Leave Your Water Pot: Finding Living Water in Christ

The one who would heal her, forgive her, restore her, and symbolically, she gave her water pot to the savior. Now she goes back into the city and she says to all the men who know her really well. And she says, come see a man. And maybe they said, yeah, we know your kind of men. You've had a lot of them. No. No. No. No. This is like no other man you've ever met. Come and see him. Come and talk to him and you'll see for yourself. There's nobody like him. And they all came out to see Jesus. [01:07:12] (33 seconds)  #ComeSeeJesus

And you're left saying there must be more. There must be more. Well, is. There's a whole lot more. It's all found in Jesus Christ. He says, I have come to give you life and to have that life more abundant. There's nothing that compares to walking with peace, true peace, to walking with joy, joy that runs deeper than our tears, the joy that Jesus says no one will be able to take from you. [01:01:41] (29 seconds)  #AbundantLifeInJesus

This is the same God who could have gone to that well, took a look around, and in his thirst, spoke to those waters, rise up. And those waters would have rushed at his bidding and poured over the edges, and he could have cupped that water to take a cold drink. But he didn't do that, did he? Jesus was not at the well to satisfy himself, but to satisfy the needs of a lonely and embarrassed woman. [00:41:44] (29 seconds)  #ServantSavior

But that desire is to be toward him because he's the only one who can satisfy those deepest places of who we are and what we need. Until we find Christ, we will not be satisfied. We walk around with water pots full of holes. We walk around and we put in our hobbies and our sports. We put in our ambition. We put in our education, whatever we think is going to satisfy us, and yet it's just pouring out the bottom. And we're left wanting still. [00:55:03] (33 seconds)  #ThirstSatisfiedInJesus

Come to him with whatever's happening in your life. Come to him. And, church, I want you to notice as well, as we are to minister to each other and we're to minister to people in the world as well. Look at Jesus as the example. Watch how compassionate he is to this woman. All the love and the gentleness he has for her. There's not one word of condemnation or or judgment. He doesn't point a finger at her. He loves her. He's gentle with her throughout the whole conversation. [00:47:43] (31 seconds)  #CompassionNotCondemnation

or let's not talk about that. Let's put that off to another day. Let's ignore that for now, but we can't do that. The blessing of Jesus is wonderful. His forgiveness, his grace, his salvation. But we cannot forget the fact that we are sinners, and he wants to forgive us of our sins, and he wants to give us victory over our sins. Don't ignore the voice of the holy spirit. [00:58:15] (26 seconds)  #ListenToTheSpirit

But Jesus points her to the one true father above, the father of heaven, the one who's actually seeking after her, the one who's introducing himself to her at this well, That God the father is looking to not only find her, but to call her his very own. And it's all made possible through his son, Jesus Christ. Amen. Do you feel like there's this water pot in your life that has many holes? And no matter where you look or to whom you look or what you desire, nothing satisfies you deep inside? [01:01:04] (37 seconds)  #FatherSeekingYou

I wonder if she went through the same thing men and women still go through today. A man or a woman who says to themselves, I can only be truly happy when I have found that special someone. And my daughters, who I talked about this morning, I'll talk about them again. I've always told my daughters, don't feel as though your true joy and sense of life comes from another man. It doesn't. It comes from the man. It comes from Jesus Christ. Amen. [00:53:55] (40 seconds)  #JesusIsTrueJoy