Something In the Water

Well Known

By Dean Fulks, April 19, 2026

Discovering Life



One can change



John 4:9 – The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)



John 4:10 – Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”



Jesus compares human to spiritual thirst and physical to living water



John 4:13-14 – Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”



John 4:15 – The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”



John 4:16-18 – Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.” The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband.



Our problems are often not our most problems



John 3:17 – For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.



Jesus isn’t this woman, as much He’s this woman



1 Timothy 4:4a – For everything created by God is good



The marriage question is versus



“I had motives for not wanting the world to have a meaning…for myself, as, no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation…liberated from a certain system of morality. We objected the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.” – Aldous Huxley



Isaiah 55:1-3 – Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters…incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live



Jeremiah 2:13 – For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.