I'm. Vesper? I'm. I'm. Good singing. Good hymn. Our Lord sang with His disciples,
didn't He? He's doing a lot of singing in
glory. All right, John chapter 4. Now, we just looked at this about three or four months ago. I think
it was back in July. Some of you, when was it? Have
you got it written down, Jeanette? Some ladies, my mother-in-law
used to do that. used to write down every one
that preached from every text and the date it was preached
in. And when was it? Well, I think it was back in
July, but at any rate, this is the amazing thing about
it to me is I don't know how many times I have read this and
heard it preached. But it's still, there's always
something new. I see something new. That proves
to me that this is God's work. It proves to me. This is indeed
the Word of God. And we can look at the same passages
and they'd be brand new. And it proves to my heart, too,
when I read these same old stories, the old, old story, And I still
get an unspeakable blessing out of it. That proves to my heart
that maybe I haven't left my first love. The same things are not grievous,
but great joy and rejoicing. All right, John chapter 4 is
very familiar to nearly everyone here, I'm sure. Most everyone
in here knows this story, but the half has never been told. All right, let's look at it.
Verses one through three, and once again, every single line
is significant. I hope we get through it, though,
the whole story. 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. He left Judea. and departed again into Galilee.
It says here that Christ did not baptize, doesn't it? That
he personally did not baptize. Back in chapter three, it says
that he did. Is there a discrepancy here?
Certainly not. This is a wonderful thing here. You see, Christ sanctified this
thing of baptism. He allowed it to be written that
he himself baptized, and over here he plainly explains that
he did not baptize, he himself, but his disciples did that. But
what's that say? Well, what it's saying is, yeah, right, somebody sees it,
that though men are baptizing Though preachers baptize us we're
doing it before the Lord and he himself is the one who's overseeing
it. It's as if he himself were doing
the baptizing. Right? How important is baptism? Well, I'm not going to get on
that subject again, but there you have it. And that does away
with the importance of the one doing the baptizing, doesn't
it? It doesn't matter who it is. It's not like the There's a certain group of Baptist
that believe you have to be able to trace your baptism all the
way back to John the Baptist. You believe that? They are. Dan
Parks was involved in that. He'll tell you that. But this does away with that.
It doesn't matter who's doing the baptizing. It doesn't matter
at all. Look at verse. And here, verse
three, it says he left Judea when he heard that. Now, the
Pharisees heard when the Lord knew that the Pharisees heard
that. He baptized more disciples, and John says he left Judea and
departed again into Galilee, it's like he took his disciples
as let's get out of here. Away from these Pharisees. I like that. It sounds like the
Lord just removed himself and his disciples from this bunch
of self-righteous religionists. Let's get out of here. Let's
go where we're needed. I tell you what, let's go to
Samaria, where we're needed. Let's go out. He may have seen
a sign that said, go out where the sinners are. He said, let's just do that,
let's leave this bunch and go where the sinners are. And he
did, that's where he, that's why he came with a lost sheep. Look at verse four. Verse four,
he must need to go through Samaria. He must, every line, every verse
is so significant. He must need to go through Samaria
and I've heard modern preachers. Deal with this and say that.
It was necessary that he take this route because such and such
such and such. Well there's one reason why he
must needs go to Samaria there's one reason why he must need to
go. through Samaria. He left the
ninety and nine religious self-righteous Pharisees in Judea and went in
search of that one lost sheep down Samaria. That one woman.
One of his sheep is down in Samaria and he must. They are not of
this foal but he must bring her. He must go there. He must needs
go through Samaria. He must needs pass by a certain
wayside. There's a blind man sitting there.
He must needs walk by the Sea of Galilee. There's two brothers
sitting in a boat. He has to call them. He must
needs walk through of all, of all the trees and all of jewelry. He must needs walk through under
one particular sycamore tree. There's one of his sons under
there. He must needs go through Rocky Mountain, Virginia. Because
Charles Ross is there. He must need to go through Samaria. He must. Verse 5, Then cometh
he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the
parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Now this place,
Sychar, I don't know if you remember it or not, but this was the thing,
the only thing, that Jacob left to his son Joseph. He gave many
things to his sons, his other sons. You know, the twelve tribes
of Israel, twelve sons of Jacob, he gave many things. But Joseph,
he gave him this little spot of ground with a well on it. That's all he gave him. That's
all he gave him. That was his whole inheritance.
After all those years, he got a little piece of ground with
a well on it. Well. Well. And do you know this is
all that God's people, all the sons of Jacob get? All? That's all they get? Yeah. A well with some water in it,
and somebody comes by and sits on it. That's all they get? And
you know Joseph, this is where Joseph was buried. This was his
inheritance, and this was his final resting place. Joseph said,
I just want you to take my bones. This is what he told his son,
Joseph's son. He told them to take my bones.
When you leave Egypt, take my bones down to that place where
that well is, where my inheritance is, and bury me there. That's
going to be my final resting place, that well. And you know
what else? Well, Joshua, you know when they
were about to go in and take, Joshua gathered the people, when
he gathered all the people together to tell them about going into
the land and their orders and so forth, their marching order.
You know where he had them gather? Right here, at this place, at
this received their instruction. This is where he gathered his
people. Joshua the Savior gathered all of the people at this one
little spot of all places. What an inheritance. A resting
place. A little place of ground with
a well on it. Well, it's a good place to be. Oh boy, look at verse six. Now Jacob's
well was there. Jacob's well was there. Jacob's well was there. Every
word is significant. What's Jacob's well? It's not
that hole in the ground. It's that fountain. It's the
one sitting on the well. He's the well. Jacob's well.
Well, Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, therefore, being wearied
with his journey, sat thus on the well. Jacob's well was there. And Jacob's God sat on it. Pretty
good inheritance, wasn't it? Joseph, I'm going to give you
a spot, a place, my, my. This is where the son of Jacob,
Joseph, like I said, Joseph, finally found his rest. The son
of Jacob, Joseph, found his rest. And this is where a daughter
of Jacob is going to find her rest. It says here that Christ,
being wearied with his journey, verse 6, being wearied with his
journey, sat on the way. Oh, how the Lord wearied himself.
He didn't have to walk anywhere. He didn't have to go through
weariness of body, did he? He could have. He could have
relieved his own suffering. He didn't have to weary himself.
But he did. He walked all the way. walked
everywhere he went. He ever traveled any long distances?
Joe? He grown weary? He walked everywhere
he went. He got weary. He wearied himself. Like it said at Lazarus' tomb,
he troubled himself. He wearied himself for three
and a third years. Oh, how the Lord did that for
us. We have not a high priest who's
not touched for the feeling of our infirmity. That he's touched
in all points. He wearied himself. And it says
about the sixth hour. Is that significant? Well, you
know something? A few years later. Well, let's
look at verse seven. There cometh a woman of Samaria
to draw water, and Jesus saying unto her, Give me to drink. A
woman said, or he said to a woman, give me to drink. A few years
later, at this very time, the sixth hour, he was somewhere. And this woman got living water
from him, and somebody else got something from him. A few years
later, he was hanging on a cross at the sixth hour, and there
was a fellow hanging beside him at this very same time. of day,
and he said, I'm going to give you something today. Today you'll
be with me in paradise. At this very hour. Now, this
woman who came, the sixth hour was twelve o'clock noon. This
woman came, it says they come with a woman of Samaria. Samaritans
were half-breed, half-Jew, half-Gentile. And this woman was a lascivious,
loose living woman, had five husbands, living with a fellow
now, living in adultery. Loose woman. And this is part
of the reason she came at this time. She came at twelve o'clock
noon because, well, nobody else came at this time. You just didn't go to the well
to get water at twelve o'clock noon over in the Middle East.
It's too hot. You got your water for bathing
and drinking and cooking in the morning and in the evening. You
didn't come at twelve o'clock noon. But she said, I'm going
to go at noon and nobody will see me. She was ashamed of herself. She was a notorious woman. Everybody
knew her. And somebody in particular knew
her. And she came of all times at
twelve o'clock noon. What an important time. His disciples probably said,
Lord, it's noon, my son's hot. He said, I've got to get to Samaria. I've got to get to Samaria. Well,
we're going to go in town to buy meat. Look at it, verse eight.
His disciples were gone away into the city to buy meat. Now,
that's significant. I didn't think about it until
we just read it. But the Lord As we've noted before the Lord
never did anything for his own personal. What's the word I'm looking for
a system to meet his own never did anything supernaturally. To provide for himself did it. Never. Remember when he was hungry
forty days and forty nights Satan The devil tempted him and said,
make these stones bread. He wouldn't do it. You say, what
about the feeding of the 5,000? He wasn't feeding himself. He
was feeding the others. And the 4,000, he fed the others.
But he didn't do it for himself. You see, everything he did was
for the sake of others. And I thought about this too.
They went in to buy meat with their hard-earned money.
Somehow, I don't know how they got the money. Nevertheless,
the Lord knows that you have to go to work to buy your meat. So what did he do? He worked
in a carpentry shop. Henry worked for 30 years in
a carpentry shop. He knows what it's like. His
hands were calloused. He knew. He bought his meat.
He didn't just snap his finger and get his meat. He bought his
meat with money that he had earned. working. That's important. He knows he knows I'm glad he
did that. Don't you aren't you John. He
knows what it's like to work 16 hours a day. He knows. He went through it. Well he came
to this well at 12 noon. This woman came. This sinful
woman. And this is why the Lord of glory
must needs go through Samaria. Christ came to her, and it just
so happened the disciples said, well, it will go into town. And
Christ said, yes, you do that. See, the Lord deals with people
alone, just him and his sinner. And the Lord was alone
with this woman. That's the way he deals with
people. Verse 8. Verse 9. Then said the woman
of Samaria unto him, after he asked her to drink. The woman
said unto him, 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. If only she knew who this was.
That's what he's going to say in a moment. If you knew, if
she really knew who this was, she'd ask the same question.
How is it that you, being the Lord of glory, have any dealings
with me, a sinner? That's what David, her great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather said. Oh Lord, what is man that
thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, or the daughter
of man, that you'd come sit on a whale to visit with me in the
heat of the day. My, my. Why would the God of
heaven come to this cesspool and sit in the hot sun, wait
on a notorious sinner? Huh? Why would the God of heaven
come from glory and leave the glory of heaven and the comforts
and happiness and joy of heaven to come sit in this cesspool
and sit on a well, on a rock, in the hot sun to wait on some
old loose woman. Because he's a great God, that's
why. And she's a great sinner. And
it's going to take so great a salvation. That's what David said in Psalm
25. He said, Oh Lord, pardon my iniquity, for it is great. So he says, I will. I'll have
to come a great ways to do it. It's going to take a great work
to do it. So great salvation. I'll have to come a long way.
A long way. Why did the Lord ask her to drink?
Good question, isn't it? Why did he ask her to drink?
The omniscient, or all-knowing, omnipotent, all-powerful God
who could have provided him, said he didn't need it. He didn't
need to ask her for anything. He doesn't need her help or her
assistance, does he? Huh? He said over in Psalm 50,
he said, if I were hungry, I wouldn't ask you. He said, the world is
mine. He's not asking her for a drink
of water, Joe. He is showing her. He's showing
her that she's the one that needs water. Like when he asked Adam
in the garden, remember? Adam, where art thou? He knew
exactly where Adam was. He had the all-seeing eye. God, the Scripture says, thou,
Lord, seest me. God sees all. He's omniscient. He sees all. He wasn't asking
Adam where he was for information. Where are you? He can't find
you. He's trying to show, he's not
trying, he's showing Adam Adam, look at you now. Where are you
now? And he's asking this woman for
a drink to show her, I'm not the one that needs water. He's about to create a thirst
where there was none. She's thirsty and she doesn't
know it. She's coming, she's got a bucket, and she's got a
well, and there's water there, but she's thirsty and doesn't
know it. And he's going to have to create
a thirst. He has to create a thirst. Look at verse 10. Read on down
to verse 10. Jesus answered and said unto
her, If thou knewest the gift of God and who it is. If thou knewest the gift of God
and who it is. Every word is significant. I marvel at the way the Scriptures
are put together. You can just stop in mid-sentence
and see eternal truth and glory. If thou knewest the gift of God,
and not what, like that little word of, if thou knewest the
gift of God in whom? the gift of God is. Christ is the gift of God, the
unspeakable gift. Read on, he said, If thou knewest
the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to
drink, thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given
thee living water. If thou knew, if you knew, you
would ask, And he would have given. If there's anybody thirsty in
here, is anybody thirsty in here? Hungry and thirsty after righteousness? He said, blessed are they that
hunger and thirst after righteousness. This is a God-given gift. Men
and women don't hunger and thirst after righteousness. By nature. Oh, they hunger and thirst after
many things. Meat for the belly, drinks for the belly. but not
righteousness for the soul, need for the soul. There's probably
some in here right now that are dying of hunger and thirst and
don't know it. If you knew just how bad off
you were, you would ask and he would give. Anybody hungry and
thirsty? Ask, he giveth. Any needy sinners
in here? Ask, he'd give it. If you knew,
you'd ask, he'd give. Any like wisdom? Got a decision
to be made? Need wisdom? If you knew, you'd
ask, he'd give. Let this word sink down in your
heart and mind and soul. If you knew, you'd ask, and he'd
give. He would give living water. Scripture says, living water.
If you knew, if you really knew that you were wretched, poor,
miserable, naked, and blind. That's what the Lord said to
the church over there in Revelation. If you knew that you were wretched,
miserable, poor, naked, blind, hungry, and thirsty. If you knew,
you would ask and He'd give life. If you knew you were dead and
trespassed sin, you'd ask and he'd give. Life. If you knew
who Christ was, who it is, the gift of God, eternal life, you'd
ask and he'd give. Water of life, life-saving, life-giving
water, a word in season. Anybody need God to speak to
you? You'd ask, he'd give. Let this
say, and if I don't go any further than this right here, let this
say and say, if you asked, he'd give it. If you knew. If you only knew. If I knew what I ought to know,
no man knoweth anything yet as he ought to know, Henry, if we
knew, we'd be asking. Like that importunate widow,
and asking, and he'd give it. He'd give. You know, if you don't have what
you're looking for, you're not asking. That's what James said, you have
not because you ask not. Somebody says, someone may say,
well I'm interested, I'd like to, I've had so many people say
this to me, young people, I've seen people parents. Young people. Seemingly interested. No. If they knew they'd ask and
he'd give. That's just all there is to it.
If you're really interested and really knew what they needed,
they'd ask from the depths of their heart, Lord save me or
I perish, and he'd give. And if you knew, may God show
you what you don't know right now about yourself, all you'd
ask and he'd give. This is important. Isn't it? A woman comes up to me on Sunday
morning and says, oh, I'm interested. I just don't know the answers
to this and that and the other. And I say, well, come back tonight
and we'll search some more. Does she show up? No, she's not
interested. Conviction by God Almighty, by
the Holy Spirit, I see people cry, I see people move by one
message. Whatever God does is forever.
Whatever God begins, He finishes it. If it's real, it'll be there
the next time, the next time until they say, I will not let
thee go until you bless me. If you knew, you'd ask. And He
did. I've got many things to ask of
Him. That's a blessed promise, isn't it? Blessed promise. Living water. I need it. I need it. Verse 11. Here, look
at the woman, what she says. The woman said unto him, Sir,
thou hast nothing to draw with. And the well is deep. From whence then hast thou this
living water? He hath nothing to draw with."
Nothing to draw with. It's true, he doesn't have one
of these little empty buckets. He doesn't need a bucket. He
draws with a word. He who spoke in the beginning,
let there be light, says, come. That's how he draws, with his
word. His word. He doesn't need our empty buckets. That's all a bunch of people
in the choir are, a bunch of empty buckets. Bucket heads. He doesn't need our empty buckets
to draw people. Sing it one more time, choir.
I think the Spirit's moving and somebody's got to move. Yeah,
they're going to move out the door if you sing another verse.
But sing it again. He doesn't need our buckets.
He draws with one thing. The Lord uses one thing to draw
with, doesn't he? The gospel. The first thing that
drew you, John, is what he uses from that day forward, too. A
word. His word. He draws. He draws with lovingkindness,
too. with an everlasting love before
the foundation of the world. And now, right at this moment,
with loving kindness, he was drawing her. If she knew, he'd
have nothing to draw her with. I'm not here to get water. You
are. Who's going to go away with water?
Oh, my, if she knew. You have nothing and the well
is deep. It doesn't matter how deep the
water is. His arm's not too short. He can reach. He doesn't need
a bucket. He can reach down in the bottom
of the well. Matter of fact, that's where
he has to go every time he picks one of us up. In the joke. Yeah, I started to name this
Bottom of the Barrel Salvation. That's where he gets all his
sheep, all his people. He reaches all the way down to
the bottom. All the way down to the bottom.
You know, if you're at the bottom, John, that means everything's
just over your head. He says Psalm 38 centers, John. Psalm 38 centers. Who say, mine
iniquities have gone over my head. I'm helpless. Who say, there's no soundness
in my flesh. Who say, like Psalm 38, I'm ready
to halt. I'm helpless. Who say, my wounds
stink and are corrupt. There's no soundness in that.
My iniquity has gone over my head. It's not, the well's not
too deep. His arm's not too short. That's
the kind he'd say, just to show how long his arm is. Oh, the
length, the height, the depth, the length, and the breadth of
his love. And oh, how blind she was. You
have nothing to draw with. My, my. God uses one thing, and
that's the gospel. All right, verse 12. And she
said, Are you greater than our father Jacob? Are you greater if thou knewst
who it was? Are you greater than our father
Jacob? Greater than Jacob. I am Jacob's father. I am that I am. Are you greater
than our father Jacob who gave us the well? The well? I'm Jacob's well. I gave Jacob
his marching order. I'm Jacob's ladder. I'm Jacob's
well. I'm the God of Abraham, Isaac. And Jacob greater than Jacob.
Oh my, I'm the great I am. I'm greater than Isaac. I'm greater
than Abraham. I'm greater than the angels.
I'm the great God. Are you greater than Jacob? Who
gave us and his children drank. Yes, all his children drank from
this well. That's what I said in the beginning.
This is our inheritance. Terry, you get your inheritance
as well. That's what the God of Jacob
gives all his sons, and they all drink from it. They all come
to it. They drink from the well. That's all we get, Joe. That's
all we get. We get the well, and we get the
one sitting on it. That's good news. That's a no.
That's a no. Oh, my. I've got to hurry. Verse
thirteen. Jesus answered and said unto
her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again. This
one. We'll leave you first this one. Pointing that well this you know
is a little water. I just drank that moment ago. First. I go home and I don't
need some more and our Lord is alluding to anything has to do
with this world. The water of this world will
leave you thirsty why is it. That explains why it is that
the rich Want to get richer? It's not enough. I mean, a man
taking ballplayers, you know, a three million dollar contract,
they're holding out for four. Man, where could you spend that? Next year they need more. I need
more. I'm out of money. I need more. Or the rich, the ultra-rich.
The Ross Perot's, the billionaires and all. What is he thirsty for?
Riches is not enough. Gotta have power. I wanna be
president. That's what I really say. If
I just be that, I'll be satisfied. The riches of this world don't
satisfy. The water of this world, all
it does is leave you thirsty. Take one drink, you need more
and more and more. And our Lord said, whosoever
shall drink of the water, verse fourteen, the water that I shall
give him shall never thirst. Oh, you'll thirst, but for this
water. This water. But you won't thirst in the sense
that it won't meet your need. It'll meet your need. The Lord
is my water. I shall not want. I didn't do damage to that scripture,
did I? The Lord is the water of life. And having drunk of
him, every other well is bitter tasting. Right? Some of you live, you know, we
have well water now, and we used to have city water. And having
drunk well water, I can't hardly go back to that city. I remember
people used to say that to me. People come in my house when
we lived in town. And they gave him a drink of
water and he'd take a little sip. I used to think it was good,
you know. Good water. What's wrong with
the water? Well, we drink well water. Well, but this water,
he'd say, is like that. Once you, you played that song,
Satisfied. Long my soul thirsted for this
and that and the other. Hallelujah, I've found Him. Now
my soul is satisfied. The Lord Jesus satisfies my longing. And once you drink of Him, Joe,
every other well, everything else, this whole world is just
kind of, it just doesn't satisfy. It doesn't match it. It just,
and after a while it'll leave a, it's like Diet Pepsi. It leaves
a bad taste in your mouth. That's the way it is. That's
a good way to describe this world and modern religion. Die, that's
it. Lie and die. It won't fill you
up. It won't. Verse 15, the woman
said, Sir, and our Lord, verse 14, our Lord said, This water
shall be a well of water springing up into everlasting life. And
what have we seen about this water? This water is the Word.
This water is Christ. The word is Christ. It's synonymous. The water, the word. He said,
The word in you shall be as a well of water springing up. You go
out there tomorrow to M&W. You work tomorrow, John? You
go out to M&W tomorrow. And as soon as you hit the door,
some old dude's going to curse God. And it's going to leave
a bad taste in your mouth. John, you work tomorrow? You're
going to go down to J.P. Stevens and something? You know,
you're just going to go in the midst of that place and it's
just going to leave you. You're going to come down fast.
If you get on the mountain tonight, you're going to come. You'll
be down in the valley first thing in the morning. You're going
to go in there. Well, and you'll get thirsty
after a while. John, you'll be thirsty about
lunchtime. Then you'll look and yonder comes Stan Anderson. And he has a word in season for
you. You've said this to me, that
how you look forward to seeing him. I know. I've been there.
I had a believer work with me on a railroad. And I've told
you before, it's like those commercials, you know, the two lovers running
to meet each other in the field, you know. That's the way it is,
Stan. Maybe in private. Maybe you don't
want M&W to see that. But that's where you feel it.
Don't you feel that way? Now I'm making fun, but that's
just the way it is, isn't it? David said that in Psalm 73.
He said, David fears he'll be glad when they see me. Won't
they? has cold waters to a thirsty
soul, so is good news from Boone's Mill." From a far country. And you discuss it, and that
well, that stand's got some water that's springing up to give you
a drink of water. Just what I needed. I can work
four more hours, or six more. And you yourself, this is the
reason the Word of God needs to be hid in your heart.
So you can draw from it when you need it. These Bible studies,
I've come to this conclusion, ladies and gentlemen, these Bible
studies we're having on a Sunday morning with the ladies and the
men, and we're going to have another one real soon, the ladies,
and we're going to have another one. I am determined that we
know the Scripture. I want you ladies and you men
to know the Scripture. I want these things to be indelibly
printed in your minds and your hearts. We're going to search
the Scripture, and we're going to study them, and we're going
to quote them and quote them line upon line, line upon line,
until these things are printed in our minds and our hearts,
so that when you're out there and you
start getting thirsty and you need a drink, A well springing
up. And it's wonderful when it happens.
You're walking around and things... Isn't it wonderful when the scriptures
come to mind? Yesterday, for instance, I was... This is one. Yesterday, I was
outside. I was unloading the back of my
car, and I don't look in the back of my car. It's awful. I
was unloading some things out of the back of my car, and there
was some papers, some bulletins. I had just taken some bulletins
out of the front seat, was going to take them inside, and I laid
them on the, and it was a windy day, and the wind blew those
bulletins all over the yard, and I, I almost cursed. I went running after those bulletins,
chasing those bulletins, chasing those bulletins, And you know
the thought came to me immediately while I was doing that. Thank
God you don't go running after every win that doctor has. If that had been any bulletin
but by those good ones. You know I don't want to lose
that. That's more recent than that.
I read that article for the bulletin and I went running after just
that. And I thought I wasn't going
to lose anything. If that had been any other bulletin.
Blow, wind, blow. But that scripture came to my
mind. And I turned from cussing to thanking. And a well sprung
up that came to mind. And it's wonderful. That will
give you a little drink. A little drink. Christ in you. Christ in you. Read on. She said,
Sir, give me this water, verse 15, give me this water. Give
me this water, if you would ask, he would give. Sir, give me this
water, that I thirst not, neither come here to draw. Oh my, if you knew, Don't you
hope and praise the Lord to show your children their true need
so that they don't have to keep coming to the well of this world. And go out like the prodigal
son or daughter and eat on husks, if you knew. Where real water
is to be found, you'd ask. Don't you hope the Lord puts
it in their minds and hearts to ask. Lord, make them ask. Like Barnard said to that young
lady one time, Barnard used to say, I double dog dare you. He
had a way of making people just mad and said, I'm going to do
it. Whatever he said, I dare you. I'll just do that. She said,
I double dog dare you. He said, I double dog dare you.
Go home and ask God. I mean ask God to show you yourself.
OK? And she did, and he did. And
she was torn up and stayed torn up till Barnard got back in town
one day. And then he said, now go home
and ask God to show you Christ. And she did. And he did. If you knew, you'd ask. And he'd
give. That's a good word, isn't it?
Sir, give me. Let's just read these verses
in closing. And the Lord shows her. He grants
repentance. Conviction. She said, I don't
have a husband. He said, go call your husband.
There's a good point, isn't it? Go tell your husband and come. Tell your husband. But if he
won't come, you come anyway. Go call your husband and come.
There's no indication he did come. to her husband, the buddy
she did, didn't she? Every word significant. Read
on. She said, I don't have a husband. He said, you've said, well said.
I have no husband. He said, you've had five and
you're living with a man. He's not your husband. He pricked her heart, didn't
he? He convicted her. I believe, wait, she said this
now. I believe she was starting to be broken. She had already asked Him, Lord,
sir, give me this water. He had created a thirst. And
now He created conviction of sin. He knows me. He knows me. And that's what the Lord is going
to have to do to our daughters. Every daughter of Abraham. Let's
show them what a rotten wretch they are before a holy God. They're not daddy's sweet little
girl. They're a sinner in the hands of an angry God. And if
they knew, they'd ask for mercy. And He'd give it. He'd give it. And she said this with conviction.
She didn't say this. I've preached this all wrong
before. I believe she said this with
her head hanging, sir. I perceive. Thou art a prophet. And she asked a question. She
didn't know what to ask. Our Father, she said, worshiped
in this mountain. You say in Jerusalem is the place
men ought to worship. Woman, believe me, the hour is
coming when you shall neither in this mountain nor yet at Jerusalem
worship the Father. You don't worship God in a place.
She was asking, she really was asking where to worship, what
to do. I don't know. This is what some say. And I
have had people come to me and ask questions that really were,
didn't know, really didn't know, really were interested. And those,
those, you don't mind asking those kind of questions. And this was an ignorant question,
but she's an ignorant woman. She didn't know what else to
ask. She said, and he said, Woman, you don't worship in place. You
worship, verse 22, he said, you worship you know not what. We
know what we worship, salvations of the Jews. Oh, there's so much
there. But the hour coming and now is,
now is the hour when true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit
and in truth from the heart and through the truth, through the
word, through the gospel. For the Father seeketh such to
worship him. God is a spirit. They that worship
Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth. Now He reveals
to her true worship and true faith from the heart and the
truth that must set her free. Truth. And look at who He said or what
He says the truth is. A woman says, Well, I know when
Messiah's come, He'll clear it all up. Messiah has come who
is called to Christ. When He's come, He'll tell us
all things." Now, He created the third. He convicted her of her sin.
He told her of true worship from the heart. And in hearing the
truth, believing the truth, is true worship, and salvation will
be found. And she said, well, the Christ,
the Christ will tell us. And now he reveals himself. And
that's what God must do to all of us, reveal himself, Christ. He said, I that speaketh unto thee am. And
I don't know if the Lord's speaking to anybody here tonight. I don't
know. But He's the one that must speak.
If you're not moved, He's not speaking. That's just all there is to it.
When he speaks, mountains move, hearts melt. If you're unmoved
by this and untouched by it, he hadn't spoken to you. But
if you knew, you would ask. And he'd speak. He'd speak. Oh my, upon this, we've got to
read these next two verses in closing. It said, upon this, upon this came his disciples
and marveled, he talked to this woman. Yet no man said, What
seekest thou? Why talkest thou? Well, the woman
then, I love this verse, I love this
verse. The woman then left her waterpot and went her way into
the city and said to the man, Come see a man." And she said,
oh, she said it with joy and rejoice. Come see a man, which
told me all things I ever did is not this but Christ. And then they went out of the
city and came to him. Come see a man. That's their
water pot. Don't need that anymore. That was, you know, one of her
few possessions, I imagine, and she left it. She forsook all
she had for the Christ. Well, I hope the Lord says something
that makes us come to know our great need of Christ. Young people, I counsel you to buy gold and
try it in the fire. Children, I give you good doctrine. Call on the Lord while he may
be found. Seek if you're really interested. Don't play games. Don't play
games. Seek and you shall find. if you
would ask, he'd give you. He'd give you. All right, let's
stand and be dismissed. Our Heavenly Father, we thank
you for this well of water. Oh, it's so deep. There's much
water here, refreshing, soul-satisfying water, the water of your How
we thank you, O Lord, for it. But Lord, you must come and give
unto us this living water. No less than you came to that
woman and sat on the well and spoke with her. You must come
and meet with us. You must come and speak to the
hearts of other daughters. of Abraham, of Jacob, and speak
to them in the same way that you spoke to this woman, those
who are great sinners and know it not. So, Lord, do that for
your glory. Do it for your glory. Do it for
their salvation, that they might not thirst and nor come to this
world and attempt to draw pleasure from it. Oh, Lord, do what you
must do and what only you can do, we pray, for your glory,
for the salvation of your people, we pray in Christ's name, amen.
All right, you're dismissed.