LISTEN TO JESUS: GO GET YOUR HUSBAND

LISTEN TO JESUS

GO GET YOUR HUSBAND

John 4:16 Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.

Susan: Here’s where it gets sticky. 

Susie: Jesus seems to be changing the subject, but He is really transitioning to help her see her need of the kind of water He has to offer. 

Susan: His request draws her out and causes her to reveal what He already knows.

Susie: Once again, we see that Jesus has the power to see deep within us.

Hebrews 4:13 (ESV) And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.

Susie: We might as well be completely honest with God because He alone knows the complete truth about us. We cannot hide!

Psalm 139:1-3 O lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.

Susan: Jesus is better than Paul Harvey…He truly knows the rest of the story because, after all, He wrote it.

John 4:17-18 The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband: For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.

Susan: She tells the truth that she is not married, but Jesus responds with the entire truth of her past. She was not only astonished that He knew the entire truth but that He was willing to listen to her which was probably something she had not experienced ever.

Susie: Now Jesus is not only talking to a despised Samaritan woman but an adulterous Samaritan woman.

Susan: This woman had probably never been treated as if she had any substantive worth. Jesus did not detest her like most people she encountered. 

Susie: However, He made clear that she could hide nothing from Him.

John 4:19-20 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.  Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.

Susie: The woman acknowledges that Jesus must be a prophet since He knew about her marital situations without being told but then brings up another controversy that existed between the Jews and the Samaritans. 

Susan: The Samaritans only accepted the Pentateuch which is the first five books of the Old Testament, but the Jews recognized the remainder of the Old Testament as well. 

Susie: Both groups could cite references to support which mountain the temple should occupy. Why she brought that up is a mystery to me. Perhaps she is trying to lure Jesus into being judgmental? Or maybe she was trying to take herself and her sinful lifestyle out of the spotlight.

Susan: She may have been truly trying to understand the reason why the Jews and the Samaritans had a different view of the matter. 

Susie: Or maybe she just wanted to leave the squirmy feeling of talking about her adulterous behavior.

Ways we can apply this to our lives:

·     Jesus knows everything about us, so we might as well be completely honest with Him and with ourselves

·     Jesus sees and knows all about us but loves us anyway