2. We’ve been talking about Freedom and the opportunity God has given us to Live Free!

7. God has the best plan for true freedom!

8. God’s Plan
The Spirit of God
The Word of God
The Love of God

9. We need to be filled with the Spirit of God, transformed by the Word of God and overwhelmed or grounded in the Love of God.

10. We looked at several freedom passages!

11. Scriptures
John 8:31-32
Galatians 5:1, 13
James 1:12-17
Matthew 4:1-11

12. Scriptures Colossians 2:13-15 Isaiah 14:16-17 Romans 6
2 Corinthians 10:3-6

13. We looked at the 8 R’s to Freedom!

14. We declared that in Christ we are Free to Love and Free to Forgive.

15. Today, I want to talk about the fact that we are Free to Worship and Free to Share Jesus.

16. John 4:1-42

17. John 4:1
When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John

18. John 4:2
(although Jesus Himself was not baptizing, but His disciples were).

19. John 4:3-4
He left Judea, and departed again into Galilee. And He had to pass through Samaria.

20. John 4:5
So He came to a city in Samaria, called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph;

21. John 4:6
and Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied from His journey, was sitting thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

22. John 4:7
There came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.”

23. John 4:8
For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.

24. John 4:9
The Samaritan woman therefore said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask me for a drink since I am a Samaritan woman?

25. John 4:9
(For Jews had no dealings with Samaritans.)

26. John 4:10
Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would

27. John 4:10
have given you living water.”

28. John 4:11
She said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep; where then do You get that living water?”

29. John 4:12
“You are not greater than our Father Jacob, are You, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, and his sons, and his cattle?”

30. John 4:13
Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water shall thirst again;

31. John 4:14
but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water springing up to

32. John 4:14
eternal life.”

33. John 4:15
The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water, so I will not be thirsty, nor come all the way here to draw.”

34. John 4:16
He said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”

35. John 4:17
The woman answered and said, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You have well said, “I have no husband;

36. John 4:18
for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; this you have said truly.”

37. John 4:19
The woman said to Him, “Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet.”

38. John 4:20
“Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you people say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.”

39. John 4:21
Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, an hour is coming when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall you worship the Father.”

40. John 4:22
“You worship that which you do not know; we worship that which we know, for salvation is from the Jews.”

41. John 4:23
“But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His

42. John 4:23-24
worshipers. God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and truth.”

43. John 4:25
The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming (He who is called Christ); when that One comes, He will declare all things to us.”

44. John 4:26
Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am He.”

45. John 4:27
And at this point His disciples came and they marveled that He had been speaking with a woman; yet no one said, “What do you seek?” or,

46. John 4:27
“Why do You speak with her?”

47. John 4:28
So the woman left her waterpot, and went into the city, and said to the men,

48. John 4:29
“Come, see a man who told me all the things that I have done; this is not the Christ, is it?”

49. John 4:30-31
They went out of the city, and were coming to Him. In the meanwhile the disciples were requesting Him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”

50. John 4:32
But He said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.”

51. John 4:33
The disciples therefore were saying to one another, “No one brought Him anything to eat, did he?”

52. John 4:34
Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to accomplish His work.”

53. John 4:35
“Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes, and look on the fields, that they are white

54. John 4:35
for harvest.”

55. John 4:36
“Already he who reaps is receiving wages, and is gathering fruit for life eternal; that he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.”

56. John 4:37
“For in this case the saying is true, ‘One sows, and another reaps.’

57. John 4:38
I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”

58. John 4:39
And from that city many of the Samaritans believed in Him because of the word of the woman who testi-fied, “He told me all the things that I have done.”

59. John 4:40
So when the Samaritans came to Him, they were asking Him to stay with them; and He stayed there two days.

60. John 4:41
And many more believed because of His word;

61. John 4:42
and they were saying to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves and know that this One is

62. John 4:42
indeed the Savior of the world.”

63. How many of us have heard this story before?

64. What are some of the key components that jump out to you?

65. Components
Living Water
Five Husbands
Spirit and Truth
The Christ!

66. Components Salvation is from the Jews Another Food The Harvest
Sowing and Reaping

67. Let’s attempt to look at this story with new eyes.

68. Imagine your house with no running water!

69. Whatever water you need for the day, you have to walk to, get it and carry it back home.

70. What time of the day would you go to get your water?

71. So why was the Samaritan woman going in the heat of the day?

72. She was tired of the looks, the talking, the judgment and the rejection.

73. She was tired of her situation.

74. Why had she had five husbands?

75. Many people automatically assume that she must have been unfaithful.

76. But if we look at this passage from a Hebrew perspective, she probably was barren.

77. Does that make all of the looks, comments and judgments less acceptable?

78. Her life was physically barren and everybody knew it.

79. Life was supposed to be about babies and she couldn’t have any.

80. How do you think that impacted her ability to go on living?

81. How do you think that impacted her ability to worship?

82. Worship?

83. What is that?

84. Worship: to honor or show reverence for as a divine being or supernatural power.

85. Worship: to regard with great or extravagant respect, honor, or devotion.

86. G4352 προσκυνέω pros-koo-neh'-o To fawn or crouch to, that is, to prostrate oneself in homage (do reverence to, adore): - worship.

87. H7812 שׁחה shaw-khaw' To depress, that is, prostrate: bow (self) down, crouch, fall down (flat), make to stoop, worship.

88. Have you ever gone through a very difficult time in life that made it much harder to worship?

89. The woman at the well knew a whole lot about a hard life.

90. She probably found it very difficult to believe, trust, worship and hope for the best.

91. After her encounter with Jesus, she would never be the same.

92. Even though our personal experiences can never change who He Is…

93. They can often offer us a very dark place to hang out.

94. Current circumstances can try to steal our joy.

95. But wait…

96. He is the Christ, the Son of the Living God, no matter how we feel today.

97. We are Free to Worship!

98. And we must worship Him in Spirit and Truth.

99. The Lord sets this woman free from her physical barrenness by empowering her to be spiritually fruitful and multiply.

100. After understanding who she is and why she is here, she is better able to worship Jesus with great freedom and joy.

101. Sometimes we think we’re here for all the wrong reasons.

102. After all, it’s really easy to get distracted by the things of this world.

103. It’s also easy to get distracted with the things that other people want to saddle us with.

104. Jesus reminds us that we’re here to drink deeply, worship, live out the truth and reap an amazing harvest.

105. We’re literally on the planet to make a tremendous difference for the Kingdom of God.

106. We are Free to Worship!

108. We are Free to Share Jesus!

109. John 4:35
“Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes, and look on the fields, that they are white

110. John 4:35
for harvest.”

111. We already know that several physical crops can be white when they are ready to harvest…

112. But did you know that Samaritans and Jews often wore tassels that were all white?

113. The tassels were actually supposed to have blue in them, but the people couldn’t agree on what shade of blue.

114. The blue represented living water, the Messiah and obedience.

115. In other words…

116. Look at all those people with white tassels who know some of the truth, go tell them of Me.

117. Go share My ways with them.

118. Help them see who they really are and understand why they are really here.

119. Be sure to love them, forgive them and teach them how to worship.

120. John 4:41
And many more believed because of His word;

121. John 4:42
and they were saying to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves and know that this One is

122. John 4:42
indeed the Savior of the world.”

124. Salvation isn’t just for us, it’s for whosoever will.

125. Please share Jesus and help more people on the road to real freedom.