Well, let me invite you, this morning to turn in your Bibles to John chapter 4. John, chapter 4 for a time of study in the word this morning. we're going to, we've been looking at John 3 and 4, looking at two encounters, of Jesus, one with Nicodemus in John 3, and then with the Samaritan woman in John 4. And as we continue in our study, through John 4 we come this morning to, to verse 28, and we'll look at verses 28 to 30 and tie together verses 39 through 42 also.
When my kids were younger, I used to say a poem to them, almost nightly, and the poem is entitled Opportunity by Edward Roland Sill. And I'll try to, I'll try to say it to you, but I also have it here on the screen. This I beheld or dreamed it in a dream. There spread a cloud of dust along a plain, and underneath the cloud or in it raged a furious battle, and men yelled and swords shocked upon swords and shields.
A prince's banner wavered. Then staggered backward hemmed by foes. A craven or a coward hung along the battle's edge and thought, Had I a sword of keener steel, that blue blade that the king's son bears, but this blunt thing, he snapped and flung it from his hand. Then lowering, he crept away and left the field.
Then came the king's son, wounded and sore bestead and weaponless, and he saw the broken sword hilt buried in the dry and trodden sand, and he ran and he snatched it, and with battle shout lifted afresh, he hewed his enemy down. And saved a great cause that heroic day. I love that. after, when I would say that to my kids, I would act it out more and I would hew my children down with a fake sword, much to their delight....
