"The Lord's Faithfulness To The Woman," John 4:3-39

THE LORD'S FAITHFULNESS TO THE WOMAN John 4: 3-39 I grew up on the farm in (2-t> Georgia where my father raised cotton, com, wheat, sugar cane, cows, chickens, and hogs. hand We learned sex by watching the education first animals from one things we observed was that a sow giving birth to a litter of 8 or 9 pigs almost always stage to the other. One of the without acceptance had a runt in the litter. A runt was a pig that was smaller than the rest because it did not grow like the others did. It was underdeveloped and stunted. Some called it a dwarf or • pigmy. You know, some of us believers in 1 a Jesus Christ are runts. We have been failed to grow and become mature like the others. The born again but we have Bible calls carnal Christians and that ought to be eating meat we drink milk all over again. Well, whereas have to us we the story of this woman that Jesus met at Jacob's well shows her growing and maturing step by step. Her soul grows the knowledge of Jesus Christ and she become all the more names and the more in like Him. Notice woman uses to refer to the Savior. First, she calls Him a "Jew" in verse 9 as if with a scoff or sneer to taunt Him who asked for water. a drink of 11, she says "Sir" least a bit of respect Then in verse suggesting at starting to develop in the darkness of her heart. A little later in 2 verse 19 she refers to Him a when His words "prophet" begin to tear at the Stillfurther, the "Messias!" in armor woman verse 25 of her soul. calls Him as the light of life began to bum tentatively in her life. Ultimately, the woman at the well recognizes The Man at the well as "Christ!" in verse 29, her triumphant testimony that she gives when she went back home. Just look at the faithfulness of God to insure the growth of the who did not know the way. The first things that you and I need to woman remember is how the Lord chose the woman. (John 4: 3-6) He about His usual business was going His way to from Judea to Galilee and He "must on needs go through Samaria." There was work there to be done, souls to be saved, 3 trip no doubt many times before, going the long way around Samaria, avoiding contact with the people that the Jews considered lives to He has taken this change. less than. You know us, we human beings do everything within our power to avoid those that are not part of our group, not like us, that that a us. But when Jesus are came respecter of person. It different from He was was no not His desire that any should perish but that all might be saved. Eve the dogs ought to have to the crumbs that fall from access the table. This woman because Jesus had Samaria. I'm Second, the so see needs to go glad He did. a how Jesus 4 through challenged (John 4: 7-27) He something outside of her woman. to do is chosen asked her normal-to He asked give her, a Him a drink of water. Samaritan to serve Him, pointed out that she did not know the gift of God or who it was that was asking for a drink of water. He told her that drinking water from Jacobs well wold keep her coming back day after day a Jew. He but that the water He could offer would eternity, she would never have to draw or drink again. He challenged her to come to grips with her sin by calling her husband and admitting that she did not have one now and she was shacking last for up with the one she was with. He called her attention to her place of worship and place was not what mattered "worshiping in spirit and in truth" told her the but was what made the difference. challenged her notion thatthe 5 He Messias coming later and told her that He was already here. Jesus is still challenging many of our notions and understandings today. Does difference was make one less than another? Do we really is? Do we have that water that will quench our thirst for all eternity? Have we come face to face with our sins and our lifestyles? Then my sisters and my brothers, just look how the Lord changed the woman. (John 4: 28-39) He changed her attitude about Jews. He changed her understanding about physical water to considered eternal water. He changed her way of life and place of worship to an attitude of worship. know who Jesus Jesus again came to show and how to us practice 6 how to be born faithfulness. This is we a do it Divine not or imperative we will and whether nave to appear before the judgment seat of Christ. You and I have some must needs. For the paths that He has ordained for believers, the paths of righteousness, the path of do good, the path of discipline, the path of repentance, forgiveness, and salvation. Lord wants us to walked in the 7