The Gospel Project: The Son Offers Living Water

Intro: Soda Tier List

Main Point: Jesus satisfies our deepest hunger and thirst.

Jesus gives us living water

John 4:7–14 ESV

7 A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” 8 (For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.) 9 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.) 10 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.” 11 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? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.” 13 Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14 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.”

Cycle of thirst

Valuable

Continually flowing

Ask: What did Jesus mean when He said He would give the woman “Living Water?”

Natural thirst points to deeper thirst

Quality of life

Ask: What does a relationship with God give us that nothing else can?

Quenches thirst for God and everlasting life

2. Jesus hows us true worship

John 4:19–24 ESV

19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.” 21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. 22 You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 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. 24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

Her concern: Where worship should happen

Jesus’ concern: how worship should happen

Ask: Is God-honoring worship more about the location of the worship or the motivation of the worshiper? Explain.

emple > human temples

Ask: What does it look like for our lives to be a temple in which God dwells?

Not outward action; inward attitude

Spirit (attitude); truth (action)

3. Jesus calls us to an abundant harvest

John 4:34–38 ESV

34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work. 35 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. 36 Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. 37 For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’ 38 I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”

Relational satisfaction

Missional satisfaction

Ask: What does God call us to live for?

Reaching people: a here and now mission

Ask: Why is iit important the we share the Good News of Jesus Christ with others?

All followers = workers in the field

Head: How does Jesus’s example change the way we think about life’s top priorities?

Heart: Based on today’s Scripture passage, what will satisfy out deepest desire?

Hands: How can we help others see what they truly need the most?