Be With Me: 7 Minutes of Biblical Wonder

If you are not worshipping God, you are not in right relationship with God.  To know God is to worship Him.  There is no knowing Him without worshipping Him.  You can actually use it as a marker of your relationship with God. If you know the true God, you worship Him in truth. There is no plan B for worship. Today, we'll see God's big reveal and then the challenge: Will you worship Me. Great story, listen 7 minutes.  

https://youtu.be/TQShcv5mcNg

The disclosure of one's sexual history and sexual present reveals what one believes about God. Having a sexual conversation led to having a spiritual conversation. For the woman at the well, this conversation then heads toward understanding worship. She is thirsty. She is feisty. She is curious.  Perhaps you are too. Subscribe to this channel for continuing this pursuit tomorrow.

A Samaritan woman finds herself "sexually-transparent" before Jesus. Everything she has ever done with her zipper. Everyone she's done it with.  Even everything that has gone on in her head. 

I do not think one can underestimate how UNSETTLING this would have been for her.  Similarly, if we were seen as sexually-transparent, I'd expect some unsettledness too.  It is in that context that we must put ourselves as we read this encounter. Yikes!

https://youtu.be/86Y6s7ZcQdc

Join me today to discover one of the essential ingredients to having the spiritual light-bulb ignite inside you: CURIOSITY. The woman at the well had it and so should you as you inquire enthusiastically at the elbow of Jesus. The first inclination of, "I'm OK" could have a little curiosity applied in, "Well, maybe I am not..." Be curious with me for 7 minutes. Click Here:

https://youtu.be/SAhQ4PQmKNk

Despite a backstory of 2000 years
Despite a gender barrier
Despite a historical barrier of hate
and despite Jesus' weariness,
We come to a wonderful encounter at a well in Samaria. Listen 7 minutes.

https://youtu.be/AynngqixaOE

 Many devout Jews wouldn't set foot in Samaria, much less talk to anyone there, much less a woman.  There was a 700 year old problem that never went away in Samaria.  It was as if there was a "Mini-Assyria" that lived right in the middle part of Israel.  No wonder the Jews hated people from there, and even the area itself. 

https://youtu.be/-DYay7p30aE

Someday, we'll worship God for His righteous wrath. Meantime, we'd best deal with its pointy end. Anyone and everyone starts out with WRATH REMAINING upon us. None of us is holy. But good news, if we SET OUR SEAL or belief, the wrath is removed.  This is very good wrath news. 

https://youtu.be/QqfYizntgPY

Teachers need followers and students.  Today, John the Baptist, the greatest man that ever lived (said Jesus), gets DEPLATFORMED. He voluntarily recognizes and even fosters his DECREASE and facilitates the Lord's INCREASE.  It is a wonderful story of correct perspective.

I'm not quite ready for that process regarding this podcast, so please subscribe. ;-)

https://youtu.be/xFChoLROtsE

Sometimes help is nearer than we think. For all the darkness loving, light hating, and standing condemned that the Bible has for us, there is help nearby. In fact, what struck me after much of the bad news of John 3 verse 18 is that rescue is literally ONE INCH AWAY in John 3:16.  If you are bereft and undone, as is so frequent before God, He doesn't leave you there! Just 1" away is the greatest news mankind has ever heard:For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

https://youtu.be/U991a7V-3Vc

As a sequential-thru-the-Bible podcast, you don't always get to talk about the most famous verse in the Bible, BUT SOME DAYS YOU DO. Today is one of those days. John 3:16 is a wonderful offering of God's love in rescue.  It is best understood in light of the BAD NEWS it rescues us out of. For that, listen 7 minutes with me of John 3:18. You'll be fine, except for all the condemnation...

https://youtu.be/s93ne3_g2mI