WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:21.900 Hi, and welcome to the Willow Ridge Church weekly podcast. 00:00:22.380 --> 00:00:25.500 This is where you can find audio for our current and past sermons. 00:00:25.800 --> 00:00:29.980 We hope that you enjoy this week's installment, and be sure to check back next week to hear 00:00:29.980 --> 00:00:30.880 the latest message. 00:00:31.300 --> 00:00:32.080 Thanks for listening. 00:00:46.400 --> 00:00:47.520 Would you guys pray with me? 00:00:49.140 --> 00:00:52.580 Lord, we come to you this morning, and just thank you for this wonderful opportunity we 00:00:52.580 --> 00:00:54.380 have to worship you. 00:00:55.500 --> 00:00:59.960 Lord, as we open up your word this morning, and your word is powerful, it is living in 00:00:59.960 --> 00:01:01.340 and it works, Lord. 00:01:01.400 --> 00:01:03.660 We pray that it would convict us. 00:01:03.760 --> 00:01:08.000 We pray that it would draw us closer to you, Lord, and more in love with you. 00:01:09.100 --> 00:01:13.360 Lord, as we gather here this morning, if there's anyone here that does not know you, Lord, we 00:01:13.360 --> 00:01:18.540 pray as a result of the working of your spirit and the power of your plan, Lord, as we leave 00:01:18.540 --> 00:01:22.940 here today, there will be those that stepped out of darkness into light, out of death, and 00:01:22.940 --> 00:01:23.780 into life. 00:01:24.360 --> 00:01:28.100 And Lord, and we'll give you all the praise and honor and glory for it. 00:01:28.100 --> 00:01:36.180 Lord, as we look forward to this new year, Lord, we look at it in anticipation of what 00:01:36.180 --> 00:01:42.020 you have for us as a church, what you have for us as families, what you have for us as individuals. 00:01:42.880 --> 00:01:46.600 And God, we pray that you would be glorified. 00:01:47.340 --> 00:01:48.880 And it's in Jesus' name we pray. 00:01:49.700 --> 00:01:50.040 Amen. 00:01:50.500 --> 00:01:50.740 Amen. 00:01:51.240 --> 00:01:54.460 If you've got your Bibles, go on over to John chapter 4. 00:01:55.000 --> 00:01:58.980 All right, as you turn there, normally there's a video that comes up on screen, and we do 00:01:58.980 --> 00:02:00.280 not have that this morning. 00:02:00.520 --> 00:02:03.940 So I want to go over a few of our announcements that we have. 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:08.980 The first one that I want to mention is on Friday, January 21st, our women's ministry is 00:02:08.980 --> 00:02:10.940 going to be gathering here for a game night. 00:02:10.940 --> 00:02:17.340 And ladies, a wonderful opportunity for you to come and connect with other women here at 00:02:17.340 --> 00:02:20.800 Willow Ridge Church to build gospel-centered relationships. 00:02:21.080 --> 00:02:25.640 And so we are doing a sign-up for that in the lobby, and so please go out and sign up for 00:02:25.640 --> 00:02:28.540 that and be a part of that wonderful night. 00:02:28.900 --> 00:02:35.600 Also, next Sunday, January the 9th, we will gather together as a church family that evening, 00:02:35.800 --> 00:02:39.000 and we're going to have a chili and soup night together. 00:02:39.200 --> 00:02:44.140 Again, a wonderful time for us just coming into the new year to gather together as a church 00:02:44.140 --> 00:02:46.940 family, to fellowship, to have a wonderful time. 00:02:47.120 --> 00:02:51.040 And we are wanting to make sure that we've got enough chili and enough soup, and so there's 00:02:51.040 --> 00:02:56.100 a sign-up for that as well in the lobby, and so if you wouldn't mind signing up for that 00:02:56.100 --> 00:02:56.500 also. 00:02:56.660 --> 00:03:04.040 And then lastly, on January 16th, we will be starting back our regular Sunday night programming, 00:03:04.160 --> 00:03:07.620 as well as our small groups will be starting back. 00:03:07.720 --> 00:03:12.220 And so we will be beginning a new series that I'm excited about, and what we're going to 00:03:12.220 --> 00:03:13.960 do for our spring semester. 00:03:14.260 --> 00:03:18.040 You know, normally it feels weird to say spring semester when it's freezing cold outside, but 00:03:18.040 --> 00:03:22.200 right now it fits, right, to say spring semester in 85-degree weather. 00:03:22.440 --> 00:03:28.060 So our spring semester, we're going to go through the book of 1 Corinthians together as a church. 00:03:28.320 --> 00:03:33.020 And so what I'm going to be challenging everyone to do is to take a section as we go through 00:03:33.020 --> 00:03:35.640 that week and study that in your quiet time. 00:03:35.920 --> 00:03:39.780 And then I'm going to be here on Sunday morning, and I will preach through 1 Corinthians. 00:03:40.180 --> 00:03:45.820 And then in your small groups, you're going to work through 1 Corinthians together as a 00:03:45.820 --> 00:03:46.380 small group. 00:03:46.380 --> 00:03:50.320 And so I'm excited to see what this is going to be like for our church. 00:03:50.740 --> 00:03:55.940 Now, as we're going into, well, as not going into, as we're in the new year, we do have 00:03:55.940 --> 00:04:00.560 a lot of new groups that haven't previously met before, meeting at different times, meeting 00:04:00.560 --> 00:04:01.420 at different days. 00:04:01.720 --> 00:04:05.860 And Pastor Dave is going to have all of that finalized and that information out there to 00:04:05.860 --> 00:04:06.560 you next week. 00:04:06.620 --> 00:04:10.460 And so if you haven't been a part of a group, there's a lot of new groups that are starting 00:04:10.460 --> 00:04:16.800 up, and we'd just love to challenge you to be a part of a group as we gather back together. 00:04:17.120 --> 00:04:22.660 Well, if you did not recognize our guitar player this morning, I just want to take a minute 00:04:22.660 --> 00:04:23.480 to introduce y'all. 00:04:23.580 --> 00:04:24.660 It's Brian Nolasco. 00:04:25.020 --> 00:04:26.640 The burgers had to miss this morning. 00:04:26.780 --> 00:04:31.640 And so in the last minute, we called Brian, and Brian agreed to step in and help lead along 00:04:31.640 --> 00:04:32.820 with Leslie this morning. 00:04:33.320 --> 00:04:36.540 Brian is our worship leader for our Hispanic service. 00:04:36.680 --> 00:04:38.160 And so Brian, I just want to say thank you. 00:04:38.360 --> 00:04:39.860 You're pulling double duty today, brother. 00:04:40.060 --> 00:04:41.240 We appreciate you. 00:04:41.500 --> 00:04:42.220 He'll be back here. 00:04:42.280 --> 00:04:42.880 Yeah, absolutely. 00:04:46.920 --> 00:04:50.940 Man, leading in English, leading in Spanish, man, you're the guy getting it done today. 00:04:51.280 --> 00:04:52.100 Well done, sir. 00:04:52.140 --> 00:04:55.880 And thank you so much for being willing to step in. 00:04:55.880 --> 00:05:02.480 Well, as we go into this passage in John chapter 4, this series is All Things New. 00:05:02.960 --> 00:05:04.700 We began it last week. 00:05:04.860 --> 00:05:06.440 You remember last year, right? 00:05:06.480 --> 00:05:13.800 We got started in there, and we looked at Revelation 21, and we saw how God is working to make all 00:05:13.800 --> 00:05:15.500 things new in eternity. 00:05:16.020 --> 00:05:20.860 And today, we're going to take that step back and look at that immediately for us. 00:05:20.860 --> 00:05:22.540 But I want to kind of refresh us. 00:05:22.640 --> 00:05:27.700 If you weren't here last week, I want to kind of remind you of where we're building off of 00:05:27.700 --> 00:05:33.060 and what we're working toward as we look toward eternity with the Lord. 00:05:33.300 --> 00:05:38.700 We looked at last week that God makes us both spiritually and morally new, that in eternity 00:05:38.700 --> 00:05:41.560 that we're set free from the bondage of sin. 00:05:41.760 --> 00:05:47.300 There's not sin around us, but even more promising and more hopeful with what you and I, 00:05:47.300 --> 00:05:53.100 as believers, what we struggle with internally most often is we're even set free from the 00:05:53.100 --> 00:05:54.140 desire of sin. 00:05:54.640 --> 00:05:56.440 So it's not just that sin's not there. 00:05:56.860 --> 00:06:02.100 It's that within us, even though we know the right thing to do, even though we desire to 00:06:02.100 --> 00:06:06.580 do the right thing, there's still that peace in us that wants to pull us back toward the 00:06:06.580 --> 00:06:07.380 sinful patterns. 00:06:08.380 --> 00:06:10.960 But in eternity, all of that is set free. 00:06:11.480 --> 00:06:16.440 The part that got the most of the amens and probably started a lot of us on our New Year's 00:06:16.440 --> 00:06:19.760 resolutions, right, is that our bodies will be new. 00:06:20.460 --> 00:06:22.960 And in thinking about that, we don't know what they'll be. 00:06:23.080 --> 00:06:24.200 We don't know what age. 00:06:24.280 --> 00:06:27.480 We don't know what standard our bodies will be. 00:06:27.960 --> 00:06:32.180 But what we can draw from and what we can see from Scripture is that there's no more death. 00:06:32.620 --> 00:06:38.480 So the pain and the suffering and the hurt that comes from the fact that these bodies are broken 00:06:38.480 --> 00:06:43.240 because of the humanity that is broken within us, we're set free from. 00:06:43.960 --> 00:06:49.560 And so we say amen, not that we're going to have chiseled rock-hard abs in eternity, right? 00:06:49.760 --> 00:06:52.280 But we say amen because there's no more suffering. 00:06:53.100 --> 00:06:53.780 There's no more hurt. 00:06:53.880 --> 00:06:54.660 There's no more sickness. 00:06:55.000 --> 00:06:55.960 There's no more death. 00:06:56.660 --> 00:06:57.500 And so we celebrate. 00:06:58.220 --> 00:07:02.960 We look to the fact that even within that, that creation will be new. 00:07:03.640 --> 00:07:05.580 The no more effects of sin. 00:07:05.660 --> 00:07:11.900 We saw in Scripture where creation inwardly groans because of the brokenness of sin that's there. 00:07:11.900 --> 00:07:20.700 But the most promising, the one that gives us the most hope that we have in eternity is the newness of relationship with God. 00:07:21.200 --> 00:07:25.860 Now, if you're saved right now, you are brought into relationship with God. 00:07:25.980 --> 00:07:29.420 God promises never to leave us, never to forsake us. 00:07:29.680 --> 00:07:35.820 God promises and sends His Holy Spirit when upon conversion indwells within us as believers. 00:07:35.980 --> 00:07:38.480 And so we are filled with the very Spirit of God. 00:07:38.480 --> 00:07:44.280 But because of the brokenness in which we live in and the brokenness in which our world is set, 00:07:44.380 --> 00:07:47.420 even though God promises to never leave us or forsake us, 00:07:47.620 --> 00:07:51.460 even though God promised us His Holy Spirit that indwells within us, 00:07:51.600 --> 00:07:55.040 we could all say amen to even though we're believers, 00:07:55.040 --> 00:08:00.980 there becomes points and times in our walk with the Lord where He feels absent and we feel far from Him, 00:08:01.820 --> 00:08:03.160 even though that's not reality. 00:08:04.160 --> 00:08:08.840 But what we have the hope is God is there in the newness of relationship. 00:08:09.240 --> 00:08:11.460 There's no distance within there. 00:08:11.880 --> 00:08:15.040 And so there's the hope that we have of eternity, 00:08:15.320 --> 00:08:20.460 but even more so as we look to the reality of where we are now, 00:08:21.040 --> 00:08:25.420 we want to look at the fact that salvation in Christ makes us new. 00:08:25.860 --> 00:08:27.040 So what we're going to do this morning, 00:08:27.120 --> 00:08:33.160 we're going to try to work through pretty much all of John chapter 4, which is a lot, all right? 00:08:33.180 --> 00:08:37.120 So we're going to read a lot and then talk a little and then read a lot and talk a little 00:08:37.120 --> 00:08:43.000 and kind of work through that and hopefully so our children's ministry workers don't get left in there too long, right? 00:08:43.260 --> 00:08:45.760 Yeah, get out of here in a decent time. 00:08:45.760 --> 00:08:50.080 So let's start reading in John chapter 4, verse 1. 00:08:51.080 --> 00:08:58.440 Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John, 00:08:58.660 --> 00:09:02.660 although Jesus Himself did not baptize, but only His disciples, 00:09:03.300 --> 00:09:06.420 He left Judea and departed again for Galilee. 00:09:06.840 --> 00:09:08.960 And He had had to pass through Samaria. 00:09:09.360 --> 00:09:15.880 So He came to a town of Samaria called Sychar near the field that Jacob had given to His son Joseph. 00:09:16.480 --> 00:09:17.860 And Jacob's well was there. 00:09:18.420 --> 00:09:26.500 So Jesus, wearied as He was from His journey, was sitting beside the well, and it was about the sixth hour. 00:09:27.020 --> 00:09:29.360 And a woman from Samaria came to draw water. 00:09:29.880 --> 00:09:31.180 And Jesus said to her, 00:09:31.660 --> 00:09:32.460 Give me a drink. 00:09:32.960 --> 00:09:36.200 For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. 00:09:36.740 --> 00:09:38.580 And the Samaritan woman said to Him, 00:09:38.580 --> 00:09:44.280 How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria? 00:09:44.640 --> 00:09:47.780 For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. 00:09:48.140 --> 00:09:49.540 And Jesus answered her, 00:09:49.880 --> 00:09:55.480 If you knew the gift of God and who it is that is saying to you, give me a drink, 00:09:55.680 --> 00:09:59.940 you would have asked Him and He would have given you living water. 00:10:00.180 --> 00:10:00.780 Verse 11, 00:10:01.460 --> 00:10:02.520 The woman said to Him, 00:10:02.520 --> 00:10:05.780 Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. 00:10:06.300 --> 00:10:08.460 Where do you get that living water? 00:10:08.980 --> 00:10:11.000 Are you greater than our father Jacob? 00:10:11.460 --> 00:10:16.160 He gave us the well and drank from it Himself, as did His sons and His livestock. 00:10:16.680 --> 00:10:17.900 And Jesus said to her, 00:10:18.280 --> 00:10:21.880 Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again. 00:10:21.880 --> 00:10:27.440 But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. 00:10:27.820 --> 00:10:35.080 The water I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life. 00:10:35.740 --> 00:10:36.880 And the woman said to Him, 00:10:36.880 --> 00:10:43.780 Sir, give me this water so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water. 00:10:44.180 --> 00:10:51.920 Well, what we're going to look at this morning are three different things that Christ gives us in newness from our relationship with Him. 00:10:52.020 --> 00:10:58.180 That we can see from His interactions with the Samaritan woman of three different pieces as we work through all of this. 00:10:58.460 --> 00:11:04.100 And the first thing that in a relationship with Christ of what Jesus provides for us is new water. 00:11:04.900 --> 00:11:06.240 Jesus gives us new water. 00:11:06.720 --> 00:11:14.280 Now, verse 9 is a key verse for us to understand what is happening here and what Jesus is doing. 00:11:14.760 --> 00:11:21.500 So Jesus asked this woman for a drink of water as He's there during the heat of the day. 00:11:21.500 --> 00:11:23.560 And remember, He's traveling. 00:11:24.080 --> 00:11:25.560 He's not traveling in His car. 00:11:25.660 --> 00:11:26.820 He's not traveling on a plane. 00:11:26.900 --> 00:11:27.660 He's not traveling on a train. 00:11:27.840 --> 00:11:28.980 They are walking. 00:11:29.740 --> 00:11:34.640 And during the heat of the day, during the desert area which they find themselves, 00:11:34.920 --> 00:11:38.000 He is very hot and He asks her, 00:11:38.640 --> 00:11:41.940 Could you give me some water? 00:11:42.360 --> 00:11:50.880 And then her response to Him in verse 9 kind of lays the groundwork for all that's going to happen and unfold 00:11:50.980 --> 00:11:53.040 over the course of this interaction. 00:11:53.040 --> 00:11:53.700 It says, 00:11:53.700 --> 00:11:55.300 The Samaritan woman said to Him, 00:11:56.320 --> 00:12:02.400 How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria? 00:12:02.580 --> 00:12:06.180 For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. 00:12:06.260 --> 00:12:12.640 So it's key for us to kind of understand the dynamic of what has brought them into this place 00:12:12.640 --> 00:12:20.340 where a woman who's hot, someone who's thirsty and you're drawing water and they're asking for some 00:12:20.340 --> 00:12:25.200 while her response to Jesus is neither rude or inappropriate. 00:12:25.920 --> 00:12:27.960 It's culturally fitting. 00:12:29.640 --> 00:12:34.060 And it's not because of her that brings her to this point. 00:12:34.960 --> 00:12:42.700 You see, the Samaritans were descendants of how they were viewed from the Israelites as descendants of the Assyrians. 00:12:43.200 --> 00:12:51.820 The Assyrians had captured Samaria, which at the time Samaria was in the northern kingdom of Israel around 722 B.C. 00:12:51.820 --> 00:13:03.220 And when the Assyrians captured Samaria, the Assyrians removed all Israelites of power and of influence and they deported them. 00:13:03.560 --> 00:13:07.100 They sent them off and they claimed this is going to be our city. 00:13:07.100 --> 00:13:10.680 But they didn't deport all of the Israelites. 00:13:11.140 --> 00:13:12.480 They left some there. 00:13:13.240 --> 00:13:20.920 And so then the Assyrians and the Jews that were left behind over generation to generation continued to marry. 00:13:21.300 --> 00:13:23.780 And as they would marry, they would have children. 00:13:24.220 --> 00:13:31.140 And what you had was this different race was formed and was created, the race of the Samaritans. 00:13:31.140 --> 00:13:38.260 Now, the Jews viewed the Samaritans at extremely low levels. 00:13:38.680 --> 00:13:42.160 Their view of the Samaritans were based off of two things. 00:13:42.980 --> 00:13:50.700 During a time where race was emphasized, they were considered to be racially unclean. 00:13:51.360 --> 00:13:54.440 A mixed race, not purely Jewish. 00:13:54.960 --> 00:14:01.780 But they were also, and probably even more prominently, considered religiously unclean. 00:14:01.780 --> 00:14:04.480 You see, they had a mixed faith. 00:14:05.340 --> 00:14:16.720 The pagan Assyrian practices that came in with the Assyrians had mixed also with the Jewish practices that were there. 00:14:17.240 --> 00:14:21.040 And so what was left was this divide that was there. 00:14:21.300 --> 00:14:26.540 So she's kind of interacting culturally with what should be expected. 00:14:26.820 --> 00:14:38.240 She says to Jesus, why are you, a pure Jewish man, talking to me, an unclean Samaritan woman? 00:14:39.720 --> 00:14:46.980 As the nature and dynamic has determined for them in that setting of what is clean and what is not. 00:14:47.900 --> 00:14:55.540 But in the hope and the beauty of the gospel, what we're going to see is we're not talking about a racial impurity because there is no such thing. 00:14:56.380 --> 00:15:01.120 We're talking about a spiritual impurity that Jesus is going to bring with new water. 00:15:02.000 --> 00:15:03.720 And so Jesus answers her in verse 10. 00:15:03.720 --> 00:15:15.240 And he says, 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. 00:15:15.900 --> 00:15:21.920 Now I can imagine, like, hearing this concept of living water is kind of like the whole Jack and the Beanstalk thing, right? 00:15:22.560 --> 00:15:23.280 Like, what are you talking about? 00:15:23.660 --> 00:15:24.860 Living water. 00:15:25.260 --> 00:15:35.340 But what Jesus is doing is letting her know as she responds correctly based off of culture to what any man would have said to her. 00:15:35.340 --> 00:15:36.720 It's like, hold up, time out. 00:15:36.880 --> 00:15:39.440 I'm not like any other man that you've engaged with. 00:15:40.620 --> 00:15:43.120 And we're going to see she's got some engagements. 00:15:44.680 --> 00:15:47.240 She's got some situations in her life. 00:15:49.280 --> 00:15:51.500 But Jesus is not going to be like any Samaritan man. 00:15:52.660 --> 00:15:54.300 Jesus is not going to be like any Jewish man. 00:15:54.800 --> 00:16:00.200 With what Jesus is going to bring and what Jesus is going to offer are completely different. 00:16:00.960 --> 00:16:04.020 So for her, she's confused. 00:16:04.780 --> 00:16:06.960 What do you mean that this is what you're going to do? 00:16:07.140 --> 00:16:09.580 And she says, are you greater than our father Jacob? 00:16:10.520 --> 00:16:18.100 He gave us this well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock. 00:16:18.880 --> 00:16:19.940 So she's saying, well, hold up. 00:16:20.100 --> 00:16:26.380 You say that you're different, but there's no way that you are greater than Jacob. 00:16:27.480 --> 00:16:33.600 But Jesus says in verse 13, everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again. 00:16:34.540 --> 00:16:39.560 But whoever drinks of the water I will give him will never be thirsty again. 00:16:39.560 --> 00:16:48.860 The water I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life. 00:16:48.880 --> 00:16:55.760 And we begin to see this conflict of this dialogue that is existing between the two of them. 00:16:56.380 --> 00:16:57.840 Is it too good to be true? 00:16:57.940 --> 00:17:02.320 Well, for those of us who know the story, for those of us who understand the gospel, 00:17:02.520 --> 00:17:06.420 that's what we understand of what Jesus is talking about, this new water. 00:17:06.580 --> 00:17:07.420 It's different. 00:17:07.980 --> 00:17:09.740 It's different than any other faith. 00:17:09.840 --> 00:17:11.180 It's different than any other religion. 00:17:11.380 --> 00:17:12.820 It's different than any other practice. 00:17:12.820 --> 00:17:17.320 It's different than any other culture because it comes to bring to what is broken. 00:17:18.440 --> 00:17:23.280 So that life can happen and be restored and be eternal. 00:17:24.100 --> 00:17:27.140 And so Jesus offers a water that is different. 00:17:27.920 --> 00:17:31.920 The water that Jesus talks about is a water that's not found from a well, 00:17:32.060 --> 00:17:33.740 but water that is a gift of God. 00:17:33.820 --> 00:17:34.560 We understand that. 00:17:34.760 --> 00:17:37.900 Jesus is saying from the very beginning, you can't get this water. 00:17:39.100 --> 00:17:40.100 You can't earn it. 00:17:40.800 --> 00:17:43.200 You can't dig deep enough for it. 00:17:43.680 --> 00:17:47.880 You can't send your pot down as far as you can. 00:17:48.120 --> 00:17:50.080 You'll continue to dig a hole. 00:17:50.620 --> 00:17:53.840 You see, this water comes from me and comes from me alone. 00:17:54.540 --> 00:17:57.660 This water is a gift of God as his salvation. 00:17:58.740 --> 00:18:01.280 Jesus says that this water is living. 00:18:02.380 --> 00:18:06.500 That he wants her to understand that in this of what he will share, 00:18:06.500 --> 00:18:09.900 that this living water is different than any other thing. 00:18:10.160 --> 00:18:13.540 Cannot be defined by anything else. 00:18:13.760 --> 00:18:16.460 Cannot be compared to by anything else. 00:18:16.700 --> 00:18:20.300 And what makes this different is that this water, it satisfies. 00:18:21.720 --> 00:18:24.900 Blessed are those who thirst for righteousness, Jesus says. 00:18:25.640 --> 00:18:25.820 Right? 00:18:26.160 --> 00:18:32.980 It satisfies, but it's going to satisfy something different than just being a little thirsty. 00:18:33.680 --> 00:18:38.020 It's going to satisfy a little bit different than when your throat gets a little dry 00:18:38.020 --> 00:18:40.340 and you need to take a bottle of water and have a sip. 00:18:42.200 --> 00:18:45.380 This water is going to meet more than a physical need 00:18:45.380 --> 00:18:49.520 because this water satisfies the longing of the soul. 00:18:50.520 --> 00:18:52.740 But that this water will become something. 00:18:53.660 --> 00:18:56.260 It will become a spring within you. 00:18:57.080 --> 00:18:59.820 Water that produces water. 00:19:00.640 --> 00:19:07.160 That from you, this water will continue to build and to flow and to continue on in your life. 00:19:07.280 --> 00:19:11.540 Because this water is the water that gives life. 00:19:12.220 --> 00:19:13.700 The water that gives life. 00:19:14.720 --> 00:19:20.880 One of Aaron and I's favorite shows that we like to watch is the TV show Life Below Zero. 00:19:21.460 --> 00:19:23.060 I don't know if you've ever watched Life Below Zero, 00:19:23.260 --> 00:19:25.020 but we like to watch Life Below Zero. 00:19:25.240 --> 00:19:28.840 And it's about people who kind of live off the grid in Alaska. 00:19:29.780 --> 00:19:35.960 And one of the things that I've learned over the course of watching Life Below Zero 00:19:35.960 --> 00:19:41.660 is that the state of Alaska is filled with natural resources. 00:19:42.280 --> 00:19:48.280 Like you can go there and everything you need is provided in this ecosystem that they have. 00:19:48.860 --> 00:19:54.060 And during the winter months, which is most of the year for most of the people, 00:19:54.060 --> 00:19:58.160 you would think the need that they have that is the greatest is heat. 00:19:58.280 --> 00:20:02.380 But it's not because they've got all of the wood that they need and they can make fire. 00:20:02.920 --> 00:20:10.500 You would think that meat and vegetables would be the most valuable resource that they could store up, 00:20:10.620 --> 00:20:11.340 but they don't. 00:20:11.420 --> 00:20:17.140 But even in the coldest times of the year, there are animals who are migrating and moving through, 00:20:17.220 --> 00:20:18.440 and so they're able to provide. 00:20:19.180 --> 00:20:27.360 But the resource that they have there that they long for the most that is the hardest to obtain is water. 00:20:28.300 --> 00:20:29.840 Even though it's surrounded by snow. 00:20:30.560 --> 00:20:32.840 And I thought, just get some snow and put it in a pot, and then you're good. 00:20:32.920 --> 00:20:34.060 But it doesn't work that way. 00:20:34.720 --> 00:20:38.960 A big pot of snow this big will turn into a little bit of water about that big. 00:20:39.540 --> 00:20:43.680 And so they've got to go out, and they've got to break ice, and they've got to get water out, 00:20:43.780 --> 00:20:48.880 and they've got to do this every single day, and sometimes negative 30, negative 40 degrees. 00:20:49.560 --> 00:20:55.560 And they have to do this every day because the water that they long for sustains their life. 00:20:56.100 --> 00:21:01.540 That if they go too long without water, their life will no longer be sustained, and they will die. 00:21:03.540 --> 00:21:05.260 But Jesus says this water is different. 00:21:06.240 --> 00:21:12.900 It doesn't just sustain life, but Jesus says this water gives life. 00:21:14.020 --> 00:21:16.940 From this water is where life comes from. 00:21:17.680 --> 00:21:22.940 From this water is not where you just get from by day by day, 00:21:23.400 --> 00:21:27.560 but this water secures you for all of eternity. 00:21:28.580 --> 00:21:30.280 And I love what she says. 00:21:31.260 --> 00:21:32.660 You ever had that bad day at work? 00:21:33.540 --> 00:21:33.940 You know? 00:21:34.460 --> 00:21:36.460 You ever had that bad day at home, right? 00:21:36.980 --> 00:21:38.100 Everything's falling apart. 00:21:38.500 --> 00:21:39.580 Nothing's going right. 00:21:39.800 --> 00:21:41.940 Everything is just the inconvenience of the day. 00:21:42.160 --> 00:21:48.540 Like, I can hear this frustration in her as going and getting water every single day would have been her challenge. 00:21:48.640 --> 00:21:52.280 Now, there's some meaning going on here of why she's there during the middle of the day, 00:21:52.360 --> 00:21:54.080 during the heat of the day, by herself. 00:21:54.140 --> 00:21:56.840 And we're going to see that as we kind of work through this. 00:21:56.980 --> 00:22:01.780 But you can tell and you can hear from her response the desperation in her voice. 00:22:01.780 --> 00:22:10.880 And she says to him, sir, give me this water so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water. 00:22:11.240 --> 00:22:12.680 She's like, you can solve this problem. 00:22:13.440 --> 00:22:15.880 I don't have to come out here and drip in the sweat. 00:22:16.500 --> 00:22:27.900 I don't have to take my pot all the way down and pull it all the way up and carry it all the way back to my house to just do it again tomorrow and do it again the day after that and do it again the day after that. 00:22:27.900 --> 00:22:29.400 Then I want this. 00:22:30.400 --> 00:22:31.740 So look at verse 16. 00:22:33.360 --> 00:22:36.960 Jesus said to her, go call your husband and come here. 00:22:37.960 --> 00:22:41.500 And the woman answered him, I have no husband. 00:22:42.540 --> 00:22:47.120 And Jesus said to her, you are right in saying I have no husband. 00:22:47.640 --> 00:22:51.740 For you have had five husbands and the one you have now is not your husband. 00:22:52.360 --> 00:22:53.840 What you have said is true. 00:22:54.560 --> 00:22:57.940 And the woman said to him, sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. 00:22:58.080 --> 00:22:58.280 Right? 00:22:58.600 --> 00:23:00.460 The most obvious statement in the Bible. 00:23:00.580 --> 00:23:00.720 Right? 00:23:01.380 --> 00:23:01.920 Verse 20. 00:23:02.540 --> 00:23:04.620 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain. 00:23:04.620 --> 00:23:08.280 But you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship. 00:23:08.280 --> 00:23:14.920 And Jesus said to her, woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. 00:23:15.480 --> 00:23:17.200 You worship what you do not know. 00:23:17.320 --> 00:23:19.940 We worship what we know for salvation is from the Jews. 00:23:20.340 --> 00:23:20.920 Verse 23. 00:23:21.080 --> 00:23:26.180 But the hour is coming and is now here when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. 00:23:26.380 --> 00:23:28.860 For the Father is seeking such people to worship him. 00:23:29.980 --> 00:23:34.780 God is spirit and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth. 00:23:35.000 --> 00:23:40.400 And the woman said to him, I know that Messiah is coming, he who is called Christ. 00:23:40.640 --> 00:23:43.460 And when he comes, he will tell us all things. 00:23:43.720 --> 00:23:47.060 And Jesus said to her, I who speak to you am he. 00:23:47.540 --> 00:23:52.980 What we see here, not only does Jesus give us new water, Jesus gives us new worship. 00:23:53.800 --> 00:23:55.040 Jesus sends her to get her husband. 00:23:56.420 --> 00:23:57.380 She says, I want this water. 00:23:58.480 --> 00:23:59.620 He says, fine, go get your husband. 00:24:00.560 --> 00:24:07.140 And she tells Jesus, well, I don't have a husband, which is half truth, which a half truth, you know, is a whole lot, right? 00:24:07.780 --> 00:24:08.760 And Jesus tells her, you're right. 00:24:09.120 --> 00:24:15.860 You don't have a husband because you've had five and the man you're living with now isn't your husband. 00:24:15.860 --> 00:24:19.620 So she says, obviously, you must be a prophet, right? 00:24:20.140 --> 00:24:25.920 The disconnect from who Christ is, but that's for her the most obvious thing that this could be. 00:24:26.140 --> 00:24:34.260 I mean, could you imagine, like, you're at Walmart, and you bump into someone who you've never met in your entire life, 00:24:34.580 --> 00:24:37.840 and you say, hey, could you pass me the Cocoa Pebbles? 00:24:39.220 --> 00:24:45.840 And they're like, oh, yeah, by the way, you remember in 2001 when you didn't really do things right on your taxes? 00:24:46.200 --> 00:24:47.760 You're like, oh, what, right, you know? 00:24:48.480 --> 00:24:49.960 Like, this is what's going on here. 00:24:50.520 --> 00:24:55.100 There's no way that Jesus should know the things that Jesus knows. 00:24:56.080 --> 00:24:59.220 He's a Jewish man traveling through town, she thinks. 00:25:00.720 --> 00:25:05.840 Obviously for her, he must be a prophet. 00:25:07.120 --> 00:25:11.320 And so what she begins to do, she senses there's some religion going on here. 00:25:12.340 --> 00:25:15.620 You're not just a Jewish man who's willing to talk to a Samaritan woman. 00:25:15.780 --> 00:25:16.760 You're a man of religion. 00:25:17.240 --> 00:25:18.360 You're a man of faith. 00:25:19.060 --> 00:25:19.880 You're a prophet. 00:25:20.580 --> 00:25:24.940 And what she tries to do is to move the conversation. 00:25:25.900 --> 00:25:27.580 She tries to deflect it. 00:25:28.080 --> 00:25:32.680 It began by understanding the sinful life in which she lives in, 00:25:32.800 --> 00:25:38.440 and now she tries to push it to a religious debate of where you should worship. 00:25:38.780 --> 00:25:46.260 And she wants to argue in her mind with this prophet, but not yet understanding that he's the Messiah. 00:25:46.820 --> 00:25:54.280 But what Jesus wants to get her to is that in worship, in the new worship of what Jesus is bringing for her, 00:25:54.500 --> 00:25:57.480 the worship of what Jesus brings us when we're found in him, 00:25:57.620 --> 00:26:02.360 it's not the where, but it's the how and the whom that matters. 00:26:02.980 --> 00:26:04.020 Look back at verse 21. 00:26:05.380 --> 00:26:12.760 Jesus says, woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. 00:26:13.160 --> 00:26:14.700 That's what she's trying to bring the debate to. 00:26:16.140 --> 00:26:19.460 Verse 22, you worship what you do not know. 00:26:19.980 --> 00:26:23.320 We worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. 00:26:23.900 --> 00:26:30.540 But the hour is coming and is now here when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. 00:26:30.980 --> 00:26:33.720 For the Father is seeking such people to worship him. 00:26:34.300 --> 00:26:39.500 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth. 00:26:39.980 --> 00:26:49.320 The internal aspects of how you and I worship Christ are vastly more important than our external experiences. 00:26:50.120 --> 00:27:03.540 The internal aspects of the character and nature and spirit of who we are in Christ are vastly more important than any external worship experience. 00:27:04.580 --> 00:27:10.160 Jesus says that true worship is based in knowing God, not in experience. 00:27:10.660 --> 00:27:11.920 Worship comes from salvation. 00:27:12.640 --> 00:27:15.820 And he says there's this standard that we're going to see in worship. 00:27:16.420 --> 00:27:21.360 There's the standard of what's there and that we're called to worship God in spirit and in truth. 00:27:21.540 --> 00:27:24.140 This is the how and the whom of worship. 00:27:24.600 --> 00:27:26.740 We worship in spirit and truth. 00:27:26.740 --> 00:27:35.540 So to worship in the spirit acknowledges that there's something supernatural that's taking place between me and God in worship. 00:27:36.700 --> 00:27:43.460 Whether it's in these chairs, whether it's in your car, whether it's in your backyard, or whether it's on your knees by your bed. 00:27:44.340 --> 00:27:51.520 There's a supernatural spirit, there's a supernatural spiritual thing that is taking place between us and God. 00:27:51.520 --> 00:28:00.760 That my affections and my longings are stirring for him and are pointed to him. 00:28:01.960 --> 00:28:05.900 Not because of who I am, but because of who he is. 00:28:07.200 --> 00:28:09.640 And we worship in spirit. 00:28:11.320 --> 00:28:13.900 It's more than the things that we do. 00:28:14.580 --> 00:28:16.760 It's more than the place that we gather. 00:28:17.780 --> 00:28:20.680 It's more than the experience that's there. 00:28:21.480 --> 00:28:23.600 That we worship in spirit. 00:28:23.960 --> 00:28:26.920 And this can only happen in believers. 00:28:27.820 --> 00:28:30.400 But we also worship in truth. 00:28:31.080 --> 00:28:39.180 That our worship is based in who God is, not in who we are. 00:28:40.120 --> 00:28:40.300 Right? 00:28:41.220 --> 00:28:42.260 The beauty of that. 00:28:43.220 --> 00:28:45.260 It's our response to his holiness. 00:28:46.360 --> 00:28:48.100 It's our response to his goodness. 00:28:49.240 --> 00:28:51.100 It's our response to his love. 00:28:51.800 --> 00:28:56.580 It's understanding what transforms and how that works within us. 00:28:57.220 --> 00:29:09.540 But the truth of the nature of who God is, the more that we dive into him, the more we know his holiness and his goodness, the more that we worship him. 00:29:10.000 --> 00:29:14.440 And Jesus says, you can't worship him if your spirit is in line. 00:29:14.440 --> 00:29:17.660 You can't worship him if you do not know. 00:29:18.660 --> 00:29:22.860 And so with new water, with new life, comes new worship. 00:29:23.540 --> 00:29:33.200 No longer tied to the traditions of the human perspective, but from the internal desire to know him more and to love him more. 00:29:34.200 --> 00:29:35.440 And look at verse 25. 00:29:35.440 --> 00:29:35.500 And look at verse 25. 00:29:37.180 --> 00:29:37.920 It says, 00:29:38.020 --> 00:29:38.880 The woman said to him, 00:29:39.660 --> 00:29:41.980 I know that Messiah is coming. 00:29:43.000 --> 00:29:45.200 He who is called Christ. 00:29:45.840 --> 00:29:50.260 When he comes, he will tell us all things. 00:29:50.380 --> 00:29:52.400 Let's pause there for just a second. 00:29:54.400 --> 00:29:59.440 Jesus has left where he was before because word's getting out about him. 00:30:00.620 --> 00:30:03.020 And Jesus does this oftentimes in ministry. 00:30:04.160 --> 00:30:13.600 And there's no really clear way to explain it other than Jesus is walking under a providence and sovereignty of God that you and I can't possibly imagine. 00:30:14.340 --> 00:30:19.060 There's points and times where in a city, so many people begin to talk about all that he's doing. 00:30:19.360 --> 00:30:21.440 And Jesus is like, it's time to go. 00:30:21.580 --> 00:30:22.600 And we would think, no, no, no. 00:30:22.700 --> 00:30:23.920 We need to lay roots here. 00:30:24.880 --> 00:30:30.760 There's so many times where Jesus shares who he is with someone and then looks at them. 00:30:30.940 --> 00:30:32.240 And we can't understand it. 00:30:32.420 --> 00:30:37.180 But Jesus, in knowing the plan of God that's going to lead him to Calvary, says, 00:30:37.340 --> 00:30:38.980 But don't talk. 00:30:39.520 --> 00:30:40.160 Just shh. 00:30:42.680 --> 00:30:53.760 And Jesus, culturally speaking, with a nobody, looks at her because he knows that she is someone. 00:30:55.180 --> 00:30:58.380 And in verse 26, Jesus said to her, 00:30:58.800 --> 00:31:00.200 I who speak to you am he. 00:31:01.180 --> 00:31:05.340 Jesus says, hey, you've had five husbands. 00:31:06.600 --> 00:31:09.240 The man you're living with now isn't your husband. 00:31:10.100 --> 00:31:13.000 You're out here in the middle of the day, during the heat of the day, by yourself, 00:31:13.040 --> 00:31:17.780 because you don't come out during the cool of the morning when everyone else comes out here in the cool of the morning to get water. 00:31:17.980 --> 00:31:20.520 Because what we know is when you come out here in the cool of the morning, 00:31:20.740 --> 00:31:24.220 even your own people don't want to be with you because they know the behaviors that you've had in your life. 00:31:25.820 --> 00:31:26.640 I'm the Messiah. 00:31:28.240 --> 00:31:29.260 I'm the Messiah. 00:31:30.760 --> 00:31:33.500 New worship begins to happen. 00:31:34.200 --> 00:31:37.020 What we begin to see of who Jesus is. 00:31:38.040 --> 00:31:39.060 Look at verse 27. 00:31:40.740 --> 00:31:42.880 And just then his disciples came back. 00:31:43.980 --> 00:31:46.560 I love the honesty of the Gospels. 00:31:47.720 --> 00:31:55.320 They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, what do you seek or why are you talking with her? 00:31:56.320 --> 00:32:01.460 John gives us a glimpse into the thoughts of what's happening and taking place. 00:32:02.180 --> 00:32:06.060 They're baffled that Jesus is talking to a Samaritan woman. 00:32:07.020 --> 00:32:12.500 Tax collectors and thieves are confused by what Jesus is doing here. 00:32:13.640 --> 00:32:18.680 So the woman left her water jug and went away into town and said to the people, 00:32:19.120 --> 00:32:21.620 come see a man who told me all that I ever did. 00:32:22.720 --> 00:32:24.180 Can this be the Christ? 00:32:25.040 --> 00:32:27.600 They went out of the town and were coming to him. 00:32:28.400 --> 00:32:31.820 And meanwhile, the disciples were urging him saying, Rabbi, eat. 00:32:32.120 --> 00:32:33.160 Remember, they're just pausing. 00:32:33.380 --> 00:32:35.140 They were sent in town to get food. 00:32:35.380 --> 00:32:36.320 He's ready to eat. 00:32:36.420 --> 00:32:37.420 This is what they wanted to do. 00:32:37.420 --> 00:32:43.080 But he said to them, I have food to eat that you do not know about. 00:32:44.420 --> 00:32:48.020 So the disciples said to one another, has someone brought him something to eat? 00:32:48.120 --> 00:32:50.600 They're curious, like, Jesus, did somebody bring you like a Big Mac meal? 00:32:50.740 --> 00:32:51.800 Like, what's going on here, right? 00:32:54.280 --> 00:32:59.700 And Jesus said to them, my food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work. 00:33:00.780 --> 00:33:04.720 Do you not say that there are yet four months, then harvest will come? 00:33:05.000 --> 00:33:10.620 Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes and see that the fields are white for harvest. 00:33:11.460 --> 00:33:17.340 Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that 00:33:17.340 --> 00:33:20.380 the sower and the reaper may rejoice together. 00:33:21.280 --> 00:33:25.660 For here the saying holds true, one sows and another reaps. 00:33:26.220 --> 00:33:29.100 I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. 00:33:29.860 --> 00:33:33.060 Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor. 00:33:33.900 --> 00:33:38.540 Verse 39, many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony. 00:33:39.240 --> 00:33:40.860 He told me all that I ever did. 00:33:42.260 --> 00:33:47.320 So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. 00:33:48.100 --> 00:33:50.460 And many more believed because of his word. 00:33:51.200 --> 00:33:55.440 And they said to the woman, and it's no longer because of what you said that we believe, 00:33:55.620 --> 00:34:02.120 for they have heard, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world. 00:34:03.120 --> 00:34:08.000 The last thing that I want us to look at this morning as we close is Jesus brings new water. 00:34:08.920 --> 00:34:09.900 Jesus brings new worship. 00:34:10.640 --> 00:34:11.580 Jesus brings a new way. 00:34:12.840 --> 00:34:17.520 The gospel transforms not only our eternity, but who we are. 00:34:18.500 --> 00:34:23.620 The disciples don't even understand the power of this moment, of what has happened and taken place. 00:34:24.280 --> 00:34:26.300 They show up, and what is Jesus doing? 00:34:27.200 --> 00:34:28.240 He's talking to a woman. 00:34:29.440 --> 00:34:30.640 He's talking to a Samaritan woman. 00:34:31.680 --> 00:34:32.480 Why would he do that? 00:34:33.620 --> 00:34:38.300 And then they, Jesus, we brought you food, but you asked us. 00:34:39.440 --> 00:34:43.600 And Jesus says, well, there's something more important than food, something that we need to talk about. 00:34:44.540 --> 00:34:53.060 So the woman leaves, left everything behind, went into town, and said to the people, what verse 29 tells us, 00:34:53.300 --> 00:34:56.560 come see a man who told me all that I ever did. 00:34:56.760 --> 00:34:57.960 Can this be the Christ? 00:35:00.140 --> 00:35:03.680 And they went out of the town, and were coming to him. 00:35:05.840 --> 00:35:12.100 You know, times change, and people change, but I believe by our nature, not a lot changes. 00:35:13.960 --> 00:35:21.600 And a woman who once before wouldn't come to a well out of the fear of the shame of the people who would be at the well, 00:35:22.660 --> 00:35:29.460 runs into town, and like throwing her life on a billboard, 00:35:30.700 --> 00:35:33.280 says, hey, I know that y'all talk about me. 00:35:34.900 --> 00:35:36.400 I know that y'all know. 00:35:38.240 --> 00:35:40.680 I know that I'm the person that gets whispered about. 00:35:42.120 --> 00:35:44.120 Come meet a man who knows all that, too. 00:35:45.340 --> 00:35:47.600 Come meet him. 00:35:47.900 --> 00:35:51.380 He's told me about everything that I've ever done. 00:35:51.540 --> 00:35:52.100 And this is key. 00:35:52.300 --> 00:35:55.060 She's not bragging about her sin, but she's amazed by the Messiah. 00:36:00.900 --> 00:36:05.100 And the people heard, and they were coming to him. 00:36:07.300 --> 00:36:16.620 Jesus looks at the disciples, and he says, in four months, it'll be time to take the harvest, right? 00:36:17.520 --> 00:36:21.440 If you've ever planted fruits and vegetables, you know that you don't put the seed in the ground, 00:36:21.540 --> 00:36:23.800 and the next day you come and you take the fruit, right? 00:36:24.020 --> 00:36:25.840 You've got to wait, and there's a harvest season. 00:36:26.980 --> 00:36:35.000 And Jesus looks at the disciples, and he says, look, I know in four months, like he's helping them. 00:36:35.080 --> 00:36:36.760 These disciples, they're like me. 00:36:36.860 --> 00:36:37.640 They're a little hard-headed. 00:36:38.300 --> 00:36:47.880 I know that in four months is when the harvest comes, but look up now, because the harvest is ready. 00:36:49.120 --> 00:36:50.640 What harvest is ready? 00:36:51.600 --> 00:36:52.320 The people. 00:36:53.500 --> 00:36:54.180 The people. 00:36:55.420 --> 00:37:01.420 Scripture tells us that they're coming to Jesus, right? 00:37:02.060 --> 00:37:06.860 The beauty of this, the beauty of what we're experiencing. 00:37:07.860 --> 00:37:13.880 She says, it's more than grain and fruits and vegetables. 00:37:15.380 --> 00:37:21.940 It's more than the hunger, pain, or the thirst that I feel in my stomach right now. 00:37:22.740 --> 00:37:27.200 Because he who has sent me has sent me for a greater work. 00:37:28.500 --> 00:37:31.620 And it's not about the things of this earth. 00:37:32.780 --> 00:37:33.900 It's about them. 00:37:35.120 --> 00:37:35.780 And they came. 00:37:37.480 --> 00:37:39.160 What brought the people to Jesus? 00:37:41.820 --> 00:37:43.060 It wasn't a mission trip. 00:37:44.520 --> 00:37:45.880 The missionaries were out getting food. 00:37:48.700 --> 00:37:50.160 It wasn't a worship service. 00:37:51.700 --> 00:37:53.020 They didn't have them then, right? 00:37:54.900 --> 00:37:56.080 It wasn't a sermon. 00:37:58.400 --> 00:37:59.420 It was a testimony. 00:38:00.920 --> 00:38:01.740 It was a testimony. 00:38:03.060 --> 00:38:04.240 We have verse 39. 00:38:06.940 --> 00:38:13.720 Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony. 00:38:15.720 --> 00:38:20.080 She confirmed who she was before Christ and who he is. 00:38:21.620 --> 00:38:24.680 And he told me all that I ever did. 00:38:26.220 --> 00:38:30.540 And so when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them. 00:38:31.680 --> 00:38:33.240 And he stayed there two days. 00:38:34.400 --> 00:38:40.140 And the beauty, verse 41, of the power of the brokenness of God's people. 00:38:40.840 --> 00:38:45.340 When they carried the gospel into the world and sharing what Christ has done. 00:38:45.340 --> 00:38:49.800 And many more believed because of his word. 00:38:51.340 --> 00:38:56.380 And they said to her, it's no longer because of what you said that we believed. 00:38:57.780 --> 00:39:01.780 You see, it wasn't just about hearing a cool story and responding to it. 00:39:03.040 --> 00:39:11.180 It was about the work of the spirit of God and what he sent the people, what he sent Jesus to do. 00:39:11.960 --> 00:39:18.980 For we have heard for ourselves and we know that this is indeed the savior of the world. 00:39:20.100 --> 00:39:21.720 And that's the hope that we have. 00:39:22.840 --> 00:39:33.460 But as you and I have experienced the new water, the gospel of Jesus Christ, the living water that comes from us. 00:39:34.160 --> 00:39:38.180 That we interact with him and that we worship him in a new way. 00:39:39.120 --> 00:39:41.960 It's no longer based out of some religious obligation. 00:39:42.140 --> 00:39:46.480 It's no longer based out of the man-made customs and traditions that are there. 00:39:46.600 --> 00:39:51.040 But we worship him in a new way, in a new worship, in spirit and truth. 00:39:52.460 --> 00:39:56.420 Because of what is welling up inside of us and what is drawing us to him. 00:39:56.600 --> 00:39:59.660 And it's not about knowing a person more. 00:39:59.900 --> 00:40:01.860 It's not about a different experience. 00:40:01.860 --> 00:40:06.880 It's not about being entertained, but it's about worshiping him in spirit and in truth. 00:40:07.000 --> 00:40:13.560 Because of who he is and our response to him and this supernatural act that is happening and taking place. 00:40:15.300 --> 00:40:17.960 Which pushes us toward and points us toward. 00:40:18.060 --> 00:40:20.420 And we're going to look at this a lot next week. 00:40:21.760 --> 00:40:22.840 Into a new way. 00:40:23.780 --> 00:40:25.020 Into a new ministry. 00:40:25.980 --> 00:40:29.920 A ministry of reconciliation of what God has for us. 00:40:31.340 --> 00:40:32.600 Because here's the truth. 00:40:34.440 --> 00:40:38.280 In this story, there's one Samaritan woman. 00:40:39.800 --> 00:40:42.000 One Samaritan woman who was broken. 00:40:43.080 --> 00:40:44.400 Who was unclean. 00:40:45.840 --> 00:40:49.340 Who was not fit to sit beside the Savior. 00:40:50.440 --> 00:40:53.240 Who was not capable of saving herself. 00:40:54.180 --> 00:40:55.660 Who had a past. 00:40:56.660 --> 00:40:58.500 Who made poor decisions. 00:41:00.160 --> 00:41:02.260 There's one of those in this story. 00:41:03.480 --> 00:41:08.100 But the truth is, you and I are her. 00:41:09.140 --> 00:41:10.640 We're broken with a past. 00:41:10.720 --> 00:41:11.520 We're undeserving. 00:41:12.200 --> 00:41:17.400 But Jesus came so that we may have life and have it to the fullest. 00:41:18.400 --> 00:41:19.360 Would you pray with me? 00:41:19.360 --> 00:41:27.820 Lord, I thank you for this time and this opportunity that we have to worship you. 00:41:29.440 --> 00:41:32.920 Lord, as we move into a time of taking in the Lord's Supper. 00:41:34.800 --> 00:41:40.300 Of acknowledging that you came not to just have moments like this. 00:41:41.740 --> 00:41:43.680 At a well in Samaria. 00:41:45.360 --> 00:41:47.240 But you came to live. 00:41:48.100 --> 00:41:49.100 To die. 00:41:50.100 --> 00:41:51.400 To be resurrected. 00:41:52.400 --> 00:41:53.460 And to ascend. 00:41:54.520 --> 00:41:57.740 So, Lord, that we may have life in you. 00:41:58.340 --> 00:41:59.460 And to its fullest. 00:42:00.760 --> 00:42:02.120 And it's in Jesus' name we pray. 00:42:02.960 --> 00:42:03.320 Amen. 00:42:04.840 --> 00:42:08.240 So if you have your elements, I want to get you to go ahead and open and take out the bread. 00:42:15.760 --> 00:42:18.440 The bread that represents the very body of Christ. 00:42:20.280 --> 00:42:21.620 Why was Jesus punished? 00:42:23.060 --> 00:42:25.420 Why did his body endure what he endured? 00:42:26.620 --> 00:42:27.900 Because he took our place. 00:42:29.860 --> 00:42:33.100 And because of our sin, he was crucified. 00:42:34.740 --> 00:42:39.480 He took a crucifixion that you deserved and you deserved and you deserved and I deserve. 00:42:40.880 --> 00:42:44.180 And he took it in our place to pay for our sins. 00:42:45.260 --> 00:42:52.120 And so because of that, Scripture tells us that Jesus on the night he was betrayed took bread. 00:42:53.060 --> 00:42:57.540 And when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, this is my body, which is for you. 00:42:58.260 --> 00:42:59.880 Do this in remembrance of me. 00:43:10.520 --> 00:43:12.660 And in the same way, Scripture says, he took the cup. 00:43:14.100 --> 00:43:17.760 The cup that would represent the blood of Christ. 00:43:18.800 --> 00:43:20.500 The payment for our sins. 00:43:22.600 --> 00:43:28.400 That we may be made new and what we may inherit is eternal life. 00:43:28.400 --> 00:43:33.940 That we're covered by the blood of the Lamb, which makes us clean. 00:43:34.740 --> 00:43:38.700 In spite of all that we're done in spite of all that we do. 00:43:39.700 --> 00:43:43.520 And so Jesus says, this cup is the new covenant in my blood. 00:43:44.240 --> 00:43:47.240 Do this as often as you drink it in remembrance of me. 00:43:51.580 --> 00:43:52.560 Would you pray with me? 00:43:58.560 --> 00:44:00.540 Lord, we thank you for the grace of this morning. 00:44:02.100 --> 00:44:04.800 We thank you for life, for hope. 00:44:07.440 --> 00:44:11.160 Lord, we thank you in the beauty of this story of what happened and what took place. 00:44:13.060 --> 00:44:18.920 Lord, we thank you that in your journey on this earth to fulfill the will of the Father. 00:44:20.580 --> 00:44:29.380 You took the time to sit in the middle of the heat of the day and talk to a woman at the well. 00:44:31.360 --> 00:44:34.420 Lord, we thank you for the new water that you give. 00:44:34.740 --> 00:44:38.400 The new water that you bring that is found in you and in you alone. 00:44:40.320 --> 00:44:42.740 Lord, we thank you that we can't obtain it ourselves. 00:44:44.420 --> 00:44:45.760 We thank you that it's different. 00:44:45.900 --> 00:44:47.240 We thank you that it satisfies. 00:44:47.820 --> 00:44:49.000 That it produces. 00:44:49.420 --> 00:44:50.100 And that it gives. 00:44:50.580 --> 00:44:51.540 Eternal life. 00:44:52.660 --> 00:44:53.980 In the hope of the gospel. 00:44:55.480 --> 00:44:57.040 Lord, we thank you for the new worship. 00:44:58.080 --> 00:45:00.160 It's not found in us, but it's found in you. 00:45:01.560 --> 00:45:03.560 And Lord, you are our object of worship. 00:45:03.700 --> 00:45:05.020 You are the subject of worship. 00:45:05.180 --> 00:45:07.020 You are the means of worship. 00:45:07.460 --> 00:45:09.380 You're the focus of worship. 00:45:09.540 --> 00:45:12.200 And Lord, may we worship you in spirit and truth. 00:45:12.440 --> 00:45:13.900 Lord, may we worship you in spirit and truth. 00:45:13.900 --> 00:45:13.900 Lord, may we worship you in spirit and truth. 00:45:13.900 --> 00:45:13.900 Lord, may we worship you in spirit and truth. 00:45:13.900 --> 00:45:13.900 Lord, may we worship you in spirit and truth. 00:45:13.900 --> 00:45:13.900 Lord, may we worship you in spirit and truth. 00:45:13.900 --> 00:45:14.900 Lord, may we worship you in spirit and truth. 00:45:14.900 --> 00:45:15.900 Lord, may we worship you in spirit and truth. 00:45:15.900 --> 00:45:16.900 Lord, may we worship you in spirit and truth. 00:45:16.900 --> 00:45:17.900 Lord, may we worship you in spirit and truth. 00:45:17.900 --> 00:45:18.900 Lord, may we worship you in spirit and truth. 00:45:18.900 --> 00:45:19.900 Lord, may we worship you in spirit and truth. 00:45:19.900 --> 00:45:20.900 Lord, may we worship you in 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