A Woman Worth Following

I hope this lesson is encouraging your heart so far. Let's keep going
Read John 4:16-24
Jesus calls her to be honest before He will grant her this living water. He exposes the sin in her life. It’s the stuff we don’t want anyone to know about. But Jesus is not afraid to expose those things which we keep hidden. Jesus tells her to go get her husband which lines up with the culture it would’ve been improper to speak to a woman without her husband present especially dealing with scriptural things. She states that she doesn’t have a husband and then Jesus tells her everything she has had and what she has now. It is possible that she had 5 husbands that have died or divorced her. However currently she is living with a man that is not her husband. She responds with knowledge that Jesus must be a prophet because only God could have told Him that. Never the less she doesn’t respond in repentance but rather continues the conversation. Note how she turns the conversation to religious acts and religious laws. That’s what we do, we would rather do a religious task then look at our sin and be forgiven. She tries to start a disagreement based off of what the Samaritans do and the Jews do. Note how the Lord Jesus responds,
1.      When Jesus refers to "an hour" He is referring to a time of complete redemption when He comes back through the resurrection and ascends to heaven. It's at this time that it won’t matter about the place but rather the person you worship. He states that salvation is from the Jews, seeing that prophecy states that the Messiah would come through the bloodline of David. 
Read John 4:25-30
The Samaritans were waiting for the promised Messiah as well as the Jews, remember they were of the Jewish background. She shows that she is amazed yet still not convinced by stating that when the Messiah comes it will all be made clear. Jesus responds with one answer, I am He, I am the Messiah. She is so in shock and amazement that the Messiah would talk with her, and would reveal everything about her. She goes immediately to tell others, remember she doesn’t have a good reputation with the people. So her story must have been so convincing that it made the people of the town follow her. Imagine this, the immoral woman is now leading people to the Lord Jesus.
Read John 4:39-42
Many people believed in Christ because of her testimony, she didn’t keep quiet about what Christ had revealed to her, rather she quickly and boldly shared it. Now we also see that when she lead them to Jesus they got a chance to experience Him for themselves and believed all the more that Jesus was the Savior of the world.

Let’s answer the questions
1   What made her follow Christ? He told her everything she had done, he exposed her sin yet never condemned or punished her.
2     What is admirable about her life?
a.     She wasn't afraid to go back to the people who knew her and tell them about Jesus the Messiah.
b.     She accepted that Jesus was the Messiah
c.      She was convinced because of what He said and knew.

3.     What made others follow her? Her story, her testimony of her experience with the savior.

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