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421 | Throwback - Roaring Boldly · 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, we invite you to sit down with us as we look
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  to the scriptures to learn more 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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  Wicked people find it very hard to have peace.
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  They are always on the move. They will not stand for anything but fall for everything.
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  God's people should not be like them. God's people should stand with assurance
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  because the message they bring and what they have is righteous, pure, and life itself.
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  We'll see you next time. shamed, or intimidated.
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  You should be bold as lions because your message is clear and correct.
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  Join us in this program, Roaring Boldly, as Kim Miller of Woman at the Well
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  Ministries takes us through Proverbs 28.1, which says, The wicked flee when
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  no man pursueth, but the righteous are bold as a lion.
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  Hello and welcome to this broadcast of Woman at the Well Ministries.
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  Let us pray our kind and most gracious to heavenly
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  father lord i pray that you would just speak to our hearts
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  i pray to heavenly father that you would just lift
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  our courage and i pray lord that you would just
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  allow our minds to focus on the truth of who you
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  are i pray to heavenly father that you
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  would give us this courage and the boldness to speak and to stand in your presence
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  lord as we hear from you and then be able lord to stand in the presence of those
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  that you place around us that we might be able to clearly concisely and boldly
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  speak the truth that you've given us,
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  Lord, don't allow us to be intimidated. Dear God, don't allow us to be able
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  to be shrinking away from those that are around us, but give us a godly boldness,
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  Lord, a strength from on high that would enable us to lovingly and patiently
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  speak the truth in the presence of those around us.
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  Heavenly Father, we thank you that you have given us the truth.
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  We're thankful, Lord, that you live within us and you dwell within us and that
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  you'll put in our minds those things that we have need of, allowing us to remember
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  that which we have studied and that which you have told us in times of prayer.
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  And I pray, Lord, that you would just teach us to stand in your presence more
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  often, that we might have the knowledge, the inspiration, the motivation,
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  Lord, and your words to say that would lead others to you.
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  Lord, we love you and we praise you and we thank you in Jesus' name.
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  And all of God's people said, Amen.
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  It's an interesting thing how confidently some
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  people can speak about things that
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  have absolutely no bearing or
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  no relevance and in some cases have absolutely no truth about it whatsoever
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  and they'll stand and they'll argue almost to the death and and they'll never
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  back down regardless of how ridiculous or how absolutely incorrect it might be.
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  But there's one thing about that person that you can't help but admire or at
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  least notice and that is that they are willing to stand and say what it is they believe to be correct.
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  They're willing to stay in and speak about what they feel is their truth.
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  An interesting thing will happen. You can be in the presence of people who have
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  opposing views on politics, and they will just stand there,
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  and they will consistently speak about what they think to be true and right.
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  And they'll become passionate. they'll become
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  engaged and involved in the conversation and
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  absolutely nothing will deter them and
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  they may have not one shred of real evidence
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  fact or truth to back up what they're
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  saying but because they're passionate about
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  what it is they believe they'll never
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  give up trying to influence you i've been in the presence of some folks like
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  that and it has always made me think about my own ability to stand in the conversation.
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  Influencing others about the
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  truth of jesus christ about what
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  the word of god says about who
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  he is and it amazes me
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  that we who have been born
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  again whom the holy spirit indwells
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  who've studied and read from genesis to revelations the promises the miracles
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  the accounts and the events that god has laid out in his holy scriptures that
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  we might know who he is those of us who have
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  experienced his blessings and understand they come from him,
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  who've seen him transform and change our lives,
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  are still some of the most timid,
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  meek, and mild speakers of the word to others, of the truth to those around us.
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  For some of us, the best we can do is just walk away from a conversation where
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  Christ is being misrepresented.
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  Perhaps he's being just completely normalized when there's nothing normal about
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  the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.
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  When he is as holy as God is.
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  When you see that he seeks you and pursues you and loves you.
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  And that he wishes that none should perish. But yet, even among our peers,
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  and perhaps our group of friends,
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  we find it difficult to be passionate enough to stay in there in that conversation.
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  Defending the Word of God, and defending who he is.
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  Now, I've never been one who would argue the scriptures. I think that they speak for themselves.
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  But certainly in the presence of someone who is clearly misinterpreting who God is.
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  I believe as Christians, we should take the word of God, which is the truth,
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  and we should stand on it.
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  And we should allow others to see the truth as we reveal it to them through
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  the scriptures. I think it's important that we speak the Holy Word of God.
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  My opinion doesn't count, but God's Word will never fail.
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  What I think might have happened is unimportant, but what the Word of God says
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  happened is absolute truth.
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  And the Word of God says that Jesus was born of a virgin,
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  and that he left the splendor of heaven and he grew up on this earth tempted
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  like as we are yet without sin,
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  and that he died on the cross of Calvary to pay for your sins and my sins.
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  And that it was the sinless, perfect, spotless Lamb of God who shed his blood
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  for you and me that enables every one of us who believe to become the children of God.
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  That's not Kim Miller's interpretation.
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  That is not Woman at the Well Ministries interpretation.
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  That is the truth that Kim Miller believes and that Woman at the Well Ministries stands upon.
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  That is the truth of the Word of God. And it can be found in its Gospels.
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  It can be prophesied in the Old Testament and fulfilled in the New.
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  It is a living testimony of my life that jesus saves and every account in the
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  word of god from genesis to revelations is not just a story it is an account
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  of who god is it is an account of what happened.
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  And Jesus wrote every word from Genesis to Revelations by inspiring the men
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  of God that the Holy Spirit gave the words and the utterance that they might
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  write what God would have us to know.
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  And he gave us everything we needed to know that we might have life and have
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  it more abundantly by having Jesus as our Savior.
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  There needs to be a passion around the truth. And the Bible says,
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  I am the way, the truth, and the life. That's what Jesus says in John chapter 14, verse 6.
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  And no man cometh unto the Father but by me.
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  That is a fact. And that if you do not believe in the only begotten Son of God,
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  which is Jesus, that you will spend eternity in hell.
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  That is a truth, no matter how much you don't want to believe it.
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  And Christians have become so afraid of offending people that we've watered down what sin is.
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  We've watered down the reality of what the Bible says we need to do.
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  The Bible says that anything done without faith is sin.
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  Sin is not just going out and committing adultery. Sin is not just going out and stealing.
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  Sin is not just having any other God above me.
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  Sin, by the word of God, is anything done without faith, and we need to realize
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  that he calls us to live a life that depends wholly and solely upon him.
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  And we can because the foundation of God is the truth of God and it's the word
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  of God which was made flesh and dwelt among us.
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  We can be passionate about what we speak because what we speak of is truth.
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  It's grounded and rooted in his word.
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  It's grounded and rooted in him. Why is it then that we as Christians let the
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  world say whatever they want to say? We let the world do whatever they want to do.
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  And we as Christians who should outnumber the world seem to just sit back and
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  watch the liberties of Christ be completely obliterated.
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  And we go along to get along when we need to stand out and be a peculiar people.
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  Because Christ said, be ye peculiar for I am peculiar.
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  And what he meant was you're not of the world i wasn't of the world and so therefore
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  you shouldn't get along and blend with the world but that the world should see
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  him in you we need to be roaring boldly not rudely not arrogantly but passionately.
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  Standing on the truth, standing on the word of God, holding him for all things.
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  Jesus loves me, this I know. And the truth of the matter is that Jesus is real.
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  And we need to be bold in our knowledge of him and bold in speaking about him.
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  And we need to be passionate about who he is. and our life and our words should
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  show the passion and the belief that we have.
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  And we need to be willing to tell others who he is, standing on the truth of the word of God.
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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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