Satisfy The Soul 11.02.08

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Today we are continuing our studies on the book of John, please read Chapters 4-5 in your Bible or you can Click Here to read them online. Id the link does not work you can copy and paste this link to your browser: biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%204-5&version=9

Today we will read about Jesus and the Samaritan woman; Jesus' miracles of healing; and Jesus answering the Jews questions. Today's message focuses on the importance of realizing that the only place of true satisfaction is in Christ. The things of the world are only temporal and always leaves us thirsty for more, but Jesus is the living water that that satisfies the soul.

As Jesus and His disciples made their way into Galilee they can through a city named Samaria. While the disciples went into the village to buy food Jesus sat down at Jacob's well. "When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, (Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,) He left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee. And he must needs go through Samaria. Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour." (John 4:1-6).

All Samaritan's were despised by the Jews, which is why a woman who approached the well was quite surprised that Jesus asked her for a drink of water. "There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink. (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.) Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans." (4:7-9).

Jesus continued talking to her, showing her that He was not prejudice. "Jesus answered and said unto her, 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." (4:10). It was no doubt that this woman was astonished by His words revealing Himself as the fulfillment of her great spiritual need, for she was thirsty for something that neither her religion nor the world could satisfy.

The person who continues drinking from the wells of temporal satisfactions will thirst again, they do not satisfy and they never can. The living presence of the Savior in the hearts of all who trust in Him continually satisfies the longings of the soul.

The sheep gate where lambs were bought for sacrifice was located at the northeast area of the Temple court in Jerusalem. It was believed that the first to enter the pool of water after an angel stirred up the water would be cured. Jesus approached this crowd of helpless sufferers, but no one recognized who He was. "Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had." (5:2-4).

In this crowd of helpless people was a certain man who could not walk, when this man expressed his hopelessness, Jesus looked beyond the man's physical problem and asked him to do something about it. "And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years. When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole? The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me. Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk. And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath." (5:5-9).

Like this man, anyone who has not trusted in Christ is spiritually helpless. We should be eternally grateful that Jesus did not pass us by, but asked us if we also wanted to be made whole. Jesus cares for the most helpless because He desires that all will recognize Him as Savior and Lord. The helpless includes popular athletes, intellectual leaders such as Nicodemus, pitiful prostitutes like the woman at the well, or any other lost person on the earth.

Today's Prayer:
Dear Lord,
How grateful we are for those who've gone before us showing us the way. They not only instructed us in the ways of the Lord but they lived exemplary lives so that we could see faith in action. We're grateful for their positive examples in our spiritual journey. We even pause to think of those who have taken a wrong direction only to turn away from all they held dear at one time. Would You remind us of the serious consequences of their sinful choices when we're tempted to do the same. We lift those people before You asking the Holy Spirit to convict and guide them back to the Way, the Truth and the Life. In Jesus' name......Amen.

Have a wonderful day and week.
God bless,
Christina

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