The Road to Worship

John 4:1-7

There is great between Nicodemus and the Samaritan woman.

• He was and sophisticated and she was .
• He was a ; she a .
• He a Pharisee; she belonged to religious .
• He a politician; she had no whatsoever.
• He a ; she was .
• He was highly ; she was seen as .
• He had a ; she is .
• He was a ; she was a .
• He came at to protect his reputation; she, who had no reputation, came at .
• Nicodemas came ; she was by Jesus.

The contrast is – yet the of the story – needed and both were .

There is great between Nicodemus and the Samaritan woman.

• They both thought they were all right .
• They were both crudely , or materialistic, in their reaction to Jesus’ spiritual teaching.

But a natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. 1 Corinthians 2:14

• To persons without the spiritual – reality is on the senses.

Christianity is a walk, a life of the supernatural – a life lived by the of God.

• They were – like all people – spiritually, and thus sensed a for God, even though they seemed to it.
• They both were .
• They were both spiritually – this was the of their other problems.

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Romans 3:23

What does it mean to be ?

They have all turned aside, together they have become corrupt; There is no one who does good, There is not even one.” Romans 3:12

According to God, mankind has willfully Him. All of us, like sheep, have gone astray, Each of us has turned to his own way; But the Lord has caused the wrongdoing of us all To fall on Him.  Isaiah 53:6

We have the ways of God, His of love, His counsel and slighted His reproof.

Listen, heavens, and hear, earth; For the Lord has spoken: “Sons I have raised and brought up, But they have revolted against Me. An ox knows its owner, And a donkey its master’s manger, But Israel does not know, My people do not understand.”  Isaiah 1:2-3

Few stories in the Gospels show us so much about the of Jesus.

1^st It shows us the reality of His .

2^nd It shows us the warmth of His .

3^rd It shows us Jesus as the breaker-down of .

For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but so that the world might be saved through Him. John 3:17