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THE SAMARITAN WOMAN (2)

by Scott Maze

Scripture: John 4:1-30
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Title: The Samaritan Woman (2)
Series: This Is My First Rodeo
Author: Scott Maze
Text: John 4:1-30

Of all the rich blessings we have from being Americans, the choicest of them is freedom of religion. I am grateful that no religion is established in America as the preferred and every citizen's right to practice their religion is allowed.Because evil is so evil, we need men and women to protect this freedom with their lives. Join me in giving thanks to so many soldiers for laying down their lives so people can freely worship Jesus Christ. Not only join me in thanking God for our freedom of religion, but join me in praying for places such as North Korea, Iran, China, and Saudi Arabia, among many others, where people can share the gospel freely. No nation should be close to the lifesaving message that Jesus loves sinners. The gospel is far too important to be kept to ourselves.

You probably don't know his name, but Stanislav Petrov saved your life on September 26, 1983. In the early hours of Monday morning, the Soviet Union's early warning systems detected multiple missiles were launched from the United States. As the duty officer, it was Petrov's job to alert his superiors of incoming missile strikes. In the days of the Cold War, whenever one of the two superpowers were to launch nuclear weapons, the other nation would respond. Once just one nuclear warhead had been launched, much of the known world would have been destroyed by thermonuclear war and the radiation fallout. Petrov later told his story with these words: "The siren howled, but I just sat there for a few seconds, staring at the big, back-lit, red screen with the word 'launch' on it," he says. The system was telling him that that alert's reliability level was "highest." There could be no doubt. America had launched a missile.

"A minute later the siren went off again. The second missile was launched. Then the third, and the fourth, and the fifth. Computers changed their alerts from 'launch' ...

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