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… and life-changing truth let's go Grab your Bibles and go with me to John chapter 4 verses 27 through 34. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. John chapter 4 verses 27 through 34. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this passage of scripture, at this time in the text, Jesus has gone into Samaria. It's kind of a big deal. because Jesus as a Jew would have typically under standard sociocultural rules no dealings with the Samaritans. The Samaritans were considered half Jews. They worshipped at a different mountain. They were less than in the mindsets and mentalities of most Jews. And yet earlier in verse 4, Jesus says, I must go through Samaria. And the text tells us that when he gets to this well at Samaria, that he is wearied from the journey because Samaria was out of the way for where he was ultimately headed. But he had something to do in Samaria. So he goes to this well where he has an encounter with a woman at a strange hour. …
… because after Jesus brings up everything she's done, it says in John chapter four, verse 28, then leaving the water, jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, well, what people? The very people she was hiding from, she's now running to. And she says, come, come and see a man who told me everything I ever did. The very things that she was trying to hide, she says, come see a man who told me all about the things I was trying to keep hidden. He already knew it all. She said, could this be the Messiah? And this woman who was hiding in shame became an evangelist for the goodness of God. Is it possible today that the things that we're trying to leave out are actually the places that not only does God want to heal, but that God wants to use in our lives to impact and reach other people? What does it look like to bring the things that we've been hiding to God and lay them out at his feet? But the enemy will tempt us to view God the wrong way so that we keep things hidden because he knows that what goes in the dark grows in the dark. And God cannot heal what you keep hidden. So what does it look like to bring everything to God? Because David says, he already knows. He knows everything. Before a word ever came out of your mouth, he knew about it. The next thing David wants to confront is our tendency to run. And for six verses, he talks about …
… Or why are you talking with her? The woman left her water jar and went into town and said to the people, come see a man who told me everything I have done. Could he possibly be the Christ? They went out of the town and came to him. Meanwhile, his disciples urged him, Rabbi, eat. But he said to them, I have food to eat of which you do not know. So the disciples said to one another, Could someone have brought him something to eat? Jesus said to them, My food is to do the will of the one who sent me, and to finish his work. Do you not say, In four months the harvest will be here? I tell you, look up and see the fields ripe for the harvest. The reaper is already receiving payment and gathering crops for eternal life, so that the sower and reaper can rejoice together. For here is the saying is verified that one sows and another reaps. I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. …
… Or, Why are you talking with her? The woman then left her water pot, went her way into the city, said to the men, Come and see a man who told me all things that I ever did? Could this be the Christ? Then they went out to the city and came to him. And in the meantime, his disciples urged him, saying, Rabbi, eat. But he said, I have food to eat of which you do not know. So the disciples said to one another, has anyone brought him anything to eat? Jesus said to them, may rejoice together. For in this the saying is true, one sows and another reaps. I sent you to reap for that which you have not labored, others have labored, and now you have entered into their labors. Many of the Samaritans of that city believed in Him because of the word of the woman who testified, he told me all that I ever did. And so when the Samaritans had come to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days, and many more believed because of his own word. And then they said to the woman, now we believe not because of what you said, but we ourselves have heard him, and we know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world. …