The crowd goes to great lengths to catch up with Jesus but is spiritually blind. In the Lord’s conversation with them, we see four marks of their spiritual blindness: preoccupation with the needs of this life, neglect of the work of faith, heedlessness to the sign of God, and incorrigibility with regard to the words of the Lord. May we not be blind as they.
John 4:31-34 The Savior of the World [Part 13]
John 4:11-14 The Savior of the World [Part 3]
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She said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep; where then do You get that living water? You are not greater than our father Jacob, are You, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself and his sons and his cattle?” Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again; but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”
John 4:7-10 The Savior of the World [Part 2]
In this next section, Jesus requests water from the Samaritan woman (The Request), which she refuses (The Refusal), after which Jesus offers her the gift of God (The Offer).
There came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.” For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. Therefore the Samaritan woman said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask me for a drink since I am a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”
John 4:1-6 The Savior of the World [Part 1]
These verses describe the setting of the event in which Jesus journeys from Judea to Galilee, pausing in Samaria. The setting includes the reason for the journey, the route for the journey, and the rest in the journey.
"Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John (although Jesus Himself was not baptizing, but His disciples were), He left Judea and went away again into Galilee. And He had to pass through Samaria. So He came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph; and Jacob’s well was there. So Jesus, being wearied from His journey, was sitting thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour."
Genesis 2:24 - Women's Role in the Home [Part 4]
Summary:
Today's sermon begins by clarifying three types of oneness discussed last week with respect to the meaning of one flesh in Genesis 2:24. Then, four lessons from Genesis 2:15-24 are given about the role of women in the home (specifically toward her husband in marriage):
- Eve is the pattern for all wives.
- Eve is Adam's equal in worth and value as a fellow human being.
- Eve is Adam's companion.
- Eve is Adam's helper.
For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.
John 3:16-21 What is Saving Faith? [Part 10]
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God.”
John 1:14-18 Exceptional Comprehension [Part 4]
And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth. John testified about Him and cried out, saying, “This was He of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has a higher rank than I, for He existed before me.’” For of His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace. For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ. No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten God who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him.