Thirst No More

Intro

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Context

Jesus has recently had a conversation under cover of night with a man named Nicodemus. Nicodemus was a pharisee, which was the name of the group of preachers who wanted to prove that Jesus wasn’t the Messiah, and who eventually orchestrated the events that Led to Jesus’ execution.

Nicodemus had snuck out after dark, without anyone knowing, so that He could go talk to Jesus. It was in this conversation ,John 3, and specifically Vs. 15-18 that Jesus shows us how we can be saved.

John 3:15–18 CSB

15 so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life. 16 For God loved the world in this way: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Anyone who believes in him is not condemned, but anyone who does not believe is already condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

Unfortunately, Jesus has to flee from Judea. That’s where we find ourselves tonight.

John 4:1–19 CSB

1 When Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard he was making and baptizing more disciples than John 2 (though Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples were), 3 he left Judea and went again to Galilee. 4 He had to travel through Samaria; 5 so he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar near the property that Jacob had given his son Joseph. 6 Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, worn out from his journey, sat down at the well. It was about noon. 7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. “Give me a drink,” Jesus said to her, 8 because his disciples had gone into town to buy food. 9 “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” she asked him. For Jews do not associate with Samaritans. 10 Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God, and who is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would ask him, and he would give you living water.” 11 “Sir,” said the woman, “you don’t even have a bucket, and the well is deep. So where do you get this ‘living water’? 12 You aren’t greater than our father Jacob, are you? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and livestock.” 13 Jesus said, “Everyone who drinks from this water will get thirsty again. 14 But whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty again. In fact, the water I will give him will become a well of water springing up in him for eternal life.” 15 “Sir,” the woman said to him, “give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and come here to draw water.” 16 “Go call your husband,” he told her, “and come back here.” 17 “I don’t have a husband,” she answered. “You have correctly said, ‘I don’t have a husband,’ ” Jesus said. 18 “For you’ve had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.” 19 “Sir,” the woman replied, “I see that you are a prophet.

John 4:25–30 CSB

25 The woman said to him, “I know that the Messiah is coming” (who is called Christ). “When he comes, he will explain everything to us.” 26 Jesus told her, “I, the one speaking to you, am he.” 27 Just then his disciples arrived, and they were amazed that he was talking with a woman. Yet no one said, “What do you want?” or “Why are you talking with her?” 28 Then the woman left her water jar, went into town, and told the people, 29 “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?” 30 They left the town and made their way to him.

What do we know about this woman?

She had made mistakes

She had gone through 5 marriages (Vs. 18)

She was currently living with a man out of wedlock (Vs. 18)

She was an outcast

Among Her own People - She was at the well during the Hottest time of the day (vs. 6)

Among the Jews - She was a part of a people that because of a lot of stuff that happened in the past, most Jews wouldn’t even set foot on samaritan land.

Why does this matter in 2020?

We See that:

Jesus is seeking us even when we aren’t seeking Him!

John 4:4 CSB

4 He had to travel through Samaria;

Many will read this and think that this means that geographically speaking, there was no other way for Jesus to get to Galilee. But that’s not the case

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The Jewish hatred for the Samaritan people was so strong that they had found alternate routes to bypass Samaria.

Jesus HAD to go there because there was someone who NEEDED to be Forgiven and Saved!!

Is that you this evening?

Jesus brings Fulfillment, when nothings else can.

John 4:14–15 CSB

14 But whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty again. In fact, the water I will give him will become a well of water springing up in him for eternal life.” 15 “Sir,” the woman said to him, “give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and come here to draw water.”

As we look around us, we see a world of people who are trying to fill a hole inside themselves.

They fill it with politics, sports, hobbies, careers, etc. but it’s never enough.

Jesus is telling this woman that anything that originates from this earth cannot fill the hole that is spiritual in nature.

Jesus doesn’t expect for us to be Jesus

John 4:27 CSB

27 Just then his disciples arrived, and they were amazed that he was talking with a woman. Yet no one said, “What do you want?” or “Why are you talking with her?”

The apostles were floored that Jesus was talking with this woman!

They would have more than likely been just as floored if they would’ve seen Him talking to me, or you!

Don’t allow the thought that you “aren’t good enough yet” to keep you from surrendering your life to Jesus. You’ll never be good enough. That’s they whole point!

However:

Jesus does expect us to tell others about Jesus

John 4:39–42 CSB

39 Now many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of what the woman said when she testified, “He told me everything I ever did.” 40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. 41 Many more believed because of what he said. 42 And they told the woman, “We no longer believe because of what you said, since we have heard for ourselves and know that this really is the Savior of the world.”

We are the hands and feet of Jesus in a lost and broken world.

To those of you who are Christians: How much effort are you putting into sharing the Gospel! Not just in word, but also by the way that you live your life?

To those of you who aren’t sure, or who know that you haven’t surrendered your life to Jesus: What’s holding you back?