Tuesday, January 30, 2007
John 4
I am going to keep going in the book of John and tell you what I think it means because I am one saved and I can because the Lord leads the saved into knowledge of his words. I am called to teach this bible. I am going where I think the Lord is calling me to. It is the Lords words that I am doing so if you want to talk over them feel free. I am not going to rush either because so much is in the bible and i want to camp out on the truth and draw tons out of it. I was asked where I am reading and I do read up on the bible in John Macarthur books and opn the net.
John 4 4 Therefore, when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John 2 (though Jesus Himself did not baptize, but His disciples), 3 He left Judea and departed again to Galilee. 4 But He needed to go through Samaria.
5 So He came to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
Jesus had to go into this part of the land. It was not the place many Jews went because they hated the people because the people were not jewish. Jesus the Jew not going to a jewish place? Jesus is going to to Jacobs well to share the news of who he is with a Lady who was not the most popular person in this culture and to a non Jew. We need to go out and tell the whole world the news to and we need to go after people of all races and genders because our faith is for the world and it is the only one that saved.
6 Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied from His journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.” 8 For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
So Jesus is needing a drink and he asked a woman for a drink. This was not the custom for a man to even speak to a lady in this time. Also it was a Jew speaking to a lower race of people in that time and to top this off this was a person that was in many sins. This for Jesus was breaking all the socials norms for a Jew and a Man. And on top of this Jesus wants to have a drink from her cup. Jesus was a rabbi in this time and to speak to this outcast was one thing but to get water and drink from her was far out. What a risk on the Lords part and what love it showed. Jesus loves everyone no matter what and he calls all to himself but the people need to respond to the call.
9 Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.
10 Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”
Woman is asking Jesus why he would even speak to her. Jesus makes some claims here we need to think about. He claims he has a water that is living. He also talked about a gift he has to give. Look at some background in the OT.
Zec 14 8 And in that day it shall be—
That living waters shall flow from Jerusalem,
Half of them toward the eastern sea
And half of them toward the western sea;
In both summer and winter it shall occur.
9 And the Lord shall be King over all the earth.
In that day it shall be
“The Lord is one,”
And His name one.1
John applies these themes to Jesus Christ as the living water which is symbolic of eternal life mediated by the Holy Spirit from Him (cf. v. 14; 6:35; 7:37–39). Jesus used the woman’s need for physical water to sustain life in this arid region in order to serve as an object lesson for her need for spiritual transformation.2
The water is Jesus. It is the flowing of the Spirit of Jesus we have today in us. This water is the life of Jesus and she needs it.
11 The woman said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water? 12 Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?”
She wants this and she is wondering how to get this. But I am going to show you what she is wanting is not yet what Jesus is offering. She wants a temporal thing but Jesus is going to show her what she needs is not as easy as it seemed. She is a sinner and she needs to turn and repent and go to Jesus. I told you the other night there is a wrong way to come to Jesus and here is one thing about it. If you come to Jesus and just want what he has your not in the right way. It is free when you give your sin up and live for the Lord. It means you need to repent and change. God changes you but you need to let him.
1The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.
2John F. MacArthur, Jr., The MacArthur Study Bible, (Dallas: Word Publishing) 1997.
John 4 4 Therefore, when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John 2 (though Jesus Himself did not baptize, but His disciples), 3 He left Judea and departed again to Galilee. 4 But He needed to go through Samaria.
5 So He came to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
Jesus had to go into this part of the land. It was not the place many Jews went because they hated the people because the people were not jewish. Jesus the Jew not going to a jewish place? Jesus is going to to Jacobs well to share the news of who he is with a Lady who was not the most popular person in this culture and to a non Jew. We need to go out and tell the whole world the news to and we need to go after people of all races and genders because our faith is for the world and it is the only one that saved.
6 Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied from His journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.” 8 For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
So Jesus is needing a drink and he asked a woman for a drink. This was not the custom for a man to even speak to a lady in this time. Also it was a Jew speaking to a lower race of people in that time and to top this off this was a person that was in many sins. This for Jesus was breaking all the socials norms for a Jew and a Man. And on top of this Jesus wants to have a drink from her cup. Jesus was a rabbi in this time and to speak to this outcast was one thing but to get water and drink from her was far out. What a risk on the Lords part and what love it showed. Jesus loves everyone no matter what and he calls all to himself but the people need to respond to the call.
9 Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.
10 Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”
Woman is asking Jesus why he would even speak to her. Jesus makes some claims here we need to think about. He claims he has a water that is living. He also talked about a gift he has to give. Look at some background in the OT.
Zec 14 8 And in that day it shall be—
That living waters shall flow from Jerusalem,
Half of them toward the eastern sea
And half of them toward the western sea;
In both summer and winter it shall occur.
9 And the Lord shall be King over all the earth.
In that day it shall be
“The Lord is one,”
And His name one.1
John applies these themes to Jesus Christ as the living water which is symbolic of eternal life mediated by the Holy Spirit from Him (cf. v. 14; 6:35; 7:37–39). Jesus used the woman’s need for physical water to sustain life in this arid region in order to serve as an object lesson for her need for spiritual transformation.2
The water is Jesus. It is the flowing of the Spirit of Jesus we have today in us. This water is the life of Jesus and she needs it.
11 The woman said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water? 12 Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?”
She wants this and she is wondering how to get this. But I am going to show you what she is wanting is not yet what Jesus is offering. She wants a temporal thing but Jesus is going to show her what she needs is not as easy as it seemed. She is a sinner and she needs to turn and repent and go to Jesus. I told you the other night there is a wrong way to come to Jesus and here is one thing about it. If you come to Jesus and just want what he has your not in the right way. It is free when you give your sin up and live for the Lord. It means you need to repent and change. God changes you but you need to let him.
1The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.
2John F. MacArthur, Jr., The MacArthur Study Bible, (Dallas: Word Publishing) 1997.
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