Sunday Service (2)

Sunday Service: Thirst-Quencher

(02-06-2022) Ptr. Lynard Molo

=Thirst Quencher=

*John 4:1-18
"1 The Pharisees heard that Jesus was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John,
2 although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples.
3 When the Lord learned of this, he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.
4 Now he had to go through Samaria.
5 So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

*He has a divine purpose.

6 Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

*It is God's timing.

"God's timing is always right."

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

*Jesus made an initiative.

9 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.)

Why do Jews avoided the Samaritans?
•Samaria [the capital of The Northern kingdom of Israel]
•722-21 BC Assyrians captured Samaria.
•Israelites intermarried with the foreigners and they followed to  some form of their ancient religion.
•400BC the Samaritans erected a rival temple on Mount Gerizim.
•Samaritans are half-breeds.
•Samaritans have an ethnic, racial, and religious issues that made Jews feel no respect for them.
•They are ceremonially unclean, racially impure, and religiously blasphemous and therefore, they were avoided by the Jews.

*There is no discrimination to God.

10 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."

*Lack of Knowledge
*Eternal Life
*The Giver of Life
*The Holy Spirit

*Hosea 4:6
"6 my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. "Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as my priests; because you have ignored the law of your God, I also will ignore your children."

*John 7:37-39a
"37 On the last and greatest day of the Feast, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.
38 Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him."
39 By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive.

*Isaiah 58:11
"11 The LORD will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.

11 "Sir," the woman said, "you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water?
12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds?"

*Ephesians 3:20
"20 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,"

13 Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again,
14 but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."
15 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."
16 He told her, "Go, call your husband and come back."
17 "I have no husband," she replied. Jesus said to her, "You are right when you say you have no husband.
18 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."

*Jeremiah 31:25
"25 I will refresh the weary and satisfy the faint."

"Jesus is our thirst-quencher who can satisfies us."