Spirit and Truth
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Man was walking along the beach in deep prayer with God. He was a devout man, devoted to the Lord. The skies opened up and the voice of the Lord came down and said, John, you have been faithful to me. And so like Solomon, I will grant you one request, what would that be. The man answered, I would like a road from Here to Hawaii. God contemplated and said do you know what that would take, how much concrete, how many people, what that would do to the ocean and how much time it would take? Is there anything else you might want? The man replied after deep in thought, well grant me the ability to understand women. Then God replied, two lanes or four!
Funny that we seem to give women a hard time about things, and in a world that has absolutely not treated women in the right way, we only need turn to John chapter 4 to see what Jesus thought about women, in John 4:10
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.”
Pray
The reason this is one of my favorite verse is based on two things. Number one, we see here that God reveals the Gospel to a woman, this is one of the ways we know this isn’t a story written by men but God. This was nearly unheard of in this time or even in contemporary context, but God thought that women had as much value as men and so Jesus revealed one of the biggest mysteries in the universe to her.
Secondly, it reminds us that no matter who we are, we can find freedom in Christ, if we only ask.
If you Knew
If you Knew
Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John—although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. So he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.
A. Pass through Samaria
1. Not an accident
a. No coincidences with God
2. Contrasting the pharisee state of mind
a. Remember who is John writing to?
i. Leaving the Jew and coming to gentiles
b. Important to remember that as John gives out clues
i. Jesus came to save all
ii. Old Jewish way is gone, new is here
B. Samaritan!
So he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.
Now he had to go through Samaria. So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.
1. Explain Samarians
a. Socially Unacceptable
b. Not Jews/Worshiped on the mountain not in Jerusalem
2. Explain Jacobs Well
a. Important in the conversation
b. Geographically and theologically
i. Talking about the patriarchal traditions
ii. Jesus is about to fly in the face of this, for He is greater than Jacob
a. If you only knew!
No Matter Who
No Matter Who
When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
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. Give me a Drink
1. A way of asking
a. Different today then back then
b. Started with the social normative construction of conversation
c. Setting up the conversation
2. Her Response
a. How can you
i. Who are you to ask me
ii. Two protocols here - men and Jews - Explain
b. She is shocked at the break of protocol
i. However, this because ironic when we learn who she is
ii. She didn’t adhere to the social construct anyway
iii. Sometimes its a way to hide our shame
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.”
“Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water?
B. If You Knew
1. Jesus is Teaching
a. He was a Rabbi
b. He is leading her
So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
c. Out of the flesh and into the Spirit
2. It is a difficult walk
a. She is focused on the fleshly things
i. Focused on the worldly things
ii. Distracted by the world and don’t see the spiritual
Social media - algorithms designed by Satan to distract us from the Word of God.
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?”
Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 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.”
3. The Full Transition
a. Jesus makes it clear its not about the water
b. This is important because of the next phrase, he wants her completely in the realm of the spiritual
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.” He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.” “I have no husband,” she replied. Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband.
4. Setup for Change
a. She is no longer seeing Jesus as a thirsty Jew
i. She is starting to glimpse the wait
b. Although she is thinking of a miraculous sign
i. She is hoping to never have to come back out here
ii. We sumize this from the following about why she is out here in the middle of the day
c. Jesus stabs at the heart of it all
i. Sin
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.” “Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet.
5. Hammered
a. Sin becomes apparent
i. the sin that holds back the blessing
b. She deflects or deepens
i. We can see this in either light
Spirit and Truth
Spirit and Truth
Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”
“Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.
A. Salvation from the Jews
1. Jew and Samaritans
a. Pointing out the disconnect
b. This seems diversionary, possibly calling into question Jesus statement
i. Also perhaps trying to get a rabi’s opinion on the subject
2. In time these things will be revealed
a. The things you have just learned
b. But it will be from Me, the Savior, a Jew
i. Showing prophesy to be correct
ii. Don’t hold animosity toward a people
“But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers.
“God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
B. The Hour is coming
1. No longer be Jew or Gentile
There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
a. Won’t matter where you come from
b. Race will not be a thing any longer
c. Jesus calls all people to Himself
i. Jew, Gentile, male or female, slave or free
2. Spirit and Truth
a. The linchpin to the previous
b. Only care about your faith
i. Relationship in Him
ii. True self
Who you get now is who you get on Monday. Remember this last week meeting with some guys and one of them said, man are you always like this and my good friend James, says yep, that’s Him all the time. This is a lesson learned over a lifetime of trying to impress people and realizing I wasn’t being honest before God either.
C. Come and See
The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”
Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you—I am he.”
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?”
Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?”
1. The Change happens
a. Conviction sets in
When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment:
b. She finally sees hope and the Truth
2. She leaves the water pot
a. The beauty of this action
i. She has finally seen the living water
b. Calls everyone she knows to see
i. Doesn’t care any longer what they think
Conslusion: