They said to the woman, “We now believe not only because of your words; we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man truly is the Savior of the world.”They said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.”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.and they said to the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy speaking: for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Saviour of the world.
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Many more. And they said to the woman, we no longer believe just because of what you said. Now we have heard for ourselves. And we know that this man really is, taking it up a notch now, the Savior of the world. This lady barely had met Jesus. languages and libraries not released yet may remain Uma souvent amounts written yet mixed materials since 2008 happened six months ago today today today today comes She had met the miracle man. I wonder if anybody here has met the miracle man. because if you've met the miracle man, you're good to go. Yeah, but I don't have it all together. I know, but you've met the miracle man. The second key to being sin is that you don't have to have all the answers. In other words, you don't have to be one of these guys that you see in your reel or your feed that's out on the street corner engaging people in dialogue and answering all questions just off the cuff. You don't have to be Cliff Connectly, who was that passionate and goes and stands in the courtyard of university campuses across America and just takes on the conversation for an hour or two or three and answers any and every question that comes his way. You don't have to be Cliff Connectly. It would be fun if you were. …
… And many more believed because of his word. They said to the woman, it's no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves. And we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world. Now, do you think when this happened, this Samaritan woman thought, Maybe Jesus doesn't love me as much as I thought. No. This Samaritan woman thought, he loves me and all my people, all the Samaritans, and not just the Samaritans, he's the savior of the world. Oh, see this today. It is so simple yet so profound. Jesus knows you. Jesus loves you. and not just you. He loves the world. He's come to bring salvation, living water to the world. So stop and look at the ones in your world and see them like he sees them. Every single person in your workplace. I just picture their faces right now in your school. in your neighborhood, at your gym, in the store, at that restaurant, every single face that is coming to your mind, every single face you see, every one of them has the same thirsts, a thirst to believe. …
… to stay with them, and he stayed there for two days. Many more began to believe in him because of his word. And they said to the woman, We no longer believe because of your word, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is truly the Savior of the world. The Gospel of the Lord. Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ. May you have a seat. so we started uh the series uh the beginning of this of this lent and the series is called autobiography because we realize this we recognize that every life is a story every person is an author and the only question is who will we be at the end of the story and so we know this we know that that every story has a title we talked about that last week we know every story has a beginning we know because the question is who will we be at the end we know every story has an end but one of the things we sometimes forget is the middle. …
… they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days, and many more believed because of his own word. And then they said to the woman, now we believe not because of what you said, but we ourselves have heard him, and we know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world. Let us pray. We plead with thee, O Father, to give us ears to hear that which we have just read. give us understanding that we may understand what that woman understood and what through her testimony and their encounter with Jesus himself, what those of Samaria came to understand as well. For we ask it in Jesus' name. Amen. Last week we saw that Jesus shocked the Samaritan woman by calling to her attention her checkered past in terms of her marital and extramarital relationships, and she was astonished that Jesus knew her, and presumably to change the subject she mentioned that He must be a prophet, and so she put to the prophet a theological question, a question that had been debated for many years between the Jews and the Samaritans, and that was the question on where was the proper central sanctuary where the Lord would receive worship. …