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/Scripture: John 4:27-38/
/" Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman.
But no one asked, “What do you want?” or “Why are you talking with her?” /
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/Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did.
Could this be the Christ?”
They came out of the town and made their way toward him.
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/Meanwhile his disciples urged him, “Rabbi, eat something.”
But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”
Then his disciples said to each other, “Could someone have brought him food?” “*My food*,” said Jesus, “*is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.*
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/Do you not say, ‘Four months more and then the harvest’?
I tell you*, open your eyes and look at the fields!*
They are ripe for harvest.
Even now the reaper draws his wages, even now he harvests the crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together.
Thus the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true.
I sent you to reap what you have not worked for.
*Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor*.”
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/Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.”
So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days.
And because of his words many more became believers.
They said to the woman, “We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world.”//"
(John 4:27-42, NIV) /
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The returning disciples are surprised.
They left him “tired”, sitting by a well, water within reach but inaccessible and they went grocery shopping.
It wasn’t a bad thing or a good thing.
It was just a thing.
It might have been at the direction of Christ.
It might have been their own idea.
The disciples were prone to care for their physical needs.
Like most of us, they had an acute sense of personal need.
Like most of us, there are times when we are preoccupied with our needs and oblivious to the needs of others.
This crazy “faith” notion challenges us to never become so concerned with ourselves that lose concern for others.
There is even the suggestion that there are times when it is more necessary to care for others than it is to care for ourselves.
*But their return was ill-timed.*
According to the scriptures, they returned just as Jesus revealed his identity to the Samaritan woman.
She didn’t stay long after the disciples returned.
*There was a level of discomfort.*
The scriptures tell us that they were “surprised” to find Jesus talking with this woman.
*There was an uneasy silence*.
There were questions that they wanted to ask – questions for both of them.
“What do you want?” Hardly a warm inquiry.
“Why are you talking with her?” Almost accusatory.
Have you taken leave of your senses Jesus?
I am convinced that if Christ were physically among us today he would raise a serious level of discomfort in our lives.
He wouldn’t accept our flimsy excuses.
He wouldn’t be impressed with our efforts to protect our own reputations by the needy people that we turn a blind eye to.
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The departure of the Samaritan woman
She wouldn’t have needed to possess keen intuitive ability to know that these men were different than the one that she had just been talking to.
I’m sure that she knew that if one of the others had been there waiting at the well, she would have been long gone.
She’d have filled the water pot with her eyes downward and would have left without a single word.
God help us to be people who invite others to connect with us and our church.
If God could give us grace enough to invite people to life their eyes and to be recognized with acceptance and love.
*She left her water pot.*
That was the good thing.
She was taking something back to her friends and neighbors that she didn’t bring with her.
Something that she had never found at the well in other visits.
I wonder who she told when she went back.
She had no access to the more respectable strata of small town of Sychar.
She told those who were here friends and acquaintances.
She told those who accepted her for what she was rather than those who rejected her for what she wasn’t.
*We each have a network.*
Every person who comes to this church has one.
You have a group of people with whom you have some influence.
People that you could bring witness to.
*She gave testimony of Jesus* – one better than that – she brought her friends back to the well to meet Jesus.
I talked to one of our ladies this past week who told me that a co-worker mentioned that she would like to come to church.
Quite a compliment to this lady’s testimony.
If she wasn’t liked and respected she would never have her friends wanting to come to her church.
Do you know that if people do not like you, they will never come to your church?
I don’t care how good your theology is and I don’t care how good your message is, if you are not intentionally or naturally loving to others, then it’s all a waste.
People can hold to truth firmly and fail to practice it.
You are not what you profess, you are what you practice.
It is not what we eat
but what we digest
that makes us strong;
not what we gain
but what we save
that make us rich;
not what we read
but what we remember
that makes us learned;
and not what we profess
but what we practice
that makes us Christians.
-- Author unknown
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Christ declines their suggestion
Do you remember those times as a child when you had to force feed yourself.
My mother used to talk about “squirt gun soup”.
We’d rush in from our activity and she just squirt the soup in and we’d be on our way again.
Jesus might have been tired and hungry when the disciple left but something had revitalized him in their absence.
*His weariness was gone.*
It was this encounter with this woman and in helping her to have her own needs met, he had his own met as well.
*His hunger was satisfied*.
And so he suggests to the disciples that he was well fed and that they knew nothing of the food that he ate.
*He was speaking to the deeper hunger of his disciples.*
There is a sense of fulfillment and satisfaction that is therapeutic when we have the privilege of helping others to find their needs met.
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He defines his sustenance
You can find anything in this world that you want but unless you find the personal knowledge that your life makes a difference then you will have a “flat line” experience.
Jesus offers us abundant which comes from serving God and others.
We have a mirror type relationship with the success principles of this world.
Upon first reading, these precepts gleaned from the gospels seem to defy human logic.
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