Tired On The Inside

0:00:02.080 --> 0:00:04.640 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation 0:00:04.880 --> 0:00:07.120 Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank 0:00:07.160 --> 0:00:10.480 you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:12.520 it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:17.840 see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:20.400 I told them today. I said, it's been heavy for 0:00:20.440 --> 0:00:22.600 so many people all week, and God has given us 0:00:22.600 --> 0:00:25.400 the privilege to minister. It is a privilege to minister 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:28.440 to you. This is I think the thirteenth week. I 0:00:28.480 --> 0:00:31.160 don't know if I counted correctly. What's your count thirteen? 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:34.280 Since we couldn't have people in our buildings and we've 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:36.720 got quite a few more of those ahead of us. 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:41.440 What I'm grateful about is the buildings have been closed. 0:00:41.440 --> 0:00:44.960 The church has been busy, and it's a good thing too, 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:48.720 because the devil sure has been busy. But the church. 0:00:48.960 --> 0:00:51.320 How many of you this is your church, and you're 0:00:51.320 --> 0:00:53.880 not just consuming put in the chat, say this is 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:56.480 my church. I am glad to be a part of 0:00:56.520 --> 0:00:59.480 the family of God. I'm not just a clicker. I'm 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:04.000 not just a commenter. I'm not a subscriber. I am 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:07.600 a part of the Family of God. I'm washed in 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:11.920 the fountain, cleansed by his blood. That's what the old 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:14.480 hymn said. This is my church. Tell me in the 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:18.440 chat I see, I see South America saying this is 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:21.440 my church. How in the world the South, Charlotte and 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:24.919 South America get together only by the grace of God. 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:29.240 God is a unifier. God is a healer. God is 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:33.600 a barrier breaker. God is a yoke destroyer. God is 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:35.800 the great I am. He can be whatever he wants 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:39.280 to be. He's a transformer. He's more than me. It's 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:46.920 the eyes no better hold me back. This is my 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:49.920 church all over the world, our e fam. It used 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:53.600 to stand for extended. Now it stands for everywhere because 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:55.920 we just got to use. We're not gonna pay you, 0:01:56.000 --> 0:01:58.280 but we are using your house as a church right now. 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:01.720 We need every available. Like Peter, we want to get 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:04.160 in your boat. And Jesus wants to know. Can I 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:06.680 use your space? Can I use your boat? Can I 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:12.080 use your influence? Can I use your voice? He inhabits 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:15.880 the praises of his people. This is my church. And 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:20.079 I'm so thankful, man, I really I've been wondering about you. 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:22.679 Y'all go ahead and sit down. We need to transition. 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:28.760 We need to transition. And I was telling them today 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:33.440 that it's like all week, and really for weeks now, 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:36.880 it's been so heavy in people's hearts that today the 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:39.680 Lord gave me an assignment that he wanted to lift 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:42.679 your burden. And I told everybody that's in this room 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:44.800 with me, whether you're running a camera or playing an 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:48.959 electric guitar, whether you're playing a Fender stratocaster or working 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:51.600 behind a switcher, I came out and told them, drink 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:55.280 your coffee, because today we want to be used by 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:58.440 God to lift those burdens that you've been feeling in. 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:01.840 And I have been worried about you. I know you're 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:06.160 not supposed to worry. Matthew six bubble says, don't worry. 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:09.760 Well I have been. I've been worried. I've been worried 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:14.240 about you because normally I can see more of you, 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:16.640 and I can kind of see how it's going, and 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:20.360 you can stand up here, and this is so weird. 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:22.680 I can't see you at all, so I don't really 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:26.200 know how you're doing. You were singing, this is holy ground, 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:28.360 but you've got some holy sweatpants on, and you hadn't 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:32.040 changed them in four days, and now right about now 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:35.640 you've got an ulcer from just all of the different 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:39.000 emotions that you've been feeling. And I've been I've been 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:41.200 checking on the people that I love. How are you? 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:46.040 And you know, before this quarantine ever started, I remember 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:48.160 a few years ago I went through a season where 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:51.640 I was just amazed that everybody answered the question how 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:54.320 are you. I mean, you got a few people that 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:57.280 they think you really want to know when you ask 0:03:57.320 --> 0:03:59.120 them how are you, and they start going back for 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:01.800 the last three months, just catching you up. Most people 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:04.440 will just say something polite, I'm fine, I'm good, whatever, whatever, 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:08.760 And then some people will say, I noticed this a 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:12.840 few years ago. They'll say I'm either busy, I'm busy. 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:19.159 Remember when everybody was busy, I'm busy, ah man busy. 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:21.159 And then the other thing you would get from people, 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:25.760 I'm tired, I'm tired. And I noticed a few years ago. 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:30.680 This was way before coronavirus. People would say I'm tired, 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:34.520 I'm busy, and I thought the two were connected. But 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:39.600 then a few months ago, everybody's schedule got cleared. Our 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:44.400 heavenly administrative assistant decided we all needed to stay home indefinitely, 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:48.760 and people weren't running their kids around as much anymore, 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:51.800 or if they were, they were just driving them back 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:53.479 and forth and the kids never got out the car, 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:56.839 and so so many things shut down, so many job 0:04:56.880 --> 0:05:01.719 responsibilities were suspended, and but I still kept asking people 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:04.839 how are you? And they didn't stay busy anymore, but 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:09.320 they still said tired. And that caused me to think, 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:14.359 because the last week or two it's been exacerbated just 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:20.839 even that much more. For good reason, everybody I'm talking to, 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:29.760 how are you, I'm tired. I called Pastor John Gray 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:37.400 on Monday. We sat on this stage and he shared powerfully, powerfully, dynamically, 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:44.640 accurately about some of the things that have been going 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:48.960 on in our nation for centuries that some people are 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:53.480 just becoming aware of. And I wanted to call him 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:57.000 Monday because we both knew sharing that conversation that it 0:05:57.040 --> 0:05:58.719 was what God wanted us to do, but we didn't 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:01.360 know how it would be received because we were talking 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:05.000 about issues that sometimes get suppressed. And the response was 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:08.320 amazing from our church family. Oh, I just want to 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:10.560 thank you for being that kind of church that isn't 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:14.400 afraid to shine the light of Jesus Christ in real ways, 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:18.320 not just in cute ways, but in ways that are 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:24.440 relevant to what really ails our nation. God. I can't 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:30.239 see a brother in Jesus Christ choking in the street 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:32.599 and look away because he doesn't look just like me. 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:37.800 And so as John shared, I could tell that it 0:06:37.880 --> 0:06:40.479 was heavy on him, and I called him Monday. I said, 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:43.040 how are you doing? The sermon was already going around 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:46.480 the world. I said, the sermon is going around the world. 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:49.200 We're hearing from all over the world. God is using 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:53.440 what you said on that platform boldly all over the world. 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:56.600 Thank you. How are you feeling? He said, I'll tell 0:06:56.640 --> 0:07:01.479 you what. I'm grateful, but I'm tired. He said that 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:06.080 after he preached here and shared on this platform, he 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:10.000 felt like he had been in a physical fight. He said, 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:11.960 my body felt like as if I had been in 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:14.760 a physical fight, like a cage match. And I made 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:16.440 a joke when we started that we were like a 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:19.600 tag team, and then he went home and physically felt 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:22.000 the symptoms as if it had been a physical fight. 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:26.280 He said, I'm tired, and I said, isn't that crazy. 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:28.160 All we did is sit there and talk for forty 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:32.000 five minutes. But I realized that what we talked about 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:34.280 for forty five minutes was something that my brother has 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:41.320 been fighting for forty six years. I can turn off 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:49.680 the news, he can't turn off injustice. I guess he 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:55.880 was tired. I mean he fought. He fought demons that 0:07:56.080 --> 0:08:00.720 existed before he was even born. I said, I'm tired, 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:06.560 and not just him. I asked a guy who works 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:08.280 at the bank, who's working from home. I said, has 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:10.040 it been good working from home? I'm going to open 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:11.960 the Bible in a minute, by the way, I promise you. 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:15.000 I sent them so many scriptures this morning. I think 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:17.440 they got tired just looking at my list of scriptures 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:19.840 and I'm going to preach them and so don't go anywhere. 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:23.040 But it was so many different people that in the 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:26.480 past few weeks, they weren't saying busy, they were saying tired. 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:32.400 And it wasn't due to a physical demand necessarily. Because 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:34.960 I asked this banker, I said, how are you doing? 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:38.360 He said, I'm tired. I said, but you don't have 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:40.760 to commute. You used to have an hour commute. You 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:42.760 would drive an hour, two work in an hour home. 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:44.880 Now you got two extra hours. He said, yeah, but 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:50.199 I don't have any separation between my office and my kids. 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:54.400 I used to be able to leave them for nine hours, 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:58.520 and now I can't shut one thing out. I used 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:00.400 to be able to compartmentalize. I used to like my 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:02.360 drive time to work because it was the one time 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:04.400 that I knew I could have to myself and I 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:06.440 would listen to you preach all the way to work. 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:08.880 And now I can't do that anymore because they've moved 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:11.120 my meetings and they're eating up the march. He said. Man, honestly, 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:12.640 I know I should be grateful I have a job, 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:15.840 and I know there's people that have it worse, but honestly, 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:19.720 I'm tired. And then I was talking to a mom 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:24.800 whose kids I think they're all between the ages of 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:31.040 two and five, and there's three of them, so your 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:36.480 planning was a little bit interesting. But they're too late 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:38.240 to go back and fix that because now she's got 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:40.880 three and one has special needs, and they normally have 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:43.800 someone to help with the child with special needs, but 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:47.000 that person hasn't been able to come because of the virus. 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:50.720 She said, I'm grateful because my kids are healthy, but 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:56.880 I'm tired. I'm tired By the way, if you're a 0:09:56.880 --> 0:09:58.880 little slow, my message is called I'm tired, so you 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:02.720 could put that in the chat. Hired. I picked that 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:06.280 title Thursday. I'm never gonna pick my titles on Thursday again. 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:09.240 I picked my title I'm tired on Thursday because I 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:11.480 was hearing this and feeling this from so many of 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:15.280 the people that I care about. And then every night 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:18.560 I've been waking up at three am. So I guess 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:22.319 the Lord wanted me to live my message. Next week. 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:27.080 I'm gonna name it one hundred million dollars and see 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:29.800 what happens. I'm gonna name it eight pack and see 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:35.440 if my abs start. I'm my name and make out 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:38.840 with my wife next week. Hawaii. I'm a preacher's message 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:44.760 called Hawaii next week. But it was just in the 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:48.360 process of developing this message, the Lord led me to 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:53.480 a scripture in John chapter four. I'm tired. But really 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:56.320 this message is not about that physical tired. It's like 0:10:56.600 --> 0:10:59.199 my mom was saying to me the other day, she said, 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:05.040 I talk to myself so much it's getting boring, because honestly, 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:08.480 this has been a very hard time for her, being 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:11.640 alone and trying to stay protected. But then how do 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:14.840 you protect your health and protect your sanity. My dad 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:17.360 went to heaven in twenty thirteen. It was the seven 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:21.120 years of when my dad went to heaven this past week, 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:24.559 and she said, the problem with talking to myself is 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:28.000 we keep finishing each other's sentences. We know what we're 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:32.120 going to say before we say it. I'm tired of 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:37.200 talking to myself. I'm tired of being alone. I'm tired. 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:43.080 I'm tired. I'm tired. But it's not like bags under 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:49.080 my eyes. It's not about gas in my car. I 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:51.000 heard a lot of the people that I shepherd say 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:56.080 and I'm tired inside. Maybe that's a better title. We'll 0:11:56.080 --> 0:12:00.920 call it officially. We'll call it I'm tired inside. Go 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:03.360 with me to John chapter four. All you who are 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:09.000 weak and heavy laden, come with me to John chapter four, 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:13.760 and let's listen on a conversation I've been I've been 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:17.720 talking with this text this week, and what the Lord 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:22.200 showed me was something that I thought I had mastery 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:24.560 of this text, John chapter four. You know I've heard 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:27.360 so many sermons on John four. Some of you who 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:29.760 grew up going to Wednesday night Bible study, you probably 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:32.600 click over to some other preacher. Now, because you're like, well, 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:35.080 what can possibly be in John four? I promise you 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:39.839 this that God showed me from John chapter four. And 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:43.520 again I thought, you know, I know this text. It's 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:46.640 about the Samaritan woman, the woman at the well. We 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:50.360 call her it alliterates nicely, the woman at the well, 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:53.760 the woman who had had five husbands, and number six 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:56.720 wasn't her husband either. I called her one time the 0:12:56.760 --> 0:13:01.440 thirsty woman, because it's anyway, it's different meanings depending on 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:04.920 how you culturally interpret that. And I talked about this 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:07.840 woman on Easter. I've talked about this woman on New 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:11.880 Year's and New Year's Resolution. But but I saw this 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:16.559 as I was thinking about how are you really inside? 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:22.120 How are you? How? How? How are how are you? How? 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:26.800 How's your how's your insides? I went to this text 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:30.360 and I stayed with it, and I saw something that 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:33.120 I had never seen before. I'll read you just enough 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:36.679 of it to give context, and then I will give 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:39.839 further context, and then I will give a little more context, 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:46.079 and then you can eat a sandwich fire. I mean, 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:48.480 even looking out across this room, I can see it. 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:51.360 Y'all are trying so hard to pay attention, But honestly, 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:55.640 it's like it's a lot right now, and I want 0:13:55.679 --> 0:13:59.240 to show you something that spoke to my soul. God. 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:01.920 I pray that he will energize your spirit with this word. Now, 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:07.200 Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:11.400 gaining and baptizing more disciples than John, although in fact 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:15.640 it was not Jesus who baptized but his disciples. So 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:18.160 he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee. 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:20.600 I always skipped that little introduction because I wanted to 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:23.560 start the text here in verse four, where Jesus went 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:26.920 through Samaria. But backing up to see verses one through 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:30.560 three was interesting for me because I noticed that Jesus 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:37.040 refused to be controlled by the agendas of others, and 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:40.880 that thing really started preaching to me. Because in Jesus' day, 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:45.040 they had sometimes they had these different controversies, and they 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:47.520 had politics. It was much different in Bible times than 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:50.480 it is today. They had some people who supported this 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:53.440 leader and some people who supported that leader, and then 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:57.400 you had the Pharisees who were trying to keep their power, 0:14:57.680 --> 0:14:59.800 and in order to keep their power, they didn't care 0:14:59.840 --> 0:15:02.000 what what they had to say. They didn't care who 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:04.360 they had to trample on, They didn't care who they 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:07.000 had to hurt, They didn't care what misinformation they had 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:11.680 to spread. So when the prophet from Galilee started performing miracles, 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:14.440 he was born in Bethlehem, he grew up in Nazareth. 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:17.720 He did his miracles in Galilee. When he started baptizing 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:21.840 people and he started gaining popularity, he represented a threat 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:25.600 to the religious establishment, which had become so political that 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:29.080 they had lost the heart of the Father in pursuit 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:33.600 of building the kingdom of their own ideologies. I just 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:38.000 wonder if the Bible still relevant? Is the Bible still eternal? 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:42.200 Is it still the word of God? Because we find 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:45.200 ourselves in a time where we could use a whole 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:50.080 lot more Jesus, a whole lot more. Can I preach 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:54.360 about Jesus for thirty minutes today? Can I preach about Jesus. 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:58.480 Not the Jesus that we thought we knew from three 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:02.800 little quotes that we carefully selected, But the Jesus who 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:08.760 refused to be contained or confined to any ideology or 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:15.200 to any party. Cannot preach about Jesus. And the more 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:18.040 they tried to create this pressure for him to fit 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:20.000 within their system. He was like, I'm out of here. 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:23.680 That's not what I'm about. I'm about my father's business. 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:28.600 And in Jesus Day, they didn't always report the facts 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:35.960 on the news in Jesus Day. In Jesus Day. In 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:39.080 Jesus Day, everybody on this section smile at me because 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:41.360 y'all got me thinking I'm doing bad. I'm not talking 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:44.120 about today. I'm not talking about today. I'm saying in 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:48.640 Jesus Day, they got it wrong. Sometimes in Jesus Day, 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:53.480 in Jesus Day, and they said, he's baptizing more than John. 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:58.080 This guy's getting powerful. We gotta stop him. And they 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:02.880 they actually they actually they actually got it wrong. He 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:06.639 wasn't even the one doing the baptizing. He wouldn't even 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:08.840 want to do in baptism. A lot of the things 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:17.800 that we say God does, he's not actually doing. Anyway, 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:21.400 that's not the message. The message is called I'm tired inside, 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:23.480 you know, I'm tired of I'm tired of not being 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:28.240 able to trust any information from anywhere. I don't know 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:30.880 what to read anymore, I don't know who to follow anymore, 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:34.119 I don't know what to listen to anymore. It's like 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:37.160 everybody's got an angle, everybody's got an agenda. They said, 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:39.800 he's baptizing more than John. You better do something. But 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:43.880 he wasn't even the one baptizing. And the Bible says, 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:48.440 when Jesus learned this, which in and of itself is shocking, 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:53.680 Jesus learned. How does Jesus learn? How does the one 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:56.439 who is wisdom learn anything? Well, they bring him the report. 0:17:56.720 --> 0:17:59.760 They tell him that the Pharisees are are starting to 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:04.520 become very very nervous about what he represents. And so 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:07.600 he's like, let's go. And verse four says something else 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:11.879 that's really shocking. All right, Remember this is not This 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:16.560 is not the Jesus that you pull out and cuddle with. 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:20.119 This is not cuddly Christ. I appreached the sermon one time, 0:18:20.280 --> 0:18:25.240 called savage Jesus. All right, this is the Jesus who 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:28.360 doesn't take shortcuts and doesn't deal with the surface issues. 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:30.760 This is not the Jesus who comes to give you 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:32.560 gummy bears. So you know, I don't care what they're 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:34.720 laced with or how legal it is. This is not 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:38.320 that gummy bear Jesus. Look at verse four. It says, 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:45.760 now he had to go through Samaria. He had to 0:18:45.960 --> 0:18:52.560 go through Samaria. I see you nodding underneath that monitors stand. 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:55.280 It's interesting and it's kind of surprising, and it catches 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:59.159 you off guard. He didn't have to do anything. He 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:03.080 was not controlled anyone. In fact, the only agenda that 0:19:03.119 --> 0:19:05.360 he was fully committed to was the agenda of his 0:19:05.400 --> 0:19:09.800 father in Heaven. I have since the Lord asking me 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:13.399 over these last several months, whose agenda are you committed to? 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:20.439 Is it the agenda of Jesus? Now? Jesus agenda was 0:19:20.480 --> 0:19:24.480 not an agenda that was imposed by external forces. Jesus 0:19:24.520 --> 0:19:27.879 had to go through Samaria, not because Peter told him to, 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:30.679 not because he took a vote and it was the 0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:34.520 popular thing to do, not because his base liked it. 0:19:34.560 --> 0:19:38.800 In fact, his base hated it. Samaria. How many sermons 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:41.000 have you heard, I mean, you love the word, how 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:45.360 many sermons have you heard Chetwyn about Jesus going through Samaria? 0:19:46.080 --> 0:19:49.280 And the Jews hated to go through Samaria because even 0:19:49.320 --> 0:19:52.760 though there was not a national distinction, there was an 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:57.720 internal distinction. I mean, how many sermons have we heard 0:19:57.720 --> 0:20:01.240 about how the Jews would walk twice as long to 0:20:01.320 --> 0:20:04.800 go around some area and one time I was preaching 0:20:04.800 --> 0:20:06.560 about it, and I saw it in a funny way. 0:20:06.560 --> 0:20:10.000 I was midstream, mid thought, mid sentence, and the Lord said, 0:20:10.040 --> 0:20:17.320 some area. We all have some area, some area that's 0:20:17.359 --> 0:20:19.840 a whole message right there, too, isn't it. We all 0:20:19.880 --> 0:20:22.160 have some area that we try to avoid. In fact, 0:20:22.320 --> 0:20:25.840 sometimes the reason we're tired is because we're working around 0:20:25.920 --> 0:20:29.919 everything that God wants to bring us through. And so 0:20:30.040 --> 0:20:33.200 we've got to work around for our pain. But the 0:20:33.240 --> 0:20:35.720 form of the work around for our pain creates a 0:20:35.720 --> 0:20:40.280 greater dependency that wears us out in the end. And 0:20:40.320 --> 0:20:42.720 the beautiful thing about the Texas you don't even have 0:20:42.800 --> 0:20:48.280 to understand this geographically, you're experiencing it spiritually. We all 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:54.119 must go through some area. For Jesus, it was that 0:20:54.280 --> 0:20:57.040 northern part of the Kingdom. It was that place that 0:20:57.560 --> 0:21:00.200 most people would double back, got to go across the 0:21:00.280 --> 0:21:03.199 trans Jordan, got across near Jericho. They would turn a 0:21:03.240 --> 0:21:06.159 three day journey into a six day journey just to 0:21:06.280 --> 0:21:10.040 avoid going through what Jesus went straight into. And you 0:21:10.080 --> 0:21:12.760 know what the Lord said to tell you, he's confrontational. 0:21:13.840 --> 0:21:19.920 He's confrontational. He is not passive. He is confrontational. And 0:21:20.200 --> 0:21:25.440 I know we have sweet Jesus, Ricky Bobby Jesus, a 0:21:25.680 --> 0:21:27.800 pound baby Jesus. I like him better that way, I 0:21:27.800 --> 0:21:32.520 can hold him speak. Speaking of tired, my brother had 0:21:32.560 --> 0:21:35.600 a baby this week. His wife had a baby. His wife, 0:21:35.600 --> 0:21:39.160 Brooke had a baby. He took some credit and he's 0:21:39.160 --> 0:21:41.920 so excited. And when I first talked to him, I said, 0:21:41.920 --> 0:21:46.639 how are you doing? You know what? He said, confirmation 0:21:46.760 --> 0:21:48.800 on my sermon. He said, I'm tired. I said, so 0:21:48.960 --> 0:21:53.639 is everybody else. But you do not know tired yet. 0:21:55.880 --> 0:22:05.200 A men, preacher, Steve, you don't know tired. You are 0:22:05.320 --> 0:22:11.960 gonna be begging for pre baby tired. Now you have 0:22:12.080 --> 0:22:14.639 not welcomed only a child into the world. You have 0:22:14.760 --> 0:22:18.600 welcomed a dictator into the world of your home. And 0:22:18.640 --> 0:22:20.840 now there will no longer be an agenda between you 0:22:20.880 --> 0:22:25.160 and your wife about meal times or schedules or bedtimes. 0:22:25.440 --> 0:22:31.920 You don't know tired yet. Tell somebody you don't even 0:22:31.960 --> 0:22:39.320 know tired. You don't even know tired. Absolutely, man, You 0:22:39.359 --> 0:22:47.760 had to go through some area, some area area that 0:22:47.800 --> 0:22:54.480 other people avoided. God went straight into and even though 0:22:54.600 --> 0:22:57.920 it was the more direct route, it was the path 0:22:58.000 --> 0:23:01.080 less taken. Let me stop for a minute, because I 0:23:01.080 --> 0:23:02.840 don't want to get so caught up in my construct 0:23:02.840 --> 0:23:08.679 that I feel to ask you this question, what are 0:23:08.680 --> 0:23:10.359 you working around in your life that God wants you 0:23:10.400 --> 0:23:16.600 to walk through? And how much longer will you do it? 0:23:16.640 --> 0:23:20.520 That way? It's like everything in the text is inward 0:23:21.359 --> 0:23:25.000 from the outside. Jesus has pressure from the Pharisees, but 0:23:25.080 --> 0:23:28.560 he's not controlled by that. He's not controlled by that, 0:23:30.160 --> 0:23:34.280 He's guided from the inside. That's a really awesome thing 0:23:34.480 --> 0:23:38.160 about instability in the world. It helps us get our 0:23:38.280 --> 0:23:43.280 center of gravity from God, who is on the inside. 0:23:43.840 --> 0:23:46.280 And he had to go through Samaria, not because it 0:23:46.320 --> 0:23:48.399 was the predictable path, and certainly not because it was 0:23:48.400 --> 0:23:51.240 the popular path, but because it was the path of 0:23:51.280 --> 0:23:58.679 his purpose. Wow. I love the Word of God and 0:23:58.920 --> 0:24:00.720 I heard about it so many times. You know, he 0:24:00.760 --> 0:24:04.160 had to go through Samaria. That's that's where he went. 0:24:05.119 --> 0:24:06.800 And I heard that there was a woman there, a 0:24:06.840 --> 0:24:11.439 woman who had had a pretty questionable character, and that 0:24:11.520 --> 0:24:13.840 he wanted to meet with her, and that's who he 0:24:13.920 --> 0:24:18.320 went for. And I even heard how he went, that 0:24:18.600 --> 0:24:22.320 he went straight through instead of going on the path 0:24:22.359 --> 0:24:24.960 that most people were familiar with. But you know, I 0:24:25.000 --> 0:24:27.119 saw this week I saw something. Read this with me 0:24:27.160 --> 0:24:29.119 in verse five. So he came to a town in 0:24:29.160 --> 0:24:33.880 Samaria called Psychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had 0:24:33.880 --> 0:24:38.880 given to his son Joseph. Jacob's will was there, and Jesus, 0:24:38.920 --> 0:24:41.080 tired as he was from the journey, sat down by 0:24:41.119 --> 0:24:45.480 the well. It was about noon when a Samaritan woman 0:24:45.880 --> 0:24:51.200 that's who Psychar, that's where when she came to draw water. 0:24:51.520 --> 0:24:55.240 That's what Jesus said to her, Will you give me 0:24:55.440 --> 0:24:58.000 a drink? And I love verse eight in parentheses. This 0:24:58.040 --> 0:25:00.960 struck me as funny when I read that his disciples 0:25:00.960 --> 0:25:03.119 had gone into the town to buy food. Why is 0:25:03.160 --> 0:25:06.760 that funny? I think he was tired of them, I 0:25:06.840 --> 0:25:09.159 really do. I don't think he was so worried that 0:25:09.200 --> 0:25:10.960 they were hungry. I think he was like, you know, 0:25:11.000 --> 0:25:13.160 what would be great if y'all just want to run 0:25:13.160 --> 0:25:15.760 an errand I got something I gotta do. Sometimes you 0:25:15.840 --> 0:25:20.720 gotta send people away. Sometimes you gotta say, hey, I'm 0:25:20.720 --> 0:25:24.240 working on this right now. I appreciate you so much, 0:25:24.400 --> 0:25:26.439 and I love you, and I'll see you when you 0:25:26.480 --> 0:25:29.600 get back with us grilled chicken nuggets and those French frugs. 0:25:29.640 --> 0:25:33.000 See John's gospel is different than the other gospels. Can 0:25:33.040 --> 0:25:36.919 I show you Jesus from John's Gospel. In John's Gospel, 0:25:37.119 --> 0:25:41.679 we're seeing that Jesus is fully God. He's fully gone. 0:25:42.400 --> 0:25:45.880 He is the response of the call that started at 0:25:45.920 --> 0:25:50.879 the bush where Moses stood generations ago. Jesus is not 0:25:50.920 --> 0:25:54.440 a Johnny come Lately. Jesus is not a fly by 0:25:54.560 --> 0:25:57.840 night savior. Jesus is not a pop star or a 0:25:57.880 --> 0:26:00.800 flash in the pan. That's why he was not driven 0:26:00.880 --> 0:26:05.720 by popularity, because he was not. He was not instant grits. 0:26:06.480 --> 0:26:11.919 Jesus came through forty one generations, from Abraham to David, 0:26:12.200 --> 0:26:16.200 from David to the exile. From the exile to Jesus 0:26:16.359 --> 0:26:20.480 was forty one generations. God found a man, use the man, 0:26:20.760 --> 0:26:24.000 found a man, use the man, but men kept messing 0:26:24.000 --> 0:26:28.840 it up. So God finally said, I'm tired. I'm tired. 0:26:29.560 --> 0:26:33.320 I'm tired of you trying to get to me. How 0:26:33.320 --> 0:26:38.160 about I come to you. So the Word became flesh 0:26:38.400 --> 0:26:43.080 and dwelled among us. That's Shot one fourteen, and we 0:26:43.359 --> 0:26:52.080 be Hell the fullness of his glory, and John sets 0:26:52.119 --> 0:26:55.159 out to show us a glimpse of who Jesus is. 0:26:55.880 --> 0:26:59.560 I wonder, do you know who Jesus is, not who 0:26:59.640 --> 0:27:02.800 somebody he told you he was in Sunday School in 0:27:02.920 --> 0:27:06.240 nineteen seventy eight, not who we want him to be. 0:27:06.880 --> 0:27:09.520 Not the one who has the same melatonin as you, 0:27:10.280 --> 0:27:13.080 Not the one who votes the same as you. Not 0:27:13.200 --> 0:27:16.000 the one who only cares about what matters to you. 0:27:16.560 --> 0:27:23.080 How wonder do you know him? Because he's the great 0:27:23.119 --> 0:27:27.479 I am? I mean, John sets it up so you 0:27:27.520 --> 0:27:29.760 can't miss it even if you want, because here's what 0:27:29.840 --> 0:27:31.919 he does. Please y'all, please sit down. And I know 0:27:31.960 --> 0:27:34.080 you're tired. You're tired. I don't want you on your feet. 0:27:34.080 --> 0:27:37.000 You're tired, You're tired, So sit down, listen to this. Okay, 0:27:37.040 --> 0:27:39.679 let me sit down to Okay, Okay, I'm gonna sit 0:27:39.680 --> 0:27:41.320 down for a minute. I'm'a sit oure for me. I'm 0:27:41.320 --> 0:27:44.080 gonna tell you how it goes. In John's Gospel, he 0:27:44.119 --> 0:27:45.920 says that in the beginning was the Word in rivers 0:27:45.960 --> 0:27:47.520 with God, and Word was God. And he says it 0:27:47.560 --> 0:27:49.040 all thing for mad, through him and for him. So 0:27:49.280 --> 0:27:51.680 Jesus has been busy. Jesus has been busy. Jesus has 0:27:51.680 --> 0:27:56.119 been busy. Jesus didn't minister for thirty three years, the 0:27:56.160 --> 0:28:02.560 word that was with God in the beginning became flesh 0:28:02.760 --> 0:28:08.320 and we beheld him. He didn't get started when he 0:28:08.359 --> 0:28:12.399 showed up. You know, it's the same way in your life. 0:28:13.320 --> 0:28:16.320 God spoke you into this earth at the time that 0:28:16.400 --> 0:28:18.880 he wanted. Come on, if y'all ain't gonna help get 0:28:18.880 --> 0:28:22.520 out of here, I'm telling you. God put you where 0:28:22.600 --> 0:28:27.840 he wanted you. And some of the battles that you're 0:28:27.880 --> 0:28:33.159 fighting started long before you got here. That's part of 0:28:33.160 --> 0:28:38.560 why you're tired. Some things that we fight are generational. 0:28:40.640 --> 0:28:44.880 So when John is describing Jesus, Matthew gives you the genealogy, 0:28:45.480 --> 0:28:48.600 but he does it through the people. John starts way 0:28:48.640 --> 0:28:50.960 before that and says, in the beginning was the Word, 0:28:51.920 --> 0:28:54.000 and the word was with God, and the Word was God. 0:28:54.160 --> 0:28:56.000 And if you go all the way to the back 0:28:56.040 --> 0:29:00.320 of John's Gospel, he says, these things were written about 0:29:00.400 --> 0:29:04.440 Jesus that you may know and believe and have life 0:29:04.440 --> 0:29:07.120 in his name. But he says something crazy. He says, 0:29:07.600 --> 0:29:09.520 these are just a few of the things that he did. 0:29:13.280 --> 0:29:15.280 Is that I just gave you what you could handle. 0:29:16.600 --> 0:29:18.480 I just want to give you a glimpse of who 0:29:18.480 --> 0:29:23.400 he is by showing you what he did. So in 0:29:23.560 --> 0:29:27.880 John's Gospel, there there are seven signs that the author 0:29:27.920 --> 0:29:30.480 mentions that Jesus did. It's not all that he did. 0:29:30.880 --> 0:29:33.760 It's not all. Somebody say, it's not all. It's not all. Oh, 0:29:33.840 --> 0:29:36.760 I felt the Holy Spirit on that put it, put 0:29:36.760 --> 0:29:39.280 it in the chat right now. It's not all. It's 0:29:39.320 --> 0:29:41.560 not all. What I know of God is not all 0:29:41.600 --> 0:29:45.080 there is of God. What I think is true is 0:29:45.120 --> 0:29:48.560 not all that is true. What I have experienced thus 0:29:48.600 --> 0:29:50.520 far in my life is not what I have to 0:29:50.560 --> 0:29:53.960 settle for. What I have known doesn't have to be 0:29:54.160 --> 0:29:57.800 my normal forever. It's not all. But he said, I'm 0:29:57.800 --> 0:29:59.920 going to give you a glimpse of what he did 0:30:00.360 --> 0:30:02.960 so you can see who he is. These are called 0:30:02.960 --> 0:30:07.480 the seven signs in John, the seven signs. It started 0:30:07.520 --> 0:30:10.760 in Cana of Galilee when he turned water into wine. 0:30:10.800 --> 0:30:16.120 I call this a molecular miracle. A molecular miracle. It 0:30:16.160 --> 0:30:18.720 looks little, but it shows you who he is. How 0:30:18.720 --> 0:30:21.080 many have had God show you who he is in little, 0:30:21.120 --> 0:30:25.920 tiny ways. That's called a molecular miracle. Well, he can't 0:30:25.960 --> 0:30:28.600 stay there forever, so he has to go and preach 0:30:28.640 --> 0:30:31.760 in Judea in John chapter four, he heals a royal 0:30:31.760 --> 0:30:34.960 official son. That's the second sign. And then in John 0:30:35.040 --> 0:30:38.600 chapter five, he walks by a pool not to relax, 0:30:38.840 --> 0:30:40.680 but it was a pool where many who were lame 0:30:40.760 --> 0:30:43.200 and disabled us to lie. And he speaks to a 0:30:43.280 --> 0:30:45.160 man on a mat, and he gets him up off 0:30:45.200 --> 0:30:47.280 of his mat because the man was waiting on the 0:30:47.320 --> 0:30:49.719 water to move. But Jesus had the water within him 0:30:49.760 --> 0:30:52.240 that the man was trying to get to on the outside. 0:30:52.440 --> 0:30:55.120 And he showed that he is greater than any earthly system. 0:30:55.360 --> 0:30:57.280 And he can bring to you what others did not 0:30:57.400 --> 0:30:59.320 bring to you, and he can do for you what 0:30:59.440 --> 0:31:02.880 nobody can do for you. That's the third sign. By 0:31:02.920 --> 0:31:04.920 the time you get to John six, you're getting into 0:31:04.960 --> 0:31:08.520 some of the more well known miracles. When he did 0:31:08.680 --> 0:31:11.960 multiply those grilled nuggets, I was talking about, come on, 0:31:12.000 --> 0:31:14.120 I've been up a long time, I'm hungry, and those 0:31:14.160 --> 0:31:17.920 waffle fries and he multiplied to feed twenty thousand. I 0:31:17.960 --> 0:31:20.600 thought it was five. Somebody just said, you didn't count 0:31:20.600 --> 0:31:23.080 the women and children. God works through the people that 0:31:23.160 --> 0:31:25.520 you don't even count. God works through the people that 0:31:25.600 --> 0:31:28.000 you don't even notice. God works through the people that 0:31:28.040 --> 0:31:30.040 you don't even think are worth putting in the total. 0:31:30.400 --> 0:31:32.960 So that's the fourth sign. By the time you get 0:31:33.000 --> 0:31:35.600 to where am I at? Am I on the fourth sign? 0:31:35.800 --> 0:31:38.080 What's the fifth sign? Oh? Maybe the fifth sign is 0:31:38.080 --> 0:31:41.160 that man born blind he opened up his eyes and 0:31:41.280 --> 0:31:44.280 ruined his life because when he opened up his eyes 0:31:44.320 --> 0:31:46.880 there are certain things that once God shows you, you 0:31:46.920 --> 0:31:53.960 can't unsee them anymore. He messed up lazarus whole funeral. 0:31:56.120 --> 0:31:58.880 They didn't even get a chance to really start the funeral. 0:32:00.040 --> 0:32:03.560 They didn't even really get a chance to mourn. And 0:32:03.600 --> 0:32:06.600 here he came with a miracle. Now, several of these 0:32:06.680 --> 0:32:10.560 signs were connected to a statement. John also gives seven statements. 0:32:11.520 --> 0:32:14.760 You feel like you're in those. Are you tired of 0:32:14.800 --> 0:32:17.920 me preaching? Yet? I'm not tired of this. I could 0:32:17.920 --> 0:32:20.240 do this all day. Something comes alive in me when 0:32:20.280 --> 0:32:23.000 I start preaching. It's the weirdest thing. It doesn't matter 0:32:23.000 --> 0:32:25.880 how tired I am. God gives me some kind of strength. 0:32:26.200 --> 0:32:28.640 It must be for you. You must have been on 0:32:28.720 --> 0:32:31.720 the verbs this week. You must be burning out. But 0:32:31.840 --> 0:32:35.880 God wanted to get you some oil so you don't 0:32:36.520 --> 0:32:40.960 so you don't die before you realize the purpose. For 0:32:41.000 --> 0:32:44.040 which he brought you into this world to begin with. 0:32:44.120 --> 0:32:45.280 In the beginning was the Word, and the word was 0:32:45.280 --> 0:32:47.800 with God, and the Word was God the Great. I 0:32:47.880 --> 0:32:52.360 am so Jesus said some things. He said, I am 0:32:52.600 --> 0:32:55.200 Do you know any of them? The bread of life? 0:32:56.840 --> 0:32:59.520 He said that right after he fed all those people, 0:33:00.920 --> 0:33:03.040 he wasn't trying to just feed their stomachs. He was 0:33:03.080 --> 0:33:09.040 trying to inform their spirits. He said, I am the 0:33:09.120 --> 0:33:16.080 light of the world. He said, I am the door 0:33:16.120 --> 0:33:19.920 for the sheep. He said, I am the good shepherd, 0:33:21.280 --> 0:33:26.000 even in the valley. I'll guide you. I'll be your light. 0:33:26.240 --> 0:33:28.160 I am the light. I am the door. I am 0:33:28.200 --> 0:33:32.920 the good Shepherd. I am the Resurrection and the Life. 0:33:33.240 --> 0:33:36.280 I am the Way, the truth, and the Life. I 0:33:37.440 --> 0:33:43.440 am the true Vine. That's seven. John is showing us 0:33:43.800 --> 0:33:50.760 this number of completion. Seven. That's God's number. Seven. Six 0:33:50.880 --> 0:33:57.080 is man's number. That's why we're tired, because we're living 0:33:57.080 --> 0:34:08.439 in six. Jesus is the seventh man, the seventh Man. 0:34:10.600 --> 0:34:12.240 And what I want to show you in this text, 0:34:13.520 --> 0:34:16.480 if you let me show you this, it's going to 0:34:16.560 --> 0:34:21.759 bring you a sense in your soul of something. I 0:34:21.760 --> 0:34:23.600 know you're stressed out and I know there's a lot 0:34:23.640 --> 0:34:25.919 to be worried about in the world. Man, I got 0:34:25.960 --> 0:34:28.080 so mad this week, and I know you're not supposed 0:34:28.120 --> 0:34:30.319 to get mad. But the same Jesus who pet the 0:34:30.320 --> 0:34:33.600 little baby sheeps flipped over tables in the temple when 0:34:33.600 --> 0:34:36.239 they weren't doing it for the right purpose. And there 0:34:36.280 --> 0:34:38.600 was a guy on my Instagram this week and he 0:34:38.640 --> 0:34:43.320 saw me and John talking about racism and the evil 0:34:43.400 --> 0:34:48.120 and the atrocity and really the fact that if the 0:34:48.200 --> 0:34:51.200 church is silent about these issues that matter to people, 0:34:51.360 --> 0:34:55.400 it's like we want to dismantle the Cross. It's like 0:34:55.440 --> 0:35:01.080 we only like this part. We don't want Jesus to 0:35:01.120 --> 0:35:05.360 inform how we treat others. We just want him to 0:35:05.360 --> 0:35:09.919 do stuff for us. And I don't go through every 0:35:09.920 --> 0:35:14.680 comment on Instagram or YouTube, but one person said, I'm tired. 0:35:14.880 --> 0:35:19.960 He said, tbh. To be honest, I'm tired of all 0:35:20.000 --> 0:35:24.279 the pastors I follow posting about racism on my fee. 0:35:25.960 --> 0:35:30.960 Can't we just get back to preaching Jesus, Which Jesus, 0:35:35.120 --> 0:35:38.160 the one you went to Sunday School with, or the 0:35:38.160 --> 0:35:44.399 one who went through Samaria, which Jesus. Come on now, 0:35:44.600 --> 0:35:48.719 I'm just in need of an answer. Which Jesus do 0:35:48.800 --> 0:35:52.640 we worship? Which one the one who said I am 0:35:52.760 --> 0:35:56.479 the way, the one who you follow, or the one 0:35:56.480 --> 0:35:58.719 that you lead, the one that you say, no, I'm 0:35:58.760 --> 0:36:01.359 not following you any farther than he had to go 0:36:01.440 --> 0:36:06.120 through scenario. And what's what he did when he sat down? 0:36:06.160 --> 0:36:08.680 What's what he did when he sat down? In verse 0:36:08.719 --> 0:36:11.919 six he said, he said he sat down, He sat 0:36:11.960 --> 0:36:19.400 down tired as he was. Which is confusing, right, because 0:36:20.480 --> 0:36:26.799 Isaiah forty is a dope scripture. You can't call the 0:36:26.800 --> 0:36:30.799 Word of God dope. But just did I just did 0:36:30.800 --> 0:36:35.600 it right here in American English said every syllable of it. 0:36:37.280 --> 0:36:40.000 And it said in Isaiah forty the prophet said, why 0:36:40.000 --> 0:36:42.000 do you complain, Jacobait say, Israel, my way is hidden 0:36:42.000 --> 0:36:43.640 from the Lord. My causes disregard for my God. This 0:36:43.719 --> 0:36:46.759 part do you not know? Have you not heard? The 0:36:46.880 --> 0:36:51.040 Lord is the everlasting God, the creator of the ends 0:36:51.080 --> 0:36:53.920 of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, 0:36:54.120 --> 0:36:57.200 and his understanding no one can fathom. He will not 0:36:57.320 --> 0:36:59.560 grow tired. And in the beginning was the word, The 0:36:59.560 --> 0:37:02.799 word was with God. So this blew me away. John 0:37:02.920 --> 0:37:13.400 chapter four, Verse six. Jesus tired, I prayed about this message. 0:37:13.560 --> 0:37:15.920 Please know that I did, because there's so much I 0:37:15.920 --> 0:37:18.040 can't do right now, and I feel bad about it, 0:37:18.080 --> 0:37:20.000 and I wish I could do more. And this church 0:37:20.080 --> 0:37:22.200 is doing everything that we can to be a part 0:37:22.200 --> 0:37:24.400 of the solution, but there's so much I can't do. 0:37:24.680 --> 0:37:26.520 And I know you've been tired, and I know it's 0:37:26.520 --> 0:37:28.680 been hurting, and I know it's been lifelong. And it 0:37:28.760 --> 0:37:31.080 might not be racism. It may be an addiction. It 0:37:31.120 --> 0:37:33.359 may be wondering how much longer you're gonna have a job, 0:37:33.520 --> 0:37:35.319 or when you're gonna get one, or when this is 0:37:35.320 --> 0:37:37.400 all gonna be over, or when God's gonna send you 0:37:37.480 --> 0:37:39.960 somebody who gets you. I know you've been tired, and 0:37:40.000 --> 0:37:42.239 I prayed. I said, God, what do I tell them 0:37:42.360 --> 0:37:45.879 they're tired? And what do I tell the person who 0:37:45.920 --> 0:37:48.359 is too tired to go on? What do I tell 0:37:48.400 --> 0:37:50.440 the one who says I'm too tired? God said, tell 0:37:50.480 --> 0:38:05.000 them I got tired too. Jesus sat down in Samaria. 0:38:05.239 --> 0:38:10.600 That's where to talk to a woman. That's who ask 0:38:10.680 --> 0:38:21.280 him for water? That's what? But why because he was tired? 0:38:25.560 --> 0:38:34.319 Because he was fully god Fully many as much as 0:38:34.320 --> 0:38:39.600 we love to shout about his divinity. You know how 0:38:39.640 --> 0:38:42.960 we were a minute ago when I was setting you 0:38:43.040 --> 0:38:46.319 up about the great I am, just to bring you 0:38:48.360 --> 0:38:56.759 back down so you could know that the same God 0:38:56.800 --> 0:39:03.480 who created you, who he was strong enough, who was 0:39:03.640 --> 0:39:08.359 powerful enough. Everybody thinks Jesus was weak. Raise your hand. 0:39:11.360 --> 0:39:23.720 Maybe maybe being weary doesn't mean you're weak. Jesus tired? 0:39:26.080 --> 0:39:30.360 Why was he tired? I didn't say who was he 0:39:30.440 --> 0:39:34.959 tired of? We already know it was Peter. Come on, Peter. 0:39:36.400 --> 0:39:40.359 Peter's fighting you at every turn, cussing and stuff in 0:39:40.360 --> 0:39:42.759 front of the press, having to bleep Peter out. You know, 0:39:44.239 --> 0:39:46.800 I know he was tired of the Pharisees. He couldn't 0:39:46.920 --> 0:39:48.960 wash his hands or not wash his hands. They followed 0:39:49.000 --> 0:39:51.560 him to every bathroom, every dinner. I know he was 0:39:51.600 --> 0:39:54.319 tired of them. But it says he was tired from 0:39:54.320 --> 0:40:01.000 the journey. Thinking about Jesus' journey, you know, walked everywhere, 0:40:05.560 --> 0:40:12.960 no uber, no uber, Jesus, uber Christ uber Savior. Three 0:40:13.040 --> 0:40:17.680 day walk from where they were baptizing through some area. 0:40:19.200 --> 0:40:22.799 Straight through was the short cut. By the way, the 0:40:22.880 --> 0:40:27.760 direct route is sometimes the divine route. Instead of hiding 0:40:27.760 --> 0:40:31.680 the fact that you're tired, you just say God, I'm tired. 0:40:32.360 --> 0:40:34.719 Somebody was yawning during my sermon one time, and I 0:40:34.800 --> 0:40:36.720 just got mad about it. I said, how are you tired? 0:40:36.760 --> 0:40:40.120 You're not doing anything, you know, But I found out 0:40:40.200 --> 0:40:43.600 later they worked a night shift and came straight to church. 0:40:47.920 --> 0:40:50.560 It's kind of hard to understand someone if you only 0:40:50.600 --> 0:40:56.239 see them at one part of their journey. And some 0:40:56.280 --> 0:41:00.319 people that we think are weak maybe are weary. Have 0:41:00.360 --> 0:41:04.480 you thought about that that just because you're weary, it 0:41:04.480 --> 0:41:07.960 doesn't make you weak. How do you know that, Jesus, 0:41:09.600 --> 0:41:13.000 I am the light of the world. I am the 0:41:13.040 --> 0:41:17.440 bread of life. I am the Resurrection, I am the door, 0:41:17.800 --> 0:41:21.440 I am the Shepherd, I am the true vine. I 0:41:21.520 --> 0:41:24.960 am the Way. At some point, six hours after they 0:41:25.080 --> 0:41:28.120 left that morning, at noon, he said something we wouldn't 0:41:28.160 --> 0:41:34.680 expect to hear the Saviors say, I am tired. This 0:41:34.880 --> 0:41:41.440 is the incarnation. I worship a God who is powerful 0:41:41.560 --> 0:41:45.840 enough to give me strength and who is human enough 0:41:46.480 --> 0:41:53.400 to get tired. And for some reason this week I 0:41:53.440 --> 0:41:57.600 felt that some of us needed to meet tired Jesus. 0:42:00.040 --> 0:42:04.480 I thought maybe you could relate to him, because his 0:42:04.560 --> 0:42:09.200 journey didn't really start with just leaving that morning I mean, 0:42:09.200 --> 0:42:13.080 that's enough six hours that day. Six hours in one day. 0:42:13.239 --> 0:42:15.040 I mean, I got a six hour drive coming up 0:42:15.040 --> 0:42:17.920 with my kids, and I'm downloading every episode of the 0:42:17.960 --> 0:42:20.160 Office on all of their phones, just hoping we can 0:42:20.200 --> 0:42:23.040 make it. Six hours, still be saved, still be married, 0:42:23.120 --> 0:42:25.960 still be healed, delivered, blessed in one bappy family. And 0:42:25.960 --> 0:42:31.080 that's a drive six hours because you leave at six's noon, 0:42:31.120 --> 0:42:34.040 as hot as the heat of the day. Of course, 0:42:34.080 --> 0:42:40.440 he's tired, And yet I wondered, was it only physical 0:42:42.840 --> 0:42:45.000 or did he go through Samaria because he was tired 0:42:45.040 --> 0:42:51.360 of the way they were treating each other. Why was 0:42:51.400 --> 0:42:58.400 he tired? Why did he come to abolish the barriers 0:43:00.800 --> 0:43:03.640 full of grace and truth and we beheld his glory. 0:43:04.320 --> 0:43:08.400 His journey didn't start in Bethlehem. And the beginning was 0:43:08.440 --> 0:43:10.200 the Word, and the word was with God, and the 0:43:10.200 --> 0:43:13.319 word was God, and the word became flesh. That's a 0:43:13.360 --> 0:43:18.400 long trip from the sapphire seal of Heaven to the 0:43:18.480 --> 0:43:23.920 dusty streets of Samaria. Of course he was tired. Even 0:43:24.000 --> 0:43:28.839 youth will grow weary and stumble. But those who wait 0:43:28.920 --> 0:43:35.279 on the Lord. I'm waiting on God right now. I'm 0:43:35.320 --> 0:43:38.719 waiting somebody say I'm waiting. I'm waiting. I'm waiting, and 0:43:38.760 --> 0:43:40.640 I'm weary, and I'm not going to lie to you. 0:43:40.800 --> 0:43:43.480 I'm weary. I mean, this is getting old and some 0:43:43.600 --> 0:43:45.040 of me, y'all want to cuss right now, don't do 0:43:45.080 --> 0:43:46.920 it in the chat, they'll block you. But even in 0:43:46.960 --> 0:43:50.080 your mind, you're like, I'm sick of this. I am 0:43:50.280 --> 0:43:53.640 sick of this. I mean, that's not an I am 0:43:53.719 --> 0:43:55.839 statement we read in the Bible, but that's what you're 0:43:55.880 --> 0:43:58.960 saying right now in your heart. I am, but I 0:43:59.000 --> 0:44:02.880 am sick of this. I am. I am sick and tired. 0:44:03.120 --> 0:44:05.880 I am tired of fighting battles. The thing about me, 0:44:05.920 --> 0:44:08.200 some people say when they get tired, they start laughing. 0:44:08.440 --> 0:44:11.680 Not me. When I get tired, I get mean, how 0:44:11.680 --> 0:44:14.960 many of you when you get tired? That's why when 0:44:15.000 --> 0:44:16.719 you had to pull me out of the elevator in 0:44:16.760 --> 0:44:19.560 Australia and I was about to fight that guy after 0:44:19.640 --> 0:44:22.640 I preached, I mean, I had just finished given the 0:44:22.680 --> 0:44:27.200 invitation too. If you're here today, the Lord says, come, 0:44:27.480 --> 0:44:30.239 and that dude said something sideways to me, and my 0:44:30.400 --> 0:44:32.640 uncle taught me to hit him with your elbow if 0:44:32.640 --> 0:44:34.560 you can get close enough and I was talking the 0:44:34.600 --> 0:44:37.040 elbow and Chunks pulled me back. He said, you've been 0:44:37.160 --> 0:44:40.360 I was jet lagged. I had preached twenty three times 0:44:40.840 --> 0:44:43.640 in four days. They were preaching me to death at 0:44:43.680 --> 0:44:47.799 Hillsong Church. I'm preaching. I'm preaching, preaching, preaching tired, and 0:44:47.840 --> 0:44:49.960 Chunks told me. I said, come on, you're too tired now, 0:44:50.280 --> 0:44:54.160 because when you get too tired, you start fighting battles 0:44:54.160 --> 0:44:57.560 that don't matter to distract you from the ones that do. 0:44:59.280 --> 0:45:03.280 That's just me. I start fighting everybody. I start fighting 0:45:03.280 --> 0:45:05.600 people that are trying to help me when I'm tired. 0:45:06.360 --> 0:45:08.640 So Jesus said, y'all go get lunch. I'm sitting here 0:45:08.680 --> 0:45:12.400 for a minute, because the ones y'all have been fighting 0:45:12.440 --> 0:45:17.040 against are the ones I came to say. He had 0:45:17.120 --> 0:45:20.799 to go through Samaria. He had to sit down. There 0:45:20.920 --> 0:45:24.879 was a woman coming who needed him. She didn't even 0:45:24.880 --> 0:45:29.000 know it, she had no idea who he was. He 0:45:29.160 --> 0:45:34.960 sat down because he was tired. I mean, you don't 0:45:35.000 --> 0:45:37.160 have to do anything right now. Just sit down and 0:45:37.200 --> 0:45:41.640 receive this word that the Son of God got tired. 0:45:43.520 --> 0:45:47.160 The Son of God got tired. I know you're Superman 0:45:48.840 --> 0:45:50.839 and you're mad at yourself because you can't always get 0:45:50.840 --> 0:46:04.440 it perfect perfection. Got tired. Faith doesn't prevent fatigue. It 0:46:04.640 --> 0:46:09.680 just gives me a place to sit. He sat by 0:46:09.719 --> 0:46:14.319 a well. Here's the important thing. What well do you 0:46:14.400 --> 0:46:21.160 sit by when you're tired? He said it was Jacob's well. 0:46:22.320 --> 0:46:24.640 You with me, son, he said it was Jacob's well. 0:46:25.280 --> 0:46:31.279 Joseph was given that well by Jacob. A lot of 0:46:31.320 --> 0:46:37.560 what our kids learn comes from us. It's generational. Jesus 0:46:37.600 --> 0:46:40.560 sat down by that well. I think that's so appropriate 0:46:40.719 --> 0:46:44.280 to say at this moment in our nation. What wells 0:46:44.400 --> 0:46:47.799 are you digging for your kids to sit next to? 0:46:50.880 --> 0:46:53.760 A lot of what we're going through today is because 0:46:53.760 --> 0:46:59.520 of wells that were dug before we got here. Jesus 0:46:59.520 --> 0:47:06.560 sat by Jacob's well. Wait on the Lord. Now we 0:47:06.600 --> 0:47:11.760 see the Lord waiting on a woman. So I pictured 0:47:11.760 --> 0:47:16.279 this moment. I picture me and you. You got your coffee, 0:47:16.360 --> 0:47:19.080 and you're like, I'm drinking all the caffeine I can. 0:47:19.160 --> 0:47:21.719 I'm still tired. And I know you can watch your 0:47:21.760 --> 0:47:24.399 ted talk about you know when to go to bed 0:47:24.400 --> 0:47:25.920 and when to wake up and all that. I'm not 0:47:25.960 --> 0:47:29.880 talking about that. I'm talking about tired inside. I'm a 0:47:30.040 --> 0:47:33.799 sole doctor. I don't know anything about r EM. I 0:47:33.800 --> 0:47:37.080 don't know anything about Ergo dynamic pillows. Did I say 0:47:37.120 --> 0:47:39.600 that right? I don't know anything about your mattress number. 0:47:39.760 --> 0:47:42.680 That is not my specialty. But I know this, Sometimes 0:47:42.880 --> 0:47:46.359 you've got to sit down by a real well and 0:47:46.440 --> 0:47:48.759 listen to me. A lot of the places that we're 0:47:48.800 --> 0:47:52.480 sitting while we're tired are only making us more dehydrated. 0:47:56.440 --> 0:47:58.759 A lot of the places that we're drinking from are 0:47:58.760 --> 0:48:07.440 making us dumber, more fragmented, less whole, less informed. And 0:48:07.520 --> 0:48:10.359 this woman comes up and the picture she comes up 0:48:10.600 --> 0:48:13.759 at noon because she's sneaking away from all of the 0:48:13.760 --> 0:48:17.000 people who talked about her. She is a woman with 0:48:17.120 --> 0:48:20.279 a past. The last thing she wants to see is 0:48:20.320 --> 0:48:25.120 a man, specifically a Jewish man, specifically a rabbi. And 0:48:25.239 --> 0:48:28.239 Jesus says, hey, can I get a drink? This is 0:48:28.280 --> 0:48:32.600 not a pickup line. This is not a pickup line, 0:48:32.640 --> 0:48:35.600 This is not a surface level question. This is Jesus 0:48:35.719 --> 0:48:38.759 asking this woman, do you even know what's in you? 0:48:40.080 --> 0:48:42.680 I'm a stand up now. I'm a stand up now 0:48:43.440 --> 0:48:46.719 because I hear God saying to someone today, you don't 0:48:46.760 --> 0:48:50.319 even know what I put inside of you. What I 0:48:50.400 --> 0:48:54.000 have put inside of you is so great. Now. If 0:48:54.040 --> 0:48:56.640 you only see things on the surface, if you judge 0:48:56.640 --> 0:49:00.239 how people judge, you will never see what's inside. This 0:49:00.440 --> 0:49:03.480 was Jacob's well, but it was really just something for 0:49:03.640 --> 0:49:06.600 Jesus to sit on. When he sat on the well 0:49:06.640 --> 0:49:09.080 and asked the woman, can I get a drink? He 0:49:09.239 --> 0:49:13.360 was not talking about H two O. Don't you get it. 0:49:13.360 --> 0:49:17.640 It's never about what we think it's about. It's always 0:49:17.760 --> 0:49:22.640 something deeper. So Jesus has showed up in this woman's situation, 0:49:23.080 --> 0:49:25.520 and I can't help but think it's for somebody today. 0:49:25.800 --> 0:49:27.839 You have been at your wits end, and you thought 0:49:27.840 --> 0:49:29.319 I was going to give you a little pep talk, 0:49:29.560 --> 0:49:31.080 and you thought I was going to tell you, you know, 0:49:31.360 --> 0:49:34.840 get on with it and trust God and move forward, 0:49:34.960 --> 0:49:37.440 and all these little clay cliches of faith. But I 0:49:37.800 --> 0:49:40.160 came to tell you, sit with him a little while. 0:49:41.840 --> 0:49:44.960 Sit with him a little while, Sit with him a 0:49:44.960 --> 0:49:48.680 little while, Sit with him and see who you really are. 0:49:49.160 --> 0:49:51.439 Sit with him a little while. I've been sitting I'm 0:49:51.560 --> 0:49:53.600 just gonna confess to you, I've been sitting by the 0:49:53.600 --> 0:49:56.719 wrong wealls a lot of the time. I've been depending 0:49:56.800 --> 0:49:59.839 on people to inform me about who I am. I've 0:49:59.880 --> 0:50:02.400 been depending on what I see with my eyes to 0:50:02.480 --> 0:50:05.120 tell me how it is. But there is a well 0:50:05.480 --> 0:50:08.600 that does not come from an external source, and you 0:50:08.760 --> 0:50:13.080 can't see the pipes. There is within you a spirit 0:50:13.360 --> 0:50:16.960 that is greater than whatever is going on around you. 0:50:17.880 --> 0:50:22.040 Greater is he that is in me. I'm trying to shout, 0:50:22.160 --> 0:50:25.600 sitting down so you can know. He sat on the 0:50:25.640 --> 0:50:30.759 well so she could see what was within her. And 0:50:30.840 --> 0:50:33.279 I believe God is revealing some things to us in 0:50:33.360 --> 0:50:37.200 this season. I believe God is revealing to his church 0:50:37.640 --> 0:50:40.799 in this season that he has made us for a 0:50:40.920 --> 0:50:44.440 time when the world is so divided, when he has 0:50:44.520 --> 0:50:48.239 made us for a time that the world is so apathetic. 0:50:48.960 --> 0:50:52.200 And he sat by the well. He sat by the 0:50:52.200 --> 0:50:57.399 well to talk to a women who had had five 0:50:57.480 --> 0:51:03.359 husbands and was living with number six, so she could 0:51:03.360 --> 0:51:18.840 know he was number seven. On the first day, God worked. 0:51:18.880 --> 0:51:20.960 On the second day, God worked. On the third day, 0:51:20.960 --> 0:51:22.960 God worked. On the fourth day, God worked. On the 0:51:22.960 --> 0:51:25.600 fifth day, God worked. On the sixth day, God worked. 0:51:25.600 --> 0:51:30.600 What do you do? On the seventh He sat down, 0:51:32.080 --> 0:51:39.440 not because he needed rest, but because she did. And 0:51:39.440 --> 0:51:41.080 that's what I love about a God who will not 0:51:41.120 --> 0:51:45.879 only fight for me and walk with me and talk 0:51:45.960 --> 0:51:50.280 with me. But God said to tell you this week. 0:51:51.120 --> 0:51:54.080 He is the God who will come through forty one 0:51:54.120 --> 0:52:04.640 generations and go through Samaria to sit with you, Just 0:52:04.680 --> 0:52:09.320 to sit with you. Sit with him for a minute. 0:52:10.000 --> 0:52:12.279 He might show you something that is within you that 0:52:12.440 --> 0:52:17.239 nobody else noticed. This woman had been passed around like 0:52:17.360 --> 0:52:19.879 the jar that she carried to the well that day. 0:52:21.800 --> 0:52:26.520 She knew what it was to feel use. Did he 0:52:26.600 --> 0:52:28.640 sit down at the well that day because he was 0:52:28.680 --> 0:52:37.680 tired or because she was? You're tired of being used 0:52:37.680 --> 0:52:41.160 by people, you type, manipulated by people. Sit with me 0:52:43.120 --> 0:52:48.200 because I'm not seated where you're seated. When I sit 0:52:48.280 --> 0:52:53.719 with him, he has seated me with him in heavenly places, 0:52:54.760 --> 0:53:00.760 far above every ruler and principality. You say, I'm tired, 0:53:00.840 --> 0:53:06.600 guysaid me too. I'm tired to see it how people 0:53:06.640 --> 0:53:09.120 treat one another too. I'm tired of the injustice too. Man. 0:53:09.200 --> 0:53:12.000 That's why I came in the form of a man, 0:53:12.239 --> 0:53:14.880 so that I could be what man could never be. 0:53:15.360 --> 0:53:18.640 I came to hang on across and say it is finished, 0:53:20.600 --> 0:53:24.759 so that you can rest. I know we got work 0:53:24.800 --> 0:53:29.840 to do. Can we sit for a minute. Can we 0:53:29.920 --> 0:53:33.399 just sit with him for a minute by the well 0:53:33.480 --> 0:53:38.719 that will never run dry? Some of us passed e 0:53:39.120 --> 0:53:42.279 a long time ago. The tank has been empty a 0:53:42.320 --> 0:53:46.279 long time. So God says, I want you to sit 0:53:46.320 --> 0:53:51.359 with me. When you sit with me, you will see 0:53:51.400 --> 0:53:56.239 with me. When you sit with me. Who is this for? 0:53:56.520 --> 0:53:58.560 Just raise your hand right now in the room, raise 0:53:58.600 --> 0:54:00.440 your hand in the chat, say this is for me. 0:54:00.840 --> 0:54:06.000 I want to sit with him. I want to sit 0:54:06.080 --> 0:54:11.520 by the well that has living water. I want to 0:54:11.560 --> 0:54:14.799 sit away from the streams that are poisoned by the 0:54:14.840 --> 0:54:18.719 prejudice of men. I want to sit with him for 0:54:18.800 --> 0:54:26.080 a minute. And Jesus tired, as he was said to 0:54:26.120 --> 0:54:31.279 his disciples, y'all go get some food. I've got to 0:54:31.280 --> 0:54:36.040 get a harvest now. I believe God sent me to 0:54:36.080 --> 0:54:40.120 preach this message to somebody today who is tired on 0:54:40.160 --> 0:54:44.839 the inside. And no amount of sleep, no amount of 0:54:45.320 --> 0:54:49.840 netflix and numbing it, and no amount of pacing the 0:54:49.880 --> 0:54:53.680 floors is going to solve it. And I believe God 0:54:53.719 --> 0:54:57.400 brought you into his presence today for a reason. And 0:54:57.480 --> 0:54:59.960 I think he woke me up at three in the morning, 0:55:00.360 --> 0:55:04.160 this night, the night before the night before, so that 0:55:04.239 --> 0:55:06.400 I could feel a little bit physically while I preach 0:55:06.480 --> 0:55:10.520 this how you've been feeling before we got here. How 0:55:10.600 --> 0:55:16.600 Jesus felt was how the woman felt. Even youth will 0:55:16.640 --> 0:55:18.960 grow tired and weary, and young men will stumble and fall, 0:55:19.160 --> 0:55:23.360 But they that wait on the Lord will renew their strength. 0:55:24.560 --> 0:55:26.520 God said, even if you don't have the patience to 0:55:27.080 --> 0:55:33.400 wait for me, I'm waiting for you. When you are tired, 0:55:34.640 --> 0:55:37.520 you must be very careful that you do not become dehydrated. 0:55:38.760 --> 0:55:41.640 You have got to drink this water. You have got 0:55:41.680 --> 0:55:45.400 to drink this word. You have got to drink this worship. 0:55:45.719 --> 0:55:48.239 You have got to move away from wells that will 0:55:48.280 --> 0:55:51.360 never quench your thirst. And you have got to receive 0:55:51.480 --> 0:55:55.279 the water that flows from within. In the beginning was 0:55:55.360 --> 0:55:58.399 the Word, and the word was with God. And the 0:55:58.440 --> 0:56:01.840 reason that you came to turn today is God wanted 0:56:01.880 --> 0:56:05.800 to give you water. He knows your tired, he knows 0:56:05.840 --> 0:56:08.640 you're thirsty. He hung on a cross and said, I 0:56:08.840 --> 0:56:12.640 thirst too. He stretched his arms this wide because he 0:56:12.800 --> 0:56:15.520 was tired of it too. And the man who was 0:56:15.640 --> 0:56:19.799 God became man, and he who knew no sin became sin, 0:56:20.120 --> 0:56:24.160 that we might become the righteousness of God. And he 0:56:24.280 --> 0:56:26.920 said to the woman, and he said to me, and 0:56:27.000 --> 0:56:30.400 he said to you, come unto me, Oh, you who 0:56:30.480 --> 0:56:35.360 are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 0:56:35.920 --> 0:56:39.560 I am the bread of life. I am the Resurrection. 0:56:40.160 --> 0:56:43.680 I am the Light. I am the Shepherd. I am 0:56:43.800 --> 0:56:47.440 the Gaith. I am the Way, I am the vibe. 0:56:47.920 --> 0:56:56.560 I am the seventh Man. I am the seventh Man. 0:56:56.719 --> 0:56:59.520 I am the well. I am within you. You will 0:56:59.560 --> 0:57:02.319 never get what you need from out there. It's in here. 0:57:02.640 --> 0:57:05.520 It's in here. It's in here, it's in here. I 0:57:05.560 --> 0:57:08.080 know you're not in a church building. There's no worship 0:57:08.120 --> 0:57:10.040 leader to tell you lift your hands. Will you do 0:57:10.080 --> 0:57:12.680 it anyway? I know there's not a feeling telling you 0:57:12.760 --> 0:57:15.759 right now to have hope. Can you hope? Anyway? It 0:57:15.840 --> 0:57:19.480 is a well that springs up from within. It is 0:57:19.520 --> 0:57:22.880 a well that men did not dig. It is a 0:57:22.920 --> 0:57:27.800 well that does not consult external situations. It is a 0:57:27.960 --> 0:57:35.280 well of the holy steering. And God said, I came 0:57:36.520 --> 0:57:42.800 all this way to sit with you, to be with you. 0:57:45.120 --> 0:57:47.400 The proof of his power was not just when he 0:57:47.520 --> 0:57:52.600 walked on water. The proof of his power was when 0:57:52.600 --> 0:57:56.320 he sat on a well. Did you hear me better 0:57:56.360 --> 0:57:59.080 online than they heard me in this room? Because if 0:57:59.080 --> 0:58:01.840 you got that, you got the whole message. He didn't 0:58:01.920 --> 0:58:04.640 just prove it by walking on water, which he did. 0:58:05.840 --> 0:58:12.200 He proved it by sitting on a well. Sometimes he 0:58:12.240 --> 0:58:17.880 walks on water, sometimes he is water. But I declare 0:58:17.880 --> 0:58:21.800 that the Lord is in this place. We started this 0:58:21.920 --> 0:58:25.520 service when I got up to preach saying the Lord 0:58:25.600 --> 0:58:28.840 is in this place, and not for a minute was 0:58:28.880 --> 0:58:32.840 I forsaken. And you came into this service today saying 0:58:33.680 --> 0:58:39.080 I'm tired inside. God said, I know it's all right 0:58:39.120 --> 0:58:44.440 to be tired, But why don't you go ahead and 0:58:44.440 --> 0:58:48.320 and leave that jar that you brought behind, that jar 0:58:48.400 --> 0:58:50.640 that represents what you've been carrying that you weren't meant 0:58:50.640 --> 0:58:55.720 to carry alone and receive right now what only I 0:58:55.760 --> 0:59:00.760 can reveal. Father, you gave me this word I believe 0:59:00.920 --> 0:59:05.760 for your people. I didn't think of this. I didn't 0:59:05.800 --> 0:59:09.160 study this in a book. You spoke to me and 0:59:09.200 --> 0:59:12.080 told me to go to John four six, And I said, 0:59:12.120 --> 0:59:14.920 what to tell the people when they're so tired, and 0:59:14.920 --> 0:59:17.720 they're right to be tired, and they're tired, and they're 0:59:17.760 --> 0:59:20.760 tired of being tired, and they're tired of things not changing. 0:59:20.920 --> 0:59:23.680 And you told me to tell them. I got tired too, 0:59:25.440 --> 0:59:31.560 and you are seated with me in heavenly places. So now, Lord, 0:59:32.640 --> 0:59:35.600 we need the water of worship. We received the water 0:59:35.640 --> 0:59:38.080 of your word today. In the beginning, it was a 0:59:38.120 --> 0:59:39.640 word and word of fifth God, and the word was God. 0:59:39.680 --> 0:59:41.760 We receive your word today. Now make it flesh in 0:59:41.800 --> 0:59:47.240 our lives as we worship you. Now lift your hands 0:59:47.280 --> 0:59:50.480 wherever you are. This is not a moment to be 0:59:50.520 --> 0:59:52.680 self conscious. This is not a moment to log off. 0:59:52.720 --> 0:59:56.680 This is not a moment to be distracted, because we 0:59:56.760 --> 1:00:00.880 need this water in a dry and weary life. We 1:00:00.920 --> 1:00:07.640 need this water. Lord. We wait on you. We believe 1:00:07.680 --> 1:00:11.920 that you are in this place. Whether it's a cross 1:00:12.000 --> 1:00:15.360 or an empty tomb, your presence is proven in both. 1:00:18.000 --> 1:00:21.880 We take this moment just to let you know that 1:00:21.920 --> 1:00:27.120 we know that we need you and you are in 1:00:27.160 --> 1:00:32.960 this place. We may feel forsaken, we may feel forgotten, 1:00:33.000 --> 1:00:38.320 we may feel frustrated. That's okay. You got tired too, Jesus, 1:00:40.120 --> 1:00:43.400 But you sit with us in our brokenness, You sit 1:00:43.480 --> 1:00:46.640 with us in our unbelief, you sit with us in 1:00:46.680 --> 1:00:52.360 our rage, you sit with us to show us who 1:00:52.400 --> 1:00:56.640 we really are. Just begin to minister to the lord. 1:00:56.760 --> 1:00:59.800 Zeke Now for a minute, was I forsaken? The Lord 1:00:59.840 --> 1:01:03.720 is in this place? Well, Shi for sake, living water 1:01:03.760 --> 1:01:07.120 in this place. Not is in this place, Bread of 1:01:07.160 --> 1:01:12.280 life in this place. Slot is in this place. Come, 1:01:12.400 --> 1:01:16.960 Holy speed, Light of the world is in this fast sway. 1:01:18.800 --> 1:01:23.400 Yeah is in this please? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, Lo is 1:01:23.520 --> 1:01:31.000 in this place. Sit for sit in this piece for 1:01:31.000 --> 1:01:38.400 for sake. Not is in this please? Lot is in 1:01:38.440 --> 1:01:48.000 this place. Come Holy speed to dry ball awaken Christian 1:01:48.040 --> 1:01:50.640 comme minister with him on the harmony. Please sing that 1:01:50.720 --> 1:01:54.920 over the people. Let him sit for a minute, so weary, 1:01:55.040 --> 1:02:02.040 so exhaustive for me, emotions going crazy, sake, world going 1:02:02.120 --> 1:02:06.360 crazy in this space. The attention is so great. We 1:02:06.360 --> 1:02:09.320 don't know if we can make it this place. Minister 1:02:09.400 --> 1:02:16.480 to the people. Come, Holy spe trible zoueway on you. 1:02:17.320 --> 1:02:24.520 Not in this pace, lady, way in this and not 1:02:25.040 --> 1:02:31.320 for an enemy? Was a foresay all I was, But 1:02:31.480 --> 1:02:37.520 I was d in this place, l in this place. 1:02:38.200 --> 1:02:48.120 Thank you, come Holy trible zooeway. Lord in this place. 1:02:48.960 --> 1:02:57.840 Yes he is dash yes, yes for me? Was a 1:02:58.200 --> 1:03:04.520 foresay because you're there comes your strength in His presence. 1:03:05.600 --> 1:03:09.760 These play until it coming through you right now. He speed. 1:03:10.480 --> 1:03:14.760 You needed this drive ho so you needed this moment. 1:03:15.240 --> 1:03:19.240 You know you needed these play. He knows you needed Lord, 1:03:19.640 --> 1:03:23.000 he needs He wept the tomb of lasses, not for 1:03:23.560 --> 1:03:26.760 sap by the woman and the wow. Oh he knows 1:03:26.880 --> 1:03:31.920 what you see. The Lord is the work for days. 1:03:33.080 --> 1:03:38.640 The Lord is, He's left every ha come hold he speed, 1:03:40.520 --> 1:03:52.000 tribal sly. The Lord is here, He's been. I know 1:03:52.120 --> 1:03:55.920 the message is officially over, and you're probably tired of 1:03:55.960 --> 1:03:58.120 hearing me talk. I went a long time to day, 1:03:58.160 --> 1:04:01.800 but I had a lot of my heart and I 1:04:01.960 --> 1:04:04.320 just want to make sure that you remember that God 1:04:04.440 --> 1:04:06.960 is with you and that the presence of Christ is 1:04:07.040 --> 1:04:09.280 within you. And I just want to thank you for 1:04:09.400 --> 1:04:12.040 being a part of this ministry. Helene and I are 1:04:12.040 --> 1:04:16.160 praying for you. These are really difficult days, and there's 1:04:16.200 --> 1:04:17.920 so much work for the Church to do in the 1:04:17.960 --> 1:04:21.840 world to bring God's Kingdom to earth. But we're committed 1:04:21.880 --> 1:04:24.800 to this and it's a privilege to stand with you, 1:04:25.440 --> 1:04:28.240 to share God's word with you, and to join together 1:04:28.280 --> 1:04:30.240 with you and get into good news of Jesus Christ 1:04:30.280 --> 1:04:31.920 to the world. We love you,