Let me invite you to turn in your Bibles this morning to John 4. John 4, we're doing a miniseries through this section of John's Gospel, John 3 and 4, seeing Jesus encounters with two people, Nicodemus, a religious Pharisee in John 3, and then a Samaritan woman in John 4. And today, my goal is to look at John chapter 4, verses 20 through 26. And if you want To give a title to the message this morning, it would be the truth about worship, the truth about Worship.
Just to recap, Jesus is seated by a well outside of the city of Sicar in Samaria. He's tired and a woman comes in the heat of the day by herself to this particular well to draw water. Jesus says to her, could you give me something to drink? And she's stunned and says, What are you, a Jew doing talking to me, a Samaritan woman?
And Jesus says, if you only knew the gift of God and who it is who's asking you for a drink, you would have already asked him for a drink, and I would have already given you that drink. And the woman then looks at Jesus and says, Well, you don't have anything to draw with and the well is deep. So where do you get this water that you're talking about? Let's pick up in verse 13 of John 4.
And Jesus answered and said to her, Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again. But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst. But the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life. And the woman said to him, Sir, give me this water so that I will not be thirsty nor come all the way here to draw....
