Live Intentionally

John 4:1–26 ESV

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.”

Intentional in Routine

Matthew 10:7 ESV

And proclaim as you go, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’

Matthew

-Great Commission says Go. Could be interpreted as meaning as you Go. It is not a suggestion to go encounter the world, but an assumption we will and a command.

a. Shares as He rests

a. Shares as He rests

b. Goes to where the lost are

Luke 5:32 ESV

I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.”

c. Wisely crosses cultural barriers

d. Reaches out to the hurting

-Jesus performs miracles throughout his ministry. Many to the sick, dying, the “least of these”. The Bible mentions several times that Jesus had compassion on them.

2. Intentional in sharing the Gospel

a. Allows her to ask questions

“Every question is an open door. The answer to any question is something true, and all truth finds its grounding in God.”

Vince Vitale

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b. Allows woman to respond

b. Shares the Gospel and offers spiritual water

Matthew 5:6 ESV

“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.

-Woman asks to receive the water

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c. Reveals sin

John 16:8 ESV

And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment:

-Jesus can do this because he is fully God, we should not. Convicting of sin is the job of the Holy Spirit

3. Intentional in Discipleship

a. Immediately begins to teach her to respond in worship

b. Teaches about the Messiah