367: Greg Robinson – In Spirit and Truth

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Welcome to Good Christophian
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Hey everyone, it’s Jason

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Hensley.
This week I have a couple of

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things that I want to talk to
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The first is we have been
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good Christadelphian talks.
Thus, I would like to introduce

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Brother Matthew McCracken to
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He is from the Milford Rd.
Ecclesia in the Detroit, MI

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area.
I’ve known him for a few years

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and I’m really excited that he’s
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He and I have had some really
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talks, as we’ve been at
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back and forth.
So I think you’re going to enjoy

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listening to some of the
different talks that he posts,

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some of the things that he
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intros.
So we’re pretty excited to have

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him.
He’s going to be introducing the

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talk next week.
For this week, our talk is going

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to be by Brother Greg Robinson
and it was given at the

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Idyllwild Bible School this
year.

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It’s from a series called Now We
Believe, which is a look at the

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Gospel of John.
And this one in particular is

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called in Spirit and in Truth.
Now from the title you might be

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able to guess what it’s about.
It is about the Samaritan woman

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of John, chapter 4.
And I just absolutely love the

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way that brother Greg deals with
this story.

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I think the overall major
picture that he brings out here,

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that we can have our traditions,
we can have our rituals, and we

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sometimes just get lost in
those.

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It’s a lesson that we know.
It’s a lesson that we think

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about.
But this story just really

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brings it out so powerfully that
God isn’t about the ritual.

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God is about changing our lives.
And the way that this happens is

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when we come face to face with
the Word of God, just as the

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Samaritan woman did.
So I think that’s a very

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powerful lesson.
It’s something that we know, but

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it’s something that we need to
be reminded of all the time.

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The Word of God, That’s what
changes us.

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So this is Brother Greg Robinson
in spirit and in truth.

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All right, Good morning,
everyone.

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All right.
Impressive how quiet everybody

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got there.
At first I thought that was

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maybe a stunt or something like
that, but all right, so we’re

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going to be looking at the woman
at the well this morning.

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Before we start out with that,
just a quick reminder about

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yesterday’s lesson.
A lot of similarities actually

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that have have been noted by by
people between Nicodemus and the

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woman at the well.
So our key lesson from yesterday

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was unless we’re born of water
and the Spirit, we cannot enter

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into the Kingdom of God.
So today then, we’re going to be

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looking at the woman at the
well, and she’s a woman that

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belonged to a group that had an
incredible spiritual heritage.

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And that’s brought out in John
just with some of the details

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that we’re going to look at.
It was a heritage full of

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brethren that had incredible
faith.

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And the woman was very proud.
You can tell of that heritage

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and she subscribed to its
rituals.

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She subscribed to the traditions
of her group.

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You might say that she actually
fights for those things, but

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Jesus shows her in this chapter
that her worship wasn’t what God

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was looking for.
It had to be more than rituals

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and traditions.
It had to be life changing.

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That’s the the key lesson that
we’re going to see, I think this

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morning in looking at the woman
at the well, the Samaritan woman

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at the well.
And so our our 4th class is

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titled in spirit and in truth
and it’s found, as you know, in

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John chapter 4.
So let’s let’s open our Bibles

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up to John chapter 4, the end of
at the end of chapter 3.

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Jesus work in Judea has met with
a lot of success.

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You’ll remember that his work is
eclipsing the work of John the

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Baptist.
His disciples are baptizing more

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and John says he must increase,
but I must decrease.

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And at the beginning of chapter
4, Jesus seems to be getting

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pressure now.
He seems to be getting noticed

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by the Pharisees significantly.
And so he decides he’s going to

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head back to Galilee.
Now John chapter 4 verse 4 says

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that he had he had to pass
through Samaria.

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The King James Version says he
must needs go through Samaria.

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So this gives us the idea that
that somehow Jesus maybe was

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directed to go through Samaria.
Usually the Jews would travel

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around Samaria they wouldn’t go
through.

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If you look at the map there,
you’ll see there’s a a green

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route that went on the left side
going around on the West side of

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Samaria.
In the red, there was a a route

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that went to the east across the
Jordan, but the white route was

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the one that was the quickest
route, and that’s the one

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through Samaria.
If they were going up to

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Galilee, if they’re going up
there, they would never take

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because it went through Samaria.
Now why would they do that?

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Why would they always go way
around Samaria instead of going

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through Samaria?
That’s because the Jews and the

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Samaritans would have nothing to
do with each other.

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Now, what do we know about the
Samaritans?

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Well, the Samaritans had their
own version of the Law of Moses.

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They used the first five books
of the Bible.

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That’s all they used.
That was their Bible, the laws

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in the Samaritan Bible, the
Pentateuch.

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The first five books were mostly
the same as the ones in the

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Jewish Pentateuch.
So it’s interesting, the

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Samaritans observed the laws of
Moses with the same attention to

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detail as the Jews, but they
each had their own traditions

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and rituals, and they each had
surprisingly their own temple.

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So here’s what Josephus tells
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This is from Easton’s
dictionary.

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It says Josephus relates that
sand ballot built a temple for

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the Samaritans on this mountain.
That’s Speaking of of Mount

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Gerizim, which was where their
temple was as as that says, who

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was Sand Ballot?
Yep.

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Horan Knight.
What did he do?

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What was the what’s the thing
he’s famous for?

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Maybe.
Yeah, for certain.

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Right.
When they were when they were

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trying to rebuild the wall and
they were trying to do that in

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Nehemiah’s time, he was always
in the way of the work and

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always trying to stop the work.
Well, at the same time, guess

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what he’s doing?
He’s building this temple for

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the Samaritans, of which he’s a
group.

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So he builds his own and
instituted A priesthood as

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rivals to those of the Jews at
Jerusalem.

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His temple was destroyed after
it stood for 200 years, and it

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was afterwards built by Herod
the Great.

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There is a Samaritan tradition
that Mount Gerizim was the scene

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of the incident recorded in
Genesis chapter 22.

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Do you know what the incident of
Genesis 22 is?

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That’s Abraham going to OfferUp
Isaac, right?

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So they believed that that
actually happened on Mount

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Gerizim, which is where their
temple was built.

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All right, so that’s that’s what
he has to say about that.

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Excuse me.
All right, so the Samaritans

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believed in God, but their
belief was filled with man made

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rituals and traditions.
It was like the religion of the

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Jews.
It was a a religion of

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appearance in many ways, and
most people in that religion did

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not end up with a saving belief.
So on his way to Galilee, Jesus

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went the way that no one else
would have gone.

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And he goes right up through
Samaria.

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And verse 5 of of John chapter 4
says so he came to a town of

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Samaria called Saikar.
Saikar is thought to have been

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a, a small village, possibly by
Shechem.

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It’s thought to have been even
maybe just another name for

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Shechem.
So we know where this is.

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He’s at Shechem and it says that
it’s near the field that Jacob

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had given to his son Joseph.
Now we have to do a little bit

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of digging, if you’re like me,
to figure out exactly what that

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story was and what’s involved
with that.

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But it’s important to the story
to understand that.

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So we’re going to go through
just a few verses to get a feel

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for this field that Jacob gave
to his son Joseph.

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And 1st we’re going to go to
Joshua chapter 24.

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So Joshua chapter 24 is the
chapter when all of Israel

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gathered.
It’s at the end of Joshua, all

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of Israel gathers together and
Joshua calls them, you remember

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the, the words he calls them to
choose who they’re going to

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serve.
He says, As for me and my house,

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we will serve the Lord, We will
serve Yahweh.

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So I think it’s it’s worth
making a note of this in your

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Bible in John four and maybe
maybe back in in Joshua as well.

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So Joshua chapter 24, verse 22
tells us about the field that

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Jacob gave to Joseph at Shechem.
Joshua 24 verse 32 says, As for

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the bones of Joseph, which the
people of Israel brought up from

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Egypt, they buried them at
Shechem.

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So not only did Jacob give the
land to Joseph, but Joseph in

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the end ends up being buried
there, it says in the piece of

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land that Jacob bought from the
sons of Hamor, the father of

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Shechem, for 100 pieces of
money.

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So this is one of those rare
times when, when the one of the

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patriarchs actually owns land in
the promised land, it became an

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inheritance of the descendants
of Joseph, we’re told.

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So the field that Jacob bought,
he gives as an inheritance

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specially to Joseph and Israel.
The nation takes Joseph’s bones

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many years later, there to be
buried.

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All right, so that gives us some
information.

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Let’s go over to Genesis 33.
So now we’re looking at the

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context.
The context is of Jacob just

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after he’d met up with Esau,
Genesis 33 and 19.

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And he has come now safely to
Shechem, Genesis 3319, it says.

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And from the sons of Hamor,
Shechem’s father, he bought for

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100 pieces of money the piece of
land on which he had pitched his

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tent.
So he bought the land.

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And what does he do?
It says there he erected an

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altar and he called it El Elohi
Israel.

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It’s interesting to know that at
this place.

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So Jacob buys it and he buys it
so that he can build an altar

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there.
And it’s also the place where

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Abraham had built an altar back
in Genesis chapter 12.

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He builds an altar there when he
first comes into the land.

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And then we’ll, we’ll, we saw as
as in the reading this morning

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that there’s a, there’s a well
that Jacob digs in that same

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place.
So Jacob gave his son Joseph

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this field.
It’s got a well on it.

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It’s got an altar on it.
And Abraham had also built an

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altar on the same place.
So this is a very, very

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important place.
The next this place then is, is

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so important to Joseph that he
asks for his bones to be carried

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there.
So come with me to Genesis

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chapter 50, Genesis 50.
Joseph is is about to to die and

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he says to his brothers, I’m
about to die, but God will visit

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you.
This is verse 24.

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God will visit you and bring you
up out of this land to the land

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that he swore to Abraham, to
Isaac and to Jacob.

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And then Joseph made his sons,
the sons of Israel swear saying,

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God will surely visit you and
you shall carry up my bones from

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here.
So Joseph died being 110 years

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old.
They embalmed him and he was put

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in a coffin in Egypt.
So Joseph is saying, I believe

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that we are going back to the
promised land and I believe that

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I will be there, that I will be
raised to life again.

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I want that to be where I am
raised to life again.

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Joseph never forgot the hope of
the Kingdom and he wanted Israel

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never to forget the hope, the
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So I think this highlights for
us the the faith that Joseph had

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about God’s promises.
He’d spent 85% of his life in

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Egypt, but all he wanted was to
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That’s where his heart was.
And so he asks the whole nation

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then to take him back to this
land.

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In fact, this is is such an
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this is what Hebrews 11 picks up
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So let’s go to Hebrews 11, verse
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Hebrews 11/22 says by faith,
Joseph when he died, made

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mention of the departing of the
children of Israel and gave

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commandment concerning his
bones.

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So the time of his death, this
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important to him, the promised
land.

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And one more verse that we’ll
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researching this is back in
Genesis 49.

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It’s a prophecy made by Jacob
and Jacob makes those prophecies

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about his sons.
And here’s what he says about

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Joseph.
So this is Genesis 49, verse 22.

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It says Joseph is a fruitful bow
or a fruitful tree, a fruitful

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bow by a spring.
That’s an illusion to this well

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that we’re going to read about
here in John chapter 4, an

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illusion to this this spring.
And it’s not just a, a, a

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normal, well, I guess you would
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So this is a fountain.
Well, and his branches will run

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over the wall.
So I want you to keep that in

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mind as well, because Jacob
makes this prophecy about

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Joseph.
So to Joseph, Shechem is not

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nostalgia.
It’s not the tradition of his

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father’s.
It’s not something nice that’s

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nice because his father gave it
to him.

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To Joseph, it’s a symbol of his
resurrection and of the Kingdom

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of God and it’s the purpose of
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That’s Shechem to Joseph.
So here’s a picture of where

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Shechem is located.
Shechem is is known as the city

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of choice.
It’s between Mount Gerizim.

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You’ll see that on the left
there the the, the mountain of

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blessing and Mount evil, the
mountain of cursing between the

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the blessings that were were
promised for obedience and the

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cursings for disobedience.
It was a very important city in

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Israel because of some of the
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So if you were to think about
Shechem, you would think about

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all the different things that
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And if you lived there, you
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This is the place where all
these different things have

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happened.
Now, have you ever gone through

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a city where people bragged
about famous events that took

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place in their city?
You ever gone through those?

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Yeah.
So I’m from Brantford, ON

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Canada.
Does anybody know any famous

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things that happened in
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Yes.
Oh, OK, That’s one, right.

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Does it say that on the water
tower now the home of Wayne?

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Probably not.
I think Wayne Gretzky lives in

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Thousand Oaks, actually.
But does it?

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What else in for Brantford?
Yeah, aha, too great things.

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Yeah.
So as I was growing up in

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Brantford, I remember the water
tower, and it said on the water

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tower Brantford, the telephone
city, is what it said on the

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water tower as I went by there.
So anyway, you get the idea.

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So what would it say if you were
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On the sign in Shechem, it would
say Shechem, the place where

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Abraham built an altar.
He had to choose between the

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Canaanites, the cursed people,
or the blessings of the

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promises.
It was the place where Jacob

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bought the land so he could
build an altar.

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It was the place where Joseph is
buried.

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And Joseph was a famous guy.
Joseph was known.

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Does anybody know the Egyptian
name?

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The name the Egyptians gave to
Joseph.

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Yeah.
Right.

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So Zaf Anaf Pania.
Right.

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Does anybody know what it means?
Savior of the world.

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OK.
Excellent.

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So that would probably be on the
side, too, if we, if they were

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talking about it.
It was a place where the

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blessings and the cursings were
read, and it’s also the place

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that Joshua called Israel to
choose whom they were going to

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serve in Joshua chapter 24,
where he says now therefore fear

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Yahweh, serve him in sincerity
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Put away the gods that your
father’s have served beyond the

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river and in Egypt and serve the
Lord.

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Joshua says, As for me in my
house, we will serve the Lord.

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So it’s a it’s a really
remarkable place and the

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Samaritan woman had come from
this remarkable, remarkable

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spiritual heritage.
All right, with that in mind,

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this is this is kind of her
frame of reference, her frame of

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thinking.
Here we go to verse 6 of John

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chapter 4.
It says now Jacob’s well was

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there.
Jesus therefore, being wearied

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with his journey, sat thus on
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And it was about the 6th hour.
So one of the things that we

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find when we research these
wells, because our research so

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far has already pointed at this,
is that John uses two different

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words for the wells in this
story.

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Well, actually John uses 1 and
the woman uses a completely

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different word for this well.
So the one that John uses the

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well is the Greek word pegay.
And the word that John that John

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uses for Jacob’s well means a
fountain.

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It’s a a, a well that’s that has
a spring in it.

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So it has flowing water, which
they would actually call living

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water in this well.
So John calls Jacob’s well a

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fountain.
But the whole story gets more

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interesting when we realize that
what the woman actually calls

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this well is a Greek word freer.
And that means a hole in the

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ground.
You see the difference.

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So John says, no, this, this is
a this is a fountain.

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And this is what the narrative
says.

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This is what God recognizes it
as.

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And the woman looks at it as a
hole in the ground.

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Let me show you So John four and
we’re going to look at verse

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six.
First of all, so it says now

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Jacob’s well, and that’s the
word fountain was there because

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John, the writer of the Gospel
here the narrative is saying,

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Jesus therefore being wearied
with his journey, set thus on

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the well on the fountain, And it
was about the 6th hour.

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Then we get down to verse 11,
and it says, And the woman said

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to him, Sir, thou hast nothing
to drink with.

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And the well the hole in the
ground is deep.

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From whence then hast thou that
living water we go over to?

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To verse 12 Then so the woman
speaking again, and she says,

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Art thou greater than our Father
Jacob, which gave us the well,

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which gave us the hole in the
ground, and drank thereof

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himself and his children, and
his cattle?

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And then of course we go down to
verse 14, where Jesus expands

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this idea of this fountain.
It says, But whosoever drinketh

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of the water that I shall give
him, she’ll never thirst, but

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the water that I shall give him
shall be unto him a well, a

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fountain of water springing up
into everlasting life.

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And that’s the verse that kind
of clues you into the difference

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between the perspectives about
this well.

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So John is telling us that God’s
that God’s Word and his

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promises, which this well
represents, are viewed

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differently by different people.
To some people, his promises and

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his word is a a flowing well of
living water.

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They’re from God.
And to other people, the word of

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God is just water.
It’s something that comes from

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the ground.
It’s something that comes in, in

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this case, from a a pretty
special piece of ground,

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something that our ancestor
Jacob has dug.

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But it’s not something that
would change the course of your

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life.
So the woman here, she doesn’t

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look at God’s word and God’s
promises like Joseph did.

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She sees it as as something to
be proud of that heritage,

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something that makes her group
superior to to other groups.

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And so the woman at the well, to
her, it’s just a hole in the

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ground that they got water from.
Now, I think there’s an

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expectation already in that for
us, how do we see the word of

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God?
How do we see the hope of the

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Kingdom of God?
What is our worship like?

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Do we look at the promises like
a fountain of living water?

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Like Joseph who who wanted to be
brought back to that place?

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Like Joseph who who wanted to be
buried because that was his

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hope, buried there because that
was his hope?

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Or do we see it like the ground
with just water in it?

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How valuable is the water to us?
So that brings us back to John

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4:00 and 7:00.
So Jesus is is sitting on the

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well and a woman from Samaria
came to draw water and Jesus

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says to her, give me to drink.
So here we have a Jew asking a

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Samaritan to draw water from the
well for him.

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Now if Jesus wanted to instantly
open up a can of worms with this

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woman, that was absolutely the
right thing to say.

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And I think that’s exactly what
he wanted to do.

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Verse 8 tells us that the
disciples are not there.

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It says for his disciples had
gone away into the city to buy

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food.
We won’t look at it in any real

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detail, but later on the
disciples have really almost the

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same problem to deal with as the
woman has to deal with in the

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Word, their perspective on
things.

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So Jesus asks her for some water
and she responds in verse 9 she

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says, how is it that you, a Jew,
ask for a drink from me, a woman

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of Samaria, for the Jews have no
dealings with the Samaritans.

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She says, are you serious?
You guys have nothing to do with

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us.
You guys make a point of going

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all the way around our country
and here you are asking me to

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draw water for you.
Why would I do that for you?

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And she gets all fired up
because Jesus has asked her for

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some, some water.
Now, of course, she has the

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wrong perspective on things.
What, what do you think she

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could have said to this, this
stranger that came up to her on

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this?
Well, well, maybe even from her

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perspective, she could have,
could have said something like,

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is this your first time in
Shechem?

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Do you know the hope of, of
Joseph who’s buried here?

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Do you know why he wanted his
bones to be brought back here?

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But that’s not, that’s not what
she says, right?

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There’s there’s something else
that’s on her mind that’s that’s

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greater than that.
So verse 10, Jesus answers and

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says to her, if you knew the
gift of God, if you had

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spiritual understanding of God’s
plan, like Abraham, like Jacob,

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like Joseph, like Joshua had,
and who it is that says to you,

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give me to drink, you would have
asked him and he would have

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given you living water.
If you knew about the Kingdom

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and if you knew who I am, your
answer would have been a lot

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different.
When I asked you to give me a

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drink of water, you would have
been asking me for living water,

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for the words of eternal life.
And so Jesus reframes, reframes

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the whole conversation to a
spiritual level, but her

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thinking is still on earthly
things in in verse 11.

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And the woman says to him, Sir,
you have nothing to draw water

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with and the wells is deep.
It’s a it’s a deep hole in the

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ground.
She says, where do you get that

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living water?
You don’t even have a bucket.

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Where could you get that water
from?

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Well, she says, are you greater
than our father Jacob?

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He gave us the well and he drank
from it himself, as did his sons

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and his livestock.
She says Jacob dug this well.

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Are you greater than Jacob?
Do you think that your water is

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greater than the water that
comes from Jacob’s well, from

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Jacob’s hole in the ground?
And Jesus says to her, everyone

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that drinks of this water will
be thirsty again.

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Your water is just water.
You’re going to have to come

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back for more tomorrow.
You’re going to have to come

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back every day.
You’ll be putting all of your

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energy into drawing water, and
you’ll still need to come back

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again and again to draw water.
That’s the water I think that

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the whole world is drinking,
isn’t it?

434
00:25:52,440 –> 00:25:58,000
Water from a hole in the ground,
drawn daily, day after day after

435
00:25:58,000 –> 00:26:00,480
day.
Their lives are pointless.

436
00:26:00,480 –> 00:26:02,640
There’s nothing they’re
accomplishing with their life.

437
00:26:03,200 –> 00:26:06,320
And Jesus is trying to introduce
her to something far better.

438
00:26:06,960 –> 00:26:09,160
He says For who’s?
But whosoever drinks of the

439
00:26:09,160 –> 00:26:13,000
water that I will give, she’ll
never thirst.

440
00:26:13,840 –> 00:26:18,000
You’ll never want anything else.
Once you learn about the Kingdom

441
00:26:18,760 –> 00:26:23,840
and about eternal life, and once
you believe in those things like

442
00:26:23,840 –> 00:26:29,360
Joseph did, you’ll be fully
satisfied and the purpose of

443
00:26:29,360 –> 00:26:31,520
your life will completely
change.

444
00:26:32,280 –> 00:26:37,880
You will not want anything else.
You’ll want to get out of Egypt

445
00:26:38,560 –> 00:26:43,160
and come to the promised land.
So Jesus continues, But the

446
00:26:43,160 –> 00:26:46,880
water that I should give him
shall be in him, a well of

447
00:26:46,880 –> 00:26:50,000
springing water, springing up
unto everlasting life.

448
00:26:51,480 –> 00:26:55,520
The water that I can give you,
this faith that I can give you

449
00:26:55,960 –> 00:26:59,920
will be something that you can
give to other people and your

450
00:26:59,920 –> 00:27:04,480
faith will still be flowing.
You yourself will be a fountain.

451
00:27:05,720 –> 00:27:08,960
And so the woman says in verse
15, Sir, give me this water.

452
00:27:09,200 –> 00:27:10,680
She says, that sounds really
good.

453
00:27:10,680 –> 00:27:13,240
I want this water.
I will get thirsty again and I

454
00:27:13,240 –> 00:27:15,400
won’t have to draw water.
This is this is perfect.

455
00:27:16,440 –> 00:27:19,400
So she’s still in the dark with
this conversation with Jesus.

456
00:27:19,840 –> 00:27:22,640
She’s not getting it.
She doesn’t realize what Jesus

457
00:27:22,640 –> 00:27:26,040
is talking about.
So Jesus decides to say

458
00:27:26,040 –> 00:27:29,640
something to her that that calls
her out, that gets her

459
00:27:29,640 –> 00:27:35,400
attention, to show her the
problem that she had, that her

460
00:27:35,400 –> 00:27:39,800
worship had to be more than just
rituals and traditions.

461
00:27:40,800 –> 00:27:44,080
In a way, what he says to her is
giving her some of that living

462
00:27:44,080 –> 00:27:47,160
water.
So verse 16, Jesus says to her,

463
00:27:47,920 –> 00:27:50,240
go call your husband and come
here.

464
00:27:51,760 –> 00:27:55,040
Now that would have shocked her.
Where did that come from?

465
00:27:56,000 –> 00:27:57,480
Why do you want me to call my
husband?

466
00:27:58,000 –> 00:28:01,040
And and you can hear the tone.
You could feel the tone change

467
00:28:01,360 –> 00:28:05,120
in her response.
The conversation is no longer a

468
00:28:05,120 –> 00:28:08,720
Samaritan debating about her
group being better.

469
00:28:10,680 –> 00:28:13,160
The woman answers and says to
him, I have no husband.

470
00:28:13,960 –> 00:28:17,080
She’s thinking, you know, maybe
I can kind of deflect the

471
00:28:17,080 –> 00:28:19,960
question.
But Jesus, he’s not going to let

472
00:28:19,960 –> 00:28:21,600
her get off.
That is easy is he?

473
00:28:21,960 –> 00:28:24,200
And Jesus says to her, you’re
right in saying I have no

474
00:28:24,200 –> 00:28:28,760
husband, for you have 5 husbands
and the one you have now is not

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00:28:28,760 –> 00:28:31,280
your husband.
What you said is true.

476
00:28:33,480 –> 00:28:36,520
Wow.
A minute ago they were debating

477
00:28:36,520 –> 00:28:41,240
about whose water was better, a
Jew and a Samaritan, whose

478
00:28:41,240 –> 00:28:44,880
worship was better in a way
whose ecclesia was better.

479
00:28:45,480 –> 00:28:50,840
And Jesus looks right into her
heart and he sees her adulterous

480
00:28:50,840 –> 00:28:55,280
life and the conversation goes
deep, deep into that heart.

481
00:28:56,120 –> 00:29:01,680
And he says, if your worship is
greater, if your, if your water

482
00:29:01,680 –> 00:29:07,160
is greater, then why hasn’t it
had an effect on your life?

483
00:29:09,080 –> 00:29:11,160
Why aren’t you developing the
fruit of the spirit?

484
00:29:12,440 –> 00:29:14,680
You know, we, we said earlier
that a lot of people compare the

485
00:29:14,680 –> 00:29:16,560
story of Nicodemus and the
Samaritan woman.

486
00:29:17,120 –> 00:29:19,360
Exactly right.
They, they both have the same

487
00:29:19,360 –> 00:29:23,440
problem, don’t they?
And Jesus has said exactly what

488
00:29:23,440 –> 00:29:29,600
was necessary to get her to stop
and to actually think about the

489
00:29:29,600 –> 00:29:32,800
challenges that she had and to
think about the impact her

490
00:29:32,800 –> 00:29:36,840
worship was having on her life.
Now, how often has that happened

491
00:29:37,600 –> 00:29:41,720
in your lives when someone says
something to you that wakes you

492
00:29:41,800 –> 00:29:47,400
up about yourself, that that
freezes you in your tracks and

493
00:29:47,400 –> 00:29:51,240
that hopes hopefully makes you
question your sincerity and

494
00:29:51,240 –> 00:29:53,160
hopefully makes you get back on
the right track.

495
00:29:54,280 –> 00:29:56,360
I want to tell you a little
story about when, when I was a

496
00:29:56,360 –> 00:30:03,680
teenager a long time ago and I
wasn’t baptized and I wasn’t

497
00:30:03,680 –> 00:30:08,360
moving toward baptized and I was
walking along with my cousin.

498
00:30:09,600 –> 00:30:16,560
My cousin was about 10 years old
and my uncle, her dad was a

499
00:30:16,560 –> 00:30:18,560
leader of our CYC.
Many of you will have will

500
00:30:18,560 –> 00:30:22,440
remember Brother Colin Badger.
So brother Colin Badger was our

501
00:30:22,440 –> 00:30:26,240
CYC leader and I had a lot of
respect for for Uncle Colin.

502
00:30:26,960 –> 00:30:30,520
Anyway, so my cousin and I are
walking along and she says to

503
00:30:30,520 –> 00:30:33,960
me, she’s 10 years old.
She says to me, you know, my dad

504
00:30:33,960 –> 00:30:36,840
says that you’re not interested
in the truth.

505
00:30:36,840 –> 00:30:44,360
Of course my dad says right.
And I thought, that’s not true.

506
00:30:44,960 –> 00:30:48,120
I am interested in the truth,
but of course I wasn’t

507
00:30:48,320 –> 00:30:50,520
interested in the truth as I as
I should have been.

508
00:30:51,080 –> 00:30:54,000
And when I really thought about
it, I realized that my cousin,

509
00:30:54,000 –> 00:30:58,400
my 10 year old cousin was right,
that my my uncle was right.

510
00:30:59,440 –> 00:31:02,400
Now that made me make big
changes in my life.

511
00:31:02,400 –> 00:31:06,080
That that conversation that I
kind of had with my uncle made

512
00:31:06,080 –> 00:31:10,200
me make big changes in my life.
Now, maybe it’s not the best

513
00:31:10,200 –> 00:31:15,800
idea to say things like that to
your 10 year old kid, but I

514
00:31:15,800 –> 00:31:18,360
think sometimes words can make a
big difference.

515
00:31:19,040 –> 00:31:21,400
I was talking to some some young
brethren recently.

516
00:31:21,400 –> 00:31:25,560
We were at a school of the
prophets and I asked a group of

517
00:31:25,560 –> 00:31:30,120
them what had had the biggest
impact on bringing them to

518
00:31:30,120 –> 00:31:32,280
belief.
And we went over in the room and

519
00:31:32,280 –> 00:31:34,640
everybody was describing the
thing that had had the biggest

520
00:31:34,640 –> 00:31:37,560
impact.
And these are, you know, mostly

521
00:31:38,360 –> 00:31:42,640
20s, twenty year old guys, early
20s, mid 20s.

522
00:31:43,800 –> 00:31:47,560
About a third of them said that
they got to a point where

523
00:31:47,560 –> 00:31:51,480
someone had actually asked them,
a brother in the ecclesia, a

524
00:31:51,480 –> 00:31:55,320
sister in the ecclesia, someone
had asked, actually asked them

525
00:31:56,000 –> 00:31:59,680
about whether or not they were
thinking about being baptized.

526
00:32:01,040 –> 00:32:03,560
And they said that when that
happened, it made them think,

527
00:32:04,680 –> 00:32:09,640
wow, I need to think about that.
Maybe I need to be baptized.

528
00:32:09,960 –> 00:32:12,960
I was just, I was very surprised
at how many people had done that

529
00:32:12,960 –> 00:32:16,280
because that’s not something
that’s that’s my normal thing to

530
00:32:16,280 –> 00:32:18,560
do.
And yet how helpful it actually

531
00:32:18,560 –> 00:32:21,160
was to to to these young
brethren.

532
00:32:22,440 –> 00:32:23,760
All right, so back to our story
then.

533
00:32:23,760 –> 00:32:28,000
So Jesus has asked the woman
about her husband’s and then in

534
00:32:28,000 –> 00:32:33,640
verse 9, the woman said to him,
Sir, I perceive that you’re a

535
00:32:33,640 –> 00:32:37,160
prophet.
She could see that Jesus had

536
00:32:37,160 –> 00:32:40,160
power from God just like
Nicodemus had seen.

537
00:32:40,160 –> 00:32:42,440
And so she says you must be a
prophet.

538
00:32:43,440 –> 00:32:45,720
But she still holds on to the
worship of the Samaritans.

539
00:32:45,720 –> 00:32:50,200
And she figures who better to
ask about whether the Jews have

540
00:32:50,200 –> 00:32:52,880
it right or the Samaritans have
it right.

541
00:32:53,480 –> 00:32:55,440
And so she wants to ask this
prophet about that.

542
00:32:55,440 –> 00:32:58,640
So that’s verse 20.
Our fathers worshiped in this

543
00:32:58,640 –> 00:33:01,600
mountain, on this mountain.
But you say that in Jerusalem is

544
00:33:01,600 –> 00:33:03,000
the place where people ought to
worship.

545
00:33:03,720 –> 00:33:09,040
She’s thinking Abraham, Jacob,
Joseph all worshipped here.

546
00:33:09,480 –> 00:33:12,160
Surely this must be the right
place to worship.

547
00:33:12,520 –> 00:33:17,200
Joseph is even buried here.
Surely Gerizim must be the right

548
00:33:17,200 –> 00:33:20,480
place and not Jerusalem.
First of all, I think that’s

549
00:33:20,480 –> 00:33:23,520
pretty bold that she asks a Jew
this question, right?

550
00:33:23,520 –> 00:33:25,360
Because Jesus is obviously a
Jew.

551
00:33:26,120 –> 00:33:30,680
So Jesus says to her, woman,
believe me, the hour is coming

552
00:33:30,680 –> 00:33:36,280
when neither on this mountain
nor in Jerusalem will thou

553
00:33:36,280 –> 00:33:40,520
worship the Father.
Soon you won’t be worshipping in

554
00:33:40,520 –> 00:33:43,320
either place.
Why not?

555
00:33:44,600 –> 00:33:46,880
Why wouldn’t she be worshipping
in either place?

556
00:33:47,400 –> 00:33:50,680
Why does he say that?
What was going to soon happen to

557
00:33:50,680 –> 00:33:54,680
both of those places?
8070, right?

558
00:33:54,960 –> 00:33:57,680
They would both be destroyed by
the Romans and there would be no

559
00:33:57,680 –> 00:33:59,800
place for them to go and to
worship.

560
00:34:01,080 –> 00:34:04,640
So verse 22, he says you worship
what you don’t know.

561
00:34:05,800 –> 00:34:10,239
We worship what we know for
salvation is from the Jews.

562
00:34:10,920 –> 00:34:14,920
He says the problem is that you
worship what you don’t know, you

563
00:34:14,920 –> 00:34:18,400
don’t understand.
We think of the Samaritans.

564
00:34:18,960 –> 00:34:22,639
They believed in, in just the
five books of the Bible that

565
00:34:22,639 –> 00:34:25,960
were from from God.
The Samaritans didn’t have the

566
00:34:25,960 –> 00:34:29,280
promises to David.
They didn’t have the prophets,

567
00:34:29,800 –> 00:34:33,560
they didn’t have the Psalms,
they didn’t have a full picture

568
00:34:33,560 –> 00:34:36,159
of the Kingdom like the Jews
did.

569
00:34:36,920 –> 00:34:39,159
Salvation clearly was of the
Jews.

570
00:34:39,679 –> 00:34:42,199
In fact, the Savior was going to
be a Jew.

571
00:34:43,239 –> 00:34:46,960
But it’s not Gerizim or
Jerusalem that really matters.

572
00:34:46,960 –> 00:34:50,880
Jesus is saying, he says the
hour’s coming, that now here is

573
00:34:50,880 –> 00:34:56,320
when true worshippers will
worship the Father in spirit and

574
00:34:56,320 –> 00:34:59,240
truth.
For the Father is seeking such

575
00:34:59,240 –> 00:35:04,360
people to worship him.
True worshippers, real

576
00:35:04,400 –> 00:35:09,440
worshippers, those who really
honor God, those who do what God

577
00:35:09,440 –> 00:35:13,400
says, that’s those are the
people that God is looking for.

578
00:35:14,200 –> 00:35:18,240
True worshippers, he says, will
worship in spirit and in truth.

579
00:35:18,720 –> 00:35:24,240
In spirit, not just for other
people to see, like the

580
00:35:24,240 –> 00:35:28,480
adulterous woman who came to the
hole in the ground, who bragged

581
00:35:28,480 –> 00:35:33,200
about the well of Jacob, but
they will worship genuinely.

582
00:35:34,200 –> 00:35:37,240
She needed to be like Abraham,
like Jacob, like Joseph, like

583
00:35:37,240 –> 00:35:41,240
Joshua, who saw the truth as a
fountain of living water.

584
00:35:42,200 –> 00:35:47,680
They’ll worship in truth.
Think of a ritual or a tradition

585
00:35:48,320 –> 00:35:52,720
like like eating animals, clean
animals versus unclean animals.

586
00:35:53,560 –> 00:35:57,280
That was a ritual, but the
ritual was given to teach a

587
00:35:57,280 –> 00:36:01,760
lesson, and some people got so
caught up in the ritual that

588
00:36:01,760 –> 00:36:03,840
they didn’t see the lesson that
was behind it.

589
00:36:04,040 –> 00:36:06,200
What should have actually
changed their behavior?

590
00:36:06,960 –> 00:36:10,040
The ritual of of unclean and
clean gives was given to

591
00:36:10,040 –> 00:36:14,200
illustrate people the need to to
watch what they put into their

592
00:36:14,200 –> 00:36:17,840
minds.
The the Samaritans and the Jews

593
00:36:17,840 –> 00:36:21,960
were careful about what they
ate, but they were not careful

594
00:36:21,960 –> 00:36:23,720
about what they were putting
into their minds.

595
00:36:24,800 –> 00:36:28,040
The Samaritans of the Jews had
traditions that kept them apart,

596
00:36:28,240 –> 00:36:31,640
ways of worshipping that were
different, but it wasn’t the

597
00:36:31,640 –> 00:36:33,840
traditions that God was looking
for.

598
00:36:34,360 –> 00:36:40,520
God is looking for people who
are being changed by his word.

599
00:36:41,760 –> 00:36:43,800
It’s a lesson, a really
important lesson for us.

600
00:36:44,440 –> 00:36:47,960
If we’re worshipping in spirit
and in truth, it should be

601
00:36:47,960 –> 00:36:52,480
changing our lives.
And that point would have rang

602
00:36:52,480 –> 00:36:58,440
out in the ears of a woman.
In verse 24, Jesus continues,

603
00:36:58,440 –> 00:37:04,760
God is spirit, God is holy, He’s
genuine, and those who worship

604
00:37:04,760 –> 00:37:06,760
him must worship him in spirit
and truth.

605
00:37:07,680 –> 00:37:11,440
We’ve got to follow his example.
We should reflect his character.

606
00:37:12,520 –> 00:37:16,720
And so the woman says in in
verse 25, I know that Messiah is

607
00:37:16,720 –> 00:37:19,720
coming.
He who is called Christ, when he

608
00:37:19,720 –> 00:37:23,840
comes, he’ll tell us all things
and she’s still responding back

609
00:37:23,840 –> 00:37:27,480
to, to to verse 22.
You worship, you know, not what

610
00:37:27,480 –> 00:37:30,400
the words of Jesus.
She believed that the Messiah

611
00:37:30,400 –> 00:37:33,080
would come and teach them and
then they would know.

612
00:37:34,160 –> 00:37:36,320
And she was ready for spiritual
understanding.

613
00:37:37,400 –> 00:37:43,080
And so Jesus says to her, I who
speak to you am he?

614
00:37:44,000 –> 00:37:51,040
He says, yes, I’m the Messiah,
and she believed him.

615
00:37:53,120 –> 00:37:56,720
It was an amazing conversation.
But then the story’s

616
00:37:56,720 –> 00:37:58,680
interrupted, isn’t it, by the
disciples returning?

617
00:37:59,400 –> 00:38:02,440
We look at verse 27.
Just then his disciples came

618
00:38:02,440 –> 00:38:06,320
back and they marvelled that he
was talking with a woman.

619
00:38:07,320 –> 00:38:10,400
They’ve also got to learn the
lesson about worshipping in

620
00:38:10,400 –> 00:38:13,080
spirit and truth.
How could he be talking to a

621
00:38:13,080 –> 00:38:15,440
Samaritan woman?
They weren’t supposed to be

622
00:38:15,440 –> 00:38:19,040
having any dealings with with
the Samaritans, the disciples.

623
00:38:19,040 –> 00:38:21,240
The disciples were stuck in
their traditions.

624
00:38:22,000 –> 00:38:24,440
And that comes out loud and
clear to us later on.

625
00:38:25,960 –> 00:38:30,120
But no one said, what do you
seek or why are you talking to

626
00:38:30,120 –> 00:38:32,240
her?
I think that’s pretty smart that

627
00:38:32,240 –> 00:38:34,640
they didn’t say much at that
point, wasn’t it?

628
00:38:35,600 –> 00:38:37,080
But look what the woman does
next.

629
00:38:39,840 –> 00:38:47,560
The woman left her water jar.
Wow, wow, wow.

630
00:38:48,800 –> 00:38:51,360
She believed.
And there it is.

631
00:38:52,120 –> 00:38:53,560
There’s the moment that we’ve
been looking for.

632
00:38:53,760 –> 00:38:59,040
She had no use for the water
from the well anymore.

633
00:38:59,960 –> 00:39:02,920
She left her water jug right
there by the well.

634
00:39:03,400 –> 00:39:05,200
She was no longer thirsty for
that water.

635
00:39:05,880 –> 00:39:10,240
Traditions and rituals are
nothing compared to true belief.

636
00:39:10,560 –> 00:39:13,400
And now she had true belief.
She had living water.

637
00:39:13,920 –> 00:39:16,280
And so she left her water pot
behind.

638
00:39:18,080 –> 00:39:21,320
Once you’ve tasted faith,
nothing compares to it.

639
00:39:21,640 –> 00:39:26,640
Nothing satisfies like it.
And she was going now to share

640
00:39:26,760 –> 00:39:29,960
that water, that faith with her
people.

641
00:39:30,440 –> 00:39:34,800
It had become, it was becoming a
spring that was flowing from

642
00:39:34,840 –> 00:39:37,160
her.
And so she went away into the

643
00:39:37,160 –> 00:39:41,440
town and said to the people,
come see a man who told me all

644
00:39:41,440 –> 00:39:44,360
that I ever did.
Can this be the Christ?

645
00:39:44,880 –> 00:39:47,400
She says, I’ve just been talking
to the Messiah.

646
00:39:48,000 –> 00:39:50,760
Can you imagine that?
And her belief is, is so

647
00:39:50,760 –> 00:39:52,760
contagious that the people
believe too.

648
00:39:53,240 –> 00:39:55,840
Verse 30, they went out of the
town and they were coming to

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him.
Let’s let’s skip down from there

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to verse 35 because in verse 31
to 34, the disciples are going

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to actually be taught the same
lesson as the woman.

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And it’s interesting to follow
that and see the parallels

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00:40:08,920 –> 00:40:11,000
there.
But in verse 35, the men of the

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city are coming out to the well
where Jesus is.

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Because they also believe
because of the belief of the

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woman.
And Jesus is talking to his

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00:40:20,320 –> 00:40:25,680
disciples and verse 35, he says,
say not ye, there are yet four

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00:40:25,680 –> 00:40:27,640
months.
And then harvest comes.

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00:40:28,160 –> 00:40:31,600
Jesus says to his disciples,
doesn’t it usually take four

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00:40:31,600 –> 00:40:37,240
months for grain to grow?
Behold, I say to you, lift up

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00:40:37,240 –> 00:40:40,440
your eyes, look on the fields
for their white already with

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00:40:40,440 –> 00:40:43,720
harvest.
He says we’ll take a look and

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00:40:43,720 –> 00:40:47,360
coming toward them are a bunch
of Samaritans.

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They’re coming because they’ve
they’ve learned from the woman

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00:40:50,480 –> 00:40:52,200
they believe and they want to
hear more.

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00:40:52,800 –> 00:40:56,200
Now one commentary I stumbled on
trying to make this connection

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with this, this fields that
we’re ready for harvest.

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And one commentary explains that
that these, these people would

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all have been wearing white and
as they walked a, a big group of

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people walking towards Jesus,
towards the well, they would

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00:41:08,880 –> 00:41:12,200
have looked like a, a, a field
of grain that was moving.

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00:41:12,360 –> 00:41:15,280
And so Jesus points to them and
says, Hey, it’s time for us to

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00:41:15,280 –> 00:41:17,440
get busy.
It’s time for us to get work.

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00:41:18,000 –> 00:41:20,200
Verse 36, it says, and he
reapeth.

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He that reapeth receiveth,
receiveth wages and gathereth

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00:41:24,120 –> 00:41:28,320
fruit unto eternal life, that
both he that soweth and he that

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00:41:28,320 –> 00:41:33,000
reapeth may rejoice together.
Jesus says to the disciples,

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00:41:33,360 –> 00:41:37,240
there are already people coming
to learn about salvation and we

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00:41:37,240 –> 00:41:39,720
should be rejoicing with the
Samaritan woman.

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Let’s get out there and let’s
help her.

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00:41:43,240 –> 00:41:45,840
He says, and herein is that
saying true.

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00:41:45,840 –> 00:41:49,560
Verse 37 one soweth and another
reapeth.

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00:41:50,240 –> 00:41:53,320
The saying is talking about
people working together.

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00:41:53,880 –> 00:41:58,040
Verse 38, he says, I sent you to
reap whereon that, Whereon

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00:41:58,040 –> 00:42:01,600
you’ve bestowed no labor, other
men labored, and you are entered

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00:42:01,600 –> 00:42:04,040
into their laborers.
We’re Jews.

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She’s a Samaritan.
One of us sows, another reaps.

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00:42:08,200 –> 00:42:14,120
But look at the great harvest.
So my disciples, let’s rejoice

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00:42:14,120 –> 00:42:17,240
with her and let’s get out and
work with her.

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00:42:19,640 –> 00:42:24,680
Verse 36 to 38 gives us a
powerful example then of working

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00:42:24,920 –> 00:42:28,840
in spirit and in truth and
worshiping in that in spirit.

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00:42:28,840 –> 00:42:33,360
Our our service to God cannot be
motivated by how we look.

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00:42:34,000 –> 00:42:38,040
It has to be genuine, real.
It has to be glorifying God.

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00:42:38,320 –> 00:42:43,640
It has to be rejoicing in God’s
success, in truth, not following

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00:42:43,720 –> 00:42:49,320
rituals and traditions, but in
getting the job done and look

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00:42:49,320 –> 00:42:54,480
what the result is in verse 39
and many of the Samaritans of

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00:42:54,480 –> 00:42:57,920
that city believed.
Get your marking pencil out

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00:42:57,920 –> 00:42:59,520
right.
This is a good chapter for this.

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00:42:59,800 –> 00:43:02,320
They believed on him for the
saying of the woman which

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00:43:02,320 –> 00:43:05,320
testified.
He told me all that I ever did.

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00:43:06,120 –> 00:43:08,960
Many Samaritans of the city
believed because of the

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00:43:08,960 –> 00:43:12,320
testimony of the woman.
She got the fire, started them

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00:43:12,320 –> 00:43:14,360
with them.
Verse 40.

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00:43:14,360 –> 00:43:17,400
So when the Samaritans came to
him, they asked him to stay with

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00:43:17,400 –> 00:43:19,000
them, and he stayed there two
days.

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00:43:19,480 –> 00:43:24,920
And many more believed because
of his own word, they believed

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00:43:24,920 –> 00:43:28,640
themselves.
What a time that must have been

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00:43:29,120 –> 00:43:33,520
for the disciples, for the
Samaritans, and for Jesus.

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00:43:34,560 –> 00:43:39,160
And then they said to the woman,
verse 42, It’s no longer because

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of what you said that we
believe, for we have heard for

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00:43:43,600 –> 00:43:51,120
ourselves and we know this is
indeed the Savior of the world.

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00:43:52,920 –> 00:43:56,680
They believed.
And John gives us this little

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00:43:56,680 –> 00:43:59,680
cherry on top of the whole
story, doesn’t he?

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00:43:59,680 –> 00:44:04,160
In that last phrase, we know
indeed that this is indeed the

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00:44:04,160 –> 00:44:08,960
Savior of the world.
They said of Jesus, He is the

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00:44:08,960 –> 00:44:13,920
Savior of the world.
What’s that a reference to?

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00:44:14,240 –> 00:44:16,440
What’s he, what’s he calling
their attention back to?

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00:44:17,680 –> 00:44:20,840
It’s back to Joseph, isn’t it?
The Savior of the world?

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But now they had a new Joseph.
They had a new savior of the

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00:44:26,600 –> 00:44:32,360
world.
And that savior was Jesus, the

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Messiah, the Son of God.
I think it’s an incredibly

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00:44:37,920 –> 00:44:40,280
exciting story to look through
as we as we understand the

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background to it.
So what are some of the take

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00:44:42,660 –> 00:44:45,400
away lessons that we could get
from from this today?

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00:44:47,000 –> 00:44:51,960
Well, first of all, real belief
motivates us to make changes in

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00:44:51,960 –> 00:44:53,680
our life.
And that’s a a good way for us

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00:44:53,680 –> 00:44:55,200
to measure that.
It’s like thinking about

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00:44:55,200 –> 00:44:59,960
yesterday the the fruit of the
spirit belief based on man made

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00:44:59,960 –> 00:45:04,080
rituals and traditions is weak.
It’s like a hole in the ground,

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00:45:04,080 –> 00:45:06,200
isn’t it?
And it’s hesitant to make

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00:45:06,200 –> 00:45:10,920
changes to us.
It’s hesitant to combat sin, but

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00:45:10,920 –> 00:45:16,600
worship based on faith is life
changing and it’s filled with

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00:45:16,600 –> 00:45:21,040
passion.
The Word of God has the power to

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00:45:21,040 –> 00:45:26,680
show us what we’re really like.
It has the power for us to have

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00:45:26,680 –> 00:45:30,560
a conversation with it, just
like Jesus had with a woman.

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00:45:31,560 –> 00:45:34,640
And that scripture can actually
call us out if we’ll listen to

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00:45:34,640 –> 00:45:36,840
it.
And it can help to inspire

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00:45:36,840 –> 00:45:40,600
change in US.
I think then we’ve we’ve been

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00:45:40,600 –> 00:45:44,160
through an incredible chapter
here and a great lesson for us.

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00:45:44,640 –> 00:45:47,040
And we look forward to tomorrow
when we’ll look at at the

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disciples, the feeding of the
5000 and Jesus walking on the

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00:45:51,800 –> 00:45:53,160
water.
Thank you.

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00:46:09,840 –> 00:46:11,920
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