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Praise the Lord! Today's verse is from John 4, 20.  Our fathers worship on this mountain. But you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.  Our fathers worshiped in this mountain speaks of Mount Garrison. It was about 50 miles north of Jerusalem. A rival worship had been set up on this mountain. This Temple was built in 332 BC. Our Father speaks of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, who worshiped and labored at Sheikkim, which was nearby. Mount Garasim was called the Mount of blessing. Deuteronomy 27:12. The phrase, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship. The Jews see that they have to worship on Mount Moriah. Mariah was the mountain on which Abraham took his son to offer him as a sacrifice and the temple, Solomon built was on this mountain. When Solomon built the temple, God promised Solomon. I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a house of sacrifice and worship. 2 chronicles 7:12. Jesus ministered...

Praise the Lord. Today's verse is from John 4, 19.  So I perceive that you are a prophet. This verse, we see the belief of Samaritans about the Messiah. Samaritan accepted only the first five books of the Bible that did not accept the historical books or the wisdom books and the prophetical books. They derived their interpretation of the Messiah from. Deuteronomy 18, 15, which says the Lord, thy God, will rise up unto you, a prophet from the midst of you of thy Brethren, like unto me and him you shall listen  This search, definitely referring to the Messiah. They did not understand the Incarnation that believed that the Messiah would be a Samaritan. The Samaritans were looking for a prophet who would be a mere man. And the Jews were looking for the Messiah who they were thinking as the king, but it was a wrong type of King. They were looking for a king who would deliver them from the Roman Empire. The Samaritans, as they did not believe in the books or from Joshua to Malachi...

Praise the Lord. Today's verse is from John 4, 17, and 18.  The woman answered him. I have no husband. Jesus said to her, you are right in saying, I have no husband for you have had five husbands and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true. We see Jesus by the gift of the Holy spirit, reveals that she had six husbands. We do not know if she diversed the other husbands or if  some are dead. But Jesus clearly speaks about marriage, and divorce  in Mark 10 chapter. Some Pharisees came to Jesus and asked him. Is it lawful for a man to diverse his wife. Jesus answered, but from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. For this reason, man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife and the two shall become one flesh. So then they are no longer two, but one flesh Therefore, what God has joined together Let not man separate. Whoever diverses his wife and marries another commits adultery against her. And if a w...

Praise the Lord! Today's verse is John 4, 16.  Jesus said to her, go call your husband and come here. The woman's sin is now now dwelt with. Hence, Jesus is telling her go, call thy husband. This is saying to the woman, go call your husband and come here, made her to think about her past life and a moral life. God has given every person a conscience to convict him when he sins. But if we excuse our sin and keep doing the same sin, our conscience no longer convicts us of that sin. The parable of the prodigal son. We see that he took his father's possession and went and lived a reckless life, but when a famine came in his life, the situation of his life convicted him. Today also situations in our life will convict us of our sins. Jesus says, when the Holy Spirit comes, he will convict us of our sins. Are we living in a life of sin today? We may be involved in many religious ceremonies, but what can really cleanse us from our sins? The Bible clearly tells us in first John 1, 7...

Praise the Lord! Today's verse is from John 4, 15.  The woman said to him, sir  give me this water so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water. Jesus spoke to her about the Living Water. The Holy Spirit takes them like an arrow to her heart and in a moment's time reveals to her the great need of her life, and as well as at least to a certain degree. What Jesus is actually saying? So, she asks Jesus, give me this water, this living water. The truth is this woman has thirsted all her life for the Living Water. Her immorality has not slackened this thirst, and neither did many husbands. As well as the religion of Samaritans gave no satification at all. Religion cannot satisfy this thirst, which is in us only Jesus can. In the Kasarcode District in a place called kolara, there are two people, one Peter, who is retired from BHEL and is 80 years old, another brother, Sebastian, who is 70 years old. Their families are in the U.S, but they stay here and go out to ...

Praise the Lord. Today's verse is John 4, 14, the second part. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water. Welling up to eternal life? Jesus not only gives us salvation, but he forgives our sins, and he also gives us power to not to sin again. The water of Salvation becomes in us a spring of water. When a woman was caught in adultery, the Pharisees and others wanted to Stone her. When Jesus said, let the one who have not sinned thow the first stone, everyone left, and Jesus asked, have no one condemned you. She said, no one Lord. Jesus said, neither do I condemn you. And from now on, sin no more. The woman might have looked at him with the question, how will that be possible to live without sin? Jesus said to her, and to them, I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life here. Jesus is saying when we follow him. We will not walk in darkness that is sin. This, we read in. John 8th chapter in the b...

Today's verse, we will meditate on John 4, 14, the first part of it. But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. Hallelujah! We will see some of the great truths of these words. So, we will meditate on each word of this verse. The first word "but" it says what links the hope of this promise to their hopelessness of the previous statement? The previous statement says everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again. It Compares with this physical water to the spiritual water. Why then, all the world did not receive the spiritual drink. The answer is simple man do not want to give up their sin, and they are deceived into believing that by coming to Christ, they will lose their pleasure and gain nothing. They do not realize that they will lose nothing and gain everything.  The next word, whosoever says, all are lost, therefore, all can be saved. None are excluded. When Jesus died on Calvary, he died for all the mankind, and for al...

 Today's verse is from John 4:13. Jesus said to her, everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again. Jesus answered and said to her Jesus is presenting himself slowly, leading her to the meaning of this great spiritual truth. As Nicodomas in the previous chapter was led to the spiritual truth of being born again. Jesus is leading this Samaritan woman to the spiritual truth of Living Water or the need of Salvation in a life. Nicodomas was highly moral, and this Samaritan was grossly immoral yet there was no difference between them. Both needing the cleansing and salvation of Jesus. You may be very religious, but you need Jesus in your life for your salvation. To Nicodemus, the religious leader Jesus says. You must be born again, but to The Sinner, he slowly leads her to the need of Salvation or the Living Water in her life. Verse, 14 says, But whatever, whoever drinks of this water that I give him give him shall never thirst. Whosoever drinks of this water will be thir...

Praise the Lord. Today's verse is from John 4 12. Are you greater than our Father? Jacob He gave us the well, and drank from it himself, and did his sons and his livestock. We observe the claims of the Samaritans, to be the descendant of Abraham, the son of Joseph and actually of Jacob himself who have dug the well. Jacob always seems to be running from someone or something, from Essu his brother, who wanted to kill him, then from Laban, his father-in-law. And from the famine in Canaan, he flew to Egypt with his family. When he was fleeing from Essu, he saw in a vision a ladder and in a vision the Majesty and the glory of God. At Bethel, when he saw God, he worshiped God and he made a wow to take  Yahweh as his God at paniel, while he was returning back from the his father-in-law Leban, Jacob ressuled face to face with God, he taught him the value of continued prayer from one who is helpless Jacob emerged from paniel, willing to let his life fall into God's control. He was woun...

Praise the Lord. Today's verse is from John 4 11 the woman said to him sir you have nothing to draw water with and the well is deep. Where do you get the living water?  Jesus was speaking of spiritual things, but the woman was thinking in material terms, In chapter 3 of John. We saw Jesus speaking to Nicodemus of born again experience and he took it in the material sense. Nicodemus asked "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?" Hallelujah. Usually The Travelers in those days used to carry a bucket and a rope to draw water, but the woman says, you don't have anything to draw water. Then she asks, Jesus, these questions, where do you get the living water man? Today, also, millions are asking where do you get the living water? They might not ask the same question. They might be asking, where do I get mukti? Where did I get Shanti? in fact they are asking where do I get salvation? Or they are saying, what ...

Praise the Lord. Today's verse is John 4, 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 Waters. Hallelujah. What is the gift of God to men. It is the salvation of our soul by which we have the eternal life. Romans 6 23 says the wages of sin is death. That is the Eternal superation from God. But the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ. Jesus, our lord. This gift is a free gift to us, but for Jesus, he had to pay a costly prize. 1 Peter 1:18-19 ESV [18] knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, [19] but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.  Jesus is saying to the woman if you knew who it is, that is saying to you to give me a drink. At that time, she did not know who Jesus was though later she knew. In John 1 1, it says, in ...

 Praise the Lord. Today's verse is from John 4 :8 For his disciples who had gone away into the city to buy food. The disciples of Jesus had gone to the Samaritan City to buy food. Something is beginning to happen to them before they had met Jesus It was entirely unlikely that they would talk to a Samaritan, but today they have gone to buy food from the Samaritans Market. There was a change in the disciple. The barrier of cast is going down today. We see the lives of millions changed when they had come to Jesus. People who had being addiction to alcohol and even to drugs, have changed their lives. 2 Corinthians 5:18 says. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, the new has come all.  Have your life being changed by Jesus today? Isaiah 43 18 and 19, says, do not remember the former things or consider the things of old, see I will do a new thing now It will spring forth. Ezekiel 11:19 I will give them a new heart and I wil...

Praise the Lord. Today's verse is John 4 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 the Jews had no dealings with Samaritans.  This Samaritan woman was astonished to have a Jew asking for water from her because she was a woman and also, she is a Samaritan. The Jews have no dealings with Samaritans, this we have already discussed about it. At first, to this woman, Jesus was simply a thirsty Jew, asking her for water, but as the story unfolds, we see her understanding of who this is developing. First, as the one who makes great promises Jesus promised her the Living Water. Then she acknowledges him as a prophet in verse 19. It says I perceive that you are a prophet. And finally, she knew him as the Messiah, the savior, the savior of this world, the Redeemer of this world and that is in verse 25, 26 and 29. Increasing understanding of who Christ is, this is a common experience for all believers because it's the Ho...

കർത്താവിനെ സ്തുതിക്കുക.  ഇന്നത്തെ വാക്യം യോഹന്നാൻ 4:7-ൽ നിന്നുള്ളതാണ്.  സമരിയായിൽ നിന്നുള്ള ഒരു സ്ത്രീ.  വെള്ളം കോരാൻ വന്നതാണ്.  യേശു അവളോട്, എനിക്ക് കുടിക്കാൻ തരൂ എന്നു പറഞ്ഞു.  പ്രപഞ്ചത്തിൻ്റെ സ്രഷ്ടാവും എല്ലാവരുടെയും വിധികർത്താവുമായ യേശു, മനുഷ്യൻ പാപികളിൽ ഒരാളെ കണ്ടുമുട്ടുന്നു.  എന്നാൽ അവളെ കുറ്റപ്പെടുത്താനല്ല, അവളെ അന്വേഷിക്കാനും രക്ഷിക്കാനുമാണ് അവൻ അവിടെയുള്ളത്.  യേശുവിനെ നാം തടസ്സം തകർക്കുന്നവനായി കാണുന്നു.  യഹൂദന്മാർക്ക് മുമ്പ് നമ്മൾ കണ്ടതുപോലെ, യഹൂദ സമരിയാക്കാരായ സമരിയാക്കാരെ വെറുക്കുക.  400 വർഷത്തിലേറെയായി തർക്കം നിലനിന്നിരുന്നു.  യഹൂദനായ യേശു ഒരു ശമര്യക്കാരിയായ തന്നോട് സംസാരിച്ചതിൽ ശമര്യക്കാരി ആശ്ചര്യപ്പെട്ടു.  എന്നാൽ യേശു തടസ്സങ്ങൾ പൊളിച്ചുമാറ്റാൻ മറ്റൊരു മാർഗമുണ്ട്. ഈ സമരിയാക്കാരൻ ഒരു സ്ത്രീയായിരുന്നു, കർശനമായ റബ്ബി ഒരു സ്ത്രീയെ പരസ്യമായി അഭിവാദ്യം ചെയ്യുന്നത് വിലക്കിയിരുന്നു.  അയാൾ സ്വന്തം ഭാര്യയോടോ മകളോടോ സഹോദരിയോടോ പരസ്യമായി സംസാരിക്കാൻ പോലും പാടില്ല.  പൊതുസ്ഥലത്ത് ഒരു സ്ത്രീയോട് സംസാരിക്കുന്നത് അവൻ്റെ പ്രശസ...

കർത്താവിനെ സ്തുതിക്കുക.  ഇന്നത്തെ വാക്യം യോഹന്നാൻ 4:6 യാക്കോബിൻ്റേതാണ്, അവിടെ കിണർ ഉണ്ടായിരുന്നു, അതിനാൽ യേശു തൻ്റെ യാത്രയിൽ നിന്ന് വ്യത്യസ്തനായി കിണറ്റിനരികിൽ ഇരുന്നു, സമയം ആറാം മണിക്കൂറായിരുന്നു.   ജേക്കബിൻ്റെ.  ശരി, പഴയനിയമത്തിൽ ഇതിനെക്കുറിച്ച് ഒരു പരാമർശവുമില്ല.  ഇന്നും, ഈ സ്ഥലവും കിണറും വെസ്റ്റ് ബാങ്കിലെ പാലസ്തീൻ നഗരമായ നെബ്ലാസിലെ ഒരു തീർത്ഥാടന കേന്ദ്രമാണ്. ഈ കിണർ നിലവിൽ ഒരു കിഴക്കൻ ഓർത്തഡോക്സ് പള്ളിയിലും ആശ്രമത്തിലും സ്ഥിതി ചെയ്യുന്നു.  യഹൂദരുടെ സമയം രാവിലെ 6:00 ന് ആരംഭിക്കുന്നതിനാൽ നമ്മുടെ സമയം അനുസരിച്ച് ആറാം മണിക്കൂർ ആറാം മണിക്കൂർ ഉച്ചയ്ക്ക് 12 മണിയായതിനാൽ യേശുവിൻ്റെ യാത്ര വ്യത്യസ്തമായിരുന്നു.  യേശു, യാത്രാക്ഷീണത്താൽ കിണറ്റിനരികിൽ ഇരുന്നു.  മറ്റേതൊരു സുവിശേഷ എഴുത്തുകാരേക്കാളും യേശുക്രിസ്തുവിൻ്റെ ദൈവത്വത്തെ ഊന്നിപ്പറയുന്ന യോഹന്നാൻ മനുഷ്യരാശിയെ പൂർണ്ണതയിലേക്ക് ഊന്നിപ്പറയുന്നു എന്നത് വളരെ ശ്രദ്ധേയമാണ്.  മനുഷ്യത്വത്തിൻ്റെ തളർച്ചയില്ലായ്മയിൽ നിന്നും പോരാട്ടങ്ങളിൽ നിന്നും മോചിതനായ ഒരു വ്യക്തിത്വം അവൻ നമുക്ക് കാണിച്ചുതരുന്നില്ല.  യേശു ...

  കർത്താവിനെ സ്തുതിക്കുക.  ഇന്നത്തെ വാക്യം യോഹന്നാൻ 4-ൽ നിന്നുള്ളതാണ് 5. അവൻ സമരിയാ പട്ടണത്തിൽ വന്നപ്പോൾ.  ജേക്കബ് തൻ്റെ മകൻ ജോസഫിന് നൽകിയ വയലിന് സമീപം സൈക്കർ എന്ന് വിളിക്കപ്പെട്ടു.  ഹല്ലേലൂയാ.  ഈ വാക്യത്തിൽ, ഈ പുസ്തകത്തിൻ്റെ രചയിതാവായ ജോണിന് ഇസ്രായേൽ ദേശത്തെക്കുറിച്ച് കൃത്യമായ അറിവുണ്ടായിരുന്നുവെന്നും ആ ദേശത്തിൻ്റെ ചരിത്രവും അദ്ദേഹത്തിന് അറിയാമായിരുന്നുവെന്നും നാം കാണുന്നു.  ഉല്പത്തി 33-ൽ 19. യാക്കോബ് തൻ്റെ അമ്മായിയപ്പനായ ലെബാൻ്റെ വീട്ടിൽ നിന്ന് ഇസ്രായേൽ ദേശത്തേക്ക് മടങ്ങിയെത്തിയപ്പോൾ, അവൻ നൂറു വെള്ളിക്കാശിന് ഈ സ്ഥലം കൊണ്ടുവന്നതായി നാം കാണുന്നു.  അതിനെ ഷെയ്‌ക്കിം നഗരം എന്നാണ് വിളിച്ചിരുന്നത്.   തൻ്റെ സഹോദരനെക്കാൾ ഒരു ഭാഗം ജോസഫിന് നൽകിയിരുന്നതായി ജേക്കബ് പറയുന്നു.  ഉല്പത്തി 50:25-ൽ.  അപ്പോൾ യോസേഫ് യിസ്രായേൽമക്കളോട് സത്യം ചെയ്തു: ദൈവം തീർച്ചയായും നിങ്ങളെ സന്ദർശിക്കും, നിങ്ങൾ ഇവിടെ നിന്ന് എൻ്റെ അസ്ഥികൾ കൊണ്ടുപോകും.  മോശയുടെ കൈവഴി സംഭവിച്ച ഇസ്രായേൽ ജനം തങ്ങളുടെ ദേശത്തേക്ക് തിരിച്ചുപോകുമെന്ന പ്രതീക്ഷയും ആത്മവിശ്വാസവും ...

Praise the Lord. Today's verse is from John 4th chapter and verses one and two. We are studying from the fourth chapter of John from today. Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees have heard that Jesus was baptizing more disciples than John, although Jesus himself did not baptize but only his disciples. In this verse we again see about baptism Jesus and his disciples along with John was baptizing in the same place. It is not written whether Jesus and his disciples followed the baptism of John. We do not know. The difference between John's baptism and the Christian baptism is given clearly in the Bible. In Acts 19:3,4, we read " 'Unto what where you baptized?' And they said 'unto John's baptism' . Then Paul said, 'John verily, baptized with the baptism of repentance saying unto the people they that they should believe on Jesus Christ who is to come after him' ". John was preparing a people for Jesus coming. And they repented of...

Praise the Lord. Today's verse is from John 4:7. A woman from Samaria. Came to draw water. Jesus said to her, give me a drink. Jesus, the creator of universe and the judge of all, man meets one of the wildest of Sinners. But he is there not to condemn her but to seek and to save her. We see Jesus as the barrier Breaker. As we have seen before the Jews, hate the Samaritans, the Jewish Samaritan. Quarrel  had been for more than 400 years. The Samaritan woman was astonished that Jesus a Jew should speak to her a Samaritan. But there is still another way in which Jesus was tearing down the barriers.This Samaritan was a woman, a strict Rabbi was forbidden to greet a woman in public. He might not even speak to his own wife or his daughter or his sister in public. To be seen speaking to a woman in public, was the end of his reputation? And, Jesus spoke to the woman. Not only the she was a woman but she was a woman of notorious character. And Jesus spoke to her. Here was Jesus breaking thr...

Praise the Lord. Today's verse is from John 4:6 Jacob's, well was there, So Jesus varied as he was from his journey was sitting beside the well, it was about the sixth hour.  Jacob's. Well, was there, there is no reference in the Old Testament about this. Well, Even today, this place and the well is a pilgrim spot in the Palestine city of neblas in the West Bank.The well currently situated inside an Eastern Orthodox Church and a monastery. Jesus was varied because of his journey as it was the sixth hour sixth hour is 12 noon according to our time because Jewish time starts at 6:00, am in the morning. Jesus, sat by the side of the Well, exhausted by the journey. It was very significant that John who stresses the deity of Jesus Christ more than any other gospel writers also stresses the humanity to the fullness. He does not show us a figure freed from the tirelessness and the struggles of humanity. Jesus was God, but at the same time, human He was thirsty. He was hungry. He w...

Praise the Lord. Today's verse is from John 4 5. As he came to the town of Samaria. Called psychar near the field that Jacob had given to his son, Joseph. Hallelujah. In this verse, we see that John the author of this book, had an accurate knowledge of the land of Israel, And also he knew the history of that land. In Genesis 33 19. We see that when Jacob came back to the land of Israel from the house of Leban his father in law, he brought This place For a hundred pieces of silver. It was called the city of Sheikhim.  Jacob says he had given Joseph one portion above his brother. In Genesis 50:25. Then Joseph took an oath from the children of Israel saying, God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here. We see the hope and the confidence Joseph had that Israel People will go back to their land which happened through the hand of Moses. Joseph knew the promise that God had made to Abraham to Isaac and to his father, Jacob, Concerning the land of Canon...

കർത്താവിനെ സ്തുതിക്കുക.  ഇന്നത്തെ വാക്യം യോഹന്നാൻ 4-ാം വാക്യത്തിൽ നിന്നാണ്.  യേശു യിസ്രായേലിൻ്റെ തെക്ക് ആയിരുന്ന യഹൂദ്യയിൽ നിന്ന് പുറപ്പെട്ട് ഗലീലിയിലേക്ക് പോയി.  ശമര്യ യെഹൂദ്യക്കും ഗലീലിക്കും മദ്ധ്യേ ആയിരുന്നു.  ഇത് മനസ്സിലാക്കാൻ അദ്ദേഹത്തിന് സമരിയായിലൂടെ കടന്നുപോകേണ്ടിവന്നു, ഞങ്ങൾക്ക് സമരിയയുടെ പശ്ചാത്തലം അറിയേണ്ടതുണ്ട്.  യഹൂദന്മാർ സമരിയാക്കാരെ യഥാർത്ഥ ഇസ്രായേലികളായി കണക്കാക്കിയിരുന്നില്ല.  എന്നാൽ വിജാതീയരുടെയും യഹൂദരുടെയും മിശ്രിതം, അത് അസ്വീകാര്യമായിരുന്നു.  തൽഫലമായി, യഹൂദരുടെ ഭാഗമാണെന്ന് തോന്നുന്ന വലിയ അളവിലുള്ള ഈ ആളുകൾക്കിടയിൽ ഒരു വലിയ മത്സരമുണ്ട്, യഹൂദന്മാർ ശമര്യക്കാരെ വെറുത്തു.  ഇസ്രായേൽ തെക്കൻ രാജ്യമായി വിഭജിക്കപ്പെട്ടു, അത് യഹൂദയും വടക്കൻ രാജ്യവും, സോളമൻ രാജാവിന് ശേഷം ഇസ്രായേൽ ആയിരുന്നു.  ഇസ്രായേലിൻ്റെ വടക്കൻ രാജ്യം ആശ്രയൻ സാമ്രാജ്യം പരാജയപ്പെടുത്തിയതിന് ശേഷമാണ് സമരിയാക്കാരുടെ ഉത്ഭവം.  അക്കാലത്ത്, അനേകം യഹൂദന്മാരെ ബന്ദികളാക്കിയ വിജാതീയരുമായുള്ള രണ്ടാമത്തെ രാജാക്കന്മാർ 17-ാം അധ്യായത്തിൽ, തോൽവിക്ക് ശേഷം പലായനം ചെയ്ത ന...

Praise the Lord. Today's verse is from John 4 verse 3 and 4. He left Judea and departed again for Galilee and he had to pass through Samaria. Jesus departed from Judea, which was the south of Israel and departed to Galilee. And Samaria was in between Judea and Galilee. And he had to pass through Samaria to understand this, We had to know the background of Samaria. The Jews did not consider the Samaritans to be true Israelitis. But rather a mixture of Gentiles and Jews, which was unacceptable. Consequently, there is a tremendous rivalry between these people with a greater amount seeming to be in the part of Jews, and the Jews hated the Samaritans. Israel was divided as Southern Kingdom, which is Judea and Northern Kingdom, which was Israel after the King Solomon. The origin of Samaritans came about after the defeat of the northern kingdom of Israel by the Asrayan Empire. We read about it in second Kings 17th chapter with the Gentiles, taking many Jews captive, at that time, and with...