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Fiends , let's get exposed!

Psalms 139:23-24 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

I recently read a story about a rather pompous-looking deacon who was endeavoring to impress upon a class of boys the importance of living the Christian life.

'Why do you think people call me a Christian?' the man asked.

After a moment's pause, one youngster said, 'Maybe it's because they don't know you.'

I don't know if this is a true story -- but I'm sure we've all experienced hypocrisy in our own lives.

Mark Twain said "We're all like the moon, we have a dark side we don't want anyone to see".

Hypocrisy is a dangerous thing.

It has turned a many a man away from the Lord to search elsewhere for answers.

It can ruin an entire generation and more after them.

But we have the opportunity to change those generations for the good of God's kingdom!

Those of us who know and love God must never stop allowing Him to search our "dark sides" so that we can more effectively be used as vessels to lead the hungry multitudes to Him.

Friends, let's come against the hypocrisy in our lives.

During this season of Passover, let's ask the Lord to search our hearts today and uproot the things that need uprooting.

Let's give our all to God again.

Your family in the Lord with much agape love,

George, Baht Rivka, Elianna & Obadiah

Bradenton, Florida

And this is another fine day in the Lord as we come together once again to fellowship in God’s word.

today we wish Momma Bee a very happy birthday and all of God’s Blessings.

the disciples had gone into the city to purchase supplies.

Jesus remained behind at the well.

this was a divine appointment set up by Jesus, unbeknownst to the one whom he was to meet.

The Woman is alone when she carries her empty pot down to draw water from the well.

She comes not in the morning when it is cool, nor the evening when it was cool, but she comes at the hottest time of the day, at noon.

Maybe just so that she would not have to be under the scrutiny of the other women who looked down upon her.

Where ever it is that we encounter Jesus for the first time whether it is in a crowd or alone it is really on a one on one basis.

Jesus deals with us as if we are the only one in the world.

Point of Doctrine:

You and I were not scooped up impersonally in a crowd.

Salvation is personal between the lost sheep and the shepherd.

Matthew 18:12–14 (NASB95) — 12 “What do you think?

If any man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go and search for the one that is straying?

13 “If it turns out that he finds it, truly I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray.

14 “So it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones perish.

3. when you were called, it was Jesus saying, “I want you.

I choose you.”

4. knowing that God chose you and not the other way around, should inspire a greater spiritual self esteem that each of us in Christ is loved personally chosen by the creator of this universe.

Did you chose God? or did he chose you?

was it that you invited the Lord in your heart, or did he call you be in Him?

Ephesians 1:3–9 (NASB95) — 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, 4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him.

In love 5 He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, 6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.

7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace 8 which He lavished on us.

In all wisdom and insight 9 He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His kind intention which He purposed in Him

John 4:10 (NASB95) — 10 Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”

Jesus invokes three questions within the woman’s mind

who are you

what is this gift of God

what is this living water

You see, as the woman came to draw water, Jesus came to draw the woman.

As the still water sat in the bottom of a dark well the woman’s soul without life lie in the darkness of her own depravity.

the woman came with greater needs than just water, and maybe she knew it or maybe she did not.

John 4:11 (NASB95) — 11 She said to Him, “Lord,κύριος [kurios /koo·ree·os/] n Lord not in the heavenly sense but a respectful sense, as in sir.

You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep; where then do You get that living water?

That living water was not down in the dark cold well.

She was standing before the Living water.

Come to think of it, How many women did we find at any particular well in the bible?

There was first Hagar the Egyptian maid who encounters the Lord at the well when she Fled from Egypt?

There was Abraham’s servant who came to the well where he would find a bride for Isaac.(Gen

24:10-27)

Jacob met Rachel at a well(Gen 29:1-11)

There was the well where Moses meets his bride Zipporah(Exod 2:15-22)

Stands to reason, if one was looking for a bride it would be at a well.

It was the maidens work to carry the clay jar down to the well to draw the water and return balancing the pot on her head.

I could also imagine that it was a place where the maidens were met by their bo’s that they might have some private fellowship outside the scrutiny of their Fathers.

John 4:11 (NASB95) — 11 She said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep; where then do You get that living water?

The woman apparently had something to collect the water.

She either was not offering it, or she understood that the Jew would not take anything from a Samaritan’s hand having touched it herself.

The options for the living water was limited.

The only source of water that the woman knew was down in the well.

She had not yet understood that this stranger was the source the greatest gift.

Jesus is the Living water

It was the living water that we first encountered in the bible that flowed out of the mountain in Eden and water the whole land.

(Genesis 2:10-14)

He is that rock that what struck in the wilderness by Moses which brought out living water.

Numbers 20:9–11

Paul identifies that rock as Christ

1 Corinthians 10:1–4 (NASB95) — 1 For I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea; 2 and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 3 and all ate the same spiritual food; 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them; and the rock was Christ.

Jeremiah 2:13 (NASB95) — 13 “For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, The fountain of living waters, To hew for themselves cisterns, Broken cisterns That can hold no water.

John 7:37–38 (NASB95) — 37 Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.

38 “He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, ‘From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.’

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Revelation 7:17 (NASB95) — 17 for the Lamb in the center of the throne will be their shepherd, and will guide them to springs of the water of life; and God will wipe every tear from their eyes.”

Revelation 21:6 (NASB95) — 6 Then He said to me, “It is done.

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end.

I will give to the one who thirsts from the spring of the water of life without cost.

Revelation 22:1 (NASB95) — 1 Then he showed me a river of the water of life, clear as crystal, coming from the throne of God and of the Lamb,

Revelation 22:16–17 (NASB95) — 16 “I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things for the churches.

I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star.”

17 The Spirit and the bride say, “Come.”

And let the one who hears say, “Come.”

And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who wishes take the water of life without cost.

And by the way, Just as the living water emerged from the ground to water the land in Eden, so will this living water come from the grave.

This woman may have been burden with a number of things.

she may have been burden with loneliness

Burden with the Labor that it took each day in the heat of the day to draw water

Burden with her sin living in guilt and shame.

Burden with no legitimate marriage.

Burden with the lot of life with no foreseeable future.

Burden with no hope

burden with no life but a future grave for her.

And here at the well, What was being offered to her which she was yet to understand?