5.31.2026 [달라스 영락장로교회] 주일설교 | 한은진 목사 | 메마른 영혼을 참된 예배자로 세우시는 예수님. 요한복음 4장 1-42절 — 달라스영락장로교회 The Korean Young Nak Church of Dallas

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John 4:1-42

1. Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John 2. (although Jesus himself didn’t baptize, but his disciples), 3. he left Judea, and departed into Galilee. …

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2026-05-31

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Jesus intentionally went to meet the Samaritan woman to fill her dry soul. Through her conversation with Jesus, she reflected on her past and present, and Jesus told her that He would give her living water, which is the water of eternal life. This living water has the power to revive our souls through the Holy Spirit and to establish us as true worshipers. We can find true satisfaction and rest through Jesus, and we should become worshipers who approach God in spirit and truth.

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John 4:1-42 1. Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John 2. (although Jesus himself didn’t baptize, but his disciples), 3. he left Judea, and departed into Galilee. 4. He needed to pass through Samaria. 5. So he came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph. 6. Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down 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. The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) 10. Jesus answered 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.” 11. The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. From where then have you that living water? 12. Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, as did his children, and his livestock?” 13. Jesus answered her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, 14. but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.” 15. The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I don’t get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw.” 16. Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.” 17. The woman answered, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You said well, ‘I have no husband,’ 18. for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly.” 19. The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. 20. Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.” 21. Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father. 22. You worship that which you don’t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews. 23. But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshipers. 24. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” 25. The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah comes, he who is called Christ. When he has come, he will declare to us all things.” 26. Jesus said to her, “I am he, the one who speaks to you.” 27. At this, his disciples came. They marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, “What are you looking for?” or, “Why do you speak with her?” 28. So the woman left her water pot, and went away into the city, and said to the people, 29. “Come, see a man who told me everything that I did. Can this be the Christ?” 30. They went out of the city, and were coming to him. 31. In the meanwhile, the disciples urged him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.” 32. But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.” 33. The disciples therefore said one to another, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?” 34. Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work. 35. Don’t you say, ‘There are yet four months until the harvest?’ Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already. 36. He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. 37. For in this the saying is true, ‘One sows, and another reaps.’ 38. I sent you to reap that for which you haven’t labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.” 39. From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, “He told me everything that I did.” 40. So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed there two days. 41. Many more believed because of his word. 42. They said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.”
John 3 1. Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. 2. The same came to him by night, and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.” 3. Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see the Kingdom of God.” 4. Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?” 5. Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can’t enter into the Kingdom of God! 6. That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7. Don’t marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born anew.’ 8. The windblows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don’t know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.” 9. Nicodemus answered him, “How can these things be?” 10. Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and don’t understand these things? 11. Most certainly I tell you, we speak that which we know, and testify of that which we have seen, and you don’t receive our witness. 12. If I told you earthly things and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? 13. No one has ascended into heaven, but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven. 14. As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15. that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 16. For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 17. For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him. 18. He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God. 19. This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil. 20. For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed. 21. But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.” 22. After these things, Jesus came with his disciples into the land of Judea. He stayed there with them, and baptized. 23. John also was baptizing in Enon near Salim, because there was much water there. They came, and were baptized. 24. For John was not yet thrown into prison. 25. There arose therefore a questioning on the part of John’s disciples with some Jews about purification. 26. They came to John, and said to him, “Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, the same baptizes, and everyone is coming to him.” 27. John answered, “A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given him from heaven. 28. You yourselves testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but, ‘I have been sent before him.’ 29. He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. This, my joy, therefore is made full. 30. He must increase, but I must decrease. 31. He who comes from above is above all. He who is from the earth belongs to the earth, and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all. 32. What he has seen and heard, of that he testifies; and no one receives his witness. 33. He who has received his witness has set his seal to this, that God is true. 34. For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure. 35. The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand. 36. One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”
John 7 1. After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him. 2. Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand. 3. His brothers therefore said to him, “Depart from here, and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do. 4. For no one does anything in secret, and himself seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world.” 5. For even his brothers didn’t believe in him. 6. Jesus therefore said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready. 7. The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil. 8. You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled.” 9. Having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee. 10. But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret. 11. The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, “Where is he?” 12. There was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him. Some said, “He is a good man.” Others said, “Not so, but he leads the multitude astray.” 13. Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews. 14. But when it was now the midst of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught. 15. The Jews therefore marveled, saying, “How does this man know letters, having never been educated?” 16. Jesus therefore answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me. 17. If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself. 18. He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him. 19. Didn’t Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?” 20. The multitude answered, “You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?” 21. Jesus answered them, “I did one work, and you all marvel because of it. 22. Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy. 23. If a boy receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me, because I made a man completely healthy on the Sabbath? 24. Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.” 25. Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, “Isn’t this he whom they seek to kill? 26. Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ? 27. However we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from.” 28. Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, “You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don’t know. 29. I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.” 30. They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come. 31. But of the multitude, many believed in him. They said, “When the Christ comes, he won’t do more signs than those which this man has done, will he?” 32. The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him. 33. Then Jesus said, “I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me. 34. You will seek me, and won’t find me; and where I am, you can’t come.” 35. The Jews therefore said among themselves, “Where will this man go that we won’t find him? Will he go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks? 36. What is this word that he said, ‘You will seek me, and won’t find me; and where I am, you can’t come’?” 37. Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink! 38. He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.” 39. But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn’t yet glorified. 40. Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, “This is truly the prophet.” 41. Others said, “This is the Christ.” But some said, “What, does the Christ come out of Galilee? 42. Hasn’t the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?” 43. So there arose a division in the multitude because of him. 44. Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him. 45. The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, “Why didn’t you bring him?” 46. The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this man!” 47. The Pharisees therefore answered them, “You aren’t also led astray, are you? 48. Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees? 49. But this multitude that doesn’t know the law is accursed.” 50. Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them, 51. “Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?” 52. They answered him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.” 53. Everyone went to his own house,
John 14:16-17 16. I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever,— 17. the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him, neither knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.
John 15:26 26. “When the Counselorhas come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.
John 16:13 13. However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.
John 4 1. Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John 2. (although Jesus himself didn’t baptize, but his disciples), 3. he left Judea, and departed into Galilee. 4. He needed to pass through Samaria. 5. So he came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph. 6. Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down 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. The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) 10. Jesus answered 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.” 11. The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. From where then have you that living water? 12. Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, as did his children, and his livestock?” 13. Jesus answered her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, 14. but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.” 15. The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I don’t get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw.” 16. Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.” 17. The woman answered, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You said well, ‘I have no husband,’ 18. for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly.” 19. The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. 20. Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.” 21. Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father. 22. You worship that which you don’t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews. 23. But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshipers. 24. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” 25. The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah comes, he who is called Christ. When he has come, he will declare to us all things.” 26. Jesus said to her, “I am he, the one who speaks to you.” 27. At this, his disciples came. They marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, “What are you looking for?” or, “Why do you speak with her?” 28. So the woman left her water pot, and went away into the city, and said to the people, 29. “Come, see a man who told me everything that I did. Can this be the Christ?” 30. They went out of the city, and were coming to him. 31. In the meanwhile, the disciples urged him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.” 32. But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.” 33. The disciples therefore said one to another, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?” 34. Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work. 35. Don’t you say, ‘There are yet four months until the harvest?’ Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already. 36. He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. 37. For in this the saying is true, ‘One sows, and another reaps.’ 38. I sent you to reap that for which you haven’t labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.” 39. From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, “He told me everything that I did.” 40. So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed there two days. 41. Many more believed because of his word. 42. They said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.” 43. After the two days he went out from there and went into Galilee. 44. For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country. 45. So when he came into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast, for they also went to the feast. 46. Jesus came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water into wine. There was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum. 47. When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to him, and begged him that he would come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. 48. Jesus therefore said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders, you will in no way believe.” 49. The nobleman said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.” 50. Jesus said to him, “Go your way. Your son lives.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way. 51. As he was now going down, his servants met him and reported, saying “Your child lives!” 52. So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. They said therefore to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour, the fever left him.” 53. So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives.” He believed, as did his whole house. 54. This is again the second sign that Jesus did, having come out of Judea into Galilee.

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Jesus is the source of living water that satisfies our thirst.

The Conversation Between Jesus and the Samaritan Woman

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Amen. Last week, we looked at the conversation between Jesus and Nicodemus, where we focused on Jesus being lifted high on the cross, and we examined the necessity of being renewed daily by water and the Spirit. Today, the scene shifts. Jesus travels through Judea and enters the region of Samaria. There, He intentionally meets a woman who is living a dry life, hiding her sins and shame. Jesus comforts her thirsty soul and opens the way to the true place of worship. The woman who met Jesus goes back to her town to share the gospel and leads the people to Jesus. Those who come to Jesus confess with one voice, "We have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world." They recognized that Jesus is the Savior of the world. Now, holding this confession in our hearts, we will examine the conversation between Jesus and the Samaritan woman today. Through this message, I want us to see that Jesus not only gives us living water but also establishes us as true worshipers who have received that living water. I pray that today will be a time to deeply experience the good Jesus who fills the thirst of our souls in the name of the Lord.

The Conversation Between Jesus and the Samaritan Woman

Now, Jesus leaves Jerusalem and heads to His hometown in Galilee. You know, right? Jerusalem is in the south, and Galilee is in the north. Looking at this map, you can see that He must pass through Samaria. That is the most direct and quickest route. However, at that time, there was a long-standing conflict and religious hostility between Jews and Samaritans. Therefore, devout Jews would often take a long detour to avoid passing through Samaria. But in verse 4 of our text, it is recorded, "He had to pass through Samaria." The expression "had to" indicates a necessity, meaning it had to happen. This is a divine necessity that reflects God's will and plan, often used in Scripture to express a determination that God must fulfill. The fact that Jesus passed through Samaria had a special reason within God's will. What do you think that reason is? It was to meet a thirsty soul, the Samaritan woman, in a village of Samaria.

Now, Jesus and His disciples arrive in a place called Sychar in Samaria. It was about 6 o'clock in the Jewish time, which translates to noon today, the hottest time of the day. Moreover, Jesus and His disciples had been walking for six hours since early morning, so they were very tired and weary. Thus, in verse 6, it says that Jesus, being tired from the journey, sat down by the well. On the surface, it seems that Jesus is sitting by the well because He is tired. However, John does not simply describe this scene as a moment of rest for Jesus. Jesus intentionally went there to meet the woman, and He sat by the well for that encounter. Finally, the woman Jesus was waiting for comes to the well. Jesus sees her and says, "Give me a drink." When Jesus asks the woman for water, she is surprised and responds, "How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" Here, there are a few things we need to consider.

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