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589 | Your Foundation is Evident · The Woman at the Well Ministries Podcast

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  Hello, friends, and welcome back to the Woman at the Well Ministries podcast.
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  With Kimberly Miller, where we believe that every man, woman,
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  boy, and girl must come to Jesus just like the woman at the well in John chapter four.
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  Our highest priority is helping you experience the reality of God in your everyday life.
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  Whether you're listening in our app, on your favorite podcast platform,
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  or on our website at watwm.org, we invite you to sit down with us as we open
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  the scriptures to learn more about who God is and to strengthen your daily walk.
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  In this episode of the Woman at the Well Ministries podcast,
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  join Kimberly Miller and Erica Close in a conversation as we walk with Jesus.
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  In today's conversation, we're chatting about what it means in our daily lives
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  to build our foundation on the solid rock.
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  Well, thank you all so much for joining us today.
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  My name is Erica, and I am here with Kimberly. Hello, and I am so excited because
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  today we are talking about what it means to build our foundation on the solid rock, which is Jesus.
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  And we are following Monday's podcast. So if you haven't listened yet,
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  we absolutely encourage you to go back to Monday's podcast. That was episode 588.
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  It was called Build a Firm Foundation. And so today we're just talking about what that looks like.
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  That's what we love to do on our Wednesday podcasts, is to take that Bible teaching
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  from Monday and look at it in our daily lives, like in full application.
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  What does it really look like if we follow whatever we learned about on Monday.
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  So this Monday, we read the story of the wise man and the foolish man.
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  And the wise man built his house on the rock and the foolish man built his house on the sand.
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  And I think everybody sort of knows what happens and knows the account of the story.
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  So one of the things that I love so much, and you mentioned this really early
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  on in the podcast, was just that your foundation is.
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  Evident. Amen. And people can see it. And if you know me, you know that I love houses.
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  I love TV shows about houses and building houses and how houses are built.
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  And I love, I love houses.
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  And what is true about a house is true about us too.
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  Amen. If a house has a problem with its foundation, you're going to see it on the outside.
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  You're going to see it up above the foundation. And it's a critical problem.
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  It's a critical problem.
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  If you have a structural foundation problem in your house, it is tens of thousands of dollars to fix.
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  And if you don't fix it, it's only a matter of time until the house deteriorates
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  more. Right. You lose the whole house.
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  And so with our spiritual house, we have to build that on the foundation of
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  the rock of Jesus Christ.
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  And if we have a foundation problem, we are not going to be able to withstand
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  the storms of life. Absolutely.
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  We might be able to hide it for a little bit, right? Sometimes we can act.
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  Correct. You might hide it for a little bit, but it's not going to last.
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  Because your actions have got to align with your words.
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  Yes. And what happens in the spiritual life is we all can speak the spiritual speak.
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  We can do the church ease, as I call it. But...
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  Proof is in our actions. And in a house, you know, when people try to mask a
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  foundation problem to sell the house or something that is deceitful,
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  it only stays masked for so long.
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  Right. They may like try to cover up a crack in the wall or something like that.
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  But there are so many ways you can know you have a foundation problem.
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  You can fill in all the cracks and it might be okay. But if you drop a ping
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  pong on the floor of a house with a foundation problem, that ping pong is going
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  to roll to wherever the foundation is going.
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  Or a door, right? Sometimes if you have a house that has a bad foundation problem, the doors don't.
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  You can't shut the door because the door or the whole door frame is out of whack.
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  You can try to hide it, but you really can't. And you can't hide anything from the Lord. Amen.
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  Amen. And the truth of the matter is, if you have foundation built on anything
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  other than the solid rock of Jesus, it is going to permeate your life in a way that...
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  Shows negative results and just an all-out badness.
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  Absolutely. So true. So we all
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  really do understand that our foundation is going to be evident to all.
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  And in the podcast on Monday, you spent some time really talking about what
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  separates the wise and the foolish, the wise man and the foolish man.
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  And you gave us basically three examples of how they're different.
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  And I want to just talk for a moment through each of those three examples about
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  what that looks like in our lives.
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  Like if that is true for us, what does that look like?
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  And the first thing you said was that the wise man comes to Jesus.
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  Right. Because these three things are straight out of Luke 6, 47.
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  And so he comes to Jesus. He's not looking for instruction, for peace,
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  for calmness, for stability, anywhere but him.
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  And the foolish man is one who doesn't build on the rock, so he's not going to Jesus.
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  He's either relying upon himself,
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  or he is relying upon man-made logic or something other than Jesus.
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  And so it matters where you go to get your information.
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  And so this man, in the podcast, you talked about him coming to Jesus and how
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  we have to come to Jesus for salvation.
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  But I think that there's also that continual coming to Jesus.
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  What's that look like in our lives?
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  I believe there is a continual because he says daily we have to deny ourself and take up our cross.
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  And we don't get saved every day, but we come to Jesus for the satisfaction
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  of our souls. Oh, I love that.
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  And we do that because we delight in him and he gives us the desires of our
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  heart when we delight in him.
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  And we come to him with open arms, wanting to receive what he has.
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  Like the woman at the well came to Jesus empty.
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  Right. but she came to the well to get
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  water with an empty bucket like she didn't come
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  to the well with a filled up bucket trying to get water she came
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  ready to receive and we receive through reading his word through prayer through
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  you and I having discussions like this about what we've read or what God has
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  given us and it's important for us to fully comprehend what,
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  That he stands ready to supply our every need, to give us the strength we need,
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  and he's more than enough.
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  And so it's kind of like a one-stop shop.
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  You go to him as you are, and he changes you and transforms you and gives you
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  all that you need to do life.
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  Coming to Jesus is a demonstration, I think, of just the daily expression of our faith, right?
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  Just coming to Him every day.
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  I know days, what it feels like on days that I consciously do not come to Him
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  in the morning for whatever reason.
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  You know, maybe I didn't actually say no, maybe something happened, right?
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  But there's a difference in a day when we're not, when we have not had our time with Jesus.
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  And in addition to coming to Him and spending time in prayer,
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  like you said, or in His Word, or coming to sort of His throne with a friend
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  and spending time in prayer, you talked about how the wise man hears Jesus.
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  And hearing from the Lord is different sometimes than just coming and reading His Word, right?
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  We have to be ready to hear.
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  And you've got to be willing. Yeah.
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  You know, my wish I could say that when I come to the Lord, I'm not sure.
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  Always and have always been receptive to what he has to say, but I'm not.
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  When he's asking something that is contrary to what I want, when I think the
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  ask is going to cost me more than I'm willing to pay,
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  when I don't logically understand why it would be me, he would want me to do it, then I can...
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  Hear the audible sounds in my head you
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  know i don't hear him audibly speak to me but i
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  can do that but i don't comprehend
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  i don't make sense of it i don't allow it to stick and sink in it's kind of
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  like teflon hitting you know i it bounces off like your heart speaking you got
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  a teflon shield on your heart when you're not receptive to right like because
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  if i hear and understand and comprehend,
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  then now I've got to process it and do something.
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  But if I just let his words in my heart and on the page and however else he's
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  speaking to me, if I don't process them, if I don't comprehend them or understand them,
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  then I don't find myself thinking I have to make a move on him.
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  And so the wise man hears and comprehends what God is saying.
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  He's processing what God has for them through a lens that says what God has is best.
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  And so the wise man makes sense of what God says, even if he doesn't embrace it,
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  even if he doesn't want to do it, He doesn't filter it out because he's not interested in it.
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  And most of us are more like the man who builds his house on the sand in this
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  respect, in that if we don't like it, we filter it out.
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  And I, that's sad.
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  I don't really know where to go, but that's just, that is just really sad.
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  Because when you think about what you're tuning out,
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  When you think about what you're not receiving, what you're choosing not to process.
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  And sometimes it's scary. I know this past Sunday in church,
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  I very clearly heard something from the Lord.
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  And it was such a blessing to me.
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  And not long after that, I knew I was going to have to use that.
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  And I heard again what I'm supposed to do with that information.
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  And I almost wish I hadn't heard the second part except it was God himself who was speaking to me.
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  And I think for those of us who have built on the rock and,
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  We quickly get back to processing. To whatever, yes, the processing.
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  And we don't get astray because it's not like we have a bunch of sand in our
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  foundation. Right, right.
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  We sweep that foundation to keep the sand out.
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  What I also know is that hearing requires processing in order for us to get
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  the third part of what the wise man was so different than the foolish man.
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  Because the wise man does what he hears from Jesus. Right.
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  And so the foolish man is filtering out what he says, thinking that somehow
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  I didn't hear it. I didn't understand it.
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  I'm not going to have to do it. I won't be held accountable.
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  But that's not what Scripture says.
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  Scripture says we are accountable for every word that's in a word of God. Yes.
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  Every jot and every tittle. Yep.
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  And just because you don't know it doesn't mean you're not responsible for it.
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  I promise you that if you don't know this, sticking your hand on a hot stove will burn you.
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  Just because you don't know it doesn't mean when you stick your hand on it,
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  it's not going to burn you.
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  You're going to be burnt just like everybody that knows it, and then you'll
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  know it and you'll never do it again. Not purposely.
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  But the wise man went to the right place for his information.
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  He received information he was willing to hear, process, and then do.
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  He acted on it. He did. Yeah.
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  He did. And that is super. Well, it's because it's what we're supposed to do,
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  right? We're never supposed to hear something from the Lord.
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  The Lord doesn't tell us something ever, I don't believe, just to tell us,
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  right? He has an ultimate purpose for everything that he tells us.
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  So it must be he tells us something to have us do something.
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  Because he does everything for our good and his glory.
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  Which means we usually have to do something to show off his glory.
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  You got to comprehend and understand what's going on so that you can make a move off go. Yes.
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  Absolutely. Absolutely. So I want to close with one thing, last thing you said.
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  And you made the statement on Monday's podcast. You said you don't lay down the rock.
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  You build on it.
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  And I just kind of want to bring us back to our foundation is evident.
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  Because there are so many things in this world that I think many of us believe are foundational,
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  like education and our bank accounts.
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  Too much learning is weariness to the mind. Yes.
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  Or our retirement accounts or our job.
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  There are so our family.
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  Right. There are so many things that I think we focus on that are foundational.
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  That really aren't. That really aren't. They they're important. They're important.
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  But they're not the foundation. You can't build a life on an education.
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  No. You can't build your life on your money.
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  You can't build your life on your intellect.
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  Because doing everything right, sometimes you still lose that.
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  Only thing that you can build your life on is the rock of Jesus Christ.
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  And the Bible is so complete.
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  You know, John 14, 6 says, I am the way, the truth, and the life,
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  and no man cometh unto the Father but by me.
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  He's it. And what's really important is John 10, 10 says that...
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  He came that we might have life and have it more abundantly.
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  And he juxtaposes that in the beginning with the devil comes to kill, steal, and destroy.
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  So this passage in Luke 6, verses 46 and 49 really is explained in John 10.10.
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  If you want the abundant life, you build your life on the solid rock.
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  And the rock is there. He always has been, always will be.
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  And he currently is. Amen. So we build upon Him.
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  Amen. Wow. I hope you all enjoyed this podcast of Women at the Well Ministries.
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  It is always so much fun to just sit and process what we learned in Monday's
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  podcast and to just have a little more time in application, right?
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  That's our favorite thing. How does it apply?
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  We always say that about Scripture. What does it say? What does it mean?
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  And how does it apply? Because if you never get to the apply,
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  it doesn't change your life. Amen.
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  Well, thank you all so much for listening.
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