1 00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:09,920 Great to have you tonight John chapter 4. 2 00:00:09,920 --> 00:00:12,400 One of my favourite chapters in the Bible. 3 00:00:13,640 --> 00:00:23,480 John chapter 4. Therefore, when the Lord, that 4 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:28,360 is Jesus, knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus 5 00:00:28,360 --> 00:00:33,960 made and baptised more disciples than John, though Jesus himself 6 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:36,440 did not baptise but his disciples. 7 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:44,200 Jesus left Judea and departed again to Galilee, but he needed 8 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:48,880 to go through Samaria. So he came to a city of Samaria, 9 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:53,760 which is called Psycha, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave 10 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:58,760 to his son Joseph. Now Jacob's well was there. 11 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:04,720 Jesus therefore being wearied from his journey, sat down by 12 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:11,640 the well and it was about the 6th hour or noon in some of your 13 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:15,160 Bibles in the old King James that will say he must needs go 14 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:17,800 through Samaria. I kind of like the old King 15 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:21,600 James. Often this is one of the must. 16 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:27,200 In the Gospel of John, Jesus said you must be born again and 17 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:31,320 later John would write of Jesus the Son of man must be lifted up 18 00:01:31,320 --> 00:01:35,200 on the cross. Now we need to understand the 19 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:41,320 racial problems in Israel at this time, for the Samaritans 20 00:01:41,320 --> 00:01:46,920 were considered by the Jews as half caste. 21 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:53,480 As a Jew, geographically, Jesus did not have to go through 22 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:58,880 Samaria. No Orthodox Jew would travel 23 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:03,000 through Sumeria because he didn't want to be unclean to 24 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:08,080 Galilee. Even though diverting around 25 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:13,720 Sumeria to get to Galilee would mean a journey of about 5 days. 26 00:02:13,920 --> 00:02:18,080 Remember it's walking compared to a more direct route through 27 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:22,800 Sumeria being 2 1/2 days walk. None went through Sumeria. 28 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:27,120 The Jews didn't want to associate with the Samaritan 29 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:32,440 people, the half breeds to them. They worship God their own way 30 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:36,240 in Samaria as well. But the Samaritans believed they 31 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:38,960 were the ones, and they believed they worship better than the 32 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:43,640 Jews. So why did Jesus go against the 33 00:02:43,640 --> 00:02:47,320 traditional way of travelling to Galilee? 34 00:02:49,240 --> 00:03:01,120 Because in Samaria there was an empty, lost, hurting, lonely and 35 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:06,320 yet searching woman. In Samaria, Jesus had a divine 36 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:08,560 appointment with this one Samaritan woman. 37 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:12,040 I believe Jesus has a divine appointment with all of us. 38 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:18,120 I believe the day that Helen and myself came to Christ, as I look 39 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:21,360 back, it was a divine appointment to that on that 40 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:29,080 Tuesday evening back in 1977 March, we would both bow our 41 00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:32,280 knees and receive Christ as our Lord and Saviour. 42 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:38,440 I wish I'd been earlier. And so a woman of Samaria, it's 43 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:41,640 noon. Verse seven came to draw water 44 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:45,160 and Jesus said to her, and it seems a bit abrupt in the 45 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:47,400 writing here, but he was never that way. 46 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:51,640 It says give me a drink, could you get me a drink? 47 00:03:55,080 --> 00:03:58,000 You know the important thing about this woman and Jesus 48 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:03,680 meeting her in a divine appointment tells us some things 49 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:08,800 early in our text about God because the Bible is to teach us 50 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:11,360 about God. One of the things I wanted to do 51 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:14,320 when I was a new Christian, I wanted to know what's God like 52 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:19,440 when I was a kid, you know, I went to all the movies, Cecil B 53 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:22,400 De Mille movies. I remember going to see the King 54 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:25,360 of Kings when I was just a young kid, cried all the way through 55 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:31,280 it. It was just like, so I wanted to 56 00:04:31,280 --> 00:04:37,000 know what's God like? It was this real ache in my 57 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:38,560 heart. What does God really like? 58 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:49,360 And this the story tells us that God knows no racial, economic or 59 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:52,200 sinful boundaries. In other words, oh can't go 60 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:55,480 there to share His love to His creation. 61 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:07,720 That means God so loved the world He gave his Son for the 62 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:10,960 world. Something happened to me when I 63 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:15,400 became a Christian. Has God changed my eyes, my 64 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:20,320 vision and he God changed my heart because before I could 65 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:25,560 drive around, see homeless people and people struggling and 66 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:29,760 going about their not even look at them, too busy with my own 67 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:33,440 sinful self. And you go past the Rose garden 68 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:35,400 and you go, well, roses, they're flowers, they're just for 69 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:39,240 ladies. And then I got saved. 70 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:44,280 And now when I see a beautiful rose, I look at the Rose and I 71 00:05:44,280 --> 00:05:48,960 peer at the Rose and I look down and examine the Rose and I and I 72 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:54,480 see how beautifully it's made and the colour, the colours that 73 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:58,120 God puts into roses. This is, this is design, this 74 00:05:58,120 --> 00:06:02,080 is, this is the creator. And then when I see a homeless 75 00:06:02,080 --> 00:06:05,880 person, I working, working with the police, I was constantly 76 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:09,000 driving around Perth and different hours of the night and 77 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:12,720 morning and I'd see homeless people walking a little long, 78 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:14,000 struggling and going with their way. 79 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:19,440 And I'd stop. And when I'd see them, what 80 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:23,760 would happen in my heart is I would say now Jesus died for 81 00:06:23,760 --> 00:06:27,880 that person on the cross. He loves Jesus loves that that 82 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:35,840 that guy there because something happened and God, this is the 83 00:06:35,840 --> 00:06:38,800 God of the Bible and God cares about you. 84 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:42,800 He cares deeply about you so much. 85 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:46,920 How much we gave all that he could give his only begotten 86 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:49,600 son. Secondly, Jesus did not just 87 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:54,160 minister to great crowds. You know you, we've travelled to 88 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:57,200 the USA couple of times and we've gone to very big churches 89 00:06:57,200 --> 00:07:00,760 and it's, it's sad we don't have that. 90 00:07:00,840 --> 00:07:03,320 Glad we don't have that culture. It's trying to creep into some 91 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:07,560 churches here was when the pastor finishes, he goes out a 92 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:12,840 side door and around him a 5 or 6 people and you can't, they 93 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:15,600 can't, you don't talk to the local people because he just, 94 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:18,400 he's got to go off into his room and then so there's no 95 00:07:18,400 --> 00:07:21,880 associating. Chuck Smith, I loved we would 96 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:27,080 travel from Calvary from here to go to a conference in, in Costa 97 00:07:27,080 --> 00:07:29,640 Mesa when we used to have the international conferences there 98 00:07:29,640 --> 00:07:33,960 and there'd be 3 services in the morning of 4 to 5000. 99 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:37,240 People just packed. And after each service truck 100 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:40,360 would walk out and stand at the door and he would say hello to 101 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:41,880 everyone else. They were going at the door. 102 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:46,040 Hi, I'm Keith. It's Helen. 103 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:48,640 Hey, from Australia. Awesome, great. 104 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:52,480 You know, and it was a it was a real chat, a real communication. 105 00:07:54,520 --> 00:07:58,080 That's what God's like. Jesus didn't just minister to 106 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:03,560 great crowds, but also to individuals such as Nicodemus, 107 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:07,000 who came to him at night, an old religious man. 108 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:13,560 And now he's sitting by a well and he's waiting, doesn't have a 109 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:16,480 watch, but he knows when she comes. 110 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:22,760 He knows that she comes there every noon, and along comes a 111 00:08:22,760 --> 00:08:27,840 fragile, broken, lonely woman. In Samaria you see both. 112 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:32,120 Nicodemus thirdly, and the woman at the well. 113 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:35,799 They had a need. They needed salvation. 114 00:08:36,640 --> 00:08:41,400 They needed to be born again. You must be born again. 115 00:08:42,280 --> 00:08:47,200 So this woman in Samaria was a complete social outcast. 116 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:52,000 Why? Because she came to the well at 117 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:54,760 noon. It tells us it's the hottest 118 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:57,640 part of the day. And that's not when the women of 119 00:08:57,640 --> 00:09:02,680 the village came to fetch their water. 120 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:07,760 And so woman of Samaria came to draw water. 121 00:09:07,760 --> 00:09:11,960 Jesus said to her, give me a drink for his disciples. 122 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:14,680 Jesus is alone. Verse 8 had gone away into the 123 00:09:14,680 --> 00:09:19,760 city to buy food. Funny how that works isn't it? 124 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:24,480 Then the woman of Samaria said to him, how was it curiosity? 125 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:28,560 No, this is how. This is how you win people to 126 00:09:28,560 --> 00:09:36,280 Christ. How is it that you, a Jew, ask 127 00:09:36,280 --> 00:09:42,720 from me, A I'm a Samaritan and B I'm a woman. 128 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:49,840 Jewish men don't talk to women, for Jews have no dealings with 129 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:55,280 Samaritans. The woman, the women would 130 00:09:55,280 --> 00:09:58,880 normally come to fetch water when it was later in the day 131 00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:02,760 toward evening to prepare to take the water home for the 132 00:10:02,760 --> 00:10:05,840 washing and the drinking, etcetera, and took a couple of 133 00:10:05,840 --> 00:10:09,320 bowls in the house. So through the night and for the 134 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:14,440 morning, the water was there. So she came at noon because if 135 00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:17,720 she came at any other time, the women wouldn't. 136 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:21,560 They would ostracise her, throw stones at her, cast her away, 137 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:25,040 abuse her because she was that woman. 138 00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:32,280 John tells us in verses 5, verse five that Jesus is weary from 139 00:10:32,280 --> 00:10:36,040 his walking. So it tells us something again 140 00:10:36,040 --> 00:10:40,080 about the God we serve. Have you ever been really tired? 141 00:10:40,440 --> 00:10:42,800 Like really, really. If you have children or you, 142 00:10:43,120 --> 00:10:46,120 you're getting old like some of you are. 143 00:10:48,560 --> 00:10:53,440 There are times when you think, I think I'll just lay over there 144 00:10:53,440 --> 00:10:56,920 somewhere and something will roll me up, put me in a hole 145 00:10:56,920 --> 00:10:58,280 somewhere and it'd be quite nice. 146 00:10:58,280 --> 00:11:02,560 You know, Jesus got really tired. 147 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:07,000 He's a high priest. Why does it say this? 148 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:08,680 Why does the Holy Spirit write this in? 149 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:12,960 Because he is. Our high priest in the book of 150 00:11:12,960 --> 00:11:16,560 Hebrews tells us that Jesus Christ absolutely knows and 151 00:11:16,560 --> 00:11:20,800 understands our weaknesses and our earthly frame. 152 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:24,600 He knows when you're a mother and you're struggling with the 153 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:26,840 children. He knows when you're a dad, you 154 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:29,640 may be doing a couple of jobs and things are just really, 155 00:11:29,640 --> 00:11:32,200 you're pushing it, you're trying to pay the mortgage and you're 156 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:34,840 working this, and then you got this to do and then that breaks 157 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:39,520 down. He knows how that feels because 158 00:11:39,520 --> 00:11:45,720 there was into such a body that God Almighty was Incarnate, a 159 00:11:45,720 --> 00:11:51,200 baby born in Bethlehem. But as thirsty as he is and as 160 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:54,640 tired as Jesus is, he's on a mission. 161 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:57,880 And that's the other thing, you know, people are often, I 162 00:11:57,880 --> 00:12:02,120 remember we're going to a men's camp and it was some men are 163 00:12:02,120 --> 00:12:06,440 pretty thick and we're at a Christian men's camp and a 164 00:12:06,440 --> 00:12:09,520 couple of young guys. Oh, we got one child and this 165 00:12:09,520 --> 00:12:13,880 child's really difficult. We got 2, you know, oh, we don't 166 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:14,680 know. How are we getting on? 167 00:12:15,520 --> 00:12:17,480 What are they doing? The wives are doing everything 168 00:12:17,480 --> 00:12:20,560 anyway, so there's any many kids you got and I go, well, we got 169 00:12:20,560 --> 00:12:22,880 44. Oh, what do you do? 170 00:12:22,920 --> 00:12:24,480 What do you, how do you work with four? 171 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:26,240 Because I don't know anything. Helen does everything. 172 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:29,640 Anyway, I said, oh, well, what we do is we rotate it through 173 00:12:29,640 --> 00:12:32,120 the week. We only feed two of them on a 174 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:34,800 certain day. The other two, we just stay 175 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:35,760 outside. They're going to come in the 176 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:37,640 next day and we only have a bedroom, one bedroom. 177 00:12:37,640 --> 00:12:40,120 So they come, they share and they rotate and we say we're not 178 00:12:40,120 --> 00:12:43,880 dealing with four all the time. And then I walked away and these 179 00:12:43,880 --> 00:12:50,320 two young guys, man, doesn't matter how many kids you got. 180 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:53,880 It's all the same. Fuck. 181 00:12:54,560 --> 00:12:56,880 Oh, well, we, we. Yeah, we can't cope. 182 00:12:57,320 --> 00:13:00,600 We've got 4 of it. One of your kids going to have 183 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:05,520 to go see the doggy door. We have to go because we can 184 00:13:05,520 --> 00:13:09,200 only how long? We can only deal with three. 185 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:10,480 And actually, we're pretty tired. 186 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:12,560 So today we can only deal with two of you. 187 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:16,160 I mean, the way of the world is ridiculous. 188 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:22,800 So Jesus is tired. He's thirsty, but he's on a 189 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:26,160 mission. Just as parents, no matter how 190 00:13:26,160 --> 00:13:31,040 tired you are, how worn out you are, when a child needs you, 191 00:13:31,160 --> 00:13:39,800 you're there. And this woman comes to the well 192 00:13:39,880 --> 00:13:44,920 alone to draw water. Jesus begins the conversation. 193 00:13:44,920 --> 00:13:46,800 He could have just sat there. She could have gone out of 194 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:50,040 business and went off. And he says, give me a drink. 195 00:13:51,760 --> 00:13:56,120 This is quarter on the hook. He's a Jew. 196 00:13:56,680 --> 00:13:58,160 I'm a woman. I'm a Samaritan. 197 00:13:58,160 --> 00:14:02,040 How come you what? And already he's he's he's just 198 00:14:02,040 --> 00:14:03,640 opened the door for conversation. 199 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:08,880 Notice how he started and initiated also the discussion. 200 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:11,200 He could have just let things be. 201 00:14:11,200 --> 00:14:14,040 After all, he was tired. I'm I'm done. 202 00:14:14,040 --> 00:14:15,920 I know I got to talk another day. 203 00:14:15,920 --> 00:14:17,440 I'll come through here and another day. 204 00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:22,280 There's no one else around. He could have just rested. 205 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:32,600 But Paul told Timothy preach the word, be instant in season and 206 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:36,280 out of season. That means always be ready to 207 00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:41,640 share the love of Christ. Three things 1. 208 00:14:41,640 --> 00:14:45,360 He did not start with the statement like are you saved? 209 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:53,840 You know the God of Israel or he didn't go, you're a woman, 210 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:56,800 you're a Samaritan. You know you're going to hell. 211 00:14:56,800 --> 00:15:03,640 He didn't start that way. Secondly, nor did he start off 212 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:14,000 with along the lines say hey, you very bad woman. 213 00:15:14,680 --> 00:15:20,120 I won't use the words yes, you wicked Jezebel, I'm talking to 214 00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:27,080 you didn't say that. No, he would have a dialogue. 215 00:15:29,480 --> 00:15:34,480 Jesus spoke to her and Jesus listened to her. 216 00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:38,640 When you're speaking to someone, some people when you're talking 217 00:15:38,640 --> 00:15:41,200 to them all they're doing as you're as you're talking, you 218 00:15:41,200 --> 00:15:42,800 know they're waiting for you to stop. 219 00:15:43,920 --> 00:15:49,320 They're not listening for them to talk again, Jesus spoke, 220 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:53,800 Jesus listened. You know, good listeners are 221 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:56,400 always people other people want to have around. 222 00:15:57,320 --> 00:15:59,880 A good listener is always welcome company. 223 00:15:59,880 --> 00:16:01,760 You know why? Because they'll listen to you 224 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:04,520 and you'll pour your heart out to them. 225 00:16:04,880 --> 00:16:07,520 They don't interrupt. They'll listen to you and 226 00:16:07,520 --> 00:16:10,440 they're listening with a a caring attention. 227 00:16:10,920 --> 00:16:14,520 Fourthly, then Jesus threw out the bait verse 10. 228 00:16:15,040 --> 00:16:19,680 Jesus answered, said to her, well, if you knew the gift of 229 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:25,040 God and who it was, who says to you give me a drink, you would 230 00:16:25,040 --> 00:16:30,360 have asked him and he would have given you living water. 231 00:16:30,720 --> 00:16:35,360 So he's gone from water in a well, is now brought into 232 00:16:35,600 --> 00:16:40,640 speaking to something going on here and now he's mentioned 233 00:16:41,160 --> 00:16:43,120 living water. She's never heard of living 234 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:45,240 water. Who hears of living water? 235 00:16:45,240 --> 00:16:46,840 Bunnings doesn't sell living water. 236 00:16:47,360 --> 00:16:49,760 Come to buy 30 litres of living for water. 237 00:16:50,840 --> 00:16:54,160 In this discussion that was being held between Jesus Christ 238 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:58,480 the Son of God and this empty lost woman, Jesus would point 239 00:16:58,480 --> 00:17:00,680 out three important things to her. 240 00:17:01,240 --> 00:17:10,880 One, who he was, who he was, two, what he had to offer and 241 00:17:10,880 --> 00:17:18,359 three, how she could receive it. This is our message, you and I 242 00:17:18,359 --> 00:17:20,200 here at Calvary Chapel, Secret Harbour. 243 00:17:20,599 --> 00:17:23,119 This is what we are still to be sharing today. 244 00:17:23,480 --> 00:17:26,400 The things we did this morning, the things that Jesus began to 245 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:31,440 do and teach, we continue. And if more people simply knew 246 00:17:31,440 --> 00:17:38,080 these three things, who Jesus is, what he had to offer and how 247 00:17:38,080 --> 00:17:43,360 they could receive it, you know, it took years for someone to 248 00:17:43,360 --> 00:17:48,680 tell me who Jesus really was, what he had to offer. 249 00:17:49,720 --> 00:17:52,600 Why hadn't someone told me how to how to receive him? 250 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:56,600 I've been to church as a kid. I'd want a book for going to 251 00:17:56,600 --> 00:18:01,040 Sunday school. I considered myself a Christian, 252 00:18:01,760 --> 00:18:05,880 but I wasn't. No one had taken me aside and 253 00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:08,800 says, you know who Jesus really is? 254 00:18:08,840 --> 00:18:12,280 Well, I know about him, but do you know who he is? 255 00:18:13,320 --> 00:18:16,320 Secondly, do you know what he has to offer you? 256 00:18:16,320 --> 00:18:19,840 Well, I just know he died on the cross and it was pretty cruel 257 00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:25,960 what they did to him. Three, do you know how to become 258 00:18:25,960 --> 00:18:28,360 a Christian? You know, there are many people 259 00:18:28,360 --> 00:18:32,400 in churches tonight that have never been told how do I become 260 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:35,400 a Christian? They've gone to church after 261 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:38,520 church, year after year, age They've served. 262 00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:41,320 They've taught Sunday school, being ushers, been on the board. 263 00:18:42,520 --> 00:18:45,440 No one has ever shown them how to become a believer. 264 00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:49,840 Romans chapter 10 verses 9 and 10. 265 00:18:50,040 --> 00:18:55,480 Never forget those. John 316 and Romans chapter 10 266 00:18:55,720 --> 00:18:58,520 verses 9 and 10. That if you confess with your 267 00:18:58,520 --> 00:19:05,160 mouth and believe in your heart that Jesus is Lord, you shall be 268 00:19:05,280 --> 00:19:07,160 saved. It's as simple as that. 269 00:19:08,320 --> 00:19:12,800 So first point, who Jesus was, The woman asked. 270 00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:20,400 Jesus, Sir, you got nothing to draw with because she he's 271 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:25,120 talking here and here and she's talking water in a well. 272 00:19:26,120 --> 00:19:30,160 That's how the world is. We're talking eternity. 273 00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:32,960 We're talking spiritual matters. They don't know what we're 274 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:38,480 talking about, She says. Where then do you get that 275 00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:41,360 living water? Great question. 276 00:19:43,040 --> 00:19:45,320 Are you greater than our Father, Jacob? 277 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:48,720 Because this is his well who gave us the well. 278 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:53,920 He dug this well and drank from it himself, as well as his sons 279 00:19:54,120 --> 00:20:00,000 and his livestock. Jesus didn't tell her there at 280 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:06,040 the well at noon, Jacob. I wrestled with Jacob, man. 281 00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:07,400 I'm the one that put his hip out. 282 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:11,840 When Jacob was alone in prayer, I was the one that spoke to him. 283 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:17,480 Genesis chapter 32. Jesus could have said Jacob, I'm 284 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:21,560 greater than Jacob. I'm the one that broke him that 285 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:25,320 night. Nor did Jesus say I'm greater 286 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:30,000 than Moses even and Abraham, I'm the creator. 287 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:34,080 No, Jesus kept it. And here's the lesson. 288 00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:44,080 Jesus kept it simple. She was not ready for anything 289 00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:51,160 like all this other stuff about Jacob and Moses and Abraham. 290 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:54,320 Billy Graham said this great statement. 291 00:20:55,360 --> 00:21:00,240 I study to be simple. You know, the hardest people to 292 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:05,600 teach are youth teens because they have a capacity, short 293 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:07,640 capacity. They're busy everywhere. 294 00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:11,440 And when you teach at a youth group, it's really wearing, it's 295 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:15,480 tearing because you have to keep it simple. 296 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:19,040 You have to communicate and you have to get them to believe that 297 00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:22,400 you and understand that what you're saying is important so 298 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:25,360 that they can understand it, believe it. 299 00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:34,680 And so to do that, I studied to be simple. 300 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:39,240 You and I are to study the Word of God to make it simple. 301 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:44,560 What Jesus was telling this woman was that there was nothing 302 00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:48,120 the world had to offer her that would quench her spiritual 303 00:21:48,120 --> 00:21:49,960 thirst. This is where He's heading. 304 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:59,080 The ache that had driven her life, not just for thirst, but 305 00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:04,480 the thirst that she had in her soul that was still demanding to 306 00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:12,800 be quenched, but the world and all it had to offer could not 307 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:17,480 quench nor stay the ache. You can be in a happy marriage, 308 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:21,960 you can have a great job, you can be physically well, 309 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:26,920 everything will be going great and you can have the same ache 310 00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:32,200 as the woman at the well. It's interesting, I listened to 311 00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:37,920 one of the footballers, the Fremantle last year who had been 312 00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:42,640 very successful 1/2 times won the the medal for the best 313 00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:47,160 footballer in Australia and and and as I listened to his 314 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:52,160 farewell speech he said he had achieved nothing. 315 00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:58,120 It's interesting that when athletes win an Olympic medal, 316 00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:04,160 they win that race. When surfers been surfing and 317 00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:05,680 surfing. I've just read this week of a 318 00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:09,200 fellow called Jeff Devine. I love surfing and Jeff Devine 319 00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:13,000 has surfed and is a very famous surfer and he's given up 320 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:15,640 surfing. He's gotten old that yes, that 321 00:23:16,360 --> 00:23:20,080 doesn't make it any easier. But he said I was sitting in the 322 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:27,240 water and and it was no long. I was no longer getting the joy. 323 00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:31,000 It just disappeared. It's what happens. 324 00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:37,960 You can strive for so much and you can even attain it, but when 325 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:41,760 you've got it, there's nothing there. 326 00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:49,440 This woman, Jesus said people soon become thirsty again after 327 00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:52,840 drinking this water. So he's relating to her, points 328 00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:57,480 to the well, but the water that I and he's bringing up to him, 329 00:23:57,760 --> 00:24:03,280 the water that I give them takes away first all together. 330 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:07,800 Wow. It becomes a perpetual spring 331 00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:12,040 within them, giving them eternal life. 332 00:24:13,120 --> 00:24:15,960 That's New Living translation verses 1314. 333 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:22,800 Or how powerfully this would connect to the very heart of 334 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:27,640 this empty, lonely, lost woman. For she had come to the well of 335 00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:31,720 relationships, and many young girls do that. 336 00:24:34,120 --> 00:24:38,600 Five different times she thought, This man, he's told me 337 00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:42,320 he loves me, we're living together. 338 00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:48,600 But it hasn't worked. You see people look even in 339 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:51,920 relationships and you know when schoolies is on, it's on every 340 00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:55,960 November and I see them occurring and all the girls go 341 00:24:55,960 --> 00:25:00,280 down and all the boys go down. And you know what they all they 342 00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:05,720 want is actually a nice friend. They don't know some are going 343 00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:09,000 down there and they they're really just because of poor 344 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:13,720 parenting. They're just dangerous and going 345 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:17,160 to end up dying in danger. But many of them, you see them 346 00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:20,680 in groups and you can pick out as the groups walk around, you 347 00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:24,040 can see who's the, the pecking order, who's who's the leader 348 00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:26,280 and who's hanging on, Who's the, the wing man. 349 00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:29,800 Then there's the others who are just there to kind of like, just 350 00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:33,000 like to have a nice friend, maybe meet a girl, maybe meet a 351 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:39,160 young, a nice young man. This woman had thought, if I can 352 00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:42,600 just get the right man, I'll be happy. 353 00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:48,360 Hoping to meet the perfect man. Ladies, perfect man doesn't 354 00:25:48,360 --> 00:25:55,960 exist to have her first quenched, a man who could fulfil 355 00:25:55,960 --> 00:26:02,360 all her desires. But each time her Prince turned 356 00:26:02,360 --> 00:26:09,840 into a frog, time and time again, or so it's seen, she was 357 00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:16,640 left broken and alone. Her life was a miserable chain 358 00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:20,440 of unfulfilling relationships. That's pretty common today, 359 00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:24,160 isn't it? Moving on, the next one, then 360 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:27,200 the next one. Why do I move on and try another 361 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:27,920 one straight away? Why? 362 00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:32,320 Why is that? Because the the the ache can I 363 00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:38,240 got to get this ache fixed? She would fall in love with a 364 00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:40,840 man only to lose interest and move on to another. 365 00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:44,480 She was disappointed time and time again. 366 00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:48,800 She was thirsty again. She did not understand. 367 00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:53,240 She was trying to fill a void in her life that was created by 368 00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:57,720 God. This void is loneliness for God. 369 00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:05,480 Each and every one of us identify with loneliness because 370 00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:07,600 as I said before, you can be in a marriage. 371 00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:10,960 You can be in a happy family, but there are moments in your 372 00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:17,680 life when that loneliness knocks, unless you know Christ. 373 00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:24,480 In Ecclesiastes, Solomon wrote. He has made everything beautiful 374 00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:29,760 in its time, but also he has put This is the Lord eternity in 375 00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:34,240 their hearts. We long for an eternal 376 00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:38,280 relationship. Jesus said drinking that water 377 00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:42,840 from the world systems, like the water at Jacob's well would only 378 00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:46,880 result in thirsting again. Broken relationship. 379 00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:53,400 Jesus has answered and said to her, whoever drinks of the water 380 00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:56,920 will thirst again. This water we could write down 381 00:27:56,920 --> 00:27:58,400 the wells of the world, couldn't we? 382 00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:03,680 The well of success. You know how many people are 383 00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:08,720 going on YouTube, TikTok or whatever it's called? 384 00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:15,480 I don't know what it's called something and they're trying to 385 00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:21,040 create a new life. AI now has come into being and 386 00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:24,840 now people are relating to someone that they create the 387 00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:28,600 perfect partner in AI. Desperate. 388 00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:34,000 And then there's the well of pleasure. 389 00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:36,800 Man, Australia is driven like this. 390 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:39,040 We're all trying to drink out of the well of pleasure. 391 00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:42,080 Well, we're off on holidays. We're off going this. 392 00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:43,520 We'll buy that. We'll do this. 393 00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:46,040 We've got, I got bought one of these and I'll buy another one 394 00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:48,680 of those. And how often? 395 00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:51,840 Well, like, yeah, here it is. This is we're all going to Bali 396 00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:54,160 and we spend weeks in Bali and then we go somewhere else and 397 00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:56,040 oh, this is awesome. Oh, this is heaven. 398 00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:58,280 This is perfect. You can't stay there. 399 00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:03,600 Doesn't last. It's not real. 400 00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:07,520 And then there's the well of materialism. 401 00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:12,440 Well, if we just get that house, if I just get that job, if I 402 00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:16,520 just have that car, if I just have those clothes, those shoes, 403 00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:21,040 but whoever drinks of this water will first again. 404 00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:29,160 So no matter how much we have apart from Christ, we will first 405 00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:32,800 again. We always think that we are 406 00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:36,160 chasing. That which we're chasing is 407 00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:37,880 always just around the corner too. 408 00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:43,640 When you're a teen, pre 16, it is now pre 17. 409 00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:46,840 What was the driving thing for those of you can remember that 410 00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:49,920 far back? Man, get a licence, get my 411 00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:53,160 licence. If I could get my licence, get a 412 00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:56,880 car. That's it, that's all I need, a 413 00:29:56,880 --> 00:30:01,040 licence and a car. And then when I get a job, when 414 00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:06,160 I get a job and I'll be able to have just, you know, work and 415 00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:08,800 have to have my own money, money of my own. 416 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:17,560 Or when I find that perfect boy, that perfect girl, my soul mate. 417 00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:26,600 It'll be Hollywood then. If we just had kids, perfect 418 00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:33,560 kids, perfect boy, perfect girl, you know, they sleep properly 419 00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:37,040 and eat properly and they don't make a mess and they never 420 00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:40,360 complain. They're well behaved wherever 421 00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:45,480 they go. Or as you get older, if just my 422 00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:47,320 kids would move out, that would be great. 423 00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:54,880 It never ends. But when Jesus quenches your 424 00:30:54,880 --> 00:31:05,360 thirst, you will be satisfied. You receive grace and peace. 425 00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:10,720 Come to me, all you that labour and are heavy, heavy laden. 426 00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:16,160 Take my yoke upon you, learn from me and I will give you 427 00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:20,480 rest. Second point. 428 00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:23,880 What did Jesus come to offer her? 429 00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:30,760 Verse 14 Those who drink the water I will give will never be 430 00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:35,200 thirsty again. It becomes a fresh bubbling 431 00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:38,360 stream within them, giving them eternal life. 432 00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:44,080 Jesus spoke of a perpetual spring as opposed to water that 433 00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:48,120 was stagnant. Notice with me the things from 434 00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:52,040 this gift of God, this living water one. 435 00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:59,120 It's satisfying, it quenches your thirst it it removes the 436 00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:03,400 ache, it removes the thirst 2 It's within you. 437 00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:08,440 You do not need external props. You don't have to buy this, add 438 00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:11,400 that, get this, get the, get the new one. 439 00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:16,280 You don't need anything else to cope, to be cool. 440 00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:21,560 There was a king who lived in a Kingdom and his son was so 441 00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:24,200 unhappy. So he said to his three bravest 442 00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:27,840 Knights, Knights, when you're right out into the Kingdom, when 443 00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:30,880 you're the find the happiest man in the Kingdom, when you find 444 00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:35,640 the happiest man, bring his shoes on, his shoes back. 445 00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:38,760 And I want to put my son's feet in the happiest man's shoes. 446 00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:43,800 So the three Knights wrote off. Eventually one comes back and I 447 00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:45,760 couldn't find anyone that they would sue. 448 00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:47,320 And the second knight comes back. 449 00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:52,280 I, I rode and rode and rode and I, I found, but no, no, no 450 00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:55,440 really happy people. And then third night rode in and 451 00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:59,200 he said, King, king, I have found the happiest man in the 452 00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:02,240 Kingdom. Oh well, where are his shoes? 453 00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:10,840 Oh, he has no feet. You see, the fountain that 454 00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:18,640 Christ gives us is eternal. It's an end to an ache to the 455 00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:22,040 Samaritan woman. Jesus was saying her spiritual 456 00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:24,360 thirst would be completely satisfied. 457 00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:27,480 It would be permanently satisfied. 458 00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:31,240 And finally Jesus now tells her how to get it. 459 00:33:33,080 --> 00:33:36,720 But something in her life had to be set straight before she could 460 00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:40,960 drink of the living water. Verse 16, he says this very 461 00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:43,040 strange. Oh, now get your husband. 462 00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:45,400 That's like kind of like out of the blue, isn't it? 463 00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:51,840 Come bring your husband, huh? Why would you ask that? 464 00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:59,560 She says she's truthful. I I don't have a husband, the 465 00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:03,520 woman replied. Jesus said yeah, you're right, 466 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:11,320 you don't have a husband for you have had five husbands and you 467 00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:14,040 aren't even married to the man you're living with now. 468 00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:17,239 That's 6. You certainly spoke the truth. 469 00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:24,360 Jesus forced her to admit a sin because there can be no 470 00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:31,280 conversion without conviction. There can be no forgiveness 471 00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:35,920 unless you believe I need to be forgiven. 472 00:34:37,199 --> 00:34:43,040 There can be no salvation without repentance unless there 473 00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:45,920 is first conviction, and that's the work of the Holy Spirit. 474 00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:50,880 There can be no confession, and if no confession, there is no 475 00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:54,239 cleansing and your first isn't quenched. 476 00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:57,440 She says verse 19. Now, notice this little 477 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:01,480 dalliance here, Sir, The woman said, yeah, you must be a 478 00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:04,440 prophet. So tell me, why is it that the 479 00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:08,280 Jews insist that Jerusalem is the only place of worship, while 480 00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:11,800 we Samaritans claim it is here at Mount Jerusalem where our 481 00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:15,440 ancestors worship? He's asked about her husband. 482 00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:17,280 She's gone now. Let's talk to him. 483 00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:18,480 Yeah, Yeah. Hang on. 484 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:24,320 Why is it that you guys and us, she'd never met a man like this 485 00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:27,880 before. For this man had peeled off her 486 00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:33,280 mask, the mask of her life, and he had revealed to her her very 487 00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:36,040 heart. He had to look right through 488 00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:37,160 her. Yeah, you've had five. 489 00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:40,160 And the one you're with now, he's not your husband. 490 00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:45,720 He's getting to the very depth of his soul. 491 00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:50,800 So she puts up AD to a sign. This often happens when we're 492 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:55,280 sharing the gospel. AD to a sign of self protection. 493 00:35:56,240 --> 00:36:02,360 Let's talk religion instead. Oh, I've read the Bible, I've 494 00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:04,760 been to church, I've tried Christ. 495 00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:11,760 Or they pull out the old Where did Cain get his wife? 496 00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:16,440 Heard that one, haven't you? How many times they're not 497 00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:18,040 interested in where Cain got his wife? 498 00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:21,880 I've just heard someone else ask that, hoping to get you off the 499 00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:25,200 trail. When people are uncomfortable 500 00:36:25,720 --> 00:36:29,520 with the gospel, they will often try to go off on tangents. 501 00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:33,160 I do that when the Jehovah Witnesses come to our door. 502 00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:37,600 I find out who's the teacher. Then I find out who's the 503 00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:40,800 learner, and I tell the teacher, you're on my property. 504 00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:43,560 You be quiet. What church did you used to go 505 00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:45,480 to? How did you become a member of 506 00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:48,240 the Jehovah Witnesses? How did they trap you into 507 00:36:48,240 --> 00:36:52,040 becoming a part of this cult? Don't you say anything. 508 00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:54,200 You're on my property. I'm talking. 509 00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:58,760 This is my place. So how did so you were Catholic, 510 00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:01,600 what were what were Protestant, What how did you end up and I 511 00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:04,880 and I and that's where I go because you see the Jehovah 512 00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:11,160 Witnesses always throwing out spanners. 513 00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:16,520 So Jesus set her record straight and got things back on track. 514 00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:20,440 Jesus replied, Believe me dear woman, the time is coming when 515 00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:23,040 it will no longer matter whether you worship the Father on this 516 00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:26,360 mountain or in Jerusalem. Then Jesus went on to explain to 517 00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:29,720 her the right way and the wrong way of worship and we'll get to 518 00:37:29,720 --> 00:37:35,480 that later, Not tonight. She said to Jesus, I know the 519 00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:39,400 Messiah is coming, the one that was called Christ. 520 00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:42,960 When he comes, he will explain everything to us. 521 00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:45,200 Then Jesus dropped the bombshell. 522 00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:50,480 Imagine that he says to her, He's looking at her, he's 523 00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:55,840 sitting at a well, she's gone there and he says, I'm the 524 00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:59,160 Messiah. Wow. 525 00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:03,840 Verse 26. In other words, you're talking 526 00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:08,000 to him right now here at this well in Samaria. 527 00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:13,280 Have you ever heard someone say to you which group is right, 528 00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:16,200 which church, which religion? I remember a man saying to me 529 00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:19,440 and work, well, all the Muslims can't be wrong because there's 530 00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:21,560 so many of them. Well, that makes a lot of sense, 531 00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:29,320 doesn't it? You know, salvation is, it's not 532 00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:32,960 about church. Salvation is a relationship. 533 00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:37,880 It's not a right do this, it's not a ritual. 534 00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:42,440 This is how you do it. Jesus Christ is the one who died 535 00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:46,760 and rose. He is the Saviour and He's the 536 00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:50,520 one that you need to know at that moment. 537 00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:57,600 As she recognised He is her Messiah, salvation poured into 538 00:38:57,600 --> 00:39:03,680 her life as she believed in Him, who He was and what He was 539 00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:08,000 offering her eternal life at that moment. 540 00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:10,680 Interesting timing. The disciples turned up like in 541 00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:12,920 the movies, you know, oh, here comes the cops after 542 00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:16,200 everything's done, you know, verse 27, just then his 543 00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:18,880 disciples came back. They were shocked to find him 544 00:39:19,240 --> 00:39:23,720 talking to a woman, but none of them had the nerve to ask what 545 00:39:23,720 --> 00:39:26,440 do you want with her or why are you talking to her? 546 00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:30,760 The woman left her water jar. Note that underline it. 547 00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:36,560 The woman left her water jar beside the well left. 548 00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:41,680 It ran back to the village telling everyone. 549 00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:47,520 Come and see a man who told me everything I ever did. 550 00:39:48,240 --> 00:39:50,520 Could he possibly be the Messiah? 551 00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:55,160 So the people came streaming from the village to see him. 552 00:39:55,880 --> 00:40:01,840 What a change from an empty, lonely, ostracised, broken 553 00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:05,720 woman. She is now filled with God's 554 00:40:05,720 --> 00:40:10,440 grace and forgiveness. Her first once and for all is 555 00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:12,960 quenched. She is overflowing. 556 00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:15,920 She's bubbling over. Oh come on, come on, come on. 557 00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:20,320 Runs to tell others. Come see this man. 558 00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:24,520 Who is the Messiah indeed? Come and be filled with God's 559 00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:26,960 grace and his love. Come and be quenched. 560 00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:30,960 Notice as I said, what she left behind at the well. 561 00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:33,360 Why is this little point in our text? 562 00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:37,080 The woman left her water jar beside the well, ran back to the 563 00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:42,080 village telling everyone verse 28 Because now she was filled 564 00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:46,560 with everlasting water and the earthen pot was not how you 565 00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:50,960 gathered. That lonely Samaritan woman 566 00:40:51,240 --> 00:40:57,120 became the first recorded female evangelist in the New Testament. 567 00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:07,840 A Samaritan woman, moments old in her faith. 568 00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:14,640 God's love was bubbling out of her life now, so she naturally 569 00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:18,360 ran and told others the good news, who she had met. 570 00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:20,440 How long I was saved on a Tuesday. 571 00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:25,600 That weekend we visited all my relatives and all Hella's 572 00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:28,280 relatives to tell them we'd become believers. 573 00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:31,640 We had to go and tell someone the good news. 574 00:41:31,880 --> 00:41:36,360 You know what they said? Nice, good for you, didn't make 575 00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:38,600 any difference. We had to tell them we're 576 00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:46,080 bubbling over moments old. In her faith, she ran and told 577 00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:49,000 others. What about you tonight as we 578 00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:54,720 wrap this up, what wells have you been returning to again and 579 00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:58,960 again? Because it's not quenching the 580 00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:01,760 burning thirst of your innermost being? 581 00:42:03,520 --> 00:42:07,240 I do a lot of weddings. I've done a lot of weddings and 582 00:42:07,240 --> 00:42:11,920 one of the things we do in pre marriage counselling is to tell 583 00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:20,680 the bride and and the groom don't marry thinking he or she 584 00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:23,760 is the answer. They're not God, they're not 585 00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:28,560 Christ. You'll need to lean on Christ. 586 00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:32,080 There will be times in your life when your husband, when your 587 00:42:32,080 --> 00:42:40,920 wife won't meet the needs and don't lay upon them to be God. 588 00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:44,480 They can't do it. They're sinners, they're 589 00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:47,120 brothers and your brothers and sisters in Christ. 590 00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:52,440 Are you going to the well of pleasure? 591 00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:58,680 You see, sin may be enjoyable at that time, but the Bible says 592 00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:02,040 the wages of sin is death. It'll eventually kill you. 593 00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:05,560 It will dry you out for eternity. 594 00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:11,720 Is it the whale of possessions? And many, many Australians are 595 00:43:11,720 --> 00:43:13,960 doing that, aren't they? I mean, the catch cry of 596 00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:18,800 Australia is if I win a Lotto, how many millions and billions 597 00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:23,080 we spend on a Lotto? King Solomon, the richest man, 598 00:43:23,080 --> 00:43:30,040 whoever lived. Read Proverbs, Lamentations, 599 00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:32,600 Ecclesiastes or not Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, 600 00:43:32,720 --> 00:43:39,920 especially King Solomon wrote Proverbs and Ecclesiastes. 601 00:43:41,080 --> 00:43:45,360 He was the smartest man that ever lived, the wealthiest man 602 00:43:45,360 --> 00:43:48,320 that ever lived, and I believe probably the most handsome man 603 00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:56,270 that ever lived and he achieved nothing. 604 00:43:56,510 --> 00:44:02,880 He says vanity of vanities. All is vanity, he said. 605 00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:07,080 Those who love money will never have enough. 606 00:44:07,120 --> 00:44:11,080 Rockefeller, richest man, one of the richest men in the world. 607 00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:14,800 Back a few years, just billionaire, billionaire, 608 00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:20,200 billionaire would make his lunch and bring it to work, hop out of 609 00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:24,800 his limo with his lunch. And he was asked one day, Mr 610 00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:27,120 Rockefeller, how much money do you need? 611 00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:30,040 And he says you always need a little bit more. 612 00:44:32,080 --> 00:44:35,840 Or are you seeking satisfaction from the well of some perfect 613 00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:40,600 relationship? You know when couples get 614 00:44:40,880 --> 00:44:44,800 married and they sit opposite pre marriage, it is the Prince 615 00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:50,080 and the and the Princess. Because the eyes are fluttering 616 00:44:50,080 --> 00:44:53,280 and the the little birds are flying around. 617 00:44:55,560 --> 00:44:59,160 But a little a little later down the line, the frog comes out. 618 00:45:06,240 --> 00:45:08,840 People try woman after woman, man after man. 619 00:45:10,200 --> 00:45:13,920 There are so many children, men and women, young and old, who 620 00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:15,560 are just like this searching woman. 621 00:45:15,560 --> 00:45:20,600 They're broken, lost, deceived, thirsty and lonely still. 622 00:45:21,640 --> 00:45:25,720 The key is to drink of the water of life that Christ offers a 623 00:45:25,720 --> 00:45:29,880 thirsty, weary soul. This water does more than 624 00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:34,240 satisfy thirst, it creates something good and life giving 625 00:45:34,240 --> 00:45:37,600 in your heart. It becomes a fountain of water 626 00:45:37,960 --> 00:45:40,360 springing up into everlasting life. 627 00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:47,880 You and I are cup bearers. You and I can go out. 628 00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:51,360 There's a lot of wells that we can go and sit by. 629 00:45:52,520 --> 00:45:55,640 We have some appointments. I believe that God would like to 630 00:45:55,640 --> 00:45:58,720 send you one. Maybe you're here tonight and 631 00:45:58,760 --> 00:46:02,120 Jesus has said you're the one I'm talking to tonight. 632 00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:08,080 You're you're the one I want to offer the water, living water to 633 00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:16,240 and others of us who are saved. He wants us to go out and take 634 00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:20,640 that living water and introduce Christ to someone.