Shalom, everyone. We are studying together today the Gospel of John. Yohanan is an important Gospel, and we have arrived today for this ministry to the fourth chapter of the Gospel of John. Very interesting chapter, beloved brothers and sisters. And this chapter specifically deals with the person of the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, as he ministered to a variety of people. You know, the Lord Jesus, the Lord Yeshua, always sought to minister to people. People like you, people like me, Jewish, Gentiles, people around the world. If he would have been here today, he would love to minister to them all. Of course, today he ministered to the nations of the world through his servants.

But in the days in which he was here some 2,000 years ago, he ministered specifically among the people of Israel. But you can see in this fourth chapter that he was also ministering to the Samaritans, especially one individual person, the Samaritan woman. I would like to read the first 15 verses in this ministry meeting today. So will you please open your Bible to John, Yohanan, chapter 4, verses 1 to 15. And we read: When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Yeshua made and baptized more disciples than John, though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples, He left Judea and departed again into Galilee. And he must need go through Samaria, Shomron.

Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Syker, or Shechem, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus, therefore, being wearied with his journey, set thus on the well. And it was about the sixth hour. Verse 7 says: There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus says unto her: Give me to drink. For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat, or to buy food. Then says the woman of Samaria unto him: How is it that thou, being a Jew, ask drink of me which am a woman of Samaria?

For the Jews have no dealing with the Samaritans. Yeshua answered and said unto her: If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that sayest unto thee: Give me to drink, thou wouldst have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. The woman says unto him: Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with. And a well is deep. And a well is deep. For whence then hast thou that living water? Are thou greater than our father Yaakov, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle? Jesus answered and said unto her: Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again.

But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst. But the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water, springing up into everlasting life. The woman saith unto him: Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw. And I am going to stop here in verse 15 of this fourth chapter of the Gospel of John. Very beautiful chapter, because in this chapter, beloved brothers and sisters and dear friends, we find out that the Lord Yeshua the Messiah is ministering to various kind of people. Variety of people, different people. And imagine how he delights so much to minister to all people.

The reason that he came, according to the Gospel of John, he came to do the will of the one that sent him. You remember, we already dealt with it in chapter 3, and verse 33 and 34. What we have already read in the earliest chapter, that the reason that he came, even earlier, he come from above, he is above all. And the reason that he came down, he is to give testimony to who he is. That's the reason that the Lord Jesus the Messiah came to this world. In fact, we have already read in John chapter 3 and verse 16, that God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son.

That's why he came. He was sent to this world in order to provide salvation for mankind. You remember that the theme of the Gospel of John is that the Lord Jesus the Messiah, presented here by the apostle, Yohanan, John, as the person who is divine. He is God the Son. In the beginning was the word, the word was with God, and the word was God. All things were made by him, and without him nothing was made which was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of man. He was the one, in him was life, in him was life, and the life was the light of man.

And so the reason that he came is in order to give light to mankind. In John chapter 20, as we usually read this verse, in the study of the Gospel of John, we read that these things that are written in this Gospel of John are written that ye might believe that Yeshua is the Messiah, that Jesus is the Christ, and that he is the Son of God, and that believing ye might have life through his name. That's the reason that the Lord Jesus the Messiah came to this world. Well, this long chapter of 54 verses presents before us the Lord himself as he ministering to the Samaritan woman, verses 1 to 30, to his own disciples, verses 31 to 38, to the people of Samaria, verses 39 to 42, and to the nobleman and his household, in verses 43 to 54.

You see how the Lord, in his life here, during his walk upon the face of this earth, especially in his ministry, in the three and a half years of his public ministry, he is ministering to various groups of people, especially within the people of Israel, but also to the Samaritans as well, to the noblemen and others that were here upon the face of this earth. So, all those that were confronted by him had one thing in common when they have ended their deliberation with him. They all eventually, you can see, needed to come to faith in the Lord Jesus the Messiah. And so here, beloved friend, in this, the first 15 verses of John chapter 4, we find out, first of all, in the first three verses, that Yeshua departed from Judea to go towards the Galil, from Yehudah to the Galil, from the center of Israel, from Jerusalem and the center of Israel to the north part of Israel.

If you remember, he lived in Nazareth, he ministered in the Galil, in Cana of Galilee and in the surrounding area around the Sea of Galilee, around the Kinneret. So now he's heading towards the north in the land of Israel. It says in verse 1 of chapter 4, "When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, though Jesus himself baptized not but his disciples, he left Judea and he departed again into the Galil, into Galilee." The first three verses shows us the very fact that the Lord Jesus was now moving forward back to the Galil. You remember, we read that he was already in Cana of Galilee.

He came down to Jerusalem, to the temple in chapter 2. He spent some time in Judea. Now he's moving back to the Galil and he is now on the way. We have already have learned that he was baptizing, according to verse 1, that he baptized, but actually it was not he who did the baptism, but his disciples. We did read in verse 1 here that the Pharisees heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John. Now this is very important because the Pharisees did not believe the testimony that John gave to the fact that Yeshua was the Lamb of God. The Pharisees also opposed earlier John the baptizer.

That's why he had to confront them. He said to them, "Repent! The kingdom of heaven is at hand!" The Pharisees, the spiritual leaders of Israel, did not recognize that Yeshua, Jesus, was the Messiah. That's why John challenged them. And so they confronted Yohanan, John. But now, after John presented Yeshua, Jesus, as the Lamb of God, one of the Pharisees have heard that the Lord, Yeshua, Jesus himself, baptized him. Even more people followed after him. Even though Yeshua himself did not do the actual baptism, this is very important because he used his disciples, his followers, were called the Eshlichim, the apostles, they were used by him to baptize those that came.

Now remember that this baptism, this Tvila in Hebrew, or Mikva, it's not what is known to us today, believers' baptism, or we could call it today, Meshichim, the baptism of the, of Christian baptism, or Messianic baptism, as we call it today. Why? Because the church was not yet born. The baptism that we find here in John 4 verses 1 and 2 has to do with the baptism of repentance. The kingdom of heaven is at hand. The Jewish people needed to repent because the Messiah was there, and there was an anticipation of the kingdom of heaven to be established. But, as we know, Israel did not accept Yeshua as the Messiah, and the kingdom was postponed to the second coming of the Messiah, and the church will be born, the assembly will be born in Acts chapter 2.

So the baptism here is not what we call Christian baptism, or Messianic baptism, but it is called here, or we know it, as to be the baptism of repentance. Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. So he departed from Judea, he left, Yeshua left Judea, and he departed again to the Galil, to Galilee. The three verses of John chapter 4. Now, if you remember, if you go back to verse 25 of chapter 3, there we read, then there arose a question between John's disciples and the Jews about purifying, and you remember there was this issue of purifying and purification and washing, various way of washing and so on, and the issue of baptism and water purifying with a question that rise up in days of old, rising up today.

And so, we understand from this text, it was simply a baptism unto repentance, preparing the way of the Lord. Now, beloved brothers and sisters, from verse 4 on, actually from verse 4 all the way to verse 30, we have the communication of our Lord Jesus the Messiah with the Samaritan woman. Here we find the Lord Jesus the Messiah communicating with one person, which is that woman of Samaritan. This is a very, very interesting passage for us to look into. We read, first of all, in verse 4, 5, and 6, how Yeshua arrived to Samaria. In Hebrew, the word is Shomron. The Shomron is actually the present day, what is called today the West Bank.

It is on the west side of the Jordan River. But it's actually the Shomron. It is the land that was part of the land that belonged to the tribes of Israel in days of old. But because Israel was divided into two kingdoms, the northern kingdom and the southern kingdom were divided. And as we're going to learn here in this passage, how the northern kingdom had to be disciplined by God. But let me just read verse 4. In verse 4 we read, Must, need, go through Samaria. Very interesting. The word here, must, need, go through Samaria. It's kind of interesting because the word must is found a few times, beloved brothers and sisters, in the whole book of John.

Actually, it's found in the Gospel of Matthew as well. The word for must, a very interesting word in the Greek. It simply means it was the right thing to do. It was the right thing to do because he had a plan. He had a meeting that he had to do in his, by divine design, by his wisdom and purpose of the Lord Jesus, the Messiah. It was the right thing for him to do. He must go because he has an appointment to keep. So we read, he must need to go through Samaria. If you turn back to chapter 3 and verse 7, there we read, Marvel not that I say unto thee, ye must be born again.

It's the right thing. You need to be born again. Jesus the Messiah said to Nicodemus, you must be born again. In verse 13 of chapter 3, no man has ascended up into heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the son of man which is in heaven. And you notice this interesting passage because in verse 13, we read, no man has ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the son of man which is in heaven. verse 14, as Moses lifted up his serpent in the wilderness, even so must the son of man be lifted up. Here's the word must again. He must be lifted up because unless he was going to die, be lifted up on that cross, on the Roman cross, there would never be any opportunity for sinners to be saved.

In John 3 verse 30, John the baptizer said, he must increase and I must decrease. If John and any servant of God is going to be fruitful for God, he must decrease. And the Lord Jesus the Messiah must increase. That's the principle that the word of God teaches us. So in John 4, in verse 4, we learn that he must need go through Samaria. Now to remind you, a beloved friend, that it is very important to understand the history of the Samaritans. The history of the Samaritan. In about the year 930 BC, the king of Israel, Shlomo Solomon died. If you remember, he was not like his father David. His father David, though he failed, but his father David was a man after God's own heart.

David was the king of Israel, not because Israel chose him, but God chose David to become the king of Israel. But Solomon, his son, failed. He began good, but later on he failed. And if you remember, he had 700 wives, 300 concubines. He turned away from the Lord, and he ended up worshiping other gods. In 2nd Chronicles chapter 7, we read the warning that the Lord gave to Solomon. In chapter 7 of 2nd Chronicles, verse 17, we read, "And as for thee, God said to Solomon, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee, and shall observe my statutes and my judgment," God said to Solomon, "Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom according, as I have covenanted with David thy father, saying, there shall not fail thee a man to be ruler over Israel." God made his promise to Solomon.

He continued in verse 19, "But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes, and my covenants which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods and worship them, then I will pluck them up by the roots, out of my land which I have given them. And this house which I have sanctified for my name, I will cast out of my sight and I will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations." And so, beloved brothers and sisters, this is exactly what happened. In 930 B.C. In 930 B.C. King Solomon have died. But God have already gave him this warning in 2 Chronicles chapter 7 verses 17 to 20, that if you will disobey my word, and you will turn after other gods, I will remove your people out of this land.

And they will be like a proverb and like a byword. The house, the temple, and so on will eventually be destroyed. And they have already said it to Shlomo. And of course, we know from the history of Solomon, how Solomon have turned away from the Lord and beloved brothers and sisters. This is exactly what caused the kingdom of Israel to be divided and ultimately being taken captive to Assyria, first of all. And then later on to the land of Bavail. But here, listen to this, beloved friend. King Shlomo had a son by the name of Rehobam. And God said to Solomon, "I'm going to remove this kingdom from you, but I will not do it in your days.

I will do it in your son's days." And sure enough, Rehobam, who was the son of King Shlomo, Rehobam did not submit to the Lord and was not wise. And he brought about the division of the nation of Israel. According to 1st Kings chapter 12 and 1st Kings chapter 16 and so on, Rehobam was the cause that Israel as a nation will become a divided nation. How sad. How sad when Israel as a nation were divided now because of Rehobam's lack of wisdom and lack of submission to the Lord. We read in 1st Kings chapter 11 that Solomon slept with his fathers in the end of this 11th chapter.

In chapter 12 of 1st Kings, Rehobam became the king. And all Israel, this is the northern kingdom, saw that Rehobam treated them in such a way he put much taxes, he put a lot of burdens on the whole kingdom. And we read in this 1st Kings chapter 12 how they came to him and they appealed to him. And instead of Rehobam listening to the wise counsel of the elderly, he listened to the young friends of his and he caused a division in the nation of Israel. We read in 1st Kings chapter 12 and verse 16, And all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them. This is Rehobam, Solomon's son.

The people answered the king saying, What portion have we in David? Neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, O Israel. See to thine own house David. So Israel departed unto their tents. But as for the children of Israel which dwell in the city of Judah, Rehobam reign over them. So now what happened, beloved brothers and sisters and dear friends, to understand the history of the Samaritan woman that we are about to speak about, to read about. We learned that the history of Israel was that King Rehobam caused the division among the nation of Israel. Therefore, the ten tribes of Israel did no longer come to the city of Jerusalem to worship the Lord there.

They had another king by the name of Yerobam. And Israel now had two kingdoms. The kingdom of Yehuda ruled by Rehobam. And the kingdom of Yisrael ruled by Yerobam. Two kings, two nations, a divided nation. And that is the beginning of the history of the Samaritans or the Shomronim. And what happened there, from there on, beloved friends, the northern kingdom of Israel departed from the God of Israel. The ten tribes, instead of coming to Jerusalem, worshipping in the temple of Jerusalem, worshipping the God of Israel, they remained in the north and they have established their own temple, their own capital city. And Samaria became the center there.

That's how the name Shomronim, Samaria became to be the center of the northern kingdom of Israel. And sadly, and very sadly, that the northern ten tribes departed and they began to embrace other gods. They built a golden calf there, two of them. Jerobam built this for them. And they worshipped these golden calves and they said, "These are the gods that brought you out of the land of Egypt." And they worshipped those golden calves up to the time that God said, "Now is the time to take the northern kingdom into captivity." So from 930 BC until about 721 BC, some 190, almost 200 years, there was a departure from the God of Israel by the ten tribes.

New kings that arose, every one of them without exception did not follow the God of Israel. And therefore at about 721 BC, the ten tribes, the northern kingdom of Israel was taken captive by the Assyrian, by Ashur. God raised the Assyrian and the Assyrian came and they took the northern ten tribes of Israel to Assyria. They took them captive. Rather sad when you really think about it. We read in 2 Kings 17. And I'm just going to read a few verses there. We read in verse 24, "And the king of Assyria brought men from Babel, Babylon, and from Kutha, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel.

And they possessed Samaria and they dwelt in the city thereof. And so it was at the beginning of their dwelling there that they fear not the Lord. Therefore the Lord sent lions among them which slew some of them." Kind of very sad to see what happened. The king of Assyria brought from Babel people to mingle with the people of Israel in Samaria. And there was a mixture now of a marriage between Israelis and others from the pagan world. You see it says they fear not Jehovah. Verse 25. Therefore the Lord sent among them lions and slew some of them. If you continue on verse 29 of 2 Kings chapter 17.

Then we find in verse 29, "Every nation made gods of their own." Can you imagine what went on there in Samaria? In Shomron, in the northern kingdom of Israel? In fact, we read in verse 32 of 2 Kings chapter 17, "So they feared the Lord and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places." They feared the Lord, it says, and they served their own God. In other words, there was a religious mixture there. A little bit of the truth of the God of Israel. But much of the idols that they brought with them, the pagan gods.

So we find out, sadly, chapter 18 of 2 Kings in verse 11, that the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria, and he put them in Chala and in Chavor by the river of Gozan and in the cities of the Medes, because they obeyed not the voice of the Lord their God. But they transgressed his covenant and all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded, and would not hear them nor do them. Sad condition, beloved brothers and sisters. But this is how we get this name of a company, of a group that are called the Shomronim, the Samaritans. And so they lived there in the so-called today's, it's on the west side of the Jordan River, on the inside the land of Israel, called the West Bank today.

And there the Samaritans have lived until 721. And the reason that they are called Samaritans, Shomronim, not only because they lived in this area called Samaria, but they also mingled themselves with other nations and other gods, and the condition, the spiritual condition of these northern tribes of Israel, brought about the necessity of God to send them into Assyria. 721, 722 BC. So that's how we even get the company or the group that are called the Samaritans. And therefore, there was a division between southern kingdom, the Jewish people, Judah, and Israel, the northern, though one nation, yet divided because of departure from the Lord. And so now we find out, remember, this happened in about 721 when they were taken by the Assyrians.

Now, 721 BC, over some 750 years later, here is our Lord, Jesus the Messiah, now he's in the land. 900 years, there was a divided condition between the two nations. There was conflict between the two nations. There was war between the two nations. There was animosity between nations. But the one, Judah, remained in Jerusalem, worshipping God, yet the northern kingdom already departed from the God of Israel. So the Jewish people did not have any dealing with the Samaritans. Neither the Samaritans had any dealing with the Jewish people because they sought to influence the southern kingdom to follow after their own way. And somehow, there was some godly king in the south of the tribes, in Judah and Benjamin, that they somehow retained some small measure of closeness to the God of Israel.

Well, listen to this, how it is very interesting. He must need to go through Samaria. Here is our Lord, Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah, is now had to go through Samaria. And so we read that he is now on a journey to Galil. Instead of going in other ways which the Jewish people usually went from the south to the north, they never went through Samaria because there was no dealing with the Samaritans. Therefore, he could have gone through the coast by the ocean or he could have gone another way. But no, he went directly to Samaria because he had, Yeshua had an appointment there with a person that is known to us here of the Samaritan woman, the Isha HaShomronit.

Now, by the way, just that we will see today, the Samaritans still exist. They don't intermarry with other people. They keep themselves separated. It had been said that there are about 700-800 Samaritans today. Some of them live in the city of Holon in Israel and others live in Kiryat Luzah and some in other cities. But you have some seven, eight, 900 Samaritans today who live in the land of Israel and they continue, they maintain the tradition of the Samaritans. reading the Torah, the law of Moshe, they don't believe everything, but they still maintain what the past history or the heritage that they have had. The rest of the ten tribes were scattered by the Assyrian Ashur.

Many of them migrated and mingled back with the kingdom of Judah and they became part of the Jewish community of the people of Judah in the south. But many of the ten tribes are even today are scattered in the whole world and only God is the one who know them and he will restore them to himself in the future day when he will restore the nation of Israel to himself in the coming days. Well, look how very interesting here, because right now, as the Lord is on the way to the Galil, he says, we read in verse five, "Then cometh he unto the city of Samaria, which is called Seikar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Yosef." Now you notice that, that the Lord Jesus have arrived to a city in Samaria.

The word here is Seikar, and some do believe that it's really the city of Shikem or Shchem, as we call it in Hebrew, Shchem. And this city, there he is arriving, it's one of the cities in Samaria. And it's very interesting because according to verse five, this city is near the parcel of the ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. You remember, in Genesis chapter 33, we read how Jacob, and I'm going to read these verses, Genesis 33 verse 18, we read in verse 18, "And Jacob came to Shalem Shikem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan Aram, and he pitched his tent before the city.

And he bought a parcel of the field where he had spread his tent at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shchem's father, for a hundred pieces of money." See, Jacob paid for the portion of the land by the area of Shchem. And what did he do? He erected there an altar and called it Elohei Yisrael. Beautiful! Elohei Yisrael. He have erected an altar and there he offered sacrifice unto the God of Jacob, the God of Israel. We notice that, beloved brothers and sisters, here we find the Lord Yeshua himself coming now all the way to Seichar or Shchem. He's coming there by the area, by the ground where Jacob bought with money, according to Genesis 33 verses 18 to 20.

And so here it's so precious because in the next verses, verses 6 and on, you find the Lord beginning a conversation with a person that he came to approach and lead to himself, the Samaritan woman. And so we read in verse 6, that Yeshua, now Jacob's well was there. Apparently the well was already created by Jacob and dug by Jacob in the past years. The same as it was in the early days, like when Abraham or Isaac, they prepared the wells. The water was so needful in the area in the desert there. And so you notice that the Lord, therefore, being wearied with his journey, he sat on the well and it was about the sixth hour.

Now, I think it's very beautiful, beloved friends, dear brothers and sisters. You see, the whole theme of the Gospel of John is to present before us the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, in his divine nature. He is God. But at the same time, we learn very quickly that he is also a man. You remember John 1:14? And the Word became flesh. He became a man, like you and I. Spirit, soul, and body. A human being. Seen apart. He was born to the Virgin Miriam. And here we find him being wearied from the journey. It was about 30, 35 kilometers on the way to the Galil, to Samaria, where he had to stop.

It was rather a long journey to walk or to take even riding upon a donkey or something. But it is... He was tired. And here we see the humanity of Yeshua. He was tired. He was wearied from the journey. I often think about the Lord, Yeshua, Jesus, the Messiah. We read in John 11 that he wept at the grave of Lazarus. Elsewhere, we read. That he slept at the boat. Sometimes he is weary, tired. Other times he is sleeping, like all of us. Other times he is weeping, like we do. He became a man like you and I. He can sympathize with us because he experienced all that which we all experience in our life.

Always bear in mind that he was sinless. Why? Because he was born to the virgin Miriam and he was going to become the Lamb of God that will take upon himself the sin of the world. He could not have any sin in him. But he was tired. He was wearied from his journey. He sat on that well, the very same well that Jacob built. And notice it was about the sixth hour. In the Gospel of John, the sixth hour is noon. 12 noon. In the heat of the day. He is tired. He is wearied from the rain. He is there, sitting there on the well and seeking to drink some water.

And so it's very interesting because the next verse tells us in verse 7 to 10, here he began his conversation with that woman that we are about to read of her. And she discovers that he, Jesus, Yeshua, was a Jewish man who normally would not speak with the Samaritans. Again, to remind you that years of the history between Israel in the north and Judah in the south brought about such a condition that there was no dealing with one another. Because the Samaritans departed from the ways of God and adopted the idolatry and adopted the nations of the world, intermarried with the nations of the world, interworshipped with the nations of the world, with paganism.

And there was no communication, no dealing, because there must be a separation from idolatry. There must be a separation from paganism. There must be a separation from worshiping idols that are two golden calves that they were building. And there was a separation. Now, that doesn't mean that the people in Judah did not later on got as well worse in their spiritual condition. They also have departed. But you can see that there was a need to be separated from the Samaritan. It's just like today, in the days in which we live in. The believers in the Lord Jesus the Messiah cannot embrace everything and everyone. Ecumenical movement, everybody mingled with everybody.

You believe in your God, I believe in my God, you believe in Jesus, you either believe in another person, and so on. It's not possible. Even between believers, Christians, there was a time separation must be made on the basis of doctrine. False doctrine, false doctrine, false practices must be set aside. But here, the Lord Jesus the Messiah is reaching out to a person who is in desperate need. And that person, we find out in verse 7, "There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water, and Yeshua said unto her, 'Give me to drink.'" Now notice the different, beloved brothers and sisters. Here is a Samaritan woman who was not Jewish.

She was part in the heritage of the nation of Israel, but she is now mingled with other nations. And she has a need. She is different than Nakedimo, Nicodemus. Nicodemus came to the Lord to seek Him. He came to Yeshua by night to ask Him questions. Here, the Samaritan woman just happened to come in the middle of the day to draw water from the well, Jacob's well. And it is very interesting that Yeshua, Jesus, the Messiah, is reaching out to her and He asks her, "Give me to drink." So notice, He was thirsty. He was weary from the way. He was tired. He fell asleep when He was on the boat in the Galil.

He wept when He saw the Jewish people weeping over Lazarus who died, Eliezer who died. Here we see Him thirsty. He was a man reaching out. But the beautiful thing to see how the Lord is reaching out to this Samaritan woman, He says, "Give me to drink." And you know, it was not common for rabbi, for a rabbi, for a man to speak to women anyway, let alone to speak of the woman of Samaria, who is really worshipping idols, he's a pagan by now. And so He says, "Give me to drink." You notice what we read in verse 8, that the disciples went away to buy food, for His disciples were gone away out to the city to buy meat.

They went to get food for those who follow Yeshua, while Yeshua needed their time for them to be away so He can just devote His time to this Shomonit, this Samaritan woman. Now notice how interesting, because the response of this Samaritan woman was very interesting. She said to Him in verse 9, "Then says the woman of Samaria unto Him, How is it that you being Jewish, a Jew, ask a drink of me which am, or a woman of Samaria? For the Jews have no dealing with the Samaritan." She was surprised. She was surprised. She was amazed, how come you're a Jewish man? Even speaking to me, who am a woman, number one, and secondly, I'm a woman that belonged to the Shomonim.

And then she said, "The Jewish people do not have dealing with us Samaritan." And to remind you, again, from the Book of Kings, when there was a departure of the ten northern tribes from the rest of the nation, from Judah, to come further and further and worship other gods and idols and mingled with the nations of the world, which God commanded Israel not to do. So she was surprised. She was really surprised. Notice she recognized that he was Jewish, perhaps, because the Jewish people always wear the tzitzit, is the undergarment with the, you know, below, in the bottom of the four corners, they have a portion of it with blue and white, a part of the garment that reminds the Jewish people that they belong to the God of Israel, to the God that has chosen them.

This is the tzitzit that every Jewish person, even today, the conservative Jewish people still wear it today. It's not the talit, it's not the prayer shal, no. The prayer shal came later on. The tzitzit is that which God commanded Israel to put upon themselves as a reminder that they belong to him. In the book of Numbers in chapter 15, God gave Israel this instruction in order for them always to have these fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generation. Numbers chapter 15 and verse 38. And the purpose of that, they will realize that they belong to God. The blue and white will remind them of the necessity to be pure, white and blue, that they are accountable to the God of heaven.

Well, very interesting. She says, how? How is it that thou, being a Jew, ask the drink of me, which am a woman of Shomron, of Samaritan? For the Jews have no dealing with the Samaritan, with the Shomronim. Well, she realized it was something unique is going on here. And so, beloved friends, listen to this, my dear brothers and sisters, how graciously the Lord is dealing with this woman. It says in verse 10, Yeshua responds to her, and notice what he tells her. "Jesus answered and said unto her, If you knewest the gift of God, and who it is that say to thee, 'Give me to drink,' thou or you wouldst have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water." The Lord Jesus, the Messiah, is sharing with the woman, speaking to her heart, seeking to reach her.

He asked her, he questioned this inquiry and asking, "Give me to drink." And she was so puzzled. And I asked him, "How you, a Jewish man, ask me, a Samaritan woman, to give you to drink?" The Samaritans and the Jews were not even conversing with each other. How is it possible that you ask? And now the Lord, Yeshua, Jesus, got beyond that. And he says, "You know what?" He says, "If you knew the gift of God, if you knew who I am, if you knew what God want to have for you, if you knew what God want to provide for you, if you knew how much God love you and care for you, and want to give you a gift." And of course, he's heading here to share with her about the gift of life, of eternal life.

So if you know the gift of God, and even more, "Who is the one that say to thee, give me to drink?" Then you in return would have asked of him, that is of me, Yeshua said to her, "I will give unto you living water." In Hebrew, "Ma'im Chaim." "Ma'im Chaim." "Living water." And of course, beloved brothers and sisters and dear friends, this is so precious. because the living water always speaks about the new birth and the new life. It speaks about the person of the Holy Spirit of God, which will be the one that will give new life. As Yeshua said to Nicodemus, "You must be born of the Spirit." In John 6 and verse 35, we read, "I am the bread of life." Here again, "I am the water of life I provide for you, but I am myself the bread of life." Later on in chapter 7 and verse 37 and 38, Yeshua also cried and he said, "In the last days of the great day of the Feast." This is the Feast of Sukkot.

Jesus stood and he cried saying, "If any man is thirsty, let him come unto me and drink. He that believeth on me, as the Scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." You see, the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, the Lord Yeshua HaMashiach, want to give her living water. So he reversed. It's a very Jewish thing to do. When one asks a question and the answer is responding with a question. And so he asked her a question and he requested, "Give me to drink." She says, "How come you asking for me to drink? I'm a Samaritan woman. You are a Jewish man.

How come?" The Jews do not deal with the Samaritan and believe me, it was vice versa. But the Lord Jesus said to her, "If you knew the gift of God, the gift of God." And if you knew the one that asked you, "Give me the drink." Then in return, you will ask him and he would give you the living waters. And so we continue to read, beloved brothers and sisters and dear friends, in verses 11 to 15. The Lord Jesus, the Messiah, is now, you might say, seen by this Samaritan woman, not only as a Jewish man that reached out to her, but she could see as she speaks with him, that Yeshua is much more than just another Jewish man, but he is a descendant of Jacob, Israel, but greater than Jacob.

Because in verse 11 the woman responds, and she said to him, "Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. For whence then hast thou living water, Maim Chaim, look," she said to him, "Sir, you don't even have the vessel to reach down and pick up the water. And even if you had, look how deep this well is. How can you give me living water? You don't have vessel? The well is deep, and how can you provide for me living water?" And then notice what she asked him, "Are thou greater than our father Yaakov?" Yaakov, Jacob, "Are you greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well and drank thereof himself, and also his children, and his cattle?" In other words, she was so puzzled.

She really said, "Who do you think you are?" "Are you greater than our father Jacob?" Notice that Jacob was her father, meaning that Yaakov, Jacob was the father of the 12 tribes of Israel, according to Genesis chapter 28, Genesis chapter 29, Genesis chapter 30, and so on. Yaakov was the father of 12 children, 12 tribes, 12 tribes, Prosdina, a girl, a 13th one, but he had 12 tribes, and you see, she, the Samaritan woman, still call him our father Jacob. "Are you greater than our father Yaakov?" And then she takes him, you might say, back to history, and she's reminding that he is the one, Jacob, he drank himself from this well. And not only him, his children, and not only them, even their cattle.

She actually, in a sense, went all the way back, knowing her history, somewhat of her history. Again, to remind you, the Shomonim, they were part of the 10 tribes, the northern kingdom of Israel. And to remind you again, that they departed from the Lord, but they were part of the nation of Israel. You remember, we read in Genesis chapter 33, Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Knaan, and he came from Paddan Aram, and he pitched his tent before the city. And verse 19 says, "And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamosh, Shem's father, for hundred pieces of money." You see, Jacob bought this piece of land, and there he had, as we know, a well.

There is a verse that is found in the book of Joshua. I just want to read to you this verse, Joshua chapter 24. And listen to this very interesting verse, verse 32. It says, "And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried there in Shechem." See, the same place, Seikah, Shechem. In the parcel of the ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred pieces of silver. And it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph. You see? And the children of Joseph were the people that... You remember Ephraim and Menasseh? You remember the sons of Yosef?

And Ephraim was the largest tribe whom became this tribe. Even Yeruvam, the first king of the northern kingdom, was from the tribe of Ephraim, the son of Joseph. And so, beloved brothers and sisters, this is a history. This is amazing, amazing, amazing. You see, she did not know that Yeshua is really greater than Jacob. He is indeed greater than Jacob. You remember in Matthew chapter 12, we read in verse 6. Matthew 12 and verse 6. "Have ye not read in the law how that the Shabbat day the priests in the temple profane the Shabbat and are blameless? But I said to you that in this place there is one that is greater than the temple." He is greater than Jacob and he is greater than the temple because he is God the Son, the Messiah, who came from heaven to redeem mankind.

In fact, in verse 41 and 42 of Matthew chapter 12, we read: "The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation and shall condemn it because they repented at the preaching of Yonah. and behold, greater than Yonah is here." In verse 42 it says, "The queen of the south shall rise up in judgment with this generation and shall condemn it for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon and behold, a greater than Solomon is here." So beloved friend, our Lord Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah, by virtue of the fact that He is God the Son, He is greater than Yonah.

He is greater than Solomon. He is greater than the temple. He is greater than Jacob. And she needed to learn it like all of us need to learn it. "Are you greater than our father Jacob?" she asked him in John chapter 4 and verse 12. "Are you greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well and drank thereof himself and his children and his cattle?" And notice what Yeshua is telling to her in verse 13. Yeshua answered and said unto her, "Whosoever drinkers of this water shall thirst again." The natural water that God provided for us quenched our thirst but we are still thirsty again. It quenched our thirst and we are still thirsty again.

We are still thirsty again because this is natural water that God provided for men and He provided in order to quench our thirst. But then He added, beloved brothers and sisters, in verse 14, Yeshua said, "But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst." this is verse 13 and 14. He says here, "But the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life." And so, beloved friend, notice how wonderful the Lord is explaining. Take the time with this Shomoni, this Samaritan woman, give her the time, sharing with her the fact that He is greater than Yaakov.

He is greater than him because Jacob was father of the 12 tribes of Israel but He is not divine. But here we have God the Son becoming a descendant of by virtue of His birth, natural birth, He became a descendant of Jacob of Israel but yet He is greater than Jacob, He is greater than Israel. And you notice, "Whosoever will drink of the water that I will give to him will never thirst." Why? Because Yeshua is the one who gives life. Through the Spirit of God when the Holy Spirit of God would come to indwell a believer in the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, He would receive this eternal life.

You remember, the Lord Jesus is leading now this woman to come to know Him and to recognize Him as the one that is the provider the provider of living water. This is very, very precious. There is a verse in Isaiah chapter 44 that says this, listen to this, Isaiah 44 verse 3. For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty and floods upon the dry ground. I will pour my spirit upon thy seed and my blessing upon thine offspring and they shall spring up among the grass among the grass among the grass and willows by the water a courses. In other words, God is promising one day to restore Israel nationally.

I will pour water upon him that is thirsty and the floods upon the dry ground and I will pour my spirit upon thy seed. God said through Isaiah to the nation of Israel. Israel. It is fascinating when you really think about the water of life that God is willing to provide to those that will turn back to him. in Ezekiel chapter 36 we read in verse 25 beautiful verses. It said about Israel in a future day when Israel will come to know the Messiah nationally. Then I will sprinkle clean water upon you and ye shall be clean from all your filthiness and from all your idols will I cleanse you and a new heart will I give you and a new spirit will I put within you and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and I will give you a heart of flesh and I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statues and ye shall keep my judgment and do them and ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers and ye shall be my people and I will be your God.

Ezekiel 36:24-28 So when the Lord Jesus the Messiah said to the woman of Samaria Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. Beloved brothers and sisters you remember what we just read? In chapter 3 For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life. You remember that? We just read that earlier. In verse 36 of John 3 He that believeth on the Son has everlasting life. In chapter 5 and verse 24 of John we read Verily, verily I say unto you He that heareth my word and believeth on him that send me hath everlasting life.

You see that's the reason why Yeshua had to meet this Samaritan woman on the way to the Galil He must need go through Samaria because he has an appointment with this Shomronit with this Samaritan woman because he wanted to lead her to himself to bring her to the knowledge of salvation and so we read in verse 15 where the Samaritan woman said she said unto him Sir, give me this water that I thirst not neither come hither to draw. Give me this water this water of life that will be springing up into everless time. Give me! I don't want to come here anymore. I don't want to come to the well anymore.

See how the Lord is now touching her conscience and awakening her to see that she need much more than just natural water in the middle of the day to come to this well Jacob's well there in the Shomron. Wonderful truth we learn today from this passage this is how the Lord the Lord is drawing an individual to himself to open their hearts and to show them that he is the one that came from heaven to provide redemption for mankind. And so my dear friend as we stop with this portion we'll continue in our next ministry meeting dear brothers and sisters we'll continue with this fourth chapter fourth chapter with the conversation with the Samaritan woman we can learn from this how the Lord Jesus came to seek and to save the lost.

And if there is anyone here that is lost unsaved and you don't know that your sins are paid for by the Messiah Jesus Yeshua turn to him look to him and he will quench your spiritual thirst that you will have forgiveness of sins everlasting life satisfaction joy in your heart but all comes because of who he is and what he had accomplished for us because the Lord Yeshua the Messiah came to this world to become a savior of sinners. of sinners he came to provide redemption for mankind may the Lord open our hearts open your heart my dear friend open your heart and turn your hearts to him come to recognize that Jesus the Messiah is the one that provide water of life which will be spring into everlasting life everlasting life to whoever will believe on him well God bless you my dear friend dear brothers and sisters and for this time we are going to say Shalom Shalom shalom Shalom for this ministry