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Welcome to Day 2141 of Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.\nThis is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom\nThe Gospel of John \u2013 9 \u2013 The Woman Shares The Living Water \u2013 Daily Wisdom\nThe Gospel of John \u2013 Part 2 Presentation of the Word \u2013 The Woman Shares the Living Water\nToday we continue our Good News series according to John the Apostle. Jesus presents us with a lesson and an example of building God\u2019s kingdom. Today\u2019s passage continues our last message, John 4:27-42.\n\nJust then, his disciples returned\xa0and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, \u201cWhat do you want?\u201d or \u201cWhy are you talking with her?\u201d\n\nThen, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people,\xa0\u201cCome, see a man who told me everything I ever did.\xa0Could this be the Messiah?\u201d\xa0 They came out of the town and made their way toward him.\n\nMeanwhile his disciples urged him, \u201cRabbi,\xa0eat something.\u201d\n\nBut he said to them,\xa0\u201cI have food to eat\xa0that you know nothing about.\u201d\n\nThen his disciples said to each other, \u201cCould someone have brought him food?\u201d\n\n\u201cMy food,\u201d\xa0said Jesus,\xa0\u201cis to do the will\xa0of him who sent me and to finish his work.\xa0Don\u2019t you have a saying, \u2018It\u2019s still four months until harvest\u2019? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.\xa0Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests\xa0a crop for eternal life,\xa0so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together.\xa0Thus the saying \u2018One sows and another reaps\u2019\xa0is true.\xa0I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.\u201d\n\n\xa0Many of the Samaritans from that town\xa0believed in him because of the woman\u2019s testimony, \u201cHe told me everything I ever did.\u201d\xa0So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days.\xa0And because of his words many more became believers.\n\nThey said to the woman, \u201cWe no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world.\u201d\n\nLet me back up a few verses from our last message to set the stage.\xa0 If you listened to that message, remember that Jesus appealed to the woman from Samaria six times, and each time she came back with an excuse.\xa0 Jesus could squelch each reason until he got to the core of why he was there.\xa0 It was not a coincidence.\xa0 In verses 25-26 in the NLT, The woman said, \u201c\u2018I know the Messiah is coming\u2014the one who is called Christ. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.\u2019\xa0 Then Jesus told her,\xa0\u2018I AM\xa0the Messiah!\u2019\u201d\n\nJesus knew he had her now. So he basically said:\xa0 \u201cGood! You don\u2019t have to wait any longer. I am the Messiah, and I am here just as promised.\u201d So the woman was now without any excuses.\n\nIn verse 26, the phrase \u201cI Am\u201d is particularly emphatic in Greek: eg\u014d eimi. This is because it refers to God\u2019s self-identification to Moses: \u201cI am who I am.\u201d\n\nThe proof that this woman of questionable moral character life was miraculously changed as indicated by her subsequent actions. As the old saying...