Change: John 3:16 10/13/2019

Pastor Pete Hartwig

Sermon Notes
  1. Change – Woman – Sermon 

    CHANGE: FALL – Subtle – Seismic

     

    Biblically Based, Relationally Driven, Spirit-Led

     

    John 4 women at the well

     

    Bible is written – you step inside the story

     

    Context & Contrast

     

    John 3:  Man Nicodemus  

    John 4: Woman

     

    Night                  Day

    City                    Desert

    Man Approaches    Jesus approaches her

    Samaritan   –   Samaritan woman

    Man             Woman            BIG DEAL

    He is a GOOD Guy. – you must be born again

    Woman who has struggled

    Men – in crowd

    Woman – outside the “in crowd”

     

    CONTEXT – final passage from last week

    SLIDE:  John 3:16-17

    16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoeverbelieves in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemnthe world, but to save the world through him.

    1. Whoever
    2. Jesus didn’t come to condemn… but to save!

     

    Jacob’s Well –Genesis 24 Isaac / Rebekah & 29 Jacob / Rachel

     

    Genesis 29:11 Then Jacob kissed Rachel and began to weep aloud.

     

    SHE – Water at noon and alone

     

     

    SLIDE: John 4:4-28

    Now Jesus had to go through Samaria. So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.

    When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)

    The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.[a])

    10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”

    11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”

    13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

    15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”

    16 He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”

    17 “I have no husband,” she replied.

    Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband. 18 The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.”

    19 “Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet. 20 Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”

    21 “Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know;we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”

    25 The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”

    26 Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you—I am he.”

    27 Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, “What do you want?” or “Why are you talking with her?”

    28 Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people,29 “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?” 30 They came out of the town and made their way toward him.

     

    Emotional arc of the STORY!  CHANGE!

     

    SLIDE: John 4:4-9

    Now Jesus had to go through Samaria. So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.

    When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)

    The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)

     

    CHANGE: Human prejudice

     

    SLIDE: John 4:10-12

    10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”

    11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”

     

    Jacob’s faith was an inspiration!

     

    “Living water”

     

    Jeremiah 2:13“My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

     

     

    SLIDE: John 4: 13-15

    13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

    15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”

    The spiritual life found in Jesus is beginning to touch her life

    “GO GET YOUR HUSBAND” – Jesus

     

    SLIDE:  John 4:17-19

    Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband. 18 The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.”   19 “Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet.

    THEOLOGICAL DISCUSSION

    SLIDE: John 4:25-26

    25 The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”   26 Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you—I am he.

    SLIDE: Stacy Kelly – God story –

     

    Her faith was changed —  Story by encountering Jesus

    Our faith is changed —  through the story as well.

     

    The rest of the story!

     

    SLIDE: Feet to Your Faith 

     

    Speaks volumes!

    SLIDE: John 4: 28-30

    28 Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people,29 “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?” 30 They came out of the town and made their way toward him.

     

    Her view of her life is changed!

    What was MOST important – Left her water jar

    Academic – professional –  institution

     

    HIGH HURDLE TO FAITH!

    God knows! “he told me everything I ever did”

     

     

    SLIDE: John 4: 39-42

    Many Samaritans Believe

    39 Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.” 40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days. 41 And because of his words many more became believers.   42 They said to the woman, “We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world.”