The Woman At the Well - Brett Hickey 10/29/06

Hope you have a Bible nearby and and you can follow along with us

as we read a little bit about our Lord and get to know a

little bit more about him in John, chapter 4, if you want to

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go to one of the gospels and he want to learn about Jesus,

there's no more. There's no better place to go

than the Book of John and that's where our message will be taken

this morning. And my studies through the Book

of John on the last year or two. I noticed something that I

hadn't caught before, and I don't think it's an accident and

how these things come together and where they come together.

But whether or not it was intended or not, we can

certainly take note of the fact that Jesus connected with both

the very highest and the Very lowest of society.

In John chapter 3, when no doubt Jesus was exhausted from another

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very busy day, we find him. Discussing the kingdom, with

Nicodemus, Nicodemus, was a wealthy powerful prestigious

intelligent educated, and morally and religiously

respected, man. Among the highest in the land,

this man Nicodemus was Yet. Jesus did not write him off.

He spoke with him about the beauties of God's love and the

coming Kingdom. And then we come to chapter 4

and we meet a character who is everything that Nicodemus was

not. Let's notice some of the

comparisons between the two, some of, the contrast Nicodemus

was a man, and the woman from Samaritan, of course, was a

woman. He was a Jew.

She was a Samaritan. He was a person of influence.

She was a nobody, he worshipped at the right place.

She worshipped and the wrong place.

He belonged to the religious right of the day.

She was a religious Outcast. He was morally pure and she was

spiritually destitute. They were both miles away from

where they needed to be, but they were in totally different

directions, yet Jesus in his love and Concern for both of

them. We see is equally great to

Jesus. They were both sheep without a

shepherd and all he longed to take both of them into his fold.

It's particularly fascinating to me how naturally he connected

with a Samaritan woman. Let's see.

How from the story that John relays to us how the story

unfolds? And the great love of Jesus, I

love that we should be striving to emulate in our lives.

In this little story we find that Jesus the model Soul winner

shows the rest of us and reaching out to the lost that

barriers can be overcome. We see this with with nearly

everyone, we meet there are some kinds of barriers between us and

between them as we try to lead them to Jesus.

We can overcome those barriers just like Jesus.

Did Jesus overcame racial barriers?

He overcame gender barriers, he overcame me National barriers,

religious barriers, more barriers and physical barriers.

The physical barrier in this story is that he had to have

been. After this lengthy Journey

exhausted, he overcame these barriers to win this woman's

heart and soul, how did he do it?

Well, with all their differences, he found Common

Ground. He found that they both needed.

Something, they both needed water.

They were both thirsty. We find that Paul.

Uses this same idea approach in First Corinthians 9 verse 19,

1 Corinthians 9:19

through 23. I am become all things to all

men. That I might save some.

Well, Jesus deplored the state of the Samaritan woman.

She was not where she should be. He knew that and he wanted to

change that but it didn't come right off the bat and just start

slapping her around. Like, sometimes Christians, do

not thinking about, what if I was where she is, or what if I

was where he is, we fail to do that.

Sometimes Jesus wasn't like that.

I thought things through he used Common Sense, the Bible teaches

and in First Timothy second Timothy 3:16 that all scripture

2 Timothy 3:16

is given by inspiration of God and is profitable every single

word in the Bible is beneficial. The Holy Spirit.

Never waste words. He had at first glance verse 3

and 4 as we read in our texts seem to be of no moment seemed

to hold no great significance. But beneath the surface, their

significance, swell Wells. Let's read first.

John John 4 verses 1 through 4 therefore, when the Lord knew

John 4:1–4

that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized

more disciples than John, although Jesus himself did not

baptize but his disciples. He left Judea and departed again

to Galilee but he needed to go through Samaria.

Verse three and four, what possible significance, could

these two verses have he's going to make the trip to Galilee.

But what of what importance is it that he passes through sychar

and Samaria on his way to Galilee, well, The Jews despised

hated really, the Samaritans that lived in this region right

here. And when they would ordinarily,

make a trip from Judah to Galilee, instead of going the

shortest route, they would go across the Jordan River, go all

the way around and then come into Galilee.

Why they hated them. They despise them so much.

They didn't want to be around them.

They didn't want to see them and they didn't want to be defiled

by passing through their country, their region.

The Bible says he needed to go through Samaria.

Why the 70 mile journey to Galilee through Samaria took

three days on foot, but most Jews would take the long hot

desert road from Jerusalem to Jericho up the Jordan Valley

which took seven days an extra four days.

They would go because their religious and racial disdain for

the Samaritans. This area.

Samaria today is referred to that was Menachem, begin, I

believe. Who first began referred to it

as the West Bank. They stayed away from that area.

another reason, why People may not have always traveled that

way, was because they were concerned for their personal

safety. This was a dangerous, right.

We have find also in verse 9 as John narrates, the story, the

Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.

Why was that? Let me give you the fastbacks on

the samiri situation and Sumerian with the Samaritan.

On this is important. I think it's interesting as well

as valuable for us to know this, the children of Israel.

That's the northern 10 tribes committed idolatry and worship

the gods of other nations. So, God as a punishment to them,

just like, he'd warn them Cynthia, syrians which came from

the area where modern day Iraq, Iran and Syria are low and Syria

are located. He sent these people to take the

Israelites of Samaria. Captive, read about this in

second Kings, chapter 17, is about 750 years before Jesus met

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this woman. And in Samaria.

Well, the Assyrians settled into this region.

And after the Captivity, and these people, the Israelites

were allowed to go back. They returned to Samaria.

And now they settled in and intermingled and intermarried

with the Sumerian, the Samaritans, or with the

Assyrians and they gained the name of being the Samaritans.

And then though, as time walk rolled on, they decided that

they wanted to help. Those that Judah build the

temple in Jerusalem. Well, this offer was flatly

refused and as a result of that, they became bitter enemies and

they built their own temple on Mount gerizim, which was right

here, was right the same place. In fact, when Jesus is talking

to the woman at the well, he's just right at the foot of this

mountain, where these people for also long had worshiped and

worshipped in error because God said that was not where you were

to worship. Well.

When their temple on the mountain was destroyed, they

still directed their worship to mount.

Good reason, the Samaritans were guilty of open religious

apostasy now, they pretended, like many people today, do and

Christianity. Well, it just doesn't really

matter that much where you worship as long as you worship.

But they were wrong. In evaluating their situation

that way they pretended that those in Jerusalem.

Now they are the ones who had digressed.

And in doing so they rejected all of the Old Testament books

except the first five books. They said those other books,

those aren't really God's word that was part of the arrogance

of the, the tribes that were located in Samaritan Samaria.

Now less, you get the wrong impression.

The southern tribes were not as pure as the driven snow either.

They were all so disobedient rebellious.

It seems like they were just a few steps behind the Samaritans

in their wickedness. And in their idolatry.

But at least they did worship at the right place over time.

The Samaritans were further alienated from the Jews as they

intermingled. And as they intermarried with

the Assyrians, we don't usually give the historical background

as we look at this story, but I think it helps us and

understanding why the Jews? And the Samaritans were such

bitter enemies. And why it was such a big deal

that Jesus would go through. In this region.

I hate this also helps us to understand what a slam it was.

When the Jews said of Jesus, in John 8 48, do we not rightly say

that you are a Samaritan and have a demon that was a racial

slur. Had a had a had a horrible

intention behind it. And what they were trying to say

about G is worse than any of the ones that you might here today.

So why did Jesus need to go the shorter?

The shorter Passage Through Samaria.

Maybe it was partially because of the journey.

Jesus didn't have time to waste that four days.

Why waste the four days by going around, was it?

Because he did not share the general, Jewish hatred for the

Samaritans. Possibly, he certainly deals

with that head on in the story of the Good Samaritan, but I'm

convinced. The main reason that he wanted

to spend those extra days. Save those extra days by going

the shorter route through Samaria.

Was because he wanted to begin some, that wouldn't take really

take place till ax8 some 15 or so years later.

He wanted to begin to turn Samaria upside down, and he

wanted to start with this immoral woman who carried around

a chip on her shoulder. Let's read verse five and six.

So, we came to a city of Samaria, which is called sychar

near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son.

Joseph. Now Jacob's, Well, was there,

Jesus, therefore being wearied from his journey sat thus, by

the well, it was about the sixth hour.

Again, now sychar was right on a line about halfway between

Jerusalem and Galilee. Jesus had been traveling about a

day and a half now so it was probably A noontime and he was

worn out. He was wiped out, he was

exhausted and so he stopped to rest at Jacob's.

Well, now Jacob's, Well, was and still is quite a historical

place at this time when Jesus stop there, it had been in

existence for 1800 years. It's still in existence, in

fact, you can still visit this same spot what now which is

2,000 years later almost 4,000 years.

Der this well, was dug. Jaden McGarvey after visiting,

the will. A hundred years ago, wrote

Jacob's, Well is listen about 100 feet from Mount gerizim,

which Rises high above it to the West.

The whale is a perfect cylinder, seven and a half feet.

In diameter wall with stones of good-sized smoothly, dress and

nicely fitted together. An excellent piece of masonry.

He says in 1839, it was found to be 75 feet deep the well but

with only 10 to 12 feet of water, all visitors of more of a

more recent date. Have found it dry and gradually

filling up from the habit of throwing stones into it to hear

the reverberation when they strike the bottom.

I want to just stop here and make a point Jesus here.

I believe was valuing good works.

This well, had been here for 18 hundred years for 1800 years and

now he stops and he's resting at the well and and satisfying his

great thirst at the well, you know, there's really no telling

how many people may benefit from the good works that you do.

Certainly the Servants of Jacob that Doug that well 1800 years,

before Jesus ended up. There had no idea that the

Messiah some day would come and stop at that.

Well, And quench their thirst right there.

The Messiah himself, the Son of God, and you remember that your

random acts of kindness your words of encouragement, your

Good Works. May bless others that you may

never even meet. We take a lot for granted.

It's probably safe to assume that the Samaritan woman here.

And the story is also thirsty, consider this, she had to walk

out. This well, with a pot, a heavy

pot and she had to carry at this time, a 70-foot long rope, just

to get a little bit of water, no doubt.

This would be part of what allows her to covet The Living

Water. That Jesus is going to speak of

in just a little while. Notice also that Jesus needed

rest in 2nd Thessalonians 3 verse 10 through 15, the Bible

teaches that the man who does not work.

Work should not eat and that other Christians should not even

associate with him. In first, Timothy 5, verse 8

Paul says that this kind of man is worse than an Infidel worse

than an unbeliever and while slothfulness and laziness is a

serious sin, good and godly men and women have put themselves in

a premature grave. Because they did not give their

body their Temple, the Temple of the Holy Spirit, rather rest

First Corinthians 6:19 and 20 teach that.

1 Corinthians 6:19

So Jesus stops here to rats and he stops here to satisfy his

thirst, verse 7 through 9. A woman of 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. Then the woman of Samaria said

to him, how is it that you being a Jew?

Ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman.

For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.

So DS is resting at the, well wise disciples have gone to town

for food. Jesus asked her for a drink of

water. Notice here, that Jesus spoke

first. Jesus initiated this

conversation. Sometimes we think that well as

long as we just live a Christian, what Christian Life

that that's all we have to do know, there are times when we

need to initiate conversations. We don't wait for somebody else

to talk to us. We initiate the contact.

Jesus did teach in the synagogue and his public teaching was

important, but Jesus was more than just a Sabbath morning.

Teacher Jesus, just like Paul and the other Apostles and

preachers and elders. And so on they taught publicly

and from house to house, the church does not glorify God by

adding to the New Testament pattern by embracing women

preachers. First Corinthians Chapter 14

1 Corinthians 14:34

verse 34 and 35 of you believe the Bible.

You believe what I'm saying? It's a shame for a woman.

Women to speak in the church nor does the church honor God by

neglecting to teach from house to house.

We heard teachers and we who are preachers will be judged, more

strictly James 3, verse 1 says. And so while in the United

James 3:1

States, the days of baptizing dozens during a gospel meeting

have apparently passed. More than anytime.

More than any generation in these United States.

We must teach the lost as well as the faithful publicly and

privately Jesus model that he did it right here.

He took the time. I'm going to talk to this one

woman. Yes, he talked to the multitudes

on The Sermon, on the Mount but he's zeroed in from time to time

on one particular individual and he initiated the conversation

and he did that first of all by establishing a relationship a

friendship. Once remember that, when we're

working, Working to reach out and to save the lost.

Well, a Samaritan woman was stunned.

She was shocked, imagine that you were there.

Imagine you were there watching. Imagine you were there.

Listening somehow hidden behind some bushes, somewhere to

experience this. You could see the facial

expressions there, if Jesus clothing, didn't give it away

his accent. Did she knew that this man was a

Jew? Watches the story develops to

see how her knowledge of and respect for Jesus grows.

We find in verse 7. She speaks of him and not real

positive. Way about him being a Jew by

verse 11. She's saying sir when she speaks

of him by verse 19, she speaks of him as a prophet.

And then finally in verse 29 she's talking to him as the

Christ, the Messiah. But first, she must have been

thinking what a strange man and she says, in effect, Who do you

think you are and what do you think you're doing?

I think another element of Jesus wisdom here is seen in how well

he was able to listen and how much he listened to this woman.

If Jesus was going to limit this car conversation proportionally

to who was right? And who knew what they were

talking about. He wouldn't have let this woman

get a word in edgewise. He just say not shush.

You stop. And you listen to me and even

though Jesus did initiate the conversation, we see Jesus

listening Swift to hear James 1 verse 19 says, slow to speak,

James 1:19

Swift to hear. We see that.

It's interesting to me. I took the time to go down and

and break down the conversation from verse 7, through verse 20,

And did you know that they both spoke exactly 114 words a

completely balanced conversation.

He was going to turn the conversation but he allowed her

to talk. He allowed her to express

herself. She says though, how is it that

you being a Jew? Has to drink from me, a

Samaritan woman. She was really scolding him.

I believe for violating the conventional cultural etiquette,

you shouldn't be doing this mr. I know who you are.

You need to know who you are, but Jesus wasn't deterred.

Sometimes we give up too easily. Jesus wasn't like that.

He wasn't deterred by the awkwardness.

By what was perhaps an insult or brush off.

He loved the Samaritans. Just like he loved the Jews.

He loved the women. Just like he loved the men.

He loved the Harvest just like he loved the holy ones.

People who don't understand the Bible or the time, sometimes

slander, the New Testament, they slander, Jesus.

And Paul saying that all, or maybe from time to time, one of

them were against women. That's not the case.

Jesus elevated the woman and he and he spoke with and treated

women better much better than the men of that day.

I think it's important for us to know that as we here.

Some of the things that we hear out in the world Jesus honored

and value the six Mary's, their names are preserved as being the

ones that were there right to the end when some of the men

couldn't be counted on Jesus mother.

Mary Magdalene. Mary, the wife of clopas, Mary

and Martha, Joanna, Susanna solo me Dorcas Jesus, highly

esteemed. These Godly women.

Without putting them in the Pulpit like some think they have

to do or without elevating them to a place of church leadership.

The eldership, we can still do what Jesus did graciously today,

and honor Godly women just like Jesus did without violating the

New Testament teaching. We see the same a, the Apostle

Paul that we saw in Jesus, he singles out Phoebe, and Romans

16, not saying that she's some kind of a church.

Vishal but he elevates her as a Godly woman.

He singles her out just like he does Priscilla and try Fina and

try fossa persis Rufus mother Lois Eunice and he did this and

Jesus did this in a day when Jewish men often lived in

harmony with the rabbis who taught that worm should not talk

with a woman on the street, not even with his own wife and

certainly not somebody else's wife because of the gossip of

men. It was forbidden to give a

woman, any greeting here. Jesus is.

Talking not just to a woman but to a Samaritan woman.

In fact, some of the synagogue's back in that day segregated, the

women they had to sit behind a veil, some rabbis thought and

taught that women should not even hear the law.

Women were treated little better than a slave but not Jesus, and

not the Apostle Paul, and not the New Testaments in meekness

and humility Jesus continually condescended From the throne

room of Heaven to a Manger in Bethlehem from the presence of

the Father, the Holy Spirit, and the angels to the lepers

Hypocrites, and the harness. Oh, what?

Amazing savior. We have, he condescended down to

me. And to you sometimes we thank

well. We've got ourselves cleaned up.

We're United States, we're Americans, and we know a lot,

and we've seen a lot and we've done a lot, and we've got a lot.

We feel pretty good about ourselves, but We're just

Sinners. Those of us who have obeyed, the

gospel or just Sinners. Who have been saved by the grace

of God, because we've obeyed our Lord.

He condescends to me. Oh, to be more like him to, not

think that I'm better than any man or any other woman on the

earth to treat them with as much respect every one of them.

Has anybody else that I would that's the way Jesus is.

We need to be more like that brothers and sisters.

That's the way Jesus was and that's why he's going to get

this woman and that's why he had such a tremendous effect and

that's why Christianity has spread like it has verse 10,

Jesus answered and said to her, if you knew the gift of God and

who it is, who say C says to you give me a drink, you would have

asked him and he would have given you living water.

Jesus, did not let her impertinent criticism.

Throw him off trap. Living Water I've got for you.

Do you know who this is? How is Jesus able to keep his

cool and not get distracted or disturbed by how she behaved and

how she responded. I believe it was because he

remained focused on her welfare and not on her words, he wasn't

focused on his own Pride, or his own ego, he was focused on her.

I've got to lead this woman to the father.

I've got to bring her to God. He wasn't concerned about what

what type of A foolish words. She might say he lost himself

just about where we so many times.

Have we lost our cool? Well, she didn't have a clue

about this living water, but now with his patient persistence, he

had her curious and her curiosity.

Next led her to challenge his ability and his identity will

get to that in just a minute. Let me quote from Bruce Milne

here, he in his Harry gives us another thing for us to remember

when it comes to evangelism, he's emphasizing Jesus

compassion and sensitivity. I'm quoting through the entire

conversation. Jesus deals with her as a person

in her own right with her with their own unique history and

special longings. She emerges in the account as a

character with personal dignity because Jesus treats her as such

simply put Jesus loved her. Although we don't read the

words, I love You' in the text. She could see it.

And was prepared to breach, age-old conventions to reach her

our failures and evangelism are so often failures in love.

Nothing is so guaranteed to draw others to share our living

water. That an awareness that we

genuinely care about them. People want to know that we care

before they care about what we know.

Remember that Down to verse 11 and 12 the woman said to him,

sir, you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep.

Where then do you get that living water?

Are you greater than our father? Jacob who gave us the well, and

drank it from it himself as well as his sons and his livestock Is

Americans would just like the Jews.

They're always talking about their their Heritage you greater

than Jacob. They had that same common

Heritage. Are you greater than Moses?

Yes, greater than alive. Yes, David.

Yes. That's what she was asking.

Really who do you think you are? And now Jesus turned the

conversation from the carnal to the spiritual, but she still

struggling to catch on to connect all the dots.

What is he saying? What does he mean?

Verse 13 and 14? Jesus answered and said to her.

Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again.

But whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never

thirst. But the water that I shall give

him will become in him, a fountain of water springing.

Springing up into everlasting life.

Now Jesus is moved from instructing, the Samaritan woman

to really teaching all of us. He's talking to every last

person here today, this is very similar to his teaching, in John

John 6:35

6, verse 35. And he says, I am the bread of

life, he who comes to me, shall never hunger.

And he, who believes in me, shall never.

Thirst, blessed are they those who hunger and thirst, after

righteousness, for they shall be filled.

It's talking to us. For thirsting, for the right

thing we have the right kind of hunger will be satisfied.

He's also saying that, nothing worldly, nothing carnal, nothing

physical, can satisfy us the law, the besides just in the

short run, Nothing besides genuinely serving, God can bring

genuine peace, joy and contentment as Jesus puts it in

John 15 only if we abide in Christ and he and us, can we

maintain the joy of Salvation is hika back in the Old Testament

had hinder what Jesus was talking about right here in

Ezekiel 36:26. And 27, I will give you a new

Ezekiel 36:26

heart and put a new spirit within you.

I will take the Heart of Stone out of your flesh and give you a

heart of Flesh. I will put my spirit within you

and will cause you to walk in my statutes and you will keep my

judgments. And do them.

Verse 15. The woman said to him, sir, give

me this water that I may not thirst nor come here to draw,

she's tied to making this trip. Give me this.

I don't know what you're talking about.

Where is this water? What do you mean?

Give it to me? I'm ready.

She was just like the crowd in John 6.

Who said Evermore? Give us this bread.

She doesn't fully understand what Jesus is talking about.

But she does acknowledge at least that maybe this man does

have the power to By this miraculous water he's talking

about now. Jesus goes from changing it to a

spiritual conversation, to changing it to her.

He's targeting her. He's targeting the woman.

Her situation verse 16 through 19.

Jesus said to her, go call your husband.

And come here. The woman answered and said, I

have no husband. Jesus said to her, you have well

said, I have no husband for you have had five husbands and the

The one that you have now is not your husband in that you spoke

truly the woman said to him, sir, I perceive that you are a

prophet. Now, it's possible that this

woman may have been widowed five times that all five of her

husband's had died but that's not very likely.

Is it even given the benefit of the doubt on her five marriages?

There is still no justifying her living with the man that she's

now with, and Jesus knows it. And she knows it.

He wants her to take a good look in the mirror to see herself for

who she is. And that she to needs a savior.

Oh, she can boast about being descendants of Jacob, but she's

a sinner and she's lost and she needs somebody and he is that

somebody Well, now she has a Bible question and maybe this is

maybe it's because she's a little bit overwhelmed with how

all of a sudden this has gone from a talk about getting a

drink of water till where she's on the spot, maybe she's wanting

to kind of deflect the discussion.

But she has a worship question for the one that she's now

acknowledged as a prophet. Let's look at verse 20.

Our fathers worshiped on this mountain.

What's neat about? This is now we know that where

she's standing there hundred feet away from Mountain reason.

She's pointing at that mountain. That's so interesting to me.

She says verse 20 our fathers worshiped on this mountain and

you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one ought to

worship. She kind of wants to have a

religious debate going here. Oh, Jesus is going to disarm the

woman. He's treated her with respect as

a woman as a Samaritan as a sinner but now it's time for her

to drop her prejudice against the Jews and against the truth

and listen. Lovely.

And so he sets the record straight in verse 21 and 22 and

gives her a preview to the kingdom.

Jesus said, to her woman, believe me the hour is coming.

When you will neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem,

worship the father, you worship, what you do?

Not know. We know what we worship for

salvation of the Jews of the Jews.

Let me just say this controversy once and for all you Samaritan

has been wrong. All these years and where you're

worshipping. It's wrong.

It's no good. God doesn't accept it.

You're wasting your time, you're wasting your energy.

That's rather direct. And sometimes people don't like

to hear that. Their worship is not found in

the Bible. The Jesus is not defend, Diaz

are not support, and God will not accept their worship.

But sometimes when we love someone, we've got to let them

know when we've established as Jesus has done a relationship.

And we've demonstrated a genuine concern for them, and we've

talked respectfully them, Sometimes we have to tell them.

The way you're worshipping, it's not found in the Bible, it's not

there. And if you don't change, you're

going to be in trouble because God doesn't accept that worship,

verse 23. And now now he's really honing

in and he's going to come on real strong on this topic of

worship. Yes, it does matter, it does

matter, it did matter back then where you worship, but the hour

is coming and now is talking about us when the true

worshipers will worship the father in spirit.

And in truth, for the father is seeking such such to worship

Him. People don't think that they

need such thing as this exist true worship.

True worship. You mean that there is a kind of

worship that is not true. That's exactly what Jesus is

telling her. And that's exactly what Jesus is

telling us today. There is true, worship, and

every other kind of worship is false worship.

Doesn't matter how brilliant the man was who came up with it

doesn't matter how it. Well this is awful convenience

doesn't matter how sanitary it maybe if it's not found in the

Bible it's not true worship. True worshipers worship in

truth. Jesus already told her the fact

that the Jews were the true worshippers.

The Samaritans, were the false worshippers didn't matter how

sincere they were and what they were doing.

Of course, that's the prevalent way.

It is today, the philosophy in Christianity.

All worship is acceptable, but Jesus makes it clear that that's

not it. Listen, if we can't find our

practice in the New Testament, we're kidding ourselves.

If we think that God, accepts our worship, can you imagine

this Samaritan woman? Her mother and her father, her

grandmother and her Grandpa all the way back generation after

generation. They been worshipping this way.

He's just done to her what he did to Nicodemus in the previous

chapter said you're going to set all that aside.

You're going to have to do my will, you're going to have to

worship, just like, I tell you just write in the right place.

Now today it's not the right place today.

The Lord is not concerned about the longitude and the latitude

of all location where we worship, We don't have to have

lit Worship in a particular City.

I could date back there in Jerusalem as opposed to mount

good reason. But there are particular, is

that God makes clear when he talks about true worship.

There are some specifics, the next verse.

What does he say? In verse 24, God is a spirit and

they that worship Him must worship him.

That's not a condition. That's not a suggestion.

That is an absolute must worship Him in spirit.

And in truth, New Testament worship involves the teaching

and the meditation upon the apostles Doctrine, the singing

of Psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs praying to God through his

son. Jesus Christ, involves the

observance of the Lord's Supper, the contribution, for the spread

of the gospel, and the care of meaty Saints.

We, if we had time, we talk more about the specifics on each of

these. And as we noticed earlier than

me, there is a pattern, there is a pattern and we were to abide

in that pattern. We're not to add to or take away

from it. Now some people don't, they look

at their little thing and which they can't find in the Bible.

It ain't there. But they were you know, it's not

that big of a deal. We just do this little thing

here and that's the, we everything else.

We pretty much keep listen. You start making one change.

You have lost every last, right? To complain about all the things

that have been the flood of innovations that have come into

religion. You've Lost Your Right.

Look what happens when you abandon abandon the pattern?

This is what happens listen to all the that is just a short

list of some of the things that have come along since the New

Testament was established auricular confession.

The baptism of images, the baptizing of bells, the

baptizing of infant's, baptism for the dead, the burning of a

Incense the canonization of saints, celibacy of the clergy

communion under one kind, elevation of the host extreme

munchkin function, invocation of the Saints, the lighting of

blessed lamps and candles, Lenten, fast and ceremonies

orders of monks and nuns societies of Jesus, Purgatory,

prayers for those in purgatory. Pascal candles Priestly, robes

Investments. Holy paraphernalia.

Penance. Redemption of penances.

Pouring for baptism. Sprinkling.

For baptism, the rosary. The separation of Clergy and

laity, the doctrine of transubstantiation constant

Association, individual cups, the sprinkling of holy water,

the stored up Merit of dead Saints.

The use of instrumental music, women preachers, and on, and on

the list goes, once you start. Don't you ever complain about

anything else than anybody else is adding?

But the best thing is never to start.

Just stick with what the Bible has.

Just do it the way Jesus said it down.

And if you've gotten on the wrong road and you've taken yup,

one of these practices that Jesus didn't set up, you need to

let it go. That's what we're going to show

in just a minute. That's that maybe your water

pots. Well, let's read on verse 25,

the woman said to him, I know that the Messiah is coming, who

is called Christ. When he comes, he will tell us

all things. Jesus said to her, I who speak

to you. and he, Verse 27 at this point his disciples came and

they marveled that he talked with a woman yet.

No one said what do you seek or why are you talking with her?

The woman, then left her waterpot went her way into the

City and said to them and said to the men come, see a man who

told me all things that I ever did, could this be the Christ?

Then they went out of the city and came to him.

She left her waterpot when she headed when she was headed to

the. Well, the most important thing

in the world to her was her water pot.

Funny how it is. Sometimes we get so focused in

on our own little water pots that we forget what really

matters we get. So caught up in the world and

worldly things. We need to leave our water pot.

What are some of the water pots that we have?

What are some of the water pots that perhaps you have, there's

the water pot of self-will. The water pot of self-pity,

there's a water pot of family over faithfulness.

There's the water part of a carnal mind.

There's the water pot of fear, the water pot of Pride, I don't

know what your water pot is today, but if you're not living

right, you need to think about what is it?

What is the water pot that I need to leave behind?

So I know without any doubt that I'm pleased, the Lord.

And how I'm living and how I'm worshipping verse 31, through

38, in the meantime, his disciples urged him saying Rabbi

eat, but he said to them, I have food to eat up, which you do not

know. Therefore the disciples said to

one another has anyone brought him anything to eat?

Jesus said to them. My food is to do.

The will of him who sent me and to finish his work.

Do you not say there are still four months and then comes the

Harvest. Behold.

I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields for, they

are already white for Harvest. And he, who reaps receives wages

and gathers fruit for eternal life that both he who sews and

he who reaps may Rejoice together.

For, in this, the saying, is true, one sows.

And another reaps I sent you to reap that for which you have not

labored others have labored and you have entered into their

labors verse 39, and many of the Samaritans of that City believed

in him because of the word of the woman who testified, he told

me all that I ever did. So when the Aaron's had come to

him, they urged him to stay with them.

And he stayed there, two days, and many more believed, because

of his own word, then they said to the woman.

Now we believe not because of what you said for, we ourselves

have heard him and we know that this is indeed the Christ, the

savior of the world, look at all the good that's done from this

one private Bible study so to speak that Jesus has with this

Samaritan woman who's lived an immoral life.

He's turned Her life around and he's turned the city around and

they're going to be ready. Oh yes.

They will be ready in Acts chapter 8.

Acts 8 · chapter mention

When Philip Comes To Town. We talked about a lot today.

We talked about how Jesus valued good works.

We talked about how the key was he initiated this conversation.

He elevated the woman and he taught that there is such a

thing as true worship, which automatically teaches us.

There's a thing, such a thing as false worship.

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