Help! I’m Thirsty!
March 19, 2017
John 4:1-30
Jesus and the Woman of Samaria
4 Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John 2 (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), 3 he left Judea and departed again for Galilee. 4 And he had to pass through Samaria. 5 So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob’s well was there; so Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.
7 A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” 8 (For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.) 9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) 10 Jesus answered her, “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.” 11 The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.” 13 Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will 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 will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”
16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.” 17 The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.” 19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.” 21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. 22 You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. 24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” 25 The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will tell us all things.” 26 Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am he.”
27 Just then his disciples came back. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you seek?” or, “Why are you talking with her?” 28 So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people, 29 “Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?” 30 They went out of the town and were coming to him.
The Source: Help! I’m Thirsty
John 4:5-29
Jesus is the source of satisfaction for the thirsty
Are you thirsty?
The water of life (John 4:4-14; Isaiah 55:1)
Satisfied with God
(Psalms 16:11; 36:7-9; Jeremiah 2:13)
Never thirst! (John 7:37; Revelation 7:16-17; 22:17)
- Welcome Jesus into your heart and life
(John 4:10-14)
- Worship Him in spirit and truth
(John 4:21-24; Psalm 63:1-5)
- Witness for Him in your life (John 4:28, 39)
Next Week John 9:1-39 Help! I Can’t See
April 2 John 11:17-27 Help! I’m Going to Die
For Further Study
The Sin of the Samaritans—Read 2 Kings 17:22-29, 41
The bitter rivalry between the Jews and the Samaritans had been going on for centuries. After the fall of the northern kingdom to the Assyrians (in 721 BC), the ten tribes of Israel were carried away into exile from their own land to Assyria. The foreign non-Jews intermarried with the population of Jews who had not been deported, forming a mixed race known as the Samaritans (the name derives from the region and capital city, both called Samaria). The new settlers brought their idolatrous religion with them, which became intermingled with the worship of the true God. When the Jewish exiles returned to Jerusalem under Ezra and Nehemiah, their first priority was to rebuild the temple. Professing loyalty to Israel’s God, the Samaritans offered their assistance (Ezra 4:1-4). The Jews’ blunt refusal enraged the Samaritans, who then became their bitter enemies. Rebuffed, the Samaritans built their own temple on Mount Gerizim. The Jews later destroyed that temple (about 111 BC), further worsening the animosity between the Jews and the Samaritans.
- What was deficient about Samaritan worship?
- Why do you think God is seeking worshipers?
(John 4:212-24)
Satisfied with God Read Psalm 63:1-5; Psalm 63:1-5; Jeremiah 31:14 John 6:35)
- What reasons do these passages give you for being satisfied with God?
- What is the result of that satisfaction?
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