The Lamb is the Living Water
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The Lamb is the Living Water
John 4:1-26
INTRODUCTION
ILL- Witnessing 60 people in 60 Days.
-One night late coming home from OKC.
-Needed someone. - Prayed and knew God was going to do something special.
-took next exit and pulled up to only gas station… It was closed and no one was around.
What is the answer to knowing who we are to witness to?
1 Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John
2 (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples),
3 he left Judea and departed again for Galilee.
4 And he had to pass through Samaria.
5 So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
6 Jacob’s well was there; so Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.
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.”
15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”
16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”
17 The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’;
18 for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.”
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.”
25 The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will tell us all things.”
26 Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am he.”
7 Ways Jesus Connected with People
7 Ways Jesus Connected with People
1. Jesus was Deliberate (1-5)
1. Jesus was Deliberate (1-5)
4 And he had to pass through Samaria.
The unfortunate events of the Pharisees beginning to target Jesus and him needing to find a new location did not stop him from his purpose.
10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
"he had to pass" or "it was necessary"- this was not only way. He was following the leading of God.
This was not a detour. It was part of the plan.
ILL- Scenic routes.
Dad every time driving through Santa Fe when I was a kid.
What appears to us as a detour was all part of His plan.
2. Jesus was Focused (6-7)
2. Jesus was Focused (6-7)
6 Jacob’s well was there; so Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.
7 A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.”
(physical need did not keep him from spiritual work)
6th hour= noon- it was hot.
Jesus' physical condition did not stop him from doing his spiritual work. In fact, he used it in his favor.
Our current situation should not sidetrack us but focus us.
3. Jesus was Accepting (9)
3. Jesus was Accepting (9)
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.)
Good Samaritan
Jesus shocked her by bucking the social expectations.
She expected belittled judgment.
She received unconditional love.
4. Jesus was Relevant (10-15)
4. Jesus was Relevant (10-15)
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.”
15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”
Mars Hill (Paul)- Temple to the Unknown God
He didn't argue the truthfulness of the woman's claim. Arguing does not lead anyone to Christ.
Much of her claims were tradition but not true.
He pointed her to eternal life.
Found an illustration that she understood.
Nicodemus heard about a second birth.
Samaritan Woman heard about living water.
Same truth= You only receive eternal life if you have been spiritually born.
5. Jesus was Truthful (16-18)
5. Jesus was Truthful (16-18)
16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”
17 The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’;
18 for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.”
Called sin, sin.
speak truth in love
15 Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,
6. Jesus was Specific (19-24)
6. Jesus was Specific (19-24)
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.”
He didn't let her get him off topic (19)
19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.
Worship is spiritual not physical. Not about where but whether you are spiritually alive.
24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
7. Jesus was the Answer (25-26)
7. Jesus was the Answer (25-26)
25 The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will tell us all things.”
26 Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am he.”
Go to the Gospel
CONCLUSION
Are you connecting with those around you so you can connect them to Jesus?
Have you accepted the Living Water?
Have you accepted the Living Water?