Life is Worship - part 10

John 4:1-26

“Life is Worship” – Part 10

The Pharisees heard that Jesus was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John, 2 although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. 3 When the Lord learned of this, he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee. 4 Now he had to go through Samaria. 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.)

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.”

11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 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?”

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.”

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.”

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.”

Introduction

Worship Series

Child, War, Preparation, Posture, Is Not, Always Comfortable, Healing, At work, Service… Life

Homily

Vs 1-3

Servant hood (Obedience)

Vs 4-6

Greek – it was necessary

Jesus was intentional

Jesus is tired – Humanity
Sixth Hour (noon-heat of the day)

Vs 7-9

Jews & Samaritans
Man & Woman (men do not speak in public)
She came to draw water in the heat of the day (this should be nap time)

Something isn’t right here

Vs 10-12

Jesus responds to her heart
She responds with logic
She doesn’t get it – Who else? (Nicodemus)

Vs 13-15

Jesus knows she’s interested so He continues
She again responds with logic

Why wouldn’t she want to keep coming

Vs 16-20

Jesus addresses the heart of the matter (Go get your Husband)
She tries to avoid the truth
Jesus shows all His cards
She still is avoiding the truth

Vs 21 & 22

Jesus says it is not about the building or the where of worship
It is also not about being a Jew or the hatred that is taking place (Reformed)

Vs 23- end – Spirit & Truth

Spirit means that God is everywhere (not just in this building)
He cannot be contained
John 20:17 – this is the new relationship (church replaces the temple)
Truth

Jesus didn’t argue with her

As he did with Nicodemus and the paralytic (chap. 3 & 5)

Jesus talks about sin

What are you hiding

She ends with…

I know the Messiah is coming vs. I know the Messiah

Do you know He is coming or do you KNOW HIM

God Sightings