"The Perfect Chance Encounter" Part 12

The woman said to Him, "I know that Messiah is coming" (who is called Christ). "When He comes, He will tell us all things." Jesus said to her, "I who speak to you am He." 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?" The woman then left her waterpot, went her way into the city, and said to the men, "Come, and see a Man who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?" Then they went out of the city and came to Him. John 4:25-30

During this whole series of "The Perfect Chance Encounter" I have been waiting patiently or NOT for this particular moment in our encounter! It is the moment when it seems that it has come to an end because the disciples have returned. They are now back, along with their judgmental attitudes because as they put it, "He is talking to a woman!" Despite their scowling, disapproving looks, which we will come back to in our next message, this is the moment in our perfect encounter that will show us that Jesus once again accomplishes the most amazing awesome incredible wonderful thing that an encounter with Him accomplishes. This is when we get to see that an encounter with Jesus has once again done what it does best because once again we get to see a life transformed!

In verse 28 it tells us that with the return of the disciples, 'the woman left  her waterpot, went her way into the city, and said to the men, "Come, and see a Man who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?" This is not the same woman who came to the well a short while before. She was so excited about her encounter and His revelation to her that she left her waterpot sitting there and went straight into the city and she started telling the men of the city all about Him. I'll say again,  "Not the same woman!" The shame that had her at the well alone during the hottest part of the day in order to avoid human contact? Gone!  Now, instead of hiding she runs to the city and to the people with, "Come, and see a Man who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?" She went from trying to deny her lifestyle to Jesus when He asked her to go get her husband to running to all the men of the city and declaring it to them with, "Come, and see a Man who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?" Instead of avoiding she is now declaring, "He knew all the things I ever did, He knew my sin!" Her shame, GONE. Her excitement over who Jesus is now there for all the world to see.

For this woman, this Samaritan woman, this 'chance' encounter at the well had become for her a life changing one because from NOW on ...she was now free, free  to worship in spirit and in truth with nothing to conceal!