How Jesus Walked

A. What Would Jesus Drive?

1. Some try to enlist Jesus in environmental issues

2. The push is to downsize cars to save fuel

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B. We Don't Really Know What Jesus Would Drive

1. He rode an unbroken donkey into Jerusalem ()

2. He'll ride a white horse when He comes to set up His kingdom ().

C. We Do Know How He Walked (; ) And it would behoove us to follow His example...

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1 John 2:6 NKJV

6 He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.

His Walk was a Caring Walk

So how did Jesus walk this earth?

His Walk was a Caring Walk

John 4:1–6 NKJV

1 Therefore, when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John 2 (though Jesus Himself did not baptize, but His disciples), 3 He left Judea and departed again to Galilee. 4 But He needed to go through Samaria. 5 So He came to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. 6 Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied from His journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

1. "He needed to go through Samaria"

2. This was not the usual route for a Jew to take

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a. The Jews had no dealings with the Samaritans

b. He went out of His way to meet a troubled woman

3. When people learn we care, they see we are different

4. "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels" ()

1 Corinthians 13:1 NKJV

1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

a. Loving people opens many opportunities to witness

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a. Loving people opens many opportunities to witness

b. We can minister to those whom God places in our way

5. God places needy people in our way when He knows we care

His Walk was a Sharing Walk

John 4:7–15 NKJV

7 A woman of 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 Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. 10 Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says 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 with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water? 12 Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?” 13 Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.” 15 The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw.”

1. "Give me a drink"

2. This was a conversation opener that would lead to her salvation

3. Find a conversation opener that works for you

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a. Speak of something you and others have in common

b. Meet others in their comfort zones

4. Bringing water into the conversation met her on common ground

a. This woman had come to draw water ... it was on her mind

b. "Water" was a means to tell her of living water

c. Reminding her of thirst enabled Jesus to help her see her need

5. How long has it been since you told someone about Jesus?

His Walk was a Burden-Bearing Walk

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John 14:16–26 NKJV

And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever—the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you. “A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live also. At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.” Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, “Lord, how is it that You will manifest Yourself to us, and not to the world?” Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him. He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father’s who sent Me. “These things I have spoken to you while being present with you. But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.

John 4:16–26 NKJV

16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.” 17 The woman answered and said, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You have well said, ‘I have no husband,’ 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; in that you spoke truly.” 19 The woman said to Him, “Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.” 21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father. 22 You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. 23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such 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” (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.”

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1. "Go, call your husband" (Jesus reaches her hurting place)

2. She had thought herself too sinful for salvation

a. She would find He knew all about her and loved her still

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b. Many think they are too guilty for grace

c. The ground is level at the cross; all can come to the sinless Savior

3. Jesus avoided a religious argument (vv. 20-26)

John 4:20–26 NKJV

20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.” 21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father. 22 You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. 23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such 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” (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.”

4. God is interested in holy people ... not holy places

Conclusion

A. Jesus Still Calls Thirsty People to Himself

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B. Respond to His Compassionate Call and never thirst again

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