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Interesting fact, Bruce Lee had a vegan brother, Broco Lee… both much slower than their brother, Sudden

In Greek Mythology Chiron is a half-man-half horse Who had a great knowledge of medicine and health.

Hes a centaur for disease control

Joke

This is an amazing picture of conversion and witnessing

She gets a a sense that he might be the messiah… explain that word...

I love this, because the woman is the first one to bring it up Jesus didn’t tell her hey I am the Messiah.

Instead something about this interaction had impacted her enough to realize that this may be the case… and she is starting to bring it up.

And its very interesting, we first need to understand this term Messiah, mashiach in Hebrew, what does it mean?

It means simply the anointed one, as does the word Christ in greek.

Heres the thing, it was the same word used to convey a man chosen in history for a special ministry and he was consecrated to that ministry in a ceremony and set apart for royal office.

Just a couple examples of that would be the way in which Samuel signified God had chosen David to be the future king.

He was set apart. he was the anointed one.

This is the same as when Elijah anointed his succcesor, Elisha he was the anointed one.

and somewhere along the way this term started to be used for a much more specific reason.

The people knew that God had promised to send a deliverer who would embody everything that the previous anointing could only faintly mean, He would be a great prophet that fulfilled Gods word to Moses

And they understood this person would be a great king as depicted in 2 Samuel 7:11-16

And so the term Messiah became more specific to this one person… this one man who would be the one that would change everything, the great messiah...

The Jews and the Samaritans both were expecting the Messiah to return eventhough the Samaritans often got it wrong, they were probably more right about Messiah than the jews… You see the Jews expected a political messiah that would rule and overturn this government they had been subjected to and what you will find is, Jesus almost always denying himself as Messiah in the sense the Jews said it… but the samaritans expected this great prophet, and while they didn’t get it exactly right, they had the truth of what he would be, and here we will see that Jesus is not going to deny who he is to this woman....

Look at what she says, she says he will explain everything to us… she realized he would be the supreme authority that everything he said would give them truth…and at this point her belief has no idea of salvation, but she had a head knowledge, and what we will understand is it was that head knowledge that would end up being what opened the way to that personal relationship

And thats what we have to do for some people is present the gospel in a way of truth then move them to belief, but what I have seen so much of in my life is people that have so much head knowledge that it actually hardens their heart to trust Jesus in who he is and the relationship that he wants to have with us.

Seminary guys.... and we should be fearful of having a head knowledge of Jesus without having a relationship with him...

Setup context please

So she says… I know the messiah is coming and he will tell us everything.... and all of a sudden jesus answers...

Jesus Claims to be Messiah/God Explain all that

And this is enough to blow our minds other than the fact that our language and our understand don’t come close to understand this in the way the Jews would...

; אדני

יהוה

and let me just say this was a source of contention and my very conservative christian college… understand that no Jew would have ever said Jehovah… because its not in there… it was just a reminder to say adonai.

so thats some background

By the time of Jesus, the name “Yahweh” was never used by the average Jewish person in any settings and so filled with sacred power that is was spoken aloud only once a year.

On the Day of Atonement, inside the Temple in the presence of the Holy of Holies, the High Priest would invoke the name and sprinkle blood upon the mercy seat to atone for sins.

And Jesus has just said he was God… people will talk about that when they are critics of the Gospel… that Jesus never claimed to be God… but he did… right here… he didn’t say I am god… instead he said I who speak to you, I am.

It doesn’t get much clearer than that to a person who knows what is going on, and she is going to see that… but as all of this is going on and he makes this claim, his disciples finally come back and see that Jesus is talking to her and look what the Bible tells us

There was a spirit against the Messiah.

And they are flabergasted.

Yo Jesus, homie.

my dude, bruh, why are you talking to this woman… there were two issues here...

First, she was a woman...

Secondly, she was a samaritan, and we have talked about both of these things a little bit in previous weeks so I won’t hit it too much… I love that they didn’t actually say it to him, its almost like they have learned that he knows what he is doing.

She began to proclaim him as Messiah

Think about this for a second.

She was out… in the middle of the day, to get her water.... she needed something to drink, and Jesus offered her something better and she left everything she was doing before to follow him… she is the first real example of someone being born again in the new testament… a new life in Jesus and how do we know this?

We know because of the changes that were taking place in her life… you could see the fruits and we should be able to do that with ourselves as well

Just as a baby being born has tons of changes in the first few moments of life…explain… we should see those changes in the life of followers of Jesus.

The first thing that we expect in the life of a baby is that cry… that is what they are waiting for… and that is one of hte first things we should look to see in the life of a Christian.. she immediately begins professing him as Christ to everyone around her… and this is why the bible calls for such a public proclaimation.... maybe when you started you did this… are you still doing it?

The second thing we see is a change in values… She left that jar behind… that was what wias important to her… shje had come for water and jesus had this discussion of wells and water and she leaves without water because Jesus had offered her living water

Has there been this experience in your life… a change of values… not overnight.. for some of you there will be some of those things… but does your life look exactly the same as it did vefore you met Jesus.. and if there has been no change in your life maybe you need to leave your water jars behind for the life that Jesus is offering YOU.

Thirdly she had a concern for the lost… She said COME.... and for many of us I think this is what happens when we first know Jesus but our luster wears off or somethign and it dies down...

ask him to give you a heart for people like he has...

You dont have to know all the answers… look at what she said… come...

can you do that?

Just invite them to church or to a bible study or whatever an d see what he can do

The response of the proclomation

Look at what happens when we share… and you think you have to have all the answers, but you don’t.

Apostles…