The following sermon is by John MacArthur, pastor, author, and Bible teacher with Grace to You.

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And now unleashing God's truth one verse at a time.

Here is Grace to you Bible teacher John MacArthur.

Let's open the Word of God to John chapter four.

John chapter four, we started talking about acceptable worship last Sunday morning, and I want

to complete that this morning before we gather around the Lord's table.

John chapter 4, and I just want to read from verse 20 through 24.

This is a conversation Jesus is having with a Samaritan woman.

And he confronts her with her sin.

As you know, they meet at a well and she's coming to get water and he talks about the

water of life which will eliminate

any spiritual thirst forever and they're having this conversation.

And it comes down to the fact that she is told by our Lord that she is living in sin.

Without knowing her, he knows she's had many husbands and she's now living in adultery with

a man who's not her husband.

She is an outcast as a Samaritan and she's even more an outcast as a harlot.

So he's having this conversation with this woman, and he talks about living water and

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