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391 | Throwback - Why? · 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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  Throughout the scriptures, God gives us countless verses to ease our fears and to give us peace.
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  Why then do you still worry and fret? The answer is simple.
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  You don't allow your faith to kick in. You ignore his promise to never leave you or forsake you.
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  Join us in this program, Why? As Kim Miller of Woman at the Well Ministries
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  takes us through Luke 24, 38,
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  which says, And he said unto them, Why are you troubled, and why do thoughts arise in your hearts?
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  When we look at this scripture in Luke chapter 24 and verse 38,
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  Christ has just appeared to his disciples after his resurrection.
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  And when they see him they're terribly afraid and they think they're seeing
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  a spirit and they are very uncertain as to what's going on around them no doubt they are completely.
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  Miscombobulated because they knew that he had been
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  crucified they knew he'd given up
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  the ghost they knew he'd been laid in a
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  borrowed tomb and now standing before
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  them is jesus and he
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  says to them why are ye
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  troubled and why do thoughts
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  arise in your heart jesus
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  had been spending time with his disciples and he
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  had spoken to them about what was going to
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  happen in the future and he had told them about
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  how he was going to die on the cross he had told them about how he would rise
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  again he had told them that he was the savior of the world he had told them
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  he's coming back and these disciples stand in total shock and he says to them
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  behold my hands and my feet,
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  it is i myself handle me and see for a spirit hath not flesh and bones as you see me have of.
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  You see, we look at that scripture and we try to place ourself in that.
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  And we think to ourselves sometimes, how could the disciples not believe?
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  They walked and talked with Jesus.
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  Yet we as believers have the Holy Spirit that dwells inside of us and he comforts
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  us. He teaches us. He leads us. He guides us.
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  And yet fear arises in us.
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  The Bible says that Jesus is coming back again.
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  And only those individuals who have placed their faith in him is going to rise again with them,
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  and only those are going to make their home in heaven through the redeeming
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  grace and blood of Jesus Christ and we as believers most of us can walk you
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  down what we call the Romans road or we can talk to you and we can tell you
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  how we got saved we can tell you about the glories of God God,
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  we can tell you about the grace of Jesus, but I wonder if we knew he was going
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  to come back today, who it is that we would go talk to with feverishly,
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  absolute vigor,
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  eager to get them to understand.
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  I doubt that there's anyone listening to this message who doesn't know someone
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  who needs Jesus as their Savior.
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  Yet I highly doubt that many of us wake up every day and think about that individual
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  and figure out another way that we could show them Jesus,
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  figure out another way that we could let Jesus shine in us so brightly that
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  they could see it, to figure out another way that without pushing them away,
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  we could somehow let them see the need for their salvation.
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  Somehow we keep believing we have plenty of time. But one day he's going to split the eastern sky.
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  And when he does, we're gonna all look like deer in a headlight. Yet he told us that.
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  Your redemption draweth nigh. And many of you listen to me and say,
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  I've heard that my whole life. When I was a kid, they said, Jesus is coming
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  back. Well, he's coming back.
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  And no man knoweth the time nor the hour. And he's going to come when we least expect it.
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  And I wonder, are our lamps trimmed and ready? Are we in right fellowship with God?
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  But do you really believe he's coming back?
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  A lot of us just think that we'll leave this world due to death or some sort
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  of injury or a circumstance that wipes us out, and we pretty much are using
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  Jesus as fire insurance. Get out of hell.
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  We don't realize who he is in our life every day.
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  We don't realize what he gives us every day.
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  We don't realize how he strengthens us and holds us and encourages us and leads
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  us and guides us and has a purpose and a plan for us.
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  And we certainly don't seem to realize the need that those around us who don't
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  know who Christ is as their Savior have when they say, I don't believe.
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  Because if we really understood there was a heaven to gain and a hell to shun
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  and that he truly is coming back and none of us have the promise of the next breath.
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  It could be that I don't finish this message or you don't have the opportunity
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  to finish hearing it completed because he comes and he takes you home.
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  Did you get up this morning thinking this could be the day? This is it.
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  We could do it. Jesus could come back.
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  Maybe some of you did. I'll be brutally honest. I did not.
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  I got up this morning thinking about the things that Lord had put on my heart to do.
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  I spoke to him i read his word i studied but it never crossed my mind that this might be the day.
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  Now it's weight heavy on my mind some people that i know who don't know him,
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  and i've casually mentioned it but in my mind i'm thinking well i could i could
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  invite them to revival and i'll invite them to revive the problem is is that
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  my revival that i might invite them to is several weeks away.
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  That's a great thing to do if the Lord tarries and we still have time.
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  But surely there's something I could do today that could help somebody see Jesus.
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  And perhaps that's somebody whom I love and adore,
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  whom I have a relationship with and friendship with, or my neighbor,
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  or the person I see at the store all the time, or the person I see at the post office all the time,
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  or the person I see at the gas station all the time, or
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  perhaps my co-worker maybe there's something i
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  could consciously think or say to help
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  them see there's a need for salvation in their
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  life did i do that today do i really believe he's coming back am i really any
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  different than the disciples who stood there and he says why are you troubled
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  and why do thoughts arise in your heart?
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  I'm probably not that different. You see, I'm not going to have the opportunity
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  to reach back and grab that lost individual and let them come to heaven with
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  me. It doesn't work that way.
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  But right now, I have the opportunity to do all I can and be all I can through
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  the grace of Jesus Christ and his strength to lead some lost person to him.
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  How sad it would be to know that you knew somebody wasn't going to heaven and
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  you really never made a big effort to let them know who he was.
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  Title today's message is why?
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  Why do we not believe? When in essence, there's a level we believe in because
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  we believe in Jesus, but we get so caught up in our own lives.
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  We get so caught up in our own things that we need
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  to do or want to do that we forget that he said go
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  you into all the world and spread the gospel and sometimes
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  it's a whole lot easier to talk to a stranger about who
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  god is than it is your brothers or your sisters or
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  your neighbors or your close relatives but the
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  people we love need us to love
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  them enough to tell them who jesus
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  is to give them an opportunity
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  to fully accept him as savior or
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  to understand who he is and if they choose
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  not to accept him we know that we never
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  gave up trying we never gave up praying we never
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  gave up trying to get someone who could walk into
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  their path and show them some way who
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  jesus is in a real way that they would come to repentance
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  it's a choice that every individual in
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  this world has to make you're going to spend eternity it's either going to be
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  in heaven or it's going to be in hell the only way that we can get to heaven
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  is a personal experience with jesus christ why do we stand amazed when something
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  happens and someone slips into eternity.
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  And one of the most horrific questions you're asked Thank you.
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  Is did that person know Jesus? And you're just sliding all over an answer.
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  Your heart wants to say yes.
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  You want to believe with all you have that they knew him.
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  But the truth of the matter is you knew that person well.
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  But you can't even say yes or no. Because you never had that conversation.
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  We're not much different than the disciples were when they met him on the road
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  after his resurrection.
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  And he wants to know why are they troubled you
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  see today is the day of salvation now is
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  the accepted time we have an opportunity
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  to tell other people about jesus christ
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  but we also have a commandment if
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  you believe in me you believe if
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  you believe in god leave also when me he tells us in
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  john chapter 14 i believe and.
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  I've made my calling and election sure and i
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  try to tell others what the lord has
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  put in my heart but just like
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  most of you i can do better at
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  telling the people i know and come into contact with in a personal way who jesus
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  is they may laugh at me they may think i'm crazy they may scorn me or shun me
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  but i will know that i have loved them with an everlasting love and a kind of
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  love that cares for their soul because that's what matters,
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  and they may not like you now and that might hurt you but knowing that you never
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  did anything to help them understand who christ is will haunt you for a lifetime
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  my dad used to sing a song you knew i was astray yet you never mentioned him
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  to me i don't want that to be said of me,
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  I don't want that to be said of any of you.
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  I don't want to be standing in the presence of God and look bewildered when
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  he shows up. I want to be expecting to hear the trumpet.
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  And to see the eastern sky split wide open. And I want my loved ones,
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  my neighbors, my friends, my acquaintances, to be caught up in glory with me.
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  It's my prayer that God saves our country and our families.
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