John 4:1-9

John 4:15-26

John 4:3-43

Point 1: Jesus is seeking you.

John 4:66 Jacob’s well was there; and Jesus, tired from the long walk, sat wearily beside the well about noontime.

Point 2: Shame isolates us from relationship with others.

7 Soon a Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, “Please give me a drink.” 8 He was alone at the time because his disciples had gone into the village to buy some food. 9 The woman was surprised, for Jews refuse to have anything to do with Samaritans. She said to Jesus, “You are a Jew, and I am a Samaritan woman. Why are you asking me for a drink?”
15 “Please, sir,” the woman said, “give me this water! Then I’ll never be thirsty again, and I won’t have to come here to get water.”
16 “Go and get your husband,” Jesus told her. 17 “I don’t have a husband,” the woman replied. Jesus said, “You’re right! You don’t have a husband—18 for you have had five husbands, and you aren’t even married to the man you’re living with now. You certainly spoke the truth!”
19 “Sir,” the woman said, “you must be a prophet. 20 So tell me, why is it that you Jews insist that Jerusalem is the only place of worship, while we Samaritans claim it is here at Mount Gerizim, where our ancestors worshiped?”

Point 3. You Are Fully Redeemed—Called All the Way In

God’s forgiveness is complete. You are not beyond His grace, and you are not the exception to His redeeming power. You are fully welcomed in.

Point 4. Your identity is no longer in shame but the redemption work of Christ.

Are you living in your redeemed identity or are you holding on to an area of shame?
Boldness—“free confidence,” grounded on the consciousness that our sins have been forgiven.
Hebrews 10:19-25
19 And so, dear brothers and sisters, we can boldly enter heaven’s Most Holy Place because of the blood of Jesus. 20 By his death, Jesus opened a new and life-giving way through the curtain into the Most Holy Place. 21 And since we have a great High Priest who rules over God’s house, 22 let us go right into the presence of God with sincere hearts fully trusting him. For our guilty consciences have been sprinkled with Christ’s blood to make us clean, and our bodies have been washed with pure water. 24 Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works. 25 And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near.
Paroxysmos=To motivate
Parakaleō- Encourage one another
Hebrews 3:13 “But encourage one another every day, as long as it is still called “today,” so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.” but encouraging each other, and by so much more as you see the day drawing near. It is not the work of the minister alone to exhort, but the brothers, and the sisters, too, should exhort one another and seek to stir each other up in the faith and fear of God.-Charles Spurgeon
Who could you connect with this week?Are you living in your redeemed identity or are you holding on to an area of shame?