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392 | Throwback - The Alpha and the Omega · The Woman at the Well Ministries Podcast

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  Music.
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  Hello, friends, and welcome back to another podcast of Woman at the Well Ministries,
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  where we believe that all of us have to come to Jesus like the woman at the well in John chapter 4.
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  Our highest priority is making God real in your life.
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  Whether you are listening in our app, in your favorite podcasting app,
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  or on our website at watwm.org,
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  we invite you to sit down with us as we look to the scriptures to learn more
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  about God and to strengthen your daily walk with Jesus Christ.
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  Living a life for Christ. She's a happy girl.
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  Music.
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  She's a happy girl.
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  God chose you. Yes, He chose you to be part of His family and to be on His team.
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  He created you and then chose you.
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  He realizes the awesomeness of His power and how overwhelming the wonder of Him can be.
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  But He wishes for you to understand Him. and He has prepared a way for you to do so.
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  Yes, He loves you and wants you to know Him.
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  Join us in this program, The Alpha and Omega, as Kim Miller of Woman at the
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  Well Ministries takes us through Isaiah 43.10, which says, Ye are my witnesses,
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  saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen, that ye may know and believe
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  me and understand that I am He.
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  Before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
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  Hello and welcome to this broadcast of Woman at the Well Ministries.
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  I love this verse in Isaiah.
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  And I often think when I see those first opening words, ye are my witnesses.
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  I reflect upon what kind of witness am I?
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  And when I was a young girl in my youth group, I heard a message one time,
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  and what they brought out in the whole crux of the message was this.
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  If you had been accused of being a Christian and you were on trial for that,
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  would there be enough evidence in your life from day to day that they can convict you?
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  And even as a young child, I understood the importance of having data or having
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  facts in my life or having evidence in my life to show that I was a Christian.
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  I fully understood that when I gave my heart to Jesus and he became my savior
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  and redeemed me from my sinful state that he had created a new creature in me.
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  And so old things should be passed away and all things should become new because
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  I no longer was living without God in me.
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  But once I became a Christian and I gave my heart to him, the Holy Spirit indwelled
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  me and I had to be different because now I was the temple of the Most High God and he was living in me.
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  And as I look at this verse, I see the awesomeness of knowing that I am a witness
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  to the saving power of Jesus Christ.
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  I am a witness to the redeeming grace of the Most High God.
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  I am a reflection of him.
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  The question is, how well do I reflect?
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  It's an interesting thing. Things that are shiny and pure and clean reflect
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  light much better than things that are dull and dark.
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  And sometimes we can polish up a piece of metal and watch it shine and reflect,
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  much better than we did before it was and i believe as christians the bible
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  says clearly that though our deeds and our works were as filthy rags he washed
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  us white as snow and so i believe he comes into our life and he cleans up the
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  dirt which will not reflect,
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  and he places inside of us a clean and pure heart.
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  And I believe as Christians, as we read his word and as we study his word and
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  as we confess our sins and as we strive to walk after his commandments and in
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  his will, we are able to begin to reflect him.
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  And I believe when he says you are my witnesses, that's what he means.
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  That to those around you, that's in your life, that's in your community,
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  that's in your work, that's able to witness you day to day in your activities,
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  you are the witness of what it means to have Christ living in you.
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  Now that is something to truly dwell on.
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  Because God is faithful. Are you?
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  God is good are you representing that are you reflecting his goodness and his
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  grace and his mercy can they see a difference in you compared to those who don't
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  have the love of god in them,
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  so when we look at this verse the first thing we need to really consider in our lives.
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  Is what kind of witness are we and answer
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  that question if someone followed you day to day is
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  there enough evidence to say that you're a christian when you
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  die are people going to wonder whether or not you're
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  in heaven or hell or has your life lived a
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  story that would assure your loved one that all is well between you and god
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  and then he says my servant whom i have chosen Do you realize that he could
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  have chosen to dwell in any being,
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  any creation that he wanted, but he chose to dwell in the person that he has created in his image?
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  He didn't create the rocks or the animals in his image.
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  He created man and the human race in his image.
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  And he breathed in us life and he put in us a soul.
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  And his purpose has come that we might have life and have it more abundantly
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  and he gave himself the supreme sacrifice that you and I might have life eternal in Jesus.
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  And he has called us to service, not to work our way into heaven,
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  not as some sort of payment for what he's given us.
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  But as a representation of the love we have for the gratefulness and thankfulness
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  of the blessings that he gives us daily.
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  And for the knowledge of the peace that passeth understanding and the joy unspeakable
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  and full of glory of knowing that the Most High God watches us,
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  supplies our every need,
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  leads us and guides us. He chose us.
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  And all he asks is that we believe.
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  And what I love, perhaps even more than all of that in this verse,
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  is that he tells me his purpose.
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  He wants me to know him he wants me to believe in him and he wants me to understand,
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  who he is i love that
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  god is not this mysterious being
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  in a far-off land god reveals himself
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  to his people all the time and
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  every day and the word was made flesh and dwelt among us we can read the holy
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  word of god and know who god is by knowing who jesus is by letting ourselves
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  open our mind and our heart that he may commune with us and walk with us and talk with us.
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  He allows us to understand who he is, that we might have a relationship with
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  him that is real and is true.
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  And all he asks is that we believe in him. But he's not asking for blind belief.
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  From Genesis to Revelations, he's given us full accounts of his presence.
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  He shows us himself every day in the way that his hand moves in and about our lives.
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  And he wants you to understand who he
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  is and the holy spirit he put inside
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  of us to teach us and to guide us and as
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  we begin to pray and commune with god
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  and talk to the holy spirit asking him to reveal the
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  interpretations of the scriptures that we might know.
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  Who god is that we may understand his will for
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  our life that we may understand the purpose of each
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  and every moment of our life as we begin to do
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  that he will answer us he says call unto me and
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  i will answer thee and show the great and mighty things which thou knowest
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  not in jeremiah 33 3 he bids us come in hebrews chapter 4 he tells us to ask
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  and you shall receive seek and you shall find and knock and it shall be opened
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  unto you in matthew 7 7 he does not withhold any good thing from them that love
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  him He tells us this in scripture.
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  He wants us to be completely comfortable in his presence. And he says,
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  behold, I stand at the door and knock.
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  And if you'll just open it up, I'll come and sup with you. He wants to commune
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  with you moment by moment.
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  Thus, he says to you to pray without ceasing.
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  We have the resource within us to have a working knowledge of who God is and
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  who he is in our life. to have an understanding of what he wants us to do.
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  And all of us, we are told, are part of the body of Christ who are believers
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  and part of the family of God.
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  And he gives talents that are different to each of us so that when we put us
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  all together on this earth, we can work in one accord in order to do the work
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  of God so that the kingdom can be furthered and exalted.
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  And he says, if he be lifted up, he'll draw all men unto him.
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  This verse to me is so reassuring because he wants me to know not to doubt not
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  to wonder i have a no so salvation in a god who gives me great hope.
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  And all things are possible to him that believeth. And he says,
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  without faith, it's impossible to please him.
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  And we must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
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  It is so important for us to spend time with Jesus that we could build that
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  relationship so that we hear him when he whispers, so that we have an understanding of what he wants,
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  so that we can have that peace that passes understanding and that joy unspeakable and full of glory.
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  And then he concludes this verse with before me, there was no God formed,
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  neither shall there be after me.
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  He is he is God.
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  He's not a little G.O.D. He is the one and only true and living God.
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  He and he alone is in supreme authority.
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  And you and I have the privilege of being chosen by him, that we may be his hands extended,
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  his feet, that we may see through his eyes, that we may live a life that is
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  abundant with peace and joy.
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  As we safely walk in the will of God, surrounded by his protection,
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  having our needs supplied by him.
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  Being completely sheltered by the shadow of the Almighty because he loves us.
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  And we have this privilege to call him father and the opportunity,
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  and I will say the obligation out of love and gratitude to let our lives be a witness.
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  Of the true being of who Christ is.
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  Music.
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  Thank you for joining us in today's podcast. You can visit the show notes for
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  quotes from today's podcast and scripture references.
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