The Samaritan woman said to him,SESSION
“You are1 a Jew and I am a Samaritan
Objective: To challenge people to examine the lives they are living and to
encourage them to have a genuine encounter with Jesus.
Biblical Foundation: “For we must all appear before the judgement seat of
Christ so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while
in the body, whether good of bad” (2 Corinthians 5:10)
INTRODUCTION
Example: The movie of your life
Imagine for a moment that God is about to project the movie of
your life onto a big screen. The movie contains everything you have
ever thought said & done. Even the things that happened in secret
are shown for all to see. How would you feel?
Without exception, we will all have to stand before God one day and give an
account for our actions. Nothing is hidden from Him. He knows all the secrets
of our lives.
The gospel of John tells the story of a woman whose life was completely
transformed when she had an encounter with Jesus. In fact, that is what
happens to anyone who has a genuine encounter with Him.
John 4: 4-26
Now he had to go through Samaria.
So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob
had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was
from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you
give me a drink?” His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.
woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with
Samaritans) OUR GREATEST OPPORTUNITY: THE ENCOUNTER
Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you
for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living
water.”
“Sir, “the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep.
Where can you get this living water?
Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it
himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds?”
Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but
whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give
him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.
The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and
have to keep coming here to draw water.
He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.
“I have no husband, “she replied. Jesus said to her, “You are right when you
say you have no husband.
The fact is, you have had five husbands and the man you now have is not your
husband. What you have just said is quite true.”
“Sir, the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet. Our fathers
worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we
must worship is in Jerusalem.”
Jesus declared, “Believe me woman, a time is coming when you will worship
the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You Samaritans worship
what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from
the Jews. Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers
will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers
the Father seeks.
God is spirit and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth. The
woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) is coming. When he comes,
he will explain everything to us.
Then Jesus declared, “I who speak to you am he.”
 MESSAGE CONTENT
God is not a God of coincidences.
v. 4-6 Now he had to go through Samaria. So he came to a town in Samaria
called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down
by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
God does everything with a specific purpose. He knew that there was a
woman in Samaria who needed an encounter. Similarly, Jesus had prepared
this time to be able to transform the life of each person. It is important that
we recognize our condition and understand that we need to change, rather
that simply coming to Jesus out of curiousity.
1. WHAT CONDITION ARE YOU IN?
Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey,
sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour. When a Samaritan
woman came to draw water…
He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.
“I have no husband, “she replied. Jesus said to her, “You are right
when you say you have no husband.
The fact is, you have had five husbands and the man you now have is
not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.”
This was the condition she was in when she met Jesus: adulterous,
guilty, shameful.
What is the current condition of your life? How has your condition
affected other people negatively (family, friends, etc)?
God often allows difficult situations in our lives (loneliness,
depression, bad habits and betrayal, etc.) for us to see and
understand the condition we are in.
2. YOUR NEED LEADS YOU TO ACTION
v. 11- Sir, where can you get this living water?
 Overcome obstacles
… You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you
ask me for a drink? (For Jews do not associate with
Samaritans)
 The Samaritan woman has the religious & cultural
obstacle to experience Jesus. Aside from the general
perspective of Jews to Samaritans that they are
unholy people. This woman knows that personally in
her life she is guilty of that impression bec. She knows
that she’s living a sinful life.
 What obstacles have you faced in coming to this place
or giving your life to Jesus?
 Desire to know Him with all her heart
v. 15 – Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty &
have to keep coming here to draw water.
 The Samaritan woman demonstrated her desire by
showing her interest & keeps asking Jesus how she
can get this water. She wanted her encounter right
away – perhaps this would be her only opportunity
and did not want to miss it. An Encounter is a
personal experience & opportunity to meet with
Jesus.
3. JESUS KNOWS WHO YOU ARE
v. 16 – He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back”
 Jesus knows the struggle of this woman. He knows
that she’s desperate to have a change in life.
 God chooses anyone regardless of who you are, what
are your sins, your reputation, He can bring change
even if you don’t know that’s the best thing you
needed.
4. YOU WILL NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN
v. 28 – Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town
and said to the people, Come, see a man who told me everything I
ever did.
 The Samaritan woman experienced real change. The
background of this woman was she fetches water at the well
during unusual time to avoid gossip from people. But after
 she encountered Jesus, she went to people & testified about
Jesus.
 She was able to experience salvation. She left her water jar
bec. she found the real water that can truly satisfy her. She
surrendered her past life. We need to let go of all those things
that bind us to the past: we cannot allow anything to separate
us from God. Experiencing salvation implies complete change;
it means going from death to life. The plans of God for your
life are salvation, abundance, family restoration, healing,
prosperity, freedom, purpose, etc.

CONCLUSION:

“Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens
the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me”
(Revelation 3:20)

Reflection Questions:

 What condition do you think your life is in right now, taking all areas
into consideration (family, health, finances, purpose, emotions,
integrity)?
 Good/ Could be better/ Not so good/ Bad.
 Why?
 What do you most want God to change in your life?

MINISTRY TIME

During the ministry time, each person should:

a. Understand their condition as far from God.

b. Open the doors of their heart to Jesus.

c. Make a commitment to make restitution and change

direction, following the steps of Jesus.
Genesis 2: 18 Unya miingon ang Ginoong Dios, “Dili maayo nga mag-inusara
ang tawo. Himoan ko siyag kauban ug katabang nga angay kaniya.

WOMAN - as a helper; in Hebrew word “Ezer”

While Genesis 1 and 2 show us how God intended human beings to be,
Genesis 3 shows us what the man and woman chose to become. You probably
know the story about a forbidden tree called the Tree of the Knowledge of
Good and Evil, and about a snake who persuaded the woman that eating its
forbidden fruit would make her like God, knowing everything, both good and
evil.

The curses of Genesis 3:16 tell us more about the damage and distortion done
to God’s design. Now the woman will be tempted to usurp the headship of
her husband and the man will be tempted to become domineering in his
authority.

When God created two genders, He also instituted different roles for each
gender. He designed the bodies and brains of men and women to work
differently and to fulfil complementary roles. A man should not act like a
woman because he can never be a woman. He can never process information
like a woman because his brain, his DNA, and his entire being are
distinctly male.

God also created women to be distinct from men. We see this played out in
our lives all the time. Men tend to be more logical thinkers and like to solve
problems. Women tend to be more driven by emotions and don’t want a
solution to their problems; they just want to talk about them and get them off
their chest.

In one sense, Satan does the same today. He’s still telling women that God’s
Word isn’t true, that He can’t really be trusted, that He’s withholding
something from them. This deception harms women in so many ways. Nancy
Leigh deMoss has written a book called Lies Women Believe, which covers
topics like:

 God isn’t really good.

 God doesn’t love me.

 God is not really enough.

 God’s ways are too restrictive.

 Genesis 2: 18 Unya miingon ang Ginoong Dios, “Dili maayo nga mag-
inusara ang tawo. Himoan ko siyag kauban ug katabang nga angay
kaniya
Woman – as a helper; in Hebrew word “Ezer”
God created the woman as an ezer.  The word ezer occurs twenty-one times in
the Old Testament. In two cases it refers to the first woman, Eve, in Genesis 2.
Three times it refers to powerful nations Israel called on for help when
besieged. In the sixteen remaining cases the word refers to God as our help.
He is the one who comes alongside us in our helplessness. That's the meaning
of ezer. Because God is not subordinate to his creatures, any idea that
an ezer-helper is inferior is untenable. In his book Man and Woman: One in
Christ, Philip Payne puts it this way: "The noun used here [ezer] throughout
the Old Testament does not suggest 'helper' as in 'servant,' but help, savior,
rescuer, protector as in 'God is our help. The woman was not created to serve
the man, but to serve with the man. Without the woman, the man was only
half the story. She was not an afterthought or an optional adjunct to an
independent, self-sufficient man. God said in Genesis 2:18 that without her,
the man's condition was "not good." God's intention in creating the woman
for the man was for the two to be partners in the many tasks involved in
stewarding God's creation.  first to Adam.
While Genesis 1 and 2 show us how God intended human beings to be,
Genesis 3 shows us what the man and woman chose to become. You probably
know the story about a forbidden tree called the Tree of the Knowledge of
Good and Evil, and about a snake who persuaded the woman that eating its
forbidden fruit would make her like God, knowing everything, both good and
evil
Order and Equality
In Genesis 2 we zoom in on the creation of man and woman and we start to
see a picture of order in their relationship. This order doesn’t undermine or
trump the equality of Genesis 1. Men and women are still equal: equal as
image bearers, and equal in substance—“bone of my bones and flesh of my
flesh”. Without getting a detailed picture of what this order means, we do see
glimpses. We see that (both before and after the Fall) the man names the
woman, indicating some kind of priority or authority. We see that man leaves
his father and mother, which indicates initiative. We see that woman is to be
a helper fit for him, which indicates man’s need for a companion suitable to
help him as they fulfil God’s purpose for them.
There is order, but this order shouldn’t threaten our identity. As we’ve
already seen, our significance is firm and secure simply because we are image
bearers. Our roles as men and women, don’t undermine that. This is how it
works out in relationships!
From Order to Disarray
Yet, as we look at Genesis 3, we see the order undone. Satan deliberately
defies God’s order by dealing directly with the woman. As the man and the
woman fail to relate according to their design, relational chaos ensues.
Often we think, like Adam and Eve, that if we could just be free of God’s
constraints and order, then we would find true freedom and equality. But we
don’t see this, and we never have. Man and woman cannot flourish in this
newfound freedom. They suffer miserably. But God in His kindness, forces his
creatures back into the good order that he gave them in the beginning. Here,
he takes up His dealings with Adam, giving us an insight again into man’s
responsibility for the human family before God. He holds Eve accountable—
and she faces just condemnation and punishment for her sin—but God comes
The curses of Genesis 3:16 tell us more about the damage and distortion done
to God’s design. Now the woman will be tempted to usurp the headship of
her husband and the man will be tempted to become domineering in his
authority.
When God created two genders, He also instituted different roles for each
gender. He designed the bodies and brains of men and women to work
differently and to fulfil complementary roles. A man should not act like a
woman because he can never be a woman. He can never process information
like a woman because his brain, his DNA, and his entire being are
distinctly male.
God also created women to be distinct from men. We see this played out in
our lives all the time. Men tend to be more logical thinkers and like to solve
problems. Women tend to be more driven by emotions and don’t want a
solution to their problems; they just want to talk about them and get them off
their chest.
In one sense, Satan does the same today. He’s still telling women that God’s
Word isn’t true, that He can’t really be trusted, that He’s withholding
something from them. This deception harms women in so many ways. Nancy
Leigh deMoss has written a book called Lies Women Believe, which covers
topics like:

 God isn’t really good.

 God doesn’t love me.

 God is not really enough.

 God’s ways are too restrictive.