But Jesus, the spiritual trump the physical.

Dr. Tony Evans is when we prioritize God's kingdom, everything else falls into place.

If you could ever get this and operate on that principle, the reality of God would expand.

This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings from the archives of Dr. Tony Evans.

A road sign isn't the destination, but it points the way there. Today, Dr. Evans looks at how Jesus used physical acts as signposts to reveal deeper spiritual truths.

Let's join him as he unpacks how these object lessons can continue to guide us today.

The good news of eternal life, that's what the book of John is about.

And it is designed to show you the giver of this life, Jesus Christ, the son of God, the Messiah. It is surrounded by a number of

miracles that God did to verify or validate his messianic role, that he is the fulfillment of the Old Testament prophecies regarding

the coming of Messiah. We'll see some of that in John chapter 4. John the Baptist has now been leading the way of shifting the focus from himself over to Jesus Christ.

Because his job was the forerunner.

He was out in front running interference, letting them know that the Messiah had come and that the Lamb of God had arrived.

When the Jewish leaders, verse one of chapter four, discovered that Jesus was making and

baptizing more disciples than John, because the shift is occurring, Jesus not ready to enter

to a confrontation with them at this time makes his

way from Judea in the south, verse 3, to Galilee in the north. He has to pass through Samaria,

which was not the normal custom. Usually it was Judea, Samaria, Galilee, that would generally skip Samaria,

even though it was the direct route, because of who lived there, the Samaritans.

He comes to the city, verse 5, called Sightchar, the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph. Jacob's well was there. So

Jesus being wearied from his journey. Jesus is a hundred percent God and a hundred percent man.

He is the God man. We call that in theology, the hypostatic union. Two natures in one person unmixed forever. So you have this unique

being Jesus Christ. So he's weary from his journey because he's a man. In this weariness, he comes

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