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Living Water
Introduction
Divine Appointment
Jesus’ ministry is making waves in the region.
He and his disciples continue to gain more followers.
And they are now baptizing more people than John.
And Jesus is now on the Pharisee’s radar.
So he leaves Judea and went back to Galilee.
And what John tells us is that Jesus had to travel through Samaria or I do like the KJV version
“Jesus must needs travel through Samaria”
For us this may not seem very important, but the Jewish reader would know that something more is going on here.
The quickest way to get from Judea to Galilee was to travel through Samaria.
The Trip would take about three days going the direct route.
But super devout Jews would rather travel around Samaria than through.
This would add an additional 3 days to their travel.
Why?
Why would they rather travel longer than go through Samaria?
They Jewish people hated the Samaritans.
Back when Assyria invaded Israel in 722 some of them settled in the land of Samaria.
That led to syncretism and to intermarriage.
It led to False worship.
It led to the rejection of most of the Hebrew Bible.
So the Jewish People saw the Samaritans as half breeds.
They saw them as unclean.
They saw them as an affront to God’s calling of the Israelites.
So the fact that Jesus had to go through Samaria means that in his ministry he is laying aside all preconceptions and demonstrating that there is no one unworthy of hearing the good news.
Jesus arrives to this well at noon.
He was “worn out from his journey.”
I love how John wants us to remember the humanity of Jesus.
Yes he is the creator of the World.
Yes he is God made flesh.
Yes he is divinity.
But he is also humanity.
Fully God and Fully Man.
He gets hungry, he gets thirsty, he gets worn out.
Jesus has been traveling and he is exhausted.
And a woman approaches the well in the middle of the day.
Did you know that when most people came to draw water from wells it would be either early in the morning or later in the evening.
Because coming to the well in the middle of the day was more difficult.
It was hot.
So if someone came to the well in the middle of the day it was pretty safe to assume that they were outcasts.
So the wells became places of meeting.
They were like the coffee shops of Jesus’ time.
That they didn’t want to deal with the looks from the mobs of people.
That they believed it was easier to come to the well at the middle of the day than it was to deal with the people at the well.
But God had an appointment set up.
The meeting at the well wasn’t an accident either.
Wells play a big role in the life of people dwelling in a desert region.
They don’t have running water in their homes.
They can’t turn on the faucet and have a cool glass of clean water.
And this wasn’t just any well this was the well that Jacob gave his son Joseph.
It ties the historicity of Genesis with the promises of the Messiah.
Not only that, but in the OT many marriage proposals take place at wells.
One of the most prominent stories takes place in Gen 24.
When one of Abraham’s servants is sent out to find a wife for Issac.
And he meets Rebekah at a well.
Anyway, go back and read it, it’s a beautiful story.
Jesus is about to propose to this woman.
Not in an Earthly marriage, but in a heavenly one.
He is about to offer this woman at the well an opportunity to be wed the Groom.
This account comes on the Heels of John the baptist saying this.
John 3:29 “29 He who has the bride is the groom.
But the groom’s friend, who stands by and listens for him, rejoices greatly at the groom’s voice.
So this joy of mine is complete.”
Remember God’s people are the bride of Christ.
And here Jesus is inviting this woman to find all she is looking for in Him.
And Jesus begins this conversation by asking her for a drink of Water.
And she is taken back by his request.
She knows all the social barriers that Jesus’ is jumping over even to simply talk to her.
There are accounts in Old Jewish Laws that Men would avoid talking to women in public.
Including their wife.
They certainly wouldn’t talk to them about spiritual truths which is where this conversation is heading, she just doesn’t know it yet.
And no Jewish person would share a drinking vessel with a Samaritan.
Why because they were unclean.
And if they shared any thing then they too would become unclean.
But what we need to see here is that when Jesus comes into your life and you believe in him he takes what is unclean and cleanses it.
He is not defiled by what is unclean, he purifies it.
This woman also had what we could call a history when it came to men.
Most likely the only time men would talk to her is when they wanted something out of her.
When they want to participate in some unsavory extracurricular activities.
But here’s the thing, she doesn’t understand the importance of this meeting
So Jesus is going to inform her.
Living Water
Jesus once again turns to the importance of water.
The source of this well is a fresh running stream.
So the water would be “living”.
And Jesus says that If this woman knew who she was talking too she could have living water, and she remains confused.
Have you ever felt like you were talking past someone?
That no matter what you say they aren’t actually hearing what your saying.
I imagine that this is what happens here.
Just like with Nicodemus Jesus is speaking about spiritual things and she is focused on here physical needs.
If she had water that would never cause her to thirst again, then she could spend her time doing other things.
She wouldn’t have to travel outside the city to retrieve water.
But Jesus is getting at the heart of what she really needs.
She doesn’t need water that will cure her physical thirst.
She needs water that will quench her thirst for the things of this world.
Here’s what we have to know about Jesus is interested in quenching the thirst for the things of this world.
And we all have things that we chase after that we believe will satisfy us.
We are thirsty people.
Whether it be a promotion at work.
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