1 Samuel 15
Notes
Transcript
13th November 2016
A very warm welcome to our services of worship today. We
pray that you will all know God’s blessing as we meet together.
Worship this morning is led by Mr Murdo Maciver and this
evening by Mr Chris Barrowman
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Praise: Psalm 40 v1-5
Praise: NEP 277 What a friend we have in Jesus
Praise: NEP279 When I survey the wondrous
cross
Reading: John 4: 1-30 (NIV)
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. 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, 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 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.”
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.”
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?” 30 They came out of the town and made their
way toward him.
Tea/Coffee will be served after the morning service to which everyone is
warmly invited
Sunday school for all P1-S2 children 3.30pm-church hall
6pm service –led by Mr Chris Barrowman
Reading: 1 Samuel 15
The Week Ahead
Wed 16th November – 10.15am Women’s Bible Study at
Wilina’s house, Gatehouse, North Dell. All women welcome.
Wed 16th November 7.30pm – midweek prayer meeting
Services next Sunday 20th November 2016
11am (church hall) – Rev Murdo Smith
6pm (church hall) – Rev Murdo Smith
Dates for your diary
Tue 22nd Nov 7.30pm – Christian Film Night (church hall) We
will be showing some Christian feature films every month
throughout the winter months. Details of the film in next week’s
intimations.
Thu 24th Nov - midday Thanksgiving Service
Mon 28th Nov 7.30-9pm – Bible study. A new weekly bible
study will be starting in the church hall. Everyone welcome.
More details to follow.
Thu 15th Dec – Men’s Christmas meal. Please sign up for the
meal on the sheet at the back of the hall
Women’s Christmas meal
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Date tbc
Please sign up for the
meal on the sheet at the back of the hall.