Go with me now to John chapter
4, John's Gospel chapter 4. Most of you were here last Sunday,
and when I got home, I was just filled overflowing like this
woman. And I went home and sat down,
and I couldn't write things fast enough. I kept thinking about
this, and I worked on it a good while last Sunday afternoon. The Lord Jesus Christ, the great
Son of God, the great Redeemer and Savior of his people became
a man and walked this earth. He walked thousands of miles,
thousands of miles on this earth seeking his lost sheep. He never
took an idle step. His steps, everything he did
was in the direction of saving his people. He said that about
himself. I've come to seek and to save
that which is lost. He gave the illustration, the
parable of a good shepherd. He left the nine and nine and
went after the one. And he says, and when he findeth
this, no question that he will find his lost sheep. And he did. He went about seeking
and saving every one of his lost sheep. And all of them heard
his voice. Every one he saved. They heard
his voice. He made himself known to them.
They knew him as their Lord, as their Savior, as their Christ,
their Messiah. He came to this town called Sychar
that was in Samaria. It says he must go there. He must because This was a preordained
meeting before the world began. And this is one of his lost sheep,
he said, that I must bring. He cannot be called Savior if
he doesn't save every single person he seeks. That's his name. But he came to Sychar, to Samaria,
and he sat on a well. And you saw with me, and you
know this, that everything there is a picture of him. He is the
whale. This is he who sat on the circle of the earth, who
sits on the circle of the earth, and now he walks on his earth,
made flesh, walked on his earth, and sat on a whale. He is the
whale. And the woman that came, he's
waiting on her. He has a meeting with her. She
belongs to him. She's his bride. She's lost.
She's fallen. She's a forlorn woman, but he
came. He waited on her. He waited to
be gracious. He spoke to her. He opened her
deaf ears. She heard his voice. He opened
her blind eyes. He created in her a hunger and
thirst for him and then met that need, convicted
her of her sin, spoke peace to her heart. By just these few
words, look at John 4, 26, Jesus saith unto her, I that speak
unto thee, am. And I'm not going to say her
life changed, no, her life just began. See, we're born again,
we're begotten by the Word of God, and that Word is Christ
Himself. See, what He was saying to her
is, I am that I am. I am come for you. I am your Christ. I am your Lord. I am your Father. I am your Husband. I am your Redeemer. I am your
Savior. I am your Righteousness. I am
your High Priest. I am that I am. I've come for you. The Father
has sent me for you. And here I am. 1 Timothy 3.16 says this, and this
is another one of those key verses that we all need to know where
it is and what it says, because this is a marvelous, marvelous
declaration of the whole truth without controversy. Great is
the mystery of godliness. God was manifest in the flesh,
justified in the Spirit, or meaning, declared by the Spirit of God. Are you with me? The whole world
needs to hear this, but they're not. You are. justified, declared
by the Holy Spirit of God to be the Christ, seen of angels,
which things the angels desire to look into. Man doesn't care.
Angels do. God's people do. Preached unto
Gentiles, came up, sent the gospel all the way over here to this
place. Where? Sychar. Where? For who? One woman? Yeah. Believed on
in the world. I believe, don't you? What do
you believe? That he's the Christ, the Son of the Living God, and
received up into glory. What a verse. Justified in the
Spirit, meaning declared by the Spirit of God to be the Christ.
At his baptism, you know these things, but I'd love to say them
again. At his baptism, the Spirit of
God descended upon him, landed on him, like a dove, whether
it was actually a bodily, it was like a dove. You know, men make idols, engraving
images and pictures of stuff and worship them. Don't put a
dove anywhere, okay? No, it says like a dove. He's descended, the Spirit of
God descended on Christ, landed on Him, it says. landed on him. And John said, I knew him not,
but who God said, this, whom you see the spirit, that's him. And John said, that's whom I
declare. You see, he's the son of God. He's Christ. Christ. That's who
he is. That's why he came. That's what
he's called. That's what he's called. That's
what he's supposed to be called. That's who he is, the Christ.
I want you to just look. You see, this book declares Jesus
to be the Christ. And just look at the top of every
page. Christ revealeth himself unto
a woman of Samaria. Turn the page. Christ showeth
who he is. Turn the page. Christ walketh
on the sea. Turn the page. Many believe on
Christ. Christ teaches in the temple.
Different opinions of Christ. Christ the light. That's why
I like this book. It declares Christ, doesn't say
Jesus. You notice that? The top of your
book, the King James Bible, nearly every page, Christ, Christ, Christ,
Christ, Christ. Because that's who He is. You
must know Him as the Christ. This woman came and said, when
Christ has come, Messiah, which means Christ, He'll tell us all
things. Christ said, I am. He's the Christ. He's the Christ. That's what this book declares.
That man named Jesus is the Christ. Listen to Paul in his preaching. Paul said, The preaching of the
cross is to them that perish foolishness, but unto us that
are saved is the power of God. The wisdom of God is to please
God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. What
do you preach, Paul? We preach Christ crucified. under the Jews a stumbling block,
under the Greeks foolishness, but under them which are called,
both Jews and Greeks, Christ, the power of God and the wisdom
of God. The next chapter, he said, I
came to Corinth. I didn't want to talk about anything
or anyone. That's not why I came. He said,
I'm determined to know nothing among you save Jesus Christ and
Him crucified. Christ. That's who He is. That's why He came. That's what
we call Him. Jesus Christ. You've heard this, but one time
a woman was leaving Katie Baptist Church where Scott was a pastor
at that time. She just had all she could take. She had heard
Scott preach for a long time. And she came up to him, literally
said this to him. She came up after the service.
She said, all you preach, is Christ, Christ, Christ. See,
I've written it down. That's all you preach is Christ,
Christ, Christ, meaning that in a derogatory way. And that old man, oh, he was
probably my age at the time, he said, write that on my tombstone. Would you write that on my tombstone?
Why? Because Christ is all. What does that mean? Look at
what the woman said to him, and we're not getting any further
than this, but we don't need to. Okay? What he said to his disciples
in private, we're going to deal with that later, maybe Wednesday. But she said, she knew this much,
verse 25, I know that Messiah's cometh, which is called Christ.
When he's come, he'll tell us all things. And he did. And he began with her by telling
her, I am. What? All things. Are you with
me? Let's look at that a little bit.
When John said, you turn to John 14. You turn to John 14. Let
me read to you what John the baptizer said. He said, The Father
loveth the Son, and hath given All things unto Him. This woman said when He'd come,
He'll tell us all things. Look at John 14, with me. John
14, 6. Now what He said here takes in
everything. Verse 6, He said, I am the way,
the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the Father
but by Me. He's all there is. He's all,
the whole thing. Verse 17, look at it. The Spirit
of truth I'll send, whom the world cannot receive, because
it seeth him not, neither knoweth him, but you know him. He dwelleth
with you and shall be in you. Verse 26. The Comforter, the
Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach
you all things. Bring all things to remembrance.
What? Whatsoever I have said. All things. When Christ has come,
he'll teach us all things. Yes. Him. All things. Look at chapter, oh my, 16. Look at chapter 16. He said,
when he, the Holy Spirit, verse 8, has come, he will prove the
world of sin, of righteousness, of judgment. Of sin, because
they believe not on me. Of righteousness, because I go
to the Father. My Father. You see me no more.
A judgment because the prince of this world is judged. By who?
Christ. You have many things to say unto
you, but you cannot bear them now. Verse 13, How be it when
he, the Spirit of truth, is come? Now remember, the Spirit anointed
Christ. It points to Christ. When He has come, He will not
speak of Himself, but whatsoever He shall hear, that shall He
speak. He will show you things to come. He will glorify Me. He shall receive of Mine and
show them unto you all things that the Father hath are Mine. Therefore, I said, He shall take
of Mine and show it to you. Man, I want to see some smiles.
Our Lord is talking to His disciples, and they all know that Christ
is all. That's who they call Him. He's
the Christ. This woman said, when Christ
has come, He'll show us all things. He did! And she ran back and
told her friends and whoever it was, this is the Christ! I've met the Christ is only one. And that's what we do. Because
that's who we've seen. That's who we've heard. That's
who we worship. That's who He is. That's what
He did. And that's what we call Him. All things. When Christ has come,
He'll show us all things. He is all things. Christ is all
wisdom. I love this, all wisdom. What
do you need to know? I'm 67 years old, about to turn
68 years old. I've learned all I need to know
back in kindergarten. No, but really, I don't need
to know anything else that this world has to teach me. Do you? Oh, but I want to grow in grace
and the knowledge of Christ. I know Him in part. That's why
I have fears and doubts and worries and anxiety and all that, because
I just don't know Christ well enough. If I knew Him better,
I wouldn't have these things. He's all wisdom, righteousness,
sanctification. He's the one that sets us apart. Redemption? We're not worth redeeming. We can't redeem ourselves. He
did. He got the price. The soul that sinned. God made His soul. He's all the
ways of God, the truth of God, the peace of God, the purpose
of God, the glory of God, and all the fullness of God. This
woman came to this well that day with her empty water pot.
Every day she would go to the well and fill up her vessel.
She didn't know that her vessel, heart, was just as empty as that
pot. Well, she came and filled up
that pot and go home and it emptied. And come back and just kept. When she met Christ, He filled
her vessel up and she dropped her water pot. I don't need that anymore. I'm
full. Of His fullness she received
grace. Christ is all the fullness of
God, and of His fullness have we received, like this one. Christ
is all the love of God. Christ said to His disciples,
the Father loveth you because you love me. You know that? You love me, and
God loves you. Oh, man. All the joy, all the
hope. Saved by hope. The world has
hope. Hope in man. Mankind's hope is
in mankind. That's a bad hope. If all your
hope is in mankind, you're hopeless. Because this world is hopeless
in itself. There's only one hope. And we're
saved by hope. And that hope is Jesus Christ. Hope, all our hope, all our peace. There is no peace. Our Lord said
there's no peace for the wicked. He said there's going to be wars
and rumors of war and that religion is going to say peace, peace,
when there is no peace. But now Christ said there in
John, He said, My peace I leave with you. My peace I give unto
you. He made peace with God. God's
not angry with His people. He ought to be, but He's not.
Why? One reason. And you know that,
don't you? Don't you, brother? You know
that, don't you, Patrick? So why do we preach? Christ. He's the peace, our peace. I want you to have peace. I want
you to have hope. There's only one thing I can tell you to have
that. Trust Christ. Look to Christ. and be saved
from despair and from doubts and fears and from worry and
from wrath to come. Look to Christ. Christ is all. He's all our peace, all our comfort. There's no comfort anywhere yet.
All our knowledge. He's all you need to know. Jesus
Christ is all the religion you need. All you need to know. All understanding. As said, the
world has no hope, but those who hope in Christ have a good
hope, a real hope, a true hope. And it's only called hope because
we're not there yet, but we are in Christ. I'm here to tell you
because scripture says it. We're seated with him in heaven.
That's how closely united we are to Jesus Christ. We're one
with him. We feel separated. No. He's with
us. We're in his heart, his mind,
his purpose, in his hands, in his love. In him with him and
he went back where he's Running this universe and he's coming
back for his bride. Just like he came for this woman
as well It's coming for you coming for you That's good. All right. God's coming for you
and like David Edmondson said he's out to do you good and everything
on the top side of God's earth works together for good and Because
our God's good, and He is God. That's how He can do it, work
everything, even evil. Somebody say Him? Oh, if that doesn't make you
happy. Hope in Christ. Oh, this hope will save your
heart, mind, soul, and body. As said, this woman came to this
well empty. Boy, she went home full. Christ
spoke to her. What did he say to her? He revealed
himself to her. He filled her heart with living
water himself. Now, he may have said more to
her than we know, but he said all that's written. All that's
written is all we need to hear. What? I am here. That's all we
need to hear. And now she knows. She's the
Christ. She's her salvation. He filled her vessel and said,
she dropped her, verse, in our text, look at it, it says in
verse 28, the woman left her water pot. But she's coming back. She's coming back. The disciples came, verse 27,
see our Lord was speaking to her alone. And that's how the
Lord deals with Every one of us, alone. He'll speak to you,
your sheep. You're going to hear his voice.
And when you first hear the gospel, you think you're the only one
in that room. You think, that preacher's talking to me. He is. But God is the one speaking. But the disciples came back while
he was talking to her. And this is sad, but they marveled
that he was talking with her. Everybody knew this Fort Lauderdale
woman. They knew her. Her reputation was everywhere. And these men forgot where they
were or came from then. Simon Peay, just two years before
this, he was a cussing sailor, longshoreman in a ship. Cussed God and cussed men to
fight everybody in his path. He completely forgot who he was
and where he came from and who came for him and who spoke to
him. They marvel that he spoke to
this woman. I do too. I marvel that he spoke to me.
Don't you? It's a marvel that God would
come to this earth Have anything to do with man? It's a marvel. Why? Because he's marvelous.
A marvelous, merciful Messiah. That's him. I marvel. Don't you
marvel he spoke to you? They forgot. People crying racism
all over. Everybody's racist. Everybody's
racist. Everybody likes their own kind.
Everybody! Why? Because man is depraved.
Man loves himself. Man is biased against everybody
but himself. And when God saves a man, he
changes that completely. He begins to hate himself and
love others. He begins to hate sin, love holiness,
hate himself and love God. He begins to quit listening to
man and start listening to God. He begins to realize, for the
first time in his life, when God saves him, he begins to realize,
I am a nothing and a nobody, a sinner deserving of God's wrath. But God, in great mercy and grace
and love to my soul, spoke peace to me, sent Christ to save me. What a God. And then he begins
to think how blessed he is just to be a part of these good people
all around him. Right? You know, Mary Magdalene
and Mary the Virgin were close friends. I'm sure Mary the Virgin probably
thought, she's a better woman than I am. Mary Magdalene was at his feet
all the time. She never left his feet. Remember
Mary the Virgin came, former Virgin. Came outside, you know,
said, I want to speak to my son. He need be in there with Mary Magdalene
at his feet. But they were close friends.
They esteemed each other better than himself. And he's disciples. Well, this woman dropped her
water pot. And if you really meet Christ,
if you really hear his voice, did you read the article at the
bottom of the bulletin? Did you? Did you? If you really know Christ,
you'll drop everything and everyone for Him. I'm telling you, if
you don't, you won't. She's coming back. She left because
the disciples came up. And because, you know, she's
meek and humble and her disciples, all these men came up and for
propriety and courteous and in respect, she leaves these disciples. She knows these are apostles
and the Lord, and she leave, but she's going to run home,
you see, in the town where she lives. She's got to tell somebody. She's got this new wine in her.
It's got to give vent. She's got to tell somebody what
great things the Lord has done for her. When the Lord does it,
you're going to tell somebody. You don't have to put a sign
on your shirt or whatever. Barnard used to say, it'll leak
out on you. He said, even the old hound dog
will know it. She ran home. She's coming back.
She's not going to leave. I don't think she left him from
this day on. Our Lord had more women following Him than He did
men. When it was over, there was a
bunch of women at the foot of the cross. I believe it was this
woman right here. She ran home, left that water
pot. She got filled with Him and ran
home to tell all her friends and tell that fellow she was
living with. Said, Honey, I'm leaving you. Or you've got
to leave. Come with me. Look at verse 29. Come see a man. He told me all things, whatever
I did, is not this the Christ? Come. She said come. You say, she's
going back. She's going back to Him. Wherever
she had to go at the time and tend to whoever, whatever, that's
not going to keep her away from Him. She's going to leave them
for Him. She didn't come back for a water
pot. It doesn't say she picked it back up. She has Him. She's going to have a rock with
water flowing out of it following her the rest of her life. Now, I want to just look at this
just a few minutes. I've only been preaching 26 minutes. She said, come see a man. A man,
but he's more than that. He's God manifests in the flesh. A man, yes, flesh and bones,
like Adam said of Eve, when God put Adam to sleep. Didn't you
love that? When God put Adam to sleep and opened up his wounded,
his side, and when he woke up, There was a woman standing there
created out of his side. That's Christ crucified. Flesh
and bones, a man, a body thou hast thou given me. A man made
of a woman, though she didn't give him life, but he came out
of a womb. He borrowed a womb like he borrowed
the tongue. A man made of a woman. Why? Made under law. The second
man, the second Adam. This is the covenant head. This
is the federal head. This is the one in whom all things
depend. In Adam all died. All mankind
died spiritually and died physically. I'm here to tell you, this is
good news now. We're all going to die. Everything's
going to die. We're going to lose everything
we have on this earth. It's going to die. We already
experienced that, hasn't it? It fills us with sorrow and leaves
us empty. People that filled us with joy,
we lose them. And something dies within us,
doesn't it? But those in Christ are made
alive. Life more abundant. Everything
you enjoy now, joy unspeakable. Full of glory. Why? Jesus Christ. A man, the second Adam, came
in Christ. All those in Christ are made
alive. A man. A great high priest touched the
field of our infirmities, tempted in all points like as we are,
yet without sin. She said, Come hear a man. Come
see a man. What you'll do if you come to
Christ is you'll see a man. You'll see that God made His Son a man for men. And you'll see His glory. And
you'll see Him much more than a man. You'll say with her, this
is Christ. She first said, He told me all
things. Whatever I did. He told me all
things. He knew me. He knows me. Don't you love Psalm 139 where
David said, Thou hast searched me and known me. Just like Adam
knew his wife Eve and they became one. Christ came and makes himself
known to his people and they become one. He reveals himself in them, not
only to them but in them and fills them with himself. Come
see a man. Is not this the Christ? Let me
just give you a few things here in closing. What makes this one
the Christ and not the others, the anti-Christ? When you come here and other
places like Ashland and Fairmont and wherever, Lexington and Kingsport,
You'll see a man. You'll see a man preaching. You'll
hear a man preaching, you know. What's he preaching? I'll tell
you what he's preaching. A man, the God-man, Christ. You'll hear the difference between
the true Christ and the false Christ. When you come see the
man and hear the man, that's what God said about John, remember?
Once you go out to see a man, Prophet? I tell you, God said,
Christ said, this is my man, God's man, the Son of God. And this is how you know. He's
saying, this is the Christ. I'm going to declare to you the
Christ. You see? This is the Christ. Is not this the Christ?
Is it not the Christ who tells us all things? Doesn't ask us. Doesn't invite us. Doesn't plead
with us. Not standing outside hoping,
hoping, hoping. He's talking about himself as
our hope. He's telling us. You with me,
brother? Yeah, you are. You're nodding
your head. He doesn't ask us anything, brother. He tells us.
Aren't you glad? He commands us. He orders all
things. And it's sure. He tells us, it's all up to me. He doesn't say, I've done all
I can do now, it's up to you. He says, I've done all that needs
to be done. It's all over. He tells us, he
declares it. He tells us all things. He tells
us a truth. The truth, the whole truth and
nothing but the truth. About God. He said, he that hath
seen me hath seen God. Job said that. Tells us the truth
about us. Didn't he? He looked at his disciples
and said, if you being, what, evil? That's what he said. How can you bring a clean thing
out of an unclean? Man that drinketh iniquity like
the water. That's the question all through
the Scripture. Job! How can man be just with God? Christ says, I am. You're right. First, correct
is 130. You want to hear it again? Of
God. Are you in Christ? Who of God
is made unto you. You don't have anything to do
with it. Wisdom. Righteousness. Sanctification. And redemption. All things. Now, who are you
going to glory in? Him. He's all things. He's all, is not this the Christ? Is not this the true Christ,
who's our wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, redemption, all
things? Is not this the Christ who tells us what to do, not
ask us? Is not this the Christ who performeth
all things for us, who doeth all things for us, who controlleth
all things for us. Is not this the Christ who made
this world and came into the world that He made and had control
over every part of it, from the elements to the animals to the
fish in the ocean? Is not this the Christ? He was no bystander when He was
on the earth. He was controlling all things, even when He was
hanging on the cross. This is the Christ, the Messiah. Is not this the Christ? They
say it in Revelation, and we're going to say it with them one
day. All power, all riches, all wisdom, all strength, all
honor, all glory, all blessings. This is the Creator. This is
the Controller. This is the Savior. This is the
Lord. This is the King of the Universe.
This is the Christ. Is not this the Christ? Anything
less is not the Christ. He came. Is not this the Christ
who came sent by God to do a work for God's people? And when He
was hanging on the cross, He said, It is finished. Is not
this the Christ who finished the work? Is not this the Christ
who put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself? Am I too loud for
you? I'm not loud enough. Is not this the Christ who performeth
all things, who put away sin, who right now sits down at the
right hand of the majesty on high. He's not outside by his
heart. No, he's seated, expecting his
enemies to be made his footstool. And everyone who he came to save,
hear his voice, and they will. And when the last one is brought
into the fold, he's coming again. To do what? To destroy the world. and bring
his people back to glory, every single one that he came to die
for, every single one Christ God gave to him in that covenant.
That's the second Adam from above. Every single one that God gave
to him and Christ died for and arose and ever lives to make
intercession for, he's coming back for. He can't lose a one
of them. Is not this the Christ? Is not
this the Christ? There is no other. There is no
other. Okay. Number 249.