If you Knew the Gift of God
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If you knew the gift of God
If you knew the gift of God
Introduction
9:10 AM
Our theme verse for this message is John 4:10
10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
Jesus had been Baptizing people in the Jordan with John the Baptist in John 3:22
22 After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judaea; and there he tarried with them, and baptized.
So he had already been baptised by John and received the Holy Spirit.
He had already been tempted in the wilderness.
He had begun his ministry and in John 3:26 Johns disciples said “and all men come to him”
John responds to His disciples saying in John 3:30 “He must increase, but I must decrease”
Then John says two more things in John 3:34
34 For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.
John records and here emphasizes the importance of the Holy Spirit.
Then John says in in John 3:36
36 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
John the Baptist is first to describe the the way of salvation - “believe on the son”
What is the gift of God?
What is the gift of God?
It is the grace of salvation, everlasting life as John described it that comes to us through Jesus Christ in Ephesians 2:8-10
8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Salvation comes by hearing the word, the gospel as it says in Romans 10:13–14
13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. 14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
So as Jesus leaves the Jordan with John the Baptist acknowledges that Jesus is the way of salvation and that He is filled with the Holy Spirit (without measure)
Jesus was now on his way to Galilee in John 4:45 but had been to the feast in Jerusalem in John 2:23
and takes this short cut route through Samaria saying in John 4:4
4 And he must needs go through Samaria.
This was the shortest route. But it also seems that Jesus had a specific prompting by the Holy Spirit to go that way.
John: An Introduction and Commentary i. The Setting (4:1–6)
4. Describing Jesus’ return to Galilee, the evangelist says, Now he had to go through Samaria. There were three routes between Jerusalem and Galilee—only one passed through Samaria; the others bypassed it.30 The normal route taken by Jews travelling between Galilee and Jerusalem was through Samaria. Josephus comments, ‘Samaria was now under Roman rule and, for rapid travel, it was essential to take that route, by which Jerusalem may be reached in three days from Galilee’ (Life 269), and ‘It was the custom at the time of a festival [for Galilean Jews] to pass through the Samaritan territory on their way to the Holy City’ (Antiquities xx.118). Jesus, then, ‘had to go through Samaria’ because it was the shortest and normal way people travelled between Jerusalem and Galilee. However, in the light of the narrative that follows (the conversation with the Samaritan woman and the Samaritan townspeople coming to believe in him), Jesus’ need to go through Samaria may have been determined by the divine will as well as geographical factors (34).
And as He came to the well in the city in John 4:6
6 Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.
Jacob’s well is the same well referred to in Genesis 28:22
22 And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God’s house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
This is where Jacob met Rachel and watered her flocks.
Sychar is also the site of ancient Shechem, which is located at the entrance to the valley separating the two mountains Gerizim and Ebal in (Deut. 11:26–32; 27:13–28:68). Jacob bequeathed a piece of land near here to his son Joseph, and it was in this land that Joseph’s bones were laid to rest when the Israelites came up out of Egypt (Gen. 33:19; Josh. 24:32).
While this well is not specifically mentioned in Genesis 26 the Lord appeared to Isaac with this promise
2 And the Lord appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of: 3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father; 4 And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; 5 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
This blessing was fulfilled and in Genesis 26:13–15
13 And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great: 14 For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him. 15 For all the wells which his father’s servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.
Isaac was responsible for the digging of many wells.
So as Jesus sits down by Jacob’s Well in John 4:7
7 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.
This was not the normal time for women to come and draw water. This woman was an outcast as we will understand as we read further.
She responds to Jesus request in john 4:9
9 Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.
While there was great history in this place, there was also great division between the Jews and the Samaritans. And, as this woman says, the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans
The Samaritans 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.
Smith’s Bible Dictionary Samar´itans
After the captivity of Israel, B.C. 721, and in our Lord’s time, the name was applied to a peculiar people whose origin was in this wise: At the final captivity of Israel by Shalmaneser, we may conclude that the cities of Samaria were not merely partially but wholly depopulated of their inhabitants in B.C. 721, and that they remained in this desolated state until, in the words of 2 Kings 17:24, “the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava (Ivah, 2 Kings 18:34), and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.” Thus the new Samaritans were Assyrians by birth or subjugation. These strangers, whom we will now assume to have been placed in “the cities of Samaria” by Esar-haddon, were of course idolaters, and worshipped a strange medley of divinities. God’s displeasure was kindled, and they were annoyed by beasts of prey, which had probably increased to a great extent before their entrance upon the land. On their explaining their miserable condition to the king of Assyria, he dispatched one of the captive priests to teach them “how they should fear the Lord.” The priest came accordingly, and henceforth, in the language of the sacred historian they “feared the Lord, and served their graven images, both their children and their children’s children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.” 2 Kings 17:41.
This is what it says of them in 2 Kings 17:41
41 So these nations feared the Lord, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children’s children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.
Now our theme verse John 4:10
10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
She is thinking only of the natural water in the well and responds in John 4:11
11 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?
She is asking “How can you give me water, I can see that you don’t have a bucket to raise water from the well”.
The well of Jacob, is deep, and can still be seen today in the same place though it is not mentioned in the O.T. It is a cylindrical shaft seven feet in diameter and 106 feet deep driven into the rock and fresh subsoil water at the bottom (like Isaac’s well in Gen. 26:19) ringed by a wall on top. There are two holes through which a bucket can be lowered (v. 11) and the water lies near the bottom of the shaft.
She then further challenges Jesus in John 4:12
12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
She asks Jesus “Are you greater than Jacob”, certainly Jacob was blessed and this well had been a source of blessing for many generations.
Jesus then shifts the conversation from natural water in John 4:13
13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:
and talks to her about everlasting life in John 4:14
14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
This is the message Jesus wanted to deliver to her. and she asks to receive this water in John 4:15
15 The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.
Now, Jesus by a word of knowledge, tells her to call her husband in John 4:16
16 Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.
and she must admit that she isn’t married but is living with a man in John 4:17
17 The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband:
Jesus now tells her her life history in John 4:18
18 For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.
and she acknowledges Jesus as a Prophet in John 4:19
Then she says in John 4:20
20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.
But Jesus hasn’t said anything about Jerusalem being the place where men ought to worship. She adds this based on her previous encounters with the Jews. Jesus now corrects her thinking with truth in John 4:21–24
21 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father. 22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. 23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. 24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
Sometimes people have misconceptions that they have been taught or because of experiences. Jesus says “You worship you know not what” and she responds in John 4:25
25 The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.
The Messiah will sort us out when He comes
To which Jesus says in John 4:26
26 Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.
She believes and receives Jesus and then goes to tell everyone in her city, and they also receive Jesus in John 4:42
42 And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.
Through these events, Jesus is showing his disciples what they are to do in john 4:35
35 Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.
The gospel of John goes on to talk about rivers of living water in John 7:38
Rivers of Living Water
Rivers of Living Water
38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
Jesus made this proclamation but adds this qualifier in John 7:39
39 (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)
Then after Jesus was raised from the dead, he said in John 20:20-23
20 And when he had so said, he shewed unto them his hands and his side. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the Lord. 21 Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. 22 And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: 23 Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.
Then on the day of Pentecost the Holy Spirit fell on them all in Acts 2:4
4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
This fulfills what Jesus said to the Samaritan woman in John 4:23-24
23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. 24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
After this, the Baptism of the Holy Spirit did not always follow immediately after someone received the gospel of Jesus Christ for salvation.
How is the Baptism of the Holy Spirit Given?
How is the Baptism of the Holy Spirit Given?
When Peter preached the gospel to Cornelius and his house in Act 11:15
15 And as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at the beginning.
There was no doubt, the Holy Spirit fell on them.
But later, when Philip went to Samaria and preached, the people received the gospel in Acts 8:14–17
14 Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John: 15 Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost: 16 (For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.) 17 Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.
Peter and John went there and taught them about the Holy Spirit then laid hands on them to receive and they did.
It was also by the laying on of hands that Paul imparted a gift to Timothy in 2 Timothy 1:6
6 Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.
These gifts of the spirit were in full manifestation through Jesus Christ and are described in 1 Corinthians 12:4–12
1 Corinthians 12:4–12 (KJV 1900)
4 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. 5 And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. 6 And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all. 7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.
8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; 9 To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; 10 To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
11 But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will. 12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
These gifts of the Holy Spirit are active today in the body of Christ and individually in each of us as the the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal
Our theme verse John 4:10
10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
Jesus came to give us everlasting life and to give us the Holy Spirit and power as we see recorded throughout the New Testament.
And even though Jesus has taken His place at the right hand of the father, He is still engaged as it says in Revelation 7:17
The Lamb shall Lead Them
The Lamb shall Lead Them
17 For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
Conclusion - Our Prayer - Receive the Gift of God
Conclusion - Our Prayer - Receive the Gift of God
Jesus came to deliver salvation, forgiveness of sin
But He also came to deliver the Holy Ghost with power
It is for us to discover this gift in John 4:10
It is for us to seek the gifts of the Holy Spirit, understand them and exercise them as the Holy Spirit leads us in 1 Corinthians 12:4-12
1 Corinthians 12:4–12 (KJV 1900)
4 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. 5 And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. 6 And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all. 7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.
8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; 9 To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; 10 To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
11 But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will. 12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
Closing Prayer
Closing Prayer
Father, we thank you for the gift of everlasting life through Jesus Christ. And, we thank you for the outpouring of your Holy Spirit who is our comforter, advocate, and teacher. Forgive us if there is anything in our lives that is contrary to your best purpose and will for us. We receive your Holy Spirit now. Teach us by your Spirit in Jesus name.