We continue the story of the Samaritan woman in this sermon, delving deeper into the significance of Jesus’s encounter with her.
The subject of worship came up with the woman and this opens up a discussion of the nature of OUR worship of The Lord God. We are told that it must be “in spirit and in truth” (or, as the Complete Jewish Bible translation puts it “spiritually and truly”). The depth and concentration involved are important, vital.
The part that music, songs, singing have in worship is also considered and expanded.
And that was just the introduction …
As Jesus was talking to the woman at the well, He made the “I Am” statement. This is seen as one of the places in scripture where Jesus indicated that He is God!
<<< more summary to follow when the transcript has been finished >>>
May you be blessed and encouraged by this study.
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Transcript created but still to be edited (as of 2026-11-04). Upload will follow soon.
TRANSCRIPT OF THE SERMON
To download the transcript text-file, click on the “button” labelled “Save Video” (or “Download Video” sometimes). See below (“Postscript1” below for full info)
Postscript3: ::: The latest development on the “Transcript” section is that the text-file will be subject to far less editing than before. It will still be converted to sentence-column form as before, and bits that don’t match the audio will be corrected, but any trimming and polishing will be left to the user (according to their own taste of format, etc). Any shortcomings in the transcription software should be pretty obvious and so not a problem in getting the meaning (and the audio file will provide the necessary clarification if required 😀🎧 )
Postscript2: ::: {not-so-}NEW FORMAT of the transcript.
To ease the processing and preparation of the transcript, and we hope improve the readability of the text, a new format was adopted in mid-October (2025). This breaks the text into sentences instead of arbitrarily-sized “paragraphs”. When the reader opens the file in a program such as Notepad (in MS Windows), then the appearance can be similar to a newspaper column. The format is such that the user has many options available, depending on preferences and what software they like to use.
Any feedback on usefulness, improvement suggestions, or whatever, would be most welcome.
Postscript1 ::::: TRANSCRIPT OF THE SERMON >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
There is a “button” labelled “Save Video” (or “Download Video” sometimes). This actually links to a text-file to download. It is a transcript of the sermon. At present it is at an experimental stage: it is an aid to getting the most out of the sermon audio. There is no substitute for listening to the verbal delivery of a sermon. However, searching through an audio file lasting the best part of an hour can be somewhat difficult. When you approach the search knowing that you’re sure there is something about “redemption”, for example, then a text-search in the transcript can take you right there and show you the time in the recording where you will find it! The file is simple “text” rather than a more sophisticated form so that you can edit or reformat as you prefer.
This transcript is given in 2 forms (in the one file). The first half consists of normal text arrangement. The other section is short bunches of words (8 to 12 nomally) beside the TIMES at which they occur (for the whole sermon).
This facility is in development (“experimental” as mentioned above) so any feedback on usefulness, improvement suggestions, or whatever, would be most welcome.
