Scripture:

John 4:13-15　Jesus answered and said to her, Everyone who drinks of this water shall thirst again, But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall by no means thirst forever; but the water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water gushing up into eternal life. The woman said to Him, Sir, give me this water so that I will not thirst nor come here to draw.

I. Jesus went to Samaria:

  1. Samaria was a place no one cared for. In that place different nationalities and races were interbred and mixed. Thus, they were confused.
  2. The Lord went to Samaria to the well. Water comes out from the well, so it represents something to quench man’s thirst. The problem with the lower class is thirst.

II. The Savior—Jesus—related to the lower class:

  1. The Lord sat by the well and was waiting.
  2. This lower-class woman was confronted by the Lord. Their confrontation was because of the Lord’s waiting; it was not an accident or a coincidence.
  3. The Savior needs the sinner. The sinner needs the Savior. The place where they met was the well. The subject of their conversation was the water, the cure for their thirst.
  4. The position of the lower class as seen in the woman: 1. She is one who has no morality. 2. She is the “scum of the earth.” 3. She is probably not educated. 4. She is probably not too old. 5. She does not fear God.
  5. The higher-class person, Nicodemus, went to find the Lord at night, while the lower-class person came to the Lord in the daytime, at noon.

III.  The realization of her need and knowledge of the Savior:

  1. Jesus asked the woman for some water to drink. Why? He did this to make her aware of her own need so that she might then realize the Savior, Jesus, and His salvation.
  2. The Lord caused her to realize how to know the Savior and how to quench her thirst.

IV. How to meet the need:

  1. The Lord caused her to know her sinfulness. When she saw her need for the living water and also realized that Jesus was the giver of this water, only then did she ask for the water. Then Jesus asked her concerning her husband. “Husband” represented the history of her sinful life.
  2. She talked to the Lord Jesus about worshipping God. The Lord showed her that to really touch God one needs to be in the spirit.

V. The outcome of their conversation—she received the living water:

  1. When the Samaritan woman got the living water, she immediately left her waterpot and departed from the well. From that time on, she never could depend upon her own way to satisfy her thirst.
  2. Because of her past life, the fact that she had become fully satisfied was now a wonderful testimony to Jesus Christ.