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Intro
Good morning!
Welcome to True Worship Church.
It is so good to see all of you here today.
I am excited about what God is going to do in this house today.
I just got back from New York for a conference and had a chance to spend time with my oldest daughter.
Nina and I really enjoyed our time with her.
It’s always good to see your kids even after they have grown up and moved away.
I always try to look in to her eyes and see if she is really ok.
So, as she is talking, I’m following her eyes to see if I can sense anything.
The Bible says the eyes are the window of the soul.
I sensed she was doing good, so I was able to relax a bit.
New York is a big city with I believe almost 20 million people.
Just think about that for a minute.
Detroit has a population of just over 600,000 people.
That’s a lot of people doing a bunch of stuff every day.
What I also saw in my time there was how many people need Jesus.
Mike on the train: When we were on the subway, I sat next to a young man named Mike.
Mike is 19 years old.
Beautiful soul!
He was so nice and polite.
He offered Nina and Kianee his seat on the train.
He’s listening to some rap music on his phone and is playing it through the speakers on the phone.
Anybody within an earshot, could hear it.
It was full of cursing, doing drugs and describing sex acts, and anything else you can think of which might be considered inappropriate.
Mike asked me if I liked the music and I told him no.
He looked at me with surprised and amazement because he just knew I would like it too.
He asked me why I didn’t like it and I told him it had too much cursing and foul language for me.
He asked me if he could play something for me and I said, “Yes.”
He asked me what and I told him worship music.
This is when I knew was in the right place.
He responded by saying, “What is worship music?”
20 million people in the city of New York and I’m sitting right next to a young person who probably does not know about the love of Jesus.
He missed his exit!-
When you are sharing the love of God, it will make people miss where they want to get off.
We start a brand new series called “Devil in the Details.”
I want to dig deep in to the details of our life, our secret places, those areas of our life we have deemed of limits.
The Details are Important
If we don’t take our time and deal with the details of our situations, we can get loss in our process.
When we don’t consider the details, things get hidden.
All of a sudden you’re hiding in life and don’t know why.
I don’t know about you but I don’t want to wander in the wilderness for most of my life when God has sent me on a couple days journey.
I want to experience my promise in this life!
Society makes it difficult to be free and to be who God has called us to be.
Our identities tend to come from other images we see.
This affects church folks too.
We see other churches, other preachers, other praise teams or anything relating to church and it becomes who we try to model ourselves after.
I’m all for discipleship and sharing best practices but at the end of the day, God has called us to follow Him.
God told Hosea to marry a prostitute.
If God tells you this, it’s not for a good time.
He’s called you to ministry.
He told Abraham to leave his home, security, comfort and to go somewhere.
He didn’t tell him where.
He just told him to go!
He tells Paul to share the good news with Gentiles and you know how much hell that brought him.
We’ll be reading another familiar passage this week so let’s see how God want to work today.
KJV
7 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.
8 (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)
9 Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.
10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
11 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?
12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:
14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
15 The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.
16 Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.
17 The woman answered and said, I have no husband.
Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband:
Pray
Who goes to the well @ Noon?
The Samaritan woman went to the well at noon, the hottest time of the day.
The women would normally go and draw water from the well either early in the morning or in the evening because it would be cool during those times.
This was her routine to go at this time everyday.
Why?
Why would she go at the most inconvenient and most uncomfortable time of the day?
Other women would have been at the well in the morning and in the evening because it’s the most comfortable time to go but this Samaritan woman went when she knew that no one else would be there.
What was she dealing with?
What kinds of things make us want to avoid people?
Guilt and shame will definitely!
This is where the enemy tries to get us.
When we deal with guilt and shame, it is a hard place to get out of.
Common sense doesn’t make any sense here.
She didn’t want anybody to question her about her life, how she was doing, or about her relationships.
Have you ever been around a bunch of women???
You know women will talk and ask questions.
She went at the most inconvenient time of the day to avoid those conversations!
What are you willing to do that may be an inconvenience for you to avoid being around other people so you don’t have to put on the fake smile, where you don’t have to act like everything is alright?
Yeah, I know you go to church and got Jesus but you not thinking about no Jesus when you are going through a hard time.
Let’s be honest… He’s just not our 1st option all the time.
That’s sad but it’s true.
Think about some of the reasons you have taken a break from church for instance….
What were you going through?
Who were you mad at?
What did you do the previous days or even the night before church?
See, sin and sinful thinking will lead us away from those we need the most.
Sin and sinful thinking will lead us away from the One we need the most.
Jesus shows up when others wouldn’t.
See, even when you are running, God knows where to find you.
He shows up at the most inconvenient times and most uncomfortable places for me and you.
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