Robert T. Young - "Whoever Drinks" (March 6, 1977)

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-	Duke university service of worship.	0:05
	Second Sunday in lent March 6th, 1977.	0:09
	(soft piano music)	0:17
-	Let us pray.	9:27
	Our Father, be with each of us this morning as we worship,	9:32
	help us to be ever mindful of you,	9:38
	whenever we enter this your home,	9:41
	so that your guidance and will,	9:44
	shall be with us each all the days of our lives. Amen.	9:47
	(soft piano music)	9:58
-	May we now join in the prayer of confession.	13:12
	Lord you made the world and everything in it.	13:18
	You created the human race of one stock	13:22
	and gave us the earth for our possession.	13:26
	Lord, we have been divisive in our thinking,	13:30
	in our speech, in our actions.	13:34
	We have classified and imprisoned one another.	13:37
	We have fenced each other out by hatred and prejudice.	13:41
	Lord you mean us to be a single people,	13:47
	ruled by peace, feasting and freedom,	13:51
	freed from injustice, truly human men and women,	13:55
	responsible and responsive in the life we lead,	14:00
	the love we share, the relationships we create.	14:04
	Lord we shall need ever new insights into the truth,	14:09
	awareness of your will for all humanity,	14:13
	courage to do what is right even when it is not allowed,	14:16
	persistence and undermining unjust structures	14:21
	until they crumble into dust,	14:24
	grace to excise a ministry of reconciliation,	14:27
	break down the walls that separate us	14:31
	and unite us in a single body	14:35
	in and through Jesus Christ our Lord.	14:38
	Our heavenly Father,	14:55
	give us a heart like the heart of Jesus,	14:58
	a heart more ready to minister than to be ministered unto,	15:02
	a heart moved back in passion	15:06
	towards the weak and the oppressed.	15:08
	We pray for those sorts and conditions of men	15:12
	to whom Jesus wanted us to give special thought and care,	15:14
	for those lacking food or clothing,	15:19
	for the sick and all who are wasted by disease,	15:23
	for the maimed and the lame, for the blind,	15:27
	for the prisoners, for those oppressed by any injustice,	15:31
	for those lost in our human society,	15:36
	for all those lonely within our gates,	15:39
	for the worried and the anxious,	15:43
	for those who are living lives in obscurity,	15:46
	and for those who are fighting bravely in unpopular causes.	15:49
	Forgive us when we forget but one of those,	15:54
	for when we do, we are forgetting thee,	15:58
	grant that thy loving kindness and causing our own lives	16:02
	to fall in pleasant places,	16:05
	may not make us less sensitive	16:08
	to the needs of the less privileged,	16:10
	but rather more inclined to lay	16:12
	their burdens upon our own hearts.	16:13
	And if any adversity should befall us,	16:17
	then let us not brew to put our own sorrows,	16:20
	as if we alone in this world are suffering,	16:24
	but rather let us busy ourselves	16:27
	in the compassionate service of all who need our help,	16:29
	forgive us of our sins our Father,	16:33
	and help us to grow closer to thee. Amen.	16:36
	(soft piano music)	16:46
	(woman singing)	16:56
-	Hear with understanding the reading	19:15
	of today's scripture lesson.	19:16
	Therefore, since we are justified by faith,	19:22
	we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.	19:25
	Through him we have obtained access	19:30
	to this grace in which we stand.	19:32
	And we rejoice in our hope of sharing the glory of God.	19:35
	More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings,	19:39
	knowing that suffering produces endurance	19:43
	and endurance produces character	19:47
	and character produces hope	19:50
	and hope does not disappoint us	19:53
	because God's love has been poured	19:56
	into our hearts through the Holy Spirit	19:58
	which has been given to us.	20:01
	While we were yet helpless at the right time,	20:04
	Christ died for the ungodly.	20:08
	While one will hardly die for a righteous man,	20:11
	though perhaps for a good man, one will even dare to die,	20:15
	but God shows his love for us	20:19
	in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.	20:21
	Since therefore we are now justified by his blood,	20:27
	much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God,	20:31
	for if why we were enemies we were reconciled	20:36
	to God by the death of his son,	20:39
	much more now that we are reconciled,	20:42
	shall we be saved by his life.	20:45
	Let the congregation stand for the reading of the gospel.	20:52
	So he came to a city of Samaria called Sychar,	21:03
	near the field that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.	21:07
	Jacob's well was there.	21:11
	And so Jesus wearied as he was with his journey,	21:13
	sat down beside the well, it was about the sixth hour.	21:17
	There came a woman of Samaria to draw water.	21:22
	Jesus said to her, give me a drink,	21:25
	for his disciples had gone away into the city.	21:29
	The Samaritan woman said to him,	21:33
	how is it that you a Jew ask a drink of me	21:36
	a woman of Samaria,	21:40
	for Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.	21:42
	Jesus answered her,	21:46
	if you knew the gift of God	21:47
	and who it is that is saying to you give me a drink.	21:49
	You would have asked him	21:53
	and he would have given you living water.	21:54
	The woman said to him, sir you have nothing to draw with.	21:57
	The well is deep.	22:01
	Where do you get that living water?	22:03
	Are you greater than our father Jacob who gave us the well	22:06
	and drank from it himself and his sons and his cattle?	22:09
	Jesus said to her,	22:14
	everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again.	22:16
	But whoever drinks of the water	22:20
	that I shall give him will never thirst.	22:22
	The water that I shall give him will become in him	22:25
	a spring of water, welling up to eternal life.	22:28
	The woman said to him,	22:33
	sir give me this water that I may not thirst	22:35
	nor come here to draw.	22:38
	Jesus said to her, go call your husband and come here.	22:41
	The woman answered him, I have no husband.	22:46
	Jesus said to her,	22:49
	you are right in saying I have no husband	22:51
	for you have had five husbands,	22:54
	and he whom you now have is not your husband,	22:56
	this you said truly.	22:59
	The woman said to him,	23:01
	sir I perceive that you are our prophet.	23:03
	Our fathers worshiped on this mountain.	23:06
	And you say that in Jerusalem is the place	23:09
	where men ought to worship.	23:11
	Jesus said to her, woman believe me,	23:13
	the hour is coming when neither	23:17
	on this mountain nor in Jerusalem,	23:19
	will you worship the Father.	23:22
	You worship what you do not know.	23:24
	We worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.	23:28
	But the hour is coming,	23:32
	and now is, when the true worshipers will worship	23:34
	the father in spirit and truth	23:38
	for such the Father seeks to worship Him.	23:41
	God is spirit.	23:45
	And those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.	23:47
	The woman said to him,	23:52
	I know that Messiah is coming he who is called Christ.	23:54
	When he comes, he will show us all things.	23:58
	Jesus said to her,	24:03
	I who speak to you, am he.	24:05
	Amen.	24:10
	(soft piano music)	24:16
-	Let us now affirm what we believe.	25:03
	We believe in God, who has created and is creating,	25:08
	who has come in the truly human Jesus,	25:14
	to reconcile and make new,	25:17
	who works in us and others by the spirit,	25:20
	we trust God who calls us to be the church	25:24
	to celebrate life and its fullness,	25:28
	to love and serve others,	25:31
	to seek justice and resist evil,	25:34
	to proclaim Jesus crucified and risen,	25:37
	our judge and our hope,	25:41
	in life, in death and in life beyond death,	25:43
	God is with us, we are not alone.	25:48
	Thanks be to God.	25:51
	The Lord be with you.	25:54
-	And with your spirit.	25:55
-	Let us pray.	25:57
	We prayed to thee our Father,	26:09
	who is the source of our life,	26:12
	and the end of our pilgrimage.	26:14
	We are thankful for your presence all of our days.	26:17
	Your loving kindness is our satisfaction.	26:20
	Your spirit is our strength.	26:23
	And as we rush toward the evenings of our lives,	26:26
	you are our hope in our rest.	26:29
	We remember your goodness toward us, your love and support.	26:33
	May we not be anxious and fearful,	26:38
	but always be upheld by our sure trust in thee.	26:41
	May we be supported in sickness and in health	26:45
	by the knowledge of your presence with us.	26:48
	And may that knowledge sustain us in sorrow and in enjoy.	26:51
	When our hope is denied and when it is fulfilled,	26:56
	may we be sustained,	27:00
	in the midst of our lives and in the hour of our death,	27:02
	give us the strength of our conviction	27:07
	so that all that we may do,	27:09
	we can be proud to share with thee.	27:11
	Put far from us all things	27:15
	that leave us unaware of your presence.	27:17
	Give us the strength of mind and body	27:20
	that will enable us to do our part,	27:22
	to establish thy way,	27:25
	so that we may have last enter into thy peace. Amen.	27:27
	May we now join together, in the Lord's prayer.	27:33
	Our Father, who art in heaven,	27:39
	hallowed be thy name,	27:42
	thy kingdom come,	27:44
	thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven,	27:46
	give us this day our daily bread	27:50
	and forgive us our trespasses	27:53
	as we forgive those who trespass against us,	27:55
	lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil,	27:59
	for thine is the kingdom, and the power,	28:04
	and the glory forever. Amen.	28:07
	I was asked this morning to make two announcements.	28:17
	There will be a communion service immediately following	28:21
	this service in the Memorial chapel.	28:24
	For those of you who would like	28:26
	to join with us in that service of worship.	28:27
	The Gideon Bible International Society	28:33
	will be outside of the chapel,	28:36
	immediately following this service	28:38
	and would appreciate any contributions	28:41
	which you would like to make to further their work.	28:43
-	In the name of God who creates us,	29:10
	makes us whole, and sustains us. Amen.	29:14
	In a book of his entitled,	29:24
	The Journey That Men Make,	29:25
	Bishop James Armstrong of the United Methodist Church	29:30
	writes some straight and stark and searching words.	29:33
	There are hosts of us who suffer	29:45
	because we suspect that the things we do from day to day	29:51
	are without real meaning.	29:54
	We wonder if there is a God,	29:59
	and if so, what does He do with Himself?	30:03
	We wonder if there is any thread of continuity running	30:08
	through our days giving them direction and content.	30:11
	Do we, he asks, as individual human beings	30:16
	have any significance beyond the space which we occupy	30:20
	and the air which we breathe?	30:25
	Do we? Do you? Do I? Does any person?	30:30
	Is there any significance to your life or mine	30:38
	beyond the space which we occupy	30:41
	and the air which we breathe?	30:43
	I have an idea that the woman at the well at Sychar	30:48
	had asked herself that question numerous times.	30:51
	And Jesus had an answer.	30:58
	Jesus gave her an answer.	31:00
	Jesus showed her an answer.	31:02
	Jesus related to her an answer.	31:04
	Or to put it in other words that pose the question	31:10
	in ways I think we can all understand John Killinger writes	31:13
	in his book, The Salvation Tree.	31:16
	He says the question,	31:20
	what if there is no life after death?	31:22
	Has given way and the question has become,	31:25
	what if there is no life before death?	31:28
	I have an idea that the woman at the well at Sychar	31:36
	had asked herself that question numerous times	31:39
	and Jesus was an answer.	31:44
	In his, a spiritual autobiography,	31:51
	William Barclay confesses,	31:54
	I am very much a natural believer.	31:56
	It is not that life has been specially easy for me.	32:01
	And it wasn't because he and his family were vacationing	32:05
	on the beach of Scotland one time	32:09
	and his 18 year old daughter was swept out to sea and drown.	32:12
	He said I shall later on in this book talk	32:16
	of the blows that life has launched against me,	32:18
	but I have never found myself doubting God	32:21
	or doubting the love of God.	32:23
	In matters of belief there is only one way to begin,	32:26
	I believe in God.	32:29
	Life had launched some very hard blows against	32:34
	the woman at the well at Sychar,	32:37
	life had not been specially easy for her	32:39
	and there she was all alone at the well with Jesus.	32:43
	And so are we often all alone	32:48
	at a well seeking to draw some water.	32:53
	Thomas Wolfe it was who once wrote	32:57
	I have discovered that the constant weather	32:59
	around one's life is not love, but is loneliness.	33:02
	And he referred to his being aloneness	33:08
	as a kind of a terrible joke.	33:10
	Or as Anne Frank at age 13 just before she was to die	33:14
	in a German concentration camp wrote in her diary one day,	33:19
	in its inner most depths youth is lonelier than old age.	33:22
	In the significance,	33:30
	life before death, blows of life, loneliness, questions,	33:32
	yes all questions, questions from life in life	33:38
	about life for life over against life,	33:42
	through life and with life.	33:46
	The nameless woman of Samaria came to the well	33:48
	at Sychar very much a routine trip for her.	33:52
	Just as a woman today might make a trip	33:56
	to the grocery store.	33:59
	Women made this trek every day,	34:00
	not often at the noon hour however,	34:02
	but they made this trek to draw water	34:05
	for the needs of their family.	34:06
	How strange it was though for her to find Jesus there.	34:08
	He was a Jew.	34:13
	And Jews ordinarily did not go through Samaria,	34:15
	Jews and Samaritans hated each other	34:18
	they had hated each other for over 700 years.	34:20
	Thus when Jesus had to go from Judea on the south	34:25
	to Galilee in the north	34:30
	as he and the disciples were doing in this trip,	34:32
	they usually went east to across the Jordan river	34:36
	and up the bank of the Jordan river	34:39
	and then back over into Judea	34:41
	and didn't even bother to go through Samaria,	34:42
	but not this trip.	34:46
	Strange that Jesus was there in Samaria at a well.	34:48
	Strange dialogue between Jesus and this woman.	34:54
	He said, give me a drink.	34:58
	How is it she said that you a Jew,	35:01
	ask a drink of me, a Samaritan woman.	35:05
	Woman if you only knew what God gives	35:10
	and who it is that is asking for a drink,	35:12
	you would have asked him	35:14
	and he would have given you living water.	35:15
	Not understanding the woman said sir	35:20
	but you don't even have a bucket.	35:22
	And the well is deep.	35:24
	How can you give me any water to drink?	35:25
	And she went on to ask,	35:28
	are you even a greater man than our ancestor Jacob	35:30
	who gave us this well and drank of it himself,	35:33
	are you greater than he?	35:36
	Jesus replied, everybody who drinks	35:39
	this water will be thirsty again,	35:41
	but whoever drinks the water which I give	35:44
	will not thirst again the water I shall give	35:46
	will be an inner spring always welling up to eternal life.	35:48
	The woman was expecting simple down to earth replies	35:53
	and Jesus was trying his best to move her	35:57
	to a spiritual realm which at the moment	35:59
	was quite beyond her understanding.	36:02
	The conversation continues with Jesus revealing	36:05
	that he knew much more about this woman	36:10
	than she thought that he knew.	36:12
	He knew that she had had five husbands	36:13
	and that the man she lived with now was not her husband.	36:15
	She had been rejected, not once or twice or thrice,	36:19
	but five times and was now living in sin, a real outcast.	36:22
	Maybe that's why she came at the noon day	36:27
	when all of the other women came in the morning	36:30
	or at night because she knew they didn't want her around.	36:32
	And then this dialogue moves to even greater heights.	36:38
	Believe me, Jesus said, the time is coming	36:41
	when you will worship the Father,	36:43
	neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.	36:45
	The time is coming indeed, the time now is,	36:48
	when the true worshipers will worship	36:50
	the Father in spirit and in truth,	36:52
	not in a place and not in a building,	36:54
	but in spirit and in truth.	36:56
	The woman replied, well I know that when the Messiah comes,	36:57
	he will come and he will tell us everything.	37:01
	And Jesus replied, I am he.	37:03
	Never before had Jesus been willing to answer the question	37:09
	and he was ask at many times, who are you?	37:13
	He never answered the question, but it was to a woman,	37:16
	a woman who had not even asked,	37:20
	to whom he gave the words of fate and faith	37:22
	and said I am he,	37:25
	I am that Messiah who will come and give you the answers.	37:28
	I'm sure you're familiar with this passage as I am.	37:35
	And I'd read this passage many times in the past	37:37
	the whole chapter as a matter of fact.	37:41
	And it seemed interesting enough, somewhat unusual,	37:43
	but really nothing particularly overwhelming or sensational	37:47
	or earth shaking or far reaching about it	37:51
	until I read it recently.	37:54
	It is the gospel lesson for the second Sunday in lent today.	37:57
	And so I read it and re-read it	38:01
	and then suddenly some of the real power	38:03
	of God's word here spoke to me.	38:05
	This is an absolutely magnificent story,	38:08
	a beautifully rich revelation of the radical nature	38:12
	of God's amazing love, of God's unconditional acceptance,	38:17
	and of God's unquestioning forgiveness.	38:23
	This story shows us,	38:28
	that there are absolutely no boundaries to God's grace.	38:32
	Jesus broke all the barriers	38:39
	that existed of personal relationships.	38:42
	Where Jesus spoke in the first place to a woman,	38:47
	married and divorced five times	38:51
	a woman now living with a man who is not her husband.	38:54
	Jesus spoke in the second place.	38:58
	Jesus as a Galilee and Jew spoke to a woman of Samaria,	39:01
	the land of hated peoples.	39:06
	Jesus spoke in the third place as a Jewish male,	39:09
	to a woman in public, a strange woman,	39:13
	not his wife nor his mother nor his sister.	39:17
	Was Jesus really radical in his teaching?	39:23
	Was Jesus really radical in his behavior?	39:28
	I believe that in both what he said and in what he did	39:32
	and accepting and loving persons,	39:35
	Jesus was absolutely revolutionary.	39:38
	And I say, thank God.	39:43
	Thank God, or perhaps not a one of us here this morning	39:49
	would have ever known or heard of this one	39:54
	who came from God to give us that water	39:57
	which is welling up into eternal life.	40:01
	I read of Jesus experience with this woman and re-read it.	40:06
	And the more I read it,	40:13
	the more I began to realize how far short	40:14
	of living the gospel, some of us thought.	40:19
	In the first place,	40:25
	Jesus was talking to a woman who had had five husbands.	40:26
	What do we do in our society?	40:34
	And even, or maybe even, especially in the church,	40:38
	what do we do with those persons who are separated?	40:43
	Or who are getting a divorce? Or who are divorced?	40:48
	I remember one of the most painful conversations	40:55
	I've ever had with a man in my life,	40:57
	was when he was elected to an official board	41:00
	in a local church, this was in the community,	41:02
	the first church where I serve,	41:04
	he was elected to an official board in the church	41:05
	where he and his wife had been going for years.	41:08
	They found out that he had been divorced and they asked him,	41:11
	they told him that he could not serve	41:14
	on the board to which he had been elected.	41:17
	So what do we do with those persons	41:21
	who are separated or divorced?	41:23
	Usually, we ostracize,	41:24
	both the husband and the wife.	41:30
	We sit back and we say to ourselves	41:33
	and then often we say to many others as well,	41:35
	I wonder what she did wrong.	41:37
	Why can't he get along with her?	41:40
	Or what's the matter with him?	41:43
	Or what's the problem?	41:45
	Or what are the problems with her?	41:47
	And I guess nearly all of us married couples	41:51
	have had the experience of being very good friends	41:54
	with another married couple,	41:56
	going out with them, having them over for dinner,	41:58
	going over to their house for dinner,	42:00
	becoming rather good and close friends	42:03
	until they separate and divorce.	42:05
	And we don't know what to do	42:10
	with separated or divorced persons.	42:12
	And so we usually do nothing.	42:15
	We keep them at a distance,	42:19
	as if they had some kind of contagious	42:22
	or infectious or fatal disease.	42:25
	They become something along the order of undesirables	42:27
	in the eyes of far too many of us.	42:31
	And so if you are separated or divorced this morning,	42:35
	my guess is that you have probably experienced	42:38
	some of the coolness and the distance	42:42
	that others of us have shown	42:44
	or have put between us.	42:47
	If you know of someone who is separated or divorced,	42:49
	I invite you this morning to think	42:53
	about your relationships with those persons.	42:54
	Here was a woman who had had not one	42:57
	or two or even three but five husbands.	43:00
	It's hard for us even to begin to conceive	43:05
	of the feelings of rejection	43:08
	which this woman must have had and known	43:10
	and lived with day by day	43:13
	and all the broken relationships which she had suffered.	43:15
	Remember, if you will, if none of her husbands had died	43:19
	and we really don't know about that,	43:23
	they were the ones who had rejected her,	43:25
	because she as a woman had no rights	43:27
	to divorce any of her husbands,	43:31
	it was all within their power.	43:33
	Only the husband could file for divorce.	43:35
	She had been constantly the object	43:39
	of rejection and brokenness, and Jesus loved her.	43:41
	He loved her my friends.	43:48
	He knew her sorted story,	43:51
	her suspicious past, her sinful present.	43:53
	He must've known because he told her about it	43:56
	even before she told him.	43:58
	He accepted her.	44:02
	He loved her.	44:04
	He changed her life.	44:06
	Then in the second place,	44:11
	Jesus was talking to a Samaritan woman.	44:12
	The wall was very high between Jews and Samaritans.	44:16
	They all trace their ancestry back to Jacob and even beyond.	44:21
	But around 700 BC the Assyrians invaded Samaria.	44:25
	Intermarriage between the Jews of Samaria	44:30
	and these foreigners from a Assyria took place.	44:34
	The Samaritans lost their racial purity.	44:38
	They committed the unforgivable crime.	44:42
	They lost their right to be called Jews.	44:45
	But then the Jews of the south remained pure	44:48
	and never intermarried.	44:51
	They remained stubbornly and an unalterably Jewish	44:53
	and rejected all of those of Samaritan stock.	44:56
	The Samaritans were different in the eyes of the Jews	45:01
	for they had been unfaithful.	45:05
	They were of impure blood.	45:07
	They of all people were to be left alone.	45:09
	And now the questions,	45:15
	what do we do with those people who are different from us?	45:18
	Those who we think are defiled because they live	45:29
	in a place we think not quite as good as ours.	45:32
	Those who are unfaithful because they don't believe	45:36
	as we think they should.	45:39
	Those who are unworthy because they don't have	45:41
	as much or as good an education as we have,	45:44
	or as we think they should have.	45:47
	Those who are impure because of the color of their skin,	45:50
	because their skin is either darker or lighter than ours	45:55
	or because of the shape of their nose or eyes	45:59
	and these are different from ours.	46:04
	Those who are not on our level in life	46:07
	because their jobs are menial or are low class,	46:10
	what do we do with these folks?	46:14
	Too often, we stand apart from them or above them,	46:19
	or are distant to them or are condescending to them,	46:24
	or we have nothing to do with them at all.	46:28
	Here was a woman, obviously Samaritan,	46:32
	obviously different from Jesus,	46:36
	obviously among those who were to be hated by Jews,	46:38
	obviously not to be associated with or spoken to,	46:41
	worse, much worse than a total stranger,	46:44
	for a total stranger has no real identity to us	46:47
	and yet her identity was known	46:51
	and she was to be avoided in every possible way.	46:53
	And yet Jesus loved her.	46:57
	He loved her my friends.	47:05
	He knew she was Samaritan.	47:09
	He knew she belonged among	47:12
	the despised and hated and condemned.	47:14
	He accepted her.	47:17
	He loved her.	47:19
	He changed her life.	47:21
	Finally though, to show how truly radical Jesus was,	47:25
	John says that Jesus was talking in public with a woman.	47:32
	Jesus' attitude toward woman,	47:45
	was one of the most revolutionary	47:50
	and radical features of his entire ministry.	47:52
	For women, were truly the powerless,	47:59
	secondary, non entity persons of Jesus' day.	48:05
	Socially they were supposed to stay out of view	48:10
	and anytime they came out into view	48:12
	they were to have their faces covered	48:15
	and were not to converse with men in public.	48:17
	Legally, they had no rights.	48:20
	They could not even own property.	48:21
	Everything they had belonged to their father	48:23
	or brother or husband.	48:25
	Religiously they were non-existent.	48:28
	The Torah was not even taught to the mother	48:30
	or to the daughters in the household	48:33
	what was taught by the father to the males in the household.	48:34
	There was a saying in Jesus' day	48:39
	that a man upon rising each day would pray,	48:41
	thank God I am not a slave,	48:44
	I am not a Barbarian,	48:49
	and thank God I am not a woman.	48:51
	Woman had no place, no status, no rights in Jesus' day.	48:58
	But I believe that Jesus changed that	49:07
	and changed it drastically.	49:10
	Tragically but sadly woman is still not treated equally	49:14
	with man even in our own society	49:17
	or our own nation or state or country.	49:19
	And I guess I must say to you this morning	49:22
	as I was thinking about this sermon and preparing it	49:24
	I thought we would have a moment of celebration this day	49:26
	at this point in the sermon,	49:31
	but unfortunately we do not.	49:34
	But it is not because Jesus did not show us	49:37
	by word and deed that woman is worthy	49:40
	in his sight and in God's sight,	49:43
	the real equal rights amendment or the entire constitution	49:47
	of equality of rights, was adopted by Jesus the Christ.	49:51
	And one day we may realize that.	49:58
	I was reading recently a woman's statement	50:04
	as she wrote on the theme,	50:08
	being a woman means,	50:12
	and she finished that sentence with a statement.	50:15
	Among many powerful and beautiful affirmation,	50:19
	she made this statement about herself	50:23
	and about her own faith.	50:25
	For me, she said, my definition of being a woman	50:26
	is set in the context of my being a Christian	50:29
	rather than being restrictive when I recognized	50:33
	that Jesus did more than anyone in history	50:35
	to raise the status of women.	50:37
	My Christian commitment gives me	50:40
	an exhilaratingly freeing outlook on life.	50:42
	My faith confirms my uniqueness and my importance	50:46
	as a person created in God's image.	50:50
	This woman's beautiful self-affirmation under God continued,	50:55
	I am a woman in transition. I am a woman.	50:59
	For me now that means female, God's creation,	51:02
	a person in my own sight that's good, that's enough.	51:07
	That is good. That is enough.	51:15
	No wonder then that the Samaritan woman went	51:23
	from the well to her village	51:27
	to tell the people	51:31
	of the new life which she had found in the Messiah.	51:35
	It is good, it is enough, to meet the Christ,	51:41
	to know the Christ, to hear the Christ,	51:48
	to be accepted by the Christ,	51:54
	to be loved by the Christ.	51:59
	But I really didn't want to preach this sermon	52:06
	to talk about how we ought to relate	52:09
	to people who are divorced	52:14
	or to people who are different from us,	52:16
	or even to talk about how we are to relate to women.	52:20
	Although I think all three of those messages	52:24
	are powerfully present in this beautiful passage.	52:27
	What I really think this message is saying	52:31
	is that whoever drinks,	52:34
	even someone like her,	52:39
	or someone like him,	52:45
	whoever she is or he is.	52:49
	You see that's the affirmation of it all.	52:54
	Stranger, hated, ostracized, whoever.	52:59
	Whoever drinks.	53:07
	Jesus spoke here to a woman who was not very bright,	53:17
	to a woman who was not very virtuous,	53:25
	to a woman who was a foreigner.	53:31
	He spoke to one who would have been considered unworthy	53:35
	of hearing his words and uncapable of understanding.	53:38
	Unworthy, incapable, yet loved,	53:44
	and forgiven, and accepted.	53:52
	But my friends with love like that around,	53:57
	there may even be hope for me.	54:04
	Whoever drinks.	54:15
	Amen.	54:23
	(soft piano music)	54:36
	(woman singing)	58:46
-	Our heavenly Father,	1:04:28
	accept these gifts and accept our hearts.	1:04:30
	And with them both help us to help others	1:04:34
	and to lead them into thy way. Amen.	1:04:37
	(soft piano music)	1:04:49
-	I remind you that representatives	1:10:13
	from Gideon International will be at the doors as you leave,	1:10:14
	asking that you help them to further their work.	1:10:18
	And now may the peace,	1:10:24
	the love and the hope of Jesus Christ,	1:10:27
	be with each of you now and forever. Amen.	1:10:30
	(soft piano music)	1:10:51

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Robert T. Young - "Whoever Drinks" (March 6, 1977)

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March 6, 1977

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Young, Robert T., 1935-2009

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