Those Who Hurt

Welcome to this weekend in touch back at Charleston. Jesus spoke to large crowd. He was never too busy to care for individuals today, you'll be reminded that this is the model for the mission of the church to extend God's compassion to those who hurt one of the primary reasons our faith is so we can open Tom so impractical is because of our view of God. However, we view him is going to affect every single aspect of our life and so I want us to see in this passage of Scripture today.

What he's really like because Jesus said if you've seen him using the father. So if you want to know what the heavenly father's like you look at the life of Jesus you want to know how the heavenly father will treat you then how did Jesus treat people in his day, someone you turn if you will, to the fourth chapter of John and in this fourth chapter is a beautiful example of how heavenly father feels taught us how he desires to treat us how he does treat us, even when difficult things come our way and sometimes we want to blame God and feel his accusing hand feel his condemning hand. No, here is a perfect example of how our Lord feels taught. Now watch what happens in this passage so John chapter 4 and this is probably the most beautiful sermons Jesus ever preached of anyone which the altar one person. So we begin the first verse.

The Scripture says when therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John. Although Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples were he left Judea, and departed again into Galilee. And he had to pass through Samaria so he came to the city of Samaria call sidecar near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph and Jacob's well was there, Jesus therefore being wearied from his journey, was sitting this mother well. It was about the sixth hour. There came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus said to her, give me a drink for his disciples had gone away to the city to buy food. The Samaritan woman said to him, how is it that you being a Jew, asked me for a drink since I am a Samaritan woman. The Jews have no dealings with Samaritans Jesus answered and said to her, if you knew the gift of God and who it is who says to you, give me a drink.

You have asked him and he would've given you living water. She said to him, sir. You have nothing to draw within the well is deep where then the you get that living water you not greater than our father Jacob, are you who gave us the well and drank of himself and his sons and his cattle. Jesus answered and said to her, everyone who drinks of this water shall thirst again but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst or the water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life. The woman said to him, sir, give me this water so I will not be thirsty not come all the way here to draw.

He said to her go, call your husband and come here. Well, this story goes all the way through the 42nd verse but I want to stop right there because I want to give our time to this first part of the passage now we're into a brief series that the reach of God's love. God is always reaching out to others in love once I understand that he always reaches out and log something will happen of my view of God and here is a good example of how he reaches out to those who are hurting, and here is a woman certain who was hurting and one of things I want us to see in this passage that so clearly is this and that is that Jesus knows our hearts.

It doesn't make a difference what your hurting about if someone has hurt you deeply are but some hurt that you have brought upon yourself when it's hurt because of guilt of sin or whatever it might be just making different Jesus knows every single hurt every burden and every heartache we all bear.

There is no exception of that and Jesus knew the condition at this woman was in and so when he met her that they he looked straight in her eyes he could see. He could sense the pain in the hurt and the truth is he knows every single need before we have it. Therefore God is never late in meeting our needs is always on time.

In every single aspect of our life. You think about this. You and I walk under the canopy of the love of Almighty God. We walk in the infinite knowledge of a loving heavenly father who knows everything about it. He knows the future, he knows the past. Everything is going around us all the time.

He knows where our safety areas are heat, he knows where those danger spots are. He knows how we can respond. He knows our personnel to how we respond to the people how we can react. He knows every single thing about and so therefore he is always reaching out to us in love. He wants the very best for us and the one who wants the best for us is the one who knows all the time. What is the best one I want you to see in this passage is this. I want you to see how he treated this woman because you see when we have opinions of other people. Oftentimes those opinions not the best we'll always treat people that way. I mean those of us who believe we still have our own little private secluded standard of how we treat people if we're not careful what I want you to see. Remember who this woman is. She has been married five times. This woman has a moral problem as she is living with a man and to whom she is not married and she's doing it right before the body in towns. Everybody knows about. So we talk about this kind of woman we talking about Jesus and his relationship and how he responded in his attitude toward a woman who had a horrible reputation in her town now want you to see something here that none of this Jesus know all about our hurts, but he cares about how you not hurt and I here is an expression of his caring because you have to understand what the customs were and you have to understand all the custom project. Understand also the conflict that was going on between Jews and Samaritans and he is the son of God, meeting her this day about what would look like an accident which was of no accident of providential meeting of God. He's always the right place right time, doing the right thing and so she meets him, but I want you to see how significant she is because she gives us the opportunity to say something that all of us need to have sent to us to be reminded of us, all of us do so here she is now in her condition, and so she walks up and Jesus says to her give me a drink. Well, now what was significant about that. Notice what she said. She said in verse nine the Samaritan woman therefore said to him, how is it that you being a Jew, asked me for a drink since I am a Samaritan woman. The Jews have noted with Samaritans. Now Jesus in his caring love for her did not allow her being a Samaritan.

Her being a woman or her be a very very sinful woman make a single solitary difference in the way he treated her and the way he betrayed someone else. Not one single bit.

He was not concerned about her sins to judge her. He was only concerned about her sins. In order to forgive her, so he did not address her and accuse her and condemn her and when you think about how he responded to her, you see that he was responding with a very caring attitude now all the things that would have absolutely shocked most people and cause them to step aside are a go back and do something else and say why you not just up.

I don't think I can associate with folks like that may hurt my reputation somewhat and even facing the overlook every bit of it.

You know why because he is a loving Jesus. If you want to know how God feels about people how to Jesus treat people you see here is a perfect example of the evidence of how our Lord sees people.

He sees them as individuals. He sees them as people and they listed all the Scripture.

What's the testimony, the word of God. The testimony of Scripture is licit. He knows our hurts. He knows our needs.

He cares for our hurts. He cares for our needs in this maintenance what the hurt is what the need is one condition is where we are from no matter what the circumstance. None of that affects his attitude toward us. You will know what they have and the father thinks about you look and see how Jesus treated people is the third thing about goes here and that is this Jesus reaches out to heal our hurts, and the forgive our sins.

Now it was first of all, the approach he took this woman you see here is a perfect lesson and how to deal with people and how to reach them for Christ. What did Jesus do here he was in the situation total is the custom said don't speak this woman his nationality and hurt don't speak this woman. Jesus said to her, give me a drink of water. What did he do, he approached her at the point of her greatest interest was it. It was water she was coming the well. He approached her at the point of her greatest need. He knew that not only was she coming for water for the body. He knew that she needed something to fill her soul because she was a very empty mom Jesus was emotionally giving this woman exactly what she needed. She needed to feel love she needed to feel accepted. She needed to feel she was worth something. He was taking time with her she needed to feel that she belongs and all of a sudden this man was talking about giving her something water on the inside of her there would spring up into everlasting life. You understand what that was about but she sensed something from him.

Listen and I would send you my friend. It is negative, is where you from what the situation. Your life is if you will give Jesus Christ the opportunity. If you just give him a hearing you know what you going to censor him, not condemnation, not judgment, not accusation. He's not going tell you that Helen torment.

He's going to tell you how much he loves you he's gonna tell you that he wants you to give your life to him so that the birdbaths that he has to offer. That's what he wants to give you. He wants to save you from destroying yourself. He was to save you from torment save you from going to help save you from wrecking and running and messing up your life. He's not a judgmental Lord Jesus walked among men. The only crowd that he spoke with judgment and I mean tremendous judgment was the religious crowd who thought they were so good and thought they were so righteous they rejected him and rejected everything that was godly. You can get so sinful to turn Jesus all you can't be so hurtful and so hurt that you will turn him away because he's a loving Lord, now what I want you notices.

I want you to know see how he appeal to this woman and therefore things are what you notice as we look at the Scripture, primarily now beginning in verse 10, first of all, his appeal to her was an appeal for her to be kind that is simple but he said would you give me a drink.

And remember this is saying in that day was only a wicked person will not give another drink of water.

So when he asked her for a drink of water. She knew that they give someone a drink of water was certainly a right thing to do a a humane thing to do, no matter what. Now it never says he got a drink because I think this conversation began such a way that the she forgot all about well water and she got think about something else.

So first of all, he made his appeal to her precipitate would you give me a drink of water.

The second thing he appeal to her was out of her curiosity look at this verse, beginning in verse 10 Jesus appeal to her at the point of her greatest need of one of her greatest attention and so here's what happens.

The Scripture says he appeal her curiosity and his high did verse 10 Jesus answered and said to her, if you knew the gift of God and who it is who says that you give me a drink. You have asked him and he would have given you living water look of it. He says there is a gift of God, there is someone who can give you that gift and what he'll get his living water now living water was far different than Jacob's well living water was running water it either had to come from a spring or creek of some sort of some fountain and so her primary immediate interest was living water will you even have nothing to dip with number one and second away or you going to get living water where you can get running water. So what did he do he appeal to her at a point of her interest and he appealed to her in a way that got her the thinking who is this who is offering who is this who has no cup. Who is this who has who submit living water. Who is this man and so he got her attention. Who is this that can make this kind of offer. So he makes his appeal. His guilty office and then I would notice he makes his appeal by talking about a desire to fulfill something in her that she didn't even realize really that she needed.

Listen to this. So Jesus answered and said to her, if you knew the gift of God who is who says to you, give me a drink, you would ask him and he would give you living water.

She said to him, sir. You have nothing to draw with from the well. It's deep. Where did you get that living water you not greater than our father Jacob, are you who gave us the well and drank of it himself and his sons and his cattle, but she darted together think she asking a question. She says you greater than Jacob and then listen this wonderful, wonderful answer from Jesus. Jesus answered and said to her. Everyone who drinks of this water shall thirst again but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst with the water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life. The woman said to him, sir, give me this water so I will not be thirst to know come all the way here to draw now.

The water that she drew from that well will only quench a physical thirst. It would never quench her emotional thirst which she had so deeply the water came from that well will enter her physical body but he would never in her soul where she was hurting the water that came from that well would diminish and disappear the water Jesus Christ would give her would never disappear.

He says I'm replacing you a well it's going to be running water. It's going to be a spring of water shall go on and on and on. She can understand. He's saying this water. This well of water springing up in divorce when you are not trusted Jesus Christ as their personal savior. When you do, the Bible says the Holy Spirit seals was as a child of God, the Holy Spirit comes to indwell us. The Holy Spirit comes to live on the inside of us. The Bible talks about the fruit of the Spirit is love and joy and peace in all these things as the produce. Indwelling on the inside of every single child of God is the person of the Godhead, called the Holy Spirit he is there. What is he doing he is there to do what he is there to release in you and in the very life of Jesus all that you and I need to satisfy our soul. All that you not need to satisfy a hard all that you not need to satisfy our spirit, that which makes us feel whole and complete and fully loving that we belong to be worth something and they were accepted by Almighty God. That is the work of the Holy Spirit who is that it enables us to do the work of God's call is to do that is the Holy Spirit living on the inside of us in heaven as God the father see this right hand is the Lord Jesus on this earth living the life of every single believer is the person of the Holy Spirit. So when he said to her, the water that you drink of your thirst again.

Well I'm going to give you is water that you never thirst again you have to come back here and drink again, not of the physical water but of spiritual water one drank. Listen, this one drink is so powerful it will do you for eternity. You have Christ living on the inside of you.

He never gives out, he never gives up. He never runs out. He's always there will did he say I'll never leave you nor forsake you.

Well, this woman so excited by now she drops the potheads of the village and she says to them. I have found somebody who has told me all things about myself.

They saw a smile upon her face some joy in her heart. They said themselves that that if somebody stole this woman all there is no about her.

Let's go find out who it is and so they come running out and so what happens they find Jesus. They begin the conversation as it would stay here with us, though he stays there two days with sharing with and a lot of get say the Bible says invalid you notice in verse 42, it says, and they were saying to the woman is no longer because of what you said that we believe that we have heard for ourselves and know that this one is indeed the Savior of the world. The listen my friend. What is the essence of all this. There is simply this, Jesus knows all your needs. All your sins all you hurts. He cares for you know matter who you are and what's happened in your life and you know what he's doing right now he's reaching out to you to say I will forgive your sin and I will heal your hurts. I will take care of you and I will be to you forever. Everything you need me to be. I will be in you a well of water ever springing up in the life everlasting.

I will always be there. Once you receive Jesus as you say he is always forever and ever and ever. There, thank you for listening to those who hurt if you'd like to know more about her family more intense ministries in tax data waxing podcast is the presentation and InTouch ministry advantage of