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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.

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Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today.

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Speaker 1: Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope

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Speaker 1: it gives your perspective to see God is moving in

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Speaker 1: your life. Enjoy the message. Just put in the chat

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Speaker 1: right now.

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Speaker 2: If you're joining us on our EVAAN, one thing that

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Speaker 2: you thank God for today, and while you're at it,

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Speaker 2: tell your neighbor here at Valentine one thing you thank

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Speaker 2: God for. University City, one thing you thank God for.

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Speaker 2: And if you need a little prompt tell them I

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Speaker 2: thank God for you. You are the greatest person I

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Speaker 2: sat next to in church.

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Speaker 1: Ah week, I thank God for you. Well. Elevation Nights

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Speaker 1: is coming soon. Everybody clap your hands and thank God.

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Speaker 1: I haven't been announcing this like I should.

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Speaker 2: I keep forgetting. It's weird because I get up here

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Speaker 2: so excited to preach. I don't even look at the announcements.

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Speaker 1: But we will.

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Speaker 2: It will be September twenty fourth, God willing through October

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Speaker 2: third in Seattle, Washington, Vancouver, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Anaheim, Boise, Idaho,

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Speaker 2: Salt Lake City, Utah and Denver, Colorado. Go to Elevation

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Speaker 2: Nights dot com for more information. We want to meet

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Speaker 2: with you. We want to praise God with you. I

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Speaker 2: want to preach to you. We want to celebrate the

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Speaker 2: awesome things God has done and believe with you for

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Speaker 2: all of the things that He is going to do.

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Speaker 2: Is going to be an amazing time. Speaking of an

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Speaker 2: amazing time, many of our E group leaders are expecting

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Speaker 2: you to come over to their house this week.

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Speaker 1: This is E Group connect weekend.

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Speaker 2: They're getting ready all the We should actually have a

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Speaker 2: criteria for eGroups. If they have only healthy food, there

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Speaker 2: should be a disclaimer at that group.

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Speaker 1: I don't look at that as a benefit. I look

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Speaker 1: at that like a hazard. But I'm sure you can.

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Speaker 2: Find an E group that will really speak to your

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Speaker 2: stage of life.

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Speaker 1: I would love for you to do.

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Speaker 2: That that way, that when you finish here in the

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Speaker 2: sermon this week, you can take it like they said

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Speaker 2: earlier and really apply it to your life and have

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Speaker 2: help doing that. Tell your neighbor you need some help sometimes.

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Speaker 2: I don't mean to offend you, but you do sometimes

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Speaker 2: Sometimes sometimes the enemy comes to snatch the word of

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Speaker 2: God and you need somebody else to help you keep

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Speaker 2: it planted and to stay stable. So we've got people

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Speaker 2: to help you. Let's thank God for all our eager leaders.

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Speaker 1: If you're leading the group, Hey, Holly, and I want

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Speaker 1: to thank you. Thank you for your partnership in the gospel.

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Speaker 1: I hope you will avail yourself to that.

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Speaker 2: And now it's time preach the word of God. Your

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Speaker 2: excitement level is amazing. I'm gonna come back out again.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna sit the reset button.

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Speaker 1: Now it's time to preach the word of God.

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Speaker 2: I'm excited to be sharing with you today from John

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Speaker 2: chapter four, verse twenty seven through thirty nine.

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Speaker 1: Please give your attention to this scripture is very powerful,

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Speaker 1: the Bible says.

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Speaker 2: Just then his disciples returned and we're surprised to find

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Speaker 2: him talking with a woman. But no one asked what

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Speaker 2: Then leaving her water jar, the woman went back to

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Speaker 1: Could this be the Messiah? Look at your neighbors, say,

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Speaker 2: I'm curious. This could be the one. I'm not completely

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Speaker 2: And they verse came out of the town and made

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Speaker 2: He said, I have food to eat that you know

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Speaker 2: See, most of us eat food for fuel. Jesus was fueled,

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Speaker 2: We're getting close to our main point for today.

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Speaker 1: Don't you have a saying? Is still four months until harvest?

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Speaker 2: I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields.

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Speaker 2: Look at the fields. They're full, they are ripe for harvest.

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Speaker 2: Even now. The one who reaps draws away and harvest

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Speaker 2: the crop for eternal life, so that the sower and

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Speaker 2: the reaper may be glad together. Thus the saying one

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Speaker 2: reap what you have not worked for. Others have done

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Speaker 2: believed in him Jesus because of that woman's testimony. He

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Speaker 2: told me everything I ever did. You know, your testimony

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Speaker 2: God's hand. Don't let the devil have your past. Your

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Speaker 2: testimony is a tool that God wants to use in

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Speaker 2: your future. That's where your ministry is going to come from,

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Speaker 1: That's where your ability to help put other people back.

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Speaker 2: Together again is going to come from, from the broken

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Speaker 2: So today I want to give you an important lesson

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Speaker 2: think this can be so powerful if you will think

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Speaker 2: and this is the title of the message. I want

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Speaker 2: Not just is it convenient right now? But tell your

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Speaker 1: Not the grim reaper.

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Speaker 1: But think like a reaper.

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Speaker 2: Father, I praise you for what you said to me,

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Speaker 2: Help me to say it so clear that it can't

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Speaker 2: we're listening in Jesus' name. Amen, you may be seated.

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Speaker 2: I like you to write this down somewhere. Feelings come,

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Speaker 2: Let's write that down.

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Speaker 2: You know, Jesus is the only true way to God,

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Speaker 2: and he is the Son of God, and he died

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Speaker 2: May not believe that. And I believe that, but you

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Speaker 2: we came, and we're so glad that we didn't obey

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Speaker 2: reverse journaling. It's where before instead after your day, you

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Speaker 2: usually go like, ah, well, you know, I did this

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Speaker 2: And sometimes the feelings come and they catch you before

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Speaker 2: I could tell they put niquill in the communion cups

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Speaker 2: sin is committed. Feelings of sadness do not negate the

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Speaker 2: joy of the Lord. But it's when I allow the

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Speaker 2: but they don't come first. And what I mean by

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Speaker 2: Lift your hands and the burden is lifted as your

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Speaker 2: the Lord might have sent me to preach this message

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Speaker 2: purpose he came for. Because when they left to get food,

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Speaker 2: a woman came to get water. And when the woman

444
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Speaker 2: came to get water, oh, I love it. Jesus started

445
00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:05,119
Speaker 2: working on her. He started asking her questions, can I

446
00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:07,600
Speaker 2: get a drink? And she said, you don't have a bucket,

447
00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:09,600
Speaker 2: and I'm not a Jew and I'm not a man.

448
00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:11,480
Speaker 2: And he said, well, if you knew who was talking

449
00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:13,600
Speaker 2: to you, you'd ask and I'd give you the drink.

450
00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:16,639
Speaker 2: And she said, well, are you greater than our father Jacob,

451
00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:19,200
Speaker 2: who gave us this? Well, and Jesus is thinking, actually,

452
00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:23,200
Speaker 2: I really am, well Jacob, I made him, But let's

453
00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:28,200
Speaker 2: don't get to that right now. And they started to argue,

454
00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:32,239
Speaker 2: we worship here, you worship there, You're like this, and

455
00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:35,040
Speaker 2: I'm like that, And all of a sudden, Jesus cuts

456
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Speaker 2: through all of that because because he.

457
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Speaker 1: Was thinking like a reaper.

458
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Speaker 2: Now, this is difficult for us, because as we go

459
00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:51,360
Speaker 2: through life, we only see seeds, and the seed looks.

460
00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:53,040
Speaker 1: Nothing like what it's going to be.

461
00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:57,520
Speaker 2: So what the disciples would have seen if they had

462
00:26:57,560 --> 00:27:00,920
Speaker 2: been in this scene would have been the woman who

463
00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:04,720
Speaker 2: had had five different husbands, the woman who was not

464
00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:09,480
Speaker 2: worth Jesus's time, the woman who had made so many

465
00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:13,000
Speaker 2: mistakes or had been through so many relationships, whether her

466
00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:15,679
Speaker 2: fault or the other, that her broken heart would make

467
00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:18,480
Speaker 2: a horrible place for a new beginning.

468
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Speaker 1: But Jesus thinks.

469
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Speaker 2: Like a reaper, and a reaper begins with the end

470
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Speaker 2: in mind. How many of you have had somebody in

471
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Speaker 2: your life at some point who saw something in you

472
00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:40,600
Speaker 2: you didn't see in yourself, and you're grateful that they

473
00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:48,720
Speaker 2: invested in you. How many people wish you could be

474
00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:54,520
Speaker 2: that person that the person who believed in you saw

475
00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:57,679
Speaker 2: I told a buddy the other day, sometimes I'm sad

476
00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:03,320
Speaker 2: because I'm grieving the me that I thought I would

477
00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:05,000
Speaker 2: be by now.

478
00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:10,800
Speaker 1: I am grieving the absence of the patience that I

479
00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:11,960
Speaker 1: thought I would have by now.

480
00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:16,240
Speaker 2: I am grieving the let it go that I thought

481
00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:20,600
Speaker 2: I would be able to access in stressful situations. And

482
00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:25,159
Speaker 2: this woman is not necessarily looking for an encounter with

483
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Speaker 2: the living God, but she gets one.

484
00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:32,679
Speaker 1: Because Jesus sees what she can be. There was a

485
00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:33,639
Speaker 1: man that I met. You know.

486
00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:36,000
Speaker 2: God brings different people along in our life in different seasons.

487
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:38,680
Speaker 2: By the way, don't ever think that just because people

488
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:42,240
Speaker 2: were seasonal in your life that it makes them insignificant.

489
00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:46,680
Speaker 2: One of the reasons is so hard for us to

490
00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:50,960
Speaker 2: resolve relationships when they end or when they change is

491
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:53,880
Speaker 2: because we assumed that the one who sewed into our

492
00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:55,800
Speaker 2: life would be there when the reaping came.

493
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Speaker 1: It's not always like that. I tell you an example.

494
00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:04,000
Speaker 2: When I was sixteen, of course, I had been in church.

495
00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:07,760
Speaker 2: What they say, the old preacher say, I had a

496
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:11,040
Speaker 2: drug problem. My mom drugged me to church every Sunday morning,

497
00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:12,560
Speaker 2: every Sunday night, every Wednesday night.

498
00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:14,880
Speaker 1: Y'all heard that one before.

499
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:20,080
Speaker 2: But there was an older pastor and I've talked about

500
00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:24,560
Speaker 2: him many times in this pulpit, and I call him older,

501
00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:26,000
Speaker 2: but I guess the time I met him, he wasn't

502
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:28,440
Speaker 2: that much older than I am now. So it's kind

503
00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:32,280
Speaker 2: of getting weird. But he is old now, but you know,

504
00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:37,000
Speaker 2: old is just where I haven't been yet. So he

505
00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:39,320
Speaker 2: saw something in me and he let me be the

506
00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:42,640
Speaker 2: FCA director of Fellowship of Christian Athletes and also his

507
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:43,200
Speaker 2: youth pastor.

508
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:45,480
Speaker 1: His name is Mickey White, Pastor Mickey White.

509
00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:48,800
Speaker 2: Mickey White ran an autoparts store in Monks Corner, South Carolina.

510
00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:50,360
Speaker 1: He would disciple me on Tuesdays.

511
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:52,560
Speaker 2: And when I say he would disciple me, I'm not

512
00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:55,720
Speaker 2: saying that he was like Jesus, but he helped me

513
00:29:55,800 --> 00:30:00,240
Speaker 2: through my hard places. And one of the things about

514
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:02,800
Speaker 2: mentoring a sixteen or seventeen year old or whatever I

515
00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:05,040
Speaker 2: was at the time, is that he had explained to

516
00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:08,680
Speaker 2: me things that I should just know. And by hiring

517
00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:11,400
Speaker 2: somebody that was seventeen to be a youth pastor. I

518
00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:14,320
Speaker 2: remember we were doing one FCA banquet. This thought just

519
00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:16,240
Speaker 2: came back to me for the first time in years.

520
00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:20,320
Speaker 2: While I was preparing, I went around. He took me

521
00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:23,040
Speaker 2: around to all of his friends who were businessmen in

522
00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:26,360
Speaker 2: Monk's Corner. And I was wanting to raise money so

523
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:28,360
Speaker 2: we could bring in really good speakers to preach the

524
00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:32,040
Speaker 2: gospel at our FCA events, and so I would go

525
00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:34,440
Speaker 2: around to his friends. The first guy I sat down with,

526
00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:37,120
Speaker 2: I said, I want to raise some money and this

527
00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:38,800
Speaker 2: is my vision. And he pulled out his check book

528
00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:42,000
Speaker 2: and started writing the check while I was talking because

529
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:42,800
Speaker 2: he was going to do it.

530
00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:44,400
Speaker 1: For Mickey anyway, he wasn't doing it for me. He's

531
00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:45,160
Speaker 1: doing it for Mickey.

532
00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:47,680
Speaker 2: And so he's writing a check and I keep talking

533
00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:49,760
Speaker 2: and I'm like, and we could do this, and we

534
00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:52,200
Speaker 2: can do that. And I felt a hand on my

535
00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:54,840
Speaker 2: leg kind of squeezed my thigh and it was Pastor Mickey,

536
00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:58,200
Speaker 2: and so I just let him write the check and

537
00:30:58,200 --> 00:30:59,719
Speaker 2: I thanked him. I said, hey, why you squeeze my leg?

538
00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:04,280
Speaker 2: He said, when you've made the sales, shut up. He

539
00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:07,800
Speaker 2: was writing a check. It could only get worse from there.

540
00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:13,240
Speaker 2: It can only stop writing, So stop talking, good little thing.

541
00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:17,120
Speaker 2: I always remember him saying that, well, we were having

542
00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:19,040
Speaker 2: our first one of those big nights that I had

543
00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:22,960
Speaker 2: raised the money for. And long story short, I know

544
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,400
Speaker 2: you want every detail, but just out of consideration for

545
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:30,560
Speaker 2: others who have lunch appointments, I didn't get the doors

546
00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:31,200
Speaker 2: unlocked in.

547
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:33,560
Speaker 1: Time, and so that the event was a complete disaster.

548
00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:39,400
Speaker 2: Because I had another thing and I had asked somebody

549
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:40,600
Speaker 2: else to unlock the doors.

550
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:42,640
Speaker 1: So at the end of the night, he pulls me aside.

551
00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:44,360
Speaker 2: He doesn't grab my leg, but it looks like you're

552
00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:46,840
Speaker 2: about to grab my throat, and he.

553
00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:52,080
Speaker 1: Goes, what happened? What happened? You are the SCA president.

554
00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:53,080
Speaker 1: What happened?

555
00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:56,480
Speaker 2: And I mentioned the name of the person who was

556
00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:58,240
Speaker 2: supposed to unlock the door that didn't do it.

557
00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:02,320
Speaker 1: He didn't even let me finish my sentence when I said,

558
00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:04,840
Speaker 1: their name is cann Stop. You're the leader.

559
00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:09,480
Speaker 2: The leader's job is to do it or get it done,

560
00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:10,600
Speaker 2: and you didn't do either.

561
00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:16,200
Speaker 1: Never forgot that up until that point in my life.

562
00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:19,960
Speaker 2: I had just thought like a teenager, and a teenager

563
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:24,200
Speaker 2: doesn't even do it if it's a task. He was

564
00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:27,000
Speaker 2: trying to skip me all the way from teenager to leader,

565
00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:30,240
Speaker 2: try and tell me not only is it just do

566
00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:33,440
Speaker 2: the task, just check it off, but it is actually

567
00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:35,440
Speaker 2: making sure that the outcome happens.

568
00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:38,360
Speaker 1: Because he was trying to get me to think like

569
00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:45,400
Speaker 1: a reaper. A reaper. A leader thinks like a reaper.

570
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:49,280
Speaker 1: See if you just go through life and you go, oh,

571
00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:52,800
Speaker 1: well I did that. I tried that, I said that

572
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:56,440
Speaker 1: I did it. You're still only a sewer.

573
00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:02,560
Speaker 2: But to grow up is to say, not only am

574
00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:06,920
Speaker 2: I responsible for the task, but I am going to

575
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:11,840
Speaker 2: be responsible for the outcome. Now, the good news about

576
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:15,400
Speaker 2: it is this, tell somebody think like a reaper. The

577
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:20,440
Speaker 2: good news is this, everywhere God sends you, He's already

578
00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:21,040
Speaker 2: been there.

579
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:23,560
Speaker 1: Everywhere.

580
00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:26,800
Speaker 2: Somebody needs to hear that because you're going into a

581
00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:30,920
Speaker 2: situation that's like a Samaria to you. You're going into

582
00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:35,160
Speaker 2: a situation that's a hard place for you, that's a

583
00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:38,600
Speaker 2: hazardous place for you, that might even be a hostile

584
00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:39,560
Speaker 2: environment for you.

585
00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:41,160
Speaker 1: But notice when.

586
00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:45,480
Speaker 2: The disciples got back, Jesus was already talking to the woman.

587
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:49,560
Speaker 2: And in fact, by the time they got back to Jesus,

588
00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:52,120
Speaker 2: she was already on her way back to the town.

589
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:55,960
Speaker 2: And she didn't even get the water that she came for.

590
00:33:56,960 --> 00:34:00,560
Speaker 2: She left her jar and went to town. Now, let's

591
00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:04,400
Speaker 2: contrast the two. You've got a woman who Jesus wasn't

592
00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:05,440
Speaker 2: even technically.

593
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:06,080
Speaker 1: Supposed to be talking to.

594
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:09,840
Speaker 2: You've got a woman who has had a salacious past.

595
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:14,080
Speaker 2: You have a woman who is only known and identified

596
00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:15,280
Speaker 2: by what she's been through.

597
00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:19,040
Speaker 1: And then you have the disciples, the ones.

598
00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:22,239
Speaker 2: That Jesus is using, his leaders, who are going to

599
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:25,160
Speaker 2: take the church and really move it forward and all

600
00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:28,240
Speaker 2: this wonderful stuff that they're going to do as leaders.

601
00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:32,280
Speaker 2: And the woman she goes back to town and starts

602
00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:36,640
Speaker 2: telling men about a man that she met. The disciples

603
00:34:36,640 --> 00:34:39,400
Speaker 2: come to the man that she just met and say, hey,

604
00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:39,960
Speaker 2: you want.

605
00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:42,600
Speaker 1: To eat something, And this is what got me.

606
00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:48,040
Speaker 2: While they were thinking about a meal, she was already

607
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:57,120
Speaker 2: thinking about a harvest. It didn't take long for her

608
00:34:57,160 --> 00:35:01,080
Speaker 2: mentality to shift, and all of a sudden she saw

609
00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:05,839
Speaker 2: herself differently, and all of a sudden, I imagine in

610
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:09,640
Speaker 2: that flash she thought, wait a minute, I'm talking to

611
00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:14,480
Speaker 2: the Messiah. I am talking to possibly the one who

612
00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:17,759
Speaker 2: can save me. And the first thing she thought about it,

613
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:20,600
Speaker 2: the first thing she thought about it was I've got

614
00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:23,880
Speaker 2: to go back to town and get the men and

615
00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:27,279
Speaker 2: bring them to this man. The disciples come back, the

616
00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:31,080
Speaker 2: first thing they think is we got to eat. And

617
00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:34,960
Speaker 2: it makes me wonder who's the real disciple in this passage.

618
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:39,440
Speaker 2: It makes me wonder did the ones who had been

619
00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:42,480
Speaker 2: with him so much take him for granted, but the

620
00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:44,760
Speaker 2: one that had just met him saw.

621
00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:46,160
Speaker 1: The potential of what he could do.

622
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:50,799
Speaker 2: Because it's amazing that they're just thinking about eating and

623
00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:54,719
Speaker 2: she's thinking about reaping. You say, the Bible doesn't say that,

624
00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:59,720
Speaker 2: it implies it. When she came back from the town

625
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:03,560
Speaker 2: with the men, Jesus started preaching. He said, open your

626
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:09,480
Speaker 2: eyes and look, the fields are already white onto harvest.

627
00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:11,640
Speaker 1: And then he goes into a saying.

628
00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:15,480
Speaker 2: Now this saying isn't something we say, but it's something

629
00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:22,920
Speaker 2: that they said. He said, that's the saying one sows

630
00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:31,680
Speaker 2: and another reaps. It's true, like Pastor Mickey said, it's

631
00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:33,399
Speaker 2: a leader's job to do it or get it done.

632
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:35,920
Speaker 2: I never forgot that say it. Certain things that my

633
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:38,440
Speaker 2: family used to say when I was growing up, they

634
00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:41,719
Speaker 2: terrified me once I understood what they meant. My dad

635
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:43,759
Speaker 2: used to always see somebody that he thought was kind

636
00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:45,960
Speaker 2: of snobby and he would say, I wish I could

637
00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:47,560
Speaker 2: buy them for what they're worth and sell them for

638
00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:51,000
Speaker 2: what they think they're worth. And as a little boy,

639
00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:53,839
Speaker 2: I always heard him say that, and one day, when

640
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:56,319
Speaker 2: I hit puberty, I realized what he was saying. I

641
00:36:56,320 --> 00:36:59,439
Speaker 2: was like, dang, that is crazy what he just said.

642
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:02,040
Speaker 2: I wish I could buy them for what they're worth

643
00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:04,759
Speaker 2: and sell them for what they think they were. My

644
00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:06,279
Speaker 2: dad was such a menace, and I didn't even know

645
00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:09,080
Speaker 2: it at the time. And then some of this stuff

646
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:11,799
Speaker 2: is just cuter little sayings that we get right, little

647
00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:14,080
Speaker 2: things that we say, little things that wor can weave

648
00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:17,080
Speaker 2: their way into our vocabulary, as Southerners have all kinds

649
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:17,879
Speaker 2: of sayings, right.

650
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:19,479
Speaker 1: I met a guy one time.

651
00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:23,280
Speaker 2: He was so Southern even I didn't know his sayings.

652
00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:25,279
Speaker 2: And that takes a lot, because I've heard a lot

653
00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:27,520
Speaker 2: of Southern sayings through the years, and I feel like

654
00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:30,600
Speaker 2: I'm a pretty good interpreter of my own language. But

655
00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:33,680
Speaker 2: I remember this guy named Brian that I met one

656
00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:36,279
Speaker 2: time from Louisiana, and when we were getting ready to

657
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:38,120
Speaker 2: go somewhere, he used to say, if you're waiting on me,

658
00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:44,359
Speaker 2: you're backing up. And I said, say that again, and

659
00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:47,839
Speaker 2: so he would just say it's slower. But even after

660
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:50,799
Speaker 2: he said it slower, I still didn't know what that meant.

661
00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:57,200
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, It takes one to know one.

662
00:37:57,239 --> 00:37:59,279
Speaker 2: It's just a saying, right right.

663
00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:03,799
Speaker 1: This was a saying that they had.

664
00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:05,759
Speaker 2: Put it back up verse thirty seven because this really

665
00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:09,680
Speaker 2: got my attention. Jesus is talking to this woman. He's

666
00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:13,320
Speaker 2: working in her heart. She has had a hard life

667
00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:17,879
Speaker 2: and this is a hard place, and Jesus is trying

668
00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:19,200
Speaker 2: to show us disciples something.

669
00:38:19,239 --> 00:38:22,040
Speaker 1: I believe he's trying to show us. Thus, the saying

670
00:38:22,680 --> 00:38:26,160
Speaker 1: one sows and another reaps is true.

671
00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:28,880
Speaker 2: It was a saying they had and Jesus said, is

672
00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:34,200
Speaker 2: true that sometimes life isn't fair. Think about it, one

673
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:39,200
Speaker 2: sows and another reaps, Like sometimes you do all the

674
00:38:39,239 --> 00:38:45,000
Speaker 2: work and they get all the credit. Sometimes you build

675
00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:49,560
Speaker 2: it and you don't even get to enjoy it. Sometimes

676
00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:53,000
Speaker 2: you put all the love into the relationship and then

677
00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:57,320
Speaker 2: they end up with somebody else. Sometimes you put all

678
00:38:57,480 --> 00:39:01,600
Speaker 2: the investment into making the thing good, and then you

679
00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:04,640
Speaker 2: feel like when it finally starts hitting, you get shut

680
00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:08,640
Speaker 2: out of it. One sows and another reaps. Be honest,

681
00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:12,040
Speaker 2: have you ever felt that way? Have you ever felt

682
00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:15,400
Speaker 2: like you put more in than you got out? Have

683
00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:19,239
Speaker 2: you ever felt like you were the only one who

684
00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:21,160
Speaker 2: seemed to care about it because you're the only one

685
00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:26,319
Speaker 2: who did it, but everybody else enjoyed the benefits of

686
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:29,439
Speaker 2: what you did. Now, I'm not saying I've ever felt

687
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:33,759
Speaker 2: this way about y'all, But even as a preacher, you

688
00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:36,560
Speaker 2: see how easy it could be to have a resentment

689
00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:41,359
Speaker 2: about Oh my goodness, I worked so hard on this

690
00:39:41,440 --> 00:39:45,799
Speaker 2: message and I don't even know if they care. So

691
00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:48,920
Speaker 2: what I could think about that is watch this. Well,

692
00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:50,920
Speaker 2: I guess I'm the only one who loves God's word.

693
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:55,440
Speaker 1: Because the enemy would love to say that to me.

694
00:39:57,239 --> 00:39:59,560
Speaker 2: Just like if you were a volunteer, there will be

695
00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:02,440
Speaker 2: eager for in this church that will sign up to

696
00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:05,920
Speaker 2: lead an e group, and the one will come and

697
00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:07,960
Speaker 2: it will be easy for them to think, well, I

698
00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:11,120
Speaker 2: was willing, I was trying. I gave it all I

699
00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:15,080
Speaker 2: had and it didn't work. There will be people in

700
00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:19,640
Speaker 2: this room today who will really give all of yourself

701
00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:22,960
Speaker 2: to something, only to find that the people who you

702
00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:26,120
Speaker 2: did it for don't even say thank you. Wonder if

703
00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:28,239
Speaker 2: God ever feels that way about us. By the way,

704
00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:29,879
Speaker 2: I'm just.

705
00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:32,759
Speaker 1: Asking don Jesus, you have a.

706
00:40:32,760 --> 00:40:36,000
Speaker 2: Sand one sows in another reaps, and at this point

707
00:40:36,080 --> 00:40:38,000
Speaker 2: the disciples are probably feeling.

708
00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:42,120
Speaker 1: Like, Yeah, that's us. We're the sewers, We're the disciples, We're.

709
00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:44,400
Speaker 2: The ones working hard, We're the ones out here in

710
00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:46,320
Speaker 2: Samaria following you, Jesus.

711
00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:49,200
Speaker 1: But isn't the irony in the fact.

712
00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:53,680
Speaker 2: That the woman was the one reaping and they were

713
00:40:53,719 --> 00:40:59,200
Speaker 2: just eating. Isn't the irony in the fact that the

714
00:40:59,239 --> 00:41:03,200
Speaker 2: ones who should have been reaping were only focused on

715
00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:06,600
Speaker 2: their next meal, and the one that Jesus shouldn't have

716
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:10,080
Speaker 2: even been talking to was going back to the town

717
00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:11,480
Speaker 2: to share her testimony.

718
00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:14,120
Speaker 1: And here's what I'm saying to you.

719
00:41:14,120 --> 00:41:17,719
Speaker 2: You might be surprised who God uses, You might be

720
00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:18,880
Speaker 2: surprised how.

721
00:41:18,680 --> 00:41:20,280
Speaker 1: He uses you.

722
00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:23,440
Speaker 2: You might be surprised what He uses in your life,

723
00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:26,000
Speaker 2: because the fact of the matter is, when God is

724
00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:27,719
Speaker 2: using you, you don't always feel it.

725
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:29,360
Speaker 1: You don't.

726
00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:34,799
Speaker 2: The feeling comes, but it doesn't come first. You have

727
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:38,680
Speaker 2: to obey Jesus when you see no evidence that your

728
00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:47,680
Speaker 2: obedience is yielding anything. You have to instill in your

729
00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:50,719
Speaker 2: kids certain values that you can only hope you are

730
00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:56,040
Speaker 2: going to envision later in their life. But the disciples

731
00:41:56,960 --> 00:42:02,439
Speaker 2: are the sowers right now, Jesus said, And this blew

732
00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:03,839
Speaker 2: my mind, Holly, this blew my mind.

733
00:42:04,239 --> 00:42:07,720
Speaker 1: He said. The saying is true. One sows and another reaps.

734
00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:09,759
Speaker 1: That's how it works, right. She's like, yeah, that's how

735
00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:10,160
Speaker 1: it works.

736
00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:12,239
Speaker 2: One, so's another reap. Look at verse thirty eight. He

737
00:42:12,239 --> 00:42:13,000
Speaker 2: gives it a twist.

738
00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:17,879
Speaker 1: I sent you to read what you haven't worked for.

739
00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:23,840
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, No, no, no, Jesus, we're the sowers.

740
00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:28,120
Speaker 1: They're the reapers, Jesus says, not really.

741
00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:33,760
Speaker 2: You always see yourself as a sewer, but you never

742
00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:36,640
Speaker 2: even realize how much you're already reaping.

743
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:42,279
Speaker 1: Put it back up. I sent you to read. Come on,

744
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:43,960
Speaker 1: what you have not worked for?

745
00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:49,520
Speaker 2: Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped

746
00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:54,239
Speaker 2: the benefits of their labor. Which makes me think that

747
00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:57,239
Speaker 2: maybe you've been reaping and you don't even realize it.

748
00:42:58,880 --> 00:43:03,000
Speaker 2: Maybe you've been reaping and you know. The enemy has

749
00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:03,440
Speaker 2: got you.

750
00:43:03,480 --> 00:43:09,359
Speaker 4: So focused on how hard it is to sew, how

751
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:11,960
Speaker 4: hard it is to show up, how hard it is

752
00:43:12,040 --> 00:43:14,200
Speaker 4: to dig in, how hard it is to be you.

753
00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:16,040
Speaker 1: Wave at me if it's hard to be you. Yeah,

754
00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:18,480
Speaker 1: it's hard to be you. How hard it is to

755
00:43:18,520 --> 00:43:18,879
Speaker 1: be you.

756
00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:23,080
Speaker 2: But if the enemy can only get you to focus

757
00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:26,759
Speaker 2: on how hard it is, or here's another one, if

758
00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:30,120
Speaker 2: he can get you to focus on how hurt you are, y'all,

759
00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:33,320
Speaker 2: I am sick and tired of people only talking about

760
00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:37,879
Speaker 2: church hurt because it's a ridiculous distinction to.

761
00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:40,760
Speaker 1: Call it church hurt. It's human hurt.

762
00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:47,480
Speaker 2: People hurt, people hurt people. If you quit going to church,

763
00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:51,200
Speaker 2: it wasn't because church hurt you. It's because you allowed

764
00:43:51,239 --> 00:43:53,800
Speaker 2: the hurt to become greater than the harvest.

765
00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:57,160
Speaker 1: This is what I want to preach. This is what

766
00:43:57,200 --> 00:43:58,160
Speaker 1: I want to preach.

767
00:43:59,080 --> 00:44:01,040
Speaker 2: I've been preaching so much many verses to get to

768
00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:03,719
Speaker 2: this one. Tell somebody said next to you.

769
00:44:03,719 --> 00:44:08,879
Speaker 1: Say, oh, you've been reaping. You just haven't realized it yet.

770
00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:13,799
Speaker 2: Tell them, Oh, God's been good to you. You just

771
00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:18,839
Speaker 2: haven't realized it yet. Now look at him and say, oh,

772
00:44:18,920 --> 00:44:21,439
Speaker 2: you have help, you just.

773
00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:23,120
Speaker 1: Haven't called for it yet.

774
00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:26,920
Speaker 2: Now take about thirteen seconds if you know Jesus is

775
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:27,440
Speaker 2: my help.

776
00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:34,600
Speaker 1: I'm not letting this go. You might sit on me all.

777
00:44:34,560 --> 00:44:36,880
Speaker 2: Day, but I'm not going down without a fight today

778
00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:42,440
Speaker 2: because God sent me on assignment to tell somebody that

779
00:44:42,560 --> 00:44:46,279
Speaker 2: you have been so focused on how hard it is,

780
00:44:47,080 --> 00:44:50,560
Speaker 2: so focused on how hurt you are, that you have

781
00:44:50,680 --> 00:44:56,759
Speaker 2: become blind to how much help you actually have. That's

782
00:44:56,800 --> 00:44:58,800
Speaker 2: why the Bible says, praise the Lord.

783
00:44:58,600 --> 00:45:00,719
Speaker 1: On my soul and all all.

784
00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:03,040
Speaker 2: That is within me, bless his holy name.

785
00:45:03,480 --> 00:45:04,880
Speaker 1: Praise the Lord o my soul.

786
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:07,680
Speaker 2: And Chris referenced it when he was leading worship, and

787
00:45:07,719 --> 00:45:09,759
Speaker 2: I took it as a confirmation when he said it.

788
00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:15,120
Speaker 2: And forget not all his benefits. Let me give you

789
00:45:15,200 --> 00:45:17,480
Speaker 2: a list who forgives.

790
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:18,120
Speaker 1: All your sins.

791
00:45:18,520 --> 00:45:21,799
Speaker 2: You didn't earn that you reap that I said, you

792
00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:26,200
Speaker 2: didn't earn that you reap that I couldn't earn forgiveness.

793
00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:29,240
Speaker 2: The chasm was too wide, the gap was too great,

794
00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:32,800
Speaker 2: My sin was too bleek, my shame was too great.

795
00:45:33,320 --> 00:45:42,479
Speaker 2: But Jesus was Greater who heals all your diseases. Yeah,

796
00:45:42,480 --> 00:45:47,000
Speaker 2: I feel it now. I feel it now. Why is

797
00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:49,760
Speaker 2: the only time that we thank God for our health

798
00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:55,000
Speaker 2: when we need to be healed? Why am I not

799
00:45:55,120 --> 00:45:57,760
Speaker 2: thanking God for the stuff that feels good right now?

800
00:45:58,920 --> 00:46:00,279
Speaker 1: Look at that? Look what I do.

801
00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:05,880
Speaker 2: That's a big deal, you say, pastor, did you have

802
00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:08,120
Speaker 2: a shoulder surgery that you came through and now you're

803
00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:11,040
Speaker 2: really grateful you No, I'm praising them for the surgery

804
00:46:11,080 --> 00:46:12,239
Speaker 2: that I didn't have to have.

805
00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:17,760
Speaker 1: What I thought?

806
00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:23,200
Speaker 2: Somebody say, the harvest is here, the harvest. Come on this, son,

807
00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:25,359
Speaker 2: don't feel left off. You can get in on this too.

808
00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:30,120
Speaker 1: The harvest, it's already here.

809
00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:37,600
Speaker 2: So the disciples are thinking about food and they mean well,

810
00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:40,360
Speaker 2: but they are missing the mission over a meal.

811
00:46:41,880 --> 00:46:44,640
Speaker 1: I said, they're missing the mission over a meal.

812
00:46:45,719 --> 00:46:48,640
Speaker 2: Don't let what you didn't get keep you from praising

813
00:46:48,680 --> 00:46:59,239
Speaker 2: God for what you have and wherever He is sending you,

814
00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:02,120
Speaker 2: please believe he's already been there.

815
00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:07,240
Speaker 1: Because he's the sower. I'm the reaper.

816
00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:12,759
Speaker 2: He gave his life so I could live mine. He

817
00:47:12,960 --> 00:47:17,320
Speaker 2: is the breath, I am the sales. He is the vine.

818
00:47:17,680 --> 00:47:21,200
Speaker 2: I am the branch. I'm trying to get you to

819
00:47:21,239 --> 00:47:27,120
Speaker 2: say out loud, I'm reaping this.

820
00:47:27,120 --> 00:47:30,560
Speaker 1: This life that I have is a gift. This opportunity

821
00:47:30,600 --> 00:47:33,359
Speaker 1: that I have is a gift. This moment that I

822
00:47:33,440 --> 00:47:34,560
Speaker 1: have is a gift.

823
00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:35,920
Speaker 2: This breath that I have.

824
00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:49,759
Speaker 1: Is a gift. Breed out his praise. And if you.

825
00:47:49,800 --> 00:47:52,239
Speaker 2: Were the devil. I'm not saying you are. I'm sure

826
00:47:52,239 --> 00:47:54,799
Speaker 2: you're an angel, But if you were the devil. If

827
00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:56,799
Speaker 2: you were, if you were, tell your neighbor if you were,

828
00:47:58,440 --> 00:47:59,279
Speaker 2: wouldn't you want to.

829
00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:09,920
Speaker 1: Keep you from reaping? Because you've already cried. You've already cried, You've.

830
00:48:09,719 --> 00:48:13,520
Speaker 2: Already shed tears over it, You've already been through the

831
00:48:13,560 --> 00:48:14,160
Speaker 2: pain of it.

832
00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:16,120
Speaker 1: Why would you?

833
00:48:16,400 --> 00:48:20,080
Speaker 2: Why would you cry over the seed and then not

834
00:48:20,239 --> 00:48:21,680
Speaker 2: reap the harvest when it came.

835
00:48:30,200 --> 00:48:31,319
Speaker 1: It's I went twenty six.

836
00:48:31,400 --> 00:48:34,799
Speaker 2: One of my favorite things that Thesauma said was that

837
00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:36,880
Speaker 2: they that sow.

838
00:48:38,560 --> 00:48:41,839
Speaker 1: In tears will what.

839
00:48:43,400 --> 00:48:50,919
Speaker 2: Read with songs of joy? Are you so in your

840
00:48:51,040 --> 00:48:56,000
Speaker 2: tears that you cannot even reap what you cried for?

841
00:48:57,239 --> 00:49:00,919
Speaker 1: And it's here the herv this is always here.

842
00:49:01,920 --> 00:49:03,640
Speaker 2: I was talking to my mom about some things she

843
00:49:03,680 --> 00:49:05,319
Speaker 2: went through in her past, and I was ministering this

844
00:49:05,360 --> 00:49:07,279
Speaker 2: message to her because she couldn't be here today. Now,

845
00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:08,520
Speaker 2: I can't do that for everybody, but I can do

846
00:49:08,600 --> 00:49:10,160
Speaker 2: it for my mom. When she's not in church, I'll

847
00:49:10,280 --> 00:49:13,239
Speaker 2: call her and give it to her personal. And she

848
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:17,520
Speaker 2: said that when I told her, I know it's hard

849
00:49:18,080 --> 00:49:19,600
Speaker 2: because of some of the things she's been through in

850
00:49:19,640 --> 00:49:22,600
Speaker 2: her past, and I know it hurts, and it didn't

851
00:49:22,640 --> 00:49:26,760
Speaker 2: stop hurting. But God is with you in your hard place,

852
00:49:29,040 --> 00:49:34,399
Speaker 2: and you have more help than you have hurt. She said,

853
00:49:34,440 --> 00:49:37,240
Speaker 2: thank you for telling me that, because I get bitter

854
00:49:37,320 --> 00:49:41,320
Speaker 2: sometimes because I start thinking, well, where was my help

855
00:49:43,120 --> 00:49:45,120
Speaker 2: when I went through the abuse? Where was my help?

856
00:49:46,160 --> 00:49:48,800
Speaker 2: When my husband was dying of als? Where was my help?

857
00:49:50,080 --> 00:49:53,080
Speaker 2: But I realized that the answer is always John four

858
00:49:53,239 --> 00:49:53,799
Speaker 2: thirty six.

859
00:49:55,000 --> 00:50:02,120
Speaker 1: Open your eyes and look, the harvest is here. I

860
00:50:02,120 --> 00:50:05,360
Speaker 1: believe this thirty five. I messed that up. That's a

861
00:50:05,360 --> 00:50:12,320
Speaker 1: good moment too, and I really ruined it. Open your

862
00:50:12,920 --> 00:50:19,520
Speaker 1: eyes and look at the fields. Wait a minute, the fields. Jesus.

863
00:50:19,520 --> 00:50:22,880
Speaker 1: We're trying to get you to eat a meal. Eat Jesus.

864
00:50:22,920 --> 00:50:26,000
Speaker 1: Eat this Samaritan woman. We'll deal with her.

865
00:50:26,120 --> 00:50:29,520
Speaker 2: No, no, no, I've already dealt with her. She's bringing

866
00:50:29,560 --> 00:50:33,560
Speaker 2: me a harvest. Now watch this. This is mind blowing.

867
00:50:33,960 --> 00:50:36,840
Speaker 1: I love the Bible, y'all. Can I preach the Bible

868
00:50:36,840 --> 00:50:40,279
Speaker 1: to y'all for like the next fifty years? I mean,

869
00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:42,160
Speaker 1: I'm just want to stand on this thing.

870
00:50:43,719 --> 00:50:47,840
Speaker 2: Because the tears in the passage belonged to the woman

871
00:50:48,160 --> 00:50:51,040
Speaker 2: who had been through so much, and the.

872
00:50:50,920 --> 00:50:53,120
Speaker 1: Opportunity belongs to the disciples.

873
00:50:53,719 --> 00:50:56,600
Speaker 2: And Jesus said, open your eyes, Verse, please, and look

874
00:50:56,680 --> 00:51:02,840
Speaker 2: to the fields. They are ripe for harvest. Yeah, Jesus,

875
00:51:02,840 --> 00:51:07,399
Speaker 2: but we're not ready for the harvest. Just because you're

876
00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:09,080
Speaker 2: not ready doesn't mean it's not ripe.

877
00:51:10,120 --> 00:51:11,480
Speaker 1: And if you will open.

878
00:51:11,400 --> 00:51:17,799
Speaker 2: Your eyes, your eyes, that's the first tool you need,

879
00:51:17,920 --> 00:51:22,040
Speaker 2: is your eyes. The moment that they opened their eyes,

880
00:51:22,120 --> 00:51:24,680
Speaker 2: let's pretend to be the disciples. They open their eyes,

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Speaker 2: Jesus is talking about a harvest and coming their way

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Speaker 2: are the Samaritans that they hated. What do you do

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Speaker 2: when your harvest comes looking like something that you hate?

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Speaker 2: This will this will be the test in this season

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Speaker 2: of your life? Will you think like a reaper to

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Speaker 2: say that even the regret We all have regrets. This

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00:51:50,120 --> 00:51:53,880
Speaker 2: woman had regrets. I'm sure she regretted every manda she

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00:51:54,000 --> 00:51:56,960
Speaker 2: said yes to that had left her. But through the

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Speaker 2: power of faith, you can reach into a regard and

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Speaker 2: reap a lesson.

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Speaker 1: So I'm harvesting this.

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Speaker 2: It's hard for me right now, but I'm harvesting this

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Speaker 2: because those who sow with tears will reap with joy.

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00:52:15,640 --> 00:52:19,600
Speaker 2: And I came to call somebody today who the devil

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00:52:19,640 --> 00:52:22,560
Speaker 2: has been reminding you of every reason that you have

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Speaker 2: to feel bad about yourself, every reason that you have

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00:52:26,040 --> 00:52:29,200
Speaker 2: to feel resentful about your life, every reason that you

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00:52:29,320 --> 00:52:31,279
Speaker 2: have to give up and throw in the towel and

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Speaker 2: quit and duck and hide under the covers and not

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Speaker 2: call anybody back till next Thursday, and delete your hope

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Speaker 2: for the future.

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00:52:38,680 --> 00:52:41,760
Speaker 1: But God said to remind you you have a reason

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00:52:41,880 --> 00:52:47,080
Speaker 1: to rejoice, because those who sow in tears you got it,

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Speaker 1: you got it, will read with joy.

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Speaker 2: And you, my friend, are one thought away from joy.

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Speaker 2: And many in that town believed in Jesus because of.

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Speaker 1: What that woman went through. I wonder what God wants

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00:53:14,040 --> 00:53:22,319
Speaker 1: to do through what you went through. I'm gonna blow

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00:53:22,360 --> 00:53:24,280
Speaker 1: your mind. I'm gonna blow your mind. God blew my mind.

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Speaker 2: If he had sent the disciples into the town, the

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00:53:27,080 --> 00:53:30,919
Speaker 2: men wouldn't have come back with them.

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Speaker 1: She had to have been with men in order to

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Speaker 1: bring men.

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Speaker 2: I'm not telling you to go live a sinful life

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Speaker 2: so you can build a bigger testimony.

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Speaker 1: But i am saying watch this. Nothing will be wasted.

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Speaker 1: Nothing will be wasted.

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Speaker 2: Nothing will be wasted, Nothing will be wasted, nothing will

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Speaker 2: be wasted.

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00:53:49,920 --> 00:53:53,080
Speaker 1: I'm reaping this. Nothing will be wasted. Tell your neighbor.

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Speaker 1: Nothing will be wasted.

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Speaker 2: Nothing, nothing, not a breakup, not a bad turn, not

923
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Speaker 2: a left turn, not a bad day, not a wrong

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00:54:01,360 --> 00:54:10,840
Speaker 2: nothing that you'll been through. I'm thinking like a reefer

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Speaker 2: now I am seeing that God is transforming through my tears.

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Speaker 1: And feelings don't come first, Faith does.

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Speaker 2: So we're gonna do something that is going to absolutely

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Speaker 2: confuse the enemy in.

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Speaker 1: Just about twelve seconds.

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Speaker 2: We are going to absolutely rejoice because we're reefers, and

931
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Speaker 2: reefers reap with joy, and we have been crying with

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00:54:39,840 --> 00:54:43,600
Speaker 2: tears of anxiety, and crying with tears of regret, and

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Speaker 2: crying with tears of pain and unhealed trauma.

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Speaker 1: But we are going to confuse the enemy in just.

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Speaker 2: About three seconds because we're gonna start rejoicing.

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Speaker 1: Because we're reaper. Give me my joy back. Get me up.

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Speaker 1: I'm a wicked when I think of all you go.

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Speaker 5: When I think of volume, when I think I'm reaping

939
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Speaker 5: where I didn't sew I never seen.

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Speaker 1: I'm standing in what I didn't deserve.

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Speaker 2: I think I'm breathing breath that's borrows.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna need every reaper to get your hands something

943
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Speaker 1: like that. Hold on, let's receive, let's receive seed, and

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Speaker 1: then let's turn it the plain.

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Speaker 2: Come on. When I think, thank thank you for joining

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