Sunday Evening Service
Teachers
Lesson Summary
During the Sunday evening service on October 1, 2023, the teacher opened with a cultural reference to the long‑running "Obey Your Thirst" Sprite campaign, using it as a springboard to ask congregants what they were spiritually thirsty for. He then examined Revelation 21:6‑8, emphasizing the promise that God would give "the water of life" to those who thirst, while warning about the dire fate of the cowardly, unbelieving, and immoral. The message shifted to the Gospel of John, where Jesus' encounter with the Samaritan woman at Jacob’s well illustrated how He offers living water that quenches eternal thirst, and how her social isolation revealed a deep spiritual famine. The teacher connected the theme to Psalm 42, recalling David’s yearning "as a deer pants for streams of water," to demonstrate the biblical consistency of humanity’s longing for God. He encouraged listeners to recognize the deserts in their own lives—whether loneliness, sin, or unmet desire—and to turn to Christ as the oasis that satisfies completely. The class concluded with a call to personal reflection and a challenge to drink deeply of the promised living water, allowing it to transform reputations, relationships, and inner thirst. Overall, the lesson wove together New Testament promises, Old Testament yearning, and contemporary culture to illustrate that true fulfillment is found only in the water of life Jesus provides.
Key Scriptures
And he said to me, It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give to the one who thirsts from the spring of the water of life without cost. He who overcomes shall inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be my son. But for the cowardly, and the unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and the sexually immoral, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.
There came a woman of Samaria 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 therefore said to him, How is it that you, being a Jew, ask me for a drink when you are a Samaritan and I am a Samaritan woman? 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 who says to you, Give me a drink, you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water. She said to him, Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this well and drank of it himself, and his sons and his cattle? Jesus answered and said to her, Everyone who drinks this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. The water that I shall give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life. The woman said to him, Sir, give me this water, so that I will not thirst nor come all the way here to draw.