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The Place Where God Is |
John 4 |
The lengthy opening section of John chapter four is one of those remarkable studies can be provide any number of good, individual sermons. We are all used to preaching about the woman of Sychar in Samaria. She is the abused woman who has been mistreated and discarded by five men whom she has married--since she could not divorce them, they divorced her. Jesus is charmed by her, and she by him, it seems, and there at the well they talk theology. When we get the woman and the story right (which really doesn't happen often) it can be a remarkable sermon. But there are other great sermons here, too. There is the "water" sermon built around the "water of life" metaphor. And then there is the "theology" story/sermon, the one that is taken up in the sermon here. It focuses on the part of their discussion about "where God lives," in whose city or on whose mountain. And where will God live where the city and the mountain do not matter any more? There's a sermon! One that I like very, very much. I hope you will listen to it here. |