Is there anyone here who is weary? I mean weary. Oh, I'd love to find a weary sinner. Our Lord says, come unto me all you that labor and are heavy laden. He bids the weary to come unto him and rest. Are you weary? with the trials and temptations that vex your heart day by day? Weary with that warfare raging in your soul between flesh and spirit? Is anyone here weary with toil and labor in this world of sin and sorrow? Weary with the heavy burden God in his providence has put upon you? with this world. Do I have anyone here who's weary? I mean tired, worn out, beaten down, exhausted. Is there a weary soul here? If so, I've got a message just for you.

You'll find it in John chapter four, verse six. The Lord Jesus had come to Samaria And he takes his place on Jacob's well. We read here now Jacob's well was there just outside the city of Sycock. Jesus, therefore, being wearied with his journey. What a description of the son of God. Jesus, therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well. And it was about the six hour, just about 12 o'clock noon. What a picture we had before us. Here is our great savior, the Lord of glory, God, the son, that one who came to seek and to save that which was lost, that one who lived to do his father's will and live for no other purpose. Willed with his journey.

Let all who are weary and heavy laden then look to him. The Lord Jesus Christ was as a man, as our savior, as our substitute, wearied with his journey as he sat down, just exhausted on Jacob's well. Now what does this mean? Why is this fact recorded for us by the pen of inspiration? What does God the Holy Spirit intend for us to learn from the fact that our Savior was tired, weary, beaten down, exhausted from the toil and burden of his journey? Obviously, the text is not written in order that we might behold or spot some weakness in our Savior's character. But this event in the life of our Redeemer was and is intended by God the Holy Spirit to make us aware of our dear Savior's reality as a man. He was and is a real man, just exactly like you and me, sin alone accepted. Our Lord Jesus Christ is a man, even now a man touched with the feeling of our infirmities. He knows better than any of us ever can know what it is to be weary. Weary. Weary.

Now I want to show you four things about our Savior in this message. May God the Holy Spirit be our teacher as we look at these four facts revealed in the passage before us.

First, how truly human the Lord Jesus Christ is. John, above all other writers in the New Testament, above all the gospel writers particularly, labors to display the real divinity, the real Godhead of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is John above all others who tells us plainly that Jesus Christ the man is himself God, the second person of the Holy Trinity. And yet This one who labors to display the divinity of Christ is that one who seems to go out of his way all the time to show us the real humanity of Christ. Many today deny our Lord's divinity. Most lay great stress upon his humanity, though the stress is heretical, because they speak of him as being merely a man, and they speak of him as a weak man often, often even as a sinful man. But in John's day there were many who claimed to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ who denied his real humanity. They had this philosophical Gnostic notion that the Lord Jesus was just a phantom, that he didn't really exist in human flesh. And so John labors to show us that God indeed, the Son of God, came in human flesh as a real man. Our Lord is revealed in the Gospel of John as that one who says, come here, Thomas, stick your finger right here. Put your hand right here. Understand that a spirit doesn't just have flesh and bones like I have. A spirit is not one who you can reach out and touch. I'm a real man, though I am indeed your Lord and your God.

As I've shown you many times, there's a reason for this. He who is our Redeemer must be, he must be both God and man in one glorious person. He must be a man, a sinless, perfect man. Therefore, he must be a man born not of Adam's seed, but as the gospel promise was made in Genesis 3.15, as one born the seed of woman. And this man must himself be God Almighty. It was man who sinned and man must die. It was man who sinned and man must be punished. It was man who sinned and man must establish righteousness. But if righteousness would be established by a man, which would be of infinite value, If justice would be satisfied by a man, which would be of infinite value for other men, then that man who lives and dies for us must be himself both God and man.

And so it is written, God was manifest in the flesh. Bless God our Savior is himself God. and man, fully God and fully man, as much God as though he were not man, as much man as though he were not God.

Yet I'm sure none of us had begun to grasp the fullness of our Savior's manhood. Believers, it seems to me, have much more difficulty grasping the real humanity of Christ than we do in grasping his divinity. When I read in the scriptures that Jesus Christ is that one who is the creator, sustainer, and governor of the universe, I say, amen, that's my God. I don't have any trouble with that. But when I read in the scriptures, and I confess it to my shame, that our Savior was tempted of the devil, that he was troubled in his soul, really troubled in his soul. really tempted of the devil, exceedingly sorrowful, even unto death, to use his language.

When I read that our Savior, this one who is God, the creator, sustainer, and governor of the universe, this one who is God was also and is also a man who was weary, weary, weary, beat down, exhausted, worn out, just worn out. My first inclination is to try to explain away the reality of those things. That's my first inclination. And in doing so, I greatly dishonor him who most deserves to be honored and who most I long to honor.

You see, the humanity of Christ is every bit as necessary to our salvation as his deity. And it ought to be every bit as comforting. The fact that our Savior set upon Jacob's well as a man, wearied with his journey, is intended to minister comfort to us, his people, and is intended to encourage sinners to come to him who is indeed a man who was weary. Yea, when he was made to be sin for us, was even weary with sin itself, for he was made to be sin.

Our Savior's divinity did not in any way or to any degree diminish his capacity for suffering as a man. Now you might ask, why is it? Why is it that he who raised the dead, he who multiplied loaves and fishes to feed thousands, I mean just a few loaves and small fish, he multiplied them to feed thousands like that. Why is it that he who turned water into wine for the benefit of a multitude who apparently knew nothing about him or his grace? Why is it that he, that one who caused his disciples who had toiled all night to cast their net on the other side and take in so many fish, their boats began to sink? Why is it that this one did not perform a miracle for himself so that he might be refreshed with water? So that when he was tempted of Satan to turn the stones into bread, why didn't he just turn into bread? He could make Abraham's sons out of stones if he wanted to. That's what he said. There would be no trouble. Pick up a rock and bite it off like a chunk of fresh, soft, white bread. There would be no trouble too.

Well, why didn't he do it? Surely the waters in Jacob's well would gladly have been honored to gush out to refresh the Son of God, their maker, if he had simply willed it. Why didn't he? because he came not to be ministered unto, even by the world he had made, but to minister in this world and to give his life a ransom for many.

If he would be our savior, If he would stand to his own bond as our surety, if he would put away our sin as our substitute, it was absolutely necessary that the Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ as a man, endure all the consequences of sin. Therefore, we are told by the Holy Spirit that our Savior, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well.

This weariness was a real weariness. The word wearied here, as I have been emphasizing, doesn't just tell us that our savior was tired. That's another word. But wearied is a stronger, stronger, stronger word. This word means tired and sick, worn out, exhausted, just beaten down. burdened, heavy, heavy, heavily burdened. Our Savior was wearied. He had walked a long ways and he was tired. He was tired, just like you would be if you'd walked a long ways.

Our Lord Jesus was weary with his care for the souls of men. weary with the burden of his heart, the burden he carried throughout the days of his flesh. The fact that he must soon be made to be sin so that he might put away our sin was a burden that pressed on him constantly. He was apparently far more weary than his disciples. We're told in this chapter that the disciples had gone away into the city to buy bread while the master sat on the well because he was weary. You see, he had more care than they. They had walked the same distance that he had walked, but he had a weariness of mind and of soul.

As that one who was God's messenger to them, as that one who cared for their souls, he was pressed down not only with his daily journey, with his long walk, but pressed down with the burden and care of the souls of men and ministering to them. This weariness was real. But there's more than that. It was a voluntary weariness.

Turn to Hebrews 2. Ron brought a message from this chapter several weeks ago. This weariness was part of the curse our Lord had come to remove. The consequences of Adam's fall, the consequences of sin seized upon him as a man from the moment he came forth from his mother's womb saying, lo, I come to do thy will, oh my God. Here in Hebrews 2 verse 10, for it became him for whom are all things and by whom are all things. That is, it behooved God. It was necessary for God in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect. How? Through sufferings.

Now, our Lord's moral character was not improved by his sufferings. He's the holy God. But he is made to be our perfect Savior, a complete captain of our salvation by his sufferings. Look at verse 17. Wherefore, in all things it behooved him to be made like unto his brethren. If he would save us, he must be made just like us. He must be made one of us. that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. For in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able to succor, he's able to help, he's able to lift up them that are tempted.

Our Lord Jesus spoke by the spirit of prophecy in Psalm 22, knowing full well that he must be brought to this condition. And he said, my strength is dried up like a pot shirt. My tongue cleaveth to my jaws and thou hast brought me into the dust of death. This weariness was just part of the dust of death, which he voluntarily took upon himself as our surety and substitute.

Matthew tells us, as he quotes from Isaiah's prophecy, and he quotes it this way, saying that the Lord Jesus Christ himself took our infirmities, our weaknesses, and bear our sicknesses. Well, how could Matthew interpret Isaiah's words that way when Isaiah talks about sin and transgression and iniquity? Because all fleshly infirmity And all physical sickness, mental sickness, emotional sickness, all disease, all pain, all sorrow, all trouble is the result of sin. Always the result of sin.

Blessed be God, we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. He is a high priest now who can have compassion on the ignorant and on them that are out of the way. For he himself also was compassed with infirmity.

I stress this because I know some of you are weary. And our weariness comes from many sources. And I say to you, my brother, my sister, When weariness seems to overwhelm you, look up to Christ. What an example he set before us. Though wearied more than any man, his weariness did not prevent him from continuing in his journey. His weariness did not keep him from pushing forward in his work to do his father's will. His weariness did not keep him from doing what God had sent him to do and what he had come to do. and his weariness did not in any way hinder him from seizing the opportunity to serve the needs of a poor, eternity-bound sinner.

So when weariness seems to overwhelm you and you seem to think, I'll just quit, I'll give it up, look to him who was wearied with his journey. When the journey seems long and the way hard and you think I just can't go on, look to Him who was more wearied than any man ever imagined being.

And yet, I have no doubt that this text is written by the finger of God to teach us more than just the weariness of our Savior as a man. So secondly, I want you to see that our Lord Jesus Christ is a Savior wearied by man's sin and unbelief. You hear me now, my friends, and hear me well. Listen to me. You're not in too big a hurry to go to hell. Listen to me. You may think your sin and your unbelief are trivial, insignificant in different things. But I'm here to tell you that God Almighty doesn't consider it so.

Our text shows us a picture of the Son of God wearied with his journey. His journey through this world as the savior of the world. Now I'm going to leave it to imaginary theologians to wrangle and twist about how this might appear to be in conflict with the doctrines of God's absolute sovereignty and God's absolute predestination. You know I'm not in the least bashful about preaching those glorious gospel truths, but I'm not here to tickle the ears of imaginary theologians. I'm here to preach the gospel of Christ to you, who hang over the brink of hell and persuade you by the word of God now to come to Christ.

That which I'm telling you is not my opinion of things. It's not what I have deduced, not what I have concocted by my logic, but it is that which is plainly stated in Holy Scripture. And I want you to see it. Turn first to Isaiah 43.

The Son of God is wearied with your sin. Weary, beaten down, pressed, tired, worn out with your sin. Verse 24. Thou hast brought me no sweet cane with money. Neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices. You haven't worshiped me. Oh, you said you did, but you haven't. You pretend to, but you haven't. You come and bring your little offerings and throw your little tip toward God and tip your hat toward him and say, I worship God. I've sacrificed. I've done this. I've done that. God said you hadn't done any such thing. This is what you've done. Thou hast made me to serve with thy sins. Thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities. You weary the God of heaven with your crimes against him.

I watch these tobacco farmers when they load up their tobacco in the fall of the year, put it on those wagons and they keep stacking it up. Packing it down, stacking it up, packing it down in those wagons. Go down the road, it looks like the wagons are just about to break beneath the load. Looks like the axles are just about to bend. This is what God says about your sin. Behold, I am pressed under you as a cart is pressed that's full of sheaves. I'm just, I'm ready to break. not break in weakness, but break out in wrath and in judgment. That's what he says in Amos chapter 2.

The Lord God, the Lord of glory is thoroughly wearied with your religion, with your pretense, your hypocrisy. Turn to Isaiah chapter 1. This is what he says. Religious formality, ceremonialism and ritualism. Are you listening to me? Religious formality, ceremonialism, and ritualism is as nauseating to God Almighty as homosexuality, adultery, and fornication. As a matter of fact, that's exactly how he describes it. Let's see if that's not so.

Isaiah chapter 1 verse 2. Men and women set in their churches and their smug self-righteousness And some of you, I don't have any questions, some of you sit here week after week in the house of God and you come and you go through your little religious ceremony and you say, man, now I'm something else, I ain't like everybody else. Listen to what God says, listen to it. Verse 10, hear the word of the Lord. Not Don's word, doesn't matter what Don says. Hear the word of the Lord. You rulers of Sodom, give ear unto the law of your God, you people of Gomorrah. To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me, saith the Lord? I'm sick of them. I'm full of your burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts. I delight not in the blood of bullocks or of lambs or of eagles. You think I need something from you? When you come to appear before me, who's required this at your hand to tread in my courts? Oh, but God requires it. Not like you're doing it. Oh no, oh no, God requires worship in faith, not worship in ceremony.

Verse 13, bring no more vain oblations, empty, meaningless oblations. Incense, your incense is an abomination to me. The new moons and Sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, all your legality and all your ritualism, I cannot away with. It is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. You call your holy convocations, you gather your assemblies, you call it worshiping God, you have your ceremonies, your ceremony and your most solemn assembly is iniquity.

Verse 14, your new moons and your appointed feast, my soul hated. They are a trouble to me. I am weary to bear them. When you spread forth your hands, I'll hide my eyes from you. And when you make many prayers, you say your prayers three times a day, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood, the blood of my own son. For you despise the blood of Christ in attempt to approach God on your own merit and your own worth. The Lord God is weary. with your broken promises too.

Turn to Psalm 76, 78, rather. Some of you are sitting here. I guarantee you, I'm addressing your own heart. You've been in tough times. You've been in trouble. You've been in danger. Read about that fella in the newspaper Friday, was it? Was stuck in the mud up to his chin for three hours. He said, I made my peace with God, not bad to die. Wonder where he is today. They pulled him out of the mud, you know. He might last a month or two, but I'll guarantee you if that's all the peace he's made with God, he hadn't made any yet. I promise you that's so. I promise judgment never yet turned a man to God just to religion. Never, never. Takes more than judgment. It's not the wrath of God that brings men to repentance, but the goodness of God.

You've been in that shape, been in danger. You thought, surely this is it. I'm fixing to meet God. You said, Lord, if you'll just spare me, I'll serve you. You may have sat by the bed of your wife or your husband, your son or your daughter, one dear to you in your heart. I'll serve you. And this is what God says. You lied to me and I don't take it lightly.

Psalm 78 verse 36. They did flatter him with their mouth. They lied to him with their tongues. He says in Isaiah 57 thou hast lied and has not remembered me nor laid it to thy heart. You who persist in your rebellion and unbelief. You who, as it were, stop your ears against the gospel and shut your eyes against the light and would shove God out of your way as you run headlong toward hell. Weary him by resisting the Holy Ghost.

I'm fully aware that the grace of God is irresistible. How I thank God for that fact. Were it not for irresistible grace, none of us would ever come to him. None of us would ever be saved. And yet the word of God holds you and me accountable. God holds you responsible for resisting his spirit. He says it to the men and women of Noah's generation. He had preached to them. He had sent his word to them. He prophesied to them and they would not hear. And he said, my spirit shall not always strive with man. Give me 120 years and you're dead.

Stephen said to the religious folks who picked up rocks and killed him, just like I'm talking to you. And I know folks here, they say, how dare that man talk to me like that? I wish you would take it just that personally, just that personally. How dare you expose my heart for what it is? Stephen said, you stiff necked, uncircumcised in heart and ears. You do always resist the Holy Ghost, just like your mama and daddy did, just like Perhaps you're thinking, well, if grace is irresistible, if all God's elect are sure to be saved, if man's will, man's decision, man's choice has nothing to do with salvation, how can you tell us that men resist the Holy Ghost?

I'm glad you asked. Your will, your decision, your choice has got nothing to do with your salvation, but it's got everything to do with your damnation. Everything. This is what God says. He that being often reproved, hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy. He says you shall eat the fruit of your own way and be filled with your own devices.

Thirdly, this wearied Savior came to this place to save a weary sinner, and he did it. Oh, how I have been praying that he may have come with us to this place today to save a weary sinner by his almighty grace.

No sooner did this woman from Sychar come out to meet the Savior. She didn't know it, but he did. She was not spiritually weary, but she was weary. I promise you she was weary. I've been there. Nobody could live as she lived and not soon grow weary with her sin and her corruption and her evil ways and be unable to control anything about it. She was weary.

And as she walked up, the Savior initiates a conversation. He begins to seem to kind of brace himself up. He seems to be refreshed. He seems to be enlivened. He's all right. For he had come to save her.

One time I was out with some fellas fishing. Brother Mahan, myself, some others down in Mexico with Brother Walter Gooford. We'd been out on the ocean a good while. And I'm not much of a fisherman. I get a little impatient. I was sitting out on that boat about half sick. And I was tired. I didn't want to be there. I was trying to be nice, but I didn't want to be there. I'd rather be inside doing something else. And suddenly, a barracuda took my line and off he went. And man, you talk about coming to life. That's what I was there for, to catch a fish.

Our Savior had come to save a sinner, and when the sinner comes, where the Savior is, in God's providence, he's all in it, giving himself wholly to it. And when he got done, she left her water pots and went away and said, come see a man, told me all things ever I did. Is not this the Christ?

I'll show you one more thing. That which refreshed and revived our wearied Savior that day in Samaria, and that which now satisfies the travail of his soul, is the salvation of sinners. Oh my soul.

When the disciples came back, the Savior whom they had met sitting weary at Jacob's well, they looked at him and they said, who gave him anything to eat? Well, the woman didn't give him anything to eat. She didn't drop her bucket down into the well. She left her water pots on the well. But the Savior He's strengthened. He's revived. He's refreshed.

And when the disciples didn't understand what was going on, this is what he said. I have meat to eat you know not of. This is the food of my soul. This is what refreshes me. This is what enlivens me. This is what revives me. This is what satisfies me. The salvation of a sinner.

Isn't this what the prophet said? He shall see. of the travail of his soul and shall be satisfied. Imagine that. James Jordan, the son of God, is satisfied because he saved us by his grace. Oh, hallelujah. What a savior. Amen.