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John 4:7–18 (CSB)
A woman of Samaria came to draw water.
“Give me a drink,” Jesus said to her, because his disciples had gone into town to buy food.
“How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” she asked him.
For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.
Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God, and who is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would ask him, and he would give you living water.”
“Sir,” said the woman, “you don’t even have a bucket, and the well is deep.
So where do you get this ‘living water’?
You aren’t greater than our father Jacob, are you?
He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and livestock.”
Jesus said, “Everyone who drinks from this water will get thirsty again.
But whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty again.
In fact, the water I will give him will become a well of water springing up in him for eternal life.”
“Sir,” the woman said to him, “give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and come here to draw water.”
“Go call your husband,” he told her, “and come back here.”
“I don’t have a husband,” she answered.
“You have correctly said, ‘I don’t have a husband,’ ” Jesus said.
“For you’ve had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband.
What you have said is true.”
We have all experienced the feeling of being thirsty.
Maybe a hot day at the beach, or a long hike, or a fast run?
And the feeling of quenching that thirst is awesome.
My question for you this morning is are you living thirsty?
I am not asking you if you want to live longer- we all want that.
I am asking if you feel like something is missing from you life that would satisfy your longings.
Do you know what is missing?
Do you think you know?
Has what you think your missing changed over the years?
New Years always brings a bunch of talk about making resolutions that will change our life.
A lot of gym memberships are sold- and most of them never get used.
Advertisers have promise miraculous cures and fancy machines that will change our lives forever.
But somehow I don’t quite believe they have what we need.
One thing we can be sure of- and that feeling thirsty- feeling that there is something more we need- is part of the basic human condition.
The Text In Its Context
Everybody Needs A Drink
John 4:7–10 (CSB)
A woman of Samaria came to draw water.
“Give me a drink,” Jesus said to her, because his disciples had gone into town to buy food.
“How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” she asked him.
For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.
Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God, and who is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would ask him, and he would give you living water.”
At face value this situation seems pretty normal.
AMEN?
A women from the Samaritan village came to get a drink.
Jesus asked for a drink.
We all need water to live- right?
Like I said- everybody needs a drink!
When we studied this passage before Christmas, we looked at the fact Jews avoided traveling through Samaria, and that the two peoples hated each other.
In that time and place it was also scandalous for any man to speak in public to a women he didn’t know.
So we can understand why the woman was surprised when Jesus asked for a drink of water.
Of course, Jesus wanted much more than a simple drink of water.
He wanted to open a conversation with her about living water.
You see,
Not All Drinks Are Equal
John 4:10–13 (CSB)
Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God, and who is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would ask him, and he would give you living water.”
“Sir,” said the woman, “you don’t even have a bucket, and the well is deep.
So where do you get this ‘living water’?
You aren’t greater than our father Jacob, are you?
He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and livestock.”
Jesus said, “Everyone who drinks from this water will get thirsty again.
Obviously, we are not talking about Coke vs Pepsi, or Coffee versus Tea.
Our choice in that matter is simply a preference.
Some of us may say that we need coffee to get going in the morning, Tim is faithful in getting MA’s every morning, and my wife posts a lot of coffee memes, but we can live without those morning rituals.
AMEN?
Water is critical to life.
Studies have shown that people live between 8 and 21 days without food.
You will die in a matter of days without water.
Water is integral to bodily functions, including the kidney.
“In addition to regulating fluid balance, the kidneys require water for the filtration of waste from the bloodstream and excretion via urine,” the study goes on to say.
If we don’t have enough water kidney failure Without an adequate amount of hydration, kidney failure can start to occur.
Makes you want to drink some water- eh?
But not even all sources of water are equal.
Anybody who has ever swallowed salt water accidentally knows that it isn’t good for drinking.
The salt water overwhelms our kidneys even faster than not drinking water at all.
Over 300 million Africans lack access to clean and safe water for drinking.
They have to drink water, but the water they have available can make them sick.
Makes me feel bad for complaining when our tap water smells of too many chemicals- I am still going to drink the filtered water whenever possible, because it simply tastes better.
But even that isn’t what Jesus is talking about.
AMEN?
Because even if we have perfectly clean water we will still need to keep on returning for more water later.
Jesus is talking about more than our need for drinking water.
He is saying that God has designed us to need spiritual living water to make us feel right with God, with each other, and even to feel right with ourselves.
Designed for Living Water
John 4:14–18 (CSB)
But whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty again.
In fact, the water I will give him will become a well of water springing up in him for eternal life.”
“Sir,” the woman said to him, “give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and come here to draw water.”
“Go call your husband,” he told her, “and come back here.”
“I don’t have a husband,” she answered.
“You have correctly said, ‘I don’t have a husband,’ ” Jesus said.
“For you’ve had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband.
What you have said is true.”
Why did Jesus tell the woman to go get her husband?
He is cutting to the heart of this woman’s search for happiness.
In today’s language Jesus might have said you have been married five times and now you are living with a boyfriend.
She was attempting to quench her thirst through relationships.
She was moving from one bad relationship to another and from one bed to another.
She never found the guy who completed her, she was never satisfied, her thirst was never quenched.
I have felt that way before, haven’t you?
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