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.”
