Hey everybody and welcome back to I Just Want to talk about the Bible.

If this is your first time joining us today, then let me just welcome you and say that I'm very glad that you're here.

My name is Christian Keeter and I live in the southeast of the United States of America with my amazing, beautiful,

godly wife Lacey and our two wonderful daughters, Felicity and Serenity.

Today we are discussing a topic that most any Christian would quickly acknowledge is

crucially important. This is a topic that, you know, we may spend a lot of time discussing

in Christian circles, but we have to ask ourselves the sobering and perhaps even difficult question of whether or not we are spending as much time doing this thing as we are simply talking about it.

And I'll be the first to acknowledge that this is an area where in the past I've talked about

it a lot, but done it a lot less than I have actually talked about it.

But by God's grace, that's changing and he's helping me.

And I just want to say right at the outset that if you're not where you should be in this

area, just like I wasn't where I should be in this area,

he can help you too. He's helping me. He can help you. And so we just have to ask, do I have

the desire to change? So let's begin by looking at John chapter 4. We're going to read through

the majority of the chapter and I'll pause along the way to offer just a couple

of comments, but we're not going to get into nearly as much detail as we could with a lot of

stuff in this passage simply because we are working towards one specific point near the end of it.

Okay, so beginning in John 4, verse 1, it says, now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making

and baptizing more disciples than John although Jesus himself did not baptize but only his disciples

he left Judea and departed again for Galilee and he had to pass through Samaria so that's

verses 1 through 4 just a quick geographic note here.

It says that he's down in Judea and he's going to be heading up to Galilee and he's passing through Samaria. So Judea is in the south. It's where the capital city of Jerusalem is. Galilee is

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