At the Well is the most recent message series at our church, Houston's First Baptist. On Sunday Pastor Gregg Matte taught out of John 4:1-26 discussing the woman at the well. The Lord spoke through Pastor Gregg and used him to speak to me and Browning. May this simple yet impacting message open your eyes and your heart.
John 4:1-14
"Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John— although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. So he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee. Now he had to go through Samaria. So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.
When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)
Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”
“Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”
Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
He began with a life-changing statement ending with a question:
You have a thirst in your soul. How is it being met? What are you thirsty for?
God asks us that we take our desires to Him. We are thirsty in our souls and He wants us to take our needs to Him so that He, and only He can quench our thirst.
Jesus makes a powerful statement to the woman at the well when he states, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.” Here a lonely, begotten, deserted, thirsty woman is approached by the LIVING God for some water, and she doesn't even realize the thirst she is longing for is standing in front of her face. When you are thirsty, are you starring Christ in the face longing for his spring of water, or are you thirsty for a temporary quench?
Pastor Gregg Matte said, "Our thirst becomes either temptation or satisfaction." He later said that what tempts you the most is what you are thirsting deeply for. Let that be Christ. Let your heart be filled with the Holy Spirit that His water would pour out of your every being.
My question for you and for myself is, what are we thirsty for? What are we repeatedly leaning on the quench our thirst? Is it Christ or is it one of our many other temptations we find satisfying and then find ourselves even more thirsty? Where are we quenching our thirst other than Christ?
He calls us to lay our sins, our thirsts, our struggles down at the cross. We are broken. Our thirsts other than Christ break us. He is our solid rock. He is our freedom. Our satisfaction in Jesus creates a deeper thirst for Jesus.
He says it best. “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)
Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”
“Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”
Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
He began with a life-changing statement ending with a question:
You have a thirst in your soul. How is it being met? What are you thirsty for?
God asks us that we take our desires to Him. We are thirsty in our souls and He wants us to take our needs to Him so that He, and only He can quench our thirst.
Jesus makes a powerful statement to the woman at the well when he states, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.” Here a lonely, begotten, deserted, thirsty woman is approached by the LIVING God for some water, and she doesn't even realize the thirst she is longing for is standing in front of her face. When you are thirsty, are you starring Christ in the face longing for his spring of water, or are you thirsty for a temporary quench?
Pastor Gregg Matte said, "Our thirst becomes either temptation or satisfaction." He later said that what tempts you the most is what you are thirsting deeply for. Let that be Christ. Let your heart be filled with the Holy Spirit that His water would pour out of your every being.
My question for you and for myself is, what are we thirsty for? What are we repeatedly leaning on the quench our thirst? Is it Christ or is it one of our many other temptations we find satisfying and then find ourselves even more thirsty? Where are we quenching our thirst other than Christ?
He calls us to lay our sins, our thirsts, our struggles down at the cross. We are broken. Our thirsts other than Christ break us. He is our solid rock. He is our freedom. Our satisfaction in Jesus creates a deeper thirst for Jesus.
He says it best. “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
Drink Deeply. Share the Well.
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