Relationship month03_1
John 4: 5 So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour. 7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” 8 (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.) 9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)
· The Christians don’t want to associate with non-Christians
10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”
· We are not showing people Jesus.
o If you knew the gift of God, who Jesus is, you would ask him for living water (Life)
11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water?
· We are not showing them the way.
o This is a question that people have. They have been dropping their buckets into the wells of this world and haven’t found this kind of water that satisfies.
12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds?”
· We are not offering them something better.
o Can you give more than there is now?
13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
· WE have not become satisfied ourselves and become a living well to others.
o The difference between heavenly water and earthly is that besides not being thirsty again yourself, you can become a well for others.
15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”
· People want relief! I don’t want to keep coming back to this well!
16 He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.” 17 “I have no husband,” she replied. Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband. 18 The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.” 19 “Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.” 21 Jesus declared, “Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth.” 25 The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.” 26 Then Jesus declared, “I who speak to you am he.”
She was looking for the natural substitute still to find physical relief.
· But this is normal that people are looking for a better life.
Five substitutes for the real thing and it’s result
1. Natutral relief and security.. money, easier life, security for the future etc.
2. Relationship fulfillment.. Romantic, love, sexual fulfillment, homosexuality (substitution) no longer alone..
3. Religious correctness..find a security and fulfillment in trying to please God. (difference between all religions and christianity)
4. It will be better in the future..wishing, after death etc...
5. Synthetic Relief…Be not drunk, (High, distracted,) but be filled with the spirit. Ephesians 5: 18 Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.
RESULT: Hoplessness.. atheistic, pesimistic, escapism through dropping out of society, drug or alcohol abuse, TV, books (romance etc), living the lives of make believe heroes and those that succeed.
God has something better for you than you have found yet.
1 Corinthians 2: 9 However, as it is written: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him”—
God loves you more than you can imagine at this moment.
Revelation 3: 20 Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me.
Do you hear him knocking? Come open the door of your heart and let him in.
Some have barricaded the door of their heart because of so many failures in life. Open the door today.