The
Pharisees heard that Jesus was gaining
And
baptizing more disciples than John,
Although
in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but His disciples.
When
the Lord learned of this,
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 the sixth hour.
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 by 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 Samaritan.)
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 flocks and herds?'
Jesus
answered,
'Everyone
who drinks this water will be thirsty again,
But
whoever drinks the Water I give him will NEVER thirst .
Indeed,
the Water I give him will become in him a Spring of Water
Welling
up to Eternal LIFE.
The
woman said to him,
'Sir
give me this water so that I won't get thirsty
And
have t keep coming here to draw water.'
He
told her. 'Go, call your husband and come back.'
'I
have no husband,' she replied.
Jesus
said to her, 'You are right when you say you have no husband.
The
fact is, that you have had five husbands,
And
the man you now have is not your husband.
What
you have just said is quite true.'
'Sir,'
the woman said, 'I can see that you are a prophet.
Our
fathers worshiped on this mountain,
But
you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.'
Jesus
declared, 'Believe Me, woman, a time is coming
When
you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in
Jerusalem.
You
Samaritans worship what you do not know;
We
worship what we do know, for SALVATION is from the Jews.
Yet
a Time is Coming and has now come
When
the True Worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and in TRUTH,
For
they are the kind of worshipers the Father SEEKS.
God
is Spirit, and His worshipers MUST worship in Spirit and in TRUTH.
The
woman said, 'I know that Messiah' (called Christ)' is coming.
When
He comes, He will explain EVERYTHING to us.'
Then
Jesus declared, 'I Who speak to you AM He.' (John
4:1-26)
It
is interesting that Jesus reveals the deepest reality in God
To
this Samaritan woman he had just met.
The
reality that there is a GIFT
of God;
the ULTIMATE Gift God has to give:
Living
Water, the Holy Spirit indwelling the BELEIVER,
Welling
up to Eternal LIFE.
That
those who receive this GIFT
Will
be able to worship God, in and through this GIFT, the Holy Spirit.
Listen
to Christ Jesus speak of this GIFT again:
'If
any man is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.
Whoever
BELIEVES in Me, as the Scripture has said,
Streams
of Living Water will flow from within him.'
By
this He meant the Spirit
Who
those who believed in Him were later to receive.
Up
to that time the Spirit had not been given
Since
Jesus had no yet been glorified. (John 7:37-39)
[When
was the Spirit given? At Pentecost!] Listen again:
He
said to me [John]:
“It is done. I AM the Alpha and the Omega,
The
Beginning and the End.
To
him who is thirsty I will give to drink without cost
From
The Spring of the Water of LIFE.
He
who OVERCOMES will inherit ALL this,
And
I will be his God and he will be My son. (Revelation 21:6-7)
Listen
again:
The
Spirit and the Bride say, 'Come!'
And
let him who hears say, 'Come!'
Whoever
is thirsty let him come;
And
whoever wishes, let him take The Free GIFT of The Water of LIFE.
Those
who OVERCOME
Will
inherit The Free GIFT the Water of LIFE, FOREVER.
Those
who ask for and experience their Personal Day of Pentecost
Will
receive the GIFT of God, the Living Water, the Water of LIFE
In
the here and NOW.
It
is the Spirit of God living in and through us that enables us to
OVERCOME
This
wicked world and Satan who rules it.
I
pray that those who read this
message
Have
received their personal Day of Pentecost;
That
they have received The GIFT of God,
And
that Christ is living in and through them, enabling them to OVERCOME.
Today,
the world is raging against God, rushing toward oblivion. (Psalm 2)
America
is being ground to powder because of her SIN against God.
Save
yourself from this Corrupt Generation! (Acts 2:40)
As
God has written, so shall it be! Hallelujah! Maranatha!
Father,
Your Kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as in Heaven!
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