When we are born again, we really become sons of God. He adopts us into His family because He really is our Father now. There is a great change from the Old Covenant to the New. One concerns a bondage leading to fear, the other to the love of our Father.
Human beings thirst for happiness and fulfillment but most never find it because they are looking for the wrong object and in the wrong way. Christ alone is the living water.
Jesus meets the woman at the well and reveals Himself to her, granting her salvation. There are important truths here for us, especially in regard to true worship.
Through Isaiah, the Lord promised that He would one day provide a Child, a Son, who would be the Messiah.
We see the beauty of Jesus as the Truth in his encounter with Nicodemus. The sinner does not grasp the truth and in fact hates it unless the Lord opens his eyes to see.
The wicked refuse to worship or give thanks to the Lord. The most evil sin of man is his refusal to acknowledge or give thanks to God. One day the Christian's worship of the Lord will be what the Psalmist describes here - the giving of loud, glad, joyful praise to the Lord.
John shows us that when Satan is loosed, he will bring the Antichrist and the False Prophet to power. The devil's one world kingdom is coming.
