Wild Women

Three encounters. Three women. Three different times of shame. 1 gracious savior.

Everybody has a story.

Everybody’s story matters.

Everybody who encounters Jesus can changed for the better.

Intro- tell about shame and the fall

Guilt....I did something bad or something bad happened…I feel bad.

In the beginning there was nothing to hide. Where there is not sin there is not shame and there is nothing we need to hide.

Shame tends to either cause us to sin or is the result of sin.

Shame often makes not just feel like we did something bad but that we are bad.

John 4 -A women at a well-shame brought out by choices…she has allowed sin and shame to create patterns in her life…she wouldn’t think God is interested in her

-come to a place that God cares about her sin and more importantly cares about her soul

-Jesus will find us even when we aren’t looking

-Jesus saves us from our patterns of sin and shame

-Jesus draws near

Your broken patterns cannot keep God from meeting you where you are and loving you into who He created you to be.

Luke

The New International Version (Chapter 8)

As Jesus was on his way, the crowds almost crushed him. 43 And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years, but no one could heal her. 44 She came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak, and immediately her bleeding stopped.45 “Who touched me?” Jesus asked.When they all denied it, Peter said, “Master, the people are crowding and pressing against you.”46 But Jesus said, “Someone touched me; I know that power has gone out from me.”47 Then the woman, seeing that she could not go unnoticed, came trembling and fell at his feet. In the presence of all the people, she told why she had touched him and how she had been instantly healed. 48 Then he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace.”

There is power in being seen, especially beyond our sin and shame.

God sees you for who you are, not who you pretend to be…not who you want to be, not your worst version of yourself.

Luke 8-A woman who is bleeding-shame brought out by life…she might think that God doesn’t see her or hear cries

-Jesus will heal us, even when it seems impossible

-Jesus heals us of the brokenness we didn’t choose

-Jesus answers our prayers

The New International Version (Chapter 8)

but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.2 At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. 3 The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group 4 and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. 5 In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?” 6 They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him.But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. 7 When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” 8 Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.9 At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. 10 Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”11 “No one, sir,” she said.“Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”

John 8- A woman caught in sin-shame that has been made public....she feels all alone like everyone is against her

-Jesus will advocate for us, even when we don’t deserve it

-Jesus steps up for us even when we are undeserving

-Jesus advocates on our behalf

Jesus is our defender and deliver.

Shame cannot coexist with love.

1 John

The New International Version (Chapter 4)

God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. 17 This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. 18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

“Grace means that all of your mistakes now serve a purpose instead of serving shame.”

-Brene Brown

Jesus sees us, gives us grace, and invites us to new life.

Jesus offer us forgiveness and freedom but with it we are called to live differently.

Jesus invites us to leave behind that which seeks to make us believe we are not who He says we are.