When we have a message title such as this one today, it makes some people uneasy. There will be some who form preconceived ideas based on this title alone, and I can not stop them from doing that. Having said that, the truth is that this title is absolutely one-hundred percent based on scripture.
Jesus, the very Word of God, was made manifested into flesh and walked the earth with us, taught us, healed us and saved us through His death, burial and resurrection for one simple purpose: to satisfy every single one of our needs. Today we will be examining this fact, so that we can honor Jesus by humbly accepting everything which He has paid to give us.
The Bible states very clearly and repeatedly that Jesus came as a Servant. He came to serve, He came in humility. Jesus even states this fact Himself in Mark 10:45:
“For even the Son of man came not to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.”
Notice that the words “minister” and “servant” are synonymous. There are some ministers today who have yet to learn this fact!
Recognizing Jesus as a servant does not at all take away from his Lordship or His God-hood, in-fact it magnifies it. You see my friends, there is a false teaching that is quite prevalent today that we as Christians need to “serve God” in the strictest sense. This is not the case. The truth is that God is God. He is all-sufficient and He does not need or require our service. He does not want or desire slaves.
If God needed anything from us then He would not be God, because one can not be God if they are lacking anything. The truth straight from God’s own mouth in the Bible is that we are completely bankrupt and deficient in every way apart from Jesus, and that by recognizing this inadequacy in ourselves and relying fully upon Him, everything that we are lacking is then satisfied by Christ Jesus.
This is demonstrated wonderfully in John 4:7-10:
“There comes a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus said to her, Give me to drink.
(For his disciples were gone away to the city to buy meat.)
Then said the woman of Samaria to him, How is it that you, being a Jew, ask drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.
Jesus answered and said to her, If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that said to you, Give me to drink; you would have asked of him, and he would have given you living water.”
The first thing that Jesus will do in a person’s life is bring them to the end of themselves. He will always reveal the innate inability of the person first. This is the reason why He asks the Samaritan woman for a drink, to reveal to her that truly she has nothing to give Him. So many people today are trying their very best to “give to God” when in reality He is wanting so desperately to give to them. Look at what Jesus says in verse 10:
“Jesus answered and said to her, If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that said to you, Give me to drink; you would have asked of him, and he would have given you living water.”
Here Jesus reveals the reason why He asked this woman for a drink to begin with: To show her that He is both the gift of God, and the Living Water that she really needs. She was thinking in physical terms, and He was speaking to her in spiritual terms. The conversation that proceeds in the following verses is amazing and wonderful. Let’s continue in John 4:11-8:
“The woman said to him, Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from where then have you that living water?
Are you greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
Jesus answered and said to her, Whoever drinks of this water shall thirst again:
But whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
The woman said to him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come here to draw.
Jesus said to her, Go, call your husband, and come here.
The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said to her, You have well said, I have no husband:
For you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband: in that said you truly.”
Jesus, being God, already knows every detail of our lives. He knows our thoughts, He knows our feelings, and He also knows all the secrets big and small that we don’t want anyone to know of. Notice how Jesus told this woman to go call her husband, even though He clearly knew all about her life. Again, He did it to demonstrate her lack, her need and her emptiness. He caused her to recognize her own need of Jesus, so that then He could satisfy that emptiness.
Today we have truly empty people who fail to see their own emptiness. And we also have empty people who become deceived and try to satisfy their emptiness with something other than Jesus. Both of these errors will lead to nothing but destruction and death.
My friends, nothing on this earth will satisfy your emptiness. No luxury, no amount of money, no other person. Jesus is the only true Living Water that satisfies every single need in your life – regardless of what that need is.
There are believers today who are still lacking in certain areas of their life, and they wonder what the problem is or why God seems to be silent in that particular area. I will submit to you right now that the reason why they are not prospering in that area is because they are not seeing Jesus in that area. They are either prideful and not allowing Him to lead that area of their lives, or they are ignorant and are not yet aware of Jesus in that area. And furthermore there are some prideful people who do not want to know what Jesus has to say about certain areas of their life!
I pray that what I have just stated does not describe you today, or anyone that you know. Yet if it does the way out is simple. We have two more scriptures to look at today before we close. First recognize that Jesus has truly come to satisfy every area of your life. Drop down a few verses and let’s read John 4:30-35:
“Then they went out of the city, and came to him.
In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat.
But he said to them, I have meat to eat that you know not of.
Therefore said the disciples one to another, Has any man brought him ought to eat?
Jesus said to them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
Say not you, There are yet four months, and then comes harvest? behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.”
Everything that Jesus did was for our sakes, and just by serving us He is refreshed. Jesus serving the Samaritan woman actually revitalized Him as if He had eaten a meal! The All-Sufficient God is satisfied by satisfying you!
So here is the problem for some people, and I’m just going to talk plainly with you. It is pride and arrogance that keeps many from allowing Jesus to satisfy them. They feel that they can do it on their own or that they don’t need Jesus to interfere with certain areas of their lives. These people think they know what they need, and think they know what they want, and no-one – not even God – is going to tell them any different.
I have met people like this; I have tried to counsel with them, and they don’t want to hear it.
If this sounds like someone that you know, the Bible calls them “scoffers”, “scorners” and “fools” and God’s advice is to run from them. Do not even associate with them because they will not listen, but they will turn you away from God and drag you down into a pit with them. Hear the advice of God in Proverbs 15:10-12:
“Correction is grievous to him that forsakes the way: and he that hates reproof shall die.
Hell and destruction are before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?
A scorner loves not one that reproves him: neither will he go to the wise.”
There are those who will search for satisfaction and comfort from every other source except Jesus. And the end result is death.
I encourage you today to come to Jesus honestly and openly. You will find in Him the true satisfaction and Spring of Life that only He can give. This is Jesus Christ, the One who was born to satisfy you.