Sharing From the Living Water

The Big Idea: Jesus gave us the gift of Living Water, who are we sharing it with?

Bottled Water handout… Asking a few questions.

John 4:7–10 (ESV)

A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” (For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.)

The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

These two are having very different conversations… physical/spiritual. Living Water- Bible Sense Lexicon a supernatural resource characterized by (transcendental) life and vitality; understood as running water (as opposed to still and stagnant). Come back to that...

Samaritans- A group of people who split off from the Jews, who believed they were the true descendants of Israel and keepers of the Torah. During the time of the New Testament, their chief religious site was Mount Gerizim. The Samaritans believed that the Jerusalem temple and priesthood were illegitimate.

Thankfully the people of God don’t have that problem today… [Deliver with 150cc of sarcasm]

John 4:11–12 ESV

The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.”

Her faith is in what she knows, what she’s grown up with… She meets Jesus at the only place she has likely ever known...

IF this girl had grown up during my time… she’d be bopping along to her favorite tune right now...

Don't go chasing waterfalls Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to I know that you're gonna have it your way or nothing at all But I think you're moving too fast

Where does your water come from?

Nearly 64% of bottled water in the U.S. comes from municipal tap water sources. Which means we often pay for water that we could drink for free from our tap. Companies that sell bottled tap water, collect the water and treat it before bottling.

However, your tap water is treated by water treatment plants and must meet a high standard of water quality, as defined by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Bottle water companies do not have to meet these water quality standards.

a 2018 study tested 11 globally sourced brands of bottled water from nine different countries. The researchers found that 93% of the bottles showed some signs of microplastic contamination, and that they contained double the amount present in tap water.

Stagnant source:

Find life in our families… until divorce or death shatters our world.

Find life in our work… until the economy collapses and the government cripples.

Find life in entertainment… until the shows and video games and stories blur together and you can call the plot in the opening scene.

Find life in self-medication… until the bouy that once lifted you out of the deep becomes the very anchor dragging you back down.

But what happens when we draw from Living Water?

John 4:13–14 ESV

Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

Jeremiah 17:13 “O Lord, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be put to shame; those who turn away from you shall be written in the earth, for they have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living water.”

Romans 5:5 “and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.”

As i was studying it intrigued me how often shame was associated with rejecting living water… until the Lord gave me a thump and said… “Remember the garden?”

John 6:35 “Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.”

John 7:37–38 ESV

On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’ ”

John 4:15–17 ESV

The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.” Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.” The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’;

Lack of intimacy/trust/sharing... be patient and gracious in your delivery.

John 4:23–26 (ESV)

But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him.

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will tell us all things.”

Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am he.”

At this point she has a choice… does she “stick to the well that she’s used to” or does she accept the gift of Living Water...

John 4:28–29 (ESV)

So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people, “Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?”

But what comes next, is just as important...

Unwillingness to share: with Jesus, with her live-in boyfriend, but now...

John 4:39–42 (ESV)

Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.”

So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. And many more believed because of his word.

They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world.”

When we share from the living water in our hearts, people discover Jesus, and find the He places that same well in their hearts too.

Out of living water:

Family- Humility and Servanthood become the bedrock to healthy relationships

Work- With purpose beyond practical, we learn to recognize ways God is providing opportunities to share.

Galatians 5:1 “For freedom Christ has set us free...”

Mike Hinton: “What’s in the well, comes out of wellspring.”

The Big Idea: Jesus gave us the gift of Living Water, who are we sharing it with?

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Rev 21:6 “And he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment.”