Thank you, Brandon. As you mentioned, we were living in Turkey, my wife and my one wife and six children. And that would be an often, I get that question when we'd be walking as a family. You know, they look at our family, six children, and because of Islam, you know, you've got multiple wives. Is this all from one wife?

And so, I'm glad you clarified that for us. It was the cadence. You'd have to get the cadence going. Three numbers is something. There you go.

There you go. Well, I'd ask you if you could please open up your Bibles to the fourth chapter of John, John chapter 4. And we're going to be spending time with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and looking at some beautiful, beautiful scriptures here before us. So if you get to John chapter 4, I'm going to read for us verse 32 down to verse 38 and then we'll pray. So this is the context.

He's had this conversation with this woman. She's gone. His disciples have now come back and he's gonna let them in on something that up until this point has been a secret to them. And so what does he say? He says in verse 32, but he said to them, I have food to eat of which you do not know therefore the disciples said the disciples said to one another has anyone brought him anything to eat Jesus said to them My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.

Do you not say there are still four months and then comes the harvest? Behold I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields for they are already white for harvest and he who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit for eternal life that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together for in this the saying is true one sows and another reaps I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored others have labored and you have entered in to their labors let's pray together heavenly father we we come to you this morning we thank you for waking us We thank you for giving us health and strength, Lord. And now, as we open up your Word, we pray that you would feed us and strengthen us and guide us and instruct us. Lord, give us such insight into Your Son, the one who came to die for sinners such as we are, O Lord, and help us to learn the things that You would have us learn from Him. We're so grateful, Lord, and we ask You now to send Your help, send help from the sanctuary.

Strengthen us now, in Jesus' name, Amen. Amen. Well, you've come to a conference on making disciples, and at the heart of this is really the Great Commission. And what I want to do is just really spend some time looking at the great Commissioner of the Great Commission. To really kind of open up that word.

To look at the great Missionary Himself, our Lord and our Savior, Jesus Christ. And so our text, It really gives us a glimpse into the innermost chambers of his heart, really kind of the driving engine as to all that he was doing in his ministry. It's really the core and the center of it all. And so, think of it, the longest recorded conversation in the entire Bible that the Lord Jesus had with an individual is recorded for us here in John 4. You know, do you think the Lord He's trying to teach us something with this recorded conversation?

Well, in this conversation something astounding really emerges and you get that driving force behind the Lord Jesus Christ. And He makes that simple statement. He says there, My food is to do the will of Him who sent me and to finish his work and so when you think of food What is what is food do right food is that that invigorating thing you you need it's refreshing It's it's reviving and that's what Jesus is saying the thing that revives me the thing that that fills me the most is to do the will of my Father. That's what food is really all about. It enlivened Him.

It refreshed Him. And so the question we have to ask ourselves, if the thing that invigorated and energized and enlivened Jesus Christ is to do the Father's will, the next question is, well What is the Father's will? How would you distill and boil down what it is that God is after at the end of the day? Well, that's what John 4 is here for. And we find out a little bit earlier in this conversation, because it's the longest conversation, we don't have time to go through all of it but he makes this statement when he's explaining to the woman this beautiful purpose of the Father he says in verse 23 but the hour is coming and now is when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth.

For the Father is seeking such to worship Him." This is what he's explained. The Father is after something here. He's after, He's seeking true worshipers. Not mere converts as we've been hearing, but he's after something more. He's after men and women that will fall down before him, worship him, follow him.

What we've been hearing, disciples. But not only disciples, you know, worship is something you do now, but it's going to be something that you do throughout the ceaseless ages of eternity. And this is what God is after at the end of the day. And so All my point is here today, it's a very, very simple one here, is what the Father after important to you. Is the thing that invigorates Christ important to you?

See, in the pursuit of those who will be worshipers of God, you have Jesus Christ saying, it's my meat, and the Father saying, it's all my joy to bring many sons to glory. And so the question isn't what's God's will, the question is, is the thing that propels and invigorates and strengthens Christ. The same thing that invigorates and strengthens you. Your purpose, is it wrapped up in the same pursuit? That's what I want to press upon us hopefully today.

And so rather than just, I want to make sure, you know, oftentimes when we talk about evangelism it becomes like a burden, you know? I gotta, you know, gotta feel guilty or whatever. But notice what Jesus is saying. He's not saying even in obedience. Yes, my desire, the thing that fills me is to do my Father's will, so there's the element of obedience, but he's going above even obedience and saying I derive strength from doing his will.

And I wonder if that's the same thing for us. Do you get joy, like food gives you joy? Do you feel enlivened when you eat, right, you do? Well, the same thing, do you feel enlivened when you have the opportunity to share the gospel with somebody else. You know, J.C.

Ryle, he made this statement years and years ago, preaching to his own people, and he says that the highest form of selfishness is for a man who is content to go to heaven alone. Think about that. You find if whole swaths of people get wiped off the face of the earth, but hey at least me and my family, we're gonna be okay. That's not the heart of God. It's not the heart of those who follow after this master that we're going to be looking at today.

And so in verse 3 and 4, I'm going to go back actually to the beginning and walk us through just some key verses here. And so we're going to focus on 32 to 38, but look at verse 3 and 4. Look at this. He says, He left Judea and departed from Galilee, but He needed to go through Samaria. And so of course, you look at a map and there's Judea at the bottom and he's going up to Galilee, but in between you've got this area that is called Samaria.

And so what are you going to do? Well religious Jews in the days of Christ, what would they do? They would actually take the long way around. It might take an extra 10 miles, who knows, I haven't calculated it, but they had no desire to go through Samaria. The problem with Samaria is what?

It's full of Samaritans. They want nothing to do with these folks at all. And If you look back through history, what happened was in 722 BC you get the Assyrians coming in and they carry captive Israel and all they do is they leave the poor people there and then some of the Assyrians come in and they fill that gap And so what happens over time is this inner marrying that took place. And by the time you get to the days of Christ, you've got these kind of half Israelite, half Gentile group of people. You know, the religion is a really interesting thing.

It's a mixed bag, what you might call a mongrel faith. Right? They've taken a little bit from the pagans, they've taken something from Moses and blended everything together. They've got their own temple, they've got their own copy of the Torah, they've got their entirely their own religious system. It's a different religion altogether.

And so as a Jew, if you're a religious Jew, that's not a place really you're gonna go. You're gonna skirt around it. But notice what our text says here. It says, he had to go, or in the King James, I love how it says in the King James, it says he must needs go through Samaria. There's something there.

And you know, so we know a little bit about Samaria, but to make matters worse, I don't know if you've ever caught this here and maybe as kind of modern-day readers we're not going to catch it, but the people in Jesus day would have, this would have been so evident, you know, we discover the place he had to go in Samaria, it's called Sychar, right? But do you know what that word actually means it means deeply drunk madness think of it maybe you live in an area of the country and maybe even a town or city around you it might have a little bit of a nickname because it's known for something it's got a bad reputation right it's this kind of thing deeply drunken madness falsehood deceit deception disappointment foolish impious ungodly that's what this town that word actually represents And for you children if you've read Pilgrim's Progress, a good kind of parallel to that might be the city of destruction. That's kind of what this this place kind of represents. And yet it says I must or he must go through Samaria. And I want to dig into this must a little bit here.

Outside of Sychar, he finds the well, and then he sends his disciples away. They're going to go get some food. And he sits there by the well, and he waits for this divine appointment, this appointment that he set up from before the foundation of the world. Think about this, this is amazing to think about. And so we're in Sumeria in a place that has a terrible reputation.

And then you've got this, it says a woman of Samaria, but not just a woman. And you've read this account, I'm sure. You know, put this all, just get your head around this for a second, right? When you're a woman of ill repute in a town nicknamed ungodly, you're in a bad state, right? You're in a bad state.

When you need to come to the well off hours to avoid perhaps the condemning stares of some of the other women that come to the well in the morning, which is customary in cultures like that, you need to come at the heat of the day, you're in a really bad position. So a Samaritan from Sycar, but she's a woman that we're gonna dig into just a little bit here in a second here. And I just want that to sink in a second, but he has to go through Samaria. And so hopefully you don't think I'm overstating the case. Even when we draw the parallels to our own culture today, you know, Sikar could be a good description of the times that we're living in today when you look around us.

You know, we're living in a strange time. It's a new frontier. You've got people that almost cannot tell their left hand from their right hand. That would be a good description of things. During the confirmation hearing of our latest addition to the Supreme Court, She was asked a question very, very plainly, can you define the word woman?

And she said, I can't. And when she, you know, the person asking kept pressing her, her only response is, well, well, I'm not a biologist, right? Something that a three-year-old, a two-year-old, it's just natural, everyone knows, but these people, they suppress the truth In unrighteousness that's the description of her age professing themselves to be wise They become fools don't know their left hand from their right hand and you see this terrible moral breakdown even in the days that that we're living in and so the temptation is brother the times are hard right now it's time to kind of batten down the hatches let's wait for the storm to be overpassed, and perhaps at that point, then we'll be able to, you know, emerge from our holes and begin to do advancing the Kingdom of God. But that's not Christ. That's not what we see here.

And so there's a thousand good reasons to avoid the inhabitants of Sychar from just a moral point of view, a protectionist point of view. But again, that's not the Lord Jesus Christ. He's going straight through. And so we've looked at Sychar. I want to zoom into this woman a little bit and and just take a few things that we pick up in the snippets here before us in this conversation.

You know she's a woman who's religious But she's also totally lost. You know what Jesus says to her? You worship what you do not know. She's got this empty, bankrupt religion that's been unable to do anything for her at all. And so there she is.

One of the things also, she's lost, but she's also very elusive, isn't she? You know, you look at this conversation and you almost have to smile. When Christ gets a little too close to her, go call your husband. Hey, she's a little bit elusive. She gets into a religious conversation with him.

She wants to know, kind of, hey, should we worship here or should we worship there? It's this ingenious ability to kind of swerve around the key points. Let's talk in broad terms about religion, but let's not get too too close to the heart of the matter, which is where am I right now? That's kind of her state. It's all fig leaves, of course.

Jesus sees right through it, doesn't let her off the hook and goes right back after her. And I want to say, you know, even in a conference like this, right, are there any young people even? You know the lingo, you know the songs, You perhaps could even get into a good religious debate and defend some of the doctrines, but you're elusive when it comes to where you stand with the Lord and how things are really going with you and the Lord. It's another matter altogether. You compare it to the right answers and all of that, but I would just say, don't leave this place with that uncertain.

I say close with the Lord Jesus Christ. Make Him your all. Turn your heart over to Him. So she's this woman, she's a woman who's totally lost. She's also a woman that's elusive, and she's a sinner.

Just a simple descriptive word. She's burned through five husbands, and she's now testing out her sixth one. Jesus brings that out. And her whole life really is a life that she's sought some sort of refuge, some sort of covert from the storm. You know in a moment of vulnerability when she kind of, you know, she cracks a little bit, she says, sir, give me this water that I may not thirst nor come here to draw.

You know, and then she kind of goes back into her hole a little bit and hides. But you can see she's a woman that's poverty-stricken from a spiritual point of view. And why is that important? Well, this woman is representative of every single person that you lay eyes on that is not in Christ. Every single person, whether rich or poor, young or old, homeschooled, public schooled, if you're not in Christ, you're in the exact same state as this woman.

And you know Isaiah, I love the way he puts it. He describes it so beautifully in terms of the unbeliever, the person who doesn't know God, who doesn't have God as their God. He says it like this in Isaiah 28, he says, for the bed is too short to stretch out on. And the covering is too narrow that one cannot wrap himself in it. It's the picture of someone lying on a bed, but they can't put out their legs, and they don't have a blanket.

It's like this cold, uncomfortable situation. You know, I think it was actually this time last year we came to the conference and I had this bright idea. I just bought a brand new hammock. And I said, you know what, I'm gonna come, we came a day early and I'm gonna go up to the top of, I think it's Rattlesnake Point. You know, you get to the top and I'm going to camp out I'm going to try out this new hammock and so looked at the the forecast it's going to be 37 that night and I have my summer sleeping bag lots it's okay you know got this bright idea I get the hammock all strung up and I put on a by accident I put on a bit of a slant and so I get into the hammock and it's on a bit of a slant But it's not too bad.

You're lying on it for about five minutes. It'll be fine. And so there I am, got my summer sleeping bag, I'm on the slant and every five minutes now I keep I slide down a little bit and I got to kick myself up but I'm not gonna get out of my tent or out of my hammock to, you know, I'll just, it'll be fine. And at 37 it gets cold by 4 a.m. I'm still awake, you know, you're shivering in the tent.

And then finally I drift off, which must have been, I don't know, you know, just this fitful sleep, you know, when you're still awake but you're half asleep. And all of a sudden right above me in the tree, a whipperwhirl, which I'd never heard of before, comes and spends what must have been two hours just going on and on and on. And I came down from the, you know, the campsite and just had a terrible night's sleep. But this is the state of every man and every woman you ever meet. The bed is too narrow, and the blanket, It's not sufficient to wrap themselves in to find any comfort or any strength.

And you know, what are the beds men attempt to rest in? You know, the blankets that men tend to try to warm themselves in. You know, there are little mongrel man-made religions. That's one. You know, you've got your drugs, your distractions, your delusions.

It could be money or sex or success. All these things, men try to find something to warm them. It's an endless list, but the end of the day, it's too short and it's too narrow. It cannot do anything. Every shelter, every refuge, every place you try to get some level of comfort, it gets blown away with the wind.

And so mark it down. Everyone you see, I just want you to think about this. No matter the facade, hey, how you doing? If they're not in Christ, there is no peace for the wicked, says the Lord. Very, very simple.

And we're going to go somewhere with that in a second, but a few weeks ago, my wife and I, Melinda, we were coming back on a flight from Philadelphia to Raleigh and we get onto the plane and find our seats and then a young lady comes and we have to get up she's got the window seat and she comes in she's very very chatty you know we started talking to her how you doing I'm living my best life that's what she said I'm living my best life all smiles happy go lucky laughing and all of that kind of thing but you know as the flight went on layer by layer the face changed she she reveals I don't know if I should tell you this, but I've had a terrible divorce. You know? She's, why are you, where are you going? She's leaving one place, she's going to another, just to get away for the weekend, just to meet up with a friend and go to a concert and then go back home. She lives in a house with a little, you know those, I don't know what they're called, you know the woman dogs, the small little hypoallergenic dogs.

She's got one of those. And before you know it, on the way, she's broke down and she's crying on my wife's shoulder. All the, I'm living my best life, evaporated. Making good money, got her own play, all that stuff. But there is no peace.

And so it was a beautiful opportunity to talk about the gospel. And so I love this. What Jesus does, He finds the shattered life here in Sumeria, in Sychar. And isn't that you? Isn't that me?

When you think about it. And to do his Father's will, he's not gonna spare. He's not gonna say it's too far, it's too much out of the way to go. And I just wanna get you, think about this, picture it for a moment. You've got the Holy Creator.

He's just sitting at the well near a town called Ungodly having a conversation with the town's worst inhabitant. Isn't that what a picture to think about? And then he says those words, I who speak to you, am he. One of those beautiful I am statements. And so off she goes and she's in such haste she leaves her water pot behind.

And while she's gone the disciples happen to make their way back to the well. And this is where I want to get to here. The last time they saw Him, now if you just flip back In verse 6, this is so important, in verse 6 it says, he was worried, speaking of Jesus, he was worried from his journey. You know, it's the heat of the day, first of all. The distance from Jerusalem to this town is about 30 miles.

Doesn't mean he walked it all that day, maybe he broke it up over two. But that's a hot, you know, living over there in the middle, it's draining. And he's wearied. He's totally worn out. He's exhausted.

He's the creator, as we just said. He's the one who made all things, but he's robed in humanity here, and he's at the edge of his human capacity. He was wearied, and they don't come back empty-handed. They come back with whatever they picked up in the town, and they say, Rabbi, eat, you know. But something's happened In the time that they were gone, and now the time that they've come back.

And the heart of the text really is this. He says, but He said to them, I have food to eat, of which you do not know. The woman didn't know who it was that she worshiped. These men don't know something as well. Since you've been gone, Jesus is saying, I've been feasting.

Since you've been gone, my hunger is now gone. My exhaustion, it's over. I've got this fresh vigor that I didn't have before. It's amazing. They come with food, but it's Jesus that pulls up the table.

And he's going to let them in on something that up to this point, they didn't know anything about. He says, I'm refreshed from a nourishment that's been hidden from you until now, but here's the secret of my strength as a man, my reinvigoration. He says, my food is to do the will of Him who sent me and to finish his work. That's my true satisfaction. This is my soul's food, doing my Father's will.

And you could say, well, so far, so good. But in verse 35, he then says this. Do you not say, he asks him a question. There are still four months and then comes the harvest. Behold I say to you lift up your eyes and look at the fields for they are already white for harvest.

Well we've talked about God the Father, we've talked about the Son, we even talked about this woman. But now the disciples, they're invited to be partakers of the same task, doing the Father's will. That's what He's telling them right here. And just as His mission is God's will, He's telling His disciples, He's bringing them in to the Father's overarching mission as well, and saying, you're now being deployed in the same task. You've been recruited for this task and it's the longest conversation of Jesus Christ for a reason.

You know, Matthew Henry says it like this, that our Master has often, he has left us an example that we may learn to do the will of God as he did with diligence as those who make a business of it with delight and pleasure in it what a beautiful way to put it and so we asked him that question do you not say there are still four months and and then comes the harvest but he's gonna blow up This was a common proverb in those days and he's gonna blow it up. It's the idea that, hey, there's no particular hurry for the task because things just take time and you can't avoid waiting sometimes. And he says, no, I don't want you as my disciples to have that mindset at all. He wants to destroy that. And again, we can go back even to our times.

Brother, the times are bad. We're gonna wait until sunnier days emerge and then maybe we'll get back to the work of preaching the gospel. We're in a post-Christian age, you could come up with a thousand excuses, but Jesus says all power has been given to me in heaven and in earth. There's never a season where it's out of season to preach the gospel and to bring the truth of God to bear in the lives of those around us and he doesn't want you to have that mentality. In other words, he says instead of saying this proverb, He gives him this admonition, he says, lift up your eyes.

Lift up your eyes. And in the most unlikely of places, Sychar, with the most unlikely inhabitants, you've got these Samaritans all around in this area, using the most unlikely of people, this woman. He diffuses the knowledge of salvation to an entire town. It's a beautiful, beautiful picture. So I want to say to Some of us have set our sights too low.

We have just this idea we're looking down, we're consumed perhaps with our own interests and our own little world, you know, our own dreams, our own disappointments, what we want to get out of life. But we're living almost like this, looking down, even as Christians. I find myself, there's like a gravitational force, isn't there? That I look up for a while, maybe even like a conference like this, and you're encouraged, but then you go back on Monday or Tuesday, and real life comes back. And you find yourself, just the gravitational force of your life brings you back down to how you were maybe before the conference.

That's just the natural way of things. But Jesus is saying, lift up your eyes. Make it a pattern of your life that you're looking up. And it could be a lot of commentators say he was maybe pointing them to the horizon. Remember the woman left?

But now you've got this whole town of Samaritans. And maybe on the horizon, you know, some people say it might have looked like kind of wheat as everyone's kind of making their way the Samaritan horde coming to hear this man and what happens is one becomes a thousand however many there were And if our nation that we live in right now in the U.S., if it's ever to be recovered, it's only going to be recovered not by four more years of whoever, not by economic reform, not by any of these things. It will only be recovered through the bringing of the truth of God to bear in the lives of other people. And may God give grace to those who proclaim it, but maybe have mercy upon this nation. That he would grant the Reformation here.

And so, Sychar's worst, this woman becomes perhaps the New Testament's or one of the New Testament's greatest evangelists as these people make their way over the hill. And so, through this very real account, Jesus is teaching his disciples something so important. He says, you have the water of life. He talked to the woman about that. You have the blanket that makes men warm.

You have the cure for the sin-sick soul. You possess the thing that saves men's souls. That's what he wants his disciples to understand. Now lift up your eyes and live in the light of that. And so, I want to think about something here.

We're talking about eternity, aren't we? Where men and women will spend eternity all hanging on one thing. Jesus asked His disciples one time, who do men say that I am? It all comes down, if you want to boil everything down where a man is going to spend eternity, it really comes down to that question. Who do you say that I am?

He turns to Peter, and Peter of course, praise God, he gives the right answer, but everything comes down to that. And sometimes it's hard to convey just what that means, eternity. Even for you know little ones, old ones, it's a hard thing for us. It's impossible actually to grasp. You know Thomas Watson that that pured and he was trying to press upon his people one time, just what it is, what is eternity, to try to motivate them to think about the fields that are white unto harvest.

And He came up with what I thought was a beautiful picture. Some of us, I think one of the brother I was talking to yesterday and today, he's driven all the way 15 hours from Iowa to come here, right? Well, listen to this little analogy, what Thomas Watson says, and I'll tie it together to that. He says, The torments of hell abide forever. This is his first statement.

Now he draws this picture that even the kids can understand this, and those who drove long distances. If all the earth and sea were sand, And every thousandth year, every one thousand years, so imagine you came from wherever you came from, and all you drove through, no lakes, no ponds, no oceans, there's nothing. Everything is sand, the whole distance that you came. And then every one thousand years, a little bird should come and pluck one grain of sand. It would be a long time before that vast heap of sand were emptied.

Yet if after all that time the damned may come out of hell, there would be some hope. But that word forever is marked above the gates of hell. There's no recourse. He's trying to press. Do you know what it is?

When you came to Christ, what has happened? Do you know what you've been saved from? There's no do-overs. And now you've got this opportunity, you've got the thing, Jesus Christ, to go and make Him known to those all around you. And the one thing you know, no matter who you meet, is there is no peace for the wicked.

The blanket is too narrow, The bed is too short. All these things are just so clear and known. And you're there. You don't have to believe the facade. You can cut through and get to the thing that is most important and needful for men's souls.

And verse 36 says it like this. He who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit for eternal life. That both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. There's this great picture of this work that's taking place in this field. And there's three encouragements the Lord is giving here.

He's saying something here. Your work will be rewarded. Your work will be rewarded. It's going to last through eternity. Number two.

And in the end whatever role you played there will be rejoicing. You know one of the things about eternity that's just so astounding, we really don't know, do we, the impact, the effect. You know, the person that you talk to at the bus stop or at the restaurant or whatever, maybe you gave a track, and you don't know what the Lord might do with that thing five years from now, two years from now. I met this crazy guy, and he gave me this thing and talked to me, and at the time I thought he was odd. But now the Lord, you sow the seed and now the Lord causes it to germinate and bear some fruit and come up.

You may never know that. And that's okay. Because the Lord is the one who's building His kingdom. The thing is, don't be too worried whether you're sowing or reaping, but just be glad that you're a worker in the vineyard, in the fields of the Lord. That's the most beautiful thing.

And another thing to think about, that just today, this Saturday, If you were to get a glimpse of all the things that God was going to do just today, it would blow your mind. In all the world. I'm talking bigger picture, right? He's going to do a million things to advance His Kingdom, His glory. He's doing it.

And you get an opportunity in some small measure to be a partaker of that. You know, I love it how Isaiah 45, he says it like this. He says, I will go before you and make the crooked places straight. I will break in pieces the gates of bronze and cut the bars. That's what the iron bars.

And so the question is, are you going to play a role really in the mission of God to bring many sons to glory? You know I'm going to end here, but you know years ago, years ago I heard this story. A brother was preaching and it never left me. It's something I think of all the time. And it's a story of a woman and she lived in the slums just outside of Rio de Janeiro, that's in Brazil.

She was dirt poor, you know dirt floor house, she's got a corrugated shack as her home. And her only thing that you know gave her joy and really pride and most prized possession was that she had a daughter, a beautiful daughter, and her greatest fear with all the influences of the of the slum all around her is that one day her daughter would leave to go to the city and what they call, you know, to make a life, to enter into a life of disrepute. A woman worked hard and worked all her days. And one day she comes home after work, and she finds a little note on the table. I've gone to Rio to make a life.

And this mother, she takes all that she has, her little money, she gets on a bus, she goes down to Rio and she doesn't quite know what to do, so she goes to one of those photo booths, I don't know if they still have them around, but you go in and you take your own picture. And she took picture after picture after picture of herself. And there she was. And she went to, with those pictures, to all the bars, the night clubs, all the places, hotels, and all these places. And she put that picture up on the wall.

And after a while, she's poor, she runs out of money, she's got to get back to her home in the slums, and she goes back. A couple weeks later, her daughter is coming down the stairs in a hotel. She has a man on her arm. She's become a prostitute. She looks 15 years older.

She looks over in the mirror, sees her face and laments, this is what I've become. She looks back at the mirror and she sees a picture of her mother sitting there on the tape to the frame of the mirror. And she takes the picture and she turns it over. You know what she reads? I do not care what you've done.

And I do not care what you've become. Now come home. And this is the gospel call, that you have an opportunity to invade the darkness, to go into drunken and impious, ungodly, whatever the town is, the people all around you, and to take The waters of life. I don't care what you've done And I don't care what you've become Now come home. My son has paid the price." And so who knows, who's to say how many people were saved over that two-day period?

You know, Jesus come, they come back and Jesus has two days. I wonder what those conversations were like. What He said to them. We don't get any insight into that. The meals, all the joy.

Men had come to know their Savior. And so we've come to the end, but God is after this plethora. He's after true worshipers. He's after a gathering throng. And he's come to seek and to save those who are lost.

And I just want to press upon you, make it your life's work to proclaim the gospel as a disciple of Jesus Christ to go and to make disciples for the glory of his name to lift up your eyes and to see the world the way that the Lord wants you to see it so let's pray together Oh Lord we come to You here this morning. Lord, we have that song on our lips. Worthy is the Lamb who was slain. Lord, our great heart's desire is that He would receive the full reward of His suffering, that He would receive the glory, the honor that is due to His name. Lord, we thank You for Your great mission to go and to seek and find worshipers, true worshipers who will worship you in spirit and truth.

Lord, I thank you for my brothers and sisters, many of those here today that are in that category. And Lord, I pray that you would move upon our hearts, that you would give us fresh eyes to see, ears to hear what you've shared with us Lord in this longest conversation of our Savior Jesus Christ. Lord we pray that you would deposit in our hearts something that when we leave and after all the songs are done the crowds have dispersed that that Lord you would put it in our hearts to see the fields white for harvest. Help us not to be discouraged at the times, Lord, you reign. Lord, you are overall, you can turn it around in a moment.

Lord, we pray that you would get glory and praise to our little lives. Lord, while we have breath that we would spend them for your namesake, we give you thanks and praise in Jesus name, amen. Amen.