Is it real; speaking the truth in love?
We often hear about it, but when was the last time we saw it?
Is it real and if so, what does it look like?
In this video, we will explore this question.
First, by conversationally reading John 4: 1-42 and then we will touch on 4 things that
helped this passage come alive to me.
Here we go.
Hello. My name is Charles Yerkes and this is the Simple Not Shallow Video Channel. The purpose of this channel is to bring you digestible, compelling,
and conversational insights into the Bible.
For that is the best way I have found to help the Bible come alive;
so that your joy may become complete as you learn about God.
And learning about God is truly learning how to love simply, wisely, and well.
And that is where excitement and meaning in life dwell.
So, is it real; speaking the truth in love? And if so, what would that look like?
Let's begin by reading John 4:1-42 from the World English Bible.
Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Hesus was making and baptizing
more disciples than John (although Jesus himself didn't baptize, but his disciples), he left
Judea and departed into Galilee.
He needed to pass through Samaria.
So he came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave
to his son, Joseph.
Jacob's well was there.
Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well.
It was about the sixth hour.
A woman of Samaria came to draw water.
Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink."
For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
The Samaritan woman, therefore, said to him, "How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for
a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?"
Jesus answered 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 have given you living water."
The woman said to him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep.
So where do you get that living water?
Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself,
as did his children, and his livestock?"
Jesus answered her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever
drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again, but the water that I will
give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.
"The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I don't get thirsty, neither
come all the way here to draw."
Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here."
The woman answered, "I have no husband."
Jesus said to her, "You said well, 'I have no husband,' for you have had five husbands;
and he whom you now have is not your husband.
This you have said truly."
The woman said to him, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.
Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place
where people ought to worship."
Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain,
nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father.
You worship that which you don't know.
We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.
But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit
and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshippers.God is spirit, and those who
worship him must worship in spirit and truth."
The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah comes," (he who is called Christ).
"When he has come, he will declare to us all things."
Jesus said to her, "I am he, the one who speaks to you."
At this, his disciples came.
They marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, "What are you looking
for?" or, "Why do you speak with her?"
So the woman left her water pot, and went away into the city, and said to the people,
"Come, see a man who told me everything that I did.
Can this be the Christ?"
They went out of the city, and were coming to him.
In the meanwhile, the disciples urged him, saying, "Rabbi, eat."
But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you don't know about."
The disciples therefore said one to another, "Has anyone brought him something to eat?"
Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish
his work.
Don't you say, 'There are yet four months until the harvest?'
Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and look at the fields, that they are white for
harvest already.
He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and
he who reaps may rejoice together.
For in this the saying is true, 'One sows, and another reaps.'
I sent you to reap that for which you haven't labored.
Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor."
From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who
testified, "He told me everything that I did."
So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them.
He stayed there two days.
Many more believed because of his word.
They said to the woman, "Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard
for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world."
That was John 4:1-42.
The very first thing that strikes me here is from verses 28 and 29.
The woman went back to the city and began telling everyone to come and see the guy who
had just told her everything she had ever done.
And asking, could this be the Christ, the Messiah?
Now here is a question for you.
Would you be prone to run around telling everyone that they had to come and meet the guy, a stranger,
who had just told you everything you know you have done wrong?
It doesn't come to my mind as something that I would do.
I might get freaked out a little bit by someone I have never met suddenly telling me all that I've done
wrong.
Telling others about this encounter… what could cause such a response?
Here is the second thing, a nuance that has helped bring this passage to life.
I see here, a woman being respected by one from whom she expected contempt.
She experienced acceptance of herself, apart from what she had done.
She knew Jesus to be the Christ because of his love for her.
She knew that Jesus accepted her and wanted her to be one of those
who now worshiped in spirit and truth.
John 13:35 comes to mind, this is where we are told that is it by our love that others
will know we are followers of Christ.
It is by his love for her that she knew he was the Christ.
And, in all of this, and this is what sparkled and caught my eye, in all of this, which by
the way is number 3, in all of this, there was no judgment or condemnation in anything
that Jesus said.
Remember John 3:17? He came to same, not to condemn.
He did not say, "You naughty, disgraceful, shameful woman.
How dare you behave in this way?
You better get right or else!"
No, he didn't say any of that. He said, the time is now come to worship God in truth and spirit, 'cause that is what
God wants.
And while it is not verbalized, the tone seems to be that of an invitation, one of a
"So come, let's go."
And she went and told everyone.
To be accepted by one who knows what you have done, that is one of the most beautiful things
on earth.
And I think this is a lesson we would do well to learn today.
Do you now begin to see why I always say, "To learn to love simply, wisely, and well"?
Are you beginning to see why that is where excitement and meaning in life dwell?
So, did Jesus speak the truth in love? Is he an example for us to follow today?
Who can you learn to love as you're speaking truth?
I would love to hear what you have to say. So please tell me in the comments section below.
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Until next time, love simply, love wisely, love well. For that is where excitement and
meaning dwell.
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