Would you open up your Bibles to John chapter 4?
Have you experienced a desperation of thirst?
By early afternoon, we had our packs on and we quickly went through our fresh water and
we were starting to suffer these intensifying headaches, you know, the early signs of heat
exhaustion.
So we were tired and we were cranky and we were desperately thirsty.
I remember my tongue sticking to the roof of my mouth.
I remember just my head pounding, this growing anxiety.
Are we going to find any water?
Because we've been searching for hours.
And then we came across a stagnant puddle of water in a putrid, marshy area, filled with
decaying leaves, insects, smelled noxious.
But we were desperate.
So I pulled out our water purifier and started pumping.
Have you experienced desperation of thirst?
Maybe upon hearing what you've heard this morning, you find your soul parched.
This morning, we're encountering Jesus having a conversation with a woman at an ancient well.
Here are just the first few verses of John 4.
Now, when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing
more disciples than John, although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples, he
left Judea and departed again for Galilee, and he had to pass through Samaria.
So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son
Joseph.
Jacob's well was there.
So Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well.
It was about the sixth hour.
A woman from Samaria came to draw water.
This historic well was given by the patriarch Jacob, as in Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
And what's ironic about this moment, what we're about to look at, is that Jesus offers this
woman a different kind of water.
He calls it living water.
However, Jesus knows that this woman is desperately thirsty, but it's a soul thirst.
She's been trying to quench her soul through multiple relationships with multiple men, but
those relationships had not filled her up.
It was quite the opposite.
It hollowed her out.
It left her soul thirsty.
She hadn't been satisfied.
And we all know the deep longing we have for relationships with other people.
Grief is an example of that.
To be fully known, fully accepted, and fully loved.
We're soul thirsty to be loved and to love.
But that deep longing to be loved and to love can become so desperate, so intense, so controlling,
that we willingly drink from toxic sources.
And we suffer for it.
This unnamed woman at the well had five marriages that ended in divorce, and the man that she currently
had a relationship with, who she was sleeping with, she was an adulteress, well, wasn't her
husband.
She'd been drinking from a broken cistern.
How many of us in the room have pursued relationships with disastrous effects because we were so desperate to be loved or to love that we compromised?
We want to be filled up, but we get hollowed out.
We're left saying, surely there's more.
You feel empty.
You feel numb.
The water from Jacob's well isn't going to quench that kind of thirst.
There's no other wells that you can make on your own that will quench that thirst.
Are you asking this question?
What is life all about?
Is this all that there is?
If there is a good life, what is the good life?
Maybe you're bumping into hopelessness.
Like, what is the point?
You have an unsatisfied soul.
You're thirsty.
This first century conversation between Jesus and this Samaritan woman is good news for us living in 2026.
Because Jesus alone can satisfy your thirsty soul.
That's what this well side conversation is all about.
So let me just ask you, are you thirsty?
We're going to walk through this conversation.
And there are going to be three parts for you to see and to consider.
The offer.
The obstacle.
And the result.
The offer.
The obstacle.
And the result.
On the day this conversation happened,
this woman brought her empty water jug to Jacob's well.
Having no idea that God incarnate was waiting for her there.
Could you have come into this building this morning
with an empty soul,
not realizing Jesus Christ, the risen King,
has been waiting for you?
And he wants to fill you up in a way
you've never been filled up before.
So let's look at the offer.
And we're going to be looking at verses 7 through 15.
Jesus offers this woman living water.
But let's just look at 1 through 6 for a little bit
to set the scene of this conversation.
In verse 1,
Jesus, who was in Judea,
which is in southern Israel,
he learns that he has popped up on the Pharisees' radar,
which concerns him.
And so he makes a decision to return to Galilee,
which is up in northern Israel.
Now this is a significant detail
because what lies between southern Israel, Judea,
and northern Israel, Galilee,
is a region called Samaria.
And many Jews would never step foot in Samaria.
Jews considered Samaritans morally impure half-breeds.
It was a strong prejudice.
The Samaritans historically were a people with mixed blood.
Jewish blood and non-Jewish blood.
The blood of the nations.
And the Jews resented them for that.
And the Samaritans resented the Jews
for resenting them for that.
Samaritans had established their own view of the Bible.
They just used the first five books of the Old Testament.
They had their own view of the Messiah.
And they had their own place of worship.
They had their own mountain they worshipped at.
Mount Gerizim.
But instead of Jesus traveling around Samaria,
we see in verse 4 that he had to pass through Samaria.
He had an appointment with a Samaritan woman
at Jacob's well that he's going to keep.
She just doesn't know it.
In verse 6,
dirty, tired, and thirsty after traveling by foot for hours,
Jesus arrives in Sychar,
this Samaritan town where there is this Jacob's well.
This was the parcel of land that Jacob had purchased
back in Genesis 33.
And this well was on that land.
What had taken place is after Jacob purchased the land
and passed it on to Joseph,
this well remained there.
And this land, this area,
eventually was called Samaria.
Did you notice the time marker in verse 6?
It was about the sixth hour.
This woman came to the well at the sixth hour,
which is noon,
which is very unusual.
It's the hottest time of day.
Most women at that time in that culture would come out to fill their water jars
in groups of women,
and they would come out either early in the morning or early in the evening
when the temperature was cooling.
But this woman was by herself at this well at the hottest point of day.
And you've got to ask yourself,
what is going on here?
Jesus knows, and that's why he's there.
We learn in verse 8 that Jesus alone is with her,
and he initiates a conversation with her.
Let me read from 7 through 15.
A woman from Samaria came to draw water.
Jesus said to her,
Give me a drink,
for his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
The Samaritan woman said to him,
How is it that you, a Jew,
ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?
For Jews had no dealings with Samaritans.
Jesus answered her,
If you knew the gift of God,
and who it is that is saying to you,
Give me a drink,
you would have asked him,
and he would have given you living water.
The woman said to him,
Sir, you have nothing to draw water with,
and the well is deep.
Where do you get that living water?
Are you greater than our father Jacob?
He gave us the well and drank from it himself.
He did his sons and his livestock.
Jesus said to her,
Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again,
but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him
will never be thirsty again.
The water that I will give him
will become in him a spring of water
welling up to eternal life.
The woman said to him,
Sir, give me this water,
so that I will not be thirsty
or have it to come here to draw,
or have to come here to draw water.
Jesus is alone with her.
Verse 8,
disciples have gone to get something to eat,
and he initiates the conversation.
It's a major crossing of a cultural boundary,
and we're seeing our king do it.
We see how unusual it is
by the way it registers with the Samaritan woman.
Look again at verse 9.
He says,
Give me a drink.
She's like,
How is it that you, a Jew,
are asking me, a woman of Samaria,
for a drink?
What is going on?
The prevailing belief was that Samaritans,
and Samaritan women in particular,
were in a constant state of defilement,
unclean in God's eyes
because of their mixed race.
So for a Jew,
let alone a male Jew,
let alone a male rabbi Jew,
to talk with,
and even possibly share
the same drinking vessel
with a Samaritan woman
was absolutely unheard of.
You know what she's asking Jesus?
Why are you crossing the line?
Why are you doing this?
This is getting weird.
In verse 10,
we read,
Jesus responds,
this is why it's weird.
This is why he's initiating.
If you knew the gift of God
and who it is that is saying to you,
give me a drink,
you would have asked him,
and he would have given you
living water.
This is the first time
in this passage
we read of living water,
but in this passage itself,
the word water
is repeated multiple times,
and what is becoming evident
is that there are two kinds of water
being talked about
in this section.
what Jesus is telling her
is that,
hey,
you have no idea
who it is that is talking to you
and what I have to offer.
Again,
Jesus is doing his third person
talking about himself
kind of a thing.
And what I want you to notice
is that when he says
the gift of God
in verse 10,
if you knew the gift of God,
and then he,
at the end of verse 10,
he says,
he would give you
living water.
Jesus is using gift of God
and living water,
two different ways
of talking about the same thing.
Are you starting to get interested
in what this living water is?
In verse 11,
she thinks that
he is offering her
literal H2O.
Because,
look at what she says.
She's like,
you don't even have a bucket.
You don't even have a rope.
You don't have the stuff
you need
in order to get down
into a well
to get the water.
And by the way,
where do you get
this living water anyway?
I don't see any other
wells around.
Furthermore,
she goes on to say,
is the water you offer
better than Jacob's water?
I mean,
think about it.
She's making this case.
This well
has a pretty good namesake.
This is Jacob's well.
And it's got a pretty good
track record
of supplying
fresh,
life-sustaining water
from generation
to generation.
It's working just fine,
mister,
sir.
No living water
needed here.
Maybe you're in the room
and Jesus' offer
of this living water
sounds like
all the other
religious offers
out there.
Maybe you're thinking,
I don't know
who Jesus is
or what this living water is,
but my life is just fine
without it.
Maybe you're even
a little sympathetic.
Maybe you're like,
you know,
everybody needs something
to lean on
and if Jesus works for you,
that's great.
You know,
if Tibetan monk chanting
!
works for you,
great!
If Zumba works for you,
great!
But I don't see the need
for what Jesus is offering
when my self-made wells
are working just fine.
If that's you,
let's just pause here
for a second.
What I really want
to ask you is,
are you really satisfied?
Are you anxious?
Are you depressed?
Is your inner being
chasing something
that can't satisfy it?
How are you sleeping?
Are you turning to chemicals
to settle your inner being?
Maybe you're not
as fine as you think you are.
Because all of those
are descriptions
of soul thirst.
There's a difference
between Jacob's well water
and the living water
Jesus offers.
In 13 and 14,
Jesus says this,
everyone who drinks
of this water.
Now imagine Jesus
is there
and he's pointing
to Jacob's well.
Everyone who drinks
of this water
will be thirsty again
because it only addresses
physical thirst.
But whoever drinks
of the water
that I will give him
that comes from me
will never be thirsty again.
Jesus is talking about
two different kinds
of water for dew,
two different kinds
of thirst.
His water,
the water that Jesus
provides,
quenches soul thirst
permanently
and forever.
Soul thirst is
a spiritual condition
of being empty inside.
Hollowed out,
without purpose,
anxious,
depressed,
incredibly bored,
sleepless.
You have no compelling
reason for being.
There's nothing
that seems to satisfy you.
What that means
is you're thirsty,
soul thirsty,
inner being thirsty,
you just haven't
realized it yet.
The living water
that Jesus provides
will fill up
your empty soul
forever.
And the question becomes,
how does that work?
We see it
in the end
of verse 14.
The water
that I will give him
will become in him
a spring of water
welling up
to eternal life.
He pictures
a spring,
this internal spring
in a human being
that wells up
to eternal life.
If you've been
to Petrifying Springs
park,
chances are
you have taken
a drink from
the natural spring
adjacent to the
parking lot
right across
from the beer garden.
A lot of people
get their water there.
But Jesus is saying
here,
the water that I
will give him
will become
in him,
in her,
a spring of water
welling up
to eternal life.
The spring Jesus
speaks of
is a supernatural
spring
that forever
satisfies your soul
thirst
by constantly
filling you
with eternal life.
Soul satisfied.
when Jesus
gives you
this living water
it takes up
permanent residence
in you
as a supernatural
spring
constantly
welling up
eternal life
abundant life
a quality of life
that starts now
in relationship
to the living God.
In verse 15
she says
sir,
sir
she's very polite
sir
sir give me
this water
so that I
will not be
thirsty
or have to
come here
to draw
water.
She still
thinks that
she needs
her water
jug.
She still
thinks that
this is about
physical
H2O.
She's not
getting it.
If you look
to chapter
earlier in
John 3
when Jesus
is speaking
at night
with Nicodemus
Nicodemus
didn't get it.
So Nicodemus
didn't get it
at first
this Samaritan
woman
didn't get it
at first
let me ask you
are you getting
what Jesus
is saying here?
What is this
living water?
This living water
is not an it
but a who.
if you flip
in your
Bibles to
John chapter
7
in verses
37
through 39
Jesus tells
us what
this living
water is.
On the
last day
of the
feast
the great
day
Jesus stood
up and
cried out
if anyone
thirsts
he's not
talking about
physical thirst
if anyone
thirsts
let him
come to
me and
drink
whoever
believes
in me
as the
scripture
has said
out of
his heart
will flow
rivers
of
living
water
verse 39
now this
he said
about the
spirit
the
holy
spirit
you see
this
living
water
that
Jesus
is
promising
to
give
is
none
other
than
the
holy
spirit
the
third
person
of
the
trinity
you see
the
giving
of the
holy
spirit
in
his
fullness
is
the
distinct
!
mark
of
a
new
era
the
new
era
of
the
new
covenant
and
that's
where I
want you
to turn
back
to
Ezekiel
chapter
36
we looked
at this
a couple
weeks ago
it's on
page
860
of your
pew
bible
this is a
promise
God is
making to
his people
and he
says
in verse
26
and I
will give
you a
new
heart
and a
new
spirit
I
will put
within
you
and I
will
remove
the
heart
of
stone
from
your
flesh
and give
you a
heart
of
flesh
and I
will
put
my
spirit
within
you
and cause
you
to walk
in my
statutes
and be
careful
to obey
my
rules
this is
what Jesus
is actually
talking about
that
that if
this
Samaritan
woman
would just
receive
this
gift
of the
Holy
Spirit
this
gift
of
a
new
way
of
relating
with
God
this
new
covenant
she
would be
forever
changed
the
new
covenant
is a
new
era
when
God
gathers
to
himself
a
new
people
from
every
tribe
and
nation
a
new
people
in
Christ
and
they
live
for
God
in
a
new
way
what
Jesus
is
offering
this
Samaritan
woman
is
the
Holy
Spirit
he's
offering
her
salvation
he's
offering
her
eternal
life
something
that
Jacob's
well
wasn't
able
to
give
no
man
made
well
can
give
salvation
in
fact
our
own
self
made
wells
become
obstacles
to
receiving
this
gift
and
there
was
something
in
this
woman's
life
keeping
her
from
quenching
her
thirst
in
Christ
and
that's
where
we
turn
next
we've
looked
at
the
offer
this
living
water
the
Holy
Spirit
salvation
and
now
we
turn
to
the
obstacle
in
verses
16
and
18
notice
when I
read
it
the word
husband
Jesus
said to
her
go call
your
husband
and come
here
the woman
answered him
I have
no
husband
Jesus
said to
her
you are
right in
saying
I have
no
husband
for you
have
five
husbands
and the
one you
now have
is not
your
husband
what you
have
said
is
true
seemingly
out of
nowhere
Jesus
tells
the
Samaritan
woman
to
go
get
her
husband
what's
up
with
what
he's
doing
here
is
an
act
of
love
and
if
you
remember
from
John
3
20
for
everyone
who
does
wicked
things
hates
the
light
and
does
not
come
to
light
lest
his
work
should
be
exposed
what
Jesus
is
doing
is
out
of
love
for
her
he
is
exposing
a
wicked
work
in
her
he's
exposing
an
obstacle
to
her
drinking
deep
from
the
waters
of
the
Holy
Spirit
she
says
I
have
no
husband
to
which
Jesus
replies
you
are
right
in
saying
that
I
have
no
husband
you
have
five
husbands
and
the
one
you
have
now
is
not
your
husband
the
one
you
are
sleeping
with
what
you've
said
is
true
Jesus
is
exposing
this
woman's
chronic
moving
from
one
man
to
the
next
he's
exposing
the
broken
cistern
that
she
has
made
for
herself
to
satisfy
what
she
thinks
is
her
greatest
need
a
cistern
is
an
underground
water
container
and
in
this
region
of the
world
in which
this
was
originally
written
which
is
arid
and
dry
and
lacking
water
cisterns
are
really
important
it's
a way
to
store
water
it's
a way
to
preserve
life
in
Jeremiah
2
13
God
says
this
to
his
people
for
my
people
have
committed
two
evils
they
have
forsaken
me
the
fountain
of
living
waters
that's
how
God
is
describing
himself
the
fountain
of
living
waters
the
fountain
of
life
and
hewed
out
cisterns
for
themselves
broken
cisterns
that
cannot
hold
water
do
you
see
what
Jesus
is
doing
here
this
woman
doesn't
think
she
needs
living
water
but
she
does
she
just
doesn't
see
that
this
man
pursuit
is
a
broken
cistern
of
her
own
making
and
so
by
exposing
her
obstacle
Jesus
is
loving
her
and
opening
her
to
receive
the
gift
of
God
he's
loving
her
from
empty
cistern
to
the
living
waters
of
salvation
here's
how we
apply
it
what
broken
cisterns
has
Jesus
been
trying
to
show
you
this
woman
2000
years
ago
in
Sychar
isn't
the
only
one
who
makes
broken
cisterns
life
are
you
pursuing
a
relationship
as
though
it's
going
to
give
you
life
are
you
pursuing
wealth
as
though
in
wealth
is
life
in
the
acquisition
of
knowledge
or
the
preservation
of
order
at
all
costs
you
know
how
you
can
identify
a
broken
cistern
it's
what
happens
when
you
don't
get
what
you
want
it
doesn't
satisfy
and
they
can't
because
they
are
by
nature
unable
to
give
you
what
you
really
crave
eternal
life
there's
no
living
water
in
broken
cisterns
living
water
is
found
only
in
the
well
of
Jesus
so
what
is
making
you
anxious
what
is
the
cause
of
your
depression
why
are
you
fearful
or
angry
be
on
the
lookout
for
a
broken
cistern
what
is
the
broken
cistern
in
the
way
of
you
finding
soul
satisfaction
in
Jesus
what
I
want
you
to
see
is
Jesus
brings
up
husband
because
he
wants
to
remove
an
obstacle
from
this
woman
having
her
soul
quenched
in
Christ
it's
the
most
loving
thing
he
can
do
but
you
know
what
she
doesn't
like
it
we
typically
don't
like
having
our
broken
cisterns
exposed
so
she
tries
to
change
the
subject
on
Jesus
by
opening
up
a
debate
but
Jesus
knows
exactly
what
she's
doing
she's
actually
playing
right
into
his
hands
and
now
we
turn
to
verses
19
through
26
the
result
the
result
of
receiving
the
living
water
is
a
new
way
of
worship
let
me
read
it
for
you
the
woman
said
to
him
sir
I
perceive
I
perceive
that
you
are
a
prophet
our
fathers
worshipped
on
this
mountain
but
you
say
that
in
Jerusalem
is
the
place
where
people
ought
to
worship
Jesus
said
to
her
woman
believe
me
the
hour
is
coming
when
neither
on
this
mountain
nor
in
Jerusalem
will
you
worship
the
father
you
worship
what
you
do
not
know
we
worship
what
we
know
for
salvation
is
from
the
Jews
but
the
hour
is
coming
and
is
now
here
when
the
true
worshipers
will
worship
the
father
in
spirit
and
truth
for
the
father
is
seeking
such
people
to
worship
him
God
is
spirit
and
those
who
worship
him
must
worship
in
spirit
and
truth
the
woman
said
to
him
I
know
the
Messiah
is
coming
he
was
called
the
Christ
when
he
comes
he
will
tell
us
everything
Jesus
said
to
her
I
who
speak
to
you
am
he
if
you
were
just
to
take
a
look
at
verses
19
through
26
just
to
look
over
it
quickly
you
will
see
the
word
worship
repeated
again
and
again
in
verse
19
she
responds
to
his
little
poke
by
saying
I
see
that
you're
a
prophet
she's
acknowledging
that
Jesus
has
a
knowledge
of
her
life
that
only
God
could
have
revealed
to
him
what
she
doesn't
realize
is
that
Jesus
is
God
revealing
himself
to
her
in
verse
20
she
opens
the
debate
she
says
our
fathers
the
Samaritans
worshipped
on this
mountain
and
she's
likely
pointing
to
Mount
Gerizim
which
Sikhar
was at
the
very
base
of
you
could
see
it
but
you
say
speaking
of
Jesus
and
the
Jews
that
in
Jerusalem
Mount
Zion
is
the
place
where
people
ought
to
worship
so
she's
saying
we've
got
a
problem
worship
either
at
your
mountain
or
mine
which
one
is
it
and
so
what
she's
doing
is
a
redirection
tactic
to
take
the
pressure
off
her
but
Jesus
doesn't
bite
in
21
through
24
he
explains
to
her
a
new
way
to
worship
God
in
verse
21
Jesus
asserts
there's
coming
an
hour
when
a
new
way
to
worship
will
make
Mount
Gerizim
and
make
Mount
Zion
utterly
obsolete
in the
worship
of God
totally
irrelevant
there was
a time
when
those
mountains
were
relevant
but
that's
no longer
the case
Jesus
is
saying
in
verse
22
Jesus
clarifies
he says
you
Samaritans
worship
what you
do not
know
they've
only got
five
books
of the
Bible
you
only
know
so
much
about
God
with
that
we
Jews
worship
what we
do
know
for
salvation
is
from
the
Jews
Jesus
is
claiming
that
God's
gift
of
salvation
for
all
people
and
all
time
has
a
Jewish
origin
not
a
Samaritan
origin
just
don't
miss
what's
going
on
here
Jesus
a
Jew
is
offering
salvation
to
an
adulteress
while
in
Samaria
this
is
remarkable
verse 23
he takes
things a
step
further
in this
argument
he's
making
he's
saying
an hour
is
coming
and
is
now
here
when
the
true
worshipers
will
worship
the
father
in
spirit
and
truth
for
the
father
is
seeking
such
people
to
worship
him
he
goes
on
to
say
God
is
spirit
and
he's
not
talking
about
the
Holy
Spirit
but
speaking
of
God's
unseen
!
nature
God
is
spirit
and
those
who
worship
him
must
worship
in
spirit
and
truth
so
what
Jesus
is
doing
here
is
he's
explaining
the
new
way
to
worship
God
in
the
new
era
of
the
new
covenant
we
worship
in
spirit
and
in
truth
John
Piper
writes
a
very
helpful
article
on
this
passage
and
he
explains
what
it
means
to
worship
God
in
spirit
and
truth
spirit
is
how
you
worship
God
truth
is
what
you
worship
about
God
regarding
spirit
Jesus
is
talking
about
your
inner
being
to
worship
in
spirit
means
to
worship
God
from
our
hearts
not
just
going
through
the
motions
not
just
giving
lip
service
but
genuinely
sincerely
worshiping
from the
very
core
of
who
you
are
worshiping
God
with
fullness
of
heart
all
of
your
heart
do you
remember
Ezekiel
chapter
36
let me
just
you
don't
need
to
turn
later
let
me
just
read
you
it
again
and
I
will
give
you
a
new
heart
and
a
new
spirit
I
will
put
within
you
and
I
will
remove
your
heart
of
stone
from
your
flesh
and
give
you
a
heart
of
flesh
God
gives
us
a
new
spirit
to
worship
him
fully
not
just
to
hit
lip
service
not
eye
candy
but
from
our
hearts
new
affections
new
desires
a
want
to
regarding
truth
God
has truly
and fully
revealed
himself
in all
of the
Old Testament
and all
of the
new
if you
think about
the Bible
all
66
books
of the
Bible
as
one
series
long
series
of
God
selfies
God
revealing
himself
making
himself
known
to
us
it
is
the
sum
total
of
truth
of
who
God
is
in
his
revealing
himself
to
us
and
it
doesn't
stop
with
the
Bible
because
we
believe
the
ultimate
revelation
of the
invisible
God
is
the
God
made
visible
Jesus
John
1
18
says
that
God
has
never
been
seen
but
the
only
God
who
is
at
the
Father's
right
side
he
has
explained
him
Jesus
says
of
himself
I
am
the
way
the
truth
and
the
life
no
one
comes
to
the
Father
but
through
me
the
truth
is
that
Jesus
is
the
only
well
from
which
sinners
can
drink
the
soul
satisfying
living
water
he
provides
the
truth
is
that
Jesus
is
the
controlling
center
of our
lives
and the
Holy
Spirit
is seeking
to
spotlight
Jesus
to help
us to
see the
truth
of who
he
is
and how
glorious
and wonderful
he
is
in verse
25
the
woman
says
that
when
the
Messiah
comes
he'll
explain
everything
and
Jesus
says
something
stunning
in
verse
26
I
who
speak
to
you
am
he
I'm
the
Messiah
I'm
here
and
I'm
explaining
to
you
what
it
means
to
worship
God
in
spirit
and
truth
in
order
for
you
to
worship
God
in
this
new
way
spirit
and
truth
head
and
heart
together
all
of
us
all
of
who
you
are
you
need
to
be
made
new
and
the
way
that
you're
made
new
is
by
receiving
the
gift
of
God
the
spring
that
wells
up
unto
eternal
life
the
Holy
Spirit
and
you
receive
the
Holy
Spirit
the
moment
you
believe
in
Jesus
the
Messiah
that's
the
result
let me
just
summarize
where we've
been
the
offer
Jesus
purposely
cross
cultural
borders
boundaries
to offer
this woman
living
water
and think
about it
he offered
eternal life
to Nicodemus
male
Jew
powerful
righteous
and he
offered
eternal life
to this
Samaritan
woman
female
Samaritan
powerless
and
unrighteous
he's an
adulteress
here's what
this is getting
at
God
offers
this
living
water
salvation
to
all
people
including
you
including
me
would
you like
to receive
the gift
of God
you know
what you
do
you say
sir
give me
this
water
sir
give me
this
water
that springs
up to
eternal
life
the
offer
the
obstacle
Jesus
lovingly
exposes
the biggest
obstacle
this woman
had to
receiving
eternal
life
she had
made
relationships
with men
into a
broken
cistern
what is
the broken
cistern
getting in
the way
of you
drinking
deep
from the
well
of living
water
ask
God
show me
what I
have
hewed
out for
myself
thinking
that it's
going to
give life
but it
only hollows
me out
ask God
to show
you that
the result
receiving
the living
water
brings
new
life
and new
life
that
worships
the one
true
God
in a
new
way
in
spirit
the
how
fullness
of
heart
and in
truth
the
what
with
clarity
of
mind
Jesus
sought
this
Samaritan
woman
to make
her a
true
worshiper
and he's
seeking you
out
today
he's
after
you
here's
the point
of this
passage
renounce
your broken
cisterns
and be
satisfied
by the
living water
that Jesus
alone
offers
to wrap
up
in verse
28
we see
something
interesting
after his
disciples
kind of
come back
with food
this
woman
leaves
and in
verse
29
she
goes
and
tells
her
Samaritan
town
folk
come
see
a
man
who
told
me
all
that
I
ever
had
she's
not
ashamed
now
of what
she's
done
can
this
man
be
the
Christ
but I
want
you
to
notice
in
verse
26
she
left
her
water
jar
she
wasn't
thirsty
for
Jacob's
water
anymore
you
know
why
she
had
gotten
a
taste
of
the
goodness
of
Jesus
come
and be
filled
with
the
soul
satisfying
water
that
only
Jesus
provides
make
it
your
prayer
to
Jesus
sir
give
me
this
water
in
times
of
goodness
and
in
times
of
difficulty
let's
pray
together
Lord
Jesus
you
are
the
giver
of
living
water
you
are
the
one
who
gives
us
the
Holy
Spirit
the
moment
we
believe
and
you
are
the
one
who
continually
fills
us
with
the
Holy
Spirit
after
we
have
believed
would
you
fill
us
afresh
with
your
life
that
we
would
live
for
you
and
would
you
remove
any
obstacles
that
are
getting
in
the
way
pray
this
in
Jesus
name
amen