Part 2: The Offer of New Life
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PART 2
John 4:7-26
WHAT IS LIVING WATER?
JESUS FREELY OFFERS LIFE CHANGE TO ANYONE.
“Jacob’s well was there; and Jesus, tired from the long walk, sat wearily beside the well about noontime. Soon a Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, ‘Please give Me a drink.’ He was alone at the time because His disciples had gone into the village to buy some food. The woman was surprised, for Jews refuse to have anything to do with Samaritans. She said to Jesus, ‘You are a Jew, and I am a Samaritan woman. Why are you asking Me for a drink?’” John 4:6-9 (NLT)
“Just then His disciples returned and were surprised to find Him talking with a woman. But no one asked, ‘What do You want?’ or ‘Why are You talking with her?’” John 4:27 (NIV)
THE SALVATION JESUS OFFERS IS LIKE LIVING WATER.
“Jesus answered, ‘Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.’” John 4:13-14 (NIV)
Jesus is saying: I can change you completely.
HOW GOSPEL LIFE CHANGE WORKS.
“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.’ He told her, ‘Go, call your husband and come back.’ ‘I have no husband,’ she replied. Jesus said to her, ‘You are right when you say you have no husband. 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.’” John 4:15-18 (NIV)
SALVATION BY GRACE IS BECAUSE OF JESUS.
“‘Sir,’ the woman said, ‘I can see that You are a prophet. Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.’” John 4:19-20 (NIV)
“Jesus said to her, ‘Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship Him.’” John 4:21-23 (ESV)
“Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in Him because of the woman’s testimony, ‘He told me everything I ever did.’ So when the Samaritans came to Him, they urged Him to stay with them, and He stayed two days. And because of His words many more became believers. They said to the woman, ‘We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this Man really is the Savior of the world.’” John 4:39-42 (NIV)
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