Living Water: The Woman at the Well

If you've never surrendered, if you've never confessed your sins before, If you've never asked him to be lord of my life, He's sitting on your well right now, and he wants to exchange your water pot that can only hold this amount for a well and a spring that has no end to it. He's offering you eternal life. Take a moment. If it's even two words, you say to him for yourself. He's asking, do you know who is here to meet you today? [00:52:11] (89 seconds)  #SurrenderForEternalLife

The bible said today is the day of salvation. Amen? Not tomorrow. Not when you grow up, not when you're married, not when you have two degrees, not when you buy a house, not when your bank account is low, none today. He was on the way to the cross to bear our sin and shame, and he had time enough to stop by a well, to meet a woman covered in shame, living in idolatry, alone at the well. [00:48:29] (54 seconds)  #SalvationIsNow

You see, he was there to cross social, cultural, religious barriers. She came for water, but Jesus was there for her. Amen? And so oftentimes it's in our everyday ordinary routines that we see God showing up in our lives to enact change, and this was no different. She was on a collision course with God, and her life would not be the same. And sometimes we think that we're the one searching for God, but the truth is he's already come looking for us. [00:31:24] (42 seconds)  #JesusFindsYou

You see there's an urgency with harvest because a harvest doesn't last always. Amen? Start time, finish time. You don't get it out the ground. It's rotten and gone. Useless. So when he talks about a harvest, he's saying to us as a church, there's an urgency when it comes to eternal things. We shouldn't live our lives like we have forever. We don't. We shouldn't pass those around us as if they're okay. [00:45:19] (36 seconds)  #SeizeTheHarvest

This woman told everyone, she didn't size up anyone and go, Matthew, you look like you have it all together. No. She's just telling everybody she came in contact with. What qualified her? She wasn't a pastor, didn't need a microphone. She qualified because she was redeemed. Amen? That's all you need to know. I've lived it. I've overcome. God picked me up and brushed me off. He's used the hard things of my life. That's qualification enough to share. [00:45:56] (47 seconds)  #RedeemedIsEnough

Salvation has come to a little backward wayward town, and look who he chose to bring this message of hope. No fancy title, no big jewelry and position in life. She left her water pot. The very thing that gave her access to a life giving substance. She left it behind recognizing that what she had was good, but what God has to give her was better. Amen? And and you might be here and you might have surrendered your heart to God and you're part of the body of Christ and the church, but we too are in this story. [00:43:14] (69 seconds)  #UnexpectedMessenger

Even though we're dealing with a God who who who is not bound by time, salvation is a here and now a fear. Amen? We don't have to wait. And Jesus did something here in verse 26 that the first time we saw this was all the way back in the Old Testament with Moses. He said to the woman, I am the Messiah. I'm the savior. Plain language. No parables. No uncertain term. He he declared himself to be God. [00:38:31] (54 seconds)  #MessiahDeclared

Jesus did not allow differences of practices or opinions to prevent him from reaching her with a message of hope. God's love supersedes our differences. Amen? And and our or at our core, we are all the same thing. We're facing the same issue. Doesn't matter our color, creed, our race, our language, we share the same issue. Sin has separated us from God. And so Jesus was not gonna allow her to distract him from what he was there to do. [00:36:00] (48 seconds)  #LoveSupersedesDifferences