14:57.200 Our sin is put upon him, his righteous is given to us, so we're forever beloved, forever beloved with God. 00:14:57.279 --> 00:14:59.759 And that came through the Jews, but it was for all people. 00:15:00.480 --> 00:15:09.200 Verse 23 but the hour is coming and is now here when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, but the Father is seeking such people to worship him. 00:15:09.440 --> 00:15:13.919 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth. 00:15:14.000 --> 00:15:17.360 Now we could have a whole series on worship at this point, but we'll keep going. 00:15:17.519 --> 00:15:18.320 Verse 25. 00:15:18.559 --> 00:15:23.440 The woman said to him, I know that Messiah is coming, he who is called Christ. 00:15:25.120 --> 00:15:27.600 When he comes, he will tell us all things. 00:15:27.759 --> 00:15:31.519 And Jesus said to her, I who speak to you am He. 00:15:33.120 --> 00:15:34.559 Here's point number three. 00:15:34.799 --> 00:15:35.600 Last point. 00:15:36.240 --> 00:15:47.919 Our worship and evangelism, our worship and evangelism, so our giving worth to something, God, hopefully, and our evangelism, the speaking of a good story. 00:15:48.240 --> 00:15:53.279 Our worship and evangelism is empowered by our belovedness in Christ. 00:15:54.960 --> 00:15:56.320 So let me explain it this way. 00:15:56.480 --> 00:16:00.799 Two weeks ago, Christy and I, we went on an incredibly romantic date. 00:16:00.879 --> 00:16:05.600 I took her to the fly fishing film festival in Cartersville, Georgia. 00:16:05.919 --> 00:16:08.320 She wanted to go so badly, so I took her up there. 00:16:08.480 --> 00:16:11.279 She loved it so much, and I can tell you the demographic that was there. 00:16:11.519 --> 00:16:21.679 We walked into this pub, and it was about 50% older white men in flannel, and then 50% young white men in flannel with beards. 00:16:21.759 --> 00:16:22.879 And then there's Christy and I. 00:16:22.960 --> 00:16:25.840 That's the demographic at the fly fishing festival. 00:16:26.080 --> 00:16:29.519 Very romantic date night on a Thursday night. 00:16:29.679 --> 00:16:30.799 Fly fishing festival. 00:16:30.960 --> 00:16:32.720 I was in heaven, right? 00:16:32.799 --> 00:16:34.720 I mean, we're watching, Christy was there. 00:16:34.799 --> 00:16:49.039 I don't think she was in heaven, but she was there, and we're watching these 20-minute short films and just short films with these different people, guys and ladies fly fishing in Alaska catching salmon, and they're off the coast of Baja catching Marlin and Jackson Hole catching trout. 00:16:49.279 --> 00:16:52.879 I mean, I mean, I was in heaven. 00:16:53.039 --> 00:16:55.519 I could not worship more, is my point. 00:16:55.759 --> 00:16:59.919 This this is my Billy Graham crusade, my passion conference. 00:17:00.240 --> 00:17:08.400 I could not have my heart more towards something more willing to spend money or time or energy or talk about, right? 00:17:08.720 --> 00:17:10.480 Because I love this. 00:17:10.640 --> 00:17:11.599 I love it. 00:17:12.559 --> 00:17:21.039 I could give my life, truly, I could give my whole life to this, to these pursuits and these trips and just entertaining myself with it. 00:17:21.359 --> 00:17:24.079 It could be my church, it could be my worship. 00:17:24.400 --> 00:17:31.200 Because that which we give our ultimate worth to, that's our worship. 00:17:31.839 --> 00:17:36.160 That's our worship, where we're pulling worth from and what we're giving worth to. 00:17:36.720 --> 00:17:38.720 And fishing's wonderful. 00:17:39.279 --> 00:17:40.319 Fishing is wonderful. 00:17:40.559 --> 00:17:44.480 Standing in the middle of a river and casting a line for a day. 00:17:44.559 --> 00:17:47.200 I mean, there's that is so it can give me such rest. 00:17:47.359 --> 00:17:50.160 It can give people and offer people peace. 00:17:50.799 --> 00:17:52.319 But it can't love you. 00:17:52.480 --> 00:17:56.160 It's like every other water in this world. 00:17:56.240 --> 00:17:59.759 It doesn't ultimately satisfy it, it gives us a taste. 00:18:00.400 --> 00:18:01.759 It's a taste. 00:18:03.039 --> 00:18:08.720 It can offer us some peace and rest, but it can't ultimately love us or forgive us. 00:18:08.960 --> 00:18:10.559 It doesn't ultimately satisfy us. 00:18:10.880 --> 00:18:13.599 The creator behind it that can do that. 00:18:14.799 --> 00:18:19.839 Here's my second point: worship and evangelism is from our belovedness in Christ. 00:18:19.920 --> 00:18:24.400 Here's our second point talking about this fly fishing film tour festival that we went to. 00:18:24.559 --> 00:18:31.279 I don't have to be demanded, you don't have to be demanded or obligated to talk about something you love. 00:18:31.759 --> 00:18:36.640 I couldn't wait to fit in the fly fishing film tour into a sermon. 00:18:36.720 --> 00:18:39.599 I can't, well, I've told so many people about it. 00:18:40.799 --> 00:18:42.079 Because I love it. 00:18:42.240 --> 00:18:54.799 I've stood in that river and cast that line, that perfect cast that's upstream and then mend it as it comes downstream, and then you get that drift with no drag and a trout that grabs it and then pulls the line tight. 00:18:54.960 --> 00:18:57.839 And so when I go to a film festival, I get to see that over and over again. 00:18:58.079 --> 00:18:59.759 People catching fish and exciting their own church. 00:18:59.839 --> 00:19:00.880 I can't wait to tell people. 00:19:00.960 --> 00:19:07.519 I don't have to be obligated, I don't have to be demanded, because that story is so good for my soul. 00:19:07.920 --> 00:19:09.759 I love that story. 00:19:10.559 --> 00:19:24.880 So of course, the lady says her reaction to this whole situation with Jesus, where Jesus comes, offers her this living water that satisfies her soul, you know, pushes her back into her life narrative of sin and woundedness and still accepts her and pursues her and delights in her. 00:19:25.039 --> 00:19:27.279 Of course, her reaction is come and see a man, right? 00:19:27.359 --> 00:19:29.519 She leaves Jesus, goes and runs into the town. 00:19:29.759 --> 00:19:33.519 Come and see a man who told me all that I ever did. 00:19:34.000 --> 00:19:36.480 Could this be the Christ? 00:19:37.359 --> 00:19:39.680 And the answer, of course, is yes. 00:19:40.559 --> 00:19:44.160 The Christ is the living God for us to know. 00:19:45.200 --> 00:19:50.240 This God of love that saw her, knew her, and loved her. 00:19:51.759 --> 00:19:54.240 Nothing will satisfy our souls more. 00:19:55.200 --> 00:19:56.720 Church, God really loves you. 00:19:56.880 --> 00:19:57.920 God really loves you. 00:19:58.640 --> 00:20:01.680 Not only loves you, he likes you, he delights in you. 00:20:03.759 --> 00:20:07.519 He forgives you of all of your sin and gives to you his own righteousness. 00:20:07.680 --> 00:20:13.200 Our growth is going to be a growth in the grace of God and quicker confession, repentance of our sin. 00:20:13.279 --> 00:20:15.119 That's going to be our growth. 00:20:16.079 --> 00:20:28.880 So may the Holy Spirit speak into your heart the gospel in deeper and deeper ways, this good story of this loving God that is powered, mighty, and yet endearing and loving. 00:20:30.240 --> 00:20:34.160 That you are fully known and you are fully loved. 00:20:34.400 --> 00:20:35.920 Let's pray together. 00:20:37.200 --> 00:20:40.559 Father, help us to behold such love. 00:20:41.200 --> 00:20:50.240 Help us to behold such love and taste such love and feast on it this morning as this is a feasting Sunday in Lent. 00:20:50.480 --> 00:20:59.839 As we close in one more song, God, would you create in our hearts, would you create in our hearts worship to you in Jesus' name. 00:21:00.079 --> 00:21:00.640 Amen.