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Let me add my welcome to those of you who are at the Mountainsview campus and the downtown campus and the South campus. May the Lord by his spirit and

through his word reveal his son to you and may that be the means of great grace

coming into our lives.

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 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. That's the main reason why we're

described in the bleak conditions that we are and we really are in a difficult position.

Ma'am, I have living water for you but you don't have a bucket that's us.

us.

us. Now the wonderful truth that I want you to see about Jesus in verses 1 to 15, is

number one, his gracious purposefulness, that he's graciously

purposeful, number two, that he's graciously relational and number three that he's graciously

superior. Purposeful relational superior and the reason I repeat the word

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