Living Water

John 4:6-15

Intro: This is the familiar story of Jesus and the woman at Jacob’s well. He offered her living water… a well of water springing into everlasting life. In John 7:38 he said, “He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.” This water is available to us all. I say it is:

  1. Proprietary Water: and Jesus is the sole proprietor of it! It is his water… to give to whom he sees fit as he sees fit. Verse 11. Yet he had water that he need not draw for another’s well.
  2. Personal Water: Verse 12 says that Jacob, his family, his descendants, and his cattle all drank from the same well, but Jesus promised the woman in verse 14 a personal well. I am not saying that every man comes up with his own water, but I am saying that you can’t drink from my well! We each get the well of living water from the same source, but it is a personal thing. You will not drink from Grandma or Grandpa’s well. You can’t drink from the preacher’s well. There is no “church” well available. You’ll have to ask for your own, but if you will ask, he will give!
  3. Powerful Water: Satisfies when nothing else can. It quenches the longing of the soul. When all else has been tried and you are still thirsty, there is powerful water that can satisfy the greatest thirst!
  4. Plentiful Water: The well from which this lady drank was one of Jacob’s wells. This was probably a well he inherited from his father Isaac. It may well have been one that he had inherited from Abraham. It might have been one of those wells in Genesis 26 that the Philistines had stopped up with dirt, and Isaac had to dig again the well. But the living water comes from a well that every devil in hell cannot stop up. It will never run dry! There is always enough. Though you may seem to be in a dry place in life… get back to the well. There is plenty of water for the thirsty (Matt 5:8).
  5. Productive Water: v. 28-30. This water makes you want to tell others about him. It will make you productive.

Conclusion: Do you have the water? Have you ever drunk of the water of everlasting life? Do you know what it is to own a living well? Ill: man sees a figure of a man pumping a well for miles as he travels the plain. When he gets to him, it is an artesian well with a statue attached to the self-operating pump. The man was not pumping the well… the well was pumping the man!