Walking with Jesus - #11 Jesus MINISTERED to the Samaritan Woman
The focus of this series is to look at the life of Jesus as presented in the Gospels. We'll slowly and simply examine the life of the Lord, from His first movements to His last and it will be as though we were walking alongside Him.
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Grace Church holds a Meet & Greet for those who are newer to Grace Church on the 4th Sunday of each month. Our next Meet & Greet will be held March 23rd following the service in CJ's coffee shop. It is a great opportunity to meet the staff and leadership of Grace Church and learn a little more about the church. It also gives us an opportunity to learn a little about you! Contact Leslie Booher if you have any questions ([email protected]).
We invite you to Grace Church every Wednesday night for some mid-week fun and fellowship. CJ's coffee shop will be open and we'll have a featured game available from 6:00-7:30 pm each week. Bring a snack to share if you wish. This is a great opportunity to bring someone you want to spend time with, get to know better, or introduce to other Christians. Contact Lisa Sterkenburg if you have questions ([email protected]).
March Schedule
March 19th: Word Games (Scrabble/Boggle)
March 26th: Apples to Apples
March Schedule
March 19th: Word Games (Scrabble/Boggle)
March 26th: Apples to Apples
Are you trying to get more steps in but don't want to walk in the cold? Come on in where it's warm and walk inside the church! We'll make sure the building is open and ready for you...
Monday, Wednesday, Friday from 12:00-3:00 pm
Tuesday and Thursday from 9:00 am-12:00 pm
Monday, Wednesday, Friday from 12:00-3:00 pm
Tuesday and Thursday from 9:00 am-12:00 pm
Saturday, March 15th - Ardie & Sue Reid
Tuesday, March 18th - Adam & Amanda Simons
Thursday, March 20th - Fynwyk Stephens, Danielle Salazar, Chris Kuestner
Tuesday, March 18th - Adam & Amanda Simons
Thursday, March 20th - Fynwyk Stephens, Danielle Salazar, Chris Kuestner
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The focus of this series, Walking with Jesus, is to look at the life of Jesus as presented in the Gospels. We're slowly and simply examining the life of the Lord, from His first movements to His last and it will be as though we were walking alongside Him.
Pastor Don started us off with Jesus INCARNATED on Earth.
Ryan shared with us how Jesus PREPARED for Ministry.
Nick covered how Jesus was COMMISSIONED by the Father.
Jeff looked at how Jesus was TEMPTED in the Wilderness.
Aaron presented about how Jesus was RECOGNIZED as the Lamb of God.
Gary explained how Jesus CALLED His First Disciples.
Pastor Joel brought a unique perspective to how Jesus TURNED water into wine but also turned the disciples faith and their idea of ministry.
Nick shared a simple verse that conveys how Jesus JOURNEYED to Capernaum.
Jeff looked at how Jesus CLEANSED the Temple and the difference between conviction and preference.
Pastor Joel presented how Jesus was APPROACHED by Nicodemus.
Today, Pastor Don is back with us to show how Jesus MINISTERED to the Samaritan Woman.
Ryan shared with us how Jesus PREPARED for Ministry.
Nick covered how Jesus was COMMISSIONED by the Father.
Jeff looked at how Jesus was TEMPTED in the Wilderness.
Aaron presented about how Jesus was RECOGNIZED as the Lamb of God.
Gary explained how Jesus CALLED His First Disciples.
Pastor Joel brought a unique perspective to how Jesus TURNED water into wine but also turned the disciples faith and their idea of ministry.
Nick shared a simple verse that conveys how Jesus JOURNEYED to Capernaum.
Jeff looked at how Jesus CLEANSED the Temple and the difference between conviction and preference.
Pastor Joel presented how Jesus was APPROACHED by Nicodemus.
Today, Pastor Don is back with us to show how Jesus MINISTERED to the Samaritan Woman.
We don't always get to know everything we may want to know about Jesus' life, but the Bible does reveal what God wants us to know about His Son, our Sin, His Salvation, and our Service.
Ephesians 2:10
Understanding this is critical to living with Godly purpose, passion, and priorities that honor the Lord and help people.
Ephesians 2:10
Understanding this is critical to living with Godly purpose, passion, and priorities that honor the Lord and help people.
Ephesians 2:10
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10 For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.
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South Africa - Apartheid means "separateness"
Practiced legally mandated racial segregation from 1948 to the mid 1990's. Even today, the majority of people in the country struggle with prejudice, suppression, and discrimination.
History documents this type of human behavior since the creation of mankind. The root cause is sin and pride.
Other words that capture this same thought are bias, prejudice, partiality, and favoritism.
Practiced legally mandated racial segregation from 1948 to the mid 1990's. Even today, the majority of people in the country struggle with prejudice, suppression, and discrimination.
History documents this type of human behavior since the creation of mankind. The root cause is sin and pride.
Other words that capture this same thought are bias, prejudice, partiality, and favoritism.
Today we'll look at John chapter 4 and the encounter of Jesus with a Samaritan Woman.
First we need to look at the context of the story...
Jesus is gathering people to follow Him. He wanted to prepare them for a life of ministry. But before that could happen, the Lord has to do some changing in their lives. They couldn't represent God if they were bigots, racists, or holier-than-thous.
Just like us, the Jewish followers have grown up in a world filled with prejudice and bias. Along the way they've developed their own set of "I'm better than yous" and created their own methods of dealing with people.
We are all human and humans struggle with prejudice because we are all sinners.
First we need to look at the context of the story...
Jesus is gathering people to follow Him. He wanted to prepare them for a life of ministry. But before that could happen, the Lord has to do some changing in their lives. They couldn't represent God if they were bigots, racists, or holier-than-thous.
Just like us, the Jewish followers have grown up in a world filled with prejudice and bias. Along the way they've developed their own set of "I'm better than yous" and created their own methods of dealing with people.
We are all human and humans struggle with prejudice because we are all sinners.
After Jesus was approached by Nicodemus, He is traveling through the Judean countryside, making converts and training His disciples. They are moving north along the Jordan River toward Galilee.
John 4:4-42
John 4:4-42
John 4:4-42
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4 Now He had to pass through Samaria.
5 So He came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
6 Since Jacob’s well was there, Jesus, weary from His journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.”
8 (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
9 “You are a Jew,” said the woman. “How can You ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)
10 Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”
11 “Sir,” the woman replied, “You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where then will You get this living water?
12 Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock?”
13 Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again.
14 But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”
15 The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water so that I will not get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”
16 Jesus told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”
17 “I have no husband,” the woman replied. Jesus said to her, “You are correct to say that you have no husband.
18 In fact, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. You have spoken truthfully.”
19 “Sir,” the woman said, “I see that You are a prophet.
20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place where one must worship is in Jerusalem.”
21 “Believe Me, woman,” Jesus replied, “a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
22 You worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.
23 But a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for the Father is seeking such as these to worship Him.
24 God is Spirit, and His worshipers must worship Him in spirit and in truth.”
25 The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When He comes, He will explain everything to us.”
26 Jesus answered, “I who speak to you am He.”
27 Just then His disciples returned and were surprised that He was speaking with a woman. But no one asked Him, “What do You want from her?” or “Why are You talking with her?”
28 Then the woman left her water jar, went back into the town, and said to the people,
29 “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ?”
30 So they left the town and made their way toward Jesus.
31 Meanwhile the disciples urged Him, “Rabbi, eat something.”
32 But He told them, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”
33 So the disciples asked one another, “Could someone have brought Him food?”
34 Jesus explained, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work.
35 Do you not say, ‘There are still four months until the harvest’? I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ripe for harvest.
36 Already the reaper draws his wages and gathers a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.
37 For in this case the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true.
38 I sent you to reap what you have not worked for; others have done the hard work, and now you have taken up their labor.”
39 Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in Jesus because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.”
40 So when the Samaritans came to Him, they asked Him to stay with them, and He stayed two days.
41 And many more believed because of His message.
42 They said to the woman, “We now believe not only because of your words; we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man truly is the Savior of the world.”
5 So He came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
6 Since Jacob’s well was there, Jesus, weary from His journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.”
8 (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
9 “You are a Jew,” said the woman. “How can You ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)
10 Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”
11 “Sir,” the woman replied, “You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where then will You get this living water?
12 Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock?”
13 Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again.
14 But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”
15 The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water so that I will not get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”
16 Jesus told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”
17 “I have no husband,” the woman replied. Jesus said to her, “You are correct to say that you have no husband.
18 In fact, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. You have spoken truthfully.”
19 “Sir,” the woman said, “I see that You are a prophet.
20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place where one must worship is in Jerusalem.”
21 “Believe Me, woman,” Jesus replied, “a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
22 You worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.
23 But a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for the Father is seeking such as these to worship Him.
24 God is Spirit, and His worshipers must worship Him in spirit and in truth.”
25 The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When He comes, He will explain everything to us.”
26 Jesus answered, “I who speak to you am He.”
27 Just then His disciples returned and were surprised that He was speaking with a woman. But no one asked Him, “What do You want from her?” or “Why are You talking with her?”
28 Then the woman left her water jar, went back into the town, and said to the people,
29 “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ?”
30 So they left the town and made their way toward Jesus.
31 Meanwhile the disciples urged Him, “Rabbi, eat something.”
32 But He told them, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”
33 So the disciples asked one another, “Could someone have brought Him food?”
34 Jesus explained, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work.
35 Do you not say, ‘There are still four months until the harvest’? I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ripe for harvest.
36 Already the reaper draws his wages and gathers a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.
37 For in this case the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true.
38 I sent you to reap what you have not worked for; others have done the hard work, and now you have taken up their labor.”
39 Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in Jesus because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.”
40 So when the Samaritans came to Him, they asked Him to stay with them, and He stayed two days.
41 And many more believed because of His message.
42 They said to the woman, “We now believe not only because of your words; we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man truly is the Savior of the world.”
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This was uncommon for Jews to do as Samaritans were part Jew and part Gentile, and greatly disliked by both parties. Verse 4 indicates that there was a divine compulsion (a spiritual purpose) but doing this would have put the disciples on edge.
There are a lot of topics that could be covered when looking at this story but today we're going to tackle one that is often overlooked...prejudice. Essentially this entails how we view and treat others within our family, peer group, broader culture, and the church.
This mattered to Jesus so He immersed His followers into the ugly reality of humanity. If Jesus didn't challenge them in this, they would never grow and never accomplish His mission for their lives.
The same is true for many Churched People. We probably wont' walk across the room, open the door, and pull up a chair to build relationships with people if we feel or think we are better than them. And we won't share the story of salvation with people if we feel or think they don't need or deserve it.
Jesus gave His followers a chance to prove their love for God by modeling how to engage and share God's love with people.
Within this story of the Samaritan Woman, there are some good practices that can help us to overcome the varied degree of prejudice that we've picked up in life. Just like the disciples, we can't be effective in disciple making unless we recognize this trait in our lives and care about people the way He did.
There are a lot of topics that could be covered when looking at this story but today we're going to tackle one that is often overlooked...prejudice. Essentially this entails how we view and treat others within our family, peer group, broader culture, and the church.
This mattered to Jesus so He immersed His followers into the ugly reality of humanity. If Jesus didn't challenge them in this, they would never grow and never accomplish His mission for their lives.
The same is true for many Churched People. We probably wont' walk across the room, open the door, and pull up a chair to build relationships with people if we feel or think we are better than them. And we won't share the story of salvation with people if we feel or think they don't need or deserve it.
Jesus gave His followers a chance to prove their love for God by modeling how to engage and share God's love with people.
Within this story of the Samaritan Woman, there are some good practices that can help us to overcome the varied degree of prejudice that we've picked up in life. Just like the disciples, we can't be effective in disciple making unless we recognize this trait in our lives and care about people the way He did.
Here are a few positive actions that will help us to grow as disciple makers:
Action #1 EXAMINE your heart. Ask where prejudice has a foothold.
John 4:9
Psalm 139:23-24
Action #1 EXAMINE your heart. Ask where prejudice has a foothold.
John 4:9
Psalm 139:23-24
John 4:9
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9 “You are a Jew,” said the woman. “How can You ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)
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Psalms 139:23-24
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23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns.
24 See if there is any offensive way in me; lead me in the way everlasting.
24 See if there is any offensive way in me; lead me in the way everlasting.
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Action #2 BEGIN to see people through God's eyes, and not just your own.
John 4:27
John 4:27
John 4:27
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27 Just then His disciples returned and were surprised that He was speaking with a woman. But no one asked Him, “What do You want from her?” or “Why are You talking with her?”
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Action #3 REORDER your life around God's priorities and passions.
John 4:39-41
John 4:39-41
John 4:39-41
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39 Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in Jesus because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.”
40 So when the Samaritans came to Him, they asked Him to stay with them, and He stayed two days.
41 And many more believed because of His message.
40 So when the Samaritans came to Him, they asked Him to stay with them, and He stayed two days.
41 And many more believed because of His message.
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This week:
Read and pray over John 4:4-42 until you can answer three questions:
a) What did God say? (The meaning of the passage in your own words)
b) What is God saying to you? (Specifically, what is God telling you to do?)
c) What will you say about this passage to someone? (Think of one person)
Read and pray over John 4:4-42 until you can answer three questions:
a) What did God say? (The meaning of the passage in your own words)
b) What is God saying to you? (Specifically, what is God telling you to do?)
c) What will you say about this passage to someone? (Think of one person)
