WEBVTT - Think Like A Reaper

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<v Speaker 1>Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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

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<v Speaker 2>I wanted to thank you for joining us today.

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<v Speaker 1>Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope

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<v Speaker 1>it gives your perspective to see God is moving in

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<v Speaker 1>your life. Enjoy the message. Just put in the chat

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<v Speaker 1>right now.

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<v Speaker 2>If you're joining us on our EVAAN, one thing that

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<v Speaker 2>you thank God for today, and while you're at it,

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<v Speaker 2>tell your neighbor here at Valentine one thing you thank

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<v Speaker 2>And if you need a little prompt tell them I

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<v Speaker 2>thank God for you. You are the greatest person I

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<v Speaker 2>sat next to in church.

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<v Speaker 1>Ah week, I thank God for you. Well. Elevation Nights

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<v Speaker 1>I haven't been announcing this like I should.

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<v Speaker 2>I keep forgetting. It's weird because I get up here

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<v Speaker 2>with you. We want to praise God with you. I

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<v Speaker 2>want to preach to you. We want to celebrate the

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<v Speaker 2>awesome things God has done and believe with you for

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<v Speaker 2>all of the things that He is going to do.

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<v Speaker 2>Is going to be an amazing time. Speaking of an

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<v Speaker 2>amazing time, many of our E group leaders are expecting

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<v Speaker 2>you to come over to their house this week.

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<v Speaker 1>This is E Group connect weekend.

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<v Speaker 2>They're getting ready all the We should actually have a

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<v Speaker 2>criteria for eGroups. If they have only healthy food, there

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<v Speaker 2>should be a disclaimer at that group.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't look at that as a benefit. I look

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<v Speaker 1>at that like a hazard. But I'm sure you can.

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<v Speaker 2>Find an E group that will really speak to your

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<v Speaker 2>stage of life.

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<v Speaker 1>I would love for you to do.

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<v Speaker 2>That that way, that when you finish here in the

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<v Speaker 2>sermon this week, you can take it like they said

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<v Speaker 2>earlier and really apply it to your life and have

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<v Speaker 2>help doing that. Tell your neighbor you need some help sometimes.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't mean to offend you, but you do sometimes

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<v Speaker 2>Sometimes sometimes the enemy comes to snatch the word of

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<v Speaker 2>God and you need somebody else to help you keep

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<v Speaker 2>it planted and to stay stable. So we've got people

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

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<v Speaker 1>If you're leading the group, Hey, Holly, and I want

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<v Speaker 1>to thank you. Thank you for your partnership in the gospel.

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<v Speaker 1>I hope you will avail yourself to that.

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<v Speaker 2>And now it's time preach the word of God. Your

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<v Speaker 2>excitement level is amazing. I'm gonna come back out again.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna sit the reset button.

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<v Speaker 1>Now it's time to preach the word of God.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm excited to be sharing with you today from John

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<v Speaker 2>chapter four, verse twenty seven through thirty nine.

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<v Speaker 1>Please give your attention to this scripture is very powerful,

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<v Speaker 1>the Bible says.

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<v Speaker 2>Just then his disciples returned and we're surprised to find

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<v Speaker 2>him talking with a woman. But no one asked what

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<v Speaker 2>do you want or why are you talking with her?

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<v Speaker 2>Then leaving her water jar, the woman went back to

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<v Speaker 2>the town and said to the people, come see a

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<v Speaker 2>man who told me everything I ever did?

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<v Speaker 1>Could this be the Messiah? Look at your neighbors, say,

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<v Speaker 1>this could be the one.

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<v Speaker 2>This could be the one. I'm not sure yet, but

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<v Speaker 2>I'm curious. This could be the one. I'm not completely

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<v Speaker 2>solid on it yet, but I'm suspicious this could.

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<v Speaker 1>Be the one.

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<v Speaker 2>And they verse came out of the town and made

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<v Speaker 2>their way toward him, towards Jesus. Now, meanwhile, his disciples

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<v Speaker 2>urged him, Rabbi, eat something, but he said to them.

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<v Speaker 1>I have food to eat that you know nothing about.

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<v Speaker 2>There's a fine line sometimes in the scripture. I can't

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<v Speaker 2>tell whether Jesus is training his disciples or trolling his disciples,

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<v Speaker 2>because that's kind.

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<v Speaker 1>Of you know, on the nose. Would you like to eat?

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<v Speaker 1>We brought some food.

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<v Speaker 2>He said, I have food to eat that you know

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<v Speaker 2>nothing about. But then listen what he says next. This

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<v Speaker 2>is a lesson all in itself. My food, said Jesus,

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<v Speaker 2>is to do the will of him who sent me

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<v Speaker 2>and to finish his work. My food is to do

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<v Speaker 2>the will of him who sent me, and to finish

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<v Speaker 2>his work. So the question becomes, what's your fuel? What

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<v Speaker 2>fuels you to do what God has called.

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<v Speaker 1>You to do?

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<v Speaker 2>Is your fuel comparison because that's bad fuel. Is your

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<v Speaker 2>fuel validation from others because that's bad fuel. Is your

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<v Speaker 2>fuel feelings because that's unreliable fuel.

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<v Speaker 1>Jesus said, my food my fuel.

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<v Speaker 2>See, most of us eat food for fuel. Jesus was fueled,

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<v Speaker 2>and that was his food. But he was fueled by

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<v Speaker 2>an agenda that was set by his father.

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<v Speaker 1>Are you am I? My food is to do the

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<v Speaker 1>will of him who.

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<v Speaker 2>Sent me, and to finish his work. Now pay attention.

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<v Speaker 2>We're getting close to our main point for today.

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

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<v Speaker 2>I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields.

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

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<v Speaker 2>Even now. The one who reaps draws away and harvest

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<v Speaker 2>the crop for eternal life, so that the sower and

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<v Speaker 2>the reaper may be glad together. Thus the saying one

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<v Speaker 2>sows and another reaps is true. I sent you to

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<v Speaker 2>reap what you have not worked for. Others have done

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<v Speaker 2>the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of

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<v Speaker 2>their labor. And many of the Samaritans from that town

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<v Speaker 2>believed in him Jesus because of that woman's testimony. He

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<v Speaker 2>told me everything I ever did. You know, your testimony

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<v Speaker 2>is a tool. You got to put it back in

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

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<v Speaker 2>testimony is a tool that God wants to use in

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

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<v Speaker 2>from your misery.

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<v Speaker 1>That's where your ability to help put other people back.

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<v Speaker 2>Together again is going to come from, from the broken

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<v Speaker 2>pieces that you feel inside of you.

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<v Speaker 1>You.

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<v Speaker 2>So today I want to give you an important lesson

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<v Speaker 2>one of the things that God is teaching me. I

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<v Speaker 2>think this can be so powerful if you will think

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<v Speaker 2>with me. Think with me now now I want you

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<v Speaker 2>to feel the presence of God today. But today I

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<v Speaker 2>want you to think with me as well about this story,

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<v Speaker 2>about your life, about what God is saying. Think with me,

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<v Speaker 2>and I want you to think a very specific way,

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<v Speaker 2>and this is the title of the message. I want

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<v Speaker 2>you to think like a reaper. Think like a reaper.

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<v Speaker 2>In this season of your life. It is important that

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<v Speaker 2>you mature to the point that you think like a reaper,

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<v Speaker 2>not just an eater. Not just where's my next meal?

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<v Speaker 2>Not just is it convenient right now? But tell your

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<v Speaker 2>neighbor it's time to think like a reaper.

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<v Speaker 1>Not the grim reaper.

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<v Speaker 2>I want to clarify you might begin in Spook it's

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<v Speaker 2>not October.

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<v Speaker 1>But think like a reaper.

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<v Speaker 2>Father, I praise you for what you said to me,

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<v Speaker 2>Help me to say it so clear that it can't

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<v Speaker 2>be missed, and give us the courage to obey. Speak Lord,

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

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<v Speaker 2>I like you to write this down somewhere. Feelings come,

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<v Speaker 2>Let's write that down.

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<v Speaker 1>I like to start somewhere that nobody can argue with.

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<v Speaker 2>You.

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<v Speaker 1>Start my sermons saying.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, Jesus is the only true way to God,

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<v Speaker 2>and he is the Son of God, and he died

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<v Speaker 2>for your sins and he rose again.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, you may or.

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<v Speaker 2>May not believe that. And I believe that, but you

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<v Speaker 2>may not believe that. So let me buil a little bridge. Okay,

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<v Speaker 2>this is what John four is about, that Jesus is

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<v Speaker 2>the Messiah. But let me start with something that we

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<v Speaker 2>all can agree with. Feelings come. And one of the

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<v Speaker 2>things that happens in worship a lot of times when

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<v Speaker 2>we come to church is that we will come to

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<v Speaker 2>church not even wanting to come, and then when we

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<v Speaker 2>get in the atmosphere of God's presence, we are glad

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<v Speaker 2>we came, and we're so glad that we didn't obey

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<v Speaker 2>the way that we felt and let it keep us

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<v Speaker 2>from what we were supposed to receive. And I feel

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<v Speaker 2>this way every time that I do a physical workout,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, like a weightlifting thing or something like that.

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<v Speaker 2>I never work out because of how I want to

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<v Speaker 2>feel in that workout. I meet psychopaths who do CrossFit.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not wired like that. They say they enjoy the

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<v Speaker 2>actual workout, and I am getting more to that point.

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<v Speaker 2>But actually what puts me in a workout is the

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<v Speaker 2>way I want to feel after the workout, and that

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<v Speaker 2>became a powerful journaling exercise for me. I call it

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

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<v Speaker 2>usually go like, ah, well, you know, I did this

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<v Speaker 2>and I shouldn't have, and I ate this and I

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<v Speaker 2>shouldn't have and I went there and I shouldn't have

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<v Speaker 2>and I said that and I shouldn't have it. And

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<v Speaker 2>I do plenty of that, trust me. But if you

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<v Speaker 2>can reverse journal sometimes it's just a really good spiritual practice.

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<v Speaker 2>It's like asking the question, how do I want to

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<v Speaker 2>feel when this day is finished, and you ask it

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<v Speaker 2>in the morning, and then you kind of like try

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<v Speaker 2>to work toward that with your actions, because if you

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<v Speaker 2>just wake up and let the feelings just.

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<v Speaker 1>Come they'll come.

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<v Speaker 2>And sometimes the feelings come and they catch you before

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<v Speaker 2>you've even had your coffee. And this is a whole

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<v Speaker 2>room of people who have not had their coffee today.

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<v Speaker 2>I could tell they put niquill in the communion cups

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<v Speaker 2>out there in the lobby here today. But what I'm

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<v Speaker 2>trying to say is, feelings come. Watch this, but they

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<v Speaker 2>don't come first. Now, that might be one of the

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<v Speaker 2>most powerful things that I ever learned, and I'd like

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<v Speaker 2>to break it down with you a little while today.

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<v Speaker 2>Say Feelings come, but they don't come first. Say it again,

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<v Speaker 2>Feelings come. Write it in the chat. Feelings come, but

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<v Speaker 2>they don't come first. And so the feeling of being

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<v Speaker 2>tempted is never a sin. It is when the temptation

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<v Speaker 2>takes the throne in your life and leads you to

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<v Speaker 2>a place that you have no business being, that the

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<v Speaker 2>sin is committed. Feelings of sadness do not negate the

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<v Speaker 2>joy of the Lord. But it's when I allow the

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<v Speaker 2>feeling of sadness to become the primary soil in which

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<v Speaker 2>my life is grown that it becomes a problem. Feelings come,

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<v Speaker 2>but they don't come first. And what I mean by

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<v Speaker 2>that is, first of all, sometimes you have to do

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<v Speaker 2>the thing and the feeling follows.

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<v Speaker 1>Sometimes you have to.

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<v Speaker 2>Lift your hands and the burden is lifted as your

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<v Speaker 2>hands are. But if you wait for the burden to lift,

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<v Speaker 2>for your hands to follow, you may keep them in

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<v Speaker 2>your pockets. You may never feel the freedom that you

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<v Speaker 2>could have felt, because feelings come, but they don't come first.

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<v Speaker 2>All I'm trying to get you to see today is

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<v Speaker 2>that God is very aware of the hard places in

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<v Speaker 2>your life.

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<v Speaker 1>And the very clear.

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<v Speaker 2>Thing that I heard God saying to me today to

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<v Speaker 2>preach to you, was he will help you in the

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<v Speaker 2>hard place. Just encourage your neighbor. They need to hear it.

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<v Speaker 2>God will help you in the hard place. Say it

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<v Speaker 2>to your neighbor, even if you don't believe it's true

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<v Speaker 2>for you. God will help you in the hard place.

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<v Speaker 2>And see when you said that to her. You don't

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<v Speaker 2>know what her hard.

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<v Speaker 1>Place is, but you can be sure she has a

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<v Speaker 1>hard place.

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<v Speaker 2>No, she doesn't. She has plenty of money, then she

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<v Speaker 2>has plenty of taxes. God will help you in the

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<v Speaker 2>hard place. You know well, they have kids. They're not

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<v Speaker 2>struggling with infertility. Fertility has its own set of problems.

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<v Speaker 1>You never hear him.

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<v Speaker 2>I say that I'm struggling with fertility. But the truth

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<v Speaker 2>of the matter is whether you're struggling with something that

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<v Speaker 2>you can't have or something that you do have.

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<v Speaker 1>The pressure is real for all of us.

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<v Speaker 2>And the assuring word of the Lord is that God

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<v Speaker 2>will help you in your hard place.

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<v Speaker 1>God will help you in your hard place.

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<v Speaker 2>The text that we read, I'm not sure if the

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<v Speaker 2>section that I read got the point across that Jesus

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<v Speaker 2>and his disciples were traveling through a hard place. We

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<v Speaker 2>know that because verse thirty nine says many of the

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<v Speaker 2>Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the

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<v Speaker 2>woman's testimony, and two things in this text I want

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<v Speaker 2>to give you before we really get practical here, is

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<v Speaker 2>that Samaria was a place that was very hostile to

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<v Speaker 2>the Jews, and the woman had lived a very hard

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<v Speaker 2>life and had been through several men. In fact, she'd

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<v Speaker 2>been through five men, and she was currently in a

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<v Speaker 2>situation with number six. Into the complexity of this situation.

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<v Speaker 1>Cleaning it up and making it, King.

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<v Speaker 2>James, there comes the presence of purity, the presence of purpose,

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<v Speaker 2>the presence of potential in the dirt of a place

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<v Speaker 2>that they didn't want to be. Samaria was a place

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<v Speaker 2>that was racially tense. Samaria was a place that was

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<v Speaker 2>religiously polytheistic. Not that they didn't each think they were right,

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<v Speaker 2>they just worshiped in different places in different ways. And

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<v Speaker 2>so everything is against the Disciples and Jesus in this text.

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<v Speaker 2>And I think that's worth its own sermon, really, I do,

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<v Speaker 2>because some of the things that God teaches us that

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<v Speaker 2>go the deepest happen in the places that we did

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<v Speaker 2>not choose to be.

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<v Speaker 1>You don't really.

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<v Speaker 2>Get to sign up for a class to learn the

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<v Speaker 2>things that Christ wants to teach you.

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<v Speaker 1>And I'll prove it to you right from the text.

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<v Speaker 2>The disciples were look at verse twenty seven, surprise to

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<v Speaker 2>see Jesus.

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<v Speaker 1>Talking to a woman.

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<v Speaker 2>Now that lets me know if they were surprised that

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<v Speaker 2>they did not get a syllabus. I got a son

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<v Speaker 2>going back to college this week. What's up, my boy.

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<v Speaker 2>Some of the stuff that gets taught is not on

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<v Speaker 2>the syllabus. And when we read discipleship, we think class

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<v Speaker 2>because that is our modern Western interpretation of learning. But

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<v Speaker 2>God's version of learning usually looks like this. I am

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<v Speaker 2>going to show you how strategic I was after you

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<v Speaker 2>survived the surprise. So then what happens is life catches

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<v Speaker 2>you off guard. Oh whoa, hey, no they didn't even

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<v Speaker 2>see that coming. Oh well no, I didn't even see

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<v Speaker 2>them coming. I definitely would have duped. I definitely wouldn't

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<v Speaker 2>have answered if I knew that's what they wanted to

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<v Speaker 2>talk to me about.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, people who bait you.

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<v Speaker 2>With the text like hey, and that's all it says.

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<v Speaker 2>I never responded that I'm gonna need more information that

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<v Speaker 2>is inconclusive data to give me. Surprise, he's talking to

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<v Speaker 2>a woman. Surprise, he's sitting down having a chat. Surprise.

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<v Speaker 2>She's somebody you don't like. She's a Samaritan.

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<v Speaker 1>Surprise. See, they thought we went.

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<v Speaker 2>Through Samaria because it was shorter geographically. The Bible says

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<v Speaker 2>that Jesus took them through Samaria.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, most Jews walked around Samaria so that they didn't

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<v Speaker 1>have to deal with those people.

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<v Speaker 2>And now Jesus is talking to one of those people,

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<v Speaker 2>and not even one of those people, a woman, which

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<v Speaker 2>was not very good pr strategy for a rabbi.

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<v Speaker 1>And yet I have learned in my life. Now you

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<v Speaker 1>can get this lesson. At age thirteen.

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<v Speaker 2>You can get it at age thirty one, or you

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<v Speaker 2>can die not getting this lesson. But you'll find out

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<v Speaker 2>one day that God is often most strategic when you

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<v Speaker 2>are most surprised. And that means that God will allow

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<v Speaker 2>things to come into my life, even my day or

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<v Speaker 2>even my feelings.

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<v Speaker 1>That I did not expect.

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<v Speaker 2>And what I have to learn how to do in

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<v Speaker 2>those moments is what Galatians six ' nine says, Please

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<v Speaker 2>give me this verse.

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<v Speaker 1>Galician six ' nine says, let us not.

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<v Speaker 2>Become weary in doing good or at the proper time,

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<v Speaker 2>or one version says, in due season, in due season,

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<v Speaker 2>at the proper time, we will reap a harvest if

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<v Speaker 2>we do not give up. But if your feelings come first,

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<v Speaker 2>you give up while it's growing. If your feelings come first,

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<v Speaker 2>if you cannot separate the feeling, you will never experience

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<v Speaker 2>your due season d u E season.

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<v Speaker 1>But this the tricky thing.

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<v Speaker 2>How do you do d O in a season what

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<v Speaker 2>is due d ue in another season when the feelings

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<v Speaker 2>don't come to support you and you say to me,

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<v Speaker 2>this has nothing to do with you, Jesus and the Samaritan.

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<v Speaker 2>It has everything to do with Jesus and the Samaritan.

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<v Speaker 2>It has everything to do with you and your kid.

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<v Speaker 2>It has everything to do with the fear that you

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<v Speaker 2>feel about your business. Because I think this passage speaks

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<v Speaker 2>to every one of our fears, every one of our frustration,

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<v Speaker 2>and it speaks to something else that we should talk about,

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<v Speaker 2>the fatigue that we feel.

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<v Speaker 1>While we do.

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<v Speaker 2>What we do and what is due doesn't come. What

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<v Speaker 2>do you do when what is due doesn't come? And

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<v Speaker 2>the Lord might have sent me to preach this message

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<v Speaker 2>for myself. And if that's the case, I invite you

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<v Speaker 2>to listen in because too many times in my life

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<v Speaker 2>I have thought only about what I am sewing in

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<v Speaker 2>this moment, and I lose consciousness of the harvest that

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<v Speaker 2>awaits me.

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<v Speaker 1>If I don't give up. And so it looks like this,

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<v Speaker 1>do not be deceived. Actually good verse good to verse eight.

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<v Speaker 2>I think that'd be good to Galatians chapter six, verse eight,

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<v Speaker 2>where the Bible says Galician six eight, Please, whoever sows

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<v Speaker 2>to please their flesh from the flesh will reap destruction.

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<v Speaker 1>That's another way of saying, just doing what you feel.

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<v Speaker 1>So to the flesh.

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<v Speaker 2>Whoever sows to please the spirit from the spirit will

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<v Speaker 2>reap eternal life. And that's how we're trying to think. Now,

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<v Speaker 2>we're trying to think about the lasting thing. We're trying

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<v Speaker 2>to think about the eternal thing. We're trying to think

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<v Speaker 2>about the long term thing. And we don't want to

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<v Speaker 2>be so into our feelings that we only sew into

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<v Speaker 2>what we feel like.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm coming. I'm coming. It's gonna take a minute, but

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<v Speaker 1>we're gonna get there. So it looks like this.

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<v Speaker 2>I may want to eat the ice cream at ten pm,

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<v Speaker 2>I don't want to feel the ice cream at three am,

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<v Speaker 2>I don't want to see the ice cream. But if

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<v Speaker 2>I am so into what I feel, then my feelings

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<v Speaker 2>come first, because rather than thinking like a reefer and thinking.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, if I eat the ice cream just tonight, that's fine,

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<v Speaker 1>But if I eat the ice cream every night, I

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<v Speaker 1>mean every night.

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<v Speaker 2>Then I go back for a fourth scoop because I

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<v Speaker 2>had a very stressful.

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<v Speaker 1>Day, and don't judge me about it.

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<v Speaker 3>I won't like what I see, but I will like

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<v Speaker 3>what I feel. And so I need you to start okay,

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<v Speaker 3>growing into a place in God. When when you go.

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<v Speaker 2>To speak an unkind word, you can think this, if

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<v Speaker 2>I sew this unkind word, what will I reap in

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<v Speaker 2>this relationship later, because I'm gonna tell you the truth.

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<v Speaker 2>It's gonna feel good to say it right now. It's

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<v Speaker 2>gonna feel good to go off right now. As a

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<v Speaker 2>matter of fact, when the woman in the text was

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<v Speaker 2>talking with Jesus the part I didn't read you, she

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<v Speaker 2>was so in her feelings she went off on Jesus.

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<v Speaker 2>Jesus said, give me a drink. She said, you don't

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<v Speaker 2>have a bucket. And why are you talking to me anyway.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm a woman, you're a Rabbi, I'm a Samaritan, you're

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<v Speaker 2>a Jew.

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<v Speaker 1>You don't have anything to do with me. No, I

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<v Speaker 1>have everything to do with you.

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<v Speaker 2>And what you do in this moment where you feel offended,

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<v Speaker 2>what you do in this moment where you feel weary,

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<v Speaker 2>will determine what you do in this moment will determine

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<v Speaker 2>whether your due season is going to be full of

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<v Speaker 2>thorns and thistles or fruit in favor. I am not saying,

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<v Speaker 2>by the way, that God's love is on the basis

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<v Speaker 2>of our behavior. I am saying that the consequences are

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<v Speaker 2>built into the system of humanity. So to think like

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<v Speaker 2>a reaper is to watch this fancy term I came

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<v Speaker 2>up with this week to become.

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<v Speaker 1>I almost forgot it. See that's what happens when you

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<v Speaker 1>try to show off with big words.

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<v Speaker 2>Conscious of the consequence, right, conscious of the consequence pattern recognition.

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<v Speaker 2>Every time I go down this road, every time, I

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<v Speaker 2>just like respond out of what I feel. Every time,

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<v Speaker 2>I just continue to rehearse this thing that happened.

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<v Speaker 1>Three weeks ago. Every time I just let myself go

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<v Speaker 1>there in my mind.

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<v Speaker 2>Every time I indulge in it, I hate where it

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<v Speaker 2>takes me.

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<v Speaker 1>And that's my conflict.

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<v Speaker 2>Conflict because some of the things in my life, I

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<v Speaker 2>love what they bring me, but I hate where they

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<v Speaker 2>take me.

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<v Speaker 1>And if you'll be honest with it.

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<v Speaker 2>There are certain vices, certain things, certain actions, certain states,

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<v Speaker 2>certain relationships.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh, don't let me preach a relationship seminar. I'll preach

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<v Speaker 1>about the certain.

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<v Speaker 2>Things that make you feel a certain way, but they

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<v Speaker 2>take you a place.

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<v Speaker 1>And what do you do when you love how they

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<v Speaker 1>make you feel, but you hate where they make you go.

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<v Speaker 2>Jesus is going somewhere, He's going through some area, he's

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<v Speaker 2>working on something. And just remind your neighbor in case

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<v Speaker 2>they haven't felt God's presence lately, or in case they're

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<v Speaker 2>unclear about what God is doing in their life, just

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<v Speaker 2>tell them he's working on something. Right now, he's working

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<v Speaker 2>You need to be more convincing than that. Don't be

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<v Speaker 2>mumbling that at them.

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<v Speaker 1>Say Jesus is working on something. Come on, put it

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<v Speaker 1>in the chat. Jesus is working on something. Jesus is

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<v Speaker 1>working on something.

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<v Speaker 2>That's why the disciples were surprised, isn't it? Because when

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<v Speaker 2>they left him, he was sitting on a well alone.

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<v Speaker 2>They went to get food, and Jesus started talking to

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<v Speaker 2>a woman. We call her the woman at the well.

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<v Speaker 2>She's much more than that, as I will show you

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<v Speaker 2>in a moment, and so are you, because where she

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<v Speaker 2>was is not indicative of who she was, and what

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<v Speaker 2>she had done was not indicative of who she could become.

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<v Speaker 1>And when they left Jesus he was sitting down.

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<v Speaker 2>The Bible actually says he was resting because he was tired.

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<v Speaker 2>He was resting because he was tired, and then so

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<v Speaker 2>tired becomes the camouflage that he uses to fulfill the

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<v Speaker 2>purpose he came for. Because when they left to get food,

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<v Speaker 2>a woman came to get water. And when the woman

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<v Speaker 2>came to get water, oh, I love it. Jesus started

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<v Speaker 2>working on her. He started asking her questions, can I

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<v Speaker 2>get a drink? And she said, you don't have a bucket,

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<v Speaker 2>and I'm not a Jew and I'm not a man.

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<v Speaker 2>And he said, well, if you knew who was talking

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<v Speaker 2>to you, you'd ask and I'd give you the drink.

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<v Speaker 2>And she said, well, are you greater than our father Jacob,

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<v Speaker 2>who gave us this? Well, and Jesus is thinking, actually,

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<v Speaker 2>I really am, well Jacob, I made him, But let's

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<v Speaker 2>don't get to that right now. And they started to argue,

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<v Speaker 2>we worship here, you worship there, You're like this, and

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<v Speaker 2>I'm like that, And all of a sudden, Jesus cuts

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<v Speaker 2>through all of that because because he.

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<v Speaker 1>Was thinking like a reaper.

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<v Speaker 2>Now, this is difficult for us, because as we go

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<v Speaker 2>through life, we only see seeds, and the seed looks.

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<v Speaker 1>Nothing like what it's going to be.

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<v Speaker 2>So what the disciples would have seen if they had

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<v Speaker 2>been in this scene would have been the woman who

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<v Speaker 2>had had five different husbands, the woman who was not

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<v Speaker 2>worth Jesus's time, the woman who had made so many

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<v Speaker 2>mistakes or had been through so many relationships, whether her

0:27:13.040 --> 0:27:15.679
<v Speaker 2>fault or the other, that her broken heart would make

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<v Speaker 2>a horrible place for a new beginning.

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<v Speaker 1>But Jesus thinks.

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<v Speaker 2>Like a reaper, and a reaper begins with the end

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<v Speaker 2>in mind. How many of you have had somebody in

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<v Speaker 2>your life at some point who saw something in you

0:27:38.400 --> 0:27:40.600
<v Speaker 2>you didn't see in yourself, and you're grateful that they

0:27:40.600 --> 0:27:48.720
<v Speaker 2>invested in you. How many people wish you could be

0:27:49.560 --> 0:27:54.520
<v Speaker 2>that person that the person who believed in you saw

0:27:55.440 --> 0:27:57.679
<v Speaker 2>I told a buddy the other day, sometimes I'm sad

0:27:58.600 --> 0:28:03.320
<v Speaker 2>because I'm grieving the me that I thought I would

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<v Speaker 2>be by now.

0:28:08.000 --> 0:28:10.800
<v Speaker 1>I am grieving the absence of the patience that I

0:28:10.840 --> 0:28:11.960
<v Speaker 1>thought I would have by now.

0:28:13.200 --> 0:28:16.240
<v Speaker 2>I am grieving the let it go that I thought

0:28:16.240 --> 0:28:20.600
<v Speaker 2>I would be able to access in stressful situations. And

0:28:20.640 --> 0:28:25.159
<v Speaker 2>this woman is not necessarily looking for an encounter with

0:28:25.240 --> 0:28:27.680
<v Speaker 2>the living God, but she gets one.

0:28:27.520 --> 0:28:32.679
<v Speaker 1>Because Jesus sees what she can be. There was a

0:28:32.720 --> 0:28:33.639
<v Speaker 1>man that I met. You know.

0:28:33.680 --> 0:28:36.000
<v Speaker 2>God brings different people along in our life in different seasons.

0:28:36.000 --> 0:28:38.680
<v Speaker 2>By the way, don't ever think that just because people

0:28:38.720 --> 0:28:42.240
<v Speaker 2>were seasonal in your life that it makes them insignificant.

0:28:44.800 --> 0:28:46.680
<v Speaker 2>One of the reasons is so hard for us to

0:28:47.000 --> 0:28:50.960
<v Speaker 2>resolve relationships when they end or when they change is

0:28:51.000 --> 0:28:53.880
<v Speaker 2>because we assumed that the one who sewed into our

0:28:53.920 --> 0:28:55.800
<v Speaker 2>life would be there when the reaping came.

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<v Speaker 1>It's not always like that. I tell you an example.

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<v Speaker 2>When I was sixteen, of course, I had been in church.

0:29:05.280 --> 0:29:07.760
<v Speaker 2>What they say, the old preacher say, I had a

0:29:07.840 --> 0:29:11.040
<v Speaker 2>drug problem. My mom drugged me to church every Sunday morning,

0:29:11.080 --> 0:29:12.560
<v Speaker 2>every Sunday night, every Wednesday night.

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<v Speaker 1>Y'all heard that one before.

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<v Speaker 2>But there was an older pastor and I've talked about

0:29:20.120 --> 0:29:24.560
<v Speaker 2>him many times in this pulpit, and I call him older,

0:29:24.560 --> 0:29:26.000
<v Speaker 2>but I guess the time I met him, he wasn't

0:29:26.000 --> 0:29:28.440
<v Speaker 2>that much older than I am now. So it's kind

0:29:28.440 --> 0:29:32.280
<v Speaker 2>of getting weird. But he is old now, but you know,

0:29:32.400 --> 0:29:37.000
<v Speaker 2>old is just where I haven't been yet. So he

0:29:37.080 --> 0:29:39.320
<v Speaker 2>saw something in me and he let me be the

0:29:39.680 --> 0:29:42.640
<v Speaker 2>FCA director of Fellowship of Christian Athletes and also his

0:29:42.680 --> 0:29:43.200
<v Speaker 2>youth pastor.

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<v Speaker 1>His name is Mickey White, Pastor Mickey White.

0:29:45.840 --> 0:29:48.800
<v Speaker 2>Mickey White ran an autoparts store in Monks Corner, South Carolina.

0:29:48.840 --> 0:29:50.360
<v Speaker 1>He would disciple me on Tuesdays.

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<v Speaker 2>And when I say he would disciple me, I'm not

0:29:52.600 --> 0:29:55.720
<v Speaker 2>saying that he was like Jesus, but he helped me

0:29:55.800 --> 0:30:00.240
<v Speaker 2>through my hard places. And one of the things about

0:30:00.240 --> 0:30:02.800
<v Speaker 2>mentoring a sixteen or seventeen year old or whatever I

0:30:02.880 --> 0:30:05.040
<v Speaker 2>was at the time, is that he had explained to

0:30:05.080 --> 0:30:08.680
<v Speaker 2>me things that I should just know. And by hiring

0:30:08.720 --> 0:30:11.400
<v Speaker 2>somebody that was seventeen to be a youth pastor. I

0:30:11.440 --> 0:30:14.320
<v Speaker 2>remember we were doing one FCA banquet. This thought just

0:30:14.360 --> 0:30:16.240
<v Speaker 2>came back to me for the first time in years.

0:30:16.360 --> 0:30:20.320
<v Speaker 2>While I was preparing, I went around. He took me

0:30:20.360 --> 0:30:23.040
<v Speaker 2>around to all of his friends who were businessmen in

0:30:23.280 --> 0:30:26.360
<v Speaker 2>Monk's Corner. And I was wanting to raise money so

0:30:26.400 --> 0:30:28.360
<v Speaker 2>we could bring in really good speakers to preach the

0:30:28.400 --> 0:30:32.040
<v Speaker 2>gospel at our FCA events, and so I would go

0:30:32.080 --> 0:30:34.440
<v Speaker 2>around to his friends. The first guy I sat down with,

0:30:35.440 --> 0:30:37.120
<v Speaker 2>I said, I want to raise some money and this

0:30:37.160 --> 0:30:38.800
<v Speaker 2>is my vision. And he pulled out his check book

0:30:38.840 --> 0:30:42.000
<v Speaker 2>and started writing the check while I was talking because

0:30:42.000 --> 0:30:42.800
<v Speaker 2>he was going to do it.

0:30:42.760 --> 0:30:44.400
<v Speaker 1>For Mickey anyway, he wasn't doing it for me. He's

0:30:44.440 --> 0:30:45.160
<v Speaker 1>doing it for Mickey.

0:30:45.600 --> 0:30:47.680
<v Speaker 2>And so he's writing a check and I keep talking

0:30:47.760 --> 0:30:49.760
<v Speaker 2>and I'm like, and we could do this, and we

0:30:49.800 --> 0:30:52.200
<v Speaker 2>can do that. And I felt a hand on my

0:30:52.320 --> 0:30:54.840
<v Speaker 2>leg kind of squeezed my thigh and it was Pastor Mickey,

0:30:56.360 --> 0:30:58.200
<v Speaker 2>and so I just let him write the check and

0:30:58.200 --> 0:30:59.719
<v Speaker 2>I thanked him. I said, hey, why you squeeze my leg?

0:30:59.720 --> 0:31:04.280
<v Speaker 2>He said, when you've made the sales, shut up. He

0:31:04.400 --> 0:31:07.800
<v Speaker 2>was writing a check. It could only get worse from there.

0:31:07.920 --> 0:31:13.240
<v Speaker 2>It can only stop writing, So stop talking, good little thing.

0:31:13.240 --> 0:31:17.120
<v Speaker 2>I always remember him saying that, well, we were having

0:31:17.120 --> 0:31:19.040
<v Speaker 2>our first one of those big nights that I had

0:31:19.080 --> 0:31:22.960
<v Speaker 2>raised the money for. And long story short, I know

0:31:23.000 --> 0:31:25.400
<v Speaker 2>you want every detail, but just out of consideration for

0:31:25.440 --> 0:31:30.560
<v Speaker 2>others who have lunch appointments, I didn't get the doors

0:31:30.640 --> 0:31:31.200
<v Speaker 2>unlocked in.

0:31:31.160 --> 0:31:33.560
<v Speaker 1>Time, and so that the event was a complete disaster.

0:31:35.080 --> 0:31:39.400
<v Speaker 2>Because I had another thing and I had asked somebody

0:31:39.440 --> 0:31:40.600
<v Speaker 2>else to unlock the doors.

0:31:41.000 --> 0:31:42.640
<v Speaker 1>So at the end of the night, he pulls me aside.

0:31:42.640 --> 0:31:44.360
<v Speaker 2>He doesn't grab my leg, but it looks like you're

0:31:44.360 --> 0:31:46.840
<v Speaker 2>about to grab my throat, and he.

0:31:46.800 --> 0:31:52.080
<v Speaker 1>Goes, what happened? What happened? You are the SCA president.

0:31:52.440 --> 0:31:53.080
<v Speaker 1>What happened?

0:31:53.680 --> 0:31:56.480
<v Speaker 2>And I mentioned the name of the person who was

0:31:56.480 --> 0:31:58.240
<v Speaker 2>supposed to unlock the door that didn't do it.

0:31:59.080 --> 0:32:02.320
<v Speaker 1>He didn't even let me finish my sentence when I said,

0:32:02.320 --> 0:32:04.840
<v Speaker 1>their name is cann Stop. You're the leader.

0:32:06.560 --> 0:32:09.480
<v Speaker 2>The leader's job is to do it or get it done,

0:32:09.640 --> 0:32:10.600
<v Speaker 2>and you didn't do either.

0:32:12.840 --> 0:32:16.200
<v Speaker 1>Never forgot that up until that point in my life.

0:32:16.280 --> 0:32:19.960
<v Speaker 2>I had just thought like a teenager, and a teenager

0:32:20.000 --> 0:32:24.200
<v Speaker 2>doesn't even do it if it's a task. He was

0:32:24.240 --> 0:32:27.000
<v Speaker 2>trying to skip me all the way from teenager to leader,

0:32:27.960 --> 0:32:30.240
<v Speaker 2>try and tell me not only is it just do

0:32:30.320 --> 0:32:33.440
<v Speaker 2>the task, just check it off, but it is actually

0:32:33.520 --> 0:32:35.440
<v Speaker 2>making sure that the outcome happens.

0:32:36.080 --> 0:32:38.360
<v Speaker 1>Because he was trying to get me to think like

0:32:40.160 --> 0:32:45.400
<v Speaker 1>a reaper. A reaper. A leader thinks like a reaper.

0:32:47.240 --> 0:32:49.280
<v Speaker 1>See if you just go through life and you go, oh,

0:32:49.360 --> 0:32:52.800
<v Speaker 1>well I did that. I tried that, I said that

0:32:53.600 --> 0:32:56.440
<v Speaker 1>I did it. You're still only a sewer.

0:32:59.080 --> 0:33:02.560
<v Speaker 2>But to grow up is to say, not only am

0:33:02.640 --> 0:33:06.920
<v Speaker 2>I responsible for the task, but I am going to

0:33:07.000 --> 0:33:11.840
<v Speaker 2>be responsible for the outcome. Now, the good news about

0:33:11.880 --> 0:33:15.400
<v Speaker 2>it is this, tell somebody think like a reaper. The

0:33:15.440 --> 0:33:20.440
<v Speaker 2>good news is this, everywhere God sends you, He's already

0:33:20.440 --> 0:33:21.040
<v Speaker 2>been there.

0:33:23.000 --> 0:33:23.560
<v Speaker 1>Everywhere.

0:33:23.640 --> 0:33:26.800
<v Speaker 2>Somebody needs to hear that because you're going into a

0:33:26.880 --> 0:33:30.920
<v Speaker 2>situation that's like a Samaria to you. You're going into

0:33:30.960 --> 0:33:35.160
<v Speaker 2>a situation that's a hard place for you, that's a

0:33:35.320 --> 0:33:38.600
<v Speaker 2>hazardous place for you, that might even be a hostile

0:33:38.760 --> 0:33:39.560
<v Speaker 2>environment for you.

0:33:40.160 --> 0:33:41.160
<v Speaker 1>But notice when.

0:33:41.040 --> 0:33:45.480
<v Speaker 2>The disciples got back, Jesus was already talking to the woman.

0:33:46.240 --> 0:33:49.560
<v Speaker 2>And in fact, by the time they got back to Jesus,

0:33:49.920 --> 0:33:52.120
<v Speaker 2>she was already on her way back to the town.

0:33:53.160 --> 0:33:55.960
<v Speaker 2>And she didn't even get the water that she came for.

0:33:56.960 --> 0:34:00.560
<v Speaker 2>She left her jar and went to town. Now, let's

0:34:00.600 --> 0:34:04.400
<v Speaker 2>contrast the two. You've got a woman who Jesus wasn't

0:34:04.400 --> 0:34:05.440
<v Speaker 2>even technically.

0:34:05.000 --> 0:34:06.080
<v Speaker 1>Supposed to be talking to.

0:34:06.680 --> 0:34:09.840
<v Speaker 2>You've got a woman who has had a salacious past.

0:34:10.440 --> 0:34:14.080
<v Speaker 2>You have a woman who is only known and identified

0:34:14.120 --> 0:34:15.280
<v Speaker 2>by what she's been through.

0:34:15.760 --> 0:34:19.040
<v Speaker 1>And then you have the disciples, the ones.

0:34:18.760 --> 0:34:22.239
<v Speaker 2>That Jesus is using, his leaders, who are going to

0:34:22.320 --> 0:34:25.160
<v Speaker 2>take the church and really move it forward and all

0:34:25.200 --> 0:34:28.240
<v Speaker 2>this wonderful stuff that they're going to do as leaders.

0:34:28.560 --> 0:34:32.280
<v Speaker 2>And the woman she goes back to town and starts

0:34:32.360 --> 0:34:36.640
<v Speaker 2>telling men about a man that she met. The disciples

0:34:36.640 --> 0:34:39.400
<v Speaker 2>come to the man that she just met and say, hey,

0:34:39.520 --> 0:34:39.960
<v Speaker 2>you want.

0:34:39.840 --> 0:34:42.600
<v Speaker 1>To eat something, And this is what got me.

0:34:43.600 --> 0:34:48.040
<v Speaker 2>While they were thinking about a meal, she was already

0:34:48.080 --> 0:34:57.120
<v Speaker 2>thinking about a harvest. It didn't take long for her

0:34:57.160 --> 0:35:01.080
<v Speaker 2>mentality to shift, and all of a sudden she saw

0:35:01.120 --> 0:35:05.839
<v Speaker 2>herself differently, and all of a sudden, I imagine in

0:35:05.880 --> 0:35:09.640
<v Speaker 2>that flash she thought, wait a minute, I'm talking to

0:35:09.719 --> 0:35:14.480
<v Speaker 2>the Messiah. I am talking to possibly the one who

0:35:14.520 --> 0:35:17.759
<v Speaker 2>can save me. And the first thing she thought about it,

0:35:17.800 --> 0:35:20.600
<v Speaker 2>the first thing she thought about it was I've got

0:35:20.640 --> 0:35:23.880
<v Speaker 2>to go back to town and get the men and

0:35:23.960 --> 0:35:27.279
<v Speaker 2>bring them to this man. The disciples come back, the

0:35:27.280 --> 0:35:31.080
<v Speaker 2>first thing they think is we got to eat. And

0:35:31.120 --> 0:35:34.960
<v Speaker 2>it makes me wonder who's the real disciple in this passage.

0:35:36.440 --> 0:35:39.440
<v Speaker 2>It makes me wonder did the ones who had been

0:35:39.480 --> 0:35:42.480
<v Speaker 2>with him so much take him for granted, but the

0:35:42.480 --> 0:35:44.760
<v Speaker 2>one that had just met him saw.

0:35:44.560 --> 0:35:46.160
<v Speaker 1>The potential of what he could do.

0:35:47.000 --> 0:35:50.799
<v Speaker 2>Because it's amazing that they're just thinking about eating and

0:35:50.880 --> 0:35:54.719
<v Speaker 2>she's thinking about reaping. You say, the Bible doesn't say that,

0:35:55.440 --> 0:35:59.720
<v Speaker 2>it implies it. When she came back from the town

0:36:00.120 --> 0:36:03.560
<v Speaker 2>with the men, Jesus started preaching. He said, open your

0:36:03.600 --> 0:36:09.480
<v Speaker 2>eyes and look, the fields are already white onto harvest.

0:36:10.239 --> 0:36:11.640
<v Speaker 1>And then he goes into a saying.

0:36:11.680 --> 0:36:15.480
<v Speaker 2>Now this saying isn't something we say, but it's something

0:36:15.480 --> 0:36:22.920
<v Speaker 2>that they said. He said, that's the saying one sows

0:36:24.440 --> 0:36:31.680
<v Speaker 2>and another reaps. It's true, like Pastor Mickey said, it's

0:36:31.680 --> 0:36:33.399
<v Speaker 2>a leader's job to do it or get it done.

0:36:33.440 --> 0:36:35.920
<v Speaker 2>I never forgot that say it. Certain things that my

0:36:36.000 --> 0:36:38.440
<v Speaker 2>family used to say when I was growing up, they

0:36:38.560 --> 0:36:41.719
<v Speaker 2>terrified me once I understood what they meant. My dad

0:36:41.800 --> 0:36:43.759
<v Speaker 2>used to always see somebody that he thought was kind

0:36:43.760 --> 0:36:45.960
<v Speaker 2>of snobby and he would say, I wish I could

0:36:45.960 --> 0:36:47.560
<v Speaker 2>buy them for what they're worth and sell them for

0:36:47.600 --> 0:36:51.000
<v Speaker 2>what they think they're worth. And as a little boy,

0:36:51.040 --> 0:36:53.839
<v Speaker 2>I always heard him say that, and one day, when

0:36:53.840 --> 0:36:56.319
<v Speaker 2>I hit puberty, I realized what he was saying. I

0:36:56.320 --> 0:36:59.439
<v Speaker 2>was like, dang, that is crazy what he just said.

0:36:59.480 --> 0:37:02.040
<v Speaker 2>I wish I could buy them for what they're worth

0:37:02.120 --> 0:37:04.759
<v Speaker 2>and sell them for what they think they were. My

0:37:04.880 --> 0:37:06.279
<v Speaker 2>dad was such a menace, and I didn't even know

0:37:06.320 --> 0:37:09.080
<v Speaker 2>it at the time. And then some of this stuff

0:37:09.160 --> 0:37:11.799
<v Speaker 2>is just cuter little sayings that we get right, little

0:37:11.840 --> 0:37:14.080
<v Speaker 2>things that we say, little things that wor can weave

0:37:14.120 --> 0:37:17.080
<v Speaker 2>their way into our vocabulary, as Southerners have all kinds

0:37:17.080 --> 0:37:17.879
<v Speaker 2>of sayings, right.

0:37:18.360 --> 0:37:19.479
<v Speaker 1>I met a guy one time.

0:37:19.760 --> 0:37:23.280
<v Speaker 2>He was so Southern even I didn't know his sayings.

0:37:23.560 --> 0:37:25.279
<v Speaker 2>And that takes a lot, because I've heard a lot

0:37:25.280 --> 0:37:27.520
<v Speaker 2>of Southern sayings through the years, and I feel like

0:37:27.560 --> 0:37:30.600
<v Speaker 2>I'm a pretty good interpreter of my own language. But

0:37:31.480 --> 0:37:33.680
<v Speaker 2>I remember this guy named Brian that I met one

0:37:33.680 --> 0:37:36.279
<v Speaker 2>time from Louisiana, and when we were getting ready to

0:37:36.280 --> 0:37:38.120
<v Speaker 2>go somewhere, he used to say, if you're waiting on me,

0:37:38.160 --> 0:37:44.359
<v Speaker 2>you're backing up. And I said, say that again, and

0:37:44.440 --> 0:37:47.839
<v Speaker 2>so he would just say it's slower. But even after

0:37:47.880 --> 0:37:50.799
<v Speaker 2>he said it slower, I still didn't know what that meant.

0:37:51.440 --> 0:37:57.200
<v Speaker 2>You know what I'm saying, It takes one to know one.

0:37:57.239 --> 0:37:59.279
<v Speaker 2>It's just a saying, right right.

0:38:02.360 --> 0:38:03.799
<v Speaker 1>This was a saying that they had.

0:38:03.840 --> 0:38:05.759
<v Speaker 2>Put it back up verse thirty seven because this really

0:38:05.760 --> 0:38:09.680
<v Speaker 2>got my attention. Jesus is talking to this woman. He's

0:38:09.760 --> 0:38:13.320
<v Speaker 2>working in her heart. She has had a hard life

0:38:14.239 --> 0:38:17.879
<v Speaker 2>and this is a hard place, and Jesus is trying

0:38:17.920 --> 0:38:19.200
<v Speaker 2>to show us disciples something.

0:38:19.239 --> 0:38:22.040
<v Speaker 1>I believe he's trying to show us. Thus, the saying

0:38:22.680 --> 0:38:26.160
<v Speaker 1>one sows and another reaps is true.

0:38:26.280 --> 0:38:28.880
<v Speaker 2>It was a saying they had and Jesus said, is

0:38:28.920 --> 0:38:34.200
<v Speaker 2>true that sometimes life isn't fair. Think about it, one

0:38:34.280 --> 0:38:39.200
<v Speaker 2>sows and another reaps, Like sometimes you do all the

0:38:39.239 --> 0:38:45.000
<v Speaker 2>work and they get all the credit. Sometimes you build

0:38:45.040 --> 0:38:49.560
<v Speaker 2>it and you don't even get to enjoy it. Sometimes

0:38:49.600 --> 0:38:53.000
<v Speaker 2>you put all the love into the relationship and then

0:38:53.040 --> 0:38:57.320
<v Speaker 2>they end up with somebody else. Sometimes you put all

0:38:57.480 --> 0:39:01.600
<v Speaker 2>the investment into making the thing good, and then you

0:39:01.640 --> 0:39:04.640
<v Speaker 2>feel like when it finally starts hitting, you get shut

0:39:04.640 --> 0:39:08.640
<v Speaker 2>out of it. One sows and another reaps. Be honest,

0:39:08.640 --> 0:39:12.040
<v Speaker 2>have you ever felt that way? Have you ever felt

0:39:12.120 --> 0:39:15.400
<v Speaker 2>like you put more in than you got out? Have

0:39:15.520 --> 0:39:19.239
<v Speaker 2>you ever felt like you were the only one who

0:39:19.280 --> 0:39:21.160
<v Speaker 2>seemed to care about it because you're the only one

0:39:21.160 --> 0:39:26.319
<v Speaker 2>who did it, but everybody else enjoyed the benefits of

0:39:26.400 --> 0:39:29.439
<v Speaker 2>what you did. Now, I'm not saying I've ever felt

0:39:29.440 --> 0:39:33.759
<v Speaker 2>this way about y'all, But even as a preacher, you

0:39:33.800 --> 0:39:36.560
<v Speaker 2>see how easy it could be to have a resentment

0:39:37.200 --> 0:39:41.359
<v Speaker 2>about Oh my goodness, I worked so hard on this

0:39:41.440 --> 0:39:45.799
<v Speaker 2>message and I don't even know if they care. So

0:39:45.960 --> 0:39:48.920
<v Speaker 2>what I could think about that is watch this. Well,

0:39:48.960 --> 0:39:50.920
<v Speaker 2>I guess I'm the only one who loves God's word.

0:39:53.000 --> 0:39:55.440
<v Speaker 1>Because the enemy would love to say that to me.

0:39:57.239 --> 0:39:59.560
<v Speaker 2>Just like if you were a volunteer, there will be

0:39:59.560 --> 0:40:02.440
<v Speaker 2>eager for in this church that will sign up to

0:40:02.520 --> 0:40:05.920
<v Speaker 2>lead an e group, and the one will come and

0:40:05.960 --> 0:40:07.960
<v Speaker 2>it will be easy for them to think, well, I

0:40:08.120 --> 0:40:11.120
<v Speaker 2>was willing, I was trying. I gave it all I

0:40:11.160 --> 0:40:15.080
<v Speaker 2>had and it didn't work. There will be people in

0:40:15.120 --> 0:40:19.640
<v Speaker 2>this room today who will really give all of yourself

0:40:19.680 --> 0:40:22.960
<v Speaker 2>to something, only to find that the people who you

0:40:23.040 --> 0:40:26.120
<v Speaker 2>did it for don't even say thank you. Wonder if

0:40:26.120 --> 0:40:28.239
<v Speaker 2>God ever feels that way about us. By the way,

0:40:29.400 --> 0:40:29.879
<v Speaker 2>I'm just.

0:40:29.920 --> 0:40:32.759
<v Speaker 1>Asking don Jesus, you have a.

0:40:32.760 --> 0:40:36.000
<v Speaker 2>Sand one sows in another reaps, and at this point

0:40:36.080 --> 0:40:38.000
<v Speaker 2>the disciples are probably feeling.

0:40:37.719 --> 0:40:42.120
<v Speaker 1>Like, Yeah, that's us. We're the sewers, We're the disciples, We're.

0:40:41.840 --> 0:40:44.400
<v Speaker 2>The ones working hard, We're the ones out here in

0:40:44.440 --> 0:40:46.320
<v Speaker 2>Samaria following you, Jesus.

0:40:46.360 --> 0:40:49.200
<v Speaker 1>But isn't the irony in the fact.

0:40:49.840 --> 0:40:53.680
<v Speaker 2>That the woman was the one reaping and they were

0:40:53.719 --> 0:40:59.200
<v Speaker 2>just eating. Isn't the irony in the fact that the

0:40:59.239 --> 0:41:03.200
<v Speaker 2>ones who should have been reaping were only focused on

0:41:03.280 --> 0:41:06.600
<v Speaker 2>their next meal, and the one that Jesus shouldn't have

0:41:06.719 --> 0:41:10.080
<v Speaker 2>even been talking to was going back to the town

0:41:10.200 --> 0:41:11.480
<v Speaker 2>to share her testimony.

0:41:12.200 --> 0:41:14.120
<v Speaker 1>And here's what I'm saying to you.

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<v Speaker 2>You might be surprised who God uses, You might be

0:41:17.800 --> 0:41:18.880
<v Speaker 2>surprised how.

0:41:18.680 --> 0:41:20.280
<v Speaker 1>He uses you.

0:41:20.280 --> 0:41:23.440
<v Speaker 2>You might be surprised what He uses in your life,

0:41:23.640 --> 0:41:26.000
<v Speaker 2>because the fact of the matter is, when God is

0:41:26.080 --> 0:41:27.719
<v Speaker 2>using you, you don't always feel it.

0:41:28.920 --> 0:41:29.360
<v Speaker 1>You don't.

0:41:29.600 --> 0:41:34.799
<v Speaker 2>The feeling comes, but it doesn't come first. You have

0:41:34.920 --> 0:41:38.680
<v Speaker 2>to obey Jesus when you see no evidence that your

0:41:38.760 --> 0:41:47.680
<v Speaker 2>obedience is yielding anything. You have to instill in your

0:41:47.760 --> 0:41:50.719
<v Speaker 2>kids certain values that you can only hope you are

0:41:50.760 --> 0:41:56.040
<v Speaker 2>going to envision later in their life. But the disciples

0:41:56.960 --> 0:42:02.439
<v Speaker 2>are the sowers right now, Jesus said, And this blew

0:42:02.480 --> 0:42:03.839
<v Speaker 2>my mind, Holly, this blew my mind.

0:42:04.239 --> 0:42:07.720
<v Speaker 1>He said. The saying is true. One sows and another reaps.

0:42:07.800 --> 0:42:09.759
<v Speaker 1>That's how it works, right. She's like, yeah, that's how

0:42:09.760 --> 0:42:10.160
<v Speaker 1>it works.

0:42:10.320 --> 0:42:12.239
<v Speaker 2>One, so's another reap. Look at verse thirty eight. He

0:42:12.239 --> 0:42:13.000
<v Speaker 2>gives it a twist.

0:42:13.920 --> 0:42:17.879
<v Speaker 1>I sent you to read what you haven't worked for.

0:42:20.560 --> 0:42:23.840
<v Speaker 1>Wait a minute, No, no, no, Jesus, we're the sowers.

0:42:25.120 --> 0:42:28.120
<v Speaker 1>They're the reapers, Jesus says, not really.

0:42:29.920 --> 0:42:33.760
<v Speaker 2>You always see yourself as a sewer, but you never

0:42:34.080 --> 0:42:36.640
<v Speaker 2>even realize how much you're already reaping.

0:42:38.600 --> 0:42:42.279
<v Speaker 1>Put it back up. I sent you to read. Come on,

0:42:42.400 --> 0:42:43.960
<v Speaker 1>what you have not worked for?

0:42:44.880 --> 0:42:49.520
<v Speaker 2>Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped

0:42:49.560 --> 0:42:54.239
<v Speaker 2>the benefits of their labor. Which makes me think that

0:42:54.400 --> 0:42:57.239
<v Speaker 2>maybe you've been reaping and you don't even realize it.

0:42:58.880 --> 0:43:03.000
<v Speaker 2>Maybe you've been reaping and you know. The enemy has

0:43:03.040 --> 0:43:03.440
<v Speaker 2>got you.

0:43:03.480 --> 0:43:09.359
<v Speaker 4>So focused on how hard it is to sew, how

0:43:09.400 --> 0:43:11.960
<v Speaker 4>hard it is to show up, how hard it is

0:43:12.040 --> 0:43:14.200
<v Speaker 4>to dig in, how hard it is to be you.

0:43:14.239 --> 0:43:16.040
<v Speaker 1>Wave at me if it's hard to be you. Yeah,

0:43:16.200 --> 0:43:18.480
<v Speaker 1>it's hard to be you. How hard it is to

0:43:18.520 --> 0:43:18.879
<v Speaker 1>be you.

0:43:20.880 --> 0:43:23.080
<v Speaker 2>But if the enemy can only get you to focus

0:43:23.120 --> 0:43:26.759
<v Speaker 2>on how hard it is, or here's another one, if

0:43:26.760 --> 0:43:30.120
<v Speaker 2>he can get you to focus on how hurt you are, y'all,

0:43:30.360 --> 0:43:33.320
<v Speaker 2>I am sick and tired of people only talking about

0:43:33.400 --> 0:43:37.879
<v Speaker 2>church hurt because it's a ridiculous distinction to.

0:43:37.800 --> 0:43:40.760
<v Speaker 1>Call it church hurt. It's human hurt.

0:43:42.440 --> 0:43:47.480
<v Speaker 2>People hurt, people hurt people. If you quit going to church,

0:43:47.600 --> 0:43:51.200
<v Speaker 2>it wasn't because church hurt you. It's because you allowed

0:43:51.239 --> 0:43:53.800
<v Speaker 2>the hurt to become greater than the harvest.

0:43:54.640 --> 0:43:57.160
<v Speaker 1>This is what I want to preach. This is what

0:43:57.200 --> 0:43:58.160
<v Speaker 1>I want to preach.

0:43:59.080 --> 0:44:01.040
<v Speaker 2>I've been preaching so much many verses to get to

0:44:01.120 --> 0:44:03.719
<v Speaker 2>this one. Tell somebody said next to you.

0:44:03.719 --> 0:44:08.879
<v Speaker 1>Say, oh, you've been reaping. You just haven't realized it yet.

0:44:09.880 --> 0:44:13.799
<v Speaker 2>Tell them, Oh, God's been good to you. You just

0:44:13.880 --> 0:44:18.839
<v Speaker 2>haven't realized it yet. Now look at him and say, oh,

0:44:18.920 --> 0:44:21.439
<v Speaker 2>you have help, you just.

0:44:21.360 --> 0:44:23.120
<v Speaker 1>Haven't called for it yet.

0:44:24.120 --> 0:44:26.920
<v Speaker 2>Now take about thirteen seconds if you know Jesus is

0:44:27.000 --> 0:44:27.440
<v Speaker 2>my help.

0:44:30.280 --> 0:44:34.600
<v Speaker 1>I'm not letting this go. You might sit on me all.

0:44:34.560 --> 0:44:36.880
<v Speaker 2>Day, but I'm not going down without a fight today

0:44:38.080 --> 0:44:42.440
<v Speaker 2>because God sent me on assignment to tell somebody that

0:44:42.560 --> 0:44:46.279
<v Speaker 2>you have been so focused on how hard it is,

0:44:47.080 --> 0:44:50.560
<v Speaker 2>so focused on how hurt you are, that you have

0:44:50.680 --> 0:44:56.759
<v Speaker 2>become blind to how much help you actually have. That's

0:44:56.800 --> 0:44:58.800
<v Speaker 2>why the Bible says, praise the Lord.

0:44:58.600 --> 0:45:00.719
<v Speaker 1>On my soul and all all.

0:45:00.520 --> 0:45:03.040
<v Speaker 2>That is within me, bless his holy name.

0:45:03.480 --> 0:45:04.880
<v Speaker 1>Praise the Lord o my soul.

0:45:05.000 --> 0:45:07.680
<v Speaker 2>And Chris referenced it when he was leading worship, and

0:45:07.719 --> 0:45:09.759
<v Speaker 2>I took it as a confirmation when he said it.

0:45:09.920 --> 0:45:15.120
<v Speaker 2>And forget not all his benefits. Let me give you

0:45:15.200 --> 0:45:17.480
<v Speaker 2>a list who forgives.

0:45:17.160 --> 0:45:18.120
<v Speaker 1>All your sins.

0:45:18.520 --> 0:45:21.799
<v Speaker 2>You didn't earn that you reap that I said, you

0:45:21.840 --> 0:45:26.200
<v Speaker 2>didn't earn that you reap that I couldn't earn forgiveness.

0:45:26.400 --> 0:45:29.240
<v Speaker 2>The chasm was too wide, the gap was too great,

0:45:29.560 --> 0:45:32.800
<v Speaker 2>My sin was too bleek, my shame was too great.

0:45:33.320 --> 0:45:42.479
<v Speaker 2>But Jesus was Greater who heals all your diseases. Yeah,

0:45:42.480 --> 0:45:47.000
<v Speaker 2>I feel it now. I feel it now. Why is

0:45:47.080 --> 0:45:49.760
<v Speaker 2>the only time that we thank God for our health

0:45:49.800 --> 0:45:55.000
<v Speaker 2>when we need to be healed? Why am I not

0:45:55.120 --> 0:45:57.760
<v Speaker 2>thanking God for the stuff that feels good right now?

0:45:58.920 --> 0:46:00.279
<v Speaker 1>Look at that? Look what I do.

0:46:01.920 --> 0:46:05.880
<v Speaker 2>That's a big deal, you say, pastor, did you have

0:46:05.920 --> 0:46:08.120
<v Speaker 2>a shoulder surgery that you came through and now you're

0:46:08.120 --> 0:46:11.040
<v Speaker 2>really grateful you No, I'm praising them for the surgery

0:46:11.080 --> 0:46:12.239
<v Speaker 2>that I didn't have to have.

0:46:15.000 --> 0:46:17.760
<v Speaker 1>What I thought?

0:46:17.840 --> 0:46:23.200
<v Speaker 2>Somebody say, the harvest is here, the harvest. Come on this, son,

0:46:23.280 --> 0:46:25.359
<v Speaker 2>don't feel left off. You can get in on this too.

0:46:25.800 --> 0:46:30.120
<v Speaker 1>The harvest, it's already here.

0:46:33.320 --> 0:46:37.600
<v Speaker 2>So the disciples are thinking about food and they mean well,

0:46:37.840 --> 0:46:40.360
<v Speaker 2>but they are missing the mission over a meal.

0:46:41.880 --> 0:46:44.640
<v Speaker 1>I said, they're missing the mission over a meal.

0:46:45.719 --> 0:46:48.640
<v Speaker 2>Don't let what you didn't get keep you from praising

0:46:48.680 --> 0:46:59.239
<v Speaker 2>God for what you have and wherever He is sending you,

0:46:59.680 --> 0:47:02.120
<v Speaker 2>please believe he's already been there.

0:47:03.840 --> 0:47:07.240
<v Speaker 1>Because he's the sower. I'm the reaper.

0:47:08.880 --> 0:47:12.759
<v Speaker 2>He gave his life so I could live mine. He

0:47:12.960 --> 0:47:17.320
<v Speaker 2>is the breath, I am the sales. He is the vine.

0:47:17.680 --> 0:47:21.200
<v Speaker 2>I am the branch. I'm trying to get you to

0:47:21.239 --> 0:47:27.120
<v Speaker 2>say out loud, I'm reaping this.

0:47:27.120 --> 0:47:30.560
<v Speaker 1>This life that I have is a gift. This opportunity

0:47:30.600 --> 0:47:33.359
<v Speaker 1>that I have is a gift. This moment that I

0:47:33.440 --> 0:47:34.560
<v Speaker 1>have is a gift.

0:47:34.800 --> 0:47:35.920
<v Speaker 2>This breath that I have.

0:47:36.360 --> 0:47:49.759
<v Speaker 1>Is a gift. Breed out his praise. And if you.

0:47:49.800 --> 0:47:52.239
<v Speaker 2>Were the devil. I'm not saying you are. I'm sure

0:47:52.239 --> 0:47:54.799
<v Speaker 2>you're an angel, But if you were the devil. If

0:47:54.840 --> 0:47:56.799
<v Speaker 2>you were, if you were, tell your neighbor if you were,

0:47:58.440 --> 0:47:59.279
<v Speaker 2>wouldn't you want to.

0:47:59.320 --> 0:48:09.920
<v Speaker 1>Keep you from reaping? Because you've already cried. You've already cried, You've.

0:48:09.719 --> 0:48:13.520
<v Speaker 2>Already shed tears over it, You've already been through the

0:48:13.560 --> 0:48:14.160
<v Speaker 2>pain of it.

0:48:15.320 --> 0:48:16.120
<v Speaker 1>Why would you?

0:48:16.400 --> 0:48:20.080
<v Speaker 2>Why would you cry over the seed and then not

0:48:20.239 --> 0:48:21.680
<v Speaker 2>reap the harvest when it came.

0:48:30.200 --> 0:48:31.319
<v Speaker 1>It's I went twenty six.

0:48:31.400 --> 0:48:34.799
<v Speaker 2>One of my favorite things that Thesauma said was that

0:48:34.880 --> 0:48:36.880
<v Speaker 2>they that sow.

0:48:38.560 --> 0:48:41.839
<v Speaker 1>In tears will what.

0:48:43.400 --> 0:48:50.919
<v Speaker 2>Read with songs of joy? Are you so in your

0:48:51.040 --> 0:48:56.000
<v Speaker 2>tears that you cannot even reap what you cried for?

0:48:57.239 --> 0:49:00.919
<v Speaker 1>And it's here the herv this is always here.

0:49:01.920 --> 0:49:03.640
<v Speaker 2>I was talking to my mom about some things she

0:49:03.680 --> 0:49:05.319
<v Speaker 2>went through in her past, and I was ministering this

0:49:05.360 --> 0:49:07.279
<v Speaker 2>message to her because she couldn't be here today. Now,

0:49:07.280 --> 0:49:08.520
<v Speaker 2>I can't do that for everybody, but I can do

0:49:08.600 --> 0:49:10.160
<v Speaker 2>it for my mom. When she's not in church, I'll

0:49:10.280 --> 0:49:13.239
<v Speaker 2>call her and give it to her personal. And she

0:49:13.360 --> 0:49:17.520
<v Speaker 2>said that when I told her, I know it's hard

0:49:18.080 --> 0:49:19.600
<v Speaker 2>because of some of the things she's been through in

0:49:19.640 --> 0:49:22.600
<v Speaker 2>her past, and I know it hurts, and it didn't

0:49:22.640 --> 0:49:26.760
<v Speaker 2>stop hurting. But God is with you in your hard place,

0:49:29.040 --> 0:49:34.399
<v Speaker 2>and you have more help than you have hurt. She said,

0:49:34.440 --> 0:49:37.240
<v Speaker 2>thank you for telling me that, because I get bitter

0:49:37.320 --> 0:49:41.320
<v Speaker 2>sometimes because I start thinking, well, where was my help

0:49:43.120 --> 0:49:45.120
<v Speaker 2>when I went through the abuse? Where was my help?

0:49:46.160 --> 0:49:48.800
<v Speaker 2>When my husband was dying of als? Where was my help?

0:49:50.080 --> 0:49:53.080
<v Speaker 2>But I realized that the answer is always John four

0:49:53.239 --> 0:49:53.799
<v Speaker 2>thirty six.

0:49:55.000 --> 0:50:02.120
<v Speaker 1>Open your eyes and look, the harvest is here. I

0:50:02.120 --> 0:50:05.360
<v Speaker 1>believe this thirty five. I messed that up. That's a

0:50:05.360 --> 0:50:12.320
<v Speaker 1>good moment too, and I really ruined it. Open your

0:50:12.920 --> 0:50:19.520
<v Speaker 1>eyes and look at the fields. Wait a minute, the fields. Jesus.

0:50:19.520 --> 0:50:22.880
<v Speaker 1>We're trying to get you to eat a meal. Eat Jesus.

0:50:22.920 --> 0:50:26.000
<v Speaker 1>Eat this Samaritan woman. We'll deal with her.

0:50:26.120 --> 0:50:29.520
<v Speaker 2>No, no, no, I've already dealt with her. She's bringing

0:50:29.560 --> 0:50:33.560
<v Speaker 2>me a harvest. Now watch this. This is mind blowing.

0:50:33.960 --> 0:50:36.840
<v Speaker 1>I love the Bible, y'all. Can I preach the Bible

0:50:36.840 --> 0:50:40.279
<v Speaker 1>to y'all for like the next fifty years? I mean,

0:50:40.320 --> 0:50:42.160
<v Speaker 1>I'm just want to stand on this thing.

0:50:43.719 --> 0:50:47.840
<v Speaker 2>Because the tears in the passage belonged to the woman

0:50:48.160 --> 0:50:51.040
<v Speaker 2>who had been through so much, and the.

0:50:50.920 --> 0:50:53.120
<v Speaker 1>Opportunity belongs to the disciples.

0:50:53.719 --> 0:50:56.600
<v Speaker 2>And Jesus said, open your eyes, Verse, please, and look

0:50:56.680 --> 0:51:02.840
<v Speaker 2>to the fields. They are ripe for harvest. Yeah, Jesus,

0:51:02.840 --> 0:51:07.399
<v Speaker 2>but we're not ready for the harvest. Just because you're

0:51:07.400 --> 0:51:09.080
<v Speaker 2>not ready doesn't mean it's not ripe.

0:51:10.120 --> 0:51:11.480
<v Speaker 1>And if you will open.

0:51:11.400 --> 0:51:17.799
<v Speaker 2>Your eyes, your eyes, that's the first tool you need,

0:51:17.920 --> 0:51:22.040
<v Speaker 2>is your eyes. The moment that they opened their eyes,

0:51:22.120 --> 0:51:24.680
<v Speaker 2>let's pretend to be the disciples. They open their eyes,

0:51:24.800 --> 0:51:27.640
<v Speaker 2>Jesus is talking about a harvest and coming their way

0:51:27.680 --> 0:51:31.520
<v Speaker 2>are the Samaritans that they hated. What do you do

0:51:31.960 --> 0:51:34.680
<v Speaker 2>when your harvest comes looking like something that you hate?

0:51:37.960 --> 0:51:41.960
<v Speaker 2>This will this will be the test in this season

0:51:42.040 --> 0:51:46.279
<v Speaker 2>of your life? Will you think like a reaper to

0:51:46.360 --> 0:51:50.000
<v Speaker 2>say that even the regret We all have regrets. This

0:51:50.120 --> 0:51:53.880
<v Speaker 2>woman had regrets. I'm sure she regretted every manda she

0:51:54.000 --> 0:51:56.960
<v Speaker 2>said yes to that had left her. But through the

0:51:57.080 --> 0:52:00.920
<v Speaker 2>power of faith, you can reach into a regard and

0:52:01.000 --> 0:52:01.760
<v Speaker 2>reap a lesson.

0:52:04.520 --> 0:52:05.839
<v Speaker 1>So I'm harvesting this.

0:52:07.520 --> 0:52:10.799
<v Speaker 2>It's hard for me right now, but I'm harvesting this

0:52:11.320 --> 0:52:14.720
<v Speaker 2>because those who sow with tears will reap with joy.

0:52:15.640 --> 0:52:19.600
<v Speaker 2>And I came to call somebody today who the devil

0:52:19.640 --> 0:52:22.560
<v Speaker 2>has been reminding you of every reason that you have

0:52:22.640 --> 0:52:26.000
<v Speaker 2>to feel bad about yourself, every reason that you have

0:52:26.040 --> 0:52:29.200
<v Speaker 2>to feel resentful about your life, every reason that you

0:52:29.320 --> 0:52:31.279
<v Speaker 2>have to give up and throw in the towel and

0:52:31.360 --> 0:52:34.120
<v Speaker 2>quit and duck and hide under the covers and not

0:52:34.200 --> 0:52:37.680
<v Speaker 2>call anybody back till next Thursday, and delete your hope

0:52:37.680 --> 0:52:38.360
<v Speaker 2>for the future.

0:52:38.680 --> 0:52:41.760
<v Speaker 1>But God said to remind you you have a reason

0:52:41.880 --> 0:52:47.080
<v Speaker 1>to rejoice, because those who sow in tears you got it,

0:52:48.080 --> 0:52:53.280
<v Speaker 1>you got it, will read with joy.

0:52:55.280 --> 0:53:03.800
<v Speaker 2>And you, my friend, are one thought away from joy.

0:53:04.719 --> 0:53:10.359
<v Speaker 2>And many in that town believed in Jesus because of.

0:53:10.320 --> 0:53:14.000
<v Speaker 1>What that woman went through. I wonder what God wants

0:53:14.040 --> 0:53:22.319
<v Speaker 1>to do through what you went through. I'm gonna blow

0:53:22.360 --> 0:53:24.280
<v Speaker 1>your mind. I'm gonna blow your mind. God blew my mind.

0:53:24.400 --> 0:53:27.040
<v Speaker 2>If he had sent the disciples into the town, the

0:53:27.080 --> 0:53:30.919
<v Speaker 2>men wouldn't have come back with them.

0:53:31.640 --> 0:53:34.880
<v Speaker 1>She had to have been with men in order to

0:53:34.920 --> 0:53:35.399
<v Speaker 1>bring men.

0:53:36.160 --> 0:53:38.200
<v Speaker 2>I'm not telling you to go live a sinful life

0:53:38.239 --> 0:53:40.680
<v Speaker 2>so you can build a bigger testimony.

0:53:41.520 --> 0:53:44.640
<v Speaker 1>But i am saying watch this. Nothing will be wasted.

0:53:44.880 --> 0:53:45.920
<v Speaker 1>Nothing will be wasted.

0:53:46.160 --> 0:53:49.200
<v Speaker 2>Nothing will be wasted, Nothing will be wasted, nothing will

0:53:49.239 --> 0:53:49.720
<v Speaker 2>be wasted.

0:53:49.920 --> 0:53:53.080
<v Speaker 1>I'm reaping this. Nothing will be wasted. Tell your neighbor.

0:53:53.120 --> 0:53:54.120
<v Speaker 1>Nothing will be wasted.

0:53:54.520 --> 0:53:58.080
<v Speaker 2>Nothing, nothing, not a breakup, not a bad turn, not

0:53:58.200 --> 0:54:00.839
<v Speaker 2>a left turn, not a bad day, not a wrong

0:54:01.360 --> 0:54:10.840
<v Speaker 2>nothing that you'll been through. I'm thinking like a reefer

0:54:11.320 --> 0:54:16.520
<v Speaker 2>now I am seeing that God is transforming through my tears.

0:54:17.719 --> 0:54:22.320
<v Speaker 1>And feelings don't come first, Faith does.

0:54:23.800 --> 0:54:26.880
<v Speaker 2>So we're gonna do something that is going to absolutely

0:54:26.960 --> 0:54:29.040
<v Speaker 2>confuse the enemy in.

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<v Speaker 1>Just about twelve seconds.

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<v Speaker 2>We are going to absolutely rejoice because we're reefers, and

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<v Speaker 2>reefers reap with joy, and we have been crying with

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<v Speaker 2>tears of anxiety, and crying with tears of regret, and

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<v Speaker 2>crying with tears of pain and unhealed trauma.

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<v Speaker 1>But we are going to confuse the enemy in just.

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<v Speaker 2>About three seconds because we're gonna start rejoicing.

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<v Speaker 1>Because we're reaper. Give me my joy back. Get me up.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm a wicked when I think of all you go.

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<v Speaker 5>When I think of volume, when I think I'm reaping

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<v Speaker 5>where I didn't sew I never seen.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm standing in what I didn't deserve.

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<v Speaker 2>I think I'm breathing breath that's borrows.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna need every reaper to get your hands something

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<v Speaker 1>like that. Hold on, let's receive, let's receive seed, and

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<v Speaker 1>then let's turn it the plain.

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<v Speaker 2>Come on. When I think, thank thank you for joining

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