Deeper Than You Think

0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.040 Hey there. Before we jump into the amazing message today, 0:00:03.080 --> 0:00:05.640 we wanted to let you know about our upcoming tour, 0:00:05.760 --> 0:00:08.520 the starting end just a few days. We're heading out 0:00:08.840 --> 0:00:11.240 in the month of August with our friends Carrie, Joe 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:14.680 and Codycarnes, and we're coming to a city near you. 0:00:14.800 --> 0:00:17.400 We're going to have an amazing time in the presence 0:00:17.440 --> 0:00:20.040 of God. Every single time we gather, He's faithful to 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:23.080 meet with us and do something new and fresh in 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:25.480 our hearts. So we hope you'll join us. Yes, we're 0:00:25.480 --> 0:00:29.160 going to be in Dallas, San Antonio, Omaha. We're going 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:32.760 to be in Toledo, Dayton. We're coming to you Knoxville, Huntsville. Yes, 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:36.400 we're also going to be in Louisville, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:40.040 and New York. So come out join us, bring your friends, 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:43.440 bring your family. Everything you need tickets and information is 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:46.960 at Elevation Worship dot com. We'll see see. What I 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:49.280 want to do with the time that I have with 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:54.440 you today, which I take very seriously, is continue in 0:00:54.480 --> 0:01:01.480 the conversation that we started last week. All right, I 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:06.800 want to continue on this path that we only really 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:09.160 took a few steps last week down this path. Let 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:12.400 me tell you there's so much to this that God 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:15.039 is showing me. And don't worry. If you weren't here 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:18.480 last week, you're like, oh no, now I'm missing out. 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:21.040 I won't know what you're talking about. You will, You'll 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:23.399 pick right up. Because I want to go into a 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:26.800 very familiar scripture today, and I thank you worship team. 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:28.559 Y'all can be seated. I want to go to John 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:34.480 chapter four. Yeah, y'all were clapping, y'all like to worship now? 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:39.920 Sitting down? All right, thanks y'all. I want to go 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:44.880 to John chapter four, sharing with you some thoughts on 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:51.840 the hard work of happiness. On the hard work of happiness. 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:57.040 And I think I told you last week that this 0:01:57.080 --> 0:02:04.000 came to me while I was riding a bike. But then, 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:07.880 you know, you look all over the Bible and you 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:11.280 just see. Now, not all of my sermons start from 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:13.440 a Bible passage. And I should be honest with you. 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:19.200 I think that the best sermons they feel more like 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:24.079 real life, not just like the library. So we don't 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:26.960 just want to approach things from an intellectual point of view. 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:31.480 Some people think that something is more spiritual if it's 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:35.359 more intellectual. I say, oh, that was really deep. What 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:37.480 you said, well, what does it mean? I don't know, 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:40.160 but it was deep. How do you know? Because I 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:44.600 didn't understand it. It was deep. We used to have 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:46.520 a staff member who would get up on stage, and 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:50.840 Holly said he had the spiritual gift of confusing her. 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:54.000 She said, when he talks, he always makes me think 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:56.800 that I don't get it. I don't really think he 0:02:56.880 --> 0:02:59.840 gets it. So I think by him making me not 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:03.160 get it and making me think that he's got something 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:06.360 deep to say, he circumvinced the fact that he didn't 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:10.960 study by just saying stuff that sounds so abstract that 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:13.520 I think, well, I guess that's why I made on 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:18.639 my sat because I don't understand this. But in the scripture, 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:22.280 in John chapter four, there's a passage a story that 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:25.600 is well loved and well worn, and as familiar as 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:28.440 it is, I want us to get into it today. 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:31.359 And there's something that the Lord is speaking on the 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:34.200 subject of the hard work of happiness. And before I 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:36.680 read you my scripture, let me tell you the quote 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:39.120 that actually gave me that phrase. Okay, it's not a 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:41.840 Bible verse that says the hard work of happiness. I 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:45.520 was watching a documentary and that quote came up. The 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:49.280 person said, it's something that took me to age seventy 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:54.400 to realize that happiness is really hard work. And me 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:57.000 and Holly were watching the same movie at the same time, 0:03:58.040 --> 0:04:01.440 and I looked over at her, and she didn't look 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:03.720 like it really registered at all at a deep level, 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:06.440 because like I told you last week, she's naturally happy. 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:08.360 I don't mean she doesn't work hard at it. She 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:10.880 tries not to complain, she serves others, she does a 0:04:10.880 --> 0:04:13.480 lot of habits that make her happy. But she's more 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:16.520 hardwired for happiness than me. I figured that out in 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:19.720 our marriage. One marriage, somebody said in every marriage there's 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:23.640 the crazy one. Make sure that you're the crazy one 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:27.920 in the relationship before you get married, and go easier 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:32.920 for you. And when Holly teaches her study on marriage, 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:35.240 missus better half becoming this is better half. She's not 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:37.839 bragging like, oh, I'm the better half, but I certainly 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:41.240 would say that of her. And in my life it's 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:44.960 been it's been hard work to actually be happy, and 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:48.440 hard work I'm good at, and happiness not so much. 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:51.359 And you know, after I'd preached that last week, I 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:54.599 went home and said, did they hear what I said? 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:59.320 What I was trying to say, It's hard to know. 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:02.080 Sometimes a lot of times I think my sermons are 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:05.520 a lot deeper than you think they are. Like I'll 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:08.480 preach a whole sermon with all these Greek words or 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:11.240 you know, these insights and the Old Testament and the 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:14.279 New Testament, and then the people will come up to 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:15.839 me and say, that was a funny story about the 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:17.920 toilet getting clogged up there at the end. That was good. 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:20.560 I like that. One time I preached on Ruth and 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:23.640 Boaz and Man. I studied the whole Testament to preach 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:26.119 that message, and they said, it's good. You're finally getting 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:29.600 the kids a dog. Take's the one thing you heard, 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:33.400 you know, is right there on the surface. So all 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:36.599 that being said as a setup. The person who said 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:41.960 that in the documentary was Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:46.679 I defy you to name me a happier sounding band 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:51.200 than the Beach Boys. That was the sound of my childhood. 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:54.880 This is literally the man that was singing, We'll have fun, fun, 0:05:55.000 --> 0:05:59.320 fun till her daddy took the Ta bird away. And 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:02.400 yet his his struggles are well documented now with mental 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:06.560 illness and drug abuse, and he said something that was quoted. 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:09.120 You know, it took me seventy years. He sold one 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:13.760 hundred million albums The Beach Boys have He wrote what 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:16.960 Paul McCartney said is the greatest song ever written. God 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:20.320 only knows what I'd be without you. He wrote Good 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:29.159 Vibrations for Pete's sake. And to know that as he 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:34.520 was creating these masterpieces of music, that he was saying 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:36.839 things like it was three weeks in my bed wondering 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:40.159 if I wanted to live now. Apart from analyzing that 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:43.159 specific situation, I just want to take that idea and 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:44.479 talk to you about it for a few minutes. That 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:48.680 it is possible for you to make happy music and 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:53.320 have a troubled mind. That it is possible for you 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:58.360 to have memorized scripture and have a troubled soul. That 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:02.440 it is possible for you to be sober, you know, 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:05.800 free from some substances that you used to struggle with. 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:07.840 But yet deep down, and this is what I want 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:10.680 to talk about a little deeper down today. From John 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:15.520 chapter four, Do we really experience what Jesus came to 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:18.440 give us? Do we really And to look at that 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:21.560 we're going to go into John chapter four. This story 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:29.040 is about I'm testing y'all out to see how much 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:31.160 I need to cover. Sounds like I need to go 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:35.920 to the very beginning today. Okay, good, good, good good. 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:38.480 That lets me know. This is what y'all one of 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:41.040 the most famous Bible stories, the woman at the Well, 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:45.720 the woman in Samaria at the well that Jesus stopped 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:50.160 to talk to and changed her life. And so where 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:52.200 I want to start today is me a little different 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:53.720 than where we end up. So just flow with me, 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:55.400 Flow with me, Flow with the preacher. Would you please 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:56.920 flow with the preacher. Touch and never say flow with 0:07:56.920 --> 0:08:01.600 the preacher. Touch your neighbor and say flow with the preacher. 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:07.840 There you go, John chapter four, Verse one. Now Jesus 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:10.400 learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:14.600 and baptizing more disciples than John, although in fact it 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:18.400 was not Jesus who baptized but his disciples. So he 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:21.920 left Judea and went back once more to Galilee. Now 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:24.840 he had to go through Samaria, so he came to 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:28.280 a town in Samaria called Psykar, near the plot of 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:32.120 Brown Jacob had given to his son Joseph Jacob's well 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:35.120 was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:39.319 sat down by the well. It was about noon when 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:42.840 a Samaritan woman came to draw water. Jesus said to her, 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:46.320 will you give me a drink? His disciples had gone 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:50.400 into the town to buy food. The Samaritan woman said 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:52.080 to him, you are a Jew and I am a 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:55.240 Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink? 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:59.280 For Jews to not associate with Samaritans. And Jesus answered her, 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:00.960 if you knew the gift of God and who it 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:03.440 is to ask you for a drink, you lose the 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:07.080 attitude and ask him, and he would have given you 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:11.360 living water. Sir. The woman said, you have nothing to 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:15.480 draw with, and the well is deep. Where can you 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:19.320 get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:22.920 who gave us the well and drank from it himself. 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:25.280 He didn't need a woman to give him a jar, 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:27.960 He had his own jar. Are you greater than Jacob? 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:32.200 As did also his sons in livestock? And Jesus answer you, ready, 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:35.240 this is deep. The scripture is deep. Everyone who drinks 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:39.920 this water will be thirsty again. But whoever drinks. The 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:44.680 water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:47.440 I give them will become in them a spring of 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:52.319 water welling up to eternal life. The woman said to him, 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:54.480 this is forty two verses, y'all, I'm only going to 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:59.360 read the first twenty four. The woman said to him, Sir, 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:03.480 give me this water so that I won't get thirsty 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:06.160 and have to keep coming here to draw water. And 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:08.120 he told her, go call your husband and come back. 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:12.679 I have no husband, she replied. Jesus said to her, 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:14.440 you were right when you say you have no husband. 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:16.319 Fact is you've had five husbands. The man you now 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:18.400 have is not your husband. What you've said is quite true. 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:23.960 Get a little closer now, sir, The woman said, I 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:28.400 can see that you are a prophet. You think our 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:31.840 ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:36.120 the place we must worship is in Jerusalem. Woman, Jesus replied, 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:38.920 believe me, a time is coming when you will worship 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:43.160 the Father, neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:46.160 Samaritans worship what you do not know. We worship what 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:49.040 we do know. For salvation is from the Jews. Yet 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:52.160 a time is coming and has now come, when the 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:55.679 true worshippers will worship the Father in the spirit and 0:10:55.800 --> 0:11:00.880 in truth. For they are the kind of worshippers seeks 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:05.920 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:11.760 spirit and in truth. Let's stop there. The subject for 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:18.439 today is deeper than you think, deeper than you think. 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:25.599 It's deeper than you think. In defense of the disciples, 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:30.120 they did not know where this was all heading. In 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:33.280 defense of the Disciples, they had more faith than most 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:37.559 of us will ever demonstrate by leaving their trained, chosen 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:41.640 vocations in order to follow someone whose life would meet 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:45.800 a violent end. At the same time that I commend 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:48.640 them for their courage, I would like to go on 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:51.600 record as saying that there is nothing obvious in the 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:57.079 scriptures that makes me think that the disciples were particularly perceptive. 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:00.880 What I'm trying to say is I don't think the 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:05.880 Disciples were all that deep. Not saying they were dumb, 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:12.840 but I wouldn't exactly characterize them as deep either. To 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:16.640 give you one example of how they tended to be 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:20.439 a little less than deep. Not saying they're stupid, I'm 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:23.240 not saying they're shallow. I'm just saying that a lot 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:26.240 of times, if you read the scriptures, Jesus seemed to 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:29.920 be operating on one level and they were operating on another. 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:33.160 And they were trying to catch up with them pretty 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:35.120 much all the way to the cross, where they were 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:39.040 surprised that he died after he told them that's a 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:41.240 good example. He tells them one day he's like, I 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:43.520 got to go to Jerusalem and die. So they walk 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:45.960 a little down the road. He turns around and finds 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:48.280 him talking, and he asked, what are you talking about? 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:51.760 And they said, we were just trying to figure out 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:54.400 who gets to sit on your right hand when you 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:59.600 enter into your kingdom. So they weren't very deep fighting 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:03.640 over pauseosician and status and stuff like that. I was 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:07.400 just studying this one this week too. Jesus said, be 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:11.040 careful of the yeast of the Pharisees and the Sadducees inherd. 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:13.520 And he was talking about the things you let in 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:16.000 your heart that take over and needing to see a 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:18.959 sign versus just believing in God with that childlike faith. 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:22.440 And so he said, be careful of the yeast. And 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:24.360 they looked at each other and said, it's because you 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:29.440 forgot to pack bread not that deep. Even in this 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:32.640 passage that we just read is striking to me and 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:35.120 maybe not to you, but it's striking to me. The 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:39.839 detail that while he is changing a lady's life, all 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:42.920 they can think about is lunch. And I'm not saying 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:45.000 that they're bad. I'm not saying that they should have 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:47.720 been fasting. I'm not really even saying that I would 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:49.959 have done any better, because after I ap preached to 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:51.240 you all to eat lunch too, I'm not going to 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:53.439 try to get somebody saved a Chipotle after I've preached. 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:56.120 I'm going home to eat. That's all I'm gonna do. 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:58.360 I'm appreciate you, I'm go home and eat. So I'm 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:01.760 not criticizing the disciple. I'm just taking a moment to 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:06.360 pause and say that in the scriptures, a lot of 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:12.000 times Jesus was thinking a little bit deeper than the disciples. 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:15.760 And I bring that up to ask the question, is 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:20.119 Jesus thinking a little bit more deeply about your situation 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:24.200 then you are thinking about your situation in this moment, 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:28.880 and does he see it like you see it? Does 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:32.960 he see it like you see it? With my kids, 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:35.760 I have to be okay with the fact that my 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:40.600 disciples Abdy, Graham and Elijah. All right, I don't have twelve. 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:42.680 Three is enough for me. I don't know how he 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:45.280 put up with twelve. He had twelve. These little children 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:47.240 run around. I'll sit on the right hand. You didn't 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:50.160 bring the bread. You know, what would you do if 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:52.680 you had twelve of those? I have three, and I 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:59.120 love them deeply, but they frustrate me greatly. Now, one 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:02.000 thing I learned any we all got little kids. Look kids, 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:05.240 Look kids. When they get a little older, they will 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:08.920 pick on you and they'll start making fun of you. 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:11.800 And it is completely normal to the developmental task of 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:14.560 the child to start making fun of dad, because that's 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:19.200 how the child differentiates and individuates. I don't know if 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:22.880 that's a word or not. I just went with it. 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:27.560 Made me sound deep. Individuate. Got to individuate so you 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:34.320 can matriculate. Pontificate. Was I saying, Oh, how my kids 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:39.120 they love me? Listen, we have a home of respect. 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:40.760 Sometimes in trying to do humor, I don't want to 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:43.880 give you the wrong example. Our home is very respectful, 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:48.800 very loving, very warm, and they love me. I think 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:50.880 they looked up to me. I think they think I'm 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:53.640 the best day that they did ever have. They say 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:59.040 that on Father's Day, but on many occasions, the only 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:04.440 time they get along is when they band together to 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:07.840 beat up on me. And I'm cool with that because 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:10.400 I'm christ Like and if I have to hang here 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:14.080 on this cross to unify these three kids that are 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:17.280 fighting all the time, so y'all can make fun of 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:20.560 how old I am. I'm not ashamed of age, by 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:24.320 the way. Okay, so oh you're getting old? Old is 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:33.320 the goal. I didn't die, What did you do? Old 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:36.040 is the goal. Let's make a T shirt or a 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:38.360 fanny pack or something that says old is the goal. 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:44.680 Wear it with pride. Yeah. Yeah, but they make fun 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:50.080 of me. Classic Dad, They say, classic Dad, just like 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:54.040 Dad to say that. Did you hear Dad saying that 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:58.040 they make fun of me? This summer on vacation. You 0:16:58.080 --> 0:16:59.960 know so many wonderful memories that I can tell you about. 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:03.160 Let me talking about this one. Every time they wanted 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:07.040 to go swim in the ocean, I went. Holly didn't go. 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:13.240 I went, just pointing out she is not always the 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:17.000 more perfect parent. But guess what, because I went in 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:19.919 the ocean, I was subject to their mockery. Here's what 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:22.680 kept happening every time we go out. Every time we 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:25.000 go out, every time we go out to the ocean. 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:30.160 Within ten minutes, I'd be saying, come back in. You're 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:34.320 too far out, you're too far out, Come back in, 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:39.960 classic Dad. They're rolling their eyes, Dad, come on, calm down. 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:43.560 Abby is hanging on my back, and I'm telling Elijah 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:46.680 and Graham come back in. You're too far out. There's 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:50.800 an undercurrent. There's nobody else out here but us. That 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:53.760 means we're not very smart. This is not a good 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:56.719 time to swim in the ocean. Come back in. I 0:17:56.760 --> 0:17:59.080 can't see you out there. I know you can swim. 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:01.200 I know you're taller than me, but i'm your dad. 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:04.320 Come back in. That's too far out. Come back in. 0:18:04.440 --> 0:18:07.480 And Abby's hanging on my back and she says, Dad, 0:18:07.800 --> 0:18:13.720 calm down, it's not that deep. So I put her down. 0:18:20.680 --> 0:18:22.760 And after she thrashed around for a minute because she's 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:27.640 not on my back anymore. Standing on the solid rock, 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:38.120 you know, how we get air again. We think we're 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:40.199 so great and so good and we could do it, 0:18:40.280 --> 0:18:45.000 but really it's what we're standing on. And when I 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:47.320 put her down, when I put her down. She thrashed 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:52.720 around a little bit, and I said, it's deeper. Then 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:59.800 you think it's deeper, then you think. The disciples found 0:18:59.800 --> 0:19:03.320 out how deep it was when Jesus left to be 0:19:03.359 --> 0:19:05.639 in heaven and they had to do the things that 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:08.280 they had seen him do without him there to correct 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:10.280 them when they messed it up. Now, Peter, if you 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:12.640 cut off an ear, it stays off. Jesus isn't around 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:17.040 to put it back on. One time they went to 0:19:17.080 --> 0:19:19.560 go cast out demons. They'd seen Jesus cast out demons. 0:19:19.560 --> 0:19:21.520 They went to cast out demons and they couldn't do it. 0:19:21.560 --> 0:19:22.840 They came back and said, why can't we do it? 0:19:22.880 --> 0:19:25.840 We saw you do it, He said, This kind comes 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:30.719 out only by prayer and fasting. You thought it was 0:19:30.760 --> 0:19:36.480 the motions you watched how I put my hand, or 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:38.320 you listen to what I said, or maybe you copied 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:43.480 my voice inflection. It's not at that level. It's deeper 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:47.840 than you think. We just read a text that seems 0:19:47.880 --> 0:19:53.440 to be about forty verses on something as simple as 0:19:53.480 --> 0:19:58.960 a beverage service. Forty verses on something that happens every 0:19:59.040 --> 0:20:00.920 day when you go to a rest or. Right when 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:04.800 you go to your fridge forty verses. Now, why I 0:20:04.880 --> 0:20:08.119 love to revisit old scriptures isn't because I want a 0:20:08.160 --> 0:20:11.719 week off from studying. It's because the same thing that 0:20:11.760 --> 0:20:13.520 we do in our lives we often do with the 0:20:13.520 --> 0:20:23.160 Word of God. We skim. We skim, We skim, we scroll, 0:20:24.880 --> 0:20:29.359 We skim and we scroll. We don't really know anybody, 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:33.640 We just skim and we scroll. We don't really read 0:20:33.760 --> 0:20:38.480 any news stories. We skim the headlines and we scroll 0:20:38.720 --> 0:20:42.199 to the next one. So we develop entire ideologies and 0:20:42.240 --> 0:20:45.960 belief systems on what happened and judgments on people because 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:50.080 we skim and we scroll, like the Pharisees. By the way, 0:20:50.280 --> 0:20:53.000 in the first few verses I read, they heard Jesus's 0:20:53.000 --> 0:20:55.840 baptize and more disciple more with people than John the Baptist, 0:20:56.000 --> 0:20:58.240 And Jesus wasn't even the one person doing to baptism. 0:20:58.480 --> 0:21:00.320 But since when did the truth get in way of 0:21:00.359 --> 0:21:04.000 a fun rumor? They start talking, they start moving, and 0:21:04.119 --> 0:21:07.960 Jesus goes to Samaria. Now, this passage, on one hand, 0:21:08.000 --> 0:21:11.600 is a geographical description of how Jesus traveled to Galilee, 0:21:11.600 --> 0:21:16.000 where he based his ministry, But it's deeper than you think. 0:21:17.000 --> 0:21:21.280 For instance, did you know that most Jews, instead of 0:21:21.320 --> 0:21:24.240 going straight through Samaria if they were going to Galilee, 0:21:24.760 --> 0:21:28.280 would go around Samaria and it took twice as long. 0:21:28.840 --> 0:21:31.639 But they didn't go through Samaria because they the Bible 0:21:31.680 --> 0:21:35.480 even said it did not like or associate with the Samaritans. 0:21:36.160 --> 0:21:37.840 And you read that and you think, well, that's wrong. 0:21:38.640 --> 0:21:41.240 That sounds like they're bigots. That sounds like they're racist, 0:21:41.359 --> 0:21:44.040 that sounds like their religious classes, that sounds like they 0:21:44.080 --> 0:21:48.119 have an issue, and they do. But to really understand 0:21:48.240 --> 0:21:51.160 even the depth of why they walked around Samaria instead 0:21:51.160 --> 0:21:53.600 of going through it, you'd have to break it down 0:21:53.920 --> 0:21:56.120 and go all the way back to seven hundred BC, 0:21:56.560 --> 0:21:59.479 so this is seven centuries before Jesus showed up to 0:21:59.480 --> 0:22:03.200 talk to this woman and understand how the religious environment 0:22:03.240 --> 0:22:06.119 of Samaria had been populated with those who did not 0:22:06.200 --> 0:22:08.879 worship the True God. And so when they were taken 0:22:08.920 --> 0:22:11.240 out of Samaria, which was the Northern kingdom, that was 0:22:11.240 --> 0:22:14.199 a divided kingdom, Israel was a divided kingdom, and the 0:22:14.280 --> 0:22:17.320 division ran deep because the moment they were taken out 0:22:17.320 --> 0:22:19.919 of their homeland, some other people were brought in, and 0:22:19.960 --> 0:22:23.399 when they came back, they started marrying and mixing, and 0:22:23.440 --> 0:22:26.320 so many of the people who were in Samaria worshiped 0:22:26.320 --> 0:22:29.160 other gods. So when the Jews didn't want to associate 0:22:29.200 --> 0:22:32.080 with the Samaritans, it was because they didn't want to 0:22:32.080 --> 0:22:36.080 get dragged down by the customs of the Samaritans, not 0:22:36.200 --> 0:22:38.800 because they were so dysfunctional in their heart that they 0:22:38.800 --> 0:22:41.600 didn't like them. And now you begin to see through 0:22:41.880 --> 0:22:44.960 the eyes of the Jewish people why they avoided that 0:22:45.119 --> 0:22:48.480 certain place called Samaria, And you begin to understand why 0:22:48.640 --> 0:22:51.960 in your life you avoid certain things as well. Why 0:22:52.040 --> 0:22:55.200 don't you finish things, Why don't you start new things? 0:22:55.359 --> 0:22:58.240 Why won't you love again? Why won't you trust again? 0:22:58.480 --> 0:23:01.960 Why can't you express yourself? Why don't you come to church? 0:23:02.320 --> 0:23:08.720 It's deeper than it seems, and it's deeper than you 0:23:08.800 --> 0:23:15.000 even think. Be very careful about your rush to judgment 0:23:15.480 --> 0:23:26.920 concerning someone whose journey you have not shared. Be very careful. 0:23:27.240 --> 0:23:33.360 God hates divorce. Be very careful hiding something that resembles 0:23:33.480 --> 0:23:36.960 more the kind of bigotry that the Pharisees were known for, 0:23:37.440 --> 0:23:41.760 underneath what sounds spiritual from a situation that has already 0:23:41.800 --> 0:23:44.479 broken the heart of the person whose wounds you were 0:23:44.480 --> 0:23:51.040 pouring salt into I think I lost eighty seven percent 0:23:51.080 --> 0:23:53.480 of the church. Next week would be a good week 0:23:53.520 --> 0:23:56.399 to come be plenty of seats. This preaching is not 0:23:56.480 --> 0:24:00.280 a crowd building preaching. No no, no, no, no, stay 0:24:00.320 --> 0:24:04.000 up abstract here, pastor talking to us about heaven when 0:24:04.040 --> 0:24:06.960 we die in streets of gold and mentions of glory. 0:24:07.160 --> 0:24:09.040 Don't talk to me about my attitude. I want to 0:24:09.080 --> 0:24:11.240 talk about my attitude. I know I got a bad attitude, 0:24:11.240 --> 0:24:13.280 but I love the Lord. I'm not happy, but I 0:24:13.320 --> 0:24:19.000 got joy. I said that last week. That's a Christian saying, 0:24:20.000 --> 0:24:23.920 we're not happy, but we got joy. Praise God said 0:24:23.960 --> 0:24:26.840 with the meanest, ugliest look on your face you ever 0:24:26.920 --> 0:24:30.600 saw in your life. That's the Christian equivalent of I 0:24:30.640 --> 0:24:35.000 don't like you, but I love you. That's the Christian 0:24:35.040 --> 0:24:37.080 equivalent of that. You know, I don't like you, but 0:24:37.240 --> 0:24:40.320 I love you with the love of the Lord. I'm 0:24:40.320 --> 0:24:42.560 not happy, I'm miserable. I'm terrible to be around. But 0:24:42.560 --> 0:24:44.520 I'm going to Heaven when I die. I hope not 0:24:44.520 --> 0:24:45.880 because I was going to go too, and I don't 0:24:45.880 --> 0:24:47.800 really want to be around you there too, for all 0:24:47.840 --> 0:24:51.440 of eternity, for ten thousand years bright shining is the sun. 0:24:53.320 --> 0:24:55.480 So in this passage, one of the things that I 0:24:55.520 --> 0:24:58.360 want you to see is not only the fact that 0:24:58.520 --> 0:25:02.399 Jesus went through through Samaria when he didn't have to 0:25:02.440 --> 0:25:05.560 and most people didn't, but that he did not explain 0:25:05.640 --> 0:25:09.520 to his disciples his reason for doing so. He let 0:25:09.560 --> 0:25:17.199 them go get lunch and explained it later. Okay, this 0:25:17.359 --> 0:25:21.640 is one of my definitions of peace, letting God explain 0:25:21.680 --> 0:25:29.040 it later. So as I'm going through an experience in life, 0:25:29.440 --> 0:25:36.560 trusting God enough to let him explain later. It takes 0:25:36.760 --> 0:25:43.200 no faith to move on an explanation. It takes all 0:25:43.359 --> 0:25:46.600 the faith in the world to do what the disciples 0:25:46.640 --> 0:25:50.600 did and go get lunch. While Jesus talks to a 0:25:50.720 --> 0:25:53.639 lady that he has no business talking to in at 0:25:53.720 --> 0:25:57.000 least three categories, I will listen them for you. She 0:25:57.760 --> 0:26:02.439 is a she, he is he this he is a rabbi, 0:26:02.880 --> 0:26:05.800 and rabbis are not permitted to talk to women in public. 0:26:06.080 --> 0:26:11.080 Strike one, Jesus, she is a Samaritan. He is a Jew. 0:26:11.359 --> 0:26:13.600 I already told you right there in plain sight in 0:26:13.640 --> 0:26:17.000 the text that Jus and Samaritans have no dealing. That's 0:26:17.080 --> 0:26:20.600 number two. Number three, as we found out in the 0:26:20.680 --> 0:26:25.800 text she has a questionable at best reputation. He is 0:26:25.880 --> 0:26:29.520 the holy, spotless Lamb of God and he's not even married. 0:26:30.760 --> 0:26:34.200 Jesus didn't have kids. How could he have kids when 0:26:34.240 --> 0:26:36.240 he had to put up with Peter? He had no 0:26:36.280 --> 0:26:39.800 more room for anybody to look after and straighten up after. 0:26:40.320 --> 0:26:44.040 Jesus is talking to someone he has no business talking 0:26:44.080 --> 0:26:46.520 to in a place that is a place that he 0:26:46.560 --> 0:26:51.360 has no business going. And it's deeper than you think. 0:26:51.440 --> 0:26:55.840 Say that out loud, it's deeper than you think. Pulse check, 0:26:55.880 --> 0:27:02.879 look at your neighbors. Say it's deeper, all right. So, 0:27:02.880 --> 0:27:12.520 so Jesus is sitting by a well talking to a woman, 0:27:14.400 --> 0:27:16.879 and the disciples don't know why she's sitting by a 0:27:16.920 --> 0:27:22.520 well talking to a woman. Disciples don't know why he's 0:27:22.520 --> 0:27:27.680 sitting by a well talking to a woman. The disciples 0:27:27.720 --> 0:27:34.560 don't know why got it? And everything in the text 0:27:35.680 --> 0:27:38.920 is something you can see. You can see the woman, 0:27:40.280 --> 0:27:45.159 You can see the well. You can see the woman 0:27:45.520 --> 0:27:48.080 the well. You can see the woman's jar that she's 0:27:48.119 --> 0:27:51.600 going to get the water from. You can't see Jesus 0:27:51.680 --> 0:27:54.280 jar because he doesn't have one, because she is one. 0:27:56.720 --> 0:28:00.679 But she doesn't know that yet. I'm telling you the 0:28:00.720 --> 0:28:02.320 Bible's deeper. And you think you know I said it 0:28:02.359 --> 0:28:05.240 happened at noon. Did you see that? You probably need 0:28:05.320 --> 0:28:07.960 to pay attention to that. I said, its noon, it's 0:28:07.960 --> 0:28:11.680 the sixth hour, and she's coming out there at noon. 0:28:11.960 --> 0:28:15.119 Why at noon, that's the hottest time you could have. 0:28:15.440 --> 0:28:17.200 If you have to work hard to get this water 0:28:17.240 --> 0:28:19.840 and carry it, the worst time you can do it 0:28:19.880 --> 0:28:21.840 is in the heat of the day. And this is 0:28:21.880 --> 0:28:25.440 not exactly a friendly climate. You know, where the Bible happened. 0:28:25.480 --> 0:28:29.000 It gets some pretty some pretty hot conditions. Something in 0:28:29.040 --> 0:28:32.720 her life which we find out, is that she's been 0:28:32.760 --> 0:28:35.240 from man to man to man to man to man, 0:28:35.440 --> 0:28:38.120 either passed around like an object or because of some 0:28:38.240 --> 0:28:41.160 choice of her own. We don't know. But she's there 0:28:41.200 --> 0:28:44.240 in the heat of the day to avoid the melting, 0:28:44.800 --> 0:28:48.520 penetrating gaze of others who would speak of her as 0:28:48.520 --> 0:28:53.360 she did it. It's deeper than you think when you 0:28:53.400 --> 0:28:56.520 do things, why you do things, It's deeper than you think. 0:28:57.200 --> 0:28:59.160 There's a reason she's there at noon. There's a reason 0:28:59.200 --> 0:29:02.040 you do it at noon. Is deeper than you think. 0:29:03.800 --> 0:29:08.360 What time did Jesus die on the Cross. Go study 0:29:08.360 --> 0:29:11.920 your scripture. You'll find out he died about the sixth hour, 0:29:12.720 --> 0:29:16.760 which is at noon. Is it a coincidence that she 0:29:16.840 --> 0:29:19.400 came to get her water out of her shame at 0:29:19.400 --> 0:29:21.640 the same time that he would later die for her 0:29:21.680 --> 0:29:25.680 shame to take it away? Or is John pointing to something. 0:29:25.960 --> 0:29:29.520 John's gospel is amazing, y'all, because he has these signs. 0:29:29.800 --> 0:29:32.840 He gives these signs to prove that Jesus is who 0:29:32.880 --> 0:29:35.600 he says he is. And so all of the signs 0:29:35.600 --> 0:29:39.560 in John's Gospel are pointing not to the miracle themselves, 0:29:40.440 --> 0:29:47.240 but to the One, the Man, the God, the Spirit, 0:29:48.360 --> 0:29:52.160 who created all things that are seen. Oh, I love it. 0:29:52.200 --> 0:29:53.640 I love it. I love it. I love it. I 0:29:53.640 --> 0:29:56.840 love it. It's deeper than you think, y'all. Slow down, 0:29:57.080 --> 0:30:01.320 stop reading your Bible so fast, and stop skimming it. 0:30:01.600 --> 0:30:04.040 And every once in a while, just sit like Jesus 0:30:04.120 --> 0:30:06.880 did at the will just sit wonder why at noon? 0:30:07.600 --> 0:30:10.080 I wonder why it happened at noon? I wonder why 0:30:10.720 --> 0:30:13.600 John took the time to stop by and say it 0:30:13.680 --> 0:30:16.719 happened at noon. We don't really need a chronological journey 0:30:16.760 --> 0:30:19.400 of every journal of everything that happened on the journey. 0:30:19.600 --> 0:30:20.920 Just get to the point. He said, No, you need 0:30:20.920 --> 0:30:22.640 to know us at noon, because you need to know 0:30:22.680 --> 0:30:25.680 that this woman was ashamed, because you might feel ashamed 0:30:25.720 --> 0:30:28.080 of some things that happened in your life, either things 0:30:28.120 --> 0:30:30.800 you did or things others did. But you need to 0:30:30.880 --> 0:30:34.520 know that at noon one Friday, that there is a 0:30:34.720 --> 0:30:38.560 man who hung on a cross and they stretched him 0:30:38.680 --> 0:30:42.240 wide and hung him high, but he didn't stay where 0:30:42.280 --> 0:30:44.840 they put him, And you're not staying where they put you. 0:30:45.120 --> 0:30:49.320 And you will not die in this situation because he lives. 0:30:49.600 --> 0:30:52.760 I get faced tomorrow. Stuff like that. You need to 0:30:52.880 --> 0:31:00.720 know is fever than you think. I'll try this out 0:31:00.720 --> 0:31:03.280 next time you're judging somebody. Just say it's deeper than 0:31:03.320 --> 0:31:07.320 I think. It's deeper than I think, or else you'll 0:31:07.320 --> 0:31:12.520 get into this thing of behavior modification. Why didn't Jesus 0:31:12.680 --> 0:31:16.120 tell this woman to stop having so many different men 0:31:16.400 --> 0:31:18.720 before he told her he would give her living water. 0:31:20.720 --> 0:31:24.640 Why didn't he say, go fix these issues and I'll 0:31:24.640 --> 0:31:30.600 give you this resource. Why didn't Jesus give this woman 0:31:30.880 --> 0:31:33.560 a list of things she could do so she wouldn't 0:31:33.600 --> 0:31:37.000 have to keep going to these bad relationships over and over. 0:31:37.240 --> 0:31:39.760 At the very least she doesn't know how to select 0:31:39.800 --> 0:31:43.560 the right man at the very least, and why didn't 0:31:43.560 --> 0:31:48.920 he fix that? That's exactly how we think, right, Okay, 0:31:49.120 --> 0:31:51.800 this is my sermon. You like a sermon in a sentence. 0:31:51.800 --> 0:31:55.320 This is it right here. We solve it on the 0:31:55.440 --> 0:32:02.040 level we see it. We saw it on the level 0:32:02.080 --> 0:32:05.200 we see it. And that's why I wanted to talk 0:32:05.200 --> 0:32:08.560 to you about happiness. Because you can see the well, 0:32:09.840 --> 0:32:13.360 you can see the woman, but what you can't see 0:32:13.480 --> 0:32:17.520 is what is happening within that Jesus points to and says, 0:32:17.720 --> 0:32:21.120 I want to fix that. I want to work on that. 0:32:22.200 --> 0:32:26.320 And until you understand this principle in scripture, you will 0:32:26.320 --> 0:32:31.920 slap a religious label on behavior modification methods that will 0:32:32.000 --> 0:32:36.720 keep you coming back to the wrong well to be happy. 0:32:39.880 --> 0:32:43.440 I hope you like to hear me preach, but I 0:32:43.520 --> 0:32:49.560 don't want for you to need me to preach. I 0:32:49.600 --> 0:32:52.000 don't want you to need me to preach. What if 0:32:52.040 --> 0:32:54.320 I decide to go? What if I decide to go? Uh? 0:32:54.480 --> 0:32:57.200 What if I decide to go be a construction worker? Huh? 0:32:57.240 --> 0:33:00.520 What you gonna do? Then? What if all decide we 0:33:00.520 --> 0:33:03.280 need to hike the Appalachian Trail for nine months. I'm 0:33:03.320 --> 0:33:05.000 for nine months. What you're gonna do, You're just gonna 0:33:05.080 --> 0:33:07.200 fight the devil for nine months. I don't want you 0:33:07.600 --> 0:33:14.960 to need an external voice to experience an inward transformation. Now, 0:33:14.960 --> 0:33:17.800 this part of my sermon is really bad for job 0:33:17.880 --> 0:33:22.440 security because I'm telling you this that you have within you. 0:33:23.560 --> 0:33:25.560 I don't think you understand what you have within you 0:33:26.600 --> 0:33:28.960 because everything I'm seeing people do to try to get 0:33:29.000 --> 0:33:33.720 happy these days is an outside thing. But it's an 0:33:33.720 --> 0:33:39.760 inside job. But you do an outside stuff because you 0:33:39.840 --> 0:33:43.160 keep trying to solve it on the level that you 0:33:43.240 --> 0:33:46.440 see it. So you see people who look happy, you 0:33:46.520 --> 0:33:50.080 see people who look people who look ecstatic, people who 0:33:50.120 --> 0:33:53.160 look successful, people who look like they got it all together. 0:33:53.400 --> 0:33:56.520 And so since you see the objects that they post 0:33:57.000 --> 0:34:01.440 to give the illusion of success, I think they're compensating 0:34:01.640 --> 0:34:03.640 because I think if you really possess it, you don't 0:34:03.680 --> 0:34:06.920 even need the post it. That's what I think. That's 0:34:06.960 --> 0:34:10.000 what I think. I think the ladies don't protest too much. 0:34:10.360 --> 0:34:18.680 That's what I think. That's what I think. That's what 0:34:18.800 --> 0:34:23.680 I think. But it's deeper than I think, because we 0:34:23.719 --> 0:34:27.399 don't really see what they struggle with. Wen't really see 0:34:27.719 --> 0:34:31.560 what they struggle with. So you try to fix what 0:34:31.600 --> 0:34:35.200 you see, but you don't really understand what you're struggling with, 0:34:35.239 --> 0:34:41.400 what they're struggling with. All right, Stop having arguments. Married people, 0:34:41.440 --> 0:34:43.520 Wave at me, Wave at me like it was the 0:34:43.560 --> 0:34:45.520 best decision of your life you made when you said 0:34:45.560 --> 0:34:48.799 I did. Oh wasn't it. Now? Teach you something real quick, 0:34:50.719 --> 0:34:55.239 anybody newly married like just I mean, just still got 0:34:55.239 --> 0:34:57.920 the plastic wrap on the thing. You know, you know, 0:34:58.400 --> 0:35:00.719 don't even know if this, where's does this go? You know, 0:35:00.880 --> 0:35:06.800 still figuring out. Look at her. I'ma do you a quick, 0:35:06.880 --> 0:35:09.879 quick favor, all right, send me a little gift card 0:35:09.960 --> 0:35:12.319 or something after this, because it's really good. You pay 0:35:12.360 --> 0:35:14.399 a lot of therapy bills over this when I'm about 0:35:14.400 --> 0:35:20.319 to give you. She's deeper than you think. Don't get 0:35:20.360 --> 0:35:23.560 boring and stop being curious about who she really is 0:35:23.640 --> 0:35:30.080 because you haven't really even met her yet. You got it. 0:35:31.160 --> 0:35:37.240 You're welcome. Oh hey, and and you daughter of God. 0:35:39.719 --> 0:35:41.960 Look look at him real quick, just look in his eyes, 0:35:42.000 --> 0:35:46.800 looked deep in his eyes. At times in the coming years, 0:35:46.840 --> 0:35:48.920 if he's sitting there with a blank look on his face, 0:35:50.000 --> 0:35:55.080 you know, just drooling and you're like, what is he thinking? 0:35:56.000 --> 0:36:01.319 Let me tell you something, absolutely nothing. No, no, no, no no, no, 0:36:01.360 --> 0:36:06.279 that's that's the stereotype. Oh, the women are complicated, the 0:36:06.320 --> 0:36:09.240 men are simple. Men are not simple. He's way deeper 0:36:09.280 --> 0:36:12.680 than you think. So if you see a man struggle 0:36:12.719 --> 0:36:18.880 with anger, you will just label at his rage. What 0:36:18.920 --> 0:36:25.960 if he's really afraid? What if he's really afraid? Me 0:36:26.000 --> 0:36:29.879 and mom were talking about something that that my dad 0:36:29.880 --> 0:36:32.319 did the other day one time when he freaked out, 0:36:33.600 --> 0:36:35.560 and we were laughing because then it started. We started 0:36:35.560 --> 0:36:40.200 listening all the times he freaked out, classic dad, and 0:36:40.239 --> 0:36:42.920 we were bonding over laughing at him. And he's in 0:36:43.040 --> 0:36:45.919 heaven now, so it doesn't hurt him. You know, he's 0:36:46.080 --> 0:36:48.480 way less dysfunctional than us down here now, so we 0:36:48.520 --> 0:36:50.400 say whatever you want about him. He's got his wings 0:36:50.440 --> 0:36:52.200 and stuff, but down here you didn't have any wings. 0:36:52.239 --> 0:36:55.080 Down here, he would freak out. And she looked at 0:36:55.080 --> 0:36:56.960 me and said something that I thought was so profound. 0:36:57.360 --> 0:37:03.160 She said, I think anytime somebody made feel stupid, I 0:37:03.160 --> 0:37:04.960 think a lot of the stuff that he did that 0:37:05.000 --> 0:37:10.600 we categorized as him being hateful, was him feeling like 0:37:10.680 --> 0:37:13.360 at the core that he was made to feel stupid, 0:37:13.880 --> 0:37:17.120 which would make total sense since he didn't have the 0:37:17.160 --> 0:37:21.800 opportunity to even finish to eighth grade, because he would 0:37:21.800 --> 0:37:25.040 go through his life feeling like everybody knew something he 0:37:25.080 --> 0:37:28.239 didn't know. So anytime now he gets an indication that 0:37:28.280 --> 0:37:31.080 you know something I don't know, I feel weak. So 0:37:31.160 --> 0:37:35.280 since I feel weak, I gotta act strong. Arrogant people 0:37:35.920 --> 0:37:42.040 are the most insecure people. Strong people and whole people 0:37:42.640 --> 0:37:46.960 are humble people. They can receive feedback. You see in 0:37:47.000 --> 0:37:49.880 the text in John chapter four, how the Samaritan woman 0:37:50.160 --> 0:37:54.680 is so defensive. Why can I get a drink? You 0:37:54.719 --> 0:37:57.480 don't even have a joink? Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa 0:37:57.520 --> 0:38:03.640 whoa whoa whoa whoa, Just trying to make conversation, lady, 0:38:04.160 --> 0:38:10.239 I am a rabbi. Man Nicodemus just came to see 0:38:10.320 --> 0:38:13.359 this guy at night. In John three, now he's having 0:38:13.400 --> 0:38:16.040 to deal with a woman who he's not even supposed 0:38:16.080 --> 0:38:18.600 to be talking to, and in their eyes, she's not 0:38:18.719 --> 0:38:20.920 worthy to talk to him, and he's having to put 0:38:21.000 --> 0:38:25.440 up with this, but he keeps talking to her. He 0:38:25.520 --> 0:38:29.000 keeps talking to her, and and and for years I 0:38:29.040 --> 0:38:33.640 read this text, I thought that Jesus was discussing or 0:38:33.680 --> 0:38:38.840 debating with the woman, but he wasn't. It wasn't a debate. 0:38:40.239 --> 0:38:49.240 He wasn't discussing, He wasn't debating. He was digging, digging, digging. 0:38:50.520 --> 0:38:54.120 Will you give me a drink? He's not supposed to 0:38:54.200 --> 0:38:56.160 have anything to do with me. We don't even like y'all. 0:38:57.320 --> 0:39:00.200 I understand all that. I understand that. I understand that 0:39:00.200 --> 0:39:04.120 you're suspicious based on your history. I understand all that. 0:39:04.880 --> 0:39:07.880 But keep going. Will you give me a drink? And 0:39:08.000 --> 0:39:11.120 remember all of this is happening, y'all. If you really 0:39:11.120 --> 0:39:14.000 love the Bible, check this out at Jacob's well that 0:39:14.080 --> 0:39:19.640 he gave Joseph, which is amazing because you know, Joseph 0:39:19.760 --> 0:39:21.960 was thrown in a well at one time in his 0:39:22.040 --> 0:39:25.000 life by his brothers who left him there to die 0:39:25.040 --> 0:39:27.640 and then sold him into slavery. And then at the 0:39:27.840 --> 0:39:30.880 end of his life, his father Jacob said, I'm going 0:39:30.960 --> 0:39:32.920 to give you one more ridge of land, and I 0:39:32.960 --> 0:39:35.759 gave your brothers in Genesis forty eight. And in that 0:39:35.920 --> 0:39:39.640 ridge of land is right where Jesus showed up hundreds 0:39:39.640 --> 0:39:42.839 of years later. And it says that the well that 0:39:42.960 --> 0:39:48.239 Jacob gave Joseph was there isn't that awesome. This has 0:39:48.280 --> 0:39:51.359 been happening for a long time. Jesus didn't just set 0:39:51.440 --> 0:39:54.200 up this the night before, think I'll stop by Samaria 0:39:54.239 --> 0:39:57.319 and talk to the woman. He was thinking about this 0:39:57.440 --> 0:40:01.800 woman from the very moment that that Joseph was getting 0:40:01.840 --> 0:40:04.799 blessed with a well from his father. And you've got 0:40:04.840 --> 0:40:08.120 to know in your life that God has been busy 0:40:08.160 --> 0:40:12.600 behind the scenes. God is not surprised by this season 0:40:12.680 --> 0:40:16.400 of your life. God did not even randomly let you 0:40:16.480 --> 0:40:20.600 click on this sermon. You did not choose this sermon, 0:40:21.000 --> 0:40:25.880 and neither did the algorithm. God took the algorithm. He said, 0:40:25.960 --> 0:40:28.479 I need them to watch a sermon three months ago 0:40:29.000 --> 0:40:32.240 so that when they open their YouTube on Sunday morning, 0:40:32.560 --> 0:40:35.680 there will be in their algorithm a word that they 0:40:35.760 --> 0:40:39.239 need to adjust their direction so that their life can 0:40:39.280 --> 0:40:43.640 be on course. What kind of joy would you have 0:40:44.120 --> 0:40:47.960 and peace would you experience if you internalize the truth 0:40:48.120 --> 0:40:51.160 that God has been busy all along, and on the 0:40:51.239 --> 0:40:55.000 surface your life seems absolutely ridiculous, And on the surface, 0:40:55.239 --> 0:40:58.560 your situation is very scary, and you look like someone 0:40:58.800 --> 0:41:01.200 who is just going out to get water. You look 0:41:01.320 --> 0:41:03.920 like someone who just came to church with your mom 0:41:04.200 --> 0:41:06.960 You look like someone who just came today, because that's 0:41:06.960 --> 0:41:09.520 what we do, and that's on the surface. But it's 0:41:09.600 --> 0:41:12.440 deeper than you think. Is steeper than you think. God 0:41:12.480 --> 0:41:15.200 brought you here in this moment in time to remind 0:41:15.280 --> 0:41:18.239 you that there is a well on your land. As 0:41:18.239 --> 0:41:20.200 a matter of fact, don't want to point something out 0:41:20.239 --> 0:41:23.440 to you. The land belonged to Joseph, so the spring 0:41:23.600 --> 0:41:26.880 under it did too. The land belonged to Joseph, so 0:41:27.000 --> 0:41:29.760 the spring under it did too. Jacob paid one hundred 0:41:29.760 --> 0:41:32.919 pieces of silver for that land, and underneath the land 0:41:33.040 --> 0:41:35.560 was a spring. And underneath the spring, when the spring 0:41:35.640 --> 0:41:38.120 came up through a well, it was able to refresh 0:41:38.160 --> 0:41:40.799 and restore. God sent me to tell you that when 0:41:40.880 --> 0:41:44.440 Jesus paid for your salvation, you don't just get the field. 0:41:44.719 --> 0:41:47.440 You get the spring too. He didn't just die so 0:41:47.480 --> 0:41:49.880 you could go to heaven one day. You get what's 0:41:50.000 --> 0:41:52.920 under it too. When he claimed this is mine and 0:41:53.000 --> 0:41:55.400 took your life. He didn't just come to give you 0:41:55.480 --> 0:41:58.040 a ticket to heaven. He came to give you bread 0:41:58.400 --> 0:42:02.560 at the presence of you, and green grass in the valley, 0:42:02.800 --> 0:42:06.759 and joy unspeakable and full of glory. I don't just 0:42:06.840 --> 0:42:09.520 want the land. I don't just want to happen. I 0:42:09.520 --> 0:42:12.919 don't just want salvation. When I get there, I'd leave 0:42:13.080 --> 0:42:19.040 Jesus right now, living water, living water, springs, living water. 0:42:22.360 --> 0:42:27.720 So not just the land, but the spring is yours. 0:42:27.920 --> 0:42:30.560 And God is saying, I don't just want the external 0:42:30.640 --> 0:42:33.480 parts of you. I don't just want your behavior to 0:42:33.520 --> 0:42:37.920 get better. I want what's inside. Jesus died for what 0:42:38.120 --> 0:42:46.960 is inside. That's the gospel that if you believe in 0:42:47.000 --> 0:42:51.719 his name, that from within you, somebody say within, just 0:42:51.800 --> 0:42:55.680 get that word right there in your spirit within within 0:42:57.480 --> 0:43:00.480 you think if you get a better well, you'll be happy. 0:43:01.480 --> 0:43:04.120 Or like the woman you don't even have a jar. 0:43:05.520 --> 0:43:07.480 See how fixated we are and what we can see, 0:43:07.800 --> 0:43:11.279 and the level you see it determines the level you 0:43:11.320 --> 0:43:15.799 solve it. That's why you keep clicking on all the 0:43:15.880 --> 0:43:20.520 videos that tell you how to be happy by eating 0:43:20.560 --> 0:43:26.560 more pizza and doing less cardio, because it's clickbait. Because 0:43:26.560 --> 0:43:30.239 that's the world. Keep you coming back when you get 0:43:30.280 --> 0:43:35.680 thirsty again, you hear me, so we keep clicking on stuff, 0:43:35.680 --> 0:43:38.680 trying stuff. How many y'all did at least three diets 0:43:38.680 --> 0:43:42.000 already this year and it's not even November yet. It's 0:43:42.040 --> 0:43:44.640 all right. I've done it too, because the next thing 0:43:44.719 --> 0:43:48.239 is gonna fix it. The next thing. Oh, it's my macros. 0:43:48.239 --> 0:43:51.200 Oh it's my micros. Oh you know what I'm saying. 0:43:51.440 --> 0:43:53.480 You can count all of that that you want on 0:43:53.520 --> 0:43:55.279 the outside, and it's wonderful, and all of this thing 0:43:55.360 --> 0:43:58.000 is wonderful, and all of that stuff is great, But 0:43:58.120 --> 0:44:03.319 have you ever stopped to wonder what's under it? Are 0:44:03.360 --> 0:44:05.480 you running around like me last week with a plunger. 0:44:07.760 --> 0:44:10.319 That's the story I told last week. Every deep thing 0:44:10.360 --> 0:44:12.439 I said in the sermon, the only thing I heard 0:44:12.440 --> 0:44:14.839 anything about was that was funny when you yelled at 0:44:14.840 --> 0:44:17.360 your kids about the toilet. Because I told this story, 0:44:17.360 --> 0:44:19.840 it was embarrassing, and I'm still embarrassed by it. But 0:44:19.960 --> 0:44:22.839 after plunging this toilet and yelling at the kids who 0:44:22.880 --> 0:44:25.000 did this in the toilet and left it and shut 0:44:25.040 --> 0:44:26.880 the lid, and after trying to fix it and I 0:44:26.880 --> 0:44:30.120 couldn't fix it, I found out that it wasn't their 0:44:30.160 --> 0:44:34.440 fault and it wasn't the toilet's fault, and that the 0:44:34.480 --> 0:44:37.719 pump was broken, and the only way for me to 0:44:37.800 --> 0:44:41.120 fix the situation was to deal with it at the 0:44:41.239 --> 0:44:47.920 level that I couldn't see it, so that means I 0:44:47.960 --> 0:44:51.800 could have taken their phone for a week. You shouldn't 0:44:51.840 --> 0:44:54.160 have done that in that toilet. That is unlawful for 0:44:54.200 --> 0:44:55.719 a man to do in that toilet. And then you 0:44:55.760 --> 0:44:57.800 at least should have told me that it didn't flush, 0:44:58.120 --> 0:45:00.520 it wasn't that it was backed up some somewhere else. 0:45:02.400 --> 0:45:04.319 You can yell, you can scream, you can fight, you 0:45:04.360 --> 0:45:06.520 can buy, you can try, you can cry, you can 0:45:06.560 --> 0:45:09.200 do all of it that you want to. But you're 0:45:09.239 --> 0:45:14.560 gonna keep coming back and keep getting thirsty. Yeah, she said, 0:45:14.560 --> 0:45:20.480 I got five men that I tried, still thirsty, and 0:45:20.520 --> 0:45:23.400 the one I'm with now I'm not sure about. And 0:45:23.560 --> 0:45:29.600 Jesus is like good because now you've probably given up 0:45:30.239 --> 0:45:34.160 on the idea that you will be happy when you 0:45:34.320 --> 0:45:43.920 have someone. Maybe now you're ready to admit is deeper 0:45:45.120 --> 0:45:49.400 than you think. I can't figure this out on my own. 0:45:49.120 --> 0:45:52.200 I can't structure my way into this. Structure is awesome. 0:45:52.320 --> 0:45:54.760 I can't schedule my way into this. Scheduling is awesome. 0:45:54.840 --> 0:45:57.320 I can't shop my way into this. Shopping is awesome. 0:45:58.239 --> 0:46:01.440 Waiting for Holly to say, amen, don't be a hypocrite. Now, 0:46:01.440 --> 0:46:04.520 you know, there's just stuff at my door every day. 0:46:06.000 --> 0:46:08.680 But that's not what makes Holly happy. That's not what's 0:46:08.719 --> 0:46:11.520 going to make you happy, not in a way that's 0:46:11.520 --> 0:46:19.279 going to be lasting. It's deeper than you thought. Now, 0:46:19.320 --> 0:46:23.319 Sometimes it's not that deep. Not everything is so deep, 0:46:24.520 --> 0:46:26.680 not everything as deep as you make it. Man, I 0:46:26.719 --> 0:46:28.680 feel like the devil is fighting me with the spirit 0:46:28.719 --> 0:46:32.439 of exhaustion. That you stayed up till four am. Wa'ts 0:46:32.440 --> 0:46:39.000 your Netflix, that's the spirit of Netflix. Those are different, right, 0:46:40.320 --> 0:46:44.399 you know that? Oh no, man, I'm just anxious all 0:46:44.440 --> 0:46:47.440 the time. But I guess seven cups of coffee before 0:46:47.480 --> 0:46:50.400 seven thirty am is not the best way to fight anxiety. 0:46:51.560 --> 0:46:54.720 I cancel the spirit of caffeine in the name of Jesus. 0:46:55.719 --> 0:46:58.600 I break every yoke of caffeine in the name of Jesus. 0:46:59.000 --> 0:47:02.120 But you drink it. You can't be delivered from it 0:47:02.400 --> 0:47:04.600 if you just keep drinking it. And I'm preaching to 0:47:04.600 --> 0:47:06.680 myself because sometimes I'm like, God, I'm so anxious. I 0:47:06.680 --> 0:47:07.920 don't know what to do. I feel like the devil's 0:47:07.920 --> 0:47:11.400 just coming at me. It's like, it's not the devil 0:47:11.800 --> 0:47:15.360 is diet coke and I do not need any comments 0:47:15.600 --> 0:47:18.880 about aspartame and how I'm gonna die. I'm going to 0:47:18.920 --> 0:47:21.320 heaven when I die, and I'm ready to see Jesus 0:47:21.400 --> 0:47:24.120 at any time. And I enjoyed the delicious taste of 0:47:24.160 --> 0:47:26.640 diet coke and it's deeper than you think, and I 0:47:26.800 --> 0:47:42.640 like it. I like it. Classic Dad, Calm down, we're 0:47:42.680 --> 0:47:48.200 swimming fine, Calm down. What's the big deal? Calm down, preacher. 0:47:48.239 --> 0:47:51.000 You're up here yelling and shouting and screaming and all 0:47:51.040 --> 0:47:53.600 this stuff. It doesn't take all that. We won't need 0:47:53.640 --> 0:47:58.439 all that, not that deep. Okay, Ibby, you touch life 0:47:58.480 --> 0:48:02.520 will eventually put you in a situation where you will, 0:48:02.520 --> 0:48:06.319 from that point forward know your need for something to 0:48:06.360 --> 0:48:12.640 stand on. These waters are deeper than you think. I 0:48:12.680 --> 0:48:14.600 was processing with a young man the other day said, 0:48:14.600 --> 0:48:17.400 I don't get depressed people. Why would you want to 0:48:17.440 --> 0:48:24.600 be depressed? As if depression was a desire. It's a disease. 0:48:25.960 --> 0:48:28.600 It's a disease. You understand a lot of the mental 0:48:28.600 --> 0:48:31.040 health issues that we're dealing with right now. It is 0:48:31.080 --> 0:48:34.799 not as if these people are selecting. There are behaviors, 0:48:35.080 --> 0:48:38.479 there are inputs, But at the heart of that, can 0:48:38.520 --> 0:48:41.680 we take a moment to try to understand what's really 0:48:41.719 --> 0:48:45.759 going on in their life in your life. While you're 0:48:45.760 --> 0:48:49.000 at it, Would you stop being so hard on yourself. 0:48:49.360 --> 0:48:56.920 You're doing pretty good after all. I think you'll need 0:48:56.960 --> 0:49:02.120 therapy because only three people clap. I think y'all need therapy. 0:49:02.600 --> 0:49:05.040 I can't pay for the whole church to go to therapy, y'all. 0:49:06.120 --> 0:49:08.279 Seventy five seventy five that's a lot of hours. I 0:49:08.320 --> 0:49:10.040 can't do it. I can't do it. I can't do it. 0:49:10.239 --> 0:49:12.120 You're gonna have to hear me say this from the 0:49:12.160 --> 0:49:14.160 stage because some of you're not gonna let anybody else 0:49:14.160 --> 0:49:18.280 say it to you. You are trying to solve stuff 0:49:18.640 --> 0:49:21.640 at the level you see it, but it's deeper than 0:49:21.680 --> 0:49:25.320 you think, and you can't see anything but the symptom, 0:49:25.400 --> 0:49:29.840 so you keep stuffing the symptoms, numbing the symptoms, shopping 0:49:29.880 --> 0:49:33.600 through the symptoms, screaming in other people because of the symptoms. 0:49:37.800 --> 0:49:41.440 I'm sorry, y'all, but sin is deeper than you think. 0:49:42.400 --> 0:49:44.680 You don't preach enough about sin in this church. I 0:49:44.719 --> 0:49:47.200 wish you preach more about sin. Well, I guess you do. 0:49:47.280 --> 0:49:52.719 Is something you're an expert in preach about sin a 0:49:52.760 --> 0:49:54.920 lot of the sermons where I hear that are so 0:49:55.160 --> 0:49:59.719 preaching against sin, they're just skimming it. All they're doing 0:49:59.800 --> 0:50:03.040 is saying, all right, you are commit adultry. Stop that, 0:50:08.320 --> 0:50:12.600 stop committing adultery, when at the heart of me doing this, 0:50:13.640 --> 0:50:18.640 it's something that you haven't taught me to deal with. Stop. 0:50:18.760 --> 0:50:20.879 You know, Like we had the youth services this week 0:50:20.920 --> 0:50:25.520 in the church. It was awesome, and well, I'll tell 0:50:25.560 --> 0:50:27.560 you what. You kind of wish you could have a 0:50:27.600 --> 0:50:29.560 session with just the fellas so you could do a 0:50:29.600 --> 0:50:33.080 whole thing on porn. Don't look at me. You brought 0:50:33.080 --> 0:50:34.799 your kids in here. There's e kids. You should have 0:50:34.840 --> 0:50:39.279 dropped them off. Hey, it is not my fault. You 0:50:39.360 --> 0:50:42.839 don't trust your kids with our volunteers. They're certified. All right, 0:50:43.600 --> 0:50:48.239 you made that decision. But I wish I could. I 0:50:48.280 --> 0:50:49.799 wish I could do a whole thing with the with 0:50:49.840 --> 0:50:51.680 the boys about porn because I think I have a 0:50:51.680 --> 0:50:56.240 bigger message to give them then, don't we're so surface 0:50:56.360 --> 0:51:00.080 level in church. Sex is dirty and nasty and oh 0:51:00.280 --> 0:51:07.040 and ugly, So save them for your husband, right, huh. 0:51:07.560 --> 0:51:09.799 Nobody taught me that the Holy Spirit would help me 0:51:09.800 --> 0:51:12.920 in my struggle with that. Nobody ever taught me that 0:51:13.360 --> 0:51:15.719 there are patterns I can put in place. Nobody ever 0:51:15.800 --> 0:51:17.920 taught me that I need more than just prayers. I 0:51:17.960 --> 0:51:22.200 need people to help me when I'm weak. Nobody taught 0:51:22.239 --> 0:51:27.799 me that all you want to do is stand over 0:51:27.880 --> 0:51:31.880 defeated people and discourage them even more. But it's deeper 0:51:31.920 --> 0:51:41.640 than you think. Don't be depressed. Sixth fart series starts 0:51:41.640 --> 0:51:46.960 next Sunday, Part one, Doom, Part two B Part three Depressed. 0:51:48.320 --> 0:51:51.359 What's the next three weeks gonna be? I'm gonna say 0:51:51.360 --> 0:51:59.839 that again, louder. What is deeper? He came out there 0:52:00.000 --> 0:52:04.160 noon because she was ashamed, and he died at noon 0:52:05.560 --> 0:52:10.200 because she was ashamed. And he comes to you right 0:52:10.200 --> 0:52:12.640 out in the light to show you what I'm really 0:52:12.640 --> 0:52:17.120 dealing with. He's digging me, digging. Can I have water? 0:52:18.160 --> 0:52:20.719 Why are you asking me for water? Just like a man. 0:52:23.040 --> 0:52:27.880 And he's digging, and he's digging because I know underneath 0:52:27.880 --> 0:52:33.839 this attitude, I know, underneath this sorrow is a deep 0:52:33.880 --> 0:52:40.000 disappointment that what you thought would quench your thirst, but 0:52:40.120 --> 0:52:43.840 what you thought would satisfy your soul did in word, 0:52:44.000 --> 0:52:47.080 that who you thought would never let you down broke 0:52:47.160 --> 0:52:51.719 you in pieces and I know that, he says, and 0:52:51.760 --> 0:52:54.920 I see that, and you keep trying to solve it 0:52:54.960 --> 0:52:58.000 on the level you see it. Now, let's solve it 0:52:58.040 --> 0:53:08.600 on the level that he sees it. It's deeper than 0:53:08.640 --> 0:53:11.920 you think, Abby, That's all I know to tell you. 0:53:12.360 --> 0:53:15.640 I kept telling y'all to come in, not just because 0:53:16.400 --> 0:53:19.800 of what was happening in that moment, but you remember 0:53:19.840 --> 0:53:24.600 at Cinnamon Beach too, summers earlier, on spring break, and 0:53:24.640 --> 0:53:28.640 we're out there and the rip tide comes. You remember 0:53:28.640 --> 0:53:31.400 when y'all start swimming in, And I told you afterwards, 0:53:31.880 --> 0:53:35.200 I think we almost all just died. I was scared. 0:53:36.800 --> 0:53:38.799 I didn't act scared while we were out there. Y'all. 0:53:38.840 --> 0:53:41.920 We were out there on spring break two years before this, 0:53:43.800 --> 0:53:46.480 and I just absolutely lost track of where we were. 0:53:46.480 --> 0:53:48.600 And none of us could touch, not Elijah, not Graham, 0:53:48.600 --> 0:53:51.600 not Abby, not me. Holly's in the house doing a puzzle, 0:53:52.600 --> 0:53:58.759 the smart, happy one, and I got them all in, man, 0:53:58.760 --> 0:54:01.880 But it was a minute where anybody almost ever drowned before, 0:54:02.800 --> 0:54:05.959 anybody ever almost drowned with your three kids out there 0:54:06.680 --> 0:54:10.200 and you can't get them all in. So when I'm 0:54:10.280 --> 0:54:17.640 yelling this summer, I'm remembering that spring break. I'm not 0:54:17.719 --> 0:54:20.359 just yelling because you're too far out there now. I 0:54:20.400 --> 0:54:22.640 still feel in mysels. If I close my eyes, I 0:54:22.640 --> 0:54:26.920 can remember thinking about, Oh God, this is it. And 0:54:26.960 --> 0:54:29.000 sometimes what you're dealing with right now isn't what you're 0:54:29.000 --> 0:54:38.680 dealing with right now. Yeah, it's deeper than you think, 0:54:40.880 --> 0:54:44.000 and Jesus can help you deal with that. He didn't 0:54:44.040 --> 0:54:45.480 tell the woman, I'll meet you in heaven one day. 0:54:45.480 --> 0:54:47.080 He said, go get your husband. She said, i'll have 0:54:47.080 --> 0:54:48.520 a husband. He said, I know you've been with five 0:54:48.560 --> 0:54:50.479 and the when you have now not your husband. She said, 0:54:50.480 --> 0:54:54.400 you're a prophet. She thought he was a prophet because 0:54:54.440 --> 0:54:58.719 he spoke to her past. I think he was a 0:54:58.760 --> 0:55:09.280 prophet because he knew her future. He knows the plans 0:55:09.320 --> 0:55:12.560 he has for you. He knows the plans he has 0:55:12.600 --> 0:55:16.719 for you, and is deeper than you think. He knows 0:55:16.719 --> 0:55:20.960 how he's going to redeem this season in your child's life. 0:55:21.600 --> 0:55:24.680 And what he's doing is deeper than you think. The 0:55:24.719 --> 0:55:27.640 Lord said to me the other day, you need to 0:55:27.880 --> 0:55:32.880 start respecting the roots. All you ever look for in 0:55:32.880 --> 0:55:35.000 life to praise me for is the stuff that you 0:55:35.000 --> 0:55:39.600 can see above the surface. Start praising me more for 0:55:39.680 --> 0:55:43.800 the things I am doing deeper in your life. Start 0:55:43.880 --> 0:55:48.080 praising me more for things I'm teaching you. You hear 0:55:48.120 --> 0:55:51.560 me that you can carry forward. Start praising me more 0:55:51.680 --> 0:55:56.640 for things that I will explain later. So praise God 0:55:56.840 --> 0:56:02.440 now for what he will explain later. That's a faith principle. 0:56:02.760 --> 0:56:06.000 I praise you now, you can explain it later. I 0:56:06.120 --> 0:56:09.800 praise you now. I'll understand it later. I praise you now. 0:56:10.000 --> 0:56:12.720 I'll get it later. I praise you now. It hurts 0:56:12.800 --> 0:56:15.480 right now, but it'll heal me later. I praise you 0:56:15.600 --> 0:56:18.959 now because it's a groundwork. I praise you now because 0:56:19.000 --> 0:56:22.560 it's a foundation. And after all, if God is building 0:56:22.600 --> 0:56:25.680 something awesome in my life, the first thing he will 0:56:25.719 --> 0:56:29.280 do is dig. So that's not the devil, that's Jesus 0:56:29.400 --> 0:56:32.279 digging it out because you got a well on the inside, 0:56:32.680 --> 0:56:36.120 you got something special on the inside, you got something 0:56:36.160 --> 0:56:39.719 awesome on the inside. Somebody shout out loud, I got it, 0:56:40.800 --> 0:56:44.239 high five, somebody say I got it. I got it 0:56:44.280 --> 0:56:47.759 on the inside, I got it on the inside. Don't 0:56:47.800 --> 0:56:50.799 look at my bag. I'm not talking about that. Don't 0:56:50.840 --> 0:56:53.520 look on what's on my back. I'm not talking about that. 0:56:53.800 --> 0:56:56.400 I'm not talking about anything you can see. I'm not 0:56:56.440 --> 0:56:58.560 going to solve it at the level people can see it. 0:56:58.840 --> 0:57:01.719 I'm done trying to impressed people. I'm done for us 0:57:01.800 --> 0:57:04.839 smiling through stuff that I need to work through. I'm 0:57:04.880 --> 0:57:08.520 done putting spiritual cliches over things that God wants to 0:57:08.520 --> 0:57:12.600 do a deep work to help me recover from. I 0:57:12.640 --> 0:57:17.760 want this water. Come on, I want this water. I 0:57:17.800 --> 0:57:21.000 want this water, the one that won't make me thirstier. 0:57:21.280 --> 0:57:24.360 I want this water, the one that's not poison. I 0:57:24.400 --> 0:57:26.959 want this water. I want the one that comes from 0:57:27.000 --> 0:57:29.640 you God. I want the real thing. I don't want 0:57:29.640 --> 0:57:32.760 the substitute. I don't want to stand in. I don't 0:57:32.760 --> 0:57:36.160 want the sixth Man. I want the seventh Man. I 0:57:36.320 --> 0:57:48.520 want Jesus hoping. You're not why in a Dylan because 0:57:48.560 --> 0:57:52.080 it's deeper than you think. It's deeper than you think. 0:57:53.920 --> 0:57:57.280 I got bad news. The problem is deeper than you think. 0:57:59.520 --> 0:58:02.959 There's no seven steps to fix it. It's called sin, 0:58:03.720 --> 0:58:08.800 and it's the human condition. It's worse than they told you. 0:58:10.040 --> 0:58:12.160 It's not just get your act together and be happy 0:58:12.160 --> 0:58:16.200 when you do. That's the bad news. The problem is 0:58:16.240 --> 0:58:20.840 deeper than you think. I got good news. So is 0:58:20.880 --> 0:58:33.920 the power. So is the power. If the problem is 0:58:34.000 --> 0:58:40.960 deeper than you think, so is the power. It will 0:58:41.040 --> 0:58:44.720 run out. The patience of God will not run out. 0:58:46.480 --> 0:58:49.160 He'll sit here all day, if that's what it takes. 0:58:50.000 --> 0:58:52.280 He will sit here all day. He will dig all 0:58:52.400 --> 0:58:55.240 day until he uncovers the real you. He will dig 0:58:55.320 --> 0:58:58.680 past layers of pretension. He will dig past every persona. 0:58:58.960 --> 0:59:01.360 He will knock over everything you've propped up to try 0:59:01.400 --> 0:59:04.040 to keep you from being seen. He'll strip away every 0:59:04.080 --> 0:59:07.200 fig leaf. He'll come until that thing in your life 0:59:07.280 --> 0:59:10.000 that was standing up, that was erected as a facade, 0:59:10.240 --> 0:59:12.240 is torn down, and all you have left is faith. 0:59:19.520 --> 0:59:21.320 And what he said to the woman is true for 0:59:21.400 --> 0:59:25.680 you is deeper than you think. It's going to be 0:59:25.760 --> 0:59:29.280 not a well that you can see, It's going to 0:59:29.320 --> 0:59:33.520 be a well from within. I wonder what you've been 0:59:33.520 --> 0:59:38.200 praying for. I wonder what you've been searching for. The 0:59:38.320 --> 0:59:42.040 Kingdom of God is within you. The Spirit of God 0:59:42.840 --> 0:59:46.440 is within you. And just when you think you've reached 0:59:46.440 --> 0:59:49.920 your end, Now, whoever this is for, I knew that 0:59:50.000 --> 0:59:51.880 I needed to say it before I got up and 0:59:52.040 --> 0:59:54.200 would I would not be able to eat my lunch 0:59:54.280 --> 1:00:01.959 without saying this, So you listen. You've been telling God 1:00:02.200 --> 1:00:06.640 how deep the well is. He's trying to show you 1:00:07.120 --> 1:00:16.720 how deep his grace is. There. It is there, it is. 1:00:17.320 --> 1:00:22.680 That's the word. That's the word. The grace is deeper still. 1:00:23.640 --> 1:00:28.600 If the fear runs deep, the faith runs deeper still, 1:00:28.800 --> 1:00:33.480 you see it. If the shame runs deep, the grace 1:00:34.080 --> 1:00:38.560 runs deeper. Still. It's deeper than you think. It's deeper 1:00:38.560 --> 1:00:42.000 than you imagine. According to Him who is able to 1:00:42.080 --> 1:00:46.479 do immeasurably more, it is deeper than you think. Those 1:00:46.520 --> 1:00:49.520 seeds that you're sowing that you don't think anybody notices 1:00:49.720 --> 1:00:52.560 they are going in the soil. Right now, you respect 1:00:52.600 --> 1:00:55.920 that rooting process. You continue to water everything that you've 1:00:55.960 --> 1:00:58.840 planted with your tears, and you trust God to explain 1:00:58.880 --> 1:01:02.560 it later. It is deeper than you think. By the 1:01:02.640 --> 1:01:05.600 time Jesus gets done with this woman, she goes back 1:01:05.640 --> 1:01:08.360 to her village in Samaria, and she brings all the 1:01:08.400 --> 1:01:11.439 men back with her so they can meet Jesus. What 1:01:11.480 --> 1:01:14.440 God is doing in you right now is not about you. 1:01:14.760 --> 1:01:16.840 It's about what God is going to do through you 1:01:16.920 --> 1:01:19.000 in the future. And you need to get off of 1:01:19.040 --> 1:01:22.240 this well today and begin to move in the direction 1:01:22.560 --> 1:01:26.080 of his word for your life. The disappointment runs see, 1:01:31.560 --> 1:01:40.160 but his grace runs deeper by your head. Receive the 1:01:40.200 --> 1:01:47.440 living water today, Oh Father, What a what a truth? 1:01:49.800 --> 1:01:53.160 That is not about which mountain we worship on. It's 1:01:53.160 --> 1:01:56.680 not about what jar we brought. It's about what water 1:01:56.800 --> 1:01:59.360 is on the inside of us. Oh, I bless you 1:01:59.480 --> 1:02:02.200 for showing me that again this week. I needed to 1:02:02.240 --> 1:02:04.520 know it. This week. God, I start thinking, Oh, I 1:02:04.560 --> 1:02:06.840 got to get more money put away, then I'll feel safe. 1:02:07.040 --> 1:02:09.080 Oh I got to get this person straightened out, then 1:02:09.080 --> 1:02:11.280 I'll have peace. Oh I got to get this calm down. 1:02:11.320 --> 1:02:12.880 I just got to make it through this season. I 1:02:12.880 --> 1:02:15.080 got to finish this. And you told me to stop 1:02:16.120 --> 1:02:19.720 and sit by the well and remember what is within me, 1:02:21.920 --> 1:02:24.280 and to call it out of these men and women 1:02:25.480 --> 1:02:33.160 everyone's standing. The spirit of God is in you. Favor, 1:02:33.240 --> 1:02:36.439 the Lord is on you, The hand of the Lord 1:02:36.480 --> 1:02:41.959 is upon you. The promise of God over your life. 1:02:41.960 --> 1:02:45.560 I call it to the surface now in Jesus Nay. 1:02:46.600 --> 1:02:49.880 The problem is deeper than you think. The promise is 1:02:50.120 --> 1:02:53.000 greater than you know. And I'm telling you it's not 1:02:53.040 --> 1:02:55.920 coming one day. Is here right now I'm telling you 1:02:55.920 --> 1:02:57.800 there's a well within you right now. There is a 1:02:57.840 --> 1:03:01.200 well within you. 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