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Morning Devotion from John: Living Water · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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Speaker 1: Good morning, family. Good morning. God bless you. Welcome back
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Speaker 1: to the Morning Devo. It's your bro, Sam Lopez, a.k.a.
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Speaker 1: and I'll get you in there as soon as I'm
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Speaker 1: able to do it. Amen. So today, we'll continue our
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Speaker 1: series in the book of John. Book of John. Amen.
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Speaker 1: We're in chapter 4. Today's verse is John chapter 4,
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Speaker 1: verses 13 and 14. I'm calling this one Living Water.
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Speaker 1: Living Water. And Jesus explains to the woman at the well,
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Speaker 1: the Samaritan woman, that He offers us a water that
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Speaker 1: when we drink of his water, we will never thirst again. Incredible. Amen. Incredible.
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Speaker 1: So we're going to pray first. After we pray, we'll
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Speaker 1: get right into today's morning devo. It's called Living Water,
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Speaker 1: John chapter 4, verses 13 and 14. The idea of
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Speaker 1: this series is to take a couple of verses from
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Speaker 1: each chapter of the book of John as we move
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Speaker 1: through this book. Amen. Pastor Michael Jakes, good morning. God
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Speaker 1: bless you. Yes, praise the Lord. It's good to see
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Speaker 1: you on the Morning Devo. So let's pray. Father, in
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Speaker 1: the name of Jesus, I thank you so much for
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Speaker 1: the opportunity that you give right now. The opportunity that
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Speaker 1: you give us to pray, to speak our heart towards you,
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Speaker 1: Lord God, to ask, to intercede on behalf of others,
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Speaker 1: to know that you are with us and in us
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Speaker 1: and working through us. I pray, Lord God, that you
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Speaker 1: would have your way during this morning devotion. That, Lord God,
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Speaker 1: that you would satisfy our every desire as you always do.
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Speaker 1: I pray, Lord God, I had your protection over me, myself,
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Speaker 1: my family, my wife, our children, my whole bloodline from
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Speaker 1: the youngest to the oldest and every single person in between.
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Speaker 1: I pray faith forward, knowing that you are able and
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Speaker 1: willing to do exactly what you said you would do
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Speaker 1: according to your promise and your word for our lives.
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Speaker 1: I pray, Lord God, that the faith of the mustard
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Speaker 1: seed that you said in your word would be there
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Speaker 1: in our spirit, in our mind, in our soul, and
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Speaker 1: that it would increase our Our faith will increase. I pray,
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Speaker 1: Lord God, that you continue to put health to our body,
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Speaker 1: strength and bones. Lord God, that you would do a
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Speaker 1: magnificent work in our hearts and that we will glorify
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Speaker 1: your name and make a lot of you, make much
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Speaker 1: of you, Lord Jesus, that we would know that, Lord God,
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Speaker 1: that you are with us and in us and working
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Speaker 1: through us for the glory of your kingdom, for the
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Speaker 1: glory of God. I pray this by faith, knowing that
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Speaker 1: you hear these prayers and you answer them accordingly to
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Speaker 1: every single person's individual need. In Jesus' name, I pray
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Speaker 1: this by faith. And those who agree, we say amen
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Speaker 1: to the amen. So let me get back to the
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Speaker 1: screen here. And let's move this forward by way of
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Speaker 1: this little tech we have here. This one's called Living Water,
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Speaker 1: John chapter 4, verses 13 and 14. Jesus says, everyone
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Speaker 1: who drinks this water will be thirsty again. referring to
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Speaker 1: the water coming from that well. But whoever drinks the
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Speaker 1: water that I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the
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Speaker 1: water I give him will become in him a fount
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Speaker 1: of water springing up to eternal life. Now this eternal
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Speaker 1: life part, it's only God can give you eternal life.
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Speaker 1: Jesus being the God-man, amen, promises you and me eternal life.
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Speaker 1: This is an amazing work of God. There's nothing that
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Speaker 1: I could do or say that can guarantee you eternal life.
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Speaker 1: But Jesus says, the water that he gives us will
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Speaker 1: become in us a fountain of water springing up to
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Speaker 1: eternal life. That's a claim, that's a God claim. Jesus said,
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Speaker 1: I give. He didn't say, you know, the Father is
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Speaker 1: the only one who gives, or the Spirit is the
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Speaker 1: only one who gives. He says, I give. That's a
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Speaker 1: total exclusive claim by the Lord Jesus Christ. Amazing claim,
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Speaker 1: as a matter of fact. So there's a lot here. Amen?
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Speaker 1: There's a lot here. But the background of this is
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Speaker 1: that there was a woman at the well, and Jesus
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Speaker 1: met this woman at the well, a Samaritan woman, right?
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Speaker 1: And Because Jesus was a Jew, right? And this lady
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Speaker 1: was Samaritan. It was unheard of, especially in those days
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Speaker 1: in that culture for a man to approach a woman,
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Speaker 1: especially those two separate backgrounds, ethnic backgrounds, right? In those days.
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Speaker 1: But Jesus broke the code. He broke tradition. Everywhere he went,
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Speaker 1: he did something according to his holiness and righteousness. He
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Speaker 1: only did with the Father. told them to do. That's
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Speaker 1: what the Lord claimed. He only says what the Father
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Speaker 1: tells him to say. So at this meeting with this
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Speaker 1: woman at that particular well, amen, Jesus opens her eyes
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Speaker 1: to the fact that he is the one who gives
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Speaker 1: this eternal water, that he is the one that could
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Speaker 1: only be the God-man. He's the only one. So there
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Speaker 1: are things in this world that we face, right, that
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Speaker 1: can satisfy us, but only temporarily. So this is what
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Speaker 1: Jesus is saying. That water, that drug, that relationship, that money,
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Speaker 1: that possession, that car, that house will only satisfy you
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Speaker 1: for the moment. But Jesus is saying, I will satisfy
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Speaker 1: you for all eternity. The things in the world that
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Speaker 1: can satisfy us for a moment, eventually, eventually, those things
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Speaker 1: will make you thirsty again. I saw an interview years ago.
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Speaker 1: They were interviewing a rich man. And the interviewer asked
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Speaker 1: the rich man, how much money will it take to satisfy?
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Speaker 1: Now that you're a multimillionaire, I think this man was
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Speaker 1: actually a billionaire. How much money would it take? And
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Speaker 1: he said, more. He said, it would take more to
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Speaker 1: continue to satisfy me. That's incredible to me. I'm like,
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Speaker 1: you give me $ 100, 000, I think I'll be okay. This
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Speaker 1: man had billions of dollars and he was asking for
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Speaker 1: more because in that temporary moment of satisfaction with the money,
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Speaker 1: the cars, the fame, the accolades, the relationships, all of
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Speaker 1: that that he had, he was literally telling the person
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Speaker 1: that was interviewing him, it's not enough. Can you imagine that?
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Speaker 1: That's why the scripture says you could gain the whole world,
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Speaker 1: but what is it to gain the whole world and
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Speaker 1: lose your soul, right? In other words, there's more value
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Speaker 1: in my soul and in your soul than there is
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Speaker 1: in monetary gain, right? Or whatever you're trying to accomplish
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Speaker 1: separate from God. If God is not in your accomplishments,
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Speaker 1: then you're doing something that will only satisfy you and
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Speaker 1: I for a moment, right? So success can't permanently, and
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Speaker 1: we know this, we see this all the time, success
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Speaker 1: can't permanently satisfy you. Think about that. Money can permanently
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Speaker 1: satisfy you. Relationships, possessions, popularity, especially on these platforms, on
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Speaker 1: social media, will not satisfy you. No way. No how. Amen?
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Speaker 1: It's a matter of perspective. If you have the perspective
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Speaker 1: of the kingdom mindset, you will know that right away.
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Speaker 1: And it's not even an argument. We all know that
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Speaker 1: this world offers so much. I used to be a
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Speaker 1: part of this world system, right? And probably you are
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Speaker 1: in the world system or you were part of the
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Speaker 1: world system before. But we all know that that's a
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Speaker 1: temporary satisfaction. Sorry for looking down. I just want to
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Speaker 1: share this to the group before I forget while we're live. Amen.
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Speaker 1: So that you'll share technology, right? So we know that
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Speaker 1: for sure. So that Jesus comes alive. on the scene
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Speaker 1: and says, yeah, I know all of that. I know
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Speaker 1: the heart of man. I created, right? Jesus is the creator.
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Speaker 1: He created man. He knows the intents of our hearts.
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Speaker 1: So he's the one who satisfies us completely. The world system, possessions, money, popularity,
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Speaker 1: social media, influencing, and all that stuff is only a
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Speaker 1: temporary fix. Even accomplishments can leave you searching for something
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Speaker 1: more Like when I was in the world, literally, when
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Speaker 1: God started opening my eyes to who he was, amen,
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Speaker 1: I did so much in the world and it left
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Speaker 1: me empty. That was actually one of the reasons why
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Speaker 1: I called God out. And I was drunk and high.
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Speaker 1: Some of you know my testimony. I called out to
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Speaker 1: him drunk and high. I said, listen, I did everything
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Speaker 1: that this world said to do. And I was trying
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Speaker 1: to get good at it or better at it. and
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Speaker 1: I was still left empty. So I knew there had
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Speaker 1: to be more to life than what I was currently living.
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Speaker 1: experiencing at the time. There had to be more. It
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Speaker 1: wasn't making any sense that I did all those things
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Speaker 1: that the world said, oh, if you do this, you'll
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Speaker 1: have that, and you'll be happy, and you'll be satisfied.
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Speaker 1: But what a lie that was. A pipe dream, right,
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Speaker 1: that we call it. Jesus the Christ offers us something different.
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Speaker 1: Jesus the Christ, our Messiah, my Messiah, our Lord, our Savior, amen,
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Speaker 1: offers us living water. The water that he provides, the
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Speaker 1: water that he offers leads us to eternal life. It
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Speaker 1: springs up in us, right, like a fountain of water
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Speaker 1: that leads to spring up eternal life inside of you
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Speaker 1: and inside of me. So when Jesus spoke to the
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Speaker 1: Samaritan woman at the well, right, he wasn't just talking
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Speaker 1: about physical water. It's obvious because they were at the well.
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Speaker 1: He was like, well, how are you going to draw
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Speaker 1: this water up? He wasn't talking literally just about physical water.
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Speaker 1: Jesus was revealing that the deepest thirst in our souls
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Speaker 1: can only be satisfied through him. Check that out. Only
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Speaker 1: through the Lord Jesus can you and I be eternally satisfied,
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Speaker 1: completely satisfied. We won't have to need anything else to
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Speaker 1: satisfy us once we have the Lord Jesus Christ. You
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Speaker 1: might be saying, that's a stretch. You could easily say
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Speaker 1: that because you were probably born and raised in a church,
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Speaker 1: which is not true. I wasn't born and raised in
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Speaker 1: a church. But you could easily say, oh yeah, your
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Speaker 1: religion says that. You could easily say, you could dismiss
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Speaker 1: what I just said, that comment. But the bottom line is,
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Speaker 1: you know it's true because You have tried so many
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Speaker 1: things in this world and this life to try to satisfy.
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Speaker 1: And you know once that quick fix or that temporary
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Speaker 1: satisfaction wears out, you know that there has to be more.
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Speaker 1: If you're honest today with yourself, you know that your
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Speaker 1: heart is not complete. if you don't have the Lord
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Speaker 1: Jesus Christ in your heart, if you don't have the God-man,
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Speaker 1: if you don't have Holy Spirit, Guach Elohim, if you
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Speaker 1: don't have Yahweh, the Creator God, amen, the Father God,
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Speaker 1: if you don't have Jesus in your life, you will
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Speaker 1: never be satisfied. You can take that to the bank.
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Speaker 1: You can test that. You can try that. Amen. I
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Speaker 1: dare you to read the Scriptures for yourself. Read the
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Speaker 1: book of John for yourself and see the life of Jesus,
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Speaker 1: the love that He has for us. John 3.16 says,
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Speaker 1: For God so loved, the Father so loved the world
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Speaker 1: that he sent, he didn't create Jesus, he sent his
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Speaker 1: only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him shall have what?
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Speaker 1: Eternal life. Not perish, but have eternal life. Jesus, in
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Speaker 1: this scenario with the Samaritan woman, says, Listen, the water
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Speaker 1: that we could draw from here, it will satisfy you temporarily.
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Speaker 1: But then after it satisfies you, you take the water
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Speaker 1: back to your village, you're going to be thirsty again.
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Speaker 1: But the water that Jesus was offering at that moment,
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Speaker 1: at that time, is offering us in this moment, in
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Speaker 1: this time, is the water that will become in us
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Speaker 1: a fount of water springing up to eternal life. This
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Speaker 1: is good. This is good news. This is an opportunity
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Speaker 1: for us to experience what God can do in the
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Speaker 1: hearts and minds of any individual who says yes to
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Speaker 1: the Lord. Right? So are you trying to fill your
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Speaker 1: life with things that were never designed to satisfy your spirit?
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Speaker 1: Think about it. All these things that we see on
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Speaker 1: social media, the internet, TV, in the movies, all those
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Speaker 1: things are ideas from people that say, if we put
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Speaker 1: this on a screen, if we put this in the
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Speaker 1: social media, if we put this in a post, it's
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Speaker 1: going to gain a lot of people's attention, right? And
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Speaker 1: then if they use this product that I have or
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Speaker 1: that product that I have, or if you buy the
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Speaker 1: course that I offer, or if you sow into a
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Speaker 1: ministry or to a church, you know, then you'll get
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Speaker 1: something in return. Those are people's ideas of how to
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Speaker 1: satisfy somebody's soul and spirit. But today, right now, Jesus
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Speaker 1: is inviting you and I to become more like him
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Speaker 1: or to come to him for this living, satisfying, eternal
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Speaker 1: life by way of his water, his offer of living water, right?
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Speaker 1: Notice that Jesus says that he is the way, the truth,
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Speaker 1: and the life. No one comes to the Father except
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Speaker 1: through him. Why? Because he's the one who offers eternal life.
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Speaker 1: It's through the Lord Jesus that we're made right and
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Speaker 1: righteous by way of Jesus. We're made right with God
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Speaker 1: through the Lord Jesus Christ. So his living water brings
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Speaker 1: peace when your life is bringing chaos. How many people
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Speaker 1: could say amen? A lot of chaotic things happening in
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Speaker 1: this world. You watch the news, you're like, man, this
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Speaker 1: world is falling apart. You watch the news, you're going
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Speaker 1: to be like, this is sad. You watch the news,
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Speaker 1: you'll be like, man, this is depressing. But Jesus says,
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Speaker 1: come to him. He's going to bring us peace when
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Speaker 1: When the world is in chaos and the peace that
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Speaker 1: the Lord gives us, the world does not understand. As
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Speaker 1: a matter of fact, the world hates the peace that
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Speaker 1: Jesus offers his people because the world system is designed
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Speaker 1: and bent towards separating us from the living, holy, righteous,
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Speaker 1: loving God. But the kingdom of God and the king
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Speaker 1: of the kingdom of God wants us to have his
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Speaker 1: peace for all eternity. His living water brings hope when
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Speaker 1: we feel down in the dumps when we feel discouraged, right?
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Speaker 1: His living water brings forgiveness when we feel like we're
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Speaker 1: not worthy to be forgiven. His living water does that.
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Speaker 1: His living water brings eternal life when you place your
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Speaker 1: faith in Jesus. Not place your faith in a religion,
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Speaker 1: in a church, in a morning devotion, in an influencer,
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Speaker 1: in a an apostle, and a prophet, and an evangelist,
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Speaker 1: or a pastor, teacher, not when you put your faith
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Speaker 1: in those people or those things. It's only when you
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Speaker 1: place your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ that he
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Speaker 1: will give you eternal life. The beautiful thing about living
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Speaker 1: water is that Jesus doesn't just give you enough to survive, right?
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Speaker 1: This is something that he says, it will become a
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Speaker 1: fount of water within you. You will always have overflowing
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Speaker 1: amounts of XYZ. Overflowing favor, overflowing grace, overflowing mercy, overflowing
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Speaker 1: abundant life that the Lord Jesus promised, as a matter
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Speaker 1: of fact. So let's take the word, let's take his
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Speaker 1: word for granted. That's a way of expressing it. Let's
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Speaker 1: take his word at what he says he would do
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Speaker 1: in our hearts and our minds and our lives. in
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Speaker 1: our families. The promises of God are all yea and amen. Amen.
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Speaker 1: So why don't we just continue to believe regardless of
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Speaker 1: what's happening in this world. Let's continue to believe in
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Speaker 1: what God said he would do in our lives when
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Speaker 1: we place our faith and trust in him. Right? God
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Speaker 1: puts inside of you something that he begins and what
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Speaker 1: he puts inside of you he will complete. Amen. Amen.
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Speaker 1: And what he puts in me and what he puts
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Speaker 1: in you is so overflowing that it would extend to others.
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Speaker 1: That's why people have two choices. You want to like
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Speaker 1: the believers in Christ, the sons and daughters of the
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Speaker 1: living God, or don't like the sons and daughters of
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Speaker 1: a living, holy, righteous, loving God. It's two choices, right?
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Speaker 1: Some people see the light of Christ in us and
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Speaker 1: they want it. Others see the light of Christ in
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Speaker 1: us and they go back into the darkness or they
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Speaker 1: don't want no parts of us because the Bible says
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Speaker 1: around John 3, 16, 17, around there, or 18, that
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Speaker 1: people love darkness. The light is coming to the world,
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Speaker 1: but people love darkness. Why? Because they don't want their
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Speaker 1: deeds exposed because when light shows on my sinful deeds, amen,
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Speaker 1: those sinful deeds will be exposed and that happens for
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Speaker 1: you as well. And a lot of people like to
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Speaker 1: live in the darkness, but according to the scriptures, Once
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Speaker 1: we're in Christ, we no longer have to walk in
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Speaker 1: the dark. We shouldn't be walking in the dark, right?
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Speaker 1: We have the light of Christ and we move forward.
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Speaker 1: Your encouragement and my encouragement can actually encourage somebody else, right?
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Speaker 1: It's like this water that's flowing in us, right, can
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Speaker 1: overflow and give somebody an opportunity to be encouraged. Amen.
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Speaker 1: Your prayers, you know, it's important to pray. I'm a
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Speaker 1: praying man. I pray about everything. You should be praying
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Speaker 1: about everything. Your prayers can strengthen somebody. Literally, I've seen
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Speaker 1: it happen. People prayed me into the kingdom. There's no
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Speaker 1: doubt about it. I can't prove it, but in my
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Speaker 1: mind and my heart, I have no doubt that I
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Speaker 1: was prayed into the kingdom of God. Your faith and
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Speaker 1: my faith can actually point people to Jesus Christ, right?
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Speaker 1: So today, what are you going to do with this
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Speaker 1: fount of water springing up to eternal life? This is
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Speaker 1: if you have a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ,
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Speaker 1: by the way. This lady is This woman at the
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Speaker 1: well was not saved. She wasn't born again. Jesus showed
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Speaker 1: up as a prophet to her life. He knew everything
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Speaker 1: about her. She literally ran back to a village and said,
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Speaker 1: meet a man that knew everything about me. And the
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Speaker 1: question was, could this be the Christ? And she was
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Speaker 1: pretty much convinced that this is the Christ. This is
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Speaker 1: the Mashiach McKee. This is the Messiah, right? This is
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Speaker 1: the one man of God, sent by God. and only
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Speaker 1: can work through Jesus was working by way of God.
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Speaker 1: He was, yes, a messenger, but he was more than
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Speaker 1: a messenger. He was the man or the God-man, so
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Speaker 1: God in the flesh as we see it. Come to Jesus.
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Speaker 1: Drink from his water. Let his living water fill your
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Speaker 1: heart and overflow into your life. Why not? You will
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Speaker 1: not be losing out on anything this world has to offer.
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Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, you'll be light years ahead
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Speaker 1: of what this world supplies or what this world offers.
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Speaker 1: You won't need it. I definitely don't need it. Tired
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Speaker 1: of the world system. I got tired of the world,
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Speaker 1: to be honest. I started feeling the tiredness in my
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Speaker 1: early 20s. I was doing so much in the world.
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Speaker 1: And I was like, something here is not right. I'm
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Speaker 1: being lied to. I'm following the code of the streets.
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Speaker 1: I'm doing what the world says to do. Although it
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Speaker 1: seemed like, oh man, this is great. I had this
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Speaker 1: temporary satisfaction. I had this, that, and the third. It
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Speaker 1: still wasn't really satisfying my spirit and my soul. And
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Speaker 1: I felt it. It's just that I was hardheaded and
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Speaker 1: it seemed like I was having fun. I was in sin,
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Speaker 1: but you couldn't tell me I was sinning because I
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Speaker 1: had no idea what sin was. I just thought everybody
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Speaker 1: was doing these things, so it might be okay for
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Speaker 1: me to do it too. So until I was 30
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Speaker 1: years old, when I called out to God, that's when
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Speaker 1: I realized, I said, wow, all these years, I could
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Speaker 1: have been completely satisfied by what Jesus offered. Not by
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Speaker 1: what this world offers, but what the Lord Jesus offered.
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Speaker 1: And mind you, I didn't call on the name of
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Speaker 1: Jesus when that day in December of 2001, I called
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Speaker 1: on God because I didn't know who God was. I said,
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Speaker 1: whoever this God is, come and change my life. I
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Speaker 1: really didn't care at that point about churches, religions, or anything.
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Speaker 1: I was just saying, if you're real, let's do some
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Speaker 1: business together. Amen? Let's make a deal. That's the way
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Speaker 1: my testimony is. And I gave God ultimatums and all
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Speaker 1: this stuff, and he was merciful enough not to just
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Speaker 1: annihilate me with his finger. But actually, he met me
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Speaker 1: where I was. And I believe now he's taking me
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Speaker 1: to where he is. And he could do the same
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Speaker 1: thing in your life. He'll meet you where you are.
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Speaker 1: People are like, I got to get cleaned up before
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Speaker 1: I get right with God. No, you don't. Ask him
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Speaker 1: to come into your life right now. The woman of
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Speaker 1: the well had no idea who she was speaking to.
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Speaker 1: Because Jesus said, if you knew who you were asking,
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Speaker 1: then you would know that I am the one that
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Speaker 1: can offer you eternal life. But she didn't know. Some
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Speaker 1: people right now don't know who the Lord Jesus is
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Speaker 1: and what he can do in their lives, right? We
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Speaker 1: were all there at one point. Every believer you know
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Speaker 1: wasn't a believer before, right? We weren't born believing. We
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Speaker 1: were born, actually, according to the scriptures, we were born
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Speaker 1: bent to hell. We were born in sin and iniquity.
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Speaker 1: We were separated from a living, holy, righteous, loving God.
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Speaker 1: And God offers us all through our lives an opportunity
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Speaker 1: to get that right, to get into a personal relationship
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Speaker 1: with him. Amen? It's not by way of religion, not
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Speaker 1: by way of tradition, not by way of prophetic ministries,
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Speaker 1: healing ministries. It's by way of his way, his truth,
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Speaker 1: and his life. He loves us so much that he
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Speaker 1: went on the cross. He thought about you. He thought
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Speaker 1: about me on that cross and died for us so
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Speaker 1: that way we can live and the life abundant that
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Speaker 1: he promised. This is good. So you can ask the
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Speaker 1: Lord right now, right? When you let his living water
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Speaker 1: fill your heart and overflow in your life, you can
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Speaker 1: ask the Lord right now to hold us accountable to
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Speaker 1: what we're doing with this living water. Thank the Father
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Speaker 1: for sending the Lord Jesus Christ. Amazing, right? The source
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Speaker 1: of living water is found in the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Speaker 1: So when you start recognizing that things in this world
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Speaker 1: can't completely satisfy you, can't completely satisfy your soul, right?
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Speaker 1: You could go to the Lord thirsty, thirsty for his presence, right?
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Speaker 1: You go to the Lord asking for peace, asking for wisdom, amen?
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Speaker 1: And ultimately, you're looking for love. And he is the love.
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Speaker 1: God is love, right? This is the love that will
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Speaker 1: truly satisfy me and you. Everyone who drinks this water
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Speaker 1: will be thirsty again. In other words, everything that you
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Speaker 1: try in this world will not satisfy you. But whoever
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Speaker 1: drinks the water that the Lord gives, right? We will
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Speaker 1: never thirst again, right? I have really no deep desire
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Speaker 1: to go back to the world. The flesh always had
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Speaker 1: the desire to go back to the world. The flesh
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Speaker 1: always wants to do the same old, same old over
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Speaker 1: and over again, right? If you're honest, your flesh always
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Speaker 1: wants to do something opposite of what the Lord wants
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Speaker 1: us to do. The spirit and the flesh are always
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Speaker 1: at war, right? There's nothing that the flesh could offer
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Speaker 1: me that would completely satisfy, but there's something that the
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Speaker 1: Lord Jesus offers that would completely satisfy. So ask God
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Speaker 1: to fill you up with his living water. Ask God
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Speaker 1: to refresh your spirit, renew your mind, strengthen your faith.
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Speaker 1: Ask God to let your own life so much overflow
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Speaker 1: so that you could be a blessing and you could
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Speaker 1: be an encouragement to somebody else, right? It's a selfless deed.
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Speaker 1: It's not selfish, it's selfless, right? You're pouring out that
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Speaker 1: living water that's in you and that's in me and
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Speaker 1: we're letting it overflow into other people's lives. So that
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Speaker 1: way God will get the glory for it all. We
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Speaker 1: don't get the glory for that. So stop searching for
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Speaker 1: satisfaction in places that leave you empty. I was there.
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Speaker 1: I've been there. Been to places that I thought if
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Speaker 1: I did X, Y, Z, I'll be completely satisfied, but
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Speaker 1: it left me empty. Ask God to teach us or
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Speaker 1: to teach you to seek his kingdom first and to
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Speaker 1: trust in this living water that he offers us. And
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Speaker 1: trust the one who offers you this living water, the
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Speaker 1: Lord Jesus Christ. Living water, amen. I hope you got
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Speaker 1: something from this. It's John chapter 4, 13 and 14.
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Speaker 1: Please read the whole chapter for yourself so you can
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Speaker 1: get the context. I'm out of time. Amen. Thank you
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Speaker 1: so much for hanging out with me for this morning, Devo.
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Speaker 1: It's been a great opportunity. Amen. It's good to be back.
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Speaker 1: It feels good to be back in the studio. So
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Speaker 1: God bless you all. God keep you all. And remember
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Speaker 1: always that God is good. Peace.