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SUNDAY NOVEMBER 1


WATER AND LIFE

READ:
John 4:13-14
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Jesus answered,
"Everyone who
drinks this water
will be thirsty
again, but whoever
drinks the water
I give them will
never thirst."
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As Dave Mueller reached down and turned the handle, water rushed from the spigot into a blue bucket. Around him people applauded. They celebrated as they saw fresh, clean water flowing in their community for the first time. Having a clean source of water was about to change the lives of this group of people in Kenya.

Dave and his wife, Joy, work hard to meet people's needs by bringing them water. But they don't stop with H2O. As they help bring people clean water, they also tell them about Jesus Christ.

Two thousand years ago, a man named Jesus stood at a Samaritan well and talked with a woman who was there to get clean drinking water for her physical health. But Jesus told her that what she needed even more than that was living water for her spiritual health.

As history has marched on and humanity has become more sophisticated, life still filters down to two truths: Without Jesus Christ, the source of living water, we are already dead in our sins.

Water is essential to our existence__both physically with H2O and spiritually with Jesus. Have you tasted of the water of life that Jesus, the savior, provides? _______Dave Brannon

** Thank You, Jesus, for being our living water. Thank You for Your
willingness to die on the cross and for Your power to rise from the dead
in order to provide us that water.
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Only Jesus has the living water to quench our spiritual thirst.

***********************today's Bible Reading __ John 4:1-15************************
1 Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than
John__2 although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. 3 So he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.

4 Now he had to go through Samaria. 5 So he came to a town in Samaria called sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.

7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, "Will you give me a drink?" 8 (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food).

9 The Samaritan woman said to him, "You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?" (for Jews do not associate with samaritans.)

10 Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water."

11 "Sir," the woman said, "you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 12 are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?"

13 Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up t0 eternal life."

15 The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water so that I won't get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water."

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First-century Jews avoided traveling through
Samaria. Making the journey from Galilee to Judea meant crossing
the Jordan River and following the east side before re-crossing
toward Jerusalem to circumvent Samaria. Why? Because Samaritans
were seen as ceremonially unclean. Jesus had no such qualms and
broke tradition to meet a Samaritan woman in need. ____Bill Crowder