What is Insanely Important-Jesus and Gospel
Update: 2016-10-23
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John 4:1-30
Celebration Guide
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Celebration Guide
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- We go into Jesus' 'Facebook' (the Bible) and learn all kinds of facts about him, but never really 'know him.'
- Crosswalk is insanely concerned about: Jesus Christ and being gospel saturated.
- 4 themes that connect our hearts to Jesus Christ and the gospel:
- John 4:1-30
- Often we think of the gospel as the minimal doctrine that we need to believe before we die.
- The gospel is not just the minimum doctrine that we need before we die.
- (1) The gospel is all-inclusive. In chapter 3, Jesus sits down with Nicodemus. However, in chapter 4, Jesus gives the gospel to the needy/poor and social outcasts. These people typically respond better to the gospel than the highly educated and rich. The Samaritan woman was surprised Jesus was talking to her. For he was a Jew, and Jews did not associate with Samaritans. She wanders if Jesus is greater than Jacob. And then she perceives (after his prophetic words) that Jesus is a prophet. She then asks, "Could this be the Christ/Messiah?
- Here are obvious barriers that Jesus crossed to reach this woman: (1) Racial barrier: this goes deeper than skin, but deals also with cultural barriers. It didn't matter to him that they had cultural differences. (2) Religious barrier: Jews and Samaritans worshiped in separate areas/mountain. (3) Social barrier: She was a known sinner (she had 5 husbands and is with another man) but Jesus still reaches her. In order for her to be converted, she needed a conviction that would lead to conversion. (4) Gender barrier: Jewish men didn't talk to other women in public. (5) Political barriers: once he addresses her sins, she goes political on Jesus. (6) Sin barrier: she had no idea how wide that barrier was.
- How did Jesus cross these barriers?
- Look at verse 10: "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.'"
- Jesus crosses the barriers by offering us "the gift of God."
- People don't receive Christ because he gets all the glory and we owe him everything. We don't like to owe anybody anything.
- Jesus was offering her the freedom from all the thirsts of her soul.
- This woman was trying to satisfy the thirst of her soul with men, but it wasn't working well.
- The gospel is not only inclusive, but....
- (2) It's change is gradual. It's organic, not mechanical. Change is not mechanical, the gospel brings change organically. When we try to earn our righteousness with God, we obey because we have to. When we receive Christ's righteousness, we obey because we want to.
- (3) The gospel quenches our thirst. It's interesting that water can taste sweet depending on how thirsty I am. The more thirsty, the sweeter it tastes. Grace is sweeter than anything else you can ever drink.
- (4) The gospel reaches all the way into us, and then works its way out of us. The well Jesus exposes us to is limitless. It's far deeper than a physical well of water. Jesus' water is far better than all the things we try to find satisfaction in.
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