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Introduction
This whole week has been about conversations.
Centreville Baptist Church was here on mission this week and it was a busy, tiring and wonderful week.
We saw so much accomplished this week, at our church and around the community.
We saw so much accomplished this week, and at the same time
Church I tell you, we are blessed!
Over the past several years God has placed so many wonderful people around us to help us accomplish so many wonderful tasks.
We are blessed!.
This week has been all about being on mission.
Seeing where God was working and what he was doing and joining Him there.
And as we have walked through this week I thought about the Scripture in John chapter 4. The woman at the well.
That is a wonderful passage, but a unique one as well.
It’s the tale of a woman who was outcast, driven away by her peers because of her life and life choices.
It left her wounded and avoiding contact with others.
So much that she came to draw water from well at the hottest part of the day because she knew no other ladies would be there.
I want you to know there are people in our world today that are walking around avoiding others, avoiding life because they feel worthless, hopeless and outcast because of the choices they have made in life.
They need Jesus and they need us as well.
But how will they hear unless we go?
How will their lives be impacted for good unless we befriend them, love them and show they Jesus loves them too.
So lets take our Bibles and lets find John chapter 4 and lets look at verses 4-10.
What a beautiful passage my friends.
Jesus loves the world and gave himself as a ransom for many.
Will we love the world as well?
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So this leads me to my first thought today.
Are you ready?
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He Went....
The very first thought I see in our text today my friends is the truth that Jesus went to where this need was located.
It wasn’t a popular place, it wasn’t a choice destination.
And it certainly wasn’t the people society cared about.... lets just be honest we are talking about Samaritans!
Now in case you don’t remember the Samaritans were a mixed race of people.
They were Assyrians and Israelites.
Israelites, really?
Yes indeed.
let me explain this to you....
There was a time in the history of the people that the nation of Israel was divided.
King Solomon’s son, when he took the throne did not listen to his advisors and he was very hard on the people.
So the nation split.
There were the northern 10 tribes, and then there was the 2 southern tribes of Judah and Benjamin.
The northern kingdom of the 10 tribes were captured by the Assyrians in 722 bc.
And 10 tribes of Israel just accepted it, they never tried to regain their freedom they just intertwined their lives and families with their captors.
They became a mixed race of people… The Samaritans.
And the Jews of the southern Kingdom hated them.
wouldn't allow them to worship at the temple in Jerusalem.
The Samaritans were not even welcome to journey into their old home lands… The Jews considered them as a unclean people.... worse than the gentiles.
As such the Jews wouldn’t be caught dead in land of Samaria.
Even if it meant making a journey longer and more costly, they would always journey around the land of Samaria, never pass through it.
And here is where it gets interesting my friends.
Look with me at
Jesus knew there was a mission field there and he went!
He made the initial effort to visit this place because Jesus knew there was a mission opportunity there.
No one else had been willing to love on these people, Jesus takes the first step because He loved them as well.
Jesus said to his disciples in “As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.”
Jesus went, will you do as well.
A mission trip can be around the world, or across our own state like Centreville has just done with us again… or it can be in your own back yard.
But you have to go......
Now this leads me into a second thought today....
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He Meet Her Where She Was.....
The most glorious truth about the gospel of Jesus is that it meets people where they are!
Think about people; they are God’s creation, they are wonderful and special but there is one problem, can you guess?
Humanity was ruined by sin, as such we do not seek out God on our own.
And the world around us has thousand views about God.... most are false.
I say most because there are a few who have some truth, have been exposed to the truth of God’s world and so they have some small grain of knowledge.
But regardless, the vast majority will never seek us out… we have to seek them out and share the truth of God’s word with them.
lets go back to our text today my friends and lets see what Jesus was doing here on mission...
John 4:
I want to you know something right off the bat, Jesus was tired, he had been on long journey.
Remember, He is fully God and fully man.... But, Jesus didnt need her to help him get a drink…
Jesus is there to share with her.....
You have been placed in this world to share with those God places around you!
Wow, how wonderful !
So the Bible tells us that Jesus is there sitting, resting - but He has held off getting a drink, because He has a divine appointment waiting on him.
It has been scheduled for ages!
Jesus is looking for her.
God looked and found you didn’t he?
So Jesus is there waiting at the well and the Bible tells us she came, in the hottest part of the day.
I am sure you remember that women gathered water for their homes in the early morning hours before the heat of the day started.
But not this lady.
Why?
Well it appears she has lived a scandalous life..
To many men in her life… I;m sure she has been called many names and made to feel unwelcome, unworthy and unaccepted in her community of Sychar.
But she comes and finds man ( Jesus) sitting there at the well…
She sees him… but she doesn’t recognize him as a local person… she is safe, he doesn’t know my story....
She didn’t know her life was about to be changed.
Here is it gets interesting.... Jesus begins talking to here..
A noon day conversation is where is all begins...
Who does God place in front of you each day … and we miss the opportunity set before us...
He places you where He can use you.... let the conversations begin.
Now this brings me to my last thought for today....
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He Saw Her Life Changed....
One of the greatest joys of sharing Jesus with others is seeing their lives changed right in front of your eyes, seeing their “New Birth” into the world and the kingdom of God.
In our text today we see lots of questions asked, but a life changed at the end.
But Jesus begins right where she is at, at the well, drawing water for her pot and he asks a request of her.
He asked her for a drink...
Now when Jesus asked for a drink, the woman was puzzled to say the least.
Look back with me to verses 7, 8 and 9
The woman pointed out right away one of the great problems in their society at the time, why do you ask me for a drink, you Jews have no dealing with us… let alone a woman.
She pointed out the oblivious barrier that was at hand.
The division between these two groups of people.
Here is a great thought for you.... How often do people feel unwelcome or uncared for by another group.
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