Saturday, February 11, 2012

Worship the Lord in spirit and in truth

John 4:1-30
In fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. When the Lord learned of this, he left Judea and went back to Galilee.
Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired and thirsty as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
Talk between Jesus and the Samaritan woman
                   The woman said                     Jesus declared
water          drinking water                        living water
worship      in mountain or in Jerusalem   in spirit and in truth
Jesus is       prophet                                   Messiah

As the conversation develops it becomes clear that the woman's need is not physical bur spiritual, that she has a moral problem which she side-steps with a theological question.
God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and truth.
Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ?

Why?
Jesus went back to Galilee for he don't like make arguments to John and His time haven't come.
Yes, Jesus Christ knows what we did.
Jesus choose the short route from Jerusalem to Galilee which takes him through Samaritan - normally avoided by Jews, since 700 years of religious and racial prejudice separated the Jew from the Samaritan.
Tired and thirsty through he is, Jesus never ignores human need.
The woman knows Jesus is a prophet and she met the Christ. She was joyful to share this message.
Jesus preached gospel to Samaritan, not only to Jews.
How?
To be a normal, we have physical need and spiritual needs. Don't live like superman, saint and pretend our weak and sins.
I must worship the Lord in spirit and i truth, not just sing the song in church.



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