Little Country Church on the edge of town

Do do do do do do

People coming every day from miles around

For meetings and for Sunday school

And it's very plain to see

It's not the way it used to be.

Welcome to the Word for today, featuring the Bible teaching ministry of Pastor Chuck Smith,

founder of the Calvary Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a chapter-by-chapter verse by verse study through the entire Bible.

And on today's edition of the Word for today, Pastor Chuck continues his message,

Never Thirst Again, as we pick up in John chapter 4, verse 15.

And now with today's study, here's Pastor Chuck.

The statement, he who drinks of this water shall thirst again,

there Jesus is referring to that physical water in the well.

Carrying it one step further.

Jesus in talking about thirst spoke not of physical thirst, but of spiritual thirst.

Man is a threefold being. He is body, mind, and spirit. And there are physical thirst. There are emotional thirst, and there is a spiritual thirst.

Jesus said to the woman, if you drink of this water, you're going to thirst again. That can be said of

every physical experience that you might possess or seek or find.

There are always those who feel, if I could just, and you fill in the blank, then I would be happy and satisfied. What's in your blank?

If I just had blank, I would be satisfied and happy. It seems that man is always setting out a goal

or a thing whereby he feels that if I could just achieve,

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