John 4:1-45_Living Water
Passage: John 4:1-45
Sections, Scripture Passages, Quotes:
Acts 1:8 – But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.
Jesus is displaying his desire (and ability) to reach “the world God so loved” – Gary Burge
1-15: The Offer – True LIFE
It will become a spring bubbling up inside you, refreshing you with the new life which is coming into the world with Jesus and which is the life of the whole new world God is making. – NT Wright
John 7:37-39 – On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’” Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive.
16-26: The Opportunity – True Worship
What do you thirst for? JESUS +
Unless you’re worshipping me, unless I’m the center of your life, unless you’re trying to get your spiritual thirst quenched through me and not through these other things, unless you see that the solution must come inside rather than just pass by outside, then whatever you worship will abandon you in the end. – Tim Keller, Encounters with Jesus
27-45-The Outcome – True Belief
It is because Jesus Christ experienced cosmic thirst on the cross that you and I can have our spiritual thirst satisfied. Seeing what he did and why he did it will turn our hearts away from the things that enslave us and toward him in worship. That is the gospel, and it is the same for skeptics, believers, insiders, outsiders, outcasts and everyone in between. – Tim Keller, Encounters with Jesus