2. I N J OHN 20:31, HE GIVES US TWO REASONS FOR WRITING HIS G OSPEL : But these are written… (‘Part A’) …that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, (‘Part B’) …and that by believing you may have life in his name.

4. Sehnsucht. Sehnsucht.

6. When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.) The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)

7. Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.” “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water?

8. Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?” Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

9. The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.” He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.” “I have no husband,” she replied.

10. Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband. The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.”

11. O UR LONGINGS … 1.... ARE CENTRAL TO BEING HUMAN

14. GOSPEL / SALVATION CREATIONFALL REDEMPTION RESTORATION

15. O UR LONGINGS … 1.... ARE CENTRAL TO BEING HUMAN 2.... MUST BE ENGAGED AND DISCERNED

16. A SUPERFICIAL ENGAGEMENT WITH MY LONGINGS WILL LEAD TO A SUPERFICIAL ENGAGEMENT WITH THE G OSPEL.

17. LONGINGPURSUIT ‘Menu’‘Restaurant’ InternalExternal MotivationAction WhyHow LONGINGPURSUIT ‘Menu’‘Restaurant’ InternalExternal MotivationAction WhyHow

18. PURSUITS Relationships. Work. Hobbies. Sports. Addictions. Eating. Art. Church. Politics. Stealing. Volunteering. Boyfriends. Girlfriends. Parenting. Fame. Porn. Religion. Drinking. Vacations. Shopping. Sex. Collecting. Making money. Spending money. Giving money. Success. Social causes. Selfish causes.. PURSUITS Relationships. Work. Hobbies. Sports. Addictions. Eating. Art. Church. Politics. Stealing. Volunteering. Boyfriends. Girlfriends. Parenting. Fame. Porn. Religion. Drinking. Vacations. Shopping. Sex. Collecting. Making money. Spending money. Giving money. Success. Social causes. Selfish causes..

24. O UR LONGINGS … 1.... ARE CENTRAL TO BEING HUMAN 2.... MUST BE ENGAGED AND DISCERNED 3.... ARE ROOTED IN ETERNITY

32. O UR LONGINGS … 1.... ARE CENTRAL TO BEING HUMAN 2.... MUST BE ENGAGED AND DISCERNED 3.... ARE ROOTED IN ETERNITY 4.... ARE ULTIMATELY FOR C HRIST ’ S L IFE

34. C.S. Lewis: “Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”

40. Eternal Life… 1.Different from heaven...

42. Eternal Life… 1.Different from heaven... 2.Quality as well as Quantity

43. E TERNAL L IFE Quantity: ETERNAL Life Quality: Eternal LIFE

44. Eternal Life… 1.Different from heaven... 2.Quality as well as Quantity 3.Present Tense...

46. Eternal Life… 1.Different from heaven... 2.Quality as well as Quantity 3.Present Tense... 4.Both a status & experience...

49. Romans 5:17-18 For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God’s abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ! 18 Consequently, just as one trespass resulted in condemnation for all people, so also one righteous act resulted in justification and life for all people.

50. Eternal Life… 1.Different from heaven... 2.Quality as well as Quantity 3.Present Tense... 4.Both a status & experience... 5.Rooted in an intimate relationship with God...

52. Eternal Life… 1.Different from heaven... 2.Quality as well as Quantity 3.Present Tense... 4.Both a status & experience... 5.Rooted in relationship with God... 6.Core of the Gospel…

56. Eternal Life… 1.Different from heaven... 2.Quality as well as Quantity 3.Present Tense... 4.Both a status & experience... 5.Rooted in relationship with God... 6.Core of the Gospel… 7.Central to the early church’s message.