John 4:39-42 | Bringing others to Christ

Hey, what's up? City Post Church.

Good morning. Happy Sunday, man.

I hope you guys are doing good. And it is weird not being in

church all together, but it's all good, man.

We're coming to you, man. I, I feel like there's a, a word

from the Lord that I want to share with you even in this

situation. You know, one of the things

we've been talking about is this whole idea of pursuing Christ.

We know that in 2026, we want to run after Jesus.

We want to pursue Jesus and everything that we do.

And we've talked about what that looks like and some of the

things that we're going to have to remove in order to pursue

Christ and everything that we do in life.

But one of the things I want to address today is how do I bring

others with me to pursue Christ? How do I bring people into the

gospel? How do I bring people into a

relationship with Jesus? I think that there's a great

blueprint and a great example of what that looks like and is

found in John chapter 4. So go ahead and get your Bible,

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get your app, whatever that looks like, iPad, get your Bible

out. I really want you to see this.

This is really important. So I'll give you a few seconds.

I'm just going to talk for like a few seconds so you can go

ahead and get your stuff out. So in John chapter 4, it's it's

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a story we're all very familiar with.

Talk about all the time. Jesus and his disciples go

through Samaria. So instead of going around like

most of the Jews and the Jewish leaders would do, because

Samaria is like one of those areas like they want to stay

away from because of all these religious implications and

cultural contexts. But, but I just want to focus on

this one component of the story, which is found at the end.

Jesus encounters this woman at the well.

The woman at the well is there at noon, which is not what

everybody else is there. Why?

She's an outcast. She must have done some things.

People don't like her. So Jesus is there, she's there,

He talks with her, He has an encounter with her.

She finds that Jesus is the Messiah.

So Jesus forgives her. He says that he's the living

water she drinks of the living water.

She'll never thirst again. She's like, give me that.

And then he's like, awesome man, go tell your husband to come.

So Jesus digs a little bit deeper.

What he discovers is that she has some really deep hurt, some

deep wounds of where her sin is coming out of.

But at the end of their conversation, she realizes that

Jesus is the true Messiah, and she puts her faith in the

Messiah. Then she goes to tell everybody,

and I think that she lays out a blueprint for us of what it

looks like to tell people about Christ and the Messiah that we

have, and then invite them to come and pursue Jesus with you

as well. What does that look like?

A lot of us kind of get nervous about witnessing or sharing our

faith. We might think that we don't

have everything that we need. I don't know enough.

I don't know enough memory verses, I don't know what to

say. I stutter, I get nervous.

You know, what if I get rejected?

What if, what if, what if, what if, What if?

We just followed this lady's example and see what the

Scripture tells us. I think it's going to encourage

us to go bring others to Jesus. So I want to start in verse 39.

So we're just going to look at the end of the text because I

think that there's some things that we could see here that we

can learn. And then I want to encourage us

to go out and do likewise. So check this out.

Look at verse. I'm going to read verse 39

through 42. This is what the word of the

Lord has to say in John chapter 4.

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So it says that many Samaritans from that town believed in Him

because of the woman's testimony.

He told me all that I ever did. So when the Samaritans came to

him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed with them

two days. And many more believe because of

his word they said to the woman. It is no longer because of what

you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves and we

know that this is indeed the Savior of the world.

Man, isn't that amazing? And then it says after two days

they departed and they kept going to Galilee.

So check this out. What do we know from this lady

man? How can we as believers in

Christ bring people into a relationship with God?

Was she a theologian? She was at the town.

She was just trying to get some water.

Was she a pretty strong Christian?

No, she's a new convert. She just met the Lord and she

was forgiven. Did she take evangelism class?

No, she just showed up. She had an encounter with

Christ. So what can you and I do to lead

people to Jesus? Check it out.

Taking notes. Awesome #1 if not, it's going to

be right here on the screen. Check it out.

Number one, your testimony matters, right?

So the first thing I want to encourage you to do is share

your testimony. Share your story of how you came

to know Christ with people. It says in verse 39 that many

Samaritans from the town believed in Him because of the

woman's testimony. Oh, I love that.

And what was her testimony? The thing that she was speaking

about, the thing that blew her mind, the thing that helped her

come into belief was this. He told me everything I ever

did. That's only something God can

do. That's only something the

Messiah could do. But it goes deeper than that

because it's not like a fortune telling thing, like I see the

future in your life. No, what she's getting at is the

forgiveness of sin. That means that she knew that

Jesus knew the depths of her heart, and that's only something

that God can do. So Jesus doesn't only know her

heart, but he's able to forgive the depths of her heart.

I love this because your testimony, your story, whatever

you have to say to people about you coming to faith in Christ,

the Holy Spirit uses that in whatever situation you're at.

You could be at dinner, you could be a Christmas, you could

be at home right now with family members that don't know the Lord

and you haven't even shared your testimony yet or your story yet.

The great thing is because the Holy Spirit uses it, the Holy

Spirit's job is to point everybody to Christ, point

everybody to Jesus. So what does she do?

She says I testify. I shared my testimony.

I love this. Listen, all of us do this

unknowingly. Have you ever been to a good

restaurant? I have you ever notice when you

talk about a good place to go eat, you tend to kind of share a

little bit about it, right? Like whenever I go to Tex de

Brazil, man, love that place. All you can eat steak, awesome

buffet. Hopefully I get to go there

soon, right? It's an awesome place to go eat

when you go and you sit down and you tell somebody.

So the first time I went Tex de Brazil, my mind was blown.

I'm like, this is crazy. They come and give you all the

steak you want. And I remember telling my

friends about it and I was like, bro, you go and you sit down and

you flip a car from red to green, right?

And this and man, the pecanas thebomb.com like the the flavor

is so strong and now you can throw a little chimichurri sauce

on it. It just enhances the flavor.

It's like an explosion of flavors in your mouth.

And then you got to get the all ground potatoes.

You go to the salad bar, it's awesome.

But the the potatoes with the cheese, oh, it's so creamy, so

good. And then they got flying for

dessert. It's not on the menu.

You got to ask for it, right? It's the closest thing to my

mama's flying. So it is off the chain.

And then the filet mignon, my goodness, it is so tender.

And they just walk around with it.

They got one wrapped with bacon as well.

And it is so good. And listen, even better, bro,

you got to bring your wife. You got to bring your

girlfriend. This is a great date spot.

You want to impress somebody, you got to bring them to this

place. If you go on a date, man, and

then you leave feeling so full. You got the meat sweats.

You just want to chug water the rest of the night.

Oh man, it is one of the most satisfying experiences you'll

ever get to an awesome restaurant.

You should go now. I rambled for about 2 1/2

minutes about a restaurant. What did I just do for you?

What I did was I shared my lived experience with that restaurant

with you. I gave you my testimony of what

I experienced there. You see, that's how it works.

Testimony. I told you what I experienced

first hand. And you know what's even

crazier? It involved all my senses.

Touch, taste, see, feel my experiences, everything.

And then like it left me feeling a certain way.

And listen. When you testify about your

relationship with Jesus, it is the same way.

You could just talk about what your life looked like before

Jesus and what it looks like after Jesus.

You're like, man, I met Jesus. I don't know what happened, but

man, I got to experience his grace and oh man, it was so

strong and overwhelming. And his forgiveness, man, I

didn't know I could feel so free.

Haven't slept that good in a long time after I experienced

his forgiveness. Oh, and his love is so rich and

tender. Oh man, it is overwhelming.

You've got to try it. You know what?

Better yet, this is a great person to bring your loved ones

to your wife, your girlfriend, man.

You should bring people that you love and care about.

You will be so good and so fulfilled.

You will be satisfied. I love this man.

This is like Psalm 34. You know what your testimony.

If you have a hard time remembering testimony,

testimony, taste and see, right? So my testimony is that I've

tasted, and I've seen that the Lord is good.

So my testimony is taste and see.

So think about that. My testimony is taste and see.

Let me give you a few passages and then we'll be out of here,

man. Revelation 12/11 They triumphed

over him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their

testimony. They did not love their lives so

as to shrink from death. Psalms 1072.

That the redeemed of the Lord tell their story, their

testimony, those who redeemed from the hand of the foe.

Acts 420. For we cannot help speaking

about what we have seen and heard.

And Psalms 34 I've tasted and seen the goodness of God Number

one, how do I tell people share your testimony.

How do I share my testimony? Share what you have tasted and

what you've seen because of God's goodness in your life.

Easy thing to do. What does she do next?

Look at the next verse what she does or what they do.

So not just share your testimony, but they urged him to

stay. When you share Jesus with people

that they might not understand or they might be a little bit

hesitant, but the greatest thing that you can do is urge Him to

ask to meet Christ. Look what it says.

So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with

them. And you know what he did?

He stayed with them for two days.

Isn't that amazing? I love the the the word urge

here, strong exhortation. It's like a pleading, A

passionate call to action, often from leaders or sometimes God,

as we see in Paul's letters and epistles.

Urge people to cry out to Jesus. Because what we know from the

Scriptures is that when you cry out to Jesus, when you go

looking for Him, you will find Him.

Let's say it this way, Urgency over formality.

Promote urgency over formality. As you're talking to people,

forget the formality piece. Listen, you don't need a

specific prayers to come to Christ.

You don't need to light candles. You don't need to know what you

say is the right thing. You don't even have to assert

like I would even say this, come to Jesus as you are.

You don't have to clean yourself up before you come to Him, but

if you tell people, listen, go to him, seek him, cry out to his

name, yell at him, whatever, listen, you go looking for

Jesus, you're going to find a Messiah and he's going to show

up. What does it say here?

It says that he stayed. Most Jewish leaders are trying

to get in and out of Samaria. Jesus shows up, and because they

urged him to stay, he stayed. That's exactly what Jesus does.

Listen, if you call out to Jesus, you will find him and he

will meet with you. Jeremiah 29 verses 12 and

Jeremiah 29:12

through 14. Then you will call on me and

come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.

You will seek me and find me. When you seek me with all your

heart, I will be found by you, declares the Lord, and bring you

back from captivity. Jesus even says, man, if you

knock and I will open the door, anything you ask of me in my

name I will grant it for you. You don't have to have it all

together and neither do people who are looking or curious.

Stop messing with the formalities.

Urge them to call on the name of the Lord and they will be saved

and Jesus will meet with them and listen.

Just like Samaria, how nobody wants to go there and stay

there, Jesus does. And I think sometimes in our

life there's places inside of our hearts where we don't want

to go and we don't want to. We think that people don't want

to go there. But you know who does?

Jesus does. And Jesus, if you invite him, he

will go there and he will stay there until you get what you

need. And listen, the goal is that

when you have an encounter with Christ, when somebody has an

encounter in Christ, you tell them, be urgent, call on the

name of the Lord, and you will be saved.

Jesus will meet you when you call on him.

And then the last thing here, what else does she use?

His word? So testimony, just share what

you know. Share what you did it.

Share what Jesus did with you. And like my friend said, if you

know a lot, you share a lot. If you know a little, you share

a little. But just share, Share your

story, share testimony #2 encourage people to seek Him,

call on Him, even if they don't believe.

It's OK. Hey, test it, try it.

Call out to Jesus, explore Jesus, ask questions about

Jesus. Which leads me to the next one.

They had His word. How do we know how we bring

people to Jesus? Just use His word.

That's it. Look at it, look at the next

verse. He stayed with them for two days

and look at verse 41. And because of his words, many

more, or yeah, many more became believer.

See, it was his words, not the words of the woman.

So the Holy Spirit used her testimony.

But the more people heard his words, more and more people came

to a knowledge and understanding and faith in Jesus Christ.

That's what we want to do. Listen, the Bible says in

Hebrews 4 verse 12, for the word of God is alive and active,

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sharper than any double edged sword.

It penetrates even the divine, dividing soul and spirit, joints

and marrow. It judges the thoughts and

attitudes of the heart. Sometimes we might not know all

the answers, but the one thing that we can do is just quote

scripture. Just read the scriptures, just

read the scriptures to people and let God through the Holy

Spirit do the work with His word because the Bible says that the

word of God is living and active and it pierces the soul.

Isaiah 4840 verse 8 The grass Withers and the flowers fade is

but the word of the Lord will last forever.

David tells us in Psalms for his word, for thy word is a lamp

until my feet and a light until my path.

And of course, the verse that all of us know from not ashamed

of the gospel for it is the power of God for all those who

believe first to the Jew, then to the Gentile.

When you read God's word, it's it's comes alive.

So people didn't just come to know him because of what he said

because of God's word, like over guess Jesus talking.

That's exactly what the Bible is.

Listen, this is Jesus talking. This is the breath of God, and

God is reaching out to us. And sometimes we might not know

what to say, and that's OK, but just read, just say it.

And we also have His name as well.

Not just His word, but His name has power, man.

Acts 412 For there is no other name under heaven and earth in

which we find salvation, only the name of Jesus.

You don't know what to do. Read His word.

You don't want to know what to say, say the name of Jesus

because that's the only name people could be.

I'm saved by. I might not know how to explain

what happened to me, but what I do know is that I met Jesus and

it changed my life forever and now I follow him and listen.

At the end, like verse 42 said, they said to the woman, we no

longer believe just because of what you said.

Now we have heard for ourselves and we know that this man really

is the Savior of the world. Her testimony, their urgency,

His word caused them not to make a decision and what they decided

was to follow the Messiah and listen as you are faithful to

living your life through prayer, rely on Holy Spirit.

People are going to come to faith in Jesus and we want to

lead them. How do you do it?

This lady gives us a really good pathways.

I love you guys. Stay safe and we'll pray for us

and make sure you talk about it, answer the questions and we will

see you on Sunday. So Jesus, thank you for your

faithfulness. Lord, protect everyone, keep us

safe, and God help us to be bold as we share the gospel and the

good news of Jesus with people and let them come to faith in

Him. In Jesus name we pray all these

things. Amen.

Amen. I love you guys and we'll see

you soon.