Hungry for All Truth
John 4:25-42
Preaching Notes
John 4:25-42
25 The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will tell us all things.”
26 Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am he.”
27 Just then his disciples came back. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you seek?” or, “Why are you talking with her?”
28 So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people, 29 “Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?” 30 They went out of the town and were coming to him.
31 Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”
32 But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.”
33 So the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?”
34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.
35 Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest. 36 Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together.
37 For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’
38 I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”
39 Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.”
40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. 41 And many more believed because of his word.
42 They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world.”
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I. Samaritan Woman View of Jesus
Enemy – Foolish – Unaware
Intriguing – Accepting – Prophet
Messianic
She went from being
Hostile – Engaged – Witness
II. Jesus offered her grace and then Truth
Grace was His welcome
Truth was His unveiling
Grace paid the debt
wiped away the guilt
erased the shame
softened the heart, and
opened the mind
to receive The Truth in faith
This led to her return to town to be a witness for Jesus
She went and told others
They saw and her something different
They came to Jesus
They believed, initially, because of her word
They came to full faith
Because they heard Jesus’ Word,
The Truth
III. Meanwhile – The Disciples
Returned from “Food Run” into town
Culver’s and Starbucks
Serving the picnic
Concerned that Jesus was not eating
Concerned the Lamb of God
… Was not eating well
Concern became speculation
Had someone beat them to the punch
And brought Jesus a “Happy Meal”
In stories, we are usually the Disciples
They were concerned about insignificant worldly things
While …
Samaritan Woman was off witnessing about Jesus
Jesus talks to them about
The harvest, sowing, and reaping
They are indulging in worldly concerns
Missing the call to call others to faith
So true in today’s church
We worry, fret, gripe, complain about insignificant things
While Jesus calls us
to bear witness
And => others to faith
We know The Truth
But continue to dabble in self-indulgent ministry
And ultimately leading people away from God, Jesus
Leading them away from Grace and Truth
IV. Grace and Truth
Jesus offered Grace AND Truth
John 1:17
Grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
Truth Jesus offered was not The Law
Not legalism
That came through Moses
The Truth Jesus offered
Was Himself, God, The Holy Spirit,
Grace and salvation
Which =>
forgiveness of sins,
which the woman and all of us desperately need
Eternal life
Which the woman and all of us desperately desire
John 14:6
Jesus said to him,
“I am the way, and the truth, and the life.
No one comes to the Father except through me.
Romans 1:16–17
The gospel is the power of God
for salvation to everyone who believes,
to the Jew first
(including the Samaritan)
and also to the Greek
(the whole world ….
Not just disciples on a picnic)
For in the Truth of the Gospel
the righteousness of God is revealed
from faith for faith, as it is written,
“The righteous shall live by faith.”
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