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Sunday Worship Experience | Messy Present | 05-16-21
Rodney  Pavie
Rodney Pavie
Sunday, May 16, 2021
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The title of my message is “MESSY PRESENT”.

John 4:1-18 (NLT)
1   Jesus knew the Pharisees had heard that he was baptizing and making more disciples than John
2   (though Jesus himself didn’t baptize them—his disciples did).
3   So he left Judea and returned to Galilee.
4   He had to go through Samaria on the way.
5   Eventually he came to the Samaritan village of Sychar, near the field that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
6   Jacob’s well was there; and Jesus, tired from the long walk, sat wearily beside the well about noontime.
7   Soon a Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, “Please give me a drink.”
8   He was alone at the time because his disciples had gone into the village to buy some food.
9   The woman was surprised, for Jews refuse to have anything to do with Samaritans. She said to Jesus, “You
are a Jew, and I am a Samaritan
woman. Why are you asking me for a drink?”
10   Jesus replied, “If you only knew the gift God has for you and who you are speaking to, you would ask me,
and I would give you living water.”
11   “But sir, you don’t have a rope or a bucket,” she said, “and this well is very deep. Where would you get
this living water?
12   And besides, do you think you’re greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us this well? How can you
offer better water than he and his sons and his animals enjoyed?”
13   Jesus replied, “Anyone who drinks this water will soon become thirsty again.
14   But those who drink the water I give will never be thirsty again. It becomes a fresh, bubbling spring within
them, giving them eternal life.”
15   “Please, sir,” the woman said, “give me this water! Then I’ll never be thirsty again, and I won’t have to
come here to get water.”
16   “Go and get your husband,” Jesus told her.
17   “I don’t have a husband,” the woman replied. Jesus said, “You’re right! You don’t have a husband—
18   for you have had five husbands, and you aren’t even married to the man you’re living with now. You
certainly spoke the truth!”

John 4:9 (NLT) “You are a Jew, and I am a Samaritan woman – Why are you asking me for a drink?”

John 4:13-14 (NLT) “Anyone who drinks this water will soon become thirsty again. But those who drink the water I give will never be thirsty again. It becomes a fresh, bubbling spring within them, giving them eternal life.”

John 4:15 (NLT) “Please, sir,” the woman said, “give me this water! Then I’ll never be thirsty again, and I won’t have to come here to get water.”

John 4:16 (NLT) “Go get your husband. . .”

John 4:28-30 (NLT)
28   The woman left her water jar beside the well and ran back to the village, telling everyone,
29   “Come and see a man who told me everything I ever did! Could he possibly be the Messiah?”
30   So the people came streaming from the village to see him.

MISSTEPS
MISTAKES
MISSING PIECES

Romans 8:18 (NIV2011)
18  I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.

Romans 8:28 (NIV2011)
28  And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.

Romans 8:31 (NIV2011)
31  What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

2 Corinthians 4:8-9 (NLT) “We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed but not driven to despair. We are hunted down, but never abandoned by God. We get knocked down, but we are not destroyed.”