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Encounters With Jesus

Benjamin Ng

Jesus’ Encounter With The Devil

Jesus’ Encounter with the First Disciples

Jesus’ Encounter with Philip and Nathanael

Jesus Encounter at the Wedding Feast

Jesus’ Encounter with Nicodemus

Jesus’ Encounter with the Woman at the Well

Jesus’ Encounter With The Centurion

Jesus Encounter with the Blind Man Near Bethsaida

Jesus’ Encounter with the Man by the Pool of Bethesda

Jesus’ Encounter with the Man Sick of Palsy

Jesus’ Encounter with the Disciples in the Storm

Jesus’ Encounter with the Blind, Dumb Demoniac

Jesus’ Encounter with the Demoniacs of the Gadarenes

Jesus’ Encounter with the Woman with the Issue of Blood

Jesus’ Encounter with the Five Thousand

Jesus’ Encounter with John the Baptist

Jesus’ Encounter with the Disciples on the Sea

Jesus’ Encounter with the Woman Caught in Adultery

Jesus’ Encounter with Martha and Mary

Jesus’ Encounter with the Man Born Blind

Jesus’ Encounter with the 10 Lepers

Jesus’ Encounter with the Rich Young Ruler

Jesus’ Encounter with Blind Bartimaeus

Jesus’ Encounter with Zacchaeus

Jesus’ Encounter with the Woman with the Spirit of Infirmity

Jesus’ Encounter at Simon’s Feast

Jesus’ Encounter with Peter and His Denial

Jesus’ Encounter with Pilate

Jesus’ Encounters at the Cross

Jesus’ Encounter on the Road to Emmaus

Jesus’ Encounter with Peter at the Sea of Tiberias

Father in heaven, thank you Lord for this new year.

Thank you for preserving our life until this moment.

Help us to understand what that reason is today.

Help us to understand your guidance and your leading in each of our lives, and more than anything else, this evening as we're about to open your word, help us to understand your scriptures.

Speak to us, O Lord, with your Holy Spirit.

Guide us that we might not just understand this story but we might see its meaning to us this evening.

Guide us and bless us O Lord now we pray in Jesus name, Amen.

We're gonna start in John chapter 4 this evening.

John chapter 4, and we've been going through some stories in John already.

We looked last week at John chapter 3, and now we're continuing in John chapter 4, starting in verse 4.

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.

Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well, and it was about the sixth hour." Jesus, he's passing through Samaria, and he sits down at a well in a city, or next to a city in Samaria, it's called Saika.

Now what's very interesting is how the Jews viewed the Samaritans.

In Matthew chapter 10 and verse 5, look at what the Bible says.

Jesus, he sends forth the 12 and he commanded them saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not.

So even Jesus, he classifies and puts the Gentiles with the Samaritans.

It's as if they're not a part of God's people but when you read into the Bible, especially the Old Testament, you'll find that the Samaritans, they were a part of God's people, the people of Samaria.

In 2 Kings 17 29, look at what happened to the Samaritans.

Howbeit every nation made gods of their own and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.

What do we understand about the Samaritans here?

They were actually part of Israel but they apostatized.

They fell away from God and they went and made idols and started worshipping them and bowed down to them.

They eventually broke off from the nation of Israel.

And then 1 more in John chapter 8 and verse 48.

Then answered the Jews and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan and has a devil?

The Jews they really despised the Samaritans that they when they called you a Samaritan it's as if you were demon possessed.

This is how far and how despised they looked upon the Samaritans or the people of Samaria.

And this is the town and the country that Jesus is coming to and he's sitting by a well in Sychar.

There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water.

For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.

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.

So this woman that is from this town in Samaria, she comes out and do you remember what time it was?

When Jesus sat by the well, it said it was the sixth hour of the day.

The Jews, they reckon time starting from 6 a.m.

So you just added 6 hours on top of 6 a.m.

It was the hottest or coming to the hottest time of the day.

A time that usually people would avoid to come out and draw water from the well.

They would either come in the morning or in the evening.

And so she, she's coming out at this time because she's trying to avoid people.

Even without reading the woman's heart, Jesus knows that there is something wrong with this woman just from the time, the time that she's coming out to draw water from the well.

So by asking help for water, Jesus disarms her prejudice because she's the 1 that replies, why are you talking to me?

The Samaritans don't have any dealings with the people that are of Israel or that are Jews.

So even though the Jewish people they don't have any dealings with them, Jesus, he's asking for water.

He shows that he's not part of those bigoted people that would just separate themselves just because of the race.

He's trying to find a way to be able to help this woman and he starts out by asking help from her.

He really can't get water from the well and he's thirsty and he doesn't have a bucket.

He doesn't have anything to put the bucket down and draw it and bring it back up.

So he's not pretending, but now that he's got her attention, look at what Jesus continues with.

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.

So right away, Jesus jumps into a spiritual application.

Verse 11, 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?

She doesn't understand that this living water that Jesus is talking about is a spiritual application.

But what is interesting is she refers to Jacob as their father.

But I thought Jacob was the father of the Jews, right?

Remember, the Samaritans were people that had apostatized, had fallen away from the truth and not just that, because of their sins, God allowed them to be conquered by idolatrous nations.

And eventually they would intermingle with all these heathen people, they would intermarry, and it would eventually contaminate their own beliefs and their religion until they themselves began to worship idols.

But this woman of Samaria, she knows her heritage.

She knows that the father Jacob was their father as well.

Verse 13, 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.

He says, the water that I give you, you'll never thirst again.

It'll be in you a well of water springing up to everlasting life.

Because she didn't ever want to come to this well again.

She came on purpose at a time when no 1 would be coming out to draw water.

Where there'll be no eyes that would see her and that possibly condemn her.

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