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The title of the message is “What’s your Experience”
Introduction
All of us here have had experiences throughout our life —
Some good, some bad
— and depending on how good or bad,
those experiences can be defining moments in our lives
Illustration
An experience can be:
A knowledge or skill that we develop over time
Something we develop by observation throughout our life
Encounter or life event that we’ve been through
“We are the sum total of our experiences”
Why is it then — many times those experiences bring us more questions than answers?
And often times even question God.
What happens to our experiences when we encounter Jesus
and we will do this by looking at the story of the Samaritan Woman
Physical Experience
John 4:7–10 (NIV)
7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?”
8 (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman.
How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)
10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”
7 “Will you give me a drink?”
Jesus initiates the encounter — but what he did was highly unusual
In the culture of the day, it was strange for a man to initiate conversation with a woman in public
if you read further down — Even the disciples were surprised
There was a long and ongoing history of animosity between Jews and Samaritans
John makes this clear to us (v.9
For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)
So, it’s no surprise that She responds:
9 “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman.
How can you ask me for a drink”
Gender and ethnicity are two huge factors in our physical experience
The world around us makes the rules of engagement clear to us
They impact not only how we view ourselves — but also others
Whenever we meet someone — We immediately start checking boxes
This woman’s experience as a Samaritan woman, had placed limits on her life
To the point that it made her question Jesus’ motives
Although the Son of God was speaking to her — all she could see was a man and a jew
Her experience of Jesus was limited by her past physical experience
10 “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink … “
If we only see ourselves through the lens of our gender and ethnicity — then we have missed the gift of God.
The world may place limits on us based on our gender — our ethnicity — or another physical characteristic
The answer is not in hating ourselves — or others
because of gender — or ethnicity
The answer is to accept the gift of God (a new life by the Holy Spirit) — the living water Jesus offered this woman
2 Corinthians 5:17 (ESV)
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.
The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Jesus offers us a new life by the Holy Sprit:
a new life beyond the boundaries of our gender
a new life beyond of the boundaries of our ethnicity
a new life beyond of the boundaries of any physical reality we’ve experienced
Jesus was able to get passed her physical experience — but there was more
Life Experience
John 4:11–12 (NIV)
11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep.
Where can you get this living water?
12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”
“You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep”
For the woman — What Jesus was saying was still not measuring up with her experience
She had been coming to this well all her life
This well represented her livelihood — her independence
Gifts?
This woman doesn’t believe in handouts — she has worked for everything in her life
“Where can you get this living water?”
This was completely out of the box for her — unheard of
How? Make it make it make sense!
“Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself”
“Who do you think you are? I’m over here drawing water from a well,
like I’ve been doing all my life,
a well that has watered my people for over a thousand years,
and all of a sudden now I’m supposed to listen to you, a Jew?”
The irony here is that Jesus IS in fact greater than Jacob
She just couldn’t get passed the realities of her life experience
Life is hard!
So hard that the gospel message sometimes seems foolish to us
1 Corinthians 2:14 (NIV)
14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.
Jesus was speaking about a spiritual reality — she was stuck in her natural reality
John 4:13–15 (NIV)
13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again,
14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst.
Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.
15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”
It’s important to work — It’s good to know our history and be thankful for those that came before us
But when our own hands become the limits to what life has for us — we will never be fully satisfied
How many times do we have to return to the same man-made well / man-made solution before we realize it will never satisfy us? 1000 years?
John 10:10 (ESV)
I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
Jesus offers us an abundant life without endless striving
an abundant life beyond the limits of our history
an abundant life beyond the limits of our own ability
If we can only look passed out earthly life experience
Relational Experience
John 4:16–18 (NIV)
16 He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”
17 “I have no husband,” she replied.
Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband.
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