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340 | Throwback - Amazing Grace: Tasting the Lord's Goodness · 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 Your daily walk with Jesus Christ.
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  Living her life for Christ. She's a happy girl.
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  Music.
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  She's a happy girl.
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  Just by the mere fact that you are saved from the awful wrath of sin testifies to the grace of God.
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  Your everyday existence testifies to His grace.
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  No good thing does He withhold from those that love Him.
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  Join us in this program, Amazing Grace, As Kim Miller of Woman at the Well Ministries
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  takes us through 1 Peter 2, 3, which says, If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
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  Hello and welcome to this broadcast of Woman at the Well Ministries.
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  Whether or not you have given your heart to the Lord and received his free gift
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  of salvation, you have still tasted that the Lord is gracious.
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  Gracious the very fact that you have
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  life and the very fact that the
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  Lord gives you all that he gives each and every person every day is a testimony
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  of how gracious he is grace is that unmerited favor that the Lord gives on us
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  we can't do anything to earn it.
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  We didn't do anything so that it's owed to us. But because of who he is,
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  he freely gives it to all of us.
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  It rains on the just and the unjust, and his blessings flow on the just and the unjust.
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  But for the child of God, grace takes on a whole new meaning.
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  Because we've come to the realization that we were sinners in need of a Savior,
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  that we came into this world depraved and in need of the only Son of God's salvation.
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  Nothing else can fill that void that is in every person.
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  No matter how hard you try to find peace, you won't find a lasting peace outside of God.
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  You'll not find it in the bottom of a bottle of pills.
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  You'll not find it in the bottom of a bottle of alcohol or two or three or four or 12.
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  You'll not find it in the busyness of life.
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  You see, because no matter how hard you try to stay busy, there'll be a moment
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  when there is some sort of lull in your thoughts or in your activities.
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  That allow your mind to just go back to that place that you're running from.
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  There is a need in every believer to be loved.
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  There's a need in every human being to be loved, and you can deny it if you
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  want to, but the data of your life, just like everyone else's life,
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  will show we need love and acceptance.
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  And some of us are scarred because we haven't received that love and acceptance,
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  that we felt we should have had.
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  It was rightfully ours. Maybe our parents or our brothers or our sisters or
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  someone close to you has let you down horribly.
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  But there is one who will never let you down. And his name is Jesus. And in him is peace.
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  And in him is love. and he holds within himself the keys of hell, death, and the grave.
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  And he came to this earth to pay your sin debt. And you say,
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  well, I don't owe any debt. I don't even believe.
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  If I don't believe, then how can I possibly owe some?
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  It's not about whether you believe or not, as to whether or not you owed the
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  sin debt. The scripture is clear.
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  For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. the scripture
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  is true whether or not you believe it and if
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  you begin to open up the word of god and i would recommend you started in the
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  book of john if you begin to read the work of god the word of god and see the
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  works of god and you begin to learn of jesus and you begin to
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  allow your heart and your mind to be open to the Holy Spirit that will begin
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  to show you who he is through his word.
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  Then you will fully understand that the word of God is true and it's alive and it's dynamic.
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  It's not like any other book. And all these people that you know that are Christians, we're not crazy.
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  We have understood that that void inside of us, that the creator put inside
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  of us to long for that love and that acceptance, to be filled only by him.
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  We've learned to let him have our heart and our life so that we could really live to the fullest.
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  That he intended for us to live and that we could really enjoy life to its fullest.
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  And that we could have a joy unspeakable and a peace that passeth all understanding.
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  That in the midst of chaos and trouble, we could still have joy and hope.
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  Because the hope is bigger than me.
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  It's beyond me. My hope is in Jesus Christ.
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  And he's never lost a battle. And he's never failed.
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  And he's not this being way up there that I can't get to. but he lives in me
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  in the form of the Holy Spirit.
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  And he walks with me and he talks with me through his word and through prayer.
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  And if you'll just let yourself open up his word, he'll introduce himself to you as well.
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  No, you're not going to see him face to face and you're probably not going to
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  hear his voice, but he'll speak to your heart as you read his word.
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  And the accounts of the scripture will show
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  you the amazing god he is and
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  when you begin to see that it's not about what you have
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  done but it's completely about what he has done
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  then you'll understand what it means to have unmerited favor you'll understand.
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  The grace of god when the thief was hanging on the cross and he and he deserved
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  to be there but in the middle was jesus christ and jesus didn't deserve to be there.
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  But when that cross began to speak to the Lord, and he began to understand that
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  Jesus loved him so much that he was willing to pay for his sin debt,
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  all he had to do was believe.
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  This man had done nothing for Christ. He was an adult man.
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  He had not done anything for the Lord. He had never proclaimed him.
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  Yet when he was on the cross, he believed and he said that this day Hey,
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  that will be with me in paradise.
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  Jesus saved him. But then there was the other man on the other side.
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  And Jesus was there dying for his sins as well.
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  And Jesus was there pleading for the people to see who he was.
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  And he had lived on this earth showing the works of God, doing miracles,
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  going about doing things to let people see who he was so that they would believe
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  so that they too could taste that the Lord was good and see that he was gracious
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  so that they too could have that home not made with hands eternal into the heavens.
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  So they would understand.
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  Let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in me.
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  In my father's house are many mansions. And if it were not so,
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  I would have told you, I go to prepare a place for you that where I am,
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  ye may be also and if I go to prepare a place for you
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  I will surely come again and receive you
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  unto myself but that guy chose
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  not to believe that guy turned his back on the grace of God that was pouring
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  out himself on the cross of Calvary shedding his blood because without the remission
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  without the shedding of blood, there's no remission of sins.
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  And Jesus was the only one who had lived a life that was sinless and perfect.
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  And he was tempted like as we are yet without sin.
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  And it took his blood on the cross of Calvary to wash away the sinful,
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  dark, vile sins of you and me and he died and what separates him from everybody
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  else who claims to be god that are little god's is not only was he sinless and
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  perfect but he's not in the grave anymore people,
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  He has risen. And on that third and glorious morning, he rose.
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  And he defeated hell, death, and the grave.
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  And he did it all for you and me. That's grace beyond measure.
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  He saved you from the wrath of sin. If only you believe.
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  Many of you are adults right now listening.
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  And perhaps you have not given your heart to the Lord.
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  And up until this point, you may have even been a good person,
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  but you've rejected the blood of Christ.
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  And by doing so, you've mocked the very payment of your sin.
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  And his agony and his suffering and his gift of salvation, you have ignored.
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  And for you, you have wasted that blood. Yet he still draws you.
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  Right now, at this moment, at this time, while you're listening to his word, bespoken to you.
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  He's working on your heart, trying to get you to believe.
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  That's grace. That's unmerited favor.
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  And that is amazing. The Bible says in Psalms chapter 84 and verse 11,
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  no good thing does he withhold from those who love him.
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  So for the next few moments that we're together, I want to talk to the Christian.
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  And I want you to think about the blessings that you you have in your life.
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  I want you to think about all that God does for you on a daily basis,
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  and how unworthy that we are, and how there's nothing that we could possibly
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  ever do to repay him for all he's done for us.
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  And aren't you glad he doesn't ask for that? We can't work our way in. We couldn't get there.
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  But because we love him, and because of all that he's done for us, we want to work for him.
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  And we've tasted that the Lord is good. And you know what?
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  It's just like real food. Whenever you've had something that you really love,
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  you get a craving for it. You get a taste for it.
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  Whenever you've spent time in the word of God and you have had the Jesus and
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  you've had God to work in your heart and in your mind and to let you see things
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  and to let you know that he loves you and he's just loved all over you and just lifted your burdens.
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  Once you've done that you'll want to do it over and over again because you've
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  tasted that he is gracious oh how amazing god is how amazing his love is there's
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  my prayer that each of you know his amazing grace.
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