Are You Thirsty? John 4

but Jesus didn't care. He is gonna show his apostles. He's gonna show the world. He's gonna show us that these artificial barriers that mankind puts up between us should not be. Jesus didn't give a hoot about those divisions between the northern and the Southern Kingdoms because he has a plan to meet an encounter with a Samaritan woman. And it's gonna be an encounter that's even gonna blow the mind of his apostles away. They're gonna what's he doing? [00:54:32] (36 seconds)  #WrongWellToDrink

Well, this is an incredible contrast to that last meeting with Nicodemus. We two weeks ago, we read about Nick at night. And Jesus met this man who was at very top of Jewish religious world and society. He was the teacher of Israel. He was the rabbi of rabbis. He had this great career, wonderful family, people looking up to him as the epitome of a Jewish religious man. But there's a woman that Jesus is gonna meet that is on the exact opposite side of the social stratum. It's one that any good Jewish man would try to avoid and shun. [00:55:08] (45 seconds)  #NoPrejudiceLoveAll

And this holy spirit has saved the story for us two thousand years later that we in this church, that we should never, never, never take our prejudice, our biases, our preconceived ideas about people because they look different or they dress different or they speak a different language. Jesus set a pattern for the believer when we were told, I think, in the book of Matthew that he was called a friend of the sinners. May we be called such a horrible thing because they attacked him for it. [00:56:31] (38 seconds)  #OneOnOneEvangelism

For there is this certain day that was ordained by God in eternity past. And Jesus is gonna reveal to her what so many of us have done, I have, that she had drawn from the wrong well most of her life. She drawn from a well, always seeking for love literally as the song goes, love in all the wrong places. And it's a love that was missing. It was a love that no man or human being could fill and only God can. [01:09:41] (36 seconds)  #LivingWaterInside

But what I love about this story, in this church, the elders used to sit in the stage, and one of the elders in his finest three piece suit got up, went down the stairs, and came down, and he he sat right next to him. And he put his arm around him, letting him know that he belonged there so that he could hear the gospel of Jesus Christ. [01:14:39] (37 seconds)  #LoveOnlyGodFills

And I think that was ordained by God as well, that Jesus could have this one on one meeting with this woman without the 12 standing around. And I believe that is the best evangelism known to bring people to Christ, one on one, not in group sessions where people start asking questions and things get turned around. But spending time with someone, not always talking, but listening. Not jumping with religious platitudes, but listening, and let the holy spirit respond through you with gentleness and respect. [01:16:05] (36 seconds)  #ChooseGodNotWorld

If you only knew, if only we could grasp who it is that speaks to our hearts and to our souls and grasp how much god really, really loves us. We would never chase after other things for satisfaction in such a short, short way that it is. Jesus invites this woman as something that's not made up of the the elements of h two o, but a single most important element of every human being needs, the gift of God living inside of us. [01:19:27] (34 seconds)  #GodFillsTheVoid

``What Jesus is saying to her and to us, that the worldly things that we would go to to relieve our thirst for for happiness, longing for good stuff and fulfillment, everything and anything, whether it's sports, whether it's money, whether it's drugs, whether it's sex. Yeah. It might be good for a short time, but it is temporary. There's a god shaped void in every one of us. He put it there, and there's only one person that can fill it, and that's god. [01:25:50] (32 seconds)  #livingWater