Part 7 | The God Who Crosses the Lines to Bring Us Life
From John 4
📖 John 4:4 ESV And He had to pass through Samaria.
1. Jesus crosses the we between and .
📖 John 4:5-6 ESV 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.
📖 John 4:7-8 ESV 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.)
📖 John 4:9 ESV 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.)
The we :
A. line – “I’m not familiar with this.”
B. line – “I’m not ready for this.”
C. line – “I have questions about this.”
D. line – “I’m not from this faith tradition.”
2. Jesus already us and us .
A. Jesus knows she is Biblically .
📖 John 4:10 ESV 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.”
B. Jesus knows she is spiritually .
📖 John 4:13-14 ESV 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.”
C. Jesus knows she is morally .
📖 John 4:15 ESV 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.”
📖 John 4:16 ESV Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”
📖 John 4:17-18 ESV 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.”
📖 John 4:19-20 ESV 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.”
3. Jesus reveals the of who to open our lives to the God gives.
📖 John 4:21-22 ESV 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.”
📖 John 4:25 ESV 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.”
📖 John 4:26 ESV Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am he.”
📖 John 4:27 ESV Just then his disciples came back. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you seek?” or, “Why are you talking with her?”
📖 John 4:28 ESV 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?”
