The Water Pot

This sermon delivered on the Fourth Sunday of Great Lent, known as the Samaritan Woman Sunday, uses the woman’s water pot as a metaphor for sin and an endless cycle of spiritual thirst. The speaker identifies three properties of the water pot, which symbolizes the heavy burden we choose to carry, the impure water (representing undesirable actions) we willingly consume, and an unquenching thirst that traps us in an infinite loop of dissatisfaction. The sermon culminates by revealing that the water pot is sin and the sixth man is the devil, arguing that only through the liberating work of Christ and the Holy Spirit can one finally abandon this burden and achieve true freedom, as the Samaritan woman did when she left her pot behind.