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Praise the Lord. Today's verse is John 4, 14, the second part. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water. Welling up to eternal life.  Jesus not only gives us salvation, but he forgives our sins, and he also gives us power to not to sin again. The water of Salvation becomes in us a spring of water. When a woman was caught in adultery, the Pharisees and others wanted to Stone her. When Jesus said, let the one who have not sinned throw the first stone, everyone left, and Jesus asked, have no one condemned you. She said, no one Lord. Jesus said, neither do I condemn you. And from now on, sin no more. The woman might have looked at him with the question, how will that be possible to live without sin? Jesus said to her, and to them, I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life here. Jesus is saying when we follow him. We will not walk in darkness that is sin. This, we read in. John 8th ch...

Praise the Lord. Today's verse, we will meditate on John 4:14, the first part of it. But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again.  Hallelujah! We will see some of the great truths of these words. So, we will meditate on each word of this verse. The first word, it says "but" this links the hope of this promise to the hopelessness of the previous statement. The previous statement says everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again. It Compares with this physical water to the spiritual water. Why then, all the world did not receive the spiritual drink. The answer is simple man do not want to give up their sin, and they are deceived into believing that by coming to Christ, they will lose their pleasure and gain nothing. They do not realize that they will lose nothing and gain everything. Hallelujah!  The next word, whosoever says, all are lost. Therefore, all can be saved. None are excluded. When Jesus died on Calvar...

Today's verse is from John 4, 13. Jesus said to her, everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again.  Jesus answered and said to her presents him slowly, leading her to the meaning of this great spiritual truth. As Nicodomas in the previous chapter was led to the spiritual truth of being born again. Jesus is leading this Samaritan woman to the spiritual truth of Living Water or the need of Salvation in her life. Nicodomas was highly moral, and this Samaritan was grossly immoral. Yet there was no difference between them. Both were sinners needing the cleansing and salvation of Jesus. You may be very religious, but you need Jesus in your life for your salvation. To Nicodemus, the religious leader Jesus says. You must be born again, but to the Sinner, he slowly leads her to the need of Salvation or the Living Water in a life. Verse 14 says But whoever drinks of this water that I give him shall never thirst. Whosoever drinks of this water will be thirsty again Je...

Praise the Lord. Today's verse is from John 4 12.  Are you greater than our Father Jacob? He gave us the well, and drank from it himself, and did his sons and his livestock,  In this question concerning Jacob we observe the claims of the Samaritans, to be the descendant of Abraham, the son of Isaac and actually of Jacob himself who have dug the well. Jacob always seems to be running from someone or something, from Euso his brother, who wanted to kill him, then from Labon his father-in-law. And from the famine in Canaan, he flew to Egypt with his family. When he was fleeing from Esuo, he saw in a vision a ladder and in a vision the Majesty and the glory of God. At Bethel, when he saw God, he worshiped God and woke to take Yahweh as his God at panel, while he was returning back from the his father-in-law Leban Jacob Resseled face to face with God, he taught him the value of continued prayer from one who is helpless Jacob emerged from paniel willing to let his life fa...

Praise the Lord. Today's verse is from John 4:11  The woman said to him sir you have nothing to draw water with and the well is deep. Where do you get the living water? Jesus was speaking of spiritual things, but the woman was thinking in material terms. In chapter 3 of John, We saw Jesus speaking to Nicodemus of born again, experience and he took it in the material sense. How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?  Usually The Travelers carry a bucket and a rope to draw water, but the woman says, you don't have anything to draw water. Then she asks, Jesus, this questions, where do you get the living water. Today also, millions are asking where do you get the living water? They might not ask the same question. They might be asking, where do I get mukti? Where did I get Shanti? In fact, thay are asking where do I get salvation? Or they are saying, what shall I do to be saved? Many are doing many things to...

Praise the Lord. Today's verse is John 4, 10, Jesus answered her. If you knew the gift of God, And who it is that is saying to you give me a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living Waters.  Hallelujah. What is the gift of God to men? It is the salvation of our soul by which we have the eternal life. Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.  This gift is a free gift to us, but for Jesus, he had to pay a costly prize. First Peter, 1 18, and 19 says, knowing that you were ramsomed from the futile way inherited from your fathers, not with perishable things, such as silver or gold. But with the precious Blood of Christ like that of a lamb without blemish.  Jesus is saying to the woman if you knew who it is, that is saying to you to give me a drink. At that time, she did not know who Jesus was though, later she knew. In John 1 1, it says, in the beginning of the word and ...

Praise the Lord. Today's verse is John 4 9. The Samaritan woman said to him. How is it that you a Jew, Ask for a drink from me a woman of Samaria. For the Jews had no dealings with Samaritans.  This Samaritan woman was astonished to have a Jew asking for water from her because she was a woman and also, she is a Samaritan. The Jews have no dealings with Samaritans, this we have already discussed about it. At first, to this woman, Jesus was simply a thirsty, Jew, asking her for water, but as the story unfolds, we see her understanding of who he is, is developing First, as the one who makes great promises Jesus promised her the Living Water. Then acknowledges him as a prophet in verse 19. It says I perceive that you are a prophet. And finally, she knew him as the Messiah, the savior, the savior of this world, the Redeemer of this world and that is in verse 25, 26 and 29. Increasing understanding of who Christ is, this is a common experience for all believers because it...

Praise the lord today's verses from John 4 and verse 8 . Disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.  The disciples of Jesus had gone to the samaritan city to buy food something is beginning to happen to them before they had met Jesus it was entirely unlikely that they would even talk to Samaritans but today they have gone to buy food from the samaritan's market. There is a change in the disciples. The barrier of cast is going down today.  We see the lives of millions changed when they had come to Jesus. People who had been addicted to alcohol and drugs have been changed.  The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 5:17-18. [17] Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. [18] All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation;  Have you life been changed by Jesus today? Isaiah 43:18-19 ESV [18] “Remember not the former things, nor consid...

Praise the Lord. Today's verse is from John 4:7. A woman from Samaria. Came to draw water. Jesus said to her, give me a drink.  Jesus, the creator of universe and the judge of all, man meets one of the wildest of Sinners. But he is there not to condemn her but to seek and to save. Here we see Jesus as the barrier Breaker. As we have seen before the Jews, hate the Samaritans, the Jewish Samaritan hatred had been for more than 400 years. The Samaritan woman was astonished that Jesus a Jew should speak to her a Samaritan. But there is still another way in which Jesus was breaking down the barriers. This Samaritan was a woman, a strict Rabbi for been forbidden even to greet a woman in public. He Might not even speak to his own wife or his daughter or his sister in public. To be seen speaking to a woman in public, was the end of his reputation and, Jesus spoke to the woman. Not only the she was a woman but she was a woman of notorious character. And Jesus spoke to her. Here...

Praise the Lord. Today's verse is from John 4, 6.  Jacob's, well was there, So Jesus waried as he was from his journey was sitting beside the well, it was about the sixth hour.  Jacob's. Well, was there, there is no reference in the Old Testament about this Well, Even today, this place and the well is a pilgrim spot in the Palestine city of neblus in the West Bank. The well currently situated inside an Eastern Orthodox Church and a monastery. Jesus was waried because of his journey as it was the sixth hour sixth hour is 12 noon according to our time because Jewish time starts at 6 00, am in the morning. Jesus, sat by the side of the Well, exhausted by the journey. It was very significant that John who stresses the deity of Jesus Christ more than any other. The gospel writers also stresses the humanity to the fullness. Does not show us a figure freed from the tirelessness and the struggles of humanity. Jesus was God, but at the same time, human. He was thirsty. H...

Praise the Lord. Today's verse is from John 4 5. As he came to the town of Samaria. Called sychar near the field that Jacob had given to his son, Joseph. Hallelujah,! In this verse, we see that John the author of this book, had an accurate knowledge of the land of Israel,  And also he knew the history of that land. In Genesis 33:19. We see that when Jacob came back to the land of Israel from the house of Leban His uncle, he brought This place for a hundred pieces of silver. It was called the city of Sheikhim. In Genesis 48:22. Jacob says he had given Joseph one portion above all his brother. In Genesis 50:25. Then Joseph took an oath from the children of Israel saying, God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here. We see the hope and the confidence Joseph had that Israel People will go back to their land which happened through the hand of Moses. Joseph knew the promise that God had made to Abraham to Isaac and to his father, Jacob Concerning the ...

Praise the Lord. Today's verse is from John 4 verse 3 and 4. He left Judea and departed again for Galilee and he had to pass through Samaria.  Jesus departed from Judea, which was the south of Israel and departed to Galilee. And Samaria was in between Judea and Galilee. And he had to pass through Samaria to understand this, We had to know the background of Samaria. The Jews did not consider the Samaritans to be true Israelitis. But rather a mixture of Gentiles and Jews, which was unacceptable. Consequently, there is a tremendous rivalry between these people with a greater amount seeming to be in the part of Jews, and the Jews hated the Samaritans. Israel was divided as Southern Kingdom, which is Judea and Northern Kingdom, which was Israel after the King Solomon. The origin of Samaritans came about after the defeat of the northern kingdom of Israel by the Assrian Empire. We read about it in second Kings 17th chapter with the Gentiles, taking many Jews captive, at that t...

Praise the Lord. Today's verse is from John 4th chapter verses one and two we have started the fourth chapter today. Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees have heard that Jesus was baptizing more disciples than John, although Jesus himself did not baptize but only his disciples.  In this verse we again see about baptism Jesus and his disciples along with John was baptizing in the same place. It is not written whether Jesus and his disciples followed the baptism of John. We do not know. The difference between John's baptism and the Christian baptism is given clearly in the Bible. In Acts 19:3 and 4, we read unto what where you baptized? And they said " unto John's baptism". Then Paul said, John verily, baptized with the baptism of repentance saying unto the people they that they should believe on Jesus Christ who To come after him. John was preparing a people for Jesus coming. And they repented of their sins and were baptized to show that they were repented. Je...

Praise the Lord. Today's verse is from John 3:36.  Whoever believes in the son has eternal life. Whoever does not obey the son shall not see life but the wrath of God remains in him.  What a beautiful promise. And also, we see that it also says about the condemnation of those who does not believe in Jesus. The message was told by John the Baptist. Jesus also said the same thing in John 3 16 whoever believes in him that is Jesus shall not perish but have eternal life. In verse 18, Jesus says, he who does not believe has been judged already because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten, Son of God. Whoever does not obey the son shall not see life refers believing as far more than mere mental acceptance, but rather obedience as well. The life here addressed is the life of God, which is imparted to all True believers. Every person in the world knows in his heart, that there is a life after death. Some people call it as mukti or some say to attain Shanti ...