Once again it is just an absolute
joy to stand before you and share a few things about the gospel
of our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. And would once again
you turn with me to the gospel according to the book of Numbers.
The book of Numbers chapter 21. There's a wonderful passage of
scripture that we want to read here in the book of Numbers this
morning. So much has happened over here in this section of
scripture as we've traveled through it over the past few years. And here in the book of Numbers,
not too long ago, we were introduced to that brazen serpent, the result
of God's solution, God's prescription, God's manner of dealing with
these burning, fiery serpents that had bitten people and many
people died and now he sent them instructions, sent Moses instructions
to build a serpent out of brass and put it up on a pole. Now
we know that this happened because the Lord Jesus referred to it
in his own personal ministry. Just as Moses lifted up the serpent
in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up. And
so, what a wonderful occurrence. And now, in this passage of scripture
that we'd like to look at today, we want to begin reading with
verse 16. And in fact, verse 16 has the title of our message,
I Will Give Them Water. I will give them water." They've
been traveling around in a place that is not so pronounced for
its water supply. You know, isn't it interesting that we,
in a moment, can look up on the internet and find out how much
water is on the surface of this earth? Brother Mike was going
along and my mind went off and I just got on my telephone, and
did you know that the surface of the earth, there is 71% of
the surface of our earth is water? And out of that, all the water
in the world, there is 3% that is drinkable or fresh water.
97% of the water on this earth will kill you eventually if you
drink it. Ocean water, salt water. Many sailors have tried and many
sailors paid the price. Now I was interested to find
out when Nathan was on that submarine that they had a machine down
in that submarine that would take that salt water and do it
through a process known only unto those who knew about it
to get drinkable water out of the ocean. Many places in the
world today have taken desalination machines and taking ocean water
and converting it to water to water plants and things like
that. But it takes a process. It takes a lot of expense. There's a lot of time spent to
do that. So 97% of the water of the world
would kill you if you drank it. Now I've tasted it and it is
really salty. Well, as we look into the scriptures
this morning, here in the book of Numbers chapter 21, verse
16, the scriptures begin this way. They've been traveling around.
They're about to go into the promised land. They're about
to enter in. They've spent 40 years in wandering. Now we have
some events in these last few chapters of the book of Numbers
of what's going to happen between the time that they're just about
ready to go in and when they go in. And here it is. And from
thence they went to Beer. That is the well whereof the
Lord spake unto Moses, gather the people together and I will
give them water. What an instruction and what
a blessing as the outcome. And we find that those people
had nothing to do with the production of this water. I will give them
water. Now, then Israel sang this song. Spring up, oh well, sing ye unto
it. The princes digged the well,
the nobles of the people digged it by the direction of the lawgiver
with their staves. And from the wilderness they
went unto Matanah, and Matanah to Nahalim, and Nahalim to Bemoth,
and from Bemoth in the valley, that is in the country of Moab,
to the top of Pisgah. which looketh toward Jethsamon. We're going to stop there for
our reading today, and we're going to look at that verse 16. The Lord said, I will give them
water. Now, as we mentioned already,
there's two instances in this chapter that share with us the
wonderful benefits of our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. We have
an emblem of Christ in that brazen serpent, and we have an emblem
of Christ in the water at the well of air. gather together
the people. Now, what a wonderful, comfortable
promise it must have been to the children of Israel after
wandering and in that dry, thirsty place to have these instructions
given to them. And I find out from that old
hymn we sing from time to time, all my life long I had panted
for a draught of some cool spring. No, we were so caught up. I was
so caught up. I'll have to just talk about
myself, but most people I find that know anything about the
grace of God were caught up in that water that was not drinkable. It was still given to us, but
it was undrinkable, and it was just so harsh all the time, and
there was nothing in it. Just last few weeks, Nancy and
I were on that Viking River cruise, and Viking had been asked a number
of times, and they finally did it, that they, when you went
out on an excursion, they handed you a bottle of water. Well,
in the past, they've handed us pure water, and it was so good
after hiking or being out in the warm, and now they decided
that they would give us water that had lots of minerals in
it, and I opened that up and took a a sip of it, and I says,
oh my gosh, this is the most terrible water I have ever tasted
in my life that's supposed to be good for me. And so complaints
came in, and finally the director of the cruise said, you know,
isn't that the worst water you've ever tasted? And we all agreed,
so we put on the final paper, change the water, change the
water. Water makes so much difference
to us. Did you know there are two things
that we're absolutely necessitated for life, and that is food, but
number one is water. If we run out of it quickly,
we're out of it for life. So, what a wonderful thing. Well,
turn with me over to the book of Revelation, if you would.
Revelation chapter 22. In Revelation chapter 22, we
find this great book that concludes the Bible, opens up much like
we find out throughout the rest of the Bible. It is a message
of Christ, and it's a declaration, the revelation of Jesus Christ. And we find in here so many times
that there are great events that look so tragic and look like,
what's going to happen here? And the Savior comes along and
just takes care of it. Well, here in the book of Revelation
chapter 22 verse 1, we have this wonderful verse of scripture
about what flows out. Metaphorically, what flows out
from the throne of grace? What flows out from the throne
of God? And it tells us here, and he showed me a pure river
of water of life. Now that's a wonderful statement
that we find that John was given by the Holy Spirit and it was
written down for us to enjoy in this present day that there
is a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding
out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. What is that? That
is truly Jesus Christ and Him crucified. That is the purest
water, and religion has always tried to make it impure, always
tried to change it a little bit, add something to it, and make
it taste like that water that we were given as we got off of
the boat. It wasn't clear It wasn't clear as crystal water.
And that's what we find so often. And we find that the Jews were
caught up in that so often in the Old Testament, as well as
in the New Testament. We heard this morning, as Brother
Mike was teaching us, they took our Savior, the Lord Jesus, to
the house of the high priest. And what are the high priest
and his counselors doing? Deciding how to kill him. That's
what they're doing. Now, he had done nothing amiss.
He had done nothing amiss and yet they're going to find him
guilty. Well, we find that in the book of Exodus, they set
aside the Passover lamb for a certain amount of time for checking him
out to see how pure he was and how good he was because the instructions
were this is to be a lamb of the firstborn and it cannot be
with spot or blemish. So he was inspected very, very
strictly during his ministerial time. And when it came to the
end of that, People said in high places, I find no fault in him. And then they called for his
crucifixion. Well, this is what we find with
regard to the Passover lamb. Find no fault in him. Let him
be the substitute for the people inside of the home. And that's
what he is. The Lord Jesus Christ is our
substitute. Now there is a place in the book
of Exodus. If you'll turn with me to the
book of Exodus, there's so much in Exodus and in numbers about
water. Complain about having not enough
and then being given water by Almighty God. Came out of a rock. You know, it wasn't a hole in
a rock. It just came out of a rock. It wasn't a spring behind the
rock. It came out of the rock. God
performed a tremendous miracle in having water come out of a
rock. Well, we find that it doesn't take very long for people after
seeing something like that to forget that it actually happened.
Their thirst is hardly quenched before these people are complaining
about it once again. Well, here in the book of Exodus
chapter 15, they come to a place. It's in Exodus 15 verse 23. The children of Israel are brought
to a place, and I want to say this about this. These people
never went anywhere except under complete and direct instruction
from Almighty God. Nothing happened to them without
God first purposing it. And the same is true of us. Nothing
is out of the control of God. Nothing happens that God did
not ordain before the foundation of the world. And it's for our
instruction. And here we find that this is
a place where they come to the waters of Mara. Now, do you remember
Ruth's mother-in-law said, change my name to Mara? Because I'm
bitter. I've just, so much has happened. Well, here, when they came to
Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they
were bitter. Now, I know a little bit about
that. I've been handed 18 ounce containers of it. nasty water
that supposedly had been good water. They didn't know what
they're talking about. They came to this place, it's bitter, therefore
the name of it was Kalmar, and the people murmured up against
Moses saying, what shall we drink? Well, look at the solution. You
know, all that we go through, there is a solution. God has
an open solution. It's not a hidden solution. When
we have this incident come up for their betterment, for their
welfare, for their good being, we find that the Lord Jesus Christ
also brings his people to situations just like this, and we are brought
to the point that what we're going through, what we're enduring
in religion, just does not satisfy. There's something that must,
is so lacking. There's absolutely no peace.
You know, in Christ we have every bit of peace, and in religion
we don't have any peace. Oh, we might get it for a little
bit. We rededicated our life. we might get it for a little
bit. We came forward and we decided we'd quit chewing bubble gum
and we're going to get better about that. You know, it's just
that mixture all the time that has to happen. Well, what actually
cleared up the waters of Mara was a tree. Now, what clears
up things for us The cross of Christ. That's what clears it
up for us. That takes away the bitterness.
It goes on to tell us in verse 25, and he cried unto the Lord
and the Lord showed him a tree. You know, I remember that song
that we heard several times. God planted the tree that he
knew would be the cross of our Savior. God planted the tree
he knew would be the cross. It was not a mistake that that
cross was there. It was ordained from eternity
that cross would be there. Jesus Christ never attempted
to avoid that cross. In fact, he said just exactly
the opposite. I must go. This is what is going
to happen. And you know what that cross
and all the work that was done on that cross does for us? It
makes the water A clear river of water, clear
as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of our Savior
Jesus Christ. The waters were made sweet. There
made for them a statute and an ordinance there to prove them.
The waters were made sweet. Well, there's another incident
over in the book of 2 Kings. Would you turn over there with
me? 2 Kings chapter 2. How often we find that God uses
water as an illustration. We find that this water of life
is an illustration. It's a point. for us to recognize
as the Holy Spirit reveals it to us that there is no water
that we can find on our own that will satisfy the desperate needs
we have to take care of the problem we're in. Die in a thirst. die in a thirst, and yet God
points out that there is only one place for this, and that
is in the person Christ Jesus. He is the true water of life,
and we'll get over that in just a moment. But stop by with me
in the book of 2 Kings 2. In 2 Kings 2, beginning there
with verse 19, 2 Kings 2 verse 19, And the men
of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the situation
of the city is pleasant as my Lord seeth, but the water is
not or evil. You know, sometimes I just take
for too much granted having water at my tap. I told my wife and I've told
other people how much we would save in the deterioration of
our homes if we didn't have water in it. We wouldn't have dry rot. We wouldn't have floors that
rot away and all that stuff. But we're so accustomed to going
to the tap and opening it up and getting nice, fresh, clean
water. So we demand it. If we don't,
we call up somebody and say, what's going on with our water
supply? Well, we find here that the water
supply for this town is, the town is a nice place, but the
water is evil. It's terrible. And the ground
baron, and he said, bring me a new cruise and put salt there
in. And they brought it to him, and
he went forth into the springs of water and cast the salt therein."
Now, you could have a field day when you go to some of the commentators
about this point, how beneficial that salt was. You know what
is being pointed out here? Salt is a symbol of the covenant. And we find here that there is
benefit for us only in the covenant of grace. God made a covenant
before the foundation of the world, and there were three participants
in that covenant, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Guess who was left out of consideration for input? Man. Man was left out of input. There
was no place to put in suggestions. There was no suggestion box on
the covenant of grace. There was no input asked for
from natural man. We were not even considered in
that when it comes to the input. But I'll tell you what, the church
was considered in the output. the blood of the Lamb was going
to be purchasing every one that God had written down in the Lamb's
Book of Life. And so we have here a symbol
of the covenant. That's going to settle the issue,
the covenant of grace. We don't have any input in it,
but we certainly have receivership to it. We are blessed with it. We do not have any input in the
covenant of grace. Do you know the only thing that
we bring to the equation? When it comes to salvation, there's
only one thing we bring, and that's our sin. And God makes
us not very proud of it, doesn't He? Our sin has nothing to do
with God's salvation, except He's going to put it away as
far as the East is from the West. So this great tree that was thrown
out in the water, the only thing that that can symbolize to us
is that wonderful cross of Calvary that Jesus Christ hung on as
the substitute and the surety for his people. This cross is
such a symbol to us that God aforetime and a forethought,
and in purpose had a son delivered, his only begotten son delivered
to redeem his people from their sins. And that could only happen
as an agreement between the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit
in the covenant of grace that God worked out before the foundation
of the world, and he is explaining it to us every day we open the
scriptures. This is God's will for his people. The will of God is in our book,
and his will will be performed. So we have this. Now, turn over,
if you would, to the book of John, chapter 7. John, chapter
7. Remember what we read over there? I will give them water. Now, in the book of John, chapter
7, Verse 37, this subject is just throughout the scriptures,
the subject of water, the subject of water. Oh, how we are so desperately
in need of it. There is no calculation of the
number of people that have passed from this life into the next
over the lack of having water. And it takes place very rapidly
if we don't have it. Sailors have attempted to get
rid of their thirst by drinking that salt water, and it just
makes things absolutely worse. We're never encouraged to drink
that water. We only have 3% of the Earth's
water supply that we can go to. 97% will kill you. You know what? That's about the
proportion of gospel truth versus all the rest. 97% will kill you. It's all up to you. It's yours. You have to put in the investment.
And yet we find that that is so contrary to the scriptures
The scriptures teach us so plainly in just a few words from the
voice of a man caught up in a great fish. Salvation is of the Lord. Beginning, middle, and end. Salvation is of the Lord. All
right, over here in the book of John. John chapter seven. John chapter seven. We read here
in John chapter seven, verse 37, this desperate need that
we have. And then the Lord brings this
out. Jesus, at that last day, the great feast, the day of the
feast, Jesus stood and cried saying, now can you imagine being
in this great feast? It was this Feast of Weeks, Pentecost,
the Feast of Weeks. And it was required by the law
that every male Jew gather for these things. And the Lord told
him, he said, you do this and I'll guard your borders. Let the army go too. Well, Jesus
is at this last day, that great day of the feast. Jesus stood
and cried saying, now he's going to declare the gospel. He's talking
about water. If any man thirst, let him come
unto me and drink. He that believeth on me, as the
scriptures have said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of
living water. If any person thirsts, Well,
when it comes to spiritual things, we're not going to thirst for
them. Now, we'll thirst for physical water. I've never been terribly, terribly
thirsty for physical water. I've been thirsty, but not like
being out in the middle of a desert for two or three days. But there's
nothing that would satisfy that thirst like clean water. Not salt water, but clean, fresh
water. Now this thirst, Jesus Christ
is talking about, is a spiritual thirst, and that thirst only
comes as God gives us the thirst. We'll never hunger and thirst
after spiritual things unless he gives us the desire to hunger
and thirst after spiritual things. It is not to us. It is contrary
to us to hunger and thirst after that. We are so prone to hunger
and thirst after salt water, after water that tastes bad.
We're prone. We're taught from that from our
youth up, and yet it takes the grace of God for us to ever seek
after living water, pure water. gracious water, water that's
been taken care of by the cross and water that's been taken care
of by the covenant of grace. It takes the grace of God for
us to ever come to that kind of water. And so he stands up
and says these things. Now we heard Ray read this morning,
turn with me to the book of Matthew, back to the book of Matthew chapter
five. And in Matthew chapter five there in verse six, we find
that the Lord in his sermon on the Mount, as he's speaking and
preaching the gospel, This passage of scripture has certainly been
taken out of context by many people. But every preacher that
stands up and preaches about that it's up to you and it's
your choice and God has done all he can do is saying the same
thing. Here it tells us here in this passage of scripture
in the book of Matthew chapter five, verse six, verse six, blessed
are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness. Now, what does the Bible say
about our natural righteousness? Nothing good. Not one word of
good. In fact, our righteousness is
as filthy rags. That's what the scriptures tell
us about. That's our natural righteousness. We have nothing
in ourselves that commends us to approach God. The only way
we can approach God is through Jesus Christ, our Lord. That's
the only way. And that's the only way God is
prescribed. Our righteousness is as filthy rags. And here he
says, blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness,
for they shall be filled. When God puts the impetus in
us to hunger and thirst after righteousness, He doesn't bring
us up to a river of water and says, now you can't drink. I'm
going to pull you back. In fact, He says, drink! I've
brought you drink, drink to the fill. And you know what? We never
get filled of this glorious water of the river of life. Every day
is a blessing to drink of this spring, of this river, of this
flowing of the Lord Jesus Christ. Turn with me again in the book
of John, John chapter six. John chapter six and verse 35. As we go back to the book of
John, John chapter six and verse 35, we have this passage of scripture
here that just burns with such glorious things about our savior. Jesus said unto them, he never
missed an opportunity to tell people why he came to this earth.
He never missed an opportunity to declare the gospel, and when
he declared the gospel, his gospel is so effectual. That's what
we depend upon. We declare the gospel, but we're
dependent upon him to make it effectual, to make it personal,
to make it individual. We're just broadcasters. For tellers of the word of God,
that's all we can do. But he is the only one that can
deal with the heart. And here he tells us in John
chapter six and verse 35, Jesus said unto them, I am. Now I don't know how many times
in the New Testament he says that term, I am. We know of several
that he did. He told those people that came
after him with Judas Iscariot, I am, and they're on their face.
What power he demonstrates by the word of his mouth. It was
by the word of his mouth he created the heavens and the earth. It's
by the word of his mouth that he has exercised all power. So he says, I am the bread of
life. He that cometh unto me shall
never hunger and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. We
have a clear river of water. The Lord Jesus Christ, he's never
mixed works and law in his gospel. He's never added any impurities
to his gospel. Now man has taken care of that
for him, and he always must come with the truth of the gospel.
He always must come with the truth about himself. He must
come about the truth about the covenant of grace. He must come
about, he brings the truth to us. And he shares here, I am
the bread of life. He that cometh to me will never
hunger. You know, people that have had the new birth say, that
is the absolute truth. I feast on him every day. He
is my true bread that came down from heaven. And he that believeth
on me shall never thirst. I ask myself, how did you get
this belief? How did you get this? How did
you come? It had to be an act of God working
in me. Because I'd have never come.
The scriptures will tell me I could not come. I would have never
come. And I would never believe. I was enmity against God. What
does he do? He has to work on us. He has
to be working in us individually. And he does that glorious thing
and he declares unto Nicodemus, you must be born again. And Nicodemus,
just like us all, misunderstood what he had to say because he's
talking spiritual and Nicodemus is only understanding physical.
And that's just the way it is. Here we find, oh, I better take
a wafer. And I'm the water of life. Oh, I better get a drink. And
we turn it into a physical act when God Almighty is going to
convince us with a spiritual act verified by the covenant
of grace. A wonderful passage of scripture
that we'd like to turn to. Again, found here in the book
of John. John chapter 4. You know where I'm going. We
have a woman, a Samaritan woman, that is coming down to the well
of Jacob. Jacob's well. Now she wants to
get down there when there's nobody else around because she doesn't
want to be talked about. Now, there's enough people in
town talking about her, but she didn't want to hear it. She is,
well, she's like that woman that wept on the feet of Jesus and
wiped his feet with her hair. A publican said, not a publican,
excuse me, a Pharisee said, now, if he was anybody, he would not
let her do that because she is a sinner woman. If he knew anything. Now he's
making a judgment call, isn't he? He would not allow that woman
to come within 10 feet of him. If he'd have been crossed by
a shadow of that woman, he'd have went home and bathed and
washed his clothes. He could not put up with that.
But you know what the Lord Jesus Christ said about this situation?
The Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which is lost.
He is a friend of sinners. And the sinners say hallelujah.
Well, here in the book of John chapter 4, and I'd like to begin
reading with verse 4, we find there that in verse 4, God had
a purpose in this whole incident that took place. It is an incident
that shares much about God dealing with us. He's going to come to
us, and He must do that. He must. What does it say? He
must go through Samaria. Well, Samaria is not a place
where a Jew would go, but it's a place where God would go, a
place where Jesus will go. Pharisees may have circumvented
themselves around that, but Jesus Christ must, needs go there,
just like he must, needs come to this earth and go to where
you were. Then cometh he to a city of Samaria,
which is called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob
gave to his son Joseph. Now Jacob's well was there. What
does that mean? We got water. There's water here. May not be any water in town.
They can't go to their faucets. They don't have such a thing.
So they come with a bucket out to this well. Jacob's well was
there being wearied with his journey. Can you imagine God
of heaven being wearied? He is the God-man. Not only did
He get weary, He hungered. Not only did He get weary and
hungry, He got thirsty. He was like you and I. Yet without
sin, He is a man. He is the man Christ Jesus. Why must He be a man? For the
suffering of death. He came with that purpose, intent. Now there cometh a woman of Samaria
to draw water. Jesus said unto her, Give me
to drink. For his disciples were gone away
into the city to buy meat or to buy food. Then saith the woman
of Samaria 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 Samaritans. Good question. Now, how did she
recognize that he was a Jew? Maybe by his voice, maybe by
his dress, but she knew something about him. He was a Jew and she
was a Samaritan. Now, one of the kings, way long
time ago, said, we're going to take a whole bunch of folks out
of here, out of Israel, and we're going to bring a whole bunch
of folks back down here. And those folks intermarried, and
now we have Samaritans. And the Jews had nothing to do
with them because they were half-breeds. They were not the pure stock
of Abraham. I wonder how many truly pure
stocks of Abraham there are today. But this woman understood he
was a Jew and she also understood that it was not a common thing
for a Jew to speak to a Samaritan and particularly for a male Jew
to speak to a female Samaritan. Jesus answered and said to her,
if thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee,
give me to drink. Isn't that an interesting conversation? If you knew, if you knew who
it is that was speaking to you, you say, give me to drink and
I would have asked of him and he would have given thee living
water. If you knew who I am, You would have asked, and I would
have given you living water. Well, the woman saith unto sir,
thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. From whence
then hast thou that living water?" She's just acting like we did
when we first hear something about grace. How can this thing
be? How can it be? Do I enter my
mother's room the second time? And all of the other things that
people say, oh, I couldn't go there. I have a friend that went
there. And you know, that person, all they ever want to talk about
now is Jesus. I just don't think I want that.
Well, the woman said unto him, you have nothing to draw with.
Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us this well? and drank thereof himself and
his children and his cattle. And Jesus answered and said unto
her, whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again. Now
isn't that the truth? I had a nice drink of water this
morning, I'm gonna have a nice drink of water this afternoon,
and I'm gonna have some more water before I go to bed. It
doesn't last very long when we drink physical water. But spiritual
water has the capacity of taking care of spiritual needs from
this day forward. There will never be a day that
it will not take care of the needs that we have. He that cometh
to me shall never hunger and shall never thirst. Whosoever
drinketh of this water, he says, In verse 14, 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 into everlasting life. He's talking spiritual water.
She can only comprehend physical water. The woman says unto him,
sir, give me this water. Why? That I thirst not, neither
have to come here to drink. She said, you know, if I had
that, I'd never have to come down here anymore. Just give
it to me. Physical blessings. You know,
there's a whole lot said in the world today about physical blessings in religion. That's all it is about. If God
loves you, he'll put chicken in every pot and a Ford in every
garage. What about those who God loves
that don't have that? That's not what he's talking
about. He's talking about spiritual blessings. Here he goes on to
say, The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that
I thirst not, neither come hither to draw. And Jesus said 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
well said, I have no husband. But for thou hast had five husbands,
and he whom thou hast is not thy husband, in that saidst thou
truly. And the woman said unto him,
sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. Our fathers worshiped
in this mountain. And you say in Jerusalem is the
place to worship where men ought to worship. Let's talk about
religion. Let's get that discussion out
because I know something about religion. I know about Jacob
and I know about this well and I know that there must be something
special about you and you know we've been told to worship in
this mountain. You go back to the division of the two kingdoms
ten tribes and two tribes at that division. That king that
took those ten tribes, he said, you know, we better raise up
a place here to worship or they'll go back to Jerusalem and worship.
And so he raised up a golden calf and that's where they've
been worshiping. And she says, we've been told to worship in
this mountain and you say we have to go to Jerusalem to worship.
Well, woman, believe me, the hour cometh when ye shall neither
in this mountain nor yet at Jerusalem worship the Father. How do we
accomplish that? They that worship God must worship
God in spirit and in truth. It is not the place. It is who
we worship. Jesus Christ gives us the great
joy of worshiping God in spirit and in truth. Verse 22, you worship,
you know not what. We know what we worship for salvation
is of the Jews. You know, he's talking here about
the church. That called out assembly. Salvation
is of the Jews, the true descendants of Abraham, the spiritual descendants
of Abraham. God is a spirit, and they that
worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. And she
says, this is interesting. The woman said unto him, I know
that Messiah's cometh. Who's that? That's the Messiah
that's been promised since the days of Adam. In the Old Testament,
he's called Messiah. In the New Testament, he's called
Christ. I know Messiah's is coming. which is called Christ. When
he has come, he will tell us all things. And Jesus said unto
her, I that speak unto thee am. Did you know that he has been
supplied? He revealed something to this
woman that she had never had before in all her religious experiences. She had never had anything like
this. She was revealed something about this man that he is Christ,
the Messiah, the promised seed of Abraham, the one that would
come and deal with the issues that transpired in the Garden
of Eden, the sin that we fell into. Upon this, came his disciples,
and marveled that he talked with the woman, and yet no man said,
What seekest thou, or why talkest thou with her? And the woman
then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith
unto the men, Come, see a man that told me everything, all
things I ever did, is not this Christ. He showed me what I am, and took
me as I am. You know, there's a song that
someone wrote that's been just absolutely wore out, but it has
good words. Just as I am, without one plea,
but that thy blood was shed for me. Gather them together, and I will
give them water for the night.