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Seeing True Transformatjon (John 4:1-42)

• The Samaritan Woman
• What do we know about her?

 A Samaritan

 A Woman  Married 5X  Living with a man  Came at midday to draw water…Outcast

Seeing True Transformatjon (John 4:1-42)

• The Samaritan Woman
• What did she need?

 Salvatjon…living water

• To be seen (John 4:7)
• To be valued (John 4:7-8)
• To be accepted (John 4:16-18)
• To be shown the Messiah (John 4:25-26)

Seeing True Transformatjon (John 4:1-42)

• The Samaritan Woman
• How did her life change?

 She went to the townspeople to share her encounter

So the woman lefu her water jar and went away into town and said to the people, 29 “Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?” 30 They went out

• f the town and were coming to him. John 4:28-30 (ESV)

Seeing True Transformatjon (John 4:1-42)

• The Samaritan Woman
• How did her life change?

 She became a part of the community (their transformatjon, too).

Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testjmony, “He told me all that I ever did.” 40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two

• days. 41 And

many more believed because of his word. 42 They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for

• urselves, and we know that this is indeed the

Savior of the world.” John 4:39-42 (ESV)

Seeing True Transformatjon We Have to See the Harvest Field

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will

• f him who sent me and to accomplish his
• work. 35

35 Do you not say, ‘There are yet four

months, then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lifu up your eyes, and see that the fjelds are white for harvest. John 4:34-35 (ESV)