Here in John chapter 4 we see
what people call the woman at the well, the Samaritan woman,
the Lord calls her. And I love, it does my heart
good to watch the Lord call out His sheep. I love to read about
it. It's comforting to me. And I
love the fact, and I'm thankful for the fact, I get to see the
Lord do that in our day. I've seen the Lord save some
folks. He let me watch that happen. And I get to see Him grow us.
I get to see Him grow you. I get to watch His people grow
in grace. He lets me watch that. I'm thankful for that. I'm thankful
He's preserved His Word. We can read these things. It's
a great benefit to us. Read it often. It says here in
verse 1, 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. We looked at this
last week of John baptizing those Pharisees coming to him and said,
did you see what he's doing? He's outdoing you, John. He's
doing more work than you are. This is your job. He's doing
more than you are. That's what Pharisees looked
for. Did you know that? Numbers. Crowds. The results for the carnal eye.
Oh, we want to see signs and wonders. How many people's over
there? That's what they worry about. Christ is the exact opposite
of man's thoughts. Know what the scriptures tell
us? He said, my thoughts are not your thoughts. We look for
crowds. We look for big numbers. That
must mean success. He says, I leave the ninety and
nine and search out that one that's lost. Well, that don't
make no sense to us. Once Cleaved in 99, that's better
numbers, isn't it? If that was cattle, wouldn't
you do? No, he leaves a 99 and goes after one that's lost. Here,
he's leaving that murmuring and that division, that divisiveness,
for John's sake, yes. He did that for John's sake.
But he left the big crowds and the multitudes to find one Samaritan
woman. There was some others there.
He had some sheep in Samaria. but he came first for this one
Samaritan woman. It says in verse 3, he left Judea
and departed again into Galilee and he must needs go through
Samaria. Now the most direct route on
a map, straight line distance from Judea to Galilee was through
Samaria. And those self-righteous Jews,
they hated the Samaritans so bad, they had a route that went
around, circumnavigated Samaria. Don't even walk through there.
We got rules against this. Leave them people alone. Take
a long way. Avoid conflict. We don't want them touching us
or talking to us. Leave them alone. And the Lord went right
through. They had their rules of man about
Samaritans. The Samaritans were half-breeds.
They were half-Jew and half-Gentile. And they were despised. They
were looked down upon. And Christ went through Samaria, not out
of convenience. That's the shortest way to go.
It says He must go through there. He must. He had a lost sheep
in that town and He must reveal Himself to her. He said, there's
other sheep I have that are not of this fold and I must save
them. I must go to them. His eternal
covenant of grace was at stake. That's how important it was that
He went through Samaria. His eternal love was at stake
and His eternal glory was at stake. God's got a saint in San Diego
County. He must go to him. His name is
at stake. It must be. That's comforting.
This woman is one of his sheep. This is his bride. She don't
know it yet. He hasn't revealed himself to
her yet. But he's hers. She's hers. She is his. And she cannot come to the Lord.
No man can come to me. except the father draw him. And
in this case, she couldn't come, so he come to her. He must go
to Samaria. It says in verse 5, Then cometh
he to the city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near the parcel
of ground that Jacob gave his son Joseph. Now Jacob's well
was there. That's informative, isn't it?
I want you to understand something. Jacob's well was there. That's
one way we can read that. Here's another way we can read
that. We can put some inflection in that and a comma. That would
be right, wouldn't it? Christ has came here. Now Jacob's
well was there. There was a well there. Now the
well of Jacob's there. All of Jacob's seed come to him.
They come to this well, to Christ the well of life. None of us
in this room have ever been to that well. Physically, over on
the other side of the ocean, across the big pond. But everyone
that's come to him has come to him the well. That's where they
come to. David wrote, he said, all my springs are in thee. The Lord spoke to him. Christ
is the fountain and all the blessings of life and life itself is in
him. That's where it is. It says in
verse 6, now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore being
wearied with his journey sat thus on the well and it was about
the sixth hour. It was noonday sun, high noon. He was hot. He was tired. He was weary of walking. The Almighty God in human flesh
sat on this particular well and He rested. He was weary. He was tired. Every time I'm
walking and I get tired, I think of this verse. Our Lord God is
the God-Man Mediator, the Lord Jesus Christ, and He was weary.
He was tired. What a thought. And what a blessing
that is for us to read. It's so easy to read through
these things real quickly, isn't it? This is a God-man. He's a
man. As if fully, as if He was never
God. He's God as if He was never a man. He's both fully to be
made like His people. And He got tired. Why'd He get
tired? You get tired. Why'd He get thirsty? You get thirsty. And no way could
he compromise being made like unto his brethren by performing
a miracle. He fed 5,000. He was thirsty.
He didn't even go this well. He could have strengthened himself.
ATP production on the cellular respiration could have taken
off. And he had all kinds of energy. That ain't right. That's not what was required
of us. He had to be made like unto us.
And boy, what a blessing that is for you and I. He said in
Hebrews 4.15, For we have not an high priest which cannot be
touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but in all points
we are tempted just as we are yet without sin. Tempted just like me and you
are, yet without sin. Let us therefore, because of
that, because of who He is, what He made Himself to be, because
of that, let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace.
Let us come boldly to Him. because He's made just like us,
that we may obtain mercy and find grace and help in time of
need. That's why when we suffer, when
we're tired, when we're sleepy, when we're weary, come boldly
to Christ. Bring your burdens to Him and
leave them there because He's locking them to His people. He's
a friend that knows what you're going through. That's a hard
thing to do. You bear something that you don't
think many other people's bore and you want to talk to your
friends and your family and your brethren, but they haven't experienced
what you've experienced. They haven't lived through what
you've lived through. I don't talk about war experiences
too much unless somebody's been in war and they know what it's
like. We want to talk to somebody who
understands what we've been through. We go read Isaiah 53 and it says,
He carried our sorrows. He has borne our grief. What are you going through? Don't
matter what you're going through. Whatever it is, you name it.
He knows just exactly what you're going through. This thought popped
in my head. I dwelled on that for a minute.
What if you're having a baby? He couldn't understand that either.
Tell the Lord. There in Isaiah 53 it says, His
soul travailed. His soul labored. It labored. He knows what you're experiencing.
Take it to Him. Go to Him. The Lord sat on this
well and was waiting. He was waiting right there on
the well. And he wasn't sitting there hoping that this woman
would come along. He wasn't sitting there hoping
that just somebody, anybody, would come along and he could
have a chance to talk to her. That meeting he has with this
woman was set. It was appointed before the foundation
of the world. When do you get a hold of that?
He must go through Samaria. She must come to Him in His sovereignty,
in His providence, sovereign providence over all things. There
ain't nothing that could have come up that would have kept
her from going to that well. A tree couldn't have fell on the path.
A dog couldn't have bit her. She couldn't have had a car wreck.
Nothing. It could not have happened. She was right where she was supposed
to be by His sovereign will and purpose because it pleased Him.
It says there in verse 6, Now Jacob's well was there, Jesus
therefore being wearied with his journey sat thus on the well,
and it was about the sixth hour. It ain't a wasted word in the
Lord's Scripture. It was the sixth hour. It was
noon. Is that significant? Of course it is. It was high
noon. And cultures all around this
world, at that time and still in this day, there's people that
go to a community well. They go draw water to wash their
clothes with, to cook with, to bathe in, to drink. And they
get up early in the morning, and they go get that water. Good,
cool water. And you ain't gotta carry this
stuff in the heat of the day. That's when everybody went. Everybody
went in the morning. They still do it to this day. Why was she
there? Why was she there when it was
hot? When it was hot, sun's beating down. You gotta carry big ol'
buckets of water? That doesn't make no sense. Everybody
else went early, didn't they? There's only the two of them
there. Just him, and just her. This woman, everybody in town
knew who she was. They all knew her. What she'd
lived through, what she'd done, they probably knew all five of
her husbands and who she was dating at the moment. They knew about
her and she didn't want to go there and have their condescending
looks and their comments and their smirks and their turning
away. She didn't want to go there and be shamed. So she went out
of her way to go there at noon. She bore the heat so she didn't
have to bear their heat. And she went at noon. And the
disciples weren't there. They were sent away buying meat.
Because whenever they come back, they marveled that the Lord was
speaking to this woman. We would too. We would too. But they're going to learn different.
And so will we. The Lord will teach us. Verse
8. It says, for His disciples were gone away into the city
to buy meat. When the Lord speaks to one of His sheep, that's what
we looked at this morning, He speaks to them alone. He speaks
to them particularly. He speaks to them individually.
This ain't a group effort. He may speak to three at the
same time, but it's one-on-one. He speaks to them. He's got to
get them by themselves. It's a particular call. And He
spoke to her here in verse 7 and says, There cometh a woman of
Samaria to draw water. Jesus saith unto her, Give me
to drink. Give me something to drink. What
was this woman's name? See, there comes a woman of Samaria.
We don't know her name. It ain't recorded, but I can
tell you who she was. That's the bride of Christ. That's his
bride walking up there. That's his bride walking to that
well. One he has always loved and will always love. And she
don't know it. And that doesn't change his love
for her. He's about to reveal it to her, but it doesn't change
it. He didn't ask a question either, did he? He didn't say,
will you give me to drink? He said, give me to drink. He
made a statement. And she replied to his statement,
verse 9, Then saith the woman of Samaria to him, How is it
that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me? He didn't ask. Which
am a woman of Samaria, for the Jews have no dealings with the
Samaritans. This is how ignorant we are in
our nature. This is the brilliance of man.
This is our great minds thinking. He didn't ask her a question.
He came to tell her something. He didn't need water from her. She needed His living waters.
The Lord doesn't ask things of men. He may make men do some
things, but He doesn't ask them. He doesn't offer up an option.
He didn't say, Noah, if you will, it'd be real nice if you build
a ark. He said, Noah, build an ark. He didn't say, Abraham,
it'd be really good if you'd get out of the way of your idolatrous
family. He said, pack your bag and get to walking. And he went,
didn't he? The Lord tells us things. He
told Zacchaeus, get down. Get down. Salvation is not offered. It's a command. It's the Word and it's the power
of God. David wrote and said, Thou hast
given commandment to save me. I don't get old. Thou hast given
commandment to save me for Thou art my rock and my fortress.
Oh, I'm thankful He gave a commandment to save me. I'm thankful He gave
a commandment to save you. It's always going to get done. Right now she's asking, why are
you having dealings with me? Why are you even talking to me?
I'm here to get water. If you leave me alone, you're going
to get us both in hot water is what you're going to do. You're
going to get in trouble, I'm going to get in trouble. I've
been through enough trouble. I want to get this pot filled up and
I want to go home. Later on, she'll say, as David said and
every one of her brethren say, What is man that thou art mindful
of him? She starts off saying, why are you messing with me?
And down the road she'll say, I can't believe you was mindful
of me. I can't believe you saved me.
Why did the Lord come and save a sinner like me? She said, don't
you know you aren't supposed to be talking to me? Don't you
know that? Don't you know? I know that. Do you know that?
The Lord gives an answer to her. Look here at verse 10. Jesus
answered and said unto her, If thou knewest, you think you know
some things. 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.
He said, If you knew, if you knew. And I thought, Boy, if
people all around this world knew, I would to God everybody
know their need of God. Their real need. If they knew
that, they'd ask Him. If that need's been revealed
to you, you'll ask Him. You'll ask Him. You'll diligently
seek and you will find. You'll ask and you shall receive. You'll knock and it shall be
opened. If you're hungry, if you're thirsty, ask. That's man's
problem. They haven't been made thirsty
yet. They haven't been made hungry yet. They haven't been made needy
yet. But when we are, we ask, if you
knew the gift of God, that's not a what. People think the
gifts of God are something that you can hold, put in your pocket,
and put in a backpack, carry up a mountain somewhere. The
gift of God is a who. That's His gift to man. It's
a hoot. Paul wrote to us and said, for
the wages of sin is death. That's an earned thing. That's
a wages. But the gift of God is eternal
life through Jesus Christ our Lord. He is that life. A person. A person's a gift. And in Him's life, a Samaritan,
to her, this person must be revealed. this salvation that is Him. It
can't be sorted out. It can't be figured out. It can't
be just reasoned in ourselves. And I think that's a good handle
on it. He must be revealed to us. Paul said, when it pleased
God who separated me from my mother's womb and called me by
His grace. I've lived this. I know exactly
what Paul's talking about. And he says, to reveal. Not the
doctrines of grace. The Lord didn't reveal a doctrine
in me. I thought he had. He said to reveal his son in
me. And when he does that, everything
else makes sense. Now we can eat that elephant in small bites,
can't we? I called him to reveal his son in me. This woman's about
to have Christ revealed in her. If she or mankind knew that life
was in a person and not in things, and not in acts, and not in doing,
they would stop looking here, there, and everywhere, and you
would ask of Him. And you know what would happen
if you asked of Him? He'd give it. He'd give it. Lord, I'm thirsty.
Here's water. Mercy. Here's mercy. He delights
to show mercy, doesn't He? What does Christ give? Look at
the end of verse 10. Thou wouldst have asked of Him, and He would
have given thee living water." Living water. She'd been drinking
the water of this world her whole life. She'd been drinking the
water of works. She'd been drinking the water
of religion, of doing. Not living water. Not the living
word. And here's her reply to that.
Verse 11, "'The woman saith unto Him, Sir, Thou hast nothing to
draw with, and the well is deep. From whence then hast thou that
living water? You can't reach it. Have you
looked down that well? That's a long way. We ain't got
a bucket and a rope. You ain't got nothing to draw that up with.
You can't touch it. It's way down there. Art thou greater
than our father Jacob which gave us this well and drank thereof
himself and his children and his cattle? That's a famous well.
That's a deep well. This woman just sees a man. That's
all she sees. She doesn't see the God-man.
It's just some other man. Aren't you thankful that our
eternal life isn't dependent on our intelligence and us figuring
it out? Isn't that a wonderful thing? We would have no hope. I'd have
no hope. I'd sit there trying to get a
stick and measure how deep that well was. I'm a fool. Man's a
fool, isn't he? But she says it's deep and there's
no means. It's deep and there's no way
to say it. She told the truth and didn't
know it. What she doesn't see is the depth of her sin and her
inability to pull herself out of that miry pit. And she says,
your arms ain't long enough because she sees a man. Isaiah told us,
behold the Lord's hand does not shorten that he cannot save.
How deep is that well? Deep enough for him to go to
the bottom of that miry pit, isn't it? That's how deep it is. Our Lord
says to her here in verse 13, Jesus answered and said unto
her, whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again. My pastor, Brother Mahan, said,
you can put this sign over every well that man knows about. You
drink of this, you're going to thirst again. And he said, put
it over those wells that people don't know about, them social
wells, those political wells, those material wells, those medical
wells, the wishing wells, the thinking wells. I got deep thoughts. You're going to be thirsty. those
religious wells. You'll never find any peace.
You'll never find any satisfaction, rest, or joy in the wells of
this world. It ain't going to happen. It
cannot give it to you. The soul can't be satisfied from
the things of the earth. It's all vanity. The things of
this world are dead and corrupt and they kill and corrupt everything
it touches. Every bit of it. You go have
a dream car. I got a dream boat. And if I
go down and write a check for it this evening, it's brand new.
Boy, it's nice. It's going to happen. Same thing's
going to happen to it. It does everything else in this world.
That thing's going to tarnish. The sun's going to beat on it. It's
going to get old. And now it's just a hole in the water. It's
vanity. That takes a couple of years
sometimes to learn over one little thing, though. It's all vanity.
Next week, we'll be looking at this woman leaving her water
pot. And we're going to look at Ecclesiastes 1. Solomon said,
all things are full of labor. Man cannot utter it. The eye
is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
Nothing's ever enough. Nothing is ever sufficient on
this earth other than the grace of God. Because he said, my grace
is sufficient. And he's right. He's going to
prove that to his people. He's going to prove every word
he said. This world isn't nothing. It is all vanity. It is going
to burn. It's going to go away. I'm going to die. I'm going to
leave this place. Nothing is sufficient but Him.
His grace is sufficient. The Lord will prove His word
to His people. And He may do that by taking
everything that we hold dear away from us to show us that. Take our health, our strength,
our families, our goods, our products, or whatever. He may
take everything from us. Like Nebuchadnezzar, he may take
our minds from us. Just to show us and prove his
word to his people. Jacob had everything taken from
him, didn't he? Nebuchadnezzar had his mind.
The Lord did that. It says in verse 14, The 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. at Wells Cross. He's our
smitten rock. We've been looking at that too,
haven't we? That this living water flows from. And He's going
to dwell in you. He's going to abide in you. And
you'll never thirst again. Now you don't have to go to a
mountain. Now you don't have to go to a building. He's with you. I'm
with you always. This woman was objecting. She
was giving excuses. She was giving her logic. But
in a word, the Lord gave her interest. He said this, and he
started giving her spiritual thirst. He started giving her
an interest. It says in verse 15, The woman
saith unto him, Sir, give me this water. Well, she's still
erring. That I thirst not, neither come
hither to draw. She's a human. She's lazy, and
she don't want to walk up that hill and go get water. I don't
want to drink no more. My hand doing this, that gets
old. I don't want to walk up this mountain. Give this to me.
I just stay at the house all the time." They started peaking
interest. She'd sit there and she'd listen
to this man preach, and she'd listen to him talk for what time
he spoke to her, and all of a sudden, I know that look. Wait a second. I see y'all's
eyes. I look at ya. I know exactly
what he saw in her face. Wait a second. Give me some of
that water. That sounds beneficial. That
sounds some earthly benefit to that. Her interest has been piqued,
though. He started giving her first,
and he ends up giving her the living waters, doesn't he? You
ask. You ask, I'll ask. Lord give
us to it, and He'll give it. He told us, He said, you pray.
He said, Lord give us our daily bread. Give us our daily Christ.
Give us our daily living water. You have water in me. You fed
me. You've given me life. Lord give it to me today. Tomorrow
I'll ask you for that day's bread. And He'll give it. He'll give
it. But before there's a pardon.
She ain't there yet. Before there's a pardon, there
must be guilt to pardon. Before there's healing, there's
got to be a wound to heal. Before the Lord covers somebody,
He's got to strip them down before He covers them. That has to happen.
Look here at verse 14. Jesus saith unto her, Go call
thy husband, and come hither. And the woman answered and said,
I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast
said well, I have no husband. You just told the truth. He headed
right where she lives. For that thou hast had five husbands,
and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband. In that saidst
thou truly." So you've had five husbands,
and that fellow you're shacked up with now, that ain't your
husband. And by saying that, you told the truth, lady. You
don't have a husband. Her husband told her that. her
great husband. Christ, her husband, speaking
conviction into her heart as only he can. He's speaking her
in power. That great physician, he cuts
to the source of the problem. You know, a doctor doesn't cut
off good things. They go to where the problem
is, don't they? He comes right to this woman's heart and he
starts cutting. And boy, that's a skilled scalpel. as skilled
as it can be. And he does this one at a time.
He does it individually. He spoke in John 7 and said,
If any man thirsts, let him come to me and drink. He that believeth
on me, as the Scripture hath said, out of his belly shall
flow rivers of living water. And those officers that went
to go arrest him, the Sanhedrin sent him, said, You go get him.
They heard him say that. And old Nicodemus was sitting
there when they come back with their report, the one we just read
about, a couple of chapters back. And they asked those officers,
Why didn't you arrest him? And they came to the chief priest
of Pharisees and they said to them, why have you not brought
him? And the officers answered, never man spake like this man. Nobody's ever spoke like this
man. We've heard him speak. And Nicodemus said, well, hear
him out. I can say a word of comfort to a person. Anybody
can, can't they? You can say something encouraging. You can
say something nice. Can't say nothing nice, don't say nothing
at all. We can say a word of comfort. And buddy, I tell you
what, I can say a word of rebuke. I know how to cut to the bone,
but I can't do both at the same time. A man can't do that. But the Word of God, it exposes
and it covers in the same word. It wounds and it heals. It disturbs
the comfortable and it comforts the disturbed. Only God can do
that. Only God can do that. I can read
you His Word. He may use the vibrations, the
waves coming out of my mouth to do it. Only He can do that.
This woman's sin was revealed. She was exposed. He got her dead
to rots. But that same Word is compassionate. She needed to see her guilt. It was necessary. I need to see
my guilt. You need to see yours. We've
got to be wounded before the Lord heals us. Christ didn't
come to shame her like everybody else in that town did. He came
to deliver her from her shame. You know what the Scriptures
say? He that believeth in me will never be ashamed. She was guilty, but when this
is all over, she's justified. Innocent, not guilty. He's going
to convince her in her heart who did it too. Look at verse
19. The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive thou art a prophet. I think you're a prophet." The
Lord asked His disciples, He said, who do men say that I am?
And they said, well, some say you're John the Baptist, and
others say you're Elias or Jeremiah or one of the prophets. And He
said, yeah, but who do you say that I am? And Peter spoke up,
the representative of the group, and said, you're the Christ.
You're God in human flesh. You're Him. And they said, Peter,
flesh and blood didn't reveal that to you. He said, my Father
in heaven revealed it to you. She says, Your prophet? Man could
have figured that out. That's logic, isn't it? This
hadn't happened yet. She hadn't had her eyes opened
because she's still clinging to her religion. The Lord's going
to deal with that too. He's going to cut a wound. He's
going to cut a little deeper. Look here, verse 20. She said,
Our fathers worship in this mountain, and ye say that in Jerusalem
is the place where men ought to worship. He said, we're Lutherans
and you're Baptists. We're Catholics and you're Mormons. We just see things a little different.
They stand on their religion. Every time I spoke a word, the
Lord's word to somebody, a lot of times they'll come to me and
boy, it goes straight to religion. Yeah, but I, I do this. I worship
in this mountain. I know you all do things different
down there, but now we're doing some stuff too. She's still talking
about a place, isn't she? Not a person. Salvation is not
in a place. There's a whole lot of you that
came out of a place. You came out of religion. You
left a place and you came to a person. We happen to meet in
a place. It sure works a whole lot better
in a parking lot, doesn't it? But you came to a person. You
come to hear about a person. Hear from a person. Hear His
voice. Verse 21, Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe Me.
Ooh, now we're getting somewhere. 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. You don't even know what you
worship. We know what we worship for salvations of the Jews. That's not that political nation
over there. That's his spiritual nation.
The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, one
way. They know what they worship.
Salvation requires a high priest, doesn't it? It requires a tabernacle
and it requires a sacrifice. We know what we worship because
all that's wrapped up in one person. He's our high priest. He's the dwelling of God because
He is God and He's God's appointed sacrifice. That's who we come
to. Verse 23, but the hour cometh
and is now when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit
and in truth. You've been climbing up a mountain
since the day you were born and it's so long of a journey that
you're feeling kind of tired and worn, ain't you? He said
you're going to worship from the heart in truth. You're going
to worship from the heart in Christ. For the Father seeketh
such to worship Him. And who He seeks, He finds. Who
He seeks, He saves, don't it? Verse 24, God is a spirit. And
they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth. God's not worshiped with men's
hands. He doesn't dwell in a building. built by men, and He's not known
by the flesh, but by the Spirit. That's the only way He can be
known. Verse 25, the woman saith unto Him, I know that Messiah
cometh, which is called Christ. When He has come, He will tell
us all things. Boy, she finally broke down to
nothing, ain't she? I know Christ is coming. And
when Christ gets here, He'll tell us everything. And Jesus
saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am He. I looked that up in the Greek
translation. What that Greek wording is, is I am speaks unto
you. When they come to arrest the
Lord, Judas was there with them. They said, he said, who are you
looking for? They said, Jesus of Nazareth. He said, I am. And that great multitude, that
band, 500 men, fell backwards. Man had any sense he'd have got
up and run. I am. Oh, that's power. That's
who he is. That's the almighty God. And
he spoke to that woman and he said, I am. It's speaking to
you right now. You're looking for Christ, I'm
him. Now she has a new heart. He said,
believe me, I am. Now she's born again. She knows
the one thing needful, and He's standing right in front of her.
And she has life, because she has the Son of Life. It says
in verse 27, And upon this came His disciples, and marveled that
He talked with the woman. Yet no man said, What seekest
thou? or, Why talkest thou? They're starting to learn something.
It's possible to learn to keep your mouth shut. But they thought
inside of them, Why is He talking to her? And boy, I thought the
same thing. Why in the world would the Lord come to a sinner
like me and speak to me? Why would He come to me and reveal
Himself to me? But He did, didn't He? There's
a whole lot of other people probably wondering too. What in the world
is wrong with Kip? Something happened to him. Heard the Lord
saved him. Why would He do that? There's
other people better than He could save. I agree with them. They
marveled. We'll look at this next week.
Verse 28 says, The woman then left her water pot. It doesn't
say she took anything up that hill, toward that well, other
than a water pot. That may have been her only possession,
and she dropped it. Everything she carried water
in, let go of. Broken system, that's all it
is, let it go. The woman left her water pot and went her way
into the city, and saith to the men, Come, come, see a man."
She didn't say, come see a mountain. She didn't say, come look at
this fancy doctrine some old-timer wrote 200 years ago. She said,
come see a man. Come see a man. Which told me
all things that I ever did. Is this not the Christ? When
the Lord works in your heart, you confess Him. Out of the abundance
of the heart, man speaketh. And when Christ is in that heart,
Christ comes out of the mouth. What did you do to get saved?
I didn't get nothing. Christ got me and He saved me.
He did all the work and I'm thankful to Him. You ought to bow to Him
too. Ask Him for mercy. You're crazy. Or you can just
call me crazy. I'm His. I'm clinging to Him. This woman couldn't help it.
She said, come see a man. If he ever comes to you, He reveals
Himself in your heart the rest of your life. He is your life. The rest of
your life, He is your life. Amen.