Christian Life Church
July 20, 2025 at 8:30am & 10:30am
John 4:3-9 When the Lord learned of this, he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee. 4 Now he had to go through Samaria. 5 So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour. 7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, "Will you give me a drink?" 8 (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.) 9 The Samaritan woman said to him, "You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?" (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)
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Christian Life Church Columbia
2700 Bush River Rd, Columbia, SC 29210, USA
Sunday 8:00 AM
Go to Them! July 20, 2025
John 4:3-29 Rev. Richard Crisco
If your spouse or teenager had a horrible car accident, what is the first question you are going to ask? (Are you alright?) After you know they are fine – and only then – do you begin to be concerned about the details. “Who’s fault was it?” “How bad is the car damaged?”
The worse the accident – the less those secondary questions mean anything! You will reassure your loved one that it doesn’t matter if the car is totaled – all that matters is that you are still alive and you will be okay!
Humanity has experienced a horrific accident – sin. It is life threatening! God hates sin because of the pain it inflicts upon His children.
God is first concerned about his children’s pain. Once they are healthy, He then confronts the sin to eliminate future pain.
John 4:3-9 When the Lord learned of this, he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee. 4Now he had to go through Samaria. 5 So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour. 7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, "Will you give me a drink?" 8 (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.) 9 The Samaritan woman said to him, "You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?" (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)
To influence others, you need to understand who they are, what they care about, what motivates them, and what challenges them.
You need to tailor your message and approach to fit their needs, interests, and preferences.
You also need to respect their opinions, perspectives, and feelings, even if they differ from yours.
John 4:7-29 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, "Will you give me a drink?" 8 (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.) 9 The Samaritan woman said to him, "You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?" (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.) 10 Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water." 11 "Sir," the woman said, "you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 12Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds?" 13 Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." 15 The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water so that I won't get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water." 16 He told her, "Go, call your husband and come back." 17 "I have no husband," she replied. Jesus said to her, "You are right when you say you have no husband. 18 The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true." 19 "Sir," the woman said, "I can see that you are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem." 21 Jesus declared, "Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth." 25 The woman said, "I know that Messiah" (called Christ) "is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us." 26 Then Jesus declared, "I who speak to you am he." 27 Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, "What do you want?" or "Why are you talking with her?" 28 Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, 29 "Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ?"
Jesus was led by Holy Spirit to go where Jews do not travel to meet one hurting person.
Jesus accepted her where she was in order to bring her to where she belonged.
This woman had been despised and rejected her entire life by Jews (just because she was a Samaritan).
She was despised and rejected by the only ones (Jews) who could give her hope.
Genesis 12:2 {Abram} I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing.
Genesis 26:4 {Isaac} "And I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of heaven; I will give to your descendants all these lands; and in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed;
Esther 8:17 b And many people of other nationalities became Jews because fear of the Jews had seized them.
Colossians 1:27-29 To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. 28We proclaim him, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone perfect in Christ. 29 To this end I labor, struggling with all his energy, which so powerfully works in me.
You will not help someone that you despise.
The disciples spent several hours among the Samaritans of this town and not one of them cared enough to invite anyone to meet their Messiah!
She may have been the most miserable, hopeless person in the entire village!
Proverbs 30:21-23 "Under three things the earth trembles, under four it cannot bear up: 22 a servant who becomes king, a fool who is full of food, 23an unloved woman who is married, and a maidservant who displaces her mistress.
Women were property, not people.
In the Old Testament, a man could divorce his wife; but no provision was made for a woman to divorce her husband.
Matthew 19:3 Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?"
She had been rejected and publicly humiliated 5 times by her husbands!
Isaiah 53:3-5 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 4 Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted. 5 But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.
Psalms 34:8 Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.
John 4:3-29 Rev. Richard Crisco
If your spouse or teenager had a horrible car accident, what is the first question you are going to ask? (Are you alright?) After you know they are fine – and only then – do you begin to be concerned about the details. “Who’s fault was it?” “How bad is the car damaged?”
The worse the accident – the less those secondary questions mean anything! You will reassure your loved one that it doesn’t matter if the car is totaled – all that matters is that you are still alive and you will be okay!
Humanity has experienced a horrific accident – sin. It is life threatening! God hates sin because of the pain it inflicts upon His children.
God is first concerned about his children’s pain. Once they are healthy, He then confronts the sin to eliminate future pain.
John 4:3-9 When the Lord learned of this, he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee. 4Now he had to go through Samaria. 5 So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour. 7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, "Will you give me a drink?" 8 (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.) 9 The Samaritan woman said to him, "You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?" (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)
To influence others, you need to understand who they are, what they care about, what motivates them, and what challenges them.
You need to tailor your message and approach to fit their needs, interests, and preferences.
You also need to respect their opinions, perspectives, and feelings, even if they differ from yours.
John 4:7-29 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, "Will you give me a drink?" 8 (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.) 9 The Samaritan woman said to him, "You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?" (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.) 10 Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water." 11 "Sir," the woman said, "you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 12Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds?" 13 Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." 15 The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water so that I won't get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water." 16 He told her, "Go, call your husband and come back." 17 "I have no husband," she replied. Jesus said to her, "You are right when you say you have no husband. 18 The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true." 19 "Sir," the woman said, "I can see that you are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem." 21 Jesus declared, "Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth." 25 The woman said, "I know that Messiah" (called Christ) "is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us." 26 Then Jesus declared, "I who speak to you am he." 27 Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, "What do you want?" or "Why are you talking with her?" 28 Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, 29 "Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ?"
Jesus was led by Holy Spirit to go where Jews do not travel to meet one hurting person.
Jesus accepted her where she was in order to bring her to where she belonged.
This woman had been despised and rejected her entire life by Jews (just because she was a Samaritan).
She was despised and rejected by the only ones (Jews) who could give her hope.
Genesis 12:2 {Abram} I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing.
Genesis 26:4 {Isaac} "And I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of heaven; I will give to your descendants all these lands; and in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed;
Esther 8:17 b And many people of other nationalities became Jews because fear of the Jews had seized them.
Colossians 1:27-29 To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. 28We proclaim him, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone perfect in Christ. 29 To this end I labor, struggling with all his energy, which so powerfully works in me.
You will not help someone that you despise.
The disciples spent several hours among the Samaritans of this town and not one of them cared enough to invite anyone to meet their Messiah!
She may have been the most miserable, hopeless person in the entire village!
Proverbs 30:21-23 "Under three things the earth trembles, under four it cannot bear up: 22 a servant who becomes king, a fool who is full of food, 23an unloved woman who is married, and a maidservant who displaces her mistress.
Women were property, not people.
In the Old Testament, a man could divorce his wife; but no provision was made for a woman to divorce her husband.
Matthew 19:3 Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?"
She had been rejected and publicly humiliated 5 times by her husbands!
Isaiah 53:3-5 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 4 Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted. 5 But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.
Psalms 34:8 Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.