Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation
Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank
Speaker 1: you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope
Speaker 1: it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to
Speaker 1: see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message
Speaker 1: I told them today. I said, it's been heavy for
Speaker 1: so many people all week, and God has given us
Speaker 1: the privilege to minister. It is a privilege to minister
Speaker 1: to you. This is I think the thirteenth week. I
Speaker 1: don't know if I counted correctly. What's your count thirteen?
Speaker 1: Since we couldn't have people in our buildings and we've
Speaker 1: got quite a few more of those ahead of us.
Speaker 1: What I'm grateful about is the buildings have been closed.
Speaker 1: The church has been busy, and it's a good thing too,
Speaker 1: because the devil sure has been busy. But the church.
Speaker 1: How many of you this is your church, and you're
Speaker 1: not just consuming put in the chat, say this is
Speaker 1: my church. I am glad to be a part of
Speaker 1: the family of God. I'm not just a clicker. I'm
Speaker 1: not just a commenter. I'm not a subscriber. I am
Speaker 1: a part of the Family of God. I'm washed in
Speaker 1: the fountain, cleansed by his blood. That's what the old
Speaker 1: hymn said. This is my church. Tell me in the
Speaker 1: chat I see, I see South America saying this is
Speaker 1: my church. How in the world the South, Charlotte and
Speaker 1: South America get together only by the grace of God.
Speaker 1: God is a unifier. God is a healer. God is
Speaker 1: a barrier breaker. God is a yoke destroyer. God is
Speaker 1: the great I am. He can be whatever he wants
Speaker 1: to be. He's a transformer. He's more than me. It's
Speaker 1: the eyes no better hold me back. This is my
Speaker 1: church all over the world, our e fam. It used
Speaker 1: to stand for extended. Now it stands for everywhere because
Speaker 1: we just got to use. We're not gonna pay you,
Speaker 1: but we are using your house as a church right now.
Speaker 1: We need every available. Like Peter, we want to get
Speaker 1: in your boat. And Jesus wants to know. Can I
Speaker 1: use your space? Can I use your boat? Can I
Speaker 1: use your influence? Can I use your voice? He inhabits
Speaker 1: the praises of his people. This is my church. And
Speaker 1: I'm so thankful, man, I really I've been wondering about you.
Speaker 1: Y'all go ahead and sit down. We need to transition.
Speaker 1: We need to transition. And I was telling them today
Speaker 1: that it's like all week, and really for weeks now,
Speaker 1: it's been so heavy in people's hearts that today the
Speaker 1: Lord gave me an assignment that he wanted to lift
Speaker 1: your burden. And I told everybody that's in this room
Speaker 1: with me, whether you're running a camera or playing an
Speaker 1: electric guitar, whether you're playing a Fender stratocaster or working
Speaker 1: behind a switcher, I came out and told them, drink
Speaker 1: your coffee, because today we want to be used by
Speaker 1: God to lift those burdens that you've been feeling in.
Speaker 1: And I have been worried about you. I know you're
Speaker 1: not supposed to worry. Matthew six bubble says, don't worry.
Speaker 1: Well I have been. I've been worried. I've been worried
Speaker 1: about you because normally I can see more of you,
Speaker 1: and I can kind of see how it's going, and
Speaker 1: you can stand up here, and this is so weird.
Speaker 1: I can't see you at all, so I don't really
Speaker 1: know how you're doing. You were singing, this is holy ground,
Speaker 1: but you've got some holy sweatpants on, and you hadn't
Speaker 1: changed them in four days, and now right about now
Speaker 1: you've got an ulcer from just all of the different
Speaker 1: emotions that you've been feeling. And I've been I've been
Speaker 1: checking on the people that I love. How are you?
Speaker 1: And you know, before this quarantine ever started, I remember
Speaker 1: a few years ago I went through a season where
Speaker 1: I was just amazed that everybody answered the question how
Speaker 1: are you. I mean, you got a few people that
Speaker 1: they think you really want to know when you ask
Speaker 1: them how are you, and they start going back for
Speaker 1: the last three months, just catching you up. Most people
Speaker 1: will just say something polite, I'm fine, I'm good, whatever, whatever,
Speaker 1: And then some people will say, I noticed this a
Speaker 1: few years ago. They'll say I'm either busy, I'm busy.
Speaker 1: Remember when everybody was busy, I'm busy, ah man busy.
Speaker 1: And then the other thing you would get from people,
Speaker 1: I'm tired, I'm tired. And I noticed a few years ago.
Speaker 1: This was way before coronavirus. People would say I'm tired,
Speaker 1: I'm busy, and I thought the two were connected. But
Speaker 1: then a few months ago, everybody's schedule got cleared. Our
Speaker 1: heavenly administrative assistant decided we all needed to stay home indefinitely,
Speaker 1: and people weren't running their kids around as much anymore,
Speaker 1: or if they were, they were just driving them back
Speaker 1: and forth and the kids never got out the car,
Speaker 1: and so so many things shut down, so many job
Speaker 1: responsibilities were suspended, and but I still kept asking people
Speaker 1: how are you? And they didn't stay busy anymore, but
Speaker 1: they still said tired. And that caused me to think,
Speaker 1: because the last week or two it's been exacerbated just
Speaker 1: even that much more. For good reason, everybody I'm talking to,
Speaker 1: how are you, I'm tired. I called Pastor John Gray
Speaker 1: on Monday. We sat on this stage and he shared powerfully, powerfully, dynamically,
Speaker 1: accurately about some of the things that have been going
Speaker 1: on in our nation for centuries that some people are
Speaker 1: just becoming aware of. And I wanted to call him
Speaker 1: Monday because we both knew sharing that conversation that it
Speaker 1: was what God wanted us to do, but we didn't
Speaker 1: know how it would be received because we were talking
Speaker 1: about issues that sometimes get suppressed. And the response was
Speaker 1: amazing from our church family. Oh, I just want to
Speaker 1: thank you for being that kind of church that isn't
Speaker 1: afraid to shine the light of Jesus Christ in real ways,
Speaker 1: not just in cute ways, but in ways that are
Speaker 1: relevant to what really ails our nation. God. I can't
Speaker 1: see a brother in Jesus Christ choking in the street
Speaker 1: and look away because he doesn't look just like me.
Speaker 1: And so as John shared, I could tell that it
Speaker 1: was heavy on him, and I called him Monday. I said,
Speaker 1: how are you doing? The sermon was already going around
Speaker 1: the world. I said, the sermon is going around the world.
Speaker 1: We're hearing from all over the world. God is using
Speaker 1: what you said on that platform boldly all over the world.
Speaker 1: Thank you. How are you feeling? He said, I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what. I'm grateful, but I'm tired. He said that
Speaker 1: after he preached here and shared on this platform, he
Speaker 1: felt like he had been in a physical fight. He said,
Speaker 1: my body felt like as if I had been in
Speaker 1: a physical fight, like a cage match. And I made
Speaker 1: a joke when we started that we were like a
Speaker 1: tag team, and then he went home and physically felt
Speaker 1: the symptoms as if it had been a physical fight.
Speaker 1: He said, I'm tired, and I said, isn't that crazy.
Speaker 1: All we did is sit there and talk for forty
Speaker 1: five minutes. But I realized that what we talked about
Speaker 1: for forty five minutes was something that my brother has
Speaker 1: been fighting for forty six years. I can turn off
Speaker 1: the news, he can't turn off injustice. I guess he
Speaker 1: was tired. I mean he fought. He fought demons that
Speaker 1: existed before he was even born. I said, I'm tired,
Speaker 1: and not just him. I asked a guy who works
Speaker 1: at the bank, who's working from home. I said, has
Speaker 1: it been good working from home? I'm going to open
Speaker 1: the Bible in a minute, by the way, I promise you.
Speaker 1: I sent them so many scriptures this morning. I think
Speaker 1: they got tired just looking at my list of scriptures
Speaker 1: and I'm going to preach them and so don't go anywhere.
Speaker 1: But it was so many different people that in the
Speaker 1: past few weeks, they weren't saying busy, they were saying tired.
Speaker 1: And it wasn't due to a physical demand necessarily. Because
Speaker 1: I asked this banker, I said, how are you doing?
Speaker 1: He said, I'm tired. I said, but you don't have
Speaker 1: to commute. You used to have an hour commute. You
Speaker 1: would drive an hour, two work in an hour home.
Speaker 1: Now you got two extra hours. He said, yeah, but
Speaker 1: I don't have any separation between my office and my kids.
Speaker 1: I used to be able to leave them for nine hours,
Speaker 1: and now I can't shut one thing out. I used
Speaker 1: to be able to compartmentalize. I used to like my
Speaker 1: drive time to work because it was the one time
Speaker 1: that I knew I could have to myself and I
Speaker 1: would listen to you preach all the way to work.
Speaker 1: And now I can't do that anymore because they've moved
Speaker 1: my meetings and they're eating up the march. He said. Man, honestly,
Speaker 1: I know I should be grateful I have a job,
Speaker 1: and I know there's people that have it worse, but honestly,
Speaker 1: I'm tired. And then I was talking to a mom
Speaker 1: whose kids I think they're all between the ages of
Speaker 1: two and five, and there's three of them, so your
Speaker 1: planning was a little bit interesting. But they're too late
Speaker 1: to go back and fix that because now she's got
Speaker 1: three and one has special needs, and they normally have
Speaker 1: someone to help with the child with special needs, but
Speaker 1: that person hasn't been able to come because of the virus.
Speaker 1: She said, I'm grateful because my kids are healthy, but
Speaker 1: I'm tired. I'm tired By the way, if you're a
Speaker 1: little slow, my message is called I'm tired, so you
Speaker 1: could put that in the chat. Hired. I picked that
Speaker 1: title Thursday. I'm never gonna pick my titles on Thursday again.
Speaker 1: I picked my title I'm tired on Thursday because I
Speaker 1: was hearing this and feeling this from so many of
Speaker 1: the people that I care about. And then every night
Speaker 1: I've been waking up at three am. So I guess
Speaker 1: the Lord wanted me to live my message. Next week.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna name it one hundred million dollars and see
Speaker 1: what happens. I'm gonna name it eight pack and see
Speaker 1: if my abs start. I'm my name and make out
Speaker 1: with my wife next week. Hawaii. I'm a preacher's message
Speaker 1: called Hawaii next week. But it was just in the
Speaker 1: process of developing this message, the Lord led me to
Speaker 1: a scripture in John chapter four. I'm tired. But really
Speaker 1: this message is not about that physical tired. It's like
Speaker 1: my mom was saying to me the other day, she said,
Speaker 1: I talk to myself so much it's getting boring, because honestly,
Speaker 1: this has been a very hard time for her, being
Speaker 1: alone and trying to stay protected. But then how do
Speaker 1: you protect your health and protect your sanity. My dad
Speaker 1: went to heaven in twenty thirteen. It was the seven
Speaker 1: years of when my dad went to heaven this past week,
Speaker 1: and she said, the problem with talking to myself is
Speaker 1: we keep finishing each other's sentences. We know what we're
Speaker 1: going to say before we say it. I'm tired of
Speaker 1: talking to myself. I'm tired of being alone. I'm tired.
Speaker 1: I'm tired. I'm tired. But it's not like bags under
Speaker 1: my eyes. It's not about gas in my car. I
Speaker 1: heard a lot of the people that I shepherd say
Speaker 1: and I'm tired inside. Maybe that's a better title. We'll
Speaker 1: call it officially. We'll call it I'm tired inside. Go
Speaker 1: with me to John chapter four. All you who are
Speaker 1: weak and heavy laden, come with me to John chapter four,
Speaker 1: and let's listen on a conversation I've been I've been
Speaker 1: talking with this text this week, and what the Lord
Speaker 1: showed me was something that I thought I had mastery
Speaker 1: of this text, John chapter four. You know I've heard
Speaker 1: so many sermons on John four. Some of you who
Speaker 1: grew up going to Wednesday night Bible study, you probably
Speaker 1: click over to some other preacher. Now, because you're like, well,
Speaker 1: what can possibly be in John four? I promise you
Speaker 1: this that God showed me from John chapter four. And
Speaker 1: again I thought, you know, I know this text. It's
Speaker 1: about the Samaritan woman, the woman at the well. We
Speaker 1: call her it alliterates nicely, the woman at the well,
Speaker 1: the woman who had had five husbands, and number six
Speaker 1: wasn't her husband either. I called her one time the
Speaker 1: thirsty woman, because it's anyway, it's different meanings depending on
Speaker 1: how you culturally interpret that. And I talked about this
Speaker 1: woman on Easter. I've talked about this woman on New
Speaker 1: Year's and New Year's Resolution. But but I saw this
Speaker 1: as I was thinking about how are you really inside?
Speaker 1: How are you? How? How? How are how are you? How?
Speaker 1: How's your how's your insides? I went to this text
Speaker 1: and I stayed with it, and I saw something that
Speaker 1: I had never seen before. I'll read you just enough
Speaker 1: of it to give context, and then I will give
Speaker 1: further context, and then I will give a little more context,
Speaker 1: and then you can eat a sandwich fire. I mean,
Speaker 1: even looking out across this room, I can see it.
Speaker 1: Y'all are trying so hard to pay attention, But honestly,
Speaker 1: it's like it's a lot right now, and I want
Speaker 1: to show you something that spoke to my soul. God.
Speaker 1: I pray that he will energize your spirit with this word. Now,
Speaker 1: Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was
Speaker 1: gaining and baptizing more disciples than John, although in fact
Speaker 1: it was not Jesus who baptized but his disciples. So
Speaker 1: he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.
Speaker 1: I always skipped that little introduction because I wanted to
Speaker 1: start the text here in verse four, where Jesus went
Speaker 1: through Samaria. But backing up to see verses one through
Speaker 1: three was interesting for me because I noticed that Jesus
Speaker 1: refused to be controlled by the agendas of others, and
Speaker 1: that thing really started preaching to me. Because in Jesus' day,
Speaker 1: they had sometimes they had these different controversies, and they
Speaker 1: had politics. It was much different in Bible times than
Speaker 1: it is today. They had some people who supported this
Speaker 1: leader and some people who supported that leader, and then
Speaker 1: you had the Pharisees who were trying to keep their power,
Speaker 1: and in order to keep their power, they didn't care
Speaker 1: what what they had to say. They didn't care who
Speaker 1: they had to trample on, They didn't care who they
Speaker 1: had to hurt, They didn't care what misinformation they had
Speaker 1: to spread. So when the prophet from Galilee started performing miracles,
Speaker 1: he was born in Bethlehem, he grew up in Nazareth.
Speaker 1: He did his miracles in Galilee. When he started baptizing
Speaker 1: people and he started gaining popularity, he represented a threat
Speaker 1: to the religious establishment, which had become so political that
Speaker 1: they had lost the heart of the Father in pursuit
Speaker 1: of building the kingdom of their own ideologies. I just
Speaker 1: wonder if the Bible still relevant? Is the Bible still eternal?
Speaker 1: Is it still the word of God? Because we find
Speaker 1: ourselves in a time where we could use a whole
Speaker 1: lot more Jesus, a whole lot more. Can I preach
Speaker 1: about Jesus for thirty minutes today? Can I preach about Jesus.
Speaker 1: Not the Jesus that we thought we knew from three
Speaker 1: little quotes that we carefully selected, But the Jesus who
Speaker 1: refused to be contained or confined to any ideology or
Speaker 1: to any party. Cannot preach about Jesus. And the more
Speaker 1: they tried to create this pressure for him to fit
Speaker 1: within their system. He was like, I'm out of here.
Speaker 1: That's not what I'm about. I'm about my father's business.
Speaker 1: And in Jesus Day, they didn't always report the facts
Speaker 1: on the news in Jesus Day. In Jesus Day. In
Speaker 1: Jesus Day, everybody on this section smile at me because
Speaker 1: y'all got me thinking I'm doing bad. I'm not talking
Speaker 1: about today. I'm not talking about today. I'm saying in
Speaker 1: Jesus Day, they got it wrong. Sometimes in Jesus Day,
Speaker 1: in Jesus Day, and they said, he's baptizing more than John.
Speaker 1: This guy's getting powerful. We gotta stop him. And they
Speaker 1: they actually they actually they actually got it wrong. He
Speaker 1: wasn't even the one doing the baptizing. He wouldn't even
Speaker 1: want to do in baptism. A lot of the things
Speaker 1: that we say God does, he's not actually doing. Anyway,
Speaker 1: that's not the message. The message is called I'm tired inside,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm tired of I'm tired of not being
Speaker 1: able to trust any information from anywhere. I don't know
Speaker 1: what to read anymore, I don't know who to follow anymore,
Speaker 1: I don't know what to listen to anymore. It's like
Speaker 1: everybody's got an angle, everybody's got an agenda. They said,
Speaker 1: he's baptizing more than John. You better do something. But
Speaker 1: he wasn't even the one baptizing. And the Bible says,
Speaker 1: when Jesus learned this, which in and of itself is shocking,
Speaker 1: Jesus learned. How does Jesus learn? How does the one
Speaker 1: who is wisdom learn anything? Well, they bring him the report.
Speaker 1: They tell him that the Pharisees are are starting to
Speaker 1: become very very nervous about what he represents. And so
Speaker 1: he's like, let's go. And verse four says something else
Speaker 1: that's really shocking. All right, Remember this is not This
Speaker 1: is not the Jesus that you pull out and cuddle with.
Speaker 1: This is not cuddly Christ. I appreached the sermon one time,
Speaker 1: called savage Jesus. All right, this is the Jesus who
Speaker 1: doesn't take shortcuts and doesn't deal with the surface issues.
Speaker 1: This is not the Jesus who comes to give you
Speaker 1: gummy bears. So you know, I don't care what they're
Speaker 1: laced with or how legal it is. This is not
Speaker 1: that gummy bear Jesus. Look at verse four. It says,
Speaker 1: now he had to go through Samaria. He had to
Speaker 1: go through Samaria. I see you nodding underneath that monitors stand.
Speaker 1: It's interesting and it's kind of surprising, and it catches
Speaker 1: you off guard. He didn't have to do anything. He
Speaker 1: was not controlled anyone. In fact, the only agenda that
Speaker 1: he was fully committed to was the agenda of his
Speaker 1: father in Heaven. I have since the Lord asking me
Speaker 1: over these last several months, whose agenda are you committed to?
Speaker 1: Is it the agenda of Jesus? Now? Jesus agenda was
Speaker 1: not an agenda that was imposed by external forces. Jesus
Speaker 1: had to go through Samaria, not because Peter told him to,
Speaker 1: not because he took a vote and it was the
Speaker 1: popular thing to do, not because his base liked it.
Speaker 1: In fact, his base hated it. Samaria. How many sermons
Speaker 1: have you heard, I mean, you love the word, how
Speaker 1: many sermons have you heard Chetwyn about Jesus going through Samaria?
Speaker 1: And the Jews hated to go through Samaria because even
Speaker 1: though there was not a national distinction, there was an
Speaker 1: internal distinction. I mean, how many sermons have we heard
Speaker 1: about how the Jews would walk twice as long to
Speaker 1: go around some area and one time I was preaching
Speaker 1: about it, and I saw it in a funny way.
Speaker 1: I was midstream, mid thought, mid sentence, and the Lord said,
Speaker 1: some area. We all have some area, some area that's
Speaker 1: a whole message right there, too, isn't it. We all
Speaker 1: have some area that we try to avoid. In fact,
Speaker 1: sometimes the reason we're tired is because we're working around
Speaker 1: everything that God wants to bring us through. And so
Speaker 1: we've got to work around for our pain. But the
Speaker 1: form of the work around for our pain creates a
Speaker 1: greater dependency that wears us out in the end. And
Speaker 1: the beautiful thing about the Texas you don't even have
Speaker 1: to understand this geographically, you're experiencing it spiritually. We all
Speaker 1: must go through some area. For Jesus, it was that
Speaker 1: northern part of the Kingdom. It was that place that
Speaker 1: most people would double back, got to go across the
Speaker 1: trans Jordan, got across near Jericho. They would turn a
Speaker 1: three day journey into a six day journey just to
Speaker 1: avoid going through what Jesus went straight into. And you
Speaker 1: know what the Lord said to tell you, he's confrontational.
Speaker 1: He's confrontational. He is not passive. He is confrontational. And
Speaker 1: I know we have sweet Jesus, Ricky Bobby Jesus, a
Speaker 1: pound baby Jesus. I like him better that way, I
Speaker 1: can hold him speak. Speaking of tired, my brother had
Speaker 1: a baby this week. His wife had a baby. His wife,
Speaker 1: Brooke had a baby. He took some credit and he's
Speaker 1: so excited. And when I first talked to him, I said,
Speaker 1: how are you doing? You know what? He said, confirmation
Speaker 1: on my sermon. He said, I'm tired. I said, so
Speaker 1: is everybody else. But you do not know tired yet.
Speaker 1: A men, preacher, Steve, you don't know tired. You are
Speaker 1: gonna be begging for pre baby tired. Now you have
Speaker 1: not welcomed only a child into the world. You have
Speaker 1: welcomed a dictator into the world of your home. And
Speaker 1: now there will no longer be an agenda between you
Speaker 1: and your wife about meal times or schedules or bedtimes.
Speaker 1: You don't know tired yet. Tell somebody you don't even
Speaker 1: know tired. You don't even know tired. Absolutely, man, You
Speaker 1: had to go through some area, some area area that
Speaker 1: other people avoided. God went straight into and even though
Speaker 1: it was the more direct route, it was the path
Speaker 1: less taken. Let me stop for a minute, because I
Speaker 1: don't want to get so caught up in my construct
Speaker 1: that I feel to ask you this question, what are
Speaker 1: you working around in your life that God wants you
Speaker 1: to walk through? And how much longer will you do it?
Speaker 1: That way? It's like everything in the text is inward
Speaker 1: from the outside. Jesus has pressure from the Pharisees, but
Speaker 1: he's not controlled by that. He's not controlled by that,
Speaker 1: He's guided from the inside. That's a really awesome thing
Speaker 1: about instability in the world. It helps us get our
Speaker 1: center of gravity from God, who is on the inside.
Speaker 1: And he had to go through Samaria, not because it
Speaker 1: was the predictable path, and certainly not because it was
Speaker 1: the popular path, but because it was the path of
Speaker 1: his purpose. Wow. I love the Word of God and
Speaker 1: I heard about it so many times. You know, he
Speaker 1: had to go through Samaria. That's that's where he went.
Speaker 1: And I heard that there was a woman there, a
Speaker 1: woman who had had a pretty questionable character, and that
Speaker 1: he wanted to meet with her, and that's who he
Speaker 1: went for. And I even heard how he went, that
Speaker 1: he went straight through instead of going on the path
Speaker 1: that most people were familiar with. But you know, I
Speaker 1: saw this week I saw something. Read this with me
Speaker 1: in verse five. So he came to a town in
Speaker 1: Samaria called Psychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had
Speaker 1: given to his son Joseph. Jacob's will was there, and Jesus,
Speaker 1: tired as he was from the journey, sat down by
Speaker 1: the well. It was about noon when a Samaritan woman
Speaker 1: that's who Psychar, that's where when she came to draw water.
Speaker 1: That's what Jesus said to her, Will you give me
Speaker 1: a drink? And I love verse eight in parentheses. This
Speaker 1: struck me as funny when I read that his disciples
Speaker 1: had gone into the town to buy food. Why is
Speaker 1: that funny? I think he was tired of them, I
Speaker 1: really do. I don't think he was so worried that
Speaker 1: they were hungry. I think he was like, you know,
Speaker 1: what would be great if y'all just want to run
Speaker 1: an errand I got something I gotta do. Sometimes you
Speaker 1: gotta send people away. Sometimes you gotta say, hey, I'm
Speaker 1: working on this right now. I appreciate you so much,
Speaker 1: and I love you, and I'll see you when you
Speaker 1: get back with us grilled chicken nuggets and those French frugs.
Speaker 1: See John's gospel is different than the other gospels. Can
Speaker 1: I show you Jesus from John's Gospel. In John's Gospel,
Speaker 1: we're seeing that Jesus is fully God. He's fully gone.
Speaker 1: He is the response of the call that started at
Speaker 1: the bush where Moses stood generations ago. Jesus is not
Speaker 1: a Johnny come Lately. Jesus is not a fly by
Speaker 1: night savior. Jesus is not a pop star or a
Speaker 1: flash in the pan. That's why he was not driven
Speaker 1: by popularity, because he was not. He was not instant grits.
Speaker 1: Jesus came through forty one generations, from Abraham to David,
Speaker 1: from David to the exile. From the exile to Jesus
Speaker 1: was forty one generations. God found a man, use the man,
Speaker 1: found a man, use the man, but men kept messing
Speaker 1: it up. So God finally said, I'm tired. I'm tired.
Speaker 1: I'm tired of you trying to get to me. How
Speaker 1: about I come to you. So the Word became flesh
Speaker 1: and dwelled among us. That's Shot one fourteen, and we
Speaker 1: be Hell the fullness of his glory, and John sets
Speaker 1: out to show us a glimpse of who Jesus is.
Speaker 1: I wonder, do you know who Jesus is, not who
Speaker 1: somebody he told you he was in Sunday School in
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy eight, not who we want him to be.
Speaker 1: Not the one who has the same melatonin as you,
Speaker 1: Not the one who votes the same as you. Not
Speaker 1: the one who only cares about what matters to you.
Speaker 1: How wonder do you know him? Because he's the great
Speaker 1: I am? I mean, John sets it up so you
Speaker 1: can't miss it even if you want, because here's what
Speaker 1: he does. Please y'all, please sit down. And I know
Speaker 1: you're tired. You're tired. I don't want you on your feet.
Speaker 1: You're tired, You're tired, So sit down, listen to this. Okay,
Speaker 1: let me sit down to Okay, Okay, I'm gonna sit
Speaker 1: down for a minute. I'm'a sit oure for me. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you how it goes. In John's Gospel, he
Speaker 1: says that in the beginning was the Word in rivers
Speaker 1: with God, and Word was God. And he says it
Speaker 1: all thing for mad, through him and for him. So
Speaker 1: Jesus has been busy. Jesus has been busy. Jesus has
Speaker 1: been busy. Jesus didn't minister for thirty three years, the
Speaker 1: word that was with God in the beginning became flesh
Speaker 1: and we beheld him. He didn't get started when he
Speaker 1: showed up. You know, it's the same way in your life.
Speaker 1: God spoke you into this earth at the time that
Speaker 1: he wanted. Come on, if y'all ain't gonna help get
Speaker 1: out of here, I'm telling you. God put you where
Speaker 1: he wanted you. And some of the battles that you're
Speaker 1: fighting started long before you got here. That's part of
Speaker 1: why you're tired. Some things that we fight are generational.
Speaker 1: So when John is describing Jesus, Matthew gives you the genealogy,
Speaker 1: but he does it through the people. John starts way
Speaker 1: before that and says, in the beginning was the Word,
Speaker 1: and the word was with God, and the Word was God.
Speaker 1: And if you go all the way to the back
Speaker 1: of John's Gospel, he says, these things were written about
Speaker 1: Jesus that you may know and believe and have life
Speaker 1: in his name. But he says something crazy. He says,
Speaker 1: these are just a few of the things that he did.
Speaker 1: Is that I just gave you what you could handle.
Speaker 1: I just want to give you a glimpse of who
Speaker 1: he is by showing you what he did. So in
Speaker 1: John's Gospel, there there are seven signs that the author
Speaker 1: mentions that Jesus did. It's not all that he did.
Speaker 1: It's not all. Somebody say, it's not all. It's not all. Oh,
Speaker 1: I felt the Holy Spirit on that put it, put
Speaker 1: it in the chat right now. It's not all. It's
Speaker 1: not all. What I know of God is not all
Speaker 1: there is of God. What I think is true is
Speaker 1: not all that is true. What I have experienced thus
Speaker 1: far in my life is not what I have to
Speaker 1: settle for. What I have known doesn't have to be
Speaker 1: my normal forever. It's not all. But he said, I'm
Speaker 1: going to give you a glimpse of what he did
Speaker 1: so you can see who he is. These are called
Speaker 1: the seven signs in John, the seven signs. It started
Speaker 1: in Cana of Galilee when he turned water into wine.
Speaker 1: I call this a molecular miracle. A molecular miracle. It
Speaker 1: looks little, but it shows you who he is. How
Speaker 1: many have had God show you who he is in little,
Speaker 1: tiny ways. That's called a molecular miracle. Well, he can't
Speaker 1: stay there forever, so he has to go and preach
Speaker 1: in Judea in John chapter four, he heals a royal
Speaker 1: official son. That's the second sign. And then in John
Speaker 1: chapter five, he walks by a pool not to relax,
Speaker 1: but it was a pool where many who were lame
Speaker 1: and disabled us to lie. And he speaks to a
Speaker 1: man on a mat, and he gets him up off
Speaker 1: of his mat because the man was waiting on the
Speaker 1: water to move. But Jesus had the water within him
Speaker 1: that the man was trying to get to on the outside.
Speaker 1: And he showed that he is greater than any earthly system.
Speaker 1: And he can bring to you what others did not
Speaker 1: bring to you, and he can do for you what
Speaker 1: nobody can do for you. That's the third sign. By
Speaker 1: the time you get to John six, you're getting into
Speaker 1: some of the more well known miracles. When he did
Speaker 1: multiply those grilled nuggets, I was talking about, come on,
Speaker 1: I've been up a long time, I'm hungry, and those
Speaker 1: waffle fries and he multiplied to feed twenty thousand. I
Speaker 1: thought it was five. Somebody just said, you didn't count
Speaker 1: the women and children. God works through the people that
Speaker 1: you don't even count. God works through the people that
Speaker 1: you don't even notice. God works through the people that
Speaker 1: you don't even think are worth putting in the total.
Speaker 1: So that's the fourth sign. By the time you get
Speaker 1: to where am I at? Am I on the fourth sign?
Speaker 1: What's the fifth sign? Oh? Maybe the fifth sign is
Speaker 1: that man born blind he opened up his eyes and
Speaker 1: ruined his life because when he opened up his eyes
Speaker 1: there are certain things that once God shows you, you
Speaker 1: can't unsee them anymore. He messed up lazarus whole funeral.
Speaker 1: They didn't even get a chance to really start the funeral.
Speaker 1: They didn't even really get a chance to mourn. And
Speaker 1: here he came with a miracle. Now, several of these
Speaker 1: signs were connected to a statement. John also gives seven statements.
Speaker 1: You feel like you're in those. Are you tired of
Speaker 1: me preaching? Yet? I'm not tired of this. I could
Speaker 1: do this all day. Something comes alive in me when
Speaker 1: I start preaching. It's the weirdest thing. It doesn't matter
Speaker 1: how tired I am. God gives me some kind of strength.
Speaker 1: It must be for you. You must have been on
Speaker 1: the verbs this week. You must be burning out. But
Speaker 1: God wanted to get you some oil so you don't
Speaker 1: so you don't die before you realize the purpose. For
Speaker 1: which he brought you into this world to begin with.
Speaker 1: In the beginning was the Word, and the word was
Speaker 1: with God, and the Word was God the Great. I
Speaker 1: am so Jesus said some things. He said, I am
Speaker 1: Do you know any of them? The bread of life?
Speaker 1: He said that right after he fed all those people,
Speaker 1: he wasn't trying to just feed their stomachs. He was
Speaker 1: trying to inform their spirits. He said, I am the
Speaker 1: light of the world. He said, I am the door
Speaker 1: for the sheep. He said, I am the good shepherd,
Speaker 1: even in the valley. I'll guide you. I'll be your light.
Speaker 1: I am the light. I am the door. I am
Speaker 1: the good Shepherd. I am the Resurrection and the Life.
Speaker 1: I am the Way, the truth, and the Life. I
Speaker 1: am the true Vine. That's seven. John is showing us
Speaker 1: this number of completion. Seven. That's God's number. Seven. Six
Speaker 1: is man's number. That's why we're tired, because we're living
Speaker 1: in six. Jesus is the seventh man, the seventh Man.
Speaker 1: And what I want to show you in this text,
Speaker 1: if you let me show you this, it's going to
Speaker 1: bring you a sense in your soul of something. I
Speaker 1: know you're stressed out and I know there's a lot
Speaker 1: to be worried about in the world. Man, I got
Speaker 1: so mad this week, and I know you're not supposed
Speaker 1: to get mad. But the same Jesus who pet the
Speaker 1: little baby sheeps flipped over tables in the temple when
Speaker 1: they weren't doing it for the right purpose. And there
Speaker 1: was a guy on my Instagram this week and he
Speaker 1: saw me and John talking about racism and the evil
Speaker 1: and the atrocity and really the fact that if the
Speaker 1: church is silent about these issues that matter to people,
Speaker 1: it's like we want to dismantle the Cross. It's like
Speaker 1: we only like this part. We don't want Jesus to
Speaker 1: inform how we treat others. We just want him to
Speaker 1: do stuff for us. And I don't go through every
Speaker 1: comment on Instagram or YouTube, but one person said, I'm tired.
Speaker 1: He said, tbh. To be honest, I'm tired of all
Speaker 1: the pastors I follow posting about racism on my fee.
Speaker 1: Can't we just get back to preaching Jesus, Which Jesus,
Speaker 1: the one you went to Sunday School with, or the
Speaker 1: one who went through Samaria, which Jesus. Come on now,
Speaker 1: I'm just in need of an answer. Which Jesus do
Speaker 1: we worship? Which one the one who said I am
Speaker 1: the way, the one who you follow, or the one
Speaker 1: that you lead, the one that you say, no, I'm
Speaker 1: not following you any farther than he had to go
Speaker 1: through scenario. And what's what he did when he sat down?
Speaker 1: What's what he did when he sat down? In verse
Speaker 1: six he said, he said he sat down, He sat
Speaker 1: down tired as he was. Which is confusing, right, because
Speaker 1: Isaiah forty is a dope scripture. You can't call the
Speaker 1: Word of God dope. But just did I just did
Speaker 1: it right here in American English said every syllable of it.
Speaker 1: And it said in Isaiah forty the prophet said, why
Speaker 1: do you complain, Jacobait say, Israel, my way is hidden
Speaker 1: from the Lord. My causes disregard for my God. This
Speaker 1: part do you not know? Have you not heard? The
Speaker 1: Lord is the everlasting God, the creator of the ends
Speaker 1: of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary,
Speaker 1: and his understanding no one can fathom. He will not
Speaker 1: grow tired. And in the beginning was the word, The
Speaker 1: word was with God. So this blew me away. John
Speaker 1: chapter four, Verse six. Jesus tired, I prayed about this message.
Speaker 1: Please know that I did, because there's so much I
Speaker 1: can't do right now, and I feel bad about it,
Speaker 1: and I wish I could do more. And this church
Speaker 1: is doing everything that we can to be a part
Speaker 1: of the solution, but there's so much I can't do.
Speaker 1: And I know you've been tired, and I know it's
Speaker 1: been hurting, and I know it's been lifelong. And it
Speaker 1: might not be racism. It may be an addiction. It
Speaker 1: may be wondering how much longer you're gonna have a job,
Speaker 1: or when you're gonna get one, or when this is
Speaker 1: all gonna be over, or when God's gonna send you
Speaker 1: somebody who gets you. I know you've been tired, and
Speaker 1: I prayed. I said, God, what do I tell them
Speaker 1: they're tired? And what do I tell the person who
Speaker 1: is too tired to go on? What do I tell
Speaker 1: the one who says I'm too tired? God said, tell
Speaker 1: them I got tired too. Jesus sat down in Samaria.
Speaker 1: That's where to talk to a woman. That's who ask
Speaker 1: him for water? That's what? But why because he was tired?
Speaker 1: Because he was fully god Fully many as much as
Speaker 1: we love to shout about his divinity. You know how
Speaker 1: we were a minute ago when I was setting you
Speaker 1: up about the great I am, just to bring you
Speaker 1: back down so you could know that the same God
Speaker 1: who created you, who he was strong enough, who was
Speaker 1: powerful enough. Everybody thinks Jesus was weak. Raise your hand.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe being weary doesn't mean you're weak. Jesus tired?
Speaker 1: Why was he tired? I didn't say who was he
Speaker 1: tired of? We already know it was Peter. Come on, Peter.
Speaker 1: Peter's fighting you at every turn, cussing and stuff in
Speaker 1: front of the press, having to bleep Peter out. You know,
Speaker 1: I know he was tired of the Pharisees. He couldn't
Speaker 1: wash his hands or not wash his hands. They followed
Speaker 1: him to every bathroom, every dinner. I know he was
Speaker 1: tired of them. But it says he was tired from
Speaker 1: the journey. Thinking about Jesus' journey, you know, walked everywhere,
Speaker 1: no uber, no uber, Jesus, uber Christ uber Savior. Three
Speaker 1: day walk from where they were baptizing through some area.
Speaker 1: Straight through was the short cut. By the way, the
Speaker 1: direct route is sometimes the divine route. Instead of hiding
Speaker 1: the fact that you're tired, you just say God, I'm tired.
Speaker 1: Somebody was yawning during my sermon one time, and I
Speaker 1: just got mad about it. I said, how are you tired?
Speaker 1: You're not doing anything, you know, But I found out
Speaker 1: later they worked a night shift and came straight to church.
Speaker 1: It's kind of hard to understand someone if you only
Speaker 1: see them at one part of their journey. And some
Speaker 1: people that we think are weak maybe are weary. Have
Speaker 1: you thought about that that just because you're weary, it
Speaker 1: doesn't make you weak. How do you know that, Jesus,
Speaker 1: I am the light of the world. I am the
Speaker 1: bread of life. I am the Resurrection, I am the door,
Speaker 1: I am the Shepherd, I am the true vine. I
Speaker 1: am the Way. At some point, six hours after they
Speaker 1: left that morning, at noon, he said something we wouldn't
Speaker 1: expect to hear the Saviors say, I am tired. This
Speaker 1: is the incarnation. I worship a God who is powerful
Speaker 1: enough to give me strength and who is human enough
Speaker 1: to get tired. And for some reason this week I
Speaker 1: felt that some of us needed to meet tired Jesus.
Speaker 1: I thought maybe you could relate to him, because his
Speaker 1: journey didn't really start with just leaving that morning I mean,
Speaker 1: that's enough six hours that day. Six hours in one day.
Speaker 1: I mean, I got a six hour drive coming up
Speaker 1: with my kids, and I'm downloading every episode of the
Speaker 1: Office on all of their phones, just hoping we can
Speaker 1: make it. Six hours, still be saved, still be married,
Speaker 1: still be healed, delivered, blessed in one bappy family. And
Speaker 1: that's a drive six hours because you leave at six's noon,
Speaker 1: as hot as the heat of the day. Of course,
Speaker 1: he's tired, And yet I wondered, was it only physical
Speaker 1: or did he go through Samaria because he was tired
Speaker 1: of the way they were treating each other. Why was
Speaker 1: he tired? Why did he come to abolish the barriers
Speaker 1: full of grace and truth and we beheld his glory.
Speaker 1: His journey didn't start in Bethlehem. And the beginning was
Speaker 1: the Word, and the word was with God, and the
Speaker 1: word was God, and the word became flesh. That's a
Speaker 1: long trip from the sapphire seal of Heaven to the
Speaker 1: dusty streets of Samaria. Of course he was tired. Even
Speaker 1: youth will grow weary and stumble. But those who wait
Speaker 1: on the Lord. I'm waiting on God right now. I'm
Speaker 1: waiting somebody say I'm waiting. I'm waiting. I'm waiting, and
Speaker 1: I'm weary, and I'm not going to lie to you.
Speaker 1: I'm weary. I mean, this is getting old and some
Speaker 1: of me, y'all want to cuss right now, don't do
Speaker 1: it in the chat, they'll block you. But even in
Speaker 1: your mind, you're like, I'm sick of this. I am
Speaker 1: sick of this. I mean, that's not an I am
Speaker 1: statement we read in the Bible, but that's what you're
Speaker 1: saying right now in your heart. I am, but I
Speaker 1: am sick of this. I am. I am sick and tired.
Speaker 1: I am tired of fighting battles. The thing about me,
Speaker 1: some people say when they get tired, they start laughing.
Speaker 1: Not me. When I get tired, I get mean, how
Speaker 1: many of you when you get tired? That's why when
Speaker 1: you had to pull me out of the elevator in
Speaker 1: Australia and I was about to fight that guy after
Speaker 1: I preached, I mean, I had just finished given the
Speaker 1: invitation too. If you're here today, the Lord says, come,
Speaker 1: and that dude said something sideways to me, and my
Speaker 1: uncle taught me to hit him with your elbow if
Speaker 1: you can get close enough and I was talking the
Speaker 1: elbow and Chunks pulled me back. He said, you've been
Speaker 1: I was jet lagged. I had preached twenty three times
Speaker 1: in four days. They were preaching me to death at
Speaker 1: Hillsong Church. I'm preaching. I'm preaching, preaching, preaching tired, and
Speaker 1: Chunks told me. I said, come on, you're too tired now,
Speaker 1: because when you get too tired, you start fighting battles
Speaker 1: that don't matter to distract you from the ones that do.
Speaker 1: That's just me. I start fighting everybody. I start fighting
Speaker 1: people that are trying to help me when I'm tired.
Speaker 1: So Jesus said, y'all go get lunch. I'm sitting here
Speaker 1: for a minute, because the ones y'all have been fighting
Speaker 1: against are the ones I came to say. He had
Speaker 1: to go through Samaria. He had to sit down. There
Speaker 1: was a woman coming who needed him. She didn't even
Speaker 1: know it, she had no idea who he was. He
Speaker 1: sat down because he was tired. I mean, you don't
Speaker 1: have to do anything right now. Just sit down and
Speaker 1: receive this word that the Son of God got tired.
Speaker 1: The Son of God got tired. I know you're Superman
Speaker 1: and you're mad at yourself because you can't always get
Speaker 1: it perfect perfection. Got tired. Faith doesn't prevent fatigue. It
Speaker 1: just gives me a place to sit. He sat by
Speaker 1: a well. Here's the important thing. What well do you
Speaker 1: sit by when you're tired? He said it was Jacob's well.
Speaker 1: You with me, son, he said it was Jacob's well.
Speaker 1: Joseph was given that well by Jacob. A lot of
Speaker 1: what our kids learn comes from us. It's generational. Jesus
Speaker 1: sat down by that well. I think that's so appropriate
Speaker 1: to say at this moment in our nation. What wells
Speaker 1: are you digging for your kids to sit next to?
Speaker 1: A lot of what we're going through today is because
Speaker 1: of wells that were dug before we got here. Jesus
Speaker 1: sat by Jacob's well. Wait on the Lord. Now we
Speaker 1: see the Lord waiting on a woman. So I pictured
Speaker 1: this moment. I picture me and you. You got your coffee,
Speaker 1: and you're like, I'm drinking all the caffeine I can.
Speaker 1: I'm still tired. And I know you can watch your
Speaker 1: ted talk about you know when to go to bed
Speaker 1: and when to wake up and all that. I'm not
Speaker 1: talking about that. I'm talking about tired inside. I'm a
Speaker 1: sole doctor. I don't know anything about r EM. I
Speaker 1: don't know anything about Ergo dynamic pillows. Did I say
Speaker 1: that right? I don't know anything about your mattress number.
Speaker 1: That is not my specialty. But I know this, Sometimes
Speaker 1: you've got to sit down by a real well and
Speaker 1: listen to me. A lot of the places that we're
Speaker 1: sitting while we're tired are only making us more dehydrated.
Speaker 1: A lot of the places that we're drinking from are
Speaker 1: making us dumber, more fragmented, less whole, less informed. And
Speaker 1: this woman comes up and the picture she comes up
Speaker 1: at noon because she's sneaking away from all of the
Speaker 1: people who talked about her. She is a woman with
Speaker 1: a past. The last thing she wants to see is
Speaker 1: a man, specifically a Jewish man, specifically a rabbi. And
Speaker 1: Jesus says, hey, can I get a drink? This is
Speaker 1: not a pickup line. This is not a pickup line,
Speaker 1: This is not a surface level question. This is Jesus
Speaker 1: asking this woman, do you even know what's in you?
Speaker 1: I'm a stand up now. I'm a stand up now
Speaker 1: because I hear God saying to someone today, you don't
Speaker 1: even know what I put inside of you. What I
Speaker 1: have put inside of you is so great. Now. If
Speaker 1: you only see things on the surface, if you judge
Speaker 1: how people judge, you will never see what's inside. This
Speaker 1: was Jacob's well, but it was really just something for
Speaker 1: Jesus to sit on. When he sat on the well
Speaker 1: and asked the woman, can I get a drink? He
Speaker 1: was not talking about H two O. Don't you get it.
Speaker 1: It's never about what we think it's about. It's always
Speaker 1: something deeper. So Jesus has showed up in this woman's situation,
Speaker 1: and I can't help but think it's for somebody today.
Speaker 1: You have been at your wits end, and you thought
Speaker 1: I was going to give you a little pep talk,
Speaker 1: and you thought I was going to tell you, you know,
Speaker 1: get on with it and trust God and move forward,
Speaker 1: and all these little clay cliches of faith. But I
Speaker 1: came to tell you, sit with him a little while.
Speaker 1: Sit with him a little while, Sit with him a
Speaker 1: little while, Sit with him and see who you really are.
Speaker 1: Sit with him a little while. I've been sitting I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna confess to you, I've been sitting by the
Speaker 1: wrong wealls a lot of the time. I've been depending
Speaker 1: on people to inform me about who I am. I've
Speaker 1: been depending on what I see with my eyes to
Speaker 1: tell me how it is. But there is a well
Speaker 1: that does not come from an external source, and you
Speaker 1: can't see the pipes. There is within you a spirit
Speaker 1: that is greater than whatever is going on around you.
Speaker 1: Greater is he that is in me. I'm trying to shout,
Speaker 1: sitting down so you can know. He sat on the
Speaker 1: well so she could see what was within her. And
Speaker 1: I believe God is revealing some things to us in
Speaker 1: this season. I believe God is revealing to his church
Speaker 1: in this season that he has made us for a
Speaker 1: time when the world is so divided, when he has
Speaker 1: made us for a time that the world is so apathetic.
Speaker 1: And he sat by the well. He sat by the
Speaker 1: well to talk to a women who had had five
Speaker 1: husbands and was living with number six, so she could
Speaker 1: know he was number seven. On the first day, God worked.
Speaker 1: On the second day, God worked. On the third day,
Speaker 1: God worked. On the fourth day, God worked. On the
Speaker 1: fifth day, God worked. On the sixth day, God worked.
Speaker 1: What do you do? On the seventh He sat down,
Speaker 1: not because he needed rest, but because she did. And
Speaker 1: that's what I love about a God who will not
Speaker 1: only fight for me and walk with me and talk
Speaker 1: with me. But God said to tell you this week.
Speaker 1: He is the God who will come through forty one
Speaker 1: generations and go through Samaria to sit with you, Just
Speaker 1: to sit with you. Sit with him for a minute.
Speaker 1: He might show you something that is within you that
Speaker 1: nobody else noticed. This woman had been passed around like
Speaker 1: the jar that she carried to the well that day.
Speaker 1: She knew what it was to feel use. Did he
Speaker 1: sit down at the well that day because he was
Speaker 1: tired or because she was? You're tired of being used
Speaker 1: by people, you type, manipulated by people. Sit with me
Speaker 1: because I'm not seated where you're seated. When I sit
Speaker 1: with him, he has seated me with him in heavenly places,
Speaker 1: far above every ruler and principality. You say, I'm tired,
Speaker 1: guysaid me too. I'm tired to see it how people
Speaker 1: treat one another too. I'm tired of the injustice too. Man.
Speaker 1: That's why I came in the form of a man,
Speaker 1: so that I could be what man could never be.
Speaker 1: I came to hang on across and say it is finished,
Speaker 1: so that you can rest. I know we got work
Speaker 1: to do. Can we sit for a minute. Can we
Speaker 1: just sit with him for a minute by the well
Speaker 1: that will never run dry? Some of us passed e
Speaker 1: a long time ago. The tank has been empty a
Speaker 1: long time. So God says, I want you to sit
Speaker 1: with me. When you sit with me, you will see
Speaker 1: with me. When you sit with me. Who is this for?
Speaker 1: Just raise your hand right now in the room, raise
Speaker 1: your hand in the chat, say this is for me.
Speaker 1: I want to sit with him. I want to sit
Speaker 1: by the well that has living water. I want to
Speaker 1: sit away from the streams that are poisoned by the
Speaker 1: prejudice of men. I want to sit with him for
Speaker 1: a minute. And Jesus tired, as he was said to
Speaker 1: his disciples, y'all go get some food. I've got to
Speaker 1: get a harvest now. I believe God sent me to
Speaker 1: preach this message to somebody today who is tired on
Speaker 1: the inside. And no amount of sleep, no amount of
Speaker 1: netflix and numbing it, and no amount of pacing the
Speaker 1: floors is going to solve it. And I believe God
Speaker 1: brought you into his presence today for a reason. And
Speaker 1: I think he woke me up at three in the morning,
Speaker 1: this night, the night before the night before, so that
Speaker 1: I could feel a little bit physically while I preach
Speaker 1: this how you've been feeling before we got here. How
Speaker 1: Jesus felt was how the woman felt. Even youth will
Speaker 1: grow tired and weary, and young men will stumble and fall,
Speaker 1: But they that wait on the Lord will renew their strength.
Speaker 1: God said, even if you don't have the patience to
Speaker 1: wait for me, I'm waiting for you. When you are tired,
Speaker 1: you must be very careful that you do not become dehydrated.
Speaker 1: You have got to drink this water. You have got
Speaker 1: to drink this word. You have got to drink this worship.
Speaker 1: You have got to move away from wells that will
Speaker 1: never quench your thirst. And you have got to receive
Speaker 1: the water that flows from within. In the beginning was
Speaker 1: the Word, and the word was with God. And the
Speaker 1: reason that you came to turn today is God wanted
Speaker 1: to give you water. He knows your tired, he knows
Speaker 1: you're thirsty. He hung on a cross and said, I
Speaker 1: thirst too. He stretched his arms this wide because he
Speaker 1: was tired of it too. And the man who was
Speaker 1: God became man, and he who knew no sin became sin,
Speaker 1: that we might become the righteousness of God. And he
Speaker 1: said to the woman, and he said to me, and
Speaker 1: he said to you, come unto me, Oh, you who
Speaker 1: are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Speaker 1: I am the bread of life. I am the Resurrection.
Speaker 1: I am the Light. I am the Shepherd. I am
Speaker 1: the Gaith. I am the Way, I am the vibe.
Speaker 1: I am the seventh Man. I am the seventh Man.
Speaker 1: I am the well. I am within you. You will
Speaker 1: never get what you need from out there. It's in here.
Speaker 1: It's in here. It's in here, it's in here. I
Speaker 1: know you're not in a church building. There's no worship
Speaker 1: leader to tell you lift your hands. Will you do
Speaker 1: it anyway? I know there's not a feeling telling you
Speaker 1: right now to have hope. Can you hope? Anyway? It
Speaker 1: is a well that springs up from within. It is
Speaker 1: a well that men did not dig. It is a
Speaker 1: well that does not consult external situations. It is a
Speaker 1: well of the holy steering. And God said, I came
Speaker 1: all this way to sit with you, to be with you.
Speaker 1: The proof of his power was not just when he
Speaker 1: walked on water. The proof of his power was when
Speaker 1: he sat on a well. Did you hear me better
Speaker 1: online than they heard me in this room? Because if
Speaker 1: you got that, you got the whole message. He didn't
Speaker 1: just prove it by walking on water, which he did.
Speaker 1: He proved it by sitting on a well. Sometimes he
Speaker 1: walks on water, sometimes he is water. But I declare
Speaker 1: that the Lord is in this place. We started this
Speaker 1: service when I got up to preach saying the Lord
Speaker 1: is in this place, and not for a minute was
Speaker 1: I forsaken. And you came into this service today saying
Speaker 1: I'm tired inside. God said, I know it's all right
Speaker 1: to be tired, But why don't you go ahead and
Speaker 1: and leave that jar that you brought behind, that jar
Speaker 1: that represents what you've been carrying that you weren't meant
Speaker 1: to carry alone and receive right now what only I
Speaker 1: can reveal. Father, you gave me this word I believe
Speaker 1: for your people. I didn't think of this. I didn't
Speaker 1: study this in a book. You spoke to me and
Speaker 1: told me to go to John four six, And I said,
Speaker 1: what to tell the people when they're so tired, and
Speaker 1: they're right to be tired, and they're tired, and they're
Speaker 1: tired of being tired, and they're tired of things not changing.
Speaker 1: And you told me to tell them. I got tired too,
Speaker 1: and you are seated with me in heavenly places. So now, Lord,
Speaker 1: we need the water of worship. We received the water
Speaker 1: of your word today. In the beginning, it was a
Speaker 1: word and word of fifth God, and the word was God.
Speaker 1: We receive your word today. Now make it flesh in
Speaker 1: our lives as we worship you. Now lift your hands
Speaker 1: wherever you are. This is not a moment to be
Speaker 1: self conscious. This is not a moment to log off.
Speaker 1: This is not a moment to be distracted, because we
Speaker 1: need this water in a dry and weary life. We
Speaker 1: need this water. Lord. We wait on you. We believe
Speaker 1: that you are in this place. Whether it's a cross
Speaker 1: or an empty tomb, your presence is proven in both.
Speaker 1: We take this moment just to let you know that
Speaker 1: we know that we need you and you are in
Speaker 1: this place. We may feel forsaken, we may feel forgotten,
Speaker 1: we may feel frustrated. That's okay. You got tired too, Jesus,
Speaker 1: But you sit with us in our brokenness, You sit
Speaker 1: with us in our unbelief, you sit with us in
Speaker 1: our rage, you sit with us to show us who
Speaker 1: we really are. Just begin to minister to the lord.
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Speaker 1: is in this place? Well, Shi for sake, living water
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Speaker 1: life in this place. Slot is in this place. Come,
Speaker 1: Holy speed, Light of the world is in this fast sway.
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Speaker 1: for sake. Not is in this please? Lot is in
Speaker 1: this place. Come Holy speed to dry ball awaken Christian
Speaker 1: comme minister with him on the harmony. Please sing that
Speaker 1: over the people. Let him sit for a minute, so weary,
Speaker 1: so exhaustive for me, emotions going crazy, sake, world going
Speaker 1: crazy in this space. The attention is so great. We
Speaker 1: don't know if we can make it this place. Minister
Speaker 1: to the people. Come, Holy spe trible zoueway on you.
Speaker 1: Not in this pace, lady, way in this and not
Speaker 1: for an enemy? Was a foresay all I was, But
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Speaker 1: Thank you, come Holy trible zooeway. Lord in this place.
Speaker 1: Yes he is dash yes, yes for me? Was a
Speaker 1: foresay because you're there comes your strength in His presence.
Speaker 1: These play until it coming through you right now. He speed.
Speaker 1: You needed this drive ho so you needed this moment.
Speaker 1: You know you needed these play. He knows you needed Lord,
Speaker 1: he needs He wept the tomb of lasses, not for
Speaker 1: sap by the woman and the wow. Oh he knows
Speaker 1: what you see. The Lord is the work for days.
Speaker 1: The Lord is, He's left every ha come hold he speed,
Speaker 1: tribal sly. The Lord is here, He's been. I know
Speaker 1: the message is officially over, and you're probably tired of
Speaker 1: hearing me talk. I went a long time to day,
Speaker 1: but I had a lot of my heart and I
Speaker 1: just want to make sure that you remember that God
Speaker 1: is with you and that the presence of Christ is
Speaker 1: within you. And I just want to thank you for
Speaker 1: being a part of this ministry. Helene and I are
Speaker 1: praying for you. These are really difficult days, and there's
Speaker 1: so much work for the Church to do in the
Speaker 1: world to bring God's Kingdom to earth. But we're committed
Speaker 1: to this and it's a privilege to stand with you,
Speaker 1: to share God's word with you, and to join together
Speaker 1: with you and get into good news of Jesus Christ
Speaker 1: to the world. We love you,