“Greater” with Tasha Cobbs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTcxUfDS8do

“You Still Love Me” with Tasha Cobbs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAqjgqavTBg

“One Place / I Love This Place” with Tasha and Bertha Cobbs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc8pUn4ka7w

“Sense It” with Tasha Cobbs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpjpiK-DWzQ

“Put a Praise On It” with Tasha Cobbs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2kRwif6SbU

“He Did It Again” with Sinach
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_PRKa-l_4U

“More, More, More” with Joann Rosario
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgvfbBtSB8o

“I Need You” with Joann Rosario
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue4KXNO8o4c

“Give Me You” with Shana Wilson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC0UHJagWNE

“I Won’t Go Back” with William McDowell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN-eJq8wFEs

“Living Water” with Travis Greene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj1g3fHRdak

“What a Savior!” with Hillsong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2pb3gBf_hg
“At Calvary” with Kathy Taylor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7rKdQNrWNc

“Jesus Died For You” with Trey McLaughlin and SOZ Prince Joint
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT-cswUAq1g

“Greater is Coming” with Jekalyn Carr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_PRKa-l_4U

Greater and Greater
John 4:1-45

	Praise the Lord! How’s it going? This week’s John 4:1-45 Bible Study makes the simple point that whoever knows Jesus and the gift of God, will ask Jesus for living water and for greater things. Jesus will in turn give us so much greater that we will again ask for greater. Here we will live an eternal life of greater and greater things forever. For indeed, Jesus said that whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall 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, John 4:14. 
	The textual key to this passage is that when the Samaritan woman received greater from Jesus, she always asked Jesus for something more. The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw, John 4:14. The Samaritan woman didn’t just ask for living water. She asked to not have to again come by this well alone at the noon day. 
We don’t know what she was going through. Maybe it was shame or rejection. But she was coming to the well to draw water alone in the heat of the day, and wanted something greater for her life.
Some of us will be like this Samaritan woman who asks God for something greater when we receive Jesus’ offer of living water. With this living water, some of us will want to be free from depression and negative thinking. With this living water, some of us will want to be free from smoking and other addictions. With this living water, some of us will want a better-paying job or more education. With this living water, we will want more, and we won’t want to come again to the same places we were. 
Jesus gave the woman greater and got to the core of her life’s issue. Jesus asked the Samaritan woman to bring her husband. When the woman responded that she did not have a husband, Jesus applauded her for understanding her own life. Jesus said, “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 sadist thou truly,” John 4:17-18.
The Samaritan woman received that and she asked for more. The Samaritan woman acknowledged that if she could get to the root of her personal relationships, she could also get to the root of her most important relationship – her relationship with God. If Jesus could give her revelation about the relationships in her own life, she knew that Jesus could give her even greater – a great relationship with God.
Some of us will hear God speaking to us about our lives and ask for greater in our worship. The Samaritan woman wanted to know where and how she should worship to get closer to God. She said, “Our fathers worshipped in this mountain: and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship,” John 4:20. 
Jesus offered the Samaritan woman that greater vision of true worship – a time and place where people could worship in Spirit and truth. “[T]he hour 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,” John 4:23-24. 
When the Samaritan woman received that God was available to her, she asked for greater. She asked that if God was here for her, God could send a Messiah into her life to save her and reveal all things to her. The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things, John 4:25. 
In response, Jesus offered greater. Jesus offered Himself to the Samaritan woman. Jesus saith unto her, I that speak into thee am he, John 4:26. 
And with this greater, the Samaritan asked for more. She went to ask for other people around her to come to Christ. She left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men, Come see a man, which told me all things ever I did: is not this the Christ? John 4:28-29. 
I ask that we make several observations about our lives and about this Bible Study. When we drink of Jesus’ living water, we will always receive greater and always ask for greater. The greater that we receive from God will produce our desire for God’s greater. Truly, the water that Jesus gives us will be a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
And notice something else about the everlasting quality of the Samaritan woman’s everlasting life. The Samaritan woman’s greater request of Jesus was that she not have to come by this well again. As the Samaritan woman was asking the greater request of the people of her town to come see and know Jesus, the Samaritans of the city were simultaneously developing a new relationship with the Samaritan woman and the things that went on in her life.
The point is that God’s greater always works on another greater. The Samaritan woman’s greater request to share the Gospel worked on her first request to make her life better. The Samaritan woman’s knowledge of Jesus enabled her to worship God in spirit and in truth. 
And the same thing works in our lives. When we ask for greater and talk with others about God in our lives, God is saving us and revealing more and more to us. When we receive God and worship God, God is strengthening us and moving us to do more about our lives and move on to better places. God’s greater is always springing up something greater in our lives. 
Life here will be greater. Worship here will be greater. Salvation within will be greater. Beloved Community will be greater. 
This is the power of Jesus’ sacrifice for us. It is no mistake that Jesus met the Samaritan woman at noon day when Jesus became wearied by Jacob’s well. John, the Gospel writer, purposely reminded us of the time of this story to relate the Samaritan woman’s life to that greater noon day when Jesus would offer Himself on the cross to save our sins. John told us that it was the preparation of the Passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King! But they cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him, John 19:14-15a. 
Jesus’ nature has always been to offer Himself up to us again and again. At the noon day, Jesus offered Himself up to the Samaritan woman, saying, “Drink of this living water. What you know about your life is true. You can worship God in spirit and in truth, and I am He who saves.” Jesus offered Himself up to the Samaritan woman knowing about that noon day when Jesus would offer up His own blood to always do greater and greater in the lives of those who came to Him. 
On this noon day, Jesus is offering Himself up for our lives. And I want to take this noon day to drink of this living water that will spring up into everlasting growth, progress, worship, salvation, and testimony in our lives. There is a man named Jesus, and He loved on me about everything that I ever did in my life. Is not this man the one who can do greater and greater in our lives? Oh, yes He will!  

Have a blessed week!

Tobias Pinckney, 10/9/16, Powered to Witness University

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