John chapter 4, verses 1 through 42.
And as you hear this, believe that this is the inspired, inerrant, and infallible Word of God.
And it's given for you, beloved congregation of the Lord Jesus Christ.
When I'm done reading this sermon text for today, I'll say this is the Word of God.
And you respond, thanks be to God.
Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John,
although Jesus himself did not baptize but only his disciples,
he left Judea and departed again for Galilee.
And he had to pass through Samaria.
So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
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.
A woman from Samaria came to draw water.
Jesus said to her, give me a drink.
For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
The Samaritan woman said to him, how is it that you, a Jew, ask me for a drink, since I'm a Samaritan woman?
For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.
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.
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?
Are you greater than our father Jacob?
He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and all his livestock.
Jesus said to her, everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again.
The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.
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.
Jesus said to her, go, call your husband and come here.
The woman answered him, I have no husband.
Jesus said to her, you are right in saying I have no husband, for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband.
What you have said is true.
The woman said to him, sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.
Our fathers worshipped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.
Jesus said to her, woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.
You worship what you do not know.
We worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.
But the hour is coming and is now here when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth.
For the Father is seeking such people to worship him.
God is spirit and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.
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.
Jesus said to her, I who speak to you am he.
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?
So the woman left her water jar and went away into the town and said to the people,
Come, see a man who told me all about what I ever did.
Can this be the Christ?
They went out of the town and were coming to him.
Meanwhile, the disciples were urging him, saying, Rabbi, eat.
But he said to them, I have food to eat that you do not know about.
So the disciples said to one another, has anyone brought him something to eat?
Jesus said to them, my food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.
Do you not say there are yet four months, then comes the harvest?
Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes and see that the fields are white for harvest.
Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life,
so that the sower and the reaper might rejoice together.
For here the saying holds true, one sows and another reaps.
I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor.
Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.
Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony.
He told me all that I ever did.
So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days.
And many more believed because of his word.
They said to the woman, it is no longer because of what you said that we believe,
for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world.
And this is the word of God.
Thanks be to God.
You may be seated.
Let's pray.
Our gracious God, we do not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from your mouth.
Please make us hungry now for your heavenly food,
that you may nourish us again today, Lord,
in the way of eternal life made possible through Jesus Christ, who is the bread of heaven.
Amen.
Cause us, Lord, to behold the heavenliness of Jesus Christ, who came to save his bride, the church.
Amen.
Well, when it comes to the big wedding day, the groom has one mission.
You know what that is?
It's to get his bride.
That's what the groom has to get.
And you'd be surprised how many men have messed up the very few requirements on the wedding day.
You have to be there at the right time.
You have to show up on the right day.
And you have to marry the right bride.
Well, the Bible says in Genesis 2,
Therefore a man will leave his father and mother and hold fast or cling to his wife,
and they shall become one flesh.
The picture of a wedding is really mysterious.
But this is exactly what John the Baptist said Christ is coming to do.
So wedding is really given as a sign.
It's showing us that there will be a union.
Through the flesh of Jesus Christ, God himself who took on flesh,
he will be made one with his bride.
We saw last time how, in the words of John the Baptizer,
Jesus is the groom from heaven.
And this heavenly groom, number one, cares about purity.
Remember, he was baptizing where there were waters,
and he was cleansing those who believed by the Spirit.
He cares about purity.
Number two, he has an identifiable groomsman.
And John the Baptizer is one of those groomsmen who points to Christ,
who bears witness and stands for him.
Number three, the heavenly groom attracts his bride.
They heard the sweet voice of the groom,
and all the people were going to Christ.
Number four, through the work of Christ,
there is an exchanging of seals between the son as the groom
and his church, the bride.
Jesus sets his seal upon the believer.
It's the Holy Spirit put in you the seal of God on your life.
And then Jesus commands his believers to set your seal to this,
that God is true.
Well, today we will see now the mission of this heavenly groom.
And he gets it perfectly right.
He accomplishes his mission.
He shows up on the right day at the right time.
And he does get the right bride.
However, if we're reading this correctly,
we should be shocked at what this reveals to us about his bride.
His bride, you could say, is the most unlikely bride in the history of humanity.
So let's begin by looking at verses 1, 2, and 3
to set our context for today's wedding picture.
Verses 1, 2, and 3, we read that this heavenly groom has a mission.
The Pharisees see that he's getting too much attention,
more than John the baptizer even,
so he's becoming a big threat down in the southern tribes in Judea.
And his mission requires now that he leave that area.
And the Holy Spirit will guide him to the right place,
the right time,
to meet the one the Father had prepared for him.
And we're going to see, look at verse 6,
that this meeting will take place between Jesus
and the representative bride
at a place of significance.
Look at verse 6.
We're told that Jacob's well was there.
And you'll remember the patriarchs,
the promise that to Abraham, to your seed,
will come salvation,
not just for you, but for all the nations.
So Abraham's got his eye on his physical seed, Isaac.
Well, Isaac, he gets his bride
through God bringing the right bride to the well.
And then Jacob, how does he meet his bride for the first time?
Jacob meets his wife, his bride, at the well also.
So when we're told that Jesus has been traveling,
he sits down by this well,
we're building anticipation.
We should know something good is coming.
In the attachment to Jacob,
okay, this is where brides meet their groom.
Could it be that the promised seed of Abraham
would meet his representative bride at this well?
And if so, what type of bride could possibly deserve
such a heavenly groom?
The world knows this.
The world knows that if you're Prince Ali,
glory is he.
He's going to come in on the parade
and there better be a princess worthy of such a prince, right?
That's what the world thinks.
But Jesus shows, look, this heavenly prince,
the king of glory himself,
takes on flesh.
Here's a portrait of his bride.
So when we walk through two observations
on this biblical portrait we have
of the most unlikely bride.
Number one,
the bride was from a corrupted line.
Her bloodline was corrupted.
If his was heavenly and he's the promised seed from Abraham,
promised seed all the way from Eve
that Satan's been trying to destroy at every opportunity,
hers could not be more twisted and broken and corrupted.
Look at verse 7.
This woman was from Samaria.
Samaria.
See, Samaria, that's the land of the ten northern tribes.
And you remember how all of Israel,
the twelve tribes, got taken into exile.
But Israel, the first ten tribes,
the northern tribes, they fell much sooner.
They barely had a shot.
When Joshua brought them into the land,
they were already intermarrying
and taking on the idols of the people that lived there.
They never were devoted to the Lord.
And so when the Lord banished them from the land,
the Assyrians then took other people groups
from other regions that they had conquered.
And it was a brilliant military tactic.
It was to intermingle them.
They can't get organized.
They can't have any sense of identity.
And so they sent these other people groups,
forced them to move and live in this region
that's now called Samaria.
So now, even after the exile from Assyria,
when the people come back into the northern tribes,
they are intermarrying and the idolatry never stopped.
Not for one moment.
And the people of the south had tried to help them
even build their own temple further north
because they didn't like the power struggle
of having to travel all the way down to Jerusalem.
They were so proud and hostile that they refused that help.
Civil war broke out at different points
between Samaritans and the rest of the nation of Israel,
the Jews, especially in the south closer to Jerusalem.
And Israelites would not even share a vessel.
You would never sit down for a meal.
You'd never break bread or use the same utensils or plate
that a Samaritan has used.
They were considered defiled, impure.
And don't you dare intermingle
because you'll be going down that slippery slope.
That was the caution and the warning in 2 Chronicles 20, 13.
They had enticed God's people and the inhabitants of Jerusalem into whoredom.
Look at verse 9.
This is so shocking that that's the reaction we get from the Samaritan woman.
She said to Jesus,
How is it that you, a Jew, ask me for a drink, a woman of Samaria?
For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.
So the portrait of the most unlikely bride is that her bloodline is corrupted.
Number two, this bride was further corrupted by her own sin.
So you picture the most defiled region in all of the promised land.
That's Samaria, hands down.
Easy decision there.
And you picture the most corrupted person within Samaria.
And it's this woman who shows up to the well.
Look at verse 6.
How do we know so much about her?
Verse 6 says,
What time of day was it?
It was about the sixth hour.
And the way of counting time is you start counting the first hour is the first hour after the sun comes up.
So the sixth hour puts you right at high noon.
It's the hottest time of day.
And it was custom in that time to never go to get water to the well alone.
So you read these accounts with Jacob, with Isaac.
I mean, that's where you could easily have robbers and bullies, you know, take stuff.
So you'd never send anyone alone to the well.
You'd go as a group and much less a woman to go alone.
And because it's so hot, it's a long trip carrying the heavy weight of the water.
You would want to be going as a group in the cool of the day, beginning of the day or at the end of the day.
And here, high noon, hot sun, so hot that Jesus is weary and his disciples are fatigued and hungry.
And here comes a woman all alone.
She's isolated.
No one wants to be seen with her, associated with her.
Now look at verse 15.
When he first hints that he has something to offer, even a woman like her, look at verse 15.
Her reaction is, give me this water so that I will not be thirsty.
Or, look at the next few words, or have to come here to draw water.
It would be enough of a reason to spare me the social shame, having to walk past everyone in the village.
Everyone kind of skirts away, pretends like they don't see me, and then they gossip behind my back.
I can't stand the social shame anymore.
She was sick of it.
Now Jesus, he does not lower the standard for holiness.
He communicates the law of the holy God.
Look at verse 18.
He's saying, you have had five husbands, and the one you have now is not your husband.
He's not saying that to hurt her feelings.
He can handle the truth, and he wants her to know that.
I mean, your temptation, if you're feeling such social shame, is going to be to put some makeup on,
try to present your prettiest version of yourself,
to tell your story in such a way that he might be willing to be kind to you.
And Jesus says, disclose it all.
I know.
And the guy you've got now, I mean, it sounds like a friend.
You know, someone's got a really bad boyfriend or girlfriend,
and their true friends are like, you need to stop this, you know.
This guy's probably the biggest loser of them all.
The man you have now is not your husband.
And he just gets right to the heart.
You know, I know.
See, I think this is so significant,
because this Samaritan fornicator,
she represents unfaithful Israel.
And Israel is a picture of the people of God.
It's a picture of the church.
And until you see yourself as that woman,
you won't see the heavenliness of the groom.
The unlikeliness of the bride,
it reveals and confirms the heavenliness of the groom.
This is otherworldly.
What a gift we have with this story.
See, Israel had been unfaithful to their God.
Their God took them as slaves in Egypt.
He purchased their freedom with mighty acts.
He made a covenant with them.
We read it every Lord's Day.
I will be your God.
You will be my people.
Here's my law.
Here's what pleases me.
And he gives them the Ten Commandments.
But in Jeremiah, a few generations later,
Jeremiah 3, 1 through 3.
Now remember, Jeremiah is preaching to Jerusalem now.
It's gone horribly wrong in the northern tribes.
It's now bad in Jerusalem.
Jeremiah was the prophet at the time
when Daniel was carried away to Babylon.
So it's all going down in the south as well.
And here's the word that the Holy Spirit gave Jeremiah.
And it's a warning to Israel and Judea.
If a man's wife goes from him
and becomes another man's wife,
will he return to her?
In other words, the bride turns her back
on the husband who's loving her,
and she wants to have an affair and cheat.
You would never expect that husband
to have grace and compassion.
I mean, that would be unexpected.
But now look what God says.
He says that land would be greatly polluted
if that's how families conducted themselves.
You, Israel.
You, Jerusalem.
You have played the whore with many lovers.
And would you now return to me, declares the Lord?
See, the bride had corrupted herself even further.
Her bloodline was corrupted.
Her life was corrupted.
And that's exactly the picture of Israel.
Why do we have here this portrait
of the most unlikely bride?
Well, remember, Jesus got out of Judea
because of the Pharisees.
If they were getting so much attention,
they were going to kill him right there.
And he had to fulfill the law.
He had to show us who he's coming to save.
The church is not made up of self-righteous Pharisees.
The true church is made up of people
who view their soul, their standing before God,
like the Samaritan woman.
And really, if we keep reading Isaiah 65 1,
this is exactly how Jesus fulfills this promise.
So Isaiah 65 says,
I was ready to be sought by those who did not ask for me.
I was ready to be found by those who did not seek me.
Jesus finds his bride.
He goes out and seeks her.
And if you have encountered Christ in such a way,
you know when he gave you a new heart.
You know how he comes after you still today.
When you turn to other idols
and your heart starts wondering,
he comes after his bride over and over again
because he is the heavenly groom.
And see, the church also is saved
out of Adam's corrupt line.
At our past Friday Bible study,
we were looking in Romans chapter 5
and verse 18 through 21.
We read how the trespass of Adam,
the one man, the representative head.
Everyone comes from the bloodline of Adam.
His trespass led to condemnation for all men.
And because we are all now under the curse of Adam,
because of that one man's disobedience,
all were made sinners.
So the church is saved out of Adam's corrupted bloodline.
Number two, every true Christian
is brought under conviction
of how their own sins
have corrupted them even further,
even more than the corruption
that they inherited from Adam.
Romans 5.20 says,
the law came in to increase the trespasses.
So we all are born under Adam's sin
and we have the law of God,
you know, our conscience,
and in the scripture,
it exposes our sin even further.
It multiplies our trespasses before God.
But here's the promise.
As sin reigned in death,
grace also can now reign through righteousness,
leading to eternal life
through Jesus Christ, our Lord.
And here's what Paul says in Romans 5,
where sin increased,
grace abounded all the more.
That's what this story tells us.
If sin, if your view of sin is low,
then your view of your need for grace
is going to be in proportion to that.
But where the law comes
and your sin abounds,
you're expanding your view of your own sin,
you realize how much grace
you need from the Lord.
And the more grace you realize
you need from the Lord,
the more glory He gets in your salvation.
The more unlikely the bride,
the more glorious and heavenly is the groom.
That's the promise we have in Christ.
And that's why we can sing the song,
Come, O sinner,
come rejoice.
Mercy fills this place of scorn.
That well and that trip through the village
at high noon was a trip of scorn for the woman.
But Christ died to save His enemies,
that all, all, all from Samaria,
all those who have committed the worst sins
in the most public way,
that all may draw near to Christ
and know His peace.
So that's our portrait
of the most unlikely bride.
And I feel like I could just stop right now.
But I also want to show you
how in this same story,
we have the groom's mission.
I mean, this is the mission,
but it's also a foreshadowing
of His greater mission.
Just like I believe this woman of Samaria
is a representative of the church.
What is the greater mission of Christ
and how is it foreshadowed
in this beautiful encounter?
So I want to show you,
I know you're supposed to only have three main points,
but I got five
because that's how many are in the passage.
I couldn't cut it down.
So five, five ways in which the mission
of the groom is foreshadowed
in the same passage.
Let's read through it one more time
with that lens now.
Number one,
Christ left His Father's throne
to get His bride.
Look at verse four.
We read in verse four
that Jesus underlined those, those words.
He had.
He had to pass through Samaria.
The person of Jesus Christ
in the flesh,
filled with the Holy Spirit.
He was under divine compulsion
to go exactly where the Lord,
His Father was sending Him
to accomplish the will
and the mission of the Lord.
And that's where God would reveal to him
a type or a picture of His bride.
See, in Genesis 29, 10,
Jacob, we're told Jacob left his father's land
and traveled to meet his bride at a well.
And now the greater Jacob,
the greater Israel,
the greater Son of God,
left his father's heavenly kingdom
and traveled to earth
and to the promised land
and to Samaria
and to that well
to meet his representative bride.
Look at verse seven.
A woman from Samaria
came to draw water
and Jesus said to her,
Give me a drink.
Women could not bear witness in a court.
They were considered almost subhuman,
and especially a woman with her reputation.
And knowing that Jews would not share a meal
or let the same utensil that one had used
be used even after it had been washed,
He wants to talk to her.
He's seated.
He wants to greet her
and show her kindness.
And He wants to drink
and let that vessel touch His lips
that she drinks from as well.
Her uncleanness can't contaminate Him.
And you can just picture His eyes
and His smile.
He came to reveal the kindness
and the love of the Father.
He would never treat her as a dirty reject.
And the Samaritan woman,
understandably,
can't even believe what's going on.
She says,
How is this?
But in her loneliness,
when no one else would walk with her
or even be seen with her,
Jesus showed her love.
Number two,
our Lord Jesus Christ
causes this unlikely bride
to desire
what only He can give her.
He causes her to desire that thing.
So she cannot know
the truth of God
unless the Messiah reveals it.
And she knows that.
Look at verse 10.
Jesus says,
If you knew the gift of God,
in other words,
you don't know
and you can't know
the gift of God
unless God reveals this to you.
But if you knew,
and what is the gift
that He's referring to?
He is the gift.
He who it is
that is saying to you,
give me a drink.
If you knew who I am,
you would have asked me
and I would have given you
living water.
Okay, so living water
is significant as well.
The geography of Israel,
according to what I've studied
and learned,
I would love for us
to maybe go there someday
all together in person.
Wouldn't that be amazing?
But it's really similar to Colorado.
And so there are parts
where you'll see, you know,
trees growing up
around the water,
but there are other parts
that are desert
and it's arid.
So you have like a cluster
of trees and shade
and nice air and abundance
and springs and, you know,
and then you go to other places
and you're just in the wilderness.
That's how Israel is.
And so the fact
that they're having to travel
quite a ways
to come to a well,
to take the water,
carry it back,
this shows we're
in a more arid place.
Now,
May has been to Israel
three times
and she said
that in Jerusalem,
old Jerusalem,
they've excavated
and discovered
a well
that is
living water.
And what that means
is that
deep down
in old Jerusalem,
King David,
you know,
when he took over
this Jebusite fort,
this fortified
walled city,
down below
is a spring.
So if it got surrounded
on the outside
in a siege,
they would never
run out of water.
And they said
she got to see it
and down below
it's gushing forth.
So you come out
of these desert areas
but in Jerusalem
from where
the Messiah
and the priest,
from where that will rule,
comes these gushing
living waters.
Remember,
Jesus just traveled up
from Judea
and it's like
he's bringing
that imagery
that's in his mind.
Remember,
on his way
he was baptizing
where there was
an abundance of waters
and the spirits working
and Jesus wasn't
even the one doing it,
it was the disciples
baptizing.
Because the power
of God
is flowing
through Jesus
and he's calling
people to repentance
and that power
of the Holy Spirit
is working
and that's the image
of living waters.
It's fulfilled
in Jerusalem,
you know,
the picture
of the throne
of God
where the office
of priest and king
is joined together
in one person,
the seed of David
and now Jesus
is bringing
these living waters
to the dry area
in Samaria.
You only have
three options
for water.
One is a well
and that's like
pulling water up
from the dirt
but it's stagnant water,
it's sitting there.
The other is even worse.
We have no hope of water,
you're going to basically
try to collect water.
Anywhere that it rains,
you're going to collect it
onto a little pool
but it gets stale quick.
It's way worse quality
than a well.
So he's telling her,
don't worry,
it's not going to get worse,
it's going to be
living waters
for you.
Now you picture,
you hear these words,
it's moving,
it's living,
it's energizing,
it's life-giving.
That's the image
of living waters
springing up.
I couldn't help
but think of how
the Word of God
has those same descriptions.
The Word of God
is living,
it's active
and it brings life.
It does not return void.
It flows over the desert
and new life springs up
and there's a great abundance
and harvest.
Now look at verse 14.
Whoever drinks of the water
that I will give him
will never thirst again.
The water that I will give him
will soon become
in him
spring of water
welling up
to eternal life.
Do you remember
when Jesus first used
the phrase eternal life?
And it translated
from the Greek
it really means
you're going to have now
the life that belongs
to the age to come.
It's the life of the age to come
now put inside of you.
That's how he's describing
the work of the Holy Spirit.
But remember Christ
had to cause
this unlikely bride
to desire
that which only
he could give.
He said if you only knew.
She couldn't know.
She was thirsty
in her soul
but she had been
trying to fill
that thirst
of her soul
with all kinds
of different things
with man
after man
and none of those men
could satisfy.
And that's the prayer
we pray.
You have loved ones
that don't know the Lord
you need to pray
that God will give them
a desire
for the thing
that only he can give
which is the spirit
inside of them.
Cambridge Declaration
on the Doctrines of Grace
states what the Bible
teaches this way.
Human beings
are born
spiritually dead.
That's the curse of Adam.
And they are incapable
even of cooperating
with regenerating grace.
It's Ephesians chapter 2.
You are dead
until the spirit
breathes life in you.
That's what Jesus
told Nicodemus
you must be born again.
You must be regenerated.
And Christ had to make her
realize that there was
a deeper thirst
in her soul.
A thirst for God.
And that's exactly
what she has in mind.
She responds by saying
well should we worship
on this mountain
that you guys
didn't help us build
or should we go
all the way to Jerusalem?
She's bringing up
their political
their religious
their cultural stuff.
And Jesus knows
okay her heart
her heart is thirsty
for God.
Because worship
is really about communion.
And her own people
have rejected her.
And I'm going to
promise her now
that she can have
communion.
She can have acceptance
with God himself.
Through Christ
her soul's true longing
that he awakened in her
would be satisfied.
And if you remember
the end of chapter 3
John the baptizer
I think he's setting
the stage for this
encounter.
And he said
that Jesus will give
the spirit without measure.
It's like how do you
even quantify how much
water is available
from a spring?
It never stops.
It never stops bubbling up.
It's the spirit
is the same way.
It's without measure.
It's in abundance.
And God will
well up in your soul
a spring of living water
of the life of the age
to come
once he has caused you
to desire it
which only he can do.
And ask him for that.
Number three
Christ makes the
impossible wedding
come true.
I don't know
that this woman
of Samaria
would have ever
dreamed
that she could be
part of the church
of the Messiah.
She could be
the bride.
She could belong
to this kingdom.
But if she was
in middle school
and had a crush
I mean
it would be like
the most impossible
wedding
she could have
dreamed of.
look at verse 21
Jesus tells her
you
yes you
Samaritan woman
the most unlikely
of them all
you will worship
the father.
He's hinting
and he's foreshadowing
how because of his
life and work
for her
look at verse 22
through him
salvation
it is from the Jews
he will fulfill
the law
given to the Jews
but it won't
stop with the Jews
it will be fulfilled
in him
the promised son
of David
the king of Judah
who will unite
all Israel
all 12 tribes
once again
and he will call
into that number
all the Gentiles
all the nations
of the world
like he promised
to do to Abraham
and all the way
back with Eve.
Verse 23
the hour
is now here
it's here
it's not
something you need
to only long for
you can experience
this now
it's here for you
true worshipers
will worship
the father
in spirit
and truth
for the father
is seeking
such people
to worship
him
verse 24
God is spirit
and those who
worship him
must worship
in spirit
and in truth
all of the
Samaritan woman
all of her reactions
up to this point
have been
maybe sarcastic
you know
pushing it off
changing the subject
she's tough
she does not
know about all this
and what he just
said here
that God
is spirit
and true
worshipers
will worship
in spirit
and in truth
this is beyond
comprehension
I think she'll be
speechless by this
point
and what he's
about to tell her
next is really
the climax
of this whole
passage
verse 25
she says
the Messiah
who is called
Christ
she knows
he's the one
the only one
who could unveil
these mysteries
that you're
talking about
and who is
the promised
Messiah
who is the
Christ
look at verse
26
here's the
peak
the whole
peak
of this
discourse
Jesus said
I who speak
to you
am he
in the Greek
the order of
these words
is like this
Jesus said
I am
who is speaking
to you
in verse 27
right then
the disciples
show up
you see how
it brings you
to that climate
and she's
it's above
comprehension
it's the spirit
working in a way
in her soul
and it's the hunger
and the thirst
of her soul
there's no more
words for it
number four
because of his
sacrifice
Jesus Christ
the heavenly groom
gets his bride
see how it's
the sacrifice
of the groom
that gets him
his bride
and how is that
foreshadowed here
well in this story
it's at his
weakest point
according to his
human nature
in his weakness
he is powerfully
working spiritually
so when
Jesus Christ
one person
according to his
divine nature
is working
powerfully
he's regenerating
he's causing
her eyes to be
open
he's meeting
the longing
of her soul
spiritually
according to his
divine nature
he's saving
this woman
now according
to his physical
nature
he's weak
fully God
fully human
I want to show
you how Christ's
sacrificial weakness
is foreshadowed
here
in his human
nature
look at verse 27
I am
who speaks
to you
just then
his disciples
came back
and they marveled
that he was
talking with a
woman
this is so
unlikely
but no one
said anything
so maybe
they read the
moment as well
something powerful
just happened
spiritually
Christ revealed
who he is
to her
they don't
say anything
verse 6
we told
way back
in verse 6
we're told
that Jesus
wearied as he
was from his
journey
was sitting
beside the
well
and it was
about the
sixth hour
so he's been
traveling
it's very hot
he is thirsty
the disciples
are hungry
and thirsty
we never read
here that she
gave him water
in fact it says
she just left
her jar
and ran back
to her village
and the
disciples
says look
at verse 8
they had gone
into the city
to buy food
and now look
at verse 31
the disciples
were urging
him
urging him
come on
rabbi
teacher
eat
look at verse
32
they said
he said
to them
I have
food to eat
that you
do not
know
about
see how
physically
he's not
getting water
even though
he's thirsty
he's not
taking food
even though
physically
he's hungry
when Christ
was most
weak
physically
he was
working
most
mightily
spiritually
reminds me
of the hymn
see from
his head
his hands
his feet
sorrow
and love
flow
mingled
down
did
air
such
love
and sorrow
meet
or
thorns
compose
so rich
a crown
but Christ
was satisfied
spiritually
he was
fed
in his
soul
he was
filled
he was
strengthened
enlivened
pumped up
he's
the groom
who's
getting
his
bride
and he
looks up
to
Samaria
and he
says
there's
more
that's
what's
feeding
his
soul
verse
34
Jesus
says
my
food
is to
do
the
will
of
him
who
sent
me
and
to
accomplish
that
work
this
is so
important
Christ
did
not
die
on the
cross
to
hypothetically
save
anyone
he
came
to
accomplish
the
mission
the
father
gave
him
look
that's
what
it
says
right
there
verse
36
35
34
that's
exactly
what
he's
saying
I
came
to
accomplish
the
will
of
my
father
and
this
feeds
me
this
is
my
food
Christ
was
full
from
obeying
his
father's
mission
to
save
the
least
likely
and
there
are
more
verse
35
I
tell
you
lift
up
your
eyes
see
that
the
fields
are
white
for
harvest
and
where
is
Christ
looking
and
where
is
he
pointing
the
eyes
of
his
disciples
to
the
Samaritans
it's
to
these
unclean
people
that's
where
the
fields
are
ripe
now
see
the
Samaritans
are being
prepared
by
God
to
repent
of
sin
to
believe
in
Christ
as
the
promised
Savior
to
just
like
we're
doing
in
Judea
where
you're
baptizing
many
as
God
brought
them
that's
what is
my
food
is to
see
the
kingdom
of
heaven
coming
through
my
work
now
look at
verse
36
he's
giving
us
a
glimpse
into
the
inner
relationship
between
Father
Son
and
Holy
Spirit
look at
verse
36
already
the
one
who
reaps
is
receiving
wages
and
gathering
fruit
for
eternal
life
see
Christ
is
looking
forward
to
the
age
to
come
also
this
is
a
soul
that
will
be
united
with
him
for
eternity
this
unlikely
Samaritan
believer
was
Christ's
reward
for
the
age
to
come
and
Jesus
says
so
now
sower
and
reaper
may
rejoice
together
the
Samaritan
woman
having
her
eyes
open
to
behold
that
Jesus
is
the
Messiah
he
is
God
come
to
save
her
this
is
the
reward
of
Christ
reaping
what
the
Holy
Spirit
had
sown
and
prepared
this
fills
him
this
is
his
joy
the
joy
of
God
the
Father
Son
and
Spirit
is
to
see
the
lost
coming
to
him
through
Christ
and
he
says
you
get
to
be
part
of
this
too
disciples
and
you
get
to
be
part
of
this
church
I
send
you
to
reap
he
says
as
the
Father
sent
the
Son
so
I
send
you
go
out
and
reap
that
for
which
you
did
not
labor
that's
why
living
on
mission
within
Christ's
kingdom
it's
a joy
it's
not
labor
he
does
all
the
heavy
lifting
it's
his
spirit
who's
working
and
we
get
to
see
him
draw
more
and
more
to
the
banquet
feast
it's
the
spirit's
labor
through
his
people
so
here
Christ
has
blessed
this
most
unclean
and
undeserving
sinner
he
shows
us
that
the
more
grace
that
she
received
the
more
he
is
glorified
the
more
unlikely
is
this
bride
the
more
heavenly
we
see
the
groom
to
be
I
can't
skip
over
number
five
which
is
Christ
is
undeniable
by
those
who
thirst
to
see
him
remember
he's
the
one
who
puts
the
desire
for
that
water
in
you
he
puts
the
desire
of
your
soul
for
Christ
himself
and
when
he
gives
you
that
desire
he's
undeniable
we
can't
persuade
anyone
to
open
their
spiritual
eyes
but
when
God
puts
the
desire
for
Christ
in
the
soul
regenerates
they
can't
help
but
acknowledge
him
yes
this
is
Christ
my
Lord
and
my
God
look
at
verse
29
when
the
Lord
opened
her
eyes
what
did
the
Samaritan
woman
do
she
ran
back
to
her
village
and
she
only
says
two
words
what
are
they
come
see
that
reminds
you of
John
chapter
1
that's
exactly
what
the
disciples
said
come
see
we
found
him
it's
Christ
it's
the
promised
Messiah
now
look
at
verse
40
the
Samaritans
came
to
him
and
asked
him
to
stay
with
them
that's
what
the
disciples
did
remember
where
are
you
staying
can
we
be
with
you
and
he
stayed
there
two
days
not
only
will
he
drink
water
from
their
well
and
share
a
vessel
he'll
live
with
them
he'll
dwell
with
these
Samaritans
he's
not
afraid
of
them
polluting
him
verse
41
and
many
more
believed
because
of
his
word
not
all
many
more
verse
42
we
have
heard
for
ourselves
and
we
know
that
this
is
indeed
the
savior
of
the
world
see
Christ
only
has
one
bride
and
it's
all
those
who
know
they
are
undeserving
who
know
they
have
been
adulterous
in
heart
but
who
have
heard
his
joy
evoking
voice
that's
how
John
the
Baptist
described
him
I
hear
his
voice
and
it
brings
me
joy
they
get
to
be
with
the
one
when
they
see
his
heaven
in
this
they
see
he's
the
one
who
makes
the
way
for
me
to
have
communion
with
God
when
you
long
for
him
to
increase
more
and
more
in
your
life
take
over
more
and
more
of
your
heart
and
that
you
decrease
in
his
glory
that's
the
true
bride
it's
those
who
are
satisfied
by
Christ
alone
and
who
are
being
cleansed
by
the
Holy
Spirit
they've
been
regenerated
in
those
living
waters
of
the
Holy
Spirit
that's
the
promise
of
sanctification
they will
not
stop
flowing
they will
abound
until
your
final
breath
so
we
affirm
with
the
Cambridge
Declaration
again
on
the
doctrine
of
grace
that
God's
grace
in
Christ
is
not
merely
necessary
it
is
the
sole
efficient
cause
of
salvation
what
that
means
is
that
if
you
believe
in
God
it's
by
his
grace
alone
you
are
the
most
unlikely
the
least
deserving
but
it's
all
of
his
grace
and
it's
his
grace
that
saves
you
his
grace
poured
out
by
his
blood
on
the
cross
it
is
the
supernatural
work
of
the
Holy
Spirit
this
is
the
Cambridge
Declaration
it's
that
supernatural
work
of
the
Holy
Spirit
that
brings
us
to
Christ
by
releasing
us
from
our
bondage
to
sin
under
Adam
multiplied
by
our
own
sins
and
raising
us
up
from
spiritual
death
to
spiritual
life
and
it's
our
unlikeliness
dear
church
beloved
bride
of our
Lord
Jesus
Christ
our
unlikeliness
that confirms
his kindness
and his
heavenliness
and his
glory
and he
gives us
the church
in you
and with
us
corporately
his
Holy
Spirit
which will
be like
a spring
of living
water
welling up
to eternal
life
in you
and in
healthy
churches
it should
never
become
stagnant
the Holy
Spirit
working
our life
should
overflow
it should
abound
and that's
what it
looks like
when we
become
involved
with what
God's
doing
in other
parts
of the
world
as well
so we
can pray
like the
hymn
let every
kindred
every tribe
on this
terrestrial
ball
to him
all majesty
ascribe
and crown
him
Lord
of
all
you need
to know
how this
was fulfilled
historically
Jesus
said
in Acts
1
8
you now
wait
for the
Holy
Spirit
when the
Holy
Spirit
is poured
out
on you
disciples
you go
now
and the
power
of the
Spirit
the living
waters
will go
with you
and you
go
remember
the pattern
you go
to Jerusalem
that's where
the well
is going
to the
Spirit
will pour
out
you spill
over
into Judea
all the
southern
tribes
you don't
skip
Samaria
you go
to Samaria
and I'm
preparing them
they'll be
part of the
great harvest
and then from
Samaria
you go to
the ends
of the
world
and as
Jesus said
that he
ascended
to his
father's
side
now how
this played
out is
Acts 8
1
as Stephen
is martyred
the blood
of the
martyrs
the seat
of the
church
and Philip
once again
Philip
from the
beginning
of John
he goes
to Samaria
and proclaims
the gospel
and the
Lord
regenerates
and then
Peter and
John go
up and
pray for
the church
that the
Holy Spirit
will fill
that church
and the
church is
living in
Samaria
and that
same promise
is for
us
let's pray
and thank
our Lord
from
Ephesians
5
oh God
put your
love in
our hearts
cause us
to marvel
at how much
Christ loves
his church
that he gave
himself up
for us
that you
might now
sanctify us
and cleanse
us by the
washing of
water with
the word
so that you
might present
the church
to yourself
in splendor
without spot
or wrinkle
or any
such thing
that we
like this
unlikely
bride
of our
heavenly
groom
will be
holy
and without
blemish
we ask for
your glory
amen
holy
and
fucking
uh
Mensch
god
God
all
oh