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New Worship

New Worship. John 4. New Worship. John 4. Meeting the Elite –Nicodemus-Theologian, Politician. The Outcaste-Samaritan Woman. Part of an outcaste nation “the daughters of the Samaritans are menstruants from their cradle’ Within this outcaste nation she is outcaste Comes alone.

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New Worship

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  1. New Worship John 4

  2. New Worship John 4

  3. Meeting the Elite –Nicodemus-Theologian, Politician

  4. The Outcaste-Samaritan Woman Part of an outcaste nation “the daughters of the Samaritans are menstruants from their cradle’ Within this outcaste nation she is outcaste Comes alone

  5. Town of Sychar – Askar today on shoulder of Mr Ekbal Mt Ekbal Mt Gerizim Nablus

  6. Traitors to Judah Conspired to invade Judah

  7. Assyrians 722— 721 BC deported all the Israelites of substance and settled the land with foreigners. Who intermarried with them contaminating with their religion

  8. The Samaritan Woman Comes alone John 4:7 7 There came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink."

  9. The Samaritan Woman John 4:9 9 The Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?" ( For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

  10. John 4:13-14 13 Jesus said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty forever. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."

  11. fresh, running water from springs

  12. Living Water=Eternal Life The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."

  13. The Samaritan Woman Like Nicodemus misunderstands John 4:15 15 The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water."

  14. Confronting sin • John 4:16-18 16 Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here." 17 The woman answered him, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You are right in saying, 'I have no husband'; 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true."

  15. She does not turn away • John 4:19-20 19 The woman said to him, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship."

  16. Mt Gerizim Highest in world Manasseh 330 bc

  17. Genesis Exodus Deuteronomy Leviticus Numbers Judges 1-2 Kings 1-2 Chronicles Psalms Proverbs Job Isaiah Ezekiel Amos etc…..

  18. Mt Gerizim Mount Gerazim Jerusalem Which place true worship?

  19. Mt Gerizim John 4:21 21 Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.

  20. Setting the record straight-worship is based on truth • John 4:22 22 You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.

  21. John 4:23 23 But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him.

  22. John 4:24 24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."

  23. Worshiping God • In Spirit and Truth • Not • In Spirit and In Truth (NIV and KJV) Composite term to be used together Not understood as sum of individual items

  24. It means more than .. • Sincere worship • Worship from the heart

  25. OT worship was meant to be sincere anyway • Isaiah 1:11-17 11 "What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the LORD; I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats.

  26. 14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates; they have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them. 15 When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood. 16

  27. Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil, 17 learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause.

  28. New Worship=Impending and current reality • John 4:23 23But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. Means that it has not happened in the past Means it is new worship

  29. Worship based on God’s nature • John 4:24 24God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."

  30. Not God is a spirit like one of all other spirits Does not mean He is just invisible –ghost or not physical not felt He is not material

  31. Difference between created and Creator • Isaiah 31:3 3 The Egyptians are man, and not God, and their horses are flesh, and not spirit. Different dimension

  32. GOD IS SPIRIT Love Invisible Divine Light-Righteous Life giving Facets of what God is as revealed to us

  33. Implications • Exodus 20:4 4 "You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

  34. Apis Bull -Egyptian Fertility god Old boyfriend

  35. Troubled Worship Samaritans Jews Sincere TRUTH

  36. Promised in OT • Ezekiel 11:19-20 19 And I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I will put within them. I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh, 20 that they may walk in my statutes and keep my rules and obey them. And they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

  37. Fulfilled in Jesus • John 4:23 23 But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him.

  38. Worship in Spirit and Truth • Worship that is • God centered ,made possible by the gift of the Holy Spirit • And in personal knowledge and conformity to God’s Word made flesh, the One who is God’s Truth DA Carson “ The Gospel according to John, PNTC page 225

  39. Enabled by the Holy Spirit and Based on Truth about God revealed by Jesus

  40. Anyone can worship • Julia Fisher-recent book 100000 Messianic Jews

  41. Even Samaritan Woman with 5 husbands

  42. Given the Holy Spirit-Living Water=Received God’s nature The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."

  43. Mt Gerizim Not limited by Location Does not mean worship in building more effective than at home Holy Room in the house Pilgrimage to Jerusalem Not based on Location

  44. Radical shift from location to person

  45. Church of Holy Sepulchre

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