In His grace, Jesus initiates with a Samaritan woman at the well. He is the one who seeks out - not the sinner.While she can draw water from the well, it is water that can never satisfy. It is only temporary.Jesus offers living water—the Holy Spirit —which will always satisfy. This is a free gift from God. There is nothing that the woman or we do to earn or gain it. It is only from God.John 4:7-15A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” (For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.) 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.) 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.” The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.” 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.” 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.”

Jesus leaves Judea (Nicodemus and John the Baptist) to return to Galilee. He makes His way to Samaria and the well of Jacob. Since Jesus is truly God and truly man, His journey wearies him and stops to rest in Samaria. It is here he will have an interaction with a Samaritan woman.Jesus shows us again that the Gospel is good news for the Jews first and then for the Gentiles. We are brought into His kingdom and family through His blood, not by our pedigree and birth. John 4:1-6Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), he left Judea and departed again for Galilee. And he had to pass through Samaria. So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob's well was there; so Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.

John the Baptist again makes it clear that he is not the Christ. He is the one who comes before to proclaim and exult the Messiah.Jesus is the Christ and the Savior! He is the promised Messiah and came to save the world. John 3:22-30After this Jesus and his disciples went into the Judean countryside, and he remained there with them and was baptizing. John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and people were coming and being baptized (for John had not yet been put in prison).Now a discussion arose between some of John's disciples and a Jew over purification. And they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, he who was with you across the Jordan, to whom you bore witness—look, he is baptizing, and all are going to him.” John answered, “A person cannot receive even one thing unless it is given him from heaven. You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, ‘I am not the Christ, but I have been sent before him.’ The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom's voice. Therefore this joy of mine is now complete. He must increase, but I must decrease.”

Do not love the darkness; rather, turn to Christ Jesus. He is the light. He will expose all that you think is hidden. Run from your sin and worship Jesus.John 3:19-21And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.

There are two types of people. First, those who believe in Jesus and, therefore, are not condemned. Second, those who do not believe and are already condemned. They are already guilty.Bow your knee today to your king, King Jesus. He is the only one who can save you from God's just wrath.John 3:17-18For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

We finally made it to John 3:16! It's such a famous verse. It is essential to take it in context with the rest of Jesus's conversation with Nicodemus. In this verse, we see that God is the primary actor; He is the one who saves us. Our natural path is one of death - of God's wrath. We must be saved from this. It is only through Jesus that we can be saved. No other path leads to salvation. We must believe in Jesus and Him alone!John 3:16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

God has always provided a way—a way for salvation.He made the promise back in the Garden of Eden.“I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.” (Gen 3:15)Jesus is the fulfillment of that promise, and He is the seed. God had a plan and provided a way. He is the primary actor, not man. It is His plan and His salvation. We are not the ones who bring it about, but it is only through the body and blood of Jesus. John 3:14-15And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life

We can only speak about what we know. Nicodemus did not truly know God or His plan. But we have Christ and the indwelling of the Spirit. We truly know Jesus and His word. While Nicodemus questioned, we can speak boldly with confidence!John 3:11-13Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen, but you do not receive our testimony. If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things? No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.

It is the Holy Spirit who grants understanding. Pray that the Spirit illuminates the scriptures and you find the beauty in God's Law!John 3:9-10Nicodemus said to him, “How can these things be?” Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you do not understand these things?

Only those who are born again can enter into God's Kingdom. You must be born in water and in the Spirit. Do not be confused. The Spirit is the one who does the work of your second birth. Trust Him!John 3:2-8This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”