A New Worship (Part 1)
John 4:5-24
5 So He came to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar,
near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. 6 Now Jacob’s well
was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied from His journey, sat thus by the
well. It was about the sixth hour.
7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her,
“Give Me a drink.” 8 For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
9 Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, “How is it that
You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” For Jews have no
dealings with Samaritans.
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.
Last week we talked about archeology, and the
cool fact that not a single biblical reference has been disproved by archeology
(pretty good record!)
a.
Well there’s another interesting fact that
archeology has unearthed: Every ancient civilization that has been discovered/unearthed
worshiped something.
b.
Whether its the Aztec’s worship of the sun God
(Huitzilopochtli), the Roman gods, Stonehenge, apparently there were no
atheists in the ancient world!
c.
Some would say the reason is that “humans have
always needed a crutch,” they need something to explain the world around them,
why it exists, how it come to be.
d.
(which I
find to be interesting in that even ancient, supposedly “ignorant” people
understood that our world couldn’t have just sprung up from nothing, there had
to be a creator. Apparently we needed to
become much smarter to determine that there isn’t a creator!).
2.
Here’s my theory: “Humans need a relationship with their
creator,” which is why, in the absence of worshipping the true God, they will
worship something.
