July 5th 2020 Sermon Notes

Speaker:Rev Gail Price Theme: Jesus is waiting in the meeting room Text: John 4: 4

4 Now he had to go through Samaria. 5 So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.
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 livestock?”
13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 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.”

Miracles happen on ordinary days, as long as Jesus is on the scene expect miracles.

When Jesus comes he comes and transforms us. We don’t go to God He comes to us to change us from wicked to righteous.

He wants to meet with you. When He rose we rose and now we are seated in Heavenly places as He sits at the right hand of God the Father.

Jesus will meet us in the meeting room, unlike Zoom we don’t need an ID or password we only have to call on the name of Jesus.

Today God wants to zero in on you. Don’t miss the chance to meet with Jesus He is at the well waiting for you.

God will touch you where you are to touch and transform your life.

4 Now he had to go through Samaria. Jesus when out of the way, he has his reason to go that way, He wanted to meet that woman at the well. Jesus was a revolutionary He always stirred up the normal, in His days meeting with a woman on his own was unheard of.

Jesus never missed an opportunity
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)


Even King David felt inadequate in God’s presence. ‘what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him? You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor.’ Psalm 8

This woman’s life was in turmoil, she felt rejected. Jesus knew what rejection was like.

She was not a stable church member no she was a woman with a past walking a lonely road. She probable wondered ‘How did I get here?’ Don’t wonder just want to get out. She was going for water but God wanted to give her Living Water.

God is saying today we can meet with Him. We can sit quietly with Jesus and hear where God wants us to be and go.

Jesus is the lifters your head.
Romans 12:1
Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God--this is your true and proper worship.

Psalm 42:1
As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God.

Jesus reveals her life to her. Allow Jesus to see you and reveal things to you. God is trying to get your attention. He wants I change your view.

16 Jesus 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.”

Jesus waits, he waited for Zacchaeus in his circumstances, just like this woman at the well. Jesus was there change hr life. She was in dire need of change.
Jesus saw purpose in her life she turned into a new person. She returned to her village with a lifter head. She has a new message.

19 “Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet. 20 Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”
21 “Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, 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 the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the 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, the one speaking to you—I am he.”

Many Samaritans Believe
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.”

She prepared the ground for Phillip in Samaria.

Acts 8:1-8
The Church Persecuted and Scattered
On that day a great persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria. 2 Godly men buried Stephen and mourned deeply for him. 3 But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off both men and women and put them in prison. Philip in Samaria
4 Those who had been scattered preached the word wherever they went. 5 Philip went down to a city in Samaria and proclaimed the Messiah there. 6 When the crowds heard Philip and saw the signs he performed, they all paid close attention to what he said. 7 For with shrieks, impure spirits came out of many, and many who were paralyzed or lame were healed. 8 So there was great joy in that city.