DRINK THE LIVING WATER
Life Reset - part 7
July 21, 2024 – Dr. Phil Herrington
John 4: 1-42
1 . His invitation is for
13 “Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” —John 4:13-14
2 . He said come and see, AND come and
37 “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Rivers of living water will brim and spill out of the depths of anyone who believes in me”. —John 7:37-38
31 “For I satisfy the thirsty person and feed all those who are weak”. —Jeremiah 31:251 “As the deer pants for streams of water, so my so pants for you, my God. 2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?” —Psalm 42:1-2
Stop sipping and
God loves to inhabit
Increase your
3 . We drink from
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.” —John 4:16-18
He
13 “My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water. —Jeremiah 2:13
The well of relationships.
The well of achievement.
The well of fulfillment.
4 . God desires to be worshipped in
23 “Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.” —John 4:23-24
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, the one speaking to you—I am he.” —John 4:25-26
13 “These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is based on merely human rules they have been taught.” —Isaiah 29:13
5 . Living water is to be
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 Messiah?” —John 4: 28-29
32 “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”… 34 “My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. 35 Don’t you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.” —John 4:32,34-35
Key: anyone, drink, start drinking, empty/thirsty, capacity, other wells, confronts/heal, relationships, achievement, fulfillment, spirit and truth, religion and ritual.