WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.000 Well, good morning, church. Turn with me, if you have a Bible, to John chapter 4. 00:00:10.300 --> 00:00:13.900 And as you turn there, let's pray. 00:00:17.280 --> 00:00:24.260 Lord, that is our prayer, what we have just sung this morning, that you would be changing us from glory into glory. 00:00:24.260 --> 00:00:33.320 We pray that we would know your love for us. We pray that we would see your deep love for us in this passage that we're looking at this morning in particular. 00:00:34.359 --> 00:00:38.500 Lord, may the words of my mouth and the meditations of all of our hearts be pleasing in your sight. 00:00:39.040 --> 00:00:42.160 For you are our rock and our redeemer. In Jesus' name, amen. 00:00:45.840 --> 00:00:50.320 John chapter 4. I'll be starting at verse 1, reading through verse 42. 00:00:50.320 --> 00:00:58.179 Now, when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John, 00:00:58.280 --> 00:01:04.819 although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples, he left Judea and departed again for Galilee. 00:01:05.500 --> 00:01:08.740 And he had to pass through Samaria. 00:01:09.659 --> 00:01:14.599 So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 00:01:14.859 --> 00:01:20.159 Jacob's well was there, so Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. 00:01:20.319 --> 00:01:24.019 It was about the sixth hour, that is noon. 00:01:25.119 --> 00:01:27.859 A woman from Samaria came to draw water. 00:01:28.039 --> 00:01:30.379 Jesus said to her, give me a drink. 00:01:31.379 --> 00:01:34.939 For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. 00:01:35.679 --> 00:01:42.699 The Samaritan woman said to him, how is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria? 00:01:43.539 --> 00:01:45.619 For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. 00:01:46.500 --> 00:01:52.840 Jesus answered her, if you knew the gift of God and who it is that is saying to you, give me a drink, 00:01:52.840 --> 00:01:56.439 you would have asked him and he would have given you living water. 00:01:57.280 --> 00:02:03.219 The woman said to him, sir, you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. 00:02:03.700 --> 00:02:05.300 Where do you get that living water? 00:02:05.400 --> 00:02:07.040 Are you greater than our father Jacob? 00:02:07.040 --> 00:02:12.200 He gave us the well and drank from it himself as did his sons and his livestock. 00:02:13.580 --> 00:02:17.020 Jesus said to her, everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again. 00:02:17.879 --> 00:02:21.640 But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. 00:02:22.420 --> 00:02:28.620 The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life. 00:02:28.620 --> 00:02:36.680 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. 00:02:37.680 --> 00:02:41.159 Jesus said to her, go, call your husband and come here. 00:02:42.020 --> 00:02:44.680 The woman answered him, I have no husband. 00:02:45.640 --> 00:02:51.200 Jesus said to her, you are right in saying I have no husband for you have had five husbands 00:02:51.200 --> 00:02:53.640 and the one you now have is not your husband. 00:02:53.759 --> 00:02:54.780 What you have said is true. 00:02:54.780 --> 00:03:00.800 The woman said to him, sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. 00:03:01.699 --> 00:03:06.620 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship. 00:03:07.680 --> 00:03:15.340 Jesus said to her, woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the father. 00:03:16.139 --> 00:03:18.180 You worship what you do not know. 00:03:19.000 --> 00:03:22.500 We worship what we know for salvation is from the Jews. 00:03:22.500 --> 00:03:29.460 But the hour is coming and is now here when the true worshipers will worship the father in spirit and truth. 00:03:30.340 --> 00:03:32.780 For the father is seeking such people to worship him. 00:03:33.520 --> 00:03:37.219 God is spirit and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth. 00:03:37.659 --> 00:03:39.979 The woman said to him, I know that Messiah is coming. 00:03:40.099 --> 00:03:41.139 He was called Christ. 00:03:41.259 --> 00:03:43.120 When he comes, he will tell us all things. 00:03:44.120 --> 00:03:46.000 Jesus said to her, I who speak to you am he. 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:49.139 Just then his disciples came back. 00:03:49.240 --> 00:03:53.560 They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, what do you seek or why are you talking with her? 00:03:53.960 --> 00:04:01.860 So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people, come see a man who told me all that I ever did. 00:04:01.960 --> 00:04:03.300 Can this be the Christ? 00:04:04.039 --> 00:04:06.280 They went out of the town and were coming to him. 00:04:07.240 --> 00:04:10.020 Meanwhile, the disciples were urging him saying, Rabbi, eat. 00:04:10.020 --> 00:04:13.340 But he said to them, I have food to eat that you do not know about. 00:04:14.439 --> 00:04:17.939 So the disciples said to one another, has anyone brought him something to eat? 00:04:18.900 --> 00:04:24.100 Jesus said to them, my food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work. 00:04:25.199 --> 00:04:27.900 Don't you say there are yet four months and then comes the harvest? 00:04:28.100 --> 00:04:33.139 Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes and see that the fields are white for harvest. 00:04:33.139 --> 00:04:40.959 Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. 00:04:42.039 --> 00:04:44.879 For here the saying holds true, one sows and another reaps. 00:04:44.959 --> 00:04:48.680 I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. 00:04:49.379 --> 00:04:51.719 Others have labored and you have entered into their labor. 00:04:52.639 --> 00:04:56.779 Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony. 00:04:57.479 --> 00:04:58.959 He told me all that I ever did. 00:04:58.959 --> 00:05:03.279 So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them. 00:05:03.299 --> 00:05:04.599 And he stayed there two days. 00:05:05.219 --> 00:05:07.180 And many more believed because of his word. 00:05:07.819 --> 00:05:12.120 They said to the woman, it is no longer because of what you said that we believe. 00:05:12.240 --> 00:05:13.959 For we have heard for ourselves. 00:05:14.560 --> 00:05:21.699 And we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world. 00:05:21.699 --> 00:05:29.479 So this winter leading up to Easter, we are going through the first half of the Gospel of John. 00:05:30.379 --> 00:05:39.740 And in these chapters that we're in, chapters 3, 4, and 5, we have a series of four fascinating conversations between Jesus and four different people. 00:05:40.199 --> 00:05:44.259 A couple weeks ago we saw Jesus talking with Nicodemus, a Jewish leader in Jerusalem. 00:05:44.259 --> 00:05:49.579 At the end of chapter 4, Jesus speaks with a royal official in Capernaum. 00:05:49.659 --> 00:05:53.439 In chapter 5, he meets a disabled man at the pool of Bethesda. 00:05:53.579 --> 00:05:56.959 And here he meets a woman at the well in Samaria. 00:05:58.120 --> 00:06:01.599 And so we see that Jesus interacts with all different kinds of people. 00:06:01.699 --> 00:06:03.199 The healthy and the sick. 00:06:03.699 --> 00:06:05.819 The well-educated and the illiterate. 00:06:06.240 --> 00:06:08.259 Honored leaders and despised outcasts. 00:06:09.240 --> 00:06:10.839 Jews and non-Jews. 00:06:11.060 --> 00:06:12.120 Men and women. 00:06:12.120 --> 00:06:21.600 And today I want us to just take a closer look at this fascinating conversation between Jesus and this woman. 00:06:22.360 --> 00:06:27.639 So I want us to consider and reflect on each of the main characters in the story. 00:06:27.800 --> 00:06:33.480 First, I want us to look at Jesus and how he pursues the Samaritan woman. 00:06:34.139 --> 00:06:38.220 Second, I want to look at the Samaritan woman and how she responds to Jesus. 00:06:38.220 --> 00:06:45.560 And third, I want to look at Jesus' disciples and what he's trying to teach them and us through the process. 00:06:46.020 --> 00:06:49.620 But first, let's consider the character of Jesus in this story. 00:06:51.720 --> 00:06:55.340 Now, verses 1 to 3, we learn that Jesus' ministry is going well. 00:06:55.760 --> 00:06:57.060 He's gathering more followers. 00:06:57.200 --> 00:07:00.920 And Jesus is on the road from Judea in the south to Galilee in the north. 00:07:00.920 --> 00:07:03.400 And then verse 4 makes an interesting statement. 00:07:03.560 --> 00:07:08.020 It says, and he had to pass through Samaria. 00:07:08.699 --> 00:07:13.920 Now, there were three roads that you could take if you were going from Judea in the south to Galilee in the north. 00:07:14.000 --> 00:07:17.220 You could take the western road that went by the Mediterranean Sea. 00:07:17.319 --> 00:07:19.580 You could take the eastern road that went by the Dead Sea. 00:07:19.720 --> 00:07:23.400 Or you could take the central road that went along the ridge through Samaria. 00:07:23.399 --> 00:07:30.079 And almost everybody took this central road because it was much shorter, much more direct than the other routes. 00:07:31.079 --> 00:07:36.779 But John doesn't just say, Jesus happened to be going through Samaria just like everybody else did. 00:07:36.819 --> 00:07:38.879 He says he had to go through Samaria. 00:07:38.879 --> 00:07:45.799 And that verb translated had to or sometimes must is a key verb in the Gospel of John. 00:07:46.179 --> 00:07:50.139 And actually in all of the Gospels. 00:07:50.139 --> 00:07:56.719 And it consistently refers to God's deliberate purpose or God's saving plan. 00:07:57.899 --> 00:08:02.219 And so the same verb appears in chapter 3 when Jesus says to Nicodemus, 00:08:02.319 --> 00:08:03.879 You must be born again. 00:08:04.659 --> 00:08:05.879 You have to be born again. 00:08:05.959 --> 00:08:07.699 The Son of Man must be lifted up. 00:08:08.000 --> 00:08:09.740 Or later in this chapter, Jesus says, 00:08:09.860 --> 00:08:13.459 Those who worship God must worship in spirit and truth. 00:08:15.339 --> 00:08:18.899 And so when we read, Jesus had to pass through Samaria. 00:08:18.899 --> 00:08:22.079 We're supposed to be reminded that all along the way, 00:08:22.199 --> 00:08:28.179 Jesus is acting in line with God the Father's deliberate purpose and his saving plan. 00:08:28.719 --> 00:08:33.159 And so as this story unfolds, we're seeing God's plan unfold. 00:08:33.159 --> 00:08:37.519 There's a purpose for which Jesus is passing through Samaria. 00:08:37.740 --> 00:08:40.519 And we're going to see that as the story goes on. 00:08:40.659 --> 00:08:43.860 Now verses 5 and 6 set the stage for what's going to happen. 00:08:43.939 --> 00:08:47.639 It's noontime, which means it's getting close to the hottest part of the day. 00:08:47.639 --> 00:08:51.419 Jesus, understandably tired because he's probably walked all morning, 00:08:51.819 --> 00:08:53.399 sits down by a well. 00:08:53.500 --> 00:08:54.620 But it's not just any well. 00:08:54.720 --> 00:08:55.840 It's Jacob's well. 00:08:56.220 --> 00:08:58.279 Now you can actually go and visit Jacob's well today. 00:08:58.379 --> 00:09:00.179 It's been preserved 2,000 years later. 00:09:00.500 --> 00:09:01.500 It's a historic site. 00:09:01.699 --> 00:09:04.580 There's still water 100 feet down at the bottom of it. 00:09:05.600 --> 00:09:09.059 But a woman from Samaria arrives on the scene. 00:09:09.059 --> 00:09:15.379 Now, John the Gospel writer was very familiar with the Old Testament. 00:09:16.079 --> 00:09:22.159 And the way he sets the scene might remind people who are very familiar with the Old Testament 00:09:22.159 --> 00:09:27.559 of a couple of episodes in the Old Testament, particularly from the life of the patriarchs. 00:09:28.279 --> 00:09:34.039 So here's a couple of examples that this story sort of echoes. 00:09:34.039 --> 00:09:40.879 Genesis 24, Abraham sends his servant on a journey to find a suitable wife for his son Isaac. 00:09:41.079 --> 00:09:45.059 The servant comes to a well where he asks a woman for a drink. 00:09:45.860 --> 00:09:48.639 That woman, Rebecca, ends up marrying Isaac. 00:09:49.779 --> 00:09:56.839 In Genesis 29, Jacob himself, who the well is named after, arrives at a well at noontime. 00:09:57.199 --> 00:10:00.099 And there he meets Rachel, who becomes his future wife. 00:10:00.100 --> 00:10:05.800 In Exodus 2, Moses sits down by a well in Midian, exhausted from his travels. 00:10:05.899 --> 00:10:07.360 And there he meets his future wife. 00:10:07.440 --> 00:10:12.759 So in all these stories, God in his providence leads one of the patriarchs of Israel 00:10:12.759 --> 00:10:18.899 to a virtuous and godly woman who would become a mother in Israel. 00:10:20.060 --> 00:10:25.120 And now Jesus sits down at the well, named after one of those very patriarchs, 00:10:25.220 --> 00:10:27.000 at noon, exhausted from his travels. 00:10:27.060 --> 00:10:29.000 And here comes a woman on her way to draw water. 00:10:29.000 --> 00:10:31.460 And Jesus says, give me a drink. 00:10:32.120 --> 00:10:35.120 And so you might wonder, what's happening here? 00:10:36.779 --> 00:10:40.220 Maybe this will be a virtuous and godly woman. 00:10:40.799 --> 00:10:43.179 Maybe she'll respond positively to Jesus. 00:10:43.720 --> 00:10:46.460 Maybe she'll immediately become one of his disciples. 00:10:46.840 --> 00:10:48.899 But the story doesn't start that way. 00:10:49.580 --> 00:10:52.480 Her initial response to Jesus is not at all positive. 00:10:53.179 --> 00:10:54.279 It's not at all welcoming. 00:10:54.279 --> 00:11:01.120 What we see is that three, there are at least three, there are three major barriers 00:11:01.120 --> 00:11:04.159 that separate this woman from Jesus. 00:11:04.500 --> 00:11:10.039 And in order to reach this woman, Jesus has to overcome each of these barriers. 00:11:10.159 --> 00:11:14.459 So the first barrier that becomes evident is an ethnic barrier. 00:11:14.799 --> 00:11:18.919 The barrier between Jews and Samaritans in that day. 00:11:18.919 --> 00:11:24.979 She says, the first thing she says to Jesus is, wait a minute, how is it that you, a Jew, 00:11:25.199 --> 00:11:27.299 are asking me for a drink? 00:11:29.139 --> 00:11:33.379 For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans, John reminds us. 00:11:33.379 --> 00:11:38.980 And the animosity between the Jews and the Samaritans had stretched back for centuries. 00:11:39.480 --> 00:11:41.559 It wasn't a new conflict. 00:11:41.820 --> 00:11:45.000 No, it had centuries of history behind it. 00:11:45.039 --> 00:11:48.960 So back in the day, Samaria was the old capital of the northern kingdom of Israel, 00:11:49.200 --> 00:11:51.860 while the Davidic dynasty continued in the south. 00:11:53.139 --> 00:11:57.580 After the northern kingdom collapsed, there was a mixed group of people who resettled that 00:11:57.580 --> 00:11:58.860 area around Samaria. 00:11:58.860 --> 00:12:04.300 And they mixed the worship of the God of Israel with the worship of various other deities. 00:12:05.320 --> 00:12:10.899 And so the rest of the Jews had seen the Samaritans as being in theological and religious error. 00:12:11.740 --> 00:12:16.800 By that time, the Samaritans only accepted the first five books of the Old Testament, nothing else. 00:12:17.440 --> 00:12:23.320 And instead of worshiping in Jerusalem, they had built their own temple on Mount Gerizim, 00:12:23.379 --> 00:12:25.700 where they said that was the right place to worship. 00:12:25.700 --> 00:12:31.160 And there was the... 00:12:31.160 --> 00:12:35.540 So there were political differences, there were theological differences, there was even 00:12:35.540 --> 00:12:36.720 occasional violence. 00:12:37.320 --> 00:12:40.160 And we still have records of a couple of these violent incidents. 00:12:40.340 --> 00:12:45.259 So in 128 BC, the Jewish high priest destroyed the Samaritan temple. 00:12:46.140 --> 00:12:51.300 Around 8 AD, a group of Samaritans defiled the Jewish temple in the middle of Passover, the 00:12:51.299 --> 00:12:51.959 biggest holiday. 00:12:52.699 --> 00:12:57.719 And then later on, in 52 AD, some Samaritans killed several Jewish pilgrims who were traveling 00:12:57.719 --> 00:12:58.399 through Samaria. 00:12:58.559 --> 00:13:01.559 So there was a lot of tension here, right? 00:13:01.620 --> 00:13:05.959 There were these ethnically different groups, plus there was some political tension, plus 00:13:05.959 --> 00:13:07.139 there were religious differences. 00:13:07.779 --> 00:13:13.299 And so that was enough to make most Jews and Samaritans simply keep their distance from 00:13:13.299 --> 00:13:14.719 one another, right? 00:13:14.720 --> 00:13:19.700 Jesus' disciples would go through Samaria, because it was the fastest way to go, and they might 00:13:19.700 --> 00:13:24.879 buy food there, but they would never sit down to a meal with Samaritans. 00:13:26.899 --> 00:13:28.220 But Jesus is different. 00:13:29.440 --> 00:13:31.940 Jesus isn't put off by the ethnic differences. 00:13:32.240 --> 00:13:38.180 And he didn't avoid conversation with somebody who probably held some different political and 00:13:38.180 --> 00:13:38.860 religious views. 00:13:38.860 --> 00:13:41.680 Now, Jesus didn't agree with all the Samaritans' views. 00:13:42.940 --> 00:13:46.399 In verse 22, Jesus even says salvation is from the Jews. 00:13:47.000 --> 00:13:51.759 In other words, God's plan and God's promise had worked itself out through the Old Testament 00:13:51.759 --> 00:13:55.399 through the line of David, through the Jewish line. 00:13:56.539 --> 00:14:01.000 But what we see is that Jesus met the Samaritan woman on her turf. 00:14:02.080 --> 00:14:03.399 He came to where she was. 00:14:03.460 --> 00:14:06.539 He didn't wait for her to find him where he was. 00:14:06.539 --> 00:14:13.719 No, he honored her by asking her for help, by being willing to receive a human kindness 00:14:13.719 --> 00:14:17.259 from her, a cup of water on a hot day. 00:14:18.199 --> 00:14:22.099 And he offered her something far better than any temple could provide. 00:14:22.199 --> 00:14:28.059 He said, I have living water, a fresh running supply of God's goodness and faithfulness that 00:14:28.059 --> 00:14:29.740 wells up within your soul. 00:14:30.299 --> 00:14:34.459 Jesus had come to be the new temple, better than the one in Jerusalem, better than the one 00:14:34.460 --> 00:14:40.180 on Mount Gerizim, the place where people could meet and come into the presence of God. 00:14:42.340 --> 00:14:46.400 So that's the first barrier that Jesus faced is the ethnic barrier. 00:14:47.000 --> 00:14:49.800 But in addition to the ethnic barrier, there was a gender barrier. 00:14:50.280 --> 00:14:56.019 Both the woman in verse 9 and later on Jesus' disciples thought it was strange for Jesus as 00:14:56.019 --> 00:14:59.940 a male teacher to be having a serious conversation with a woman. 00:14:59.940 --> 00:15:07.860 Back then, the general consensus was that Jewish men, especially rabbis, should avoid all unnecessary 00:15:07.860 --> 00:15:12.920 conversation with women except for one's own wife or close relatives. 00:15:13.500 --> 00:15:17.720 Because, they thought, talking with women could lead to temptation or it could give a man a 00:15:17.720 --> 00:15:21.320 bad reputation or perhaps it was simply a waste of time. 00:15:21.320 --> 00:15:31.400 But Jesus did not see women in general as threats or problems or distractions to be avoided. 00:15:32.660 --> 00:15:37.920 No, some women traveled with Jesus and provided for him out of their own means. 00:15:38.040 --> 00:15:39.620 Mary and Martha were Jesus' friends. 00:15:40.240 --> 00:15:41.000 He ate with them. 00:15:41.080 --> 00:15:41.740 He taught them. 00:15:41.860 --> 00:15:43.160 He wept with them. 00:15:44.240 --> 00:15:46.940 And Jesus ministered to women who were hurting. 00:15:46.940 --> 00:15:53.560 Now, Jesus' motives, Jesus' words, Jesus' conduct were entirely pure and respectful. 00:15:54.780 --> 00:15:55.140 Right? 00:15:55.220 --> 00:15:57.600 This whole conversation took place in plain sight. 00:15:57.700 --> 00:16:00.620 There was nothing hidden behind closed doors. 00:16:01.400 --> 00:16:06.440 But Jesus initiated a conversation with this woman even at some risk of being misunderstood. 00:16:07.340 --> 00:16:10.380 I mean, think about this woman's history with men. 00:16:11.720 --> 00:16:15.800 She didn't have a great track record of happy relationships with men. 00:16:16.940 --> 00:16:19.560 She had had five marriages end. 00:16:22.120 --> 00:16:25.160 Now, perhaps she was widowed sometimes. 00:16:25.820 --> 00:16:28.940 But it's likely that she had been divorced at least once. 00:16:29.720 --> 00:16:32.740 Now, she was living with man number six who wasn't even married to her. 00:16:35.060 --> 00:16:38.500 When Jesus asked her for a drink, her initial response is rude and cynical. 00:16:39.160 --> 00:16:40.440 What does he want from me? 00:16:41.440 --> 00:16:44.420 Is Jesus really any different than all the other men I've ever known? 00:16:44.420 --> 00:16:46.640 They just want what they want and then they go along their way. 00:16:46.940 --> 00:16:52.260 But Jesus wasn't like all the other men that she had ever known. 00:16:53.560 --> 00:16:57.480 Jesus wasn't trying to use her and he didn't just avoid her. 00:16:58.760 --> 00:17:02.320 Jesus honored her by treating her as a human being. 00:17:02.800 --> 00:17:07.279 By relating to her and seeing her as a hurting sinner who needed a savior. 00:17:07.279 --> 00:17:11.460 So, Jesus reached across the ethnic barrier. 00:17:11.579 --> 00:17:13.639 He reached across the gender barrier. 00:17:13.759 --> 00:17:18.399 But third, there's another barrier that Jesus confronts and that's a moral barrier. 00:17:19.859 --> 00:17:27.579 You might think, why did this woman come alone to the well at the hottest, most uncomfortable part of the day? 00:17:27.579 --> 00:17:34.480 When the sun is blazing straight down upon your head and there was no shade around the well. 00:17:36.079 --> 00:17:46.779 Well, almost certainly she wanted to avoid interacting with the other women who came early in the morning and later in the evening or in the afternoon. 00:17:46.779 --> 00:17:50.940 You see, her reputation in the village had been ruined. 00:17:52.039 --> 00:17:53.000 She was an outcast. 00:17:53.079 --> 00:17:58.339 She was seen as a shameful moral failure by anyone's standards back then, Jewish or Samaritan. 00:17:58.519 --> 00:18:00.019 Five failed marriages. 00:18:00.839 --> 00:18:07.180 And a sixth cohabiting relationship represented a failure to live up to the moral law of God. 00:18:07.180 --> 00:18:14.039 And in verses 16 to 18, Jesus exposes that moral barrier. 00:18:14.880 --> 00:18:17.660 He brings that reality to the surface. 00:18:18.880 --> 00:18:23.440 He wants her to know that he is not ignorant of her messy past. 00:18:24.500 --> 00:18:29.279 But Jesus also provides a way through that barrier. 00:18:30.380 --> 00:18:35.560 Jesus offers her something far better than any husband could ever give. 00:18:35.559 --> 00:18:37.859 He offers her the gift of God. 00:18:38.399 --> 00:18:40.639 Forgiveness of sins and fullness of life. 00:18:40.919 --> 00:18:48.319 Jesus offers a way for her, a Samaritan, a woman, a sinner, to come into the presence of the one true God. 00:18:48.359 --> 00:18:51.980 He says in verse 23, which is sort of the climax of the conversation, 00:18:52.119 --> 00:19:00.179 the hour is coming and is now here when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. 00:19:00.960 --> 00:19:04.539 For the Father is seeking such people to worship him. 00:19:04.539 --> 00:19:08.639 You see, Jesus has made a way for us to worship God the Father. 00:19:08.940 --> 00:19:10.379 He himself is the truth. 00:19:11.399 --> 00:19:13.480 Later on in John, he'll say, I am the truth. 00:19:14.379 --> 00:19:15.980 And he's promised the spirit. 00:19:16.099 --> 00:19:18.079 That's what it means to worship in spirit and in truth. 00:19:18.159 --> 00:19:21.599 With the spirit that Jesus gives and according to the truth that's in Jesus. 00:19:23.079 --> 00:19:24.879 Jesus is making a way for this woman. 00:19:25.539 --> 00:19:28.799 Through all those barriers to come into the presence of God. 00:19:28.859 --> 00:19:30.539 To be a true worshiper. 00:19:30.539 --> 00:19:33.579 And that's why Jesus had to go through Samaria. 00:19:34.799 --> 00:19:35.000 Right? 00:19:35.139 --> 00:19:39.039 Verse, the beginning of the chapter, we're wondering, why does Jesus have to go there? 00:19:39.399 --> 00:19:41.420 What's God's purpose in sending him there? 00:19:41.659 --> 00:19:44.000 And verse 23 shows us the answer. 00:19:44.099 --> 00:19:47.899 God the Father was seeking out this woman all along. 00:19:48.639 --> 00:19:53.480 And he sent Jesus to break through all these barriers. 00:19:53.480 --> 00:19:59.140 So that she might be reconciled to God the Father and become a true worshiper of God. 00:19:59.880 --> 00:20:03.819 That she would turn from the broken cisterns that could hold no water. 00:20:04.500 --> 00:20:06.380 To the fountain of living water. 00:20:07.440 --> 00:20:08.799 In God himself. 00:20:08.799 --> 00:20:17.259 So Jesus crossed all these barriers so that this woman could become a true worshiper of God. 00:20:17.359 --> 00:20:20.480 So that she could join the true family of God. 00:20:20.539 --> 00:20:24.059 So that's what we see about Jesus and how he initiates with this woman. 00:20:24.180 --> 00:20:25.460 But now let's consider the woman. 00:20:26.740 --> 00:20:28.440 Let's consider her journey. 00:20:28.720 --> 00:20:30.859 Let's consider her response to Jesus. 00:20:31.899 --> 00:20:36.899 Notice how the woman's attitude toward Jesus changes over the course of the conversation. 00:20:36.900 --> 00:20:39.800 And I think there's sort of three parts. 00:20:40.580 --> 00:20:43.900 At first, her attitude is rude and dismissive. 00:20:44.980 --> 00:20:46.800 In verse 9 and verse 11. 00:20:48.180 --> 00:20:48.440 Right? 00:20:48.480 --> 00:20:49.580 At first she basically says, 00:20:49.800 --> 00:20:51.380 Why are you talking to me? 00:20:52.160 --> 00:20:53.240 Do you even know who I am? 00:20:55.040 --> 00:20:56.200 And then verse 11. 00:20:56.420 --> 00:20:57.540 She basically says, 00:20:58.360 --> 00:21:00.100 Are you greater than our father Jacob? 00:21:00.700 --> 00:21:02.060 Who do you think you are? 00:21:02.100 --> 00:21:03.720 Of course you're not greater than Jacob. 00:21:03.940 --> 00:21:06.580 The person who this well was named after. 00:21:06.900 --> 00:21:12.080 But as Jesus continues talking about living water, 00:21:12.180 --> 00:21:17.560 Her attitude shifts from being rude and dismissive to being curious and open. 00:21:18.360 --> 00:21:19.280 Verse 15. 00:21:19.380 --> 00:21:19.740 She says, 00:21:19.800 --> 00:21:21.000 Sir, give me this water. 00:21:21.680 --> 00:21:23.280 So that I won't be thirsty. 00:21:23.640 --> 00:21:26.100 Or have to keep coming here to draw water. 00:21:26.200 --> 00:21:31.120 Now, at this point, it's not clear what exactly she thinks Jesus is offering. 00:21:31.119 --> 00:21:39.979 Maybe she thinks he's offering some kind of magical water source that will save her from having to make daily trips to the well. 00:21:39.980 --> 00:21:44.420 So, it's probably not totally clear to her what Jesus is offering. 00:21:44.519 --> 00:21:48.339 But whatever it is that Jesus is offering, she's at least willing to give it a try. 00:21:49.539 --> 00:21:50.319 She's open. 00:21:51.039 --> 00:21:52.099 And curious. 00:21:52.099 --> 00:21:58.899 Now, I wonder if you can identify with either of these two postures toward Jesus. 00:22:00.519 --> 00:22:06.799 Maybe there's a part of you that responds to Jesus with cynicism and skepticism, like the woman did at the beginning. 00:22:08.919 --> 00:22:16.139 Maybe like this woman, you've been hurt, rejected, used, or ignored. 00:22:16.140 --> 00:22:19.280 Maybe it's not easy to trust anybody. 00:22:20.980 --> 00:22:26.120 But Jesus isn't put off by the woman's cynicism and rudeness. 00:22:26.680 --> 00:22:27.920 He's patient. 00:22:28.600 --> 00:22:29.680 He's gracious. 00:22:30.280 --> 00:22:32.500 He is completely sincere. 00:22:33.540 --> 00:22:36.220 And he continues to hold out his promise. 00:22:37.120 --> 00:22:37.780 To you. 00:22:39.600 --> 00:22:42.540 Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again. 00:22:42.539 --> 00:22:48.259 But whoever drinks of the water I give will never be thirsty forever. 00:22:49.519 --> 00:22:56.119 The water that I give will become a spring of water within you, welling up to eternal life. 00:22:56.220 --> 00:22:59.339 That's the promise Jesus is holding out. 00:23:03.599 --> 00:23:06.159 Or maybe you're feeling drawn to Jesus. 00:23:06.319 --> 00:23:09.519 Maybe you're feeling some of that openness and that curiosity. 00:23:09.519 --> 00:23:12.819 Or you find yourself wanting to experience more. 00:23:13.299 --> 00:23:15.220 Whatever it is that Jesus has to offer. 00:23:15.359 --> 00:23:18.000 Okay, Jesus, give me this water. 00:23:19.759 --> 00:23:26.139 Now, when the woman says that, Jesus responds in an unexpected way. 00:23:27.480 --> 00:23:27.700 Right? 00:23:27.759 --> 00:23:28.779 What does he say in the next verse? 00:23:28.879 --> 00:23:29.500 Verse 16. 00:23:29.680 --> 00:23:32.059 He says, asked her to call her husband. 00:23:33.119 --> 00:23:34.319 She says that she has none. 00:23:35.240 --> 00:23:36.720 And he says that she's had five. 00:23:36.720 --> 00:23:44.279 Sometimes Jesus brings to the surface a part of our lives that we feel deeply ashamed about. 00:23:46.100 --> 00:23:50.480 An area where deep down we know that we have failed or fallen short. 00:23:51.779 --> 00:23:56.400 An area that we might prefer to never talk about with anybody else ever again. 00:23:56.400 --> 00:24:01.640 But Jesus wants us to know that he knows. 00:24:02.840 --> 00:24:16.440 Jesus wants us to know that he's not making his offer to us of living water on the basis of us appearing morally put together on the outside. 00:24:16.440 --> 00:24:26.880 No, Jesus offers salvation and living water to people who know that before God they have failed and fallen short. 00:24:28.019 --> 00:24:30.299 Jesus knows us all the way down. 00:24:31.080 --> 00:24:33.019 And he loves us anyway. 00:24:33.019 --> 00:24:40.379 And that's a truth that if we truly receive, that can transform us from the inside out. 00:24:40.460 --> 00:24:42.079 That Jesus knows us all the way down. 00:24:42.980 --> 00:24:46.660 And he loves us just the same anyway. 00:24:46.660 --> 00:24:57.160 And that's what brings the woman beyond openness and curiosity to her third posture toward Jesus, which is trusting and testifying. 00:24:57.240 --> 00:25:02.640 She's gone from being rude and dismissive to being open and curious and finally trusting and testifying. 00:25:02.759 --> 00:25:05.220 Verse 19 is her first profession of faith. 00:25:05.300 --> 00:25:07.420 She says, Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. 00:25:07.420 --> 00:25:10.539 Now that's not the end of this. 00:25:10.660 --> 00:25:13.580 Now that's not all that Jesus is, but that's a true statement. 00:25:14.980 --> 00:25:18.140 And in fact, that's what the Samaritans were looking for. 00:25:18.920 --> 00:25:21.539 Because if you read the first five books of the Bible, 00:25:22.140 --> 00:25:27.640 Deuteronomy ends with a statement that there hasn't been any prophet like Moses ever since then. 00:25:27.700 --> 00:25:30.900 And so the Samaritans were looking for another prophet like Moses. 00:25:31.220 --> 00:25:33.340 And so when she says, I perceive you're a prophet, 00:25:33.339 --> 00:25:39.139 she's expressing that maybe he's the one who her people were hoping for. 00:25:40.559 --> 00:25:43.740 And then in verse 29, she goes back into town and says to her people, 00:25:43.839 --> 00:25:45.859 Come and see a man who told me everything I ever did. 00:25:46.119 --> 00:25:46.879 Could he be? 00:25:47.199 --> 00:25:48.439 Could this be the Messiah? 00:25:49.419 --> 00:25:50.079 The Christ? 00:25:51.240 --> 00:25:56.079 And verse 39 says that her testimony led many more from her town to believe in Jesus 00:25:56.079 --> 00:25:58.720 and confess that he was indeed the Savior of the world. 00:25:59.679 --> 00:26:02.119 Now trusting in Jesus, as we see here, 00:26:02.119 --> 00:26:05.539 it didn't immediately remove all of her questions. 00:26:07.459 --> 00:26:11.099 She had a question about which temple to worship in. 00:26:12.439 --> 00:26:18.679 And over time, her understanding of who Jesus was would be deepened and clarified. 00:26:19.739 --> 00:26:20.739 But here's the question. 00:26:22.239 --> 00:26:26.039 Have you come to the point of turning and trusting in Jesus 00:26:26.039 --> 00:26:29.219 as the Savior of the world and as your Savior? 00:26:29.220 --> 00:26:32.559 Verse 28 is a picture of what that looks like. 00:26:33.120 --> 00:26:37.559 She leaves her water jar behind and goes into town. 00:26:38.339 --> 00:26:42.120 And she can't stop speaking to people about Jesus. 00:26:43.200 --> 00:26:45.660 The thirsty woman became a well, 00:26:46.380 --> 00:26:52.140 overflowing with the fullness of life that she had tasted and experienced and found in Jesus. 00:26:52.140 --> 00:26:57.780 So that's the woman in her process of responding to Jesus, 00:26:57.860 --> 00:26:59.300 from being rude and dismissive, 00:26:59.500 --> 00:27:02.780 to being open and curious, to trusting and testifying. 00:27:03.840 --> 00:27:08.000 But third, there's one more set of characters in this story, 00:27:08.560 --> 00:27:09.759 and that's Jesus' disciples. 00:27:09.759 --> 00:27:17.640 What does Jesus want his disciples to learn from this whole process, 00:27:17.859 --> 00:27:18.759 this whole conversation? 00:27:18.960 --> 00:27:21.099 Now for most of the story, Jesus' disciples are absent. 00:27:21.519 --> 00:27:23.019 They went into town to buy some lunch. 00:27:23.660 --> 00:27:25.500 But in verse 27, they come back. 00:27:26.460 --> 00:27:28.839 And in verse 31 to 38, Jesus talks with them, 00:27:28.859 --> 00:27:30.440 and he basically says two things. 00:27:31.200 --> 00:27:33.599 He basically says, in verses 31 to 34, he says, 00:27:33.599 --> 00:27:38.019 my greatest delight is to accomplish what God the Father has sent me to do. 00:27:39.719 --> 00:27:42.519 That is to seek out people to become true worshipers. 00:27:43.559 --> 00:27:46.439 And this woman has just become one of those true worshipers. 00:27:47.059 --> 00:27:48.339 So that's the first thing he says. 00:27:48.399 --> 00:27:51.480 My greatest delight is doing what the Father has sent me to do. 00:27:51.579 --> 00:27:58.199 And second, he says, now I want you to join with me in that work. 00:27:58.719 --> 00:28:02.599 And he uses the analogy of reaping a spiritual harvest. 00:28:02.599 --> 00:28:04.959 Sowing and reaping. 00:28:06.279 --> 00:28:09.919 So Jesus is saying, my greatest delight is to do the Father's will, 00:28:10.000 --> 00:28:11.439 see people become true worshipers of God. 00:28:11.519 --> 00:28:15.339 And I want you, my disciples, to join me in that process. 00:28:16.659 --> 00:28:21.899 So I want to close by speaking practically to those of us who are followers of Jesus. 00:28:22.719 --> 00:28:27.399 What does it look like for us practically to participate in with Jesus 00:28:27.399 --> 00:28:30.659 in seeing people like the Samaritan woman who are far away from God 00:28:30.660 --> 00:28:33.600 come to know God and truly come to worship him? 00:28:35.540 --> 00:28:37.120 So a few practical things. 00:28:37.259 --> 00:28:40.480 Number one, be willing to become uncomfortable. 00:28:42.040 --> 00:28:46.820 Think about the situation Jesus walked into, right? 00:28:46.900 --> 00:28:49.300 He went to meet this woman on her own turf, 00:28:49.660 --> 00:28:54.400 even though that involved going into unfamiliar and potentially hostile territory 00:28:54.400 --> 00:28:59.500 where Jesus would be in the minority ethnically, politically, and religiously. 00:29:00.440 --> 00:29:03.800 He carried on a conversation with her during the hottest part of the day 00:29:03.800 --> 00:29:08.019 in a place that was not shaded from the heat of the sun 00:29:08.019 --> 00:29:10.980 when he was already hungry and thirsty and tired, 00:29:10.980 --> 00:29:13.960 and it's not clear whether she ever gave him the drink of water 00:29:13.960 --> 00:29:15.160 that he asked for in the beginning. 00:29:17.160 --> 00:29:17.600 Right? 00:29:17.599 --> 00:29:21.859 This was not the most comfortable place to have a conversation 00:29:21.859 --> 00:29:24.919 with the sweat pouring down his brow. 00:29:27.619 --> 00:29:32.139 But brothers and sisters, know that Jesus by his Spirit goes with us 00:29:32.139 --> 00:29:36.819 and equips us in the midst of uncomfortable situations 00:29:36.819 --> 00:29:38.899 that force us to depend on him. 00:29:40.679 --> 00:29:42.599 So, be willing to become uncomfortable. 00:29:42.599 --> 00:29:48.439 Second, show unfailing honor even while speaking hard truths. 00:29:49.679 --> 00:29:53.199 Now, as followers of Jesus, there will be times when it's right for us 00:29:53.199 --> 00:29:58.219 to challenge people's pre-existing religious assumptions or moral practices. 00:29:58.919 --> 00:29:59.139 Right? 00:29:59.159 --> 00:30:02.319 We can't always just nod in approval of everything 00:30:02.319 --> 00:30:04.399 that everybody already believes or does. 00:30:05.379 --> 00:30:09.159 Sometimes we have to speak hard truths like Jesus did here. 00:30:10.139 --> 00:30:11.919 Jesus says, you've had five husbands. 00:30:12.599 --> 00:30:14.719 The man you have now isn't your husband. 00:30:15.759 --> 00:30:17.959 Or he says, you worship what you don't know. 00:30:20.439 --> 00:30:24.819 Jesus spoke hard truths, but he also showed unfailing honor. 00:30:24.980 --> 00:30:28.579 Consider how Jesus honored the woman throughout this entire conversation. 00:30:29.599 --> 00:30:31.719 He honored her by asking her for help. 00:30:32.659 --> 00:30:36.179 By his willingness to receive a human kindness from her. 00:30:37.419 --> 00:30:40.240 You know, sometimes I think we can be reluctant 00:30:40.240 --> 00:30:43.680 to receive any kind of help from anybody else 00:30:43.680 --> 00:30:46.500 because we don't want to feel indebted to others. 00:30:47.500 --> 00:30:50.339 But that can actually be an expression of pride. 00:30:51.460 --> 00:30:55.319 Acting like we don't want or need anything from other human beings. 00:30:55.319 --> 00:30:59.799 It's actually honoring when we can recognize and appreciate 00:30:59.799 --> 00:31:02.559 what others have to contribute to our lives. 00:31:02.759 --> 00:31:06.740 Even if that's something as simple as a drink of water on a hot day. 00:31:08.439 --> 00:31:13.240 Jesus honored her by recognizing and appreciating what she could offer 00:31:13.240 --> 00:31:15.500 as simply a fellow human being. 00:31:15.500 --> 00:31:20.180 Jesus also honored her by not responding in kind 00:31:20.180 --> 00:31:22.640 to her rudeness and dismissiveness, 00:31:22.839 --> 00:31:26.099 but instead responding with patience and graciousness. 00:31:27.720 --> 00:31:33.660 And Jesus also honored her in the way that he addressed her shameful moral failure. 00:31:35.240 --> 00:31:39.359 Notice that Jesus affirmed what she herself had acknowledged. 00:31:39.359 --> 00:31:44.279 You are right in saying this, that you have no husband. 00:31:45.240 --> 00:31:46.619 He says, what you've said is true. 00:31:48.279 --> 00:31:53.119 So Jesus exposed her sin, but he didn't add one ounce of further shame. 00:31:56.519 --> 00:31:58.099 So be willing to be uncomfortable. 00:31:58.759 --> 00:32:01.559 Show unfailing honor even while speaking hard truths. 00:32:01.759 --> 00:32:04.619 Third, speak about Jesus in simple and powerful ways. 00:32:05.119 --> 00:32:08.699 Jesus didn't begin by quoting from some obscure part of the Old Testament 00:32:08.700 --> 00:32:10.120 that the Samaritans didn't accept. 00:32:10.220 --> 00:32:14.220 He didn't begin by arguing that the Samaritans' political views were misguided. 00:32:14.600 --> 00:32:17.220 He didn't get sidetracked with a secondary matter. 00:32:17.519 --> 00:32:19.640 No, he began by asking her for a drink, 00:32:19.819 --> 00:32:22.299 and he said he could give her the water of life. 00:32:23.080 --> 00:32:27.580 He used a simple image that powerfully conveyed what he had to offer. 00:32:27.580 --> 00:32:30.140 She asked him where people ought to worship. 00:32:30.779 --> 00:32:34.220 He told her about worshiping God in the spirit and in the truth. 00:32:34.220 --> 00:32:39.839 You know, the Gospel of John is full of simple but powerful images 00:32:39.839 --> 00:32:42.740 of who Jesus is and what he offers. 00:32:43.600 --> 00:32:46.160 Here are just some of the images from the Gospel of John 00:32:46.160 --> 00:32:47.839 about who Jesus is and what he offers. 00:32:47.940 --> 00:32:50.360 The word of God, the ladder to heaven, 00:32:50.740 --> 00:32:53.019 the new wine, the new temple, 00:32:53.600 --> 00:32:55.839 the living water, the bread of life, 00:32:56.120 --> 00:32:57.180 the light of the world, 00:32:57.440 --> 00:32:58.319 the good shepherd, 00:32:58.680 --> 00:32:59.460 the true vine. 00:32:59.460 --> 00:33:06.180 You see, it begins with us listening carefully to God's word 00:33:06.180 --> 00:33:09.980 and listening carefully to the people we're talking with. 00:33:10.860 --> 00:33:12.539 And as we listen to God's word 00:33:12.539 --> 00:33:14.539 and listen to the people we're talking with, 00:33:14.759 --> 00:33:17.059 then God will show us ways that we can speak about 00:33:17.059 --> 00:33:19.039 who Jesus is and what he has to offer 00:33:19.039 --> 00:33:21.420 in simple but powerful ways. 00:33:22.500 --> 00:33:24.759 Even maybe using some of these very images 00:33:24.759 --> 00:33:26.579 from the Bible itself. 00:33:26.579 --> 00:33:30.159 Fourth and finally, 00:33:30.480 --> 00:33:32.720 follow the Father's lead and trust his provision. 00:33:32.879 --> 00:33:34.720 Verse 23 is still true. 00:33:35.539 --> 00:33:38.079 The Father is seeking out people to worship him. 00:33:39.199 --> 00:33:41.779 And sometimes we'll find that verse 38 is also true. 00:33:41.879 --> 00:33:42.359 Jesus says, 00:33:42.460 --> 00:33:43.259 Others have labored 00:33:43.259 --> 00:33:46.519 and you've entered into their labor. 00:33:46.659 --> 00:33:48.079 Basically, you're reaping the fruit 00:33:48.079 --> 00:33:50.000 and you didn't even do all the sowing. 00:33:51.039 --> 00:33:54.039 Sometimes our job will be to do the initial sowing. 00:33:54.039 --> 00:33:58.619 Sometimes our joy will be to be reaping some of the harvest. 00:33:59.399 --> 00:34:01.180 But God always goes ahead of us. 00:34:01.960 --> 00:34:03.019 That's what Jesus is saying. 00:34:03.599 --> 00:34:05.240 God always goes ahead of us. 00:34:05.299 --> 00:34:07.099 Even into these uncomfortable places. 00:34:07.980 --> 00:34:10.320 Even into these challenging conversations. 00:34:12.659 --> 00:34:14.960 And he just asks us to follow where he leads 00:34:14.960 --> 00:34:17.139 and trust that he will provide for us along the way. 00:34:18.400 --> 00:34:22.559 See, that's what Jesus invites us as his disciples to do. 00:34:22.559 --> 00:34:25.139 So let's pray. 00:34:29.480 --> 00:34:33.139 I want to close with a prayer that has two halves. 00:34:34.119 --> 00:34:35.799 In the first half, the refrain is, 00:34:35.980 --> 00:34:37.119 Deliver me, Jesus. 00:34:37.340 --> 00:34:40.699 Feel free to pray that out loud 00:34:40.699 --> 00:34:41.779 or pray that in your heart. 00:34:42.699 --> 00:34:44.420 The second half of the prayer is, 00:34:44.519 --> 00:34:45.860 Jesus, I trust in you. 00:34:45.860 --> 00:34:49.539 So hear this prayer. 00:34:49.740 --> 00:34:52.380 Feel free to pray along with me 00:34:52.380 --> 00:34:57.740 as a prayer of deliverance and trust. 00:34:57.739 --> 00:35:03.359 From the belief that I have to earn your love, 00:35:04.359 --> 00:35:05.779 deliver me, Jesus. 00:35:07.000 --> 00:35:10.359 From the false security that I have what it takes, 00:35:11.419 --> 00:35:12.739 deliver me, Jesus. 00:35:14.259 --> 00:35:16.179 From the fear that trusting you 00:35:16.179 --> 00:35:18.399 will only leave me more destitute, 00:35:19.359 --> 00:35:20.879 deliver me, Jesus. 00:35:20.880 --> 00:35:26.099 From all suspicion of your words and promises, 00:35:27.140 --> 00:35:28.519 deliver me, Jesus. 00:35:29.539 --> 00:35:33.099 From rebellion against childlike dependency on you, 00:35:33.780 --> 00:35:35.099 deliver me, Jesus. 00:35:36.519 --> 00:35:40.140 From refusals and reluctances in accepting your will, 00:35:41.220 --> 00:35:42.619 deliver me, Jesus. 00:35:42.619 --> 00:35:45.639 From anxiety about the future, 00:35:46.799 --> 00:35:48.059 deliver me, Jesus. 00:35:49.159 --> 00:35:52.819 From resentment or excessive preoccupation with the past, 00:35:53.559 --> 00:35:54.940 deliver me, Jesus. 00:35:56.279 --> 00:35:59.019 From restless self-seeking in the present moment, 00:35:59.259 --> 00:36:00.639 deliver me, Jesus. 00:36:02.059 --> 00:36:04.480 From disbelief in your love and presence, 00:36:04.659 --> 00:36:06.179 deliver me, Jesus. 00:36:06.859 --> 00:36:10.559 From the fear of being asked to give more than I have, 00:36:10.559 --> 00:36:12.799 deliver me, Jesus. 00:36:16.000 --> 00:36:17.619 Here's the second part of the prayer. 00:36:18.639 --> 00:36:21.099 That you are continually holding me, 00:36:21.340 --> 00:36:23.239 sustaining me, and loving me. 00:36:24.099 --> 00:36:25.759 Jesus, I trust in you. 00:36:26.840 --> 00:36:30.019 That your love goes deeper than my sins and failings 00:36:30.019 --> 00:36:31.219 and transforms me. 00:36:32.440 --> 00:36:33.860 Jesus, I trust in you. 00:36:35.159 --> 00:36:37.239 That not knowing what tomorrow brings 00:36:37.239 --> 00:36:39.340 is an invitation to lean on you. 00:36:39.340 --> 00:36:42.120 Jesus, I trust in you. 00:36:43.260 --> 00:36:45.640 That you are with me in my suffering, 00:36:45.980 --> 00:36:48.440 and that my suffering, united to your own, 00:36:48.519 --> 00:36:51.400 will bear fruit in this life and in the next. 00:36:51.620 --> 00:36:53.559 Jesus, I trust in you. 00:36:54.640 --> 00:36:57.000 That you will not leave me as an orphan. 00:36:57.840 --> 00:36:59.660 That you are present in your church. 00:37:00.600 --> 00:37:02.019 Jesus, I trust in you. 00:37:02.860 --> 00:37:04.380 That you will always hear me, 00:37:04.380 --> 00:37:07.000 and in your goodness always respond to me. 00:37:08.119 --> 00:37:09.700 Jesus, I trust in you. 00:37:10.760 --> 00:37:13.140 That you give me the grace to accept forgiveness 00:37:13.140 --> 00:37:14.400 and to forgive others. 00:37:15.420 --> 00:37:16.860 Jesus, I trust in you. 00:37:17.800 --> 00:37:19.920 That you will give me all the strength I need 00:37:19.920 --> 00:37:21.900 for whatever you ask of me. 00:37:22.940 --> 00:37:24.539 Jesus, I trust in you. 00:37:25.340 --> 00:37:27.180 That you are my Lord and my God, 00:37:27.840 --> 00:37:29.180 and I am your beloved one. 00:37:29.179 --> 00:37:32.119 Jesus, I trust in you. 00:37:32.960 --> 00:37:33.359 Amen.