Part 3: The Samaritan Woman Series

The Great Commission

Part 3 – Jesus and the Samaritan Woman

Pastor Bruce A. Shields

House of Faith – www.PS127.org

WELCOME

INTRODUCTION TO SERMON

† Jesus was called, baptized, filled with and the Holy Spirit

† Resisted the Devils attempt to stop His ministry

† Called many disciples to follow Him

† Chose 12 Apostles from among the Disciples

† Jesus cleanses the Temple at the beginning of His ministry, and at the end.

† Jesus meets Nicodemus

PRAYER FOR HOLY SPIRIT AND UNDERSTANDING

SCRIPTURE READING

John 4:5 – 26

“5 So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, "Will you give me a drink?" 8 (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)

9 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.)

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 flocks and herds?"

13 Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I 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 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 fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem."

21 Jesus declared, "Believe me, woman, 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 spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in 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 who speak to you am he."

INTRODUCTION

I. Jesus as a man (His humanity)

a. He was tired and had to rest at the well.

b. Showing He was truly the Word made Flesh!

c. The sixth hour is noon, by the Jewish clock.

II. Jacobs Well

a. It is still there today, nearly 4000 years after Jacob.

b. Jesus asked the Woman for a drink.

c. She was surprised because most Jews do not speak to Samaritans, let alone ask for a favor because He had nothing to draw water from the well with.

d. Animosity was high between the Jews and the Samaritans

e. Jesus took this opportunity to witness…Jesus (God) is isolated by holiness, and the woman (man) is isolated by sin, yet Jesus brings the two together.

III. Living Water

a. A comparison between water from the well and living water is a comparison between religion and relationship with God.

b. Drink from one and you will only become thirsty again as if you never drank, but from the other your soul will be satisfied, because you will then have a living well spring up within you that will lead to everlasting life.

c. This Holy Spirit indwelling is a MUST for worshipping God, serving the Lord, and everlasting life in heaven.

IV. Her focus was on Jacob and worship as her fathers did

a. She begins to have some understanding of this Living Water