~For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope~

Sent to The Outcasts!
Week Two

He (Jesus) left Judea and departed again to Galilee. (3)
But He needed to go through Samaria. (4)
So He came to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. (5)
Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied from His journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour. (6)
A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give Me a drink." (7)
Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, "How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. (9)
Jesus answered and said to her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, 'Give Me a drink,' you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water." (10)
The woman said to Him, "Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water? (11)
Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?" (12)
Jesus answered and said to her, "Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, (13)
but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life." (14)
The woman said to Him, "Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw." (15)
Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here." (16)
The woman answered and said, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You have well said, 'I have no husband,' (17)
for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; in that you spoke truly." (17)
The woman said to Him, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. (19)
Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship." (20)
Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father. (21)
You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. (22)
But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. (23)
God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth." (24)
The woman said to Him, "I know that Messiah is coming" (who is called Christ). "When He comes, He will tell us all things." (25)
Jesus said to her, "I who speak to you am He." (26)
And at this point His disciples came, and they marveled that He talked with a woman; yet no one said, "What do You seek?" or, "Why are You talking with her?" (27)
The woman then left her waterpot, went her way into the city, and said to the men, (28)
"Come; see a Man who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?" (29)
Then they went out of the city and came to Him. (30)
And many of the Samaritans of that city believed in Him because of the word of the woman who testified, "He told me all that I ever did." (39)
So when the Samaritans had come to Him, they urged Him to stay with them; and He stayed there two days. (40)
And many more believed because of His own word. (41)
Then they said to the woman, "Now we believe, not because of what you said, for we ourselves have heard Him and we know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world." (42)

John 4: 3-7; 9-30; 39-42

~Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee~

What wondrous love is this, oh my soul, oh my soul…..
What wondrous love is this!

Introduction

~The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined~
Isaiah 9:2

~In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.
And of his fullness have all we received, and grace for grace.
For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ~

John 1: 1-17

~And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up for to read.
And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.
And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears~

Luke 4: 16-21

~The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound~

Isaiah 61:1

Jesus of Nazareth,
Friend of Sinners
Day Two

Then one of the Pharisees asked Him to eat with him. And He went to the Pharisee's house, and sat down to eat (36)
And behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at the table in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster flask of fragrant oil (37)
and stood at His feet behind Him weeping; and she began to wash His feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head; and she kissed His feet and anointed them with the fragrant oil (38)
Now when the Pharisee who had invited Him saw this, he spoke to himself, saying, "This Man, if He were a prophet, would know who and what manner of woman this is who is touching Him, for she is a sinner."(39)
And Jesus answered and said to him, "Simon, I have something to say to you." So he said, "Teacher, say it." (40)
"There was a certain creditor who had two debtors. One owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. (41)
And when they had nothing with which to repay, he freely forgave them both. Tell Me, therefore, which of them will love him more?" (42)
Simon answered and said, "I suppose the one whom he forgave more." And He said to him, "You have rightly judged." (43)
Then He turned to the woman and said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave Me no water for My feet, but she has washed My feet with her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head. (44)
You gave Me no kiss, but this woman has not ceased to kiss My feet since the time I came in. (45)
You did not anoint My head with oil, but this woman has anointed My feet with fragrant oil.(46)
Therefore I say to you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little." (47)
Then He said to her, "Your sins are forgiven."(48)
And those who sat at the table with Him began to say to themselves, "Who is this who even forgives sins?" (49)
Then He said to the woman, "Your faith has saved you. Go in peace."(50)

Luke 7: 36-50

~Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls~
Matthew 11:28-29

~Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence~
Job 22:25