John 4:1-43
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Broken yet Chosen
Broken yet Chosen
The Gospel of John was written with a specific purpose in mind. The Apostle writes at the end of the book Jn 20:31, “these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.”
John wrote this Gospel so that those who read it and hear it may know Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord. Jesus all through out the gospel is revealing to those He comes in contact with the heart of God, which is to “Seek and save that which is lost.” Luke 19:10
There are two interacts that happen in this Gospel that are very different yet both end up with the same solution.
In John Chapter 3 Nicodemus a pharisee, the best a nation has to offer, who devoted his life to religious rules, comes to Jesus and asks “how do I get eternal life.?”
Jesus’ answer to Him is you can’t do anything.
That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Without a supernatural act of God you cannot be born again. You and have no control over your Spiritual birth. This is the very reason why Christ came.
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—
Jesus came because the world was dead in sin, and condemned. Jesus came to save us from that Condemnation. So there is nothing we can do to earn salvation, but look to Christ as Savior and Lord.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
Here is John 4:1-45 we see Jesus interacting with someone completely different then Nicodemus.
Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), he left Judea and departed again for Galilee. And he had to pass through Samaria. So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 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.
A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” (For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.) 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.) 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.” 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? Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.” Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 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.” 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.”
Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.” The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.” The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.” Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. 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. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” 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.” Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am he.”
Just then his disciples came back. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you seek?” or, “Why are you talking with her?” So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people, “Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?” They went out of the town and were coming to him.
Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.” But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” So the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?” Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work. Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest. Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’ I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”
Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.” So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. And many more believed because of his word. They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world.”
After the two days he departed for Galilee. (For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.) So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the feast. For they too had gone to the feast.
The Mission Field
The Mission Field
Jesus Had to go through Samaria John 4:4. In the time of Jesus the Jews hated the Samaritans. There was a prejudice against them and it was so bad that when a Jewish person travel north to Galilee from Jerusalem (Samaria is smack dab in the middle) they would add extra days to their trip to go around it. This prejudice was extreme. Why was there such a prejudice, because the Samaritans were viewed as half breeds, a mixture of Jewish and Assyrian, and whatever race was mixed in after Jerusalem was captured around 70 AD.
This is important cause when Jesus asks the woman for a drink she is shock. First that a jew would ask for a Samaritan to give them anything, but also because she is a women.
Jesus going to this land reveals what the Jews had missed because of their hatred for the Samaritans, and that is that this was the mission field. Jesus came for the broken, for the hurting, for the oppressed, and for the hopeless.
As Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he rose and followed him.
And as Jesus reclined at table in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and were reclining with Jesus and his disciples. And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” But when he heard it, he said, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. Go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”
Christ came for those who are lost and being lost looks very different. Someone can be lost at see and that looks completely different from being lost in a dessert, or lost in the woods, or lost in the city. The point is that both the religious leader and this women who was the complete opposite were both lost. One in a false religion and the other in a life full of sin. Both needed a savior.
The ESV Study Bible Chapter 4
Jesus took the initiative in speaking to a Samaritan woman—an astonishing break with culture and tradition, showing his desire to save the lost.
The women was lost in her life of sin
The women was lost in her life of sin
for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.”
Jesus shows this woman who was lost lost so much undeserved mercy. He offers her a gift that wasn’t something she could ever earn
And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.
Jesus knew all about the woman’s life. He even tells her how she has been living. Nothing is hidden from God. Jesus being God knew this lady and chose to display His amazing mercy and grace. Nothing was hidden from Him. And looking at this story you would think “why would you pick that one. She is sleeping with everyone and is disgusting.”
Yet Jesus stands in from of her and says:
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.”
This mercy without morality, it is mercy without religion. She didn’t even know who Jesus was yet. But yet He still offers this Free Gift.
Jesus is offering eternal life and forgiveness to this broken and all alone woman, who was an outcast even among her own people. The Least of the Least. She had no significance yet Jesus Stands before her says, “I know what you’ve done, I know all the shameful acts, yet if you knew the gift that stands before you you would ask and I would give you living water.”
The word gift used here by Jesus means free gift, which is a common theme throughout the bible.
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
This Gift that Jesus Offers doesn’t just satisfy once, but is becomes a spring that continues to flows in your life, and from your life. It becomes the source of your life.
What Christ did for you and form me on the cross in now our life. We are no longer dead, or condemned but we are saved and made alive. This is the free gift and nothing can take it away from us.
Jesus Reveals who He is
Jesus Reveals who He is
The women is still confused and probably thinks that what Jesus says is a little crazy. She doesn’t understand what Christ is offering her, and even asks for this physical miracle water that she can drink and never have to have another drink.
Jesus was talking about Spiritual water, that only God provides.
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.” Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am he.”
This is the first person in the Gospel of John that Jesus reveals Himself as God too. What tender mercy and compassion Jesus had on this outcast.
He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt: “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’ But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
Jesus not only offers grace and mercy to this woman, but He users her testimony of brokenness to lead others to Himself. This living water has spilled over just by her sharing her story of what Christ had done-
Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.” So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. And many more believed because of his word.