WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.640 This is John chapter 4. 00:00:02.640 --> 00:00:04.960 Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard 00:00:04.960 --> 00:00:07.520 that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples 00:00:07.520 --> 00:00:10.720 than John, although Jesus himself did not baptize, 00:00:10.720 --> 00:00:13.200 but only his disciples, he left Judea 00:00:13.200 --> 00:00:15.759 and departed again for Galilee. 00:00:15.759 --> 00:00:18.480 And he had to pass through Samaria. 00:00:18.480 --> 00:00:21.199 So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar near the field 00:00:21.199 --> 00:00:24.560 that Jacob had given to his son, Joseph. 00:00:24.560 --> 00:00:26.480 Jacob's well was there, so Jesus, 00:00:26.480 --> 00:00:30.160 wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. 00:00:30.160 --> 00:00:32.600 It was about the sixth hour. 00:00:32.600 --> 00:00:34.799 A woman from Samaria came to draw water, 00:00:34.799 --> 00:00:36.759 and Jesus said to her, give me a drink, 00:00:36.759 --> 00:00:40.120 for his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. 00:00:40.120 --> 00:00:42.879 The Samaritan woman said to him, how is it that you a Jew 00:00:42.879 --> 00:00:45.320 asked for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria? 00:00:45.320 --> 00:00:48.200 For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. 00:00:48.200 --> 00:00:50.359 Jesus answered her, if you knew the gift of God, 00:00:50.359 --> 00:00:53.240 who it is that is saying to you, give me a drink? 00:00:53.240 --> 00:00:55.120 You would have asked him, and he would have given you 00:00:55.119 --> 00:00:56.759 living water. 00:00:56.759 --> 00:00:59.159 The woman said to him, sir, you have nothing to draw water with, 00:00:59.159 --> 00:01:00.599 and the well is deep. 00:01:00.599 --> 00:01:02.679 Where do you get that living water? 00:01:02.679 --> 00:01:05.920 Are you greater than our father, Jacob? 00:01:05.920 --> 00:01:08.000 He gave us the well and drink from it himself, 00:01:08.000 --> 00:01:10.759 as did his sons and his livestock. 00:01:10.759 --> 00:01:13.200 Jesus said to her, everyone who drinks of this water 00:01:13.200 --> 00:01:15.519 will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water 00:01:15.519 --> 00:01:18.200 that I will give him will never be thirsty again. 00:01:18.200 --> 00:01:20.920 The water that I will give him will become in him a spring 00:01:20.920 --> 00:01:23.840 of water welling up to eternal life. 00:01:23.840 --> 00:01:25.760 The woman said to him, sir, give me this water 00:01:25.760 --> 00:01:27.719 so that I will not be thirsty, or have to come here 00:01:27.719 --> 00:01:29.439 to draw water. 00:01:29.439 --> 00:01:33.000 Jesus said to her, go, call your husband, and come here. 00:01:33.000 --> 00:01:35.480 The woman answered him, I have no husband. 00:01:35.480 --> 00:01:38.439 Jesus said to her, you are right in saying I have no husband, 00:01:38.439 --> 00:01:40.480 for you have had five husbands, and the one you have now 00:01:40.480 --> 00:01:42.520 is not your husband. 00:01:42.520 --> 00:01:43.800 What you have said is true. 00:01:43.800 --> 00:01:46.320 The woman said to him, sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. 00:01:46.320 --> 00:01:47.920 Our fathers worshipped on this mountain, 00:01:47.920 --> 00:01:50.240 but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people 00:01:50.240 --> 00:01:52.040 ought to worship. 00:01:52.040 --> 00:01:54.960 Jesus said to her, woman, believe me, the hour is coming, 00:01:54.960 --> 00:01:56.719 when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem 00:01:56.719 --> 00:01:58.600 will you worship the Father. 00:01:58.600 --> 00:02:00.480 You worship what you do not know. 00:02:00.480 --> 00:02:04.120 We worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. 00:02:04.120 --> 00:02:05.960 But the hour is coming and is now here, 00:02:05.960 --> 00:02:08.040 when the true worshippers will worship the Father 00:02:08.040 --> 00:02:11.159 in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people 00:02:11.159 --> 00:02:13.319 to worship him. 00:02:13.319 --> 00:02:15.120 God is spirit, and those who worship him 00:02:15.120 --> 00:02:17.280 must worship in spirit and truth. 00:02:17.280 --> 00:02:20.120 The woman said to him, I know that Messiah is coming. 00:02:20.120 --> 00:02:22.280 He is called Christ. 00:02:22.280 --> 00:02:24.599 When He comes, He will tell us all things. 00:02:24.599 --> 00:02:28.599 Jesus said to her, I who speak to you am He. 00:02:28.599 --> 00:02:30.560 Just then, His disciples came back. 00:02:30.560 --> 00:02:33.640 They marveled at what he was talking with a woman, 00:02:33.640 --> 00:02:35.159 but no one said, what do you seek, 00:02:35.159 --> 00:02:37.040 or why are you talking with her? 00:02:37.040 --> 00:02:39.800 So the woman left her water jar and went away into the town 00:02:39.800 --> 00:02:42.759 and said to the people, come, see a man who told me all 00:02:42.759 --> 00:02:43.800 that I ever did. 00:02:43.800 --> 00:02:45.560 Can this be the Christ? 00:02:45.560 --> 00:02:50.439 They went out of the town and were coming to Him. 00:02:50.439 --> 00:02:54.199 We are working our way through a series on vision and values. 00:02:54.199 --> 00:02:55.840 And so this is our second week. 00:02:55.840 --> 00:02:57.920 At St. Columbus, we definitely prefer 00:02:57.920 --> 00:03:00.360 to work through whole books of the Bible, 00:03:00.360 --> 00:03:02.280 verse by verse, paragraph by paragraph. 00:03:02.280 --> 00:03:04.920 But every once in a while, we'll hop around a little bit 00:03:04.920 --> 00:03:06.280 and look at something thematically. 00:03:06.280 --> 00:03:10.000 And so we're doing that right now with this vision and value 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:10.920 series. 00:03:10.920 --> 00:03:13.240 Last week, we looked at Luke 1941, 00:03:13.240 --> 00:03:16.000 where we saw that when Jesus approached Jerusalem 00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:18.320 in his final week, he looked out upon the city 00:03:18.320 --> 00:03:20.360 and wept for her. 00:03:20.360 --> 00:03:24.680 And we talked about how Jesus Christ loves Edinburgh. 00:03:24.680 --> 00:03:26.920 He loves all cities. 00:03:26.920 --> 00:03:29.320 And we need a heart of compassion, 00:03:29.320 --> 00:03:31.640 like Christ's heart, for our great city 00:03:31.640 --> 00:03:33.760 if we're going to see a city-wide movement of the gospel. 00:03:33.760 --> 00:03:35.719 What is a city-wide movement of the gospel? 00:03:35.719 --> 00:03:38.000 A city-wide movement of the gospel, 00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:40.400 our vision statement, the beginning of it, 00:03:40.400 --> 00:03:45.000 is simply an intensification of the work of the Holy Spirit, 00:03:45.000 --> 00:03:47.920 where we see more and more people coming to faith in Christ, 00:03:47.920 --> 00:03:52.680 conversion, lives of prayer, and the multiplication 00:03:52.680 --> 00:03:56.120 of good works across the city, all because of an encounter 00:03:56.120 --> 00:03:57.120 with Jesus. 00:03:57.120 --> 00:03:59.000 So that's a city-wide movement of the gospel. 00:03:59.000 --> 00:04:02.040 And today, we turn to the idea that we 00:04:02.040 --> 00:04:04.280 exist to seek a city-wide movement of the gospel 00:04:04.280 --> 00:04:07.599 by helping people find and follow Jesus, 00:04:07.599 --> 00:04:10.240 the second aspect of our vision statement here. 00:04:10.240 --> 00:04:12.800 And so to see that, that comes from the Bible. 00:04:12.800 --> 00:04:16.360 One of the great passages is John 4. 00:04:16.360 --> 00:04:21.680 Every single person needs an encounter with Jesus Christ. 00:04:21.680 --> 00:04:23.560 There can be no city-wide movement of the gospel. 00:04:23.560 --> 00:04:25.879 There can be no conversion experience 00:04:25.879 --> 00:04:28.960 unless you have an encounter with Jesus Christ. 00:04:28.960 --> 00:04:31.199 And so every single human being needs 00:04:31.199 --> 00:04:32.519 to find and follow Jesus. 00:04:32.519 --> 00:04:35.879 And so that's exactly what happens here in John 4. 00:04:35.879 --> 00:04:38.800 This woman at the well has an encounter. 00:04:38.800 --> 00:04:40.360 She is encountered. 00:04:40.360 --> 00:04:42.960 And so we're going to actually look at that for two weeks. 00:04:42.960 --> 00:04:46.120 This week, what it means to find and follow Jesus. 00:04:46.120 --> 00:04:49.840 And then next week, think about the very end of the passage 00:04:49.840 --> 00:04:52.879 about what it means to help other people find and follow Jesus. 00:04:52.879 --> 00:04:54.120 So let's think about that together. 00:04:54.120 --> 00:04:59.080 Four things today, not three, but four. 00:04:59.080 --> 00:05:02.439 Jesus Christ came to find us. 00:05:02.439 --> 00:05:07.120 And we have a need to then find Him, secondly. 00:05:07.120 --> 00:05:09.959 Third, what it means to follow Him. 00:05:09.959 --> 00:05:13.199 And then lastly, just a very short preview for next week, 00:05:13.199 --> 00:05:16.840 how to help other people find and follow Him. 00:05:16.840 --> 00:05:18.759 So let's think about that together. 00:05:18.759 --> 00:05:20.000 He came to find us. 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:24.519 There's an encounter that happens here in John 4. 00:05:24.519 --> 00:05:26.399 Who did Jesus come to find? 00:05:26.399 --> 00:05:28.840 Who is this encounter for? 00:05:28.840 --> 00:05:32.680 So if you look down in chapter 4, verse 4, 00:05:32.680 --> 00:05:36.240 Jesus is traveling from Judea to Galilee, 00:05:36.240 --> 00:05:38.759 where He was born, where He lives. 00:05:38.759 --> 00:05:43.759 And to get there, He has to go straight through Samaria. 00:05:43.759 --> 00:05:45.759 You can go around by way of Jericho, 00:05:45.759 --> 00:05:48.040 but the most straight shot is to go right through Samaria. 00:05:48.040 --> 00:05:49.360 And so that's what He does. 00:05:49.360 --> 00:05:51.720 And it's very hot. 00:05:51.720 --> 00:05:52.840 It's an arid climate. 00:05:52.840 --> 00:05:53.680 He is tired. 00:05:53.680 --> 00:05:57.240 And in verse 5 and 6, it says that at 12 noon, high noon, 00:05:57.240 --> 00:06:00.920 He arrives in Sikhar in Samaria. 00:06:00.920 --> 00:06:03.360 And that's where Jacob's well from the Old Testament, 00:06:03.360 --> 00:06:04.759 from Genesis 48 is. 00:06:04.759 --> 00:06:08.120 Now, we are fairly confident that we know exactly where this 00:06:08.120 --> 00:06:09.279 took place still. 00:06:09.279 --> 00:06:10.959 The scholars, the archaeologists, 00:06:10.959 --> 00:06:13.240 we've never lost the sight of Jacob's well. 00:06:13.240 --> 00:06:16.240 It's always been known, passed down century after century. 00:06:16.240 --> 00:06:20.159 And so today, this well is inside a Greek Orthodox church, 00:06:20.159 --> 00:06:22.759 as these things often happen, in a little village called 00:06:22.759 --> 00:06:26.079 Ascar in the West Bank, down in the crypt. 00:06:26.079 --> 00:06:30.920 So it's now several levels below where people live today. 00:06:30.920 --> 00:06:33.759 And at this well, Jacob's well from the Old Testament, 00:06:33.759 --> 00:06:36.879 Jesus is there and a woman comes. 00:06:36.879 --> 00:06:38.800 She's unnamed, as is often the case, 00:06:38.800 --> 00:06:41.759 women in the gospels are often unnamed. 00:06:41.759 --> 00:06:46.920 And Jesus says to her in verse 7 and 8, give me a drink. 00:06:46.920 --> 00:06:49.480 And she is shocked by this command. 00:06:49.480 --> 00:06:51.120 Give me a drink. 00:06:51.120 --> 00:06:52.680 It's a request. 00:06:52.680 --> 00:06:53.639 And she's shocked by it. 00:06:53.639 --> 00:06:55.079 Now, you may know why. 00:06:55.079 --> 00:06:58.159 If you've been in church at all, if you're a believer today, 00:06:58.159 --> 00:06:59.879 you've heard John 4 preach probably. 00:06:59.879 --> 00:07:03.279 And you know some of the issues that are going on here. 00:07:03.279 --> 00:07:05.839 There is first, very clearly in the passage, 00:07:05.839 --> 00:07:10.000 a massive religious barrier between the woman and Jesus. 00:07:10.000 --> 00:07:16.000 And Jews would not eat, would not drink with Samaritans. 00:07:16.159 --> 00:07:18.759 That had been the case for about 400 years 00:07:18.759 --> 00:07:20.039 before Jesus was born. 00:07:20.039 --> 00:07:23.799 And in the Mishnah, which is a document that recounts 00:07:23.799 --> 00:07:25.759 some of the traditions that had developed 00:07:25.759 --> 00:07:27.199 between the Old Testament and the New Testament, 00:07:27.199 --> 00:07:31.479 the Mishnah says this about Samaritan women, actually. 00:07:31.480 --> 00:07:34.000 It says all daughters of Samaritans 00:07:34.000 --> 00:07:35.960 are unclean from their cradle. 00:07:37.040 --> 00:07:39.439 So there's no interaction. 00:07:39.439 --> 00:07:41.759 There's a sense that all Samaritans are defiled 00:07:41.759 --> 00:07:43.879 in some way, religiously unclean. 00:07:43.879 --> 00:07:45.600 And a few chapters later from this, 00:07:45.600 --> 00:07:48.640 in John 8, Jesus is called a Samaritan. 00:07:48.640 --> 00:07:49.840 So some of the people accuse him and say, 00:07:49.840 --> 00:07:51.160 you are a Samaritan. 00:07:51.160 --> 00:07:53.520 They're saying he is defiled, he's unclean. 00:07:53.520 --> 00:07:55.960 They say you are Samaritan and you have a demon. 00:07:55.960 --> 00:07:56.980 They say to him. 00:07:58.360 --> 00:08:00.240 So there's this religious barrier that takes place. 00:08:00.240 --> 00:08:01.800 Now if you look down at verse nine, 00:08:01.800 --> 00:08:04.040 it's very prominent though, 00:08:04.040 --> 00:08:06.879 slightly veiled in the ESV that we read from. 00:08:06.879 --> 00:08:09.079 In verse nine, there's this little parenthetical comment 00:08:09.079 --> 00:08:10.960 that John added that says, 00:08:10.960 --> 00:08:14.400 for Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. 00:08:14.400 --> 00:08:15.480 So he's just explaining to us, 00:08:15.480 --> 00:08:17.199 this is why this is such a shock. 00:08:17.199 --> 00:08:19.319 Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. 00:08:19.319 --> 00:08:22.480 But the Greek text there can also be translated 00:08:22.480 --> 00:08:24.519 something more literally like, 00:08:24.519 --> 00:08:28.439 Jews do not use the same dishes as Samaritans. 00:08:28.439 --> 00:08:31.399 So no dealings is actually an issue of kitchenware 00:08:31.399 --> 00:08:32.320 in the Greek text. 00:08:32.320 --> 00:08:36.080 And it says, Jews will not eat from the same utensils, 00:08:36.080 --> 00:08:39.159 buckets of water, dishes, cups, anything like that. 00:08:39.159 --> 00:08:40.200 And that was exactly the case. 00:08:40.200 --> 00:08:42.279 That's what John adds here. 00:08:42.279 --> 00:08:43.720 Meaning she is saying, 00:08:43.720 --> 00:08:46.440 John is telling us very literally in that moment, 00:08:46.440 --> 00:08:49.000 the shock is that they would drink from the same bucket. 00:08:49.000 --> 00:08:51.399 When Jesus says, can I have some water? 00:08:51.399 --> 00:08:53.480 No chance you're drinking from my bucket. 00:08:53.480 --> 00:08:55.279 That would be a ritual defilement, religious defilement. 00:08:55.279 --> 00:08:57.039 There's a huge religious barrier. 00:08:57.039 --> 00:08:59.879 Beyond that, the religious barrier 00:08:59.879 --> 00:09:02.360 stands on top of an ethnic barrier, 00:09:02.360 --> 00:09:04.480 a barrier of racism that had been built up 00:09:04.480 --> 00:09:07.519 for century and century between both people groups. 00:09:07.519 --> 00:09:10.000 And 700 years before this moment, 00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:13.959 Assyria had conquered the land that is called Samaria here. 00:09:14.879 --> 00:09:18.079 And when that took place, the Assyrians 00:09:18.079 --> 00:09:20.959 and all sorts of international people groups from all over, 00:09:20.959 --> 00:09:23.120 they all mixed and had children. 00:09:23.120 --> 00:09:26.199 And so the people of this time see Samaritans 00:09:26.200 --> 00:09:28.600 as defiled ethnically, 00:09:28.600 --> 00:09:30.160 because of how many different people groups 00:09:30.160 --> 00:09:33.440 are represented in the melting pod that became Samaria. 00:09:33.440 --> 00:09:35.480 There's a massive ethnic barrier. 00:09:35.480 --> 00:09:39.759 And even more, on top of all that, there's a gender barrier. 00:09:39.759 --> 00:09:42.320 And the gender barrier really comes out in verse 27 00:09:42.320 --> 00:09:44.759 when the disciples come back. 00:09:44.759 --> 00:09:47.600 And it says they couldn't believe that he was talking, 00:09:47.600 --> 00:09:50.879 not to a Samaritan, to a woman. 00:09:50.879 --> 00:09:52.360 And the commentators will tell you, 00:09:52.360 --> 00:09:54.360 if you read very widely on this, 00:09:54.360 --> 00:09:58.039 that normally women would come to the well every day, 00:09:58.039 --> 00:10:00.080 but they would come in the early morning 00:10:00.080 --> 00:10:01.039 or in the late evenings, 00:10:01.039 --> 00:10:03.960 never in the middle of the day, at the heat of the day. 00:10:03.960 --> 00:10:05.519 And when she comes, 00:10:05.519 --> 00:10:10.519 that means that she is isolated from her own people. 00:10:10.519 --> 00:10:12.879 It's not just that there's a Jewish Samaritan barrier, 00:10:12.879 --> 00:10:14.200 it's not just that there's a religious barrier, 00:10:14.200 --> 00:10:15.399 it's not just a gender barrier, 00:10:15.399 --> 00:10:18.680 it's that she actually is seen as defiled 00:10:18.680 --> 00:10:20.560 in some way by her own people. 00:10:20.560 --> 00:10:22.800 That's why she's showing up there in the middle of the day. 00:10:22.799 --> 00:10:25.240 She's alone in the world, 00:10:25.240 --> 00:10:26.919 at least from the other women 00:10:26.919 --> 00:10:28.519 that would have normally been at the well with her. 00:10:28.519 --> 00:10:31.439 And so the commentators will say, 00:10:31.439 --> 00:10:33.399 and we don't know this for sure, 00:10:33.399 --> 00:10:35.559 but that oftentimes that encounter at the well 00:10:35.559 --> 00:10:38.719 in the middle of the day might have been an encounter 00:10:38.719 --> 00:10:41.799 where prostitutes would often come to meet people. 00:10:41.799 --> 00:10:43.039 And so there's conjecture there, 00:10:43.039 --> 00:10:45.399 but there's also a guess that this is, 00:10:45.399 --> 00:10:47.839 whatever this is, this is scandal 00:10:47.839 --> 00:10:50.240 in the eyes of everybody that sees this. 00:10:50.240 --> 00:10:51.479 And so there's so many barriers, 00:10:51.480 --> 00:10:54.039 and Jesus breaks right through it without hesitation 00:10:54.039 --> 00:10:56.039 and just says, can we drink from the same bucket? 00:10:56.039 --> 00:10:57.759 Will you give me a drink? 00:10:57.759 --> 00:11:00.560 And the first thing we learn here, 00:11:00.560 --> 00:11:01.840 here's the first lesson, 00:11:01.840 --> 00:11:06.600 John four comes after John three, right? 00:11:06.600 --> 00:11:09.600 And if you don't take anything else away, there you go. 00:11:11.000 --> 00:11:15.279 That's actually very important because in John chapter three, 00:11:15.279 --> 00:11:17.800 Jesus had an encounter with a man named Nicodemus. 00:11:17.799 --> 00:11:22.599 And Nicodemus came not in the middle of the day, 00:11:22.599 --> 00:11:25.039 but in the middle of the night. 00:11:25.039 --> 00:11:28.039 And he was very religious, very Jewish, 00:11:28.039 --> 00:11:32.479 Jewish elite, aristocratic, wealthy, 00:11:32.479 --> 00:11:34.559 everything that the society wanted, 00:11:34.559 --> 00:11:39.559 privileged, a person of status, upright, a moral man, 00:11:40.120 --> 00:11:43.120 a man in fact, yeah, in this first century. 00:11:43.120 --> 00:11:46.719 And in this passage, he comes in the middle of the day 00:11:46.720 --> 00:11:50.120 to a poor, scandalous, isolated, lower class, 00:11:50.120 --> 00:11:52.840 racially separated, richly unclean person, 00:11:52.840 --> 00:11:54.680 a woman who he's not supposed to talk to 00:11:54.680 --> 00:11:56.759 in the middle of the day. 00:11:56.759 --> 00:11:59.360 And he says, Nicodemus, you need to be born again. 00:11:59.360 --> 00:12:01.840 And he says to her, give me a drink. 00:12:01.840 --> 00:12:05.960 And in both situations, what is so clear in the gospels, 00:12:05.960 --> 00:12:08.399 Nicodemus at night, this woman unnamed 00:12:08.399 --> 00:12:10.040 in the middle of the day, 00:12:10.040 --> 00:12:12.680 Jesus had all these scandalous encounters 00:12:12.680 --> 00:12:14.759 and what it tells you is that across every single one of them, 00:12:14.759 --> 00:12:19.000 nobody understood the extent of Jesus' ministry, 00:12:19.000 --> 00:12:21.799 that he came to be for everybody. 00:12:21.799 --> 00:12:24.639 He came for every type of person, 00:12:24.639 --> 00:12:27.480 from the most privileged to the lowest class, 00:12:27.480 --> 00:12:28.519 every type of person. 00:12:28.519 --> 00:12:30.399 And if you just, if you have a Bible, 00:12:30.399 --> 00:12:32.600 you can back up just one verse, 00:12:32.600 --> 00:12:34.639 chapter three, verse 36, 00:12:34.639 --> 00:12:37.240 where John the Baptist is defending Jesus 00:12:37.240 --> 00:12:40.080 against people who were wondering 00:12:40.080 --> 00:12:41.879 who the Messiah really was. 00:12:41.879 --> 00:12:44.639 And John the Baptist, right before this moment says, 00:12:44.639 --> 00:12:47.279 whoever believes in the sun has eternal life. 00:12:47.279 --> 00:12:48.120 And we pass by that, 00:12:48.120 --> 00:12:50.039 but you see the word whoever, 00:12:51.080 --> 00:12:53.960 whoever believes in the sun has eternal life. 00:12:53.960 --> 00:12:56.919 And then that sandwich between Nicodemus 00:12:56.919 --> 00:12:58.600 and the woman at the well. 00:12:58.600 --> 00:13:00.360 And that means we learned something very simple 00:13:00.360 --> 00:13:02.199 and we said this last week, 00:13:02.199 --> 00:13:05.919 Jesus Christ came for every type of human being, 00:13:05.919 --> 00:13:06.759 every single person. 00:13:06.759 --> 00:13:09.000 He loves Edinburgh more than we do, 00:13:09.960 --> 00:13:12.159 because he loves every single person 00:13:12.159 --> 00:13:13.399 and every single type of person. 00:13:13.399 --> 00:13:15.959 And when we realize that we are that person, 00:13:17.079 --> 00:13:18.279 no matter where we sit 00:13:18.279 --> 00:13:20.279 and all these categories and spectrums, 00:13:20.279 --> 00:13:24.519 and we're all judged differently by different peoples, 00:13:25.759 --> 00:13:26.600 no matter where we sit, 00:13:26.600 --> 00:13:28.079 he came for me, he came for you, 00:13:28.079 --> 00:13:29.199 he came for all of us. 00:13:29.199 --> 00:13:31.000 And when we realize that more and more, 00:13:31.000 --> 00:13:33.600 day in and day out, more and more, 00:13:33.600 --> 00:13:35.759 what will break through our hearts as a church 00:13:35.759 --> 00:13:38.840 is that we long for every type of person in our city 00:13:38.840 --> 00:13:42.639 to know that, to know that he came for them. 00:13:42.639 --> 00:13:44.720 Do we have that heart? 00:13:44.720 --> 00:13:46.120 The heart of Christ for Edinburgh, 00:13:46.120 --> 00:13:50.600 he wept for the city and he comes to everybody. 00:13:50.600 --> 00:13:54.000 Secondly, he came, he encountered us. 00:13:54.000 --> 00:13:56.919 Secondly, the need we have then to find him. 00:13:56.919 --> 00:13:58.919 We have to find him, we have to come 00:13:58.919 --> 00:14:01.279 and see our need to discover Jesus. 00:14:01.279 --> 00:14:02.840 Every person in our city needs this, 00:14:02.840 --> 00:14:05.159 every single one of us needs this today. 00:14:06.000 --> 00:14:08.720 She's surprised, she said, 00:14:08.720 --> 00:14:11.399 you a Jew would ask me for water. 00:14:11.399 --> 00:14:14.319 So she understands very well all the barriers 00:14:14.319 --> 00:14:16.639 that are taking place in this moment. 00:14:16.639 --> 00:14:19.319 And then in verse 10, here's the big statement. 00:14:19.319 --> 00:14:23.240 Verse 10, he says, if you knew the gift of God 00:14:23.240 --> 00:14:25.919 and who it is asking you for water, 00:14:25.919 --> 00:14:28.720 you would have asked me for the drink. 00:14:28.720 --> 00:14:31.039 If you knew who is asking you, 00:14:32.000 --> 00:14:33.799 if you knew that it's a gift, 00:14:33.799 --> 00:14:35.439 you would be asking me for the drink 00:14:35.439 --> 00:14:37.279 and I would give you living water. 00:14:37.279 --> 00:14:39.079 So he adds this little adjective, 00:14:39.079 --> 00:14:41.279 not just water, not just water from the well, 00:14:41.279 --> 00:14:43.600 but living water, that's really important. 00:14:43.600 --> 00:14:45.720 And then down to verse 13 and 14, 00:14:45.720 --> 00:14:48.559 he says, the water that I give this living water 00:14:48.559 --> 00:14:50.559 will quench your thirst forever. 00:14:51.559 --> 00:14:53.919 It actually is like a river that leads, 00:14:53.919 --> 00:14:55.519 a stream that leads to a river 00:14:55.519 --> 00:14:57.720 and that river is full of eternal life. 00:14:57.720 --> 00:15:00.639 And so the water I offer will lead you down a river 00:15:00.639 --> 00:15:03.199 and that river will become an ocean of eternal life, 00:15:03.199 --> 00:15:05.759 the swell, that's the word there, that's translated. 00:15:05.759 --> 00:15:08.360 And then right in between that in verse 11 and 12 00:15:08.360 --> 00:15:11.919 and down in verse 15, she is very confused by this. 00:15:11.919 --> 00:15:15.800 So she thinks that he's offering something as a prophet 00:15:15.800 --> 00:15:18.399 that will make it where she literally does not have 00:15:18.399 --> 00:15:20.639 to come back to this well in the middle of the day ever again 00:15:20.639 --> 00:15:23.960 and carry water, heavy water, water's heavy, right? 00:15:23.960 --> 00:15:26.120 Just like Nicodemus had said, Jesus said, 00:15:26.120 --> 00:15:27.159 you need to be born again. 00:15:27.159 --> 00:15:30.320 Nicodemus said, am I supposed to enter my mother's womb 00:15:30.320 --> 00:15:31.800 a second time? 00:15:31.800 --> 00:15:34.360 Very literal, very physical, very confused. 00:15:34.360 --> 00:15:35.920 She's very confused as well. 00:15:35.919 --> 00:15:38.719 I want that because I do not want to walk out here 00:15:38.719 --> 00:15:40.879 to the well every single day in the middle of the sun 00:15:40.879 --> 00:15:42.719 and get water. 00:15:42.719 --> 00:15:45.159 And it's very important to know that in Greek 00:15:45.159 --> 00:15:48.240 there's a couple different words being used here for well, 00:15:48.240 --> 00:15:50.159 a well, a cistern. 00:15:50.159 --> 00:15:53.519 One of them is you could translate cistern 00:15:53.519 --> 00:15:55.839 very much what you think about when you think about a well. 00:15:55.839 --> 00:15:59.079 You know, a pile of rocks with a hole 00:15:59.079 --> 00:16:01.199 and you look down at it, you throw coins, 00:16:01.199 --> 00:16:03.199 that kind of thing, that's one of the words. 00:16:03.199 --> 00:16:05.559 But the other word that's translated for well here 00:16:05.559 --> 00:16:10.559 is a word that can mean living water or something moving. 00:16:11.199 --> 00:16:14.839 And that's because at Jacob's well, there is the well, 00:16:14.839 --> 00:16:17.279 but then it goes down to an actual river 00:16:17.279 --> 00:16:19.439 that's underneath the ground, a stream. 00:16:19.439 --> 00:16:23.159 And when Jesus says I can offer you living water, 00:16:23.159 --> 00:16:25.439 he's talking about running water, very literally. 00:16:25.439 --> 00:16:27.359 He's taking the literal thing that's at the bottom 00:16:27.359 --> 00:16:29.919 of the well, which is a moving stream, 00:16:29.919 --> 00:16:32.839 and saying you don't need cistern water, 00:16:32.839 --> 00:16:34.599 you need living water. 00:16:34.600 --> 00:16:36.440 Now, the reason he's saying this is because 00:16:36.440 --> 00:16:38.600 it's all a metaphor, but it's all about something spiritual, 00:16:38.600 --> 00:16:39.440 right? 00:16:39.440 --> 00:16:40.600 And the reason that he's saying this 00:16:40.600 --> 00:16:42.680 is because when you would come to Jacob's well, 00:16:42.680 --> 00:16:45.040 or any other well in the first century, 00:16:46.000 --> 00:16:48.519 the water on top has been sitting. 00:16:49.399 --> 00:16:51.560 And so you don't want to drink the water, 00:16:51.560 --> 00:16:53.879 you don't just dip your bucket in and take from the top, 00:16:53.879 --> 00:16:55.519 no, it's stagnant. 00:16:56.399 --> 00:16:58.680 You've got to get your bucket all the way down 00:16:58.680 --> 00:17:01.759 so that that bucket fills up with the living water, 00:17:01.759 --> 00:17:04.279 the moving water, so that you don't get sick. 00:17:04.279 --> 00:17:06.519 And so he's taking something that's very normal 00:17:06.519 --> 00:17:10.279 in her experience, living water, water at the bottom, 00:17:10.279 --> 00:17:12.240 and he's saying I can offer you that, 00:17:12.240 --> 00:17:14.720 and I can offer you it to the point that it swells 00:17:14.720 --> 00:17:17.079 all the way up into eternal life. 00:17:18.440 --> 00:17:22.240 That means, that means this, 00:17:22.240 --> 00:17:24.279 that Jesus Christ is taking something 00:17:24.279 --> 00:17:26.039 in her physical experience and saying to her, 00:17:26.039 --> 00:17:29.200 look, I know that you're thirsty, 00:17:29.200 --> 00:17:31.319 but I also know that you're thirsty. 00:17:31.319 --> 00:17:34.079 In other words, Jesus is saying that at the bottom 00:17:34.079 --> 00:17:37.960 of every single human heart, we thirst, 00:17:38.879 --> 00:17:42.480 we long for a spiritual satisfaction 00:17:42.480 --> 00:17:44.399 that we have not yet found. 00:17:45.679 --> 00:17:47.480 That's the metaphor he's talking about. 00:17:47.480 --> 00:17:50.720 He's saying that I can offer you soul satisfaction 00:17:50.720 --> 00:17:53.000 that you've yet to find in all of your life. 00:17:53.919 --> 00:17:58.000 There is stagnant satisfaction at the top of the well, 00:17:58.839 --> 00:18:00.799 things that are stagnant, waters that are stagnant, 00:18:00.799 --> 00:18:01.759 where you go out into the world 00:18:01.759 --> 00:18:03.759 and you look for satisfaction. 00:18:03.759 --> 00:18:06.720 You look to have your longing, your cravings fulfilled, 00:18:06.720 --> 00:18:08.000 and it's stagnant water, and he's saying, 00:18:08.000 --> 00:18:09.960 you've got to go all the way to the bottom 00:18:09.960 --> 00:18:13.319 to really have your spiritual thirst quenched, satisfied. 00:18:14.519 --> 00:18:18.400 In Hebrews 11, there's a long list of names, 00:18:18.400 --> 00:18:21.640 heroes of the faith, people who believed well 00:18:21.640 --> 00:18:23.640 all throughout their lives, and at the very end of it, 00:18:23.640 --> 00:18:26.240 it says that the one thing they all had in common, 00:18:26.240 --> 00:18:29.519 Hebrews 11, was that they all longed, 00:18:29.519 --> 00:18:34.119 yearned for a better country. 00:18:34.119 --> 00:18:36.119 The one thing that it says all the heroes of the faith 00:18:36.119 --> 00:18:38.920 had in common was that they longed, 00:18:38.920 --> 00:18:43.920 thirsted for a better country than this one, than this life. 00:18:44.319 --> 00:18:47.960 And that's exactly what Jesus is talking about. 00:18:47.960 --> 00:18:52.039 C.S. Lewis in several of his books put it really well, 00:18:52.039 --> 00:18:54.759 in the weight of glory and surprised by joy 00:18:54.759 --> 00:18:58.160 and mere Christianity, he talked about this secret, 00:18:58.160 --> 00:19:00.000 he called it the secret. 00:19:00.000 --> 00:19:03.080 It's the thing that's deep down in the bottom of the soul, 00:19:03.080 --> 00:19:05.560 and it is an unsatisfied longing 00:19:05.560 --> 00:19:08.360 that every single human thirsts for. 00:19:08.360 --> 00:19:10.480 Have you ever been thirsty? 00:19:10.480 --> 00:19:12.160 Have you ever been really thirsty? 00:19:13.480 --> 00:19:16.080 And you know that when you're thirsty, 00:19:16.080 --> 00:19:18.519 there's water tastes really good, 00:19:18.519 --> 00:19:21.800 and when you're really thirsty, water is honey. 00:19:21.800 --> 00:19:24.840 You know, it is sweet to your lips. 00:19:24.839 --> 00:19:28.199 And Jesus is saying that there is a spiritual thirst 00:19:28.199 --> 00:19:30.240 deep down at the bottom of your heart 00:19:30.240 --> 00:19:35.240 that is so, so tired, arid, dry, longing 00:19:35.319 --> 00:19:37.720 for something that it's yet to find in this life. 00:19:37.720 --> 00:19:40.000 And Lewis, he said it like this, 00:19:40.000 --> 00:19:44.679 he said, this longing hurts so much, 00:19:44.679 --> 00:19:48.159 it hurts so much that you take your revenge on it 00:19:48.159 --> 00:19:50.519 by calling it names like nostalgia, 00:19:51.399 --> 00:19:54.759 by calling it romanticism, by calling it adolescence. 00:19:54.759 --> 00:19:56.559 It's just for the kids. 00:19:56.559 --> 00:19:58.039 It's the longing for Narnia. 00:19:59.000 --> 00:20:02.519 And we put it away by calling it adolescence. 00:20:02.519 --> 00:20:05.519 And he says this, some of us, the more sophisticated, 00:20:05.519 --> 00:20:06.640 we call it beauty. 00:20:07.799 --> 00:20:09.759 And you look in books, you look in music, 00:20:09.759 --> 00:20:12.200 maybe you look in the most climactic moments 00:20:12.200 --> 00:20:13.640 of your favorite movies, 00:20:13.640 --> 00:20:16.400 and you look and say, that was beautiful. 00:20:16.400 --> 00:20:17.480 I loved that. 00:20:17.480 --> 00:20:19.879 That makes me want more. 00:20:19.879 --> 00:20:20.839 And this is what he writes, he says, 00:20:20.839 --> 00:20:23.599 the books of the music in which we thought 00:20:23.599 --> 00:20:27.079 the beauty was located, it was not in them, 00:20:27.079 --> 00:20:28.879 it only came through them. 00:20:29.719 --> 00:20:32.399 And what came through them created a longing. 00:20:32.399 --> 00:20:34.079 They are not the thing itself, 00:20:34.079 --> 00:20:37.759 they are only the secret of a flower 00:20:37.759 --> 00:20:39.319 that we have yet to find, 00:20:39.319 --> 00:20:42.599 the echo of a tune that we have not heard. 00:20:42.599 --> 00:20:46.319 News from a far country, a better country 00:20:46.319 --> 00:20:47.759 that we have never visited. 00:20:48.799 --> 00:20:50.279 And he said, there's a longing 00:20:50.279 --> 00:20:53.680 that just cannot be satisfied in this life. 00:20:53.680 --> 00:20:56.599 And Jesus came and said, you're thirsty, 00:20:56.599 --> 00:20:57.759 that's what you want. 00:20:59.240 --> 00:21:01.799 I say this with fear and trembling. 00:21:01.799 --> 00:21:04.759 And I don't think our German staff member is here today, 00:21:04.759 --> 00:21:06.240 but I know there are other Germans in the room, 00:21:06.240 --> 00:21:10.680 but Lewis used a German word that I might mispronounce, 00:21:10.680 --> 00:21:12.799 Zenzucht, to describe this, 00:21:12.799 --> 00:21:15.440 it came from German philosophy, Zenzucht. 00:21:15.440 --> 00:21:17.359 He said there's just not a word in English. 00:21:17.359 --> 00:21:21.839 And Zenzucht, it's something like inconsolable longing for life, 00:21:21.839 --> 00:21:24.599 inconsolable longing for life. 00:21:24.599 --> 00:21:27.839 And he said, our whole education, 00:21:27.839 --> 00:21:30.639 our whole lives has been directed to silencing 00:21:30.639 --> 00:21:32.559 this shy, persistent inner voice. 00:21:32.559 --> 00:21:34.639 Almost every modern philosophy 00:21:34.639 --> 00:21:36.479 has been devised to convince us 00:21:36.479 --> 00:21:39.079 that the good of humanity, the longings of humanity 00:21:39.079 --> 00:21:41.599 can be fulfilled in this life. 00:21:41.599 --> 00:21:44.719 And he just said, and they just can't, they just can't. 00:21:44.719 --> 00:21:46.439 And that's exactly what Jesus is talking about here. 00:21:46.440 --> 00:21:50.880 And so Ecclesiastes 311 is the background of this, 00:21:50.880 --> 00:21:55.759 where we read, God has set eternity upon the human heart. 00:21:55.759 --> 00:21:57.720 And Augustine's very famous line 00:21:57.720 --> 00:21:59.720 that we began the worship service with today, 00:21:59.720 --> 00:22:01.920 Peter Crave says, this is the greatest sentence 00:22:01.920 --> 00:22:04.400 ever written outside the Bible. 00:22:04.400 --> 00:22:05.600 Maybe that's true, I don't know. 00:22:05.600 --> 00:22:07.960 But he says, Augustine read this, 00:22:07.960 --> 00:22:10.960 because God, you have made us for yourself, 00:22:10.960 --> 00:22:14.600 our hearts are restless until they find rest in thee. 00:22:14.599 --> 00:22:17.519 See, that's the objective and the subjective. 00:22:17.519 --> 00:22:20.240 Objectively, because God, you made us, 00:22:20.240 --> 00:22:22.480 subjectively our hearts will be restless 00:22:22.480 --> 00:22:25.159 until they find rest in thee. 00:22:25.159 --> 00:22:28.039 It's both, that's what Jesus is teaching us here. 00:22:28.039 --> 00:22:31.279 Jesus can quench our thirsty souls thirdly. 00:22:31.279 --> 00:22:33.039 And really, this is the conclusion. 00:22:33.919 --> 00:22:35.839 How do you follow him? 00:22:35.839 --> 00:22:36.839 You see, that's the need. 00:22:36.839 --> 00:22:40.079 Every single person in our city needs to discover Jesus, 00:22:40.079 --> 00:22:42.159 needs to encounter Jesus, 00:22:42.159 --> 00:22:43.599 because the claim of Christianity 00:22:43.599 --> 00:22:45.199 is that only Jesus Christ, 00:22:45.199 --> 00:22:47.959 only the real God can objectively 00:22:47.959 --> 00:22:51.079 and subjectively quench the thirsty soul. 00:22:51.079 --> 00:22:52.159 That's the need we have, 00:22:52.159 --> 00:22:53.119 that's the need we have to seek 00:22:53.119 --> 00:22:55.399 a citywide movement of the gospel. 00:22:55.399 --> 00:22:56.759 So how do you follow him? 00:22:56.759 --> 00:23:01.759 Lastly, and Jesus here picks up on the theme, 00:23:02.919 --> 00:23:06.359 also Ecclesiastes three, also Jeremiah chapter two, 00:23:06.359 --> 00:23:09.079 verse 13, and Jeremiah and the prophet, 00:23:09.079 --> 00:23:12.480 God gives a condemnation of humanity, a judgment. 00:23:12.480 --> 00:23:14.279 And this is what he says, 00:23:14.279 --> 00:23:16.240 all of you are searching for living water, 00:23:16.240 --> 00:23:20.279 but you all dig your own well, your own cistern, 00:23:20.279 --> 00:23:24.000 and your cisterns are broken, and they cannot hold water. 00:23:24.000 --> 00:23:26.440 So God looks out upon humanity and says, 00:23:26.440 --> 00:23:29.880 that longing is there, that spiritual thirst you have, 00:23:29.880 --> 00:23:32.079 but you're digging your own well, 00:23:32.079 --> 00:23:33.720 looking for the wrong streams, 00:23:33.720 --> 00:23:36.120 and you've got zinzuped, 00:23:36.120 --> 00:23:38.319 you've got this inconsolable longing in your heart, 00:23:38.319 --> 00:23:40.799 and you're looking in the wrong places for it. 00:23:40.799 --> 00:23:42.519 And that means that he's saying here, 00:23:42.519 --> 00:23:45.079 Jesus is saying here, our hearts are sort of like buckets 00:23:45.079 --> 00:23:49.240 with a hole, and you keep trying to fill them up 00:23:49.240 --> 00:23:51.599 with a stream of living water that will keep you happy, 00:23:51.599 --> 00:23:54.599 joyous, but it's just a steady leak, 00:23:54.599 --> 00:23:56.480 it just comes out the bottom. 00:23:56.480 --> 00:23:59.000 And that's why in verse 10 he says, 00:23:59.000 --> 00:24:02.480 if only you knew to this woman, 00:24:02.480 --> 00:24:03.799 he says it to all of us today, 00:24:03.799 --> 00:24:06.440 if only you knew the gift of God. 00:24:08.240 --> 00:24:09.559 And one of the things he's saying in there 00:24:09.559 --> 00:24:12.119 is that the only way you can find your soul quenched 00:24:12.119 --> 00:24:16.720 from the thirst is that if you know it's not law, but gift. 00:24:18.119 --> 00:24:19.679 And you say every single one of us, 00:24:19.679 --> 00:24:24.359 we try to get this thirst quenched through law. 00:24:24.359 --> 00:24:26.359 You might not know it, but this is the human, 00:24:26.359 --> 00:24:27.639 this is what we do. 00:24:27.639 --> 00:24:29.119 And you can think about the first century, 00:24:29.119 --> 00:24:30.879 you can think about the 21st century, 00:24:30.879 --> 00:24:35.119 we all run from gift and try to get our satisfaction 00:24:35.119 --> 00:24:37.559 by way of law, behavior. 00:24:37.559 --> 00:24:40.839 And in the first century it was through ritual cleanliness, 00:24:40.839 --> 00:24:43.440 it was through observing the religious practices 00:24:43.440 --> 00:24:46.559 very steadily, in the 21st century it is productivity. 00:24:46.559 --> 00:24:50.399 It is achievement, it is busyness, 00:24:50.399 --> 00:24:52.759 it is trying to earn your path, it's all law. 00:24:52.759 --> 00:24:55.200 And Jesus says if only you knew it was a gift. 00:24:55.200 --> 00:24:58.679 And so in verse 16, he does something that's sort of 00:24:58.679 --> 00:25:02.919 shocking and which sort of seems out of place 00:25:02.919 --> 00:25:05.919 after saying it's all a gift, I can quench your thirst, 00:25:05.920 --> 00:25:08.279 it's all a gift, and then he says now, 00:25:08.279 --> 00:25:11.240 verse 16, go and call your husband. 00:25:12.840 --> 00:25:16.840 And you think, how does this fit the logic 00:25:16.840 --> 00:25:18.560 that Christ is building here? 00:25:18.560 --> 00:25:20.800 And it seems abrupt, but it actually does fit. 00:25:20.800 --> 00:25:25.240 And she says, you must be a prophet. 00:25:25.240 --> 00:25:26.680 He's son of God, he said, you know, 00:25:26.680 --> 00:25:29.880 I know that you've had five husbands, 00:25:29.880 --> 00:25:31.720 and the man that you're living with right now 00:25:31.720 --> 00:25:33.279 is not your husband. 00:25:33.279 --> 00:25:37.119 Jesus is trying to help her to see that what he offers, 00:25:37.119 --> 00:25:38.960 soul satisfaction is entirely a gift, 00:25:38.960 --> 00:25:40.680 and so he cuts straight to the heart. 00:25:40.680 --> 00:25:42.720 And she, friends, you know this, 00:25:42.720 --> 00:25:45.440 she's at the well in the middle of the day by herself, 00:25:45.440 --> 00:25:47.319 she's cut off from her own people. 00:25:48.319 --> 00:25:49.720 She is a bruised reed. 00:25:50.879 --> 00:25:53.480 She's a bruised reed, but he's not there to break her, 00:25:53.480 --> 00:25:56.759 not at all, no, that's not what this question is. 00:25:56.759 --> 00:25:58.160 That's not what the statement is, no. 00:25:58.160 --> 00:26:01.519 He's not there to break her, he's there to cut, 00:26:01.519 --> 00:26:05.279 expose her heart so he can offer her something, 00:26:05.279 --> 00:26:08.400 to give her a gift that she has yet to find. 00:26:08.400 --> 00:26:11.480 And what he's trying to offer is to help her see 00:26:11.480 --> 00:26:14.879 that she is pursuing relationship after relationship 00:26:14.879 --> 00:26:17.839 after relationship to have her soul, 00:26:17.839 --> 00:26:20.839 her satisfaction quenched, the thirst, 00:26:20.839 --> 00:26:22.160 deep down on the bottom of her heart. 00:26:22.160 --> 00:26:24.400 So she's moving from man to man to man, 00:26:25.519 --> 00:26:26.879 looking for satisfaction, 00:26:26.879 --> 00:26:29.639 and he's saying you're not going to find it there. 00:26:29.640 --> 00:26:34.040 And men move from woman to woman to woman, 00:26:34.040 --> 00:26:36.680 and we chase sex, money, and power, 00:26:36.680 --> 00:26:39.280 and whatever it is that we move from this to this, 00:26:39.280 --> 00:26:42.600 to this, to this, thinking finally I'll be happy, 00:26:42.600 --> 00:26:44.560 finally I'll have joy in this life, 00:26:44.560 --> 00:26:46.560 finally this will give me satisfaction, 00:26:46.560 --> 00:26:50.920 and the secret is that none of it is going to fulfill 00:26:50.920 --> 00:26:53.360 the eternal longing that's sitting at the bottom 00:26:53.360 --> 00:26:54.880 of your heart. 00:26:54.880 --> 00:26:57.960 None of it will quench the thirst that you have. 00:26:57.960 --> 00:27:00.279 It's not something inside this world that can give it to you. 00:27:00.279 --> 00:27:01.720 And the commentators will say, 00:27:01.720 --> 00:27:03.799 we don't know exactly what's going on in her life. 00:27:03.799 --> 00:27:07.000 It could be that she's moving relationship to relationship. 00:27:07.000 --> 00:27:10.720 It could be that she's been left by men 00:27:10.720 --> 00:27:12.680 who are doing that to her. 00:27:12.680 --> 00:27:14.559 It could be all sorts of things we don't know, 00:27:14.559 --> 00:27:17.160 but we do know that Jesus sees her heart 00:27:17.160 --> 00:27:19.799 and he cuts to the heart to say, 00:27:19.799 --> 00:27:23.039 I can give you something that will actually quench your thirst. 00:27:23.039 --> 00:27:24.840 And I just want to note this briefly. 00:27:24.839 --> 00:27:29.839 She sidesteps massively like every single one of us do, 00:27:30.240 --> 00:27:32.359 right, because he says, go and get your husband. 00:27:32.359 --> 00:27:34.359 And she says, I see that you are a prophet. 00:27:34.359 --> 00:27:38.199 Our ancestors have worshiped on this mountain for centuries. 00:27:38.199 --> 00:27:39.039 You see what she's doing? 00:27:39.039 --> 00:27:41.359 She's saying, let's talk about theology. 00:27:41.359 --> 00:27:42.639 I don't want to talk about me. 00:27:42.639 --> 00:27:44.799 I don't want to talk about what's going on in my life. 00:27:44.799 --> 00:27:46.399 Let's talk about theology. 00:27:46.399 --> 00:27:47.240 This has happened. 00:27:47.240 --> 00:27:49.720 Have you, I've done this, maybe you've done this, 00:27:49.720 --> 00:27:53.679 maybe you've done it with us talking and chatting. 00:27:53.680 --> 00:27:57.200 Somebody asked you, have you found spiritual satisfaction 00:27:57.200 --> 00:27:58.720 in the depth of your soul 00:27:58.720 --> 00:28:01.200 by hoping in the only God who can give it? 00:28:01.200 --> 00:28:02.240 Are you seeking Christ? 00:28:02.240 --> 00:28:03.240 Are you praying? 00:28:04.320 --> 00:28:05.160 And you say, well, 00:28:05.160 --> 00:28:08.240 I've been thinking a lot about infant baptism. 00:28:08.240 --> 00:28:09.880 Can we talk about infant baptism? 00:28:11.360 --> 00:28:13.400 That's exactly what's going on here. 00:28:13.400 --> 00:28:15.640 I've been thinking about whether we should have guitars 00:28:15.640 --> 00:28:17.799 or instruments and worship wars. 00:28:17.799 --> 00:28:19.920 She goes to worship wars, right? 00:28:19.920 --> 00:28:23.720 You say this mountain, we say that mountain for 400 years, 00:28:23.720 --> 00:28:25.759 the Samaritans have been worshiping on Mount Garazim, 00:28:25.759 --> 00:28:26.720 not in Jerusalem. 00:28:26.720 --> 00:28:28.360 And that's where she wants to talk. 00:28:28.360 --> 00:28:30.640 And in some sense, she is, as we move to a close, 00:28:30.640 --> 00:28:32.240 she's absolutely right. 00:28:32.240 --> 00:28:33.720 Because how do you follow Jesus Christ? 00:28:33.720 --> 00:28:36.360 How does anybody in our city follow Jesus Christ? 00:28:36.360 --> 00:28:38.480 She cuts to the truth actually, 00:28:38.480 --> 00:28:41.519 because it really is all about worship. 00:28:42.640 --> 00:28:44.560 She goes to worship and it is about worship. 00:28:44.560 --> 00:28:46.720 And he says, you know, you're right. 00:28:46.720 --> 00:28:48.519 There is coming a moment. 00:28:48.519 --> 00:28:50.639 The hour, he says, is coming, 00:28:50.639 --> 00:28:52.599 where everybody, Jew and Samaritan, 00:28:52.599 --> 00:28:54.079 no matter what people group you're from, 00:28:54.079 --> 00:28:55.519 you will worship in one way 00:28:55.519 --> 00:28:58.039 and that's in spirit and in truth. 00:28:58.039 --> 00:29:01.119 Now look, how do you follow Jesus? 00:29:01.119 --> 00:29:02.359 It's a matter of worship. 00:29:02.359 --> 00:29:03.879 It's a matter of bowing the knee. 00:29:03.879 --> 00:29:05.720 That's what she needed, was just to bow the knee 00:29:05.720 --> 00:29:07.079 to the Messiah. 00:29:07.079 --> 00:29:09.119 That's what every single person in our city needs. 00:29:09.119 --> 00:29:10.839 And this is how he puts it. 00:29:10.839 --> 00:29:13.119 He says, there is a day coming 00:29:14.279 --> 00:29:17.400 when you can worship in spirit and in truth. 00:29:17.400 --> 00:29:20.480 And he connects that to his hour. 00:29:20.480 --> 00:29:23.080 The day, the day of spirit and the day of truth 00:29:23.080 --> 00:29:24.480 is also his hour. 00:29:25.680 --> 00:29:28.320 And then he says, you've been looking for the Messiah 00:29:28.320 --> 00:29:32.040 at the very end, he says, and I am he, I am. 00:29:32.040 --> 00:29:34.320 That language, I am, that's the language 00:29:34.320 --> 00:29:37.519 from the Old Testament for the divine essence, 00:29:37.519 --> 00:29:39.800 God himself, Yahweh. 00:29:40.720 --> 00:29:44.200 You see, he's saying, I am the Lord of the universe. 00:29:44.200 --> 00:29:45.480 I am. 00:29:45.480 --> 00:29:49.160 I am the Messiah and my hour is coming. 00:29:50.519 --> 00:29:52.759 And that means that he's connecting the fact 00:29:52.759 --> 00:29:54.960 that he is the Lord of the universe to one thing, the hour. 00:29:54.960 --> 00:29:56.759 The hour every time in John's Gospel 00:29:56.759 --> 00:29:58.360 is a reference to the cross. 00:29:59.360 --> 00:30:00.920 And that means that Jesus is telling her, 00:30:00.920 --> 00:30:03.599 if you want to follow me, if you want to worship, 00:30:03.599 --> 00:30:05.720 if you wanna have your thirst quenched, 00:30:05.720 --> 00:30:06.960 you need to lift up your eyes and know 00:30:06.960 --> 00:30:11.960 that the Lord of the universe came for the hour, the cross. 00:30:12.000 --> 00:30:15.440 He said, I am and I have come to die for you. 00:30:15.440 --> 00:30:19.559 And you see, the thirst that we need quenched is first, 00:30:19.559 --> 00:30:23.400 we need pardon, we need forgiveness 00:30:23.400 --> 00:30:24.920 because the objective is true, 00:30:24.920 --> 00:30:28.759 God made us for himself and we have chased after every other 00:30:28.759 --> 00:30:30.680 thing in this life to quench our thirst 00:30:30.680 --> 00:30:32.039 and it's not working. 00:30:32.039 --> 00:30:33.000 We need pardon from that. 00:30:33.000 --> 00:30:37.279 And then on the flip side, we need rest, rest in him. 00:30:37.279 --> 00:30:40.320 And Jesus is saying, the Lord of the universe has come 00:30:40.320 --> 00:30:45.320 to go to the cross so that I could give you pardon and rest. 00:30:45.319 --> 00:30:46.279 How did he do it? 00:30:47.399 --> 00:30:48.960 You remember when he was hanging on the cross, 00:30:48.960 --> 00:30:49.879 what did he say? 00:30:51.240 --> 00:30:53.119 The Lord of all the universe came to quench your thirst. 00:30:53.119 --> 00:30:53.960 What did he say at the cross? 00:30:53.960 --> 00:30:57.039 He said, I thirst. 00:30:57.039 --> 00:31:00.200 Jesus was on the cross and he was so thirsty, 00:31:00.200 --> 00:31:02.519 physically but also spiritually. 00:31:02.519 --> 00:31:05.119 His soul went into hell itself. 00:31:05.119 --> 00:31:09.359 He thirsted for the presence of God, the Father 00:31:09.359 --> 00:31:12.559 and it was absent from him so that you might drink today, 00:31:12.559 --> 00:31:17.559 the wine of the covenant and know that you can actually have 00:31:19.279 --> 00:31:21.480 a river that swells into eternal life. 00:31:22.799 --> 00:31:24.879 Every single person in our city needs that 00:31:24.879 --> 00:31:26.200 and every single one of us needs that. 00:31:26.200 --> 00:31:28.720 And so let me preview to you in one minute, 00:31:28.720 --> 00:31:30.240 we're gonna talk about next week and that's this, 00:31:30.240 --> 00:31:32.039 how do you help other people? 00:31:32.039 --> 00:31:33.440 That's the mission, that's the vision, 00:31:33.440 --> 00:31:35.000 that's what we want our church to be all about. 00:31:35.000 --> 00:31:36.799 How do you help other people? 00:31:36.799 --> 00:31:38.200 And at the very end of the passage, 00:31:38.200 --> 00:31:39.519 it just simply says this, 00:31:39.519 --> 00:31:44.200 she went into her village, her town 00:31:44.200 --> 00:31:46.400 and she said to every single person, 00:31:46.400 --> 00:31:49.920 let me tell you about a man who told me all that I ever did. 00:31:50.839 --> 00:31:54.240 And it says they came out to him and they believed. 00:31:54.240 --> 00:31:55.519 She shared her testimony. 00:31:56.359 --> 00:31:59.119 She said, let me tell you about the man who saved me. 00:32:01.440 --> 00:32:04.319 We seek a city wide movement of the gospel 00:32:04.319 --> 00:32:06.359 by helping people find and follow Jesus 00:32:06.359 --> 00:32:07.720 but the need starts right here, 00:32:07.720 --> 00:32:09.000 the need starts right here. 00:32:09.000 --> 00:32:12.039 We need him, we need our spiritual thirst quenched. 00:32:12.039 --> 00:32:14.480 And so whenever Jesus Christ encounters you 00:32:14.480 --> 00:32:16.319 and I hope he is today, 00:32:16.319 --> 00:32:18.839 he always invites you to a feast. 00:32:18.839 --> 00:32:22.359 He always says, come take, drink. 00:32:22.359 --> 00:32:24.440 So let's do that in just a moment, let's pray. 00:32:24.440 --> 00:32:29.200 Father, we long for a city wide movement of the gospel 00:32:29.200 --> 00:32:33.680 and so we pray today that you would encounter us, 00:32:33.680 --> 00:32:34.920 Lord of the universe, 00:32:36.200 --> 00:32:38.400 Lord of the universe, become a human being 00:32:38.400 --> 00:32:42.000 so that we thirsty people might never thirst again. 00:32:43.240 --> 00:32:44.759 We know Lord, we thirst in this life 00:32:44.759 --> 00:32:46.640 for all sorts of satisfactions. 00:32:46.640 --> 00:32:48.280 Lord, help us to see today 00:32:48.280 --> 00:32:51.519 that they cannot be fulfilled apart from you. 00:32:51.519 --> 00:32:52.759 So as we come to the table, 00:32:52.759 --> 00:32:55.200 we ask that you would bless us with your presence, 00:32:55.200 --> 00:32:58.400 the presence of the spirit that we would be allowed, 00:32:58.400 --> 00:33:01.240 Lord, invited to pull up a chair, 00:33:01.240 --> 00:33:03.120 to put our knees under the table, 00:33:03.120 --> 00:33:04.360 the table of the king, 00:33:04.359 --> 00:33:07.839 to know that because you thirsted, we may drink. 00:33:08.839 --> 00:33:12.799 And so we ask Lord for your presence by the spirit 00:33:12.799 --> 00:33:14.119 as we take and eat. 00:33:14.119 --> 00:33:37.719 And we pray this in Jesus' name, amen.