LivingTruth.xyz Sermon Podcast of Kevin Pierpont

What the woman at the well needed is what we all need. For forgiveness of sins and real life we need life-giving water. We need living water. This woman couldn't quench her own thirst, thirst for happiness, and joy. She needed the indwelling work of the Holy Spirit for that. She needed Jesus for that, and so do we.

Will you say with John the Baptist, "He must increase, but I must decrease"? It will take humility. A humility that shows itself in a total yielding to God’s will, a recognition that any success in ministry you see is not your own, a joy that's found in Jesus being magnified.

When people see your life does it point them to Jesus, do they actually get to see the One who gives eternal life, or do they only see you? 

The message for us from this passage at Easter and every other day of the year is that God loves sinners so much that He sent His one and only Son, to live a sinless life, to go to the cross for our sins, and to die for them, and to be buried and then rise from the dead on the third day so that whoever believes would be saved from their sins. 

There are powerful truths shown us in the Bible that remind us of all that’s true for every person who looks to Jesus Christ in faith. These are truths that exist because Jesus willingly went to the cross and they are true for all who believe in Him.

Nicodemus didn’t understand it when he first enquired of Jesus but it wasn’t more religion he needed. What he needed was to believe in Jesus. It’s the problem every sinner has. It’s not being better, kinder, or more religious that makes you right with God. What makes you right with God is believing in Jesus.

How can you know you have been born again? The Bible gives clear instruction to believers pointing to the evidence that will be apparent in the lives of believers in Jesus, people who are born again.