God is sovereign. Your Savior is sovereign. He lays down his life when he pleases. Nobody takes my life from me.

He moves through the world at his own back, not anybody else's. And anytime he does anything, he's doing 10 million things in that thing that you don't know

about you may know three five seven and there are seven trillion things he is doing every time he does anything.

What does it mean to follow a Savior who does nothing by accident?

In this episode of Light and Truth, John Piper turns to John 4, 1 to 15, to reveal the gracious

sovereignty of Jesus as he moves through the world to seek worshippers for the Father.

This is the first episode of a new series on Light and Truth titled Christ the Source of Eternal Satisfaction.

This sermon was originally delivered at Bethlehem Baptist Church on June 14th, 2009.

Father in heaven, a fountain is open to us now in this text.

Everybody in this room is thirsty.

Not everybody is drinking from that fountain and finding their thirst stilled there.

So I ask that all of us on all these campuses under this word would have taste buds granted for this living water.

That we would drink to our soul's satisfaction and that we

would magnify Christ as superior over all other treasures.

I ask this in Jesus' name.

Amen.

This story in John 4 about Jesus meeting with the woman, the Samaritan woman at the well,

is filled with wonderful truth about Jesus, and it has woeful truth about us.

And the wonderful truth about Jesus is perfectly suited to give hope to us in our woeful condition.

And therefore, I don't want you to short-circuit the wonders of Jesus by running away from

descriptions in the Bible of your woeful condition. Because the reason the Bible describes us as woeful as we are is so that the water that he gives

and the salvation that he offers would taste as sweet as it really is.

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