Welcome to the InTouch podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, November 10th. External elements like music, style, or instruments have little to do with genuine worship. Let’s continue the series to get help developing an inner desire that overflows in praise toward God. In the fourth chapter of John, Jesus preached one of the most beautiful sermons he ever preached.
said some of the most encouraging words because he said these to a woman who was having a problem. She’d been having a problem most of her life. So, it’s interesting how Jesus uh preached some of his greatest messages. You would think that he would have shared uh the truths about worship and about uh the everlasting well of water that he places in the human heart to a man like Nicodemus which he spoke to in the third chapter.
and that he would have said to the woman at the well uh who was living in adultery and who needed to be saved. You would have thought that Jesus would have chose to talk to her about the new birth, but instead he did the opposite. So, you know, the first part of this chapter that he met this woman at u at the well there, Jacob’s well, and they got in a conversation and uh he asked for a drink and they got in a conversation about water and he said, “If you knew who you were talking to, you would ask of him. He’d give you one
drink and you wouldn’t ever need anymore. So they continued their conversation. Then he said to her, and here he was leading her along like he knew how to do heading towards something. He said to her in the middle of this beautiful conversation about water and uh running water, you see living water to that in that time was like a spring, like running water.
And to have running water in your home would be one of the most unusual things you’d find. So that’s why everybody went down to Jacob’s well. He said, “If you knew who you were talking to, you’d ask of me and I would place within you a well of water springing up in everlasting life.” Well, so this really excited her. And so the conversation kept going and all of a sudden, bang, he said, “Go call your husband.
” What in the world has that got to do with water? So she said, “I have no husband.” He said, “You’re right. You’ve got five.” And then she did what most lost folks do when you get too close to home. If you’ll look in verse 19, the woman saith unto him, “Sir, I perceive that thou a prophet.” And then she wanted to change the subject immediately.
