Pastor Jeremy continues his series, The Game Of Life, on Sunday in Glendive.

John 4 “The Samaritan Woman”

● This story shows the compassion of Jesus toward

people struggling in life.

○ Jesus knows there’s an enemy who is trying

to derail us from accomplishing the call of

God on our life.

○ Jesus knows that we just don’t know

anything. He said “forgive them, they know

not what they are doing”

○ God loves us period. He loves us too much

to leave us the way we are.

● The key to winning in this life is a personal

relationship with Jesus.

John 4:10 Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew

the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a

drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have

given you living water.”

1. If you know God, then you know that He is the

only one who will ever truly accept you, He knows

you, He’ll meet your needs and give you purpose.

a. Acceptance-most people only love us

because of what they don’t know. He will

never pack up and leave. Even after your

worst, grossest day, He is stable and will

never leave or forsake you. His perfect love

casts out all fear. Our #1 fear is rejection

and our #1 need is love.

i. Rom. 8:37 Yet in all these things we are

more than conquerors through Him

who loved us. 38 For I am persuaded

that neither death nor life, nor angels

nor principalities nor powers, nor

things present nor things to come, 39

nor height nor depth, nor any other

created thing, shall be able to separate

us from the love of God which is in

Christ Jesus our Lord.

b. Identity-Before we were born He knew us,

He has a plan for us, good things, good

thoughts, we are unique and were created

by Him individually.

c. Security-He will meet all our needs

according to His riches and glory in Christ

Jesus. If I am in the middle of a storm I am

secure in Him, but if I’m in a hammock on a

beach in Hawaii with a drink in my hand that

has an umbrella in it I’m not secure without

Him.

d. Purpose-to build His church and establish

His kingdom here on the earth.

e. You can have God meet these needs through

your relationship with Him or you can search

for someone/something else to meet these

needs and always be disappointed.

f. You will never be fulfilled w/o a relationship

with Jesus. You have a God shaped void in

your life and pleasure can’t fill that void, a

person can’t fill that void, only God can fill

that void.

John 4:13 Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever

drinks of this water will thirst again, 14 but whoever

drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst.

But the water that I shall give him will become in him a

fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”

1. She was “drinking from the wrong well”...or you

could say it this way...”she couldn’t get no

satisfaction”...or “she wasn’t winning at the game

of life”

2. When you are struggling in life, have a question,

not sure what to do...where do you go?

a. sister/brother

b. mom/dad

c. Deep dish pizza

d. Internet

e. Credit card

f. OR...do you run to the God who accepts you,

created you, provides for you, and gives you

purpose.

g. Do you trust Jesus with your problems, your

shortcomings, your anxieties, your issues,

your lack, your fears?? How about your

family, your business, your money, or your

future????

h. We do not spend time with the Lord to fulfill

some type of Religious Duty. We spend time

with God because we need HIM, WE TRUST

HIM, HE IS OUR PROVIDER