Mississauga Worship

Sunday Worship Service: SEPTEMBER 7, 2025

CLEAN UP

JOHN 4:3-14

Rev. Jason Noh

13 He left Judea and departed again for Galilee. 4 And he had to pass through Samaria. 5 So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob's well was there; so Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.

7 A woman from 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 said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) 10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying 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 water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.” 13 Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

notes

Opening: Spiritual elevation starts with clean up.

“I will not have to come here to draw water.” (v.15 b)

Clean up the distorted knowledge of who God is.

“The Samaritan woman said to him, ‘How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?’ (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)” (v.9)

A Jewish male → A Prophet → Messiah

“Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.” (v.19)
“The woman said to him, ‘I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will tell us all things.’ Jesus said to her, ‘I who speak to you am he.’” (v.25-26)

Clean up the limited understanding of who God is.

“Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.” (v.20)
“God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” (v.24)

Clean up the past sins and hurts.

“And Peter said to them. ‘Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.’” (Acts 2:38)
“Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony. ‘He told me all that I ever did.’” (v.39)

The reason God cleans up is to fill us with better things.