John 4:19-26
Jesus Admits He is Our Messiah
19"Sir," the woman said, "I can see that you are a prophet. 20Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem."
21Jesus declared, "Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth."
25The woman said, "I know that Messiah" (called Christ) "is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us."
26Then Jesus declared, "I who speak to you am he."
Jesus admits to the Samaritan woman that He is our Messiah...Back long ago, but even today, each of us would have and does have a different definition of what our Messiah would be...Would He be a Great King, a Great Politician, a Great Military Leader, a Great Minister, or something else?...Our Messiah was a poor Jewish carpenter, who walked the villages around and near Jerusalem...He really didn't travel that far, in distance...He was killed by Romans, but was indicted by His own people...Back in His day, for what He did and the way things happened to Him, it might be easy to say, He cannot be our Messiah...In fact, many believed this, He was not our Messiah...
It would take the crucifixion and His resurrection to prove to most people that He truly is our Messiah...No one had God more a part of their lives than Jesus...Jesus introduced the idea to the Samaritan woman, and to the world that all believers throughout the world and from any nation or place have a Father we could worship from anywhere...They did not have to come to a sacred mountain, or temple, or holy place to worship Him...Because God is in Spirit, and a Spirit, and does not have a humanly type physical body, and is everywhere, He can be worshiped and prayed to from anywhere...
First we must seek Him, but it takes more than just seeking to find Him...We can read the Bible, and not get much from it, if we read it and approach it, with the wrong attitude and spirit...When we worship Him in Spirit, we must have the right attitude...In fact, He wants us to have the right attitude toward all of life...He is the Truth, and that is how we are to praise and pray to Him...We should have a zeal and passion for not only the way we live, but for the One who created us...This is the kind of worshiper the Father seeks...
A poor humble man, and minister who preached and taught about His Father, our LORD for three years is our Messiah...We killed Him, but He came back through a resurrection, by His Father...There is hard to find any beauty in dying and death, but somehow in His death something was quite sacred...His death was holy, because He loves us...He died for us, and in that there is beauty...He died for us even though we sin, and in that there is hope...It was the miracle and the Sign of Jonah, that He promised, even the non-believer that He was and is who He is...Or stated another way, He is I AM...He was the One to come...He is our LORD and Savior...
When we think about Jesus and His life and compare Him to other men who have walked the earth...Who compares to Him?...What other men or women changed history the way He has?...Two thousand years since His death, He is still here today...His teachings are still taught as they were in His time...He changed the way people think about things with His teachings...He fulfilled the Old Testament and the Prophet's prophecy...He was resurrected by God, and remains alive even today...He is our Messiah...