REEL ENCOUNTERS | The Woman at The Well | John 4:1-42 | Philip Anthony Mitchell

0:00 welcome to the victory broadcast if this ministry has impacted you in any way please consider supporting the spread of the gospel by visiting us online and choosing the giving option that works best for you now we pray that this message will stir your heart and build your faith get ready to receive the word of god today is week one of a six week series called real encounters [Applause] yes and there's no misspelling in that graphic uh if you've been living in a cave or

0:45 you're unfamiliar with a real it's just a short video a snippet a glimpse into a person's life a part a part of a story that doesn't give you the full picture and uh and this series is going to make sense to you in just a few moments before i jump into the proclamation of god's word let me just take a moment and pray for us and it'll all come together in a few minutes amen everybody we thank god for his faithfulness

1:31 easter is like the super bowl today is the beginning of a new season [Music] it's building season [Music] and we move forward from here in jesus name amen so father in the name of yahshua help me lord in my human frailty too the hearts of your sons and daughters firmly upon you to

2:16 woo in those who are far away from you i pray you breathe on this time we spend together bring revelation and insight i pray that you would drive away our familiarity our commonality and dishonor of your son in christ's name i pray give me a bracelet

3:03 amen and um in 2018 my wife and i met a young lady who was the supervisor at a major shipping company for four years she handled all of the inbound business packages for our church

3:48 every flag every banner most of the equipment in this room all of these cameras everything that has come to us by mail she put her hands on for four years she served our church very faithfully she was 18 when we met her i got a phone call this week that this sister who became a daughter to my wife or not who we saw every single week of our life poured seeds into and prayed for is no longer here

4:37 she has gone into eternity she was found unresponsive in her home no real answers for her family member and friends those of us who love us loved her we are still grappling with her untimely departure from this life i attended her funeral uh this week on thursday sat in the back of the room and just watch the grief of her family and friends and tears that were shut in that room

5:22 i shed my own tears and uh it's very difficult to stare at the casket of a 22 year old it's very difficult to [Music] just watch the depths of the human pain that we suffer from the separation of people we love through something that god never intended that we would have to deal with until sin entered into the world and as i sat in the back of the room i was um reminded of three great realities that i want to share with you in this moment the first

6:08 is this that everyone sitting in this room everybody watching me wherever you're watching this message the first reality i was reminded of in that room is that we all have a date with eternity it is coming for you and for i for as much as we go to the gym for as much as we try to stay healthy for as much as we botox ourselves to death you will not escape death except the lord returned while we are alive we all have a date with eternity and i will go so far as to say we all have an unknown date with eternity like we we really don't know when our

6:55 last year will be our last month will be our last week will be our last day will be is why i always encourage people who are close to me to live well and love well watch and forgive well like you don't have time to hold people in your heart forever you don't have time to keep grudges and i encourage people to suffer well and live well and love well and forgive well and to give your time to those things that are most important the second reality i was reminded of as i sat in my daughter in a sense funeral was that

7:41 while we are all living in this fallen fractured broken world plagued by issues there is no one perfect among us and no matter how we dress it up how tight we make it look on the outside i was reminded by some of the most calmest people from dignitaries who sat on the platform to thugs that were sitting in the room in tears that no one has it all together on the inside that every person sitting on your row every person watching it doesn't matter how good we camouflage every person is dealing with something or some things watch we all have issues

8:30 and thirdly i was reminded of this that in this broken dysfunctional and sensic world it is the person of christ who was sent by god as an agent of hope to depraved human beings who continuously keeps inviting people into the most significant and meaningful pathway to life change and progressive transformation there is no more meaningful life change that a person will ever have in this life except through christ jesus offers every human being

9:17 from the wealthy to the poor we'll get to all of them in this series the most meaningful the most significant pathway to life change watch and progressive transformation than any other person [Music] that we can put our confidence in listen to me i'm so serious about this series there is no meaningful life change apart from christ like you you can you can get degrees and you can build businesses and build a whole shrine to yourself on social media but there is no meaningful life change now apart from christ

10:06 there is no spiritual wokeness that is pleasing in the eyes of god apart from christ i don't care what you believe in what crystals you carry in your purse what you pray to that you built that's sitting on a window in your bathroom i don't care about what jehovah's witness knock on my door or what mormon knock on my door or what 5 to trying to shake me down on the corner of the block in atlanta there is no listen to me no spiritual wokeness that is acceptable in the sight of a holy god apart from his son the lord jesus christ

10:56 there is no listen to me you could band-aid it up and get counseling all you want there was no real dealing with your deep inner issues apart from the person of christ [Applause] i think i should say that again i don't care how much counseling you get how many coaches you have there are some things in the basement of your soul that a counselor cannot fix a coach cannot fix they cannot impute to you righteousness they did not die for you was not spread out on a cross for you cannot be justified for you

11:42 there are some issues in the core of your soul that cannot be ministered to [Music] apart from the person of christ and there is no safe pathway out of this life into eternity [Applause] apart from christ look right at me let me say this to you again since you're so woke i don't care if you move to africa trying to find some other religion there is no look right at me there is no safe pathway out of this life

12:31 apart from christ watch it does not exist so a preacher i don't believe you you don't want to die to find out that jesus was not a liar [Applause] and you don't want to die to find out that the scriptures were for real so let me say this to you one more time my brother and my sister i don't care what you believe in or reject there is no safe pathway out of this life apart from the person of christ it does not exist and that's why it grieves me when i go to funerals and we lie to

13:19 people from the pulpit saying that everybody's gonna see this loved one again no they won't we give people false hope sitting in seats staring at coffin say everybody in the room is going to see their loved one again no they won't for you can't follow someone who ended up in heaven apart from christ everyone is not going to see that loved one again there is only one guarantee to see the one that has gone into the presence of jesus [Applause] and in the funerals i've been we heard people lie and say oh god had a space in his garden

14:04 so he wanted a flower so he let this bullet hit your daughter in the head and to just to put a flower in his garden to make you feel like god is evil and wicked no sin is evil and wicked we need to stop blaming god for every death no they don't want this too real for y'all we need to stop blaming god for every death no sin divorces people from this life sometimes before their time [Applause] [Music] we need to stop tagging god for every funeral as if he's wicked and evil

14:53 so by direct inspiration of the holy spirit and i obey him i've carved out six weeks for us to gaze upon the lord jesus christ six weeks to proverbially swipe up at 61st century reels six snippets into the lives of six historical people three women and three men whose lives were forever altered and changed through their encounters with the lord and i'm preaching this series by inspiration of the holy spirit that maybe by the power of god all of our wandering affections

15:40 can be refocused back on the thing you and i need more than anything else more than a good marriage more than good relationships more than a thriving business or entrepreneurial venture more than money in the bank more than a big social media following you and i need human beings need a real sincere substantive growing intimate relationship with the lord jesus christ

16:30 that's what you really need more than all the other things you think you need [Applause] [Music] so watch how jesus changes lives how many of you will find nuances of your own life in the historical lives of these six people over these next six weeks you'll see some of your own issues some of your own flaws some of your own needs and the lives of these six people our first glimpse of a real life encounter a real encounter comes from the life of an unknown woman who lived in the region of ancient samaria john an eyewitness of the life and

17:17 ministry of the lord jesus christ recorded the longest conversation jesus had with any human being john chapter four and verse one help me holy spirit now when jesus learned that the pharisees had heard that jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than john his predecessor although jesus himself did not baptize but only his disciples did he jesus left judea and departed for galilee verse 4 and he had

18:03 to pass through samaria now this opening that john gives us as both theological and the geographical geographical information he gave us in this text is very very important it says that jesus heard that people were talking trash about him and so he made a decision to leave where he was to travel to another place so he's leaving judea to go to galilee and it says that he had to go through samaria now in ancient times judea was situated in one part of ancient israel galilee was situated in another part of ancient israel and in the center of judea and galilee

18:48 was samaria now in times past the assyrians had conquered the area of samaria and the wars that happened there they captured the jewish people begin to intermarry with them and produce a mixed race of jews called samaritans purebred jews because racism didn't just start with george floyd right like the bible ain't sanitized purebred jews who were racist wanted to avoid samaritans so instead of just traveling through samaria to get to galilee and back to judea they would go east and down past

19:35 the jordan river go all the way around samaria just to avoid a race of people like all the stuff you do to not deal with white people or black people or hispanic people or your classism you too good to talk to a poor person like they're invisible on the corner by walmart like they're not human beings with a story like i haven't had aunts who's been there right but notice the text it says jesus watch this word had to go through samaria that means he was compelled to go through samaria being led by the holy spirit why he had a date with an unknown woman

20:21 this is so powerful to me as i read the text because it tells us what lengths god would go through to get to you that some of us know god because of divine encounters it wasn't by accident you was in that room when the gospel was preached or you was at that crusade or you was in that place when the lord tapped your heart for the first time it tells us how god will divinely engineer circumstances just to reach you [Music] i don't care if you go on the other side of the planet he can engineer circumstances in another country just to reach you [Music] so he had to go through samaria verse 5.

21:15 so he came to a town of samaria called psycho near the field that jacob had given to his son joseph historical figures jacob who had sons that became the tribes of israel jacob's well was there so jesus wearing as he was from his journey was sitting beside a well it was about the sixth hour a woman from samaria came out to draw water jesus said to her give me a drink for his disciples had gone into the city to buy food now this is massive and it is powerful peep the

22:02 text it says jesus john wrote this note was traveling through samaria and watch he got tired i love that john told us that jesus got tired although his entire gospel was written to prove that jesus was the son of god you see that in the end of his gospel he gives us this footnote that jesus was walking through a region and sat down because he was tired a reminder to us of the humanity of christ it points me to hebrews 4 that tells me you and i serve a high priest who can identify with all of our feelings and affirmatives

22:47 meaning aka there is nothing you and i will ever go through that jesus has not felt this is why when we pray we should pray with confidence instead of babbling like he already knows how i feel i'm talking to you right but notice what the text says it says that it was the sixth hour now this is powerful the sixth hour is 12 o'clock in the afternoon now this is an important detail in the text why because this was in samaria a desert place i've been to israel it is hot at 12 o'clock in the afternoon watch and so a woman lord help me jesus

23:33 comes to draw help me jesus comes to draw water at 12 o'clock in the afternoon culturally women at that time only came to draw water early in the morning while it was cool so powerful or late in the evening while it was cool watch no one came to draw water in the middle of the day why is she coming to the well at 12 why is this woman coming to the well at 12. you know what she was doing she's planned her whole schedule to avoid her most pressing pains she planned her schedule to avoid people

24:21 and community and real relationships this is powerful she planned her schedule watch to be alone she planned her schedule because she was watch battling the fear of being fully known she's coming to the well at a time she hopes watch no one from my town will see me there no one will be present when i get there she planned her schedule to be completely by herself why and she's dealing with some measure of shame some measure of rejection from people around her why is she hiding from other people watch she doesn't want to have real

25:08 relationships god forbid somebody finds out that i have issues god forbid they find out who i really am or what i'm really struggling with so she does everything she can to avoid the people from her town that is i have these casual relationships but nobody really knows me she runs from community some of you are like this you got friends on facebook but no friends plane took off you're not there got 5 000 friends on facebook but no real friends no one to be intimate with no one you can share your dirt with no one you can say i'm struggling i'm going through this pray for me sister or brother man some of us are just like

25:55 this woman we do everything we can to avoid real contact with other people god forbid they find out who i really am or when i'm really struggling i just want them to know the church me the jump on my army but not the masturbation me [Applause] not the pornography me no so she she she she plans her schedule watch to be alone gosh maybe she feels like some of us feels like i can't measure up

26:40 maybe she feels like some of us feel like what i'm going through can't be fixed her troubles was too great to fix so watch this some of us we do this so well she plans her life to be safe but not whole some of y'all are good at doing that you plan your whole life to be safe but not whole so you put up walls to be safe but not whole you avoid intimacy with other people to be safe but not whole so you plan your whole life your whole page every post every text you plan your whole life to be safe but not whole because you can't become your best self

27:27 by yourself [Applause] jesus is not trying to fix to fake you verse 9 the samaritan woman said to him how was it that you were jew asked me for a drink from me a woman of samaria for jews have no dealings with samaritans are y'all listening to the scriptures jesus answered her if you knew

28:15 are y'all listening to the scriptures if you knew the gift of god and who it was that was saying to you give me a drink you would have asked him and he would have given you living water so now he's talking to a woman who's trying to mask all of her issues like we do well trying to camouflage all her issues like we do well trying to hide all her issues like we do well want to come to church and mask all of our issues like he's talking to a woman that's living a camouflaged life all those issues but nobody close enough to do anything about it watch while you're dying by yourself

29:03 and pride and security [Applause] i'm talking to you i'm talking to you you keep shedding tears at night but you won't let jesus get in there you keep shedding tears at night but you got a walls that nothing can't get in there i'm talking to you you're just like this woman you avoid all contact with your reality jesus and jesus says to her if you only knew the gift of god and who it was that asked you for a drink you would have asked him and he would have given you living water man this woman historically watched she was coming daily to this well it's so powerful to satisfy her physical needs

29:50 but she was ignorant of her deeper need that there was a deeper well of greater water that was necessary to heal her in the areas where a sermon cannot touch where a man cannot touch where a spouse cannot touch where boyfriend or girlfriend cannot touch where a counselor and coach cannot touch and now she keeps talking to him about physical water he's talking to about spiritual water it shows me in texas she's completely blind to what she really needs

30:36 but you the same way come on come on some of you sit in this room watch me right now we are oblivious to what we really need you think you need that next job no you don't you think you'll be happy when you get to a certain level in your finances no you won't you think if you could scale your business to a certain level you'll feel fulfilled inside no you won't you think if you just secure that woman or man you're running after you'll be fulfilled inside no you won't she's we're just like her completely oblivious to what we really need the touch we really need the healing we really need the confrontation we really need

31:22 the holding that we really need the comfort that we really need you've been wrestling with this since you was five ten you've been dealing with this for 20 years 10 years and how many more men are you gonna keep trying to see counselors and coaches that can't really deal with only those things jesus can touch don't judge her you're no different having all these conversations with the lord in prayer about things that don't matter but he's trying to talk to you about the deeper things that you really need what does jesus give her look right at me i'm almost done an invitation

32:09 into a new life an invitation into something much greater watch an invitation into healing wait till i get to week five is going to blow your mind an invitation into healing verse 11 the woman said to him sir you don't have nothing to draw the water with and the well is deep watch oh my god where can i get this living water peep the text are you greater than our father jacob who gave us the well and drank from it himself and did his sons in his lifestyle jesus said to her oh my god everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again watch next verse give me my next

32:56 verse but whoever drinks of the water that i will give him will never thirsty again he will never be thirsty again they will never be thirsty again the water that i give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life watch she says the lord what sir gives me this water she cries out to him right verse 15 the woman says sir give me this water so that i will not be thirsty again a thirsty woman so i will not be thirsty or have to come back to draw water from here this woman's ignorance begins to break free as she begins to realize maybe this man

33:43 has something that i need watch this is so powerful she realized now this physical water watch is not enough to satisfy me i'm going somewhere with this and this man has something that i need man this physical water reminds me of all the things we keep chasing that we think will satisfy our deepest thirsts now i'm talking to you we that physical water it's like all the things you and i actually think that if we get it it's going to satisfy the deepest longings of my soul i know how this go down i know how this go down so from one relationship to the next and one job to the next and one church

34:29 to the next and one business opportunity we keep trying to climb these mountains to get to the top of them and look over and realize i'm still empty and bankrupt you know what i've learned with everything i've acquired it will betray me after a period of time no the new iphone i was so happy when i got my new iphone and it got three cameras on the back and i could hit a button and i could get close and then far away and take a bit and then after a while i'm tossing it on the floor in the gym because the novelty wears off and you get the new house and you feel your thirst is quenched and then the novelty of the new house wears off and then you get the person that you wanted and then you're five years into the relationship like oh you're a sinner and then the novelty of the marriage wears off

35:16 [Applause] see i see some of y'all been married for three months and then you're trying to be life coaches for marriages marriage people you ain't been through nothing yet to be no don't trust no marriage coach that ain't been married past five years see all these false married coaches on instagram you've been married for one year trying to build a whole business to teach other people how to be married you ain't going through a storm yet you ain't have to choose to love outside of your bubbly feelings yet how dare you man get off of that page take that joint off your profile the nerve for you to tell me about how to do marriage you've been married for

36:02 12 months you ain't had a good fight yet you ain't had the opportunity to walk away yet these fake coaches with no experience no fruit no track record of consistency [Applause] imma help my church so y'all stop thumbing and liking and supporting fake help [Applause] and all these things we keep chasing we think if i only get it i've been here if i only get it watch i won't be thirsty again if i get to this certain number on my instagram page

36:48 i won't be thirsty again no you're gonna keep being thirsty that's why millionaires commit suicide [Applause] [Music] you see that kate spade bag you got in your closet she hung herself because all these tangible things we keep running out you know what i learned they betray you when the novelty wears off you realize you wake up next to the person and realize i'm still empty [Music] you climb the corporate ladder and realize i'm still empty you build the ministry and realize i'm still empty i'm almost done take my time

37:33 yeah you get the ride you finally wanted and realize i'm still empty get the bundles that you wanted the snaps that you wanted they don't like enough for your joints i'm still empty [Applause] i'm in your neighborhood i know your bundle is dope and i know your filter was dope and when 80 people don't like it you take it down because you're still empty [Applause] why are you searching for those likes because you empty [Applause] you can't post and walk away i've been there i'm talking to you yeah yeah the person with the microphone has

38:20 been there i'm talking to you watch you're gonna keep acquiring i'm telling you what's gonna happen you're gonna get to every goal you wanna hit and still come up empty they will all of it betray you this is jesus christ i'm telling you what i know by personal pain you're gonna keep acquiring what you think you want and when the novelty wears off you're gonna realize i'm still empty that's not a discouragement to not pursue

39:06 it is a warning about priorities her response watch she says i'm almost done lord give me that living water now what will make her say give me that living water you got to read the scriptures that's a sign to me that she doesn't feel whole because if she felt whole she wouldn't ask him for what he had so now she leaks in front of him watch that i have a need your tears testify you have a need your pursuit and keep coming up empty testifies you have a need watch and you keep trying to put in

39:51 place of where god is supposed to be fill in the blank and that idol will continue to betray you you will betray you i'll give her props for one thing though that i pray for so many of you and for me listen at least it shows that she had self-awareness oh my gosh this is powerful i'm about to get in your mail i'm about to help somebody man the first step to transformation is self-awareness we can't help nobody that don't have no idea they need help that's why jesus said i did not come for the well but those who are sick i did not come for

40:36 those who think they're righteous but those who need a doctor one of the first steps to healing transformational life change is self-awareness and a lot of us i pray for you that you will have watched self-awareness that you are rotten in this area that you are desperate in this area that philip anthony mitchell you have a need in this area one of the worst people to help as a person who is self-righteous and think that they are perfect you walk around looking down at everybody you're so self-righteous on your road you sit there with your hands folded critiquing my whole sermon like you could leave the church better than me like you can preach better than me you ain't get up here and preach 42 sermons in a year and we're always looking down with our

41:23 critical and judgmental spirit because we can't see the blinders how really messed up and broken in that area you are your own self-righteousness testifies to your fallacies wow that's why self-awareness is so powerful that's why i love how david says lord search me see if there be any wickedness in me see is there anything that you don't like in me why because when my own heart deceive me i gotta invite god in there to do an assessment of what i cannot see one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself is self-awareness like man i need to change in this area

42:10 that leads to transformation this is too much for you i feel like you're mad i feel tension in the room like don't i got rhonda in here she from philly like i'll get i'll get my goons up here with me like i feel tension in the room like like you matter i'm talking to you like this because i love you [Applause] i love you i feel heat in the room like you want me to come down ronda right here don't play with me oh the milton right there they from philly we from up top like we zip up this bible and go the other way and

42:56 repent later don't i feel heat in the room i feel weak my man sam over there he from new york like my drummer drummer gully don't play with me i got a gully drummer don't play with me i feel heat can i can i proceed yes indeed now i miss that can i proceed i got that spirit of little kim on me let's try this again can i proceed thank you verse 16.

43:43 [Music] let's land the plane it's about to get heat jesus said to her you oh you want this water watch oh you want life change go call your husband you want what i have go call your husband and come here verse 17. the woman answered i have no husband jesus said to her you are right in saying i have no husband for you have had five husbands and the one you have now is not your husband what you have said is true notice jesus didn't say to her i love you ask me into your heart no no no no because we cannot conquer what we won't confront

44:30 so he has to deal with the idolatry of her sin first to lead her towards this massive word called repentance that gives birth to regeneration by the power of the holy spirit there is no i love you asked me into your heart [Music] that's nowhere in the scriptures but jesus did confront people about their idolatry and sin let's deal with the root issue before i give you living water why you won't be able to handle living water if we don't confront that thing right there we gotta work on the nastiness of the cup so i can put that living water in there watch repent first [Applause]

45:16 no i love you asked me into your heart it's not in the scriptures it's in culture it's not in the scriptures [Music] it's in culture it's not in the scriptures jesus a rich young man said jesus i want to go with you he said good uh go sell everything you have then come follow me what is he dealing with his idolatry first [Applause] no i love you and asked me into your heart she's battling right let's let we we we're in ho we in her

46:03 mailbox right six men hopping in and out of beds in and out of relationships in and out of thirstiness she's either grossly misguided i think she's something else i think she's searching [Applause] like many of you like many of you we can knock her for her sin or we can look at her real core she's searching that's why we should stop condemning people in their sin stop judging people in their sin get to the root of why they doing that why they keep hopping out of beds maybe they didn't have a father to tell them i love you maybe they was never affirmed by a parent maybe they don't know that

46:48 they're beautiful in the sight of god so they need another man to tell them that they're beautiful and then another one and then another one and then another one that's four and another one five and another one six until she meets the seventh man six is the number of man incompletion until she meets the seventh man the seventh husband the bride groom the lord jesus christ [Applause] everything changed when she met the

47:34 seventh man and some of us males and females we need a date with the seventh man let me finish the woman said to him sir let me change the topic i perceive that you are a prophet our fathers worship on this mountain but you say that in jerusalem is the place that we should worship jesus said our woman believe me the hour is coming i'm almost done we're neither on this mountain which was mount gerizim i've been there in jerusalem

48:21 where you worship the father i'ma let ryan come preach this one day you worship what you do not know we worship what we do know for salvation is of the jews not of the mormons not of all these other isms salvations of the jews the lineage of christ not all these other isms but the hour is coming don't send me no mail and it's now here i'm not afraid to preach the gospel when the true worshipers will worship and spit in the father in spirit and truth my life is in christ's hands for the father is seeking i'm talking to y'all that keeps sending me hate mail the father is seeking such people to worship him i'm not afraid of you we're at 2250

49:06 perry boulevard northwest pull up hear this gospel god is spirit and those who worship him must be must worship him in spirit and in truth i don't have a lot of time to bother this because i want to land a plane but just notice that jesus is teaching us something he's teaching at the location of worship it's not as important as the heart of worship yo you could be in the room and have a poor heart towards god i could be in my bathroom and have a pure heart towards god it don't matter where you worship it's about how you worship for god is not contained to a a building he's in my car on the way home he's in the shower while i'm butt naked

49:52 so i can't worship god while i'm naked jesus hung on a cross naked he's in the cubicle at work he's at the kitchen sink while i'm cleaning the dishes i can feel his presence while i'm cooking for my babies at night zipporah i've been praying for you zepora while i'm dealing with my babies at night zipporah i feel his presence around me while i'm being a stay-at-home mom and taking care of the gifts that god gave me i could feel his presence all around me while i'm taking care of the gift that he gave me i could feel his presence on i don't have to be in this room to worship i could be in the bathroom down the hall

50:38 and worshiping god let me finish the text the woman said to him i know that the messiah is coming verse 25 he who was called christ when he comes he will tell us all things jesus said to her one of the few people he ever revealed himself to i who speak to you and he it showed that she had hope she had watched this is what we need for life change everybody look at me look at this big word this big word called watch this desire some of you something will shift in your life when you just get a desire this is why almost every day i'm always praying god give me the desires you want me to have that's that verse in a song where it

51:23 says god will give you the desires of his heart no you quote that wrong it says if you delight yourself in the lord that word delight in hebrew means to present yourself softly if you delight yourself in the lord he will give you that designs your heart these prosperity false preachers says if you delight yourself god he'll give you whatever he wants and then you'll be mad at god because that's a lie but if you delight yourself in god he will download he will give you the desires of your heart he'll give you things to desire [Applause] verse 27 just then his disciples came back they marveled that he was talking to a woman but no one said what do you ask for why are you talking to her just peep how jesus crossed

52:11 how he crossed racial lines to get to her class lines to get to her social economic lines to get to her he broke boundaries to rescue her verse 28 through 30. i'm about to land the plane so the woman left her water jar she left the thing she came there to draw water with she went into the town and said to the people come and see a man who told me everything i ever did she confesses her own promiscuity can this be the christ they went out of the town and they were coming to him the former sinner becomes an evangelist [Music] [Applause] the woman who gets a life change now

52:58 runs into purpose watch first she's running from her pain now she's running towards purpose i want you to see that before i land a plane at first she's running from pain in one moment now she's running into purpose in the next moment she leaves behind her water jar i got two revelations from that can i give them to you really quickly the physical water jar that she left on the floor she needs that to draw water she runs into the town watch that's a guarantee that she got to come back and see jesus again right so i don't just get an encounter in the church gathering on easter and then never come back to church she leaves the water dry as a guarantee she got to come back and see jesus again

53:44 but the second revelation i got from that proverbially she left behind the thing she thought what keep her fed sometimes we gotta leave behind some things to really grab hold of what we really need leave behind pride leave behind idealism leave behind some season forgive yourself for something you did forgive yourself for something you did leave that i'm talking to somebody leave the water jar behind that's done now you can minister to these people frank verse 31 let me land the plane meanwhile the disciples were urging him saying rabbi eat

54:29 but he said to them i have food to eat that you know nothing about i wish my whole church would join me right here so the disciples said to one another has anyone brought him something to eat it's like yo you've been with me all this time and you still don't get it like jesus is saying like yo yeah we've been in these like yo how many you've been with me all this time you still don't understand how many more meetings is it going to take for you to get this jesus christ jesus said to them my food i want this for my staff for our leaders for our church my food is to do the will of the one who sent me to accomplish his work you know what you

55:14 know what the greatest win for me is when i'm in my box there's a man who finished his race that's what i want for you four months now and look at the harvest i tell you lift up your eyes and see that the fields are white for harvest all around the city of atlanta all up and down your social media page people far away from god what are you posting about what are you texting what are you like what are you doing i want to say to the american church what are we doing are we having services and conferences and podcasts and books so what if it's disconnected from the great commission everyone might care the lord don't care

55:59 what is it going to matter a hundred years from now church i'm talking to us those of us behind the podium what are we preaching what are we doing what are you believing for what are you posting about are you building a shrine to yourself or are you preaching this god we are living in the last days pay attention it don't matter if the room is full if the pulpit is empty of truth [Music] we're just sending another 5 000 people to hell i'm so sick of it

56:47 you know what the lord was saying to disciples you need to live missionarily like men and women with a purpose like if you're a christian you've been saved from something to something saved from damnation to purpose to live missionary [Music] not to just live to build a monument to yourself you know what i learned being in funerals and being by the side of people who are dying they don't care about how much money they had in the bank they care about the lives that they impacted while it was here we got to live missionary how we treat our sons and daughters our children how we post how we share how we serve how we give how we love

57:34 what you think this is like this is the super bowl this is not about a huddle for you to go out there and spread that gospel live this out tomorrow morning at your job and at your school and call you to sit in a pew he called you to be a witness many samaritans verse 39 i'm over time i just feel the spirit of god man man many samaritans from that town believed in him because of that woman's testimony that's why your testimony is so powerful man tell it some of you are so ashamed of your past but if you're under the blood your past

58:20 is a weapon now my past is a weapon now i'm not ashamed my passive weapon yeah that's what i was and what i did but look what god has done in me so they went to samaritans came out to him and they asked him to stay with him and they stayed two days and many more believe because of his word and they said because the woman it is no longer because of you that we believe but we have heard for ourselves and we know that this indeed is the savior of the world i'm closing do you read your bible acts chapter 8 a man named philip

59:05 went down to some to samaria and preached there and there was a whole revival in a city he was building on somebody else's foundation oh my god for four years before philip got there this woman ran back into that same town and said come see a man that told me everything i ever did you have no idea what your present faithfulness is doing for some future circumstances four years after this moment filler arrives in the same city to preach the gospel that foundation was already laid by a former prostitute a former sinful woman was there four years before philip read acts 8. she sold the ground she tilled the ground for him

59:54 how do i close this woman who had six husbands you know what she was i gotta tell you this before you leave she was what i was what some of you still are she was a chaser keep pursuing something that fill in the blank when i get it i'll be happy no you won't in constant pursuit of whatever only to keep coming up empty and unfulfilled and how long we gonna stay trapped in that cycle before we realize what we really need is in christ the healing you need is in christ that that emptiness you feeling christ

1:00:40 that lack of value you feel christ that lack of fulfillment you feel christ what the coach can't fix the counsel can't fix your spouse cannot fix christ [Music] i want to pray for every person in the room right now and watching me who is struggling with something deep on the inside that is harassing you i want to pray for you but everybody just bow your heads with me i'm praying for every person right now who's just weary thirsty tired just i got the job and i'm still empty i'm

1:01:25 going i see you on the floor my brother there it is i i'm praying for every person that you keep you you're just fed up and frustrated christ i'm gonna keep digging into you until you realize he is the reward my my favorite time is in his presence so right now father i pray for every person under the sound of my voice who is just weary and tired thirsty i pray for every chaser every person that's trying to fill in the blank for fulfillment and keeps coming up empty [Music]

1:02:11 a man won't do a woman won't do scaling the business won't do a bank account won't do a bigger following on social media won't do them accepting you back into the circle won't do none of it is gonna do i pray for them god would you right now give them living water would you right now draw them to yourself lord jesus would you grab their wandering affections and refocus it back on you help them to remember that you are the reward you give a type of water and fulfillment that satisfies whoo [Music] jesus i was here and sometimes i still

1:02:59 struggle here i pray for me too all the things i think i need to be fulfilled will you lord for me for my brother my sister satisfy and father i pray for the one who is far away from you the one who is not saved the one who is in danger of damnation may they run to the foot of the cross may they repent of their sin may they cry out to you may they cry out to you right there in their chair in the car in the parking lot man they said lord i am a sinner forgive me of my sins and throw themselves on the altar of mercy [Music]

1:03:44 jesus give everyone under the sound of my voice that living water we need you we need you more than anything else our prayer life our devotional life when we open the word may we keep finding you in songs of worship lord i pray for my church that we would love you more than anything else we need you you are the living water help us these thirsty women and these thirsty men [Music] i pray that in the mighty and majestic and matchless name of the lord jesus christ

1:04:31 if you receive that just shout with me to my shall amen come on put your hands together and shout amen thank you for listening to the victory broadcast we pray that message was a blessing to you if you have a story or testimony to share we want to hear all about it send us an email to share at victorychurchatl.org or visit us online under share thanks for listening go in peace