Amazing Love's Liberation
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· 48 viewsAmazing love liberates people from sin's punishment and from sin's grip. Just like all of us the Samaritan woman was LOVED, but LOST, and in need of being LIBERATED from sin's grip on their lives. That liberation brings the individual to a freedom where they are no longer controled by sin's grip but liberated to live in spirit of truth.
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Introduction
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Loved
Loved
When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John,
(though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,)
he left Judea, and departed again into Galilee.
John 4:1-
And he must needs go through Samaria.
Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.
Going through the area was outside the box. The woman was a social outcast. She was an adulterous woman, the other women in town were most likely appalled by her presence, so she did not get water with the other women. Instead she went at the hottest part of the day, a time to cloak her shame and be away from the sneering jabs of self-righteous people. Self-righteous people are typically the fissiparous people on the planet. They will cut and divide. This is why Jesus sought to reach this woman. No one had to tell her she had a sin problem, she already knew.
John 4:4-
There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.
(For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)
John 4:7-
Abandoning the social norms of the day, Jesus not only spoke with a Samaritan He also spoke with a woman. In that day, public conversations between men and women were taboo. Conversations between Jews and Samaritans were also taboo especially with strangers.
Lost
Lost
John 4:9-10
Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? For the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.
Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
Continuing with his war against the social norms of His day, Jesus continues to speak with her, but pushes even further the spiritual agenda. There comes a point in every conversation that we have to commit to telling them. We want to make connections here as a church, but remember the reason for connecting with them is to one day be able to reach them with the Gospel.
The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?
Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:
but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.
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The physical realm and the spiritual realm are fuzzy to her. Lost people do not know the way, otherwise they would not be lost.
How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.
The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband:
for thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.
John 4:16-
Truth without condemnation
The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.
Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.
Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.
John 4:19-
Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
John 4:22-
Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.
John 4:26-
Liberated
Liberated
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The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men,
Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?
Then they went out of the city, and came unto him.
The converted life brings people to see Jesus. Liberation from sin makes us capable to deal with guilt, fear and even rejection. She lefter her waterpot to go tell a village, that knows who she is, all about her liberation from sin. Her face probably worn from being in the hottest part of the sun, day in and day out. A look that was, at one time filled with shame, is not nothing but joyful as she has been freed from bondage. The point is not that she was told what she did as much as she was liberated from what she was! Conversion is all about liberation!!
and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her?
John 4:
In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat.
But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of.
Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him ought to eat?
Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.
And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.
And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.
I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.
One preacher said that at this point you can see the parade of clowns coming into the seen. This bumbling bunch would represent most Christians today. They come into the seen, unaware of what God is doing and what to run the show. Here the disciples come in and want to make this all about getting Christ some food, when He wants to make it all about Liberating people from their sin.
John 4:
In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat.
But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of.
Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him ought to eat?
Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.
And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.
And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.
I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.
John 4:
Did the Master go to subway while we were gone? But Jesus tries to get them back on point quickly by telling them He is there to do the work of the Father.
Instead they are still in left field. So He illustrates for them what needs to be said that the reason He was there was not just so He could eat and drink, but to liberate sinners.
The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
After all in Romans the Bible tells us:
For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
John 4:39-42
And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did.
So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days.
And many moe believed because of his own word;
and said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.
Converted people bring people to Jesus. Converted people do not say things like, “that’s just the way I am,” when talking about their sin. Converted people are liberated from that sin and seek a life with “the way I was.”
And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
Patrick Henry’s speech about our freedom was “Give me Liberty or give me death.” In a nation it is wonderful to have freedom. It the spiritual realm, Liberty is Life eternal and bondage is death.
The new Hymn says it well:
The Father looks on me and sees
Not what I was or am;
He views the righteousness of Christ,
And not my cursed sin.
The Father looks and pities me;
He knows that I am dust.
He treats me not as I deserve,
But as though I were just.
The Father looks on me and smiles,
For it is Christ He sees;
“This is my own beloved son,
In Whom I am well please.”
—Chris Anderson. The God Who Satisfies—pg71