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John 4: 11-30
"15": The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I
thirst not, neither come hither to draw.
"16": Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.
"17": The woman answered and said, I have no
husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband:
"18": For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is
not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.
"19": The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a
prophet.
"20": Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place
where men ought to worship.
"21": Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when
ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.
"22": Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for
salvation is of the Jews.
"23": But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers
shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to
worship him.
"24": God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in
spirit and in truth.
"25": The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is
called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.
"26": Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.
"27": And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked
with the woman: yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with
her?
"28": The woman then left her waterpot, and
went her way into the city, and saith to the
men,
"29": Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is
not this the Christ?
"30": Then they went out of the city, and came unto him.
I.
Be
honest with yourself
a. (Start with reading Verse
29) This woman leaves
the scene where she encounters Jesus, and goes to the city and ministers a
message, come see a man who told me all things that ever I did. And when she
comes with this message, the MEN, and I would suggest to you many of whom she
had had previous dealings (STOP). I
slipped that in, and let me talk to you about why I slipped that in. She has had five husbands, and a
“situation”. And, when Jesus comes to
her about the situation she (Verse 17) "17":
The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast
well said, I have no husband: Stop
lying to God about your situation. Stop
lying to yourself about who you are or who you used to be. Why?
She has had five husbands, and a “situation”. And yet God uses her to be an evangelist
because she has had a Jesus encounter. Look at what God does here. He sends her to talk to the Men of the city,
and because of her “level of comfort” with many of them; isn’t it funny how God
can use something that once worked against and use it to work for you for the Kingdom of God.
This is how you know all things work together for the good of them that
love the Lord. Not all things are good
for you but all things works for your good by the power of God. She is able to persuade them because she
really knew them. Jesus could have called
someone else, but she may have been intimidated by the men. (some of them went just because they wanted
to see who was this that knew what they thought no one else knew, but it
doesn’t matter, Hook or Crook. If you
just get them to Jesus, he will do the rest.
What am I saying to you. I am
saying that you can spend the rest of your life feeling bad and hurt and
condemned for what you used to do and where you came from, or you can thank God
that you survived it, and ask him how you can use what you have THIS for your
glory. He used her to save the city and
she was a woman
i.
Good
woman,
ii.
Moral
woman
iii.
Married
woman, but still he used her.
iv.
GOD CAN USE YOU,
IF YOU ARE HONEST WITH HIM YOU CAN DO ANYTHING.
b.
And stop lying to yourself about why
you are not working. (HOLE IN MY BUCKET)
II.
Do
it in strange places and do it small
a. Samaria.
Why Samaria? They did not worship God, they did not have
anything to do with God. But says in the forth verse that "4": And he must needs go through Samaria. So he goes
to Samaria, and
sits at the well and waits.
i.
The orthodox Jews
won’t come to this place because it is too dirty, and he waits.
ii.
The good
Christians don’t hang out here, but he waits.
iii.
The Jehovah’s
witnesses don’t knock on doors in this neighborhood……..and he waits
iv.
The Methodists
have developed a method for avoiding this place, … and yet he waits.
b. So why does he wait. He waits because
no one else is willing to be here. He
waits because he knows that if he can get his message of salvation into the
heart of one woman HERE, he can start a revolution. And so the disciples come back and see him
sitting there and nothing has happened but he is smiling. No one has come. He has not baptized anyone yet. He has not
saved hundreds or souls, but he has put the seed of his goodness in one heart,
and he is celebrating the SEED. We have
a penchant to want to wait for BIG things to celebrate. If it isn’t huge, we don’t want anything to
do with it,
i.
If you do it to
the least of them
ii.
If you can save
one soul
iii.
My meat is to do
what he sent me to do. I don’t get fed
by the harvest. I get fed by doing God’s
will.
1.
if it’s not big,
I don’t want to do it.
2.
if I am not going
to get a lot of recognition, I am not going to do it.
3.
if no one knows
about it, I am not going to do it. Just
shut up and DO SOMETHING.
iv.
If you can just
plant the seed, I don’t care if you never see the harvest.
c. Why Samaria.
(Good Samaritan) (Differences in
Theology) (He was setting an example for
how we have to Do what we Do)
i.
He is trying to
tell you that I am going to save people, regardless of what they look like
ii.
I am going to
save people regardless of where they come from
iii.
(HURT) I am going
to save people that you don’t like.
iv.
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d. You don’t have to save the world,
just save one soul. You don’t have to do
it big. Just do it.
III.
Do
it Now
a. This woman leaves the well, she drops
her water pot and goes to the city and says come see a man who told me all
things that ever I did. She does not
wait go get her stuff together she goes right now. (That’s too easy to preach, I am going to
leave that one alone). She does not
stand there and marvel at the fact that Jesus just told her every thing that
she just did, she goes now. Think about
it. He just told her everything that she
has ever done and she doesn’t stay there entranced by the process. (Stuck in the Awe phase of what God can do
for us, that we are not willing to allow God to work through us.) NOW I got to go and add a verse 35 Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh
harvest? Your problem is that you
are always putting your blessing before you.
i.
I cannot wait
until 2010.
ii.
Cant wait until I
get married
iii.
Cannot wait until
I get there
iv.
Cannot wait until
this happens.
b. And the problem with that is that
people who are always waiting for the right time to do something never get to
the time when it’s right to do anything.
Stop counting down the days until you are ready to work, and get to work
now. And, I recognize my part in
this. I realize that I serve as a cog in
a religious system that has peddled a prophetically powerful God. See religion
has a tendency to always put God’s power
in the future of in the past. (OLD TIME
RELIGION) (One glad morning when this
life is over I’LL FLY Away) Well the old
time religion won’t help me now. And
Heaven won’t help me with what I am going through right now. (I am so tired of people who are ‘BOUT TO
PEOPLE.
i.
I need a God that
will invade my present moment and illuminate it with light.
ii.
I need a God who
is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all and do it NOW
iii.
I need a
God…………fiery furnace……..now
iv.
Open the red sea
v.
Heal the issue of
blood
vi.
Raise Lazarus
from the dead
