WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.540 I have to, am I on now? Yes. I have to apologize to three countries. 00:00:07.240 --> 00:00:14.080 Those of you who were here last Sunday, I think it was 29 countries or something. 00:00:14.140 --> 00:00:17.559 That's 29 if you count people born in Newfoundland before 1949. 00:00:18.580 --> 00:00:23.900 And I tried to count up the different countries of people who come to this church, 00:00:24.400 --> 00:00:29.480 either as they come here and they're immigrants to Canada where they are the children, 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:33.979 of immigrants to Canada. And I got one country wrong. 00:00:34.079 --> 00:00:37.859 I thought there was somebody here who comes from Kenya and I made a mistake. 00:00:37.980 --> 00:00:43.320 He's actually from the Sudan. He's a refugee from Sudan who lived in Kenya for a while. 00:00:43.320 --> 00:00:46.200 And that's how I made the mistake. But he's from Sudan. 00:00:46.760 --> 00:00:50.460 And then I missed Scotland. How can I miss Scotland? 00:00:50.980 --> 00:00:56.460 And I missed Trinidad because Lisa Moreed, her parents are from Trinidad. 00:00:56.460 --> 00:00:58.200 So I missed two countries. 00:00:59.039 --> 00:01:08.379 And it's really, I think, spectacular to be in any church, actually, 00:01:09.000 --> 00:01:14.219 that comes where people come together to be in God's presence and to meet with him 00:01:14.219 --> 00:01:19.900 and to allow God just to come and speak to us and deal with us. 00:01:19.900 --> 00:01:27.500 But it's wonderful that we as a church can gather around the fact that we need Jesus 00:01:27.500 --> 00:01:32.900 and that Jesus is the one who brings us to the Father and that we don't gather together 00:01:32.900 --> 00:01:38.060 because we share irrelevant similarities, like we're all of the same ethnic group 00:01:38.060 --> 00:01:43.320 or the same nation or that we all want Australia to win the World Cup of Soccer 00:01:43.320 --> 00:01:47.480 or something like that or that we all vote for the same party. 00:01:47.480 --> 00:01:53.260 I know that in this church there are people who vote for the NDP and the Conservatives and the Liberals. 00:01:53.780 --> 00:01:55.920 And for all I know, somebody who's voted for the Bloc. 00:01:56.060 --> 00:01:58.659 I don't know how many of us live on the Quebec side. 00:01:59.340 --> 00:02:06.100 And we all have quite radically different educational attainments and aspirations. 00:02:07.060 --> 00:02:16.480 And the Gospel shows us that these natural differences are spiritually natural to be in the same church. 00:02:16.479 --> 00:02:24.579 That in fact, there's something not spiritually working if we all want the same soccer team to win 00:02:24.579 --> 00:02:31.239 or we all vote for the same party or we all like the same music or we all have the same educational background. 00:02:32.039 --> 00:02:35.579 That's in a sense an unnatural spiritual state. 00:02:36.039 --> 00:02:40.899 That the natural working of the Gospel and the natural working of the Holy Spirit 00:02:40.900 --> 00:02:47.860 is to relativize these differences as we are brought to understand our need for Jesus. 00:02:48.740 --> 00:02:52.379 And by coming to Jesus, come to the Father. 00:02:52.740 --> 00:02:55.259 And Jesus gives us these springs of living water, 00:02:55.439 --> 00:02:59.000 which we're going to talk about a little bit more in a moment. 00:02:59.500 --> 00:03:03.360 And it's really neat because the Gospel text itself today 00:03:03.360 --> 00:03:10.340 helps to illustrate the irrelevance of differences that the world thinks are very important. 00:03:10.740 --> 00:03:13.340 Please turn with me in your Bibles to John chapter 4. 00:03:14.260 --> 00:03:16.280 Those of you who are bringing your... 00:03:16.280 --> 00:03:17.820 Well, it's all John chapter 4. 00:03:17.920 --> 00:03:20.920 If you're using the Pew Bibles, it's on page 921. 00:03:22.280 --> 00:03:25.900 And we're going to just sort of look at this story again, 00:03:25.960 --> 00:03:28.580 the famous story of the woman at the well, 00:03:28.580 --> 00:03:30.960 one of the best-known Bible stories. 00:03:32.020 --> 00:03:35.600 And the story begins, in our version it says the word therefore, 00:03:35.920 --> 00:03:37.960 some versions it uses the word now, 00:03:38.360 --> 00:03:40.960 and that's because when John wrote the Gospel, 00:03:41.420 --> 00:03:44.820 he specifically intended to us to understand 00:03:44.820 --> 00:03:47.439 that the previous story and this story go together. 00:03:48.260 --> 00:03:53.700 It's, in fact, part of the intent of the story that we would recognize that. 00:03:54.120 --> 00:03:57.120 And so it's just, you know, interesting for a second to think about it. 00:03:57.120 --> 00:04:00.879 Nicodemus, whom we just read about, was learned. 00:04:01.520 --> 00:04:04.319 The woman who we're about to read is unschooled. 00:04:04.819 --> 00:04:06.240 Nicodemus was powerful. 00:04:06.800 --> 00:04:08.080 The woman was weak. 00:04:08.920 --> 00:04:10.400 Nicodemus was respected. 00:04:11.120 --> 00:04:13.360 The woman is despised and shamed. 00:04:14.060 --> 00:04:16.000 Nicodemus is orthodox. 00:04:16.560 --> 00:04:18.660 The woman believes in folk religion. 00:04:19.540 --> 00:04:21.840 But Nicodemus is theologically trained. 00:04:22.540 --> 00:04:26.120 The woman has a very low knowledge of the Bible. 00:04:27.120 --> 00:04:28.379 Nicodemus is a man. 00:04:28.840 --> 00:04:30.379 The woman is a woman. 00:04:31.199 --> 00:04:32.420 Nicodemus is Jewish. 00:04:32.819 --> 00:04:34.340 The woman is a Samaritan. 00:04:35.139 --> 00:04:36.379 Nicodemus is a ruler. 00:04:37.199 --> 00:04:38.899 And the woman is an outcast. 00:04:39.620 --> 00:04:42.600 In fact, from the eyes of the Jewish world, 00:04:42.759 --> 00:04:46.120 Nicodemus is the preeminent insider. 00:04:46.579 --> 00:04:50.040 And the woman was a preeminent outsider. 00:04:50.040 --> 00:04:54.120 Last night, we saw not a very good movie, 00:04:54.460 --> 00:04:56.200 Sirianna, starring George Clooney. 00:04:56.280 --> 00:04:57.200 I don't recommend it. 00:04:58.240 --> 00:05:01.360 But one of the things which really struck me is 00:05:01.360 --> 00:05:04.340 they're showing tapes of suicide bombers. 00:05:04.339 --> 00:05:09.459 I guess the tapes that they make before they go in and commit a suicide bombing. 00:05:09.719 --> 00:05:11.500 These are Muslim suicide bombers. 00:05:12.219 --> 00:05:14.239 And one of the things which really struck me is that 00:05:14.239 --> 00:05:16.959 they're giving what they want for their funeral. 00:05:16.959 --> 00:05:22.439 And one of the men said that he didn't want a pregnant woman 00:05:22.439 --> 00:05:27.060 to come to touch his body because that would be deeply shameful. 00:05:27.060 --> 00:05:30.899 And I was thinking that, you know, in a way, 00:05:31.060 --> 00:05:35.540 for the rigorists of Jesus' time, 00:05:35.800 --> 00:05:37.819 they would have deeply understood that. 00:05:38.720 --> 00:05:42.019 And so for the rigorists, the Jewish rigorists 00:05:42.019 --> 00:05:44.000 who would have been hearing this story about Jesus, 00:05:44.759 --> 00:05:49.420 the fact that Jesus in a moment is going to unbelievably cross 00:05:49.420 --> 00:05:52.439 a whole pile of cultural divides 00:05:52.439 --> 00:05:58.319 and ask a woman of Samaria who's obviously an immoral woman 00:05:58.319 --> 00:06:02.620 that her cup would be the cup that Jesus would take 00:06:02.620 --> 00:06:04.720 to drink water out of a Samaritan well 00:06:04.720 --> 00:06:08.600 would have just been the most shocking and astounding thing 00:06:08.600 --> 00:06:12.500 as the Jewish rigorists of the day would have been reading this story. 00:06:13.139 --> 00:06:16.839 So we see that the story itself, as we read through, 00:06:17.040 --> 00:06:20.319 John, in fact, purposely puts the story of Nicodemus 00:06:20.319 --> 00:06:23.259 beside the story of the woman of Samaria, 00:06:23.779 --> 00:06:27.300 partially to illustrate that Jesus is making relative 00:06:27.300 --> 00:06:30.219 these distinctions that we all, in fact, 00:06:30.500 --> 00:06:32.459 need to come to Jesus. 00:06:33.180 --> 00:06:34.060 So let's read along. 00:06:34.579 --> 00:06:37.899 Therefore, when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard 00:06:37.899 --> 00:06:43.240 that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, 00:06:43.839 --> 00:06:46.939 though Jesus himself did not baptize but his disciples, 00:06:46.939 --> 00:06:51.000 he left Judea and departed again to Galilee, 00:06:51.560 --> 00:06:53.120 but he needed to go through Samaria. 00:06:53.779 --> 00:06:57.079 So he came to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, 00:06:57.500 --> 00:07:00.899 near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. 00:07:01.699 --> 00:07:03.759 Now Jacob's well was there. 00:07:04.620 --> 00:07:07.659 Jesus, therefore, being wearied from his journey, 00:07:08.040 --> 00:07:09.680 sat thus by the well. 00:07:10.220 --> 00:07:11.839 It was about noon. 00:07:12.480 --> 00:07:13.459 Just sort of pause. 00:07:13.459 --> 00:07:16.599 This is just one of these little important asides. 00:07:17.379 --> 00:07:20.500 One of the many things that the Da Vinci Code got wrong 00:07:20.500 --> 00:07:25.259 is what the first several centuries of Christianity was like. 00:07:25.740 --> 00:07:29.120 The Da Vinci Code makes it look as if somehow or never 00:07:29.120 --> 00:07:31.539 the first three centuries of Christians 00:07:31.539 --> 00:07:33.319 all believed that Jesus was a man, 00:07:33.979 --> 00:07:36.699 and Constantine sort of, 00:07:36.879 --> 00:07:39.120 with the help of the Roman Catholic hierarchy, 00:07:39.299 --> 00:07:41.259 which there was no Roman Catholic Church then, 00:07:41.259 --> 00:07:43.779 there was just the church, but that's another error, 00:07:44.120 --> 00:07:46.560 that they somehow enforced 00:07:46.560 --> 00:07:51.219 this misleading idea of Jesus being God upon the people. 00:07:52.039 --> 00:07:53.899 Actually, this verse here that we just read 00:07:53.899 --> 00:07:57.480 is what in fact shows that the exact opposite 00:07:57.480 --> 00:07:59.560 was in fact the case for the first three centuries. 00:07:59.939 --> 00:08:01.240 For the first three centuries, 00:08:01.240 --> 00:08:04.659 most people had problems believing that Jesus was a man. 00:08:05.659 --> 00:08:08.759 They had a very, very easy time believing that he was God, 00:08:08.759 --> 00:08:09.939 those who were Christians, 00:08:10.259 --> 00:08:12.740 they had a very hard time believing that he was man. 00:08:13.159 --> 00:08:16.199 So this text here where it says that Jesus was tired, 00:08:17.120 --> 00:08:19.899 that's one of the texts that for early Christians 00:08:19.899 --> 00:08:22.420 they got into big theological debates about 00:08:22.420 --> 00:08:24.480 because it was impossible for them to believe 00:08:24.480 --> 00:08:27.099 that Jesus being God could ever be tired. 00:08:28.139 --> 00:08:31.039 And so in fact, the early centuries of the church, 00:08:31.159 --> 00:08:32.539 it's the complete opposite 00:08:32.539 --> 00:08:35.759 of what the Da Vinci Code tries to paint. 00:08:35.759 --> 00:08:39.919 But here we see Jesus, just a very, very normal, 00:08:40.220 --> 00:08:42.620 like completely and utterly obvious image. 00:08:43.159 --> 00:08:45.019 He's been walking for several hours. 00:08:45.539 --> 00:08:46.159 It's noon. 00:08:46.539 --> 00:08:47.559 It's the heat of the day. 00:08:47.840 --> 00:08:49.120 He finally stops. 00:08:49.519 --> 00:08:50.679 He sits by the well. 00:08:51.120 --> 00:08:53.159 He's tired and he's thirsty. 00:08:53.600 --> 00:08:54.120 Verse seven. 00:08:54.759 --> 00:08:56.819 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. 00:08:57.379 --> 00:08:58.279 Jesus said to her, 00:08:58.960 --> 00:08:59.879 give me a drink. 00:09:01.139 --> 00:09:02.360 Give me a drink. 00:09:02.360 --> 00:09:04.539 You know, just a little bit of a, 00:09:05.220 --> 00:09:07.560 one of the things which is so cool about Jesus. 00:09:09.759 --> 00:09:11.680 You know, there's been times we Christians 00:09:11.680 --> 00:09:14.320 have been terrible, terrible witnesses to Christ. 00:09:15.279 --> 00:09:19.259 But you know, how is it that Christianity entered Europe? 00:09:20.379 --> 00:09:24.759 Christianity entered Europe by Paul and a couple of men 00:09:24.759 --> 00:09:26.180 getting off a boat. 00:09:26.879 --> 00:09:28.580 And if you read the book of Acts, 00:09:28.580 --> 00:09:31.280 there's a story of them coming to Philippi 00:09:31.280 --> 00:09:33.300 and finding nobody who wants to talk to them 00:09:33.300 --> 00:09:34.720 and they go outside of the city 00:09:34.720 --> 00:09:36.700 and they find a place of prayer 00:09:36.700 --> 00:09:39.480 and they talk to a woman by the name of Lydia 00:09:39.480 --> 00:09:41.379 and they share the gospel with her 00:09:41.379 --> 00:09:43.240 and Lydia comes to faith. 00:09:43.720 --> 00:09:44.240 And you know, we don't, 00:09:44.340 --> 00:09:45.639 it doesn't really jump out at us, 00:09:46.360 --> 00:09:49.180 but that simple story 00:09:49.180 --> 00:09:52.020 of Paul sharing the gospel with Lydia 00:09:52.020 --> 00:09:54.540 is how Christianity enters Europe. 00:09:54.539 --> 00:09:57.000 So it's really quite astounding. 00:09:57.120 --> 00:09:59.399 The entire shape of the history of the world 00:09:59.399 --> 00:10:02.179 is changed and just very simply told 00:10:02.179 --> 00:10:03.099 in the book of Acts 00:10:03.099 --> 00:10:05.799 of Paul sharing the gospel 00:10:05.799 --> 00:10:07.319 with a woman by the name of Lydia 00:10:07.319 --> 00:10:10.639 and Lydia becomes the first European Christian. 00:10:12.519 --> 00:10:13.000 Astounding. 00:10:13.719 --> 00:10:17.319 And here we see that the first Samaritan 00:10:17.319 --> 00:10:18.980 who is to become a Christian, 00:10:19.799 --> 00:10:21.259 who is to come to Jesus, 00:10:21.259 --> 00:10:24.939 is introduced to Jesus by these simple words 00:10:24.939 --> 00:10:26.960 in verse 7. 00:10:28.080 --> 00:10:29.240 Give me a drink. 00:10:30.360 --> 00:10:32.580 You know, so neat about Jesus. 00:10:33.100 --> 00:10:35.639 It's so gentle 00:10:35.639 --> 00:10:38.259 and so respectful. 00:10:39.679 --> 00:10:41.620 It's not with force of arms 00:10:41.620 --> 00:10:43.000 or force of intellect. 00:10:43.659 --> 00:10:45.960 It's not with any type of power. 00:10:46.100 --> 00:10:47.659 It is with such a simple request. 00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:48.779 Give me a drink. 00:10:48.779 --> 00:10:51.839 For his disciples had gone away 00:10:51.839 --> 00:10:53.259 into the city to buy food. 00:10:53.939 --> 00:10:56.279 Then the woman of Samaria said to Jesus, 00:10:56.519 --> 00:10:58.519 How is it that you, being a Jew, 00:10:58.779 --> 00:11:01.439 ask a drink for me, a Samaritan woman? 00:11:02.100 --> 00:11:04.559 For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. 00:11:05.240 --> 00:11:06.980 Jesus answered and said to her, 00:11:07.459 --> 00:11:08.959 If you knew the gift of God 00:11:08.959 --> 00:11:10.399 and who it is who says to you, 00:11:10.480 --> 00:11:11.139 Give me a drink, 00:11:11.500 --> 00:11:12.459 you would have asked him 00:11:12.459 --> 00:11:15.559 and he would have given you living water. 00:11:15.559 --> 00:11:18.919 I just want to pause there for a second. 00:11:19.039 --> 00:11:20.099 This is, in a sense, 00:11:20.179 --> 00:11:20.739 the first thing 00:11:20.739 --> 00:11:22.559 which we really have to notice in the text, 00:11:23.219 --> 00:11:26.099 that Jesus can give us living water 00:11:26.099 --> 00:11:28.559 and that he wants us to ask him 00:11:28.559 --> 00:11:29.899 for living waters. 00:11:31.119 --> 00:11:33.299 I'm a city kid, city guy. 00:11:33.539 --> 00:11:36.379 I guess I'm a city middle-aged person now. 00:11:36.379 --> 00:11:38.879 But I grew up in Montreal 00:11:38.879 --> 00:11:40.759 and then lived in Ottawa. 00:11:41.320 --> 00:11:44.840 And one of my most powerful childhood memories, 00:11:45.580 --> 00:11:46.939 I don't know if I had a happy childhood, 00:11:47.799 --> 00:11:49.439 maybe I didn't, 00:11:49.500 --> 00:11:51.639 but one of my most powerful childhood memories 00:11:51.639 --> 00:11:53.939 is the first time I ever went out to the country 00:11:53.939 --> 00:11:55.320 with my parents 00:11:55.320 --> 00:11:57.439 because somebody had invited us to their cottage. 00:11:58.419 --> 00:12:01.860 And the kids that lived in the cottage 00:12:01.860 --> 00:12:02.620 that we were visiting, 00:12:02.759 --> 00:12:04.100 they were really used to this. 00:12:04.100 --> 00:12:06.040 And one day they were thirsty 00:12:06.040 --> 00:12:07.080 and they said, 00:12:07.259 --> 00:12:08.139 let's go to the spring. 00:12:08.560 --> 00:12:10.379 And they took me to this little place 00:12:10.379 --> 00:12:11.740 and it was sort of covered with trees 00:12:11.740 --> 00:12:13.220 and out of the rock 00:12:13.220 --> 00:12:15.879 came clean water that you could drink. 00:12:17.000 --> 00:12:17.960 And this, even today, 00:12:18.040 --> 00:12:19.600 this is one of the most magical moments 00:12:19.600 --> 00:12:20.500 of my childhood. 00:12:20.779 --> 00:12:22.300 The idea that I could go 00:12:22.300 --> 00:12:25.300 and that the earth itself in a shady place 00:12:25.300 --> 00:12:27.200 would provide me clean water to drink. 00:12:27.500 --> 00:12:28.759 I have to confess that at first 00:12:28.759 --> 00:12:30.460 I was a little bit nervous about drinking it 00:12:30.460 --> 00:12:31.759 because of course we all know 00:12:31.759 --> 00:12:33.920 that water is made in factories somehow 00:12:33.919 --> 00:12:35.299 and it's approved by the government 00:12:35.299 --> 00:12:37.620 and all of these types of things. 00:12:37.719 --> 00:12:40.379 And the idea that the actual earth itself 00:12:40.379 --> 00:12:42.500 could produce clean water 00:12:42.500 --> 00:12:44.539 that would just come out of the ground, 00:12:44.659 --> 00:12:45.479 out of the rocks, 00:12:45.579 --> 00:12:47.199 and that I could put my hand there 00:12:47.199 --> 00:12:49.259 and let the water pool in my hand 00:12:49.259 --> 00:12:49.919 and drink of it 00:12:49.919 --> 00:12:51.639 and it was just so wonderfully cold. 00:12:52.079 --> 00:12:55.559 It was one of those spectacularly magical moments 00:12:55.559 --> 00:12:56.860 for me as a child, 00:12:56.979 --> 00:12:57.899 as a city dweller. 00:12:57.899 --> 00:13:00.659 And what Jesus is saying here 00:13:00.659 --> 00:13:03.639 is that if you ask him, 00:13:04.220 --> 00:13:06.139 he can make you like that spring. 00:13:07.559 --> 00:13:09.620 It doesn't matter how dry 00:13:09.620 --> 00:13:11.720 or how weary that you might feel. 00:13:11.779 --> 00:13:14.120 It doesn't matter what your resources are. 00:13:14.360 --> 00:13:14.959 In a sense, 00:13:15.199 --> 00:13:18.399 if you are the finance minister of Canada, 00:13:18.860 --> 00:13:20.279 if you are Bill Gates, 00:13:20.819 --> 00:13:23.240 if you are a street person, 00:13:23.240 --> 00:13:25.379 if you are a university student, 00:13:25.840 --> 00:13:28.620 it is not by our personal power 00:13:28.620 --> 00:13:30.899 that we have such a spring within us. 00:13:31.680 --> 00:13:33.980 It is only a gift of Jesus 00:13:33.980 --> 00:13:37.019 that he can make us like a spring, 00:13:37.159 --> 00:13:38.460 like that magical place 00:13:38.460 --> 00:13:41.919 where something clean and cool and fresh 00:13:41.919 --> 00:13:43.759 that gives life to the world 00:13:43.759 --> 00:13:45.659 can flow out of you and me. 00:13:46.879 --> 00:13:48.060 It's a wonderful thing. 00:13:48.180 --> 00:13:49.840 I have no authority in and of myself 00:13:49.840 --> 00:13:51.500 to tell you folks that. 00:13:51.500 --> 00:13:53.620 That's exactly what the Bible tells us. 00:13:53.740 --> 00:13:54.620 What Jesus says, 00:13:54.679 --> 00:13:56.259 just listen to here again what he says, 00:13:56.620 --> 00:13:58.019 if you knew the gift of God 00:13:58.019 --> 00:13:59.360 and who it is who says to you, 00:13:59.419 --> 00:14:00.120 give me a drink, 00:14:00.559 --> 00:14:01.519 you would have asked him 00:14:01.519 --> 00:14:04.139 and he would have given you living water. 00:14:04.960 --> 00:14:06.639 And the phrase living water 00:14:06.639 --> 00:14:07.519 is specifically, 00:14:07.659 --> 00:14:08.960 it's an image of salvation. 00:14:09.639 --> 00:14:11.080 Remember in John chapter three, 00:14:11.159 --> 00:14:11.860 one of the images 00:14:11.860 --> 00:14:13.399 of what it means to be saved 00:14:13.399 --> 00:14:15.679 is and to believe on Jesus 00:14:15.679 --> 00:14:17.960 is that as we put our trust in Jesus 00:14:17.960 --> 00:14:19.279 and call out on him, 00:14:19.679 --> 00:14:20.980 that Jesus who alone 00:14:20.980 --> 00:14:23.220 is from above and from heaven 00:14:23.220 --> 00:14:25.060 can give us a birth, 00:14:25.180 --> 00:14:26.039 a new life, 00:14:26.639 --> 00:14:27.920 making us in a sense 00:14:27.920 --> 00:14:30.039 spiritually pregnant with heaven. 00:14:30.560 --> 00:14:31.580 He can create within us 00:14:31.580 --> 00:14:32.740 a completely new birth. 00:14:32.820 --> 00:14:33.759 And here we see 00:14:33.759 --> 00:14:35.480 that if we ask of Jesus, 00:14:36.019 --> 00:14:38.019 he can create within us 00:14:38.019 --> 00:14:39.779 an ever flowing, 00:14:40.300 --> 00:14:41.639 abundant stream 00:14:41.639 --> 00:14:43.340 of cool and fresh water 00:14:43.340 --> 00:14:44.460 that flows from us. 00:14:44.519 --> 00:14:46.320 It's a super abundant stream 00:14:46.320 --> 00:14:48.259 that will never dry out, 00:14:48.259 --> 00:14:50.340 that will never lose its freshness 00:14:50.340 --> 00:14:51.960 and its life-giving power. 00:14:52.879 --> 00:14:55.279 The other thing behind this image 00:14:55.279 --> 00:14:59.299 is that it tells us something 00:14:59.299 --> 00:15:00.580 about what it means to be human. 00:15:01.740 --> 00:15:03.340 We were born thirsty 00:15:03.340 --> 00:15:06.500 and we never lose thirst. 00:15:06.500 --> 00:15:09.320 I've had the privilege 00:15:09.320 --> 00:15:10.539 of being able to be there, 00:15:10.639 --> 00:15:10.840 you know, 00:15:10.879 --> 00:15:12.240 with the children being born. 00:15:13.259 --> 00:15:14.240 And, you know, 00:15:14.299 --> 00:15:14.919 children don't, 00:15:15.100 --> 00:15:15.799 little babies 00:15:15.799 --> 00:15:16.840 when they're first born, 00:15:17.360 --> 00:15:18.679 they might not quite know 00:15:18.679 --> 00:15:19.840 how to find 00:15:19.840 --> 00:15:21.639 what they need to drink. 00:15:22.039 --> 00:15:23.080 They don't know how to find that. 00:15:23.159 --> 00:15:23.940 They need the mom 00:15:23.940 --> 00:15:25.299 to guide them 00:15:25.299 --> 00:15:26.460 and to help them. 00:15:26.559 --> 00:15:28.759 But babies are born thirsty. 00:15:29.759 --> 00:15:30.899 If a baby, 00:15:31.500 --> 00:15:32.679 as the minutes 00:15:32.679 --> 00:15:34.739 and all tick by, 00:15:34.819 --> 00:15:35.659 if a baby shows 00:15:35.659 --> 00:15:36.739 no sign of thirst, 00:15:37.239 --> 00:15:38.159 the doctors start 00:15:38.159 --> 00:15:39.059 to get nervous 00:15:39.059 --> 00:15:40.459 because babies 00:15:40.459 --> 00:15:41.359 should be thirsty. 00:15:42.079 --> 00:15:43.039 And just as we are 00:15:43.039 --> 00:15:44.299 physically thirsty 00:15:44.299 --> 00:15:45.500 for water 00:15:45.500 --> 00:15:46.719 and for other fluids, 00:15:47.459 --> 00:15:48.839 even so, 00:15:49.000 --> 00:15:50.639 at a pure natural level, 00:15:50.759 --> 00:15:51.419 we are thirsty 00:15:51.419 --> 00:15:52.219 for other things. 00:15:52.339 --> 00:15:53.299 It's part of what makes us 00:15:53.299 --> 00:15:53.859 to be human. 00:15:54.279 --> 00:15:55.500 Our minds are thirsty 00:15:55.500 --> 00:15:56.319 for truth. 00:15:56.699 --> 00:15:58.019 Our hearts are thirsty 00:15:58.019 --> 00:15:58.740 for beauty. 00:15:59.079 --> 00:16:00.579 Our wills are thirsty 00:16:00.579 --> 00:16:01.259 for goodness. 00:16:01.259 --> 00:16:03.080 And our very soul 00:16:03.080 --> 00:16:04.659 is thirsty for love. 00:16:05.179 --> 00:16:05.960 But underneath 00:16:05.960 --> 00:16:07.120 and in 00:16:07.120 --> 00:16:08.319 and over all 00:16:08.319 --> 00:16:09.279 of these things, 00:16:09.679 --> 00:16:10.620 we human beings 00:16:10.620 --> 00:16:11.539 have been made 00:16:11.539 --> 00:16:13.240 with a thirst for God 00:16:13.240 --> 00:16:15.319 and nothing other than God 00:16:15.319 --> 00:16:16.840 will satisfy that thirst. 00:16:17.159 --> 00:16:18.500 That is how 00:16:18.500 --> 00:16:19.759 we have been made. 00:16:20.120 --> 00:16:21.379 And many of the problems 00:16:21.379 --> 00:16:22.639 that we have in our life 00:16:22.639 --> 00:16:23.279 is because 00:16:23.279 --> 00:16:25.100 we do not recognize 00:16:25.100 --> 00:16:27.659 what we are truly thirsty for 00:16:27.659 --> 00:16:28.419 and we think 00:16:28.419 --> 00:16:29.039 that something 00:16:29.039 --> 00:16:30.600 other than God himself 00:16:30.600 --> 00:16:32.620 will satisfy that thirst. 00:16:35.019 --> 00:16:37.200 I have terrible eating habits. 00:16:38.519 --> 00:16:39.820 Nobody should follow 00:16:39.820 --> 00:16:41.340 my eating pattern. 00:16:42.180 --> 00:16:43.279 Vi, who used to be 00:16:43.279 --> 00:16:44.080 the secretary here, 00:16:44.159 --> 00:16:45.040 would sort of joke 00:16:45.040 --> 00:16:46.620 and mock 00:16:46.620 --> 00:16:47.639 in a loving way 00:16:47.639 --> 00:16:48.980 the odd things 00:16:48.980 --> 00:16:49.540 that I would eat 00:16:49.540 --> 00:16:50.740 in my odd eating patterns. 00:16:51.159 --> 00:16:51.899 And sometimes 00:16:51.899 --> 00:16:53.340 I realize 00:16:53.340 --> 00:16:54.120 at the end of the day 00:16:54.120 --> 00:16:54.940 that if I'm feeling 00:16:54.940 --> 00:16:56.160 really, really sluggish 00:16:56.160 --> 00:16:56.740 or I'm feeling 00:16:56.740 --> 00:16:57.899 maybe a little bit grumpy 00:16:57.899 --> 00:16:58.519 or I'm feeling 00:16:58.519 --> 00:16:59.060 really tired, 00:16:59.059 --> 00:16:59.859 that part of the problem 00:16:59.859 --> 00:17:01.319 is that I'm probably dehydrated, 00:17:01.399 --> 00:17:02.719 that I haven't been drinking enough. 00:17:03.519 --> 00:17:04.899 I can just sort of be 00:17:04.899 --> 00:17:05.659 so caught up 00:17:05.659 --> 00:17:06.899 in working, working, working, 00:17:07.039 --> 00:17:07.740 working, working, 00:17:07.740 --> 00:17:10.379 and I'm not taking time 00:17:10.379 --> 00:17:10.819 to drink 00:17:10.819 --> 00:17:11.539 and then it starts 00:17:11.539 --> 00:17:12.480 to sort of affect 00:17:12.480 --> 00:17:13.659 how I'm able to function. 00:17:14.259 --> 00:17:15.220 And many of us 00:17:15.220 --> 00:17:16.539 have been going through life 00:17:16.539 --> 00:17:18.740 not even recognizing 00:17:18.740 --> 00:17:19.779 that the thing 00:17:19.779 --> 00:17:21.119 which drives us to this 00:17:21.119 --> 00:17:21.659 or the thing 00:17:21.659 --> 00:17:22.779 that drives us to that 00:17:22.779 --> 00:17:23.319 or the reason 00:17:23.319 --> 00:17:24.500 that this feels empty 00:17:24.500 --> 00:17:25.599 or this isn't working 00:17:25.599 --> 00:17:27.099 is because in fact 00:17:27.099 --> 00:17:28.319 we were born 00:17:28.319 --> 00:17:30.000 with a thirst for God 00:17:30.000 --> 00:17:32.419 and only he can quench it. 00:17:33.359 --> 00:17:34.639 And Jesus here, 00:17:34.899 --> 00:17:36.740 the image of living waters, 00:17:37.059 --> 00:17:38.740 of a spring of clean water 00:17:38.740 --> 00:17:39.619 that flows in us, 00:17:40.039 --> 00:17:40.619 as we'll see 00:17:40.619 --> 00:17:41.819 in John chapter 7, 00:17:41.959 --> 00:17:42.859 Jesus makes clear 00:17:42.859 --> 00:17:44.079 that it's the Holy Spirit. 00:17:44.779 --> 00:17:45.699 And Jesus says, 00:17:46.279 --> 00:17:47.019 ask me 00:17:47.019 --> 00:17:48.819 and I will give you 00:17:48.819 --> 00:17:49.500 this stream 00:17:49.500 --> 00:17:50.459 of living waters, 00:17:50.599 --> 00:17:51.279 a stream 00:17:51.279 --> 00:17:52.339 that will both 00:17:52.339 --> 00:17:53.480 start to purify 00:17:53.480 --> 00:17:54.140 and deepen 00:17:54.140 --> 00:17:55.480 our thirst for God 00:17:55.480 --> 00:17:56.920 and at the same time 00:17:56.920 --> 00:17:57.940 as it clarifies 00:17:57.940 --> 00:17:58.559 and deepens 00:17:58.559 --> 00:17:59.839 our thirst for God 00:17:59.839 --> 00:18:01.319 yet both satisfies 00:18:01.319 --> 00:18:02.240 that thirst 00:18:02.240 --> 00:18:03.519 and yet makes us 00:18:03.519 --> 00:18:04.579 even more thirsty 00:18:04.579 --> 00:18:05.860 for the living God. 00:18:06.700 --> 00:18:07.440 Let's listen 00:18:07.440 --> 00:18:08.599 as Jesus continues 00:18:08.599 --> 00:18:09.519 to talk 00:18:09.519 --> 00:18:10.620 to the Samaritan woman. 00:18:11.160 --> 00:18:12.019 The very last bit 00:18:12.019 --> 00:18:12.759 of verse 10. 00:18:13.940 --> 00:18:14.759 You would have asked him 00:18:14.759 --> 00:18:15.319 and he would have 00:18:15.319 --> 00:18:16.299 given you living water. 00:18:16.920 --> 00:18:17.860 The woman said to him, 00:18:18.400 --> 00:18:19.339 Sir, you have nothing 00:18:19.339 --> 00:18:19.960 to draw with 00:18:19.960 --> 00:18:20.700 and the well is deep. 00:18:20.900 --> 00:18:22.160 It's over 100 feet deep. 00:18:22.160 --> 00:18:23.700 Where then do you get 00:18:23.700 --> 00:18:24.880 that living water? 00:18:25.300 --> 00:18:25.960 Are you greater 00:18:25.960 --> 00:18:27.040 than our father Jacob 00:18:27.040 --> 00:18:28.120 who gave us the well? 00:18:28.560 --> 00:18:29.480 Actually he is 00:18:29.480 --> 00:18:31.300 and drank from it himself 00:18:31.300 --> 00:18:32.279 as well as his sons 00:18:32.279 --> 00:18:33.060 and his livestock. 00:18:33.920 --> 00:18:34.680 Jesus answered 00:18:34.680 --> 00:18:35.980 and said to her, 00:18:36.440 --> 00:18:37.060 whoever drinks 00:18:37.060 --> 00:18:37.720 of this water 00:18:37.720 --> 00:18:38.580 will thirst again 00:18:38.580 --> 00:18:39.480 but whoever drinks 00:18:39.480 --> 00:18:40.060 of the water 00:18:40.060 --> 00:18:41.220 that I shall give him 00:18:41.220 --> 00:18:42.140 will never thirst 00:18:42.140 --> 00:18:43.259 but the water 00:18:43.259 --> 00:18:44.560 that I shall give him 00:18:44.560 --> 00:18:45.600 will become in him 00:18:45.600 --> 00:18:47.220 a fountain of water, 00:18:47.380 --> 00:18:48.300 a spring of water 00:18:48.300 --> 00:18:49.120 springing up 00:18:49.120 --> 00:18:50.440 into everlasting life. 00:18:50.440 --> 00:18:51.220 It's an image 00:18:51.220 --> 00:18:52.380 of a spring 00:18:52.380 --> 00:18:54.180 which will never run dry 00:18:54.180 --> 00:18:56.019 which will always be cool 00:18:56.019 --> 00:18:56.799 and clean 00:18:56.799 --> 00:18:58.380 and is just completely 00:18:58.380 --> 00:18:59.420 and utterly abundant 00:18:59.420 --> 00:19:00.860 to flow into our lives. 00:19:01.480 --> 00:19:02.640 The woman said to him, 00:19:03.200 --> 00:19:04.960 Sir, give me this water 00:19:04.960 --> 00:19:06.240 that I may not thirst 00:19:06.240 --> 00:19:07.799 nor come here to draw. 00:19:08.799 --> 00:19:09.860 Jesus said to her, 00:19:10.420 --> 00:19:12.120 Go, call your husband 00:19:12.120 --> 00:19:13.519 and come here. 00:19:14.500 --> 00:19:15.900 I just want to pause here 00:19:15.900 --> 00:19:16.539 for a second. 00:19:16.539 --> 00:19:18.960 If the first thing 00:19:18.960 --> 00:19:19.599 which we can see 00:19:19.599 --> 00:19:20.139 in this story 00:19:20.139 --> 00:19:20.720 is that Jesus 00:19:20.720 --> 00:19:22.079 can give us living waters, 00:19:22.220 --> 00:19:23.039 the second thing 00:19:23.039 --> 00:19:23.720 in this text 00:19:23.720 --> 00:19:25.059 is this simple phrase, 00:19:25.659 --> 00:19:28.119 Go, call your husband. 00:19:29.819 --> 00:19:31.019 It's clear 00:19:31.019 --> 00:19:32.559 in the overall context 00:19:32.559 --> 00:19:33.740 of the story 00:19:33.740 --> 00:19:34.859 that as we're going 00:19:34.859 --> 00:19:35.500 to see in a moment 00:19:35.500 --> 00:19:36.099 that the woman 00:19:36.099 --> 00:19:37.639 has been married five times 00:19:37.639 --> 00:19:38.200 and currently 00:19:38.200 --> 00:19:39.460 she's living with somebody 00:19:39.460 --> 00:19:41.180 that it's not the case 00:19:41.180 --> 00:19:42.200 that she's had 00:19:42.200 --> 00:19:43.399 five tragic things 00:19:43.399 --> 00:19:44.980 happen to her husbands 00:19:44.980 --> 00:19:45.860 and they've all died 00:19:45.860 --> 00:19:46.819 or something like that. 00:19:47.319 --> 00:19:48.799 The whole context 00:19:48.799 --> 00:19:49.339 of the story, 00:19:49.440 --> 00:19:50.160 the fact that she's 00:19:50.160 --> 00:19:50.779 getting water 00:19:50.779 --> 00:19:51.860 at the heat of the day 00:19:51.860 --> 00:19:52.700 when the other women, 00:19:52.759 --> 00:19:53.799 normally women 00:19:53.799 --> 00:19:54.819 would come together 00:19:54.819 --> 00:19:57.700 at dawn and at dusk 00:19:57.700 --> 00:19:58.440 when it's cool, 00:19:58.839 --> 00:19:59.779 everything about her 00:19:59.779 --> 00:20:00.920 shows that she has lived 00:20:00.920 --> 00:20:02.019 in a moral life 00:20:02.019 --> 00:20:03.980 and she has been shamed 00:20:03.980 --> 00:20:05.079 and ostracized 00:20:05.079 --> 00:20:06.079 by her culture. 00:20:06.799 --> 00:20:07.920 And so it's, 00:20:08.500 --> 00:20:10.440 Jesus says this shocking thing. 00:20:10.759 --> 00:20:11.400 He says to her 00:20:11.400 --> 00:20:12.319 that if you ask me, 00:20:12.400 --> 00:20:13.039 you can give me, 00:20:13.180 --> 00:20:14.559 I can give you living waters. 00:20:14.980 --> 00:20:15.380 He, 00:20:16.099 --> 00:20:16.480 he, 00:20:16.799 --> 00:20:18.120 she understands this 00:20:18.120 --> 00:20:18.860 and though she doesn't 00:20:18.860 --> 00:20:19.480 quite understand 00:20:19.480 --> 00:20:20.299 what living waters 00:20:20.299 --> 00:20:21.740 would probably mean, 00:20:22.079 --> 00:20:23.819 she gives a very simple request. 00:20:23.880 --> 00:20:24.559 She says to Jesus, 00:20:24.779 --> 00:20:26.339 give me these living waters 00:20:26.339 --> 00:20:28.299 and his response to her 00:20:28.299 --> 00:20:29.640 is go call your husband. 00:20:30.839 --> 00:20:31.920 Now at first, 00:20:32.519 --> 00:20:33.559 this is a completely 00:20:33.559 --> 00:20:33.980 and utterly 00:20:33.980 --> 00:20:35.279 un-Canadian moment. 00:20:36.400 --> 00:20:37.819 Don't talk about sin. 00:20:39.380 --> 00:20:39.819 Like let's, 00:20:39.900 --> 00:20:40.059 okay, 00:20:40.319 --> 00:20:40.700 you know, 00:20:40.799 --> 00:20:41.759 I can just picture 00:20:41.759 --> 00:20:43.039 a typical Canadian 00:20:43.039 --> 00:20:43.859 like me 00:20:43.859 --> 00:20:45.659 being beside Jesus 00:20:45.659 --> 00:20:45.899 and say, 00:20:45.960 --> 00:20:46.159 no, 00:20:46.159 --> 00:20:46.319 no, 00:20:46.319 --> 00:20:46.460 no, 00:20:46.460 --> 00:20:46.599 no, 00:20:46.599 --> 00:20:46.700 no, 00:20:46.700 --> 00:20:46.819 no, 00:20:46.819 --> 00:20:47.139 Jesus, 00:20:47.259 --> 00:20:47.700 just stay 00:20:47.700 --> 00:20:48.539 with the good stuff. 00:20:48.659 --> 00:20:49.000 Like don't, 00:20:49.059 --> 00:20:49.859 don't get into this 00:20:49.859 --> 00:20:51.119 other type of stuff 00:20:51.119 --> 00:20:52.039 that's going to make her 00:20:52.039 --> 00:20:52.839 feel uncomfortable 00:20:52.839 --> 00:20:54.079 or hurt her feelings 00:20:54.079 --> 00:20:54.460 or, 00:20:54.559 --> 00:20:54.960 you know, 00:20:55.000 --> 00:20:55.500 isn't really, 00:20:55.639 --> 00:20:56.180 really nice. 00:20:56.259 --> 00:20:56.539 Like I, 00:20:56.539 --> 00:20:57.339 I would have just been 00:20:57.339 --> 00:20:58.379 right beside Jesus 00:20:58.379 --> 00:20:58.940 and I would have been 00:20:58.940 --> 00:21:00.379 giving him the wrong advice 00:21:00.379 --> 00:21:02.420 as soon as he said this. 00:21:02.500 --> 00:21:04.019 But Jesus is vastly 00:21:04.019 --> 00:21:05.079 smarter than me 00:21:05.079 --> 00:21:05.859 and, 00:21:05.899 --> 00:21:07.759 and vastly kinder 00:21:07.759 --> 00:21:09.159 because you see, 00:21:09.160 --> 00:21:10.279 he's showing us 00:21:10.279 --> 00:21:11.360 that if we ask him 00:21:11.360 --> 00:21:12.100 for this gift 00:21:12.100 --> 00:21:12.960 of the Holy Spirit 00:21:12.960 --> 00:21:14.040 and it's an image 00:21:14.040 --> 00:21:14.840 of salvation, 00:21:16.160 --> 00:21:17.160 Jesus is the light 00:21:17.160 --> 00:21:17.680 of the world 00:21:17.680 --> 00:21:18.460 and he's going 00:21:18.460 --> 00:21:19.240 to reveal 00:21:19.240 --> 00:21:20.300 the darkness 00:21:20.300 --> 00:21:21.259 and the evil 00:21:21.259 --> 00:21:22.060 in our life. 00:21:22.300 --> 00:21:23.519 But the question 00:21:23.519 --> 00:21:24.620 that Jesus gives 00:21:24.620 --> 00:21:25.259 to this woman 00:21:25.259 --> 00:21:26.160 is in fact 00:21:26.160 --> 00:21:27.460 a statement 00:21:27.460 --> 00:21:28.460 of great hope. 00:21:29.420 --> 00:21:30.759 It is a hope 00:21:30.759 --> 00:21:31.940 that even a woman 00:21:31.940 --> 00:21:32.700 who has lived 00:21:32.700 --> 00:21:33.680 such a life 00:21:33.680 --> 00:21:35.140 to come to such a point 00:21:35.140 --> 00:21:36.340 of being ostracized 00:21:36.340 --> 00:21:37.140 by the community 00:21:37.140 --> 00:21:39.000 and even by Canadian 00:21:39.000 --> 00:21:40.240 cultural standards 00:21:40.240 --> 00:21:41.640 would probably be viewed 00:21:41.640 --> 00:21:43.880 very, very poorly 00:21:43.880 --> 00:21:44.860 having, 00:21:44.960 --> 00:21:46.300 having broken up 00:21:46.300 --> 00:21:47.560 five different marriages 00:21:47.560 --> 00:21:48.600 and currently living 00:21:48.600 --> 00:21:48.900 with, 00:21:48.980 --> 00:21:50.040 with a man. 00:21:50.720 --> 00:21:51.800 But even 00:21:51.800 --> 00:21:53.440 for such a person, 00:21:54.259 --> 00:21:55.320 Jesus isn't saying, 00:21:55.759 --> 00:21:56.060 ha ha, 00:21:56.200 --> 00:21:57.000 I tricked you. 00:21:57.360 --> 00:21:58.280 I said to you 00:21:58.280 --> 00:21:58.720 I'll give you 00:21:58.720 --> 00:21:59.360 living waters. 00:21:59.700 --> 00:22:00.640 I've tricked you 00:22:00.640 --> 00:22:01.140 to tell me 00:22:01.140 --> 00:22:02.100 how bad you are. 00:22:02.440 --> 00:22:03.200 There's no way, 00:22:03.300 --> 00:22:03.540 Jose, 00:22:03.680 --> 00:22:04.340 that I'm going to give you 00:22:04.340 --> 00:22:05.240 the living waters now. 00:22:05.280 --> 00:22:06.200 It's not like that at all. 00:22:07.140 --> 00:22:08.060 He's saying 00:22:08.060 --> 00:22:09.200 there is profound hope. 00:22:09.660 --> 00:22:10.500 He's saying to you 00:22:10.500 --> 00:22:10.940 and me 00:22:10.940 --> 00:22:12.740 that it doesn't matter 00:22:12.740 --> 00:22:14.720 in God's eyes 00:22:14.720 --> 00:22:16.400 how bad we've been, 00:22:16.940 --> 00:22:18.280 how much of a mess 00:22:18.280 --> 00:22:19.300 that we've made 00:22:19.300 --> 00:22:20.380 of our lives. 00:22:21.020 --> 00:22:21.900 That Jesus 00:22:21.900 --> 00:22:23.360 hasn't come 00:22:23.360 --> 00:22:24.640 to talk to people 00:22:24.640 --> 00:22:26.000 who seem to have 00:22:26.000 --> 00:22:27.100 at least on the surface 00:22:27.100 --> 00:22:28.259 managed their lives 00:22:28.259 --> 00:22:28.900 in complete 00:22:28.900 --> 00:22:29.340 and utter 00:22:29.340 --> 00:22:30.480 perfect power. 00:22:31.240 --> 00:22:32.520 He is hope 00:22:32.520 --> 00:22:33.420 for the hopeless. 00:22:34.259 --> 00:22:35.620 He is a delivery 00:22:35.619 --> 00:22:36.479 of shame 00:22:36.479 --> 00:22:37.279 for those 00:22:37.279 --> 00:22:38.159 who have been shamed. 00:22:38.859 --> 00:22:40.239 He is new life 00:22:40.239 --> 00:22:40.919 for those 00:22:40.919 --> 00:22:41.799 who have died. 00:22:42.679 --> 00:22:44.859 He is a new future 00:22:44.859 --> 00:22:46.179 for those of us 00:22:46.179 --> 00:22:47.000 who think 00:22:47.000 --> 00:22:47.939 that the story 00:22:47.939 --> 00:22:48.659 of our life 00:22:48.659 --> 00:22:49.659 is only leading 00:22:49.659 --> 00:22:51.119 in a bad direction. 00:22:51.819 --> 00:22:52.259 And Jesus 00:22:52.259 --> 00:22:53.139 doesn't ask her 00:22:53.139 --> 00:22:53.779 this question 00:22:53.779 --> 00:22:54.759 because he desires 00:22:54.759 --> 00:22:55.619 to mock her. 00:22:56.059 --> 00:22:56.939 He asks her 00:22:56.939 --> 00:22:57.659 this question 00:22:57.659 --> 00:22:58.779 because repentance 00:22:58.779 --> 00:22:59.859 is part 00:22:59.859 --> 00:23:01.079 of being able 00:23:01.079 --> 00:23:01.959 to be thirsty 00:23:01.960 --> 00:23:03.180 for the living God 00:23:03.180 --> 00:23:04.819 and coming to God 00:23:04.819 --> 00:23:06.319 and asking for salvation. 00:23:06.840 --> 00:23:07.240 He is going 00:23:07.240 --> 00:23:08.160 to bring to light 00:23:08.160 --> 00:23:08.900 the sin 00:23:08.900 --> 00:23:09.640 and the evil 00:23:09.640 --> 00:23:10.500 and the brokenness 00:23:10.500 --> 00:23:11.039 and the shame 00:23:11.039 --> 00:23:11.720 in our lives 00:23:11.720 --> 00:23:12.980 not so that he 00:23:12.980 --> 00:23:13.960 will belittle us 00:23:13.960 --> 00:23:15.079 or burst into 00:23:15.079 --> 00:23:16.180 mocking laughter 00:23:16.180 --> 00:23:16.819 at us 00:23:16.819 --> 00:23:18.960 but because he desires 00:23:18.960 --> 00:23:19.799 to give us 00:23:19.799 --> 00:23:21.000 living waters 00:23:21.000 --> 00:23:22.279 and to make us 00:23:22.279 --> 00:23:24.579 springs of living waters. 00:23:25.299 --> 00:23:26.220 And so repentance 00:23:26.220 --> 00:23:26.920 is needed 00:23:26.920 --> 00:23:28.759 not something abstract. 00:23:29.220 --> 00:23:30.380 Do you feel guilty? 00:23:30.700 --> 00:23:31.799 Do you feel bad? 00:23:31.960 --> 00:23:32.680 But something 00:23:32.680 --> 00:23:33.779 very specific 00:23:33.779 --> 00:23:35.220 go call your husband. 00:23:37.120 --> 00:23:38.160 And Jesus says 00:23:38.160 --> 00:23:38.779 to you and me 00:23:38.779 --> 00:23:39.819 go call your husband. 00:23:42.880 --> 00:23:44.360 And as he says 00:23:44.360 --> 00:23:44.880 to you and me 00:23:44.880 --> 00:23:45.940 go call your husband 00:23:45.940 --> 00:23:47.039 each of us 00:23:47.039 --> 00:23:48.620 will almost instantly 00:23:48.620 --> 00:23:49.240 in most of our 00:23:49.240 --> 00:23:49.860 consciences 00:23:49.860 --> 00:23:50.819 know what that is. 00:23:52.079 --> 00:23:52.720 Some of us 00:23:52.720 --> 00:23:53.240 maybe it's because 00:23:53.240 --> 00:23:54.480 we cheated on our taxes. 00:23:54.980 --> 00:23:55.480 I don't know. 00:23:55.840 --> 00:23:56.740 Maybe it's because 00:23:56.740 --> 00:23:57.319 we've been really 00:23:57.319 --> 00:23:58.220 telling a lot of gossip. 00:23:58.360 --> 00:23:59.160 I don't know what it is. 00:23:59.620 --> 00:24:00.500 But it's specific. 00:24:00.660 --> 00:24:01.400 It's not abstract. 00:24:01.400 --> 00:24:02.200 It's not about 00:24:02.200 --> 00:24:03.220 feelings and emotions. 00:24:03.220 --> 00:24:04.360 It's very specific. 00:24:08.060 --> 00:24:09.560 So the woman 00:24:09.560 --> 00:24:11.860 continues on 00:24:11.860 --> 00:24:12.800 in verse 17. 00:24:13.460 --> 00:24:14.400 The woman answered 00:24:14.400 --> 00:24:14.940 and said to him 00:24:14.940 --> 00:24:15.820 I have no husband. 00:24:15.980 --> 00:24:16.780 Jesus said to her 00:24:16.780 --> 00:24:17.720 you have well said 00:24:17.720 --> 00:24:18.600 I have no husband 00:24:18.600 --> 00:24:19.280 for you have had 00:24:19.280 --> 00:24:20.100 five husbands 00:24:20.100 --> 00:24:21.120 and the one 00:24:21.120 --> 00:24:21.900 whom you now have 00:24:21.900 --> 00:24:22.920 is not your husband 00:24:22.920 --> 00:24:24.420 in that you spoke truly. 00:24:25.080 --> 00:24:26.200 The woman said to him 00:24:26.200 --> 00:24:27.580 sir I perceive 00:24:27.580 --> 00:24:28.660 that you are a prophet. 00:24:29.160 --> 00:24:30.160 Our fathers worshipped 00:24:30.160 --> 00:24:30.900 on this mountain 00:24:30.900 --> 00:24:31.620 and you Jews 00:24:31.620 --> 00:24:32.680 say that in Jerusalem 00:24:32.680 --> 00:24:33.620 is the place 00:24:33.620 --> 00:24:34.620 where one ought to worship. 00:24:35.819 --> 00:24:37.000 Now just pause here 00:24:37.000 --> 00:24:37.539 for a second. 00:24:38.920 --> 00:24:39.380 Commentators 00:24:39.380 --> 00:24:40.200 all differ 00:24:40.200 --> 00:24:41.100 in how to interpret 00:24:41.100 --> 00:24:41.700 this part. 00:24:42.360 --> 00:24:43.279 Some people think 00:24:43.279 --> 00:24:43.900 that she's trying 00:24:43.900 --> 00:24:44.940 to change the topic. 00:24:45.400 --> 00:24:46.100 Some people think 00:24:46.100 --> 00:24:46.519 she's trying 00:24:46.519 --> 00:24:47.420 to pick an argument. 00:24:47.420 --> 00:24:50.180 I think that 00:24:50.180 --> 00:24:51.519 there's a third reason 00:24:51.519 --> 00:24:52.600 but I think 00:24:52.600 --> 00:24:53.539 even more fundamentally 00:24:53.539 --> 00:24:54.100 is this. 00:24:54.980 --> 00:24:55.560 I think what 00:24:55.560 --> 00:24:56.720 the text is trying 00:24:56.720 --> 00:24:57.480 to show us 00:24:57.480 --> 00:24:58.460 is that often 00:24:58.460 --> 00:24:59.400 we're not even clear 00:24:59.400 --> 00:25:00.320 about our own motives. 00:25:01.400 --> 00:25:01.920 I mean sometimes 00:25:01.920 --> 00:25:02.700 we're pretty clear 00:25:02.700 --> 00:25:03.360 about our motives 00:25:03.360 --> 00:25:04.200 but you know 00:25:04.200 --> 00:25:05.320 if we have any type 00:25:05.320 --> 00:25:06.880 of introspection 00:25:06.880 --> 00:25:07.539 at all 00:25:07.539 --> 00:25:08.460 a lot of times 00:25:08.460 --> 00:25:08.820 in our life 00:25:08.820 --> 00:25:09.759 it's not clear to us 00:25:09.759 --> 00:25:10.620 why we do 00:25:10.620 --> 00:25:11.220 what we do 00:25:11.220 --> 00:25:12.240 and why we say 00:25:12.240 --> 00:25:13.140 what we say 00:25:13.140 --> 00:25:14.440 that there's in a sense 00:25:14.440 --> 00:25:15.600 a mixture of motives 00:25:15.600 --> 00:25:16.120 within us 00:25:16.120 --> 00:25:17.000 and partly 00:25:17.000 --> 00:25:17.859 the text wants 00:25:17.859 --> 00:25:19.099 to keep showing us 00:25:19.099 --> 00:25:19.839 not to trust 00:25:19.839 --> 00:25:20.519 in ourselves 00:25:20.519 --> 00:25:21.680 it's not as if 00:25:21.680 --> 00:25:22.660 Jesus is only 00:25:22.660 --> 00:25:23.299 going to give 00:25:23.299 --> 00:25:24.019 living waters 00:25:24.019 --> 00:25:24.799 to those of us 00:25:24.799 --> 00:25:25.700 who have unbelievably 00:25:25.700 --> 00:25:27.559 clear and consistent 00:25:27.559 --> 00:25:28.019 motives 00:25:28.019 --> 00:25:29.039 and have had 00:25:29.039 --> 00:25:30.099 no sin in our lives 00:25:30.099 --> 00:25:31.420 the text is going 00:25:31.420 --> 00:25:32.140 to always put 00:25:32.140 --> 00:25:33.400 Jesus here at the center 00:25:33.400 --> 00:25:34.480 driving us 00:25:34.480 --> 00:25:35.619 on and on 00:25:35.619 --> 00:25:36.519 and on and on 00:25:36.519 --> 00:25:37.220 not so that 00:25:37.220 --> 00:25:37.880 we understand 00:25:37.880 --> 00:25:38.579 what we can do 00:25:38.579 --> 00:25:39.160 and be proud 00:25:39.160 --> 00:25:39.740 of ourselves 00:25:39.740 --> 00:25:40.579 but so that 00:25:40.579 --> 00:25:41.220 we can understand 00:25:41.220 --> 00:25:42.000 how wonderful 00:25:42.000 --> 00:25:42.980 the Savior is 00:25:42.980 --> 00:25:44.000 and how great 00:25:44.000 --> 00:25:45.099 our need of Him is 00:25:45.099 --> 00:25:46.500 and I think 00:25:46.500 --> 00:25:47.119 that what's happening 00:25:47.119 --> 00:25:47.619 with the woman 00:25:47.619 --> 00:25:48.400 here is this 00:25:48.400 --> 00:25:50.319 she's been promised 00:25:50.319 --> 00:25:51.019 living water 00:25:51.019 --> 00:25:52.319 she's been convicted 00:25:52.319 --> 00:25:52.960 of sin 00:25:52.960 --> 00:25:53.700 she says 00:25:53.700 --> 00:25:54.559 where can I go 00:25:54.559 --> 00:25:55.420 for atonement 00:25:55.420 --> 00:25:57.279 which temple 00:25:57.279 --> 00:25:58.140 do I go to 00:25:58.140 --> 00:25:59.779 and if you tell me 00:25:59.779 --> 00:26:00.339 I have to go 00:26:00.339 --> 00:26:00.880 to the temple 00:26:00.880 --> 00:26:01.460 in Jerusalem 00:26:01.460 --> 00:26:02.880 I have no hope 00:26:02.880 --> 00:26:03.599 at all Jesus 00:26:03.599 --> 00:26:04.799 because they won't 00:26:04.799 --> 00:26:05.440 let me in 00:26:05.440 --> 00:26:07.559 where do I go 00:26:07.559 --> 00:26:08.339 for atonement 00:26:08.339 --> 00:26:11.140 and Jesus says this 00:26:11.140 --> 00:26:13.160 verse 21 00:26:13.160 --> 00:26:14.880 woman believe me 00:26:14.880 --> 00:26:15.480 the hour 00:26:15.480 --> 00:26:15.500 the hour 00:26:15.500 --> 00:26:16.260 is coming 00:26:16.260 --> 00:26:17.240 the hour 00:26:17.240 --> 00:26:17.900 here by the way 00:26:17.900 --> 00:26:18.840 in John's gospel 00:26:18.840 --> 00:26:19.820 one of the good 00:26:19.820 --> 00:26:20.580 things about this 00:26:20.580 --> 00:26:21.420 version of the bible 00:26:21.420 --> 00:26:21.920 the new king 00:26:21.920 --> 00:26:22.520 James version 00:26:22.520 --> 00:26:23.220 is to translate 00:26:23.220 --> 00:26:23.800 the hour 00:26:23.800 --> 00:26:24.520 and the hour 00:26:24.520 --> 00:26:25.560 in John's gospel 00:26:25.560 --> 00:26:26.840 is a little clue 00:26:26.840 --> 00:26:27.800 this is just a little 00:26:27.800 --> 00:26:28.680 help for you to read it 00:26:28.680 --> 00:26:30.340 the hour refers to 00:26:30.340 --> 00:26:31.340 as crucifixion 00:26:31.340 --> 00:26:33.320 and as death 00:26:33.320 --> 00:26:34.020 upon the cross 00:26:34.020 --> 00:26:34.580 and resurrection 00:26:34.580 --> 00:26:35.640 all viewed 00:26:35.640 --> 00:26:36.720 as one mighty 00:26:36.720 --> 00:26:37.540 act of God 00:26:37.540 --> 00:26:38.260 every time 00:26:38.260 --> 00:26:38.740 if you're reading 00:26:38.740 --> 00:26:39.560 a version of the bible 00:26:39.560 --> 00:26:39.960 like this 00:26:39.960 --> 00:26:40.580 where it translates 00:26:40.580 --> 00:26:41.120 the hour 00:26:41.120 --> 00:26:41.680 out of Greek 00:26:41.680 --> 00:26:42.080 literally 00:26:42.079 --> 00:26:43.159 it's always 00:26:43.159 --> 00:26:43.839 it's a little bit 00:26:43.839 --> 00:26:44.579 of a pointer 00:26:44.579 --> 00:26:45.740 that the hour 00:26:45.740 --> 00:26:46.220 is coming 00:26:46.220 --> 00:26:47.299 when the son of man 00:26:47.299 --> 00:26:48.480 the lamb of God 00:26:48.480 --> 00:26:49.179 who takes away 00:26:49.179 --> 00:26:49.980 the sin of the world 00:26:49.980 --> 00:26:51.399 will die upon the cross 00:26:51.399 --> 00:26:52.539 will taste everything 00:26:52.539 --> 00:26:53.240 there is to taste 00:26:53.240 --> 00:26:54.179 of death 00:26:54.179 --> 00:26:55.299 with nothing left over 00:26:55.299 --> 00:26:56.399 and will conquer 00:26:56.399 --> 00:26:57.439 sin and death 00:26:57.439 --> 00:26:57.939 and hell 00:26:57.939 --> 00:26:58.859 and the evil one 00:26:58.859 --> 00:27:00.039 in his resurrection 00:27:00.039 --> 00:27:01.139 on the third day 00:27:01.139 --> 00:27:03.220 that's what the hour 00:27:03.220 --> 00:27:04.059 is referring to 00:27:04.059 --> 00:27:05.119 Jesus said to her 00:27:05.119 --> 00:27:05.980 woman believe me 00:27:05.980 --> 00:27:07.220 the hour is coming 00:27:07.220 --> 00:27:08.539 when you will not 00:27:08.539 --> 00:27:09.720 when you will neither 00:27:09.720 --> 00:27:10.539 on this mountain 00:27:10.539 --> 00:27:11.359 nor in Jerusalem 00:27:11.359 --> 00:27:12.339 worship the father 00:27:12.339 --> 00:27:13.359 you worship 00:27:13.359 --> 00:27:14.559 what you do not know 00:27:14.559 --> 00:27:16.439 we know what we worship 00:27:16.439 --> 00:27:17.179 for salvation 00:27:17.179 --> 00:27:18.119 is of the Jews 00:27:18.119 --> 00:27:19.500 but the hour 00:27:19.500 --> 00:27:20.039 is coming 00:27:20.039 --> 00:27:20.639 and now is 00:27:20.639 --> 00:27:21.159 when the true 00:27:21.159 --> 00:27:21.740 worshipers 00:27:21.740 --> 00:27:22.259 will worship 00:27:22.259 --> 00:27:22.799 the father 00:27:22.799 --> 00:27:23.439 in spirit 00:27:23.439 --> 00:27:24.099 and truth 00:27:24.099 --> 00:27:25.339 for the father 00:27:25.339 --> 00:27:26.199 is seeking 00:27:26.199 --> 00:27:27.299 such 00:27:27.299 --> 00:27:28.459 to worship him 00:27:28.459 --> 00:27:30.179 God is spirit 00:27:30.179 --> 00:27:31.219 and those who 00:27:31.219 --> 00:27:31.740 worship him 00:27:31.740 --> 00:27:32.379 must worship 00:27:32.379 --> 00:27:33.539 in spirit 00:27:33.539 --> 00:27:34.500 and truth 00:27:34.500 --> 00:27:35.699 just notice 00:27:35.699 --> 00:27:36.479 verse 23 00:27:36.479 --> 00:27:36.979 isn't that such 00:27:36.979 --> 00:27:38.099 a wonderful line 00:27:38.099 --> 00:27:39.559 the father 00:27:39.559 --> 00:27:40.439 is seeking 00:27:40.440 --> 00:27:41.480 such 00:27:41.480 --> 00:27:42.259 to worship 00:27:42.259 --> 00:27:42.559 him 00:27:42.559 --> 00:27:43.799 and it's really 00:27:43.799 --> 00:27:44.360 important 00:27:44.360 --> 00:27:45.019 when we read 00:27:45.019 --> 00:27:45.720 this text 00:27:45.720 --> 00:27:46.880 not to read it 00:27:46.880 --> 00:27:47.559 as if we have 00:27:47.559 --> 00:27:48.259 amnesia 00:27:48.259 --> 00:27:49.539 and not to read it 00:27:49.539 --> 00:27:50.140 as if we think 00:27:50.140 --> 00:27:50.779 that somehow 00:27:50.779 --> 00:27:52.240 truth means 00:27:52.240 --> 00:27:52.840 whatever happens 00:27:52.840 --> 00:27:53.279 to be true 00:27:53.279 --> 00:27:53.740 for us 00:27:53.740 --> 00:27:54.840 or where truth 00:27:54.840 --> 00:27:55.799 means the abstract 00:27:55.799 --> 00:27:57.180 scientific pursuit 00:27:57.180 --> 00:27:57.740 of truth 00:27:57.740 --> 00:27:58.880 or truth means 00:27:58.880 --> 00:27:59.420 just being able 00:27:59.420 --> 00:28:00.500 to speak the truth 00:28:00.500 --> 00:28:01.580 or spirit means 00:28:01.580 --> 00:28:02.220 some type of 00:28:02.220 --> 00:28:03.420 internal emotion 00:28:03.420 --> 00:28:04.759 or doing things 00:28:04.759 --> 00:28:05.480 with gusto 00:28:05.480 --> 00:28:06.519 or anything 00:28:06.519 --> 00:28:07.099 else like 00:28:07.099 --> 00:28:07.360 that 00:28:07.360 --> 00:28:08.460 we can't read 00:28:08.460 --> 00:28:09.000 the text 00:28:09.000 --> 00:28:09.860 with amnesia 00:28:09.860 --> 00:28:11.099 who is the 00:28:11.099 --> 00:28:11.579 temple 00:28:11.579 --> 00:28:12.680 Jesus is the 00:28:12.680 --> 00:28:13.279 true temple 00:28:13.279 --> 00:28:14.099 who is the 00:28:14.099 --> 00:28:14.420 truth 00:28:14.420 --> 00:28:15.200 Jesus is to 00:28:15.200 --> 00:28:15.980 say I am 00:28:15.980 --> 00:28:16.380 the truth 00:28:16.380 --> 00:28:17.079 who is the 00:28:17.079 --> 00:28:17.360 life 00:28:17.360 --> 00:28:17.920 Jesus 00:28:17.920 --> 00:28:18.420 will say 00:28:18.420 --> 00:28:18.759 that he 00:28:18.759 --> 00:28:19.019 is the 00:28:19.019 --> 00:28:19.180 life 00:28:19.180 --> 00:28:19.599 who is 00:28:19.599 --> 00:28:19.740 the 00:28:19.740 --> 00:28:20.039 way 00:28:20.039 --> 00:28:20.740 Jesus 00:28:20.740 --> 00:28:21.640 is the 00:28:21.640 --> 00:28:21.900 way 00:28:21.900 --> 00:28:22.440 who is 00:28:22.440 --> 00:28:22.900 the savior 00:28:22.900 --> 00:28:23.259 of the 00:28:23.259 --> 00:28:23.539 world 00:28:23.539 --> 00:28:24.039 Jesus 00:28:24.039 --> 00:28:24.900 is the 00:28:24.900 --> 00:28:25.200 savior 00:28:25.200 --> 00:28:26.200 who is 00:28:26.200 --> 00:28:26.559 the one 00:28:26.559 --> 00:28:26.759 who 00:28:26.759 --> 00:28:27.220 narrates 00:28:27.220 --> 00:28:27.620 God 00:28:27.620 --> 00:28:28.299 Jesus 00:28:28.299 --> 00:28:28.839 is the 00:28:28.839 --> 00:28:29.039 one 00:28:29.039 --> 00:28:29.240 who 00:28:29.240 --> 00:28:29.660 narrates 00:28:29.660 --> 00:28:30.039 God 00:28:30.039 --> 00:28:30.440 who 00:28:30.440 --> 00:28:30.620 is 00:28:30.620 --> 00:28:30.759 the 00:28:30.759 --> 00:28:30.960 one 00:28:30.960 --> 00:28:31.140 who 00:28:31.140 --> 00:28:31.620 bestows 00:28:31.620 --> 00:28:31.799 the 00:28:31.799 --> 00:28:32.019 Holy 00:28:32.019 --> 00:28:32.519 Spirit 00:28:32.879 --> 00:28:35.079 Jesus is the one who bestows the Holy Spirit. 00:28:35.339 --> 00:28:37.619 Who is the one who can give us new life from above? 00:28:38.000 --> 00:28:40.480 Jesus is the one who can give new life from above. 00:28:40.859 --> 00:28:43.639 Who is it that needs, who is it who can give 00:28:43.639 --> 00:28:46.299 the spring of water that will spring up into us 00:28:46.299 --> 00:28:47.299 into eternal life? 00:28:47.680 --> 00:28:49.460 Jesus is the one who can do that. 00:28:49.519 --> 00:28:52.440 And what is that spring of water unto eternal life? 00:28:52.579 --> 00:28:53.920 That is the Holy Spirit. 00:28:53.920 --> 00:28:55.859 And we can't read these texts 00:28:55.859 --> 00:28:59.099 as if somehow it's talking about something other than Jesus. 00:28:59.099 --> 00:29:05.339 Jesus is saying the Father is seeking people to worship him. 00:29:05.799 --> 00:29:09.039 And to worship means to come into the one 00:29:09.039 --> 00:29:11.919 whose hour is about to come. 00:29:12.019 --> 00:29:14.619 It means to come to the one who is the temple, 00:29:14.779 --> 00:29:16.339 who is the truth, who is the life. 00:29:16.759 --> 00:29:18.959 It is to, by coming to Jesus 00:29:18.959 --> 00:29:21.159 and receiving the gift of the Holy Spirit, 00:29:21.579 --> 00:29:23.759 that one is able to actually come 00:29:23.759 --> 00:29:25.579 and know the Father and worship him. 00:29:25.579 --> 00:29:28.579 And the good news to the woman in Samaria, 00:29:29.099 --> 00:29:30.919 the good news to the woman 00:29:30.919 --> 00:29:33.039 who can't even be with other people 00:29:33.039 --> 00:29:34.379 because she has to come at noon, 00:29:34.519 --> 00:29:37.059 the good news to the one who has had five husbands 00:29:37.059 --> 00:29:39.000 and is currently living with another man, 00:29:39.259 --> 00:29:41.119 is the Father is seeking you. 00:29:42.959 --> 00:29:44.659 The Father is seeking you. 00:29:45.240 --> 00:29:45.959 Let's pray. 00:29:45.959 --> 00:29:46.000 Let's pray. 00:29:46.000 --> 00:29:46.019 Let's pray. 00:29:59.099 --> 00:30:02.059 Father, we ask that you make us thirsty. 00:30:03.519 --> 00:30:07.439 We ask, Father, that you deepen our thirst for you. 00:30:09.419 --> 00:30:12.599 We ask, Father, that you humble us 00:30:12.599 --> 00:30:15.480 and heal us and form us 00:30:15.480 --> 00:30:18.659 so that as we thirst ever more deeply, 00:30:18.839 --> 00:30:21.980 we turn to you ever more completely and fully. 00:30:21.980 --> 00:30:24.819 We thank and praise you, Father, 00:30:24.940 --> 00:30:26.920 for the gift of your Son, Jesus Christ, 00:30:27.140 --> 00:30:29.620 the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. 00:30:30.400 --> 00:30:32.120 We thank and praise you, Father, 00:30:32.279 --> 00:30:36.279 that he can give us springs of living water. 00:30:38.519 --> 00:30:41.759 Precious Jesus, give us this water. 00:30:43.059 --> 00:30:45.319 Give us, make us such springs. 00:30:46.240 --> 00:30:48.120 Pour out your Holy Spirit upon us. 00:30:48.119 --> 00:30:50.859 This we ask in Jesus' name. 00:30:51.279 --> 00:30:51.619 Amen.