Tired On The Inside | Pastor Steven Furtick | Elevation Church

I told them today I said it's been heavy for so many people all week and God has given us the privilege to minister it is a privilege to minister to you this is I think the 13th week I don't know if I counted correctly what's your count 13 since we couldn't have people in our buildings and we've got quite a few more of those ahead of us what I'm grateful about is the buildings has been have been closed the church has been busy and it's a good thing too because the devil sure has been busy but the church how many of you this is your church and you're not just consuming put in the chat say this is my church I am glad to be a part of the family of God I'm not just a clicker I'm not just a commenter I'm not a subscriber I am a part of the family of God I'm washed in the fountain cleansed by his blood that's what the old hymn said this is my church tell me in the chat I see I see South America saying this is my church how in the world the South Charlotte in South America get together only by the grace of God God is a unifier God is a healer God is a barrier breaker God is a yoke destroyer God is the great I am he can be whatever he wants to be he's a transformer he's more than me see no better hold me back [Music] this is my church all over the world our FM it used to stand for extended now it stands for everywhere because we just gotta use I we're not gonna pay you but we are using your house as a church right now we need every available space like Peter we want to get in your boat and Jesus wants to know can I use your space can I use your boat can I use your influence can I use your voice he inhabits the praises of his people this is my church and I'm so thankful man I really have been wondering about you y'all go ahead and sit down we need to transition we need to transition and I was telling them today that it's a it's like all week and and really for weeks now it's been so heavy in people's hearts that today the Lord gave me assignment that he wanted to lift your burden and I told everybody that's in this room with me whether you're running a camera or playing an electric guitar whether you're playing a Fender Stratocaster or working behind a switcher I came out and told them drink your coffee because today we want to be used by God to lift those burdens that you've been feeling in and I have been worried about you I know you're not supposed to worry Matthew six bub says don't worry well I have been I've been worried I've been worried about you because normally I can see more of you and I can kind of see how it's going and can stand up here in and this is so weird I can't see you at all so I don't really know how you're doing you were singing this is holy ground but you've got some holy sweat pants on and you haven't changed them in four days and and now right about now you've got an ulcer from just all of the different emotions that you've been feeling and I've been I've been checking on the people that I love how are you and you know before this quarantine ever started I remember a few years ago I went through a season where I was just amazed that everybody answered the question how are you I mean you got a few people that they think you really want to know when you ask them how are you and they start going back for the last three months catching you up most people will just say something polite I'm fine I'm good whatever whatever and then some people will say I noticed this a few years ago they'll say I'm either busy I'm busy remember when everybody was busy I'm busy man busy and then the other thing you would get from people I'm tired I'm tired and I noticed a few years ago this was way before coronavirus people would say I'm tired I'm busy and I thought the two were connected but then a few months ago everybody's schedule got clear our heavenly administrative assistant decided we all needed to stay home indefinitely and people weren't running their kids around as much anymore or if they were they were just driving them back and forth and the kids never got out the car and so so many things shut down so many job responsibilities were suspended and but I still kept asking people how are you and they didn't say busy anymore but they still said tired and that caused me to think because the last week or two it's been exacerbated just even that much more for good reason everybody I'm talking to how are you I'm I'm tired I'm tired I called Pastor John Gray on Monday we sat on this stage and he shared powerfully powerfully dynamically accurately about some of the things that have been going on in our nation for centuries that some people are just becoming aware of and I wanted to call it Monday because we both knew sharing that conversation that it was what God wanted us to do but we didn't know how it would be received because we were talking about issues that sometimes get suppressed and the response was amazing from our church family oh I just want to thank you for being that kind of church that isn't afraid to shine the light of Jesus Christ in real ways not just in cute ways but in ways that are relevant to what really is our nation god I can't see a brother in Jesus Christ choking in the street and look away because he doesn't look just like me and so as John shared I could I could tell that it was heavy on him and and I called him Monday I said how are you doing the sermon was already going around the world I said the Sermon is is going around the world we're hearing from all over the world God is used in what you said on that platform boldly all over the world thank you how are you feeling he said I'll tell you what I'm grateful but I'm tired he said that after he preached here and shared on this platform he felt like he had been in a physical fight he said my body felt like as if I had been in a physical fight like a cage match and and I made a joke when we started that we were like a tag team and then he went home and physically felt the symptoms as if it had been a physical fight he said I'm tired and and I said isn't that crazy all we did is sit there and talk for 45 minutes but I realized that what we talked about for 45 minutes was something that my brother has been fighting for 46 years I can turn off the news he can't turn off injustice I guess he was tired I mean he thought he fought demons that existed before he was even born he said I'm tired and not just him I asked a guy who works at the bank who's working from home I said has it been good working from home I'm gonna open the Bible in a minute by the way I promise you I sent them so many scriptures this morning I think they got tired just looking at my list of scriptures and I'm gonna preach them and so don't go anywhere but but it was it was so many different people that in the past few weeks they weren't saying busy they were saying tired and it wasn't due to a physical demand necessarily because I asked this banker I said how are you doing he said I'm tired I said but you don't have to commute used to have an hour commute you would drive an hour to work and an hour home now you got two extra hours he said yeah but I don't have any separation between my office and and my kids I used to be able to leave them for nine hours and now I can't I can't shut one thing out I used to be able to compartmentalize I used to like my drive time to work because it was the one time that I knew I could have to myself and I would listen to you preach all the way to work and now I can't do that anymore because they've moved my meetings and they're eating up the Margie said man honestly I don't know it should be grateful I have a job and I know there's people that have it worse but honestly I'm tired and then I was talking to a mom whose kids have out there I think they're all between the ages of two and five and there's three of them so your planning was a little bit interesting but there's too late to go back and fix that because now she's got three and one has special needs and they normally have someone to help with the child with special needs but that person hasn't been able to come because of the virus she said I'm grateful because my kids are healthy but I'm tired I'm tired by the way if you're a little slow my message is called I'm tired so you could put that in the chat I'm tired I picked that title Thursday I'm never gonna pick my titles on Thursday again I picked my title I'm tired on Thursday because I was hearing this and feeling this from so many of the people that I care about and then every night I've been waking up at 3 a.m. so I guess the Lord wanted me to live my message next week I'm gonna name it a hundred million dollars and see what happens I'm a name an eight-pack and see if my abs start my name and make out with my wife next week Hawaii I'm a preacher's message called Hawaii next week but it was just in the process of developing this message the Lord led me to a scripture in John chapter 4 I'm tired but but really this message is not about that physical tired it's like my mom was saying to me the other day she said I talked to myself so much it's getting boring because honestly this has been a very hard time for her being being alone in trying to stay protected but then how do you protect your health and protect your sanity my dad went to heaven in 2013 it was the seven years of when my dad went to heaven this past week and she said the problem with talking to myself is we keep finishing each other's sentences we know what we're gonna say before we say it I'm tired of talking to myself I'm tired of being alone I'm tired I'm tired I'm tired but it's not like bags under my eyes it's not about gas in my car I heard a lot of the people that I shepherd say and I'm tired inside maybe that's a better title we'll call it it officially we'll call it I'm tired inside go with me to John chapter 4 all you who are weak and heavy laden come with me to John chapter 4 and let's listen on a conversation I've been I've been talking with this text this week and what the Lord showed me was something that I thought I had mastery of this text John chapter 4 you know I've heard so many sermons on John for now some of you who grew up going to Wednesday night Bible study you promptly click over to some other preacher now because you're like well what can possibly be in John 4 I promise you this that God showed me from John chapter 4 and and again I thought you know I know this text it's about the Samaritan woman the woman at the well we call her it illiterate snice Lee the woman at the well the the woman who had had five husbands and number six wasn't her husband I called her one time the thirsty woman because it's anyway it's different meanings depending on how you culturally interpret that and and I talked about this woman on Easter I've talked about this woman on New Year's and new residue Year's resolution but but I saw this as I was thinking about how are you really inside how are you how are how are you how's your how's your insides I went to this text and I stayed with it and I saw something that I had never seen before I'll read you just enough of it to give context and then I will get further context and then I will give a little more context and then you can eat a sandwich fire I mean even looking out across this room I can see it y'all are trying so hard to pay attention but honestly it's like it's a lot right now and I want to show you something that spoke to my soul god I pray that he will energize your spirit with this word now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized but his disciples so he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee I always skip that little introduction because I wanted to start the text here in verse 4 where Jesus went through Samaria but backing up the sea verses 1 through 3 was interesting for me because I noticed that Jesus refused to be controlled by the agendas of others and that thing really started preaching to me because in Jesus day they had sometimes they had these different controversies and they had politics it was much different in Bible times than it is today they had some people who supported this leader and some people who supported that leader and then you had the Pharisees who were trying to keep their power and in order to keep their power they didn't care what they had to say they didn't care who they had to trample on they didn't care who they had to hurt they didn't care what missing nation they had to spread so when the prophet from Galilee started performing miracles he was born in Bethlehem grew up in Nazareth they did his miracles in Galilee when he started baptizing people and he started gaining popularity he represented a threat to the religious establishment which had become so political that they had lost the heart of the father in pursuit of building the kingdom of their own ideologies I just wonder is the Bible still relevant is the Bible still eternal is it still the Word of God because we find ourselves in a time where we could use a whole lot more Jesus a whole lot more can I preach about Jesus for 30 minutes today can I preach about Jesus not the Jesus that we thought we knew from 3 little quotes that we carefully selected but the Jesus who refused to be contained or confined to any ideology or to a tea party can I preach about Jesus and the more they tried to create this pressure for him to fit within their system he was like I'm out of here that's not what I'm about I'm about my father's business and in Jesus day they didn't always report the facts on the news in Jesus day in Jesus day in Jesus day everybody on this section smile at me cuz y'all got me thinking I'm doing bad in G I'm not talking about today I'm not talking out today I'm saying in Jesus day they got it wrong sometimes in Jesus day in Jesus day and they said he's baptizing more than John this guy's getting powerful we gotta stop him em and and they they actually they actually they actually got it wrong he wasn't even the one doing the baptizing he won't anyone doing baptism a lot of the things that we say God does he's not actually doing anyway that's not the message the message is called I'm tired inside you know I'm tired of I'm tired of not being able to trust any information from anywhere I don't know what to read anymore I don't know who to follow anymore I don't know what to listen to anymore it's like everybody's got an angle everybody's got an agenda they said he's baptized in more than John you better do something but he wasn't even the one baptize him the Bible says when Jesus learned this which in and of itself is shocking Jesus learned how does Jesus learn how does the one who is wisdom learn anything well they bring him the report they tell him that that the Pharisees are are starting to become very very nervous about what he represents and so he's like let's go and verse four says something else that's really shocking all right remember this is not this is not the Jesus that you pull out and cuddle with this is not this is not cuddly Christ I preached the sermon one time called savage Jesus all right this is the Jesus who doesn't take shortcuts and doesn't deal with the surface issues this is not the Jesus who comes to give you gummy bears you know I don't care what they're laced with or how legal it is this is not that gummy bear Jesus look at verse 4 it says now he had to go through Samaria he had to go through Samaria I see you nodding underneath that that monitors stand it's interesting and it's kind of surprising and it catches you off guard he didn't have to do anything he was not controlled by anyone in fact the only agenda that he was fully committed to was the agenda of his father in heaven I have sensed the Lord asking me over these last several months whose agenda are you committed to is it the agenda of Jesus now Jesus agenda was not an agenda that was imposed by external forces Jesus had to go through Samaria not because Peter told him to not because he took a vote and it was the popular thing to do not because his base liked it in fact his base hated it Samaria how many sermons have you heard I mean you love the word how many sermons have you heard Chatwin about Jesus going through Samaria and the Jews hated to go through Samaria because even though there was not a national distinction there was an internal distinction I mean how many sermons have we heard about how the Jews would walk twice as long to go around Samaria and one time I was preaching about it and I saw it in a funny way I was midstream mid-thought mid-sentence and the Lord said some area we all have some area some area that's a whole message right there too isn't it we all have some area that we try to avoid in fact sometimes the reason we're tired is because we're working around everything that God wants to bring us through and so we've got to work around for our pain but the the form of the work around for our pain creates a greater dependency that wears us out in the end and the beautiful thing about the Texas you don't even have to understand this geographically you're experiencing it spiritually we all must go through some area but for Jesus it was that northern part of the kingdom it was that place that then most people would double back gotta go across the Transjordan gotta cross near Jericho they would turn a three-day journey into a six-day journey just to avoid going through what Jesus went straight into and you know what the Lord said to tell you he's confrontational he's confrontational he is not passive he is confrontational and I know we have we have sweet Jesus Ricky Bobby Jesus a pound baby Jesus I like him better that way I can hold him speaking of tired my brother had a baby this week his wife had a baby his wife Brooke had a baby he took some credit and he's so excited and when I first talked too much - how are you doing you know what he said confirmation on my sermon he said I'm tired I said so is everybody else but you do not know tired yet a men preacher Steve you don't know tired you are gonna be beggin for four pre pre-baby tired now you are you you have not welcomed only a child into the world you have welcomed a dictator into the world of your home and now there will no longer be an agenda between you and your wife about mealtimes or schedules or bedtimes you don't know tired ya tell somebody you don't even know tired you don't even know tired absolutely man he had to go through Samaria some area area that other people avoided God went straight into and even though it was the more direct route it was done the path less taken let me stop for a minute because I don't want to get so caught up in my construct that I that I fail to ask you this question what are you working around in your life that God wants you to walk through and how much longer will you do it that way it's like everything in the text is inward from the outside Jesus has pressure from the Pharisees but he's not controlled by that he's not controlled by that he's guided from the inside that's a really awesome thing about instability in the world it helps us get our our center of gravity from God who is on the inside and he had to go through Samaria not because it was the predictable bath and certainly not because it was the popular bath but because it was the path of his purpose I love the word of God and I heard about it so many times you know he had to go through Samaria that's that's where he went and I heard that there was a woman there a woman who had had a pretty questionable character and that he wanted to meet with her and that's who he went for and and I even heard how he went that he went straight through instead of going on the the path that most people were familiar with but you know I saw this week I saw something read this with me in verse 5 so he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph Jacob's Well was there and Jesus tired as he was from the journey sat down by the well it was about noon when a Samaritan woman that's who sike are that's where when she came to draw water that's what Jesus said to her will you give me a drink and I love verse 8 in parentheses has struck me as funny when I read it his disciples had gone into the town to buy food why is that funny I think he was tired of him I really do I don't think he was so worried that they were hungry I think he was like you know what would be great if y'all just want to run an errand I got something I got to do sometimes you gotta send people away sometimes you gotta say hey I'm working on this right now I appreciate you so much and I love you and I'll see you when you get back with us grilled chicken nuggets and those french fries see John's Gospel it is different than the other Gospels can I show you Jesus from John's Gospel in John's Gospel we're seeing that Jesus is fully God he's fully gone he is the response of the call that started at the bush where Moses stood generations ago Jesus is not a johnny-come-lately Jesus is not a fly-by-night Savior Jesus is not a pop star or a flash in the pan that's why he was not driven by popularity because he was not he was not instant grits Jesus came through 41 generations from Abraham to David from david to the exile from the exile to jesus was 41 generations God found a man used to man found a man used to man but men kept messing it up so God finally said I'm tired I'm tired I'm tired of you trying to get to me how about I come to you so the word became flesh and dwelt among us that's John 1:14 and we beheld the fullness of his glory and john sets out to show us a glimpse of who Jesus is I wonder do you know who Jesus is not who somebody told you he was in Sunday School in 1978 not who we want him to be not the one who has the same melatonin as you not the one who votes the same as you not the one who only cares about what matters to you I wonder do you because he's the great I am I mean John sets it up so you can't miss it even if you want because here's what he does please y'all please sit down I know you're tired you're tired I don't want you on your feet you're tired you're tired so so sit down listen to this okay let me sit down sue okay okay I'm gonna sit down for a minute i'ma sit home and I'm gonna tell you how it goes in John's Gospel he says that in the beginning was a word in her peace with God Word was God and he says that all things were made through him before so Jesus has been busy Jesus has been busy Jesus has been busy Jesus didn't minister for 33 years the word that was with God in the beginning became flesh and we beheld him he didn't get started when he showed up you know it's the same way in your life God spoke you into this earth at the time that he wanted come on if y'all 'uncle help get out of here I'm telling you God put you where he wanted you and some of the battles that you're fighting started long before you got here that's part of why you're tired some things that we fight are generational so when when John is describing Jesus Matthew gives you the genealogy but he does it through the people John starts way before that and says in the beginning was the word and the Word was with God in the Word was God and if you go all the way to the back of John's Gospel he says these things were written about Jesus that you may know and believe and have life in his name but he says something crazy he says these are just a few of the things that he did is that I just gave you what you could handle I just want to give you a glimpse of who he is by showing you what he did so in John's Gospel there are there are seven signs that the author mentions that Jesus did it's not all that he did it's not all somebody say it's not all it's not all oh I felt but I thought the Holy Spirit on that put it put it in the chat right now it's not all it's not all what I know of God is not all there is of God what I think is true is not all that is true what I have experienced thus far in my life is not what I have to settle for what I have known doesn't have to be my normal forever it's not all but he said I'm gonna give you a glimpse of what he did so you can see who he is these are called the seven signs in John the seven signs it started in Cana of Galilee when he turned water into wine I call this a molecular miracle a molecular miracle um it looks little but it shows you who he is how many have had God show you who he is in little tiny waves that's called a molecular miracle well he can't stay there forever so he has to go in and and preach in Judea in John chapter four he heals a royal official son that's the second sign and then in John chapter five he walks by a pool not to relax but it was a pool where many who were lame and disabled used to lie and he speaks to a man on a mat and he gets him up off of his mat because the man was waiting on the water to move but Jesus had the water within him that the man was trying to get to on the outside and he showed that he is greater than any earthly system and he can bring to you what others did not bring to you and he can do for you what nobody can do for you that's the third side by the time you get to John 6 you're getting into some of the more well-known miracles when he when he did he did multiply those grilled nuggets I was talking about come on I've been up a long time I'm hungry and those waffle fries and he multiplied to feed 20,000 I thought it was 5:00 somebody just said you didn't count the women and children works through the people that you don't even count God works through the people that you don't even know this God works through the people that you don't even think are worth putting in the total so that's the fourth sign by the time you get to where am i Adam on the fourth sign what's the fifth sign oh maybe the fifth sign is that man born blind he opened up his eyes and ruined his life because when he opened up his eyes there are certain things that once God shows you you can't unsee them anymore he messed up Lazarus whole funeral they didn't even get a chance to really start the funeral they didn't even really get a chance to mourn and here he came with a miracle now several of these signs were connected to a statement John also gives seven statements you feel like you're in those are you tired of me preaching yet I'm not tired of this I could do this all day something comes alive in me when I start preaching it's the weirdest thing it doesn't matter how tired I am God gives me some kind of strength it must be for you you must have been on the verge this week you must be burning out but God wanted to get you some oil so you don't so you don't die before you realize the purpose for which he brought you into this world to begin with in the beginning was the word the Word was with God the Word was God the great I am so Jesus said some things she said I am do you know any of them the bread of life he said that right after he fed all those people he wasn't trying to just feed their stomachs he was trying to inform their spirits he said um I am the light of the world he said uh I am the door for the Sheep he said I am The Good Shepherd even in the valley I'll guide you I'll be your life I am the life I am the door I am The Good Shepherd I am the resurrection and the life I am the way the truth and the life uh I I am The True Vine best seven John is showing us this number of completion seven best that's God's number seven sixes man's number that's why we're tired because we're living in six Jesus is the seventh man the seventh man and and then what I want to show you in this text if you'll let me show you this it's gonna bring you a sense in your soul of something you know I know you're stressed out and I know there's a lot to be worried about in the world man I got so mad this week and I know you're not supposed to get mad but the same Jesus who pet the little baby sheeps flipped over tables in the temple when they weren't doing it for the right purpose and there was a guy on my Instagram this week and he saw me and John talking about racism and and and the evil and the atrocity and really the the fact that if the church is silent about these issues that matter to people it's like we want to dismantle the cross it's like we only like this part we don't want Jesus to inform how we treat others we just want him to do stuff for us and I don't go through every comment on on Instagram or YouTube but one person said I'm tired he said tbh to be honest I'm tired of all the pastor's I follow posting about racism on my feet can't we just get back to preaching Jesus which Jesus the one you went to Sunday school with or the one who went through Samaria with Jesus come on now I'm just in need of an answer which Jesus do we worship which one the one who said I am the way the one who you follow or the one that you lead the one that you said no I'm not following you any further than that he had to go through Samaria and watch what he did when he sat down what what he did when he sat down in verse 6 he said he said he sat down he sat down tired as he was which is confusing right because Isaiah 40 is a dope scripture you can't call the word god dope but just did I just did it right here in American English set every syllable of it and it says Isaiah 40 the Prophet said why do you complain Jacob I say Israel my way is hidden from the Lord my cause disregard for my god this part do you not know have you not heard the Lord is the everlasting God the creator of the ends of the earth he will not grow tired or weary and his understanding no one can fathom he will not grow tired and in the beginning was the word the Word was with God so this blew me away John chapter 4 verse 6 Jesus tired I prayed about this message please know that I did because there's so much I can't do right now and I feel bad about it and I wish I could do more and this church is doing everything that we can to be a part of the solution but there's so much I can't do and I know you've been tired and I know it's been hurting and I know it's been lifelong and it might not be racism it may be an addiction it may be wondering how much longer you're gonna have a job or when you're gonna get one or when this is all gonna be over or when God's gonna send you somebody who gets you I know you've been tired and I prayed I said God what do I tell them they're they're tired and what do I tell the person who is too tired to go on what do I tell the one who says I'm too tired Gus said tell about I got tired too Jesus said down in Samaria that's where to talk to a woman that's who asked him for water that's why but why because he was tired because he was fully God fully man yeah as much as we love to shout about his divinity you know how we were a minute ago when I was setting you up about the grade I am just to bring you back down so you could know that the same God who created you who was strong enough who was powerful enough everybody thinks Jesus was weak raise your hand maybe maybe being weary doesn't mean you're weak Jesus tyre why was he tired I didn't say who was he tired of we already know it was Peter come on Peter Peters fighting you at every turn cussing and stuff in front of the press having to bleep Peter out you know I know he was tired of the Pharisees he couldn't wash his hands or not wash his hands they followed him to every bathroom every dinner yeah I know he was tired of them but it says he was tired from the journey thinking about Jesus journey you know they walked everywhere no Oberer no Bert Jesus uber Christ uber Savior three day one from where they were baptizing through Samaria straight through was the shortcut by the way the direct route is sometimes the divine realm instead of hiding the fact that you're tired you just say god I hire somebody somebody was yawning during my sermon one time and I just got mad about it I said how are you tired you're not doing anything you know but I found out later they they worked a night shift and came straight to church it's kind of hard to understand someone if you only see them at one part of their journey and some people that we think are weak maybe are weary have you thought about that that just because you're weary it doesn't make you weak how do you know that Jesus I am the light of the world I am the bread of life I am the resurrection I am the door I am the shepherd I am The True Vine I am the way at some point six hours after they left that morning at noon he said something we wouldn't expect to hear the Savior say I am tired this is the Incarnation I worship but God who is powerful enough to give me strength and who is human enough to get tired and for some reason this week I felt that some of us needed to meet tired Jesus I thought maybe you could relate to him because his journey didn't really start with just leaving that morning I mean that's enough six hours that day six hours in one day I mean I got a six hour drive coming up with my kids and I'm downloading every episode of The Office on all of their phones just hoping we can make it six hours still be saved still be married still be healed delivered blessed and one happy family and that's a drive six hours because you leave the six this noon is hot it's the heat of the day of course he's tired and yet I wondered was it only physical or did he go through Samaria because he was tired of the way they were treating each other why was he tired why did he come to abolish the barriers full of grace and truth and we beheld his glory his journey didn't start in Bethlehem and the beginning was the word and the Word was with God in the word Wescoe and the word became flesh that's a long trip from the Sapphire seal of heaven to the dusty streets of Samaria of course he was tired even youthful grow weary and stumble but those who wait on the Lord I'm waiting on God right now I'm waiting somebody say I'm waiting I'm waiting I'm waiting and I'm weary and I'm not gonna lie to you I'm weary I mean this this is getting old and some of y'all want to cuss right now don't do it in the chat they'll block you but even in your mind you're like I'm sick of this I am sick of this I mean that's that's not a I am statement we read in the Bible but that's what you're saying right now in your heart I'm I am but I am sick of this I am I am sick and tired I am tired of fighting battles above the thing about me some people say when they get tired they start laughing not me when I get tired I get mean how many of you when you get tired that's that's why when you had to pull me out of the elevator in Australia and I was about to fight that guy after I preached I mean I had just finished given the invitation to if you're here today the Lord says come and that just said something sideways to me and my uncle taught me to hit him with his your elbow if you can get close enough and I was cocking the elbow and chunks flew me back he said you've been I was jet-lagged I have preached twenty three times in four days they were preaching me to death at Hillsong Church I'm preach them I'm preaching preaching preaching time and chunks for me I said come on you're too tired now because when you get too tired you start fighting battles that don't matter to distract you from the ones that do that's just me I start fighting everybody I start fighting people that are trying to help me when I'm tired so jesus said y'all go get lunch I'm sitting here for a man cuz the ones doll have been fighting against are the ones I came to save he had to go through Samaria he had to sit down there was a woman coming who needed him she didn't even know him she had no idea who he was he sat down because he was tired I mean you don't have to do anything right now just sit down and receive this word that the son of God got tired the Son of God got tired I know you're Superman and you're mad at yourself because you can't always get it perfect perfection got tired faith doesn't prevent fatigue it just gives me a place to sit he sat by a well here's the important thing what well do you sit by when you're tired he said it was Jacob's Well you with me son he said it was Jacob's Well Joseph was given that well by Jacob a lot of what our kids learn comes from us it's generational Jesus sat down by that well I I think that's so appropriate to say at this moment in our nation what wells are you digging for your kids to sit next to a lot of what we're going through today is because of wells that were dug before we got here Jesus sat by Jacob's Well wait on the Lord now we see the Lord waiting on a woman so I pictured this moment I picked your menu you got your coffee and you're like I'm drinking all the caffeine I can I'm still tired and I know you can watch your TED talk about you know when to go to bed and when to wake up and all that I'm not talking about that I'm talking about tired inside I'm a soul doctor I don't know anything about REM I don't know anything about ergo dynamic pillows did I say that right I don't know anything about your mattress number that is not my specialty but I know this sometimes you've got to sit down by a real well and listen to me a lot of the places that we're sitting while we're tired are only making us more dehydrated a lot of the places that we're drinking from are making us dumber more fragmented less hole less informed and this woman comes up a picture she comes up at noon because she's sneaking away from all of the people who talked about her she is a woman with a past and the last thing she wants to see is a man specifically a Jewish man specifically a rabbi and Jesus as hey can I get a drink this is not a pick-up line this is not a pick-up line this is not a surface level question this is Jesus asking this woman do you even know what's in you I'm a stand-up now I'm a stand-up now because I hear God saying to someone today you don't even know what I put inside of you what I have put inside of you is so great now if you only see things on the surface if you judge how people judge you will never see what's inside this was Jacob's Well but it was really just something for Jesus to sit on when he sat on the well and asked the woman can I get a drink he was not talking about h2o don't you get it it's never about what we think it's about it's always something deeper so Jesus has showed up in this woman's situation and I can't help but think is for somebody today you have been at your wits in and you thought I was gonna give you a little pep talk and you thought I was gonna tell you you know get on with it and and trust God and and move forward and all these little clay cliches of faith but I came to tell you sit with him a little while sit with him a little while sit with him a little while sit with him and see who you really are sit with him a little while I've been sitting I'm gonna just gonna confess whew I've been sitting by the wrong Wells a lot of the time I've been depending on people to inform me about Who I am I've been depending on what I see with my eyes to tell me how it is but there is a well that does not come from an external source and you can't see the pipes there is within you a spirit that is greater than whatever is going on around you greater is He that is in me I'm trying to shout sitting down so you can know he sat on the well so she could see what was within her I believe God is revealing some things to us in this season I believe God is revealing to his church in the season that he has made us for a time when the world is so divided when he has made us for a time that the world is so apathetic and he sat by the well is that by the well to talk to a woman who had had five husbands and was living with number six so she could know he was number seven on the first day God worked on the second day God worked on the third day God worked on the fourth day God worked on the fifth day God worked on the sixth day God worked what are you doing on the seventh he sat down not because he needed rest but because she did and that's what I love about her God who will not only fight for me and walk with me and talk with me but God said to tell you this week he is the guy who will come through forty-one generations and go through Samaria just to sit with you just to sit with you sit with him for a minute he might show you something that has within you that nobody else notice this woman had been passed around like the jar that she carried to the well that day she knew what it was to feel yes did he sit down at the well that day because he was tired or because she was you tired of being used by people who try to be manipulated by people sit with me cuz I'm not seated where you're seated when I sit with him he has seeded me with him in heavenly places far above every roller and principality you say I'm tired gossip me too I'm piracy hi how people treat one another - I'm tired of the injustice - that's why I came in the form of a man so that I could be what man could never be I came to hang on a cross and say it is finished so that you can rest I know we got work to do can we sit for a minute can we just sit with him for a minute by the well that will never run dry some of us passed E a long time ago the tank has been empty a long time so God says I want you to sit with me when you sit with me you will see with me when you sit with me who is this for just just raise your hand right now in the room raise your hand in the chair say this is for me I want to sit with him I want to sit by the well that has living water I want to sit away from the streams that are poisoned by the prejudiced of men I want to sit with him for a minute and Jesus tired as he was said to his disciples y'all go get some food I've got to get a harvest I believe God sent me to preach this message to somebody today who is tired on the inside and no amount of sleep no amount of Netflix and numbing it and no amount of pacing the florist is gonna solve it and I believe God brought you into his presence today for a reason and I think he woke me up to three or three in the morning this night the night before the night before so that I could feel a little bit physically while I preached this how you've been feeling before we got here how Jesus felt was how the woman fell even youth will grow tired and weary and young men will stumble and fall but they that wait on the Lord will renew their strength and God said even if you don't have the patience to wait for me I'm waiting for you when you are tired you must be very careful that you do not become dehydrated you have got to drink this water you have got to drink this word you have got to drink this worship you have got to move away from Wells that will never quench your thirst and you have got to receive the water that flows from within in the beginning was the word and the Word was with God and the reason that you came to church today is God wanted to give you water he knows you're tired he knows you're thirsty he hung on a cross and said I thirst too he stretched his arms this wide because he was tired of it too and the man who was God became man and who knew no sin became sin that we might become the righteousness of God and he said to the woman and he said to me and he said to you come unto me all you who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest I am the bread of life I am the resurrection I am the light I am the Shepherd I am the gate I am the way I am the vine I am the seventh man I am the seventh man I am the well I am within you you will never get what you need from out there it's in here it's in here it's in here it's in here I know you're not in a church building there's no worship leader to tell you lift your hands will you do it anyway I know there's not a feeling telling you right now to have hope can you hope anyway it is say well that springs up from within it is a well that meant did not dig it is so well that does not consult external situations it is a well of the Holy Spirit [Music] and God said I came all this way but to sit with you to be with you the proof of his power was not just when he walked on water the proof of his power was when he sat on a well did you hear me better online than they heard me in this room because if you got that you got the whole message he didn't just prove it by walking on water which he did he proved it by sitting on a well sometimes he walks on water sometimes he is water but I declare that the Lord is in this place we started this service when I got up to preach saying the Lord is in this place and not for a minute was I forsaken and you came into this service today saying I'm tired inside I said I know it's alright to be tired but why don't you go ahead in and leave that jar that you brought behind that jar that represents what you've been carrying that you weren't meant to carry along and receive right now what only I can reveal father you gave me this word I believe for your people I didn't think of this I didn't study this in a book you spoke to me and told me to go to John 4:6 and I said what to tell the people when they're so tired and they're right to be tired and they're tired and they're tired of being tired and they're tired of things not changing and you told me to tell him I got tired too and you are seated with me in heavenly places so now Lauren we need the water of worship we've received the water of your word today in the beginning was a word and word with God the Word was God we received your word today now make it flesh in our lives as we worship you now lift your hands wherever you are this is not a moment to be self-conscious this is not a moment to log off this is not a moment to be distracted because we need this water in a dry and weary land we need this water Lord we wait on you we believe that you are in this place whether it's a cross or an empty tomb your presence is proven in both we take this moment just to let you know that we know that we need you and you are in this place we may feel forsaken we may feel forgotten we may feel frustrated that's okay you got tired to Jesus but you sit with us in our brokenness you sit with us in our unbelief you sit with us in our rage you sit with us to show us who we really are just begin to minister to the Lord Zeke not for a minute was i forsaken the Lord is in this place living water in this Bread of Life in this place light of the world is in yea yea yea [Music] sit in this piece from Holy Spirit tribals awaken Christian come minister with him on the harmonies sing that over the people let him sit for - so weary so exhausted emotions going crazy world going crazy the tension is so great we know we can make minister to the people [Music] [Music] oh not for me once a for saying all I was but I was artists in this place the Lord is in this place thank you lord holy spirit troubles away lords in this place yes he is what is she got four of me was force becomes your strength there comes your strength his presentation till it comes it to you right now hold these be you needed this so you needed this moment No [Music] one [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I know the message is officially over and you're probably tired of hearing me talk I went a long time today but I had a lot in my heart and I just want to make sure that you remember that God is with you and that the presence of Christ is within you and I just want to thank you for being a part of this ministry Holly and I are praying for you these are really difficult days and there's so much work for the church to do in the world to bring God's kingdom to earth but we're committed to this and it's a privilege to stand with you to share God's word with you and to join together with you and getting the good news of Jesus Christ to the world I love you

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Id: CZk90baM79o

Length: 64min 17sec (3857 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 07 2020