Salvation Is The Living Water

Our associate pastor, Pastor Ryan Crawford, brought us our Sunday morning message: "Living Water."

We stood for opening prayer and the reading of God's word.

Everything that Jesus did was with a purpose. He had a purpose then, and He has a purpose even now. His purpose was that none may be lost to sin but redeemed through His Salvation. As Jesus was traveling through Galilee, He knew that He needed to go to Samaria. There, a woman living in deep sin was needing Him.

The scripture reading was taken from John 4:3-26

This is the story of the woman at the well. Jesus had stopped outside of Samaria and sent His disciples into town to obtain something to eat. As He sat on the edge of the well, the Samaritan woman came to draw water for her household. This was a woman who, by even her people's standards, was living as a less than desirable person to associate with. To top this all, Jews and Samaritans did not associate with each other. The Samaritans were the Jewish people who had intermarried with people from the countries surrounding them. Because of the intermarrying, they took on the practice of worshiping other gods. Yet Jesus, not wanting anyone to die in sin, discussed with her the gift of the Living Water. All throughout her life she had attempted to fill a void in herself. Here was Jesus Christ offering the Living Water that would satisfy her thirst, the void she constantly attempted to fill with multiple husbands (5) and by living with another man that was not her husband.

Jesus spoke with her. He offered her the Living Water, knowing even before she spoke of her marital status. He then pardoned her wickedness.

Salvation is the Living Water. It not only satisfies and fills the void, it cleanses us of our sin. It is as though we had never sinned. In Him shall be a well spring. There is power in this well. It is God's power. Once God filled her well with the Living Water, she was able to rejoice. She was able to relinquish the sin and walk away from it. Also, because she was filled with the Living Water, she wanted to share this incredible joy she was experiencing, so she went back to her village to share what Christ had done for her. As a result, the town came out to listen to Jesus and, in turn, because they heard Christ for themselves, they were able to receive the Living Water themselves.

USE ME, LORD!

Please come join us for church. We have two services. The Early Morning service is at 8:30 a.m. with Sunday School immediately afterwards. The Mid-Morning Service will start at 11 a.m.

Every other Saturday from 3:30-4 p.m., the nursing home ministry will be at Golden Living Center in Anderson.

Friday night, Bible Study will start at 6:30 p.m.

Kids for Christ is now happening during Wednesday night service. We are studying the Armor of God.

Men's Prayer Breakfast has been canceled in July in observance of the holiday.

Our Baby Dedication is scheduled after the business meeting following our Second Sunday Potluck July 10.

You can hear a rebroadcast of one of our pastors' services on KURM radio, 100.3 on the FM dial, at 8:30 Sunday mornings. Or listen to our pastors' services on our website at www.firstbaptistchurchpineville.com/Sermons.html.

If you have no church home of your own, we would love for you to join us in ours (off the northeast corner of Pineville square, just behind U.S. Bank). No friendlier, down home church can be found anywhere in the four-state area.