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Welcome to Day 2141 of Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me. This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom The Gospel of John – 9 – The Woman Shares The Living Water – Daily Wisdom Putnam Church Message – 03/20/2022 The Gospel of John – Part 2 Presentation Of The Word – The Woman Shares The Living Water Today we continue our Good News series according to John the Apostle. Jesus presents us with a lesson and an example of building God’s kingdom. Today’s passage continues last week’s message, John 4:27-42, in the Pew Bible on Pages 1652-1653. Follow along as I read. 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?” Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?”  They came out of the town and made their way toward him. Meanwhile his disciples urged him, “Rabbi, eat something.” But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.” Then his disciples said to each other, “Could someone have brought him food?” “My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. 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. Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. Thus the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true. I 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.”  Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.” So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days. And because of his words many more became believers. They said to the woman, “We 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.”   Let me back up a few verses from last week to set the stage.  If you were here or watched online, remember that Jesus appealed to the woman from Samaria six times, and each time she came back with an excuse.  Jesus could squelch each reason until he got to the core of why he was there.  It was not a coincidence.  In verses 25-26 in the NLT, The woman said, “I know the Messiah is coming—the one who is called Christ. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”  Then Jesus told her, “I AM the Messiah!” Jesus knew he had her now. So he basically said:  “Good! You don’t have to wait any longer. I am the Messiah, and I am here just as promised.” So the woman was now without any excuses.   In verse 26, the phrase “I AM” is particularly emphatic in Greek: egō eimi. This is because it refers to God’s self-identification to Moses: “I AM WHO I AM” (Burning bush-Exodus 3:14). The proof that this woman of questionable moral character life was miraculously changed as indicated by her subsequent actions. As the old saying...