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perience that can bring perfect satis faction to the heart of man. Winning souls to Christ is a very definite part of God’s will for every Christian. 5. "We have heard him ourselves" (v. 42). No one can get to heaven on the experience of others. The witness of others has its important place, but saving faith comes as a result of a person’s p e r s o n a l relationship to Christ. Golden Text Illustration J ohn 4:36 A native Christian woman of Africa was just entering the town after a month’s journey on foot. She had come to report what she had done for the Lord Jesus in her district, and her hands were filled with tiny straws done up in bundles neatly tied with bark rope. These bundles constituted a record book of a novel sort that the African has been using for centuries— a straw for an item, another straw for another item, and so on. For each case of professed conversion, there was a straw cut, and the bundles of straws looked for all the world like miniature sheaves. The straws were handed over to the elders to be counted, and the number was 660!—From Thinking Black, by Dan Crawford. A Woman with Good News J ohn 4:1-42 MEMORY VERSE: “Go home to thy friends,-- and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee” (Mk. 5:19). POINTS FOR THE TEACHER:, The teacher might draw a simple map and
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so? Several considerations are to be observed: (1) Rabbinical writings make it clear that there was a com mon opinion among the Jews that in uiiderstanding and religion women were inferior to men. This prejudice to some extent at least may have been present with the disciples. Jesus would clear away this prejudice. It was He who lifted womanhood. (2) Further more, this was a Samaritan woman. The Jews had no dealings with the Samaritans. By His example on this occasion, our Lord showed that the wall between the Jews and other peo ple was to be broken down by the gospel. He showed Peter the same les son by’the vision of the sheet full of clean and unclean b e a s t s (Acts 10:11-15). (3) Then, too, the disciples may easily have recognized this wom an as morally unclean due to, the fact that she was at the well in the middle of the dayvnstead of the usual time in the morning or the evening. 2. "The woman then left her water- pot" (v. 28). The \voman had come to the well for the one purpose to fill her waterpot. But at the well she met One who absorbed all her interest. She found at the well a new heart, new interests, a new joy. Her life was filled with living water until all things became new. It is always this way. A person truly born again no longer cares for the things he once cared for. 3. "Come, see a man, which told me all things" (v. 29). The woman of Samaria becomes a splendid example of a normal Christian life. First, she found Christ herself. Then immediate ly she became a missionary. As a mis sionary she invited others to “ come, see” Christ. 4. “I have meat to eat that ye know not of" (v. 32). There is no basis here for the error that Christ had no real physical body and thus had no real need for physical bread. The thought is that Christ in ministering to this needy woman and winning her to eternal life was so satisfying the de sires of His heart that He was raised above the sense, of natural hunger. Doing the will of God is the only ex
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AIMS FOR THE LESSON: To teach the child that Jesus is loving and kind to all. To teach the child that he should be a bearer of the good news of Jesus’ love. LESSON STORY: At about noon one day, the Lord Jesus came to a well where a woman was filling her water jar. The woman was unhappy, for she was a sinful woman and that made her heart sad. She could hardly believe her ears when Jesus stopped and spoke kindly to her, for most people were unkind and spoke to her in harsh words. Then Jesus told her a wonder ful thing. He said that He could for give her sin and give her the gift of everlasting life. What a wonderful gift that would be! She hurried off quickly to tell her friends the wonderful news.
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