FEB - Stay Hydrated II
TEACHING
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.”
John 4:16-26 NIV
Things have gotten a little heated in this discussion since we last saw it:
Jesus confronts her about her situation, in a very matter-of-fact way.
In verse 20, she’s essentially saying:
Who are you to judge me outside of Jerusalem? Typical Jew bringing that over here now, our ancestors did that, not us.
She’s upset, and it makes sense that she is. Nobody likes to be told what they’re doing. Jesus doesn’t even tell her that it’s wrong, he just states the facts.
She gave a two-fold argument, let me know if it sounds familiar:
Why are you judging me?
All of you are hypocrite religious people.
If Jesus heard it, we’re going to hear it too.
But his message was clear, there wasn’t an obvious and powerful transformation, but the woman was confronted and impacted by Jesus.
In verse 25, she’s essentially saying:
You don’t know what you’re talking about, but the Messiah will.
Once she finds out that he is the Messiah two things happen:
She acknowledges the truth, the actual truth
She tells the whole town about Jesus
Not the whole gospel, just Jesus.
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.”
People were saved just from one transformation.
DISCUSSION
Have you felt judged by Christians before?
Did that judgment carry any good intentions? Or did you feel hated because there was sin?
Is there a way to share the gospel that you would like to see? (Please demonstrate)