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*You are in your car, and you’re making your way, closer, and closer to the edge of the canyon...
You’re still a good distance away, but a slice of your vision affords you a glimpse at this VAST opening…in the earth
You’re heart skips a beat
You continue driving, as now you’re close enough to gain some perspective, and you see this THING - this part of creation - that literally - takes your breath away
You’ve just experienced seeing the Grand Canyon for the first time...
There are NO words… you take pictures but they can’t explain the sensory OVERLOAD...
You get back to your family - back on the other side of the country - and the first thing you say to them is...
YOU HAVE TO GO SEE THE GRAND CANYON...
GO SEE IT - for yourself!
I could TELL YOU about it - but that WON’T do it justice...
I could…show you...
SLIDE:
Grand Canyon...
You MUST GO SEE IT FOR YOURSELF!
This thing is SO AMAZING…so OVERWHELMING - ONLY A PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WILL DO!
We DO THIS!
the Grand Canyon
A Great Restaurant
a Great Show
A Great Concert
A Great Store
A Great Movie
We’ve ALL done this!
You MUST GO SEE FOR YOURSELF!
And it’s THIS attitude...
this POSTURE of heart that we’re going to see today in our text.
For the past couple of weeks we’ve been walking through this story of the Woman at the Well...
This woman encounters a man at the well, where she came to draw water...
to MEET a physical need...
And what she ends up finding is a MAN who is offering her ETERNALLY satisfying water...
LIVING water...
…and YET - she doesn’t understand...
She DOESN’T know who she is talking to...
Jesus said to her - If you knew who I was, you would have ASKED ME for a drink...
…and I would satisfy you - FOREVER!
Even after this - She STILL doesn’t understand - and so she asks Jesus for some LIVING WATER - so that she wouldn’t be thirsty anymore...
…and so she wouldn’t have to go to the well anymore...
SO Jesus proceeds to tell her something no one knew...
That she had 5 husbands…and that the guy she was with now WASN’T her husband...
She tries to CHANGE the subject...
and Jesus then defines for her what it means to TRULY WORSHIP God..
Jesus explains that TRUE worship of God is done - In Spirit…and in TRUTH...
TRUTH - about who we are before God...
and TRUTH about who Jesus Christ is and what He accomplished!
See - if we DO NOT embrace the DAMNING truth about who we are before God - it is IMPOSSIBLE for us to Worship God...
We then hear this in the story...
AND SO - Christ tells her ALL that she is doing in her life...
SHE - equates that to the Coming Messiah...
And then Jesus affirms that HE himself is indeed - the Messiah!
AND THIS AFFECTS her...
It has an effect on her…what effect?
Let’s read it…
Today we’re actually going to be looking at 2 SECTIONS of verses within this chapter 4 of John.
And so there’s going to be a SECTION of verses that we skip over today...
..but will get to next week (i won’t be here - but Joe will take you through that part we skip today)
And so today we’ll be looking at - verses 27-30, and then verses 39-45.
And so - this will be our text for today...
Ok, so - if we were to jump back up to v27 today...
The first thing we see here - in v27 - is that the disciples return from getting some food...
IF YOU REMEMBER - Jesus and the Disciples were on this journey…to Galilee
making their way from Judea to Galilee (between 90 - 125 miles)
The Disciples get some food - and then return to FIND Jesus speaking with a woman...
NOW - we’ve spoken about this issue the past couple of week, right...
....tensions between Jews and Samaritans...
…and cultural customs of men speaking to women...
YET - we see here that the Disciples don’t question Jesus...
SO - we can speculate as to why they didn’t question this - BUT - ultimately we know they didn’t.
THEIR response to this conversation…is different then how the WOMAN responded right?
How did the woman respond when Jesus asked her for a drink?*
The Disciples - while yes - they MARVELED at this conversation…they DID NOT vocalize those QUESTIONS...
And that’s a least a start - progress
MAYBE they had seen enough of Jesus that they were MAYBE BEGINNING to understand that He was now REORIENTING life...
getting us to VIEW life from a HIGHER angle…Spiritual angle...
Either way, we see them NOT question this conversation…and then we see this going into v28...
SLIDE: The Gospel of Christ: More Satisfying Than the Gospel of the World
The Gospel of Christ
And we’re going to see this right away in v28
This women - left her house...
And started making her way to the well - ON A MISSION...
For what purpose?
to get water (physical water)
She was thirsty...
ALL she needed was - a drink
She grabbed her JAR…and headed for the well
Well here we see what - She LEFT her water jar and went into the town!
SOMETHING happened here at this well - that what - REORIENTED her desires...
Did she GET A DRINK??
maybe she did…we don’t know for sure...
But i don’t think so...
We’re CERTAINLY not told that she did...
She came to that WELL - searching for PHYSICAL water...
And what she ended up FINDING there - was something MORE SATISFYING...
THE WORLD OFFERS us - countless PLEASURES...
countless opportunities
AND YET - all of them - TEMPORARY!
Think of all of the experiences of life - WHICH of these are eternally satisfying?
Good Looks....last forever?
Athletic ability....last forever?
Eating a great meal after a long hard day (good news?)
Drinking a cool drink after a long hard workout (good news?)
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