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Welcome to the Daily Blade. The Word of God is described as the sword of the Spirit, the primary spiritual weapon in the Christian's armor against the forces of evil. Your hosts are Joby Martin and Kyle Thompson, and they stand ready to equip men for the fight. Let's sharpen up.

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All right, welcome back, day three of our deep dive into Jesus' encounter with the woman at the well Now yesterday, where we left off, jesus has just said everybody that comes to this well, whoever drinks of this water, then you will be thirsty again and again and again and you have to keep coming back. But I have a supernatural water, I have a living water, and if you drink from this water then you will have a spring of water welling up to eternal life. And then the woman says sir, give me this water so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water. Now, if I were to step in in this moment and coach Jesus up on his evangelistic practices, then I would tell Jesus all right, buddy, you got him. All you got to do is close the deal right now. Don't talk about anything else, don't talk about her past and don't talk about her current situation and don't talk about her lifestyle. All you got to do in this moment is get her to admit it she's a sinner, to believe in you and to confess you as Lord. And it's over man, you know. Check the box, pray the prayer, raise your hand, you're good to go. And that's not what Jesus does. Jesus goes for the jugular. I mean, from an evangelism standpoint, she is set up perfectly to receive Christ in this moment. But what Jesus wants is Jesus wants all of her, not just some kind of prayer, not just some kind of emotional response. Jesus just doesn't want her to feel seen in the moment. Jesus wants her whole entire life, the good, the bad and especially the ugly. So he digs in to the deepest, darkest, most shameful place in her life.

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Verse 16,. After this woman asks for this living water, jesus said to her go call your husband and come here. And the woman answered him I have no husband. And Jesus said to her you are right in saying you have no husband, for you have had five husbands and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true. And the woman said to him sir, I perceive that you're a prophet. Yeah, he's more than a prophet.

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He knows everything about you. You see, here's the thing man, the fake you's doing just fine. And church is the worst place in the world for the fake person. I mean, so many people get a bad case of the finitis the moment you come to church, even if you don't go to a dress-up church like 1122 is not a dress-up church at all. You still put on your best, you clean up and you brush your teeth and you smile big. And then the amount of people that come walking into church and the ushers say how you doing and you answer with fine, but you ain't really fine, jesus won't put up with it. You see, jesus wants the real you, because the real Jesus down on the real cross for the real you, so you can leave the fake you at home.

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And the reality is is that Jesus already knows. He already knows the dirt, he already knows the sin, he already knows the shameful things in your past and it will do no good hiding them. In fact, if you fight the devil in the dark, you're always going to get your butt kicked. The Bible calls us to confess and to repent. You see, if you really want to be free, if you really want to learn to live in freedom, then you better learn to be honest. Be honest with, first and foremost, the Lord, and also you need some brothers and sisters in your life that can pray for you, that that you can be honest with. In fact, james, the brother of jesus, says that we are to confess our sins to one another and that we are to pray for one another that we may be healed. You see, jesus is never going to be caught off guard. Jesus knew exactly what he was getting when he died on the cross.

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For you, when Jesus Christ pushed up on his nail, pierced feet and he says it is finished, it is for every sin, it is for every broken promise, it is for anything that you have done, especially the things that you want to hide from him.

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So I dare you to make it a daily habit that you confess and repent, that you go deep, dark into the past, the things that you thought you could hide away in that spiritual closet, and you dig them up and you confess and you bring them to Jesus. And the good news about the Christian post-resurrection confession is you don't have to go into a little booth with another person, but Jesus is our high priest and he is our mediator to God, the Father. And when we, as believers, confess our sin, we're not confessing so that we will be forgiven. We are confessing that we are sinners but our sin has already been paid for by the blood of Jesus and we are confessing that as a method to cleanse us so that we can walk in the freedom that Christ has already purchased for us. So, man, I dare you, in your prayer time, in your time with your band of brothers, your foxhole brothers, confess and repent, because Jesus really loves the real you.

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