Kuma Hepe, Ubanonepaipe, Heperu 4 verse 14.
No, 4 verse 12.
Let's read, if you have your Bible, from
Hebrews 4 verse 12.
Kuma Hepe, Ubanonepaipe, Heperu 4 verse 12.
For the sword, the word of God is
living and active, sharper than any double-edged
sword.
Nothing in all creation is hidden from God's
sight.
Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the
eyes of Him to whom we must give
account.
We'll end reading there.
The word of God is the Word, and
the Word is Jesus Christ.
The Word became flesh.
Became like our flesh.
And the Word of God is sharp and
living and sharper than any two-edged sword.
And it exposes everything.
It says, everything is uncovered and laid bare
before Him.
Before the eyes of Him to whom we
must give an account.
Do you know Jesus Christ?
For what do you know Him?
Oh, King of Kings.
Some say He's the King of Kings.
Some say He's the Savior.
The Redeemer.
For what do you know Him?
One day, Jesus was very tired, and He
sent His disciples to go to the town,
to the village, to go and buy them
some food.
And He sat down at the well of
Jacob.
And at midday, a woman arrived.
Now, women normally would not go during the
middle of the day to go and draw
water.
Now, in Judea, they would go and fetch
water at midday.
You didn't find pure, young, virgin girls in
Judea fetching water at midday?
They would go early in the morning, and
then later in the afternoon.
But the girls of old were none.
They were known for their purity.
They would always go in groups, these pure,
young girls, with an older girl as their
leader.
And if ever any one of them was
defiled by a man, that girl would be
excommunicated, would be excluded from the community.
From their company, and they would say, you
can't go with us any longer, because you
are now defiled.
You cannot call that girl miss any longer,
because she is no longer a miss.
Neither can you call her missus, because she
is not married.
She has lost her virginity.
A young girl, who is a virgin, and
a young man, who is a virgin, who
is pure, they are unspoiled.
They are unspoiled, unblemished.
They are still exactly as God had created
them.
But if you have lost that virginity, well,
today it is better, because people are wearing
dresses, and trousers, lungs, and they cover it
up.
But in the olden days, they would notice
if a person had lost it, and virginity
was regarded as something very precious.
And then that person, that was excluded from
the other young girls, would be like a
bat, those that fly around at night, and
eat mosquitoes.
They are not sinless.
If you have lost your virginity, you will
be like a bat.
And if you have lost your virginity, you
will be like a bat, those that fly
around at night.
look at your long nose and your face,
but yet what are those wings for?
You look like a bird, you don't belong
to us, away with you.
And then the bat gets to the birds
and sits amongst the birds.
The birds look at this bat and they
say, but my, this thing that's amongst us
here has got the face of a mouse,
so it doesn't belong here.
And when it sits in the trees with
the birds, the birds perch upright and the
bat hangs upside down.
And then they say, no, no, no, that
doesn't belong to us.
It's not part of us because it's upside
down.
So what
can
you say of a girl that has lost
her purity?
Because you cannot say that she's a pure
young girl.
No, neither can you say that she's a
married woman.
So she's just upside down.
Even though it is like that, Jesus knows
everything.
This woman arrived there during midday to draw
water.
Why?
Because she had been vomited out, so to
say, by the other pure young girls.
Kafula in Zulu is to spit out, to
vomit out.
It's a bad name.
Now the word kafa was actually originated by
the Muslims.
They would call anyone who did not belong
to the Muslim faith a kafa.
That's where the word comes from, and then
later it was taken over by others and
used as well.
But that's where it really originated.
As Jesus sat at the well, this woman
came with a bucket to draw water.
And as she came there with a jar,
Jesus asked of her to give him to
drink.
And then she said, but you're a Jew
and I'm a Samaritan.
A Samaritan was a mixed race, like the
Calots.
And she said, how can you ask of
me to give you to drink?
You see, apartheid has started long, long ago
already.
And then Jesus answered, if you knew who
it was that asked you for water, you
would have asked of him.
And he would have given you living water,
that if you drink of that, you'd never
thirst again.
Anybody who comes to this well will be
thirsty again, but if anybody drinks of the
water I give him, he will never thirst
again for all eternity.
Jesus was speaking about spiritual water, but she
didn't understand.
She thought he was speaking about ordinary water.
And then she said, sir, give me of
that water, so that I won't need to
come back here again, to always come back
and draw water and be burned by the
sun.
Now Jesus left her at that, because he
saw she didn't understand.
She didn't grasp what he was really saying.
And then he said, go and call your
husband.
And she said, I have no husband.
And Jesus said, you say right, that you
have no husband.
For your very life.
And he said, you've had five, and the
one that you're staying with now is not
yours.
You've stolen him.
He's got a wife, perhaps, and children.
And you've stolen him from his own children,
so that they don't have a father.
And she got a fright, a shock, because
perhaps she didn't even count them.
Maybe you might have boyfriends.
One, two, and so it carries on.
And you don't even count them.
Jesus said, you've had five, and the one
that you're staying with now is the sixth
one.
And you, young man, you say you haven't
got married yet.
And yet Jesus is counting all the girlfriends
you've already had in your life.
And when you meet up with him, he'll
be able to tell you how many you've
had.
And then, this woman left her water jar
there.
She ran back to the village.
And she shouted out there, and she said,
come and see.
Isn't he perhaps the Messiah?
For he's told me everything I've ever done
in my life.
That's what she knew Jesus for.
Some say, oh, he's my Lord, and he's
my Savior.
Where are those that say, he's told me
everything that I have done?
Jesus knows all your secrets.
Everything that you've hid away, he knows it.
And if you haven't met with him yet,
then you haven't met with the man who's
called He's the Word.
He who's sharper than any two-edged sword.
Who hasn't got any secrets?
There are some young people who
were naughty there in Germany.
And they were bad.
There were three famous and well-known men
in Germany.
And these mischievous young men sent a telegram
to each one of those three men.
A simple, short telegram.
Everything has come to
light.
And the first one got the telegram.
It wasn't signed, but the message was, everything
has come to light.
And he said, my, have all my secrets
come to light?
And he took a gun, and he shot
himself, committed suicide.
The second one hastily packed his suitcase, got
onto the aeroplane, and flew off somewhere.
Until today, nobody knows where he is, and
what happened of him.
And the third one disappeared.
Everything has been brought to light.
They couldn't face up to that.
The first one committed suicide.
The next one fled.
The third one just disappeared.
You see what it's like to have secrets.
In Luke 12, we read where Jesus said,
don't fear him, who can only kill the
body, and after that can do nothing.
But he said, I'll show you whom you
are to fear.
Fear him, who after he has destroyed the
body, can throw a person into hell fire.
He said, for nothing is hidden that won't
be revealed.
That which is whispered behind closed doors into
the air will be shouted out on the
rooftops.
Friends, let me tell you, there is nothing
hidden that won't be revealed.
Your sin will find you out.
I need to close, because some are still
going to leave after the service, going back
home.
In France, there was a certain young man.
He lived an exemplary life.
He never parted from his mother.
He would always be at home with his
mother and father.
He went to school, high school, after that
to university, and he never once in his
life had a girlfriend.
Until he received his engineering degree.
And then he went to a restaurant just
to go and buy something small.
And when he got there to the restaurant,
there was a beautiful young woman who was
there.
Beautiful young lady.
And this girl greeted him and said, good
day.
How are you?
Where are you from?
But today it's the other way around.
It's the girl that will just take the
initiative and get to know the boy.
He said, are you in a hurry?
He said, no, I'm not in a hurry.
I just came here to buy something small,
and I'll be going back home.
And the girl asked, can I buy you
a cup of coffee, and then we drink
some coffee together.
Now, this was quite a shy young man.
He didn't know girls.
He never had much to do with them.
And he was a little embarrassed.
So he said, all right, yes.
She said, look, I've got lots of money.
I've got some money with me.
I'll buy, I'll pay for it.
It'll be on me.
Well, they sat down, and she ordered some
coffee.
They drank coffee together.
Two, three hours.
Now, you know what it's like if you're
in the company of a girl.
The watch, you don't notice the time, the
hours as they fly past.
Two, three hours will fly past without you
noticing anything.
Just like sitting in front of the TV.
The hours go by, but in the service,
we very quickly look at our watches and
see, but when is it going to come
to an end?
And then it was already close to twelve
o'clock, and she said, my, it's so
late now.
You know, hurry back home.
He said, no, not really.
And then she said, well, here's a hotel
close by.
Why don't we just go over there, book
in, and sleep there?
And then she said, don't worry.
I'll take, I'll pay for it.
Because my parents are rich.
So he was now between these two, wavering
between these two thoughts.
Should I?
Shouldn't I?
Should I?
Shouldn't I?
Eventually he said, alright, that's fine.
But he said, no, not really.
He said, I'll pay.
He said, I'll pay three times.
He said, he'd book one room for two.
But it was a double bed.
A bed that was low.
And then they said they'll take one room
for two people, for a couple with a
double bed in there.
And then she was given the key, and
off they went, up the lift to the
third floor, to room 311, suite 311, and
that's where they entered.
Now I'm not telling you a fairy tale,
I'm telling you about something that actually happened.
And so they slept in the hotel.
It was for the very first time that
that young man slept with a girl.
The next morning, when he woke up, he
looked, and he saw, my, I'm alone in
the bed, there's nobody next to me.
And he thought, well, she had put her
clothing there on the bench, on the chair,
there in the room, and they were no
longer there.
He thought maybe she'd gone into the bathroom,
maybe she's busy washing.
He went in there, there was nobody.
And then he saw, here on the mirror,
which was from the one wall right across
to the other wall, very high, very large
mirror.
Welcome to
the AIDS Club.
And there, with red lipstick, it was written,
on that mirror, from the one side to
the other side, in large letters, in French,
Welcome to the AIDS Club.
And then he got a fright, he almost
froze with shock.
His knees knocked together.
He quickly got dressed, didn't go back home,
he went straight to the doctor.
And then the receptionist of the doctor asked,
did he have an appointment, so he said
no, but he said it's urgent, I must
see the doctor.
So she spoke to the doctor, and he
said, well, I'll just squeeze him in between.
And then as he spoke to the doctor,
he perspired, he was wet with perspiration.
The doctor, something that I've met up with
for the first time in my life, and
he related to him everything that had happened.
And he said, please, take a blood sample,
test my blood to see whether I've got
AIDS, because she wrote there, Welcome to the
AIDS Club.
He said, it's too early, you've come too
soon, come after three months, and then we'll
test your blood.
And then after that time, he went back,
his blood was tested.
And he went back the following week for
the results, and the results was that he
was HIV positive.
I don't know whether he's still alive today.
This young man, who lived an exemplary life,
he sent once, but it was once too
many.
Young people, things are bad today.
The statistics say that in some areas, 36
% of a group, of a certain group,
are HIV positive.
In other areas, 52%, in other places, 83%.
Let me tell you, 99% of my
patients are HIV positive.
One doctor said, let me tell you, 99
% of my patients are HIV positive.
He said the figures that come out in
the media, those are all lies.
Who's going to remain behind?
Who will we still preach at?
There's no cure.
Until today, there is no cure.
God has poured out His wrath upon us
for a long time.
He's been speaking to us, and we've ignored
Him, so He's taken out His shame back
today.
Young men and young girls, young women, let
us be pure young people.
Let us be pure
young people.
Let us be pure young people.
Jesus knows all about your life.
He knows how many girlfriends you've had.
He knows how many boyfriends you've had.
So come to Him and expose everything.
Confess all your sin to Him.
Because He can make you new.
He can transform your life.
He can make everything new, that you'll be
pure once again.
And that you'll then be able to live
for Him.
And even if you should die, that you
then die and go to heaven.
Nothing is impossible for Him.
His name is above every other name.
So let us know Him.
Let us know Him as the One who
knows everything about us.
The One who is with us, who convicts
us of our sin.
So that when we stand before Him one
day as the judge of judges, that He
won't reject us.
Let us do as that Samaritan woman did.
Let us go and shout out to all
the world.
Isn't He the Messiah?
For He's told me about everything I've ever
done in all my life.
Shall we close our eyes and pray?
Lord Jesus, we have heard that there is
nothing hidden before your eyes.
You know all our secrets.
Lord, work, send your light into our lives.
To enlighten and expose everything that your blood
might be able to wash away and cleanse
us.
Amen.
Young people, the Bible says when Jesus returns,
He'll judge even our thoughts.
He said, of all that was said, you
should not murder.
But He said, if I say, if you
only swear at your brother and you call
him by a bad name, you've already murdered
him.
And you've heard that it was said, thou
shalt not commit adultery.
But He said, I tell you, if a
man so much as looks at a woman
with a lustful eye, he's already committed adultery.
Do you understand who Jesus is?
Do you understand, do you see who the
Messiah is?
Let us expose everything of our lives.
Let's come to the cross, let's confess our
sin, that His blood might cleanse us and
wash it away.