Title: Living Water/John 4:5-10
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Title: Living Water/John 4:5-10
The Lord walked through the scorching wilderness and arrived at the mouth of a village in Samaria at noon. And he was sitting and resting in a place where he could sit by the well.
The Lord came to the Samaritans through a woman who was thirsty and weary to bring salvation to the Samaritans. It shows us that neither the way of doing good nor the way of preaching the gospel is easy.
There are many who think that doing good is in itself a comfortable path, a guiding one. If I do the right thing, everything should be ready for me, but it is not. It also takes patience to do good.
(Galatians 6:9) Let us not grow weary in doing good, for in due time we will reap a harvest if we are not weary.
The Lord was sitting by the well, but the depth of the well was probably 100ft or 30m, so he was waiting for the waterway because there were no buckets or lines.
Then, separating the scorching sunlight and the sand wind, the Samaritan woman comes out to draw water. She was a sinful woman who was pointed at even by Samaritans, whom the Jews despised. She was so isolated that she went out to draw water by herself at noon, avoiding the crowds on that sultry road.
When the Lord saw her, he said [Give me some water]. This saying, [I am thirsty, give me some water] was an incident, not a common occurrence, like a passer-by in the historical drama of our country, asking for water at a well.
In the Mishnah, which Jews at that time had to interpret and observe the Bible, it is recorded that Jews do not share vessels with Samaritans, and according to a Jewish rabbi, [It is forbidden to eat Samaritan bread and drink wine] [any If anyone accepts a Samaritan into his home, his children will be taken into custody.]
Therefore, when the Lord said [Give me a drink], he did not just mean [I am thirsty, give me a drink], but as a Jew, he was saying to the Samaritan woman, [Give me water from that bowl], and this has been going on for hundreds of years. It would be an act of breaking a taboo that had been among them for a while.
These words of the Lord are the beginning of a natural conversation for a woman, and at the same time, open up a riddle to her. This woman thinks to herself
[Does this Jew do me a favor as a Samaritan unlike other Jews?
Are you different from other Jews? Or is this Jew trying to snare me?
Are you trying to break the taboo that this Jew is so covered and thirsty that no one sees?]
She says this with her usual negative feelings and doubts about the Jews.
(John 4:9) ...Why do you ask a Samaritan woman for a drink?
[Why] These words remind us of Nicodemus.
The Lord must be born again to Nicodemus. He said that a person must be born again of water and the Spirit to enter the kingdom of God.
(John 3:9) Nicodemus answered and said, How can these things be?
How in the world could this happen? It was Nigonemo who questioned the truth and questioned it.
Likewise, the Samaritan woman, you are a Jew, [why] do you ask me for a drink? and is questioning. She too is blind in spirit and does not recognize the true God, Christ who has come into the world, but only sees him as a [Jew].
This is a [misunderstanding] of Christ that is often introduced in the Bible.
When Jesus told Nicodemus that he must be born again, Nicodemus [entered into the second mother's womb]
Can I fly?] he asked.
These all come from spiritual ignorance. This spiritual ignorance continues until we can see Jesus Christ as the Messiah.
Jesus throws a more profound word of truth to her, who asks her questions again.
(John 4:10) ...if you had known 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.
What is [God's Gift]? It is giving freely without any merit.
(Romans 5:15) But this gift is not like his transgression, that by one man's transgression many
If a man is dead, much more by the grace of God, or by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ
The gift from many must overflow
is recorded.
In other words
(James 1:17) Every good gift and every perfect gift comes down from above from the Father of lights.
(Ephesians 2:8) By grace you have been saved, through faith, and this
It's not me, it's a gift from God
[He must have given you living water]
There has never been a time when the Korean peninsula was as complex and noisy as today. It is a louder time now than when Bongi Kim Seon-dal sold water from the Taedong River.
A gathering against the [Wicheon Industrial Complex] in Daegu is on fire in the lower Nakdong River area. For what? It means drinking clean tap water. Thousands of people come to the church every day, what do they do?
Rather than entering the chapel where the word of life is located, some people step on the church yard more than we attend worship to get clear and good mineral water.
Why did the Lord compare the word of salvation to [water]?
??Water is entirely a gift from God. 70% of the Earth is ocean. no one can drink this water
can't create Thus salvation comes entirely from God.
??Water is essential for human life. Likewise, salvation is essential to human life.
??Just as water is necessary for all, so salvation is necessary for all.
??Water does not get tired. Salvation is always fresh no matter how many times you hear it.
What is the living water that the Lord gives? This bottled water does not mean that it is alive, that is, unboiled water. This is what it means to be a spring of continuous, non-stop springing. The well from which the woman draws water now has to be scooped up from the deep bottom with [stagnant] water, but the spring is cold and overflowing.
(John 4:14) Whoever drinks the water that I will give him will never thirst.
[Living Water] means salvation from God who satisfies the thirst of human souls.
(Isaiah 12:3) Therefore with joy ye will draw water from the wells of salvation.
[Without the salvation of living water, human beings cannot help but remain thirsty for souls]
(Psalm 42:1) As a deer longs for streams, so my soul longs for you, O God.
(Jeremiah 2:13) My people have done two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living water.
You dug a cistern yourself, and it is a broken cistern that cannot hold water.
(Isaiah 44:3) For I give water to the thirsty, and streams on the dry land,
I will put my spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your descendants.
[Salvation is freely given]
(Isa 55:1) Come, you who thirst, come to the waters, and he who has no money, come, buy and eat.
Come and buy wine and milk without money and without price
[Salvation flows without ceasing]
(Ezekiel 47:12) On the left and right sides of the river grow trees of all kinds for food; their leaves do not wither, and their fruits grow.
It will not cease to be, and will bear new fruit every month, for its waters come out of the sanctuary.
Its fruit will be edible, and its leaves will be medicines.
(Zechariah 14:8) On that day living water will flow out of Jerusalem, half to the East Sea and half to the West Sea.
It will be the same in summer and winter
*** conclusion ***
1. It takes patience to do good.
2. Only Jesus Christ has the living water of salvation.
(Jeremiah 2:13) My people have done two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living water.
You dug a cistern yourself, and it is a broken cistern that cannot hold water.
3. It is given to those who ask.
(John 4:10) ... he must have given you living water.