people are undependable and they may love you today but they don't tomorrow or they may be happy

right now and they'll give you a dirty look 10 minutes from now that hurts your feelings.

But God is absolutely stable and His love fills our heart like no one else.

Hi, I'm Jimmy Evans, co-host of the Marriage Today podcast. Today we have a great teaching for

you that I pray grows your marriage and blesses you as you seek to center your marriage on Christ.

Be sure to subscribe to this podcast channel to be notified of every new show. God bless you.

This is something that we need to know if we don't know anything else about the subject of

marriage. And this is John chapter 4. Let me give you a little background on the story. We're

about to read from the Bible here. This is a Samaritan woman who's been married five times

and Jews hated Samaritans. They were half-rejuiced. They had a synchretic type of a faith which was,

you know, part Judaism and part something else and the Jews hated them for that. And so they

wouldn't have anything to do with them. And you have to remember that women were chattel,

not cattle, chattel. In society they were owned. Men control society. So a woman was lower than a man

and a Samaritan was hated by the Jews. So Jesus, a Jewish man, is about to walk up and talk to a

Samaritan woman, which was highly unusual, especially because she was an outcast in her community.

She had been married five times and now she was living with, she was cohabiting. She was shacking

up with a guy. And so a lot of times we read this story in different contexts, but I want you to

read it in the context of marriage. Jesus knows this woman is desperately hurting in the area

of her relationships and her marriages. And he's walking up to give her the answer, the answer.

And it's not difficult. It's not complicated. And that's what I love about God. I'm thankful that

the answer is not difficult or complicated. We can find the answers that we're looking for in

life from God and they're simple in him. And they're profound because they deal with all of our

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