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The Truth Hurts - Devil In the Details Pt. 2
Good morning and welcome to True Worship Church.
I am excited about what God is doing at our church!
This the part 2 of the sermon series titled “Devil in the Details.”
Last week, I dealt with how God deals with our surface stuff 1st in order to get to the more intimate aspects of our lives.
We saw how Jesus purposefully changes His route to Galilee to show up in somebody’s mess.
He’s shows up in the mess of this Samaritan woman who is drawing water from the well at a time when nobody else would be there to get water because it was too hot.
Jesus is good at getting our attention!
He gets her attention by talking to her.
That’s it.
He talks to her because the custom was not to talk to women in public especially a Samaritan woman.
He deals with a surface issue first before going deeper with her which brings us to part 2 of Devil in the Details.
State the Obvious
We all may have obvious things that are wrong with us.
We have issues.
We are creatures of habit.
We have our quirks and people who spend time with us know it.
People you spend time with know when you do weird things, say weird things.
They know how much you can handle and what will send you over the edge…
Nina knows when something is going on with me because I get quiet.
She may not say anything the 1st time she notices it but after a couple of days, she will say, “Are you alright?”
Sometimes, I don’t even realize it because I am a creature of habit.
I’m so use to going on regardless of what I’m going through that I’m focused on what’s next.
This can be a problem because we can be so focused on what’s next that we don’t deal with what is going on with us right now.
So if we are not aware, we’ll keep doing the same things over and over, and over.
Anybody know what I’m talking about?
Stuck in a Rut
We can go through these recurring season of getting stuck in a rut.
A rut is a long deep track made by the repeated passage of the wheels of vehicles.
A couple synonyms for rut are ditch and crater.
Here’s an even better definition: a habit or pattern of behavior that has become dull and unproductive but is hard to change .
What habits or pattern of behavior do you practice that is unproductive and is hard to change?
This is what the woman at the well was experiencing.
Life was dull and unproductive.
She had some bad habits and a pattern of behavior that just keep producing the same results.
How do I know?
She was Man-Handled
She had been man-handled 5 times!
Jesus tells her in 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.”
16 He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”
17 “I have no husband,” she replied.
Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband.
18 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.”
She must have been a bad person to have been married 5 times right?
Was she married 5 times?
Maybe not!
Jesus says you’ve had 5 husbands and the one you are with now is not your husband.
Think about this.
You’ve had 5 husbands and the one you are with is not yours.....
The one you are with now, He is a husband, JUST NOT yours!
This woman was in a rut.
Failed relationship after failed relationship, wondering what’s wrong with me and am I good enough?
Back then, a husband could divorce a woman for any reason.
So what appears to be a bad girl living off the consequences of bad decisions could be something totally different.
We could be missing something here.
Did you notice there was no mention of children in this passage?
She had been in all these relationships and they didn’t have condoms and the pill back then.
Let’s get in to this story ladies and gentlemen.
She was probably divorced for not being able to have children.
In the 1st century, failure to have kids turned the beautiful ugly.
She had promise and potential but if she couldn’t have children, her life was worth nothing.
Can you imagine how this must have made her feel?
She was left to try to make it on her own when woman depended on the support of a husband.
She was left to believe that her condition was her fault.
The #5 Means Grace
Sometimes we can get stuck and it’s not our fault.
It wasn’t her fault not being able to have children because that was the card she was dealt so what happens.
Jesus shows up!
Notice Jesus waits to show up on the 5th husband (5 is symbolic for grace) to let her know no matter what she goes through, God’s given her the grace to grow through.
You may have hit a rut that has you stuck but God is so gracious and kind that he teaches us while we’re there because he know the plans that He has for us.
That is not our final destination!
Stuck in the snow illustration
Have you ever gotten stuck in the snow?
Do you know if you don’t have experience driving in snow, you can cause yourself to get stuck.
Sometimes we think if we hit the gas and give it more power, we will be able to get ourselves out but it does the total opposite.
It creates even more ice and digs us deeper in to the snow.
There are a couple of ways to get out being stuck:
Have people push you out
add weight in the trunk (rear-wheel drive) like bags of sand or dirt or try to put something under your wheels like a carpet to get some traction
But what if you don’t have anybody to push you and no bags of dirt or sand?
Wouldn’t be so cool if you always had what you needed when you were in trouble?
The last way to get out of being stuck in the snow is to create momentum.
Jesus shows up in her life to rock her world!
She wants this living water Jesus has to offer and she realizes that this man is no ordinary man but He knows everything about her.
He is creating movement within her spirit.
Her hope is coming to life, she’s starting to think of the possibilities, she not feeling so down anymore, she’s getting her excitement for life back.
Jesus shows up to give her the push and momentum she needs to get out if the rut she’s in.
A Changed Life
When you get out your rut, your life changes!
Her life had changed so much that she leaves her waterpot and her old routine to become and evangelist.
She goes back to town to tell everybody about Jesus.
Her thinking had changed.
If your stuck in a habit or pattern of behavior that is unfruitful and unproductive, you just need to let Jesus start feeding your thoughts.
When you look in the mirror, do you see what you see or do you see what Jesus sees?
You have to start seeing what Jesus says!
That’s all that happened to this woman at the well.
She stopped seeing her life for what she thought is was in exchange for what Jesus said it was.
Elephant Illustration:
When elephants are babies, they are tied to a tree stump.
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