Living Water

Ch 1 Baptism

Ch 2 Water to wine

Ch 3 Born of water and spirit

Ch 4 Living water

“He had to travel through Samaria”

Not according to custom

Not according to geography

“worn out from His journey”

The humanity of Jesus

The deity of Jesus

When either is minimized, we go off track theologically

Holman New Testament Commentary: John A. Demonstration of Gospel Witness (4:1–26)

He does not refer to Himself as the living water. Living water rather, symbolizes the Spirit, whom He would send, than the Christ Himself. Oderberg

Holman New Testament Commentary: John A. Demonstration of Gospel Witness (4:1–26)

He does not refer to Himself as the living water. Living water rather, symbolizes the Spirit, whom He would send, than the Christ Himself.

Comparing Nicodemus, who sought Jesus out and this woman, who was confronted by Jesus.

Holman New Testament Commentary: John A. Demonstration of Gospel Witness (4:1–26)

• Both thought they were spiritually secure.

• Both were crudely literal or materialistic in their reaction to Jesus’ spiritual teaching.

• Both were spiritually empty and sensed the need for God.

• Both were spiritually lost, and that was the root of all their other problems (Boice, I, pp. 335–37).

The difference comes in their willingness to accept Jesus’ words.

We concede that Jesus is… Something other than God. But we struggle to break through to full acceptance of Him as Lord and King.

LIVING WATER

The Holman Christian Standard Bible Chapter 2

13 For My people have committed a double evil:

They have abandoned Me,

the fountain of living water,

and dug cisterns for themselves,

cracked cisterns that cannot hold water.

(HCSB) — 13 For My people have committed a double evil: They have abandoned Me, the fountain of living water, and dug cisterns for themselves, cracked cisterns that cannot hold water.

Confronted by her moral condition, she tries to justify her standing by her religion. The difference between religion and the Gospel is that religion describes man searching for God while the Gospel shows God reaching out to man.

Worship

Jesus again bridges the gap between OC and NC. Even though salvation comes through the Jews, not the Samaritans, He points away from a place of worship to a people of worship. In spirit and truth.

Non-metaphorical I AM statement. More powerful than I AM the Bread of Life or I AM the Good Shepherd. “You’re waiting on the Messiah? I AM the one speaking to you.”

“You’re waiting on the Messiah? I AM the one speaking to you.”