Recreate Church, Pastor Michael Shockley—Service, Sunday, February 25, 2024

God’s Logic

Today, Pastor Michael is turning the reigns over to the ever-popular Billy Huneycutt.  Billy starts off talking about worldly and appliance logic, rolling into religious logic.  The latter isn’t always right, so Billy is expounding upon “God’s Logic.”

Billy will be using the Samaritan woman as an example in his story.  Also ever present are the Pharisees, who have gotten wind that Jesus and His disciples are getting more popular with the locals.  So Jesus had to go through Samaria, a place that devout Jews tried to avoid.  Jesus asked a Samaritan woman for a drink, which astonished the woman. She was trying to figure out why Jesus, a Jew, would ask for water, and Jesus explained to her that the water He could give would result in eternal life.  She then tried to apply her human logic and was mentioning that the well was deep and they had no bucket.  So Jesus told her to go and get her husband, and she replied that she did not have one.  Which Jesus told her she had previously had five husbands, and she was now recognizing Jesus as a serious prophet.

Jesus, at this point, lets the woman know that He is the Messiah, and she tells the town that He is the Messiah.  His disciples wanted to play this down a bit, as it was getting too much!  But this did result in many receiving His message, a large harvest, due to the Samaritan woman finally understanding “God’s Logic.”

(CSB Bible Notes) As others had done (1:40-41,45), the woman brought people to Jesus so they could see for themselves. Ultimately, it was on the basis of a personal encounter with Jesus that they believed. His large harvest among the Samaritans marked the first sign of the universal scope of his saving mission (10:16).

Verses can be found in John 4: 1-41.

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