Well, we're going to continue today from where
we left off last week with a message
on John chapter 4 entitled Wells of Salvation
We've been going through ten wells of salvation
And we're basing our study out of John
chapter 4 where Jesus met the woman at
the well So we invite you to get
your Bible and follow along as we come
up through the wells of the Old Testament
Up to John chapter 4 with Jesus at
the well Well is called, I call it,
the place of the covenant of eternal preservation
When you come to Jesus and you drink
of that well God has made a covenant
with you that if you come under the
blood of Christ you trust the blood of
Christ for your salvation You will be eternally
Preserved.
A lot of people like to take doctrines
and say no you can be saved, but
you can't stay saved You have to keep
yourself saved.
God has saved you, yeah, by the blood
of Christ, but you got to keep yourself
saved This is the place of the covenant.
When you come to the well, when you
come to Jesus and you drink of the
water of salvation You are saved.
Now the problem is many come to the
well and they look in and maybe even
draw the bucket and even Stick the dipper
in and play around, but they never really
drink of the water of life Maybe even
smell it But they never drink and thus
they're never satisfied Hebrews 7 20 through 22
gives you more details on this covenant.
Now, there's another place 24 Genesis 24 10
through 12 Get into some some Basically these
first three dealt with unsaved.
Now we go into wells that deal with
the believer, things that God has for the
believer Genesis 24 10 through 12 and the
servant took ten camels of the camels of
his master and departed for all the goods
of his master were in his hand and
He arose and went to Mesopotamia Unto the
city of Nahar and he made his camels
to kneel down without the city by a
well of water At the time of the
evening even the time that woman go out
to draw water.
Now we know the story this is Abraham
sending the servant off to get Isaac a
wife and And So he comes to this
well of water in the evening and he
prays that God would give him success and
he said in 13 behold, I stand here
by the well of water and The and
he prayed and basically he prayed that the
girl that came out when he asked for
water she would Throw something else extra in
and by that he would know and the
extra was she said can I can I
water your camels?
Also, well Rebecca came and of course she
said exactly that but he's praying at the
well I call this the place of prayer.
The well is the place of prayer when
you come to Jesus and you drink for
salvation You stay there and drink The reason
so many are dry I believe is because
it's not Jesus isn't the place of prayer
He's a place maybe where they come and
park once a week at church with others
But he's the place where we continually pray
we continually drink water, don't we So we
continually pray Genesis 29 is another one one
through three And believe it or not we
are coming back to John chapter 4 it's
just gonna take a while looks like it's
another place 29 one through three then Jacob
went on his journey and came into the
land of the People of the east and
he looked and behold a well in the
field and lo there were three flocks of
sheep lying by it This isn't the one
he dug Three flocks of sheep lying by
it for out of that well They watered
the flocks and a great stone was upon
the wells mouth and then there were all
the flocks gathered And they rolled the stone
from the wells mouth and watered the sheep
and the stone again unto the wells mouth
upon the wells mouth in the place then
We got our we get our romantic stories
and everything here, but let me give you
the principle This well is the place of
rest.
How do you know?
You say how do you know?
Well look at the context and he looked
and behold a well in the field the
green pastures is the place of rest in
the in the field of green pastures in
the wilderness was the were The Unsaved were
we were in wilderness wells.
Here's one in the green pastures you say
well, that's not enough Well, look, what are
the sheep doing the three flocks of sheep
lying by it?
For out of that well, they watered the
flocks and a great stone was upon the
wells mouth This is the place of wrath
rest the three flocks of sheep lying by
this well, I Believe again, there's unrest and
many hearts Lifes and whatever because they're not
lying by the well drinking from other wells
You drink from the go to church and
drink from the world the well of the
world at church.
It's really pretty unsatisfying chapter 2 of Exodus
remember when Moses here's another one Exodus chapter
2 when Moses had to flee from Pharaoh,
what did he do?
He fled and if you look at 15
He ended up at a well well now
when Pharaoh heard this thing He sought to
slay Moses But Moses fled from the face
of Pharaoh and dwelt in the land of
Midian and he sat down by a well
Now I'm giving you all this background.
It's a lot of to it But we
miss out a lot of the meaning of
the New Testament teaching because we don't take
the time to get the background You see
the Jews understood this background Even this woman
at the well knew a lot about because
they talked they talked about the past they
talked about the stories they talked about what
God had done and they'd heard and rumors
and and And if you go over there
even today, even when I lived over in
that part of the world They loved to
tell you and many of that stuff comes
out to be fairy tales basically and a
lot of religions I used to when I
was pastoring in Wyoming I had one man
that led him and his wife actually I
led his wife to the Lord first and
when she got saved the The family got
saved and he just loved to tell me
these stories out of his old religion he
was a Catholic and he had all these
stories and They tell these stories.
Well, they understood these stories in the meanings
in the background.
So when when we talk about a woman
at the well We don't understand much.
So what about Moses?
He comes to a well and he sat
down by a well now the priest of
Midian has seven daughters and they came and
drew water and fill the troughs to water
their father's flocks and the shepherds came and
drove them away and Moses stood up and
helped them and watered their flock now this
well We come through this is our next
well in the scripture.
It's the place of what?
refuge There's something where do you go?
Well, I go see my shrink I'll go
see my counselor or I'll go see my
pastor or whatever and it's okay Maybe to
go see your pastor, whatever but first go
to the place of refuge Go to Jesus
many are peer dependent pastor dependent counselor dependent
Whatever dependent they are they go to the
place of refuge Moses fled he sat down
and Something else here just a little side
note and the shepherds came and drove them
away in verse 17 But Moses stood up
and helped them and watered their flock Those
sign note on this drove them away many
under shepherds under supposedly under Jesus as the
shepherd are driving the flocks away without realizing
that they are part there They are polluting
the Word of God by using these other
versions They are polluting their flock by giving
them water to drink that is mixed with
mud Basically untrue.
I know a lot of people don't like
this But I've looked at it and God
has taught me that this King James Bible
is the Word of God When you come
to this and you drink of this word,
you can be satisfied This I don't know
how many times we've heard people say I'm
just not getting much in my devotional time
Not getting much at church, whatever and almost
invariably.
We'll ask him these two things.
What Bible version are you using the church?
What Bible version are you using?
Well, you need to get you a good.
Well, oh, no.
No.
No, I like this.
I like this Oh, well, okay, whatever you
want.
There's another well Numbers 21 numbers 21 the
next well 21 16 through 17.
This is a neat one and From thence
they went to beer that is the well
where of the Lord spake and to Moses
gathered the people together And I will give
them water Remember when God who gave him
water?
I don't have time to go back and
all this you can do it yourself They
came back many times.
You just need to come back simply back
to Jesus drink and From this they went
to beer that is the well where of
the Lord spake unto Moses Gathers people together
and I will give them water and then
what were they supposed to do?
Israel then Israel sang this song spring up.
Oh, well Sing ye unto it Spring up.
Oh, well sing ye unto it.
I just can't take time to go into
all of this But let me just say
these two things This is the place of
worship You come to the well to worship
a Lot of people think you got to
go to church to worship No, you come
to the well you come to Jesus Jesus.
No one can worship the Father unless they
come to Jesus.
Oh I've got my way.
I don't need Jesus.
Whatever.
No, you have to come is the place
of worship.
This is personal worship How do I know
that because they say sing?
To the well spring up.
Oh, well sing ye unto it.
Do you sing to a thing?
Do you sing to a thing we sing
to a person we sing to the Lord
This is a Teaching a symbolic teaching of
a living God What did Jesus say to
the woman at the well living life?
And he had to take her from the
physical to understand what he was teaching about
the spiritual Sing to your well many people
sing to their well They go out and
sing to their car They go to work
and sing to their work.
They sing what you out of the abundance
of the heart the mouth sinks Are you
singing to your Savior?
Are you singing to something else?
2nd Samuel 17 17 through 19 Is the
place?
With Jonathan and a him ass when it
was a place of shelter and I'm not
gonna Maybe okay.
I'll go on over there.
I'm thinking boy.
It's taking a lot of time on this,
but they were being pursued The King was
after him Nothing new there The righteous are
always seeming to the unsaved are always after
them and so they come and they are
sheltered in a well now Jonathan and a
Him I has stayed by in Roy jail
that they might not be seen to come
into the city and a Wrench went and
told them and they went and told King
David nevertheless a lad saw them and told
Absalom But they went both of them away
quickly and came to a man's house and
but who rim Which had a well in
his court whether they went down and the
woman took and spread a covering over the
wells mouth and spread ground Ground corn their
own and the thing was not known and
you know the background on this but the
well is the place of shelter Many times
you come to Jesus.
He's the shelter the position of security Let
me say the last two quickly 2nd Samuel
23 15.
This is a neat one remember when David
and 2nd Samuel 23 15 he was fighting
the Philistines and they were between him and
Bethlehem and in Bethlehem.
There was a well that had the sweetest
water and then any old shepherd would know
where the sweet water was where the good
water was and When you get the good
you don't want the bad and so they're
fighting the Philistines in verse 12 He stood
in the midst of the ground and defended
it and slew the Philistines and the Lord
brought a great victory Three and you went
you know the history there, but in 15
it says in David Longed and said oh
that one would give me to drink of
the water of the well of Bethlehem which
is by the gate and the three mighty
men break through the host of the Philistines
and drew water out of the well of
Bethlehem that was by the gate and Took
it and brought it to David nevertheless.
He would not drink thereof but poured it
out into the Lord This is one of
those beautiful stories, but this basically has a
lesson here The well is the place of
satisfaction wires Many people running around looking for
this and that's quick as they're not satisfied
The cultists get people because they were not
satisfied They were just in a church in
a denomination or whatever and the Jehovah Witnesses
and the Mormons Whatever grabbed people up because
they never really got to Jesus once you
get to Jesus.
He satisfies doesn't he?
It's the well of satisfaction I'm just going
to mention one more.
Well The well is the place of possession
because it says in Proverbs I Don't think
I have this unmarked, but it's the place
of Possession it was the place of satisfaction
to David, but it's the place of Possession
because Solomon Old Solomon after all of his
years and all of his lust and all
of his Wives and everything interesting that he
would come up and he'd say this in
five.
I should have marked this one Where are
you supposed to drink?
Are you supposed to drink?
He said drink waters out of thine own
cistern Basically The man is to be satisfied
with his wife wife with her husband drink
waters out of thine own Cistern out of
your own.
Well, you drink water if Jesus is your
well and you have the water of salvation
Why would you want to go drink out
of another?
Well, I was talking to somebody this week
I like to didn't graduate from college because
of this one course They said matter of
fact had to move to another college because
they wanted to take eight hours of a
whole course I didn't think I needed it
had nothing to do with the Bible preaching
or anything like that It was zoology, which
is zoology is fine, but I've already went
to college went through the Air Force I
was there to learn the Word of God.
You got to have it Are you so
I went to another school and got into
that school and said you got to have
philosophy to graduate and They were teaching pure
old raw paganism and I clashed with that
course.
I clashed with the teacher teaching it because
the spirit in me said don't drink out
of this.
Well, and It shot my average because I
just I think I got a D out
of it It just shot my I said
a good enough average to graduate But it
shot my average bad because I just rebelled
against drinking out of that.
Well Now here's the conclusion and Jacobs well
was there and Jacob's well was there This
well and that's another whole story.
We won't go into that But it was
purchased because when he came to land in
Genesis 33 he purchased the land He purchased
the land and then he dug his well
Psyche or means purchased that's the meaning of
it.
And So when Jesus said if thou knewest
the gift of God He said it's free
But it's not cheap Jacob's well there.
They were drinking there freely, but somebody had
brought it Jacob had bought it he'd purchased
it And so when Jesus said to the
woman at the well and verse 10 If
thou knewest the gift of God and who
it is that said to thee give me
to drink thou wouldest ask of him He
would have given the living water lady.
You can drink of the water of life
freely But it's been purchased by a price
and of course, he's not tolerant or like
this But it was purchased by price.
The well must first be purchased Our salvation
has been purchased.
Jesus is our salvation.
He paid the price for our sin is
purchased then the well must be possessed Many
know that Jesus died that they do not
possess him personally as their own.
Well And you come over another portion Genesis
48 21 22 I won't go into that
but the well must be was possessed It
was Jacob's well and the enemy continually tries
to come and get those wells So the
well must be purchased project possessed before it
can be enjoyed The reason many do not
enjoy Jesus Jesus is a drudgery.
Jesus is just a word he's a religion
or he's a denomination that they got to
go to their church or whatever they have
no joy in their salvation because What?
Jesus is really not their salvation.
He's not there Well, the water that they're
getting is somewhere else and they look at
the well Purchased possessed must be enjoyed now
these concluding statements As I said at the
beginning sometimes it helps To know where you've
been to understand where you're at and where
you're going Jesus understood where this lady had
been and where she was at and where
she was going He used what was there
handy and God is continually teaching us to
use What is handy in witnessing to the
lost this John chapter 4 is one of
the greatest You know, I might get hung.
I could get hung up here for weeks
But we'll keep moving on as we go,
but this is one of the greatest lessons
of winning people now We'll come back to
our dipper the Dentist if I thought about
in time, I'd had you bring a gourd,
you know that I'm driving down the highway
You got one.
Okay, we'll go get one kids like to
see all this stuff we come up with
We've had a snake on a pole.
We've had a ladder leaning up against the
wall Yeah, that'd be good to get the
gourd but we're gonna get to our lesson
now Granny's well, my old granny's.
Well there with that Bucket granny didn't like
it And I don't remember ever doing it
but she wouldn't like it if I just
take the bucket and Or stick my face
down in the bucket, you know, you don't
drink like that.
Do you what do you need?
You need a dipper, right?
If if you can't find the dipper, that's
okay the gourd we'll just use our dipper,
but if Jesus is the well and Salvation
is The water is salvation Who's the dipper?
Remember the the woman at the well had
you can't find it.
It's okay That's all right.
We'll just use this.
We're almost done She left her water pot
there So who's the water pot basically just
say it like that who's the water pot
who's the vessel who's the bucket I Was
gonna look this one up.
It's Aren't we the vessels of clay?
Yes, Lord.
I'm a vessel of clay.
What is the problem with a vessel of
clay?
It can have cracks it can break.
It's fragile And Got a leak in it.
I am a cracked Vessel, I was gonna
say crack pot, but that's too that's setting
yourself up.
Don't do that.
I won't do that We are cracked Pots
cracked vessels we leak we have to do
what continually Refill it we drink out of
it.
You have to continually refill it What did
the scripture say be ye continually filled Be
not drunk with wine.
We're in success, but be filled with the
Holy Spirit.
That means continually filled with Jesus Now when
you come to this passage in John 4
and you got a little bit of background
about wells and It helps you understand a
little bit more now, let me ask say
this the woman was the vessel To give
the town a drink.
She was the dipper the she left her
water pot there she left her water pot
there because she was the water pot now
and She was filled with Jesus and she
went back and she was a she was
a cool drink of water To all those
men that she went back and told him
the message and the whole town.
She was a cool drink of water She
was a vessel full of the cool drink
of water and they came out and they
drank Straight from Jesus himself Unusual blessing and
privilege to be able to do that now
The mouth of a righteous man is a
well of life the scripture says When you
went through this week out of your mouth
You gave water or you withheld water the
mouth of a righteous man is a well
of life Psalms 84 5 & 6 and
that was Proverbs 10 11 Psalms 84 5
& 6 who passing through the valley of
Baca Make it a well.
God says that you and I as we
pass through the valley of weeping.
There are people weeping this week We will
go through the valley of weeping, but we
will make it what a Well, we will
impart Jesus The interesting thing about the scripture
says in 2nd Peter 2 17, these are
wells without water Jesus warned about the cisterns
the wells without water People come into the
Pharisees.
They were wells without water when people come
to you and I this week.
Will they find water or they find Me
present and no water Listen to this verse
neat verse Jeremiah 2 and verse 13 Need
an extent in the sense that it is
so pertinent to our day for my people
have committed two evils They have forsaken me
the fountain of living waters and hewed them
out Cisterns broken cisterns that can hold no
water and all these other Bible versions Even
though they've got some water in there.
They are not the pure water They're broken
cisterns and they're getting worse and worse and
worse as they try to make it they're
leaving the blood out and leaving the name
of Jesus out and things like that make
it compatible and not so offensive and In
the process they're doing these two things the
church today This is why when I talk
to that young man, our churches are so
bad off and I say I I'm not
going to put us above anybody else it's
because And we're trying and striving to listen
to the Lord and serve the Lord And
we are missionaries and we are servants anybody
that comes into our fellowship to be a
part of us We are missionaries and we
are servants.
We're not pew sitters There's no room for
pew sitters in the church when we have
pew sitters, then we Then we get to
the point to be men pleasers and we
have to keep them happy to keep them
present in the process We do these two
things we will forsake the Lord and we
will hew out cisterns They have forsaken me
the fountain of living waters and hewed them
out cisterns broken cisterns that can hold no
water when they come and they Dip into
our life There's nothing that satisfies the unsaved
but when they dip into our life and
Jesus is filling our life and they dip
into our life and Jesus is what they
drink out of our life.
It satisfies them or either make them angry
if They're already satisfied with their filth On
your journey through Samaria, isn't it?
Interesting acts 1 8 and you shall receive
power after that the Holy Ghost has come
upon you and you shall be witnesses Unto
me in Jerusalem and in Samaria and unto
the uttermost part of the earth.
We're in our Samaria our Jerusalem Or our
uttermost part of the earth wherever you're at.
The final question is on our journey through
Samaria We will meet a thirsty soul Will
they find water in our well Let's pray
Like the woman at the well father many
are thirsty and our hearts cry out to
you that no matter all the problems whatever
kind of problems we have or persecutions Or
trials that we will continually be a well
of living water That Jesus will be flowing
through our lives Lord, thank you for speaking
to us today.
Thank you for ministering.
Thank you for challenging us and We pray
for any that are dry wells That they
would recognize that dryness is because there's no
life there there's no living water and if
they're unsaved we pray that They would cry
out to the Lord to save them.
I don't know why father We're so content
to be proud and pharisaical and pretend Pretend
like our well is full of water when
really we're dry as a desert.
Thank you that you can satisfy And for
any that need Jesus, we just ask that
they would call out Call out to him
whosoever shall call upon the name of the
Lord shall be saved and for us Lord
Maybe you've met us today and you found
us a little dry And all of the
things that we're going through It's easy for
us to get into the barrenness of emptiness
as it's been said or the barrenness of
dryness What are we here for if it
isn't to make Christ?
No Then we'll be making ourself.
No Thank you for speaking to us and
ministering in Jesus name Are you thirsty?
Isaiah said for I will pour water in
Reporting what the Lord has said.
He said for I will pour water upon
him.
That is thirsty and Floods upon the dry
ground.
I will pour my spirit upon thy seed
and my blessing upon thy offspring Whosoever shall
call upon the name of the Lord shall
be saved It's time to repent and cry
out to the Lord that you are dry
And empty and come to Jesus who is
the well of life the living water comes
From the Lord Jesus Christ, why not call?
Whosoever shall call upon the name of the
Lord shall be saved Why not call out
to the Lord today and he will save
you well, we're praying that the Lord will
bless you and that the Lord will keep
you and That the Lord will make his
face shine upon you and that the Lord
will be gracious unto you and that the
Lord will lift up his countenance upon you
and That the Lord will give you peace
God bless you my friend