Title: Where to get bottled water?
(The woman said to him, “Lord, there is no vessel to draw water. The well is deep. Where can I get this living water?”
Shall we get it? Our father Jacob gave us this well, and here he
Are you greater than Jacob, because all his sons and his animals have eaten?
He answered and said, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give
He will never thirst. The water I give will spring up in him to everlasting life.
I will become a spring of water) (John 4:11-14)
A team of researchers at the University of Oklahoma in the United States used acupuncture to determine the limits of intelligence in animals.
It is said that he taught the pansy to sign language (手話).
After all my hard work, I teach 140 words and combine them according to my thoughts.
made it possible to do it.
Then, do you know what the first words this chimpanzee used to say?
"Let me out" was said to be 'let me go'.
It means that even the beast does not want to be imprisoned or held captive.
What are we humans?
Needless to say, he is a being who craves freedom.
Where there is freedom, that place is like our hometown (B. Franklin),
If it's not freedom, you have no choice but to ask for death (Patrick Healy).
It would mean that it would be better to die than to live without freedom.
But just as freedom and slavery do not coexist (A. Lincoln), we are slaves to sin.
You cannot enjoy true freedom.
That is why only Jesus, who came to solve the problem of our sins, can set us free.
I believe you will.
At the beginning of the new year, may we all become beings that lead to freedom.
True freedom is only in Jesus Christ.
“You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free” (John 8:32).
“Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom” (2 Corinthians 3:17).
Today's text is the record of a woman who was set free from sin.
No one was as unhappy as this woman until she met Jesus Christ.
will be
There was no way to quench the thirst of life.
So he said he was married five times.
If you've been married five times, you wouldn't be able to see a woman changing her husband.
is.
Even more, in the Middle East, in the social situation of male dominance at the time of Jesus, no matter what
The reason I ended up living with five men is that I was unhappy.
However, the conclusion is that it is impossible to quench the thirst of life for all men, or even in humans.
It would be that it was.
1. Then where can I get bottled water?
The reality of our lives is always the reality of thirst.
The reality of thirst is the reality that I can't become what I want.
I long for peace, but terrorism, war, and natural disasters are happening all over the world.
They never stop listening.
Terrorism also occurred at the beginning of this Christmas and New Year.
There are a lot of people in our country who are struggling too.
The reality is that many people lose their jobs and become homeless.
Some people live in jjokbang because they don’t have a few pennies, but how much do heads of households in their 40s cost
If it were a difficult reality for me, would there be a case of taking my life?
Even in our religious life, our thirst has not been quenched.
He attends the Sunday worship service repeatedly formally, but still has not received living water.
There will be cases where
The church has been around for several years, but nothing has changed.
How many hours have you listened to the Word?
How many years have you attended prayer meetings and revival meetings?
Nevertheless, the thirst is still there.
Maybe the Samaritan woman in today's text is myself.
If we look into our reality, we can't tell others, so we live a difficult life.
Lots of people.
Being hurt by things like money, fame, power, status, and pleasure
They may have been wandering around trying to quench their thirst for life.
Where can I get bottled water?
This is the question this woman asked the Lord.
(Where can I get it?)
When you treat the Lord only as a man, you keep asking these questions.
“Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob?”
“I don’t have a bowl to draw water from, so where are you going to give me such water?”
"Wherever there is such water, give it to me so that I do not come back to draw water again.
Ryo" He treated the Lord thoroughly and only humanly.
However, in the next moment, the eyes of his closed heart were opened.
"Bring your husband"
Did you tell me to bring the husband who has been the object of thirst quenching?
All.
At that time, I replied, "I don't have a husband."
"You are right that you don't have a husband. You lived with five men, but you
Ram knows that I'm not your husband, too."
Here we learn a deep spiritual lesson.
I start the new year with new hopes, but what kind of husband do I want now?
Do you see it as being?
Do you believe that he will quench your thirst for life?
How long will I have to live with another husband this year?
We must reflect deeply.
Shouldn't something be new!
To do this, we must meet the Lord who comes in the Word today.
The self-esteem of my outward person that has not yet been broken must be broken.
The pride of human desire, the pride of being able to live without faith is broken
have to go
I must meet the Lord at the well of my shameful reality.
Then where can you find such a Lord?
We must meet at the well of the Word.
The well where the word comes means worship.
2. We must meet the Lord through worship.
Worship is a meeting place with the Lord.
You must hear the voice of the Lord coming within you.
The Lord knocks on our hearts.
Even at this time, we are knocking on our closed hearts with the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
Through worship, my heart must be connected with the Lord.
But we still see the Lord only through pictures.
What is the meaning of water in pictures to someone who has met thirst?
The life of faith is like this.
Are there still cases where my faith is felt only through pictures?
In such a state, no change is experienced.
So what should I do?
There must be someone who wants to meet the Lord.
There must be someone who wants to meet the Lord in real life.
That is self-introspection, looking directly at yourself.
The more you reflect on yourself, the more you will feel incapacitated.
You will realize how shameful you are.
We must come before the Lord with this shameful appearance.
For that to happen, worship must be different.
It must be changed with a heart longing for worship.
Worship begins with a prepared heart.
Grace is filled as much as you prepare yourself.
My cup must be empty with a thirsty heart like a woman at the well.
Only empty glasses are filled.
3. Therefore, worship should be more enjoyable to meet the Lord.
Looking at the clock while worshiping is proof that you miss other things more.
Everyone!
I hope to see the young people I love.
Do your loved ones meet with promises of parting time?
Do you ever say "Baby, let's meet for 30 minutes today"?
There will never be.
There is only time to meet.
☞ When I went on a date with my old housemate, I only promised time to meet, break up.
promised time and never met.
☞ I saw it on the subway a few days ago.
They seem to be a college student couple, but I saw them holding their bodies close to each other so as not to fall apart.
I did.
We meet just because it's nice to meet you.
Just a little bit more, a little bit more.
☞ By the way, I would like to see a couple with problems.
Keeping troubled couples together is the most burdensome.
It is said that spending time together is the most difficult.
because? Because there is no conversation.
There's nothing more difficult than being with people who don't have conversations.
If you believe this way, worship time will be the most boring.
It's probably just the thought of going out into the world after it's over.
So now it's time to finish... and look at the clock.
I miss promises with my lover more than Jesus, and skiing more than worshiping.
I miss it more.
What kind of Lord can you see in such a life of faith?
If even now Jesus is seen only as a Jewish man, the source of living water
You will be wandering thirsty without knowing it.
There must be a thirst to meet the Lord who comes in the Word.
As soon as the husband came home from work after the pastor left, the wife said,
All.
"The new pastor visited today."
"What did the pastor say?"
"The pastor asked me, 'Is Christ with this family?' you are doing
Yo. I didn't know what that meant."
Hearing this, the husband's face began to turn red.
"No, then you can say that we are descendants of a decent and good family."
“I was going to do that at first too, but that’s not what the pastor asked.”
“Ah, then, so that our family members pray every day and read the Bible diligently.
G."
"But honey, isn't that what the pastor asked?"
My husband started getting more and more nervous.
“Then you don’t even say that our family always attends church every week.
Did you mean?"
"And what do you do that the pastor didn't ask? It's just that Christ is here in this house.
I mean, you just asked if you were living there."
For many days this couple have been wondering what the meaning of this unusual question from the pastor.
I started to think about it.
In the meantime, little by little things have changed.
The couple became thirsty for Christ, not the dead, but the risen resurrection.
I started thinking about the Lord.
During the New Year this year, our Sangdo church members are seeing Jesus through pictures, and seeing Jesus through images.
Jesus, not the Jesus we know by doctrine and learning,
Present the living Christ who came to me like a Samaritan woman and gave me living water.
I hope to see you in the next year.
Because there life's fundamental thirst can be quenched. ♣