DISCOURSE: 1615 CHRIST A FOUNTAIN OF LIVING WATER John 4:10. _Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water_. OUR blessed Saviour, though “Lord of all,... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1616 THE LIVING WATER John 4:14. _Whosoever drinketh of the wafer 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_. OUR Lord invites us to learn of him. To encourage us, he declares that he... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1617 SALVATION IS OF THE JEWS John 4:22. _Salvation is of the Jews_. THIS is part of the answer of our blessed Lord to the Samaritan woman. He had taken occasion, from an observation of hers, to shew her that he was well acquainted with the most secret history of her past life; and not f... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1618 THE WORSHIP WHICH GOD REQUIRES John 4:24._ God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth_. BRETHREN, you are all upon the brink of eternity. You are all sinners. As sinners, you stand in need of mercy at the hands of God: and God is willing to b... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1619 CONVICTION OF SIN, A PREPARATIVE FOR SALVATION John 4:29. _Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?_ LITTLE do we know what a day or an hour may bring forth. It was probably owing to an unexpected temptation that this Samaritan woman fell in... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1620 CHRIST’S DILIGENCE IN SERVING GOD John 4:34. _Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work_. OUR blessed Lord, throughout his whole life, was the most illustrious pattern of condescension to man and of fidelity to God. Both these disp... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1621 THE HAPPY STATE OF THE CHURCH John 4:35. _Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields: for they are white already to harvest. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eter... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1622 CONVERSION OF THE SAMARITANS John 4:41. _And many more believed because of his own word; and said unto 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 Saviour of the world_. THE conversion of the Gen... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1623 THE NOBLEMAN’S SON CURED John 4:49. _The nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die. Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way. And as he was now going down, his servants met him,... [ Continue Reading ]