Amen. Okay, so Gospel of John chapter 4 and from verse 1. When therefore the Lord
knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptised more disciples
than John, though Jesus himself baptised not but his disciples, he left Judea and
departed again into Galilee. So Jesus left Judea because he knew that the
Pharisees had heard about the great work that he was doing, okay. So at this point
the persecution is already starting, yeah. Okay, you can see why he's left there.
He's left because he knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and
baptised more disciples than John. Now if Jesus and his disciples weren't getting
people saved, they weren't creating more disciples, would the Pharisees have cared
so much about what was being preached? They wouldn't have cared, would they? They
wouldn't have cared what he was preaching if it wasn't for the making the
disciples, was it? Okay, and getting obviously people baptised as well and
the reason I say this is because that's the same with churches like ours, isn't
it? That's the truth. That's the same with the churches like ours around the world.
It's not just the so-called Jews that hate us, okay. It's not just, you know,
the persecutors of like we see in the Book of Acts and as we go on to
carry on seeing in our life, but it's not just that because it's also not just the
work salvationist Christians, is it? So-called Christians. The work
salvationist lot that are just so angry that we preach what the Bible says about
salvation because it's not just them. And by the way, they do hate us, okay. They do.
I had a comment come up the other day on one of our New Believer videos
about what makes a good church and, you know, they just reveal their hand
straight away. You're not teaching what the King James Bible says about
repentance, you know, and I was thinking I'm gonna deal with this guy in a
minute and then, God, I think maybe Pastor Thompson just blocked him, but
maybe he's wiser than me because I was thinking, well, I'm gonna give this guy
a dressing down. But yeah, I mean, these guys, it's like if you really cared,
yeah, you really cared, why are you spending your time trawling our
websites? Like how many cults and just joke versions of Christianity are
there in this country? Yet you're gonna come and find us and look on earth and
start trying to make comments, trying to prove that you've got to turn from your
evil way. I mean, how easily debunked is that as well? Just ridiculous, isn't it?
But it's not just them, is it? But it is amazing, is it, when someone claims to be
a Christian. They claim to be a Christian when you knock on their door and then
the anger that you're trying to tell them the gospel, the anger when they've
just showed that they're not saved as well, it's just, it's ridiculous, isn't it?
But it's not just these, is it? Because there are saved Baptists, saved Baptist
Christians, so-called Bible-believing Christians, with the right gospel that
hate us, okay? And you know what, there are a lot of them around as well,
and I'm not saying that, you know, the Pharisees here clearly are unsaved,
aren't they? But in the same way, the truth is, the reason they hate us is
because we make, and baptise, and we will be baptising here, but regardless, we're
making more disciples, we're getting more people saved, and that's the truth, isn't
it? That's the truth, that's why they hate us. See, they claim, don't they, it's our
biblical stance on the Sodomites. They claim that because we preach and believe
what the Bible says about the Sodomites, that's what they're angry about, like, I
can't believe you would say that anyone can't be saved, and they, all that
nonsense, like, till they're dying breath, and everyone's got a chance, and
everything else. But let's be honest, how does that even affect them? How does it
affect them, what we preach every now and again in a sermon, when we're going out
and knocking doors, and trying to preach the gospel to everyone, and we're not
doing a tick box, are we, before, and whether or not that person's a Sodomite
or not, when we're trying to preach in the gospel. Okay, but they claim it's
maybe that, or our disgraceful rejection of the pre-trib fraud. That's
their hill to die on, isn't it? So these guys around this country, these old IFB
pastors, they are absolutely incensed that you could dare to suggest that the
pre-tribulation rapture is a fraud, and for them, that's what they're really
angry about. Again, how does that even affect them? How does it affect them at
all? It doesn't, but they pretend, so they're trying to find things, aren't
they, to be angry about. Our refusal to join their racist diatribe on those
special white converts to Judaism. Yeah, our refusal to join in with that, with
the old white converts, and how they're actually some sort of special people
genetically, having converted to Judaism at some point in the last however many
centuries. Again, absolutely ridiculous, but they're so angry about it, aren't they?
I mean, anyone watched any of those videos recently on the pastor
Anderson Exposed once? And these guys, we've got one of our local
pastors not too far from here as well, who features on it as well, makes a
guest appearance, and we'll talk about that afterwards, but yeah, so there's a
few of these guys, and basically they're attacking him, and what's
their main gripe? Their main gripe is the Jews, isn't it? That's their main, you know,
how, I mean, yeah, yeah, okay, a lot of people we know have been saved by him.
Yeah, we've got people coming into our church saying they got saved through one
of his videos, but, but, you know, it's disgraceful how this guy's an
anti-Semite, and the rest of it, it's absolutely ridiculous, isn't it? But, but
they claim, it's so dishonest, because they're pretending this is what
they're really angry about. They're just, you know, pretending that all these
issues, but what is it really? It's the soul-winning. It's the soul-winning and
the disciples. It's the people getting saved. That's what they're angry about,
that's what they hate, that's what they find fault about. Now, some will try to
criticize the soul, winning a few will try and do that, you know, one, two, three,
repeat after me, and a lot of the time it's just work salvationists who are
just trying to say, well, you can't obviously be saved by just believing, you
know, and just, and just calling, calling on the name of the Lord, but there's a
few that will try and criticize that, well, you know, are they really saved or
anything else, and, but, but they, they never really give you an example, because if you
hear them giving their so-called gospel presentations in the churches, which they
do, a lot of these churches will give every single week, week in, week out,
they're basically giving it very similar to how we do anyway, probably not
nowhere near as thorough, actually. In fact, they're usually just talking about
belief and it's, you know, grace through faith and everything else, and they don't
really, really, you know, go into the conviction of sin and other things, but
regardless, they're not doing anything, oh, well, they're really spending a lot
longer on it, are they? And they're expecting people to get saved to come up
to the altar afterwards and, and the rest of it, so they can claim that, but they
will find something to blame, won't they? So they try and find something to blame
or we're so unloving, apparently. We're all so unloving because we don't preach
just on the love of God and we actually preach on sin, because we actually talk
about, about other parts of the Bible, other than 1st Corinthians 13 and a few
other bits, you know, and the gospel. But the churches that claim to love the
gospel so much, that they preach at every single service, because a lot of them do,
don't they? It's amazing, isn't it, how they don't focus on the false gospel
preaching churches, because I've been around these churches and, and they'll
say things like, oh, well, you know, there's some good people amongst the
charismatics and, you know, and we don't want to just write them off and, you know,
and these people are okay and, well, we don't want to mention this particular
church, but some people, they're in a bit of a muddle with the tongues and other
things, but, you know, they're good. It's like, what are you talking about? Every single one
you talk to, they're unsaved. It's rare, isn't it, that you find one of those that's
safe. So they claim to love the gospel, don't they? They preach the gospel, but
they don't seem to care about the false gospels, they care more about Zionism, you
know, the pre-Trib fraud, the sodomite agenda and everything else, don't they?
Now, you might think, yeah, well, but we're not creating any disciples, are we? Well,
says who? Says who? Because you can't compare us to the false megachurch, okay,
because there's no one saved in there at all. So someone who's going, I don't care
if they're going, you know, to every service and everything else, they're not
a disciple if they're not saved, for starters, okay. But what about, you know,
the Pentecostal party? You might find the odd, saved person amongst, amongst the
thousands, but again, they're not disciples, they're going there for a party,
aren't they? What about the busy, trendy evangelical church? Well, you know, they're
busy, some of those guys are saved, it seems, some of them believe in grace
through faith, or maybe that long-established old IFB Church, you know,
they seem to get some numbers, some of these places, maybe not many in this
country, I don't know if we've got really many busy churches in this country, but
but maybe there are, maybe there are a few, and you'd think, well, aren't they
making disciples? Why would they be jealous? Because, in my opinion,
they're not disciples. So, aside from believing the Bible, wanting to live for
Christ, which you would say, surely two of them must, aren't they, to be a disciple
of Jesus Christ, wouldn't you say that the Great Commission is the bare minimum?
It's the bare minimum, isn't it? To be a, how are you a disciple of Christ if
you're, if you've never gone out and at least helped someone else share the
Gospel? Okay, I don't see you as a disciple, so, I mean, the disciples got
sent out two by two, didn't they? The Seventy got sent out two by two, so it
doesn't matter how long you've been praying for Israel, how many services
you've prayed for Israel, five times a service, how long you've been waiting to
be raptured at any minute, how long you've been telling everyone how loving
you are, because they love telling them, telling everyone that, don't they? I used to
have a pastor, that's all he ever used to go on about, is how much love he has for
everyone, how much, but yet he can't preach on sin. How loving you are, if
you're not soul winning, or wanting to learn to soul win, then you're not a
disciple. You're not a disciple, are you? How are you a disciple of Jesus Christ if
you're never ever going out and preaching the Gospel, trying to preach
Gospel, or learning to preach the Gospel, or at least supporting someone when
they're preaching the Gospel. So these guys ain't disciples. So in fact, yes we
are. Even a church which, yeah, it's not that we're putting on a party and
people are just rocking up like Hillsong, Hillsong is a busy one, there
you go, there's not a disciple in, there's not a disciple there, is there? No such
thing. But here we are, aren't we? And even if once a year you had a
couple of people that wanted to read their Bible and go out and preach the
Gospel, that's a couple more disciples than pretty much any church in the
country, isn't it? Isn't it? And that's the truth, isn't it? And so we are, we are
making more, even if we only get a few people baptised when Pastor Thompson
gets here, and maybe once a year after that, we are still baptising and making
more disciples than any, any of the churches I've seen in this country, for
sure. And that's the problem, that's the truth, is it? Because they see people, they
see people at our churches, they see them zealous for God, they see them wanting to
read their Bible, they see them wanting to live for God, they see them wanting to
go out and preach the Gospel, they see them bold enough to make stands on the
Word of God, and they hate us for it. And that's the truth, that's what they hate.
They hate it, they're jealous, it's envy, and that's the truth. And if you, you
claim to be a Bible-believing Christian, because they do, don't they? These guys
claim to be Bible-believing Christians, how come your main ministry is often
attacking soul-winning Christians? Because that's pretty much, it's either
that or the pre-Trib fraud, isn't it? And the Jews, and that's their kind of,
their main angle, that's their thing, you know, they, you know, constantly preach
against people like Pastor Anderson, what's their problem? Yet in the same
breath, admitting that people such as himself and like-minded churches are
getting loads of people saved. Wow, amazing, isn't it? Amazing. Trying to prove
their pre-Trib rapture lie, praying and raising money for Israel, that's like
their main ministries, isn't it? Oh, you've got to keep praying for Israel, got to keep
sending money out there, got a missionary out there, he nearly got someone saved
last year, you know, keep praying, we couldn't nearly get one of our special
chosen Jews saved, it's ridiculous. Absolutely, whilst bad-mouthing
churches like ours, who are going out week after week knocking doors and
preaching the Gospel, unbelievable. Trying to discredit the KJV as well, how many of
them do that? Claim to be King James Bible churches and then they spend the
services, and I've been there with them, trying to tell us what mistakes the King
James Bible translators made, these guys that have done one term or two terms of
Greek, you can't, you know, and we've all heard the joke, they can't even order a
meal in Greek, can they? Yet they're somehow correcting the King James Bible
translators, and again that seems to be a big part of their ministry, but not
knocking doors, unbelievable. They're no different to the Pharisees, they're
hypocrites, that's what they are, they're hypocrites. Generation of vipers, they are,
they're a generation of vipers, these people, and you know, and the ones that
are saved, they should be ashamed of themselves, they should be absolutely
ashamed. Those ones that want to sit here and they'll watch, they'll watch our
stuff and come on and criticise and send moody messages, a lot of the time they
either delete or get deleted, and they're trying to stalk us and stuff,
just absolute weirdos. I mean you absolute weirdos, if you're stalking us
and listening to the fact that we're going out, and I'm not trying to say
we're so great, but we're going out and we're preaching the Gospel and we're up
to nearly 600 salvations in less than what, what is it, less than seven
months out of this church, and you've got nothing better to do than to stalk us
and send us rude messages to us and members of our churches. You're a
disgrace if you're saved, if you're saved and not a reprobate stalker, you absolute
disgrace. Now what are you trying to do? Stop the work of God being done, because
that's what, like the Pharisees, they're trying to stop the work of God being done.
We had that idiot that we kicked out of here the other week, he's been ringing
people and messaging them again, trying to tell them to leave the cult and
everything else, oh because he's just so worried about them, oh well don't come
running to me, what are you talking about, oh you might feel unsafe, unsafe, what are
you talking about, you absolute losers, you spend your time watching our sermons
and ringing up our church members, yet you claim to be a saved man of God, what
you want to stop the work being done, because who else is going out and getting
people saved in this country, well preaching the Gospel every week behind
the pulpit, it's not happening, absolute disgrace, but look, instead of trying to
chase people out of town, yeah, how about, how about these people just trying to,
maybe just pray for us, how about that, you don't want to come here, you don't
want to get involved, how about you just pray for us, pray for people to get saved,
pray for us to carry on and be bold enough and not be put off by the
scumbags that are stalking us, the scumbags that are constantly bad-mouthing
us and our, and our friends churches, but if you're a saved believer and you're
watching and you might watch and your church won't let you preach the Gospel,
go somewhere that does, yeah, go somewhere that does, preach the Gospel, that's a
prick, otherwise you're not a disciple, you're not a disciple, okay verse four
there, verse four, and he must needs go through Samaria, then cometh he to a city
of Samaria which is called Sychar, near to the passive ground that Jacob gave to
his son Joseph, so this is where Joseph was eventually buried, and verse six, now
Jacob's well was there, Jesus therefore being wearied with his journey sat thus
on the well, and it was about the sixth hour, so he's done about 25 miles of a
50 to 60 mile journey at this point, Jesus has, now a reasonable pace of
approximately four miles an hour, that's about a mile every 15 minutes, that's the
kind of reasonable pace for an hour, this would be about right if they set out at
6 a.m., so have a think about that, it's the sixth hour, so it's midday, okay, he's
been walking for six hours, and you know, that's not walk is it, and no wonder he
was wearied, hey, no wonder he's wearied, he's been walking pretty much flat out
for six hours, and that sort of stuff people nowadays will get sponsored to do,
wouldn't they, they would be getting sponsored to walk for six hours, and he's just, this is
just a break in the middle of the walk, you know, and they're just having a break
you know, at the well, and these people are getting sponsored to walk six hours with the
latest, greatest walking boot or air padded trainer and the rest of it, I
don't think they had any of that going on, did they, they just walked just a
six hour walk, you know, stop at the well, amazing isn't it, but remember that
Jesus was both fully God, wasn't he, and fully human, he understands the things
that we go through, but he also probably has a fair, you know, or a good right to
be, to be just going, oh goodness, the next time that we're, we're moaning about, you
know, our latest half-hour walk somewhere or whatever else, because wow, they
don't make them like they used to by the look of this, because it's not just him is it,
he's with his disciples as well, oh well that's Jesus, well there's a load of
other, in fact they've gone off to go and buy the meat now, haven't they, okay, so
verse 7, there cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water, Jesus saith unto her, give
me to drink, so in, in verse 11 we see that Jesus doesn't have anything to draw
the water with, so that's why he's asking, verse 8 says, for his disciples were gone
away unto the city to buy meat, now by the way that's food, okay, if anyone's
unaware of that, it's not that they've just gone to buy a massive slab of meat,
I like to think they did, okay, I like to think that they went and just got a
massive roast cow or something, but no, they've just got to get food, maybe it
was a big bit of meat, but meat there is food, okay, verse 9, then saith the woman
of Samaria unto him, how is it that thou being a Jew askest drink of me, which I'm
a woman of Samaria, for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans, so there
was a lot of animosity between the Samaritans and the Jews, and verse 10,
Jesus answered 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, so how do you get the living water, well it says
here you need to know the gift of God, don't you, you need to know the gift of
God, if thou knewest the gift of God, he said, and he would have given thee
living water, people need to know that there's a gift from God which is eternal
life, don't they, okay, they need to know that it's a gift, he makes it clear it's
a gift there as well, I mean there's so much wrapped into this verse here, you
need to know who Jesus is, he says, if thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that
saith to thee, give me to drink, so you need to know Jesus is, okay, it's not good
enough just, oh well he's just like some sort of Son of God, some sort of, you know,
one of the forms of God, or any of the rest of the many many damnable heresies
out there, you need to know who Jesus is, don't you, to receive the gift, okay, and
that's why it's important to explain to people who Jesus Christ is, when we
preach the gospel unto them, you need to ask him, said here, if thou knewest the
gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, give me to drink, thou wouldest have
asked him, and he would have given thee living water, says he, you need to, you
would have asked him, you need to ask him, are there any other conditions, no, he
would have given thee living water, that's what he's saying here, isn't it, so
Jesus answered unto her, look, I mean, what a verse, if thou knewest the gift of God, so you
know, you know what that gift of God is, that it's a gift obviously as well, and
who it is that saith to thee, give me to drink, who Jesus Christ is, thou wouldest
have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water, amazing, verse 11,
the woman saith unto him, sir, thou has nothing to draw with, and the well is
deep, from whence then has thou that living water, art thou greater than our
father Jacob, which gave us a well, and drank thereof himself, and his children,
and his cattle, she's got a form of religion here, but no salvation, verse 13,
Jesus asked and said unto her, whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again,
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,
so another one-time event like we've seen through these first three chapters, haven't we, it's a
one-time event, you only have to drink of the water and you will never thirst, okay, that's a
one-time event, isn't it, you don't have to keep drinking of it, you don't have to keep getting
saved, that means you don't have to drink it again, now how does a water become a well, well
turn to John chapter seven, just look forward a couple of chapters, John chapter seven and from
verse 37, John 7 37, in the last day that great day of the feast Jesus stood and cried saying,
if any man thirst let him come unto me and drink, he that believeth on me as the scripture has said,
out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water, but this spake of the spirit which they
that believe on him should receive, for the Holy Ghost was not yet given, because that Jesus was
not yet glorified, so that well of water is the Holy Spirit which is there for others to drink
from, isn't it, so that Holy Spirit is there, we have that Holy Spirit inside us and that Holy
Spirit is what we then use to then get other people saved, isn't it, again it's there for other people
to drink of, look at verse 15, back to John chapter 4, the woman saith unto him, sir give me
this water that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw, so she wants it, doesn't she, she wants
the water but she doesn't know who Jesus is yet, okay, verse 16, Jesus saith unto her, go call thy
husband and come hither, the woman answered and said, I have no husband, Jesus said unto her,
thou as well said, I have no husband, thou has had five husbands and he whom thou now has is not thy
husband, in that saids thou truly. Now I don't want to go too far on this and there are people
that will say, oh look, she's gonna, she's got to get rid of this sin first, obviously the work
salvation is, and there are some that will say she's got to at least, you know, repent and get
down and say, you know, I know this is wrong, no, but he is still here, I think, I still believe he's
still convicting of her sin though, so he, because it's kind of easy, he makes this point and then
kind of moves on after it, but I think he's showing her in need of a saviour, she's either
been divorcing them or they've been divorcing her, by the look of it here it says that she's had five
husbands, I mean that is something else, isn't it, five husbands, and now she's a Samaritan and who
knows what sort of customs or laws they were following at this point because it was a complete
mess, wasn't it, but regardless God's law says that it's adultery, doesn't he, so divorce, remarriage
is adultery, turn in Matthew chapter 5,
Matthew chapter 5 and verse 31,
Matthew 5 31, it has been said, whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of
divorcement, but I say unto you that whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of
fornication, causeth her to commit adultery and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced,
committeth adultery. Now I was asked about this not long ago, it's the cause of fornication
isn't adultery, okay, so fornication is outside of marriage, isn't it, and I think we went over this
when we did this in the book of Corinthians as well, but fornication is outside of marriage,
okay, so the cause of fornication would be if you married someone who you believe is a virgin
and then before you come together you discover that she isn't, okay, this isn't something that
you just hang on to years later and go oh actually you weren't a virgin, see you later, okay, that's
not what it's about, okay, it's about the cause of fornication that was in a culture when they
didn't come together straight after the marriage and you could put this in, I don't know, there
are some people that maybe get married when maybe while they're in prison they have a day release
for it or maybe when they're joining the military or something else and they haven't
actually come together and what we would call consummated the marriage yet and it's if in
between that time or before that you discover actually no this lady has committed fornication
and you were led to believe she hasn't, that's what it's talking about here, but there are no
other grounds, okay, there is no grounds for divorce so people and look I think everyone
probably gets it here but people, you know, at times in life they start trying to find reasons,
trying to find excuses, you know, they're not getting on, they're not following
God's rule which is love your wife, you know, or maybe a wife starts following that and not
submitting to her husband so they start trying to find reasons and excuses and it's wicked,
it's absolutely wicked, there is no reason for it, okay, divorce is wrong, what God has put
together let no man put asunder, okay, and it's clear as day and when you do that you're causing
her to commit adultery and you end up a lot of the time you'll end up committing adultery yourself,
okay, so verse 19, a woman saith unto him, sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet, so she's still
not there yet is she but she's acknowledging the word of God, okay, at this point she's acknowledging
the word of God, verse 20, our fathers worshipped in this mountain, ye say that in Jerusalem is a
place where men ought to worship, now what a complete just right angle turn she's just taken
here and do you think she's like one of those people where they're like, you know, they start
getting convicted, oh well there's just so many religions, you know, it's like that sort of thing
is it, it's like she's trying to find a way out almost, she's like one of those awkward salvations
where she just suddenly out of nowhere she's going yeah I perceive that our prophet, oh our fathers
worshipped in this man and you say that in Jerusalem is a place where men ought to worship,
she's like she's trying to almost have a row here isn't she, she's trying to find thought,
trying to find a reason, why Jerusalem anyway, so why Jerusalem, why is Jerusalem the place where
where they say men ought to worship, well this is throughout the book of Deuteronomy it talks about
this place, turn to Deuteronomy chapter 12 and verse 10, Deuteronomy 12 10, but when ye go over
Jordan and dwell in the land which the Lord your God giveth you to inherit and when he giveth you
rest from all your enemies roundabouts that ye dwell in safety then there shall be a place which
the Lord your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there the other shall you bring all that
I command you your burnt offerings and your sacrifice your tithes and the heave offering of
your hand and all your choice fowls which he found to the Lord you shall rejoice before the Lord your
God ye and your sons and your daughters and your men servants and your maid servants and the Levite
that is within your gates for as much as he had no partner inheritance with you take heed to thyself
that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place that thou seest but in the place which the
Lord shall choose in one of thy tribes there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings and there thou
shalt do all that I command thee so this is referred to repeated over and over in Deuteronomy
and it ends up being Jerusalem okay this is the place um so back so that's just just one of the
many many places you go back to verse 21 there john 4
so this is why why they say why it's Jerusalem that's where the Lord dwells isn't it that's
where the temple was built um verse 21 Jesus saith unto a woman believe me the hour cometh when ye
shall neither in this mountain nor yet at Jerusalem worship the father so that's after
his death isn't it where every believer becomes a temple of the Holy Spirit okay verse 22 ye worship
ye know not what we know what we worship for salvation is of the Jews so the Samaritans worship
this bizarre mixture of false gods merged together with the Lord at some point and pulled away again
um I believe when you have a look at this it kind of seems like an early version of Roman Catholicism
really there's a lot of similarities there if you turn to second king 17
second kings and chapter 17 so the the king of the big power at the time the Assyrians is just
carried away the children of Israel captive but the people he put in the cities instead of them
are getting killed by lion lions sent by the Lord okay so the Lords are sending these lions in
they're just massacring them so they send one of the captive priests in to teach them how to fear
God okay so they send one of these guys in to teach them how to fear God have a look um so
second king 17 and verse 29 says howbeit every nation made gods of their own and put them in
the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made every nation in their cities wherein they
dwell um sorry verse 30 and the men of Babylon made made Succoth-benoth and the men of Cuth made
Nergal and the men of Hamath made Ashima and the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak and the Sephavites
burnt their children in fire to a Dremelech and Anamelech the gods of Sepharvian so they feared
the Lord and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places which sacrificed
for them in the houses of the high places they feared the Lord and served their own gods after
the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence unto this day they do after the former
manners they fear not the Lord neither do they after their statutes or after their ordinances or
after the law and commandment which the Lord commanded the children of Jacob whom he named
Israel so they basically were they've merged the worship of the Lord with all sorts of pagan
idolatry okay that's what they've done they've just brought all these weird gods and idols and
that's basically what Roman Catholicism is it's a merging a merging of of some biblical truths
then just merged together with worship of Mary worship of dead saints all this stuff which is
completely unbiblical completely heretical and and and again that's that's just what they've
done there haven't they just kind of merge it together taking a bit of this put it with a bit
of that join it all together but Jesus says it's straight here doesn't he so Jesus just said it's
straight ye worship ye know not what we know what we should worship for salvation is of the the Jews
so he's basically saying you worship a false religion and it's something that look we we don't
go out to be confrontational but people have to know that don't they when you're on the door
they have to know that it ain't getting merged together it's not your kind of whatever it is
your set of beliefs and then merge it with salvation no you have to understand that what
you worship is wrong it's false and yeah we don't start off the conversation with that but before
they're putting their faith in Jesus Christ they have to accept don't they that he is the only way
and the any other way is false and and Jesus here he's making it clear isn't he you worship
you know not what we know what we worship for salvation is of the Jews now your your liberal
Christians nowadays just say oh how confrontational you know how rude how offensive
you know surely you don't need to be so blunt do you well Jesus Christ felt the need to be blunt
didn't he there um verse 23 but the hour cometh and now is when the true worshippers shall worship
the father in spirit and in truth for the father seeketh such to worship him basically saying here
you've got to repent haven't you you gotta you gotta change your mind you gotta change your mind
of your false religion that's what he's saying here the outcome now is when the true worshippers
shall worship the father spirit in truth for the father seeketh such to worship him okay he says
God is the spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth there's only
one way he's saying ye must be born again okay you must be born again there's only one way in
spirit and in truth the woman saith unto him i know that messiah's cometh which is called christ
when he is come he will tell us all things so she's kind of saying here that she believes
she's getting there isn't she now she's getting there verse 26 jesus saith unto her i that speak
unto thee am he now i don't know from this conversation i can see that jesus has convicted
her of her sin at least of some some pretty heinous sin there hasn't he he's told her that
everlasting life is a gift from god that you only have to ask for it and you'll receive it that
there's only one way to god that a religion is wrong and it hears the christ okay that's a pretty
good gospel presentation there isn't it and it's in a different roundabout way but that's what he's
done he showed her it he's explained it all to her verse 27 and upon this came his disciples
marveled that he talked with the woman yet no man said what seekers say or why talkers say
with her and probably because she's a samaritan but notice the time he spent here one-on-one soul
winning okay so he's just done a six hour journey it would be easy to go look i'm exhausted i can't
be talking to anyone i just want to see i'll get that drink of water you know and just relax but
jesus christ he cares about every single person doesn't he every single soul is precious and there
he spent that time he sat there and he's preached a gospel to her um verse 28 the woman then left
her water pot and went her way into the city and saith to the men come see a man which told me all
things that ever i did is not this the christ then they went out of the city and came unto him so
basically forget the water pot let's go soul winning okay she's just dropped what she had
and she's just straight out there let's preach the gospel let's go and tell tell others what's just
happened um verse 29 come see a man which told me all things that ever i did the word of god
convicts us doesn't it it convicts us you know and he's just told her ever all things ever i
did really i think he's just convicted her of of being a sinner that's why i see that and
he's not this the christ she didn't say is this the christ is not this the christ that's a rhetorical
question isn't it okay she knows that it is the christ um but the word of god does convict us
doesn't it she's just had the words words of jesus christ you don't have to turn to hebrews
4 12 says for the word of god is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword
piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit and of the joints and marrow and is
a discern of the thoughts and intents of the heart okay so he's just cut through with the
word of god there she's got saved isn't she because verse 31 says in the meanwhile his
disciples prayed him saying master eat but he said unto them i have meat to eat that you know not of
therefore said the disciples one to another hath any man brought him all to eat jesus saith
unto them my meat is to do the will of him that sent me and to finish his work so that was jesus
motivation wasn't it jesus motivation and we should we should be making that art shouldn't
we it's more important than the next meal is going out getting people saved and it's not just the
going out it's the things of god isn't it doing the things of god doing what god wants us here
doing and of course soul winning is a big part of that but but reading the word of god praying
to god going to church you know doing all these things and obviously yeah we we we as men have
to work we as ladies we have to support our husbands there there are many things we all
have to do aren't there in life but and it's all the work of god but we should all be be doing that
and not just focusing on the next meal because it's easy isn't it to just think about food and
think about the carnal things in life but he's saying my meat is to do the will of him that sent
me and to finish his work so he's showing what his priorities are here verse 35 say not ye there
yet four months and then cometh harvest behold i say unto you lift up your eyes and look on the
fields for they are white already to harvest um that makes you think of matthew chapter 9 if you
turn to matthew 9 quickly matthew 9
37 then saith the unto his disciples matthew 9 37 the harvest truly is plenteous but the
labourers are few pray ye therefore the lord of the harvest that he will send forth labourers
into his harvest we need more labourers don't we we need more labourers because the harvest truly
is plenteous jesus said in in verse 35 of john 4 there he said behold i say unto you lift up your
eyes and look on the fields for they are white already to harvest and okay we maybe it wasn't so
busy today but i'll tell you what we go to some places don't we sometimes and and they are
receptive you know around here that there are still in this country there are some mega
receptive places aren't there let alone some places around the world as well which are just
unbelievable and and yeah the harvest it truly it truly is plenteous and he's he's saying here in
matthew 9 there he's saying pray ye therefore the lord of the harvest it will send forth labourers
into ourselves we should be praying for that shouldn't we should be praying for more soul
winners to come to this church to develop more soul winners at this church praying for people
to become soul winners praying for people that are soul winners that want to get out
and go and preach the gospel and get people saved um and jesus said there he said he said
they are white already to harvest now this is on the back of some real lifestyle evangelism
evangelism isn't it i mean that's real lifestyle evangelism that isn't just kind of talking about
god every now and again i'm mentioning that you go to church you know to someone at work there
that's just like i asked someone for a drink straight into the gospel you know and and that's
how we should we should model ourselves on that shouldn't we you know that's the work of god
that's what god wants us doing that the the harvest is plenteous isn't it but the labourers
are few but if the harvest is plenteous we should be taking those opportunities all the time shouldn't
we every opportunity we have to give the gospel um he also for a drink drink didn't just literally
went straight into the gospel we saw that now verse 36 of john john four there and he that
reapeth receiveth wages and gathereth fruit unto life eternal that both he that soweth and he that
reapeth may rejoice together and herein is that saying true one soweth and another reapeth i sent
you to reap that whereon you bestowed no labour other men laboured and you entered into their
labours so not only are we pulling people out of the fire but when we're preaching the gospel we're
earning eternal rewards in heaven and we talked about this it covered that in in in the book of
first corinthians as well but having a quick quick reminder that go to first corinthians chapter three
first corinthians three and verse seven
says so then neither is he that planteth anything neither he that waltereth but god that giveth the
increase now he that planteth and he that waltereth are one and every man shall receive his own reward
according to his own labour so those rewards those heavenly rewards are meant to motivate us
yeah okay they they should might now sure we should be motivated by the love for people
shouldn't we we should be motivated by wanting to pull people out the fire but let's be honest
knowing that we're earning a load of heavenly rewards as well should also motivate us okay
let's be honest about it and it does no it motivates me as well and but here he's saying
here he's saying every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour it didn't say
according to his own salvations did it to his own labour because it's according to our labour isn't
it not just our results because it's easy to get competitive with soul winning it's easy to just be
wanting to just so you get someone saved you're literally almost running off afterwards it's like
that guy's kind of standing there waiting and it's like look you you could have a chance to
try and at least start the process of discipling and other things it's easy to just want to get
the the groups or whatever else and and but it's like it's about the labour isn't it and especially
it's going to be more and more of that when we have those when we like i keep saying we are going
to be doing this we are hopefully moving soon and we're going to be knocking every door and
when we're doing that that's going to be every door in our area we want to affect our local area
knock every door of where the church is around and that will mean actually spending that time
won't it and it doesn't matter if you come back and you haven't got anyone saved for a few weeks
someone else have first we're a team and secondly you're getting rewarded for your labour now that
doesn't mean go off and spend your whole time knocking doors in in whatever it is Hampstead
Heath or or you know gold is green or something because of the special people and never getting
someone saved or going off as a missionary to the nicest place you can find to plant churches and
never actually preach the gospel to anyone and just lie around in a hammock all day yeah sure
we should be putting the labour and we should be wise about where we go and when we purposely go
to receptive areas we should be looking for receptive areas for sure we want to get people
safe but it's a labour isn't it it's a labour that we're rewarded for now sometimes you knock
on the door don't you and they they've heard the gospel and it's not so common here but you do get
it here don't you at least say no something don't but they're maybe a bit hung up on something you
know and that there is what he's talking about about you know he that planteth he that waterth
sometimes you have someone that's something you know you don't know that someone might knock on
the door here maybe in have many years time maybe 20 years maybe longer maybe things start to take
off in this country with time and it might be someone that you preach the gospel to and it's
something i've found it hard sometimes you just feel like that person's rejected they're done
but maybe in years to come you know someone's going to knock on that door and that seed was
sown and they're ready to get saved now you know and and it feels weird when we're pretty much the
only ones we are the only ones knocking the door with the right gospel aren't we but with time
we're not going to be so even we need to remind ourselves that when you knock on that door when
you give someone part of it you give them some verses today you know i only got out about three
verses today but still they're three verses and who knows if years down the line one two three of
those people that heard those verses might get saved you know um and then you get one start you
get ones which which do know they're going to hell don't you you got those ones and again and
that's been that something's been planted there now whether or not it's been planted i don't know
where and how that's been planted but there are people that you're not going to do and they go
no i know i'm going to hell i know i'm going to hell and those people can be usually it's pretty
disappointing when they still don't want to get saved but some of those people can be pretty
right can't they just know it's like so what must i do to be saved i know i'm going to hell
and that person again something someone's preached something they've heard something from somewhere
haven't they to get to that point where they're convicted that they're going to hell um verse 39
and many of the samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman which testified
he told me all that ever i did note many of the samaritans many many and and like i said i'm going
to keep pointing this out in this in this in the gospel of john so many times he talks about many
many believed many of the samaritans yet there was 126 in the upper room okay and again it's just
just to try and hammer home because we're getting hit with this all the time people saying if they're
not coming to church they're somehow not saved if they're not disciples they're somehow not saved
it's nonsense many of the samaritans many of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman
which testified he told me all that ever i did unless they're trying to suggest that it's not
believing in jesus christ which gets you saved um so basically the woman has gone out straight away
soul-winning because they said for the saying of the woman now she's relaying what jesus said
okay so she's relaying the word of god here but she she's testified he told me all that
everybody did she's testified basically jesus told her about her sinning she's testified about
herself being a sinner i think there um verse 40 so when the samaritans will come unto him
they besought him that he would tarry with them and he abode there two days so they wanted the
word of god didn't they they've just got saved and they they besought him they want the word of god
they want to be there around and hearing and listening to the word of god straight after
salvation and that that often isn't it is when people are most receptive eh straight after
salvation and how many times do you get shocked you do how many times it is when you've given the
gospel to someone you've got them saved they are zealous they are like amen i want to come to your
church and you're kind of like come on you know and it's so and then you look about and it's still
the same and they don't and they don't make it now that person got saved yeah but it's it
something happens doesn't it sadly and and that thorny ground can really affect them um or who
knows who comes in the the you know the fowls come after as well don't they the fowls come after and
they're trying to put them off the cults you know you name it but but the my point with this is that
after salvation that is that time isn't it and that's the time i think that again especially
when we're local soul winning is when we want to be trying to pull them into church that afternoon
um i was listening to i think i can't remember it might have been pastor thompson over at verity
who was saying that basically how how like their sunday evening services their busiest service
because people that have just been saved you know and they're out local soul winning and then
they're getting them along to church and that's something we need to i think you know sunday
evening again especially when we're when we're local once we've moved and we're just looking
locally is just encouraged do what you can say let's just come along to church you've just got
to say because that's when they're most receptive aren't they and that's when you want to try and
get more of the word of God into them because afterwards after that you know something happens
isn't it something can happen in a day something can happen in a week and and suddenly they're
a lot less receptive it's not they're not just saying you know don't yeah there are people that
just want to please you they're people that just want you to go away or just want to keep you happy
but you know you know when in their eyes they're like they want it they're fired up they want to
come to church and then they just don't make it there do they they just don't make it there um
okay verse 41 and many more believed because of his own word so many many again there many more
believed um jesus is preaching to them isn't he here okay so jesus is preaching the gospel to
them many more believe because of his own word and verse 42 and said unto the woman now we believe
not because of thy saying for we have heard him ourselves and know that this is indeed the christ
the saviour of the world so i'm sure the woman was relaying the words of christ who got anyone
saved okay she had to have been didn't she wasn't she just came and gave just a bit of a story about
what happened all these people got saved she was relaying the words of god she was relaying what
jesus said to her but some people just don't want to hear it from someone they know do they
some people just don't want to and we've probably all experienced that with family and friends
they just don't want to hear it but i was also thinking about maybe the power of having the bible
there i mean that's the word of god there isn't it and the power and sometimes you can be relaying
the gospel to someone you can be relaying it you know word for word but there's a difference when
you're showing them the word of god isn't there there is a difference when you hold your bible
and you're showing them this is what the bible says rather than you could say exactly the same
words but there's just that distrust isn't there sometimes they're just i'm not quite so sure is
that really what is that really what the bible says show him from the word of god and there it's
not because of what the woman said i'm sure she was relaying the words of god to have got anyone
saved but it's because they then were there in front of jesus hearing it from the horse's mouth
and in the same way show him the word of god um because there is a difference isn't there verse
43 says now after two days he departed then so went into galilee for jesus himself testified that
a prophet had no honor in his own country so why did he go to galilee then i think he's having
another crack at it here he's saying right because because of that he's going back there
again i think i don't think it's just like right it's written off he's saying because he's just
been there isn't he after two days the father then went into galley for jesus himself testified
that prophet had no honor in his own country um verse 45 then when he was coming to galley the
galileans received him having seen all the things that he did at jerusalem at the feast for they
also went unto the feast um we're not going to go there for sake of time but but it's mentioned
in john 223 and john 3 2 verse 46 so jesus came again into cana galley where he made the water
wine and there was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at capernaum now this is some sort of
wealthy ruler here okay uh someone maybe in herrod's court or something he's a wealthy guy
he's a nobleman verse 47 when he heard that jesus was come out of judaea into galley he went unto
him and besought him that he would come down and heal his son for is at the point of death
then said jesus unto him except you see signs and wonders you will not believe the nobleman
saith unto him sir come down here my child die jesus saith unto him go thy way thy son liveth
and the man believed the word that jesus had spoken unto him and he went his way okay he
didn't need signs and wonders because he believed the word didn't he he believed the word out of
out of jesus's mouth verse 51 and as he was now going down his servants met him and told him
saying thy son liveth then inquired of them the hour when he began to amend and they said unto
him yes that seventh hour the fever left him so the father knew that it was at the same hour in
the which jesus said unto him thy son liveth and himself believed and his whole house now just a
couple of points on that on that that and that's a great story there because it's some interesting
stuff in there cana to capernaum is is is about 15 miles away okay so it says here um uh it said
yesterday the seventh hour so this is basically at 1 p.m the fever left him now like i said like you
do i mean especially if it's your son that's ill i think you could probably do that trip in a few
hours couldn't you okay now he was told yesterday at 1 p.m he could have gone straight home couldn't
he and it said here in verse 51 and as he was now going down so the faith of this guy that he's told
at 1 p.m that that by jesus christ and he's just accepted that straight away that he doesn't even
carry he doesn't just go right i better get home he's just like yeah my son's fine
no my son's fine because it's now one o'clock the next day that he's now on his way back there i
mean amazing really i mean that that's some that's some faith there isn't it um
excuse excuse me says here um so the father knew that it was at the same hour in which
jesus said unto him thy son liveth and himself believed and his whole house so why his whole
house why his whole house and of course this makes you think doesn't it of act 16 30 as well
what must i do to be saved believe in the lord jesus christ that thou shalt be saved
and thy house so why the whole house because it's not automatic is it so it's not that oh well
they're just saved because you're saved like i've heard some of this sort of thing and you know
people have you know misconstrued verses to say that the wife saved by the by the husband and vice
versa but it's not is it it's because because this is a proper leader of a house isn't it
because he's a leader of the house and as the leader of the house if you've got yourself saved
what sort of a leader are you if you don't get your house saved okay how hard is it really to
get to get your household saved firstly they know you're sincere don't they know you you're the
leader of the house you come home saying oh you know this is what this is what's just happened
or this is what i've heard you show him you relay it to them firstly they've got no reason to doubt
that you're being honest you're talking to your family here you're talking to your house but as
a leader anyway as a leader you you've got a responsibility there haven't you how can you be
a man how can you call yourself a man be a leader of a home get saved and then not get your family
saved but they do don't they how many times you knock on a door you get someone saved you go would
you like to be oh well yeah no they won't be interested what what is wrong with you and they're
saved as well you know you you know you get ones where you're you know very confident as well yeah
you get some where you like and they might have just been saying there's not much more i can do
i've tried to try my best but some you know for sure but they just they're not interested but what
sort of leader is that and i was thinking this about just just in general the lack of leadership
in homes in relationships amongst men and women i was driving um i was just driving driving
yesterday up the road and i drove past this house and um and it was on the way to to the local town
and there was this lady up a ladder with what was you know a petrol hedge trimmer as well she's
quite a young lady and and i'm thinking well fair fair enough to her she's cutting this hedge
and then i see the guy and the guy is kind of like carrying a ladder i thought maybe he's just
setting it up and she's just doing it you know okay anyway so i've driven to the town i've come
back and he's got his foot on the ladder this is an able-bodied guy hold the ladder yeah he's got
his foot on the ladder or she's up this dodgy step ladder cutting i just think you absolute
disgrace this is on the main road as well yeah it's like get on that ladder and cut that hedge
yeah you're got your foot on the step for your wife girlfriend whatever to do it and it's just
but that's the state of it today isn't it that's the state of it today and you can imagine that guy
got saved there's no way his house is getting saved you can't even climb a ladder unbelievable
isn't it but but that's the truth is it's because there's a real leader as a leader of a house i'm
sure this nobleman was a leader of the house you know he's he's himself believed and his whole
house you know and and we have a responsibility that here men don't we all men here we have a
responsibility for our households um but this is well the story's a good example of of a time when
a rich and powerful man is open to the gospel because i think this guy is pretty rich and
powerful and yeah you know as as we know it's not easy is it you know but with god all things are
possible but but here i would say that's his son isn't it it's it's that that feeling of
vulnerability where his child is ill and sick and the thing is we can often can't we just be put off
by maybe the nice cars and the nicer houses sometimes sometimes this country it's funny isn't
it because you can knock on a door and it's kind of a house that's split into three or four flats
and then you knock on the next door and it's a big house you know let's not be split any into any
flat and automatically you're thinking yeah and sometimes you can be a bit downhearted can't you
straight away but the truth is you don't know what they're going through and and this event here
obviously this guy was open to the gospel wasn't he he was open to believing and it was that you
know his son and there's nothing he could do for him his son was about to die wasn't he and we don't
know and sometimes these things can be a time when people are a little bit more humble aren't they
um verse 54 this is again the second miracle that jesus did when he was coming out of judia
into galilee so the first being the water into wine and as we'll see in the rest of this uh but
many many more to come and um yeah what a great chapter some interesting stuff there on that let's
pray father i thank you for your word thank you um thank you for the examples you give us your
love for for just that that one lady at the well there to to just spend that time and to get her
saved and um thank you that you also give us the example throughout this gospel of how many people
how many people you got saved how many believed on you and and please help us to be strong to
those attacks from the from the jealous also from the work salvationists from our weird stalkers and
all these people that are just constantly trying to criticize and find fault in in us just going
out and preaching the gospel and help us to just remember where it comes from what what what spirit
it comes from it's from bitterness it's from envy and help us to to just to just remember that what
we're doing for you and we're going to suffer persecution we're going to suffer suffer people
that are trying to discredit you and discredit us but help us just stay strong on the word of
god stay rooted and grounded in our faith uh help us to have a good week now please father help us
to get lots of people saved on our soul winning times and and just just to keep you at the center
of our week in jesus name we pray amen