Here today.
Well, listen, it is good to see you here today on a Sunday morning. A little bit of rain coming in. I don't know if it started yet here today. And I tell you, it's crazy. It's going to be a little bit of a rainy day.
Like Pastor David said, we get to have a good nap day, but it is good to see you. I hope that you enjoyed the last couple of days being able to celebrate our freedom and our independence and as citizens of this great country. And I want you to know that I am grateful, and I hope that you are. We should be grateful for our country and the fact that we get to live in a place that has the freedoms that we get to experience each and every day. And I'm so thankful for that.
And I love this country. And I'm grateful that we get to worship here freely. Every time I come here on Sunday, I am reminded about that. And I think about that from time to time because we have missionaries, we have people that. We partner with all over the world that don't get to live in a country like this where they can freely gather and proclaim the name of Jesus.
Many people across the world would lose their lives for this kind of corporate gathering in the places that they live, and we get to be thankful for that. And so I hope you had some good time with your friends and family. Over the last week, and I've been able to celebrate that. Many people are out of town. I get it.
It's one of the biggest travel weeks of the year. And we've had family in town the last couple of days, and they've been staying with us. And it's my in-laws and all of their crew. They've been staying with us since Wednesday. And so I'll be honest with you, I'm a little tired this morning.
I just got a text just before I got up here that they are on the road, all of them heading to Florida this morning. And I'll tell you: so, don't hold anything I say this morning against me. We've been up late the last few days. Anytime you're hosting people, it just gets kind of crazy and exhausting. But it was a lot of fun.
And so I hope you had some good time there. If you have your Bible, I want you to invite you to join me in John chapter number four. We have been. Working through a series. It's really our summer teaching series entitled Sinners Like Us.
And we've just been slowly working through a bunch of Bible characters and sinners like you, sinners like me. And we've been slowly working through many of them just to remind ourselves that God did not come for the righteous, right? He did not come for the good. I mean, because there's none good, no, not one. And we are all sinners, every single one of us.
And every person in scripture that he ever saved and ever used was a sinner like you and me. And I'm always reminded that scripture just reminds me that we are all dysfunctional people. And I want you to know that if you're dysfunctional here, or possibly you're a guest here and you just slipped in, or nobody knows you, and you feel like, man, I am a dysfunctional sinner. I am far from God. I don't deserve to be used.
I don't deserve to be saved. If that's where you are today, let me tell you this: you are in the right place this morning. You are in the right place this morning because I hope that the word can show you that God came to save sinners just like you and just like me. And so, we've looked in this series at Abraham, we've looked at Moses, we looked at Rahab, the prostitute, we looked at David, the adulterer, and the murderer. We looked at Samson, we looked at Jonah.
And today, we're going to kind of move into the New Testament as we begin to look at some New Testament characters for the month of July and early into August. And we will look at several more sinners just like you and me.
So, John chapter number four, our next sinner that we're going to look at, doesn't even have a name. Doesn't even, you know, church history kind of speculates on what her name could have been, but doesn't have a name in scripture. And it is the woman. At the well. And if you're newer to church, you might be like, Who in the world is this?
What is this story about? And we're going to do some reading here today. And for many of you, this is a very familiar passage of scripture. I understand that. And you have heard sermons about this.
You've learned about this passage of scripture.
So, some it might be review, but I hope that this will help you.
Now, I will say this because I always say this anytime I've taught this, but John chapter 4 is a special passage of scripture for me because every time that I teach from this or preach from it, I'm reminded that my very first sermon came from John chapter 4. And I was back in 2004 when I preached my first sermon, and it was from this exact text. I preached for 13 minutes that day. And some of you are hoping I'd go back to that, okay? And that's not going to happen more than likely.
And but I love this text. And then, also, just so that you know as we get into it, I believe that this is the longest conversation that Jesus had with one person in Scripture. This is a very long account that he has directly with a very dysfunctional sinner, someone that did not deserve the love, grace, mercy, and kindness of Jesus. And yet, we see in this story that he comes face to face with this person who had had some baggage, some mess-ups in her life. She was in the middle of sin.
And here, Jesus encounters her and demonstrates and offers her something much. Much better. John chapter number four. We are going to do some reading today.
So look to your neighbor and say, get ready. And we're going to do some reading.
So it'll be up on the screen. If you left your Bible at home, it will be up on the screen. I'll get some commentary as we work through this together just to give us some context and that kind of thing. And so, John chapter 4, verse 1, it says, When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, though Jesus himself baptized not. But his disciples.
So then he left Judea, and he departed again unto... Unto Galilee. But he must needs go through Samaria.
So if you look on a map, you are going to find that Judea is kind of south, and then Galilee, where he's headed, it is north of Judea. And on your journey there, right in the middle of those, separates this place, right in the center, is called Samaria. And he must needs go through Samaria. We know why that is, but we're about to find out why, because he had business there. He had someone that he knew was going to be sitting there that he is going to offer them living water.
Verse 5.
So then he cometh to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
Now, Jacob's well was there. You can read about that in Genesis 33. And Jesus, therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well. And it was about the sixth. Hour.
There cometh a woman. Of Samaria to draw water. Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink. For his disciples were gone away into the city to buy meat. Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that That thou being a Jew asketh drink of me, which am a woman, which am a woman of Samaria.
For the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.
So, real quick, before we kind of continue with our story, a couple key points to this story that helps us understand it. Jesus is sitting by the well. It's the sixth hour. The sixth hour was like the middle part of the day. It was the hottest part of the day.
Nobody. Goes to the well at the sixth hour. Nobody shows up to fetch water at the sixth hour. Hour and and most of the time, uh, ladies in this culture uh they would go together uh down to the well, and uh, this was kind of like I picture this, you know, ladies would do this together. This is like your uh modern-day, like hair salon kind of place, you know what I'm talking about.
And where you get all the juicy gossip and stuff like that. This is kind of what I see would happen. And here, they would all go in the morning to fetch the water, but here Jesus is there in the middle of the part of the day, the heat of the day, and here comes a lady by herself. It's significant because here's why she was by herself: she was an outcast of society. She was an outcast, and because of her lifestyle, she had really been cut out of that inner circle of women there in Samaria.
She did not belong with them. She did not fit with them. She was living in sin, which we'll learn that here in a moment. And because of that, she now had to show up in the heat of the day by herself each and every day to fetch the water from. from the well.
And not only was she an outcast and didn't belong and didn't fit in and didn't look like all of the other women of Samaria, not only that, she was a Samaritan woman. And we know that the Samaritans and the Jews did not like one another. The Samaritans were half-breeds. They were half Gentile and half Jews. And because of that, the Jews did not like the Samaritans at all.
So much to the point that most of the time. If you were traveling in this case from Judea to Galilee, what you would do a lot of times is you would kind of go all the way around Samaria in order to get to your destination because you did not want to go through Samaria at all. This was like an extra day's journey. Journey that many Jewish people would add on to their trip so that they would not have to go through Samaria at all. They hated them.
Like when I think about that, it's kind of like this: when you go to a maybe Food Lion or Walmart and you walk past somebody and you see somebody that you know. You know what I'm talking about? And then you kind of are like, man, I'm not in the mood to talk.
So you go to another aisle. Any of you ever do that from time to time? Be honest with me, okay? And you just are like, man, now's not the time. Or that person's the last person that I want to talk to today, right?
And so you go somewhere else. I never do that as a pastor. I just would never stoop to that level. And so it's a joke. But here they would.
They would go around Samaria in order to get to their destination. And so here at the well, Jesus asked her for some water. And immediately she's like, wait a second, why in the world are you asking me for water? I may. Samaritan, I'm an outcast.
You're not supposed to be speaking to me. Why on earth would you do that? He goes on in verse ten. Jesus answered and he said unto her, If thou knew or knewest the gift of God And who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink? Thou wouldst have asked of him.
And he would have given thee living water. This is such a good verse. And here's why: because literally, I have written in my Bible next to that: if the world only knew. Like here, like Jesus answers her, and he says to this lady, because she doesn't know, he's about to tell her, but she had no clue. She had no clue what he was asking for her and what he was going to eventually.
Offer her. And so I'm thinking, like, she didn't know, but isn't that the problem with our world today? Is they don't know that the answer to all of their problems is found in the living water, is found in a relationship with Jesus Christ. And here it's like: if the world only knew the gift that God has freely offered. offered them, then they would be begging for it.
They would be searching for it. They would be asking for it. They would be just like this woman, they would be asking him of this living water. Verse 11, the woman said unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with. She's not getting it, by the way.
And the well is deep. From whence then hast thou that living water? In other words, you don't even have anything to put this water in. You know, this makes no sense. Verse 12, art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well and drank thereof himself?
And his children and his cattle. Jesus answered and said unto her, Well, whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again. In other words, the earthly water, you can drink of that, but you're going to be thirsty later. Right? It only quenches and satisfies, or it only satisfies your thirsty lips.
Just for a short period of time. And you're going to need more of that. Verse number 14. But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him, Shall never thirst. But the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water, springing up into everlasting life.
Yeah. If there's a verse that describes salvation, it is that. It is that. It is a wellspring of life that really just overflows from the life of a believer. Verse 15: the woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water.
That I thirst not. Neither come hither to draw. Jesus said unto her, Go, call thy husband. And come hither.
Now, this is where it gets good because Jesus knew her. At this point, she's learning what he's offering her, but she has kind of been able to kind of keep these boundaries up in her life about her personal life. She's been able to kind of stay private a little bit. He doesn't need to know the inner working of my life. He doesn't need to know the mistakes that I've made.
He doesn't need to know the thoughts that I've thought. He doesn't need to know the behaviors and actions that I participated in. And here, she's kind of been able to stay private, but now Jesus is going to show her that He knows everything about her. He says, Go call thy husband and have him come. Verse 17: The woman answered and said, I have no husband.
Now, Jesus already knew that. And Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband. For thou hast had five husbands.
Now things have to be a little uncomfortable at that point. Because here's what I'll tell you: anytime your personal life gets exposed. It's uncomfortable. And here's why: is because nobody wants to be exposed in front of somebody else. Nobody wants to be vulnerable.
In front of somebody else. Nobody wants to admit sin and admit. Wrongdoing and admit failure. None of us, and that's true of you, that's true of me, it's true of the woman in the well. We don't like to admit the darkest parts.
Of our life. We like to keep those kind of locked away in our heart and keep those to ourselves. But here, Jesus is beginning to show her that I know everything. About Yeah. He says you've had five.
Five husbands, and uh, and then he says, And he whom thou now hast is not thy husband. In other words, the person you're living with is not even your husband. And that said truly, the verse nineteen: the woman saith unto him, Sir. I perceive that thou art a prophet. In other words, like, oh my goodness, he knows everything.
He's prophesied literally about my life. He's revealed some things. And so I think you're a prophet. And she goes on: Our fathers worship. In this mountain, and ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.
Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh when ye shall neither in this mountain nor yet at Jerusalem worship the Father. Ye worship, ye know not what, we know what we worship for salvation of the Jews. In other words, he's saying that there's coming a day because he's the Messiah. He's going to reveal that to her here in a moment. And he's basically saying that when the Messiah comes and dies for the world, that the place of worship is not going to be exclusive.
In other words, now we can worship God wherever we are. And we are a byproduct of the gospel at work. What he is proclaiming, what he's prophesying. It's not going to be about a place. It's eventually going to be about a person and worshiping Jesus in spirit and in truth.
Verse number 24: God is the spirit, and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. The woman saith unto him, I know that Messiah cometh, which is called Christ. She's not getting. That he is it when he has come, and he will tell us all things.
So she'd heard about these things. She's heard about the teachings of the Israelites. She's probably heard about the Old Testament.
So she's listened and she understands that. And so Jesus says one of the most important things in scripture back to her: he says to her in verse 26: I that speak unto thee am He. In other words, what he is saying is this: that the Messiah that you've heard about, I am he. I'm him. The one that is talking to you right here in the middle of the day.
As you're trying to fetch water, I am he. Verse 27. And upon this came his disciples, and they marveled that he talked with the woman. I mean, they're probably thinking, Jesus, you realize what this is going to do to your reputation? Jesus, like the disciples, they always struggled, right?
And so they're thinking, like, wow, how in the world is Jesus talking to this Samaritan woman? We as Jews are supposed to be separate from them. We're not supposed to deal with them. We're not supposed to talk with them. We're not supposed to fellowship with them.
We're not supposed to do all of these different things. And so they're marveling that he talked with the woman, yet no man said, what seeketh thou, or why talkest thou with her? Nobody asked the real question of why you are fellowshipping with. with sinners. Verse twenty-eight, the woman then left her water pot and went her way into the city and saith to the men, Hey, come, see a man which told me all things that I ever did.
Is not this The Christ. And then they went out of the city. And came unto Here. This story is so, so good because this story really captures the life of every single one of us in this place here today. It really is a story about your life and my life.
This woman had a bad reputation. That's why she's showing up in the middle of the day by herself. She had no friends. Jesus also calls her out on her lifestyle. She was married numerous times.
She was living with a man that wasn't her husband. And really, here, what you have to understand, based on law, she could have lost her life for the life that she was living. Like the life that she was involved in was so bad, so evil, so wicked, so sinful that she could have lost her very life. Because of how she was living. And here she's standing there, sitting right there by Jesus.
And Jesus knows everything about her. And we're reminded, and we see here, and this is true of your life and my life, that Jesus did not come to shame her, did he? Because she had every reason to be shamed. She had every reason to be shunned. She had every reason to be an outcast.
She had every reason to have no friends. She had every reason for that. But what we learn about our Savior, about our Messiah, is that he did not come to shame her. He came to save her. He did not come to shame her.
He came to save her. And here's what I want you to understand: you, like this woman, are no different. Is that you have every reason to be an outcast? You had every reason. To have no friends and no community and no belonging.
You had every reason because every single one of us are sinners, just like this woman. And we deserve to be shamed. But what we learn from this story is that Jesus did not come to shame us, He came to save us from our sin. And that's the gospel. And that's the gospel story here.
He offers her. What we're going to call living water. What we learn from this text is living water. He offers her, that's salvation. He offers us living water.
And here's what I want you to understand today as we continue this series: Sinners Like Us, we're all sinners, is this, is that living water is the only thing. Living water is the only thing. That can satisfy A sinful soul. Living water is the only thing. There is nothing else, like money, career, relationships, like this woman.
There is nothing else in life on this earth. that can satisfy a sinful soul but living water. It's the only thing that can satisfy. And so, as we looked at this story and we resonate and we relate to it because we're all sinners, we're reminded here that living water is the only thing that can satisfy.
So, for a few moments, I want to look at this idea of living water. I want to just give you a few simple, practical things that we can learn from this. Number one is this: living water is a gift. Living water is a gift offered to everyone. It's offered to everybody.
And if you're an everybody, can you slip up your hand?
Okay, that's me. That's you. Uh if you didn't raise your hand, okay, then uh I don't know where you're from, okay? And so, but you're in everybody. It's us.
It's offered to the woman at the well, it's offered to Jonah. It's offered to Abraham. It's offered to Rahab the prostitute, right? It's offered to Moses. It's offered to David.
It's offered to the woman at the well, and it's offered to you. It's offered to us. You see, living water is a gift offered to everybody. And that's what you see here in verse 10. Jesus, when he answered her, he said something very good.
He says to the woman, he said, if you only knew. The gift that was offered to you. When we think about gifts, we got to remember that gifts. are free. Right?
Like, I mean, at at Christmastime, you give gifts. And birthdays, you give gifts and And it's not based on performance. Right? Gifts are free. Gifts are good things that you like to give somebody just because.
Just 'cause you love 'em. Right? It's like your kids. Your kids could act like wild animals all year, but on Christmas morning, You're going to give them a gift. And throughout the month of December, you're going to say things to your kids like.
If you keep acting this way, you're not going to get a gift on Christmas Day. And it does not matter if your kids keep acting. Here's what I'm going to tell you: as parents, you're going to still give them a gift. Because that's what parents do. We give gifts.
Gifts are free. They're not based on your performance. And when he says, Woman, if you only knew the gift that was offered to you, what he's saying is this: that the gift that I'm giving you, this gift of living water. It is a gift. not based on your performance, because your performance is not worthy of the gift.
Your lifestyle does not deserve a gift. Your behaviors don't deserve A gift. You're in the midst of your sin, and yet Jesus offers you a gift. And by the way, isn't that true of your life and my life? Like we all are sinners.
And we sin in different ways. But here's what I want you to know: it doesn't matter if you're a drug addict or an alcoholic or an adulterer, like this woman. It doesn't matter if you're prideful. Like those things, the ones that I just mentioned, they're kind of your big sins. And in churches, we think like, wow, as long as I'm not any of those things, I'm good.
Well, hold on just a second. Maybe you're not in those things, but perhaps this will tell you. If you're prideful, If you're judgmental. If you're legalistic, all these other different things. Here's what I want you to know: it does not matter what sin you are involved in, we are all sinners equally.
in need of a Savior. Equally in need of living water. And here's what I want you to know: living water that Jesus is offering you and me, it is a free gift. offered to everyone. Regardless of what you're involved in, regardless of the sins that you've committed.
I mean, Romans chapter number six talks about this. For the wages of sin is death. But the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. And so that's what living water is. Ephesians 2 talks about it: for by grace are you saved?
Through faith, that not of yourselves it is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man. Should boast, right? Living water is a gift offered. To everyone. And what we learn from scripture and what we learn from our story is this: that salvation or living water, what she is being offered, is not a wage that you work for, it is a gift that you receive.
It's not a wage that you work for. It's not an earning. You don't get living water because you did anything right. In fact, the only reason why you need living water is because you have done nothing right. Is because you've done nothing right.
And we are all sinners, and Jesus offers us this free gift of salvation. Living water is a gift offered to everyone, but what we also see from this story is this: living water satisfies you forever. Living water satisfies you. Forever. You know, he says to her in verse 13: Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again, right?
Like the earthly water, I mean, if you go out and you exercise or you play a sport, whatever, you're going to get. You're going to get thirsty, right? We went yesterday. We had family in town.
So we went to a water park in Greensboro. Many of you have probably been there at some point in your life, like Emerald Point. We went there along with pretty much the state of North Carolina was all there. And we went there, and here's what I'll tell you: we waited in line so long. I'll tell you this, it was just not fun.
I'm just going to be honest with you. It was not fun. I don't like to wait in line all day long with this many people. And we're waiting in line. And I waited so long.
And it was hot and everything. Kids are crying. Kids are freaking out. You know, it's just terrible. Everybody's complaining.
And I was as well. I'm just going to be honest with you. And so just ask my family. I was not in a good mood. And so, but I'm a sinner just like you and me.
So don't judge me. All right. And so, but I hated it. And so we were, I was so thirsty because we waited on this to get on this ride for so long or whatever. And so we waited.
And when I got back to my seat, you know, we had tons of bottled water there. And so.
So I like just guzzled, just guzzled water. And it lasted for a little bit, but then it was just shortly after that because it was so hot. It's like, man, I need more of that, right?
Well, what Jesus is saying is this: earthly water, it satisfies us for just a little bit of time. And you got to realize what Jesus was trying to teach her is that your relationships with all these guys is what he's trying to tell her. It's like those things are just going to satisfy you temporarily. They can't fix the problem you're longing for. And what we need to learn is this: that your career, it's like a sip of water.
You're going to be thirsty later.
Well, let me tell you this: you can taste what a career can do for you, and it might satisfy you for a little bit, make you feel really good for a little bit, but it's not going to satisfy the longing of your heart. The promotion you want. Might satisfy you for a little bit, but you're going to still be thirsty for something. Relationships. All these different things that we search for in life, they can satisfy you for a little bit, but they're not going to satisfy you forever.
And what Jesus is saying, when you taste. Hilms. When you have a relationship with Jesus. And you taste and see that he is good. Here's what I'm going to tell you.
It is a satisfaction that lasts for all of eternity. In other words, when you taste the vin, you will never thirst. Again, he satisfies you Forever. That's what living water does. But not only that, we learned that living water Changes your life.
Living water changes your life.
So, living water is a gift offered to everybody. It satisfies you forever, but it also changes your life. You see, here in this story, we learn that the Samaritan woman worshiped relationships. I mean, if you're on your, you know, you've had five husbands and you're going into your six, let me just tell you this: you're worshiping relationships, you're worshiping sex, you're worshiping men. And here, this woman was worshiping all the wrong things.
But what we learn here is that when she came in contact with living water, it changes what we worship. It changes what we care about. It changes what we build our life upon. And for some of us, like you say, Pastor, I'm building my life on a career. Maybe you've never tasted of living water then.
Say, Pastor, I'm building my life upon my family.
Well, maybe you haven't tasted what living water can do for you. I'm building my life on a promotion.
Well, guess what? Living water is the foundation because here's what I want you to know: that when you give your life to Jesus and when you taste Him and you have a relationship with Him through salvation, here's what I want you to understand: it changes what you desire to worship. It changes who is on the throne of your life. And this woman, you see this at the end of this text in verses 27 through 30, what you see here is that this woman who once worshipped men, who once worshiped relationships, she now wants to worship Jesus. Only the gospel can do that.
Only the gospel can change you at the innermost part of your being to want you to worship him and not the things that this world has to offer. And then last, living water transforms you into a witness for Christ. Verse 28 and 30, I love this: that the woman left her water pot. Ha ha ha. Talk about worshiping something new.
She literally left her old life behind. She left what she came for there. She completely forgot about that and she went. In other words, it's almost as if she had received water as a fountain flowing out of her, and now she was focused on her message to everybody. And so, think about this story for a moment, and then we'll be done: is that she leaves this water pot, she goes back.
Now, the only reason she had come to the well was to fetch water.
Now, her focus is totally different. And so she heads back and she begins to tell all the men and people. She begins to tell them all about. Mm this Messiah That she just came in contact with, who knew everything about her. Here's what's amazing to me.
You say, What's her message? I would have loved to kind of hear what that was. You know, the men that heard this, the people she went and told, I'd be curious what. What she told them to get them to all want to come back and see him. And here, as I'm reading into the story, here's kind of the message that I think she probably said to them.
Is this when she went up to the men? She probably said something to this effect: listen, the Messiah knows everything about me. And loves me anyway. Like, I think that's kind of the message that she was telling the men that she came in contact with: is this, hey, guys, listen, down here at the well in the middle of the day, I want you to know I met the Messiah, the one that we have heard about, the one that I've learned about, the one and all these different things. And she probably said something to this effect: he knew everything about me.
Every wrong thing that I've ever done. Every sin that I've ever committed, every wrong fault that I've ever even thought, and he knew every one of those things. And yet he loves me. Anyway. You see, that's what the story is, and that's your story, and my story.
Listen, you can put up the biggest fake life in front of the people around you. You can fool everybody around you to think that you are just a great person, and at the inner core of who you are, you can be just a filthy, wicked, evil sinner. And here's what I want you to know. Here's the beauty of the gospel is that Jesus. Yeah.
And offered you a free gift of living water. And Jesus, right now, where you are. He knows everything about you. Everything, even the darkest parts of your life, he knows it all. And yet he loves you.
Anyway. When you get exposed In front of people. I mean imagine that. Imagine being fully exposed. in front of people like just say we were going to do this we're not going to this is kind of wild If like we went around the room.
And we just kind of, you know, maybe on the screens, went person by person, and we put your name up on the screen. And every wrong thought you've ever... kind of that's ever crossed your mind. Every Wrong action, every wrong word. Every bad deed.
Every terrible thing. What if we just put it right up there where the whole church? Could see it. Wouldn't that be terrible? When you guys did that to me, I would not show up that day, okay?
I'd never show up again. Because you wouldn't want me as your pastor. Right? But if we did that for every single person in here, imagine how that would make you feel. Lost?
Judged? Condemned? Embarrassed? Hopeless. You felt like a complete failure.
Because at the core we really are.
Well, here's what I want you to know about our Savior. about our Messiah. is this. Every wrong thing that you have ever done, he knows it. And you know how we feel in his presence when we are fully exposed?
Safe. Secure. Loved. That's not true of our earthly relationships. When you get fully exposed, Whatever.
That's not the feelings that we a lot of times get. But in the presence of the Messiah, in the presence of Jesus, when we get fully exposed, we're not condemned because He didn't come to condemn or shame us. He came. To save us. And when you taste Him as a sinner, it transforms you into wanting others to experience the same taste that you want.
That's why she went and told him. That's why it blows my mind that for us, we've been saved. And we're not telling everybody that we meet about him. Like you gotta be talking about him You got to be telling people, just like she left her water pot, some of you need to leave whatever's holding you back here and you need to go out of here and you need to grab a gospel track in the welcome center. You need to grab an invite card and you need to go around to everybody that you meet and say, hey, listen, the Messiah knows everything about me and loves me anyway.
And guess what? He knows everything about you and he loves you as well. That's the message. That's what we need to learn. You see, what we learned from this story is this: living water, salvation, is the only thing that can satisfy.
A sinful soul. There is nothing else. There is nothing else. There is nothing that can satisfy. And as our world.
The people you work with, your children. Your grandchildren. Right? Like, you know, your neighbors, as you watch the world, look for satisfaction in all of the wrong places. You have the answer.
You have Living water. And what we need to do is go around and say, taste and see. Because when you taste them. You'll be satisfied. Forever.
Can you bow your heads for prayer?
