Changed in His Presence - Sam Hinn

CHANGED IN HIS PRESENCE
gone away into the city to buy food (John 4:4-
8).
It's important to understand the city of
Samaria. It was known as a city of drunkenness,
a place of reproach. Jews only went there for
buying and selling. I believe the only reason
Jesus went to this city was to meet the woman
by the well.
This woman came to the well to draw water.
The desert is very hot around noon, and she had
a natural need for some water to drink. So did
Jesus, and He asked her to give Him some water
also. The woman said to Him, "How is it that
You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a
Samaritan, for Jews have no dealings with
Samaritans?"
Jesus replied, "If you knew the gift of God,
and who it is who says to you, 'Give Me a drink,'
You would have asked Him, and He would have
given you living water."
The woman told Jesus she wanted this living
water, but she was skeptical about His ability to
supply it. Her question shows she was stuck in
her traditions. She asked, "Are you greater than
our father Jacob, who gave us this well, and
drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his
livestock?"
Jesus answered and said to her, "Whoever
drinks of this water will thirst again. But
whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him
will never thirst. But the water that I shall give
will become in him a fountain of water springing
up into everlasting life."
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