Well, we'll continue in John's
Gospel and we come to a very familiar passage. I'm sure I've
heard many sermons on it. I'm sure you have. The woman
at the well in Samaria in the city of Sychar. Our Lord Jesus
Christ came to this earth to save his people from their sins. That's what his name means, Jesus.
He shall save his people from their sins. Read what the Scriptures
say. Don't go along with the general
consensus. Read what the Scriptures say.
You shall call His name Jesus, Joshua, Savior. For He shall
save His people from their sins. And He came to do that. He came
to do that which is necessary to save. And He came for individuals. He came for peoples. He's on
the trail of His people. I've called this message, On
the Trail of His Sheep. God has His sheep. God has His
people. And the gospel calls them. And
preachers are called to go out on the trail of His sheep, on
the trail of His elect. Because when they hear, God the
Holy Spirit will give them ears to hear. We don't know who they
are. We don't know any difference.
But God the Holy Spirit gives ears to hear. And He's on the
trail of His people. And here in chapter 4, He's on
the trail of some people, and one in particular, a woman in
particular. These were Samaritans. These
are Samaritans that he came to. Look what he says in Matthew
chapter 10, when he's sending out his disciples. He's sending
out his disciples, in a sense, under the old administration. In chapter 10, verses 5 and 6,
look what he says. It's quite surprising, actually,
when you read what he says. These 12, it says, Matthew chapter
10 and verse 5, these 12 Jesus sent forth and commanded
them saying go not into the way of the Gentiles and into any
city of the Samaritans enter ye not but go rather to the lost
sheep of the house of Israel he's talking as it appeared externally
that salvation was of the Jews and it was for the Jews but we
know that he came to save his people we know that he came to
save all of his people irrespective of race So surely he wouldn't
go through Samaria looking for any of his people, would he?
When he sent out his disciples and told them not to go into
any of the cities of Samaria. Surely not them, but he's looking
for the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And who is the house
of Israel? We saw it last week. The children
of Abraham by faith, not by physical descent. Those whom the Father
has given that faith to believe the gospel of His grace. These
are the ones who Paul calls in Galatians 6 and verse 6, the
Israel of God. There's an Israel which is a
political external Israel, but he's talking about the Israel
of God. And you read in Galatians and
Romans, it's perfectly clear, it's by faith that we're citizens
of that country. So they were traveling from Judea,
where the Pharisees, because of what we saw last week, the
Jews were questioning John about his situation, and they were
causing trouble because of the numbers being baptized by Jesus'
disciples. So he's heading back to Galilee,
and he's going through Samaria. He could have skirted around
the edge of it, but he goes through Samaria. He must needs go through
Samaria. And he comes to Sychar, this
place, at the middle of the day. It's the sixth hour. By the Jewish
reckoning of time, the day started when the sun came up at six in
the morning. So it's the sixth hour. It's the middle of the
day. It's hot. You don't go doing heavy work
at the middle of the day. You take a rest when the sun's
at its height. But here he is, in the middle of the day, weary
from his journey. And he's resting on the edge
of the well. Perhaps there was a little stone
parapet wall around the edge of the well that they'd built.
This was an ancient well. Jacob's well. A well that Jacob
had dug, or his people had dug. Many, many hundreds, thousands
of years before. And he was weary. Does that not
tell us something? That this man, who was the Son
of God, this man, who was the Son of Man, was in flesh, that
though without sin, yet it was flesh. He was weary. We went on a day out yesterday
and we walked around a long way and we had a really good time,
but boy, we were weary at the end of the day. Legs were aching
and joints were aching at the end of the day. Weary. And he was weary. He was a real
man. That was real flesh that He wore.
He came in the likeness of sinful flesh, yet without sin. And there
He is, resting. And He'd sent His disciples away
to buy meat, to buy bread, to buy food to eat. There's another
interesting thing to note just as we're passing. He didn't perform
a miracle. There's some who think that life
is an endless stream of miracles. And here He is, the Son of God,
who fed 5,000. 5,000! Here's the Son of God who's told
fishermen to cast the net on the other side of the boat when
they'd caught nothing, and they caught so many it nearly sank
the boat. Here's this Son of God, and He's weary, and He's
tired, and He's thirsty, and He could really do with some
sustenance, but He doesn't perform a miracle. No. He sends them
away to buy some food. And so it is. Wouldn't it be
nice if all the burdens of our lives as Christians could be
taken off us? No, I'm sorry, you've got to
go to work tomorrow. I've got to go to work tomorrow. This
is the way it is. this is the order in which we
live and he did this for a very special reason he wanted to spend
time alone with this woman who he knew would be providentially
caused to come to that well at that time of day alone why did
he want to speak to her alone well you can see from the reaction
of his disciples later when they came back they were shocked they
were shocked they were They just could hardly believe it. Here
he was speaking to a woman alone. Scandalous. Scandalous. It shouldn't
happen. And he wanted to be there talking
to her when the other women from the town weren't there either,
when they came out to draw water. He wanted to speak to her alone.
Because he didn't want to point out things to her that they would
all be stood there pointing their fingers at the same time. He
wanted to speak to her alone. And she was shocked. When she
comes, verse 7, there cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water.
And Jesus said to her, Give me to drink, for his disciples were
gone away into the city to buy meat. Then said the woman of
Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink
of me, which am a woman of Samaria? The Jews have no dealings with
the Samaritans. She was shocked that here was
a man alone speaking to her. taken aback completely. The Jews
and the Samaritans had a hatred for one another. There was no
respect between them. The Jews despised the Samaritans. They regarded them as contemptible,
lower life, lower class of people, no principles whatsoever. You
can see why. The Samaritans were the remains
of the ten northern tribes of Israel who formed the Kingdom
of Israel, when the two southern tribes formed the Kingdom of
Judea, hence the Jews. That's where their name comes
from. And the Samaritans in the north were constantly falling
into idolatry. And God had warned them again
and again about their idolatry. And He overran them with the
Assyrians, and they were scattered. And it's true that from that
day forward, when the Assyrians overran them, nobody knew which
of the ten tribes they came from. They were effectively wiped from
the face of the earth as an identifiable race. And so what was left was
mixed and intermarried with all of the people of that area, the
native people of that area and the Assyrians and so the Samaritans
were regarded with contempt nevertheless they kept the books of Moses
and they kept some of the religion of the Jews, the children of
Israel's religion but it was always mixed with idolatry for
the sake of time we won't look at it but if you look at 2nd
Kings and chapter 17 we read about some of the priests of
the Samaritans teaching the people to fear the Lord but in actual
fact it was a sham external fearing of the Lord a sham external it
wasn't it wasn't true heartfelt it was a sham external because
it says towards the end of that passage 2nd Kings 17 28 to 34
they didn't really fear the Lord at all They kept all of their
idols. They kept all of their idolatrous
practices. And that's why Jesus says to
this woman later on, salvation is of the Jews. We know what
we worship. The salvation is of the Jews. What benefit is
there in being a Jew? Much every way for to them was
given the oracles of God. The scriptures, they had the
means of salvation was there. The temple was in Jerusalem.
They had all of those things. You Samaritans, you don't know
what you're worshiping because you're mixing the truth with
all sorts of pagan error. Yes, there was animosity, there
was disrespect, there was suspicion between the Jews and the Samaritans.
The Jews despised the Samaritans. Why are you a Jew? Because she
could tell from his dress and his accent, no doubt. Why are
you, a Jew, asking me, a Samaritan woman? This is in society not
acceptable. Why are you asking me, a Samaritan
woman, for a drink? But you know, Jesus didn't come
to call the righteous You know, there are people who think they're
righteous. There is none righteous, says the Scripture. No, not one.
There is none righteous, for all have sinned and fall short
of the glory of God. There is none righteous. No,
not one. But Jesus didn't come to call
those who think they're righteous in their own estimation to salvation. He came to call sinners to repentance. Mark 2 and verse 17 and in other
places. You see, all have sinned, but
there are very few who know it. and there are few who seem to
lament it. How many people, we live and we rub shoulders with
people every day, how many know that they in and of themselves
by nature are an offense to the God who has created us and before
whom we must stand and before whom we must give an account.
How many, all have sinned but so few know it. And so this woman,
she says, how is it that you, who are a Jew, ask me for a drink? There's an attitude of scorn
in her response. There they were, the two of them
alone in the middle of the day, and it's like, what are you doing
talking to me? What do you think you're doing
speaking to me? I'm a Samaritan. Have you forgotten I'm a Samaritan?
You don't have anything to do with us. This is quite a thing,
isn't it? You know, I come here, as we'll
see later, because of her shame. I come here because of my shame. And here I find a man on his
own, who is a Jew, asking me, a Samaritan woman, for a drink. There's scorn in her voice. There's
scorn in her response. The two of them alone. And He
says to her, Jesus answered, verse 10, and said unto her,
If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you,
give me to drink, you would have asked of Him. And He would have
given you living water. If you knew the gift of God. If you knew that. If you knew
the gift of God. What is the gift of God? The
gift of God and who He was is Himself. He is the gift of God. And if she knew what the gift
of God was, that it was Himself and what He would do, she would
have asked Him, irrespective of external differences, she
would have asked Him for what she needed for her soul. You
see, the gift of God is God's Son. For God, says John 3, 16,
for God so loved the world, so loved a world of His elect people,
for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son. He's the gift of God. That whosoever
believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. The
prophet said, hundreds of years before He was born, for unto
us, Isaiah 9, verse 6, unto us a child is born. Unto us a Son
is given. He is the gift of God. Our Lord
Jesus Christ, the Son of Man, the Son of God, is the gift of
God. And why is He the gift of God?
He's the gift of God so that God who is holy and just and
never changes can remain just and yet justify those who are
sinful, who have no goodness of their own. Romans 3.26, God
is just and justifier of the one whose faith is in Christ.
That he might be, as Isaiah 45 says, a just God, as he always
is, and a Savior. A just God who cannot overlook
sin, but yet in the person of his Son, can deal with that sin
and justify sinners. And here is that weary, thirsty
man. Just looked like any other Jew.
Sitting there, resting himself. on the edge of the well on a
hot day he is the gift of God he is the gift of God and he
would have given you says living water he would have given you
living water because he is the source of living water Jeremiah
said this God said through Jeremiah in chapter 2 and verse 13 my
people have committed two evils they have forsaken me the fountain
of living waters does this not appeal to you? The fountain of
living waters of true life of true eternal life and where do
we find it? In the fountain of living waters
which is God himself in our Lord Jesus Christ you have forsaken
the fountain of living waters and look at our society how has
our society hewed out for itself cisterns, troughs where I come
from in the north of England there used to be lots of troughs
for the cattle to drink out of that were basically whopping
great stones that had been hollowed out. They were just great big
hollow stones where the cattle would drink. I imagine many of
them are still there to this day. Cisterns. It only needed
a little crack for the whole thing to break and then it wouldn't
hold any water at all. He says, you've forsaken me,
the fountain of living water, and you've made for yourselves
cisterns that are shattered. And what are the cisterns that
people have made? It's this life. It's this life
of materialism. It's this life of money and everything
that I must have and all the things that I must have to make
me happy. And I hew out these systems of
man-made things without God to make me happy. Oh, this will
give me something to quench my thirst for new things and give
me a good experience and give me an excited life. This will
do wonders for me. But God says they're broken.
They're broken. As quickly as you're satisfied
by one of them, It becomes stale and it goes away and the water
that it provided runs away and you're left with an empty, thirsty
void regarding eternity. You see, you need this. You need
this. You need the only soul satisfying
water that there is and that's in the person of the Lord Jesus
Christ. It's the life of God in the person
of Christ. It's water for law satisfying
righteousness. Isn't that what you need? Isn't
that what I need? I need law-satisfying righteousness
to quench my thirst for acceptance with God. I need that water.
I need that water of law-satisfying righteousness. I must pursue
it. I must follow it. Holiness without which no man
shall see the Lord. And I read that the Lord Jesus
Christ, who is the fountain of living water, has earned it for
me. Has earned it in my place. He's
the Lord, our righteousness. He has done all those things
for me. So in Him I find that water that satisfies, that law
satisfying righteousness that I need. It quenches my thirst
to be right with God. The righteousness of Christ for
His people quenches my thirst to be right with God. And it's
the water that quenches the wrath of God against sin. For in the
shed lifeblood of the Lord Jesus Christ, when He poured out that
blood on the cross of Calvary, He satisfied the wrath of God
for sin, for the sins of his people. And so it satisfies,
it quenches that thirst to be right with God. It always, he
says, living water, and you'll never thirst again. You'll never
thirst again. Whosoever drinks of this water
shall thirst again, the well water, but whosoever drinks of
the water I shall give him shall never thirst. It always, completely,
satisfies the sinner's thirst for peace with God and it's new
life it's the new life of the new birth springing up inside
this living water is the new life springing up inside but
the woman's scornful look what she says she says to him verse
11 Sir you've got nothing to draw with and the well is deep
where are you going to get this living water? Come on, where
are you going to get this living water? Are you greater than our
father Jacob? You know, we do have some religious
heritage, you know. We do know a thing or two, we
Samaritans. It's not just you Jews that know
everything. We do know something. Our father Jacob gave us this
well. Are you greater than him? Are
you telling us that you've got a source of water that's better
than this stuff here? This is pretty good. Don't you
mock my religion and my culture. This is all right. This will
do nicely for me. He gave to his children to drink
and his cattle. And Jesus said to her, whoever
drinks of this water shall thirst again. But whosoever drinketh
of the water I shall give shall never thirst. But the water I
shall give shall be in him a well of water, springing up to everlasting
life. And the woman said to him again
scornfully, read the words carefully, Sir, give me this water that
I thirst not, neither come hither to draw. Well, you know, go on
then, if you can. Give me, I mean, if you can do
something that stops me having to come here in the middle of
the day to draw water, then I'll have some of that. Yeah, come
on. But, you know, like they say, if it sounds too good to
be true, it probably is too good to be true. That was her attitude.
I don't believe this. Where are you going to get some
water to stop me having to do this? She's still thinking in
a physical and material way. But he's talking about life and
eternal life. And she couldn't know life until
she knew her need. And neither can you and neither
can I. We cannot know true life in Christ
until we know our need. We must know our need. You cannot
be saved until you know that you are lost. You cannot be cured. You cannot go to the physicians
until you know that you've got a disease that needs to be cured.
you will not do it you must know your need before you can know
life and in verse 16 he knows this in his dealings with her
there they are still alone and he says to her go call thy husband
and come hither he puts his finger right on the spot you see like
all of us she was a sinner like every single one of us by nature
by birth as the children of Adam every single one of us were sinners
But there'll be something which puts the finger on it. Paul says
he thought he was perfect until he really heard the law speak
to him and say, thou shalt not covet. And then he knew he was
guilty of all. He knew that he was a sinner,
absolutely bankrupt before the law of God, and with nothing
to recommend him to God. And so here, God had said, and
God still does say, that a man should have one wife until death
or adultery separate them. That's what his law says. That's
what his law still does say. That's the situation. And here
she was, this woman, he says, go and call your husband. And she says to him, thinking
she's got off the hook, I have no husband. And Jesus said to
her, that's true. You're right in what you've said.
Verse 18, for you've had five husbands. And he whom thou now
hast is not thy husband. In that saidst thou truly. She'd
had a string Of what it would seem from the context of this,
she'd had a string of immoral relationships, a string of them.
She was there at the well in the middle of the day, probably
to avoid contact with the other women of the area, who would
have looked on her with contempt, because she was regarded as a
woman who was not moral in her behavior. She had lots of different
relationships with men that she shouldn't have had. And although
we're all sinful, this was the sin that Jesus put his finger
on. Her sin of adultery. Her moral
bankruptcy. She'd never seen him before,
but he put his finger right on her sinfulness. And how could
he possibly know? This must have really cut right
to the heart. For she starts to squirm at his
response. Verse 19, the woman said to him,
Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. How did you do that? That's good. I'm impressed. How
did you do that? How did you know that? You've
got right to the core of this. So let's talk about religion.
Our fathers worshipped in this mountain. And you say that in
Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. So let's
talk about the Jews' view of worship and the Samaritans' view
of worship. Let's talk about religion. And Jesus says to her,
Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you shall neither
in this mountain nor yet at Jerusalem worship the Father. You worship,
you Samaritans worship what you know, you know not what. We know
what we worship for salvation is of the Jews. To the Jews were
committed the oracles of God, the scriptures. But he says,
verse 23, but the hour is coming and now is when the true worshipers
shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father
seeks such to worship Him. God is a spirit. And they that
worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth. We are
the circumcision, says Paul to the Philippians, who worship
God in the spirit, who rejoice in Christ Jesus and have no confidence
in the flesh. This thing of worship, oh, that
this religious generation would understand this. Worship has
got nothing to do with the building that you're worshiping in. I'm
telling you, you can go to the most elaborate place. You can
even come here. to this humble schoolroom to
worship God. But if you don't worship God
in your heart, you don't worship Him when you come here. You don't
worship Him when you go anywhere. You worship God first in your
heart, in spirit and in truth. In spirit, because worship is
a spiritual thing of the Spirit of God. In truth, in the truth
of His Word. You do not worship God outside
of Christ. For without faith, it is impossible
to please God. Without faith, it's impossible.
You cannot do it. Faith in what? faith in the shed
blood and the righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ. These
are the only means by which we can come and be accepted by God
and worship Him and find His smile upon us and find His favor
only in these things, in spirit and in truth. No, it's nothing
to do with external things. It's nothing to do with perceiving
that He's a prophet and talking about where to worship and all
of those things. It's spiritual and it's true
and it's based on God's righteousness. and in that moment it seems look
at verse 25 I don't know how we don't have any details but
it seems that in that moment God gave her the gift of repentance
because all of a sudden in verse 25 she says to him I know that
Messiah is coming which is called Christ she didn't say by the
way which is called Christ that's John who wrote this gospel in
Greek saying for the translating what is Messiah. He's saying
that's the Greek word Christ. Those words are put in by John.
She says, I know Messiah's coming. When He comes, He will tell us
all things. He will sort all these things
out for us. He will do everything that we need. She's suddenly
bankrupt in herself. She's suddenly got nothing to
offer in herself. She suddenly knows that unless
one comes to save her, she's got no hope. And she's given
in that moment. the gift of repentance where
she abandons hope in her religion she could never be good enough
Messiah must come how does she know about Messiah? Deuteronomy
chapter 18 they had the books of Moses Deuteronomy chapter
18 God had written this for them and they knew that this was the
basis you see this so much that calls itself Christianity in
these days, of the established religion of this country and
around the world that knows nothing, nothing, nothing of Messiah,
absolutely nothing. It knows nothing of the need
for a perfect substitute to come and stand in the place of sinners,
of a perfect substitute to come and be the prophet of God to
us, to be our priest, to be our king. And in verse 15 of Deuteronomy
18, The Lord thy God, this is Moses speaking, will raise up
unto thee a prophet, capital P, from the midst of thee, of
thy brethren, like unto me, unto him shall ye hearken. And then
verse 18, I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren,
like unto thee, and I will put my words in his mouth, and he
shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. And it shall
come to pass that whosoever will not hearken unto my words, which
he shall speak in my name, I will require it of Him. I will judge
Him for it. In other words, I know that Messiah
is coming. The Scriptures that even we Samaritans
have been left with tell us that Messiah is coming. I know that.
But as I said, to know the life, to know the living water that
Christ gave, you must know your need. And you must be given repentance. Do you know that repentance is
a gift? Have you repented of your sins?
Have I repented of my sins? You know it's a gift. Look at
Acts chapter 5. The book of Acts and chapter
5. And verse 31. This is Peter preaching. And he says, talking of Christ.
Talking of Jesus. Him hath God exalted with his
right hand to be a prince and a savior. for to give repentance
to Israel. The Israel of God and forgiveness
of sins. It's a gift of God. It's God's
prerogative to give the gift of repentance. We can't persuade
people to repent. It's the gift of God to give
repentance. And then chapter 11 of Acts and
verse 18. Chapter 11 and verse 18. and I think this is Paul preaching,
when they heard these things they held their peace and glorified
God saying this is him speaking to other leaders in the church,
then has God also unto the Gentiles granted repentance unto life. Do you see? It's the gift of
God. It's a gift from God. And what is it? To repent. To
repent is to rethink. To rethink our standing. To rethink
our fitness for eternity. is to turn around, it's to be
going one way and go a completely different way in terms of our
philosophy. Job chapter 40, you know Job, you know what it says
of Job in the very first verses of the book of Job? God says
this, that in respect to the judgment of man, here was a man
who was perfect and eschewed evil in the reckoning of man.
A man who was perfect and eschewed evil, but he had some things
to teach that man by his grace. And he calls Satan to come and
afflict him, as you know. And you know the story how his
friends came. Job's comforters came. And they poured more and
more anguish onto his situation. And Job constantly said, no,
I'm not like that. I'm a righteous man. I've done
all of these things. None of you can... And they couldn't
accuse him. But then God comes and speaks
to him. And when Job sees himself, he
says in chapter 40 and verse 4, he says this, I am vile. He says, just towards the end
of the book, a couple more chapters later, he says, I'd heard of
you with the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees and I abhor
myself. Normally we love ourselves, we're
quite pleased with ourselves, but Job, when he saw God abhorred
himself, he hated himself, he saw what he was really like,
he saw that he was a sinner, bankrupt, and deserving of the
justice of God. When Isaiah, the prophet in Israel,
saw the Lord high and seated upon his throne in the temple,
He saw the Lord Jesus Christ and he said, woe is me, even
the prophet of Israel, I am undone, for I, the prophet of Israel,
am a man of unclean lips, and I live amongst the people of
unclean lips. We read in Psalm 143 and verse 2, no man shall
be justified. No man at all. There isn't a
man living that can be justified. How can a man be just with God?
In what he does himself he cannot be. So that Paul cries out in
Romans 7, Verse 24, O wretched man that I am, who will deliver
me from this body of death? You see, we see ourselves in
repentance as bankrupt of merit before God, worthy of only condemnation
and worthy only of hell. To repent is to truly hate our
sin as an offense. We commit sin, but we hate it.
We commit it, but we hate it. We wish to be rid of it. We know
and we feel heartfelt, deep, eternal peril of soul. Unless
we're rescued, unless one come and rescue us, we know the peril
that our souls are in. This is heartfelt. This is life-changing. It's something that bears fruit
in the life. In Luke 3, verse 8, don't turn
to it now, but you read there, of fruits unto repentance. People
bear fruit. It's one thing to say, you know
we sometimes say to our children, say sorry to one another, and
you get a kind of a sorry, but you know there's no real meaning
behind that. There's no real meaning. There's no fruit of
repentance. That hasn't really been repented of. That's a get
me off the hook, sorry. But a true repentance, sorry,
is I really am bitterly upset that I've hurt you and I want
to do what I can to put it right. That's true repentance. It's
heartfelt. Heartfelt, fruit-producing. And
she knew in this moment that Jesus was that Messiah who had
come. we've got no other details given
but it's clear that this woman was one of his sheep who was
rescued and saved on her way to hell he came in grace and
he took her and got hold of her and he made her his child and
he brought her to understand and know the things of Messiah
and so we won't read about the disciples coming back and their
shock but she goes away when they come back and she goes and
tells The people of the town, the people of the city, verses
28 and 29, come see a man which told me all things I ever did. Is not this the Christ? Isn't
this the one that we're waiting for? Isn't this the one who will
save us from our sins? And so they come. They come out
and we have the account of the fields wiped to harvest and Jesus
tells his disciples to look and he's doing his father's will
and this is the will of his father that he should lose none of whom
the father gave to him. before the beginning of time
and he spends two days with them and the men of Samaria say this
at the end of it. Verse 42. Many more believed
because of his own word and said unto the woman now we believe
not because of thy saying for we have heard him ourselves and
know that this is indeed the Christ the Savior of the world. That's what they knew. That's
what they came to know. Every one of them including Samaritans
We used to sing a hymn, and if free grace, why not for me? Here
He is. The Gospel is there. The Gospel
says come. The Scriptures say come. In the
book of Revelation, just look at this as we close. This water
of life towards the end of Revelation. chapter 21 verse 6 it is done I am the Alpha and
the Omega the beginning and the end and I will give unto him
that is a thirst of the fountain of the water of life freely and
chapter 22 we read of a river of crystal
pure water of life in verse 1 chapter 22 and verse 1 a pure river of
the water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne
of God and of the land." This is what Christ was speaking about.
And then in verse 17, yes, verse 17. In the midst of all of this
truth of the sovereign electing grace of God, look at the gospel.
And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that hears
say, Come. And let him that is athirst come
and whosoever will and if you will it's because he's given
you the will let him take the water of life freely and repentantly
and believingly and trust him