Jesus Unfiltered - Believe - Jesus - Models His Mission, Part 2

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Find healing for thanks for joining us for this Edition of Living on the Edge Chip Ingram survival feature of this international discipleship program today continues with only volume 1 series by telling us were never so far from God that he can't rescue what we believe is the worst that you believe shows open your Bible, you have one to John chapter 4, and let's get going. Honesty with ourselves and with God is a prerequisite to authentic relationship with Christ. He gently takes her to a place where she has to be honest, jot down a few wood in the corner. Psalm one 4518 this is in the transformation was one verse one truth it says this, the Lord is near to those who call upon him.

That's like praying right to those who call upon him in truth little bit later he's gonna say that the father is seeking or pursuing ordinary regular people who would worship in spirit and in truth, this woman's got understand you come out of your denial. You cannot your self-hatred yet come out of your line, you come out of all the stories you told all kind of people and we've got understand we can't share the truth unless we haven't if you want to have on the fennec deep relationship. You gotta cut through all the denial, all the blaming all the stuff and get ruthlessly honest with God. My experience with my own self and my experience even with pastors and missionaries in my experience with God's people as we spend an inordinate amount of time projecting, protecting the nine blaming others, giving people a limited amount of yet.

It's true, just not the whole truth, and we play all kind against a project that were little bit more loving the more kind low more holy a little different than we really are and so instead of the power of God welling up as a spring that flows out into the lives of others are energies spent trying to project that we better than we are because we don't want to face. It's a painful thing to face the truth is not to know where you're at in your life but I will say that ruthless honesty with yourself and God will be the beginning of the spirit of God, one making you awake to what you want when you do that you need a Savior right and a lot of people come to Christ. I you don't need him.

The reason you don't need them as human eyes about who you really are the motives, the coveting the lust all the rest we pay by the way if you're human you got all that stuff in Jesus leads her gently to a place where what she realizes as I need the truth, but I know how to get it. And so in the next section. Notice the big idea of the summaries Jesus explains how true worship works well. How does this work this living water. How is your life ever really change, and so he begins to explain to her he says you Samaritans worship what you do not know you have a form of religion and you got a system, but it's an error. We worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews, God's plan for Messiah, the Savior, the world is going to come through Abraham and the special people yet a time is coming and is now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the father seeks circle the word seeks will come back to why God is spirit. God is immaterial.

God is spirit doesn't is not a geographical place not on this mountain is not some system is not some religious stuff. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit from the heart, not external religious activities and truth ruthlessly honest woman said okay she's gone from book you started talk about the God stuff profit. Let's let's argue about theology or you know smokescreens are your mountain my mountain and Jesus said look on not getting the political talk with you were not going to talk about types of baptism or whether electric guitars or organs are best in churches or were not going to talk about whether your Arminian or this or that are Calvinistic know smokescreens I'm talking about you and your life in your heart. God loves you and then finally she gets in his this thought. Can you imagine for her. I'll guarantee she's never had a relationship with a man that was meaningful and deep and valued her and saw her is precious and now this profit who she thinks, says the father God. This distant probably angry God with rules to keep father father you're his daughter. He loves you. He cares for you. You come honestly and from the heart he's seeking. The word means pursuing. That's why he had to go through. That's why he had to go through Samaria. There was a divine appointment.

There's a city called sidecar and there's a woman that is worthless and no one cares about her except her father and so Jesus cuts through sits on a well violates nearly everything possible that you could, in terms of prejudice, gender, background, race, so that this person that no one cares about can understand there is a father God and he's seeking he's pursuing your neighbor. He's pursuing your coworkers. He's pursuing your kids he's pursuing and if the Jesus in you needs to show up and not just observe the Bible interpret the Bible and apply it to your life but to communicate it how way he did gently, lovingly, caringly, nonjudgmentally, but probing to where you get to the truth and now should the lights come on. She was I think we got something common when the Messiah comes the Savior of the world.

I mean I mean when that person comes to make everything right what you're talking I get it. Look, look in your notes what's Jesus say he does something that the Pharisees asking this. The disciples are slow on the uptake of this. This is an immoral woman from a halfbreed race completely rejected by Jews and of all people talk about revelation. Then Jesus declared, I speak to you and he a literal translation because especially for someone that only believes in the first five books of the Bible literally. It's I that I'm talking to you. I am anybody remember where the word I am came from Exodus chapter 3 just as Nicodemus learned he needed to be born again from above and have a spiritual birth to have spiritual life.

She's now receiving the offer. I know when the Messiah comes your standing in front of him. Notice the application. Life lesson number four. True worship is a matter of honest relationship, not religious systems. Jesus is talking about a relationship he's revealed a completely completely new view of God, I ask you how you see God you were talking about reaching out in loving people and having conversations you see God is he a father that pursues you. You know, we often talk so importantly, because it's true that you Jesus is God and he seen the father you see me but how many of you when you read this this week, not yourself. But Jesus got tired why because he walked for two days. Jesus is thirsty. Why because he hadn't drunk something a while you realize that the reason God became not just fully God and fully human in human form so that he could understand. He knows when you're tired.

He knows when you feel impatient. She knows when your back hurts. He knows when you're anxious. He knows when life is hard. He knows when you're up half the night.

He's not just fully God. He's fully human. So, his heart he was tempted in every way like us. He understands you, and yet somehow we get them so far away, as opposed to when you just come and your honest and someone really have ship you know if you ever pray prayers like Laura. I'm really tired. I get a really bad attitude.

I know the right thing to do. I don't feel like doing it right now.

I'm supposed to forgive so-and-so, but this is like the fourth time candidly between us. I like punching out these are the kind of prayers. God wants to hear instead of wine I should do some spiritual outright hard followers are in heaven, I will be gunning if I say, seven of them really fast will it help to that's what the religion was then external performance, trying to please a God that simply is able. Now notice this is this is so precious.

The next big idea is Jesus allows her wounds to be leveraged to bring others to faith in himself. Just then his disciples returned and were surprised understatement to find him talking with the woman but no one asked who what you want or why you talking to her literally.

That's it. That's it. Idiom from the Middle East why you talking to her literally as you want to get rid of her because that's what a servant would do be like whoa this is an appropriate kibosh on his but they thought were not sure what's going on here, but they've now learned to shut up.

Come and see the lady says, leaving her water jar. The woman goes back to the town set of people come and see a man who told me everything I redid. Could this be the Christ. She's got no platform to preach it. Could this be you all think they came out of town. They made their way toward him.

Meanwhile his disciples urged him, Rabbi, eat something, but he said to them, I have food to eat that you know nothing about and again you see Nicodemus when spirit deeper truth water real water, food, real food, you get it. So if disciples are living at the very functional level. Could someone have brought him food and were in the middle of nowhere town about 1/2 mile away that he order take out why we were gone. I think this is ridiculous. Jesus is my food. What satisfies what matters what's meaningful my food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to finish his work. What's your food.

What matters. Where is your energy go where's your time go. What are your dreams about seat are far from whatever we think food is drives us think of what we do when we're hungry. I gotta get this for some of us when I get my house when we have kids, or when I get married that's my food. But no matter what food you get. It'll never ever satisfy what you food Jesus said, my food is to do the will.

Nothing will satisfy you ever, until you understand what is God's will for me and you do it and you finish it.

Jesus and responses you not know this four months more than the harvest, I tell you the truth.

Open your eyes and look at the fields there ripe for harvest.

Even now, the reaper draws his wages even now the harvest crops for each know to seek the metaphor, it's agricultural you so you read you. So in about September you read about April March and then as you plant in about four months. Don't you say it's coming you know were talking on a harvest that comes right now. Spiritually, it is for eternal life.

Thought the things one sows another Reeves is true, I sent you to reaper you have not worked. Others have done the hard work and you have read the benefits of their labor. Others, Old Testament prophets, John the Baptist in the situation, me, and now this woman, this woman of ill repute. They did all the work and now it's only half mile out people from this town are coming out hundreds of people are following the lowliest person and the disciples are seeing all these people to go to behold the harvest is right. I had to come to Samaria before we came here. You all were prejudiced. You wouldn't even talk to a Samaritan. They were half breeds like some of you. You look at people when you see the Rolex watch and their Lexus and their big house and you're intimidated, you think all rich people are this way some other youth you see people in the corner with a little sign for all poor people that way other people. You see this junkie car knowing what I do around here hanging other people at Savino when my guys go to Bentley is he thinking Jesus says, rich, poor, Asian, Indian, white, black, God doesn't see as man sees man looks at the outward appearance, God looks at the heart God and look at tattoos got a look at piercings. God is looking expensive watches and handbags with insignias that tell you you spend $10,000 on them. God looks at the person behind all that stuff and he says I love you but it's not religion it's spirit and truth, and so he's teaching the disciples in teaching us how in the world.

We do that. Notice he says I sent you for what you have it work for others have worked many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony could you circle the word believed. I mean it's it's everywhere but come to faith and put a box around the word because they believed because that he didn't just have Angel dust come down. They all became Christians, they believed, because ready for this. Most of us down deep, not everybody but most of us feel like God could never really use me at work or my neighborhood or with the other ladies or with this group or you know to be really bold for Christ because one I don't know enough to I don't really have a platform three.

There's some stuff in my past that if people start probed so that all these reasons why God can never use me I don't fit in with that group. Now let's back this up woman in moral halfbreed non-Jew disrespected. She knows Jesus for maybe 15 minutes knows a lot of Bible right no reputation because of her testimony, her living water in her shares. This is what he did for me. I can answer all your questions. This is what he did for me. Therefore, many did what they believed in the notice. It goes on, the testimony was, he told me everything I ever did. So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay for another couple days and the disciples can imagine them. Oh my gosh be staying in Samaritan houses and was Samaritan cup were bloodletting everything we learned were out of our comfort zone today revival Bible conference. Why because Jesus had to go through Samaria because the father was pursuing that woman than most of us thought no one cares about whose God pursuing in your network better whose God pursuing this room and maybe you just came for whatever reason to watch something or friend invited you and you come to a moment where if you would be honest he will forgive you, fill you with his spirit give you a brand-new life and take you on a journey will be easy absolutely not be read your life. Not easy now. He loves you.

It's called grace. The final life lesson is God will use even our baggage to bring others to eternal life. Use our baggage to use some of the worst things that have happened to us in some of the worst things we've done is we confess and turn from them and asking to come into her life and forgive us and rather than being ashamed. We are literally like this woman, a trophy of God's grace set on the mantle and platform that people could no always hope you never too far gone.

You're never too messed up you never to immoral you never lied too much. You never heard too many people if you be honest and turn in, forgive, just joining us, you're listening to Living on the Edge with shipping chips message today is from believe volume 1 of a series Jesus unfiltered in this series chips taking an in-depth look at Jesus walking us through the gospel of John.

The authorized biography of Jesus of you will maybe listening more than once is the key to mastering the truths in these passages of John and hope you do that the audio resources are discounted and chips message notes are free. You can use them to dig into the Scripture passages follow chips outline and take notes as you listen for complete details on the believed discounts and trips free message notes give us a call at 1-888-333-6003 or visit us online at http://livingontheedge.org will trip this was hard but potentially revolutionary message for a lot of people today.

I'll be right back in just a minute to talk about today's teaching but as we study the apostle John's teaching here to the gospel. I can in the back my mind here.

Some of you saying you know chip at this all sounds really wonderful but you don't know me you don't know what I've done, you know what I've been boy if you ever understood the terrible things. In other words, Jesus could never associate with someone like me he could never really love me. Never forgive me and I want you to know. Listen carefully. That is alive from the pit of hell. The fact of the matter is, as no one is beyond the reach of Jesus love but but if you believe that lot you to keep you stock if you believe that lie. You'll never come to receive his grace or as a follower. If you believe that lie you'll think you're a second-class citizen. The rest of your life and never experiences joy in his power be used by him. Here's what I want you to know the only way to break lies is with truth and so what we develop is what we call truth cards for every chapter in the book of John we have the light outlined and that we have the truth of that chapter to help you break free but let me give you an example for those who feel like you don't measure up your unworthy. The lie in chapter 4. Is this God could never accept me or use my life.

After all the terrible things I've done.

It says right on the card and right below the cart is a little stop sign, stop, and then you turn over the card and the cards is Jesus wants to accept and use me, he for gave a woman who had five husbands and was currently living with a man so he could communicate his love through her to a whole city. Actually, that passage goes on to say he is seeking or pursuing those who would worship him in spirit and in truth. If you want to be free of your past, trying hard doesn't work. The truth does let me encourage you get a copy of these truth cards will give you all the information back get two or three copies. They're very inexpensive and go through it with some friends or family, and here's what you experience you experience the truth and the truth will set you free, but strip will the Jesus unfiltered truth cards are available now while supplies last. When you go to your website. LivingontheEdge.org there a set of 21 cards like the one strip uses. Each card is a common lie or spiritual battle we all face and on the flipside, it has a passage from the Gospel of John to help you renew your mind with the truth whether there for you or someone else. Order your set of Jesus unfiltered truth cards and get free shipping by calling us at 1-888-333-6003 order online at http://livingontheedge.org without your strip with his application. As we close today's broadcast. I like matter what you're doing, at least lean back emotionally and let me let me talk to you or maybe someone that you know and love that you feel like no matter what you tell them they feel like they never measure up want you to think about what we've heard Jesus say to this woman who was an outcast five relationships living with someone overwhelmed with shame. Here's some questions I want to ask you and maybe you need to ask someone you love.

Do you really believe that Jesus wants to meet your needs. I made you believe he cares about you, a member talking to my wife, who had a terrible terrible self-image and in the early days of our marriage in in the matter how many kind things I said to her, it they just bounced off like BBs and I member gesture saying I know God loves the world that is just hard to believe that he loves me and she been through some very difficult times what I want you to know is that yes you have baggage I have baggage. Some of some made very in the world standards in churches standards big mistakes, but isn't it interesting that this woman is the one that let a whole city to the Savior that he loved her that he cared for her that he accepted her. Now he didn't whitewash and he didn't extort a gloss over the issues in her life.

He spoke clearly, honestly and she heard and she was accepted and loved. And here's the word I have for you.

God really loves you.

Stop hiding the baggage get help if you need it and then realize that you can help some people that few people will ever reach because you really understand as we wrap up today's program. I want to say thank you to those who make this broadcast possible for your generous financial support. Your gifts help us create programs purchase airtime and develop additional resources to help Christians live like Christians. If you've been blessed by the ministry of Living on the Edge. Would you consider sending a gift today.

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