When you embrace a Savior, when you embrace the Messiah, when you embrace the servant of the Lord,

when you embrace the fulfiller of all the promises, and when he dies for sins and rises again

and justifies sinners and forgives all transgressions.

When you embrace Him, then you can worship and know whom you worship.

So what does it mean to truly worship God?

In this episode of Light and Truth, John Piper turns to John 4, 16 to 30, to reveal how embracing Jesus as Savior transforms worship into a deep, personal encounter with the living God.

This sermon was originally delivered on June 28, 2009.

Father in heaven, we turn to your word. This is why we're here at this point in the service,

is to hear you speak. My voice is of little account if it's at all out of sync with yours.

Bring me now into sync with your holy word and minister life to your people and make those who are not yet yours.

I pray this in Jesusesus name amen so here we are at john chapter four

we're going to cover lord willing some of verses 20 to 26 and oh how much there is in these few verses about the glory of our Savior and our Father in heaven.

So by way of summary, verses 1 to 15 of this story of the woman at the well, by way of summary,

verses 1 to 15, talked about Jesus as the living water.

If you knew who it was, who is speaking to you, you would ask him, and he would give you

living water, and that water would become in you, man, a well of water, welling up, springing

up to eternal life, and she didn't get it at all.

And then last time we looked at verses 16 to 19, where he said, go get your husband.

She said, I don't have one.

He said, you're right, you don't have one.

You've had five, and you're living with your boyfriend and she says you're a prophet and he is indeed a prophet

and he was laying bare her heart which is what prophetic speech does it penetrates through

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