Episode Transcript
Speaker 1 00:00:02 Welcome to Lent Meditation and Worship with Westside Church during this lentin season. Meet us here each day as we read scripture, worship, and rest in the presence of God together. Know that as you listen today, you are doing so with others, whether in the same places you are not, and we pray that the Holy Spirit permeates the places we each find ourselves in right now. For more resources and to find each week's prayer and song, visit westside church.org/lent. Let us start today by clearing our minds and opening our hearts to what the Lord wants to speak to us through His word. Take a deep breath in and out and another in and out.
Speaker 1 00:01:07 Today we are reading a story. You may well know it's the Story of Jesus encounter with the Samaritan woman at the well. I want you to put aside what you know of this story and listen with fresh years. Listen for what new revelation the Holy Spirit may want to show you today. If you're able, close your eyes and imagine the story playing out as a movie In your mind, what do you see or notice? Write down phrases or words that stick out to you for you to reflect on later. This is the first time Jesus reveals himself to be the son of God and he chose his first revelation to be to a Samaritan woman in her own rights. She is a lowly Samaritan who's also a woman and a Jewish man would have never approached her in public as Jesus did. On top of that, her history makes her an outcast even to her own people. She travels to the well at the height of the day when the sun is at its hottest so she wouldn't have to be seen by anyone. And then Jesus comes along. This is a story of Jesus revealing his heart for the outcast, those on the margins and how he will give living water to all those who ask regardless of their place in society or if others would deem them deserving. Let's read this powerful story together. Together. John chapter four, verses five through 42.
Speaker 1 00:03:11 Jesus had to go through Samaria and he came to a town in Samaria named Sohar. It was near the place which Jacob gave to his son, Joseph Jacob's well was there. So Jesus tired from the journey, sat down there by the well. It was about midday. A Samaritan woman came to draw water and Jesus spoke to her. Give me a drink. He said The disciples had gone off into town to buy food. What said the Samaritan woman, you a Jew asking for a drink from me, a woman and a Samaritan at that Jews you see, don't have any dealings with Samaritans. If only you'd known God's gift replied Jesus and who it is that's saying to you, give me a drink. You'd have asked him and he would've given you living water. But sir, replied the woman. You haven't got a bucket and the wells deep.
Speaker 1 00:04:19 So how were you thinking of getting living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank of it himself with his son and his animals? Everyone who drinks this water, Jesus replied, will get thirsty again. But anyone who drinks the water, I'll give them won't ever be thirsty again. No. The water I'll give them will become a spring of water welling up to the life of God's new age. Sir. The woman said, give me this water, then I won't be thirsty anymore and I won't have to come here to draw water from the well. Well then said Jesus to the woman. Go and call your husband and come here. I haven't got a husband replied the woman you're telling me you haven't got a husband replied, Jesus. The fact is you've had five husbands and the one you've got now isn't your husband.
Speaker 1 00:05:22 You were speaking the truth. Well, sir replied the woman. I can see you're a prophet. Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain and you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship. Believe me, woman replied, Jesus, the time is coming. When you won't worship the Father on this mountain or in Jerusalem, you worship. What you don't know. We worship. What we do know, salvation you see is indeed from the Jews, but the time is coming. Indeed. It's already here. When true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. Yes. That's the kind of worshipers the father is looking for. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth, I know that Messiah is coming, said the woman, the one they call the anointed. When he comes, he'll tell us everything. I'm the one. The one speaking to you right now, said Jesus.
Speaker 1 00:06:31 Just then Jesus disciples came up. They were astonished that he was talking with a woman, but nobody said, what did you want? Or why were you talking with her? So the woman left her water jar, went into the town and spoke to the people. Come on. She said, come and see a man who told me everything I ever did. You don't think he can be the messiah, do you? So they left the town and were coming out to him. Meanwhile, the disciples were nagging him. Come on, rabbi. They were saying, you must have something to eat. I've got food to eat that you know nothing about. He said, nobody's brought him anything to eat yet. Have they said the disciples to one another? My food, Jesus replied, is to do the will of the one who sent me and to finish his work. Don't you have a saying?
Speaker 1 00:07:30 Another four months and then comes harvest will. Let me tell you, raise your eyes and see the fields are white. It's harvest time already. The reaper earns his pay and gathers crops for the life of God's coming age so that Soer and reaper can celebrate together. This is where that saying comes true. One sows another reaps. I sent you to reap what you didn't work for others did the hard work and you've come into the results. Several Samaritans from the town believed in Jesus because of what the woman said in evidence about him. He told me everything I did. So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them and he stayed there two days. Many more believed because of what he said. We believe too. They said to the woman, but it's no longer because of what you told us. We've heard him ourselves. We know that he really is the one. He's the savior of the world. Let's pray. End during presence, goal and guide. You go before and await are coming. Only our thirst compels us beyond complaint to conversation, beyond rejection to relationship. Pour your love into our hearts that refreshed and renewed. We may invite others to the living water given to us in Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.
Speaker 2 00:09:28 When you look at me, you don't see the image of Christ. Oh, he doesn't look on the outside to see how you see brother so quickly. How many times I've been blind to the image of Christ? Oh, he doesn't look on the outside. Help
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Speaker 2 00:11:07 To see how you see our brother. So in your soul, there is the reflection of God and we find him inside of the way that we love. In your soul, there is the reflection of God and we find him inside of the, we love. We bear the image of Christ. Oh, he doesn't look on the outside just to see how you see brothers. So.
