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319 | Throwback - Clean and Pure - Embracing God's Grace · 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 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 Bible implores you to draw close to God.
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  It tells you to come to Him with a true heart, believing in all that He has promised.
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  A true heart consists of one that is totally focused on God and is determined to do His will.
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  Join us in this program, Clean and Pure, as Kim Miller of Women at the Well
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  Ministries takes us through Hebrews 10.22, which says,
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  Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith,
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  having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
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  Hello and welcome to this broadcast of Woman at the Well Ministries.
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  And I just have to tell you, in preparation for this message,
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  I'm just about ready to explode.
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  Just to understand that my heart, though it was filthy...
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  Is now white as snow. Just to know. That my conscience.
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  Can be cleansed. By the Holy Spirit. By the blood of Jesus Christ.
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  To know. That my sins. Are forgiven. If that doesn't make you want to jump. And shout.
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  I don't know what will. I am no longer a vile sinner.
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  For the wages of sin is death. But the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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  I am clean and I am pure by the blood of Jesus.
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  You see, the world may not like what they see when they see me.
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  And you know, my flesh is just like yours.
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  But inside of me there dwells a Holy Spirit who comforts me, but he also teaches me.
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  And he convicts me. And as I walk through this life, reading his word,
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  praying and trying my best to draw close to God, I am given this promise that
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  says, draw nigh unto me and I will draw nigh unto you.
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  You see, he's not running away from me.
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  In fact, he's never moved. He's the same yesterday, today and forevermore.
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  You ever wonder how it was that the prophets of old, that the disciples could
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  do amazing works in Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit didn't even live in him?
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  We have the Holy Spirit dwelling in us. And I'm telling you what,
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  most of us are even a little bit shocked when our prayers are answered.
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  But the Bible says that if we're clean and pure and our hearts are sprinkled
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  with that blood of Christ,
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  which clears the evilness out of our conscience and our bodies are washed with the pure water.
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  You know, the woman at the well, when she went to the well, she was a dirty, rotten sinner.
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  Her life proved it in every way. But when she drank of that living water,
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  the water that she would never thirst again, she was clean and forgiven.
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  Did you hear me? She was cleaned and forgiven.
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  The woman who was caught in adultery, everybody lined her up.
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  And they were going to stone her. But Jesus, but Jesus was on the scene.
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  And he said, as he was writing in the sand, let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
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  The scriptures don't tell us what he was writing. But one by one,
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  people in that circle began to leave. I have to believe in my heart of hearts
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  that he was just writing sins in the sand.
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  And people recognized that they were no different than her.
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  And when everybody's gone, Jesus has a one-on-one with that woman who was an
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  adulterer. Did you hear me?
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  You can't be too bad for Jesus to not want to have a one-on-one.
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  Jesus says he stands at the door and
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  he knocks and he wants you to let him in and he
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  wants to sup with you he wants to spend time
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  with you he says call unto me and I will answer thee
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  and show the great and mighty thing he says if you don't hide iniquity in your
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  heart that he will hear your prayers and he says pray without ceasing he wants
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  you to be pure and holy and if you come to him and you ask him for forgiveness
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  and you walk in his ways and his commandments,
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  you will be pure and clean and you can let your requests be made known unto
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  God and the peace of God shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
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  You see, this cleansing, it's for real and it lasts forever.
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  You see, he wants to have peace.
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  A relationship with you. I know it's hard to understand. Why this God that was sinless and perfect.
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  Why this God who had everything.
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  Would choose to leave. The splendor of heaven.
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  And give his own life. For a creation that he created in his image. Who failed him.
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  And walked away from all he'd given.
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  It's hard to understand. Oh my goodness though It's an amazing concept to grasp
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  For in Jesus there is hope In Jesus there's forgiveness,
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  In Jesus we are made what we're
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  supposed to be He said I've come that you might have life And have it more abundantly.
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  Outside of the constraints of Jesus Christ Controlling your life and living
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  inside of you and helping you make the decisions that would allow you to be
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  all that he created you to be.
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  Outside of that, my friend, you will never know what love is.
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  But in that, you'll never know what it's like to be lonely.
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  Because he said, I'll never leave you nor forsake you.
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  You'll never know what it's like to be destitute. to because he said,
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  I promise, I'll give you all you ever need.
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  You'll never know what it's like to not belong.
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  For he said, I'll make you part of my family and you'll be heirs with Jesus Christ.
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  You see, inside the constraints of that free gift of salvation is peace and help.
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  He's a constant help in time of trouble.
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  And he says, come boldly to the throne of God, that you may obtain mercy and help.
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  You see, we're pure and we're clean when we draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith.
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  What does it mean to draw near with a true heart?
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  That's one that's in full surrender. That's one who really knows in whom they believe.
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  And I'm fully persuaded that he'll keep that which I've committed unto him against that day.
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  What does it mean in full assurance of faith?
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  You see, the Bible tells us that faith is the substance of things hoped for
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  and the evidence of things not seen.
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  Full assurance of faith is
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  that peace we have that god can i don't
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  need to know anything else but god see
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  when god is on the scene everything else falls under his feet when i have drawn
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  close to the lord and i'm following what he says i may have problems i may have more problems because
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  the devil walketh about as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. But I'm victorious.
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  Just like little David, the battle's not mine. It belongs to the Lord.
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  You can fight me, and you might win, but you'll never fight me in Jesus and win.
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  For you've got to get through the blood.
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  You've got to get through the armor of God.
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  Whatever it is you're going through, whatever problem you have,
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  let the blood of Jesus sprinkle your heart and mind.
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  Let it free your conscience of evil thoughts.
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  Let it free your conscience of worry. Let not your heart be troubled.
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  You believe in God, believe also in me.
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  Let not your heart be troubled.
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  Do you believe? The Bible says in Hebrews 11, verse 6, it says.
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  But without faith it is impossible to please him.
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  For he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder
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  of them that diligently seek him.
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  Do you believe that he is?
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  You know, if you really believe that he is, and you believe that he saved you,
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  then you're going to be a little different. Old things are passed away and behold,
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  all things have become new.
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  You're zealous of good works because God has done so much for you.
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  And you feel the love of Jesus inside of you.
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  You can't help but tell a lost and dying world about it when you realize what he's done for you.
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  You see, we're to be holy for he is holy. And it's not about us cleaning our life up.
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  It's about us surrendering to him. Him, allowing Him to clean us from the inside
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  out. Hey, don't worry about you doing it.
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  That Holy Spirit that He places inside of you will teach you the way you should
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  go. It'll teach you the way that you should dress.
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  It'll teach you the way that you should talk. It'll teach you the things that
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  you need to get rid of in your life.
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  And then the Lord will give you the strength the courage to do that.
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  Don't worry about cleaning yourself up. Just say, They cleanse me,
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  O God, and know my heart today.
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  Try me, O Savior, know my heart, I pray.
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  Way in me.
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  Oh, my friend, give that to Jesus and allow him to make you pure.
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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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