From Broken to Redeemer
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· 3 viewsWhat a well-known passage of Jesus breaking the cultural norms to restore an alien to the truth of the gospel. This story though speaks to the heart of Jesus and in turn the heart of God. Jesus pursues the Samaritan woman. He lets nothing stand in His way of speaking to her heart. As He reveals to her the heart of her brokenness, she repents and worships Him. Christ is pursuing each of our hearts individually that we might be drawn back to Him. He removes the obstacles to restore us in our relationship with the Father. Our response should be as the woman’s was, to seek the restoration of those who are still far from God.
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Christ Alone Satisfies
Christ Alone Satisfies
John 4:1-
Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John—although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. So he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.
Now he had to go through Samaria. So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.
When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)
Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”
“Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”
Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
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.”
The woman at the well comes face to face with who Jesus is. Jesus is the one who can give to her the one thing that her heart truly desires, freedom from her guilt and shame.
As our knowledge of who Jesus is grows, so does our realization that He is the only one that can meet our deepest needs.
Many of us lack faith in Christ because we simply do not know Jesus well enough.
Brokenness Reigns
Brokenness Reigns
John 4:16-
He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”
“I have no husband,” she replied.
Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband. 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.”
“Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet. Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”
“Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”
The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”
Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you—I am he.”
In response to the woman’s desire for Jesus to fill her need, Jesus responds by addressing what has filled this whole in her life, her guilt and shame.
We cannot hope to be fulfilled by Christ when other things are filling the space in us reserved for Jesus.
Christ always addresses our brokenness in order to bring about our healing.
Brokenness Transformed
Brokenness Transformed
John 4:39-
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.”
When our brokenness in placed in the hands of the redeemer, he makes good come from our bad. What held so much power and dominion over us becomes instead a tool for Christ. We experience true freedom as we see others set free as a result of our bondage.
The woman at the well comes face to face with who Jesus is. Jesus is the one who can give to her the one thing that her heart truly desires, freedom from her guilt and shame.