Sermon Notes

Gleanings From The Well

Thursday, April 23, 2020

8:15 AM

The case of Samaria is rich with racial, social, an economic discrimination.  Bishop Jakes deals with the mindset of how the Jews looked at the Samaritans.

Jesus expands the idea of neighbor beyond whom you share a faith system with or race with but to those who you share the world and or world experiences.

The Well - Jews and Samaritans shared this well and shared thirst. A meeting place for all.

Well controls the life force of the city.

Jesus meets us at the place of our need.

The Water -  Jesus started the conversation with his thirst. First thing we see in the creation story is water. We thirst for that which we are. Only other time mentions his thirst on the cross.

What does God thirst for?

Jesus says if you know who it was who asked you…youd ask me for a drink. The humility to ask the drink?

Natural Water and Spiritual Water is present in John 4.

The Word

The word of God reveals God and us.

" For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart." heb 4:12

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; 24 for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. 25 But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.

Power of his word unleashed in the heart of man is necessary to bring man to Himself.

The Worship

Hour cometh and Now Is they that worship…must worship in spirit and in truth.

You thirst for what you are…. God is a spirit and we thirst for His spirit.

What would make God seek?

God is seeking his people.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.