Switch the Source
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Introduction- Back and Hips
Opening Story:
1. brothers renovation
2. pain started
3. back surgeon documentary
4. Everyone apparently thinks I’m really old. During covid I helped my brother remodel his house and my back started to hurt. I went to the chiropractor and he told me I had issues with my hips, the but the pain was in my back. We argued but eventually I had to realize, I felt my pain but I didn’t know how to treat it, so I did stupid stuff
Tension- Are you trying to deal with the symptoms or the source?
-Have you ever been in a spot before where you know you felt something: bad? Hangry? Hurt? Rejected? Forgotten? etc.? It feels worse because it’s connected to a source.
-Can I suggest for a moment that we as human beings are absolutely terrible at handling things when we feel bad? The dumbest decisions you make happen because you felt bad and you didn’t know how to deal with it:
the symptom is you are thirsty for a relationship the source is that you feel like you’re not enough to be loved
The symptom is you use snapchat as a journal because you feel abandoned
The symptom is what you look at online, the source is that you feel alone
Personal/ Purpose:
Personal: I could feel the symptoms of rejection, isolation, abandonment, but it wasn’t until I was 28 that Jesus walked me through to understand the abuse I went through when I was kid.
Purpose: Tonight, Jesus wants to heal you in areas you didn’t know you needed heal, he wants to go beyond symptoms to the source.
BIBLE-
How do we study the Bible?
What did it mean?
The difference of fruit- peaches, eggplants, mean something different.
What does it always mean?
The story we’re going to look at doesn’t tell us something Jesus did, but shows us something he is always doing.
What does it mean for us today?
When we answer the first two questions, the third one is often plain and simple.
Setting: In John 4 we read this story about Jesus going through Galilee. He stops by this well while his disciples go to get food and he waits until this random woman shows up.
The Woman: Read John 4:7–8 “Soon a Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, “Please give me a drink.” He was alone at the time because his disciples had gone into the village to buy some food.” . Because this isn’t our culture we already miss stuff.
What did it mean?
RACE: Jesus was jewish and this woman was Samaritan. These two groups didn’t talk.
GENDER: No one typically went at this time of day to get water. And women typically didn’t go alone, they would go in a group.
ALONE: So read it like this, a woman who didn’t have any friends, who no one else wanted to be around, who everyone else labeled as immoral, had to go get water.
CONVERSATION: And Jesus is doing something that is culturally crossing a line. Men and women didn’t just talk alone. That wasn’t a thing. But we see Jesus being willing to step into an uncomfortable situation.
What does it always mean?
Jesus is willing to break societal norms to meet you in vulnerable places of your life.
What does it mean today?
I can’t talk about this because I’m supposed to be a leader and uphold an image
If I say this my parents will be so mad because it’ll loo bad on them.
Living Water: Jesus starts talking to her about this thing called Living water.”
What did it mean
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Living water was something that would be moving vs water that wasn’t moving.
What does it always mean
Jesus wants to be a source of good things in our lives, healing, but when we bring in other sources it doesn’t just effect it, it stops it.
What does it mean today?
You have to identify where the source is for you pain, for you pleasure, love, everything. Why? Lets keep reading
Jesus touches the source John 4:15–18 ““Please, sir,” the woman said, “give me this water! Then I’ll never be thirsty again, and I won’t have to come here to get water.” “Go and get your husband,” Jesus told her. “I don’t have a husband,” the woman replied. Jesus said, “You’re right! You don’t have a husband—for you have had five husbands, and you aren’t even married to the man you’re living with now. You certainly spoke the truth!”
What did it mean?
She had another source, and Jesus wanted to talk about the source. Her need for a husband was an idol, a symptom
What does it always mean?
The tone of Jesus- he is not calling you out to shame you, he is calling you out of where you are to step into something better
What does it mean today?
Jesus has been speaking to you tonight. You think its your conscience, but he’s asking you about your source. Because he wants to heal it.
Deflection [John 4:19–20 ““Sir,” the woman said, “you must be a prophet. So tell me, why is it that you Jews insist that Jerusalem is the only place of worship, while we Samaritans claim it is here at Mount Gerizim, where our ancestors worshiped?”” ]
What did it mean?
It was deflection by religious dogma. Jesus hit something sensitive and she didn’t want to talk about it. So he entertains the rant
What does it always mean?
Jesus will be patient with you but he also wants to have a real conversation with you.
What does it mean today?
“Why do bad things happen to good people?”
“If Jesus is so good…why can’t I see him?”
“Is Jesus even real?”
Action [John 4:28–29 “The woman left her water jar beside the well and ran back to the village, telling everyone, “Come and see a man who told me everything I ever did! Could he possibly be the Messiah?”” ] John 4:39 “Many Samaritans from the village believed in Jesus because the woman had said, “He told me everything I ever did!””
What does it mean?
She made a statement about the new source she was switching to. She left the jar and stepped into her healing.
She went to the well alone but then started to gather people to come with her to meet Jesus.
What does it always mean?
Jesus can change your entire life in as little as a moment when you switch the source to him instead of anything else.
What does it mean today?
The woman identified there was a part of her that wasn’t there with Jesus, a source. Identify yours and take a step.
Some of you I believe aren’t going home with your phones tonight.
Some of you are going home and telling your parents the problems you have and are going to take steps towards counseling
Some of you are going to delete photos, have your friends change passwords to different accounts
Some of you are going to going home and throw away, burn, certain things you’ve had because you want the real source.
Prophetic: Switch your source
Purpose- switch your source to Jesus
How you look- quit trying to make it on your own
How smart you feel-
How you think your friends see you
How you parents see you
Step into your purpose.
Application/ The Jar:
What do I feel bad about? [Symptom]
How do I usually deal with it? [Source]
What bold steps can I take to switch it to Jesus? [Switch]
Salvation/ Actions
Never asked Jesus to be the source.
You’ve asked him before but now you see there’s other idols and you just want cleaned out.
