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The Gospel of John | John 4:27-42 · Bayside Davis Podcast

• 0:04
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Bayside Davis podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are now listening to our current teaching series in the Gospel of John.
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  SPEAKER_00: Recently, Pastor Ray, who's the founder of Bayside, everybody knows Pastor Ray, yes, amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's been sharing some things with our team and our staff.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_00: There's about 480 staff members across Bayside.
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  SPEAKER_00: Something that's been on his heart that he's been reflecting on that has also been something that I've been thinking a lot about as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: About 20 years ago, in the church, in the West, Western Christianity, discipleship helping people to understand how to follow Jesus, how to obey Jesus, the practices that help us to cultivate our life with Jesus, discipleship was weak in the church.
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  SPEAKER_00: And evangelism was strong.
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  SPEAKER_00: People shared the gospel.
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  SPEAKER_00: You could go to any church pretty much in America on any Sunday, and they shared the gospel and invited people to receive Jesus Christ, but discipleship was weak in the church and evangelism was strong.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, 20 years later, the situation has reversed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Discipleship now is strong across Western Christianity.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's all kinds of books on discipleship.
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  SPEAKER_00: Most churches have an avenue, a pathway to discipleship, as we do in our church.
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  SPEAKER_00: We do the internship, which is obviously an amazing opportunity for discipleship.
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  SPEAKER_00: And by the way, if you give one summer to God, it can change the rest of your life.
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  SPEAKER_00: So don't hesitate to step out in faith and think about doing our summer school of ministry.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's fun.
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  SPEAKER_00: You build relationships and community.
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  SPEAKER_00: You grow theologically, you get to be a part of a team.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's just an awesome, awesome time.
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  SPEAKER_00: But discipleship is strong.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's all kinds of books out there.
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  SPEAKER_00: We do our summer school of ministry, our internship.
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  SPEAKER_00: We also do uh what do you what's the thing?
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  SPEAKER_00: I just forgot.
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  SPEAKER_00: What's the thing we do?
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  SPEAKER_00: What is it?
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  SPEAKER_00: No.
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  SPEAKER_00: Rooted.
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  SPEAKER_00: We do rooted.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you, thank you.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is what happens when you've been on break for a couple weeks.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your brain just is not working as good as it used to.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we have this amazing thing called rooted where you do small groups, 10 to 15, some of them get up to 20 people, and you just for 10 weeks grow and you learn the practices of Christ and stories and relationships.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's an incredible thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: But today, evangelism in the church is weak.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can read books on discipleship that don't even share the gospel.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can go to a church for a month or two and never hear an invitation to receive Jesus Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the reality is when we're thinking about evangelism and discipleship, both are equally important to thrive as a church and to thrive as a follower of Jesus Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: The great evangelist Billy Graham once said, I am convicted that the greatest act of love we can ever perform for people is to tell them about God's love for them in Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: Evangelism is an act of love.
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  SPEAKER_00: William Barclay, the great theologian, wrote, There is no joy in all the world like the joy of bringing one soul to Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: Have you ever experienced the joy of telling somebody about Jesus and them receiving Christ?
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  SPEAKER_00: That is the greatest experience in the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, Jesus did that everywhere he went.
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  SPEAKER_00: In fact, he did that in the previous story.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is like part two of the story of Jesus talking with the Samaritan woman at the well.
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  SPEAKER_00: Last week, Boaz, I heard masterfully taught verses 1 through 26 and told you about this incredible, famous story of Jesus interacting with a woman at the well and using metaphors about what was taking place at that time, drawing water out of the well to tell her your soul is empty.
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  SPEAKER_00: Everything you've gone after.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in her case, it was one man after the other after the other after the other.
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  SPEAKER_00: She thought that a human being, a male, would satisfy her soul, her deepest desires.
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  SPEAKER_00: And she realized no one is satisfying my deepest desires.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so she had five husbands, and she was now living with another man, and everything that she had searched for had left her feeling empty and incomplete.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nothing has satisfied her deepest longings.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Jesus said, That's because you're not drinking of the living water.
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  SPEAKER_00: And obviously that was a reference to him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus was talking about him.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was able to do things in her soul that every longing of the human heart in every other venue of pursuit could never satisfy.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Jesus, here's the context, had just had a conversation with the woman at the well, and he had talked about her life.
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  SPEAKER_00: He knew everything about her because he's omniscient, he knows all things.
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  SPEAKER_00: He told her the way to satisfy her soul is to drink of the living water.
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  SPEAKER_00: And obviously he's saying, I am.
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  SPEAKER_00: Look at verse 26.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Jesus declared, I the one who's speaking to you, I am he.
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  SPEAKER_00: What's he referring to there?
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Christ, I'm the Messiah, I'm the one who can satisfy your soul.
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  SPEAKER_00: Everything you're looking for is found in me.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now we pick up in verses 27 all the way through 42.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, in this second part of this story, it's one long story, but we're breaking up in two parts.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the second part of this story, there's four responses to Jesus' encounter with the woman at the well.
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  SPEAKER_00: Four responses.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can write these if you're a note taker down.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you're not a note taker, you might as well start today.
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  SPEAKER_00: The first response is in verse 27.
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  SPEAKER_00: The disciples' response.
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  SPEAKER_00: Verse 27.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just then, his disciples returned.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's pause there.
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  SPEAKER_00: What did they return from?
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus and his disciples had been traveling from the northern the southernmost region, pardon me, of Israel, which was Judea, through the middle of Israel, all the way up into the northern region, which was Galilee.
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  SPEAKER_00: But in order to get to Galilee on the fastest route, they went through Samaria.
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  SPEAKER_00: So they're on this long journey together.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're getting in 10,000 plus steps, and they're walking in the hot, arid climate of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when they get to this well that Jesus comes to, he sends, notice verse 8 of chapter 4.
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  SPEAKER_00: His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.
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  SPEAKER_00: So he's everybody's hungry.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're journeying, they're traveling, they're walking miles, 10,000 multiplied like times 10 steps.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're journeying.
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  SPEAKER_00: Somebody's gonna do the calculation and say, You're wrong, Wesley.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's okay, I'm just exaggerating maybe.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they're walking this long journey.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he sends them to go get food.
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  SPEAKER_00: So they go, they purchase food, they come back.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the moment they come back from buying food at the in and out in Samaria.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're having Samaritan burgers and Samaritan fries and Samaritan cokes, and they bring it all out back, and they thought they're gonna have one big in and out Samaritan picnic with Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: And notice what happens.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they were surprised to find Jesus talking with a woman, but no one asked, What do you want, or why are you talking with her?
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  SPEAKER_00: They come back and they are in shock.
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  SPEAKER_00: The term is themadzo, it means to be astonished, to be bewildered, to be disturbed by something, and it can also mean to be impressed by something.
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  SPEAKER_00: But in this context, they're not astonished in a positive way.
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  SPEAKER_00: They are disturbed by what is happening with Jesus and the Samaritan woman.
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  SPEAKER_00: What was so disturbing?
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's what was disturbing: Jesus was breaking social, cultural, and religious barriers.
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  SPEAKER_00: As he often does.
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  SPEAKER_00: What were those barriers?
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  SPEAKER_00: Number one, Jesus was talking to a Samaritan.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you know the whole history of the Assyrian Empire conquering the middle, the central portion of Israel, which was the capital of northern Israel at that time, and around 722 BC, you understand that when they conquered it, they repopulated the land with their people, and those people intermarried with the Jewish people who lived in Samaria, and because they intermarried, they began to worship other gods, or they changed their own worship of the Old Testament.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there was a mixed race population who diverted away from the religion of Israel, and that caused all kinds of social tensions with the Jewish people and the Samarian people.
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  SPEAKER_00: For years and years and years and years, there was deep ethnic and religious hostility between the two parties.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this deep mutual hostility, the Samaritans despised the Jews, and the Jews despised the Samaritans, and by the time Jesus comes on the scene in the first century, this century old, centuries-old enmity created a sharp ethnic, religious, and cultural divide between the two groups.
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  SPEAKER_00: But Jesus doesn't uphold that because that's not the way of the kingdom.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're not divided by ethnic barriers.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so Jesus comes on the scene and he begins to talk to a Samaritan woman.
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  SPEAKER_00: Breaking those long, deep-seated years of enmity between the two groups.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus takes that wall and breaks it down, as he does in so many other instances.
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  SPEAKER_00: And by the way, you know that racism is not the way of Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's everything opposite of being being this understanding of being created in the image and likeness of God Himself.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are all on the same plane in God's perspective.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so Jesus breaks through the racism of his day on both sides.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Samaritans were at enmity with the Jews, and the Jews were at enmity with the Samaritans.
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  SPEAKER_00: On both sides, Jesus breaks down those walls.
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  SPEAKER_00: They were in shock.
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  SPEAKER_00: Second, Jesus was talking to a woman.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, in the ancient world, there was there was this cultural tradition that a man could not talk casually with a woman.
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  SPEAKER_00: And also there was a religious social norm, cultural norm, where only men were taught theological education, not women.
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  SPEAKER_00: What does Jesus do?
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus doesn't uphold that, Jesus tears that down.
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  SPEAKER_00: And not only does he tear that down talking to a Samaritan woman, but a Samaritan woman who had lived a wild, lascivious life previously.
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  SPEAKER_00: He breaks down all the cultural, religious, and social barriers that are contrary to the kingdom of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like this is amazing.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is why the verse 27, this is why his disciples were in shock, but they didn't have the courage to go say something to him, like, Jesus, what are you doing?
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus should be able to break our social, cultural, and religious barriers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anything that brings division between human beings, anything that is a wall from people to come to Christ, anything that is contrary to the Bible and the way of Jesus and the nature of God, he should be able to break our social, cultural, and religious barriers because he does stuff that is different than we do.
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  SPEAKER_00: He uses people and situations sometimes differently than we would choose.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I love that he does that.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have a good friend, he's a pastor, his name is Xavier Brassur.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he's wild.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's just so unique and different, and I love it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's why people are attracted to him as a pastor.
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  SPEAKER_00: But he he started a church in Ashen, Oregon, which is like ultimate progressive darkness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like everything opposite of like God and Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like you just don't start a church there.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the church exploded.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's the largest church in the city.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hundreds and hundreds of people go there, and it's an amazing church.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he's just an unorthodox pastor.
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  SPEAKER_00: But you know who was unorthodox?
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus was.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know who else was unorthodox?
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  SPEAKER_00: John the Baptist was.
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  SPEAKER_00: And a couple weeks ago, he was preaching and he he he went to Goodwill and he shops at, you know, secondhand vintage stores and such.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he bought this vest that he liked, but the vest was a little too big on him.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was an XXXL vest.
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  SPEAKER_00: So he's got tats, like he's tatted everywhere, tats everywhere.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that that's great in Oregon.
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  SPEAKER_00: Everybody's got tats, and they're just a vibe.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh he's got tats, so he decides it's a hot Sunday.
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  SPEAKER_00: He decides to go sleeveless with this XXXL brown vest that costs$5 of goodwill to church and preach.
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  SPEAKER_00: He just doesn't think anything of it.
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  SPEAKER_00: He just goes and preaches.
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  SPEAKER_00: So he preached a sermon, and I'm sure it was amazing.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's a great Bible teacher.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then his social media team does a reel on social media with him wearing this vest, and within five days, it had a million views.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every preaching meme Christian thing had picked it up.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think just their social media thing has almost 10,000 shares.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then other people have picked it up and posted it.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's got, I think by this time, millions of views.
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  SPEAKER_00: Everybody was texting me from Oregon and everybody from California, because the Bayside team knows him here, and they're like, what is your homie wearing?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, what is this guy wearing?
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  SPEAKER_00: It went viral.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you know what I thought?
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  SPEAKER_00: First of all, Christians can be really mean.
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  SPEAKER_00: The judgmental things that they said about him, like, I'm like, you do not know this human being.
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  SPEAKER_00: He is so humble and loves the Lord, loves his church.
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  SPEAKER_00: The judgment that came to him, he laughs at it.
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  SPEAKER_00: He doesn't, it doesn't even bother him.
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  SPEAKER_00: But it bothered me how mean Christians can be, and how we can judge people on secondary things that are like open-handed realities, like the people in Israel were doing at this time.
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  SPEAKER_00: This was not God.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the other thing that I thought is this is how God works.
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  SPEAKER_00: He takes a dude who's all tatted up and saves his life and redeems him and changes his life, and then he, you know, he doesn't know how to dress like a preacher because he didn't grow up as a preacher, you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like he just he just is totally himself, and hundreds and hundreds of people are coming to Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: And those haters online, whatever.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I just love that God sometimes chooses people and uses people that are different than we would choose or use.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like that's my story.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know how you have the pickup sports in like junior high, and you have like number one pick is like the best athlete in the school, and number two is like second best.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, if you were to do that on a religious scale when I was in high school, I would be at the end of the line and they still wouldn't pick me.
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  SPEAKER_00: But God doesn't work that way.
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  SPEAKER_00: God chooses people that I wouldn't have picked me.
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  SPEAKER_00: God chooses people that sometimes are outside of our norms.
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  SPEAKER_00: The people we least expect.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right, let's move on.
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  SPEAKER_00: One verse in.
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  SPEAKER_00: Notice the second response, verses 28 through 30.
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  SPEAKER_00: The woman's response, verse 28, then leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did.
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  SPEAKER_00: Could this be the Messiah?
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  SPEAKER_00: They, the people in the town, came out from the town and made their way toward Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think sometimes we read our Bible too fast.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was actually on a podcast this last week talking about this passage, and I said, I said, stop.
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  SPEAKER_00: Verse 28, stop.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's something really important, germane to the the heart of this story.
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  SPEAKER_00: Look at verse 28.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then, leaving her water jar.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes we read our Bible too fast.
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  SPEAKER_00: She goes to the well midday when it's at its hot hottest.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nobody went to the well at that time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus is at the well, meets her at the well midday.
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  SPEAKER_00: She has this conversation with Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: She's supposed to bring the water from the well back for her and whoever else she's bringing it back for.
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  SPEAKER_00: And she's so changed by the encounter with Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: She leaves her water jar behind.
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  SPEAKER_00: What she was doing changed after encountering Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: What she was seeking changed after encountering Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: She left her water jar behind.
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  SPEAKER_00: What did you bring here today before encountering Jesus?
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  SPEAKER_00: What did you come in here with?
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  SPEAKER_00: Empty pursuits, broken relationships, heavy heart with guilt and shame, a soul that cannot be satisfied no matter what you seek out.
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  SPEAKER_00: You came here bringing your jar.
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  SPEAKER_00: And what will you leave behind after encountering Jesus?
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  SPEAKER_00: I think we forget as Christians.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think we forget the longer we are Christians, the longer we follow Jesus, we forget just how powerful that first encounter with Jesus was.
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  SPEAKER_00: The moment we met him, the moment we put faith in him, the moment we were made spiritually alive the first time, the moment we connected with God for the first time in our life, what once consumed our pursuit, what once mattered the most in our life, no longer holds its focus.
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  SPEAKER_00: She just forgets about the water jar.
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  SPEAKER_00: She left it behind.
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  SPEAKER_00: She had been born again, she had been made alive, she had been redeemed by Jesus, and she comes back to her people and she said, Come see a man who told me everything I ever did.
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  SPEAKER_00: You would think she wouldn't say that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do you know what I mean by that?
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  SPEAKER_00: Most people would lived a life, a life of sin and pursuits of darkness, a life where we have shame and guilt, you know, entangled inside of every crevice of our soul.
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  SPEAKER_00: Most people would be like, I'm not gonna share that.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_00: No, I don't think she said what she said in a posture of shame.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because when you meet Jesus, there is a redemptive joy, even if you've lived a life.
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  SPEAKER_00: She's no longer ashamed of her story because of Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: In fact, she's like, hey, guess what?
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus, he knew everything I ever did.
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  SPEAKER_00: It wasn't like, oh my goodness, Jesus, he knew everything I ever did.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was like, come, this man told me everything I ever did.
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  SPEAKER_00: And according to what we know about her, everything she ever did was not good.
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  SPEAKER_00: But Jesus looks at us differently.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your story is important.
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  SPEAKER_00: An honest and vulnerable account of who you were before Jesus and how Jesus redeemed your life is important.
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  SPEAKER_00: You telling your story is impactful to other people.
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  SPEAKER_00: And here's the beautiful thing about a story no one can argue with your story.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you've lived a life and you tell your story of redemption, nobody can argue about the redemptive change, the powerful transformation of who you were before Jesus and who you were after Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: In fact, if you think about it, the number one literary genre of the Bible is narrative, stories.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you think about it on a human level, stories are the most powerful medium to touch the human heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: Stories are a medium to share the gospel of Jesus as well, but your story, intertwined with the story of Jesus, is incredibly impactful.
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  SPEAKER_00: And she said to the people as she's sharing her story, she said, Could this be the Messiah?
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  SPEAKER_00: Something about this encounter.
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  SPEAKER_00: Something about Jesus was different than anybody she'd ever met in her life.
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  SPEAKER_00: There was something supernatural, something divine, something so otherworldly and heavenly that she's like, could this be the Savior?
• 23:06
  SPEAKER_00: Notice Jesus' response, verse 31 through 38.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus' response, verse 31.
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  SPEAKER_00: Meanwhile, his disciples urged him, Rabbi, eat something.
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_00: They're still focused on the in and out.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, some people get hangry.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anybody in here get hangry?
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  SPEAKER_00: And then some of us, we just forget about food when we're focused.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anybody like me, I just forget about food.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've never been hangry in my life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Raise your hand if you forget about food when you're focused.
• 23:36
  SPEAKER_00: Just put your hand up.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to know my people here.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, I like that.
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_00: Some of you are like me, I just forget about food.
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_00: I'll go all day and then I feel like passing out at the end of the day.
• 23:44
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, wait, I haven't eaten today.
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_00: That is a normal uh experience for me.
• 23:50
  SPEAKER_00: So the disciples, they're focused on food.
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_00: Like, Rabbi, teacher, you've got to eat something, but notice what Jesus said.
• 23:56
  SPEAKER_00: But he said to them, I have food to eat that you know nothing about.
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_00: Then his disciples said to each other, Could someone have brought him food?
• 24:05
  SPEAKER_00: Did he get McDonald's instead of in and out?
• 24:09
  SPEAKER_00: Did he get Chipotle instead of in and out?
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_00: We don't understand.
• 24:13
  SPEAKER_00: He says, verse 34, My food, said Jesus, is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.
• 24:20
  SPEAKER_00: My will, my food is to do God's will.
• 24:26
  SPEAKER_00: The disciples are focused on food, Jesus is focused on ministry.
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_00: The disciples are focused on the physical, Jesus is focused on the spiritual.
• 24:35
  SPEAKER_00: The disciples are not fully present of what God is doing, Jesus is fully present in what God is doing.
• 24:41
  SPEAKER_00: Now, yes, there is an intersection between the physical and the spiritual.
• 24:46
  SPEAKER_00: Those aren't segmented realities, but Jesus is like, no, I am fully present to fulfill what God is doing in this moment before I ever attend to my physical needs.
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_00: This is a beautiful example.
• 25:01
  SPEAKER_00: Jesus gives two metaphors to answer the question that disciples have.
• 25:06
  SPEAKER_00: Number one, the metaphor that he uses first is food.
• 25:08
  SPEAKER_00: We understand food, we love food.
• 25:12
  SPEAKER_00: The idea of food in the first metaphor is that Jesus responds to his disciples by using this metaphor of food to point to the fact that obeying the calling of God was the most deeply satisfying choice that he could make in that moment.
• 25:28
  SPEAKER_00: That no, no, In and Out or Mickey D's or Chipotle or whatever else you like, nothing was going to satisfy him more than fulfilling what God had called him to do in that moment.
• 25:41
  SPEAKER_00: He would eventually eat, sure, and satisfy his physical needs, but not in this moment.
• 25:46
  SPEAKER_00: His deepest desire was to fulfill the will of God.
• 25:51
  SPEAKER_00: Is that our deepest desire?
• 25:54
  SPEAKER_00: In fact, he uses this terminology here in verse 34.
• 25:57
  SPEAKER_00: He says, finish his work.
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_00: He wanted to complete everything God had for him to do.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_00: In fact, the culmination of this completion, the ultimate end of this completion was John chapter 19, verse 30, where Jesus said, It is finished.
• 26:13
  SPEAKER_00: So Jesus is like, I'm starting the work, but I'm gonna complete it here, and I'm ultimately gonna complete it on the cross.
• 26:21
  SPEAKER_00: Same terminology.
• 26:22
  SPEAKER_00: Notice the second metaphor though.
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_00: Food is the first.
• 26:25
  SPEAKER_00: Then he changes metaphors from food to farming, or you could say from food to harvest.
• 26:32
  SPEAKER_00: Verse 35.
• 26:34
  SPEAKER_00: Don't you have a saying?
• 26:36
  SPEAKER_00: It is still four months until harvest.
• 26:38
  SPEAKER_00: This was, he was quoting a first century farming proverb.
• 26:42
  SPEAKER_00: And the proverb was just a general saying in that culture where he would, it would be referring to the time between planting and harvesting.
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_00: So he quotes this proverb: Don't you have a saying, it is still four months until harvest?
• 26:54
  SPEAKER_00: I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields, they are ripe for harvest.
• 26:59
  SPEAKER_00: Even now, the one who reaps draws a wage and harvest and harvests a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together.
• 27:09
  SPEAKER_00: Thus the saying, one sows and another reaps, is true.
• 27:13
  SPEAKER_00: I sent you to reap what you have not worked for.
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_00: Others have done the hard work and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.
• 27:22
  SPEAKER_00: The second metaphor he uses to teach his disciples is number one, food, we all get that.
• 27:26
  SPEAKER_00: Number two, farming or harvest, and everybody in the first century got that because it was an agrarian culture.
• 27:33
  SPEAKER_00: The farmer normally had time between planting and harvest, but Jesus is teaching us, and Jesus is teaching the disciples that the harvest is now.
• 27:47
  SPEAKER_00: Some people in the Christian life, they're just cruising.
• 27:50
  SPEAKER_00: They're just cruising, full self-driving, not paying attention, not really focused on the harvest.
• 27:59
  SPEAKER_00: They're like, someday I'll share my faith, someday I'll serve the Lord.
• 28:04
  SPEAKER_00: But Jesus is saying to us as disciples of Jesus, the seeds have been planted.
• 28:09
  SPEAKER_00: People are coming to believe in Jesus.
• 28:12
  SPEAKER_00: The disciples of Jesus simply needed to look around and see the people with spiritual hunger around them, not wait.
• 28:20
  SPEAKER_00: The harvest is now.
• 28:23
  SPEAKER_00: The harvest was the Samaritan woman, the harvest was all the future ministry that they would do together.
• 28:28
  SPEAKER_00: The harvest was the future of the church and the book of Acts and all the people that would come to Christ through the proclamation of the good news of Jesus.
• 28:36
  SPEAKER_00: The harvest is everywhere around us.
• 28:41
  SPEAKER_00: We just need to have spiritual eyes to see people who need hope, redemption, forgiveness, new life, transformation, everything that Jesus can bring.
• 28:51
  SPEAKER_00: We need to have eyes to see.
• 28:54
  SPEAKER_00: And so Jesus says to them in verse 30, and I don't want you to miss this part, I sent you to reap what you have not worked for.
• 29:01
  SPEAKER_00: Others have done the hard work and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.
• 29:07
  SPEAKER_00: Some people say, well, who are the others that have done the work?
• 29:10
  SPEAKER_00: Most likely the others that he's referring to are the Old Testament prophets.
• 29:15
  SPEAKER_00: And then John the Baptist, who prepared the hearts for the Messiah by baptizing people in a baptism of repentance, saying, Change, turn your eyes away from the life you're living, and turn your eyes back to the Messiah who is coming.
• 29:31
  SPEAKER_00: And be prepared in your heart for the coming of the Savior of the world, Jesus Christ.
• 29:36
  SPEAKER_00: So the Old Testament prophets, John the Baptist, even Jesus himself is sowing the seeds, planting the seeds.
• 29:44
  SPEAKER_00: The Old Testament prophets had spread the message of the future Messiah and kingdom of God.
• 29:49
  SPEAKER_00: They had preached and written about the future salvation and redemption of God.
• 29:54
  SPEAKER_00: And now the disciples are with Jesus simply reaping the benefits of others' labor.
• 30:04
  SPEAKER_00: I thought about this for a minute.
• 30:06
  SPEAKER_00: And I thought, you know, we planted Bayside Davis from scratch, scratch.
• 30:12
  SPEAKER_00: We didn't have like a hundred or five hundred or a thousand people.
• 30:16
  SPEAKER_00: Like some of the other base sides are amazing because they're closer to like the hub, and they'll plant a church and have like 700 or 1,000 people from other base sides come with them, and that's amazing.
• 30:28
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, that is a lot of work too.
• 30:30
  SPEAKER_00: We planted this from scratch, scratch, and that's hard work, but I was thinking this we reap the benefits of Ray and Carol's 30 years of work planting seeds in this region and across California.
• 30:51
  SPEAKER_00: Bayside Davis or any Bayside would not be what it is apart from what they did.
• 30:59
  SPEAKER_00: We didn't start Bayside from scratch.
• 31:01
  SPEAKER_00: Nobody knew about Bayside 30 years ago and Ray and Carroll started it.
• 31:05
  SPEAKER_00: We didn't endure the sleepless nights, the pressures, the stressors, the discouraging moments, the ups and downs and highs and lows of starting a church in a place that nobody knew about you or the church.
• 31:18
  SPEAKER_00: We didn't do that.
• 31:21
  SPEAKER_00: But we get to reap the spiritual benefits of all of that hard work that came before us.
• 31:29
  SPEAKER_00: And I am so deeply grateful.
• 31:33
  SPEAKER_00: And I think that's what Jesus is saying is like you get to reap the harvest of all the hard work that went before you before Bayside Davis ever existed.
• 31:43
  SPEAKER_00: They existed, they were working, they were tilling the ground, they were planting the seeds, they were laboring on the farm, so to speak.
• 31:51
  SPEAKER_00: And now we get to be a part of this special move of God.
• 31:54
  SPEAKER_00: Like what a joy and privilege and honor it is.
• 32:00
  SPEAKER_00: And I think what Jesus is teaching us is like, you know, whatever starts new, you can think you're like the hottest thing on the block, or you know, like in 1800 when Charles Spurgeon started a church and it grew to 10,000, he could have been like, oh, this was all because of me.
• 32:16
  SPEAKER_00: What Jesus is teaching us is it's never all because of you.
• 32:20
  SPEAKER_00: There were always people that were praying, that were sharing, that were working to provide the ground so you could reap a harvest.
• 32:32
  SPEAKER_00: I think this is also teaching us like deep gratitude, but also deep humility.
• 32:37
  SPEAKER_00: That whatever generation sees a move of God, we have to remember the generation that preceded us because they did things to prepare the ground that we reap today.
• 32:49
  SPEAKER_00: And I think that's a beautiful thing.
• 32:51
  SPEAKER_00: And then notice, notice finally, Jesus' response.
• 32:59
  SPEAKER_00: He talks about food, satisfied doing the will of God.
• 33:03
  SPEAKER_00: He talks about farming or harvest, like, look out, the harvest is now.
• 33:08
  SPEAKER_00: And then notice the Samaritans' response, the people who traveled with the woman to go see Jesus for the first time.
• 33:16
  SPEAKER_00: Verses 39 through 42, many of the Samaritans from the town believed in Jesus.
• 33:21
  SPEAKER_00: Because of the woman's testimony, he told me everything I ever did.
• 33:26
  SPEAKER_00: See, do you see this?
• 33:28
  SPEAKER_00: Her honest, vulnerable testimony about the life she lived before and how Jesus, this encounter with Jesus, changed her.
• 33:36
  SPEAKER_00: This was the means that led them to believe in Jesus.
• 33:40
  SPEAKER_00: Some of the Samaritans believed in Jesus because of the woman's story and testimony.
• 33:46
  SPEAKER_00: Can you write this down?
• 33:47
  SPEAKER_00: It's not on a slide, but can you write it down?
• 33:49
  SPEAKER_00: Your story is a medium to tell the story of Jesus.
• 33:54
  SPEAKER_00: Your story is a medium to tell the story of Jesus.
• 33:58
  SPEAKER_00: Verse 40.
• 33:59
  SPEAKER_00: So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days.
• 34:05
  SPEAKER_00: And because of his words, many more became believers.
• 34:10
  SPEAKER_00: They said to the woman, We no longer believe just because of what you said.
• 34:14
  SPEAKER_00: Now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the savior of the world.
• 34:22
  SPEAKER_00: Some of the Samaritans believed in Jesus because of a direct encounter with Jesus himself.
• 34:28
  SPEAKER_00: Ultimately, ultimately, in our story and telling the story of the gospel, we want to point every person to Jesus, not to ourselves.
• 34:39
  SPEAKER_00: Because it's when a person has a direct encounter with Jesus that there is a true spiritual transformation in their life.
• 34:49
  SPEAKER_00: And I just want to take a minute to talk about evangelism.
• 34:53
  SPEAKER_00: Because this is evangelism.
• 34:56
  SPEAKER_00: You don't even know you're doing evangelism.
• 34:58
  SPEAKER_00: Your life is like so drastically changed that you go tell somebody about Jesus.
• 35:02
  SPEAKER_00: This is just a natural response to being born again, to being changed and transformed spiritually, to be made alive through Jesus Christ.
• 35:11
  SPEAKER_00: And I was thinking this week, I am so thankful for the people who told me about Jesus.
• 35:19
  SPEAKER_00: I knew nothing about Jesus.
• 35:21
  SPEAKER_00: I had never heard about Jesus.
• 35:22
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't know who he was.
• 35:23
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't know what he did.
• 35:24
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't know about the cross.
• 35:25
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't even know what sin was.
• 35:27
  SPEAKER_00: Somebody had to walk me through all of that.
• 35:31
  SPEAKER_00: There was a junior high kid I met.
• 35:33
  SPEAKER_00: He was the first person that talked to me about Jesus.
• 35:36
  SPEAKER_00: He was an athlete, first Christian I ever met.
• 35:39
  SPEAKER_00: And then there was a youth pastor when I started going to this church to play basketball, he told me about Jesus.
• 35:46
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm so grateful for those two people who told me about Jesus.
• 35:51
  SPEAKER_00: Now, let me just share something with you.
• 35:53
  SPEAKER_00: Back in those days, most people would have been scared to tell me about Jesus.
• 35:58
  SPEAKER_00: I was not nice.
• 36:01
  SPEAKER_00: I was an athlete.
• 36:03
  SPEAKER_00: All the things you can think about in the realm of not being nice and an athlete, that was me.
• 36:10
  SPEAKER_00: I had an anger issue, I would get in fights.
• 36:15
  SPEAKER_00: Don't ever be afraid to tell anybody about Jesus.
• 36:24
  SPEAKER_00: Because they might 20, 30 years from now be standing somewhere preaching the Bible and telling their story and saying, I'm so thankful those people told me about Jesus.
• 36:36
  SPEAKER_00: Evangelism, you may have never heard of this term, evangelism is ultimately about telling the story of Jesus and pointing people to faith in the gospel.
• 36:47
  SPEAKER_00: The goal of evangelism is that every person that we share with would have a personal encounter with Jesus as Lord and Savior and receive forgiveness of sins through faith in his death and resurrection, and in that moment be made spiritually alive in a personal relationship with God.
• 37:06
  SPEAKER_00: John Stott defined evangelism, that great pastor who's no longer alive from London, England.
• 37:12
  SPEAKER_00: He said to evangelize is to spread the good news that Jesus Christ died for our sins and was raised from the dead according to the scriptures, and that as the reigning Lord, he now offers the forgiveness of sins and the liberating gift of the Spirit to all who repent and believe.
• 37:29
  SPEAKER_00: That's evangelism.
• 37:30
  SPEAKER_00: It's sharing your faith, it's sharing the story of Jesus.
• 37:35
  SPEAKER_00: Now, how do you share your faith?
• 37:37
  SPEAKER_00: This is a great question.
• 37:38
  SPEAKER_00: I don't want to just end on like this inspirational story like evangelism, look what happened.
• 37:45
  SPEAKER_00: I want to give you five practical tools to share your faith.
• 37:49
  SPEAKER_00: How to share your faith.
• 37:52
  SPEAKER_00: 101, 201, 301, and 401.
• 37:56
  SPEAKER_00: Number one, tell your story.
• 37:59
  SPEAKER_00: Here's the beauty of your story.
• 38:01
  SPEAKER_00: No one can argue with your story.
• 38:05
  SPEAKER_00: If you start with theology or philosophy or whatever first, people can argue with that.
• 38:11
  SPEAKER_00: No one can argue with your story.
• 38:14
  SPEAKER_00: What God has done in your life, no one will ever argue with.
• 38:19
  SPEAKER_00: And if they do, that's a very small percentage of people.
• 38:23
  SPEAKER_00: Tell your story.
• 38:24
  SPEAKER_00: Number two, stay focused on Jesus.
• 38:28
  SPEAKER_00: Some people tell their story, they're like supposed to share their story, and all they do is share about them and they never talk about Jesus.
• 38:37
  SPEAKER_00: By the way, this is great training for the next session of Rooted.
• 38:43
  SPEAKER_00: When you share your story, if the entire story is about you and like you have like 30 seconds about Jesus, like that's problematic.
• 38:52
  SPEAKER_00: You have you have to keep the focus on Jesus.
• 38:56
  SPEAKER_00: Talk about your life and all of that.
• 38:59
  SPEAKER_00: That's amazing and good and right and healthy.
• 39:01
  SPEAKER_00: But don't miss the center of your story.
• 39:04
  SPEAKER_00: It should be Jesus.
• 39:07
  SPEAKER_00: Stay focused on Jesus.
• 39:09
  SPEAKER_00: Who he is, this is important when you share the gospel.
• 39:12
  SPEAKER_00: He is the Son of God.
• 39:14
  SPEAKER_00: He came from heaven.
• 39:16
  SPEAKER_00: He is the Messiah, the Savior of the world, He's the Lord of all, He's the King of Kings.
• 39:20
  SPEAKER_00: Who He is and what He did, both are equally important because it doesn't matter what He did if He's not the Son of the living God.
• 39:30
  SPEAKER_00: His identity makes his death and resurrection powerful to change people.
• 39:37
  SPEAKER_00: But if it's some just random dude who died on a cross and rose again, it means nothing if he's not the Son of God.
• 39:45
  SPEAKER_00: So when you share, tell your story, stay focused on Jesus, who he is, his identity, what he did, his death and resurrection on the cross, because that is the gospel.
• 39:54
  SPEAKER_00: Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the one who left heaven to come to this earth, who died on the cross to forgive human sin because God is a holy God, a perfect God, and he had to deal with human sin and darkness.
• 40:07
  SPEAKER_00: God is a perfect, just judge.
• 40:10
  SPEAKER_00: He cannot bypass our sin and his righteousness.
• 40:12
  SPEAKER_00: He had to deal with it.
• 40:13
  SPEAKER_00: And guess how he dealt with it?
• 40:15
  SPEAKER_00: He dealt with it himself so that he could forgive us instead of judge us.
• 40:21
  SPEAKER_00: That shows us the nature of God.
• 40:24
  SPEAKER_00: And Jesus died on the cross for our sin and he rose again according to the scriptures.
• 40:31
  SPEAKER_00: 1 Corinthians chapter 15, verses 3 and 4 tell us, by the way, that's the definition of the gospel, 1 Corinthians 15, 3 and 4.
• 40:38
  SPEAKER_00: And then number three, tell your story.
• 40:40
  SPEAKER_00: Stay focused on Jesus.
• 40:41
  SPEAKER_00: Number three, trust that God is working.
• 40:45
  SPEAKER_00: There is a spiritual trust when you're sharing your faith that God is working.
• 40:52
  SPEAKER_00: Don't try to be like, oh, I gotta, I gotta have all the right words and all the right theology and all the right this.
• 40:57
  SPEAKER_00: No, no, no, just share the simple story of your story and share the simple story of Jesus and trust that God is working.
• 41:05
  SPEAKER_00: One time I was sitting sitting down when I planted a church in Eugene, Oregon, many, many years ago.
• 41:10
  SPEAKER_00: I was sitting down with an atheist who had been coming to our uh what started our church started in the living room with five people, and then all these college students started coming.
• 41:19
  SPEAKER_00: Well, he had been coming to the living room, and I taught an hour in the Gospel of John.
• 41:23
  SPEAKER_00: By the way, I don't teach an hour anymore.
• 41:25
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so I was teaching every week an hour through the Gospel of John.
• 41:28
  SPEAKER_00: He kept coming back.
• 41:29
  SPEAKER_00: And one time he's like, Can I come and meet with you and ask you some questions?
• 41:33
  SPEAKER_00: So I sat there for three hours answering questions about God in the Bible.
• 41:39
  SPEAKER_00: And finally I just felt prompted in my heart, just share with him, just share with him the gospel.
• 41:44
  SPEAKER_00: Like none of my answers are gonna save this guy.
• 41:47
  SPEAKER_00: Just share, I said, I said, you know, you've heard me share about Jesus, who he is, his death, resurrection.
• 41:52
  SPEAKER_00: Do you want to believe in him right now?
• 41:54
  SPEAKER_00: And he looks at me and pauses for about 10 seconds.
• 41:56
  SPEAKER_00: He's like, Of course, I'm ready.
• 41:59
  SPEAKER_00: Trust that God is working.
• 42:01
  SPEAKER_00: Number four, don't get into side arguments.
• 42:05
  SPEAKER_00: Keep it focused on the only thing that can change the human soul.
• 42:09
  SPEAKER_00: That's not your intellectual ability to argue anything.
• 42:14
  SPEAKER_00: It's the person, death, resurrection of Jesus, and that he loves them.
• 42:20
  SPEAKER_00: And he wants to be in relationship with them forever and ever.
• 42:23
  SPEAKER_00: Don't get into side arguments, it does not work.
• 42:26
  SPEAKER_00: And then, number five, love the person.
• 42:30
  SPEAKER_00: Tell your story, stay focused on Jesus, trust that God is working, don't get into side arguments and love the person.
• 42:36
  SPEAKER_00: What does it matter if we share the gospel with people and we don't love them?
• 42:41
  SPEAKER_00: Like there should be a genuine orientation of love toward that person.
• 42:46
  SPEAKER_00: And then after you're done sharing, leave the response to God.
• 42:50
  SPEAKER_00: Only God can save the human soul.
• 42:52
  SPEAKER_00: It's not up to you, it's not your role, it's not your job.
• 42:55
  SPEAKER_00: You're just a gospel mailman or malewoman.
• 43:00
  SPEAKER_00: You deliver the message, you deliver the mail.
• 43:03
  SPEAKER_00: By the way, do you guys still get mail?
• 43:04
  SPEAKER_00: You know, that paper stuff that comes through the postal service, you know, that half of it you throw away.
• 43:10
  SPEAKER_00: It's like, what a waste of money.
• 43:11
  SPEAKER_00: But you are a gospel, this is not a waste of money.
• 43:14
  SPEAKER_00: You are a gospel mailman or malewoman.
• 43:19
  SPEAKER_00: Tell someone about Jesus.
• 43:22
  SPEAKER_00: Can I share one last illustration?
• 43:24
  SPEAKER_00: Are you guys okay?
• 43:25
  SPEAKER_00: Are you bored?
• 43:26
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, if you're if you're bored, just don't tell me.
• 43:30
  SPEAKER_00: If today, if today, Matthew, Matthew just started seminary, by the way.
• 43:42
  SPEAKER_00: You know, so he's gonna he's gonna go into student debt and all that stuff, maybe.
• 43:46
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 43:47
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know, maybe.
• 43:49
  SPEAKER_00: If today Matthew goes out to 7-Eleven and buys a Powerball ticket for a$1 billion pot.
• 43:58
  SPEAKER_00: And Monday, you know, they have the Powerball reading and it comes online and you you get that ticket.
• 44:06
  SPEAKER_00: Have you ever I've done it once?
• 44:08
  SPEAKER_00: I've done it once.
• 44:09
  SPEAKER_00: $1 billion.
• 44:10
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, I'm gonna do this.
• 44:12
  SPEAKER_00: I could buy us a church building and build it from scratch, from the bottom up today.
• 44:17
  SPEAKER_00: I would do that and get as many construction crews as possible to build it as fast as possible.
• 44:24
  SPEAKER_00: I'd done it once, and he goes and he looks as they read out the numbers, and he's like, Oh my goodness, I just want a billion dollars.
• 44:32
  SPEAKER_00: Do you think Matthew's not gonna tell anybody that he won a billion dollars?
• 44:38
  SPEAKER_00: If you won a billion dollars tomorrow, would you not tell anyone?
• 44:44
  SPEAKER_00: Now it's smart, don't tell a lot of people.
• 44:46
  SPEAKER_00: They're gonna be coming to you like, hey, can you pay off my car?
• 44:49
  SPEAKER_00: Can you pay off my house?
• 44:50
  SPEAKER_00: Can you give me, can you give me an allowance?
• 44:55
  SPEAKER_00: If you win a billion dollars, you're gonna tell somebody.
• 44:59
  SPEAKER_00: Do you know what's greater than winning a billion dollars?
• 45:03
  SPEAKER_00: Receiving eternal life through Jesus Christ.
• 45:07
  SPEAKER_00: How can we not tell someone?
• 45:10
  SPEAKER_00: Don't be weird, be normal, talk story.
• 45:14
  SPEAKER_00: Christians can get really weird.
• 45:16
  SPEAKER_00: Let's let's be the anti-weird Christian culture.
• 45:20
  SPEAKER_00: Be normal, but tell someone about Jesus.
• 45:26
  SPEAKER_00: Don't do it out of guilt.
• 45:28
  SPEAKER_00: Don't do it because I told you to do it.
• 45:30
  SPEAKER_00: Do it because your life has been changed by Jesus Christ.
• 45:35
  SPEAKER_00: And forever be grateful and always reminded that there's other people that were once like you that need the redemptive power and forgiveness of Jesus in their life.