I Choose Love Week 3 Web Notes

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I Choose Love Love Like Jesus Rev. Todd D. Cullen July 19, 2020 Week 1 Summary Living out the principle of oneness means we engage in choosing to love others the way God loved us. John 13:34 34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. - John 13:34 (ESV) Love Like Jesus 1 - Relational Dialogue Jesus chose not to allow the difference in her ethnicity and race to devalue who she was as a human being. John 4:4 4 And he had to pass through Samaria. Summarize John 4:5-7 John 4:7-9 7 A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” 8 (For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.) 9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) - John 4:7-9 (ESV) We love like Jesus when we refuse to allow racial differences to keep us from relational dialogue. 2 - Spiritual Service Summarize John 4:10-12 Now only was this woman a Samaritan but she was a woman.

Women didn’t hold any social, leadership, political or nearly human value in that day and age. Jesus chose not to allow her lack of social status to determine what or how He would spiritually serve her. John 4:13-15 13 Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” 15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.” - John 4:13-15 (ESV) We love like Jesus when we refuse to allow our social status to limit serving others. 3 - Sharing the Message John 4:16-18 16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.” 17 The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.” - John 4:16-18 (ESV) Summarize 19-224 John 4:25-26 25 The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will tell us all things.” 26 Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am he.” - John 4:21-26 (ESV) Jesus chose not to allow her past and current behavior to keep her from the greatest spiritual truth and blessing.

We love like Jesus when we refuse to allow the choices other people make prevent us from sharing the message of Jesus Christ. 4 - Big-Picture Perspective Jesus chose not to allow peer pressure to keep Him from the big

picture of kingdom ministry opportunity. John 4:27 27 Just then his disciples came back. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you seek?” or, “Why are you talking with her?” Summarize John 4:28-38 We love like Jesus when we refuse to allow racially rooted peer pressure to keep us from the big-picture perspective. When we value someone despite our differences it may mean public ridicule from those who don’t get it! The Results of Loving Like Jesus John 4:39-42 39 Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony, “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 ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world.” - John 4:39-42 (ESV) When we love like Jesus, we influence both the world around us and eternity!