You know, our Lord went through Samaria
for one reason, to reach one of His elect, to go find one
of His lost sheep. And when He goes after His lost
sheep, believe me, He finds them. And they gladly, gladly rejoice
at that. They do. And this woman had been
pricked in her conscience by our Lord. You remember, our Lord
said here in verse 16, Jesus saith unto her, go call thy husband,
and come here. The woman answered and said,
I don't have a husband. Our Lord said, you told the truth.
You have no husband. For you've had five, and the
one you have now is not your husband. And boy, when our Lord
told her that, told her all this, you know, and they said, well,
he knows things about me nobody else knows except people around
here. And she says, Sir, I perceive, she feels like she heard this
voice of God, I perceive that there are no prophets. And God
spoke by his prophets. Since her conscience had been
pricked over her sin, she turns to the subjects of worship. You
know, whenever somebody begins to be concerned about their sin,
the first thing they start talking about and thinking about, I need
to start going to church. Well, that's what she decided
to do. She said, well, we'll talk about worship. If you're
a prophet, we'll talk about worship. And this is what she said. And
here's the thing. She wanted to know where to worship.
She said, our fathers worshiped in this mountain. And you say
that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. She
was interested, where are we supposed to worship at? But it's
still, it's still herself in the place of Christ. Instead
of trusting Christ, she's still looking at herself, saying where,
where, where? instead of believing Him. And that's why no matter where
you worship, you got to believe Him. I do know that. And what
God kept her from asking, what God had done, excuse me, what
had kept her from asking for the gift of God. Our Lord said
if you knew the gift of God, you would have asked of Him.
Him. And I tell you what, Christ said it was her ignorance. She
said, for if you knew, if you knew the gift of God, and knew
who it is, who it is, they would give it to you. You see, that's
the difference. Things are gifts, and there's
only one person that can give it. There's only gifts, salvation's
a gift, and only Christ can give it. Nobody else can give it. I tell you some things she did
know though. She knew about the contention between the Jews and
Samaritans. She said, how come thou being
a Jew would even talk to a Samaritan? Me a woman of Samaritan. Why
in the world you even do that? She knew the difference between
Jerusalem and that Mount Gerizim where the Samaritans worshiped.
She knew the difference. Our fathers worshipped over here
in this mountain. And your fathers say that all
you Jews say we've got to worship over here in Jerusalem. She knew
about Jacob. She said, our father Jacob, this
is his well. Are you greater than our father
Jacob? But two things she did not know. She did not know the
gift of God. She didn't know that. And she
didn't know who it was that was giving to her and speaking to
her. And when our Lord first begins to deal with us, I know
in my own experience, I don't know about yours. When our Lord
first started dealing with me, the first things you're interested
in, well, what church do I need to go to? What church do I need
to go to? Every church says they're the
ones. Catholic church says they're the only ones that's got all
salvation. Every church says that, you know,
I'm the one that's got what you need. We can meet your needs. We can meet the need of the whole
person. We can meet the needs of your
family, your children. We got all kinds of things here
that you can do. We've got to try to figure out
what denomination we ought to belong to. Where should I go
worship? What church should I join? Which
is the most scriptural? Seeking a refuge anywhere but
in Christ. Ain't that right? Oh listen,
folks debate where I'm going to go and they use all kinds
of gimmicks to get folks in. Get folks in. But look what our
Master, she said this, I'm going to start right here. Verse 20,
Our fathers worshipped in this mountain, yet you say Jerusalem
is the place where men ought to worship. And what she's saying
is, she says some worship here, some worship over there. Who
are we to worship? That's why she's asking, where
do I need to go worship at? If a sinner joins a church before
being joined to Christ, he's in greater danger than he's ever
been in. You go and unite yourself to
a body of believers or a body of any kind of a church that
you want to call it. And you go unite yourself without being
joined to Christ, you're in trouble. The first thing has to happen
before you ever join a church. And if you never join a church,
it ain't going to change a thing about you. Being a member of
Lantana Grace Church is not doing you any good. The only person
who can do you any good is the Lord Jesus Christ. You've got
to be joined to Him. He's the head, we're the body.
He's the vine, we're the branches. By me you live, move, and have
your being. That's what our Master said.
And the church can't help and the church can't save you. Can't
do it. What can this church do for you? What can a church do for you?
Can't save you? Can't help you? It's not a stepping
stone to Christ. The church is not a stepping
stone to Christ. There ain't no stepping stones to Christ. No, most places are a stumbling
stone. And what could this mountain
or what could Jerusalem do for her? She said this mountain is
where we worship. She pointed to a mountain. And
then she pointed to over Jerusalem. What's a mountain and what's
Jerusalem going to do for her? Could she find salvation in that
mountain? Could she find peace at Jerusalem?
She needed salvation before she could worship anywhere. And Jesus saith unto her, oh,
I tell you what, that's what folks, where do we go worship?
Where do we go worship? Where do you go worship? But
I do know this, if you're joined to Christ, if you're joined to
Christ, you can worship Him anywhere. And most of us do most of our
worship outside of this place right here. Most of us do our
real worship, our real praying, our real seeking, our real submission
outside of this place right here. We come here to hear the gospel
and rejoice in fellowship together around our Lord Jesus Christ.
But I tell you what, if you don't worship outside of here, you're
certainly not worshiping here. If you don't worship in your
heart, you're not worshiping at all. And I tell you what,
and our Lord said unto her, and look what He says now. She's
wanting to know where. Where? Where are we going to
go worship? Anything to keep from being confronted
with Christ. Or being come up with some doozies.
But Jesus saith unto her, Woman, You know, they never told her
name yet. This woman, just a woman at the well. And he said, woman? Believe me. That's the first
thing she said, believe me. Believe me. That's what he said,
believe me. That's the first thing you need
to do, believe me. It didn't look quite set. Thou cometh when you shall neither
in this mountain nor at Jerusalem worship the Father. Oh my. And what our Master is saying,
the time when public worship won't be confined to any one
place. She says, where are we going
to worship at? He answers, where? He said, in this mountain or
no place else. There's coming a time that this
mountain, nor at Jerusalem, will you ever worship. You don't go
to a place. And He said, you worship the
Father. And I tell you, the time of public worship won't be confined
to a time or a place or anything else. And he answers her word. And I tell you what our Lord
said, there'll be no more tabernacle, no more temple worship, no more
feasts, no more holy days, no more Sabbaths. You remember when
that Ethiopian eunuch, he traveled, I think somebody told me one
time, it's like a 1,200 mile trip. from over in Ethiopia for
her and him to go up to Jerusalem. He was a big shot, had a lot
of money, was a treasurer for Candesi the queen. And he drove
and went all that way up to Jerusalem because at the Passover everybody
went to Jerusalem. And he went up to Jerusalem.
And he was wealthy enough to own the scriptures. Well, he
went up there, stayed up there for days and days, and went through
all the rituals, went through all the ceremonies, went through
all the prayers, went through all the temple worship, went
through everything that he was supposed to do, heard all the
preaching, heard all the Pharisees, heard all the Sadducees. And
you know what he done? He left there as ignorant and
as empty as he did when he went up there. You know what he didn't
learn while he was up there? He didn't learn anything about
Christ. And he was on his way out of town and he was sitting
reading from Isaiah. His letter is a lamb to the slaughter
and his judgment was taken away. And who shall declare his generation? Philip jumped up in the chair
with him and said, do you understand what you read? He said, no, I
don't. I do not understand this at all.
He said, I don't understand it, but maybe some man would guide
me. He said, who's this fellow speaking
of? Himself or some other man? He knew he was talking about
a man. And he started right there. And he started preaching unto
him the Lord Jesus Christ from that scripture. And oh my, they
come to a place and there wasn't much water there. There was enough
evidently to put him under. You weren't going to sprinkle
him or pour him. There was enough there to put
him under. And he said, what doth hinder me to be baptized?
You know what he said? If you believe with all your
heart that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. Believe I believe
and that's what he's saying here. There is not a place as a person
you worship You know, we don't we know we come here for to work
to hear the Word of God and but I'll tell you If God's elect
from every tribe in every nation We'd go up to Jerusalem and that's
why Lord stood that day and then John 6 37 and said this He's
a 737 if any man thirsty And they all come up there thirsty.
Thirsty for religion. Thirsty for a synagogue. Thirsty
for sacrifices. Thirsty for rituals. And our
Lord said, if any man's thirsty, let him come unto Me and drink. Drink. And oh, beloved, then
He says this in verse 22. You worship you know not what. Oh, salvation is of the Jews. We know what we worship. You
worship, you know not what. We know what we worship. What
he's saying is, you Samaritans are ignorant, you're false worshipers,
you don't even know what to worship. He said, Jews, he said, you don't
know what to worship. So evidently that was something
that they worshiped. Not a person, they went to something
else. They had something else. He said,
what worship? And oh my, we know, our Lord
Jesus, we know. And I, you know, I don't know
if it's, I should say this or not, but I'm gonna take a stab
at it and see if I can, you know, people, when it comes to the
gospel, when it comes to the things of Christ, I don't expect
a person to be able to dot all his i's and cross all his t's. But I also don't expect a person
to be ignorant of who Jesus Christ is and what he did, who he did
it for, and why he did it. I believe that we can stand and
give a reason of the hope that's in us. And that's what our Lord
is saying here. You worship, you don't even know
what you worship. I know a couple, and very close to this couple. He got to passing a lot of blood
and he got scared. Got scared. Got scared and he
started going to church. Now maybe when he gets over his
scare, I don't know, maybe he'll quit, I don't know, but they
go to church. And that's what they call it, going to church. But we come here, beloved, not
just to go to church. I hope you're not here just to
go to church. She said, we worship we don't
know what. You don't know what you're worshiping.
You don't know if it's an idol. You don't know if it's a strange
god. You don't know if it's a thing. You don't know what it is. You
get up there and you see somebody standing up with a robe on or
whatever, and you say, you know, I'm up here to worship. Well,
you ain't got nothing but a statue of gold. You don't even know
what it is you're worshiping. But our Lord said, we worship
the old hero Israel. The Lord our God is one. And
I tell you what, You know when God said that when our Lord says
salvation is of the Jews, now let me tell you something, God
revealed Himself to them before He revealed Himself to anybody
else. He gave them the tabernacle. He gave them the priesthood.
He gave them the mercy seat. He gave them the sacrifices.
He gave them kings. He gave them prophets. He gave
them priests. And He made them a nation. They're
always referring to themselves as the God of Abraham, the God
of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Salvation is of the Jews. Let
me show you something over here in Romans chapter 3. And I hope
I get through this and show you something. You know, when Simeon
went into the temple, when our Lord Jesus Christ was being dedicated,
when he was eight days old, you know, the firstborn has to be
dedicated, the firstborn son. Took him up there, dedicated
him to God, offered the sacrifices. And Simeon, an old man, an old
man, he was on the verge of going into eternity. He walked in there
and he saw an infant. There's no telling how many,
and I've said this so many times, there's no telling how many babies
was in there. But yet he is walking along and
he is looking, and all of a sudden he saw a baby. And he saw A Jewish
mother sitting there and her father sitting there and the
rabbi that just circumcised him, the one that offered the sacrifices
for. And he raised and took that baby out of that mother's arms
and held him up to himself. And he looked and said, Lord,
I see now thy salvation. You know what he said? He's looking
at an eight-day-old baby now. He said, Lord, I see now thy
salvation. Now, let thy servant depart in
peace. When you see the Lord Jesus Christ,
you can depart in peace. Oh, then I tell you what, look
what he said here now. In Romans 3, 1 and 2. What advantage
then hath the Jew? What profit is their circumcision? Much in every way chiefly because
that unto them were committed the oracles of God. In other
words, God dealt with them the first. The first. And I tell you what, that's why
he said salvation to the Jew and also to the Greek. But God
opened the door. God opened the door. But salvation
started with the Jews. And that's why we're called the
seed of Abraham. It's because God promised him
a seed. We're that seed. But now look
what our master said. But the hour cometh, and now
is, My our Lord uses the hour verse 23. He used that word hour
to give a space of time But the hour cometh and watch what he
says and right now is Right now he is When the true worshipers
Shall worship the father in spirit and in truth for the father such
seeketh such to worship him. I Now I tell you what, when the
true worshippers, true worshippers, they are coming in right now,
yes. There's always been true worshippers. Always been true
worshippers of God. Abraham was a true worshipper
of God. And there's always been false
worshippers of God. always have been. There's always
been a spiritual worship and a ritual worship. There's always
been a worship of the spirit. There's always been a worship
of people of the flesh. Let me show you Abel was a worshiper
of God. Is that not right? Abel, the
first boy that was killed. Abel was a worshipper of God.
How do we know? Christ testified of Abel in Hebrews
11. And Cain, his brother, was a
false worshipper. God cursed him. And then there's
Enoch. He walked by faith with God Almighty. And then just a few days later,
there's a bunch of people got together and they started making
bricks and they started saying, let's build us a tower. They
said, let's build us a tower all the way to heaven. We'll
get up, we'll reach God this way. That's why our Lord says, the
hour is coming. And now He is with the true worshipers. You
know, in Isaiah 28, it talked about false
refuges. False refuges. And then you know
what the true refuge is? There shall be a covert from
the sun, from the storm. There shall be a man who shall
be a hiding place. A man who shall be a hiding place. Oh, the hours now when worship
at Jerusalem might make you a true worshiper. And boy, I tell you
what, going to this mountain of Jerusalem or anywhere else
won't even make you a false worshiper. It's not where you go, it's who
you worship. And look what our Master said, the hour cometh
and now is when the true worshippers, there's always been true worshippers
and always will. God never left himself without
a witness. Elijah he went up on the mountainside. No, my goodness. He just got
through praying and then God Saved him and destroyed 450 false
prophets with fire coming down from heaven Consumed the sacrifice
consumed the water and everything and then Jezebel said I'm gonna
I'm coming after that fella and He said, I'm going to kill that
boy. I'm going to kill that prophet. Oh my goodness, he called all
that fire down from heaven with 67 words and then he ran up there
and hid under a juniper tree. He sat down under that juniper
tree and said, Oh Lord, let me die. I said, everybody's gone
but me. There ain't no people, God, you
ain't got no people but me. I'm the only one left. I'm the
only prophet left. Well God come to him and said,
Oh Elijah, Elijah, Elijah. He said, I've got 7,000 that's
never about to need a bell. I've got 7,000. You know what
that tells us? That God knows exactly how many
people he's got. Elijah said, Oh Lord, let me
die. Let me die. God said, Oh, listen,
you ain't fixing to die. And you know what? He didn't
die. He didn't die. You know, God took him away in
a chariot and took him to glory. He didn't even have to go through
death. God took him away in a chariot. Huh? Sent a chariot down and
said, you know, they sang that song, Swing Down, Sweet Chariot. Well, I tell you what, a chariot
swooped down. God picked him up in that chariot.
He didn't stop and say, now climb in. I'm going to give you a ride. No, no, that thing swooped down
and picked him up. And away he went. God didn't,
you know, that chariot dropped him off and he didn't stop in
glory and say, now jump out now. He stopped in glory, you know,
it just, it just dropped him in glory and away he went. But what I'm saying is that there's
always been true worshipers. Always kept God's sheep compared
to the world is just a tiny bit He said not fear not little flock
And all the millions that were in Israel. There's only 7,000
And all the people's ever been on
the face of the earth That's why I Lord said wherever two
or three are gathered together in my name. I'm gonna meet with
them and And I'll tell you what, beloved,
and I'm going to say this. There are some days you don't
even need two or three sometimes. All you need is you and Him.
You and Him make two, and every once in a while you worship Him
by yourself. Your mother used to say at all
times, she said, I had the best worship today. I shouted even,
she said. If you listen to some preaching
or something, or read her Bible, she'll get happy. Just her and
Christ. That's all it takes. That's two,
ain't it? And look what he says, shall
worship the Father. It's not where, it's not how,
but it's who to worship. And God revealed Him here as
His Father, shall worship the Father. The Father. And what he's saying is there's
only one person you worship. That's God. God. And I tell you,
she'll worship the Father. Oh, how are we going to worship
Him? We can't see Him. We can't pick Him up with our
hands. We can't set Him up on our shelves. We ain't got no
pictures of Him setting up here. We don't have no images of Him.
So how in the world are we going to worship Him? You know, everybody's got to
have something to look at to worship. Oh, he said, you know how you're
going to worship Him? In spirit. And in truth. In spirit. Oh, by the Holy Spirit. You can't worship Christ in spirit
without the Holy Spirit. And you can't worship Him without
your spirit. And in truth, the Holy Spirit
brings to us the truth. And He reveals to us the truth,
the things about Christ. When He has come, He will take
the things of Christ and show them unto us and teach them unto
us. And I tell you what, you know
when He says, Spirit and truth, you know what He's saying you
don't worship Him with? The flesh. The flesh. I've told you this
before and I'll say it again. The simpler we can keep our worship,
the better everybody is. That's right. Most folks, I'm
telling you what, the flesh, if you give the flesh
an inch, you give the flesh a hair's breadth, and the flesh will take
over. Huh? That's what happens the most,
but you know they'll go in and they'll go in and sing a few
songs and all that and say, well I tell you what, the Lord blessed
us so much today, I ain't even gonna preach, let's just keep
on singing. The flesh gets all carried away.
But beloved, the flesh, you can't let the flesh have any part in
this. You know, Romans 8 says this, what prophet then hath
the flesh? What did the flesh profit you
and give you in your salvation? What did the flesh produce in
your salvation? What has the flesh contributed,
your old fallen nature, what has it contributed to your salvation? I tell you what, it's taken away
from your worship, I won't say from your salvation, it's taken
away from your worship. We get tired, our body gets tired,
our mind gets tired. We get things on our mind. We
worry about things. We worry about our parents. We
worry about our wives. We worry about our children.
We worry about our jobs. We come in here with a thousand
things on our mind. We worry about our health. We
worry about our finances. We worry about retirement. We
worry about bills. But I tell you what, oh God,
I tell you, we are so thankful when we're able to come here
and God keeps this place under control for just a couple of
hours, just for an hour, hour and 15 minutes. To be able to
truly, truly, God take our minds and our hearts and direct them
away from ourselves and to Christ. This flesh, all it is is a hindrance. Ain't it? Ooh, it's a hindrance. And I know you wouldn't believe
some of the things that go through my brain even while I'm preaching.
It's like old Bruce was preaching one time, and this is the flash. He said, boy, that's good preaching,
ain't it, Bruce? You know, when he was preaching
here last year, remember that year before last? And we all
just died laughing, but that was the flash. And he knows,
and he'll tell you that. But we get carried away, and
that flash will flash up like that in just a minute. Oh, Lord,
I'm sorry. Oh my! And I tell you, no flesh,
no works, no candle. Let me look over here in Acts
chapter 17 with me. You know, Paul said it like this,
We worship with a true circumcision which worships Worship Christ in the spirit
and have no confidence in the flesh But look here in Acts 17
look with me down here in verse 23 22 excuse me Then Paul stood in the midst
of Mars Hill And said ye men of Athens I perceive that in all things
you are too superstitious. That word superstitious, same
thing as religious. For as I passed by and beheld
your devotions, and in the margin says the gods that you worship,
I found an altar while I was walking around in here with this
inscription to the unknown God. And what they were saying was
we got every god covered, in case there's one we don't know
anything about, we got an altar for him. And Paul said, this
one that you don't know. He said, I'm going to tell you
about him. Him whom therefore you ignorantly
worship, Him declare unto you. And this is how he starts out.
God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he
is Lord of heaven and earth, sovereign, creator, sustainer,
dwelleth not in temples made with hands. He don't dwell in
buildings. That's what he's telling him. That's what He's telling him.
People talk about going to the Holy Land, going to Israel. There's
not a holy place on the face of this earth. There's not one place more holy
than another. God don't dwell in buildings.
He dwells in people. Dwells in His Son. Look what
He says now. Neither is worshipped with men's
hands. As though he needed anything.
Seeing he don't need anything, he gives to all life and breath
and all things. Look down at verse 29. For as
much then as we are the offspring of God, begotten of God, God's
children, since we are not made out of silver and gold, we're
flesh and bone, flesh and blood, and as we God begat us, we ought
not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold or silver,
stone, craven by art and man's devices. If we're flesh and blood,
what makes you think God? Would be in it, you know, and
I tell you worship is a spiritual act And it's done inwardly in
the heart and in the spirit in truth in honesty and truly and
sincerity And look what he says now here get get in verse 23
now in john 4 For the father seeketh such to
worship him Now I've heard preachers say, now this is the way it does.
God's looking down, you know, He's looking around people, watching
people, looking at people. And what He's doing, He's looking
and saying, oh, that and there's worshiping me in the Spirit,
and that and over there is not. This is here sitting looking
at me. This one here, He's looking, and they say He's looking to
see who is. But no, no. He seeks us and makes us worshippers. He just sought that woman, didn't
He? He just found that woman. And
you know what He said? The Father sought you. I sought
you. Now you're going to worship in
spirit and in truth. Ain't that right? It's like,
you know, they asked the Lord Jesus Christ at one time said,
What good work must we do? to be saved. You know what our
Lord said? This is the Father's work that you believe on Him. And
you know what He's saying is? As many as were ordained to eternal
life believed. Ain't that right? God's work
is the one that caused us to worship. I was worshipping pagan
gods, worshipping the flesh, worshipping my own self-righteousness,
worshipping my giving, worshipping my praying, worshipping my holiness. I was worshipping everything,
worshipping flesh until God in his sovereign mercy opened my
heart and saved me by his blessed grace, crossed my path with the
gospel. And bless God, He crosses people's
path with the Gospel. He crossed this woman's path
with the Gospel, with Christ Himself. And oh my! And He seeks us out. The Father
seeks. He seeks them out. And makes
us to worship. I've got to hurry on here. Look
what He says now in verse 24. God is a Spirit. says God's spirit and spirits
don't have hands and feet and legs and those kind of things
and don't you know his spirit they that worship him must worship
him in spirit you can't worship him any other way and then you
can't worship him without truth you can't worship him unless
you know who he is can you? And you know what he says God
is a spirit and they that worship him must must Worship him in
spirit. You know when he says must here
that means there's no alternative That means you got no other way
to do it no alternative He's not worshiped by our eyes not
worshiped by our ears not worshiped by our hands and spirit by that
new nature New nature. God is spirit. That's why he
says make no graven images. No alternatives. You must. Then
look what he said in verse 29. No, excuse me. Verse 20. Yeah, 25. I've got 29. Yeah,
well, it looks like a nine. It's five. I just can't even
read them all right. 25, yeah. The woman saith unto
him, Oh, she answers. She's talking now. He's been
preaching to her. Oh, he's been preaching to her. The woman saith
unto him, I know that Messiah cometh, which is called Christ. Oh, I know that he's coming.
You know, everybody knew he was coming, which is called Christ. When he is coming, he'll tell
us all things. You know what he says, what she's
doing here? She's putting Christ before Moses. She's putting Christ
before the prophets. She's putting Christ before everybody
else. I know when the Messiah is coming, He's going to be the
one that's got everything I need to know. She said, I know that when He
comes, when He comes, He's going to tell us all things, everything. And what she's saying there is
the law is not complete. The law is not complete. He'll
tell us all things. And Christ will be the interpreter
of the Father. He'll tell us. And I tell you,
beloved, we must not desire anything better or more than Him, His
gospel. This is what He tells us. I want
to show you something over here. I think it's in John chapter
2. Yeah, look over here real quick
with me in John chapter 2. Oh, God help us. We will never
desire anything better or more then the Lord Jesus Christ he's
the one who tells us all things you know our Lord went to the
marriage of Cana of Galilee and it says now when Jesus was called
his disciples to the marriage and in verse 3 it says when they
wanted wine now listen to what they wanted wine at this marriage
supper this marriage of Cana of Galilee and look what The
mother of Jesus saith unto him, Come to Christ. They have no
wine. Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee?
Mine hour is not yet come. Then look what his mother said.
She knows he's going to do something. His mother saith unto the servants,
Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it. What he tells you to do, do it. Do it! That's one of the commercials
of one of these companies that makes things. Just do it! That's
what Christ's mother said about everybody. Whatever He tells
you to do, do it. Do it. And whatever He tells
us to do, God help us to do it. And He's the one that tells us.
He's the one that tells us. And then look what our Master
says to them. To her in verse 26. Our Lord said to her, I that
speak unto thee, am. The one that's speaking to you,
talking to you. She said, I know when he comes,
he's gonna tell us all things. She done told him everything
about herself already. And oh, I know that when he comes,
he's gonna tell us all things. And our Lord said, I'm talking
to you now. The one that's speaking to you
is the Messiah, is the Christ. I am Him. I'm the one. I'm the
one that's coming. What else is needed? He stands
before her now as revealed as to who He is. He sought her out. He warned her. And that's enough. She didn't find Him up on the
mountain where she went to worship. She didn't find Him down in Jerusalem. You know where? She didn't find
Him at all. He found her. And she would have
never known who He was if He hadn't have told her. But you
know where she was at? She was at a well with a water
pot. Huh? Christ in the center here
brought face to face. Face to face. What grace. What mercy. The living water. is flowing to this sinner right
now and oh my then about this time his disciples came and look
what it says and they marveled that he talked with this woman
they understood that Jews and Samaritans had absolutely nothing
to do with one another and yet you know they just absolutely
marveled about it they got there and said oh my Christ is talking
to this woman She's a Samaritan woman. They're here at this well. And yet no man said, what are
you looking for? Why are you talking with her?
And that's the first thing she said. I'm a Samaritan, you're
a Jew, and we don't even talk to one another. But oh yeah,
no man said unto him. And oh my. And I'll tell you
what, if they'd have been there, you know what they'd have been?
They'd have been a hindrance. There would have been a hindrance.
Huh? They weren't allowed to hear
the discourse between this soul and her Savior. And I tell you,
nobody else can enter into what Christ does for you and you alone.
You've got to go through it by yourself. And they had a lesson
to learn that the saving grace of God was not limited to Israel. But that Gentiles were going
to be saved. No man asked why or why do you
do it. And then look what happened now. Verse 28, the woman then left
her water pot. Now I tell you what, here's what
happened. She gets up there, they carry these big old pots,
water pots. And she set that thing on that
well, come there to get water. And I, Lord, started a conversation
with her. She never did get any water. And the scripture said, there's
that water pot sitting on that well. And the Lord Jesus began to preach
to her and she said, Oh my! This is something! She forgot about water. She forgot
about her pot. And she just started walking
away. She ran into town. She ran into town. She was in
a hurry. She forgot water. She forgot
pots. And went her way into the city.
She went right back where she lived at. Oh, Christ's going to have His
sheep. What a glorious ending from how and where and to this. Darkness. Oh, He took her out
of her darkness and translated her into His kingdom of light. And oh my. And this woman said,
oh my. She went to these men. And four
times through this thing, the woman referred to herself. She
acknowledged her thirst and she said, Lord, give me this water
that I thirst not. She confessed her sin. I have
no husband. She confessed the dawning of
light. I perceive the doubt of prophet. She confessed faith
when she said, I know that when the Messiah cometh, I got someone
to look forward to. And he's going to tell me everything.
And now she left her water pot to go testify of Christ. And
look what she said to the men. You know why she went to the
men? For the same reason she went out at noon to get her water
pot. She was a woman of a bad, bad, bad reputation. She was
like Mary when Mary came into Simon the the pharisees house
when he fixed our Lord Jesus invited him to dinner and then
the Lord Jesus was there and Mary come in and started washing
his feet and crying over his feet and wiping with the he said
this is what Simon said he just thought he didn't even say it
he said if this man were a prophet he'd know what manner of woman
this is that she's a sinner And our Lord just knew what he said.
He started talking to her. But anyway, this is what I'm
saying. Because of her reputation, the women wouldn't have nothing
to do with her. And that's the way a lot of folks
are. They want nothing to do with the sinner. There's people
now tell you now that you can be good without God. Well, no,
you can't be good with God or without God. He's the only one that's good. You
know, we come in here and say, well, how are you doing? Oh,
I'm doing good. Well, you should say, I feel good. Or I feel well. But anyway, she left her water
pot and she went to the men. And then look what she said. Come. Come back with me to the
well. That's what she said. Come on
back with me to the well. There's a man over there. There's
a man over there. Come with me back to the well.
Come see a man. Now listen to what she says there. Now she just got through saying
the Messiah is going to tell us everything that Christ did.
Told me all things that ever I did. She said, listen, come on back
out of town with me. Go back to the well with me. She said,
there's a man over there at that well. And oh my, come see a man
which told me all things that ever I did. Oh my, is not this
the Christ? Now I tell you, he never put
her on probation. No told her she must hold out
or hold on. And she said, oh, come back to
the well with me. Come back to the well with me.
And that's what I'm telling you. That's what I'm telling you.
There's a well of living water here right now. Yeah. I heard
Tim James say the other day, he said he joined the Baptist
Church when he was a very young man. Told the name of the church
and everything. Said the first thing they done
with him when they put him in the church, they said they put
him on six weeks probation. Put him on six weeks probation.
And they would examine him, you know. And they had the deacons
and the preachers and everything examine him, you know. And if
he had done certain things, done good things, then they would
take him into the church. But they had to watch him for
six weeks. But oh my, you know what God
did for him? Like He did for us. He crossed
His path. What He saith unto you, do it. Come see a man. Come see Christ. See Him who is all things. See Him who is altogether lovely. See Him who is salvation. See Him who gives grace in great
abundance. Our Father, oh, our Father, blessed
be Your name for the gospel, for the grace of Christ, for
the good attention of Your people. Lord, we know that this is a
work of Yours, and we acknowledge that. God bless the Word. Oh, Lord, You bless it. You bless it to the heart. You
bless it to the understanding. always in the hands of the Holy
Spirit to do with it what seemeth good in His eyes. But God bless
it. Lord, use it to Your glory and
the good of those that are here. Please remember our dear brethren.
Keep these dear saints. Strengthen and encourage, uphold
for Christ's sake. Amen. Oh, I tell you what, after
that, you know, come see a man. Turn your eyes upon Jesus Look
full in His wonderful face And the things of earth will grow
strangely dim in the light of His glory and grace. See you tonight, six o'clock,
God willing.