Sermon Tone Analysis

INTRO: Good morning everyone!! What an awesome group!

This is probably the largest Bible class I have ever done so I’m excited!

And I hope you are awake enough to be excited.

And I hope you are not to tired and are excited as well

I hope you all have had an incredible weekend and your relationship with Christ has grown because of the lessons you have heard.

I hope that is also of the lessons you will hear today.

THIS MORNING WE ARE TALKING ABOUT HOW CHRIST CAN SUPPLY US WITH “LIVING WATER” AND GIVE LIFE!

WINNING A LIFETIME SUPPLY OF: So when I was a kid one of things I liked watching was game shows.

One of the prizes that was really rare that I always thought would be awesome to get (depending on the item) was a lifetime supply of something.

So for example one person won a lifetime supply of donuts, (that’s pretty incredible), however another person won a lifetime supply of spam (not so incredible) (how many of you know what spam is? not in you email but the food item) ha) The best one of all by far that I have seen was one lady won a lifetime supply of coffee beans!

Now that is really good!

Living water

Living water

NOW LET’S SEE THAT YOU WOULD RATHER HAVE:

WHICH WOULD YOU RATHER HAVE A LIFETIME SUPPLY OF?

Lifetime supply

   This candy or that

   This restaurant or that

   This food or that

   Water or soft drink of your choice

(SLIDE: Peanut butter or Reeses peanut butter cups?)

   (SLIDE: Nutella or chocolate bars of your choice)

   (SlIDE: Chic-fil-a or Steak-n-Shake)

   (SLIDE: Water or soft drink of your choice)

(SL: Money or

   (SL: Water or soft drink of your choice)

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   This restaurant or that

   This food or that

   Water or soft drink of your choice

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   (Sl: Chic-fil-a or Steak-n-Shake)

   (SL: Water or soft drink of your choice)

How many of you chose water over soda?

Not many right.

We already have a lifetime supply of water, it is already free and easily accessible.

If you were thirsty you could walk out just into the foyer and find a water fountain.

You would not have to even pay for it.

HOPEFULLY WE ALL WAN’T THE ETERNAL SUPPLY OF “LIVING WATER” THAT JESUS OFFERS.

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Q: But in Jesus’s time it what did it was it so easy

We get it easily, but in Jesus’ time and in some countries today getting water was not as easy as going to a fountain and turning it on.

It was a daily chore to go get it that involved walking to the nearest well twice a day, drawing it out, and carrying heavy water jars back.

As we see in the story of the woman at the well that we are going to look at this morning.

But it was necessary because water was and is vital to so many things in life and life itself!

He is going to uses the need for physical water to offer not only a lifetime supply but an eternal supply of a water that would quench a deeper thirst.

We are going to see Jesus offer a lifetime supply of something so much greater than anything we deserve or could attain.

Theme: This weekend we have been talking about water and all the ways God worked with it and through it to teach lessons and save people.

THIS MORNING WE ARE LOOKING AT JESUS’ OFFERS OF LIVING WATER to the SAMARITAN woman at the well in and to the Jews at the feast of tabernacles in .

He is going to use the need for physical water to offer not only a lifetime supply but an eternal supply of a water that would quench a deeper spiritual thirst.

He is going to use the need for physical water to offer not only a lifetime supply but an eternal supply of a water that would quench a deeper spiritual thirst.

He is going to use the need for physical water to offer not only a lifetime supply but a water that would quench a deeper spiritual thirst and lead to being eternally satisfied.

The reason we are going to look at the two times Jesus offered “living water” is because we really need this LIVING WATER AND WE and we really need understand everything that Jesus meant when he talked about living water.

We have a need for the living water Jesus offers and we have a need to understand everything Jesus meant by living water.

The second is an incredible instance where Jesus offers rivers of living water to everyone and where the text points to the deeper meaning of what or rather Who the living water is!

The second is an incredible instance where Jesus offers rivers of living water to everyone and where the text points to the deeper meaning of what or rather Who the living water is!

TRANS: First let’s look at and Jesus’s offer of “living water” to the woman at the well and how she reflects...

In the first instance it is to an individual at a well would was there for a physical thirst

OUR THIRST FOR LIVING WATER AND NEED FOR THE TRUE LIFE JESUS’ OFFERS.

Turn to and look at Jesus and the woman at the well and our thirst for living water.

So that we get the context let’s start back at verse 3-4.

So Jesus is traveling back to Galilee from Judea and “He had” to or it was “necessary” as some translations say for Him to pass through Samaria.

As we always point out...

Q: WHY WAS IT “NECESSARY” FOR HIM TO PASS THROUGH Samaria you ask?

A: (1) Because going through Samaria was the shortest route from Judea to Galilee and while the Jews held a strong prejudice and even hatred for the Samaritans Jesus did not!

But there was more to it than that!

(2) Because Jesus was lead by the Spirit and God was providentially setting up Jesus to meet someone there who Jesus would offer living water!

Not just her but the people of her city.

Their were fields in Samaria that were ready to be harvested and Jesus had to go there to seek and save the lost.

Appl: While the Jesus despised the Samaritans, Jesus loved them.

jOHN 4:5-

jOHN 4:

Q: WHY DO YOU THINK JESUS ASKS THE SAMARITAN WOMAN FOR A DRINK? (instead of)

A: First of all because He was thirsty!

Let’s go ahead and state the obvious because some times we miss the simplest things.

Verse 6 says Jesus was weary from His journey.

It was the ninth hour (which was what time?) yes, or noon!

It was hot.

Q: How many of you went to the game yesterday?

Around 12 was it hot?

Did you want something to drink?

Jesus was hot and tired and needed physical drink and he did not have anything to draw water from the well with (as verse 11 says).

He asked this Samaritan woman for a drink.

A2: The more important reason of course is that through Jesus asking the Samaritan woman for a physical drink of water He was setting up to offer her a spiritual continual drink of “living water.”

The very fact that He asked her would have gotten her attention.

Q: wHAT IS HER REACTION?

(Incredible thought: What an incredible thought the Messiah who had the ability to give spiritual “rivers of living water” is having to ask for a physical drink because he has nothing to draw the water with.

His disciples had gone... (Maybe the reason He is in this place physically thirsty is because He needed to meet this woman who was spiritually thirsty.)

We see her reaction to His question as being shocked that He is even speaking to her!

The text gives a short explanation as to why.

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Q: WHY WAS IT SO CRAZY TO HER THAT JESUS WAS TALKING TO HER? WHY DID THE JEWS HAVE NO DEALING WITH THE SAMARITANS?

A: THE SAMARITAN WERE part Jew/Hebrew because they intermarried with Gentiles back in Old Testament times.

The Jews of Jesus’ day hated them and considered them as unclean, one because they were part Gentile but also because their ancestor’s betrayed by marrying.

So Jesus was first of all speaking to a woman in public which was not often done and more than that a Samaritan woman.

Jesus asking for a drink of water from a Samaritan’s container which would have been considered unclean as well was way out of the norm.

TO ADD TO THIS THE WOMAN WAS LIVING IN SIN.

Jesus confronts this in verse 16 which we will get to.

ALSO she was likely known in the city to be living in sin because of all of her marriages and her living with someone who was not her husband.

Jesus reached out to those that others would not!

He crossed barriers that others would not cross because He loved those others did not.

Jesus isn’t worried about all

Appl: (1)