Church In The Wild
Lesson 4: Water, Wells, and the Wild
May 23 & 24, 2020
Everyone On Planet Earth Has A Spiritual Void That Only God Can Fill
Ecclesiastes 3:11 He has made everything beautiful and appropriate in its time. He has also planted eternity [a sense of divine purpose] in the human heart [a mysterious longing which nothing under the sun can satisfy, except God]…Amplified Bible
Ecclesiastes 3:11 …yet man cannot find out(comprehend, grasp) what God has done (His overall plan) from the beginning to the end. Amplified Bible
"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world." – C. S. Lewis
Ecclesiastes 2:10 And whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them. I kept my heart from no pleasure… 11 Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind… 17 So I hated life… English Standard Version
God Created Us To Reach Thirsty People Drinking From Empty Wells
John 4:4 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 noon. New International Version
John 4:7 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.) New International Version
John 4:9 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.) New International Version
John 4:10 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.” New International Version
John 4:11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?” New International Version
John 4:13 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.” New International Version
John 4:15 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.” New International Version
John 4:27 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?” New International Version
John 4:28 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?” 30 They came out of the town and made their way toward him. New International Version
John 4:31 Meanwhile his disciples urged him, “Rabbi, eat something.” 32 But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.” 33 Then his disciples said to each other, “Could someone have brought him food?” New International Version
John 4:34 “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. New International Version
People Don’t Line Up To Be Judged, But They Do Line Up To Be Loved
God Created Us To Make Thirsty People Thirsty For Him
Matthew 5:13 You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot. New International Version
Matthew 5:13 You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot. New International Version
Colossians 4:6 Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone. New International Version