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307 | Throwback - Love Beyond Decree · 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
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  well in John chapter four.
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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 in your daily walk with Jesus Christ.
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  Living her 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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  The Father up in heaven chose to leave his home on high with its glory and its
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  splendor to dwell among men.
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  He chose to walk and talk as ordinary folk.
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  He lived a life full of mercy and love.
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  He then saw that the only pardon for Mansoul was to adopt him into his family.
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  Join us in this program, Love Beyond Decree, as Kim Miller of Women at the Well
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  Ministry takes us through 1 John 3, 1, which says,
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  Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us,
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  that we should be called the sons of God.
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  Therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
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  Hello and welcome to this broadcast of Women at the Well Ministries.
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  I've heard it said by Christians and sinners alike, what the world needs is a little more love.
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  I have to say that all the love that one could ever need has been given.
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  But for many of us, we have chosen not to receive that love,
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  and we've allowed that love to just hang in its balance without receiving the
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  blessings of taking that love upon ourselves and believing in Jesus Christ.
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  I can't hardly read this scripture without crying because it is one of the most
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  amazing statements to me that I believe my mind has ever heard and my heart has processed.
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  And that is this, I am part of the family of God.
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  What amazing love it takes to look at a person, knowing their frailties, knowing their faults.
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  Knowing their darkness, knowing their secrets, knowing their temperament,
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  and knowing how very feeble we are in comparison to the one who redeemed us.
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  But he looks at me and he looks at you and he looks with love.
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  A love that is true and a love that is strong. A love that will never break
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  and a love that is unconditional.
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  A love that will never be separated from us and him.
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  Though you may choose to live eternity separated from him, you will never be
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  separated from the love he has for you.
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  It doesn't matter what we do. He loves us.
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  It doesn't matter what you've done. He loves us.
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  The Bible says, though our sins were as scarlet, they were washed white as snow.
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  The Bible says that though our works were as filthy rags, he washed them white as snow.
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  Jesus loves me. This I know. And I know he loves you too.
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  Do in John chapter 3 and verse
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  16 we hear these words for God
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  so loved the world and I don't care what you have done where you have been mistakes
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  you might have made what anyone else has ever told you you are part of this world.
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  Therefore, he loves you. And if you need a little bit more personalization to
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  understand that he's speaking to you in that scripture,
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  I'd like to bring to your hearing Romans chapter 10 and verse 13,
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  which says, For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
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  I've been called many things in my life, but the one thing I am very proud to
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  say is that I am a whosoever.
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  And so are you.
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  That kind of love which would leave the splendor of heaven,
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  seeking me so that I would receive him to pay that penalty of sin that I owed,
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  a debt I could not pay, that required the sinless, spotless blood of Jesus,
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  that's the love he has for you john
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  chapter 3 16 as we continue he says for god so loved the world that he gave
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  his only begotten son he gave his son on the cross of calvary so that his sinless
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  perfect precious blood would be shed that he would cover your sins and my sins and even the
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  very people who were beating him and mocking him and were treating him with
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  cruelty and causing him to suffer beyond what we can understand.
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  He said to the father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.
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  To the thief that was on either side of him, who truly deserved to be there,
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  he forgave the one who would believe. Believe. Jesus loves me.
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  This I know. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that
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  whosoever believeth in him should not perish.
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  That means they would not spend eternity in hell. But he would see the blood
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  and he would pass over them just as he did the Israelites who put the blood
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  across the door from the perfect lamb.
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  And when the death angel came by and they saw the blood on the posts,
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  he passed by and the firstborn son lived.
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  And when Jesus sees the blood, he will pass over you.
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  Judgment and condemnation will no longer be yours because there's therefore
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  now no more condemnation to them that love the lord and who are in christ jesus
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  for god so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever
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  believeth in him should not perish but have,
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  everlasting life you see
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  we're going to spend eternity whether you
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  believe me or not there's in
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  eternity there's a heaven to gain and
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  there's a hell to shun and those who don't
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  believe in jesus will spend eternity in hell and those who have given their
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  heart to jesus christ simply by accepting the gift of salvation he tells us.
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  In ephesians 2 8 9 for by grace are you saved through faith and that not of
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  yourselves it is the gift of god not of works lest any man should boast,
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  Those will spend the eternity in heaven. In John chapter 14,
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  he says, in my father's house are many mansions.
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  And if it were not so, I would have told you.
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  I go to prepare a place for you that where I am, you may be also.
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  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto
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  myself that where I am, there you may be also. Also, he says,
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  I am the way, the truth, and the life, and no man cometh unto the Father but by me.
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  And he says, I don't care about what you've done.
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  If you don't believe me, I bring to your attention John chapter 4.
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  The woman at the well came in midday because she had a life that all of her
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  peers and all of her community shunned her.
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  And she lived a life of sinful adultery
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  and so she came to draw water from a well
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  when she thought she wouldn't see anyone else she was
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  ashamed and her community certainly made sure
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  she stayed that way but she goes to the
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  well at noonday and sitting on the well is jesus who's
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  gone out of his way he's inconvenienced himself and
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  he's put himself in harm's way to find this woman
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  and when she begins to drink to draw
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  from the well he says if you would draw from the
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  drink the water of living life you would never thirst again
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  and she begins to have a conversation with jesus
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  and she kind of is a little bit
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  worried about who this jew is that's talking to
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  this samaritan does he know who she is and then
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  he tells her that the man she's living with is not her husband and he doesn't
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  tell her that in condemnation but he tells her that so she fully understands
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  I know who you are and I love you you see he's not about what you can do for him,
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  it's not about how perfect you think you are on your own you will always fall short.
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  It's about loving him and allowing him to love you. And I promise you that he
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  will clean you up and make you what you ought to be.
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  Just give him your heart. He'll take care of the rest. Give him your faith and your trust.
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  And be part of that family of God where maybe you've never belonged to anything in your life.
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  Maybe you've never felt worthy of anything in your life.
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  But by and through the blood of Jesus Christ, you are worthy to be called.
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  The sons of God. You are joint heirs with Jesus.
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  And maybe the world won't understand. But it didn't get him either.
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  And life is but a vapor here. We're told by King Solomon.
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  But eternity is forever. And
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  there you'll be joint heirs with the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.
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  Maybe no one in this world has really ever loved you. Maybe you've never felt
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  like anybody cared anything at all about you.
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  But let me tell you what he says in Romans chapter 8.
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  And he says this in verse 35.
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  Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
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  Shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword?
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  Nay in all these
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  things we are more than conquerors through
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  him that loved us and then he
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  begins to espouse how our
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  love will never be away from him he says
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  for i am persuaded that neither death nor
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  life nor angels nor principalities nor
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  powers nor things present nor things
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  to come nor height nor depth nor any
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  other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of
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  god which is in christ jesus our lord
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  nothing will separate you from the love of god and he holds before you the gift
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  of salvation and the keys to an eternal heaven a home not made with hands we're
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  pilgrims and we're strangers down here but we're joint heirs with the king of
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  kings and the Lord of lords.
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  And forever we will reign with him.
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  And his love will never be away from us.
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  And we'll be able to enjoy the joys of the Lord.
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  We'll be able to enjoy the blessings of God.
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  And we will know that we have a peace that passes understanding and a joy unspeakable
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  and full of glory as we walk hand in hand with the King of kings.
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  All things are under his feet, and he created all things, and all things were
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  by him. and yet he loves you and he loves me enough to die for your salvation.
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  It is my prayer that you accept his gift.
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