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00:04 #S059 - “The Need To Modify” (Part 1)
00:19 I invite you to go with me to the Book of 00:22 John Chapter four John Chapter four Very familiar text. 00:26 John, chapter four. 00:28 Let me ask real quick, who needs a word from the Lord today? 00:31 Amen. 00:32 Anybody glad to be in the house of the Lord today? 00:34 Hang on. My second service. 00:36 Your worship energy's kind of low. 00:38 Anybody glad to be in the House of the Lord today? 00:41 Hang on. 00:41 I've been up since an ungodly hour. 00:43 Excited to see y'all. Y'all don't look glad to see me. 00:45 I we unequally yoked right now. 00:48 We need to bring our energy up. 00:50 Amen. 00:51 John Chapter four. 00:54 We're going to look together at verse number one, 00:56 and then we'll read through a good little bit, jump forward 00:59 and verse one when you get there. 01:00 Let me say, Pastor, I'm ready. 01:03 John four In verse one, 01:05 the Bible says, therefore, 01:07 when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that 01:10 Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, 01:14 though Jesus Himself did not baptize but His disciples, 01:17 He left Judea and departed again to Galilee. 01:20 But the Bible says he needed to go through what Samaria? 01:26 So he came to a city of Samaria, which is called Sekar, 01:29 near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph. 01:33 Now, Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, therefore, 01:36 being wearied from his journey, set this by the well. 01:39 And that was about what time? 01:41 It's about the sixth hour. 01:43 And a woman of some Mario came to draw water 01:46 and Jesus said to her, Give me a drink 01:49 for his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. 01:53 Then the woman of 01:54 Samaria said to him, How is it that you, being a Jew? 01:57 Asked A drink from me? 01:58 A Samaritan woman for Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. 02:04 And Jesus answered and said that to her. 02:06 If you knew the gift of God 02:09 and who it is, who says to you, Give me drink. 02:12 You would have asked him and he would have given you what? 02:17 Living water. 02:18 Then the woman said to him, Sir, you have nothing to draw with, 02:22 and the well is deep. 02:23 Where then do you get that living water? 02:26 Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us as well 02:28 and drank from it 02:29 himself, as well as his sons and his livestock 02:33 and Jesus answered and said then to her, Notice what he says. 02:37 Whoever drinks from this water will thirst. 02:40 What? 02:42 But whoever drinks of the water 02:44 that I shall give him will never what 02:49 but the water that I shall give him will become in him. 02:55 Where? In him? 02:59 A fountain of water springing up into everlasting life. 03:04 Then the woman said to him, Sir, 03:06 give me this water that I may not first nor come here to draw. 03:11 And then Jesus getting to the heart of the matter. 03:14 Jesus says to her, Go call your husband and come here. 03:18 And the woman answered and said, I have no husband. 03:21 And Jesus said to her, You have? 03:23 Well said He pretty much said, You got that right. 03:28 I have no husband 03:30 for you have had five husbands 03:33 and the one you now have is not your husband. 03:37 And that you have spoken truly today 03:41 saints for just a little while with God's help. 03:43 I want to talk to you under the subject. 03:45 The need to modify. 03:49 The need to modify. 03:50 Let's pray together, Father. 03:55 In this little while, would you please say much? 04:00 Father, I pray that in the hearing of the word 04:03 that faith would be multiplied exponentially. 04:07 So, Father, I pray that 04:08 you would not just allow us to see this broken woman. 04:12 But in the word today, may we please see ourselves to Lord? 04:17 I pray that you would hide me in the shadows of the cross. 04:20 That Jesus alone might be seen, 04:23 that Christ alone would be heard. 04:25 And at the end of our time 04:26 together, may Jesus alone be praise. 04:29 Bless us. 04:29 To this end, 04:31 we ask in the wonderful name of Jesus, our Lord, 04:33 let those who believe say together a man and a man. 04:37 You may be seated in the House of the Lord 04:41 again talking to you today under the subject 04:45 the need to modify. 04:46 And I'm going to invite those who are coming in, if you would. 04:49 Come on in quickly and be seated 04:52 so that we can focus all the way in on the word 04:54 today. 04:58 Men talking to you on the subject, the need to modify. 05:04 You know, in Proverbs 27, in verse 12, 05:09 the Bible says that the wise see danger 05:14 and take cover, 05:16 but fools press on 05:18 and pay the penalty. 05:22 And, you know, family, one of the understated 05:24 skills in life is the willing need, the willingness to adapt, 05:29 adjust and amend our course. 05:32 And this is especially true in a relationship world, 05:37 for there are times where God reveals the truth 05:39 about a person, a situation or yourself, and there are times 05:44 we don't handle that information very well. 05:48 You see, when you lack relational intelligence, 05:51 you will make a decision without information 05:54 or you will stand 05:55 by that decision 05:57 regardless of the information you have received. 06:00 And sometimes we will put hope in the place of judgment, 06:04 preference in the place of principle. 06:07 And one of the things that saves you great praying 06:11 is the willingness to adjust and change course 06:14 based upon the truth that has been revealed. 06:18 And so there are times where we'll make it up in our minds 06:21 that he or she is the one 06:24 without a vetting process to ensure Hart safety. 06:29 You see, friends, true love has a process 06:33 and real love will never skip steps. 06:37 You see, because we are flawed and we can be deceived, 06:40 there are times that we need to let things play out 06:44 before we actually commit. 06:46 And to the young, I need you to not be in a rush 06:50 because time can never kill love. 06:54 The only thing that time harms is infatuation. 06:59 So. So there going to be times where you need to adjust 07:02 based upon the information that has been revealed. 07:06 You will need to modify based upon the truth. 07:09 And let me I need you to know 07:10 that you cannot be too loyal to your price, your preference. 07:14 You can't be loyal to your timeline. 07:19 You can't be loyal because it started well and hear me use it. 07:22 Never be too loyal to your mistakes. 07:26 And the reason we wind up heartbreaking is that we 07:29 are too loyal to the mistakes that we have made. 07:32 In fact, friends, it's okay every now 07:35 and then to admit that he was a mistake, to admit 07:39 that she was a mistake, to admit that that was a mistake. 07:43 In fact, there are two types of people relationally. 07:47 Some come to be a blessing. 07:50 Others come to be a lesson you'll not hear me today. 07:52 In other words, there are blessings and lessons 07:56 and you got to make sure you commit to your blessings, 07:59 but just learn from the lessons so you are hearing 08:01 the pastor today and see there are times 08:04 where God can't grow you until you begin to modify. 08:10 He can't bless you unless you're willing to upgrade 08:13 and not be too loyal or stagnant in your thinking. 08:15 Let me say it this way. 08:17 In fact, Apple kind of does this for us. 08:20 How many of us know that when you have an Apple device 08:21 or a phone, 08:23 it requires you to constantly upgrade your software? 08:27 And if you don't upgrade 08:28 your software after a while, the apps will stop launching, 08:33 your RAM will get taken up, 08:35 your computer will stop slowing down, 08:38 and it only way it'll work is you begin to upgrade 08:40 your software. 08:42 And what Apple does is they force you to grow or to change. 08:46 And I guess what I'm saying, friends, 08:48 is that if you will allow Apple to require you to upgrade, 08:53 why don't you allow Jesus 08:55 to allow your software upgrade so that you can receive 08:59 everything that God has in store? 09:03 Y'all hear me today, friends? 09:04 And so go back with me, if you don't mind. 09:07 To John. Chapter four and verse four. 09:10 There's some things I need you to see in the word Matt. 09:12 John four In verse four, the Bible says, friends 09:16 that as he gets ready to go, the word says that he needed 09:19 to go through Samaria. 09:23 Now, friends, I need you to know that our text today 09:25 is filled with powerful truth and rich principle. 09:30 But one of the first thing it teaches is that sometimes 09:33 God can't save until He gets you by yourself. 09:38 No, no, let me say it on the other side 09:40 that sometimes God can't save in a relationship. 09:44 Sometimes God can't save until he gets you alone. 09:48 Not now. Hear me. 09:49 When I say this, because now I'm here. 09:51 The word says that Jesus needed to go through Samaria. 09:56 And other words, Jesus knows exactly 10:00 where He's going and exactly who he's trying to see. 10:04 And the words say is that he winds up there 10:06 about the sixth hour, which is noon, and please know 10:10 those details are not wasted for no reason. 10:14 You see around the sixth hour, it's about the 12 10:17 when the heat is beginning to peak 10:20 and the temperature is reaching its climax. 10:23 And understand that culturally at that time, most women, 10:27 because drawing water was labor intensive, 10:29 you would go to draw water either early in the morning 10:34 or late in the evening to avoid the temperature at that time. 10:38 So that if somebody was going to the well at noon, 10:41 it was probably because they wanted to avoid the crowd. 10:46 If somebody went at noon, it's because they wanted to avoid 10:51 surface conversation. 10:52 If they went at noon, it's because they wanted to avoid the 10:56 questions from the community. 10:58 If somebody went at noon, 11:01 it was because they were trying to be by themselves. 11:04 And please note today, friends, that Jesus does not 11:08 go to her home. 11:10 He intentionally meets her at the well. 11:13 And the reason he does not go to her home 11:18 is because the employer is there will keep her from him. 11:22 In other words, in order to save her, he's 11:25 got to get her alone in order to give her living water. 11:30 He's got to get her by herself. 11:32 In order for her to adjust and to receive the invitation, 11:36 she's got to be away from her girls. 11:39 She's got to be away from her friends. 11:41 She's got to be away from her man. 11:44 The only way to get saved was to get her alone. 11:47 And can I suggest friends of mine that sometimes 11:50 your relational or romantic influences can be so strong 11:55 that Jesus has to get you away from them 11:59 in order to get you connected to Him? 12:01 You all act in brand new today. 12:03 And other words, I need you to be clear 12:06 that this doesn't apply 12:07 to everybody in the room because some are single, 12:12 saved and filled with the Holy Ghost and Truth. 12:14 There are some that God reaches through a relationship 12:18 with a godly person. 12:20 But there are some of us, man, that treat love like an idol. 12:24 And God has kept some people at bay. 12:27 He's driven some folk out of your life. 12:29 He's called some folk to walk away 12:32 because the only way 12:33 he can get to you is when you get through with them 12:39 and see, 12:40 I need somebody to know that God has literally sabotaged 12:42 some stuff, literally, so that He can get you a loan 12:46 where he can have your underwear voted attention 12:49 and see there are some that don't really believe 12:52 what I'm saying. 12:52 I need you to know that God's greatest 12:55 fight, my friends, it is not against your enemies. 12:58 It is not against your sickness. 13:01 It is not against your disease. 13:03 Sometimes his greatest fight is against your influences. 13:09 In other words, for some of us, as soon as we get a man, 13:12 we break up with Jesus. 13:16 There are some brothers 13:17 that can't keep their eye on the prize 13:20 because you got it on her thighs. 13:21 Are you arguing with the pastor saying today 13:24 and it was I need you to see that this thing is 13:26 literally not a specific to any gender. 13:30 Look at your Bible today. 13:32 Do you realize that the only person 13:34 that could defeat Samson was Delilah? 13:37 You realize the Philistines couldn't defeat David, 13:41 but his desires for Bathsheba could. 13:44 Do you realize that Solomon, 13:45 the wisest man that ever lived it, was his foreign wives 13:49 that turned his heart away from God. 13:52 And even Adam and Eve. 13:54 Eve put the fruit above God, but Adam put Eve above God. 14:00 In other words, 14:01 he tempted Eve with the fruit, but he tempted Adam with Eve. 14:04 Are you hearing what I'm saying today? 14:06 And see, I need you to know that there is a truth 14:09 that God wants us to get. 14:10 See, when you mature, you're able to love God first. 14:15 Love yourself second, and love others last. 14:18 But we get the whole order 14:19 inverted where we love others first, love ourselves 14:24 second, and don't even really love God at all. 14:29 And see, I need somebody to know 14:30 that this is somebody spiritual truth, 14:34 because Jesus does not go to her home 14:36 because there was such an entanglement in her relationship 14:40 that that there was such clutter around her soul, 14:44 that the only way he could reach her 14:47 was to get her away from her man. 14:51 And see, this is somebody spiritual truth, 14:53 because God can't 14:54 even get an audience with you because you're so smitten. 14:57 He can't even get any time with you 14:59 because you're always in their DMS. 15:02 He can't even get you on time for you to pray 15:06 because you're so enamored with them or what may happen. 15:09 But I need somebody to know that somewhere 15:12 in your sanctification experience, 15:13 sometimes 15:14 God has to allow you to have heartbreak 15:17 so that you turn to the hard fix. 15:19 So there are times where God has to allow 15:22 some friends to walk away 15:23 so that you come to know there's a friend that stick 15:26 closer than a brother. 15:28 There are some folk that have to walk out of your life 15:30 so that you come to know 15:31 that even when mother and father forsake you, that God is going 15:35 to take you in. 15:36 Sometimes it is only in the fall kindness of people 15:41 that you come to know the faithfulness of Jesus. 15:44 So I need to know that sometimes God allows these things 15:47 to play out so that you can know how faithful God actually is. 15:52 And see, I need somebody to understand 15:54 that you never have to choose 15:56 between loving God and being in a relationship. 15:59 What you've simply got to do is prioritize. 16:02 Remember Matthew 633 Say seeking first 16:07 the kingdom of God and His righteousness 16:10 and all other things will be added unto you. 16:12 Are you are? Hear me today, friends. 16:15 And so in our story today 16:17 what Jesus does at this well, y'all still with me? 16:22 He communicates 16:23 some physical ideas that she does know 16:28 to communicate a spiritual truth that she cannot consider. 16:32 So Jesus now meets her at the well. 16:36 And it's funny because it's high noon, 16:38 but when you see this woman, what you'll find is a woman 16:43 who's just over it. 16:47 We're not giving much detail about her life. 16:49 All we know is her ethnicity, that she is Samaritan. 16:53 All we know is her relationship, history, 16:56 five husbands and a live in boyfriend. 16:59 And it's crazy 17:00 because if you were to see this woman, her demeanor 17:04 and her disposition would keep you at a distance. 17:07 And I need you to know that 17:08 because women married so young, perhaps around 15, 17:12 even though she's been married 17:13 five times, she is not an old woman. 17:16 She is perhaps in her late thirties or early forties. 17:20 And so there are still vestiges of her youthful beauty, 17:23 even though Gray begins to gather at her roots. 17:26 When you look at her, there is a hardness in her eyes 17:29 because those eyes, which once 17:31 beamed with youthful anticipation, have now 17:34 been blackened by difficult and harsh relational experience. 17:40 When you look at her hands, her hands have aged a bit longer 17:44 or beyond her chronological age from years of diligent 17:47 service to men who did not reciprocate. 17:51 And now she's out of space where she has to avoid happily 17:54 married women, and she has to be suspicious of every man 17:59 because her experience has made her this way. 18:03 And so Jesus now uses what 18:05 she does know to communicate what she doesn't know. 18:09 And so what he literally does to 18:11 break the ice, he steps to this woman 18:13 who is a stranger to him and asked her for a drink of water. 18:18 And so the woman literally says to him, 18:20 this is how is it that you being good? 18:22 You ask of me a water because Jews 18:25 have no dealings with Samaritans. 18:29 And so literally Jesus says to her, If you knew the gift of God 18:34 and who it was that asked you for water, 18:37 you would ask of him and he would give you living water. 18:41 And the woman says, Sir, this well is deep 18:43 and you have nothing with which to draw. 18:46 Where do you get this living water? 18:49 And Jesus makes it clear that if you come to this water, 18:52 you're going to thirst again. 18:54 But I can give you living water so that you never, ever 18:58 have to first 19:01 and see Jesus uses her physical thirst. 19:04 Are y'all with me? 19:05 Church to communicate a spiritual truth and reality 19:10 and see the first thing Jesus is teaching the woman 19:13 is that the thirstier you are, the lower your standards become. 19:17 You know God, who I felt something in here. 19:22 In other words, the thirstier you are, 19:25 the lower your standards inevitably become. 19:28 So in other words, stay with me. 19:30 Church This woman is drawing water from a whale. 19:35 But I need you to get that a whale was not 19:38 the preferred source of drinking water at the time. 19:43 You see, even at that time, 19:44 there was a hierarchy of ways you would like to receive water. 19:49 Your first way of getting water, 19:51 you would want to go to a 19:52 fresh spring that had bubbled up and get running water. 19:56 Secondly, you would try to drink 19:58 from a sister and a sister, and it's different from a whale 20:02 because a sister stored freshly fallen rain water 20:05 or melted ice. 20:07 Then after that you would go buy 20:08 a fresh lake or a babbling brook that was overflowing. 20:13 And then after the lake you would maybe drink 20:16 from a coconut that fell from the palm tree. 20:19 But I need you to know, what are your last options for 20:20 water was to actually go to a whale 20:24 because a whale represents stagnant water 20:27 that could be filled with bacteria or contamination 20:30 because the filtering system was not very strong. 20:34 In other words, church if you were at a well, 20:38 it was probably 20:39 because of proximity and location. 20:42 It wasn't necessarily the best water. 20:45 It was just the close to. the water. Yeah, yeah. 20:48 No, hear me. 20:49 It wasn't necessary. 20:51 The best beverage. 20:52 It was just the one you could access. 20:55 It wasn't the highest quality water. 20:59 It was just the easily available water. 21:03 And I guess what I'm saying to somebody 21:06 is that no matter how thirsty you get, 21:09 don't start 21:10 compromising the quality of water you're willing to drink. 21:14 Oh, you'll not hear me today. 21:16 Don't. Don't start compromising 21:18 the water and drink whatever is close. 21:22 Don't drink whatever is in reach. 21:24 Don't drink whatever is nearby. 21:26 Because the truth is, if you get thirsty enough, 21:30 it ain't got to be Fiji, it ain't got to be Dasani, 21:32 it ain't got to be Aquafina. 21:34 But after a while that Deer Park start looking good. 21:37 The great value, you'll start getting some of that. 21:40 Y'all hear what I'm saying today? 21:43 And see what I'm saying is at some point 21:46 you got to stop compromising your quality of water 21:49 when there is a spring somewhere around the corner. 21:55 I got here with the pastor saying the day 21:57 and see, I want to just encourage 21:59 somebody don't drink from the well just because it's close. 22:03 Don't go to that. 22:04 Well, just because they asked you out, don't drink from that. 22:08 Well, just because they're in reach. 22:11 In fact, if ain't nobody else at that. 22:13 Well, sometimes you ought to ask yourself, why. 22:15 Ain't nobody else 22:20 trying to. 22:20 Get nothing from that? 22:21 Well, I hear what I'm saying. 22:23 And I guess what I want to do in the spirit 22:26 is I want to endorse the spirit of picking this in the House 22:30 of God today. 22:32 In other words, 22:32 don't let nobody tell you, you too picky 22:35 that your standards are too high. 22:37 How many of us know that you cannot have a standard 22:40 that is too high? 22:42 All you can have are expectation 22:47 I mean, I told them in for a service 22:49 sometimes, ladies, 22:50 that your standards need to be high, 22:52 but your expectations need to be realistic 22:54 because see, sometimes man, 22:55 you want a man that only exists in your head. 22:59 In other words, man, you want a man with Obama's 23:01 intelligence, the body of Idris, the money of Jeff Bezos. 23:06 He's gangster like Tupac, and he got the character of Christ. 23:10 That dude don't exist. 23:12 Oh, come on and say, hey, man, brothers. 23:15 Hey, man. 23:17 You need to stay single and be married to Jesus. 23:19 That's the only. One. 23:22 Thank you so much for joining us for The Breath of Life 23:24 Television Ministries broadcast with Pastor Debleaire Snell. 23:29 We hope and pray that you have been blessed 23:32 by the fourth message in the sermon series 23:35 titled Family is Volume two. 23:40 Join us 23:41 next week for part two of the message titled 23:44 The Need to Modify. 23:47 You don't want to miss it. 23:49 Are you tired of just being tired? 23:53 Are you frustrated because your results never change? 23:57 Do you feel like life is just going in circles? 24:00 I'm excited to introduce my newest book entitled 24:06 Excuse This and I'm going to be talking about how to cancel 24:08 the excuses that smother our soul wellness. 24:12 I need you to know that your issue is not 24:14 your circumstances. 24:15 It's not the challenges. 24:17 It is the lies 24:18 that we tell ourselves about why we're not progressing. 24:21 When you tell yourself, I don't have enough time, 24:25 I don't have enough resources, I don't have enough money. 24:27 Those are the excuses that are keeping you 24:29 from becoming whom God has called you to be. 24:32 So this 24:33 book is going to be talking to you 24:34 about how to manage your distractions, 24:37 how to overcome your fears, 24:38 how to walk through procrastination, 24:41 and to become the best version of yourself. 24:44 So join me on Saturday, April the 13th, as I begin 24:48 a teaching series entitled Excuse This. 24:51 Every Saturday and Wednesday, we're going to walk 24:53 through the Word of God and give you the cheat code 24:57 to having a life filled with progress. 24:58 And then I want you to join us starting Sunday, April 25:01 the 14th, for our 21 days of free. 25:05 We're going to march through the content of the book. 25:07 We're going to testify. 25:08 We're going to call on the name of the Lord, 25:10 and we're going to grow as a community of faith. 25:13 You'll be able to get the book. 25:15 It's Useless on our Breath of Life website 25:18 at www.BreathofLife.tv or on Amazon.com. 25:23 You can join us for 21 days on our Oakwood University 25:26 Church platforms and on our Breath Of Life platforms. 25:30 I need you to know that we're about to start a revolution. 25:34 There's about to be a growth grenade. 25:38 I would invite you to join me on this journey as we begin 25:41 the process of becoming excuses. 25:58 Hey, family. 25:59 I know the weekends can be long, 26:01 they can be hard, and you go through a lot. 26:05 And so at the end of each week, I want to encourage you to 26:08 join me and the Breath of Life team for the weekend. 26:12 Exhale with b0l 26:14 we were having these programs on Sunday, 26:17 but now we want to begin the weekend 26:19 giving you a little nourishment, a little nurture, 26:22 giving you a little boost as you start the weekend. 26:25 Every first Friday, I'm going to be doing a Bible study 26:29 entitled to the Playbook, 26:30 where we're going to be looking 26:31 at issues of doctrine and culture 26:34 through the lens of the Scripture. 26:36 You don't have to guess. 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