Seeking for the help of the Lord,
I direct your prayerful attention to the Gospel according to John
chapter 4 and reading from our text, verse 4. And he must needs go through
Samaria. John chapter 4 and verse 4. In the previous chapter, in chapter
3, our Lord had insisted upon the new birth. He must be born
again. The doctrine, the teaching of
the new birth He set forth very clearly. I hope it is true of
each of you here. that that truth is also impressed
upon your hearts, that if you are to be saved, you must be
born again. There must be a spiritual birth
between the time of your natural birth and the time that you die.
There's no other way, there's no other way of salvation but
that which is begun. We've sung of it in our middle
hymn, Will not thou complete that which thou hast begun? And
it is God that begins. He which hath begun a good work
in you will perform it unto the day of Jesus Christ. And we often
would look upon the new birth as the beginning. But very often
when we are born again we can look back And we can see the
Lord had begun long before we ever thought that he'd begun
with us. And the comfort of God's people
is when they're able to trace and be able to say with those
involved, this is the work of God. The thing proceedeth from
the Lord. So the Lord goes from teaching
the new birth and that it is a spiritual birth to giving us,
in chapter four, four examples of the new birth. As if he would
say, I've taught you the doctrine, now I'm going to illustrate to
you what it looks like. And in doing so, I'm going to
show you that no two births look the same, that they are different. My way of working is different. Don't ever think, well if I'm
born again, I've got to read a biography, an autobiography,
and I'm going to pattern, and it's going to be exactly like
that in my life, it will not. If you want to pattern, pattern
it off this chapter, but which one are you going to choose?
The one that I want to speak of most is the first one, and
it's dealt with at length, which is the woman at the well of Samaria. And with her, we read a lot of
the Lord's dealings with her, before they met and after they
met, and those things are what I want to go through. But hers
is not the only account. Because she went to those of
Samaria, she said, come see a man that told me all things that
ever I did, is not this the Christ? Now for some of those, that was
enough. They believed her testimony. We are told out here that they
actually believed what she had said. And that's another example
of a new birth. We are just told there were testimony
of one to another. The Lord blesses it, uses it,
and they believe. There are others that could not
believe like that, They've lived enough to go and hear Him. Enough
aroused of interest to hear Him. And then they say, now we believe,
not because of thy saying, but because we have heard Him ourselves. And we know that this is the
very Christ. So you've got another one. So
you might think, well, if we take the path into the second
one, I need to be able to believe just on the testimony of someone
else. And if I can't then maybe that's
not a real birth. But now you take the other one
and that may be the start and you come to the house of God,
you hear the word of God preached and you hear it for yourself.
And then you have ought to believe. There's a fourth one which is
the end of the account where we have the nobleman coming to
heaven, and again the Lord is emphasizing the need of believing
without the miracles. He said to him, Go thy way, thee
thy son liveth. Because he said, he reproved
and said in verse 48, Except ye see signs and wonders ye will
not believe. So he tested him. He just gave
the word, thy son liveth. No one could have easier been
the man who turned around and said, I'll prove it. He gave me a sign of wonder,
but he didn't, he believed. But he got his sign, got his
wonder, because when he came home, there was life. There was the child that was
living. And it wasn't just for him, but we read, himself believed
and his whole house. So we get these different pictures
of what a new birth looks like when the Lord begins. But it
is with the woman of Samaria especially that we are told in
a lot more detail what the Lord is actually doing. And what I
want to do this afternoon really is to magnify the work of God. This is the work of God that
ye believe in him whom God has sent. I want you to really notice
how that it is God's work, preparing the ground, instigating it, bringing
it along, controlling every aspect of what is done. It is not the
woman of Samaria, it is the Lord that is governing and guiding
it all. In every sinner that is called
by grace, The crown is always put on the Lord's head. It's
not on man. Part of the work of grace will
be to humble things that we've said, things that we've done,
our own heart, our own sins. The Lord makes us to know and
to feel those things. You will never then go to another
person and say, look, I've been called, I've been blessed. Look,
you ought to do this and this and this, and then you'll be
like me. And as if we're being proud, the hymn writer says,
the heart uplifts with God's own gifts, makes even grace a
snare. But God has ways to deal that
with his people. And often they're very humbling
ways to bring their love. It doesn't take away from the
blessing. In fact, it magnifies the blessing,
the sovereignty, the free grace, the kindness, the Lord not dealing
with us as our sins have deserved. but who make sure that we realize
that we are sinners and feel that we really are. So on to
the three points on this. The Lord's dealings with the
woman at the well of Samaria. And firstly I want to look at
the circumstances that were ordered by God. This is before even He
begins talking with her, there are those things that are done
that has prepared the ground. I want to look at that first.
And then secondly, Jesus instigates and He controls the work of grace. We can see that through here.
He is controlling everything that is happening. And then lastly,
the newborn soul is brought to bear testimony of Christ, and
we have that beautifully in verse 29, come see a man which told
me all things that ever I did is not this, the Christ. But firstly we have these circumstances
and the first one is our text. He must, needs go through Samaria. Well if you look at a map you
say of course he did because if he is going from Judea into
Galilee, in between the two is Samaria. And he'd have to do
a very wide detour to get from one to the other without going
through Samaria. But what a lesson that we are
taught in this. There's something that in a providential
way had to happen. He must needs go through Samaria.
But the Lord clearly shows us that even though this had to
happen, He had a design in it. He had a purpose in it. There
was a reason for it. You know, this word dropped in
when called to come here, I thought, that I must need to go through
Stanton. Is there a purpose? Why? The
reason is a dear brother not well, not able to come here.
But is that the only reason? I hope it is not, dear friends. I hope it is not. I hope there's
another reason why that I must bring the word this afternoon. Why did Philip have to go into
the desert? There was a reason there. Wherever
the Lord went, there was a purpose, there was a reason. Wherever
the Lord's servants go, there is a purpose, there is a reason. If there is an open door, there
is a who can tell why. If there is a shut door, we leave
it. Sometimes in giving out Bibles to the schools at Cranbrook,
we had a certain school and we got in for a few years and then
the door was shut and then I tried it and it was open. I said, well
it may be those shut gears, there was not any there that needed
the word then. The Lord saw it, don't waste
going in, waste your Bibles, but now it is, go in. A shut
door is as good a direction as an open one. The Lord will make
sure that He brings together His servants and He brings together
His people. It must be so. And there was
then a circumstance that was a vital circumstance that brought
him to be wearied with his journey on the well at that very point. And so again, there's another
reason why she must come to the well to get water. Whether it
was the time to get it or not, she was brought there at that
time. We think of other meetings of
the world. You think of Abraham's servant and the meeting of Rebekah and how that was given thanks
for. When told to Bethlehem and Bethuel
as his answer to prayer, they said, the thing proceedeth from
the Lord. And they're talking about his
answers to prayer and a bring together of Abraham's servant
and Rebekah. And to notice these things, if
we are to have the comfort and assurance that God is working
in our lives. If we're ascribing everything
to chance and to luck, you'll miss those things. But if you
really believe what is in Hymn 70, my life's minutest circumstance
is subject to thine eye, we won't miss it. Don't pass over and just think.
that things well would have just happened. There's no other purpose
of God in this at all. I quite think as well as coming
here. Certainly I've chosen the last hymn, but the two first
hymns have been very much upon my spirit as well. So maybe if
the Lord's servant had been able to come, he would have had very
different hymns today. and pass over the fact that the
Lord can bless them as well as they reflect and teach the same
truths in the Word of God. Another circumstance that God
had ordered. In the woman of the well of Samaria,
there was one thing that she knew about the Messiah. And that was to pay quite a crucial
point in this. Remember the man that had been
born blind, he said, one thing I know, or as I was blind, now
I see. The Lord knows what we know.
He knows what He's taught us, and He builds upon that. You
children here, the young people, prize and hold fast what you
know of the scriptures of truth. Learn them and pray that the
Lord would bless them to you and that you would use those
things that you know in unregeneracy to be used to quicken you into
life, to speak to your soul what she knew. And we're told of this
in verse 25. The woman saith unto him, I know
that Messiah's cometh, she knew that, which is called Christ,
but she also knew this, when he is come he will tell us all
things. And just that one bit of information
that she knew was crucial as to how the Lord began with her. She knew he would tell us all
things. You think of her testimony, come
see a man that told me all things that I did. Matched up exactly,
didn't it, how the Lord was dealing. When had she learned that? Might
have been years ago. Might have been as a child. How it was to be used. Used to
recognize who was talking to her at that time. But then we have another thing.
We are told that the disciples had gone away. It's in brackets. They're saying, for his disciples
were gone away into the city to buy land. The Lord had made
sure he hadn't got anyone else there that was going to interfere,
change things. This was to be a dealing between
him and the woman that came to the world, the Samaritan woman.
The new birth is a very personal thing. Just because one member
in the family is blessed with saving grace and a new birth,
doesn't mean to say that the next one will be. Each one personally, each one
of you children, the older ones, you need the new birth, each
individually. Not enough for another to have
it and not you. And the Lord's dealings will
be personal to you. And if you and I are going to
have a comfort and enjoyment of realizing that we are one
of the Lord's people, that will not be because of a general blessing
or a movement in the congregation, it is because the Lord has blessed
our soul. The Lord came expressly unto
me. that hath an ear, let him hear,
or her hear, what the Spirit saith unto the churches." This then was one of the Lord's
preparations. Remember with the Syrophoenician
woman, and again the Lord overruled it for good, that when He tried
her faith He answered her not at all. Then she went to the
disciples. They said, she cried after us. They couldn't help. But in this
case, the Lord made sure that the disciples were there. Notice,
when the disciples returned, immediately, stop. All the interaction,
and the woman left the water pot and she went. Everything
was done between this time. When the Lord was alone with
the woman. How many of you have times in
the closet when you are alone with the Lord? When the Lord has drawn you to
come alone. You felt you had to leave what
you were doing. You had to find a spot on your
own. You had to go before the Lord
in prayer. Our Lord was clear that no man
cometh unto me except the Father which sent me draw him. When the Lord was first dealing
with me and I was favoured to have my own homes, I was on my
own in my own... I'd just turned 20. But there
were those times I felt a prompting, go and pray. And I could drop
whatever I was doing and to go kneel in my chair or bed and
pray. And I'd stay a little while and
then I'd get up and go back to my work. And then I'd feel the
problem again and I'd go and pray again. Only a short while,
but the times that the Lord has broken in me and blessed my soul
then, and even now, when I hear that still, small voice, come
pray, Immediately, recognize that, that is the voice of my
God. Go and pray. Don't say, well
I've got to finish what I'm doing now. And then I'll run. Sometimes
you've got to because you can't finish it. But often when it
comes, you can, you are in that position. And if you put it off
then, then it is too late. Instant, in season, out of season. The Lord will bring the bringing
together. It's not going to be literal like this, is it? Yes,
it will be like you've come in this afternoon and I trust the
Lord has sent me here. There is that physical meeting. But in bringing between the Lord
and your soul, my soul, is when we come before Him in prayer.
When we're on our own, when we're before the Lord. That is where
the Lord works that work in the heart. And yes, He uses that
which may be spoken in the house of God. You take it, you beat
it down. The Lord deals with that. I want
to just emphasize that even before then, the Lord is beginning with
this woman. Things have been ordered. Things
have been happening and going on that have been necessary preparation
And the Lord uses many things to prepare. I remember saying
to a young man years ago when he was in affliction, I said
to him, has the Lord sanctified it to you? And he looked at me
blank as if to say, what do you mean? So I changed it and I said,
has what you've been through changed how you listen in the
house of God and how you come before the Lord in prayer? Yes,
he says it has. if what trials and things we've
gone through has that effect, it's working for good. Sometimes
it might be painful, but necessary preparation. On to look then,
secondly, at how Jesus instigates and controls that call by grace,
and specifically in this woman's case. He instigates it. In verse 7,
there cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water. Who's the first
one to begin with this interaction between the two? It's the Lord.
Jesus saith unto her, give me to drink. Now you always remember
that. It is the Lord that instigates
it. He begins it, he begins the good work, he carries it on,
he finishes it, just with a word, just with a question. But then
she has objections. She says, How is it that thou,
being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? For the Jews have no dealings
with the Samaritans. The Lord ignores her objection. He is in control. This is a real
pattern of the Lord's work while He is on earth. Many came to
Him asking questions, many trying to trip Him up. But they didn't
set the agenda, He did. They didn't set the conversation,
He did. Sometimes He directly reproved
them, sometimes He just ignored them and passed by. Maybe those of you here, you've
got objections. You think, well, what is this?
Why should this be so? And you lay it before the Lord
in prayer. And it seems the Lord has completely ignored your objections. Just pass them by as if they're
not there. But that doesn't mean to say,
he's saying I'm having nothing to do with you. He's saying,
that's irrelevant. That's not a problem. is not
a problem, that the Jews have nothing to do with the Samaritans,
that is not going to come in between us, that is not going
to stop it. You might hope that there is
something that will stop the work of God in your heart, something
that will prevent there being any interaction between the Lord
and you. And you bring it before the Lord,
but the Lord just ignores it. No, that will not separate. And
I'm not even going to let it digress me or turn me aside for
a moment. I'm going to continue on my work
and continue on my way what I want to say before you. So he brings
us in verse 10, directly, directly to the gift of God, directly
to himself. No, the Lord doesn't waste time
getting right to the most important thing. Jesus answered, really
is that an answer? And said unto her, If thou 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. The Lord is the one that hath
eternal life to give, and he is the gift of God that which
the Father has given his only begotten Son. And the gift of
God that he gives to his people is himself and a knowledge of
himself and the blessing of life through his name. And so he brings
it directly to that. When the Holy Spirit is in work,
It will always magnify the Lord Jesus Christ, always come straight
to the most important point. Won't sidetrack different things. No. There's none of a name given
among men whereby we must be saved. And so the Lord brings
her to this. But again she has objections. And this time she's looking naturally.
She's looking at the well. The well's deep, nothing to draw
with. Verse 11, 12. Whence then hast
thou living water? Art thou greater than our Father,
Jacob which gave us the well? All of these objections. Again, he ignores them. He's
not talking about natural water. He's not talking about this well.
He doesn't need to be able to get that water up from that well.
But he is in the process of revealing himself to her and he's not being
sidetracked from that. Do you notice, dear friends,
where the Lord is the one that directs all what happens and
all what is taught, we are not like a person that thinks that
they know it all and they go to be taught but they end up
trying to teach the instructor, no, it is one that is made teachable. Lord, what wilt thou have me
to do? Mine ear hast thou opened. And
there's a listening to the Lord. If the Lord is not listening,
it seems to be to your objections, Notice more what he is doing
in furthering on teaching and instructing to you. And you can
draw, as it were, from this that the objection ignored is not
valid. It's not an inference. It doesn't
matter. Leave it aside. So our Lord in verse 13 and 14,
he brings her to see the difference between natural and spiritual. Jesus answered, said unto her,
whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again. Whosoever
drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst. Right through these chapters
in John, The Lord is dealing with natural, spiritual. We naturally, we try to interpret
things in a natural way. The natural man will see that
not the things of God, neither can he know them because they
are spiritually discerned. Nicodemus, he says, how can a
man that is old be born again, go into his mother's womb? No,
the Lord still insists on this verse. when you're speaking about
a spiritual birth. This woman is struggling how
this man can get up natural water. He's not speaking about natural
water, he's speaking about spiritual water, living water. When we go to chapter 6, we find
the Lord has worked the miracle of Moses and the fishers, they
followed him over the sea, And he says, you seek me not because
you saw the miracles, but because you did eat of the loaves and
were filled. Labour not for the meat that perisheth, but for
that which endureth unto eternal life. Again, we have the two.
Not water in this, but in meat. And then he insists, except you
eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man, you have no
life in you. They said, how can this man give
us his flesh to eat? They said, this is a hard saying.
Who can hear it? walk no more with them, but he
was speaking about spiritually. And he says, the words that I
speak unto thee, they are spirit, they are truth, they are life.
The words, thy words were found and I did eat them. They were
the joy of rejoicing of my heart. That's what the Lord is speaking
about when he's saying eating his flesh, drinking his blood,
Christ and him crucified. The Word of God, the Living Word
of God. Now God reveals Himself to us
through His Word. Again and again it is the Word
that is exalted. The blessing of a spiritual birth
is just this. We are brought from natural to
spiritual. To discern spiritual things. How many of you here discern
spiritual things? He desires spiritual food. Man
shall not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth
out of the mouth of God. A natural man cannot understand
that. He doesn't know what it is to
feed upon the word of God. He hasn't got a spiritual equipment
soul, so he doesn't desire it. He doesn't feel the need of it.
This woman couldn't have fast. This woman was interpreting things
naturally first, but as the Lord was dealing with her, as he was
drawing her, he brings her to ask for this. We have this in the 15th verse. The woman saith unto him, Sir,
give me this water, thy thirst not, neither come hither to draw. She didn't know what it was,
But He has drawn her by the things that He is saying to her to want
Him, to ask, Thy people shall be willing in the day of Thy
power. How many of you have been prayerless,
but the Lord through His dealings has made you pray? How many have
not asked for a thing, but the Lord through what He has brought
you into and what you have heard through the Word have been brought
to pray? Maybe you've gone out from the
house of God, and you've gone and found your closet and prayed,
and brought before the Lord what you have heard. I hope you search
the Scriptures like the Bereans do. Yes, they did what they've
heard, therefore many of them believed. But you see how the Lord's work,
this is God's work, draws us in. draws them to want to ask,
to want eternal life, to want this living water, though even
now they don't really understand what it is. That shouldn't stop
our prayers for it, if the Lord has given us that desire to ask. And so the Lord answers her request,
but notice how He does. Verse 16, Jesus saith unto her,
Go, call thy husband, and come hither. The most simple question,
simple direction. He knew all about her. He knew
about those five husbands, and the one that she was living with
now. He brought her to conviction.
He brought her to realize and know that He knew all about her
life. And here comes the very thing
that she knew about Messiah. When He came He would tell us
all things. I perceive that thou art a prophet.
He touched the very thing He knew that she knew of the Messiah.
And He touched the very thing that she was guilty of. Same
as the Apostle Paul, he said, I was alive without the law once,
but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died. And the
Lord knew what commandment to bring and to convict him of. Don't think that if we have conviction
of sin, it's going to be conviction of every sin that could be possibly
committed. The Lord only needs to bring
us into conviction of one. Why? who is guilty of one point,
is guilty of all. And if the Lord brings a real
conviction of one sin, and brings this sin as guilty, we are guilty
of all. The law was given that sin might
abound, that all man might be brought in guilty before God.
That is a vital point. The Lord Jesus Christ is called
Jesus, for He shall save His people, from their sins. The Lord wasn't bringing this
woman's sins before her to crush her, to drive her away, to tell
her there was no hope for her. It was for a gracious purpose. It was for good. Remember that. If you're groaning under a feeling
of sin this afternoon, Where the Lord applies and lays the
burden of sin upon a sinner is not to crush, is not to push
them away, is not to destroy them. It's to put an end of hope in
self and to point to Christ. It's to cut off our self-righteousness. It's as a schoolmaster says Paul
unto Christ, the law schoolmaster, that by the deeds of the law
no man living shall be justified, and it was the Lord that brought
her to that. We cannot convince ourselves
of our sin, we cannot bring ourselves in guilty, but God can, and God
does, and when He does it is for a gracious purpose. Then He introduces to her, in
verses 21, the 24 spiritual worshippers. That is what is needed isn't
it? Not just coming in and out of God's house, not just going
through rounds of dead service, but a real spiritual worshipper.
He that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a
rewarder of them that diligently seek him. A living soul, quickened
into divine life, a life that was not there before, but is
now, because the Lord has given it. Remember, this woman asked
for living water, she asked for life, and notice how the Lord
gave it to her, through conviction, and then brought her to true
spiritual worship. You know, the Lord brings us
into real conviction of sin, you'll be a different worshipper
from that time forth. Your time in the Lord's house
will be different, you'll be hearing the word as hearing it
as a sinner that needed a saviour, as one that is lost, that is
actually found but feels the need of being found. And this
is the Lord's work, blessed soul. if the Lord has made us to be
a spiritual worshipper that hungers and thirsts after righteousness,
after Christ, that has a desire after Him and that has Christ
revealed in this way. In verse 26 we read how the Lord
revealed himself to her. Jesus said unto her, I that speak
unto thee am he. You don't read of many occasions
in the scriptures where he has so clearly said who he is. And yet when she goes to the
Samaritans, that's not what she says. She doesn't say, come see
a man that told me he was the Christ. No. She tells of what
she's experienced, what he has done for her, what he has shown
her. And you know, those of the city,
they would have known her. They would have known what her
life was. Here is a changed character. No, really, the sum of this,
of what the Lord is showing, showing Himself as the One that
came to put away sin, showing Himself as the promised seed
of the woman that should bruise the serpent's hands. our Lord's
sufferings and death upon Calvary, following His perfect life and
obedience, that was to put away the sin of His people. The work
that He has finished is finished. The sin of all His people is
put away, is already dealt with. There will not be anything for
them to suffer under the judgment. The judgment has been these sinners
place their sins on my beloved son and punish him, hide my face
from him, deal with him. He has suffered the just for
the unjust that he might bring us to God. It is Christ and Him crucified. that the Apostle Paul decides
of no one to preach amongst the churches. Because there it is
that the full justice of God is seen, the substitutionary
offering is made at Calvary. And in viewing in and believing
in the Lord Jesus Christ, is believing who He is, God, a man
in one person, believing what He has done, effected the redemption
of all his people, satisfied the justice of God, risen again
and he lives in heaven above. He is the executor of his own
will. All of those for whom he died
that he knew he will in their lifetime call by grace. Now dear
friends, do not walk the path of a Do not say, well because it's
God's work, then I just live my life and if God saves me,
saves me. If he doesn't, then it's his
fault. If you're saying that, you've no idea of what is awaiting
you. You've no idea of the danger. If we are aware of something
that is really threatening us, even though we've got no power
or ability to deliver us, we will try everything that we can
to be able to do it. The fact that eternity and our
sins and the judgment to come does not move us to anything
at all shows that we are dead. And the Lord knows that we are
dead and that is why salvation is of the Lord. That is the only
hope of all us sinners. Everyone will say that the Lord
sought me, the Lord found me. When I was a stranger, wandering
from the fold of God, He was the one that sought me and found
me. Let no one take that and then
let grace abound and let me live like I want and then blame God
for my damnation. No. Don't ever walk that path,
dear friends. Don't be a fabulist. Don't be
one that blames God and really shakes a fist at God and say,
well, if you want to work with me, but if not, I'm going to
enjoy the pleasures of this world. No solid position to be in. But
for a poor sinner, poor sinners brought to hope in the Lord,
to be able to look on such an account as this, this picture,
of a new birth, this picture, one that the Lord has begun and
carried on with, what an encouragement. He won't let you go. He won't
forsake His work. He'll continue that until the
day of Jesus Christ. He is the author and finisher
of salvation. He is all His work, and the crown
is upon His head. One re-repentance, He is exalted
to give it. One with a softened heart, he
has to be inquired of by the House of Israel to give that
to them too. Every blessing, every favour
comes to us through Jesus' precious blood. It's all that free gift
of blessing to sinners. This is what I really wanted
to show forth in this example of how much the Lord is in control
of all that He's done, all that He's taught. all that is led
into, all that is brought together. If you can see these things in
your life, bless God you can see them, and really be encouraged
and strengthened. There's one last point before
we close, and that is the newborn soul that is brought to bear
testimony of Christ. It's not a testimony of who I
am, of what I have done, This, dear
woman, is what the Lord has done of what she was, or those who
read it about her knew that, and she knew it, but what her
testimony was as to what she had seen in Christ. The hymn
writer says, what think ye of Christ is the test. Those two
on the way to Emmaus, it culminated in seeing Christ, but before
their hearts had burned as he had been preaching to them. through
all the Old Testament scriptures of himself. Hearts really moved
after him. Souls who have been born again
and brought by God in this way, they are to have a testimony
to the Church of God. They are to be what this woman
comes to a man who's told me all things that ever I did, is
not this the Christ? That is the testimony that the
Church of God likes to hear. That is the testimony that unbelievers,
the Samaritans, they will want to hear that has such an effect. Why do you see such beauty in
Christ? What do you see in Him? You read
in the Song of Solomon, a beautiful description of Christ. This is
my beloved. This is my friend. That's what the Lord has shown
us, done for us. made us think differently of
the Lord unto you which believe he is precious. Come and hear
what he hath done for your God, and I will tell you what he hath
done for my soul, and this is what we have tried, imperfectly
I know, but to show from this account what he hath done for
her soul, what has he done for your soul, They saw the way to
a mass, they came back, they told what was things that were
done in the way and how Jesus was made known unto them in the
breaking of bread. May we have that testimony, maybe
there's some here that have that testimony, be able to tell what
things were done in the way and how the Lord was made known unto
them. The same testimony exists. This
real life example of a new birth, yours may differ. in many respects,
but one thing will be, the Lord started it, the Lord was in control
of it, and it led to the Lord, and led you to see and believe
in His name. May the Lord bless the world.