Shalom everyone! Our study today, this ministry meeting, is found in the Gospel of John, in the fourth chapter. So, I would like you, please, to turn in your Bible to John, Yohanan, chapter 4. And the passage that we are going to look into today is found from verse 16 to verse 30. In our previous message together, we covered the first 15 verses of Yohanan, chapter 4. I would like to read these verses for the benefit of all of us, and so please, follow me, as I am reading from verse 16. John 4, and verse 16. Jesus says unto her, this is the Samaritan woman, the Shomronit, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.

The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Yeshua said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband. For thou hast had five husbands, and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband. In that saidest thou truly. The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. Our fathers worshiped in this mountain. And ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where men are to worship. Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me. The hour cometh when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem shall worship the Father. Ye worship, ye know not what. We know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews.

But the hour is cometh, and now is when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit, and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. The woman saith unto him, I know that Messiah cometh, which is called Christ. When he comes, he will tell us all things. Yeshua saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he. And upon this came his disciples, and marveled that he talked with the woman. Yet no man said, What seekest thou, or why talkest thou with her? The woman then left her water pot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the man, Come see a man, which told me all things that ever I did.

Is not this the Christ, the Mashiach? Then they went out of the city, and came unto him. And I would like to stop here, beloved brothers and sisters and dear friend, with verse 30 of John chapter 4. It is extremely encouraging to our hearts, as we study the Gospel of John, to see how the Lord himself seeks to reach individuals and draw them unto himself. Remember that now, as we are in the fourth chapter of the Gospel of Yohanan, John, Our Lord, our Messiah, Yeshua, is now ministering as he publicly speaking to individuals, meeting various persons, reaching the public for himself, Of seeking to explain that he indeed is that promised Messiah.

And it is also important to bear in mind, as we study the Gospel of John, That the Lord, Yeshua, wanted to help our people of all, the people of Israel, and all those who heard him, that he is indeed God the Son, Who entered into this world as a man, and now, as man, he is walking, he is living among his own people, but he came for the express purpose, That he will become the Messiah, the anointed, the Savior, the Mosheah, as it's said in Hebrew, to become a substitute for the sin of Israel and the sin of the whole world. So he, this is the Lord, Yeshua, is on the way to the north, to the Galilee.

You remember we began in chapter 4, in verse 3, he left Judea and departed again into the Galilee. But on the way, as it says in verse 4, and he must needs go through Samaria, through the Shomron, which is present-day West Bank. But it is the area that belonged to the tribes of Israel during the time that the Lord was upon the face of this earth. On the way to the Galilee, he must go through Samaria. We have already mentioned the fact that there was a division between the Shomronim and the Yehudim, that means it was the northern kingdom and the southern kingdom. And Israel as a nation was divided into two kingdoms.

Israel in the north, Yehudah in the south. The development of the Samaritans, they came about out of a mixture with other nations. Both kind of mixtures, mixture through marriage with the Assyrians who brought many of the nations of the world down into Samaria and left them there to mingle with the people of Israel. Of course, the people of Israel were taken, dispersed at 721 BC by the Assyrians. But those who remain, who are mixed, they have a mixture of both physical through marriage, but also spiritual, believing in the God of the Bible, the God of Israel, but also believing in all sorts of other gods. But that's how the development of the Samaritans came about, and therefore there was no dealing between the Jews who still remain true to the Torah, to the living God, and the Samaritans who departed from the house of David and from the days of old when they were united with the rest of the nation.

So now, you have this separation between the Samaritans and the Jews, the Shomronim and the Yehudim, but when the Lord Jesus came, he came to save all. He came to pay for the sin of all mankind. So he must go through Samaria. He just finished to speak to a Jewish man, Rabbi of rabbis, a teacher of the Jews by the name of Nakdimon Nicodemus, but now he is in the middle of his conversation with this Shomronit, this Samaritan woman, who has already learned in the first 15 verses of John chapter 4, that here was a man who was a Jewish man that spoke to her. That's why she said to him in verse 9, she said to him, How is it that you, being Jewish, a Jewish man, you ask me, which am a Samaritan, to drink?

How is it possible? Because it tells us the Jews have no dealing with the Samaritans. We have already mentioned the reason for that, because the Samaritans, the northern kingdom of Israel, have gone into idolatry, and there was a separation. Then we discovered that she also understood and learned that he was one that is greater than Jacob. That's why she said to him in verse 11 to verse 15, you remember what she said to him when Yeshua was speaking with her? She did say to him, Are thou greater than our father Jacob, verse 12, which gave us the well and drank thereof himself and his children and his cattle?

Then Yeshua said to her, remember verse 13, Whosoever drinketh of this water, of that well, where I ask you to drink from, he will thirst again. But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him. This is spiritual water, not only the physical water, but spiritual water. Whosoever drinketh of the water that I will give him shall never thirst. But the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. And that's where we close in our previous ministry. The woman, the Shomoni, the Samaritan woman asked of the Lord, she said, Give me this water that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.

Now to remind you, beloved brothers and sisters, this woman came to draw during the heat of the day. We've already seen it, that she was there at the sixth hour. That was the middle of the day, in the middle of the heat. No one else was there because everyone during the middle of the day, in the Middle Eastern heat of the day, everyone was in their tents, in their homes, in a shade under a tree. But to be here seeking for water in the middle of the day, there was a reason for that. And in the next verses, verses 16 to verse 30, we find out the reason why this Shomronit, this Samaritan woman, came in the middle of the day when no one was at the well, at the Be'er, as we say in Hebrew.

Jacob's well, no one was there, but she was alone, and the Lord Yeshua was going to lead her to himself. That's why we read in verse 4 of this fourth chapter, for he must, needs, go through Samaria, as he was desiring to go to the Galil, to the north of Israel. And so she asked him, she asked the Lord Yeshua the Messiah. She asked him, give me, sir, she said, Adoni, give me this water that I thirst not. Neither should I come anymore to draw to this well. And now look, beloved brothers and sisters and dear friends, in verses 16 to 24, the Lord Jesus the Messiah is conversing with her and showing to her that he is someone who knows everything about her life.

In reality, he knows everything about your life and mine. There is nothing that is hidden from him with whom we have to do. God knows everything about us. He knows who we are. He knows our condition. He knows what we are doing. And every time in our life, he knows everything about all people. Why? Because Yeshua is the eternal Son of God. To remind you that according to John, chapter 20, verse 31, John the Apostle wrote and he says, These things are written that ye might believe that Yeshua is the Messiah. And he adds, not only that he is the Mashiach, but he is the Son of God.

He is God the Son. He is the Son of God. He is the eternal Son of God. Eternal God the Son. Ben Ha'Elohim. Who came down in order to become the Redeemer, the Savior, through his death, burial, and resurrection. So now, when she asked him, Give me this water that I thirst not. Yeshua, in verse 16, He asked the Samaritan woman to go and to call her husband and come. Notice what it says in verse 16. He said unto her, Go, number one. Call thy husband, number two. And come hither. Come back to here. Go, call your husband, and come back. Come to me. Come back to me.

Go, call your husband, and come back to me. Well, we discover immediately that this Shomonit, this Samaritan woman, had many, many issues in her life. In fact, we read in verse 17, the first part of verse 17, the response of the woman. She said, I have no husband. The woman answered and said, I have no husband. She paused. She stopped here. She didn't say all her history. She just said, I have no husband. But it is amazing to see how the Lord knew everything about her. She didn't tell him all her life story. In fact, she didn't tell her that she was married. She only told her that she has now no husband.

And look at the answer of the Lord Yeshua, the Messiah, in verses 17b and 18. We read in verse 17b, Yeshua said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband. But then verse 18, he continued, You said it right. He said to her, I have no husband. Because the one that you're living with right now is not even your own husband. But not only so, you have already had five husbands. My beloved brothers and sisters, this is amazing. Because, can you imagine to be married five times? And divorce five times. And to live with another man now. And who knows the history of this woman.

Can you imagine? You can see how the condition of this woman was so sad. Because she was, you might say, a person that is so far away from God. Without, there is no hope. She has already lived her life in sin. She has experienced five divorces, five marriages. And the one that she lives with now is not even her own husband. And you can see what kind of a life this woman, this Samaritan woman, whose name is not even mentioned here. What kind of a life she must have lived. And you know, it is always amazing to think of the fact that sometime when we look at one another.

And when we think of one another. We sometime almost, it says, oh, there is no hope for him. There is no hope for her. There is no hope for them. Look at their sinful state. Look at what they do. Look at where they go. Look at what they think. Look at what they say. Look how they act. We, in a sense, seem to have an evaluation of people, of one another. As if there is no hope for all because of their state. Well, God sent his son. We have already read in chapter three. For God so loved the world. That includes a religious man like Nakdimon.

That includes sinful woman like the Shomroni, the Samaritan woman. That includes you and that includes me who are sinners by nature. It is interesting that when the apostle Shaul Paul wrote to the Romans. He wants them to understand that all are guilty before God, no matter the measure of sins that we have committed. We read in Romans 3 and verse 19. Now we know that what things so ever the Lord saith, it says to them who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may become guilty before God. In other words, the law, the Torah was given to our forefathers, the people of Israel.

What a privilege to receive from a holy God, his Torah, his law, his instruction as to the moral conduct in which he expects men to live. This standard of God's holy moral conduct that he desires from all to live by. But Israel, as well as you and I, my friend, whoever you are, whatever nation you belong to, you and I are declared to be guilty before God because we all have violated the law of the Lord. And the only basis upon which we can receive forgiveness of sins is only on the basis of the sacrificial system that God had instructed his people Israel that pointed to the Mashiach to come.

And here we can see how the Messiah himself who came in the fullness of the time is leading this Shomonid who sinned, who have lived terrible life. But he must go through Samaria because he has an appointment with a sinner that he wants to lead to himself. And it may be you, and it may be me, and it may be any one of us. Even if our names are not mentioned, and the Samaritan woman's name is not mentioned, it is applied to all who have sinned and are willing to turn our hearts to the Lord Yeshua, to the God of Israel, to the God of creation, confessing before him our sins and turning to him.

And look how wonderful, how precious it is to see that the Lord Yeshua the Messiah was on his way to the Galil, but he must, he must go through the Shomron because he has to speak to one single person and reach her for himself. And so, we read in this verse 18, he said, you have said, well, verse 17, you have no husband, you are right, but let me tell you a little bit more about yourself. You had five husbands, and now the one you live with is not even your husband. And you notice that, that spoke to the conscience, this Samaritan woman. You can see how he knows everything about her.

And to remind you that already in the second chapter of the Gospel of John, of the study that we enjoy so much now in this Gospel, already in the second chapter, we have already read that many believed on him because of the miracles that he had performed in Yerushalayim, in the land of Israel. But as we have read in John 2, verse 23, when he was in Yerushalayim, at the Passover, at the feast day, many believed on his name when they saw the miracles which he, this is Yeshua, did. But Jesus did not commit himself unto them because he knew all men. And neither did not that any should testify of men, for he knew what was in men.

He knew what was in Nicodemus' heart. And he knew what was in the Shomonit and the Samaritan woman's heart. He knew what is in your heart. And he knew what is in my heart. And he knew all men. He knew what is in men. And that's why he's bringing it out. So we will confess before him and turn to him and receive his forgiveness by believing on him and what he had done for us. And so we read. She was so overwhelmed. So we read in verse 19 now of John chapter 4. And the woman says unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. She now began to recognize he's not only a Jewish man.

He's not only one that is a descendant of Jacob. But he's also, she's seen him a prophet. So she said to him, in verse 19, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. Now again, to remind you, in Deuteronomy chapter 18, Moshe said to all Israel, before Israel was divided into the northern kingdom and the southern kingdom, before Israel was divided and conflicted between the two parts of the very same nation, he already promised through Moshe in Deuteronomy chapter 18, that he will raise a prophet among the people of Israel. And if you remember, and if you remember the precious passages in Deuteronomy chapter 18, he already prophesied in Deuteronomy chapter 18 to all the nation of Israel.

In other words, Israel, in verses 15 and verses 18, he said, long before Israel was divided, the Lord God will raise up unto thee a prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren. In other words, Israel, you are going to hearken unto the prophet that I will raise. And here you can see that this Samaritan woman could see that he was a prophet. And indeed, Yeshua was that prophet of Deuteronomy chapter 18 and verses 15. In verse 18, it also says, Deuteronomy 18, 18, it says, I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren like unto thee, God said to Moshe. And I will put my words in his mouth.

And he shall speak unto them all that I shall commend him, that him, that he, that is the Mashiach, the Messiah, Yeshua himself, who is now standing before this Samaritan woman and leading her to understand who he is. And that is unique here, as he is on the Galil, meeting this Samaritan woman by the well of Jacob. Well, beloved brothers and sisters and dear friend, in verse 20, the Samaritan woman point to the place where the Samaritans were worshipping. And so she said in verse 20, she said, our fathers worshipping this mountain. She, of course, make a reference to Mount Gerizim. Mount Gerizim, Har Gerizim in Hebrew, is the mountain upon which God placed the people of Israel in days of old.

And he appealed to them to choose life, to choose to follow after him, life and not death. You remember this, Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal, the two mountains. And then he appealed to the people of Israel to choose life and to follow after him. And so when Israel as a nation was divided into two kingdoms, we know from history that the northern kingdom built a temple on Mount Gerizim. And they didn't come any longer to Mount Moriah in Jerusalem to worship God in the temple in Jerusalem. So they have established their own religious system in their own way. And so here, the Shomonites saying, our fathers worshipped in this mountain.

This is the northern kingdom of Israel, which departed from the southern kingdom, departed from the house of David. And then he says, she's continued, but ye say that Jerusalem is the place where men are to worship. And you know, she's right. Because the Jewish people were taught that the place to worship, according to the scripture, is in that Mount Moriah in the city of Jerusalem. This is the place that God has established for Israel, the place where he would set his name there. And Israel were commanded to come to this place in Yerushalayim to worship the Lord. We read in Deuteronomy chapter 12, verse 13 and 14, the warning was given.

Take heed to thyself, that thou offer not thy burnt offering in every place that thou seest, but in the place which the Lord shall choose in one of thy tribes. There thou shalt offer thy burnt offering, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee. Now, of course, the reference is to Mount Moriah, to the city of Yerushalayim, where the temple, Beit HaMikdash, was built. And the Jewish people always brought sacrifice, according to the command of God, to this location, and only to this location. But when there was a departure from the Lord, then, as it says here in Deuteronomy chapter 12 and verse 13, Israel were warned not to offer the burnt offering in every place where you see, but when they did so, God had to discipline them.

And so it was, when the nation was divided into two kingdoms, Yeruvam, the king of the north, the king of Israel, did build altars, golden calves, on the mountains in Samaria and in the north of Israel, rather than in the city of Yerushalayim, rather than coming to the city of Yerushalayim. He did it in Dan, he did it in Samaria, in Beit El. Sadly, there was a departure from the Lord, but now the Shomonit saying to Yeshua in these verses, our fathers worshipped in this mountain. And he said that Jerusalem is a place where men are to worship. And here the Lord gives her instruction from verse 21, 22, 23, and 24.

The Lord, Yeshua, the Messiah, is giving her this clear instruction. First of all, to show to her that it's true, that the place of worship was in the city of Jerusalem, upon that Mount of Moriah, the place where God sat for himself. But time passes by over the generation, and not only the northern kingdom of Israel departed from God, even now the southern kingdom of Judah departed. And so the Lord introduced before the Samaritan woman, the time, the period of time in which you and I live in today, the days in which the place of worship is not depend anymore, and not only in the city of Yerushalayim, but anywhere where true worshippers will come to faith in Jesus the Messiah.

And so we read. In verse 21, the Lord said to the Samaritan woman, Woman, believe me, that the hour is coming when ye shall neither in this mountain nor yet at Jerusalem worship the Father. Notice what he's saying to her. The hour is coming. Soon. When he's going to die on that shameful cross, when he will pay for the sin of this world and fulfill all that which was promised in days of all, when he will become the supreme sacrifice, when he will become the Lamb of God which take upon himself the sin of this world, there will be no longer dependent upon one place of worship.

You will need the worship in this mountain. This is Mount Gerizim. Nor yet in Jerusalem. This is the Mount Moriah. You will no longer need to depend upon these places to worship the Father. Amazing. He's teaching something here. He's introducing, Yeshua introducing something here that is completely showing us that he knew and he wanted to already present it before all who would come to him that there will be an era or a dispensation or a period of time in human history that will bring people, whether it is from the Samaritans of the nation of Israel and the Jewish people and the Gentiles from among the nation of the world into one body.

In a sense, he's pointing to this. It hasn't begun. That's why he says the hour is coming when ye neither in this mountain nor yet at Jerusalem worship the Father. In other words, it will be this time that will begin when the finished work of the Messiah will come to pass. He's adding here in verse 22 and the Lord Jesus says, ye worship, ye know not what we know what we worship for salvation is of the Jews. Ha-Yeshua hi-meha-Yehudim Very interesting expression because Yeshua, salvation in Hebrew, Yeshua is the very name of Jesus, of Yeshua, the same root word. The salvation, the Messiah, the Savior come from the Jewish people.

Now this is interesting because he's really correcting and instructing the Samaritan woman as to the way that God has set it. God has designed the fact throughout history, the human history, that when the Deliverer, when the Savior of this world will come, he will come through the Jewish people, through the tribe of Yehudah and through them, through the Jewish people, the Savior will come for the benefit of all the world. You notice he doesn't say that salvation come to the world by the Jews. In other words, it's not that the Jewish people save the Gentiles and others. Oh no, because the Jewish people, we are all sinners like the nations of the world.

None of us have without sin. All are sinners. But the Savior, the Moshe, the Mashiach, the Christos, the Messiah, the Mashiach will come through the Jewish people. And the salvation of the whole world will come through the person of Jesus, the Messiah, who is a Jewish man who entered into this world for the purpose of providing redemption. It really reminds me of the many verses that are found in Scripture to show us how it is all promised by divine design. In Genesis chapter 3 and verse 15, we find out that the Messiah is called the seed of the woman. Zerah Ha'ishah. That means that the Messiah will become a man who will be born to a woman.

But because he is called the seed of the woman and not the seed of the man, he will be a sinless one. So God will enter to this world through the virgin who will give birth to the Messiah himself. The sinless one will be born of woman that never knew a man. That is the woman Miriam that gave birth to Yeshua, Jesus, the Messiah. In Genesis chapter 12, not only that the Messiah will be born through a woman and he will become a man, but the Messiah will be a descendant of the chosen man, the Hebrew man, by the name of Abraham. in Genesis chapter 12, God said to Abraham, Now the Lord had said unto Abraham, Get thee out of thy country and from thy kindred and from thy father's house unto a land that I will tell thee, and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and I will make thy name great, and thou shall be a blessing.

And I will bless them that bless thee, and I will curse him that curse thee, and notice verse 3 at the end, In thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. Abraham, in thee, in you, all the nations of the earth be blessed. And you notice this is very interesting because the families of the earth will be blessed through Abraham, and in verse 7 and on the Lord is speaking about Abraham's seed. And the Lord appeared unto Abraham and said, Unto thy seed I have given this land. So he is leading to the fact that Abraham through his seed will bring blessing to this world. So the Lord Jesus is not only the seed of the woman, but he is also the seed of Abraham.

Many verses that we can read as we study the book of Genesis. One verse at a time as we study, we can see how beautiful that the Lord had promised to Abraham that he will bring blessing to the world through this man Abraham and through his seed. This is wonderful as we read the remaining passages that are found in the book of Genesis. By the time we move along in the book of Genesis, it's not only that the promise had been given to Abraham, but also to Isaac. It does say in Genesis chapter 21, there is a promise now that Abraham's son Isaac will be the one that through him the Messiah will come.

in Genesis 21, verse 12, for in Isaac shall thy seed be called, God said to Abraham. Abraham, it is through Isaac thy seed be called. Later on, beloved brothers and sisters, in chapter 25 of the book of Genesis, it does say in verse 23 to the wife of Isaac who had two nations in her womb. The Lord said to her in Genesis 25, verse 23, two nations are in thy womb, two manner of people shall be separate from thy bowels, the one people shall be stronger than the other people, and the elder shall serve the younger. In other words, the younger will be the one that will be that seed whom the elder will serve, and through him the Messiah will come, and we find out that the younger one was Jacob.

In verse 26, even after that came his brother out, and his hand he took hold of Isaac's heel, and his name was called Yaakov. And so we have Abraham, and there we have Yitzchak, Isaac, and we have Yaakov. And now later on when Yaakov became an older man, my dear friend, he did say in chapter 49 where he wanted to bless the sons of his. He had 12 sons. And in Genesis chapter 49 we read Jacob called unto his sons, and he said, gather together that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the latter time, or the last day. And when he called his son Yehuda, Judah, that's where you get the name Jews, Yehudim, from the tribe of Yehuda, Judah.

And what did he say to Judah? Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise. Thy hands shall be in the neck of thine enemies. Thy father's children shall bow down before thee. Judah is a lion's whelp. From the prey, my son, thou art gone up. He stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion, who shall rouse him up. And then in verse 10 of Genesis chapter 49 we read, The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh, Shiloh, the Mashiach, Shiloh will come, and unto him shall the gathering of the people be. So beautiful, beloved brothers and sisters, the seed of the woman, the seed of Abraham, the seed of Yitzhak, the seed of Yaakov, the seed of Yehudah.

That's how the Messiah was going to come through the Jewish people. It is fascinating in the plan and the program of God. In 1 Samuel chapter 16 and verse 1, God said to Samuel, And the Lord said unto Samuel, How long will thou mourn for Saul? Saul was the king that was chosen by men, but now God said to Saul that in this tribe of Judah, through the family of Yishai, Jesse, there is one that he had chosen. See, he says here, I rejected him, this is Saul, from reigning over Israel. Fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Yishai, to Jesse, he was from the tribe of Judah, of Beit Lechem, for I have provided me a king among his sons.

It says in verse 13, And Samuel took up the horn of oil, and he anointed him in the midst of his brethren. And the spirit of the Lord came upon David, David, from that day forward, and Samuel rose up, and he went to Ramah. So now you can see that of the tribe of Judah, of the Yehudim, of the Jews, will come the Messiah through the family of David, the family of David. In 2 Samuel chapter 7, in verse 8, God said to David, 2 Samuel 7, Now therefore, so shall thou say unto my servant David, David, the king from the tribe of Yehudah, from among the Jews, he says, Thus you shall say, The Lord of hosts said unto you, I took thee from the sheep fall, from following the sheep to be ruler over my people over Israel.

And you know that what he continued, and he said to him, verse 12, when thy days shall be fulfilled and thou shall sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed, the seed of David now, I will set up thy seed, the Mashiach, thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom and he shall build a house for my name and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever and I will be his father and he shall be my son. Notice that here we have the promise that the Mashiach will come, Ben David, the son of David, that God will establish his kingdom, God will establish his house, and God will establish his throne forever.

My dear friend, this is why salvation Yeshua says is of the Jews, because God has set it in such a way that when the Messiah will come to provide salvation, to provide Yeshua to this world, he will be of the seed of the woman, of the seed of Abraham, of the seed of Yitzchak, of the seed of Yaakov, of the seed of Yehudah, of the seed of David, and he will become the one that ultimately will become the king of Israel, but he must come to die and to give his life a ransom for many. In fact, this is exactly how the gospel of Matthew began.

The book of the generation of Jesus the Messiah, the son of David, the son of Abraham. And you have the genealogy, Abraham beget Isaac, and Isaac beget Jacob, and Jacob beget Judah and his brethren. And as you read a little further on, where it says in verse 16, Jacob beget Yosef, the husband of Mary. He was not the father of Jesus, but he was the husband of Mary, of Miriam, because Miriam did not give birth to any children before she first of all was impregnate by the Spirit of God to give birth to the Messiah himself. Miriam, of whom was born Yeshua, who is called Christ, the Mashiach, the Messiah.

And you remember, beloved friend, we read right in the beginning of the Gospel of John, in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And verse 2 says the same was in the beginning with God. Verse 3 says all things were made by him, and without him was not anything made which was made. And then we read in verse 14, and the Word, this eternal God, became flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. So now, beloved brothers and sisters, as we are going back to our fourth chapter, and as Yeshua is saying to the Samaritan woman, woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, at Mount Grizim, nor yet at Jerusalem worship the Father.

Ye worship, ye know not what. We know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. Yeshua him meha Yehudim. The salvation for the world will come through the one that will be born through the Jewish people, through the nation of Israel, a descendant of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Judah, and David, and he will be the descendant of the Jewish people. And so how he is helping her to understand how the Messiah was supposed to come exactly in accordance to the word of God. So in verse 23 and in verse 24 Yeshua continues and said by the hour cometh and now is. You see we are now approaching the time when the true worshippers verse 23 of John 4 shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth.

For the Father seeketh such to worship him God is a spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. In a sense beloved friend our Lord Jesus our Lord Yeshua the Messiah was really introducing something that was just about to begin.

Remember he is in the beginning of his ministry here within about three years from now he will die on a Roman cross he will be buried and he will rise again and will be ascended to heaven and he will send the Holy Spirit of God and he will form the body of Christ the body of Messiah Israel as a nation did not accept him as he knew and as the prophets foretold in days of old at the first coming Israel was not going to accept the Messiah as Isaiah and others of the prophets foretold but once Israel will be in a time of rejection of the Messiah these early Hebrew believers will preach the message

of the gospel and the whole world will hear about this Savior the Messiah the Redeemer and the body of Christ the body of Messiah will be formed and we already live some 2000 years since the beginning of the age of the era of the assembly of the ecclesia of the church of the Kehillah in which we live in today that will come to an end this era will come to an end when the Messiah Jesus will come to restore Israel at the last days at the end of the church age after he will rapture out of here his heavenly company and come down to this earth to restore Israel and to establish the kingdom that

is promised by the prophets of all to the nation of Israel but in a meanwhile in these verses verse 23 and 24 the Lord Jesus the Messiah described to this Samaritan woman who you might say have no idea about those things and is so far from the Lord you might say because of her spiritual condition she had five husbands the one she lived with now is not her husband you might say she is in such a sinful state what information does she need to know well the Lord give her information here of course for all of us because we are like her sinners by nature who need the forgiveness of the Lord and the salvation

of the Lord so he is instructing her and she of her understanding she didn't have the whole canon of scripture like you and I have today beloved friend but what he is telling her applied to this present day age in which you and I live in today what the Lord is telling to this Samaritan woman is amazing amazing amazing let me read this again just for the benefit of us all the hour is coming and now is I'm here Yeshua say I'm soon to die to finish the work of redemption and to begin a new era and now is when the true worshippers shall worship the father in spirit and in truth for the father

seek as such to worship him God is a spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth now to remind you in every generation true worshippers must worship God in accordance with the Holy Spirit's guidance and in truth that's applied to every period of time in history of men in relationship to God but what he's really saying to the Samaritan woman that in this coming era there will no longer need to go to Jerusalem to worship in a temple because he knows also that the temple will not be there anymore in 70 AD so it's no longer limited to one locality anymore not for the Samaritan on Mount Grizim and

not for the Jewish people in the city of Jerusalem but anywhere any place in the world when anyone who is sincerely a true worshiper of God through the person of Yeshua Jesus the Messiah who paid for their sins they can come to him anywhere any place among the nations of the world it reminds me of the verse that is found in Matthew chapter 18 in verse 20 Yeshua said to his disciples he says for where two or three are gathered together unto my name Yeshua said there am I in the midst of them even if there is two people or three people who gather unto my name and according to my will then he promised

to be in the midst of them and you can just imagine sadly we just read about the temple in the second chapter that Yeshua took whip and he cast all the money changers and all those who sold and bought in the temple he cast them out of the temple you remember he already have challenged them inside the temple in the city of Yerushalayim and he was not happy with their spiritual state he says take these things hence make not my father's house a house of merchandise you see what happened when things deviate from the ways of the Lord it only causes harm rather than help and that's why he was not happy with the condition

that existed in the temple in Yerushalayim but the hour is coming and now is when the true worshippers shall worship the father in spirit and in truth spiritual worship and in truth and that's why we are challenged today sadly of course now that we are 2000 years after the foundation of the assembly sadly we must admit that we live in the same kind of condition like it was when the Lord Jesus the Messiah came 2000 years ago and sadly the church Christendom and fallen into the same condition where there is no longer the way that he intended the Lord intended it to worship the father in spirit and in truth and many times there is

that which is disorderly that existing in the last days of the laodicean age and that's why it is so important for us to ask the Lord to help us because of our still old we are also in truth now as we lead towards the end of these verses notice this brothers and sisters and dear friend in verses 25 to 30 the Samaritan woman realized that indeed he was that promised Mashiach and so we read in verse 25 the woman said unto him I know that the Messiah cometh and that he is called Christ or Christot in Greek Mashiach in the Hebrew when he come he will tell us all things now notice I just want

to mention this is very important I know the Messiah come who is called Christ it's interesting every time the Greek says Christos it was taken from the Hebrew Mashiach the Hebrew Mashiach is anointed one and when we translate from the Christos Greek into the English saying Christ what we really say Mashiach anointed one in the same way so the Messiah the Mashiach the Christ simply mean the anointed one if you remember in chapter 1 in verse 41 Andrew found his brother Simon and he said he first finds his own brother Simon and he says we we have found the Messiah which is being interpreted the Christ so he was really saying to him in Hebrew

Matsanu et ha Mashiach we found the Messiah the Messiah who is interpreted in a Greek called Christ Christos and the English use the word Christ today so whenever we say Christ whenever we say Messiah we really say the Hebrew word Mashiach which means the anointed one Ham Mashiach of course today he is in relationship to the assembly to the ecclesia but in the future he will be as a Messiah in relationship to the nation of Israel in a future day when he will gather Israel back to himself and so he said I know that the Messiah will come and he will tell us all things and notice what Yeshua said to her I that speak

unto thee am he I am the Messiah I that speak unto you is he it's beautiful in Hebrew it says I that that speak that speak unto you am the Messiah am the Mashiach am he this is very precious because every one of us who is coming from the land of Israel from among our people we are waiting for the Mashiach to come many songs have been sung over the generation from a young boy I remember how many times we sang when the Mashiach will come when the Messiah will come where is the promises that God has promised to our forefathers and not knowing that the Messiah have already come that his name is Yeshua

that Israel as a nation did not accept him at the first coming and that the body of Messiah body of Christ will be formed for this era and that he the Messiah Yeshua will restore one day our people of Israel back to himself this we only have learned when we have been exposed to this wonderful person whose name is Yeshua whose name is Jesus now in these closing verses we find very precious truth we read now in verses 27 to verse 30 that the disciples came they were sent earlier if you remember in verse 8 the disciples were gone away into the city to buy food now we find in verse 27 upon this when

he just told the Samaritan woman that he is the Messiah he is the Messiah then the disciples came and they were amazed they were marveled that he talked with the woman yet no man said what seekest thou or why talkest thou with her in other words they did not want to ask him why you speak with her because of course there was no dealing with the Samaritans the Samaritan have gone astray the Samaritan have introduced new religion the Samaritan was a mixture the Samaritan was believed in Jehovah but also in other idols and other gods in other that which was contrary to the word of God so there was no dealing with the Samaritan and

over this generation from about 950 BC until the time that the Lord is here that Yeshua is here 950 years you might say passed by so there was no dealing for nearly a thousand years and so now here Yeshua is now dealing with this Samaritan woman and so we find out now that the woman after the Lord Yeshua the Messiah said to her I the one that speak to thee am he am the Messiah am the Messiah I am the Messiah the woman left it says in verse 28 the woman then left her water pot and went her way into the city and saith unto the man you notice now she came to draw water

she should have taken the water with her but she got much more than just physical water that she came to draw from that well she got spiritual water here she discovered in her own soul that this Jewish man have told her that he was the Messiah and that salvation come through the Jewish people because God have promised that the Messiah will come through the Jewish people and finally here was this Jewish man the Messiah Yeshua himself sinless man who is telling her I am the Messiah I am the Messiah so she left the water pot she went back into the city and now instead of quietly going to the side she now says unto the

man of that city of Seikah as we read of this city in verse 5 a city in Samaria which is called Seichar most likely Shechem Shechem and here she is speaking out to the men notice it doesn't say to the women to the men apparently again it may had to do with the kind of condition that she had been in involved five husbands the men she lived with not her husband see she go to the men and notice what she tells them in verse 29 come see a man which told me all things that ever I did is not this the Mashiach the Christ the Christ the anointed one come now she beloved friend listen

she become like a messenger to proclaim to her people in the cities of Samaritans come and see a man which told me all things that ever I did is not this the Messiah is not this the Messiah beautiful in Hebrew can this be the Mashiach the anointed one the Christ Christos the Messiah what a wonderful proclamation come come and see a man what an invitation for us all come the Lord is inviting men to come and see and beloved friend when we come and see how precious Yeshua Jesus the Messiah is we found pleasure in knowing him because indeed the Mashiach the anointed one came to provide redemption and because all of us are guilty

before God the only one that could pay for the sin of this world and the sin of each and every one of us was he because he was that sinless one he was the one of whom we read all we like sheep have gone astray we have turned everyone to his own way but the Lord laid upon him the iniquity of my question to you have you come to know him have you come to see did you come to see that man notice it says here about him as a man he often call himself Yeshua I am the son of man ben ha adam he became a man so he can die as man so

he can be punished as man for the sin of all men all humanity so he will pay for the sin so after he died and was buried shed his blood and rose again he became now the redeemer the messiah as he said to the samaritan woman I that you speak with am that messiah I am he and so verse 30 then they went out of the city and came unto him you notice that the very same woman sinner from the samaritan the lord yeshua used her now to become a vessel a vessel to draw others to himself and so she did and she invited come and see a man who have told me all that

I ever did is not this the messiah the messiah the christ the savior and they came and they now came unto him and we're going to continue on in the will of the lord with what went on in the next verses of chapter 4 for verse 35 further towards the end of the chapter you can see how Yeshua is drawing to himself one by one and people came including many among the Samaritans to come to know that Yeshua indeed Messiah wonderful wonderful passage that we had before us well god bless you my dear friend may the lord encourage our hearts and lead us closer to himself as we learn more about our blessed Lord Yeshua

Jesus the Messiah have a good day Shalom Shalom