WOMAN OF SAMARIA

 *12/04/2023*

*MID WEEK SERVICE*

THEME:

*UNNAMED PEOPLE IN THE BIBLE*

TOPIC:

*WOMAN OF SAMARIA*

Text:

John 4: 1-26

The Samaritan woman did not comprehend Jesus' spiritual message. She was thinking only of physical water and could not understand how Jesus could provide water without a means of drawing it, especially since the well was deep.

Jesus mentioned the woman's husband in order to expose her sin (John 4:18)

Because of what Jesus told her about herself, the woman concluded that *Jesus Christ was a prophet, a person divinely inspired with supernatural knowledge* (1 Samuel 9:9)

By mentioning the two different worship sites, the woman was perhaps trying to shift the conversation away from the subject of her own sins to theological questions. Or perhaps she realized that she was a sinner (John 4:18), and knew that she required to offer a sacrifice. The woman probably assumed that because Jesus was a Jew, He would insist that the sacrifice be offered in the temple at Jerusalem. *The Jews insisted that the exclusive place of worship was Jerusalem*

But the Samaritans had set up a rival worship site on *Mount Gerizim, which according to their tradition was where Abraham went to sacrifice Isaac, and where later on he met Melchizedek*

*When the blessings and curses were read to the wilderness generation of Israel, the blessings were read from Mount Gerizim* (Deuteronomy 11:29; 27:12)

The issue is not where a person worships, but how and whom he or she worships.

Using the same words that God used when He revealed Himself to Moses (Exodus 3:14), Jesus clearly stated that He is the Messiah.

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