Sermon Tone Analysis
Overall tone of the sermon
This automated analysis scores the text on the likely presence of emotional, language, and social tones. There are no right or wrong scores; this is just an indication of tones readers or listeners may pick up from the text.
A score of 0.5 or higher indicates the tone is likely present.
Emotion Tone
Anger
0.21UNLIKELY
Disgust
0.51LIKELY
Fear
0.13UNLIKELY
Joy
0.2UNLIKELY
Sadness
0.5LIKELY
Language Tone
Analytical
0.23UNLIKELY
Confident
0UNLIKELY
Tentative
0.24UNLIKELY
Social Tone
Openness
0.85LIKELY
Conscientiousness
0.43UNLIKELY
Extraversion
0.1UNLIKELY
Agreeableness
0.58LIKELY
Emotional Range
0.71LIKELY
Tone of specific sentences
Tones
Emotion
Language
Social Tendencies
Anger
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9
/“LIVING WATER”/
John 4:1-15
!
The Offer of Living Water
A.
The Mission of Jesus Christ
1.
Jesus left Judaea out of necessity (v.1-4)
a) He left for John’s sake (v.1-3)
/(1) //The crowds were leaving John and coming to Jesus./
(a) The religionists were using the fact to downgrade John’s ministry ( John 3:22-26).
(b) Jesus did not want to create a competitive scene and damage John’s ministry, so He left the area and returned to Galilee.
/(2) //There must never be competition in ministry for the Kingdom of God!/
And He sat down, called the twelve, and said to them, "If anyone desires to be first, he shall be last of all and servant of all."
(Mark 9:35)
b) He needed to go through Samaria (v.4)
/(1) //The word must (edei) means necessity, compulsion, destiny./
(a) Jesus was driven to go through Samaria for the sake of His mission.
Samaria needed the gospel as much as other areas.
For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.
(Luke 19:10)
/(2) //The word “must” is so often used in connection with Jesus’ mission.
/
(a) John 3:14 – /the Son of Man must be lifted up/
(b) John 9:4 – /I Must work the works of Him who sent Me/
(c) John 10:16 – /There are other sheep that Christ must bring into His fold/
(d) John 20:9 – /Christ must rise from the dead/
2.
Jesus left Judaea to confront a Samaritan woman (v.5-9)
a) He entered Sychar, a city of Samaria (v.5)
/(1) //Sychar//:// //little is known about the city; however, three significant Biblical events happened there./
· Jacob bought a piece of land in the area (Genesis 33:19).
· Jacob willed the land to Joseph as he was dying (Genesis 48:22).
· Joseph’s bones were buried there (Joshua 24:32).
b) The Conversation (v.7)
/(1) //Her Reputation/
(a) Woman drew water at dawn or dusk, the cooler hours of the day, to avoid the heat (Gen.24:11).
(b) She came at noon, the hottest hour of the day, to avoid other women, hinting her reputation (v.18, 28).
/(2) //He struck up a conversation by asking her for a drink of water (v.7).
/
(a) Jesus is as necessary for spiritual life as water is for physical life
(b) She was shocked, for the Jews had no dealings with the Samaritans.
(c) /Intense racial hatred existed between Jews and Samaritans/, much of it centering on religious differences.
So great was this animosity that, in traveling from Judea to Galilee, Jews would go miles out of their way to avoid crossing the Samaritan border.
· Jewish rabbis said, “Let no man eat the bread of the Samaritans, for he who eats their bread is as he who eats swine’s flesh.”
· Strict rabbis forbade other rabbis to greet women in public.
· They prayed, “I thank you Father, that I was not born a gentile, a slave or a woman.”
· They prayed, “Lord, do not remember the Samaritans in the resurrection.”
· Prior to the arrival of Christianity in New Guinea, women were considered to be unworthy to worship God.
In fact, if a woman would even touch a place of worship, she would be put to death.
(d) She asked Jesus why He would ask her, a Samaritan, for a drink.
It was this question, this subject of water, that Jesus took and used...
· to discuss one of the greatest truths of spiritual life, that of living water.
· to present the claims of God upon a life.
B.
Living Water is Alive (v.10)
1.
Living water is “of God.”
a) Old Testament Pictures God as the One who can supply living water to satisfy the thirst for God.
/(1) //Jehovah calls Himself…/
(a) /“the spring of living water” /(Jer.2:13)
(b) /“the fountain of life”/ (Psalm36:9)
(c) /“with joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation” /(Isa.12:3)
(d) /“for I will pour water on the thirsty land” /(Isa.44:3)
(e) Several times in the writings of Ezekiel and Zechariah there is a picture of a river of life flowing out from God’s presence in Jerusalem (Ezek.47:1-12;
Zech.13:1; 14:18)
2.
Living water is “the gift” of God.
a) Salvation is freely given.
/(1) //It is not earned & is not deserved./
(a) Isaiah 55:1
(b) Ephesians 2:8-9
/(a) /Man cannot save himself (Eph.2:1-3;
8-9)
/(b) /Man cannot make God owe him anything (Rom.4:4)
/(c) /Man cannot bring perfection to God (Eph.1:7)
/(d) /Man cannot make God forgive him (Rom.3:23;
8:6-8)
/(e) /Man cannot make God love him (Titus 3:4-7)
/(f) /Man cannot set himself free from the bondage of sin & corruption (Rom.6)
3.
Living water is given by asking for it.
a) Note what Jesus said: “If you knew… you would have asked.”
/(1) //The woman had never received living water because she had never known about it and had never asked for it.
It was now available simply by asking for it./
b) The implication for the Christian
/(1) //We need to come to Christ and ask./
(a) Failure in our prayer life is generally a failure to know Jesus.
(b) If we knew who was talking to us we would ask!
C.
Living Water is From Jesus Christ (v.11-12)
1.
Jesus was claiming to be greater than one of the religious fathers, Jacob.
a) Throughout Scripture Jesus claimed to be…
· greater than the temple (Matthew 12:6).
· greater than Jonas (Matthew 12:41).
· greater than Solomon (Matthew 12:42; Luke 11:31).
· greater than Abraham, “before Abraham” (John 8:53, 58).
· greater than Jacob (John 4:11-12).
· worthy of more glory than Moses (Hebrews 3:3; John 5:45-47).
D.
Living Water Is the Only Water that Will Quench Thirst (v.13-14)
1.
Men have two thirsts: (1) physical (2) spiritual
As the deer pants for the water brooks, So pants my soul for You, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
When shall I come and appear before God? (Psalms 42:1-2)
My soul longs, yes, even faints For the courts of the LORD; My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God (Psalm 84:2)
a) The Physical thirst (v.13) – “whoever drinks of this water will thirst again”
/(1) //A statement that should be written over every ambition that you have./
(a) What is it that you are hoping to achieve or attain in life?
(b) What is it that you think will bring you satisfaction and happiness?
(c) What is it that you are pressing towards?
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9