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...”
