John 4:1-26 LORD Seeks Tart to Worship Him
A typical boy meets
girl story – Gen 24, Isaac & Rebekah; Gen 29, Jacob & Rachel; Ex 2,
Moses & Zipporah; John 4, Jesus & the Samaritan woman
Jesus at a wedding,
2:1-12; Jesus the Bridegroom, 3:29; Eph 5:32
The LORD the husband
of an adulterous people, Hosea 1:2
The Samaritan woman’s
3-fold exclusion: (1) woman, v27; (2) Samaritan, v9 (3) notoriously immoral,
v6, 6th hour = noon, v18
The good news about
Jesus is for everyone – good and bad alike
Nicodemus also needs
to be born again of water and Spirit, 3:5
Living water: refreshment,
satisfaction, (eternal) life, v13, 10:10, cleansing = Spirit, 7:37-39
We are all thirsty,
v7, v10, Jer 2:13 – what is your broken well?
Jesus is the only
fountain of living waters, nothing else can satisfy, vv13-14, Ps 42:1-2
A free gift, v10 –
just ask Him
We can’t pretend to
Jesus, vv16-19, v29, 1:47-50; 2:24-25; Ps 139:1-4. We might as well be honest
with him.
It is not where you worship
but whom you worship and how you worship that counts; Jesus the New Temple
Jesus the Truth, v24, 14:6
We can worship God
only through Jesus and the Spirit he gives
Jesus thirsts, v7,
19:28, Ps 22:14-15, so that we can drink - water flows from Jesus, 19:34
Jesus says “I AM”,
v26, Ex 3:14
A betrothal of belief
– engage yourself to Jesus, be faithful to him
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