1. The Women at the Tomb Luke 24:1–11 (NIV) 1On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. 2 They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, 3 but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. 4 While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. 5 In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground. Still, the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead? 6 He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: 7 ‘The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.’ ”8 Then they remembered his words. 9 When they came back from the tomb, they told all these things to the Eleven and to all the others. 10 It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the others with them who told this to the apostles. 11 But they did not believe the women, because their words seemed to them like nonsense.
2. Peter Luke 24:12 (NIV)Peter, however, got up and ran to the tomb. Bending over, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he went away, wondering to himself what had happened.
3. Two Men on the Road Luke 24:13–21 (NIV) 13 Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem. 14 They were talking with each other about everything that had happened. 15 As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them; 16 but they were kept from recognizing him. 17 He asked them, “What are you discussing together as you walk along?” They stood still, their faces downcast. 18 One of them, named Cleopas, asked him, “Are you only a visitor to Jerusalem and do not know the things that have happened there in these days?” 19 “What things?” he asked. “About Jesus of Nazareth,” they replied. “He was a prophet, powerful in word and deed before God and all the people. 20 The chief priests and our rulers handed him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified him; 21 but we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. And what is more, it is the third day since all this took place.
Luke 24:25-26 (NIV) 25 He said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! 26 Did not the Christ have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?”
Luke 24:30-35 (NIV) 30 When he was at the table with them, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them. 31 Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, and he disappeared from their sight. 32 They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”
“The Word turns slow hearts into burning hearts.”
4. The Disciples in Jerusalem Luke 24:33–49 (NIV) 33 They got up and returned at once to Jerusalem. There they found the Eleven and those with them, assembled together 34 and saying, “It is true! The Lord has risen and has appeared to Simon.” 35 Then the two told what 36 While they were still talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.” 37 They were startled and frightened, thinking they saw a ghost. 38 He said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds? 39 Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.” 40 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and feet. 41 And while they still did not believeit because of joy and amazement, he asked them, “Do you have anything here to eat?” 42 They gave him a piece of broiled fish, 43 and he took it and ate it in their presence.
“It’s one thing to be impressed by Jesus, another to believe in him.”
Luke 24:44-45(NIV) 44 He said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms.” 45 Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures.
Luke 24:46-48(NIV) 46 He told them, “This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, 47 and repentance and forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. 48 You are witnesses of these things.
“An encounter with Jesus leaves little room for doubt.”
“When we forget the words of Jesus, we tend to operate in confusion and fear.”
“Clarity comes by sitting at His table.”
Matthew 11:28–30 (NIV) 28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
John 4:43–54 (ESV) 43 After the two days, he departed for Galilee. 44 (For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.) 45 So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the feast. For they too had gone to the feast. 46 So he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And at Capernaum, there was an official whose son was ill. 47 When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. 48 So Jesus said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders, you will not believe.” 49 The official said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.” 50 Jesus said to him, “Go; your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went on his way. 51 As he was going down, his servants met him and told him that his son was recovering. 52 So he asked them the hour when he began to get better, and they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.” 53 The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.”
A Dying Son/A Desperate Father
Acts 1:8 (ESV) You will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.
Titus 2:11 (ESV) For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people.
5 Facts of Faith “The source for seeing is believing.” 1. Faith often looks like desperation
2. Faith is Persistent
“God is not looking for casual inquirers; he is looking for diligent seekers.”
Hebrews 11:6 (NIV) Without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
Luke 11:8-10 (NLT) 8 if you keep knocking long enough, he will get up and give you whatever you need because of your shameless persistence. 9 “And so I tell you, keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.
John 4:50(ESV) Jesus said to him, “Go; your son will live.”
Psalm 107:20 (ESV) He sent out his word and healed them.
“We dont have faith in the method, we have faith in the man.”
“We don’t have faith in the outcome; we have faith in Jesus.”
3. Faith must be properly placed. John 4:50(ESV) ...The man believed the word.
“God’s word works at a distance.”
Isaiah 55:10–11(NIV) 10 As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, 11 so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
Psalm 33:6 (NIV) By the word of the Lord were the heavens made, their starry host by the breath of his mouth.
4. Faith obeys John 4:50(ESV)“And went on his way.” “Because his word travels, so does our faith.”
“Faith Works.” James 2:17 (ESV) Faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
“The word doesn’t shorten the journey, but it changes the way you walk.”
5. Faith accomplished His Purposes
John 4:53–54 (ESV) 53...And he himself believed, and all his household. 54 This was now the second sign that Jesus did when he had come from Judea to Galilee.
John 20:31 (ESV) These are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
The Source: Pure Worship= Spirit+Truth | John 4:13-45
“Because He is the source, He is OUR Source.”
John 4:13–18 (ESV) 13 Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” 15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.” 16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.” 17 The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.”
“Jesus exposes what’s in us so He can reveal Himself to us.”
2 Kings 17:29 (ESV) But every nation still made gods of its own and put them in the shrines of the high places that the Samaritans had made.
2 Kings 17:41 (ESV) So these nations feared the Lord and also served their carved images. Their children did likewise, and their children’s children—as their fathers did, so they do to this day.
“You can’t just add Yahweh into the mix—He doesn’t share the throne.
“Mixture is the enemy of purity.”
John 4:20(ESV) “Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.”
John 4:21-24(ESV) 21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. 22 You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth,for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. 24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
God is Spirit
Pure Worship = Spirit + Truth.
“Jesus is confronted a mixture because the Father is seeking pure worshipers.”
John 3:24(ESV) “God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
In Spirit
“Because we are born of the Spirit, we can worship in spirit.”
“The Holy Spirit is our escort in worshiping the Father.”
In Truth
“We are called to love God rightly, faithfully, and sincerely.”
“Worship isn’t just expressed—it’s lived.”
John 4:31–38 (ESV) 31 Meanwhile, the disciples were urging him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.” 32 But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” 33 So the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?” 34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.
Romans 12:1 (ESV) I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice,holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual Worship.
“You were re-created for more than being filled—you were re-created to Overflow.”
John 3:35-42(ESV) 35 Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest. 36 Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. 37 For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’ 38 I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.” 39 Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.” 40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. 41 And many more believed because of his word. 42 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.”
John 4:3–26 (ESV) 3 He left Judea and departed again for Galilee. 4 And he had to pass through Samaria. 5 So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob’s well was there; so Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour. 7 A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” 8 (For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.) 9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) 10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” 11 The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.” 13 Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” 15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.” 16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.” 17 The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.” 19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.” 21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. 22 You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. 24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” 25 The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will tell us all things.” 26 Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am he.”
Biblical Portraits of Life-Giving Water A. Eden (Genesis 2)
Water represents a source of life, blessing, and provision
B. Water in the Wilderness (Exodus 17) C. Water Flowing from the Temple(Ezekiel 47) D. The Cross(John 19:34)
Biblical Portraits of Wells
Isaac and Rebekah – Genesis 24
Jacob and Rachel –Genesis 29
Moses and Zipporah – Exodus 2
Jesus reframes the pattern.
The Samaritan Woman 1. She’s a woman 2. A Samaritan Woman 3. She was immoral 4. She was broken
Jesus cares for the broken. Psalms 34:18(NIV) The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.
“Jesus repairs her with the water she will carry.”
John 4:14(ESV) Whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
“You don’t retrieve living water, you receive it.”
Living Water:
“You don’t draw living water; it draws you. “
“When we drink of Jesus, the river takes over.”
Her Response John 4:28-29(ESV) 28 So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people, 29 “Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?”
1. She left her jar.
2. She said to her people, “Come and See.”
“A lot can happen with one Encounter with Jesus.”
Isaiah 55:1 (ESV) “Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the water...”
John 1:30(ESV) This is he of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who ranks before me, because he was before me.’ 31 I myself did not know him, but for this purpose I came baptizing with water, that he might be revealed to Israel.”
Thought for today - How do I decrease so that He can increase?
John 3:22 (ESV) After this Jesus and his disciples went into the Judean countryside, and he remained there with them and was baptizing.
He wants to spend time with you!
1. Spend time with Jesus.
You will only know his voice to the degree you spend time with Him.
John 3:23 (ESV) John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and people were coming and being baptized
John 3:25 (ESV) Now a discussion arose between some of John's disciples and a Jew over purification.
John 3:26 (ESV) And they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, he who was with you across the Jordan, to whom you bore witness—look, he is baptizing, and all are going to him.”
Ray Stedman (Pastor & Author) “A sense of rivalry between ministries is one of the devil’s most effective tools to impede the progress of the gospel.”
2. Beware of Division
Romans 16:17 (NIV) I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who cause divisions and put obstacles in your way that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Keep away from them. 18 For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of naive people. 19 Everyone has heard about your obedience, so I rejoice because of you; but I want you to be wise about what is good, and innocent about what is evil.
1 Corinthians 1:10 (NIV) I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another in what you say and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly united in mind and thought.
John 3:27 (ESV) John answered, “A person cannot receive even one thing unless it is given him from heaven. 28 You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, ‘I am not the Christ, but I have been sent before him.’
3. Point People to Jesus
Do I measure success by my recognition—or by Christ being magnified?
John 3:29 (ESV) The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom's voice. Therefore, this joy of mine is now complete.
Your calling is to point people to Jesus.
John 3:30 (ESV) He must increase, but I must decrease.”
1 John 2:15-17 (ESV) Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world. 17 And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
4. Die to Self
Luke 9:23 (NIV) Then he said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.
Make Jesus the priority and not a priority.
Psalm 37:4 (ESV) Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
John 3:31-36 (ESV) He who comes from above is above all. He who is of the earth belongs to the earth and speaks in an earthly way. He who comes from heaven is above all. 32 He bears witness to what he has seen and heard, yet no one receives his testimony. 33 Whoever receives his testimony sets his seal to this, that God is true. 34 For he whom God has sent utters the words of God, for he gives the Spirit without measure. 35 The Father loves the Son and has given all things into his hand.36 Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.
John 3:13–15 (ESV) 13 No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man. 14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.
John 1:17 (ESV) For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
Numbers 21:5–9 (ESV) 5 And the people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we loathe this worthless food.” 6 Then the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died. 7 And the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord and against you. Pray to the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us.” So Moses prayed for the people. 8 And the Lord said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole, and everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.” 9 So Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on a pole. And if a serpent bit anyone, he would look at the bronze serpent and live.
Serpents(Nahash)
Bronze Serpent on a pole
“The image of death becomes the instrument of life.”
“The point is not the snake, the point is the provision.”
Jesus is pointing to himself as the Provision 2 Corinthians 5:21 (ESV) For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
John 3:14(ESV) “So must the Son of Man be lifted up.”
Genesis 3:15 (ESV) He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”
John 3:16(ESV) “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
God: The Greatest Being So: The Greatest Degree Loved: The Greatest Affection The world: TheGreatest Audience That he gave: The Greatest Act of love His only Son: The Greatest Treasure That whoever believes: The Greatest Trust Should not perish: The Greatest Deliverance But have: The Greatest Assurance Everlasting Life: The Greatest Promise -Chuck Missler
John 3:17-18(ESV) 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
“Jesus didn’t come to shame the world, he came to claim it.”
We believe. 1. We are free of Condemnation
John 3:18(ESV) Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is already condemned.
Romans 5:18 (ESV) Therefore, as one trespass led to Condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men.
2. The curse has been broken
“Jesus didn’t restrain the curse—He broke it.”
1 Corinthians 15:22 (ESV) For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.
Colossians 2:13–15 (ESV) 13 God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, 14 by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. 15 He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.
3. We look and live
John 3:19-21(ESV) 19 And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. 20 For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. 21 But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”
“Eternal life isn’t just life after you die — it’s the life that begins the moment you believe.”
