baptism and we are blessed that we are having two persons being baptized today. And baptism signifies the debts, the debts, the debts and the reservation of Christ dying in which Christ and rising with Him. And there were so many songs today, all to the growing of God, but today our scripture is going to be taken from the Book of John. It's not actually appreciative, we are here to cross formulate ideas, to share what I've got together.
We are going to listen together to see the truth in the gospel of John. Definitely allowing to cover all, we can exhaust it all, but we are going to just take a portion of it and delight ourselves in it. I hope to start with a question that is in question one. In June 4, let me give you a preamble, in June 3 we have the details that were said, right from John chapter 1 to chapter 3.
Basically chapter 3, he just made Nicodemos and the house on transition. And he came, he's a scholar, well read, but Jesus made him to understand that he was a spiritual genius scholar, that he likes to sit in vital things and he was blessed. Because of that, the Jews personally defaced his water to incite competition between Jesus and John. That is in 3 John 3, chapter 5, chapter 6, the water to incite competition between Christ and John.
Christ knew when he decided to lead Judea to Gallium, but decided to pass through Samaria. And that's where we want to study today. But in chapter 4, I don't know if we are Bible scholars or Bible readers, if we can name the people that Christ actually, Christ needs not a lot of people, we could re-identify those that he means not to. And no assets are correct, we are in the confined of the spiritual.
You can say he means not to you, yes. So, it's my time, the disciples. Yeah? That is how I tell them, yeah.
I think we all got it fine. And the assets are the same for Samaria, that we use that adjective, same for people, we have good summaries, when I was reading up, I only heard about the good Samaria, the guy and I helped somebody be thinking about the robots, but there is a Samaria, the man. Then, maybe Samaria returns, who trusted in him. This woman, she engaged into a one riot man, and she won many shows, that led back into Jesus.
And Jesus was still appreciative and they believed. And then I said, look, we have this woman, we actually had him, she did well, but now we have had with Jesus and now we believe. So many sirens, they respond disciples. We know that where this is, we say we read it and we know what this is said.
And the nobleman and his housework. However, today, we are going to deal with one, two, three, the nobleman and the sirens we are going to do with it. So, the second question is, is step four, what is the most common thing within the four? The samurai nobleman, the samurai turns in themselves, the disciple of Christ and the nobleman.
What is the common denominator that ran across them in John 4? You have all seen us, salvation. No, aside from them, they are all in need of every right. Yeah.
We can present all the answers and we can come out that fit, all of them house fits. Because they had what Christ said and they believed. So if you check the samurai town woman, she has some transaction, it was a lack of the dramatic dialogue. So they were having some interactions of words and she believed the nobleman and his housework, they had faith in him.
The samurai turns in, they say, when we had him, we not believed. So it was a faith being prepared. So, and he disciples, of course, they had faith in Christ, they were following him or they followed him. Now, let us read the word.
At the beginning, we have to read the baptism and so we have to be first. I will read from here. Therefore, we live John 4, 1, 2, 42. Therefore, when we love you that the faith is hard, that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John, although Jesus himself didn't baptize but he is the disciple.
He led you there and departed into a gallery. He needed to pass through Samaria. So he came to a city of Samaria called Saika, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. That was where it was there.
Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour. In one of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, give me a drink, for his disciples have gone away into the city to buy food.
The samurai town woman therefore said to him, how is it that you be a Jew? Act for a drink for me. It's a maritime woman. For Jews have no dealings with the samurai town.
Jesus said to her, if you knew the gift of God, who is it that will say to you, give me a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you a living water. You must have to him, sir. You have nothing to draw with him and the well is deep. So here you get the living water and you get the water.
Our final Jacob would give us the well and drink from it himself as did his children and livestock. Jesus answered her, everyone would drink of this water, we'd taste again. But we have a drink of the water that I will give him, we never taste again. But the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water, springing up to eternal life.
You will answer to him, sir, give me this water so that I don't get tested. Not I come all the way here to draw. Jesus said to her, go call your husband and come here. You don't answer.
I have no husband. Jesus said to her, you said well, I have no husband. For you have five husbands and one you not have is not your husband. This you have said truly, you not said to him, sir, I perceived you are a prophet.
Our final worship in this mountain and you do says that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship. Jesus said to her, one, believe me, the hour comes. When we might die in this mountain, Lord in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. You worship that, we should not know.
We worship that we should know for salvation is from the Jew. But the hour comes and now is where the true worship us will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. For Father for the Father seek, search the be His worship us. God is spirit and those worship Him was worship in spirit and in truth.
You must say to Him, I know that Messiah comes. He is called Christ. When He comes, He will declare to us all things. Just as to her.
I am He. The world which speaks to you. This is the type of King. The mother that I was speaking with a woman.
Yeah, no one said what are you looking for? I just want to stop here and let us appoint on what we are reading. You see, this is a transition. This is a communication between Jesus and a woman.
If we want to start what utterly happened, like what I said before, after Jesus had done the written for one, John 1 to John 3, and after he encountered with Nicodemos, you know that the Jews, the people who say, one type of insight, competition between Jesus and John. Even as they tend to ascend, Jesus was baptizing more and more and more. John, we know that the Bible record is said that he is here to decrease and the King of Jesus should increase. And that is what John said.
And because of that, Jesus left. We are meant to understand about installing now concerning Samaritans. And the question now that I would like to ask is that we are already Samaritans. If we know the background of the Samaritans from this John that was read, we actually know what we are talking.
He said, we are really at this risk. And we can know that after when before the Assyrian Concord took over Samaria, that is 727 BC before Christ, the Assyrian Concord Samaria and took it over and they pushed some of the Jews out and brought some people as well to come and take the secularity charge of Samaria. And because of that, they were in Tamarit, and they gave it. So from then, the Jews, which we call the Autoros Jews, believe that those are really known to the people in the generality, they are no longer Jews, they are mixed with.
They are impure, those who say that. And it actually goes so bad that the Jews, the guy who called the Samaria, who even got to go to the government or go to Jerusalem to go to Judea, they decide to take any root that is even longer than the necessary structure for them to get. So they are mixed with the rest of the world, they don't pass, they don't pass the Americans. So they are mixed with the Catholic Jews, the public Gentiles.
They grew out from Assyrian captivity of the 10 Martin track, then, that is in BC, 727. Again, they rejected the Jews, they were dead by Jews because they could not prove their technology. They were not afraid of the Jews, they are adults, they are made of white, they are not allowed to accept these people. These people are impure, we made them impure, we don't know because God never made them impure, we see what Christ did.
But they established because of that, they could not actually go to their listening to worship. While they decided to get their alternate worship center in modernism, and that is why they decided to worship. The Jews normally go to their listening to Judea worship. And they believed, the Jews believed that the American people possessed, that the American people possessed.
And that is even their own Jesus. At the time they are treated as Jesus, that is also the American people, that are in the Samaritan. So they tried to kind the money position, we become a written and the leaders just into it. So this opera coming up, Jesus, the first is trying to decide to look, the idea is the competition, the idea is the Jesus who is being this, Jesus decided to live.
But being that is an amazing, it is still a man, that is God. He decided to pass through ordinarily, be in a Jew, it is not supposed to pass through Samaria. Because he was standing to Galilee. Now there are three ways, there are three ways to be in that.
I have to pass through the Lord and pass through the Mediterranean, that is the Kuchas movement. So I have to pass through the coast and I have to pass Samaria to come to Galilee. Many day jobs, very short times we are even in mathematics. I think I have an expression here, if you want to find a distance.
Sorry, we are not so many written. If we come to the center, this center should be the Samaria. Then the air should be the Galilee and the air should be Judea. So if someone wants to go, the autologues, they would like to move from here, go to the other side, go to Galilee.
The other people would like to go to the Mediterranean, go around, but in mathematics, some of us do it. The shutterestance between two points is a straight line. So if you leave Judea here, this is Samaria, you have to go there and get to America. But because of the hatred, because of the humanity, because of the traditional way that we live in, they decided to just pass.
Let me give you the full picture of, this is where we are talking. That is Judea. Just a finish, you want to go to Galilee. Look, I don't know how to, but I know I just know for you to see.
But I decided to either come to this side and close your door, then move, then come to Galilee. Or they will talk to you that place and go to Mediterranean and go to Galilee and then come to Galilee. But the shutterestance is not live here, this is Samaria, because at that point, Saika is where the woman was, where is the middle of the man. So if not for anything, they just don't have anything to suffer.
They just go through here and go to Galilee. They decided to go to. But that day, for the Bible to tell us that Jesus decided to move not to pass through Samaria. For Jesus, for the Bible to mention it, it made a lot of sense.
Why? I have a mission. You see, woman in creates boundaries that the Lord and the self are God or Jesus destroy boundaries. Woman in the natural form or the first state of woman in the Spirit is to create boundaries.
But God is just himself. He is a Jew, he manages, he can't get to destroy it. So naturally, let us pass Galilee, let us pass Galilee, or pass the right away. But it's still new.
I have a mission. I have a mission. My mission is to save all souls. Irrespective of Lisha or Tribal or anything, I am here for all.
And that is what actually happened. So that is Jesus with the woman. After a very red, we saw, I couldn't finish it, but for a very red, if we check from one, for a John for one to 30, you see that the discussion just goes hard with her. Jesus spoke seven times with the woman.
The woman spoke out of seven times as well. But six times with the woman. The seven times the woman engaged in radical evangelism. She went to the village.
She went to the city. She went to our families. She went to our friends. This is somebody that told me, who I am?
Because of time, we are not going to read everything but you might have to engage it. And we are like, oh, to detail this woman, I have seen somebody that can decode who I am. He told me everything, tell me to do. And I wish you know that to reduce, to reduce.
This way it's stated historical that the woman came at a period when other women were born, because the way you completed this in Jewish calendar is rather than women came at noon, which is 12 o'clock. That's what, to the degree calendar, the census of law, that just the Jewish area, we were going to come and she came around to us. Why? Because of this issue of trust, this issue of fear, this issue of gossip, you know, the same time we were going to go and go back to the night.
This woman went in the afternoon. We were going to come in the morning and night to face what I did. The youth of the song, the woman came. She came there to face her over the water because she wanted to divide herself.
That is the woman, she went for the age one. Just because of gossip, because of what they say, that is where this was met. And you know that this was at the Bible record, very tired. To tell her that actually he is a man.
The girl came down to the rock in the likeness of men. And for this purpose, the discipline cries, they tread for hours just for this soul. So we should not neglect and the impact of the world of God on one person because in the trigger you have a village. So that was dust and there were no real women.
If we could go back to that, the woman triggered for one, dropped for one, was the new commander. It started by calling Jesus, and these are the people revealing himself. And Jesus, as he or the real himself, the woman, the relative, the prophet. And Jesus revealed himself what she revealed to Messiah, the Christ.
Now what gave the woman the revelation? It is the marriage she was had before or maybe the way Jesus was narrating everything to her. You know that because she knew that there was going to be a Messiah. The Messiah was a tribal community.
So she was not telling Jesus that Messiah is going to come. The Messiah called Jesus a prophet. So on those notes, because of time we are breathing into a first stage. One to tell me, I'm making into a fourth stage so that we are wrong with it.
On stage one, the woman mentioned that Jesus was a Jew. Or is a Jew. Of course, Jesus is a Jew. One is the nation needs.
Because of the way Jesus, the woman himself and the way he sees Jesus, she saw Jesus, she noticed that Jesus always is a Jew. And it was an embarrassment. It was a misnomer for a Jew. So she had one with a woman.
Two, a woman of that, or likely vessel. Three, that Jesus is the Messiah. And one was the big, probably a public place. So one identified that Jesus, I don't want to screw to the, you have to.
So, all of us, let me just check. Okay, online, this American one therefore said to him, how is that being a Jew? So, she had a friend Jesus as being a Jew. And because of that, Jesus, after what she was telling Jesus, in that case, the Jew, he was a Jew.
He was a natural for a Jewish man to even be in a Samaria. And you know, at the after point, we had the right to do this in a cypher, cypher is a Samaria. Because an order of Jewish man believed that that place is polluted. That being the Jew, that you Jewish man would be named, or be polluted himself.
Like Jesus, being the, instead of getting himself polluted, make the woman claim. That is the nature of Christ, that is the power in Jesus. Being there, do not believe in this, that in many people, it's a woman, it's a woman, it's made a woman to be claimed. And again, it was out of our mind that a man would be talking to an unknown woman in a public place.
Jesus, the only woman. And we see how Jesus would like to use the weapon descent. Come move for accent to woman about water. And woman, what God had here was because she needed water, she was tested.
We don't want to do this, but I did that water finish in the morning. And she decided to stay till afternoon because of what people would say. So in our parents, God meets us at the point of our need of most times, because Jesus couldn't have attracted a woman atation if he doesn't have to know mother. No.
But he said, give me a woman, recognize that a Jew, first of all, doesn't have any communication with some of it and then a gay. That it was that point, just that if you know he's talking to you, I'll give you a little woman. This trying to say, we'll get the bucket to draw the water. Even this was built in the lower right, but it's a good job.
Even from this way, so why do I get to get to get the only disappearr? The Jesus as people of 40, he said no. The woman said no, no. From sir, she started coming to Jesus in perfect.
And that he, there was a woman, was a samurai, a member of headed race with track record of living in sin. So the point is that no less than a Jew would talk to a woman on that this is the concept that Jesus did. So Jesus does not show any, as I said that, this is not a good university. No matter your race, no matter your color, no matter your tradition, he's the address of shit with you.
And God's fault is that he put his cost for everyone and God's fault is for everyone irrespective of race, track or social position. The gospel is made for Canadians, for the Jewish, for the Americans, for everyone. There's no segregation in projecting the gospel. Jesus lost towards the woman or towards us, rose beyond, rose above all the petty destruction of men.
You know what? I don't recall this before, not to be passing through this American, just because of mixed marriage. If you said that, you have many in-laws. You have many in-laws.
So it's amazing. And the in-laws of the Jewish, no, they are biased. Bias, the Hebrew, hatred, because of mixed marriage, they decided that this, that standing or going through here is a taboo. And they don't mind to go take a distant way just to go to their selling to worship.
Stage two is, do not matter, because the woman was dumped for one place or another, where he was talking, she was talking to the king of kings. If Jesus, after Jesus, after Jesus was about to treat the issue of Jews, she pointed out that Jesus is the way he says. You can say, if you test of me, if you test of me, you will not test again, that what I give to you is any of your water. That is what Jesus says.
So if you have something better, that's what the woman has to mind. If you just have something better, why ask for water, go to your house where Jesus was telling her talking, he's also providing a way to give a salvation. There's nothing you will get. He says here that gave us his own song.
What ex can he go, he will not give you? Is he anything else? So Jesus was talking about salvation, but the woman literally was talking about being tested, because all she was trying to do was one, to get water quickly, and then go before the Romans talking to the other one, because she was this figure, a discussion. Have you seen her today?
Do you see how she's going and where Jesus is in the area? And that way, salvation comes to her. The second thing that the woman was ignored of three important facts. Where Jesus was, what he had to offer and how she could receive it.
Time brought that are the latest stage. She mentioned that Jesus is in Messiah, the Christ, not the Christ, the Christ. We have that definite article, the Christ, he's the special one. Jesus, the woman triggered it.
Jesus never did that. It's the time to look for the way to cause the connection between Jesus, Jesus' disciple and John and John's disciple. The diswoman that was trying to see the woman triggered the point that Jesus is the Messiah, the Christ, the translated Christ. The trouble that Jesus, fruitful by the spring, that Jesus, the Jesus of the Jesus, the Jesus of the Red Cross, the run over the way of the separation between the Jews and the family of the time.
We don't have any time now. We can see that in Genesis 49, 22. That question is not literally called. When he says Jesus is greater than Jacob, no.
Jesus is far more greater than Jacob. You can take up all the dead and it's free, it's a way. It's a way, it's not a running way. Just a way that the dog is dead and what are we falling and what are we falling and what are we taking.
But Jesus gave us many points of moral understanding that he's greater than Jacob. Of course, he provided breads, the spirit of God which is John 38, 2022. He is the blood of life which is John 4, 48. He is the light of life which is in John 1, 4, 5.
He gives us water of life. John 7, 3, 37, 29. And even as we are talking here, he performed to the woman that if you drink of me, you will not test anyone. You will not test anyone because if you are a woman, we can't to know what to face this what is one.
Because he was, he's a special man. We are not that she came with a tank. He told us the buckets. So definitely she will finish it today or tomorrow and she will come with me.
Just say if you drink of me, sabbaschon, once you receive Christ today, you are saved. You are saved. You are saved. You are saved.
You are the way you will not miss out the many people and they got saved. Because it's also for so. He's saved if you don't and you see what, before he left you, you know the many people that will give their life to you and they will be blessed through a single soul. That is true.
Stay still. We are not just because of the baptism. You are not moved. From that point I say, you are a prophet.
We will be able to have, we don't know. So in vasey's team to 24, we can go back, the woman trigger died, I believe. I trace, I notice, I defray, I look, you are a prophet. And she was correct.
Based on that she pointed out the woman sing in the loving manner. How did you, because ordinarily Jesus and when there is a very, very cody, she, the woman was engaging with Jesus. But Jesus in a loving manner pointed out the woman, he is so full nature. Jesus was not here.
Jesus was not here. Jesus was where I am, praise the heart for telling the truth. It wasn't a new belief. It was real.
Jesus went ahead to praise the woman. First of all, this is the same. How many people have you living now? Ah, about seven.
He just said, yes, even the one I was staying with now, this is not my real. But never did he say, thank you for telling the truth. The woman was defeated, but she felt the place. Ah, who can know my secrets to this instance?
First of all, she knew that she never slept in that place that night. That is a newcomer. So nobody was after him. That this is who the woman or this is how the woman is behaving.
Or this is how I mean, who is a husband who is a man, but that is what she got the woman to start with in a human prophet. And after he had the truth, I reviewed that he knew her sin. The second point is that Jesus progressively died dead, which is what? In a full revelation of who he is.
He said, yeah, Jacob actually died dead well for you people. Has been in the evil, have you been in the faith from the well? Now you test all the water and tomorrow you be tested. But I'm telling you, I am this living water.
If you drink of me, if you drink of me, you will not test anymore. He was talking about salvation. Did you want this? That day?
Yes. Did that salvation gotten by the woman? Did he have any multiplier effect? Yes.
Because the woman engaged in radical evangelism. We know that had the right John and then went to downtown. This one is that this one went to downtown herself and started evangelizing. This thing, I don't know what you talk about.
You told me that I have seen somebody that told me who I am. They said, well, say, come and see. That was the same policy that Philip and Italian used. So that's that Philip told Italian, I have seen Christ say, oh, yeah.
He said from Canadian goods and commerce from the city. It's a common sea. And it's all. In the place I came from Nigeria, we have one popular song.
It's not up to 50 syllable words. It's common sea, common sea. Common sea, what do you let us do? Common sea that is good.
That was all in the De La Calle statement that the woman made. Which Philip made in the book of Acts that actually triggered the whole village of the woman to believe. So the point we got here is that salvation is from the Jews. Yes.
Why did they say that the Bible is stated that salvation is from the Jews? Of course Jesus, the Messiah is a Jew man. He is a non Jew. So because he's from the line of the David and everything.
So salvation, of course, is from the one at the end of the Holy Spirit. Jesus. He was pushing to Jesus, what Jesus was. But he did know that he was talking to the King of Kings.
And Jesus revealed himself to her. Because Jesus is born a Jew because Jesus is born a Jew. As a descendant of David. Jew, he named Joshua, the Phalim in salvation.
So Jesus, yeshua, came to give salvation to the woman. Just as he is given a gave a salvation by believing and trusting in him. Today our worship to God is not confined to a physical location. You know, because of time the woman was jumping from one theology to another.
This is where we are talking. The mother was just at the back. You know, I was telling Jesus, no, this is the place of worshiping. But you Jews, you said that this place of worshiping is not sufficient enough.
You know worshiping is Jerusalem. So why is it because that you are here? Look at it. Our people, our worshiping here, Jesus, and look.
Our Jews, now, depend on our worshiping in Jerusalem. They don't know what they are being. You worshiping here. You don't know what they are being.
You are worshiping. Salvation is from the Jew. Yes, from the Jew. But this is the time has come.
And life is the time that those who worship in Jerusalem are not going to do it. They are not going to do it. They are not going to do it. Even as worshiping believe in Jesus.
And receiving much of God and personal self. What are you worshiping? How do you fast? No matter that you are worshiping God Christ and you, we only be the hope of your glory.
So we can worship any year at any time because true faith in Christ, the Holy Spirit is inside us and we can have a true relation of who God is. So the third one is the Christ. So we are moving from the church to the church. After the perfect of a thing, you might not know.
After saying that, look at people worship in the temple in Jerusalem. We are going to have an alternative for here and that is the man. That is the man that we decided to worship. Jesus tried to settle that.
You might not jump. I can see that you are Christ. So notice that I can see that you are Christ. I need to find it if you go to read it.
Let me tell you what I can read it. You are Christ. You are Christ. You are Christ.
You are Christ in the Messiah. And that was in verse 25-30. So the one way we know that the Messiah Christ is and that He will come in spite of our ignorance. Which means I don't know where this woman had the reason.
He had the reason of preaching or what I believe. I believe that the presence of Jesus actually indicated her. Because we are made of the same thing as the men of God and the non-linear. The only thing with Jesus, Peter and the Kuna speak with authority.
Have his same thing. So if you want to give a few minutes or a second of a hour, she will stay. And Jesus is revealing in the same thing. And the name is the name.
So the Bible says that the Jews are the division of what cross was the stumbling block. The reason why it was very present at this is not about this Christ. In the study of ignorance, a level of education. I don't know how school she was.
She noticed that this is Christ. And when he does, instead of when Jesus comes, he doesn't mind to start because he appreciates Jesus. Then Jesus, more Christ wishes Christ. He wants to know Jesus.
When he comes, then he teaches them all things. The trial is written out as a secret in the lost to Christ, the local God. It is only the one who reveals that we will not be a man, but the secret in the Lord Jesus himself. Do you know what was that?
Then Jesus, then you know that I am a cell of calm. And this is the one that I am a cell of. And when he comes, he will reveal the secret in the Son of God. So the part is that they have started to change from unlikely to in vessel of Prosper of Christ.
Yes, Christ is hard to win almost an entire village. That is effective in evangelism. Christ is hard to win already. So the key part of it is that Jesus made a confess to the woman, that he is the Messiah.
So if that woman had been engaged in Christ, it was a hadorem. But I said that Jesus, talked to the woman several times. The woman spoke about Jesus, six times. The seven comments with the one in a went on evangelism, went on the intelligence and gave Jesus inside the republic to tell people, at times we see our brothers in the beautiful phone, you still like you, that's how you do it, how you feel, that's the personal evangelism, tell them about Christ, because this woman ended up calling the brothers, calling the heavenly village of the heavenly village to see Christ.
So this is what we call first to the woman that he is the Messiah. The second point we are getting over the reducer from here is that those who want themselves and agree that they don't know God in part wisdom and reveal himself to them. Example is this woman. Example for example is this woman.
If you think that you don't know Christ and sick of him, it's a common autonomy that I have in the Lord, if you give you the rest. He will give you the rest. The brothers who are proud and think that they already knew God showed them that there is a lot that they don't know. If you go to John, chapter 3, already a transaction that happened between Jesus and Nicodemus, Nicodemus came in the night, he wanted to, he's a prophet, he's a manate person, he came to Jesus.
And because of what people we say, that's why it came out of the night. So that maybe the fellows call us or maybe the people that are recording to be the highest among the highest, the brilliant the students or the professors will not end that scene. He came, I won't even came. He was trying to have an arguments in terms of arguing with Jesus, all like this woman.
So the Jesus doesn't know you have to be born again. You have to renew your mind. You have to restructure yourself. You have to only learn to learn what the gospel is saying, what the kingdom of God or kingdom of heaven is saying.
That is the second one goes who are proud. That is what the gospel will take them. But in all, what you are proud and humble, if you accept Jesus, Jesus is there to put everything to normalcy and the salvation will be imparted to the person. Now this amelite, this amelite, less in land.
So no matter what can happen, when you see something in part one person, there's a prayer that I say that I don't know why it's an adage, African either way you train one person or mostly if I trigger it down, when you train a woman, you are training the whole world. It is a more implicit, if there is a principle. But if you train somebody, if you train somebody, the other person, the other person, the other person, the other person, the other person, if you give them, take them down, see everybody is being affected. But this woman, for what you learn, went to the village, to the city, to the harbour men and the evangelical there and they came to me Christ.
So there was an in John 2, 22, Judea now, the cottage shop, if you trust in which you just make his movements, it started from Jerusalem, in John 2, 22, 22, Judea, that John 3, 22, then to Samaria. You see how he was moving, ordinarily, he couldn't have been able to have been able to believe that because of the mandated he has, because of his divide, he knew that there is something in that Samaria because traditionally, or historically, Judea doesn't need to go to Samaria. But Jesus, by quoting every protocol, said by God, said by me, because we want to try to set a lot of bridges that God himself tried to destroy them. So in Samaria, Dofo, for instance, he was in the river, he never declared him as Jesus, the Savior.
He said he said, the river never declared him. He went to Judea, Judea to the river never declared him. Then the other people, the so-called rejected his ways, the people they hated so much, that he had declared Christ as the Savior of the world. This is primarily what is written in at 1 8, at 1 8.
In at 1 8, that's where you say that you go to the Samaria, to Judea, to the bottom part of the edge and the final lives. And this thing, the Samaria people declared to Jesus that he is the Savior of the world. Why? Because he was doing this for that way.
You know, I went to Samaria, the people declared it because of time. I don't know, we have baptism. If you go to read it on 42, you will see that when the woman has gone, and if I test your call and see somebody that I've told me who or what I've been dealing with, the Samaria people like King and Jesus means not today, in that 42. And what they said was, look, Jesus, we have this human before.
We are not out in the, but none we have had for you and we believe. We are not believe that you are Christ, the Savior of the whole world, declared by the Samaria times. Seven the women and the living have from her self-pandemnation was like a foot of Jesus, himself. You see, when the happens to King, let's run.
When the living Jesus, Jesus being the human being was tired. When I said that he was famous, he was tired, and I knew that he may be hungry, the guy who is a human, but the disciple, when they came back, they were surprised that he was fully integrated. And they decided to act, it was later, they knew that he said that he was doing this for that way. That is preaching the gospel.
He has won it soon. So it's no longer an issue of one day King. Jesus from winning that soul gave him joy. So we will be a soul by we through evangelism, we should be happy and we should be happy.
And we should be happy and we should be happy. The only thing we owe is to whistle to the body of Christ. The only thing we owe is to preach the undereted Lord of God. And that is what Jesus was doing.
The unnamed Samaria woman was a fruitful believer. After hearing Jesus, she believed, radical believed. She believed totally. And she bore fruits.
How did she be a bearer of fruits? Because she never believed through her. And she went to evangelism and more fruits, many more believed. What are you all revealed?
That is just a more powerful today. We are reading it. Many, many, many of these people who give their life, or have given their life, are going to give their life because of this story of John. If you want to check the F-Assets, you can take John 51 to 5.
God knows that. So our Lord Jesus Christ, the Messiah, has set the example. The example He has said is that He is the Messiah. There is no bias, no Jews, no Gentiles, no Gentiles, no Gentiles, no Gentiles, no Gentiles, no Gentiles, no Gentiles.
The Word of God is for all. If we follow, He will give us the harvest. Thank you. We thank you for your word.
We thank you that we have learned a few. Let us well-dominate and get fruit. Thank you for all of those for us. In Jesus' name, we pray.
Amen. Well done. Oh, sorry. That's okay.
Yep. Sounds good. Thank you, Henry. I'm going to be very quick.
I'm moving this out of the way so that you have full view here as much as possible. Alright. So we have a baptism. This would be uncommon for me.
I'm going to explain in like five minutes or less, if I can, what baptism is, just in case you have never been here for baptism and are wondering perhaps what we are doing today. So first of all, the word baptism in the New Testament occurs 116 times. So it is a fairly major theme of the Bible, of the New Testament. Many of those references described John the Baptist, but the definition is baptism in Greek, which means to dip or to immerse or to overwhelm.
And that word occurs 69 times in the Gospel, 27 times in the book of Acts, 16 times in Paul's writings, twice in the book of Hebrews. So it's a very important theme of the scriptures. So what Luke and Stephanie are doing today is a very important act. It is spelled out quite clearly in scripture as something that the Christian does.
So baptism, it began with John the Baptist. And we see in John chapter 1 verse 26, and I'm not going to go and read all of these references just for the sake of time. I know it's hot in here. I realize that.
It's very interesting we do have it because normally it would be 40 degrees if it wasn't not. So it began with John the Baptist. And John was going around baptizing in various places. And we read that in John chapter 1 verse 26.
It was affirmed by the Lord Jesus Christ himself, who in Mark chapter 1 verse 9 we read, he went down and had John the Baptist baptize him. It's quite interesting. I'm not going to get into all the background and theology of that right now because, again, five minutes. It was practiced by the early church, and it was immediate for the believers.
So it was interesting. And I've always grown up with the idea that somebody comes to know the Lord, and then after a long, long time they come and say, I feel like I should be baptized. And then there's a lot of consideration back and forth, interviews and talks and discussions, and then at a time later they're baptized. What I read in the scriptures is when a person believes, they believe, and they're baptized.
In most cases, in many cases, it's fairly immediate. As long as you understand what you're doing. You don't do anything if you don't understand what you're doing. So in Acts chapter 8 verse 36, we read of an Ethiopian man who was led to the Lord by Philip.
And as they went along the road. And then immediately after he came to the Lord, he said, okay, there's water here. Shouldn't they be baptized? Yes.
And he was baptized immediately. Yesterday we looked at this in our men's study, Cornelius, a Gentile, one of the first gentiles to come to know Jesus Christ. They said, well, okay, let's get baptized. So they baptized them the very day that they came to Christ.
And then you read of the Philippian jailer who came that verse that we all know, what must they do to be saved? Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you'll be saved in your household. They went to their home, and that very day they baptized them the same day. So it's tied very directly with salvation.
So what baptism is not? So first of all, baptism is not salvation. This is not an act that saves a person's soul that makes them right with God. It is not that.
It's not the first step to salvation. In fact, it comes after salvation. It's very clear in the Scriptures. It's not a requirement for salvation.
When I was a little boy, just weeks old, my mom took me to a church and had me baptized. It didn't do anything. Got my forehead wet. That's it.
It had nothing to do with my salvation. It wasn't my entrance into salvation. It wasn't my entrance into the church. It wasn't my entrance into Christ or anything else.
It was nothing. Baptism is not a washing away of sin. That is city water that sometimes they tell you you you have to boil. That's all it is.
So what is baptism? Ah, there you go. Baptism is an act of obedience for the believer. Acts chapter 2 verse 38, Peter said to them, repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you'll receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
So you'll receive obedience to the scriptures. Secondly, it's symbolic. It represents the believer's union with Jesus Christ, our Savior. I'm going to read this verse.
Romans 6, verse, this is my last slide by the way, so if you're getting restless, I'm done. Romans 6 verses 3 to 4, do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried, therefore, with him by baptism into death. In order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
You go in the water, you go under the water, burial, death, and you're raised again. In newness of life. It just represents what Jesus Christ did for us and our union with him. Finally, it's a public declaration for our faith.
Baptism took place in public places with other people around who witnessed and see it. And that's why we're doing it here today for you to see. So that is what we're going to do. Sam, we'll sing the song and then we'll proceed with our baptism.
All right, we're going to sing Amazing Grace. My chains are gone.