John 4:1-14Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John, he left Judea and departed again for Galilee. And he had to pass through Samaria. So he came to the 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. 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 have 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, as did his sons and his livestock.” Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again. 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.”
On Easter Sunday, Pastor Kyle explained how water is essential to life. Our bodies are made up of 60% water. The human body can last up to one month without food, but only one week without water. Yet, only 1% of the world’s water is available for consumption. Water is rare. Living water unto eternal life is essential and rare also. This living water is available to us today. How do we get this living water?
It is well documented in history that Jesus existed, but was he God or man? Jesus, himself, claimed to be God (the Son, the third person of the trinity, sent by the Father or our salvation from sin. With such a claim, Jesus would have to be either a liar, a lunatic, or the risen Lord – Savior of the world. All of the Apostles of Jesus (except John) were executed for that fact and the proclamation of the gospel. If it were not true, surely, they would have recanted their claim of Jesus’ divinity to save their life from a lie or a lunatic’s declaration. The reality is that Jesus Christ is the gift of God and is seeking and saving the lost in sin with the giving living water through the Holy Spirit. Everything else is just an empty well. Just like the Samaritan woman, without Christ, we are spiritually parched.
John 4: 15“The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”
A few things that happen when we taste Christ’s living water of salvation are (1) we receive satisfaction from above that wells up from within. Without faith, this statement makes no sense. The woman at the well was talking about a totally different kind of satisfaction. When we seek satisfaction from below (without God), we will be left empty and thirsty (unsatisfied). People who seek “life” outside of God, look everywhere and in all the wrong places. We drink from that well, then become thirsty again. We get immersed in the distractions of life, which are fake, rather than what is true. Revelation 22:1-2says, “Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month.”
Let’s continue Pastor Kyle’s Easter message in the next post.
In Christ, Brian
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