I recorded one of our “Evening Meditation” Bible Studies around Noon yesterday, and the devil has fought it fiercely. (The Class in titled “John 4:7-15,” if you want to watch it sometime.)
It has taken over 13 hours to upload to YouTube, our channel there! That’s a world record … for slowness. It’s the motel Internet service, the culprit, looks like. (At home a typical Class uploads in about 45 minutes.)
Still, once it’s online, the Lesson will be available to any hungry Bible student. But I did (partly because of lack of time, just 30 minutes) fail to say several things that need to be mentioned.
Hence, this Website Post …
Item one … When Jesus first met the woman, she having come to the well to get water, He (our Lord) asked her for a drink! Then in John 4:8 we learn that the disciples had left Jesus by the well … “to go into the city (Sychar) to buy meat.” I forgot to observe the fact that Jesus chose to not create meat or fish or bread that day, not to work a miracle! He just let the men go and buy food! (Jesus not once enacted a miracle to meet His personal needs! He always thinks of others.) Plus … it may be that He wanted time alone with the Samaritan woman, to witness to her, to offer her eternal life!
Item two … then the verse about the Lord being a “Breaker” (In John 4 He broke the racial barrier (Jew – Samaritan), the sexual barrier (man – woman), and the social barrier (holy rabbi – married five times individual)! The verse, Messianic to the core … “The BREAKER is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them.” Micah 2:13
Item three … in this glorious chapter the woman morphs from the “ultimate outsider” to an “informed insider!”In other words, she was saved!
Now some quotes I forgot to insert into the Class …
One writer called God’s Grace … “Matchless Grace!”
And called Jesus … that “Peerless Name!”
One more point, no longer numbering the “items!”
Nicodemus came to Jesus by night (perhaps) because he wanted to guard his own reputation as a Leader among the Jews. A Member of the Sanhedrin, nonetheless. But … by talking to the Samaritan woman Jesus proved He had made Himself “of no reputation!”
Do remember Philippians 2:6-8 … “Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: BUT MADE HIMSELF OF NO REPUTATION, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.”
Oh, what a Saviour!
— Dr. Mike Bagwell
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