Jesus' encounter with the Samaritan woman at Jacob's well demonstrates his divine mission to reach all people, transcending ethnic and religious barriers. Despite the disciples' surprise and the societal divide between Jews and Samaritans, Jesus intentionally engaged the woman, revealing himself as the Christ and leading her to share the good news with her city. This interaction highlights the transformative power of encountering Jesus, prompting immediate evangelism and a deeper understanding of his identity as the Savior of the world. The sermon concludes by emphasizing that true spiritual nourishment comes from doing God's will and participating in the harvest of souls, urging believers to actively share their faith.
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Bible three to the fourth chapter of John. John Gospel chapter four. We try and pick up the thread from the last time we were speaking on this up two weeks ago I believe. We read from verse twenty seven. John four twenty seven. And upon this came his disciples, and marveled that he talked with a woman. Yet no man said, What seekest thou? Or why talkest thou with her? The woman then left her water-pot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men, Come, see a man which told me all things that ever I did.
Is not this the Christ? Then they went out of the city and came unto him. In the meantime, while his disciples... praised him, saying, Master, eat. But he said unto them, I have meat to eat, that ye know not of. Therefore said the disciples one to another, Have any man brought him all to eat? Jesus said unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. Say not ye, there are yet four months, and then come its harvest. Behold, I say unto you, lift up your eyes and look on the field. for they are white already to harvest.
And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathers fruit unto life eternal. That both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. And herein is that saying true, one soweth and another reapeth. I sent you to reap that whereon he bestowed no labor. Other men labored, and ye are entered into their labors. And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman which testifies He told me all that ever I did. So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would carry with them, and he abode there two days. And many more believe because of his own word. And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy sayings, for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.
So we seek God's favor. Blessed God, our Father, we bow before thee now. And thank you for this privilege of meeting in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We pray that this morning thou would magnify him, thy beloved Son. And we pray that we may see no man but Jesus only. And that we might hear thy voice speaking to us. We pray, Lord, that as we go over the scenes of the journey and the ways and the works of thy beloved son, during that short period that he sojourned here on earth, that thou wouldst fill our hearts once more as we gaze at him. Speak to every heart. Thou knowest the need of every heart.
We pray that the need might be met in our Savior's precious name. Amen. Now for those who are here perhaps for the first time, and some who've been away a long time, We have different speakers here on Sunday morning. We like to have consecutive teaching here, Bible teaching, and during our conferences, that's just what we do. We have speakers here that give consecutive teaching from various books of the Bible or various themes of the Bible. And I have been speaking over a period now on the Gospel of John.
I haven't got very far, we're only in the fourth chapter. And during the whole conference season, which is, well, nearly six months, I mean, from the, I think the last time I spoke here about John's Gospel was on the fourteenth of November, and I picked it up again two weeks ago. So there's nearly six months without speaking on this subject. So we have to pick up the threads a little bit, but we did that last time. In John's Gospel, we have the Son of God here on earth. In the beginning was the Word, the Eternal Son. Verse fourteen of the first chapter, the Word became flesh and dwelt among them.
And the Son of God spent thirty-three years on earth. Thirty years of which were spent in obscurity. We know little of what happened. But John tells us of how he was revealed. Or shall I put it better this way, he was introduced to the children of Israel, introduced to Israel by John the Baptist. John the Baptist was the forerunner. And John the Baptist introduced him. He talked about him coming as a king who was going to purge the floor and cleanse everything and destroy and build up a kingdom. But when he ultimately did introduce him, he didn't introduce him as a king.
He introduced him as a lamb. And he said, Behold, the Lamb of God, which takes away the sin of the world. And men gazed upon him. And John's Gospel is in one sense a series, an account of men and women who made the amazing discovery that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. He was the eternal Son, God manifesting the flesh. And people looked at him, and they formed their opinion about him. Now John told us why he wrote this Gospel. He wrote it. He says, I've written this for this one purpose, that he might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing he might have life through his name.
And as we read through the Gospel, you get incidents of men and women who discovered that he was the Son of God. All important things. In fact, life is in that, knowing that he's the Son of God. He that believeth on the Son has life. He that believes not, the Son has not light. I thought it may be interesting this morning just to look at the some of the movements of the Son of God in these early chapters that it might help us to understand a little better the geography of the thing. Some while ago, I've left this service, Martha Kavis, this beautiful set of maps.
You don't use them half enough. The first part of John's Gospel deals with the Lord Jesus somewhere over here on the east side of the River Jordan. Here's the River Jordan. And the Lord is over here in a district called Teriel. This is where he was baptized with John in the River Jordan down here on this side. And then he journeyed from there up into Cana and spent the... Second chapter, second chapter is in Cana of Galilee up here. But down in the second chapter, if you see verse after the wedding and the turning of the water into wine, in verse thirteen of chapter two, it says the Jews crossed over with his hand and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
So he journeyed this way to Jerusalem. You see they came down on the east side of the Jordan, they crossed the Jordan at Jericho, and came up this sea road to Jerusalem. Now, personally, I have done this. I've been down and back through this sea-winding road. Jerusalem is high up, about four thousand feet. Jericho is low down, below sea level. And there is a spot as you go down there, marked on the wall. And it says sea level. Then you go down, down, down. And when you get down in a low... dip in the earth's surface. It's very, very hot. And it was very hot down in Jordan. And very hot down here in the Dead Sea.
I've been all around these parts myself. So the Lord came up to Jerusalem and spent a while in Jerusalem. Now when we get to our... It's there that he met. It's there that he cleansed the temple, you remember. It's there that he met Nicodemus. And when we get to the fourth chapter... We read last time in verse three of the fourth chapter, he left Judea and departed again into Galilee. Now Galilee is up here. Jerusalem is down here.
And it says he must ye go through Samaria. And that's why I put this map here today. Samaria is this spot. Now in the fourth chapter it says the Jews have no dealing with the Samaritan. So if a Jew was going from Jerusalem to Galilee, he'd go down this road over the Jordan, all up this side and all up around here and come to Galilee that way. But it says he must not go through Samaria. He took a straight course. I've made that trip myself from Jerusalem, straight north through Nablus, and his Psycheis well.
I've been there. Psycheis well. And the Lord Jesus came there. The Jews would not go to Samaria, but he went. In his great heart of love, it says he must need go through Samaria. I love the word must. There was a great urge which led the Son of God. Rather than take the ordinary course, he went through Samaria. He must need go to scenario because there was one woman there. There was more than that. There were men and women of the city of Saikah and he wanted to contact him. Now we have said that in our studies of John's Gospel, we've divided John's Gospel into a certain, into certain periods.
There's a man who's written a book, man called Merle Tenney. He's written a very fine book on John's gospel. He gives these divisions, and I'm following them. The first period he calls a period of investigation, a period of consideration when men are considering the Son of God. He's here on earth, and men are looking at him and forming their opinions of him. They don't start fighting him. They don't start quarreling with him. In the first period, the period of consideration, which runs to the end of our fourth chapter, they're considering him, and they're making up their mind what they think.
It says of the Jews, he came to his own, and his own receives him not, they demonetize him. But it does say, as many as received him, to them he gave power to become children of God. So here we are, the Son of God on earth, being rejected by some, being received by others, and those that receive him become children of God. He went to Jerusalem, as he said, and they formed their opinion about it. Nicodemus says this, Thou art a teacher come from God. It must be to do these wonderful miracles. And he talked with the Lord Jesus by night and made up his mind. He doesn't tell us in the third chapter of John that Nicodemus was born again on that occasion.
Personally, I think he was. But we hear him again in the seventh chapter when he did, and we hear him again in the ninth chapter. And in the ninth chapter it was he who took the body of Jesus with Joseph of Arimathea and buried him. So, these people are forming their opinionaries. In our last study, we saw him at Jacob's well. Tired and weary. Midday, the sixth hour, they counted their time. In John's Gospel, they counted the time from six o'clock in the morning. The sixth hour, tired and weary, he sat on the well side.
His disciples went away from the city of Saikah to buy some food. And the Lord Jesus is sitting there waiting. He knew just what would happen. And this woman came out with her picture to draw the water. Now we went over this story last time. And we noted how wonderfully wise the Lord was in dealing with the soul. He wanted to lead this woman to himself. He wanted to reveal himself to this woman. She was a woman who lived a life of a questionable life because he said to her, go and call your husband. She said, I have no husband.
He said, in that sense thou truly, for thou hast had five husbands. And he whom thou now hast is not thy husband. In that sense, thou shalt not. So we need not talk about her character. We can understand what it means. But the Lord revealed himself to her. And the outcome was that in the twenty-sixth verse, in the twenty-fifth verse, she said, I know that Messiah has come. Which is called Christ. When he has come, he will tell us all things. Jesus said unto her, I that speak unto thee am he. I that speak unto thee am he.
Now really, in that twenty-sixth verse, Jesus said unto him, I that speak unto thee am. I am. That's really the word she used. If you notice the pronoun he is in italic, that means it wasn't in the original writing. Now, I am was the covenant title of God. When God appeared to Moses, and Moses said, when I go to the children of Israel and say the God of your fathers has sent me unto them, and they say, well, what's his name?
He said, you tell them, I am, as sent thee unto me. I am. I am with the title of God, Jehovah, the covenant-keeping God of Israel. And when the Lord Jesus said to her, I that speak unto thee, and he was really saved, I am God. I think she understood. When they went to arrest the Lord Jesus in the garden, the garden of Gethsemane, and He said, whom seek ye? They said, Jesus of Nazareth. And he replied, I am. And they fell down as dead men on the ground.
They realized he used the covenant's name of God himself, and they fell down before him. He was God. He was the Son of God here on earth. And this woman, it was suddenly revealed to her the very thing she'd longed. She talked about religion. You worship in this mountain, we worship in that mountain, but suddenly the Messiah. I know Messiah is coming. She said, I am. And she immediately left her water pot. Until then, every day she came out with a water pot. Every day that was one of her chores. One of the things she had to do. That was the... I like the way Paul put it.
You know, the things which are seen are temple. The things which are not seen are eternal. And... Suddenly she left the temple and got connected up with the Eternal. And she left the water. The very thing she'd been talking about, thirst and drinking of this water. And she left the whole thing, something new happened in her life. Some while ago we have our brother and sister, Mr. Hight, she had just come to join us a few weeks ago. And Mr. Wardenberg and I went down to visit them. They lived further down in the state. We were talking to them about the way of salvation and death. I said to Mr. Hice, if you've got any verse in all the Bible you can put on and say, that's mine.
That's how I know I belong to Christ. What do you think he said? Second Corinthians, chapter five, verse seventeen. If any man be in Christ, he's a new creature. All things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new. That's what happened to this woman. all things passed away. She dropped the water pot and the things that had occupied her before, and she had a new occupation altogether. What did she do? It says, the woman left her water pot and went her way into the city and said to the men, come see a man which told me all things that ever I did, is not this the Christ.
think Jim, if you turn number one right off, it'll be better off. I shouldn't have left that. Is not this the Christ? Now here's the proof of her conversion. She immediately wanted to tell somebody else. That's always what happened. When we get saved, the first thing we want to do is go and tell somebody else the way to be saved. I remember reading a story many years ago of a shipwreck in the English Channel. They found a derelict ship tossed on a wave, and they lured a boat, and they rode over, and they climbed up, and searching, they found a man unconscious on the deck, and they brought him back, and rode back to their boat and got him up, and they worked on him, and by and by he opened his eyes.
And what do you think he said? There's another man aboard. There's another man aboard. And they lowered the boat. And they rode. And they found another man on that boat. Now that's the story. When we're saved, the first thing we want to do is go and win somebody else. Our parents, our sons and daughters, our brothers and sisters, we long to bring them to Christ. That's a sign of new birth. That's a sign that we're born again when we have a desire to lead somebody else to Christ. And this woman immediately went off. And she went to the men of the city. I don't suppose the women would have had much to do with her view. I think she was an outcast to them. But she knew the men of the city all right. She'd had five husbands amongst those men. And she went to the very men of the city who'd been her companions in sin.
And she said, Come, be a man that told me all that ever I knew is not this. Now, in the meantime, The disciples came back from the village. They had been to Saikar's village too. What did they go for? Well, as disciples, they should have gone to try and win some men to Christ. I remember the first time I ever heard our brother Harold Wilde speak, he spoke on me. And I remember him saying so well, it was in a place called Blantyre in Scotland, in Lanarkshire, the very spot where David Livingston was born.
And they had the David Livingstone Memorial. I remember hearing him speak one Saturday afternoon in nineteen forty five. And I heard him say this. Those men went to the village and they said, They went to the baker and they went to the butcher and they went to the grocery store and they said, Food, food, we want to fill our tummies, we want food. Give us food, material things. And they came back with their baskets full of food. And they said to the Lord, Master, eat. He said, I got different kind of food to what you think of. Look how it's put. He said in November, verse thirty-two, I have meat to eat that ye know not of.
Ye know not of. All they knew about was the food to fill their tummy. The meat and the bread and the groceries. That's what they knew about. But he said, I've got meat to eat that ye know not of. But here's the contrast that Harold Wiley's brought up, I never forget it. He said, they went to the butcher and said, meet. They went to the baker and said, bread. And a woman went. And she went to the butcher and she said, come see a man. It told me all that ever I knew we've not lived for Christ. She went to the baker and said, come see the Messiah. She went to the grocery store and said, come out and meet the Messiah.
I found a Savior. Come to him. They went to get what they could. She went to bring them to Christ. What a contrast. Oh, may God examine your heart and mind. What a reason. We can be so occupied with the things which are seen, which are temporal. We can be so occupied from Monday morning to Saturday night with all the material things that we haven't got time. We go to the butcher shop, and we go to the grocery shop, and we go to the bakery shop. Oh, if we only had more time to leave, meant to... And they came to him. Now it is in verse... She said in verse twenty-nine, Come see a man which told me all things that ever I did.
He's not this to Christ. Then they went out of the city and came to him. But in the Greek, the word is they were coming to him. They were coming to him. And they didn't actually get to him. They didn't actually get down to verse... So when the Samaritans were come unto him. So the parenthesis there, verses thirty-one, right down to thirty-nine to thirty-seven, is a parenthesis, the Lord talking to his disciples. The men of Samaria were not there at the time. They came in after this talk. And quickly, as they were coming, the Lord knew they were coming. And the Lord said, they talked to the disciples about so many.
He talked about a wonderful harvest. He said, ye say there are four months to harvest. I said, as you lift up your eyes and see, the fields are ripe under harvest. Now, if they were looking at the natural corn in the field, the corn was still green, it wasn't ripe. It was four months yet before it would be waving in the wind that bright, white, lovely yellow corn, four months. But he looked on another harvest. He could see men coming out of Saikah. He could see the men and women of Samaria coming out. And he said, the harvest is plentished. The harvest is ripe. In another case, he said, the laborers are few.
He could see souls. He knew the need of every soul. And as I sometimes say, when we go out in the morning, we don't know just exactly who we're going to meet. Sometimes we get up in the morning and say, Lead me to some soul today. Teach me, Lord, just what you say. Friends of mine are lost in sin and cannot find a way. Take my heart and take my life and give me one soul today. But we don't know who to speak to. But the Lord Jesus up there on the throne of heaven, he does know. He does. I remember on one occasion I was coming back from St. Louis when I was living in Orlando.
And I had to change planes at Atlanta. And I was booked on a plane. I would have to wait about two and a half hours for a connection. And I went to the Eastern Airline counter. And I said, there's another plane earlier. They said, there's one leaving in ten minutes. But I tell them you can get on. But if you go down there, stand by. They may call your name and get you. So I went down. And in a few minutes they said, one more. And I was the next one in order. When I went on that old Constellation plane, you remember the old four prop Constellation, the steward there said, there's just one thing that's there. And I sat down by a sailor. He was coming out of the, he was going back to the naval base at Jacksonville.
And I sat down by him, talked to him, and I said, well, do you like being in the Navy? My boy, he said, well, sure, I'll tell you. He said, I'm going to make myself like you. I've only been in it eight weeks, but I'm going to make myself like you. I said, that's the steward. because I've been in the service six years of my life I spent in the service in the British Royal Air Force in World War one and World War two a total of six years and I said the way to get on in the service is to make his life and I said what I like about the service is I said I'm a Christian and in the service I had a better chance a witness for Christ than I had anywhere else in the world he said should I carry something sir he said I've never been to church in my life.
I was brought up in New York State, and nobody ever took me to church. My parents never took me. I never went to some school. I don't know anything about the things you're talking about. But he said, I've been in the Navy eight weeks, and I've been to church eight Sundays. And he said, I want to know more about it. And out of my blue screen case, I pulled a little copy of John's Gospel, you know, those red copies. I said, I'd like to read this. And I said, It's page five of God's plan for saving sinners. And I read it in detail today. And then I explained how God saved me when I was ten years of age, till John three sixteen, by believing in the Lord Jesus Christ.
And then the lady said, The stewardess brought round some dinner. She gave me my dinner. And he didn't take any. I said, you don't want to eat. He said, well, I had dinner coming down from Washington. I can't do dinner. He said, let me read this book. And I didn't say one more word, but out of the corner of my eye, I watched him. That is, Amudi read John's Gospel, which I always carry when I'm trapped. And I watched him reading. You know, in that section there, page five, where God's way for saving, God's plan for saving sinners, It comes about where you sign your name. I hereby accept the Lord Jesus and sign my name. I didn't say one word, but time went by. I enjoyed my dinner. And then I turned to Jacob his pen and sign his name.
So we had our dinner. I said, well, what have you found out? He said, I think I'm saved. I said, well, that's wonderful. I think I'm saved. Well, I said, what do you say is wonderful, but there's just one thing wrong with it. When you're saved, you don't think you're saved. You know you. He said, well, can you explain that to me? I said, yes. And out of my pocket, I pulled a copy of a New Testament I had in my pocket. I said, now let me read you from another book by John. This is John's epistle. These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God that he may know that he'd have eternal life. And I said, do you really believe that the Lord Jesus died for you? He said, yes.
But I said, this is written to you. These things that I have written to you that believe on the name of the Son of God, that he may, I said, look at it, look at that word, let me read it. He put his finger on it, I said, these things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God, that he may think that he have eternal life. He said, no, sir, it doesn't say think. It says, no, that he may know that he have eternal life. And he got it, you know. He said, have you got another like that for me? I said, I've only got one, but you can have that. So he took my testament off of it. He said, now give me a half a dozen more of those red ones. I can take away and show them my friends in the Navy. So I pulled out Another half a dozen John's Gospels and gave him. And we got to Jacksonville. And I said, I've got about ten, fifteen minutes to say, I'm going to walk right over to you with you.
And I got out of the plane. I had to get back on the same plane, but I walked over. And as we walked over, he said to me, he got my name. He said, Mr. Winnie, I'll tell you something. I don't think I'm safe. I know. I know I'm safe. Now, why do I tell you this? Because God, the Lord Jesus, I found nothing wrong. He knew of one lonely boy that needed salvation. And he directed me to change planes and to get on that standby list and to sit right by his side and show him I'd be saved that night. That's the way to win so. You can't go out in your own strength and say, I'm going to speak to this one or that one. I love the letters we get from our friends in Greece. They say, God led me to a man whom he had prepared for salvation.
That's it. God is working in the heart. God was working in the heart of that woman. God was working in the hearts of these secrets, I got, and brought the Savior right down to the very spot where he could meet and face and face. And these disciples were after meat and bread and groceries. He said, listen, there's a different meat to that. My meat is to do the will of him that sent me and to finish his. Some of us are getting up in years. God saved us many years ago. He gave us work to do. Oh, let's stick to it like the Lord did. My leap is to do the will of Him that sent me and to finish the work.
Let's pack up now because we don't feel as well as we used to or as strong as we used to. Let's keep going on to finish the work. And when our work is finished, you call it to be with Himself. Oh, may God help us. In this soul-winning business, I don't feel we're doing enough of it. that we should get out and contact men. The Lord says, my meat is to do his will. And when he saw the men coming from the village, he said that the harvest is ripe now. The fields are ripe already to harvest. Hearing is this saying true, verse thirty-seven, one saw it and another reaper it.
I sent you to read that whereon he bestowed no labor, other men labored, and ye are entered into their labors. You see, the saving of a soul. If you're going to grow corn, you're going to grow corn in a field. You've got to plow it up and prepare the ground. And then you've got to sow the seed. That's a lot of hard work. And it's going to be tended and watered. And by and by, up comes the grain. Now I don't think salvation is a process.
I don't think salvation is a kind of an evolution. I think salvation is an immediate process. contact with the Son of God. The Apostle Paul was going down to Damascus to put men and women to death who believed in the Lord Jesus. And suddenly, like a flash of light from heaven, the Lord met him. I went one Sunday night and went to the gospel, and suddenly, like a flash of light from heaven, God saved me. When a man called me, John, three-sixteen, and got to the word, Believer, God saved me. That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have ever allowed me to do. That changed my life. That changed the Apostle Paul, right? Ah, but wait a minute. Before God saved me, there were many, many years when God spoke.
I was only a little boy, but from three years of age, God is speaking to me and speaking to me and plowing it up, you know, and sowing the seed and the Spirit of God working and working until it made a life. And he said, I sent you to read that from which he didn't bestow any labor. And many of us know we want to Christ. It wasn't because we wanted to Christ. It's because somebody else had worked on them for years. This one here and that one there. And God in His mercy had let somebody prepare the heart so that, as they said in Greece, God sent me to a man or a woman whom He had prepared for salvation. Beloved, there are many women whom God has prepared for salvation all around us today.
In this day of disappointment. in this day of sin and wickedness and riot and rebellion and all that's going on in the world today. They're aching, aching, hot, prepared for salvation and all the Lord needs for you and me. He's so under His control that He can take it to the right people and bring them to Him. So she, this woman, she went to the men of the city and said, she left her water pot and went her way out of the city and said to the men, come to your man which told me all things that ever I did is not Mr. Christ. Then they went out in the city. Now verse forty.
So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they bestowed him that he would carry with them, and he abode three days, two days. The Jews have no dealings to the Samaritans, and the Jews go straight through. They go all around here. The Lord came straight up here. And he stayed there two days in this place where the others wouldn't go at all. He stayed in the city two days and talked with these people. And it says in verse forty-one, forty-one, many more believe because of his own word. Some believe because of the woman. Now they believe because of his own word.
And said to the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying, for we have heard him ourselves and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world. What a title they gave him, eh? How would they know a title like that? That's what Pharaoh called Joseph, Zaphna's pioneer. In Genesis forty-one, verse forty-five, he called him Zaphna's pioneer. He called Joseph because he was the Savior of the world in his day. By his wisdom, provided food for the years of famine, and Pharaoh called him the Savior of the world.
And these people called the Lord Jesus the Savior of the world. And that's just what he is. And that's why he left those eternal palaces of glory. And that's why the Son, the eternal Word, became flesh and blood among us. And that's why John says, Behold, the name of God, which beareth away the sin of the world, because he's the Savior of the world. And the Lord reveals to himself that he's made our way. I see you again. For the period of consideration, men and women gazing on the Son of God and considering and making up their minds about him. And these made up their minds.
They came to the conclusion. He is the Savior of the world. Well, I wonder what conclusion you have come to. Some of us here have been listening to the gospel for many, many, many years. And I imagine we're all saved here before. Yet it could be, I don't know. It can be, you know, too. Yeah, that's right. Up here, as if we're saved, if we're not. You know, in a case of in my life, the people that passed muster as wonderful Christians, but they've never been saved. Now they say, we have heard Him ourselves and know.
We have heard Him ourselves. It's when we make personal contact with the Son of God. Then we can use this word know and know that this is indeed the Christ. These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God, that he may know that he have eternal life. And John says, I've written this gospel, that he might believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. That's just what they believe. We know this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world. And the Lord Jesus is now amidst this one. And he wants to reveal himself.
to every one of our hearts. If we're not saved, then he wants to reveal himself as the Savior this morning. But if we are, I believe he wants to show us the way to win other men and women to Christ by this simple, wonderful story in the fourth chapter of John's Gospel. Whenever we take up our studies again, in the will of the Lord, we'll go on with the final story in this section, what I've called the period of consideration where the Lord raises the noble man's son, which is the second of the seven miracles which John selected. He selected seven miracles to prove by those signs that Jesus was the Son of God. And so we'll come to that next time in the will of God.
Shall we just commit ourselves to the Lord as we separate? Blessed God, our Father, we thank you together for this wonderful story of thy beloved Son. We thank you for his earthly life of love and meekness and gentleness as he walked around among men. We thank the Lord for the way he dealt with this woman at the well. Not as we would, Lord. We'd be talking about her sin. We'd be condemning her, but he did do that. He had her conscience working. And he revealed himself, that settled everything. I, let you speak unto the MC. Oh, bless you, God, keep your heart now in the closing moments of our meeting.
We realize that there are no less than every waiting show. And we pray, Lord, that we might be this meeting, different men and women willing to go out and work and serve these in the great harvest, this rife, the great field that's rife of the harvest now, men and women, hearts prepared, waiting for someone to bring the way of salvation. We seek God's help, Lord, as we separate in the precious name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. But you don't know, you can't remember. Well, I'll be in here. Don't worry, it's just a little bit more. It's a million.
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Princess Anne, this may be a whistle now. Let me cab before me. If you love me, or if I have always a cheerleader, give me a shout. No, we are.