Category: Samaritans
Subject: Samaritans
Sermon: The Samaritans
The lesson discusses the origin of the Samaritans (2 Kings 17), and a few applications we can make concerning authority (John 4).
Sermon: Give Me A Drink (4:1-26)
Lesson 7 in series (John 4:1-26)
Jesus talks with a Samaritan woman at Jacob’s well, identifying Himself at the “living water”, and the “way, truth and life.”
The Samaritans: A Despised People
While the Son of God walked on earth, he expressed his love for all men. Jesus even loved the “unlovable.” A wonderful example of this compassion is seen in John’s record of Jesus’ conversation with the Samaritan woman at Jacob’s well in John 4. Despite a national disdain the Jew felt toward Samaritans, Jesus started a conversation with the woman by requesting of her a drink of water. The woman recognized the singular nature of this and said, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman? For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans” (vs. 9). Jesus was the Christ, and his saving work went beyond national boundaries and prejudices to include all men. “The woman said to Him, ‘I know that Messiah is coming’ (who is called Christ). ‘When He comes, He will tell us all things.’ Jesus said to her, ‘I who speak to you am He'” (vs. 25-26). The grace of God was extended even to the despised Samaritans, indeed to all men, (cf. Acts 11:18). Continue reading “The Samaritans: A Despised People”
