John 4

Joe Stewart

Sunday, June 09, 2024

Illuminate

Be a Light

Sunday Morning

John 4

God wants to use our stories to reach others for Jesus. We should be willing to do anything short of sin to reach people who don't know Jesus Christ. Jesus shed light in the dark places, so we can share light in the dark places.

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Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than Johnalthough in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples.So he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.

Now he had to go through Samaria.

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So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph.Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.

Genesis 24:11 NIV

He had the camels kneel down near the well outside the town; it was toward evening, the time the women go out to draw water.

When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?”(His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)

The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)

Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”

“Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water?

Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”

Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again

but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

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The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”

John 4:16-18 NIV

He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”“I have no husband,” she replied. Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband.The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.”

John 4:19-20 NIV

“Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet.Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”

The woman is concerned with where to worship while Jesus is concerned with who to worship

John 4:21-25 NIV

“Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”

Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you—I am he.”

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Jesus meets us where we are and changes who we are and whose we are

Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, “What do you want?” or “Why are you talking with her?”

Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people

Luke 5:9-11 NIV

For he and all his companions were astonished at the catch of fish they had takenand so were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, Simon’s partners. Then Jesus said to Simon, “Don’t be afraid; from now on you will fish for people.”So they pulled their boats up on shore, left everything and followed him.

Luke 5:27-28 NIV

After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector by the name of Levi sitting at his tax booth. “Follow me,” Jesus said to himand Levi got up, left everything and followed him.

Simon didn't need the fish anymore because he had the Bread of Life

Levi didn't need to collect taxes anymore because he was with One who would pay the price for him

The woman didn't need the stagnant water anymore because she now had living water

“Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?”

When we meet Jesus, we should tell everyone about Him

They came out of the town and made their way toward him.

Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.”

Don't discount the power of telling your testimony

John 4:40-41 NIV

So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days.And because of his words many more became believers.

Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day.

But many who heard the message believed; so the number of men who believed grew to about five thousand.

Acts 4:29-31 NIV

Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness.Stretch out your hand to heal and perform signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus.”After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly.

and will give our attention to prayer and the ministry of the word.”

So the word of God spread. The number of disciples in Jerusalem increased rapidly, and a large number of priests became obedient to the faith.

Those who had been scattered preached the word wherever they went.

When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to Samaria.

After they had further proclaimed the word of the Lord and testified about Jesus, Peter and John returned to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel in many Samaritan villages.

While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit came on all who heard the message.

The apostles and the believers throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.

Now those who had been scattered by the persecution that broke out when Stephen was killed traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus and Antioch, spreading the word only among Jews.

But the word of God continued to spread and flourish.

When they arrived at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the Jewish synagogues. John was with them as their helper.

who was an attendant of the proconsul, Sergius Paulus. The proconsul, an intelligent man, sent for Barnabas and Saul because he wanted to hear the word of God.

Acts 13:44-49 NIV

On the next Sabbath almost the whole city gathered to hear the word of the Lord.When the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy. They began to contradict what Paul was saying and heaped abuse on him.Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: “We had to speak the word of God to you first. Since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles.For this is what the Lord has commanded us: “ ‘I have made you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’”When the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and honored the word of the Lord; and all who were appointed for eternal life believed.The word of the Lord spread through the whole region.

and when they had preached the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia.

Acts 15:35-36 NIV

But Paul and Barnabas remained in Antioch, where they and many others taught and preached the word of the Lord.Some time later Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us go back and visit the believers in all the towns where we preached the word of the Lord and see how they are doing.”

Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all the others in his house.

Now the Berean Jews were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true.

So Paul stayed in Corinth for a year and a half, teaching them the word of God.

This went on for two years, so that all the Jews and Greeks who lived in the province of Asia heard the word of the Lord.

In this way the word of the Lord spread widely and grew in power.

Psalms 119:105 NIV

Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path.

The Word of God illuminates

We have the same 2 weapons today:
1) Our testimony
2) The Word of God

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Are you willing to potentially "go through Samaria" to illuminate the world?