In the Gospel of John chapter
4 is the story of the Lord Jesus Christ coming to a well located
in Samaria. He has come here to meet a woman.
He has come here to save her soul. He has come to speak words
of life to her dead soul and bring her to himself. This is
my story. This is the story of every sinner
the Lord saves by his grace. In verse 4, it says he must,
needs go through Samaria. Not because it was the shortest
route, but because one of his sheep is there. One of his elect,
given him by the Father before the world began. This is one
of his elect he came to save by his word, by his blood. He must needs go through Samaria
to find one of his lost sheep. Verse 6 says that Jacob's whale
was there. Jesus, being wearied with his
journey, sat on that whale about the sixth hour. Now this is the
Lord Jesus Christ. This is God manifest in the flesh. And the scripture says in Isaiah
40, 28, that the Lord, the creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth
not, neither is weary. And yet the Lord Jesus Christ
here is weary with his journey. What mercy, what grace, the Lord
wearied himself, the Lord troubled himself, the Lord took a body
to suffer and die. He took a body of flesh and blood
that he might be touched with a feeling of our infirmity, to
know how we feel, and yet he did it. to suffer death on the
cross, to be a sin-bearer, sin-payment, to take the sins of his people
in his body on the tree and pay for them. Well, he was wearied
with his journey and he sat on this well about the sixth hour. 12 o'clock noon, the hottest
part of the day, there cometh a woman to draw water. Now this
woman did not know the Lord Jesus Christ, but he knew her. She's
not looking for him, but he came looking for her. She didn't choose
him, but he chose her, and he came to her. He called her, and
he saved her. That's how the Lord saves. Salvation's
of the Lord. Our Lord said, all that the Father
giveth me shall come to me. This is one of his lost sheep,
as I said, and he came and he found her and he's going to reveal
himself to her. He's going to speak to her. He
said, my sheep hear my voice. He said, I give unto them eternal
life and they shall never Well, this woman comes to Him. This
sheep Christ chose has come to Him by His sovereign power. But she's just coming to this
well for water. But Christ is bringing the well
to her. Christ is bringing Himself to
her, the water of life. Most people come to church or
go to church for whatever, for this, for that, but the Lord
brings His people to meet Him. He knows them. He foreknew them.
He has come for this woman because she is His bride. This is the
great husband of His people, His bride. She came at noon. Now, women didn't go to the well
to get the day's water at noon. They went early in the morning
when the weather was cool. This woman comes at noon, though. Why? Because she is a sinful
woman. She's a loose woman, known by
others in the town, and she comes at this hottest part of the day,
hoping that she will not meet with any other women. She's a
sinner. She's a sinful woman. And that's
the kind of people the Lord came to save. That's the only kind
He came to save. This is a faithful saying and
worthy of all acceptation that Jesus Christ came into this world
to save sinners. This gospel is for sinners. If
you're not a sinner, He didn't come for you. If you're no sinner,
this gospel is not for you. This gospel is for sinners. Our
Lord said to her, give me to drink. Now he spoke to her first. She doesn't speak to him first.
And this is how the Lord saves. This is how the Lord deals with
his people. He speaks to us. He calls us.
And we won't call on him. Now he didn't ask her for a drink.
He commanded her. He said, give me to drink. He
didn't ask her. God doesn't ask anything of men. God doesn't need anything of
men. Psalm 50 verse 12, he says, if I were hungry, I wouldn't
tell you. And he never did take a drink. He hasn't come for this
water. He hasn't come to get water from
her. He has come to bring water to
her. He is the water, and He's come to create a need in this
woman, a thirst in this woman. Oh, blessed are they that hunger
and thirst for righteousness, our Lord said in His Sermon on
the Mount. What is righteousness? It's not
a what, it's a who. He's the Lord, our righteousness. He is the end of the law for
righteousness to everyone that believeth. Surely shall one say,
Isaiah wrote, in the Lord have I righteousness. Do you know
what that means? Blessed are they that hunger and thirst for
righteousness before God, and Christ is that only righteousness. He has come to bring her righteousness.
He has come to give her a thirst for righteousness for Himself.
In verse 8, His disciples were gone away into the city to buy
meat, and He is left alone with this woman. That's how the Lord
will deal with you. That's how the Lord deals with
every person He saves. You and Him alone. He has come
for this woman to deal with her personally. Like the story of
Jacob was left alone and a man wrestled with him. Well, this
is the same person. This is the Lord of glory. The
angel of his mercy, the Lord of glory, come to wrestle with
this woman, to reveal himself to this woman like Jacob of old.
In verse 8 and verse 9, this woman said unto him, How is it
that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman
of Samaria? The Jews have no dealings with
the Samaritan. She said, why is it you ask me?
Well, he didn't ask her. He told her, but she's ignorant
like most people are. They think Jesus asked, that
God asked us, that God can't do anything without asking us.
That's not what happened here. The Lord told her, but she's
ignorant of who this is. In verse 10, the Lord answered
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. If you knew,
man doesn't know, and no one will know until he gives us an
understanding. If you knew, he said, who it
is that saith to thee, give me to drink, you would ask. No one
will ask unless the Lord gives them this need. No one will call
unless the Lord calls them. No one will come unless the Lord
comes to them. No one will repent unless the
goodness of God leads them to it. No one will thirst unless
the Lord gives them the thirst. No one will call on the Lord
unless the Lord calls on them. Listen to Isaiah. I am sought
of them that asked not for me. I am found of them that sought
me not." Do you understand what that means? All of God's people
do. This woman is about to understand. Christ said, I am sought of them
that asked not for me. She wasn't asking anything from
the Lord, but she's going to. Because the Lord came to her
and to reveal Himself to her, to create a need in her, to cause
her to ask Him. Scripture says, I am found of
them that sought me not. She wasn't seeking the Lord.
The Lord came seeking her, and He found her. And she's going
to go running back home and say, I found Him. when the truth of
the matter is, the Lord found her. All of God's people know
that they came because Christ drew them, they called because
Christ called them, that they asked because the Lord gave them
this need. The woman said unto him, Sir,
verse 11, Thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep.
From whence then hast thou this living water?" She said, you
have nothing to draw with. Oh my, that's what most people
think of God. That's what most people think
of Jesus. False preachers have told people for so long, God
has no hands but your hand. He can't draw you unless you
let him. He wants this, he wants that. People, the fact is, and
our Lord himself said that, No man can come unto me unless the
Father which hath sent me draw him. We are the ones in a pit,
people, that must be drawn out of a pit by the Sovereign Lord,
and His hand is not short. As I said, He didn't come for
her water, He came to bring her water. Well, this woman said,
are you greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the whale
and drank thereof himself, his children, and his cattle? Not
knowing who this is, not knowing that this is the Lord, the great
God and great King above all gods, who giveth to all everything
that they have. This is the great God that manifests
in the flesh. In verse 13, the Lord answered
and said unto her, whosoever drinketh of this water shall
thirst again. 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 unto everlasting life. If you knew what this true water
was, you would ask. This water, the water of this
world, the water that is in religion does not satisfy. How would to
God that he would cause someone to thirst this morning and ask
for the true water? Does your religion leave you
empty, thirsty for truth blessed are they that hunger and thirst
after the truth well she asks finally verse 15 the woman said
give me this water sir give me this water that i thirst not
neither come hither to draw oh people if the lord will give
you life. The Lord will give you the water
of life, give you Himself, the truth, to be a well of water
springing up unto everlasting life in your soul, and you will
never go back to religion again. You will come to Christ and be
satisfied only in Him. Now, the woman was living with
a man. She'd been married five times,
and the Lord revealed to her, He said, you've had five husbands,
and the man you're living with now is not your husband, which
convicted this woman of her sin. And she's hanging her head in
verse 19, and she says, I perceive that thou art a prophet. The
Lord, there must be conviction of sin. This gospel's for sinners.
And now she's convicted of her sinfulness, of her emptiness,
created a thirst in her, a need for salvation. But she's religious,
like all people are. In verse 20, she said, our fathers
worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews, as you say, in Jerusalem's
the place men ought to worship. I go to this church, I go to
that church, I'm a Methodist, I'm a Catholic, well, you're
a Baptist. The Lord said unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour
cometh when you shall neither in this mountain nor yet at Jerusalem
worship the Father. You worship you know not what.
We know what we worship, salvations of the Jews. Most people don't
know what they worship, don't know what they believe. They
worship, they go to a place where their father went, their grandfather
went. But our Lord said the hour comes and now is when true worshipers
worship the Father in spirit and in truth from the heart Through
the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. He said I am the way
the truth He said God is spirit they that worship him must worship
him in spirit and in truth No, the woman said I know when Messiah
comes who's called Christ He'll tell us all things and Christ
said unto her in verse 26. I that speak unto thee am He
revealed Himself to her. Do you know the Lord Jesus Christ?
Oh, may He create a hunger and a thirst in you this morning
for this water of life, the salvation that's only in Him. Amen.