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544 | Throwback - His Grace is Sufficient · The Woman at the Well Ministries Podcast

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  She's a happy girl. Hello, friends, and welcome back to another podcast of Woman.
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  At the Well Ministries, where we believe that all of us have to come to Jesus
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  like the woman at the well in John chapter 4.
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  Our highest priority is making God real in your life.
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  Whether you are listening in our app, in your favorite podcasting app,
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  or on our website at watwm.org, we invite you to sit down with us as we look
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  to the scriptures to learn more about God and to strengthen your daily walk with Jesus Christ.
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  2 Corinthians 12.9 says, And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee,
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  for my strength is made perfect in weakness.
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  Most gladly, therefore, will I rather glory in my infirmities,
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  that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
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  Grace is unmerited favor. Join us in this broadcast of Woman at the Well Ministries
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  as Kim walks you through the Scriptures, revealing that you cannot sing greater than God's grace.
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  Hello, and thank you for joining us in this broadcast of Woman at the Well Ministries.
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  And I'm incredibly pleased that God has placed upon my heart to speak today
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  out of 2 Corinthians 12 and verse 9.
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  And as I speak to you, I can assure you that I'm speaking to myself as I am
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  reminded of the amazing grace that God bestows upon us on a daily basis.
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  And it isn't just at that time of conversion when old man is tossed away and
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  the new man is created in us and that old things are passed away and the Holy
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  Spirit begins to dwell inside of us.
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  It's not just then that we are doused with amazing grace.
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  But for most of us, it's a daily happening multiple times a day.
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  But for all of us, it's a frequent happening that God just bathes us in his grace.
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  The songwriter John Newton wrote a song familiar to so many people called Amazing Grace.
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  And we sing it so often that perhaps we've become somewhat acclimated to the term grace.
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  But if we spend just a few moments speaking of God's grace, I am fully confident that,
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  that you too will agree, it is amazing. When we speak about grace,
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  we're talking about unmerited favor.
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  It's when God looks at us favorably, and as we are well aware,
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  there's nothing we could do to ever deserve that.
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  And so as we begin to look at our own lives, I want you to just take a typical
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  day. And when the sun rises and you step out of bed, you have been hit with amazing grace.
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  For you've had the opportunity to stand on your own two feet.
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  You've had the opportunity to face yet another day that you have been called by God to do his work.
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  Again, amazing grace.
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  For those of you who may be physically handicapped and you can't stand on your
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  own two feet, you're thinking, Kim, well, did I miss that grace?
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  Grace no by the
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  grace of god you have been able
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  to stand in him physically you
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  may not be but spiritually you can as
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  you travel through your morning and you begin to eat that's amazing grace for
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  if you can feed yourself i assure you that there are countless number of people
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  in this world who would give almost anything to be able to do that,
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  but are physically challenged and can't.
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  As you eat your food, that's amazing grace because he has supplied for you food.
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  As you look around your home, determining what it is that you're going to do,
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  that's amazing grace because he's provided for your shelter.
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  Many of us, after a few moments at home in the morning, will head out to work.
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  And somehow, someway, you're going to get there. And for most of us,
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  it's going to be in a vehicle.
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  And that, my friend, is amazing grace. It's amazing grace if you have one.
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  And it's amazing grace if you travel from point A to point B without being hurt or harmed.
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  And then we make it to that job that he has given us.
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  That's unmerited favor. The Bible says that all of our works are as filthy rags.
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  That there is none righteous, no, not one.
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  Yet he supplies for us a means that we might make money, that we might have
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  the things on this world that we need, and for many of us, the things that we want.
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  As we travel through that part of the day, we use skills and talents.
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  That have been bestowed upon us by God above, that is amazing grace and unmerited favor.
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  At the end of that workday or towards the evening time, we will again come home
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  to that blessing of a home, to that blessing of a food, and for most of us to
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  the blessing of a family.
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  Again, we are not worthy of that, but he blessed us.
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  And we'll travel through the evening and we'll have fellowship and we'll have food. Amazing grace.
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  And we'll lay our heads down in a soft or comfortable pillow and in a comfy bed.
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  And for some of us, we won't even give our thanks to the God above.
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  And yet we have traveled from the beginning to the end of that day in amazing grace.
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  I have highlighted but just a brief few things that will transpire in your day,
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  that are truly amazing grace events.
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  But for most of us, we walk through the day and we don't even notice them.
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  When we don't notice them, we're like the man who was given the talent and he squandered it.
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  We're like the man who was healed and never came back and said, thank you.
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  And we really don't count ourselves as ungrateful. We don't count ourselves
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  as that kind of person who would receive something wonderful and never say thanks.
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  But guess what? We are.
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  Because that amazing grace is the greatest gift we've ever been given.
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  For it's His amazing grace mixed with this marvelous mercy that allows Him to
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  give us the gift of salvation.
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  In 2 Corinthians 12, 9, he says his grace is sufficient.
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  And we've spoken for just these few moments about how amazing his grace is.
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  But now we want to focus on how powerful his grace is and how abundant his grace is.
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  You see, there's some 6 billion people in the world today.
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  And for any other resource, it would be impossible to meet the needs of every
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  one of those people and still have more than that left over.
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  And it's a little difficult to get our minds wrapped around the concept that
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  His grace is inexhaustible.
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  And perhaps the best way we can do that is if we turn in our Bibles to Romans chapter 8.
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  In Romans chapter 8 and verse 28, beginning, I'm sorry, beginning in verse 38,
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  28 is such a familiar passage that says that all things work together for the
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  good to them that love the Lord and that are called according to His purpose.
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  Again, that's grace that allows us to live a life where the obstacles and the
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  challenges that face us are already dealt with by the blood of Christ.
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  And even the most horrid things in our lives are turned into good by God.
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  But the verse we want to look at is 38 and 39, those two verses of Romans chapter 8.
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  The writer Paul says, For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels,
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  nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
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  nor height nor death nor any other creature shall
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  be able to separate us from the love of god which is in
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  christ jesus that is amazing
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  grace nothing can separate you from the love of god and the love of god is truly
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  inexhaustible you can't send
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  beyond the love of god you can't sin greater than the strength of God,
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  and you can't live in any such way as to destroy his love for you.
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  I want you to hear that plainly.
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  You can't live, behave, or do anything or any way that would destroy the love that God has for you.
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  I don't need to say anything else to prove that His grace is amazing.
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  In 2 Corinthians chapter 12 and verse 9, it reads, And he said unto me,
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  My grace is sufficient for thee, for my strength is made perfect in weakness.
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  He said to me. It's personal.
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  The book of Acts tells us that he's no respecter of persons.
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  So how he spoke to Paul, I can have that very same personal relationship where he speaks to me.
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  There's a big difference perhaps in many of us about how we live compared to how Paul lived.
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  Paul lived in the center of his will. He was committed to God and he lived loving
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  Jesus Christ and subjecting himself under the mighty hand of God that he might exalt him in due time.
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  Paul loved Jesus with his whole heart, his mind, and his soul Which we are commanded
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  to do And Paul's life was a living sacrifice,
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  Holy and acceptable unto God, which is our reasonable service,
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  Perhaps if he's not speaking to us In
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  the same manner that he spoke to Paul It's because
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  we're not living at the foot of the cross
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  as paul did it isn't that god has changed because god is the same yesterday
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  today and forevermore and what he did for others he'll do for you but will you
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  do for him what others have done for him are you willing to associate yourself
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  so closely to jesus christ,
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  that your life is transparent and he shones through Thank you.
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  In those kind of lives that he speaks to all the time personally.
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  But he speaks to you personally, even without that, at least once.
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  When it comes to your heart's door and the Holy Spirit knocks on it.
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  And the Bible says in Revelations that he says, behold, I stand at the door and I knock.
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  The Holy Spirit draws you and Jesus is knocking on your heart's door, asking you to let him in.
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  And i want to take you to a few places in the scripture in john chapter 20 jesus has rose again,
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  and john and peter they get to the tomb because
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  mary went and he wasn't there and she goes back and she gets
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  them and the stone is rolled away and
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  peter and john they go in and then they go back
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  home and oh how they received a blessing well that's another story but mary
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  she comes to the tomb and she's still looking and when she turns away and turns
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  around back to where jesus is standing and he's appeared.
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  Calls her by name. He says, Mary. It was personal.
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  In John chapter 11, Mary and Martha, a different Mary, Mary and Martha,
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  the sisters of Lazarus, are mourning the death of their brother.
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  And he's been dead four days. And there's some puzzlement there,
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  wondering where Jesus is and talking about
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  if he'd have been there it wouldn't have happened and
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  during this conversation that takes place
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  amongst the people and amongst mary and martha themselves there's an incredible
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  conversation that takes place and jesus says martha martha it was personal it
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  was personal in john chapter 4.
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  Jesus goes all the way out of his way to
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  sit at a well jacob's well and during
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  a time when no one would be there he was there because he knew that the woman
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  at the well was coming and you see i believe that jesus leaves nothing to chance
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  and i believe that every word that was meant to be in the King James Version
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  of the Word of God is there.
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  And I believe that the reason the woman at the well does not get named is because
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  that's each and every one of us.
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  And it makes it so much easier for us to assimilate that event into our own
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  heart and our own minds because there isn't a name associated with it.
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  And I want you to think about that as we talk about this story because here comes a woman...
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  In sin and my friends
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  if you don't have jesus christ as savior you are steeped
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  in sin and she comes and he tells her all things ever she did is not this the
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  christ that's what she said when she left in john chapter 4 verse 26 they had
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  a personal conversation they spoke on a personal level,
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  Jesus is no respecter of persons, and his grace is sufficient.
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  That woman came, as I said, steeped in sin, and she left clean.
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  Because it wasn't about her, it was about Jesus and his finished work on Calvary.
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  The latter part of 2 Corinthians 12 and verse 9 says that my strength is made perfect in my weakness.
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  The woman at the well came to that well and met Jesus with empty water pots.
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  She didn't come half filled she
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  didn't come with all the answers she
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  didn't come thinking that her life was
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  perfect she came empty and she
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  left filled the problem with many of
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  us is that we come to jesus already filled with the world and already filled
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  with our idea of what things should be and so when we get up from prayer we
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  don't have anything different than we had when we went because we didn't give
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  Jesus any room to come in.
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  And we weren't willing to give
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  up anything that we had that was of this world that he might bless us.
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  His grace is sufficient. His grace is pouring down.
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  His grace is raining upon us. And we are not receiving it because we don't have
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  anything left to gather it up because we're so attached to the world.
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  But Paul said, in my weakness, when I've let go of the things,
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  when I realize that I can't move forward with myself because I am nothing,
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  when he let go and he let God, he was made strong.
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  The Bible says that if we humble ourselves into the mighty hand of God,
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  that he will exalt us in due time.
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  And I submit to you, it will be higher than you can even imagine.
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  Because eye hath not seen and ear hath not heard what lies in store for those who believe in him.
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  Grace is sufficient. He doesn't need your assistance in the problem.
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  He needs the repentant heart.
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  He doesn't need your ideas. You can talk to him about it.
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  He doesn't need you to go out and give your shot at trying to work it out.
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  He needs you to come to him, confessing and believing.
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  For you see, in Psalms 138.8, he says he will perfect that which concerneth you.
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  But you gotta let him do the work.
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  Gotta come as the woman did empty that he might fill you his grace is sufficient
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  and he's personal in john chapter 3 and verse 16 he says for god so loved the
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  world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should
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  not perish but have everlasting life that's a personal.
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  Personal relationship and he says whosoever should call upon the name of the
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  lord shall be saved in Romans 10, 13.
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  And then in Ephesians 2, 89, he says, for by grace. Do you hear me?
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  For by grace are you saved.
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  In Titus, he says, it's not of works of righteousness, which we have done,
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  but it's through the work on Calvary of Jesus Christ.
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  Did you hear me? His grace is sufficient.
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  It's sufficient for you who are steeped in sin by the standards of the world.
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  And listen to me, it's good for you who are steeped in sin, who think you are
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  self-righteous, whose life by the world looks perfect.
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  Maybe you go to church more than anybody, but you haven't had an experience
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  of a personal relationship because you're not letting him in.
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  No siree, you'll come closed. But he said, I surrender all.
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  All to thee, my blessed Savior.
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  I surrender all. You want to be strong? Give it up.
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  Give up control of your life, your heart, and your mind, and place it in the very capable hands.
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  God through jesus christ his son and
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  you will experience grace beyond belief
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  the very fact that he has allowed you to hear the words that he has spoken to
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  let you know that there is a way that seemeth right unto man but the end thereof
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  is destruction but the answer to that is his grace found in his gift.
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  That in itself is grace.
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  My friend, the Bible says in Jeremiah 33.3 that if you call unto him, he will answer you.
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  That blows my mind that the God of the universe is interested in hearing from me.
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  He doesn't need my advice, but he wants a relationship.
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  He wants a personal relationship, and he's interested because the Bible says,
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  Cast all your care upon him, for he careth for you.
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  In Psalms 8, verse 4, he says, What is man that thou art mindful of him,
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  and the son of man that thou visitest him?
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  Oh, my friends, his grace is sufficient.
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  The world may tell you that you've gone too far, but I read in your hearing,
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  what he said, that nothing could separate you from his love.
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  Nothing you can do can destroy his love for you.
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  And in his words and not mine, he says, my grace is sufficient for thee.
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