It wasn't quite confrontation time yet. We know here that it is talking about water baptism without saying water since John was only water baptizing people.
Confrontation time will be most of the time when we are living in a world that is not our home... The world hates us if we are living, talking as Jesus did... He made it plain that if they hated him then they would hate us...
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"16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
"17 These things I command you, that ye love one another.
"18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
"19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you."
The Bible says that he 'must needs', there was something to do in Samaria. Jesus came to seek and to save the lost. There are things that we "must need" to do and if we are open to the Lord's voice then we will do those things. NOW let's see what he "must needs" to do...
John 4 (Cont.)
Many times Jesus used natural things to teach supernatural truth. The Samaritian woman knew that the Jews didn't talk with the Samaritians so she asked him why was he speaking to her. Jesus answers her by telling her that if she knew who was talking to her then she could have asked for living water and he would have given it to her. He just wanted a drink of water but he has something to teach her in the process... We should do the same... Example- Remember the telephone poles outside...the power going through those lines.... There is power flowing through the life of the believer if he is hooked up to the Lord Jesus Christ, walking in faith. We get our life, strength, power from the Lord of Glory.
Ck. I Cor.1:18
He was driven to share life with this world and we should be driven in the same way... HE "MUST NEEDS" AND WE "MUST NEED" TO DO THE SAME...
Jesus is about to let her know in his own words that he is much greater that Jacob. He has something to offer that neither Jacob, Abraham, and all the rest put together can come close to offering.
So Jesus tells her that the water he gives will spring up into everlasting life. He keeps bringing it back to the supernatural, he knew life was short and time is precious...
Since man's thinking is normally on the carnal, the temporary then the first thing to come out of her mouth was to give her this water to save her time from going there to draw water, nothing to do with eternity.
Now Jesus goes into one of her problems and that is her sin nature and her living with other men is a big problem.
Now she realizes that he is a prophet (but he is more, much more). I guess that's the highest anointing that she knows of or something to that effect to give him. 'is that of a prophet'. You also see that she is not dealing with her sin, she is changing the subject, so to speak.
John 4 (Cont.)Since she now knows that she is talking to a prophet, she gets a little religious. There are a lot of people who know how to "play" the 'religious game'. She talks about where to worship. Jesus tells her the location is not the reality but the way is where it's at. He tells her that those who worship the Father are going to worship in spirit and in truth.
John 4 (Cont.)Now she talks about the Messiah coming and how he is going to tell them all things that they need to know. Jesus tells her that it is he who speaks to her and then... NOW she is beginning to see some things...
John 4 (Cont.)...the disciples came back and they are wondering why Jesus would talk to a Samaritian. (They have a lot to learn but don't we all?) She leaves her natural water there and runs to tell the men of the city of the supernatural water that she just heard about. It is like the Mary and Martha illustration, she now knew the spiritual water was the most important...
John 4 (Cont.)She gets back to her town and she tells them to come meet the one who told her all about her life and says, "is not this the Christ?" They go to where he is at. When someone gets "radical" about something or someone then others want to see or hear that person or thing.
John 4 (Cont.)While the Samaritians are on their way to where Jesus is at, the disciples are trying to get Jesus to eat. He once again brings the natural to the supernatural and tells them that he has meat that they don't know about. They are wondering who brought him something to eat. Then Jesus tells them straight out that his meat was to do the will of him who sent him, to finish his work.
John 4 (Cont.)Since they were talking on food, Jesus brings the harvest that is ready now to their focus (the harvest of souls). He then talks about others have sowed (planted) that they will reap what has been sown.
John 4 (Cont.)Many Samaritians believed on Jesus through the words of the woman, (God works through people...) and many more believed when they heard him for themselves. Jesus stays with them two days ministering and then he goes to Galilee.
John 4 (Cont.)Application: Can't you see that the ones in your own physical family are the hardest ones to reach at times since they know where you came from, know you since you grew up with them, etc.
John 4 (Cont.)
Jesus goes back to where he did his first miracle and a nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum comes to where he is at and asks him to heal his son, he is at the point of death.
This is interesting here. Jesus says unless you see signs and wonders, ye will not believe. It's like the nobleman did not hear, he was too concerned with his son and yet Jesus did another sign and wonder and told him that his son was healed.
The father believed Jesus because he headed back home and his servants met him and told him that his son was better. He asked when and they gave the seventh hour when Jesus spoke and he was healed. This would be about the time that Jesus became MORE than just a "sir" to the nobleman...
John 4 (Cont.)He goes back to Cana and that is where he did his second miracle. Interesting! He isn't a quiter, he goes back to the same place. Do you notice how a lot of the "prophets" tend to travel to one place then another and not come back if they can help it unless there is money at stake... Satan has false prophets who are willing to go back to the same places but they are few and far between.
See how Jesus continually brought the supernatural into the natural with the things that he talked about such as the water (vs.7-10), the meat (vs.31-34), and the harvest (vs. 35-38)... and this is just one chapter... Back to the Christian Directory Back to the Book of John John Chapter 5