Season 1 Eps 8 Sinful Woman

[Dr. Shane]

The woman at the well was a real loser by society's standards.  Her equivalent today wouldn't be an adulterous woman.  It would be closer to a gay, transgender, illegal alien that didn't speak English.  She had multiple strikes against her.  She was a woman.  She was divorced.  She was an adulterer.  She was a Samaritan. At minute marker 2:09 Jesus tells the woman that the water He gives will become a spring of water inside welling up to eternal life.  She responds by asking Him to prove it.  Look at her reaction to Him just after minute marker 2:30, before she laughs.  She knows He has something different.  Then she tries to laugh it off.  Then her intuitive thoughts take over.  Her prejudice comes out.  She has all of these preconceived ideas pushing away the brief conviction she had.  At minute marker 5:40 He drives it home.  He didn't go to the well for a drink of water.  He went to the well for her.

 

[Dr. Shane]

This episode starts with Jesus eating with His disciples in the house of Matthew with some of Matthew's peers. They are interrupted by a couple of Pharisees expressing their displeasure in seeing Jesus dining with sinners. Then it takes us to Nicodemus and his wife discussing a speech he will give and he brings up Hagar. Hagar is the one God sees. Jesus then talks to Eden and tells her He sees her. The theme of this episode is that God sees us in a compassionate way. In this episode, Nicodemus asks if He calls us.

The picture of God drawn in the Bible is a loving God that has a tender heart and sees us. He sees the pain we experience. He sees the mistakes we make and how we are led astray. He isn't a God sitting on high looking at our sins so He can strike us down with a lightening bolt. It is sinners that He seeks to save. It was Jesus walking in the Garden of Eden that called out "Adam, where are you?" He calls us. He called everyone sitting at Matthew's table. He called the Pharisees that came to the door. He called Nicodemus. He called the Samaritan women. He calls you. He calls me.

What we do with that calling not only decides our eternal destination but also decides how many we take with us.

 

I posted another thread on this same episode entitled "Season 1 Episode 8 A Pastor's Wife" on April 22, 2023.