3.14-Getting over racial hate involves taking Jesus as our example and leader.
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John 4.
7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” 8 (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “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.[a])
10 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.”
11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”
13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
15 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.”
Jesus connected with people by not being afraid to ask a favor of a Samaritan woman whom He was not supposed to be talking to.
Religion sometimes draws lines between people that God does not want drawn. All people are created from one. In the beginning there was no hate between genders and between races, Jew, Gentile or Samaritan. It was a part of the sinful rebellion of man that hate has come. Little children unless taught to be so are not racially prejudice. Jesus was breaking the barriers. God help us to follow Jesus and love all people.
John 4.
7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” 8 (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “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.[a])
10 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.”
11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”
13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
15 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.”
Jesus connected with people by not being afraid to ask a favor of a Samaritan woman whom He was not supposed to be talking to.
Religion sometimes draws lines between people that God does not want drawn. All people are created from one. In the beginning there was no hate between genders and between races, Jew, Gentile or Samaritan. It was a part of the sinful rebellion of man that hate has come. Little children unless taught to be so are not racially prejudice. Jesus was breaking the barriers. God help us to follow Jesus and love all people.
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