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*Water*
John 4:4-42
/Theme: Christ quenches our thirst through the anointing of the Spirit./
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Purpose: To help people feel thirst and its quenching as a way of experiencing the Gospel
Image: Water
*Introduction: Thirst*
A. Think about thirst--When where you really thirsty?
B. Say the word “thirst”
1.
What does it feel like?
2. Say it again
*3. *What does your tongue and mouth feel like?
*C. **Who is Thirsty?
Why?*
*1. *To address these questions we are going to walk through the story of Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well in John 4
*2.
*Ask yourself,
*a. *“Am I thirsty?”
*b. *“Why am I thirsty?”
*I.
**Thirst*
*A. **Jesus*
1.
The first person to say “I thirst” is Jesus
2. *Read v. 4-8*
3. Why is Jesus thirsty?
Physical
B. *Male and Female and Jew and Samaritan*
1.
The next thirsty ones are groups, categories
2. *Read v. 9*
3. Males and females are thirsty because our relationships have been broken
4. Jews and Samaritans are thirsty because their relationships had been broken
5. We are thirsty because human community is broken, broken between the sexes, between the races
6. Are you thirsty because of brokenness of community?
C. *The Woman*
1.
But our story focuses on the woman’s thirst
2. Why is she thirsty?
3.
She is thirsty because of a lack of understanding
a. *Read v. 10*
b.
Is this why you are thirsty?
Lack of understanding
4.
She is thirsty because her understanding is shallow
a. *Read v. 11-12*
b.
Is this why you are thirsty?
Shallowness
5.
She is thirsty because she is tired of the routine
a. *Read v. 13-15*
b.
Is a meaningless routine without understanding making you thirsty?
6.
She is thirsty because she has been abused and is an outcast
a. *Read v. 16-18*
b.
Is pain and rejection and abuse making you thirsty?
7.
She is thirsty because of her questions and waiting for answers
a. *Read v. 19-22*
b.
Is confusing theology making you thirsty?
Or questions about worship?
D. *Who is thirsty?
What is your thirst?
Why?*
1. Take your crackers.
Eat them.
2. Let the physical thirst trigger your reflections
3. Reflect on your thirst
a. Are you thirst?
b. Why?
II.
*Water*
A. *Biblical Waters*
1. Creation
a. Genesis 1—God orders the waters—God’s victory
b. Genesis 2—Rivers of God’s provision
2. Noah and the Flood
a. Fallen creations disorder
b. God’s deliverance
3. Exodus—Moses
a. Drawn out from the Nile
b. Delivered through the Sea—God’s victory
c. Wilderness—Water from the rock—God’s provision
4. Entrance—Crossing the Jordan—victory and fulfillment of promise
5. David—Psalm 23:2—still waters—blessing and rest
6. Temple visions
a. Isaiah 41:17-18
b. Ezekiel 47:1-9, 12
7. Jesus
a. Baptism
b. Footwashing
8. Revelation
a. 7:13-17
b. Revelation 22:1-2
B. Water symbolism
1. God’s Victory
2. God’s Provision
3. God’s Renewal
C. Church’s Water
1. What is between Jesus and Revelation?
a.
The church
b. Mission to a thirsty world
2. The water of the church is baptism
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