How Soul Thirst is Satisfied

Introduction: The Universal Problem of Soul Thirst

0:04 John 4, 4 to 26, 28 and 29.

0:14 And he, speaking of our Lord Jesus Christ, must needs pass through Samaria. So he cometh to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. And Jacob's well was there. Jesus, therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus by the well.

0:37 It was about the sixth hour.

0:41 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus saith to her, Give me to drink. For his disciples were gone away into the city to buy food. The Samaritan woman therefore said unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, who am a Samaritan woman?

1:04 For the Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. Jesus answered and said unto him, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Whence then hast thou that living water?

1:34 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself? And his sons, and his cattle? Jesus answered and said unto her, Everyone that drinketh of this water shall thirst again. But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst.

1:58 For the water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water springing up into eternal life. The woman said unto him, Sir, give me this water that I thirst. Neither come all the way hither to draw. Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.

2:22 The woman answered and said unto him, I have no husband. Jesus saith unto her, Thou saidst well, I have no husband. But thou hast had five husbands, and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband. This hast thou said truly.

2:42 Amen. The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. Our fathers worshipped in this mountain, and ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem shall ye worship the Father.

3:04 Ye worship that which ye know not. We worship that which we know. For salvation is from the Jews. The hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth.

3:20 For such doth the Father seek to be his worshippers. God is a spirit. They that worship him must worship him in spirit and truth. The woman saith unto him, I know that Messiah cometh, he that is called Christ.

3:38 When he is come, he will declare unto us all things. Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee, am he. Verse 28. So the woman left her waterpot, and went away into the city, and saith to the people, Come, see a man who told me all things that ever I did.

3:58 Can this be the Christ? So they went out of the city, and were coming to him.

4:07 From this story, which is one of the most familiar when anyone begins to get some acquaintance with the gospel history, the record, the record of the life and ministry of our Lord Jesus, I wish to speak to you tonight on this very basic subject, one that is very much a part of every one of us, namely, how soul thirst is satisfied. The heart of our study will be the words of our Lord Jesus in verses 13 and 14. Jesus answered and said unto her, Everyone that drinketh of this water, shall thirst again. But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him, shall never thirst. But the water that I shall give him, shall become in him a well of water, springing up to eternal life. Here in these words, our Lord gives one of the most sweeping, one of the most comprehensive statements concerning the great issue of how soul thirst is truly satisfied. And these words come to us in a setting in which our Lord has encountered a woman with great, unmet soul thirst.

5:28 This woman is not just alone. She is a picture of every man, every woman, every fellow, every girl, who has not drunk of the water of life. Thirsting. Coming to a fountain that can never quench that thirst, but coming again and again, and in that situation, the Lord Jesus speaks and tells her how her deepest soul thirst can be fully and eternally met.

5:58 And the scriptures make very clear that every single human being, by nature, is possessed of this unmet soul thirst. For we were made for the living God. We were made to know Him. We were made to have fellowship, to have fellowship with Him.

6:17 And though sin has caused us, as it were, to cause God to vacate His place of rightful dwelling, there is that sense of unfulfillment that gnaws like a terrible cancer at the hearts of men. Men do not by nature hunger after God. That concept is explicitly denied in Scripture. There is none that seeketh after God.

6:44 But they do hunger to have God. They have that emptiness filled. The problem is they seek to fill it with everything, but the only thing that can fill it. Hence the famous words of Saint Augustine, Thou hast made us for thyself, and our souls are restless till they rest in Thee.

7:06 This is why the prophet Isaiah said, There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked. There is no peace, saith soul thirst, and it will be unmet until that person comes into living contact with the only One who can impart living water. And so, as we look at the passage, we are not interested only in discovering how the Lord Jesus meets the soul thirst of this woman, but we are seeking to discover how He met her need in order that we may see the basic path by which He always meets the deepest soul thirst of all who come unto God. Who come unto God by Him.

The Water Which Cannot Satisfy: Worldly Wells

7:50 Now as we think our way through, particularly verses 13 and 14, and then we will be ranging back and forward in the general context, consider in the first place the statement concerning the water which cannot satisfy. Verse 13, It was answered and said unto her, Every one that drinketh of this water shall thirst again. In that immediate context, He was pointing, of course, to this well. He was pointing to a literal supply of literal water, water that no doubt was probably a lot purer than this, but nonetheless essentially H2O.

8:31 And when He said, Whosoever drinks of this water shall thirst again, He was referring, of course, to that particular well and the water it contained. He was not in any way limiting the meaning of His words to that, for remember, He is dealing with water here in a double meaning continually. And He is speaking of water as the supply which meets the deepest thirst, not of the mouth and of the tongue, but the deepest thirst of the soul. And just as that literal well of Jacob had no ability to bring permanent satisfaction, but this woman had to come day by day to fill her water pots, so that task of coming to take water that could never fully satisfy is a very graphic picture of every single well at which men seek to satisfy the deepest thirst of the soul. And Jesus Christ this night stands by every single well at which you seek to satisfy soul thirst. And He says to you, Whosoever drinks of this water shall thirst again. That's the sign painted with His own hand

9:58 and placed over every single well at which men seek to gratify this sense of knowingness and thirst that has been left to a vacated God. For that's the root of man's restlessness. That's the root of man's unfulfillment. It's the knowing of a vacated God.

10:22 And Jesus says of everything to which men come, drink of this well and you will thirst again. Now let's break that down. Here are some of the wells to which men and women come in our day. Women came in this day, to which men continue to come until Christ returns, but water which can never satisfy.

The Well of Immorality and Sensual Pleasure

10:50 Well, in the case of this woman, she was trying to satisfy soul thirst by coming to the well of immorality and sensual pleasure. Jesus said that you have no husband. You've had five husbands and the man you know is not your legitimate husband. Here was a woman, and I say it in trust with discretion, but as it were, being from one mouth, my thirst will be satisfied in some earthly, carnal, sensual relation.

11:31 Jesus said to this woman, whoever drinks of this well shall thirst again. And she had been coming to that well of immorality and sensual pleasure for years. Only what was true then is true in our own. Prophets who are telling us the well of life is the well.

11:57 Welcome to that well. Being above the depths of this water shall thirst again. This woman was an eloquent testimony that sensual delights and pleasures can never satisfy deepest soul thirst. Sure there is pleasure in sin for a season, but she had to go back to the wells of sensual pleasure only to be unmet. I say particularly to the young people, amongst us tonight, hear the words of Christ. Thanks to this woman in that well. If only, and you have secret skins, what you're going to do of the well of sensual pleasure.

13:18 I'm talking to some of you young men and women that can't until you can abandon yourselves to the words of Christ, whoever drinks of this well shall thirst again. Some of us have lived to witness those who have made no apology, and at this well they, as the sex symbol of the fifties, Marilyn Monroe did, at age of the devil, who could never have one fop that knew of truth, that you'll be satisfied whosoever drinks of this water shall thirst again. And in the second place, there is the well of what I'm calling people say, well,

The Well of Diversion and Aesthetic Delights

14:40 soul thirst can be filled if we can have all the recreation that we need. In sports, in music, in art, the beautiful things. We have a movement that says if only we can get back to the earth, if we can move out of the city and the smoke and the din of subways and buses and all of this mad suburban life and inner city life and go back to the earth, get our fingers in the dirt, and get the dirt under our fingernails, and so you have people moving out in communes to live off the earth, the simple life. Why?

15:19 They say here's where soul thirst will be met. Others say soul thirst will be met by a retreat into the abiding things, music and the arts, the things that transcend each generation and abide. Soul thirst will be met here. But Jesus Christ stands by the well of diversion and aesthetic delights, innocent in themselves, and he says whoever drinks of this water shall thirst again.

15:46 And I may be speaking to some tonight. It's not your particular bent to move to the well of sensual pleasure. You say no. Fulfillment will come for me in these other themselves made for the feel of sports.

16:05 I'll feel that sense of satisfaction. Listen. It's the healthiest, hollowest thing in all the world. Jesus Christ is written over that well.

16:30 Whosoever drinks of this water shall thirst again. Well, then there's the well of material. The scripture says God has given us all things richly to enjoy, but those things were never given to meet soul thirst. What would you think if you were driving down the road, one of these days, and you passed the park where these people play tennis, prostituting the Lord's day, but on another day, when it's all right to play tennis, and you saw a man there, his lips parched, as you see mine are sometimes when I preach, and he knows saliva, and he's dry.

The Well of Material Possessions

17:03 You see the man going around, distracted, saying, I'm so thirsty. I'm so thirsty. I've got to satisfy my thirst. And he turns around and starts chewing on his tennis racket.

17:12 You say, sir, why? He says, I'm going to quench my thirst on my tennis racket. You say the man was either trying to be funny, or he'd gotten so thirsty, he'd lost his head. You'd say that's ridiculous.

17:30 Ah, listen, listen. It's just impossible to fill the thirst of the soul with things as it is to quench physical thirst by chewing on a tennis racket. God never made us so that His gifts fill the place reserved for Himself, the Giver. Things were given to us in pursuit of the will of God.

18:05 They were to be our servants, and people tried to fill it with things, but it simply can't. It cannot be done. And so there is the craze for things in our day. If I can have this thing and that thing, then the restlessness will cease, and the soul thirst will be satisfied.

18:35 No, no, Jesus says, whoever drinks of this water shall thirst again. Now why let your life be wrecked and ruined simply to prove the truth of Christ's words when He's already said it? Why be that soul thirst cannot be filled at that well? Well, then there are others.

The Well of Intellectual Attainment

19:00 The well to which they come is not the well of sensual pleasure, diversions, and perhaps it isn't the well of material possessions, but it's the well of intellectual attainment. They say the reason there's this sense of soul thirst is because we haven't exercised it. And if we can understand our world better and understand ourselves better, if we can penetrate within with psychology and examine and penetrate without with astronomy and nuclear physics and all the rest, and we can master our world, then soul thirst will be met. No, no, whoever comes to the well of intellectual attainment shall thirst again. Listen to the statement of the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 1. He says, After that in the wisdom of God the world by its wisdom knew not God. It pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believed.

19:59 The world by its wisdom knew not God. Again, the needs of the soul cannot be satisfied by cramming the head with knowledge any more than stuffing a bread box with rocks that fills your stomach. Again, you'd say that'd be stupid if I see a man who says he's hungry and I see him putting rocks in a bread box. I'd say, What in the world are you doing?

20:24 I'm satisfying my hunger. You'd say, That's not the way. You've got rocks in a bread box when it comes to filling our stomachs with bread. But such fools when it comes to filling our souls with the only thing that can fill them.

20:40 Who so drinks of this water this well of intellectual attainment shall thirst again. Here we are, so-called most educated generation we've ever known drinks of this water. Let our Jesus words were drinks of this water. Soul thirst cannot be met by intellectual attainment. Oh, but someone goes a little higher and says, Well, soul thirst has got to be met with religion. You've got to have religion. So we have a great wave of religiosity.

The Well of Mere Religion

21:41 We've got the religion of drugs and it's a religion. Fulfillment. When you retreat from this world by virtue of your great Savior L.S.V.

21:55 or some other form of drug. And it's a form of religion. You've got what I read in Sunday school this morning. You've got the importation of the religions of the East telling us to look within.

22:09 In the mind, in the spirit, there must be this religious element. Ah, listen. Whosoever drinks of that water shall thirst again. God never made religion.

22:28 And no matter what the well is, over it Christ has written, Whoever drinks of this water shall thirst again. So much then for the water which cannot satisfy. That's the negative. But now let's consider in verse 14.

The Water Which Fully Satisfies: Its Source and Nature

22:44 The water which fully satisfies. For Christ, beginning with the negative, then moves into the positive, having said, Everyone that drinks of this water shall thirst again. Here's the contrast. Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst.

23:06 But the water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water springing up into eternal life. Here's the water which fully satisfies. The water that is guaranteed to have permanence shall never thirst, never languish, never thirst for anything new. There will be thirst for more and more of the living God, but never thirsty in the sense that I've got to find a different well.

23:34 Look at the aspects of this water that satisfies. First of all, what is its source? Where does this water come from? And Jesus is careful to direct us, as he did this woman, to himself and himself alone as the source.

23:51 Look at his words. But whosoever drinks of the water that shall give him shall become in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. The water that I shall give him. What is the source of the water that satisfies soul thirst?

24:15 It is Jesus Christ. Back to verse 10. Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God and who it is that said, Give me to drink, you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water. Oh, how can words be more clear?

24:37 And how can I state it more simply? Listen to me tonight. Children, young people, adults, friends, members of this assembly. The water that satisfies has its exclusive source, the person of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

24:57 And he gives of himself in a way of satisfied thirst. He gives exclusively in and through Jesus Christ as revealed in the scriptures. He doesn't give it through a ritual. He doesn't give it through a form.

25:16 He doesn't give it through a church. He doesn't give it in doctrine, detached in a living, gracious Christ. The scripture says in Ephesians chapter 1, God hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in the heavenly places in Christ. We read in 1 Corinthians 1.30, God has made Christ to be unto us, wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. Jesus himself was conscious of this, for he said in this very same gospel record, chapter 14 and verse 6, I am the way, the truth, the life. No man cometh unto the Father but by me. But it's not the Christ that men think him to be.

26:07 It's the Christ that he is. The Christ of this very gospel. In the beginning was the Word. The Word was with God, and the Word was God.

26:19 The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him, and without him was not anything made that hath been made. Verse 14, The Word became flesh. Who is this source of living water?

26:32 Is he just a nice, exalted, augmented element? He is the eternal Word. He is God himself. He is God made flesh.

26:44 As John describes him in verse 29 of the first chapter, Behold the Lamb of God that beareth away, the sin of the world, the Christ who is God in the flesh, the Christ who died, who rose, who went back to the right hand of the Father. It is the Christ of Christian theology, of living water, the one who said in John 11, I am the resurrection and the life. He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. And I say to every one of you here, as simply as I know how, if you do not have first hand, genuine dealings with Jesus Christ himself, you'll never have your soul thirst satisfied. And you can be so close to him and miss him. You can be in the midst of his people, in the midst of his church, in the hearing of his voice. He is the source of that living water.

The Water Which Fully Satisfies: A Pure Gift

27:57 Now in the second place, as we analyze the water that satisfies Christ in his person and work, well verse 10 and verse 14 tell us, Jesus answered and said unto her, If this the gift set unto thee, give me to drink, thou wouldst have asked, whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him, shall never thirst. But the water that I shall give him, four times in these two verses, that water is described a gift. See how people have perverted this? Here's how certain religions would write it. It's the reward. Confession and had the last.

28:56 After a thousand years of purgatory, made eternal life. What a purgatory. Being baptized. Ten commandments.

29:32 I graciously convert eternal life upon you. That isn't what Jesus said. He'll do so. If thou, you would have asked, does this water of life come to us?

29:58 That which you'll oast, it comes. That's what you get by merit. Death. Hence you're saved through faith in that.

30:26 Not of yours. He is the gift of. Now why is it hard for men? Recognition that this which satisfies soul thirst can only come.

30:37 I'll tell you why. Because the crowning sin of the human heart is pride. And to be brought to the place where we confess. Nothing in my hand I bring.

30:50 Simply to thy cross I cling. If I'm saved by pure gift. Credit for my salvation must be laid at the feet of another. I've got to confess.

31:05 I've got what I do. And if I ever know to me. And that's what old Adam doesn't want to acknowledge. Hence every form of biblical religion, even though you have got to do something to commend yourself.

31:38 Commend yourself to God. Forgiveness, gift and all the rest. It has this in common. Something that coerces God to open up that fountain of life for you.

32:00 And the genius of the religion of the Bible is that it is grace from beginning. I think one of the most telling questions to ask any person and ask in this order is this. Do you believe that you're an heir of eternal life? Yes.

32:26 Do you believe your soul thirst is met? Yes. Ask the second question. On what basis is it met?

32:34 And if they start talking about well I this and I that, then you know they've missed it. But if they immediately begin, and I say it reverently, as an old friend of mine used to say, if they begin to brag on Jesus, if they begin to brag on Him, and they begin to talk about what He is and what He's done and is done, you know they're in the right track. What is the source of this water that satisfies Christ Himself? He says you would have asked of me, I would have given.

The Water Which Fully Satisfies: To Whom It Is Given

33:06 How is it your gift? Now in the third place, let's ask the question, to whom is it given? And this question is answered right here in the passage. It is given in the first place to those to whom the Son by spiritual illumination, look, verse 10, that saith to thee, give me to drink, you would have asked of me, woman.

33:40 You saw something more than that's what you've seen, woman. You've seen a tired, and because you've seen that, you've said, huh, you asking me for water? You're not supposed to have deal. Jesus said, woman, you've seen a tired, but there's much more before your eyes than a tired, the Son of God is before your eyes, and you don't see Him.

34:15 All can do, penitence, for the gift of life. If you knew, you would have asked. And then the Lord wonderfully leads her on until notice in verses 25 and 26, the woman says, I know that Messiah cometh, I have a hope that Messiah, Jesus said unto her, I speak unto thee, speak unto thee, am He? And the next time we find the woman, where is she?

34:57 Running back into the village, saying, I found Him, I found Him, I've seen Him, the water of life, to whom it is given, only to whom God revealed, by a work of separation. The scripture tells us, no man can call Jesus Lord, but by the Holy Ghost, in 2 Corinthians 4, the God of this world is, the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, that shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of Jesus Christ. When I say spiritual illumination, what am I talking about? Visions? No.

35:47 If you've been saved by a vision, or think you are, you better get on different grounds, my friend. God doesn't save by visions. Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. We are born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God.

36:02 Of His own will begat He us, by the word of... So when I speak of spiritual illumination, I'm not talking of visions.

36:11 I'm not talking of revelations, and lights, and bells, and the flutter of angels. I'm talking about God taking away the silts from the eyes, so that the Christ you've heard about, whose name has perhaps been on your lips as a very curse word, you are given spiritually. See that the Christ of Scripture is indeed God, the only Savior of sinners, infinitely worthy of your trust, and your homage, your love, and your obedience, and you give yourself over to Him. A Christian is someone who's seen Christ and has never been the same since.

36:51 That's a Christian. Seen Christ, has never been the same since. To whom is...

37:01 In the first place, to those to whom God reveals His Son by spiritual illumination. But secondly, it is given to those who are ready to be honest about their sin. Woman, call your husband. You want this water?

37:21 And as we saw this morning, there's no meeting of... without facing head-on the ugly realities of our sin.

37:29 Woman, if you want your soul thirst met, you've got to face the ugly realities of your sin. And I'm not talking about sin in general, woman. I'm talking about your sin in particular. Call your husband.

37:44 Whatever... Before my eyes, I want you to own up to the reality of your sin.

37:59 Let me say by way of application, the water of life will not be given to you as pure gift, except it's given to you in a way in which by the same Spirit who reveals Christ to your heart, you're brought face to face to own up to your sins. You'll never know the water of life until you're ready to be honest about the sin of your life, of your relationships, of your attitudes, the sin in your deeds, the sin in your heart. And I'd be a liar to say that you can have the water of life without facing the reality of your sin. And let me say by way of a little aside, because we do have a number of you in Bible school and seminaries, don't you ever preach a gospel that tells men they can have the gift of the water of life without facing the reality of their sin in deep and thorough repentance? You'll tell them a lie and send them to hell when they were never prepared to receive it. And so this water is given to those to whom God reveals His Son, secondly, those who are ready to face their sin, and thirdly, to those who take hold of it, who appropriate it, to use the words of Jesus, to those who drink it. Look at verse 14.

39:17 Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst. God doesn't drink for you. You've got to drink. Drinking.

39:29 Drinking is an appropriating act. And it's quite appropriate that I should illustrate it right now because I'm thirsty and I need a drink. What is drinking for me right now? It is the appropriating act by which the water that is sufficient for my need but is poor and is presently found within the confines of that pretty glass is taken out of the glass into my system and the water becomes me.

39:58 The water becomes a part of me. It's an appropriating activity and it's many times used as a description of faith. It's trusting in Christ. Faith is casting ourselves upon Christ.

40:15 Faith is following. Faith is drinking. Faith is eating. All descriptions of the activities of this water comes not only to those who are brought to see who Christ is.

40:30 Son of God. Son of man. Savior of the world. Who are not only brought to own up to their sin but who actually appropriate Him to themselves as He is offered in the Gospel.

40:46 Drunk of Christ. Looked upon Him as He is. Say it reverently. Encased in the Gospel.

40:55 As Christ is contained and as this water is contained and said, I will drink it for my soul thirst. You are in Christ. You are left to drink. And He sets Him before you in the Gospel.

41:24 Well then, in the last place, what are the results when men drink of this water of life? Having looked at its source, the Lord Jesus. Having looked at how it comes to us, pure gift. Having considered to whom it is given.

The Results of Drinking the Living Water

41:43 In the last place, what are the results when this water is drunk? Look at verse 14. Whosoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst but the water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water springing up into everlasting or eternal life. Look at the results.

42:05 They are threefold. Number one, present satisfaction. Here it is. Whoever drinks of this water shall begins to drink.

42:18 There is soul satisfaction. And though there is a paradox, he is ever yet ever dissatisfied. The dissatisfaction is not with the source but with the measure to which he is drinking of the source. One source and his only dissatisfaction is that he doesn't drink much.

42:44 Isn't that true of you, Christian? Having drunk of him, you're not well hunting business anymore. Some of you wore out your broke this well into your life. And having drunk of him, you're not well hunting anymore.

43:06 Your only pain is you don't take more of it. You don't take more out of the well that you found. And that's the part that Christ is emphasizing here. Whoever drinks of this water shall never thirst again.

43:17 That is, will never thirst again. He'll have the wholesome thirst after righteousness which alone is the mark of a true believer. The second thing, it's not only present satisfaction, never thirst, but it's inward satisfaction. The well of water, the water that I shall give him, shall be what?

43:40 In him, a well springing up. What a marvelous thing. And I say it reverently that the source of satisfaction takes up his residence in your own bosom. What know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Ghost, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

44:02 And where the Holy Ghost is, Christ is. Hence the Scripture says, Christ in you, the hope of glory. That Christ may dwell in you, in your hearts by faith. So it's not only present satisfaction, it is inward satisfaction.

44:18 As the Psalmist says, all my springs are in thee. But thank God there is a third facet of it. The third result is eternal satisfaction. He now has a well of water springing up from within unto what?

44:34 Eternal life. Once we drink of that water, it's as though there's a transplanted well. That will bubble up into eternity. One of the most beautiful descriptions of the Biblical doctrine of the preservation of the saints to be found anywhere in Scripture.

44:52 Once we've drunk, the issue of that drinking is eternal life. Well of water springing up, no disappointment, coming to try another source, no frustration that somehow this will all peterize. I know now the Scripture says it's but an earnest, a little down payment, a little foretaste of what I shall know in the world to come. How is soul thirst met?

45:21 Jesus tells us in this passage. Negatively, soul thirst is never met by going to the world's wells. And again, I plead with you children and young people, will you not take Christ at His word? And as the devil sets before you a host of monsters and says, come to this well and it will satisfy the well.

45:51 God will bring to remembrance what you heard tonight, that Jesus stands above us and once again cannot satisfy. Thank God there is full satisfaction to be found where not in religion, it's to be found in Christ. Whoever drinks of the water that I shall give, was it given as a gift if you knew the gift? To whom is it given? Those who see Christ for what He is as He's revealed in the Scripture. Those who are willing to be honest about their sin.

46:48 To those who drink of Him. Take Him to Himself. You say, but oh, what a messed up life I've had. I've got to get...

46:56 Who was Jesus talking to? Huh? Was He talking to some sweet little girl who'd come out of the sheltered environment of...

47:04 He was talking to a woman with a pretty messed up life. And He says, woman, you can drink. You can drink. I don't care what your life is.

47:14 I don't care to know the murky details of it. Because the God who knows it in its entirety says, if you knew, He would give even to you. Even to you. For this is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.

47:31 I know God knows about you and tells you to drink. Shouldn't that be the end of the controversy? You talk to me for the next ten hours. You'd only be telling me one part of what God knows about it.

47:50 And the God who knows whoever drinks of this water shall never thirst again. Oh, may you drink. May you drink. May you have direct dealings with Christ and with Christ in His living power through the grace of the Holy Spirit.

48:12 How is soul thirst satisfied? This is how and no other way. May God grant that the Holy Ghost will make this word effectual to cause some of us to drink for the first time of the water that is found in Christ and in Christ alone. Let us pray.