At the 2007 Grace Evangelical Society conference, Zane Hodges examines Jesus' encounter with the Samaritan woman and demonstrates how the living water that gushes forth into everlasting life, is the saving truth that Jesus is the Christ, and how Jesus' prophetic word in John 4:10 was literally fulfilled, that "you [Samaritan woman] would have asked Him [Jesus], and He would have given you living water."

Luke 8:19-25
Who Am I? Who Is He?
Zane C. Hodges (October 22, 1989 - Coast Bible Church)

A very real spiritual identity crisis often lies at the root of the frustrations and failures that we experience in Christian living. Sometimes under the pressures of life, we forget who Jesus is and what He is like. We forget the greatness of His power, the sufficiency of His strength, the abundance of His mercy and the plenitude of His grace, and Jesus becomes like a stranger. Jesus Christ has everything we could possibly need or want and yet He is always right there right besides us. The shortest way to the end of our frustrations, difficulties and perplexities, is the companionship and friendship and the presence and power of Jesus Christ, the Almighty Son of God. The Lord Jesus Christ gives Himself to us first as our Savior when we trust Him for that, and then as we learn to obey Him, as our Brother, our Companion and our Friend.

In this second part on the Spirit of the Antichrist: Decoupling Jesus from the Christ, Zane Hodges examines the mystical movement of Contemplative Spirituality and how this movement denies the historical Jesus and denies Jesus as the Christ, the One who gives eternal life to every believe in Him.

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