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What if you were to make a list of the most valuable things to you.
What would it be to you.
Honestly.
Let’s say in secret.
What would it be, even things you don’t have.
Would it be the winning mega-millions ticket?
A super bowl ticket, a great career, a nice house, a good family.
What is worth the most to you.
Lately, we have been discussing various traits associated with being a Jesus follower.
A follower is growing.
A follower is a prayer a follower has seen who Jesus is, a follower is strong.
Another way you can tell if you are a follower of Jesus is that a follower is a worshipper.
A follower is a worshipper.
A worshipper is a result of your relationship to Jesus Christ.
You worship in proportion to your relationship with Jesus.
Worship quite simply means worth-ship.
Worship means worth-ship.
We are constantly making decisions everyday on how much value we give something.
Whatever we spend our time on is what we are valuing at that moment.
This changes and it has to change, and that is ok.
For instance, on Sunday someone may place a lot of worth on football.
They watch football every Sunday.
At that moment football is worth a lot to them.
However, come Monday getting to work may have a very high worth.
We have priorities.
Things which we know are important at what time and we place them in comparison order.
So when we are talking about worshipping Jesus, we are talking about placing Him in overall status of High Worth.
An overall top priority so that ALL things are filtered through the supreme worth of Christ.
For instance, someone may place at the supreme point of worth in their lives.
Yet on one particular Sunday morning a family member is ill, and needs care.
That doesn’t mean that they say I can’t care for you, I have to go to go to church.
It means they see the Supreme value of Christ, they try and live a life like Jesus lived and they see the worth and value of the sick and care for that as Jesus would care for that person.
Thus giving supreme worth-ship to Jesus by caring for this person, rather than attending Church.
However there is a danger.
As we shift our priorities, and move about through this fast paced life, we are constantly switching priorities, our enemy the devil prowls around looking to destroy, and sin creeps in and suddenly we start to elevate other things to the same worth, or even exceeding the worth of Christ in our lives.
Perhaps at first, this thing really seems that I should do instead of spending Jesus, and it is valid, like the sick person.
But perhaps, we are up too late one night and we don’t spend time with God next morning, then gradually it is more and more other priorities, and those things gradually have more worth in our lives rather than Jesus.
Todays’s text and the point of the message today, is that Jesus calls us to something more.
He calls us to place Him as the person of greatest worth in our life always not for one hour Sunday but continually.
The question for us today is how do we do that?
Two weeks ago, we read John chapter 9 about a man born blind.
At the end of the passage, when the man encounters Jesus in verse 38 John writes.
Then the man said, "Lord, I believe," and he worshipped him."
The man who was born blind and can suddenly see, says first, Lord I believe.
Then, John wrote he worshipped Jesus.
Jesus gave him evidence that Jesus cared for him.
That this condition of the man was not something that would define him the rest of life.
That God did not abandon Him, that God still cared for him.
Jesus also gave Him proof that he had power to change His life.
That His power was not only available but also effective for change by opening the eyes of the Blind man.
And Jesus gave him evidence of his divine authority by declaring that he was the son of the man.
In this mans eyes those things were enough evidence and proof that Jesus was who he said he was, a living God that cares for people, and has the power by who he is to change lives.
Because of that evidence, Jesus was of great worth to the man.
The man recognized the supreme worth and value of Jesus.
He placed Jesus at the top of His list.
He showed Jesus that Jesus was supremely valuable to him.
Most likely by bowing down at his feet.
Perhaps, at his feet.
In other places, like John 12, a woman poured her expensive perfume on Jesus's feet and then kissed his feet.
Again, she is showing that Jesus is of great worth.
In the ancient Hebrew mind the word for worship is associated with bowing down.
These two ideas of bowing down and showing worth are a yielding or a submitting to someone or something that is worth more than oneself.
An important text on worship is in John chapter 4. That is our text today, John 4:1-23.
Scripture Reading
John 4:1-23.
Jesus is heading to Galilee from Jerusalem.
He is heading north and he passes through the region of Samaria.
Perhaps you know the history of Samaritans and Jews, They don’t get along.
Originally, the kingdom of Israel was one Nation.
After king Solomon died his son Rehoboam became king.
He was rather cruel to the people, they rebelled and 10 tribes of the North broke off and formed their own kingdom.
The northern kingdom was called Israel and the Southern Kingdom was called Judah.
The northern kingdom people originally knew the true God.
They originally worshipped in Jerusalem, with a pure heart, but after the split, had a real problem with worship.
Worship occurred in the temple.
The temple was in Jerusalem, which was in the southern kingdom.
The people of the Northern kingdom had to set up their own places of worship.
At first they had a legitimate reason for not going to Jerusalem, but eventually any attempt to repair that reason was lost.
Their hearts were fully dedicated to this sin of division.
Because they were not worshipping in the temple in Jerusalem they started to lose the true view of God.
Worship should point our hearts and spirits toward the true God.
Instead, their worship be influenced by the surrounding culture.
The northern kingdom intermarried into the surrounding pagan tribes, so with marital influence, and without close contact to the religious center their worship really took on a style that was quite different to the true worship that God was calling to them to.
Their worship was not just simply the God of the Bible at the position of greatest worth.
They also placed worth and value on the surrounding peoples gods.
They elevated the surrounding culture and religions to equal position as the true God of the Bible.
They also elevated their sin of pride and division.
Somehow they believed that it was more valuable or more important to them to maintain the division rather than do what God says.
Eventually, God sent prophets to call the people back to him, and they stubbornly refused.
God then sent the Assyrians to invade, and the 10 tribes of the North were scattered.
When we come to today’s text we see that Jesus travels right into this area.
During Jesus’s time the wounds that caused the split, were far from being healed.
Samaritans and Jews were still deeply divided.
So much so that jews usually walked far out of their way to avoid going through Samaria.
Jesus, travelling in the heat of the mideastern sun, is tired and needs a drink and sits down at a well.
A Samaritan woman approaches, and they start to have a conversation.
Everything about this passage is talking about division.
Jews and Samaritans are sharply divided.
The are racially divided.
They are religiously divided.
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