Letting Go of our Water Jar
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· 5 viewsJesus wearied from his jounery request water from a Samaritan woman near Sychar, however Jesus will teach that physical water and food is not eternal. We must leave our empty wells and drink from the fountain of living water.
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Introduction: Jesus Is.. Logos - Colliding into Creation, Messianic King - Redeemer of God's people, and Temple - Place of Worship: Jesus is gaining popularity among Judea and Galilee.
I. A Pursuit with a Purpose - God's Mercy ()
Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John
(although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples),
he left Judea and departed again for Galilee.
And he had to pass through Samaria.
So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
Jacob’s well was there; so Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.
A. Gaining followers
B. Treading the path less traveled, going into the heart of Samaria
Jesus communion with half-breeds, marginalized, and forgotten.
1. Homeless, Elderly, Prisoners, Suicidal, Struggling Individual
2. Christ values everyone, including you!
C. Jesus' humanity displayed - God thirst for water.
God's Pursuit with a Purpose - God's Mercy ()
God's Pursuit with a Purpose - God's Mercy ()
John 4:1
God’s Pursuit with a Purpose God's Mercy ()
God’s Pursuit with a Purpose God's Mercy ()
A. Gaining followers
Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John
(although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples),
he left Judea and departed again for Galilee.
And he had to pass through Samaria.
So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
Jacob’s well was there; so Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.
John 4:1-
B. Treading the path less traveled, going into the heart of Samaria- Jesus communion with half-breeds, marginalized, and forgotten.
A. Gaining followers
B. Treading the path less traveled, going into the heart of Samaria
Jesus communion with half-breeds, marginalized, and forgotten.
Jesus communion with half-breeds, marginalized, and forgotten.
1. Homeless, Elderly, Prisoners, Suicidal, Struggling Individual
1. Homeless, Elderly, Prisoners, Suicidal, Struggling Individual
2. Christ values everyone, including you!
2. Christ values everyone, including you!
C. Jesus' humanity displayed - God thirst for water.
A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.”
(For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.)
The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water?
Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.”
Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again,
but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”
C. Jesus' humanity displayed - God thirst for water.
John
Encountering the Samaritan - Hospitality ()
Encountering the Samaritan - Hospitality ()
A. Christ Request for water.
1. Customs of hospitality - Rebekah, Rachael, and others. Jesus asked to be her guest.
II. Encountering the Samaritan - Hospitality ()
II. Encountering the Samaritan - Hospitality ()
2. Beauty and the Beast - Be our guest song
B. Jesus becomes the Host of living water
1. Nothing Jacob's Well could offer
A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.”
(For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.)
The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water?
Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.”
Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again,
but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”
2. living water comes from person of Christ
John 4:
C. Living water bubbles up inside in us and refreshes our soul
1. It satisfies our needs
A. Christ Request for water.
1. Customs of hospitality - Rebekah, Rachael, and others. Jesus asked to be her guest.
2. Beauty and the Beast - Be our guest song
B. Jesus becomes the Host of living water
2. Eternal life
1. Nothing Jacob's Well could offer would last
Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”
The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’;
for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.”
The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.
Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.”
Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.
You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.
But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him.
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will tell us all things.”
Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am he.”
Just then his disciples came back. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you seek?” or, “Why are you talking with her?”
So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people,
“Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?”
They went out of the town and were coming to him.
John
2. living water comes from person of Christ
C. Living water bubbles up inside in us and refreshes our soul
Samaritan woman consumes the living water ()
Samaritan woman consumes the living water ()
1. It satisfies our needs
2. Eternal life
A. Jesus prophesies about her life
1. living in a sinful relationship
2. Cannot consume the good until we ditch the bad
2. Cannot consume the good until we ditch the bad
2. She assumes he's a prophet
3. She assumes he's a prophet
B. Spiritual talk
B. Spiritual talk
1. Her understanding of worship and truth vs. Jews idea of worship and truth
1. Her understanding of worship and truth vs. Jews idea of worship and truth
2. We are to worship God in Spirit and truth
2. We are to worship God in Spirit and truth
3. Right attitude with the help of Holy Spirit and truth of God
3. Right attitude with the help of Holy Spirit and truth of God
C. New Calling
C. New Calling
1. Left the water jar and became an evangelist -
1. Left the water jar and became an evangelist -
2. Calling others to the living water
Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”
But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.”
So the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?”
Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.
Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest.
Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together.
For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’
I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”
Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.”
So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days.
And many more believed because of his word.
They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world.”
After the two days he departed for Galilee.
(For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.)
So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the feast. For they too had gone to the feast.
2. Calling others to the living water
John 4:31
True nourishment ()
True nourishment ()
A. Disciples and Jesus Dialogue
1. Jesus has food from his Father, his work and will
2. Call to gather the harvest
B. They believe in Jesus - Savior of the World
C. Continues to do ministry in Galilee
Food from above
Food from above
A. Earthly things can't satisfy - Jacob's well
B. Spiritual food gives life.
C. Leave the water jar and evangelize
D. Ditch your empty well and drink from the fountain of living water.
Ditch your empty well and drink from the fountain of living water.
Ditch your empty well and drink from the fountain of living water.
Ditch your empty well and drink from the fountain of living water.