Jesus’ Words in Red "Will you give me a drink?"

Jesus’ Words in Red

"Will you give me a drink?" 

What could be greater than Jesus’ offer of

“Living water welling up to eternal life."

 

But we must not miss, Jesus asked for a drink

The Samaritan Woman at the well gave Jesus the drink He was looking for

Jesus said His food and drink was to do the will of the Father

This woman was searching for true worship in spirit and truth

She sowed the Good News to her town who believed

Jesus was refreshed to see He reaped where He did not sow

 

And He saw the Kingdom of God in earth as it is in heaven

Have you refreshed the Lord by doing the will of the Father?

Are you sowing seed to eternal life?

"Will you give me a drink?"  

In the 4 Gospels, the conversation Jesus had

with the woman at the well is the longest

conversation He had with any woman.

Jesus started the conversation by asking a question…

"Will you give me a drink?" 

The woman was surprised that a Jewish

man would talk to a Samaritan Woman.

Two important points are seen here…

·       Jews do not associate with Samaritans

·       Jesus, a man, is talking to a woman

The Samaritan woman questioned Jesus…

 “How can you ask me for a drink?"

So who is this woman?

She understands the differences

between Jews and Samaritans.

She was very familiar with the history of Jacob’s well.

She was very open to spiritual things as Jesus

turned the conversation from natural water to spiritual.

She was intrigued with Jesus’ offer of

Living Water and wanted to receive it. 

Before Jesus was willing to give

her the Living Water He says…

"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. 18 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." 

At this point it is hard to image

a woman had five husbands.

This is unheard of at any point of time or culture.

 Some have said she was an adulteress.

But I would disagree.

It would be hard in her culture to get a divorce.

 If she was an unfaithful wife, she would

have a bad reputation and no respect.

 This does not seem to be the case

when she went back to her town.

It would be a very sad and hard life

if she had five husbands who had died.

The fact that she had five husbands spells

disaster for her, since women relied on

the patriarchal household to survive.

The Samaritan Women was not a profligate (recklessly

extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources) divorcee.

The Samaritan woman was a God seeker.

She wanted the Living Water.

She knew the history of God with His people.

She perceives Jesus to be a prophet.

She had a good understanding of worship and

showed a desire to do worship right.

She was fully aware the Messiah was coming.

When she went back to her town, the men

in the town listened and believed her.

She was not a disregarded person in her

home town but was able to evangelize

because she had a respected hunger for God.

Now Jesus asked her for a drink and the

Samaritan woman gave Him a refreshing drink.

The encounter not only refreshed

the woman, but Jesus as well.

Her joyful embrace of Jesus' teaching satisfies

His hunger to fulfill God's will "on earth as in heaven."

"I have food to eat that you don't know about,"

 says a re-energized Jesus, rejoicing

that God's harvest is indeed vast.

John 4:32-38

The woman's search for true worship

"in Spirit and in Truth" is at last fulfilled.

Jesus recognized that He did not sow the

hunger for God that already existed within her.

But He did reap what another had sown.

As for the Samaritan woman, she

now joins a group of sowers and reapers

"gathering crops for eternal life".

John 4:36

And what about us?

Where do we find true worship?

Where do we gather crops for eternal life?

Have you given a drink to Jesus lately?

Scripture Reading

John 4:7-42 NIV

7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, "Will you give me a drink?"  8(His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)

9 The Samaritan woman said to him, "You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?" (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)

10 Jesus answered her, "If you knew 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." 

11 "Sir," the woman said, "you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds?"

13 Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." 

15 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."

16 He told her, "Go, call your husband and come back." 

17 "I have no husband," she replied.

Jesus said to her, "You are right when you say you have no husband. 18 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." 

19 "Sir," the woman said, "I can see that you are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem."

21 Jesus declared, "Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth." 

25 The woman said, "I know that Messiah" (called Christ) "is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us."

26 Then Jesus declared, "I who speak to you am he." 

27 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?"

28 Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, 29 "Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ?" 30 They came out of the town and made their way toward him.

31 Meanwhile his disciples urged him, "Rabbi, eat something."

32 But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you know nothing about." 

33 Then his disciples said to each other, "Could someone have brought him food?"

34 "My food," said Jesus, "is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. 35 Do you not say, 'Four months more and then the harvest'? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. 36 Even now the reaper draws his wages, even now he harvests the crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. 37 Thus the saying 'One sows and another reaps' is true. 38 I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor." 

39 Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony, "He told me everything I ever did." 40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days. 41 And because of his words many more became believers.

42 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."