1 00:00:01,500 --> 00:00:04,700 Hope you have a Bible nearby and and you can follow along with us 2 00:00:04,700 --> 00:00:09,500 as we read a little bit about our Lord and get to know a 3 00:00:09,500 --> 00:00:14,000 little bit more about him in John, chapter 4, if you want to 4 00:00:14,008 --> 00:00:16,700 go to one of the gospels and he want to learn about Jesus, 5 00:00:16,700 --> 00:00:19,600 there's no more. There's no better place to go 6 00:00:19,900 --> 00:00:23,600 than the Book of John and that's where our message will be taken 7 00:00:24,200 --> 00:00:27,800 this morning. And my studies through the Book 8 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:32,400 of John on the last year or two. I noticed something that I 9 00:00:32,700 --> 00:00:36,300 hadn't caught before, and I don't think it's an accident and 10 00:00:36,300 --> 00:00:40,600 how these things come together and where they come together. 11 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:44,200 But whether or not it was intended or not, we can 12 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:50,700 certainly take note of the fact that Jesus connected with both 13 00:00:50,700 --> 00:00:56,100 the very highest and the Very lowest of society. 14 00:00:56,800 --> 00:01:02,100 In John chapter 3, when no doubt Jesus was exhausted from another 15 00:01:02,100 --> 00:01:07,200 very busy day, we find him. Discussing the kingdom, with 16 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:12,900 Nicodemus, Nicodemus, was a wealthy powerful prestigious 17 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:17,700 intelligent educated, and morally and religiously 18 00:01:17,700 --> 00:01:21,600 respected, man. Among the highest in the land, 19 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:26,800 this man Nicodemus was Yet. Jesus did not write him off. 20 00:01:27,100 --> 00:01:31,400 He spoke with him about the beauties of God's love and the 21 00:01:31,408 --> 00:01:34,400 coming Kingdom. And then we come to chapter 4 22 00:01:34,700 --> 00:01:39,900 and we meet a character who is everything that Nicodemus was 23 00:01:39,900 --> 00:01:42,000 not. Let's notice some of the 24 00:01:42,008 --> 00:01:45,700 comparisons between the two, some of, the contrast Nicodemus 25 00:01:45,700 --> 00:01:49,700 was a man, and the woman from Samaritan, of course, was a 26 00:01:49,708 --> 00:01:51,500 woman. He was a Jew. 27 00:01:51,900 --> 00:01:55,700 She was a Samaritan. He was a person of influence. 28 00:01:56,300 --> 00:02:00,900 She was a nobody, he worshipped at the right place. 29 00:02:01,500 --> 00:02:03,900 She worshipped and the wrong place. 30 00:02:03,900 --> 00:02:06,900 He belonged to the religious right of the day. 31 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:12,700 She was a religious Outcast. He was morally pure and she was 32 00:02:12,700 --> 00:02:17,500 spiritually destitute. They were both miles away from 33 00:02:17,500 --> 00:02:20,700 where they needed to be, but they were in totally different 34 00:02:20,700 --> 00:02:25,000 directions, yet Jesus in his love and Concern for both of 35 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:27,800 them. We see is equally great to 36 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:29,500 Jesus. They were both sheep without a 37 00:02:29,508 --> 00:02:34,200 shepherd and all he longed to take both of them into his fold. 38 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:39,100 It's particularly fascinating to me how naturally he connected 39 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:41,600 with a Samaritan woman. Let's see. 40 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:47,400 How from the story that John relays to us how the story 41 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:49,500 unfolds? And the great love of Jesus, I 42 00:02:49,500 --> 00:02:53,600 love that we should be striving to emulate in our lives. 43 00:02:54,500 --> 00:02:57,400 In this little story we find that Jesus the model Soul winner 44 00:02:57,600 --> 00:03:00,900 shows the rest of us and reaching out to the lost that 45 00:03:00,900 --> 00:03:05,200 barriers can be overcome. We see this with with nearly 46 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:09,800 everyone, we meet there are some kinds of barriers between us and 47 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:13,200 between them as we try to lead them to Jesus. 48 00:03:13,300 --> 00:03:16,300 We can overcome those barriers just like Jesus. 49 00:03:16,300 --> 00:03:20,300 Did Jesus overcame racial barriers? 50 00:03:20,500 --> 00:03:25,300 He overcame gender barriers, he overcame me National barriers, 51 00:03:25,300 --> 00:03:29,600 religious barriers, more barriers and physical barriers. 52 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:32,600 The physical barrier in this story is that he had to have 53 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:34,600 been. After this lengthy Journey 54 00:03:34,900 --> 00:03:39,000 exhausted, he overcame these barriers to win this woman's 55 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:42,400 heart and soul, how did he do it? 56 00:03:43,300 --> 00:03:47,100 Well, with all their differences, he found Common 57 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:50,100 Ground. He found that they both needed. 58 00:03:50,100 --> 00:03:51,500 Something, they both needed water. 59 00:03:51,500 --> 00:03:54,100 They were both thirsty. We find that Paul. 60 00:03:54,300 --> 00:03:59,500 Uses this same idea approach in First Corinthians 9 verse 19, 61 00:03:59,500 --> 00:04:04,300 through 23. I am become all things to all 62 00:04:04,300 --> 00:04:09,400 men. That I might save some. 63 00:04:09,700 --> 00:04:12,100 Well, Jesus deplored the state of the Samaritan woman. 64 00:04:12,100 --> 00:04:17,200 She was not where she should be. He knew that and he wanted to 65 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:20,700 change that but it didn't come right off the bat and just start 66 00:04:20,700 --> 00:04:24,600 slapping her around. Like, sometimes Christians, do 67 00:04:25,100 --> 00:04:31,800 not thinking about, what if I was where she is, or what if I 68 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:34,100 was where he is, we fail to do that. 69 00:04:34,100 --> 00:04:35,900 Sometimes Jesus wasn't like that. 70 00:04:36,500 --> 00:04:41,100 I thought things through he used Common Sense, the Bible teaches 71 00:04:41,100 --> 00:04:45,400 and in First Timothy second Timothy 3:16 that all scripture 72 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:49,500 is given by inspiration of God and is profitable every single 73 00:04:49,500 --> 00:04:53,200 word in the Bible is beneficial. The Holy Spirit. 74 00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:57,300 Never waste words. He had at first glance verse 3 75 00:04:57,300 --> 00:05:01,700 and 4 as we read in our texts seem to be of no moment seemed 76 00:05:01,700 --> 00:05:05,100 to hold no great significance. But beneath the surface, their 77 00:05:05,100 --> 00:05:07,900 significance, swell Wells. Let's read first. 78 00:05:07,900 --> 00:05:12,400 John John 4 verses 1 through 4 therefore, when the Lord knew 79 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:15,900 that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized 80 00:05:15,900 --> 00:05:19,100 more disciples than John, although Jesus himself did not 81 00:05:19,100 --> 00:05:24,700 baptize but his disciples. He left Judea and departed again 82 00:05:24,700 --> 00:05:28,900 to Galilee but he needed to go through Samaria. 83 00:05:30,300 --> 00:05:33,500 Verse three and four, what possible significance, could 84 00:05:33,500 --> 00:05:37,900 these two verses have he's going to make the trip to Galilee. 85 00:05:38,500 --> 00:05:43,600 But what of what importance is it that he passes through sychar 86 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:52,700 and Samaria on his way to Galilee, well, The Jews despised 87 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:57,400 hated really, the Samaritans that lived in this region right 88 00:05:57,400 --> 00:05:59,900 here. And when they would ordinarily, 89 00:05:59,900 --> 00:06:04,100 make a trip from Judah to Galilee, instead of going the 90 00:06:04,100 --> 00:06:08,900 shortest route, they would go across the Jordan River, go all 91 00:06:08,900 --> 00:06:11,000 the way around and then come into Galilee. 92 00:06:12,100 --> 00:06:14,800 Why they hated them. They despise them so much. 93 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:15,900 They didn't want to be around them. 94 00:06:15,900 --> 00:06:19,200 They didn't want to see them and they didn't want to be defiled 95 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:23,900 by passing through their country, their region. 96 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:30,500 The Bible says he needed to go through Samaria. 97 00:06:30,900 --> 00:06:34,400 Why the 70 mile journey to Galilee through Samaria took 98 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:39,100 three days on foot, but most Jews would take the long hot 99 00:06:39,100 --> 00:06:42,300 desert road from Jerusalem to Jericho up the Jordan Valley 100 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:44,500 which took seven days an extra four days. 101 00:06:44,500 --> 00:06:48,600 They would go because their religious and racial disdain for 102 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:50,900 the Samaritans. This area. 103 00:06:50,900 --> 00:06:55,200 Samaria today is referred to that was Menachem, begin, I 104 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:56,900 believe. Who first began referred to it 105 00:06:56,900 --> 00:06:59,600 as the West Bank. They stayed away from that area. 106 00:07:02,100 --> 00:07:06,700 another reason, why People may not have always traveled that 107 00:07:06,700 --> 00:07:09,500 way, was because they were concerned for their personal 108 00:07:09,500 --> 00:07:12,000 safety. This was a dangerous, right. 109 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:17,400 We have find also in verse 9 as John narrates, the story, the 110 00:07:17,400 --> 00:07:22,300 Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans. 111 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:25,300 Why was that? Let me give you the fastbacks on 112 00:07:25,300 --> 00:07:28,700 the samiri situation and Sumerian with the Samaritan. 113 00:07:28,700 --> 00:07:30,700 On this is important. I think it's interesting as well 114 00:07:30,700 --> 00:07:33,800 as valuable for us to know this, the children of Israel. 115 00:07:34,900 --> 00:07:39,000 That's the northern 10 tribes committed idolatry and worship 116 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:42,200 the gods of other nations. So, God as a punishment to them, 117 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:45,900 just like, he'd warn them Cynthia, syrians which came from 118 00:07:46,300 --> 00:07:51,200 the area where modern day Iraq, Iran and Syria are low and Syria 119 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:54,000 are located. He sent these people to take the 120 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:58,500 Israelites of Samaria. Captive, read about this in 121 00:07:58,500 --> 00:08:04,100 second Kings, chapter 17, is about 750 years before Jesus met 122 00:08:04,100 --> 00:08:05,600 this woman. And in Samaria. 123 00:08:06,100 --> 00:08:09,300 Well, the Assyrians settled into this region. 124 00:08:09,300 --> 00:08:13,300 And after the Captivity, and these people, the Israelites 125 00:08:13,500 --> 00:08:16,800 were allowed to go back. They returned to Samaria. 126 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:19,700 And now they settled in and intermingled and intermarried 127 00:08:19,700 --> 00:08:22,900 with the Sumerian, the Samaritans, or with the 128 00:08:22,900 --> 00:08:28,500 Assyrians and they gained the name of being the Samaritans. 129 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:33,000 And then though, as time walk rolled on, they decided that 130 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:38,100 they wanted to help. Those that Judah build the 131 00:08:38,100 --> 00:08:42,400 temple in Jerusalem. Well, this offer was flatly 132 00:08:42,500 --> 00:08:47,600 refused and as a result of that, they became bitter enemies and 133 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:54,000 they built their own temple on Mount gerizim, which was right 134 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:58,100 here, was right the same place. In fact, when Jesus is talking 135 00:08:58,100 --> 00:09:03,600 to the woman at the well, he's just right at the foot of this 136 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:08,200 mountain, where these people for also long had worshiped and 137 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:12,200 worshipped in error because God said that was not where you were 138 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:15,600 to worship. Well. 139 00:09:17,100 --> 00:09:19,900 When their temple on the mountain was destroyed, they 140 00:09:19,900 --> 00:09:21,700 still directed their worship to mount. 141 00:09:21,700 --> 00:09:26,400 Good reason, the Samaritans were guilty of open religious 142 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:29,700 apostasy now, they pretended, like many people today, do and 143 00:09:29,700 --> 00:09:32,000 Christianity. Well, it just doesn't really 144 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:36,700 matter that much where you worship as long as you worship. 145 00:09:37,900 --> 00:09:41,700 But they were wrong. In evaluating their situation 146 00:09:41,700 --> 00:09:43,900 that way they pretended that those in Jerusalem. 147 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:47,000 Now they are the ones who had digressed. 148 00:09:47,900 --> 00:09:52,300 And in doing so they rejected all of the Old Testament books 149 00:09:52,300 --> 00:09:55,700 except the first five books. They said those other books, 150 00:09:56,200 --> 00:09:58,900 those aren't really God's word that was part of the arrogance 151 00:09:58,900 --> 00:10:04,100 of the, the tribes that were located in Samaritan Samaria. 152 00:10:04,100 --> 00:10:06,200 Now less, you get the wrong impression. 153 00:10:06,400 --> 00:10:11,100 The southern tribes were not as pure as the driven snow either. 154 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:13,200 They were all so disobedient rebellious. 155 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:16,900 It seems like they were just a few steps behind the Samaritans 156 00:10:16,900 --> 00:10:19,600 in their wickedness. And in their idolatry. 157 00:10:20,100 --> 00:10:25,300 But at least they did worship at the right place over time. 158 00:10:25,300 --> 00:10:28,800 The Samaritans were further alienated from the Jews as they 159 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:31,100 intermingled. And as they intermarried with 160 00:10:31,100 --> 00:10:34,700 the Assyrians, we don't usually give the historical background 161 00:10:34,700 --> 00:10:37,500 as we look at this story, but I think it helps us and 162 00:10:37,500 --> 00:10:40,900 understanding why the Jews? And the Samaritans were such 163 00:10:41,100 --> 00:10:44,400 bitter enemies. And why it was such a big deal 164 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:48,800 that Jesus would go through. In this region. 165 00:10:48,900 --> 00:10:52,300 I hate this also helps us to understand what a slam it was. 166 00:10:52,300 --> 00:10:57,800 When the Jews said of Jesus, in John 8 48, do we not rightly say 167 00:10:57,800 --> 00:11:01,800 that you are a Samaritan and have a demon that was a racial 168 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:05,200 slur. Had a had a had a horrible 169 00:11:06,700 --> 00:11:09,200 intention behind it. And what they were trying to say 170 00:11:09,500 --> 00:11:13,400 about G is worse than any of the ones that you might here today. 171 00:11:13,700 --> 00:11:15,500 So why did Jesus need to go the shorter? 172 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:18,500 The shorter Passage Through Samaria. 173 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:21,300 Maybe it was partially because of the journey. 174 00:11:21,300 --> 00:11:23,900 Jesus didn't have time to waste that four days. 175 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:27,400 Why waste the four days by going around, was it? 176 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:31,000 Because he did not share the general, Jewish hatred for the 177 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:33,900 Samaritans. Possibly, he certainly deals 178 00:11:33,900 --> 00:11:38,400 with that head on in the story of the Good Samaritan, but I'm 179 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:40,200 convinced. The main reason that he wanted 180 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:45,700 to spend those extra days. Save those extra days by going 181 00:11:45,700 --> 00:11:47,900 the shorter route through Samaria. 182 00:11:48,300 --> 00:11:52,100 Was because he wanted to begin some, that wouldn't take really 183 00:11:52,100 --> 00:11:55,900 take place till ax8 some 15 or so years later. 184 00:11:55,900 --> 00:12:00,900 He wanted to begin to turn Samaria upside down, and he 185 00:12:00,900 --> 00:12:04,600 wanted to start with this immoral woman who carried around 186 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:09,000 a chip on her shoulder. Let's read verse five and six. 187 00:12:11,300 --> 00:12:14,900 So, we came to a city of Samaria, which is called sychar 188 00:12:15,100 --> 00:12:18,800 near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son. 189 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:22,700 Joseph. Now Jacob's, Well, was there, 190 00:12:23,100 --> 00:12:27,300 Jesus, therefore being wearied from his journey sat thus, by 191 00:12:27,300 --> 00:12:30,600 the well, it was about the sixth hour. 192 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:35,000 Again, now sychar was right on a line about halfway between 193 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:38,500 Jerusalem and Galilee. Jesus had been traveling about a 194 00:12:38,500 --> 00:12:42,800 day and a half now so it was probably A noontime and he was 195 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:44,400 worn out. He was wiped out, he was 196 00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:49,200 exhausted and so he stopped to rest at Jacob's. 197 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:53,800 Well, now Jacob's, Well, was and still is quite a historical 198 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:58,400 place at this time when Jesus stop there, it had been in 199 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:04,000 existence for 1800 years. It's still in existence, in 200 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:07,800 fact, you can still visit this same spot what now which is 201 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:11,000 2,000 years later almost 4,000 years. 202 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:17,200 Der this well, was dug. Jaden McGarvey after visiting, 203 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:20,400 the will. A hundred years ago, wrote 204 00:13:21,100 --> 00:13:27,000 Jacob's, Well is listen about 100 feet from Mount gerizim, 205 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:29,400 which Rises high above it to the West. 206 00:13:29,500 --> 00:13:32,500 The whale is a perfect cylinder, seven and a half feet. 207 00:13:32,500 --> 00:13:36,400 In diameter wall with stones of good-sized smoothly, dress and 208 00:13:36,400 --> 00:13:40,000 nicely fitted together. An excellent piece of masonry. 209 00:13:40,500 --> 00:13:46,400 He says in 1839, it was found to be 75 feet deep the well but 210 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:51,200 with only 10 to 12 feet of water, all visitors of more of a 211 00:13:51,208 --> 00:13:54,700 more recent date. Have found it dry and gradually 212 00:13:54,900 --> 00:13:59,400 filling up from the habit of throwing stones into it to hear 213 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:02,000 the reverberation when they strike the bottom. 214 00:14:03,300 --> 00:14:06,900 I want to just stop here and make a point Jesus here. 215 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:12,700 I believe was valuing good works. 216 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:22,700 This well, had been here for 18 hundred years for 1800 years and 217 00:14:22,700 --> 00:14:29,600 now he stops and he's resting at the well and and satisfying his 218 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:33,300 great thirst at the well, you know, there's really no telling 219 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:38,500 how many people may benefit from the good works that you do. 220 00:14:39,300 --> 00:14:44,200 Certainly the Servants of Jacob that Doug that well 1800 years, 221 00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:48,400 before Jesus ended up. There had no idea that the 222 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:52,500 Messiah some day would come and stop at that. 223 00:14:52,500 --> 00:14:55,900 Well, And quench their thirst right there. 224 00:14:55,900 --> 00:15:00,700 The Messiah himself, the Son of God, and you remember that your 225 00:15:00,700 --> 00:15:06,000 random acts of kindness your words of encouragement, your 226 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:09,600 Good Works. May bless others that you may 227 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:14,600 never even meet. We take a lot for granted. 228 00:15:14,700 --> 00:15:18,000 It's probably safe to assume that the Samaritan woman here. 229 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:23,400 And the story is also thirsty, consider this, she had to walk 230 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:26,900 out. This well, with a pot, a heavy 231 00:15:26,900 --> 00:15:33,000 pot and she had to carry at this time, a 70-foot long rope, just 232 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:37,500 to get a little bit of water, no doubt. 233 00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:41,300 This would be part of what allows her to covet The Living 234 00:15:41,300 --> 00:15:43,200 Water. That Jesus is going to speak of 235 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:46,500 in just a little while. Notice also that Jesus needed 236 00:15:46,500 --> 00:15:50,900 rest in 2nd Thessalonians 3 verse 10 through 15, the Bible 237 00:15:50,900 --> 00:15:53,600 teaches that the man who does not work. 238 00:15:53,700 --> 00:15:59,600 Work should not eat and that other Christians should not even 239 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:02,400 associate with him. In first, Timothy 5, verse 8 240 00:16:02,500 --> 00:16:05,500 Paul says that this kind of man is worse than an Infidel worse 241 00:16:05,500 --> 00:16:10,900 than an unbeliever and while slothfulness and laziness is a 242 00:16:10,900 --> 00:16:17,100 serious sin, good and godly men and women have put themselves in 243 00:16:17,100 --> 00:16:21,200 a premature grave. Because they did not give their 244 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:26,600 body their Temple, the Temple of the Holy Spirit, rather rest 245 00:16:26,700 --> 00:16:28,900 First Corinthians 6:19 and 20 teach that. 246 00:16:28,900 --> 00:16:32,900 So Jesus stops here to rats and he stops here to satisfy his 247 00:16:32,900 --> 00:16:40,600 thirst, verse 7 through 9. A woman of Samaria came to draw 248 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:44,600 water. Jesus said to her, give me a 249 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:48,300 drink. For his disciples had gone away 250 00:16:48,300 --> 00:16:51,200 into the city to buy food. Then the woman of Samaria said 251 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:54,400 to him, how is it that you being a Jew? 252 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:56,700 Ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman. 253 00:16:57,600 --> 00:17:02,100 For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. 254 00:17:03,100 --> 00:17:06,300 So DS is resting at the, well wise disciples have gone to town 255 00:17:06,300 --> 00:17:09,200 for food. Jesus asked her for a drink of 256 00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:12,500 water. Notice here, that Jesus spoke 257 00:17:12,500 --> 00:17:15,800 first. Jesus initiated this 258 00:17:15,800 --> 00:17:18,300 conversation. Sometimes we think that well as 259 00:17:18,300 --> 00:17:21,099 long as we just live a Christian, what Christian Life 260 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:23,900 that that's all we have to do know, there are times when we 261 00:17:23,900 --> 00:17:27,500 need to initiate conversations. We don't wait for somebody else 262 00:17:27,500 --> 00:17:30,700 to talk to us. We initiate the contact. 263 00:17:31,500 --> 00:17:35,600 Jesus did teach in the synagogue and his public teaching was 264 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:38,400 important, but Jesus was more than just a Sabbath morning. 265 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:43,000 Teacher Jesus, just like Paul and the other Apostles and 266 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:46,500 preachers and elders. And so on they taught publicly 267 00:17:46,500 --> 00:17:50,800 and from house to house, the church does not glorify God by 268 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:54,200 adding to the New Testament pattern by embracing women 269 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:56,100 preachers. First Corinthians Chapter 14 270 00:17:56,100 --> 00:17:59,000 verse 34 and 35 of you believe the Bible. 271 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:01,500 You believe what I'm saying? It's a shame for a woman. 272 00:18:01,500 --> 00:18:06,600 Women to speak in the church nor does the church honor God by 273 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:09,800 neglecting to teach from house to house. 274 00:18:09,900 --> 00:18:13,100 We heard teachers and we who are preachers will be judged, more 275 00:18:13,100 --> 00:18:18,500 strictly James 3, verse 1 says. And so while in the United 276 00:18:18,500 --> 00:18:22,400 States, the days of baptizing dozens during a gospel meeting 277 00:18:22,900 --> 00:18:26,600 have apparently passed. More than anytime. 278 00:18:27,600 --> 00:18:30,300 More than any generation in these United States. 279 00:18:30,300 --> 00:18:34,700 We must teach the lost as well as the faithful publicly and 280 00:18:34,700 --> 00:18:37,000 privately Jesus model that he did it right here. 281 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:39,300 He took the time. I'm going to talk to this one 282 00:18:39,300 --> 00:18:41,300 woman. Yes, he talked to the multitudes 283 00:18:41,300 --> 00:18:44,100 on The Sermon, on the Mount but he's zeroed in from time to time 284 00:18:44,300 --> 00:18:50,500 on one particular individual and he initiated the conversation 285 00:18:50,900 --> 00:18:55,300 and he did that first of all by establishing a relationship a 286 00:18:55,300 --> 00:18:57,300 friendship. Once remember that, when we're 287 00:18:57,300 --> 00:19:00,600 working, Working to reach out and to save the lost. 288 00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:03,500 Well, a Samaritan woman was stunned. 289 00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:06,500 She was shocked, imagine that you were there. 290 00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:09,700 Imagine you were there watching. Imagine you were there. 291 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:14,100 Listening somehow hidden behind some bushes, somewhere to 292 00:19:14,100 --> 00:19:17,300 experience this. You could see the facial 293 00:19:17,300 --> 00:19:21,200 expressions there, if Jesus clothing, didn't give it away 294 00:19:21,700 --> 00:19:25,600 his accent. Did she knew that this man was a 295 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:28,400 Jew? Watches the story develops to 296 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:33,600 see how her knowledge of and respect for Jesus grows. 297 00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:38,500 We find in verse 7. She speaks of him and not real 298 00:19:38,500 --> 00:19:41,700 positive. Way about him being a Jew by 299 00:19:41,700 --> 00:19:45,300 verse 11. She's saying sir when she speaks 300 00:19:45,300 --> 00:19:48,600 of him by verse 19, she speaks of him as a prophet. 301 00:19:48,700 --> 00:19:52,300 And then finally in verse 29 she's talking to him as the 302 00:19:52,300 --> 00:19:55,600 Christ, the Messiah. But first, she must have been 303 00:19:55,600 --> 00:20:01,300 thinking what a strange man and she says, in effect, Who do you 304 00:20:01,300 --> 00:20:04,300 think you are and what do you think you're doing? 305 00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:10,700 I think another element of Jesus wisdom here is seen in how well 306 00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:15,500 he was able to listen and how much he listened to this woman. 307 00:20:15,700 --> 00:20:19,900 If Jesus was going to limit this car conversation proportionally 308 00:20:19,900 --> 00:20:23,300 to who was right? And who knew what they were 309 00:20:23,300 --> 00:20:26,700 talking about. He wouldn't have let this woman 310 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:30,100 get a word in edgewise. He just say not shush. 311 00:20:30,500 --> 00:20:33,800 You stop. And you listen to me and even 312 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:37,400 though Jesus did initiate the conversation, we see Jesus 313 00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:42,300 listening Swift to hear James 1 verse 19 says, slow to speak, 314 00:20:42,300 --> 00:20:44,800 Swift to hear. We see that. 315 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:47,600 It's interesting to me. I took the time to go down and 316 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:51,200 and break down the conversation from verse 7, through verse 20, 317 00:20:52,100 --> 00:20:57,300 And did you know that they both spoke exactly 114 words a 318 00:20:57,300 --> 00:20:59,900 completely balanced conversation. 319 00:20:59,900 --> 00:21:02,300 He was going to turn the conversation but he allowed her 320 00:21:02,300 --> 00:21:04,100 to talk. He allowed her to express 321 00:21:04,100 --> 00:21:08,800 herself. She says though, how is it that 322 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:11,400 you being a Jew? Has to drink from me, a 323 00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:13,600 Samaritan woman. She was really scolding him. 324 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:18,600 I believe for violating the conventional cultural etiquette, 325 00:21:19,100 --> 00:21:22,100 you shouldn't be doing this mr. I know who you are. 326 00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:26,500 You need to know who you are, but Jesus wasn't deterred. 327 00:21:26,500 --> 00:21:29,500 Sometimes we give up too easily. Jesus wasn't like that. 328 00:21:29,500 --> 00:21:31,700 He wasn't deterred by the awkwardness. 329 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:35,000 By what was perhaps an insult or brush off. 330 00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:39,000 He loved the Samaritans. Just like he loved the Jews. 331 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:42,000 He loved the women. Just like he loved the men. 332 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:46,600 He loved the Harvest just like he loved the holy ones. 333 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:52,100 People who don't understand the Bible or the time, sometimes 334 00:21:52,300 --> 00:21:56,000 slander, the New Testament, they slander, Jesus. 335 00:21:56,300 --> 00:22:00,700 And Paul saying that all, or maybe from time to time, one of 336 00:22:00,700 --> 00:22:04,300 them were against women. That's not the case. 337 00:22:04,500 --> 00:22:10,400 Jesus elevated the woman and he and he spoke with and treated 338 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:15,900 women better much better than the men of that day. 339 00:22:16,100 --> 00:22:18,300 I think it's important for us to know that as we here. 340 00:22:18,500 --> 00:22:22,100 Some of the things that we hear out in the world Jesus honored 341 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:26,300 and value the six Mary's, their names are preserved as being the 342 00:22:26,308 --> 00:22:29,500 ones that were there right to the end when some of the men 343 00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:32,400 couldn't be counted on Jesus mother. 344 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:35,600 Mary Magdalene. Mary, the wife of clopas, Mary 345 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:41,400 and Martha, Joanna, Susanna solo me Dorcas Jesus, highly 346 00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:43,500 esteemed. These Godly women. 347 00:22:44,300 --> 00:22:47,700 Without putting them in the Pulpit like some think they have 348 00:22:47,700 --> 00:22:52,700 to do or without elevating them to a place of church leadership. 349 00:22:52,700 --> 00:22:57,600 The eldership, we can still do what Jesus did graciously today, 350 00:22:57,800 --> 00:23:03,400 and honor Godly women just like Jesus did without violating the 351 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:07,100 New Testament teaching. We see the same a, the Apostle 352 00:23:07,100 --> 00:23:10,900 Paul that we saw in Jesus, he singles out Phoebe, and Romans 353 00:23:10,900 --> 00:23:13,700 16, not saying that she's some kind of a church. 354 00:23:14,100 --> 00:23:17,500 Vishal but he elevates her as a Godly woman. 355 00:23:17,500 --> 00:23:21,900 He singles her out just like he does Priscilla and try Fina and 356 00:23:21,900 --> 00:23:29,600 try fossa persis Rufus mother Lois Eunice and he did this and 357 00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:33,500 Jesus did this in a day when Jewish men often lived in 358 00:23:33,500 --> 00:23:37,500 harmony with the rabbis who taught that worm should not talk 359 00:23:37,500 --> 00:23:40,600 with a woman on the street, not even with his own wife and 360 00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:43,800 certainly not somebody else's wife because of the gossip of 361 00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:47,300 men. It was forbidden to give a 362 00:23:47,300 --> 00:23:51,300 woman, any greeting here. Jesus is. 363 00:23:52,700 --> 00:23:55,300 Talking not just to a woman but to a Samaritan woman. 364 00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:59,600 In fact, some of the synagogue's back in that day segregated, the 365 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:04,000 women they had to sit behind a veil, some rabbis thought and 366 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:06,900 taught that women should not even hear the law. 367 00:24:06,900 --> 00:24:12,600 Women were treated little better than a slave but not Jesus, and 368 00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:18,000 not the Apostle Paul, and not the New Testaments in meekness 369 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:23,500 and humility Jesus continually condescended From the throne 370 00:24:23,500 --> 00:24:27,800 room of Heaven to a Manger in Bethlehem from the presence of 371 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:31,900 the Father, the Holy Spirit, and the angels to the lepers 372 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:35,700 Hypocrites, and the harness. Oh, what? 373 00:24:35,700 --> 00:24:38,900 Amazing savior. We have, he condescended down to 374 00:24:38,900 --> 00:24:42,000 me. And to you sometimes we thank 375 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:43,400 well. We've got ourselves cleaned up. 376 00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:47,200 We're United States, we're Americans, and we know a lot, 377 00:24:47,700 --> 00:24:50,400 and we've seen a lot and we've done a lot, and we've got a lot. 378 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:53,400 We feel pretty good about ourselves, but We're just 379 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:56,500 Sinners. Those of us who have obeyed, the 380 00:24:56,500 --> 00:24:59,300 gospel or just Sinners. Who have been saved by the grace 381 00:24:59,300 --> 00:25:02,600 of God, because we've obeyed our Lord. 382 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:06,500 He condescends to me. Oh, to be more like him to, not 383 00:25:06,500 --> 00:25:11,000 think that I'm better than any man or any other woman on the 384 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:14,800 earth to treat them with as much respect every one of them. 385 00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:17,600 Has anybody else that I would that's the way Jesus is. 386 00:25:17,900 --> 00:25:20,000 We need to be more like that brothers and sisters. 387 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:23,000 That's the way Jesus was and that's why he's going to get 388 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:26,000 this woman and that's why he had such a tremendous effect and 389 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:30,500 that's why Christianity has spread like it has verse 10, 390 00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:38,300 Jesus answered and said to her, if you knew the gift of God and 391 00:25:38,300 --> 00:25:42,400 who it is, who say C says to you give me a drink, you would have 392 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:47,000 asked him and he would have given you living water. 393 00:25:47,900 --> 00:25:50,100 Jesus, did not let her impertinent criticism. 394 00:25:50,100 --> 00:25:54,300 Throw him off trap. Living Water I've got for you. 395 00:25:54,500 --> 00:25:58,400 Do you know who this is? How is Jesus able to keep his 396 00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:03,200 cool and not get distracted or disturbed by how she behaved and 397 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:05,800 how she responded. I believe it was because he 398 00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:13,500 remained focused on her welfare and not on her words, he wasn't 399 00:26:13,500 --> 00:26:18,800 focused on his own Pride, or his own ego, he was focused on her. 400 00:26:19,500 --> 00:26:22,300 I've got to lead this woman to the father. 401 00:26:22,300 --> 00:26:26,000 I've got to bring her to God. He wasn't concerned about what 402 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:29,700 what type of A foolish words. She might say he lost himself 403 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:32,500 just about where we so many times. 404 00:26:33,300 --> 00:26:36,300 Have we lost our cool? Well, she didn't have a clue 405 00:26:36,300 --> 00:26:41,000 about this living water, but now with his patient persistence, he 406 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:44,100 had her curious and her curiosity. 407 00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:49,900 Next led her to challenge his ability and his identity will 408 00:26:49,900 --> 00:26:53,900 get to that in just a minute. Let me quote from Bruce Milne 409 00:26:54,300 --> 00:26:59,700 here, he in his Harry gives us another thing for us to remember 410 00:26:59,900 --> 00:27:02,700 when it comes to evangelism, he's emphasizing Jesus 411 00:27:02,700 --> 00:27:05,900 compassion and sensitivity. I'm quoting through the entire 412 00:27:05,900 --> 00:27:09,500 conversation. Jesus deals with her as a person 413 00:27:09,500 --> 00:27:13,300 in her own right with her with their own unique history and 414 00:27:13,300 --> 00:27:16,200 special longings. She emerges in the account as a 415 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:20,400 character with personal dignity because Jesus treats her as such 416 00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:23,500 simply put Jesus loved her. Although we don't read the 417 00:27:23,508 --> 00:27:26,400 words, I love You' in the text. She could see it. 418 00:27:26,700 --> 00:27:30,200 And was prepared to breach, age-old conventions to reach her 419 00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:36,200 our failures and evangelism are so often failures in love. 420 00:27:37,100 --> 00:27:40,400 Nothing is so guaranteed to draw others to share our living 421 00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:42,200 water. That an awareness that we 422 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:46,700 genuinely care about them. People want to know that we care 423 00:27:47,100 --> 00:27:50,400 before they care about what we know. 424 00:27:50,900 --> 00:27:56,600 Remember that Down to verse 11 and 12 the woman said to him, 425 00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:01,800 sir, you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. 426 00:28:02,300 --> 00:28:04,200 Where then do you get that living water? 427 00:28:04,700 --> 00:28:09,500 Are you greater than our father? Jacob who gave us the well, and 428 00:28:09,500 --> 00:28:15,100 drank it from it himself as well as his sons and his livestock Is 429 00:28:15,100 --> 00:28:16,300 Americans would just like the Jews. 430 00:28:16,300 --> 00:28:19,800 They're always talking about their their Heritage you greater 431 00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:23,400 than Jacob. They had that same common 432 00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:25,900 Heritage. Are you greater than Moses? 433 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:28,500 Yes, greater than alive. Yes, David. 434 00:28:28,500 --> 00:28:31,400 Yes. That's what she was asking. 435 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:34,700 Really who do you think you are? And now Jesus turned the 436 00:28:34,700 --> 00:28:38,300 conversation from the carnal to the spiritual, but she still 437 00:28:38,300 --> 00:28:40,600 struggling to catch on to connect all the dots. 438 00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:42,100 What is he saying? What does he mean? 439 00:28:42,700 --> 00:28:46,600 Verse 13 and 14? Jesus answered and said to her. 440 00:28:47,300 --> 00:28:50,500 Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again. 441 00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:55,200 But whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never 442 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:57,500 thirst. But the water that I shall give 443 00:28:57,500 --> 00:29:00,100 him will become in him, a fountain of water springing. 444 00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:03,300 Springing up into everlasting life. 445 00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:06,800 Now Jesus is moved from instructing, the Samaritan woman 446 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:09,700 to really teaching all of us. He's talking to every last 447 00:29:09,700 --> 00:29:12,800 person here today, this is very similar to his teaching, in John 448 00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:16,300 6, verse 35. And he says, I am the bread of 449 00:29:16,300 --> 00:29:18,400 life, he who comes to me, shall never hunger. 450 00:29:18,500 --> 00:29:20,300 And he, who believes in me, shall never. 451 00:29:20,300 --> 00:29:25,200 Thirst, blessed are they those who hunger and thirst, after 452 00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:27,500 righteousness, for they shall be filled. 453 00:29:27,700 --> 00:29:30,200 It's talking to us. For thirsting, for the right 454 00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:33,200 thing we have the right kind of hunger will be satisfied. 455 00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:36,700 He's also saying that, nothing worldly, nothing carnal, nothing 456 00:29:36,700 --> 00:29:41,200 physical, can satisfy us the law, the besides just in the 457 00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:47,100 short run, Nothing besides genuinely serving, God can bring 458 00:29:47,100 --> 00:29:52,700 genuine peace, joy and contentment as Jesus puts it in 459 00:29:52,700 --> 00:29:56,000 John 15 only if we abide in Christ and he and us, can we 460 00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:59,900 maintain the joy of Salvation is hika back in the Old Testament 461 00:29:59,900 --> 00:30:02,600 had hinder what Jesus was talking about right here in 462 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:10,200 Ezekiel 36:26. And 27, I will give you a new 463 00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:12,600 heart and put a new spirit within you. 464 00:30:12,700 --> 00:30:15,300 I will take the Heart of Stone out of your flesh and give you a 465 00:30:15,300 --> 00:30:18,400 heart of Flesh. I will put my spirit within you 466 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:22,200 and will cause you to walk in my statutes and you will keep my 467 00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:24,900 judgments. And do them. 468 00:30:26,700 --> 00:30:32,000 Verse 15. The woman said to him, sir, give 469 00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:37,100 me this water that I may not thirst nor come here to draw, 470 00:30:37,100 --> 00:30:39,400 she's tied to making this trip. Give me this. 471 00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:40,600 I don't know what you're talking about. 472 00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:42,100 Where is this water? What do you mean? 473 00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:44,200 Give it to me? I'm ready. 474 00:30:44,700 --> 00:30:46,700 She was just like the crowd in John 6. 475 00:30:47,100 --> 00:30:50,800 Who said Evermore? Give us this bread. 476 00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:53,700 She doesn't fully understand what Jesus is talking about. 477 00:30:53,700 --> 00:30:57,000 But she does acknowledge at least that maybe this man does 478 00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:00,600 have the power to By this miraculous water he's talking 479 00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:04,200 about now. Jesus goes from changing it to a 480 00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:07,500 spiritual conversation, to changing it to her. 481 00:31:08,100 --> 00:31:11,400 He's targeting her. He's targeting the woman. 482 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:14,100 Her situation verse 16 through 19. 483 00:31:14,100 --> 00:31:17,800 Jesus said to her, go call your husband. 484 00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:21,600 And come here. The woman answered and said, I 485 00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:24,900 have no husband. Jesus said to her, you have well 486 00:31:24,900 --> 00:31:28,500 said, I have no husband for you have had five husbands and the 487 00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:32,300 The one that you have now is not your husband in that you spoke 488 00:31:32,300 --> 00:31:38,000 truly the woman said to him, sir, I perceive that you are a 489 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:40,100 prophet. Now, it's possible that this 490 00:31:40,100 --> 00:31:43,500 woman may have been widowed five times that all five of her 491 00:31:43,500 --> 00:31:46,900 husband's had died but that's not very likely. 492 00:31:47,100 --> 00:31:51,500 Is it even given the benefit of the doubt on her five marriages? 493 00:31:52,500 --> 00:31:56,000 There is still no justifying her living with the man that she's 494 00:31:56,000 --> 00:32:00,200 now with, and Jesus knows it. And she knows it. 495 00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:03,300 He wants her to take a good look in the mirror to see herself for 496 00:32:03,500 --> 00:32:06,600 who she is. And that she to needs a savior. 497 00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:09,100 Oh, she can boast about being descendants of Jacob, but she's 498 00:32:09,100 --> 00:32:13,600 a sinner and she's lost and she needs somebody and he is that 499 00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:18,200 somebody Well, now she has a Bible question and maybe this is 500 00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:21,600 maybe it's because she's a little bit overwhelmed with how 501 00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:24,300 all of a sudden this has gone from a talk about getting a 502 00:32:24,308 --> 00:32:27,800 drink of water till where she's on the spot, maybe she's wanting 503 00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:29,700 to kind of deflect the discussion. 504 00:32:29,700 --> 00:32:32,800 But she has a worship question for the one that she's now 505 00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:35,500 acknowledged as a prophet. Let's look at verse 20. 506 00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:40,200 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain. 507 00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:42,200 What's neat about? This is now we know that where 508 00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:44,800 she's standing there hundred feet away from Mountain reason. 509 00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:49,500 She's pointing at that mountain. That's so interesting to me. 510 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:55,200 She says verse 20 our fathers worshiped on this mountain and 511 00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:59,300 you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one ought to 512 00:32:59,308 --> 00:33:01,300 worship. She kind of wants to have a 513 00:33:01,300 --> 00:33:05,600 religious debate going here. Oh, Jesus is going to disarm the 514 00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:08,200 woman. He's treated her with respect as 515 00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:11,000 a woman as a Samaritan as a sinner but now it's time for her 516 00:33:11,008 --> 00:33:15,200 to drop her prejudice against the Jews and against the truth 517 00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:16,500 and listen. Lovely. 518 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:20,100 And so he sets the record straight in verse 21 and 22 and 519 00:33:20,100 --> 00:33:23,000 gives her a preview to the kingdom. 520 00:33:23,300 --> 00:33:28,000 Jesus said, to her woman, believe me the hour is coming. 521 00:33:28,100 --> 00:33:31,300 When you will neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem, 522 00:33:31,300 --> 00:33:33,500 worship the father, you worship, what you do? 523 00:33:33,500 --> 00:33:36,000 Not know. We know what we worship for 524 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:38,100 salvation of the Jews of the Jews. 525 00:33:38,100 --> 00:33:41,600 Let me just say this controversy once and for all you Samaritan 526 00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:43,800 has been wrong. All these years and where you're 527 00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:45,600 worshipping. It's wrong. 528 00:33:47,300 --> 00:33:49,600 It's no good. God doesn't accept it. 529 00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:53,600 You're wasting your time, you're wasting your energy. 530 00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:56,100 That's rather direct. And sometimes people don't like 531 00:33:56,100 --> 00:33:59,200 to hear that. Their worship is not found in 532 00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:01,800 the Bible. The Jesus is not defend, Diaz 533 00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:05,000 are not support, and God will not accept their worship. 534 00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:08,699 But sometimes when we love someone, we've got to let them 535 00:34:08,699 --> 00:34:12,199 know when we've established as Jesus has done a relationship. 536 00:34:12,300 --> 00:34:16,000 And we've demonstrated a genuine concern for them, and we've 537 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:18,100 talked respectfully them, Sometimes we have to tell them. 538 00:34:19,500 --> 00:34:23,000 The way you're worshipping, it's not found in the Bible, it's not 539 00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:26,300 there. And if you don't change, you're 540 00:34:26,300 --> 00:34:28,800 going to be in trouble because God doesn't accept that worship, 541 00:34:29,199 --> 00:34:32,900 verse 23. And now now he's really honing 542 00:34:32,900 --> 00:34:37,900 in and he's going to come on real strong on this topic of 543 00:34:37,900 --> 00:34:41,400 worship. Yes, it does matter, it does 544 00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:44,900 matter, it did matter back then where you worship, but the hour 545 00:34:44,900 --> 00:34:48,500 is coming and now is talking about us when the true 546 00:34:48,500 --> 00:34:51,400 worshipers will worship the father in spirit. 547 00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:55,400 And in truth, for the father is seeking such such to worship 548 00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:57,300 Him. People don't think that they 549 00:34:57,300 --> 00:35:00,800 need such thing as this exist true worship. 550 00:35:01,700 --> 00:35:04,600 True worship. You mean that there is a kind of 551 00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:09,600 worship that is not true. That's exactly what Jesus is 552 00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:14,200 telling her. And that's exactly what Jesus is 553 00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:16,700 telling us today. There is true, worship, and 554 00:35:16,700 --> 00:35:21,300 every other kind of worship is false worship. 555 00:35:22,900 --> 00:35:26,600 Doesn't matter how brilliant the man was who came up with it 556 00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:29,300 doesn't matter how it. Well this is awful convenience 557 00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:34,700 doesn't matter how sanitary it maybe if it's not found in the 558 00:35:34,707 --> 00:35:42,400 Bible it's not true worship. True worshipers worship in 559 00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:45,800 truth. Jesus already told her the fact 560 00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:49,200 that the Jews were the true worshippers. 561 00:35:49,300 --> 00:35:52,800 The Samaritans, were the false worshippers didn't matter how 562 00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:54,700 sincere they were and what they were doing. 563 00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:57,300 Of course, that's the prevalent way. 564 00:35:57,300 --> 00:35:59,900 It is today, the philosophy in Christianity. 565 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:04,000 All worship is acceptable, but Jesus makes it clear that that's 566 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:07,200 not it. Listen, if we can't find our 567 00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:10,500 practice in the New Testament, we're kidding ourselves. 568 00:36:10,500 --> 00:36:15,000 If we think that God, accepts our worship, can you imagine 569 00:36:15,300 --> 00:36:18,900 this Samaritan woman? Her mother and her father, her 570 00:36:18,900 --> 00:36:22,300 grandmother and her Grandpa all the way back generation after 571 00:36:22,300 --> 00:36:24,700 generation. They been worshipping this way. 572 00:36:25,500 --> 00:36:29,500 He's just done to her what he did to Nicodemus in the previous 573 00:36:29,500 --> 00:36:32,000 chapter said you're going to set all that aside. 574 00:36:32,700 --> 00:36:34,700 You're going to have to do my will, you're going to have to 575 00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:40,400 worship, just like, I tell you just write in the right place. 576 00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:43,200 Now today it's not the right place today. 577 00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:48,300 The Lord is not concerned about the longitude and the latitude 578 00:36:48,300 --> 00:36:52,000 of all location where we worship, We don't have to have 579 00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:54,300 lit Worship in a particular City. 580 00:36:56,100 --> 00:36:58,700 I could date back there in Jerusalem as opposed to mount 581 00:36:58,700 --> 00:37:01,500 good reason. But there are particular, is 582 00:37:01,500 --> 00:37:04,200 that God makes clear when he talks about true worship. 583 00:37:04,900 --> 00:37:07,200 There are some specifics, the next verse. 584 00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:11,600 What does he say? In verse 24, God is a spirit and 585 00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:14,300 they that worship Him must worship him. 586 00:37:14,300 --> 00:37:16,500 That's not a condition. That's not a suggestion. 587 00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:20,400 That is an absolute must worship Him in spirit. 588 00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:24,800 And in truth, New Testament worship involves the teaching 589 00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:29,000 and the meditation upon the apostles Doctrine, the singing 590 00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:32,700 of Psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs praying to God through his 591 00:37:32,700 --> 00:37:34,700 son. Jesus Christ, involves the 592 00:37:34,700 --> 00:37:37,800 observance of the Lord's Supper, the contribution, for the spread 593 00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:40,200 of the gospel, and the care of meaty Saints. 594 00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:43,500 We, if we had time, we talk more about the specifics on each of 595 00:37:43,500 --> 00:37:45,100 these. And as we noticed earlier than 596 00:37:45,100 --> 00:37:49,600 me, there is a pattern, there is a pattern and we were to abide 597 00:37:49,700 --> 00:37:53,500 in that pattern. We're not to add to or take away 598 00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:55,400 from it. Now some people don't, they look 599 00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:57,700 at their little thing and which they can't find in the Bible. 600 00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:00,400 It ain't there. But they were you know, it's not 601 00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:02,100 that big of a deal. We just do this little thing 602 00:38:02,100 --> 00:38:03,700 here and that's the, we everything else. 603 00:38:03,700 --> 00:38:06,900 We pretty much keep listen. You start making one change. 604 00:38:08,300 --> 00:38:13,400 You have lost every last, right? To complain about all the things 605 00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:16,800 that have been the flood of innovations that have come into 606 00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:19,300 religion. You've Lost Your Right. 607 00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:22,800 Look what happens when you abandon abandon the pattern? 608 00:38:22,900 --> 00:38:26,200 This is what happens listen to all the that is just a short 609 00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:28,800 list of some of the things that have come along since the New 610 00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:31,600 Testament was established auricular confession. 611 00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:34,200 The baptism of images, the baptizing of bells, the 612 00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:37,500 baptizing of infant's, baptism for the dead, the burning of a 613 00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:41,000 Incense the canonization of saints, celibacy of the clergy 614 00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:44,600 communion under one kind, elevation of the host extreme 615 00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:48,200 munchkin function, invocation of the Saints, the lighting of 616 00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:51,800 blessed lamps and candles, Lenten, fast and ceremonies 617 00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:55,400 orders of monks and nuns societies of Jesus, Purgatory, 618 00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:59,200 prayers for those in purgatory. Pascal candles Priestly, robes 619 00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:01,600 Investments. Holy paraphernalia. 620 00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:03,400 Penance. Redemption of penances. 621 00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:05,200 Pouring for baptism. Sprinkling. 622 00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:08,200 For baptism, the rosary. The separation of Clergy and 623 00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:11,200 laity, the doctrine of transubstantiation constant 624 00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:14,600 Association, individual cups, the sprinkling of holy water, 625 00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:17,000 the stored up Merit of dead Saints. 626 00:39:17,100 --> 00:39:20,700 The use of instrumental music, women preachers, and on, and on 627 00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:25,400 the list goes, once you start. Don't you ever complain about 628 00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:27,400 anything else than anybody else is adding? 629 00:39:28,300 --> 00:39:30,700 But the best thing is never to start. 630 00:39:30,900 --> 00:39:32,400 Just stick with what the Bible has. 631 00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:35,100 Just do it the way Jesus said it down. 632 00:39:35,300 --> 00:39:37,800 And if you've gotten on the wrong road and you've taken yup, 633 00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:40,300 one of these practices that Jesus didn't set up, you need to 634 00:39:40,308 --> 00:39:42,800 let it go. That's what we're going to show 635 00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:44,700 in just a minute. That's that maybe your water 636 00:39:44,700 --> 00:39:47,700 pots. Well, let's read on verse 25, 637 00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:52,100 the woman said to him, I know that the Messiah is coming, who 638 00:39:52,100 --> 00:39:55,900 is called Christ. When he comes, he will tell us 639 00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:59,800 all things. Jesus said to her, I who speak 640 00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:05,700 to you. and he, Verse 27 at this point his disciples came and 641 00:40:05,700 --> 00:40:07,800 they marveled that he talked with a woman yet. 642 00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:11,200 No one said what do you seek or why are you talking with her? 643 00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:15,600 The woman, then left her waterpot went her way into the 644 00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:20,000 City and said to them and said to the men come, see a man who 645 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:23,200 told me all things that I ever did, could this be the Christ? 646 00:40:23,700 --> 00:40:26,800 Then they went out of the city and came to him. 647 00:40:27,900 --> 00:40:31,500 She left her waterpot when she headed when she was headed to 648 00:40:31,508 --> 00:40:33,200 the. Well, the most important thing 649 00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:35,700 in the world to her was her water pot. 650 00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:39,800 Funny how it is. Sometimes we get so focused in 651 00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:43,400 on our own little water pots that we forget what really 652 00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:46,300 matters we get. So caught up in the world and 653 00:40:46,300 --> 00:40:51,500 worldly things. We need to leave our water pot. 654 00:40:51,900 --> 00:40:54,600 What are some of the water pots that we have? 655 00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:58,800 What are some of the water pots that perhaps you have, there's 656 00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:02,700 the water pot of self-will. The water pot of self-pity, 657 00:41:02,900 --> 00:41:06,000 there's a water pot of family over faithfulness. 658 00:41:06,100 --> 00:41:08,300 There's the water part of a carnal mind. 659 00:41:09,100 --> 00:41:12,600 There's the water pot of fear, the water pot of Pride, I don't 660 00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:15,600 know what your water pot is today, but if you're not living 661 00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:18,300 right, you need to think about what is it? 662 00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:22,300 What is the water pot that I need to leave behind? 663 00:41:22,300 --> 00:41:26,300 So I know without any doubt that I'm pleased, the Lord. 664 00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:32,800 And how I'm living and how I'm worshipping verse 31, through 665 00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:36,400 38, in the meantime, his disciples urged him saying Rabbi 666 00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:39,300 eat, but he said to them, I have food to eat up, which you do not 667 00:41:39,300 --> 00:41:41,200 know. Therefore the disciples said to 668 00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:43,700 one another has anyone brought him anything to eat? 669 00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:45,400 Jesus said to them. My food is to do. 670 00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:48,100 The will of him who sent me and to finish his work. 671 00:41:48,300 --> 00:41:50,900 Do you not say there are still four months and then comes the 672 00:41:50,900 --> 00:41:52,200 Harvest. Behold. 673 00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:55,500 I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields for, they 674 00:41:55,500 --> 00:41:59,200 are already white for Harvest. And he, who reaps receives wages 675 00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:02,200 and gathers fruit for eternal life that both he who sews and 676 00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:04,300 he who reaps may Rejoice together. 677 00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:06,900 For, in this, the saying, is true, one sows. 678 00:42:06,900 --> 00:42:11,000 And another reaps I sent you to reap that for which you have not 679 00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:13,500 labored others have labored and you have entered into their 680 00:42:13,500 --> 00:42:19,300 labors verse 39, and many of the Samaritans of that City believed 681 00:42:19,300 --> 00:42:23,200 in him because of the word of the woman who testified, he told 682 00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:27,700 me all that I ever did. So when the Aaron's had come to 683 00:42:27,700 --> 00:42:29,500 him, they urged him to stay with them. 684 00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:32,700 And he stayed there, two days, and many more believed, because 685 00:42:32,700 --> 00:42:35,400 of his own word, then they said to the woman. 686 00:42:35,500 --> 00:42:40,000 Now we believe not because of what you said for, we ourselves 687 00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:44,100 have heard him and we know that this is indeed the Christ, the 688 00:42:44,100 --> 00:42:48,800 savior of the world, look at all the good that's done from this 689 00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:52,600 one private Bible study so to speak that Jesus has with this 690 00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:56,200 Samaritan woman who's lived an immoral life. 691 00:42:56,400 --> 00:43:00,600 He's turned Her life around and he's turned the city around and 692 00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:02,400 they're going to be ready. Oh yes. 693 00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:04,600 They will be ready in Acts chapter 8. 694 00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:09,300 When Philip Comes To Town. We talked about a lot today. 695 00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:12,700 We talked about how Jesus valued good works. 696 00:43:13,100 --> 00:43:17,600 We talked about how the key was he initiated this conversation. 697 00:43:17,700 --> 00:43:21,700 He elevated the woman and he taught that there is such a 698 00:43:21,700 --> 00:43:25,100 thing as true worship, which automatically teaches us. 699 00:43:25,100 --> 00:43:27,600 There's a thing, such a thing as false worship. 700 00:43:29,300 --> 00:43:31,900 We thank you for listening to our podcast, put on by the 701 00:43:31,900 --> 00:43:37,600 Church of Christ at 22:15 plans. 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