REACHING OUT Breaking Down The Walls

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REACHING OUTBreaking Down The Walls
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John 41-26 (NIV)
The Pharisees heard that Jesus was gaining and
baptizing more disciples than John, although in
fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his
disciples.
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When the Lord learned of this, 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
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John 41-26 (NIV)
the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son
Joseph. Jacobs well was there, and Jesus tired
as he was from the journey, sat down by the well.
It was about the sixth hour
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When a Samaritan woman came to draw water,
Jesus said to her, Will you give me a drink?
(His disciples had gone into town to buy food.)
The Samaritan woman said to him,
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You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan. 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
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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 the and the well is deep.
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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 flocks and herds?
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Jesus answered, Everyone who drinks this
water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks
the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed
the water I give him will become a spring of
water
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welling up to eternal life. The woman said to
him, Sir, give me this water so that I wont get
thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw
water. He told her, Go, call your husband and
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come back. I 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.
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Sir, the woman said, I can see that you are
a prophet. Our fathers worshipped here in this
mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where
we must worship is in Jerusalem.
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Jesus declared, Believe me woman, a time is
coming when you will worship the Father neither
in this moun-tain nor in Jerusalem. You
Samaritans worship what you do not know
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we worship what we do know, for salvation is
from the Jews. Yet a time is coming and has now
come when the true worshippers will worship the
Father in spirit and in truth,
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for they are the kind of worshipers the Father
seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must
worship in spirit and in truth. The woman said,
I know that Messiah
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(called Christ) is coming. When he comes he
will explain everything to us. Then Jesus
declared, I who speak to you am he.
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Breaking Down The Walls

• Behind the roughest and toughest human exterior
  lies a heart, an eternal soul, something of
  infinite eternal worth that is often masked and
  hidden and much like gold or precious stones
  requires persistence coupled with love to mine
  its worth. This is the task we are called to!

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Breaking Down The Walls

• I. Personal Resistance to Interruption ( vs 2-6)

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I. Personal Resistance to Interruption
1. Jesus was intent to get back to Galilee he
had a priority!

• 2. Jesus often found ministry on the way to other
  ministry appointments

3. Jesus commissioned us to minister as we go
about life
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• II. Prejudice (vs 7 10)

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II. Prejudice
1. Jesus confronted a gender prejudice

• 2. Jesus confronted a racial pre-judice

3. Jesus emphasized what was common not what was
different
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• III. Tradition Spiritual Pride
• (vs 11-20)

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III. Tradition Spiritual Pride
1. Jesus confronted the error in the tradition
2. Jesus revealed the truth behind the tradition
and touched the heart

• 3. Jesus showed a better way of doing things

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Breaking Down The Walls

• I. Personal Resistance to Interruption

II. Prejudice
III. Tradition Spiritual Pride
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