Changed in His Presence - Sam Hinn
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CHANGED IN HIS PRESENCE<br />
gone away <strong>in</strong>to the city to buy food (John 4:4-<br />
8).<br />
It's important to understand the city of<br />
<strong>Sam</strong>aria. It was known as a city of drunkenness,<br />
a place of reproach. Jews only went there for<br />
buy<strong>in</strong>g and sell<strong>in</strong>g. I believe the only reason<br />
Jesus went to this city was to meet the woman<br />
by the well.<br />
This woman came to the well to draw water.<br />
The desert is very hot around noon, and she had<br />
a natural need for some water to dr<strong>in</strong>k. So did<br />
Jesus, and He asked her to give Him some water<br />
also. The woman said to Him, "How is it that<br />
You, be<strong>in</strong>g a Jew, ask a dr<strong>in</strong>k from me, a<br />
<strong>Sam</strong>aritan, for Jews have no deal<strong>in</strong>gs with<br />
<strong>Sam</strong>aritans?"<br />
Jesus replied, "If you knew the gift of God,<br />
and who it is who says to you, 'Give Me a dr<strong>in</strong>k,'<br />
You would have asked Him, and He would have<br />
given you liv<strong>in</strong>g water."<br />
The woman told Jesus she wanted this liv<strong>in</strong>g<br />
water, but she was skeptical about <strong>His</strong> ability to<br />
supply it. Her question shows she was stuck <strong>in</strong><br />
her traditions. She asked, "Are you greater than<br />
our father Jacob, who gave us this well, and<br />
drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his<br />
livestock?"<br />
Jesus answered and said to her, "Whoever<br />
dr<strong>in</strong>ks of this water will thirst aga<strong>in</strong>. But<br />
whoever dr<strong>in</strong>ks of the water that I shall give him<br />
will never thirst. But the water that I shall give<br />
will become <strong>in</strong> him a founta<strong>in</strong> of water spr<strong>in</strong>g<strong>in</strong>g<br />
up <strong>in</strong>to everlast<strong>in</strong>g life."<br />
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