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*The Gospel of John VIII: The Prodigal Daughter*
*John 4:1-26*
*/June 29, 2008/*
*Prep: *
· Sermons: Last week (glory), previous week (spirit realm), Phil XII (grace), Driscoll.
· Samaritans, John 3 vrs.
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*Opening*
· *Work parties* and communities.
This is one of my *favorite* *stories* about Jesus, “The Samaritan Woman.”
Jesus *bridges* social, religious, gender, and ethnic divides to reach out to a woman even *rejected* by her own people.
· *Last* *week:* the glory of God; we enjoy God by glorifying him.
· *Stories* like this show us *how* *glorious* he is.
There are two significant themes in this story, so *two* *sermons*: 1) Jesus *reaching* out with love to an *outcast*, and 2) how we *outcasts* now *reach* *out* to each other.
*Prayer*
· Show us *your* love, acceptance, mercy, and grace.
· Help us *extend* these to even the *difficult* *people*.
*nicodemus and the samaritan*
Ä *Comparisons* and *contrasts* between this chapter and last – A wealthy religious Jew and a sinful, poor sinful Samaritan.
· God welcomes both the *Fundamentalists* and the *party* *girl*!
· It was the *party* *girl* that responded *quickly* and *eagerly*.
*John 4:1-26 NIV* The Pharisees heard that Jesus was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John, 2 although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples.
3 ¶ When the Lord learned of this, he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.
The Pharisees, not being wild about John or Jesus, had already began to *play* *off* of potential rivalry.
John and Jesus felt no such competition, but their *disciples* did, so Jesus moves along.
4 Now he had to go through Samaria.
*history lesson: Jew and Samaritans*
Jews and Samaritans didn’t like each other (like *Arthur* and *Japanese*).
· Israel’s *deportation* and *resettlement*.
· Mixed *religion*.
· *Spurned* *offer* to help with temple.
· Theological: Where to worship [Mount Gerizim (left)], Bible
· Destruction of Samaritan temple, desecration of Jewish.
· Slaughter of Galileans.
They just didn’t like each other.
When His enemies wanted to call *Jesus* an *insulting* name, they called Him a *Samaritan*.
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 the sixth hour.
John is careful to show that Jesus, while being God, was also a human and experienced the *weakness* of *humans*.
We are not exactly sure where Sycahr was, but we do have a pretty good guess about the *well*.
This is it.
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.)
For some reason it took *all* *12* disciples to go *shopping*.
It seems that Jesus *weariness* had a *divine* *purpose*.
This was a very *odd* *time* to get the water.
It was probably about a ¼ to ½ mile walk, and the sixth hour means it was around *noon*.
In village life, everything was done *together*, so her *seclusion* and the time of day makes it seem that she was an *outcast*.
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.)
Immediately she is *surprise* and *suspicious*.
This guy is not the norm, but she doesn’t know the half of it.
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.”
“*Living* *water*” is an expression for running water, but Jesus has a *double* *meaning*.
11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep.
Where can you get this living water?
I wonder if this was *amusement*, *sarcasm*, or *surprise*.
I think surprise and sarcasm mixed, because of the next question.
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 flocks and herds?”
A little bit of *irony* here: She assumed the answer was no, but it is actually yes.
13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst.
Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
Jesus answers yes by pointing out inherent *inferiority* of Jacob’s well: It will only *postpone*, not *quench* thirst.
The water that Jesus is offering is the *Spirit*.
*John 7:37-39 * 37 ¶ On the last and greatest day of the Feast, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.
38 Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him.”
39 By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive.
Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.
And by offering the *promise* of the *Spirit*, he is offering salvation, “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.”
She *misunderstands* Jesus, but a *yes* is a *yes*, so he sends events down a *path* that will result in her finding “living water”
17 “I have no husband,” she replied.
This is her *shortest* *statement*, three words in Greek.
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.”
This is the second example of *supernatural* *knowledge*, the first being with *Nathanael*.
Both cause people to *follow* *him*.
This was far *less* *acceptable* at that time than now.
This gives us a good guess as to *why* she was walking to the *well* at *noon*.
19 “Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet.
20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”
I had always believe that this was a classic “*evasive* *maneuver*,” but now I think this question is *perfectly* *on* *task*, and is actually a *sign* of *repentance*.
The place of *worship* was also the place of *forgiveness*.
Confronted by her *sin*, she needed to ask this prophet the most burning issue in her mind: “Where can I be *forgiven*?”
· Perhaps she wasn’t allowed into their place of worship.
21 Jesus declared, “Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
The question is *no* longer “*where*.”
As Jesus has promised, he would *become* the *temple*.
The question becomes “*how*,” and the first part of that we worship him as *father*.
In that day, it was *uncommon* to call God father and it is *uniquely* *Christian* to display this sort of *affection* and *closeness* to God.
22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.
Theirs was an *idolatrous* *mixture* of religions.
Having the rest of the OT, the Jews had a more *complete* *understanding* of God.
The *prophets* *foretold* the *elimination* of the temple.
· The *Messiah* would come through them.
23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.
24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth.”
“In spirit” means being of the *spiritual* *realm*, not *earthly*, in keeping with what was said earlier:
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