Fulfilled

Fulfilled

Me-Intro-no service next week / I love Thanksgiving / You cant eat any more

/ The next day your hungry

We- We have all felt that way. Right? Maybe not with food but maybe;

iPhones, relationships, sports, instagram

Tonight I want to talk about living the fullest life possible.

God-

New International Version (NIV)

Jesus Talks With a Samaritan Woman

4:1 Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John— 2 although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. 3 So he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.

4 Now he had to go through Samaria.(Jews would avoid this area and usually travel around it / Jesus went straight to it because he had an appointment ) 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 noon.

7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water,(odd time to get 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.[a])

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 livestock?”

13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them 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.” (Watch this)

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 ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”

21 “Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, 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 the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the 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, the one speaking to you—I am he.”

(Big deal- Jesus revealed who he was to a Samaritan Woman, looked down at, hurt, sinful, alone / not to religious people.)

The Disciples Rejoin Jesus

27 Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, “What do you want?” or “Why are you talking with her?”

28 Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, 29 “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?” (39)30 They came out of the town and made their way toward him.

31 Meanwhile his disciples urged him, “Rabbi, eat something.”

32 But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”

33 Then his disciples said to each other, “Could someone have brought him food?”

34 “My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. 35 Don’t you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. 36 Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. 37 Thus the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true. 38 I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.”

Many Samaritans Believe

39 Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.” 40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days. 41 And because of his words many more became believers.

42 They said to the woman, “We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world.”

What-The fullest life possible comes from Jesus.

Why is this true?-

#1 Natural things don't keep you fulfilled.

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.”

-This woman saw the consequences of pursuing natural things for fulfillment.

-It left her scarred, guilt ridden, and not fulfilled.

-If you grew up in church you know that Jesus is the answer to everything.

-Some of us know the truth but will want to sin just to make sure it hurts.

“Know the scars and see the proof”

-Sin may feel good for a season but the consequences are uncontrollable and leave you in a worse position then it found you.

Drugs (Shaun) (Brooklyn) / Relationships (Justin)

The fullest life possible come from Jesus.

#2 A life with Jesus causes you to confront fear and sin.

-Following Jesus is the most terrifying, exciting, uncomfortable and rewarding journey you can be on.

-As soon as she admitted her need for Jesus what did he do:

16 He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”

17 “I have no husband,” she replied. (Half truth)

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.”

-Jesus will get all in your business, some of you are not listening to the voice of God.

-Bad relationship / Porn / Friends / Your one person at church

-LISTEN!

-Jesus will address sin, not to condemn you but to draw you closer to him, where true fulfillment is found.

28 Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town

-Imagine what this woman was thinking walking back into town after speaking with Jesus.

-These are people who she was trying to avoid.

-But the encounter she just had gave her boldness to step into the fullest life possible

#3 Eternal impact is better than temporary pleasure. **BAND COME UP

39 Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony,

-You following Jesus can affect others.

-You can set the example in this church, school, family, friends, the generation on what it looks like to live fulfilled.

-In todays world people are desperate, dry and longing for more.

-When you share about what God has done in your life it now only changes people’s lives now but also changes eternity.

You-

How/So what-

I want you to have the best life possible.

Marriage-We followed God / Intimacy / trust / Joy

Kids-My kids like me / respect me / love me

Money-I have money because I did the right thing / bless others

Job-I’m doing what God has created me for / Not to just pay taxes and die.

We-

Others-Other people’s lives have been eternally impacted because of mine.

Legacy-I left my family, community, world better than I found it.

This all comes from asking Jesus (the living water) to fulfill your needs.

Lets stand tonight to close

“Oh come to the Alter”

-As the band sings this song. If you want to make a commitment to follow Jesus

I want you, right where your standing to make that commitment.

Pray to close

Living water & only you fulfill

We walk away from things that don't matter

We say yes to you

As we trust in you would you fulfill our every need

Would you lead us to the fullest life possible.