Good morning everyone and welcome back to another morning's with the masters. We're a

devoted ourselves to the Lord daily with you. Good morning you guys. Good morning indeed.

We're picking up with day four of our 21 days of discipleship devotional in the Bible

app. There's a link to that in the description if you guys want to fall along with us.

And as always I'm going to read the scripture. The door is going to pick with the Devo. Let's do it.

The scripture is John chapter four verse nine and it says this. The Samaritan woman said to him,

you are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink? For Jews do not associate

with Samaritans. The devotional is titled line crossing love and it says this. The meat of the

fourth chapter of John focuses on an intentional encounter between Jesus and a Samaritan woman.

To set the scene it helps to understand that Jews and Samaritans despised each other. As in,

the Jews saw the Samaritans as literally less than human and the Samaritans thought of Jews as

a bunch of self-righteous evil stepmother types. It was this tension that Jesus moved toward.

Literally he led his disciples towards Samaria and stopped at a well just outside the city.

While they went and found something to eat, Jesus stayed by the well and waited.

This Samaritan woman showed up and Jesus asked for a drink. Little did she know this was the setup

for her salvation. Here's the thing. She wasn't just a Samaritan woman. She was a Samaritan woman

with a past. This past involved five different marriages and nothing seemed to be changing in her

life because she was already living with another guy. Still, Jesus picked that moment and that

woman to reveal his identity as the long awaited Messiah. When disciples got back, they were

completely shocked to find Jesus chilling by a well, sharing a drink with a sinful Samaritan.

It messed with all their preconceived ideas. Jesus' ministry was marked by this kind of behavior.

He didn't draw lines to keep people out. He constantly crossed lines to bring people in to seek

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