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July 3 - John 4 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here. Good to have you company.
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  It is Wednesday, it's the 3rd of July and year of Tapped on Play
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  and here I am. Your genie and your device come
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  to read God's word with you. Ah, so good that you could take
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  a moment, take a moment to invite not just any old chapter
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  into your day, but a chapter of the gospel where we get to walk
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  alongside Jesus and hear his words.
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  And I don't know about you, but we we live in a world that is so
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  full of quick quote, quid quo pro.
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  That's where you do this and I'll do that for you.
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  You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.
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  And it is just kind of mind-blowing when you read the
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  gospels again and we are reminded that Jesus says, no, I
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  just come to save you. You just need to believe in me
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  and I'm here to save you. This is a one way street where I
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  give and I give and I give and I forgive and I love and I just
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  need you to receive it. Just incredible.
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  What a gracious and wonderful God we believe in.
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  So we are going to learn more from Him as He chats to this
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  Samaritan woman at the well and blows her mind and blows our
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  minds to all these years later. Thank you Lord for this Your
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  Word. Let it shape our hearts and
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  transform us as we stand in awe of You once again.
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  Let's read it. Let's read together John chapter
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  4. Jesus knew the Pharisees had
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  heard that he was baptising and making more disciples than John.
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  That Jesus himself didn't baptise them.
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  His disciples did. So he left Judea and returned to
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  Galilee. He had to go through Samaria on
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  the way. Eventually he came to the
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  Samarian village of Sika, near the field that Jacob gave his
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  son Joseph. Jacob's well was there.
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  Jesus, tired from the long walk, sat wearily beside the well
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  about noontime. Soon a Samaritan woman came to
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  draw water, and Jesus said to her, Please give me a drink.
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  He was alone at the time because his disciples had gone to the
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  village to buy some food. The woman was surprised, for
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  Jews refused to have anything to do with Samaritans.
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  She said to Jesus, You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman.
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  Why are you asking me for a drink?
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  Jesus replied. If you only knew the gift God
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  has for you and who you were speaking to, you would ask me
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  and I would give you living water.
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  But, Sir, you don't have a rope or a bucket, she said.
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  And this well is very deep. Where would you get this living
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  water? And besides, do you think you're
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  greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us this well?
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  How can you offer better water than he and his sons and his
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  animals enjoyed? Jesus replied, Anyone who drinks
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  this water will soon become thirsty again, but those who
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  drink the water I give will never be thirsty again.
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  It becomes a fresh bubbling spring within them, giving them
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  eternal life. Please, Sir, the woman said,
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  Give me this water. Then I'll never be thirsty again
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  and I won't have to come here to get water.
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  Go and get your husband, Jesus told her.
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  I don't have a husband, the woman replied.
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  Jesus said you're right, you don't have a husband, for you
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  have had five husbands and you aren't even married to the man
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  you're living with now. You certainly spoke the truth,
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  Sir, the woman said. You must be a prophet.
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  So tell me, why is it that you Jews insist that Jerusalem is
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  the only place of worship, while we Samaritans claim it is here
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  at Mount Gerizim where our ancestors worshipped?
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  Jesus replied. Believe me, dear woman, the time
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  is coming when it will no longer matter whether you worship the
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  Father on this mountain or in Jerusalem.
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  You Samaritans know very little about the one you worship, while
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  we Jews know all about Him, for salvation comes through the
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  Jews. But the time is coming.
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  Indeed. It is here now when true
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  worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth.
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  The Father is looking for those who will worship Him that way,
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  for God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in
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  spirit and in truth. The woman said.
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  I know the Messiah is coming, the one who is called Christ.
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  When he comes, he will explain everything to us.
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  Then Jesus told her I am the Messiah.
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  Just then his disciples came back.
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  They were shocked to find him talking to a woman.
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  But none of them had the nerve to ask what do you want with her
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  or why are you talking to her? The woman left her water jar
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  beside the well and ran back to the village, telling everyone.
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  Come and see a man who told me everything I ever did.
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  Could he possibly be the Messiah?
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  So the people came streaming from the village to see him.
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  Meanwhile the disciples were urging Jesus.
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  Rabbi, eat something. But Jesus replied, I have a kind
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  of food you know nothing about. Did someone bring him food while
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  we were gone? The disciples asked each other.
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  Then Jesus explained My nourishment comes from doing the
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  will of God who sent me and from finishing his work.
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  You know the saying, four months between planting and harvest.
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  But I say, wake up and look around.
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  The fields are already ripe for harvest.
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  The harvesters are paid good wages, and the fruit they
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  harvest is people brought to eternal life.
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  What joy awaits both the planter and the harvester alike.
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  You know the saying, one plants and another harvests.
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  And it's true. I sent you to harvest where you
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  didn't plant. Others had already done the work
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  and now you will get to gather the harvest.
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  Many Samaritans from the village believed in Jesus because the
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  woman had said, He told me everything I ever did.
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  When they came out to see him, they begged him to stay in their
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  village. So he stayed for two days, long
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  enough for many more to hear his message and believe, they said
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  to the woman. Now we believe not just because
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  of what you told us, but because we have heard him ourselves.
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  Now we know that he is indeed the Saviour of the world.
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  At the end of the two days, Jesus went on to Galilee.
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  He himself had said that a prophet is not honoured in his
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  own home town. Yet the Galileans welcomed him,
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  for they had been in Jerusalem at the Passover celebration and
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  had seen everything he did there.
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  As he travelled through Galilee, he came to Canada, where he had
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  turned the water into wine. There was a government official
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  in nearby Capernaum whose son was very sick.
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  When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he
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  went and begged Jesus to come to Capernaum to heal his son who
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  was about to die. Jesus asked.
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  Will you never believe in me unless you see miraculous signs
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  and wonders? The official pleaded.
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  Lord, please come now before my little boy dies.
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  Then Jesus told him, go back home, your son will live.
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  And the man believed what Jesus said and started home.
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  While the man was on his way, some of his servants met him
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  with the news that his son was alive and well.
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  He asked him when the boy had begun to get better, and they
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  replied. Yesterday afternoon at 1:00 his
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  fever suddenly disappeared. Then his father realised that
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  that was the very time Jesus had told him Your son will live and
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  he and his entire household believed in Jesus.
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  This was the 2nd miraculous sign Jesus did in Galilee after
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  coming from Judea. Jesus, thank You that You don't
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  just come to fill our peripheral needs, to make us feel good, to
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  scratch that itch that just came up on our shoulder, but you come
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  to pour your living water of eternal life deep into our souls
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  to satisfy our spirits completely.
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  And of course you do. And of course, you know exactly
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  what we need, because you made us, You lovingly crafted us, and
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  we are your people. Thank you that you continue to
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  care for us, to love us, to provide exactly what it is that
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  our spirits need. Help us to rest in you as the
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  provider of everything that our heart desires and our spirit
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  yearns. For that we don't need to look
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  anywhere else. You are a loving God and our
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  ample Saviour, and we give you all the praise.
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  In your name we pray Jesus. Amen.