Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.
Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.
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Speaker 2: all of the things that He is going to do.
Speaker 2: Is going to be an amazing time. Speaking of an
Speaker 2: amazing time, many of our E group leaders are expecting
Speaker 2: you to come over to their house this week.
Speaker 1: This is E Group connect weekend.
Speaker 2: They're getting ready all the We should actually have a
Speaker 2: criteria for eGroups. If they have only healthy food, there
Speaker 2: should be a disclaimer at that group.
Speaker 1: I don't look at that as a benefit. I look
Speaker 1: at that like a hazard. But I'm sure you can.
Speaker 2: Find an E group that will really speak to your
Speaker 2: stage of life.
Speaker 1: I would love for you to do.
Speaker 2: That that way, that when you finish here in the
Speaker 2: sermon this week, you can take it like they said
Speaker 2: earlier and really apply it to your life and have
Speaker 2: help doing that. Tell your neighbor you need some help sometimes.
Speaker 2: I don't mean to offend you, but you do sometimes
Speaker 2: Sometimes sometimes the enemy comes to snatch the word of
Speaker 2: God and you need somebody else to help you keep
Speaker 2: it planted and to stay stable. So we've got people
Speaker 2: to help you. Let's thank God for all our eager leaders.
Speaker 1: If you're leading the group, Hey, Holly, and I want
Speaker 1: to thank you. Thank you for your partnership in the gospel.
Speaker 1: I hope you will avail yourself to that.
Speaker 2: And now it's time preach the word of God. Your
Speaker 2: excitement level is amazing. I'm gonna come back out again.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna sit the reset button.
Speaker 1: Now it's time to preach the word of God.
Speaker 2: I'm excited to be sharing with you today from John
Speaker 2: chapter four, verse twenty seven through thirty nine.
Speaker 1: Please give your attention to this scripture is very powerful,
Speaker 1: the Bible says.
Speaker 2: Just then his disciples returned and we're surprised to find
Speaker 2: him talking with a woman. But no one asked what
Speaker 2: do you want or why are you talking with her?
Speaker 2: Then leaving her water jar, the woman went back to
Speaker 2: the town and said to the people, come see a
Speaker 2: man who told me everything I ever did?
Speaker 1: Could this be the Messiah? Look at your neighbors, say,
Speaker 1: this could be the one.
Speaker 2: This could be the one. I'm not sure yet, but
Speaker 2: I'm curious. This could be the one. I'm not completely
Speaker 2: solid on it yet, but I'm suspicious this could.
Speaker 1: Be the one.
Speaker 2: And they verse came out of the town and made
Speaker 2: their way toward him, towards Jesus. Now, meanwhile, his disciples
Speaker 2: urged him, Rabbi, eat something, but he said to them.
Speaker 1: I have food to eat that you know nothing about.
Speaker 2: There's a fine line sometimes in the scripture. I can't
Speaker 2: tell whether Jesus is training his disciples or trolling his disciples,
Speaker 2: because that's kind.
Speaker 1: Of you know, on the nose. Would you like to eat?
Speaker 1: We brought some food.
Speaker 2: He said, I have food to eat that you know
Speaker 2: nothing about. But then listen what he says next. This
Speaker 2: is a lesson all in itself. My food, said Jesus,
Speaker 2: is to do the will of him who sent me
Speaker 2: and to finish his work. My food is to do
Speaker 2: the will of him who sent me, and to finish
Speaker 2: his work. So the question becomes, what's your fuel? What
Speaker 2: fuels you to do what God has called.
Speaker 1: You to do?
Speaker 2: Is your fuel comparison because that's bad fuel. Is your
Speaker 2: fuel validation from others because that's bad fuel. Is your
Speaker 2: fuel feelings because that's unreliable fuel.
Speaker 1: Jesus said, my food my fuel.
Speaker 2: See, most of us eat food for fuel. Jesus was fueled,
Speaker 2: and that was his food. But he was fueled by
Speaker 2: an agenda that was set by his father.
Speaker 1: Are you am I? My food is to do the
Speaker 1: will of him who.
Speaker 2: Sent me, and to finish his work. Now pay attention.
Speaker 2: We're getting close to our main point for today.
Speaker 1: Don't you have a saying? Is still four months until harvest?
Speaker 2: I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields.
Speaker 2: Look at the fields. They're full, they are ripe for harvest.
Speaker 2: Even now. The one who reaps draws away and harvest
Speaker 2: the crop for eternal life, so that the sower and
Speaker 2: the reaper may be glad together. Thus the saying one
Speaker 2: sows and another reaps is true. I sent you to
Speaker 2: reap what you have not worked for. Others have done
Speaker 2: the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of
Speaker 2: their labor. And many of the Samaritans from that town
Speaker 2: believed in him Jesus because of that woman's testimony. He
Speaker 2: told me everything I ever did. You know, your testimony
Speaker 2: is a tool. You got to put it back in
Speaker 2: God's hand. Don't let the devil have your past. Your
Speaker 2: testimony is a tool that God wants to use in
Speaker 2: your future. That's where your ministry is going to come from,
Speaker 2: from your misery.
Speaker 1: That's where your ability to help put other people back.
Speaker 2: Together again is going to come from, from the broken
Speaker 2: pieces that you feel inside of you.
Speaker 1: You.
Speaker 2: So today I want to give you an important lesson
Speaker 2: one of the things that God is teaching me. I
Speaker 2: think this can be so powerful if you will think
Speaker 2: with me. Think with me now now I want you
Speaker 2: to feel the presence of God today. But today I
Speaker 2: want you to think with me as well about this story,
Speaker 2: about your life, about what God is saying. Think with me,
Speaker 2: and I want you to think a very specific way,
Speaker 2: and this is the title of the message. I want
Speaker 2: you to think like a reaper. Think like a reaper.
Speaker 2: In this season of your life. It is important that
Speaker 2: you mature to the point that you think like a reaper,
Speaker 2: not just an eater. Not just where's my next meal?
Speaker 2: Not just is it convenient right now? But tell your
Speaker 2: neighbor it's time to think like a reaper.
Speaker 1: Not the grim reaper.
Speaker 2: I want to clarify you might begin in Spook it's
Speaker 2: not October.
Speaker 1: But think like a reaper.
Speaker 2: Father, I praise you for what you said to me,
Speaker 2: Help me to say it so clear that it can't
Speaker 2: be missed, and give us the courage to obey. Speak Lord,
Speaker 2: we're listening in Jesus' name. Amen, you may be seated.
Speaker 2: I like you to write this down somewhere. Feelings come,
Speaker 2: Let's write that down.
Speaker 1: I like to start somewhere that nobody can argue with.
Speaker 2: You.
Speaker 1: Start my sermons saying.
Speaker 2: You know, Jesus is the only true way to God,
Speaker 2: and he is the Son of God, and he died
Speaker 2: for your sins and he rose again.
Speaker 1: You know, you may or.
Speaker 2: May not believe that. And I believe that, but you
Speaker 2: may not believe that. So let me buil a little bridge. Okay,
Speaker 2: this is what John four is about, that Jesus is
Speaker 2: the Messiah. But let me start with something that we
Speaker 2: all can agree with. Feelings come. And one of the
Speaker 2: things that happens in worship a lot of times when
Speaker 2: we come to church is that we will come to
Speaker 2: church not even wanting to come, and then when we
Speaker 2: get in the atmosphere of God's presence, we are glad
Speaker 2: we came, and we're so glad that we didn't obey
Speaker 2: the way that we felt and let it keep us
Speaker 2: from what we were supposed to receive. And I feel
Speaker 2: this way every time that I do a physical workout,
Speaker 2: you know, like a weightlifting thing or something like that.
Speaker 2: I never work out because of how I want to
Speaker 2: feel in that workout. I meet psychopaths who do CrossFit.
Speaker 2: I'm not wired like that. They say they enjoy the
Speaker 2: actual workout, and I am getting more to that point.
Speaker 2: But actually what puts me in a workout is the
Speaker 2: way I want to feel after the workout, and that
Speaker 2: became a powerful journaling exercise for me. I call it
Speaker 2: reverse journaling. It's where before instead after your day, you
Speaker 2: usually go like, ah, well, you know, I did this
Speaker 2: and I shouldn't have, and I ate this and I
Speaker 2: shouldn't have and I went there and I shouldn't have
Speaker 2: and I said that and I shouldn't have it. And
Speaker 2: I do plenty of that, trust me. But if you
Speaker 2: can reverse journal sometimes it's just a really good spiritual practice.
Speaker 2: It's like asking the question, how do I want to
Speaker 2: feel when this day is finished, and you ask it
Speaker 2: in the morning, and then you kind of like try
Speaker 2: to work toward that with your actions, because if you
Speaker 2: just wake up and let the feelings just.
Speaker 1: Come they'll come.
Speaker 2: And sometimes the feelings come and they catch you before
Speaker 2: you've even had your coffee. And this is a whole
Speaker 2: room of people who have not had their coffee today.
Speaker 2: I could tell they put niquill in the communion cups
Speaker 2: out there in the lobby here today. But what I'm
Speaker 2: trying to say is, feelings come. Watch this, but they
Speaker 2: don't come first. Now, that might be one of the
Speaker 2: most powerful things that I ever learned, and I'd like
Speaker 2: to break it down with you a little while today.
Speaker 2: Say Feelings come, but they don't come first. Say it again,
Speaker 2: Feelings come. Write it in the chat. Feelings come, but
Speaker 2: they don't come first. And so the feeling of being
Speaker 2: tempted is never a sin. It is when the temptation
Speaker 2: takes the throne in your life and leads you to
Speaker 2: a place that you have no business being, that the
Speaker 2: sin is committed. Feelings of sadness do not negate the
Speaker 2: joy of the Lord. But it's when I allow the
Speaker 2: feeling of sadness to become the primary soil in which
Speaker 2: my life is grown that it becomes a problem. Feelings come,
Speaker 2: but they don't come first. And what I mean by
Speaker 2: that is, first of all, sometimes you have to do
Speaker 2: the thing and the feeling follows.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you have to.
Speaker 2: Lift your hands and the burden is lifted as your
Speaker 2: hands are. But if you wait for the burden to lift,
Speaker 2: for your hands to follow, you may keep them in
Speaker 2: your pockets. You may never feel the freedom that you
Speaker 2: could have felt, because feelings come, but they don't come first.
Speaker 2: All I'm trying to get you to see today is
Speaker 2: that God is very aware of the hard places in
Speaker 2: your life.
Speaker 1: And the very clear.
Speaker 2: Thing that I heard God saying to me today to
Speaker 2: preach to you, was he will help you in the
Speaker 2: hard place. Just encourage your neighbor. They need to hear it.
Speaker 2: God will help you in the hard place. Say it
Speaker 2: to your neighbor, even if you don't believe it's true
Speaker 2: for you. God will help you in the hard place.
Speaker 2: And see when you said that to her. You don't
Speaker 2: know what her hard.
Speaker 1: Place is, but you can be sure she has a
Speaker 1: hard place.
Speaker 2: No, she doesn't. She has plenty of money, then she
Speaker 2: has plenty of taxes. God will help you in the
Speaker 2: hard place. You know well, they have kids. They're not
Speaker 2: struggling with infertility. Fertility has its own set of problems.
Speaker 1: You never hear him.
Speaker 2: I say that I'm struggling with fertility. But the truth
Speaker 2: of the matter is whether you're struggling with something that
Speaker 2: you can't have or something that you do have.
Speaker 1: The pressure is real for all of us.
Speaker 2: And the assuring word of the Lord is that God
Speaker 2: will help you in your hard place.
Speaker 1: God will help you in your hard place.
Speaker 2: The text that we read, I'm not sure if the
Speaker 2: section that I read got the point across that Jesus
Speaker 2: and his disciples were traveling through a hard place. We
Speaker 2: know that because verse thirty nine says many of the
Speaker 2: Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the
Speaker 2: woman's testimony, and two things in this text I want
Speaker 2: to give you before we really get practical here, is
Speaker 2: that Samaria was a place that was very hostile to
Speaker 2: the Jews, and the woman had lived a very hard
Speaker 2: life and had been through several men. In fact, she'd
Speaker 2: been through five men, and she was currently in a
Speaker 2: situation with number six. Into the complexity of this situation.
Speaker 1: Cleaning it up and making it, King.
Speaker 2: James, there comes the presence of purity, the presence of purpose,
Speaker 2: the presence of potential in the dirt of a place
Speaker 2: that they didn't want to be. Samaria was a place
Speaker 2: that was racially tense. Samaria was a place that was
Speaker 2: religiously polytheistic. Not that they didn't each think they were right,
Speaker 2: they just worshiped in different places in different ways. And
Speaker 2: so everything is against the Disciples and Jesus in this text.
Speaker 2: And I think that's worth its own sermon, really, I do,
Speaker 2: because some of the things that God teaches us that
Speaker 2: go the deepest happen in the places that we did
Speaker 2: not choose to be.
Speaker 1: You don't really.
Speaker 2: Get to sign up for a class to learn the
Speaker 2: things that Christ wants to teach you.
Speaker 1: And I'll prove it to you right from the text.
Speaker 2: The disciples were look at verse twenty seven, surprise to
Speaker 2: see Jesus.
Speaker 1: Talking to a woman.
Speaker 2: Now that lets me know if they were surprised that
Speaker 2: they did not get a syllabus. I got a son
Speaker 2: going back to college this week. What's up, my boy.
Speaker 2: Some of the stuff that gets taught is not on
Speaker 2: the syllabus. And when we read discipleship, we think class
Speaker 2: because that is our modern Western interpretation of learning. But
Speaker 2: God's version of learning usually looks like this. I am
Speaker 2: going to show you how strategic I was after you
Speaker 2: survived the surprise. So then what happens is life catches
Speaker 2: you off guard. Oh whoa, hey, no they didn't even
Speaker 2: see that coming. Oh well no, I didn't even see
Speaker 2: them coming. I definitely would have duped. I definitely wouldn't
Speaker 2: have answered if I knew that's what they wanted to
Speaker 2: talk to me about.
Speaker 1: You know, people who bait you.
Speaker 2: With the text like hey, and that's all it says.
Speaker 2: I never responded that I'm gonna need more information that
Speaker 2: is inconclusive data to give me. Surprise, he's talking to
Speaker 2: a woman. Surprise, he's sitting down having a chat. Surprise.
Speaker 2: She's somebody you don't like. She's a Samaritan.
Speaker 1: Surprise. See, they thought we went.
Speaker 2: Through Samaria because it was shorter geographically. The Bible says
Speaker 2: that Jesus took them through Samaria.
Speaker 1: Well, most Jews walked around Samaria so that they didn't
Speaker 1: have to deal with those people.
Speaker 2: And now Jesus is talking to one of those people,
Speaker 2: and not even one of those people, a woman, which
Speaker 2: was not very good pr strategy for a rabbi.
Speaker 1: And yet I have learned in my life. Now you
Speaker 1: can get this lesson. At age thirteen.
Speaker 2: You can get it at age thirty one, or you
Speaker 2: can die not getting this lesson. But you'll find out
Speaker 2: one day that God is often most strategic when you
Speaker 2: are most surprised. And that means that God will allow
Speaker 2: things to come into my life, even my day or
Speaker 2: even my feelings.
Speaker 1: That I did not expect.
Speaker 2: And what I have to learn how to do in
Speaker 2: those moments is what Galatians six ' nine says, Please
Speaker 2: give me this verse.
Speaker 1: Galician six ' nine says, let us not.
Speaker 2: Become weary in doing good or at the proper time,
Speaker 2: or one version says, in due season, in due season,
Speaker 2: at the proper time, we will reap a harvest if
Speaker 2: we do not give up. But if your feelings come first,
Speaker 2: you give up while it's growing. If your feelings come first,
Speaker 2: if you cannot separate the feeling, you will never experience
Speaker 2: your due season d u E season.
Speaker 1: But this the tricky thing.
Speaker 2: How do you do d O in a season what
Speaker 2: is due d ue in another season when the feelings
Speaker 2: don't come to support you and you say to me,
Speaker 2: this has nothing to do with you, Jesus and the Samaritan.
Speaker 2: It has everything to do with Jesus and the Samaritan.
Speaker 2: It has everything to do with you and your kid.
Speaker 2: It has everything to do with the fear that you
Speaker 2: feel about your business. Because I think this passage speaks
Speaker 2: to every one of our fears, every one of our frustration,
Speaker 2: and it speaks to something else that we should talk about,
Speaker 2: the fatigue that we feel.
Speaker 1: While we do.
Speaker 2: What we do and what is due doesn't come. What
Speaker 2: do you do when what is due doesn't come? And
Speaker 2: the Lord might have sent me to preach this message
Speaker 2: for myself. And if that's the case, I invite you
Speaker 2: to listen in because too many times in my life
Speaker 2: I have thought only about what I am sewing in
Speaker 2: this moment, and I lose consciousness of the harvest that
Speaker 2: awaits me.
Speaker 1: If I don't give up. And so it looks like this,
Speaker 1: do not be deceived. Actually good verse good to verse eight.
Speaker 2: I think that'd be good to Galatians chapter six, verse eight,
Speaker 2: where the Bible says Galician six eight, Please, whoever sows
Speaker 2: to please their flesh from the flesh will reap destruction.
Speaker 1: That's another way of saying, just doing what you feel.
Speaker 1: So to the flesh.
Speaker 2: Whoever sows to please the spirit from the spirit will
Speaker 2: reap eternal life. And that's how we're trying to think. Now,
Speaker 2: we're trying to think about the lasting thing. We're trying
Speaker 2: to think about the eternal thing. We're trying to think
Speaker 2: about the long term thing. And we don't want to
Speaker 2: be so into our feelings that we only sew into
Speaker 2: what we feel like.
Speaker 1: I'm coming. I'm coming. It's gonna take a minute, but
Speaker 1: we're gonna get there. So it looks like this.
Speaker 2: I may want to eat the ice cream at ten pm,
Speaker 2: I don't want to feel the ice cream at three am,
Speaker 2: I don't want to see the ice cream. But if
Speaker 2: I am so into what I feel, then my feelings
Speaker 2: come first, because rather than thinking like a reefer and thinking.
Speaker 1: Well, if I eat the ice cream just tonight, that's fine,
Speaker 1: But if I eat the ice cream every night, I
Speaker 1: mean every night.
Speaker 2: Then I go back for a fourth scoop because I
Speaker 2: had a very stressful.
Speaker 1: Day, and don't judge me about it.
Speaker 3: I won't like what I see, but I will like
Speaker 3: what I feel. And so I need you to start okay,
Speaker 3: growing into a place in God. When when you go.
Speaker 2: To speak an unkind word, you can think this, if
Speaker 2: I sew this unkind word, what will I reap in
Speaker 2: this relationship later, because I'm gonna tell you the truth.
Speaker 2: It's gonna feel good to say it right now. It's
Speaker 2: gonna feel good to go off right now. As a
Speaker 2: matter of fact, when the woman in the text was
Speaker 2: talking with Jesus the part I didn't read you, she
Speaker 2: was so in her feelings she went off on Jesus.
Speaker 2: Jesus said, give me a drink. She said, you don't
Speaker 2: have a bucket. And why are you talking to me anyway.
Speaker 2: I'm a woman, you're a Rabbi, I'm a Samaritan, you're
Speaker 2: a Jew.
Speaker 1: You don't have anything to do with me. No, I
Speaker 1: have everything to do with you.
Speaker 2: And what you do in this moment where you feel offended,
Speaker 2: what you do in this moment where you feel weary,
Speaker 2: will determine what you do in this moment will determine
Speaker 2: whether your due season is going to be full of
Speaker 2: thorns and thistles or fruit in favor. I am not saying,
Speaker 2: by the way, that God's love is on the basis
Speaker 2: of our behavior. I am saying that the consequences are
Speaker 2: built into the system of humanity. So to think like
Speaker 2: a reaper is to watch this fancy term I came
Speaker 2: up with this week to become.
Speaker 1: I almost forgot it. See that's what happens when you
Speaker 1: try to show off with big words.
Speaker 2: Conscious of the consequence, right, conscious of the consequence pattern recognition.
Speaker 2: Every time I go down this road, every time, I
Speaker 2: just like respond out of what I feel. Every time,
Speaker 2: I just continue to rehearse this thing that happened.
Speaker 1: Three weeks ago. Every time I just let myself go
Speaker 1: there in my mind.
Speaker 2: Every time I indulge in it, I hate where it
Speaker 2: takes me.
Speaker 1: And that's my conflict.
Speaker 2: Conflict because some of the things in my life, I
Speaker 2: love what they bring me, but I hate where they
Speaker 2: take me.
Speaker 1: And if you'll be honest with it.
Speaker 2: There are certain vices, certain things, certain actions, certain states,
Speaker 2: certain relationships.
Speaker 1: Oh, don't let me preach a relationship seminar. I'll preach
Speaker 1: about the certain.
Speaker 2: Things that make you feel a certain way, but they
Speaker 2: take you a place.
Speaker 1: And what do you do when you love how they
Speaker 1: make you feel, but you hate where they make you go.
Speaker 2: Jesus is going somewhere, He's going through some area, he's
Speaker 2: working on something. And just remind your neighbor in case
Speaker 2: they haven't felt God's presence lately, or in case they're
Speaker 2: unclear about what God is doing in their life, just
Speaker 2: tell them he's working on something. Right now, he's working
Speaker 2: You need to be more convincing than that. Don't be
Speaker 2: mumbling that at them.
Speaker 1: Say Jesus is working on something. Come on, put it
Speaker 1: in the chat. Jesus is working on something. Jesus is
Speaker 1: working on something.
Speaker 2: That's why the disciples were surprised, isn't it? Because when
Speaker 2: they left him, he was sitting on a well alone.
Speaker 2: They went to get food, and Jesus started talking to
Speaker 2: a woman. We call her the woman at the well.
Speaker 2: She's much more than that, as I will show you
Speaker 2: in a moment, and so are you, because where she
Speaker 2: was is not indicative of who she was, and what
Speaker 2: she had done was not indicative of who she could become.
Speaker 1: And when they left Jesus he was sitting down.
Speaker 2: The Bible actually says he was resting because he was tired.
Speaker 2: He was resting because he was tired, and then so
Speaker 2: tired becomes the camouflage that he uses to fulfill the
Speaker 2: purpose he came for. Because when they left to get food,
Speaker 2: a woman came to get water. And when the woman
Speaker 2: came to get water, oh, I love it. Jesus started
Speaker 2: working on her. He started asking her questions, can I
Speaker 2: get a drink? And she said, you don't have a bucket,
Speaker 2: and I'm not a Jew and I'm not a man.
Speaker 2: And he said, well, if you knew who was talking
Speaker 2: to you, you'd ask and I'd give you the drink.
Speaker 2: And she said, well, are you greater than our father Jacob,
Speaker 2: who gave us this? Well, and Jesus is thinking, actually,
Speaker 2: I really am, well Jacob, I made him, But let's
Speaker 2: don't get to that right now. And they started to argue,
Speaker 2: we worship here, you worship there, You're like this, and
Speaker 2: I'm like that, And all of a sudden, Jesus cuts
Speaker 2: through all of that because because he.
Speaker 1: Was thinking like a reaper.
Speaker 2: Now, this is difficult for us, because as we go
Speaker 2: through life, we only see seeds, and the seed looks.
Speaker 1: Nothing like what it's going to be.
Speaker 2: So what the disciples would have seen if they had
Speaker 2: been in this scene would have been the woman who
Speaker 2: had had five different husbands, the woman who was not
Speaker 2: worth Jesus's time, the woman who had made so many
Speaker 2: mistakes or had been through so many relationships, whether her
Speaker 2: fault or the other, that her broken heart would make
Speaker 2: a horrible place for a new beginning.
Speaker 1: But Jesus thinks.
Speaker 2: Like a reaper, and a reaper begins with the end
Speaker 2: in mind. How many of you have had somebody in
Speaker 2: your life at some point who saw something in you
Speaker 2: you didn't see in yourself, and you're grateful that they
Speaker 2: invested in you. How many people wish you could be
Speaker 2: that person that the person who believed in you saw
Speaker 2: I told a buddy the other day, sometimes I'm sad
Speaker 2: because I'm grieving the me that I thought I would
Speaker 2: be by now.
Speaker 1: I am grieving the absence of the patience that I
Speaker 1: thought I would have by now.
Speaker 2: I am grieving the let it go that I thought
Speaker 2: I would be able to access in stressful situations. And
Speaker 2: this woman is not necessarily looking for an encounter with
Speaker 2: the living God, but she gets one.
Speaker 1: Because Jesus sees what she can be. There was a
Speaker 1: man that I met. You know.
Speaker 2: God brings different people along in our life in different seasons.
Speaker 2: By the way, don't ever think that just because people
Speaker 2: were seasonal in your life that it makes them insignificant.
Speaker 2: One of the reasons is so hard for us to
Speaker 2: resolve relationships when they end or when they change is
Speaker 2: because we assumed that the one who sewed into our
Speaker 2: life would be there when the reaping came.
Speaker 1: It's not always like that. I tell you an example.
Speaker 2: When I was sixteen, of course, I had been in church.
Speaker 2: What they say, the old preacher say, I had a
Speaker 2: drug problem. My mom drugged me to church every Sunday morning,
Speaker 2: every Sunday night, every Wednesday night.
Speaker 1: Y'all heard that one before.
Speaker 2: But there was an older pastor and I've talked about
Speaker 2: him many times in this pulpit, and I call him older,
Speaker 2: but I guess the time I met him, he wasn't
Speaker 2: that much older than I am now. So it's kind
Speaker 2: of getting weird. But he is old now, but you know,
Speaker 2: old is just where I haven't been yet. So he
Speaker 2: saw something in me and he let me be the
Speaker 2: FCA director of Fellowship of Christian Athletes and also his
Speaker 2: youth pastor.
Speaker 1: His name is Mickey White, Pastor Mickey White.
Speaker 2: Mickey White ran an autoparts store in Monks Corner, South Carolina.
Speaker 1: He would disciple me on Tuesdays.
Speaker 2: And when I say he would disciple me, I'm not
Speaker 2: saying that he was like Jesus, but he helped me
Speaker 2: through my hard places. And one of the things about
Speaker 2: mentoring a sixteen or seventeen year old or whatever I
Speaker 2: was at the time, is that he had explained to
Speaker 2: me things that I should just know. And by hiring
Speaker 2: somebody that was seventeen to be a youth pastor. I
Speaker 2: remember we were doing one FCA banquet. This thought just
Speaker 2: came back to me for the first time in years.
Speaker 2: While I was preparing, I went around. He took me
Speaker 2: around to all of his friends who were businessmen in
Speaker 2: Monk's Corner. And I was wanting to raise money so
Speaker 2: we could bring in really good speakers to preach the
Speaker 2: gospel at our FCA events, and so I would go
Speaker 2: around to his friends. The first guy I sat down with,
Speaker 2: I said, I want to raise some money and this
Speaker 2: is my vision. And he pulled out his check book
Speaker 2: and started writing the check while I was talking because
Speaker 2: he was going to do it.
Speaker 1: For Mickey anyway, he wasn't doing it for me. He's
Speaker 1: doing it for Mickey.
Speaker 2: And so he's writing a check and I keep talking
Speaker 2: and I'm like, and we could do this, and we
Speaker 2: can do that. And I felt a hand on my
Speaker 2: leg kind of squeezed my thigh and it was Pastor Mickey,
Speaker 2: and so I just let him write the check and
Speaker 2: I thanked him. I said, hey, why you squeeze my leg?
Speaker 2: He said, when you've made the sales, shut up. He
Speaker 2: was writing a check. It could only get worse from there.
Speaker 2: It can only stop writing, So stop talking, good little thing.
Speaker 2: I always remember him saying that, well, we were having
Speaker 2: our first one of those big nights that I had
Speaker 2: raised the money for. And long story short, I know
Speaker 2: you want every detail, but just out of consideration for
Speaker 2: others who have lunch appointments, I didn't get the doors
Speaker 2: unlocked in.
Speaker 1: Time, and so that the event was a complete disaster.
Speaker 2: Because I had another thing and I had asked somebody
Speaker 2: else to unlock the doors.
Speaker 1: So at the end of the night, he pulls me aside.
Speaker 2: He doesn't grab my leg, but it looks like you're
Speaker 2: about to grab my throat, and he.
Speaker 1: Goes, what happened? What happened? You are the SCA president.
Speaker 1: What happened?
Speaker 2: And I mentioned the name of the person who was
Speaker 2: supposed to unlock the door that didn't do it.
Speaker 1: He didn't even let me finish my sentence when I said,
Speaker 1: their name is cann Stop. You're the leader.
Speaker 2: The leader's job is to do it or get it done,
Speaker 2: and you didn't do either.
Speaker 1: Never forgot that up until that point in my life.
Speaker 2: I had just thought like a teenager, and a teenager
Speaker 2: doesn't even do it if it's a task. He was
Speaker 2: trying to skip me all the way from teenager to leader,
Speaker 2: try and tell me not only is it just do
Speaker 2: the task, just check it off, but it is actually
Speaker 2: making sure that the outcome happens.
Speaker 1: Because he was trying to get me to think like
Speaker 1: a reaper. A reaper. A leader thinks like a reaper.
Speaker 1: See if you just go through life and you go, oh,
Speaker 1: well I did that. I tried that, I said that
Speaker 1: I did it. You're still only a sewer.
Speaker 2: But to grow up is to say, not only am
Speaker 2: I responsible for the task, but I am going to
Speaker 2: be responsible for the outcome. Now, the good news about
Speaker 2: it is this, tell somebody think like a reaper. The
Speaker 2: good news is this, everywhere God sends you, He's already
Speaker 2: been there.
Speaker 1: Everywhere.
Speaker 2: Somebody needs to hear that because you're going into a
Speaker 2: situation that's like a Samaria to you. You're going into
Speaker 2: a situation that's a hard place for you, that's a
Speaker 2: hazardous place for you, that might even be a hostile
Speaker 2: environment for you.
Speaker 1: But notice when.
Speaker 2: The disciples got back, Jesus was already talking to the woman.
Speaker 2: And in fact, by the time they got back to Jesus,
Speaker 2: she was already on her way back to the town.
Speaker 2: And she didn't even get the water that she came for.
Speaker 2: She left her jar and went to town. Now, let's
Speaker 2: contrast the two. You've got a woman who Jesus wasn't
Speaker 2: even technically.
Speaker 1: Supposed to be talking to.
Speaker 2: You've got a woman who has had a salacious past.
Speaker 2: You have a woman who is only known and identified
Speaker 2: by what she's been through.
Speaker 1: And then you have the disciples, the ones.
Speaker 2: That Jesus is using, his leaders, who are going to
Speaker 2: take the church and really move it forward and all
Speaker 2: this wonderful stuff that they're going to do as leaders.
Speaker 2: And the woman she goes back to town and starts
Speaker 2: telling men about a man that she met. The disciples
Speaker 2: come to the man that she just met and say, hey,
Speaker 2: you want.
Speaker 1: To eat something, And this is what got me.
Speaker 2: While they were thinking about a meal, she was already
Speaker 2: thinking about a harvest. It didn't take long for her
Speaker 2: mentality to shift, and all of a sudden she saw
Speaker 2: herself differently, and all of a sudden, I imagine in
Speaker 2: that flash she thought, wait a minute, I'm talking to
Speaker 2: the Messiah. I am talking to possibly the one who
Speaker 2: can save me. And the first thing she thought about it,
Speaker 2: the first thing she thought about it was I've got
Speaker 2: to go back to town and get the men and
Speaker 2: bring them to this man. The disciples come back, the
Speaker 2: first thing they think is we got to eat. And
Speaker 2: it makes me wonder who's the real disciple in this passage.
Speaker 2: It makes me wonder did the ones who had been
Speaker 2: with him so much take him for granted, but the
Speaker 2: one that had just met him saw.
Speaker 1: The potential of what he could do.
Speaker 2: Because it's amazing that they're just thinking about eating and
Speaker 2: she's thinking about reaping. You say, the Bible doesn't say that,
Speaker 2: it implies it. When she came back from the town
Speaker 2: with the men, Jesus started preaching. He said, open your
Speaker 2: eyes and look, the fields are already white onto harvest.
Speaker 1: And then he goes into a saying.
Speaker 2: Now this saying isn't something we say, but it's something
Speaker 2: that they said. He said, that's the saying one sows
Speaker 2: and another reaps. It's true, like Pastor Mickey said, it's
Speaker 2: a leader's job to do it or get it done.
Speaker 2: I never forgot that say it. Certain things that my
Speaker 2: family used to say when I was growing up, they
Speaker 2: terrified me once I understood what they meant. My dad
Speaker 2: used to always see somebody that he thought was kind
Speaker 2: of snobby and he would say, I wish I could
Speaker 2: buy them for what they're worth and sell them for
Speaker 2: what they think they're worth. And as a little boy,
Speaker 2: I always heard him say that, and one day, when
Speaker 2: I hit puberty, I realized what he was saying. I
Speaker 2: was like, dang, that is crazy what he just said.
Speaker 2: I wish I could buy them for what they're worth
Speaker 2: and sell them for what they think they were. My
Speaker 2: dad was such a menace, and I didn't even know
Speaker 2: it at the time. And then some of this stuff
Speaker 2: is just cuter little sayings that we get right, little
Speaker 2: things that we say, little things that wor can weave
Speaker 2: their way into our vocabulary, as Southerners have all kinds
Speaker 2: of sayings, right.
Speaker 1: I met a guy one time.
Speaker 2: He was so Southern even I didn't know his sayings.
Speaker 2: And that takes a lot, because I've heard a lot
Speaker 2: of Southern sayings through the years, and I feel like
Speaker 2: I'm a pretty good interpreter of my own language. But
Speaker 2: I remember this guy named Brian that I met one
Speaker 2: time from Louisiana, and when we were getting ready to
Speaker 2: go somewhere, he used to say, if you're waiting on me,
Speaker 2: you're backing up. And I said, say that again, and
Speaker 2: so he would just say it's slower. But even after
Speaker 2: he said it slower, I still didn't know what that meant.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, It takes one to know one.
Speaker 2: It's just a saying, right right.
Speaker 1: This was a saying that they had.
Speaker 2: Put it back up verse thirty seven because this really
Speaker 2: got my attention. Jesus is talking to this woman. He's
Speaker 2: working in her heart. She has had a hard life
Speaker 2: and this is a hard place, and Jesus is trying
Speaker 2: to show us disciples something.
Speaker 1: I believe he's trying to show us. Thus, the saying
Speaker 1: one sows and another reaps is true.
Speaker 2: It was a saying they had and Jesus said, is
Speaker 2: true that sometimes life isn't fair. Think about it, one
Speaker 2: sows and another reaps, Like sometimes you do all the
Speaker 2: work and they get all the credit. Sometimes you build
Speaker 2: it and you don't even get to enjoy it. Sometimes
Speaker 2: you put all the love into the relationship and then
Speaker 2: they end up with somebody else. Sometimes you put all
Speaker 2: the investment into making the thing good, and then you
Speaker 2: feel like when it finally starts hitting, you get shut
Speaker 2: out of it. One sows and another reaps. Be honest,
Speaker 2: have you ever felt that way? Have you ever felt
Speaker 2: like you put more in than you got out? Have
Speaker 2: you ever felt like you were the only one who
Speaker 2: seemed to care about it because you're the only one
Speaker 2: who did it, but everybody else enjoyed the benefits of
Speaker 2: what you did. Now, I'm not saying I've ever felt
Speaker 2: this way about y'all, But even as a preacher, you
Speaker 2: see how easy it could be to have a resentment
Speaker 2: about Oh my goodness, I worked so hard on this
Speaker 2: message and I don't even know if they care. So
Speaker 2: what I could think about that is watch this. Well,
Speaker 2: I guess I'm the only one who loves God's word.
Speaker 1: Because the enemy would love to say that to me.
Speaker 2: Just like if you were a volunteer, there will be
Speaker 2: eager for in this church that will sign up to
Speaker 2: lead an e group, and the one will come and
Speaker 2: it will be easy for them to think, well, I
Speaker 2: was willing, I was trying. I gave it all I
Speaker 2: had and it didn't work. There will be people in
Speaker 2: this room today who will really give all of yourself
Speaker 2: to something, only to find that the people who you
Speaker 2: did it for don't even say thank you. Wonder if
Speaker 2: God ever feels that way about us. By the way,
Speaker 2: I'm just.
Speaker 1: Asking don Jesus, you have a.
Speaker 2: Sand one sows in another reaps, and at this point
Speaker 2: the disciples are probably feeling.
Speaker 1: Like, Yeah, that's us. We're the sewers, We're the disciples, We're.
Speaker 2: The ones working hard, We're the ones out here in
Speaker 2: Samaria following you, Jesus.
Speaker 1: But isn't the irony in the fact.
Speaker 2: That the woman was the one reaping and they were
Speaker 2: just eating. Isn't the irony in the fact that the
Speaker 2: ones who should have been reaping were only focused on
Speaker 2: their next meal, and the one that Jesus shouldn't have
Speaker 2: even been talking to was going back to the town
Speaker 2: to share her testimony.
Speaker 1: And here's what I'm saying to you.
Speaker 2: You might be surprised who God uses, You might be
Speaker 2: surprised how.
Speaker 1: He uses you.
Speaker 2: You might be surprised what He uses in your life,
Speaker 2: because the fact of the matter is, when God is
Speaker 2: using you, you don't always feel it.
Speaker 1: You don't.
Speaker 2: The feeling comes, but it doesn't come first. You have
Speaker 2: to obey Jesus when you see no evidence that your
Speaker 2: obedience is yielding anything. You have to instill in your
Speaker 2: kids certain values that you can only hope you are
Speaker 2: going to envision later in their life. But the disciples
Speaker 2: are the sowers right now, Jesus said, And this blew
Speaker 2: my mind, Holly, this blew my mind.
Speaker 1: He said. The saying is true. One sows and another reaps.
Speaker 1: That's how it works, right. She's like, yeah, that's how
Speaker 1: it works.
Speaker 2: One, so's another reap. Look at verse thirty eight. He
Speaker 2: gives it a twist.
Speaker 1: I sent you to read what you haven't worked for.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, No, no, no, Jesus, we're the sowers.
Speaker 1: They're the reapers, Jesus says, not really.
Speaker 2: You always see yourself as a sewer, but you never
Speaker 2: even realize how much you're already reaping.
Speaker 1: Put it back up. I sent you to read. Come on,
Speaker 1: what you have not worked for?
Speaker 2: Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped
Speaker 2: the benefits of their labor. Which makes me think that
Speaker 2: maybe you've been reaping and you don't even realize it.
Speaker 2: Maybe you've been reaping and you know. The enemy has
Speaker 2: got you.
Speaker 4: So focused on how hard it is to sew, how
Speaker 4: hard it is to show up, how hard it is
Speaker 4: to dig in, how hard it is to be you.
Speaker 1: Wave at me if it's hard to be you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's hard to be you. How hard it is to
Speaker 1: be you.
Speaker 2: But if the enemy can only get you to focus
Speaker 2: on how hard it is, or here's another one, if
Speaker 2: he can get you to focus on how hurt you are, y'all,
Speaker 2: I am sick and tired of people only talking about
Speaker 2: church hurt because it's a ridiculous distinction to.
Speaker 1: Call it church hurt. It's human hurt.
Speaker 2: People hurt, people hurt people. If you quit going to church,
Speaker 2: it wasn't because church hurt you. It's because you allowed
Speaker 2: the hurt to become greater than the harvest.
Speaker 1: This is what I want to preach. This is what
Speaker 1: I want to preach.
Speaker 2: I've been preaching so much many verses to get to
Speaker 2: this one. Tell somebody said next to you.
Speaker 1: Say, oh, you've been reaping. You just haven't realized it yet.
Speaker 2: Tell them, Oh, God's been good to you. You just
Speaker 2: haven't realized it yet. Now look at him and say, oh,
Speaker 2: you have help, you just.
Speaker 1: Haven't called for it yet.
Speaker 2: Now take about thirteen seconds if you know Jesus is
Speaker 2: my help.
Speaker 1: I'm not letting this go. You might sit on me all.
Speaker 2: Day, but I'm not going down without a fight today
Speaker 2: because God sent me on assignment to tell somebody that
Speaker 2: you have been so focused on how hard it is,
Speaker 2: so focused on how hurt you are, that you have
Speaker 2: become blind to how much help you actually have. That's
Speaker 2: why the Bible says, praise the Lord.
Speaker 1: On my soul and all all.
Speaker 2: That is within me, bless his holy name.
Speaker 1: Praise the Lord o my soul.
Speaker 2: And Chris referenced it when he was leading worship, and
Speaker 2: I took it as a confirmation when he said it.
Speaker 2: And forget not all his benefits. Let me give you
Speaker 2: a list who forgives.
Speaker 1: All your sins.
Speaker 2: You didn't earn that you reap that I said, you
Speaker 2: didn't earn that you reap that I couldn't earn forgiveness.
Speaker 2: The chasm was too wide, the gap was too great,
Speaker 2: My sin was too bleek, my shame was too great.
Speaker 2: But Jesus was Greater who heals all your diseases. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I feel it now. I feel it now. Why is
Speaker 2: the only time that we thank God for our health
Speaker 2: when we need to be healed? Why am I not
Speaker 2: thanking God for the stuff that feels good right now?
Speaker 1: Look at that? Look what I do.
Speaker 2: That's a big deal, you say, pastor, did you have
Speaker 2: a shoulder surgery that you came through and now you're
Speaker 2: really grateful you No, I'm praising them for the surgery
Speaker 2: that I didn't have to have.
Speaker 1: What I thought?
Speaker 2: Somebody say, the harvest is here, the harvest. Come on this, son,
Speaker 2: don't feel left off. You can get in on this too.
Speaker 1: The harvest, it's already here.
Speaker 2: So the disciples are thinking about food and they mean well,
Speaker 2: but they are missing the mission over a meal.
Speaker 1: I said, they're missing the mission over a meal.
Speaker 2: Don't let what you didn't get keep you from praising
Speaker 2: God for what you have and wherever He is sending you,
Speaker 2: please believe he's already been there.
Speaker 1: Because he's the sower. I'm the reaper.
Speaker 2: He gave his life so I could live mine. He
Speaker 2: is the breath, I am the sales. He is the vine.
Speaker 2: I am the branch. I'm trying to get you to
Speaker 2: say out loud, I'm reaping this.
Speaker 1: This life that I have is a gift. This opportunity
Speaker 1: that I have is a gift. This moment that I
Speaker 1: have is a gift.
Speaker 2: This breath that I have.
Speaker 1: Is a gift. Breed out his praise. And if you.
Speaker 2: Were the devil. I'm not saying you are. I'm sure
Speaker 2: you're an angel, But if you were the devil. If
Speaker 2: you were, if you were, tell your neighbor if you were,
Speaker 2: wouldn't you want to.
Speaker 1: Keep you from reaping? Because you've already cried. You've already cried, You've.
Speaker 2: Already shed tears over it, You've already been through the
Speaker 2: pain of it.
Speaker 1: Why would you?
Speaker 2: Why would you cry over the seed and then not
Speaker 2: reap the harvest when it came.
Speaker 1: It's I went twenty six.
Speaker 2: One of my favorite things that Thesauma said was that
Speaker 2: they that sow.
Speaker 1: In tears will what.
Speaker 2: Read with songs of joy? Are you so in your
Speaker 2: tears that you cannot even reap what you cried for?
Speaker 1: And it's here the herv this is always here.
Speaker 2: I was talking to my mom about some things she
Speaker 2: went through in her past, and I was ministering this
Speaker 2: message to her because she couldn't be here today. Now,
Speaker 2: I can't do that for everybody, but I can do
Speaker 2: it for my mom. When she's not in church, I'll
Speaker 2: call her and give it to her personal. And she
Speaker 2: said that when I told her, I know it's hard
Speaker 2: because of some of the things she's been through in
Speaker 2: her past, and I know it hurts, and it didn't
Speaker 2: stop hurting. But God is with you in your hard place,
Speaker 2: and you have more help than you have hurt. She said,
Speaker 2: thank you for telling me that, because I get bitter
Speaker 2: sometimes because I start thinking, well, where was my help
Speaker 2: when I went through the abuse? Where was my help?
Speaker 2: When my husband was dying of als? Where was my help?
Speaker 2: But I realized that the answer is always John four
Speaker 2: thirty six.
Speaker 1: Open your eyes and look, the harvest is here. I
Speaker 1: believe this thirty five. I messed that up. That's a
Speaker 1: good moment too, and I really ruined it. Open your
Speaker 1: eyes and look at the fields. Wait a minute, the fields. Jesus.
Speaker 1: We're trying to get you to eat a meal. Eat Jesus.
Speaker 1: Eat this Samaritan woman. We'll deal with her.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, I've already dealt with her. She's bringing
Speaker 2: me a harvest. Now watch this. This is mind blowing.
Speaker 1: I love the Bible, y'all. Can I preach the Bible
Speaker 1: to y'all for like the next fifty years? I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm just want to stand on this thing.
Speaker 2: Because the tears in the passage belonged to the woman
Speaker 2: who had been through so much, and the.
Speaker 1: Opportunity belongs to the disciples.
Speaker 2: And Jesus said, open your eyes, Verse, please, and look
Speaker 2: to the fields. They are ripe for harvest. Yeah, Jesus,
Speaker 2: but we're not ready for the harvest. Just because you're
Speaker 2: not ready doesn't mean it's not ripe.
Speaker 1: And if you will open.
Speaker 2: Your eyes, your eyes, that's the first tool you need,
Speaker 2: is your eyes. The moment that they opened their eyes,
Speaker 2: let's pretend to be the disciples. They open their eyes,
Speaker 2: Jesus is talking about a harvest and coming their way
Speaker 2: are the Samaritans that they hated. What do you do
Speaker 2: when your harvest comes looking like something that you hate?
Speaker 2: This will this will be the test in this season
Speaker 2: of your life? Will you think like a reaper to
Speaker 2: say that even the regret We all have regrets. This
Speaker 2: woman had regrets. I'm sure she regretted every manda she
Speaker 2: said yes to that had left her. But through the
Speaker 2: power of faith, you can reach into a regard and
Speaker 2: reap a lesson.
Speaker 1: So I'm harvesting this.
Speaker 2: It's hard for me right now, but I'm harvesting this
Speaker 2: because those who sow with tears will reap with joy.
Speaker 2: And I came to call somebody today who the devil
Speaker 2: has been reminding you of every reason that you have
Speaker 2: to feel bad about yourself, every reason that you have
Speaker 2: to feel resentful about your life, every reason that you
Speaker 2: have to give up and throw in the towel and
Speaker 2: quit and duck and hide under the covers and not
Speaker 2: call anybody back till next Thursday, and delete your hope
Speaker 2: for the future.
Speaker 1: But God said to remind you you have a reason
Speaker 1: to rejoice, because those who sow in tears you got it,
Speaker 1: you got it, will read with joy.
Speaker 2: And you, my friend, are one thought away from joy.
Speaker 2: And many in that town believed in Jesus because of.
Speaker 1: What that woman went through. I wonder what God wants
Speaker 1: to do through what you went through. I'm gonna blow
Speaker 1: your mind. I'm gonna blow your mind. God blew my mind.
Speaker 2: If he had sent the disciples into the town, the
Speaker 2: men wouldn't have come back with them.
Speaker 1: She had to have been with men in order to
Speaker 1: bring men.
Speaker 2: I'm not telling you to go live a sinful life
Speaker 2: so you can build a bigger testimony.
Speaker 1: But i am saying watch this. Nothing will be wasted.
Speaker 1: Nothing will be wasted.
Speaker 2: Nothing will be wasted, Nothing will be wasted, nothing will
Speaker 2: be wasted.
Speaker 1: I'm reaping this. Nothing will be wasted. Tell your neighbor.
Speaker 1: Nothing will be wasted.
Speaker 2: Nothing, nothing, not a breakup, not a bad turn, not
Speaker 2: a left turn, not a bad day, not a wrong
Speaker 2: nothing that you'll been through. I'm thinking like a reefer
Speaker 2: now I am seeing that God is transforming through my tears.
Speaker 1: And feelings don't come first, Faith does.
Speaker 2: So we're gonna do something that is going to absolutely
Speaker 2: confuse the enemy in.
Speaker 1: Just about twelve seconds.
Speaker 2: We are going to absolutely rejoice because we're reefers, and
Speaker 2: reefers reap with joy, and we have been crying with
Speaker 2: tears of anxiety, and crying with tears of regret, and
Speaker 2: crying with tears of pain and unhealed trauma.
Speaker 1: But we are going to confuse the enemy in just.
Speaker 2: About three seconds because we're gonna start rejoicing.
Speaker 1: Because we're reaper. Give me my joy back. Get me up.
Speaker 1: I'm a wicked when I think of all you go.
Speaker 5: When I think of volume, when I think I'm reaping
Speaker 5: where I didn't sew I never seen.
Speaker 1: I'm standing in what I didn't deserve.
Speaker 2: I think I'm breathing breath that's borrows.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna need every reaper to get your hands something
Speaker 1: like that. Hold on, let's receive, let's receive seed, and
Speaker 1: then let's turn it the plain.
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