Unforgettable: Life Changing Encounters With Jesus // Woman At The Well

Unforgettable: Life Changing Encounters With Jesus // Woman At The Well

Pastor Charlie Weir

What makes unforgettable people unforgettable?

·      They see you. They do not overlook you, they know you deeply.

·      They leave an imprint on you not just leave an impression with you.

·      They become catalysts for transformation.

Jesus is the most unforgettable person ever!

Physical dehydration is no joke and neither is spiritual dehydration!

Curiosity gets overruled by culture and self-service.

Jesus Crosses Lines to Get to You.

John 4:4-9 4 Now he (Jesus) had to go through Samaria. 5 So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon. 7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” 8 (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.) 9 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.)

What we consider awkward and side step, Jesus considers necessary and steps directly into. Wholeness depends on an honest face to face encounter with the Healer!

Jesus crosses lines others draw to draw those others have crossed off.

Jesus Crosses Lines Recap

·      Jesus crosses lines to get to us.

·      Jesus doesn’t side step us He steps into us.

·      Jesus turns fences into frames.

·      Jesus’ clean is enough for our unclean.

Jesus Challenges False Assumptions with Open Hands & Living Water.

John 4:10-12 10Jesus 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.” 11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 12 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?”

2 False Assumptions

#1: Empty hands can’t deliver full promises.

#2: This is as good as it gets around here.

His hands aren’t empty, they are open and nail scarred. Our full hands keep us away from His open hands.

Jesus challenges false assumptions with open hands and living water.

Jesus Confront Our Current Position with Grace

John 4:13-18 13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 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.” 15 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.” 16 He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.” 17 “I have no husband,” she replied. Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband. 18 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.”

With the promise of never having to walk to this well ever again, she is hooked! But there was more to her story than a lack of water and Jesus loves her enough to get deeper into her story. Here are a couple key points to this story that can only be known by understanding the culture.

Jesus doesn’t bring this up to put her in her place – He does it to water her soul.

Living Water Can’t Be Contained

John 4:25-30 25 The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.” 26 Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you—I am he.” 28 Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, 29 “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?” 30 They came out of the town and made their way toward him.

John 4:42 42 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.”

Jesus is Unforgettable

·      Jesus Sees you.

·      Jesus leaves a mark.

·      Jesus is a catalyst for transformation.

·      Jesus crosses lines to get to us.

·      Jesus doesn’t side step us He steps into us.

·      Jesus turns fences into frames.

·      Jesus’ clean is enough for our unclean.

·      Jesus challenges our false assumptions with open hands & living water.

·      Jesus confronts our current position with grace.

·      Living water can’t be contained.

If you need change, put trust before try. Instead of asking yourself, “what will I try next?” shift to “Who will I trust now?”