Sunday Message (1st service) - Pastor Brad Neuschwander (October 18, 2026) | Life Bible Church

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enjoy this week's message. Can we turn to the

Word of God this morning? Okay, the answer is

yes. Okay, thank you. Let's go ahead and open

your Bibles. Thank you, Jenny, thank you. Let's

open our Bibles to John chapter four. I wanna

just review just a little bit so that we get

into context of where we're heading this morning.

All these tears and it's all good. Man, you guys,

amazing church, amazing eldership, but what an

amazing God. I just, I... Literally in the language

this morning of what the Lord was speaking, I

knew he was, I mean, he speaks to everybody,

right? That's the beauty of Jesus is that, you

know, when Jesus is speaking, he speaks to everybody,

but yet he singles you out in the midst of it,

right? And I heard the Lord speaking to me this

morning very clearly, not just as I was seeing

what was happening, but... as AJ was releasing

the word of the Lord, there's language that is

very unique in how things are phrased, how the

Lord speaks to me where I know it's him. And

AJ, I don't think you even know this, but the

reality is you said things today that those very

things and very words in that form and cadence

were spoken to my heart. And just to remind me

that God is so near and real. and knows the thought

sometimes when we begin to wonder, Lord, how

long? Anybody in this room ever asked, Lord,

how long am I going to have to go through this?

Right? Well, I'm telling you this morning, I

was up at 2 a .m. to about 3, my mind on some

life Bible things, and I'm like, literally, Lord,

how stinking long? I'm up here looking at the

stars in the windows and I'm talking to you and

I'm like, God, you have, you gotta do something.

I mean, you've been doing, you know, and when

you say stuff like that, or at least when I do,

let me not put it on you, I'm gonna put it on

me. When I say stuff like that, then I'm reminded,

what, you're, okay, okay, okay, okay. You're

already doing stuff. I get it. You've been faithful.

Yes, you're doing it. It's not coming how, It

looked like when I first started praying about

this and what I believe for. So you're doing

it, but could you just open another gate? Kind

of like double portion type thing. And then this

morning as the Lord's showing up, just remind

us that he's the shepherd of our soul walking

with us. Incredible, incredible God that we serve.

We've been talking about Jesus and the journey

from, taking us from Passover to Pentecost. And

I've just kind of shortened it up because I only

planned to preach one or two sermons. And this

is my ninth message on this in the reality of

Jesus and the journey toward the outpouring of

the Holy Spirit. And as we dig down into this,

I was just thinking about this and waiting on

the Lord this weekend. As we dig down into this

truth, One of the greatest things that we have

in the church, and I'm not just talking about

Life Bible Church, I'm talking about the church

that Jesus Christ builds. One of the greatest

things that set us apart that is different than

all other religions or things or even Old Testament

understanding is that the Holy Spirit is now

available in us and comes to fill us. And that

is the most beautiful, incredible, powerful,

not just experience. It is not a one -time experience.

Salvation, you get, if you stay in it, you get

one time. But the Holy Spirit filling is meant

to be multiple times. Filling after filling.

after filling. That's what he promises. That's

why he uses the language in Ephesians says, do

not be drunk with wine, which is dissipation,

which means that the level of its power and its

flow and what it does dissipates, but be filled.

And the word there in the Greek is The intent

is keep being filled. Keep being filled. And

this is kind of, we probably should change the

title today. The name of the message should be

keep drinking. I mean, the reality is keep being

filled with the living water or the wine of the

Holy Spirit. is, that is the very plan purpose

of God's people. Even when David said it, you

prepare a table before me. At the table is the

wine of his spirit. That's what he does. We're

going to look at that sometime in the next few

weeks. But today we're dealing with this incredible

truth Of Jesus bringing people into an encounter

with living water. And last Sunday we talked

about Jesus reveals himself in humanity. We dealt

with, if you remember, we dealt with Revelation

Revelation 1 · chapter mention

chapter 1. Which we barely even cracked into

the book of Revelation. Verse 4. Where Jesus

changes. to John the apostle, the order of the

eternal God to emphasize something. We're used

to Jesus or the spirit of God saying, who was,

who is, and who is to come. But in Revelation

chapter one, verse four, if you just want to

turn there and look for yourself, it says, to

the seven churches that are in Asia, grace to

you and peace from him who is, who was, and is.

Notice he focuses on the two things that are

still in play. He is now and he is to come. The

God who was, he's still that, but that is not.

primary in your now. Your now needs to have a

reframework of going. He is all that he was when

he was doing clear back from Genesis all the

way through the Old Testament, all the way through.

But now that the New Testament, the Old Covenant

has been fulfilled and the New Covenant has come,

he shows himself first in your now. And that's

a big deal. That now the two areas that you focus

on, I focus on, is now and what is coming. But

I can't get so focused on what is coming that

I miss my now. It's the same word. Now is to

come. Is now and is to come. You better spend

as much time in the now as you are thinking about

what's coming and is to come. And so if we understand

that, that Jesus was revealing his now mandate

from the father. as he encounters this Samaritan

woman, you and I are to be knowing Jesus in now

moments and walking according to the same grace

and anointing. Now we don't walk as the only

begotten son of God, but we walk with Jesus being

formed in us now and the spirit of God in us

now being able to be led just like he was. It's

Christ in us, the hope of glory. And so let's

turn to John, gospel of John chapter four, verse

three through nine. And Jesus left Judea and

departed again for Galilee. And as he had to

pass through Samaria, Jesus came to a town of

Samaria called Sychar near the field that Jacob

had given to his son, Joseph. And Jacob's well

was there. We talked about this, my last point.

We saw here the field, the inheritance. Jacob

had given his, to his son Joseph. Joseph would

be the one, if you will, the favored son. But

notice, any time there's favor, there's also

testing. You can look at it in the scripture.

Any time God says, behold, favor is upon you,

you can almost just put a dash and testing cometh.

It's almost a prophetic language because it's

coming. Why? Because it's got to test the character

so that the favor can come. Because favor without

the character developed will actually destroy

you. And so for the plan of fruitfulness and

the plan of God getting it to you and through

you and upon you, you have to be willing to allow

it to be tested. And this is what Jacob, when

he gave the double portion to Joseph. Why the

double portion? Because he had two sons. It was

inheritance. Ephraim and Manasseh. And the favored

one of the two, not by selection, the older one

missed. And Jacob crossed his hands and Joseph

didn't like it, but crossed his hands and blessed

Ephraim with a double portion. And so here's

the field of a double portion. And here is Jesus,

the living well, sitting, attired from his journey.

on a natural well. And that's kind of where we

left you last week. I won't go through all the

points, but just if you want to take a look at

that, just seeing Jesus at a well at about the

noon hour on a prophetic inheritance of covenant

and promise. And the new well is sitting on the

old well. What a great picture. The new well

is sitting on top of the old well. Now, that's

not in my notes, but I just felt like I'm supposed

to emphasize this. Why is that so important?

Because it is the picture of the scriptures supporting

what Jesus is now going to build in the New Testament.

Jesus always builds on the blueprints and the

truths that are in the old covenant. And so the

new well, is sitting on top of the old well.

Why? Because the one that finished that covenant

is going to have all of that covenant promise

in him and that will flow in new impartation.

You see, he doesn't just come to cut it off.

He comes to fulfill it. And when you come to

draw from Jesus, you're not just drawing something

that's brand new. You're drawing something that

was, is, and is to come. And here it is, the

picture of Jesus sitting on that well. And so

as he's sitting there, Jesus, wearied from his

journey, as he was sitting beside the well about

the sixth hour, verse seven, this is where we're

at, there came a woman of Samaria to draw water.

And Jesus said to her, give me a drink. I mean,

not even please. Not even in the text, shalom.

right? Every, this is what I love. Jesus is not

politically correct because politically correct

is going to be in the rest of the verse down

here. Let me just read that last little remark

from John for Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.

So Jesus doesn't say hi. He doesn't. Number one,

talking to a woman. As a single guy. By yourself.

Not having any dealings. As the customary practice

was. And then not say even with a greeting. Shalom.

Or how are you. I mean none of it. Just looks

at her and says. Give me a drink. Now listen.

You cannot read that. And get. Jesus not being

just a little bit forward. against all social

and cultural norms. Just cut through, give me

a drink. Excuse me? Samaritan woman said to him,

and she basically said, excuse me, only she had

enough sand. Do you understand? It wasn't like,

oh, yes, sir, yes, sir. She went, how is it?

Now you have to get, see, we didn't spend any

time on this. You got to get the picture. of

a woman. I'm going to say this carefully, but,

but because Jesus isn't politically correct as

a chief shepherd, I'm not going to be today.

Here is a woman now I'm going to, okay, just

take it for what it's worth. Here is a woman

that has been with a variety of men. Now I, I'm

not sure if they had Samaritan cosmopolitan back

then. the magazine for ladies, but I'm telling

you if, because I certainly don't read Cosmopolitan,

I can tell you that right now, but I can tell

you dealing with cultural emphasis and what she

had dealt with with men, disappointment with

men, a desire, it was a love -hate relationship.

You can see it by the basis that she'd been with

five and the one she was with now was not her

own. So she had been through She had been through

the gauntlet. I'm not trying to get savory or

too spicy in church, but she had been through

the buffet a few times. And if you'd been through

the buffet a few times of picking men and destroyed

relationship, you would tend to be a little soured.

First, you just thought it was them. I'm not

looking for big amens here. It's their fault.

And about the third one, it begins to dawn on

you, huh, maybe my picker is bad. And about the

fifth one, you just, you can't live with them,

but they're just a necessary part of life and

you just don't like men. Hello? I'm talking to

our society here. And that process, you see,

Now, I'm saying this carefully because I know

my wife's personality, but if Jesus was to run

into Jenny at the well, it would have immediately

been, he would have said, give me a drink. She

would have said, yes, how much would you like?

How many times, how many glasses would you like?

I mean, that's Jenny's personality, just a servant.

But listen, you've got to get the background

of this lady. It's not the fact that she wasn't

willing to engage, but she had a little salt.

There was a little, as my grandfather once said,

man, she was as rough as a cob. And if you don't

understand what that means, just go back about

80 years. And that's what they used for toilet

paper. And when he says it's as rough as a cob,

he was meaning it was not smooth and silky and

didn't have Charmin on the end of it. It was

raw. Her attitude was raw. And Jesus comes to

her and says, give me a drink. You know what

her first response is? How is it? When a sentence

starts with how is it, that is a buddy, why are

you talking to me that way? I've seen your kind,

I've been with your kind, and I know what you're

after. How is it that you are a Jew, ask me a

Samaritan for a drink. If you aren't getting

that out of the text, you are missing something.

Because the reality, it wasn't this beautiful,

sterile encounter. It was suspicion. How is it?

That is a question. That is a folded arm question.

How is it that you would, let's just put a little

more sand on it. How is it? Probably threw her

hair back, but I've been out of practice at that

for a while. How is it? That you, a Jew, ask

me, a Samaritan, for a drink. I think there could

have been some just italics put under, I am not

that cheap, pal. Come on, you have to understand

that she carried an atmosphere. If you're not

seeing in the text that there's not an atmosphere

that follows her, if you're not seeing in the

text that the lifestyle actually opened her up

to multiple things that would have attached to

her, even demonically, about the attitude, the

mindset, the rejection, and all of it, it was

not a, oh, it's Jesus. It wasn't that. Why are

you asking me for a drink, bud? What's up? Look

at the text. How is it that you, just pause there.

That's a comma. How is it that you, a Jew, that

was culturally charged right there, ask for a

drink from me, a Samaritan woman. It's like,

you're going to try that chauvinist thing on

me? You're going to try to demand something of

me? After all that your race put us through and

what you call us, reminding us of our failure.

You see, that's what the Samaritan mindset was.

You have to remember when they got taken from

the 10 tribes of Israel and dispersed among the

Assyrian nations and now we're in Samaria, they

were part of the Jewish heritage, but the tribes

that did not get dispersed like that from Judah

and from Levi and that were there, they looked

at the Samaritans as half -breeds and those that

had failed and walked away and were unfaithful

to their God. So she is, every time a Jewish

person would address a Samaritan, it was, you're

always speaking to us as we are the rejects and

the losers of society. Are we not dealing with

modern culture right now with that mindset? That's

why this is so important. You can just see it

play out even right now. Just the heritage. I

can't take it for what it's worth. I've got a

backlog of hurts and mindsets that are right

now confronting. And think of it. She didn't

know it was Jesus. She didn't know it was the

son of God, but she is speaking as though this

is just some dude that wants her to give him

a drink because she's got stuff that she has

earned to get into the well to actually get water

out. And he's got nothing. Jesus answered her.

Verse 10. He didn't even say, don't talk to me

like that. He didn't, he didn't, he didn't. He

didn't confront that way. What would have happened

if it wasn't Jesus was, listen, just do what

I'm telling you. Why? Don't you realize I'm the

favored one and you're not? It was none of that.

What did he say? But he does get a little spicy

back. 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. What an incredible,

I think we got to just drill down on this just

a little bit more. What an incredible answer

from Jesus. If you knew, because see from the

outside, this is the point of this story or this

account that actually brings things into a fuller

understanding. It looks as though this man, come

on, I need you to get this. From the Samaritan

woman's perspective, it looks as though this

man, we're reading it after the fact, has nothing.

The only thing he has is that he's Jewish. She's

coming to the well. She didn't see money bag.

She didn't see. his purse. He doesn't see any

traveling companions. There's no donkey. There's

no goods. There's no business. There's nothing.

Remember when Jesus told the disciples, you're

going to go to among the household of Israel.

Don't take a knapsack. Don't take a sword. Don't

take a money bag. Don't take anything. Just look

for the man of peace. You travel with nothing.

A labor is worthy of the heart. Folks, do you

get the picture here that Jesus, the disciples

went in to go buy food for Jesus to bring back.

Everything they would have had for the journey

was gone now. All she saw is some Jewish dude

sitting on a well, in essence, having nothing

to his name. And the first person that shows

up starts asking her for something out of his

lack. That's the natural perception. The natural

perception was that this guy needed her and he

didn't come across as needing her. You see, that's

part of the rub of the sand. When you're just

sitting at a well and you don't even have a portable

camping cup, those little collapsible ones, just

to uncollapse and say, can you fill my cup up

with water? He didn't even have a cup. She was

going to have to give him a drink either from

her own cup or from her own. Bona bag or whatever

jar she was pulling out of that. And she might

have had to pour water for him to grab and drink.

There was nothing. He looked like a dude sitting

on the sidewalk that was Jewish, had a religion,

and had nothing around him. So automatically

her mindset is, this guy's a deadbeat. Hello?

This guy has nothing to offer. And then as she's

kind of thinking about, I came out here to be

alone because of persecution. I came out here

alone because I'm kind of the off scour among

some of the women. They don't like it. So I'm

just, I don't want to deal with their social

media. I don't want to deal with their chatter.

I am coming by myself in the heat of the day

because I don't want to deal with it because

I've got myself in a fix. And now I got to deal

with this Jewish dude. with nothing except his

religion. That's the picture. And then Jesus

retorts back, if you knew who it was. Now, I'm

not saying Jesus said it snarky. If you knew

who it was, he didn't go that way. But he said

it like Jesus says it. And it's enough piercing

and enough calmness at the same time that it's

still unsettling, but it's palatable. If you

knew the gift of God and who it was that's saying

to you, give me a drink, you would have asked

him and he would have given you living water.

Now, when you look at the lens of that, what's

the next verse that's going to come about? It's

going to come about is, sir, the well is deep

and you have nothing to draw from. It's like,

are you touched? Are you a little mental? Are

you on the spectrum? You have to look at it.

She wasn't encountering thinking she was going

to encounter a prophet. She wasn't thinking that

she was going to encounter the Son of God. She's

looking at Jesus as an outcast like she was.

You see, you have to understand, everybody had

left Jesus. He's by himself. He had no representation

that would have said, he's somebody. And to get

into the Samaritan woman's mindset, and I don't

know if you've heard it preached this way before,

but you're hearing it right now. To get into

the Samaritan mindset, she was looking at things

at absolutely a male level perspective. Her interactions

with males, her perspectives of males, and a

perspective of a Jewish male. Having nothing.

And them being the one that seems superior. And

when Jesus said, if you knew who it was, I would

have given you. Now that had to pique her. Where

did mom go? Do we know? Okay. Come out, come

out wherever you are. Okay. We need you here.

I got, I got to land this plane. So thank you,

sir. Give her one travel voucher. She was already

on the air. No, just kidding. Oh man. If you

knew who it was. Now listen, if you knew, you

would have asked. That word there is, you would

have asked is actually one word. You would have

asked a bunch of English words, one Greek word,

ateo. It means you would have, if you knew who

it was. Now to me, This is the Holy Spirit doing

something very phenomenal here because the definition

means to crave and to desire and to want to receive

something from. Now, folks, you probably never,

thank you so much, guys. You probably never put

this together. And I'm telling you, the Lord

was speaking to me. Sometimes we make Bible accounts

so sterile, we don't see. the fleshly human element

that was actually in the text. Jesus was contrasting

now the water that she used to drink from men.

You've maybe heard the statement, man, drink

a cold water. It wasn't ever talking about natural

water. It was talking about the man that was

standing there that was all handsome. Man, he's

a cool drink of water. Any ladies ever heard

that expression? Okay, let's see. None of y 'all

reading any of the romance novels, but over here.

No, I'm messing with you. I'm messing with you.

A cool drink of water is a representation of

there was a desire in her heart. Now listen,

she's not saved. She's an idolater. She has lived

to this moment out of her flesh. And so she is

sizing up Jesus at this well, whether or not

he, what is he after? Is he after in her perspective,

what all men are after and what she's lived her

life in that process. So when she's asking the

question, trying to discern whether or not this

guy's a bum or is this guy a potential, because

remember everybody else in the city says, stay

away from this gal. She's sizing up on the basis

of, huh. And when Jesus. uses the phrase, if

you knew who it was, I would have given you living

water. It is a rhetorical statement that Jesus

is using what has been her very emphasis of her

whole life as getting carnal desire, as fulfilling

her life through carnality and the water of relationship

and sexual activity is exactly, and Jesus, turns

it on its head and said, if you knew, it means

what? You would crave. You would desire. You

would, even to the point, are you ready for this?

You would beg. He actually is speaking something

that had been her whole life in the natural side.

And he's using the natural side. I know this

sounds crazy to religious people, but it's what

he was doing. He was using the natural pull,

the natural perspective to bring her into a higher

level of encounter with the spiritual that would

cause a craving and a desire that she had known

before that dissipated, that would never make

her thirsty again. That's why. The thirst here

was so disappointing over and over. Failure,

failure, failure, failure. Jesus said, if you

knew who it was, if you knew who it was, you

would ask me for living water. She didn't know.

Guys, gals, she had no idea that Jesus was speaking

of the Holy Spirit. At this point in the conversation,

Holy Spirit was still working. hidden behind

the scene. She was simply letting Jesus bring

some analogies of her life and saying, I have

something that your thirst will be quenched.

And it wasn't until it went a little deeper that

she began to realize that this had turned from

a conversation in the natural now to something

deeper in the spiritual. And Jesus began to unlock

the guards that were there. And the moment as

we close here, and I got to close now and Pastor

Scott, you can come, but I want us to bow our

heads for a moment. I want us to think about

something out of all the things that could have

been in John chapter four, of all the encounters

that Jesus could have had right in the beginning

of John, the Holy Spirit decides to put a encounter

with a attitude and with a woman. And with the

very nature of life that had violated everything

in God's word and in God's perspective from the

old. Jesus would come to bring them into an encounter

with grace that she had never ever experienced.

Because the people around her didn't give her

grace. She had stopped giving herself grace.

There wasn't grace. There was just the idea,

as we showed, of rejection and loss, rejection

and loss and failure. This morning, as you bow

your head and you close your eyes, I'm here to

tell you that the Jesus who is, is the same right

now as he was right then. He is. He's here to

move you past the places where you've been stuck,

lost, rejected and failed. He wants you to come

to him afresh. He's not afraid to encounter you

even with wrong motives that you've had, wrong

ideas, even past failures of the degree of what

you think might be. How could God even love me?

He knows what I did was wrong. Yeah, he's seen

it all, but he comes to you at the well. He comes

to you at the well and he says, if you knew who

it was that is talking to you, you'd ask me,

you'd ask me, and I would give you living water.

If that's you this morning, you would say, you

know what? I choose right now. I want to identify

with Jesus. I want to identify with his word.

And you would say, I'm here this morning. I need

that living water. I've been stuck in my perspectives.

I've been stuck. It could be perspectives of

men, perspectives of women, perspectives of rejection,

perspectives of loss, perspectives of just absolutely

feeling like I have no platform to actually encounter

God's grace. If that's you this morning and you

would say, yes, I need the living water. Would

you be so bold this morning just to lift your

hands that I could send somebody to pray for

you? Thank you. Thank you, Chelsea. Right now,

find a lady. Men. Go, go, go, go, go all over

this room. Charles, you need that, sir? Okay,

yes. AJ, come on. Tim, keep your hands up until

I send somebody. Lori, go right behind you, right

behind you. Go pray with him, would you? We're

sending people to you right now. I need someone

in the back. We're moving quickly. Go, go, go,

go. Put your track shoes on. Amen. Father, you

see him. You see every person in this room. You

see those that are right there, right there.

Lord, the enemy has been just, has captured them.

They've come to the well with no expectation.

They've come to the well with no expectation.

But today, Jesus comes to the well. Jesus comes

and he offers you living water. He doesn't restrain

you from what you've done in the past. He doesn't

stop you from where life has been. He actually

comes to draw from his own life and to give you

a drink of acceptance and grace and healing and

hope in the name of Jesus. I pray that right

now, that in today's house, in the Lord's house,

As the shepherd of our soul is here this morning,

he's drawing you to himself and he's bringing

you as he says your voice, he's extending his

hand and bringing you back into that place of

these are my people. This is my sheep and you

are my son and daughter. And he gives to you

now fresh life as the people are praying with

you. Stay praying, the rest of us. In Jesus'

name, Lord, thank you for being the shepherd

of our soul. Pastor Scott. If you are in need

of prayer send us a text message at 541 -625

-1365. We would love to pray with you.