I Had Not Known Sin But By the Law Romans 7:7

Jesus Used The Law
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"Do not think that I have come to ABOLISH the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. Anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 5:17-19)
 
 

Jesus used the law to expose the sins of the woman at the well.  I am sure she felt ashamed and naked before the Lord. She had a conscience.  She was not offended, though.  He captured her attention by first speaking in the natural and then swinging to the spiritual.  Check it out:
 

Jesus Talks With a Samaritan Woman 

Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour. When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, "Will you give me a drink?" (begin speaking in the natural) (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)


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.

Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water." (swung to spiritual)

 

"Sir," the woman said, "you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water?  (she's not offended) Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds?"  

 

Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." (he offers the invitation)

 

The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water so that I won't get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water."  

 

He told her, "Go, call your husband and come back." (she responds)  

 

"I have no husband," (she confesses her sin) she replied. 

 

Jesus said to her, "You are right when you say you have no husband. The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true."   (he expounds the law)

 

"Sir," the woman said, "I can see that you are a prophet. Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem." (notice she's not offended) 

 

Jesus declared, "Believe me woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.  Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.  God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth." 

 

The woman said, "I know that Messiah" (called Christ) "is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us."

 

Then Jesus declared, "I who speak to you am he."