All right, brethren. John 19. In verse 28, we read, After this,
Jesus, knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the
Scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst. Consider this
word after this. There is a lot in that word after this. Around
noontime, our Lord looked down from the cross and he commanded
John to take care of his mother. And from that hour, at that time,
John took her to his house and then Darkness came upon the earth
for three hours. Scripture said from the sixth
hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth
hour. Our substitute suffered in that darkness in total silence. We can't even imagine the soul
agony he was bearing patiently. The Father had forsook him. We learn from the Psalms that
having been made sin for us, he owned our sins as his own. Well, I read that to you there
in Psalm 69, and it seems for most of the Psalms that he had
a full sense of guilt and divine wrath upon his conscience as
he hung there. He said there in Psalm 69.1,
I'm weary of my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail
while I wait for my God. And then about the ninth hour,
he cried with a loud voice saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani. That is to say, my God, my God,
why has thou forsaken me? Go over to Psalm 22. Psalm 22. He cried this, knowing why, but
one reason was for our benefit, to teach us why he was forsaken. And he says there in Psalm 22,
3, this is why he was forsaken, but thou art holy, O thou that
inhabitest the praises of Israel. Verse 6, he said, but I'm a worm
and no man, a reproach of men and despised of the people. He
said in verse 9, but thou art he that took me out of the womb.
Thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breast.
I was cast upon thee from the womb. Thou art my God from my
mother's belly. Never underestimate what God's
able to do to an infant in his mother's womb. Nothing's impossible
with God. But then in verse 14, he said,
I'm poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint.
My heart is like wax. It's melted in the midst of my
bowels. My strength is dried up like
a potsherd. Dried up like a potsherd. My
tongue cleaveth to my jaws. Thou hast brought me into the
dust of death. Back in John 19, verse 28, it says, After this,
Jesus, knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the
scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst. He knew all
things were accomplished. He knew that he had made an end
of the transgression for his people. He had made an end of
all the sins of his people. He had made his people righteousness
in him. God is just. He knew this. They
had all died in this suffering, this forsaking that he endured. And he's the justifier, the Lord
Jesus, knowing it was accomplished. And he said, I thirst. Verse
29, Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar, and they filled
a sponge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to
his mouth. That's an example of us and our
sinfulness right there. Just meanness. Just meanness
is all it was. But he said, I thirst that the
scripture might be fulfilled. And he fulfilled all the law
and the prophets. But we can't imagine how he must
have thirsted. How he must have thirsted. My
strength is dried up like a pot shard. My tongue cleaves to my
jaw. He said there in Psalm 22, he
said, Thou has brought me into the dust of death. That's what it was, the dust
of death. Verse 30, When Jesus therefore
had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished. And he
bowed his head, And he gave up the ghost. He said, it is finished. He finished the work the Father
gave him. One of these days, we see a little
bit of it now, but one of these days we're going to see that
the glory of God, God's holy character, God's purpose toward
his people, God's purpose in all this earth before then and
since then. We're going to see the whole
glory of God and know it fully that it's in them three words.
It is finished. It is finished. The salvation of his people is
in those three words. It is finished. No man took his
life. He bowed his head. That was voluntarily
in victory. He bowed it. It wasn't a defeated
thing there. He just bowed his head and he
gave up the ghost. No man took his life. He gave
it up. Now, Isaiah was used to tell us the chastisement of our
peace was upon him. Everything he bore right there
is our peace. Christ is our peace because that's
how he accomplished peace between his people and God. With his stripes, we are healed.
That means what it means. We're healed. We're healed. He
was forsaken of God so that we'll never be forsaken of God. And
he said, I thirst. I thirst. and will never be brought to
thirst in the way he thirsted. He will quench the thirst of
all his people because he said, I thirst. He would do that for
his people. That's my message. I thirst. Now, when I hear our substitute
say, I thirst, I think about, as it concerns us, I think about
his word on the mount. Our Lord said in Matthew 5, 6,
blessed, happy are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness,
for they shall be filled. All spiritual blessings are contained
in that word righteousness. We're thirsting for all spiritual
blessings. And our Lord gives us all spiritual
blessings, and ultimately it is Him we're thirsting for, the
Lord our righteousness. We're hungering and thirsting
after Him, and He says we shall be filled. What's He going to
fill you with? Him. Him. Now, we're not thirsty by
nature. Not for spiritual things. We're thirsty for the world.
We're thirsty for our sin. We're thirsty for the lust of
our flesh and what this world has to offer and our ambitions
and covetous, covetous, covetous, covetous. We come into this world seeking,
thirsting for polluted waters. Nobody has to teach us to do
this. We just have this in our nature. It's what our nature,
we thirst for corrupted, polluted, defiled water. That's what we're
thirsty for. The Lord said in Jeremiah 2.13,
my people have committed two evils. One, they've forsaken
me, the fountain of living waters. And two, they have hewed them
out cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water. They
left me and they're trying to hew them out their own cistern
and fill it with their own water and quench their own thirst by
the things they do. The natural man will hear the
gospel preached again and he'll say, oh, not this again. Sick
of hearing this, you know, like they did in the wilderness. We're
tired of this light bread. Give us the garlics and leeks
of Egypt. Give us the water of Egypt. Tell
us something about our system. Tell us something about how we
can fill it with our own water. The Lord Jesus gonna make his
children cry, I thirst. He gonna make us say, I thirst. You know, I'm studying this and
I kept getting thirsty, like physically thirsty. When you
hear somebody talking about thirst and water, don't it make you
thirsty? Well, the Lord is going to make us thirsty. He's going to make us thirsty.
He's going to do it by making us see Him suffering in our room
instead on that cross, bearing all the forsaking, the hell that
we deserve, dried up and thirsting Himself to give us a thirst to
be found in Him only. That's how He's going to make
His child thirsty. The gospel is a will of life. The gospel
of Christ, not just any gospel, the gospel of Christ is a well
of life. It's water. It's water for thirsty
souls. Because Christ Jesus, the righteous
man, he's the righteous God-man. He's the preacher. He's the one
who comes and when he makes his child thirsty, it's because he
preaches the word to our heart. Now listen to what the scripture
says, and think of the righteous man when you hear this. Proverbs
10, 11, the mouth of a righteous man is a well of life. When Christ is a preacher, preaching
to your heart, that's so. Proverbs 18, 4, the words of
a man's mouth are as deep waters and the wellspring of wisdom
as a flowing brook. He is wisdom. and He is deep
water for us and a flowing brook for us, but it's going to take
the Spirit of God to make us hear the gospel, make us see
our fallen Adam, make us see that our sin nature is nothing
but sin, make us see all our works are sinful, the best and
the worst, together. If God were to judge us according
to our works, he would judge the good and the evil, and they
would all come short of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. Everything
would come short of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. He's
going to dry up our man-made wells. He's gonna empty our cup
that we filled. He's gonna totally shatter our
already broken cistern and drain it of all its water. He's gonna
make us us parched and he's gonna make our way dry so that we might
become thirsty. This is what God has to do for
us spiritually. Now God's hand's not gonna be
as heavy on us as it was on our Lord Jesus because it was heavy
on our Lord Jesus. But when He puts His hand upon
you, that's how He's going to make us dry. That's how He makes
us dry. Let me give this to you from
Psalm 32. Psalm 32, verse 4. Day and night, thy hand was heavy
upon me. My moisture is turned into the
drought of summer. I acknowledge my sin unto thee. and mine iniquity have I not
hid, I said I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord,
and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin." This is what the
Lord's going to do. He puts His hand upon us in the
beginning and He dries up all our moisture and makes us dry.
And He does this. He keeps doing this for us. It's
grace to us. Never is His hand as heavy as
what He put on our Lord on that cross, but He does put His hand
heavy upon us and dry us up, just dry us up, to bring us to
Him, to confess all our sin to Him, our transgressions to Him,
our sins to Him. I pray Christ be the one speaking
tonight. Look back there at John 4. If
He's the one speaking to us tonight, He'll do what He did for this
woman. He came there to that woman and He made her know everything
she had ever done was sin. That's the point of that. He
made her know everything she had ever done was sin. She said,
she was amazed, He knows everything I've ever done. And our Lord
makes us know everything we've ever done, He knows it, and it's
all sin outside of Him. Every bit of it. But He said
to her in verse 10, He said, If thou knewest the gift of God,
and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldst
have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. We asked him to give living water. have to be brought dry, dry,
dry, dried up, so we ask Him for the living water. He said
in verse 13, ìWhosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again,
but whosoever drinketh 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.î Is
anybody here thirsty? Anybody here thirsty? Christ
made you see You're just a dry well in yourself. He made you
thirsty for Him. Are you thirsting for true water,
for living water, for Christ our righteousness? He makes His
children thirsty. Now here's the second thing.
Our Lord Jesus quenches our thirst. He quenches our thirst. Not with
gall and vinegar like they gave to Him. He's not going to keep
giving you gall and keep giving you vinegar. He has an end in
view when he makes you thirsty is to quench your thirst with
him. To quench your thirst with him. That's the very reason he suffered
in place of his people. He suffered under God's fierce
wrath to bring his children to him and quench our thirst by
his righteousness and his holiness and his wisdom. That's what he
sent his son to do. that he might give us water,
life, righteousness, and quench our thirst. He is the smitten
rock. They said there in Exodus 17,
6, God told Moses, Moses representing the law, thou shalt smite the
rock. The law has smitten Christ and
given him everything you deserve. All your sin today, he was bearing
that over 2,000 years ago on the cross, not to mention yesterday
and tomorrow. The law smote him, and he said,
there shall come water out of it that the people may drink.
That's the purpose. That's the purpose. It wasn't
just to create immoral people. Immoral people are a dead body
just covered over in white linen. It was to create a new people. It was to give you the living
water. The rock was smitten for Israel,
for a particular people, and Christ was smitten for a particular
people. Some of you sitting right here.
Christ justified his people so that this water of life is given
to his people freely. We have to keep, we have to be
made to see this and keep being made to see this, that this is
free. This is free. We don't realize
all the ways we bring ourselves back under bondage and he has
to keep showing us this is free. Psalm 105, 41, he opened the
rock and the waters gushed out. He doesn't just give you a little
life, he gives you abundance. The waters gushed out. They ran
in the dry places like a river. Can you just picture that? That
really happened. And it really happens with Christ.
the waters gush out. He remembered His holy promise,
and Abraham His servant. And God remembers His covenant
promise from everlasting, and He remembers Abraham His servant,
and He remembers every true child of Abraham, and He's going to
give us this water. He smoked Christ for that purpose. and he's going to keep giving
you this water, and he's not going to let you go without this
water. He's going to keep doing it.
That's the purpose. That's why we're here. That's
why we come here to worship, is to partake of Christ the water. That's why. A man shall be a hiding place
from the wind and a covert from the tempest as rivers of water
in a dry place as a shadow of a great rock in a weary land. Christ is the whole purpose,
to bring us to Christ. If you were in that desert and
you were dying of thirst and you saw that rock and you saw
the water coming out of that rock, do you know where you'd
have went? Straight to that rock. And if we're thirsty, made thirsty
by God, so we see there is nothing, there's no life in us. There's
no life in us, not naturally in our nature and none in our
hands. There's no life in us. And when
he makes you see that, that's when you're thirsty and that's
when you go to Christ. This is not just a one time,
first time and it's done deal. It keeps being done for us over
and over and over and over until the end. A well gets its water from a
hidden fountain within or from the rain above. And that's where
we get the water. Spiritually, when we're made
thirsty, and we're really made thirsty, whether it's the first
hour or any point in this desert journey we're going through,
when we're made thirsty, it's because God's already done a
work within and created a hidden fountain within by the Spirit
of God, and He's already rained down showers of blessing upon
us, and we don't even know it yet. We just see our need and
know our thirst and know, I have to have Christ. But He's already
started blessing you. And we get so thirsty. That's
when the gospel is good news to us. Proverbs 25, 25 said,
"...as cold waters to a thirsty soul." You know what a thirsty
soul is? He is a sinner. He is a sinner. He drinks iniquity
like water. I wish we knew how much we sin. How much we sin. Not saying sin,
saying avoid sin, saying with John beloved, don't sin. But we drank iniquity like water. Like water. Without even thinking
about it. That's when as cold waters to
a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. And he sends
this good news and it is He's cold water. Cold water. A thirsty sinner is going to
find himself believing on Christ and we find ourselves crying
out to Him from the depths of our heart. From the depths of
our heart. Dry doctrine won't help. Dry
doctrine won't help. Precepts and commandments won't
help. You clean up the outside, you know, that ain't gonna help.
What it takes is when you get to the point where you're so
thirsty, want nothing to do but the presence and spirit of the
Lord Jesus himself in your heart. That's what we're talking about.
Thirsty, we're talking about thirsty. The psalmist said in
Psalm 42, to my soul thirsteth for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear
before God? You know why you come here? You
want to go to the house of the Lord and hear the gospel and
have God speak in his heart. You know why you come here? Come here from a right motive
by the Spirit is because we're thirsty. We're thirsty. He said in Psalm 63, Oh God,
Thou art my God, early will I seek Thee. My soul thirsteth for Thee. For God Himself. He's the water. He's life. He's righteousness. It's God Himself. My soul longeth for thee in a
dry and thirsty land where no water is. You can look everywhere
in this land for something to quench this thirst. Nothing will. When it's of God, nothing else
will. We're in a dry and thirsty land. Everything that seems like
it's going to quench your thirst is just an oasis, I mean a mirage. We begin to hear Christ say in
our hearts, if any man thirsts, let him come to me and drink. You know, he's given us his commentary
on his word from Isaiah 55-1. He said, Come without money and
without price. Let your soul delight itself in fatness. You
know how he put that in John? He said, He that believeth on
me, as the scripture said. You can search everywhere. That's
the only place you'll find this passage. But over there he said,
Let your soul delight itself in fatness. And John, he said,
out of your belly will flow rivers of living water. Christ is the fountain of living
waters. He is the water. He's life. He's
righteousness. He's our need all the time. All the time. For those that
believe Him. And thirdly, the Spirit makes
us hear Christ declare this to us. He makes us thirsty. He makes
us behold Him. He makes us start longing for
Him. And He starts declaring to us the good news, what He
is to us. That's how He quenches our thirst. He did this work within us. He
sanctified us to Himself. He lets you know that. And He
shows you, I am your righteousness. You thought you was a goner.
You thought, you thought, this is the end of me. That's what
the devil told me. That's what men told me. He comes
and tells you, no it's not. I redeemed you. You're mine.
You're mine. He gives you. This word, you
know, we talk about the gift of faith. It is really this.
Everything is this. It's Christ coming and speaking
to the heart. That's it. You'll believe. When he speaks, The doubt's gone,
the fear's gone, the unbelief's gone. Because he speaks and says,
I am your righteousness, come with me. Follow me. He said that, he said in Revelation
22.1, a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, shall
proceed out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. He said through Isaiah, "...and
the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land
springs of water, and the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall
be grass with reeds and rushes." We're the dragon. We're the dragon. He comes, our old man, he comes
and he makes a pool of water and the thirsty land springs
of water by creating us anew. And for the first time, when
our Lord does this, when He does it at first, That's the first
time we stopped boasting. We stopped boasting. Our neck
was doing this right here, you know. Well, I think so. We stop it. We don't stop it
for good, unfortunately. But we do stop it. Because we
see now we don't have anything to boast in. We began to honor
God in the obedience of faith. You know what that is? It's casting
everything into Christ's hands. It's just what it sounds like.
The obedience of faith. Believing His obedience has made
me righteous. Because that's what He told me.
We start praising and glorifying God for His free, unmerited grace. For grace we weren't even seeking
from Him. He said that would be the effect,
that He would work. The beast of the field shall
honor Me. That's what He said. The dragons and the owls. We're these wilderness creatures
by nature. They're going to honor me because
I give waters in the wilderness and rivers in the desert to give
drink to my people, my chosen. Our Lord promised we'll never
go thirsty again. He said in John 4.14, whosoever
drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst.
He'll never thirst. The water that I'll give him
will be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting
life. Well, that's it then. We don't ever have to drink again.
We don't ever get thirsty again. We don't ever see Christ ever
again because we don't thirst anymore. I know that I have water
in my fridge, and I know they got water at the grocery store,
at least for now they do. I drank the water yesterday.
I got thirsty for water today. But I knew it was there, and
I went and drank it. I'll get thirsty tomorrow. I'll go there
and get it. When it runs out, I'll go to
the store and get some more. Why? Because I know it's there. But
I'm thirsty all along. But I'll never thirst as long
as there's water. And that's what our Lord means
when He gives you life and He gives you faith in Christ. He
quenches your thirst. You know now I have righteousness
in Him. I have acceptance with God in
Him. I'm justified by Him. He has
sanctified me by doing this work in my heart and separated me
unto Him and given me this longing to be conformed more to His image
and to seek Him. But I still get thirsty. I start
seeing the dryness of myself and I start seeing my sin and
I start thirsting and thirsting and thirsting. When we read Psalm
22 and we read these other Psalms and we hear our Lord speaking
saying, I thirst, I'm dried up, I'm in the dust of death. We
do hear our Lord Jesus saying that, but don't forget we also
hear a believer. We hear David as a believer saying
these things. Believer, do you thirst for the
Lord Jesus Christ? Do you thirst for His Gospel? We don't always thirst for His
Gospel. Just be honest, we don't. When He makes you thirsty for
it, oh, you have to have the Gospel. He makes you thirst to
get into His Word. We don't always thirst for that,
do we? He keeps giving you a thirst. He keeps making you see how dry
you are and thirsting for his word. You thirst to go to his
throne of grace. When he does that and makes you
thirsty, it is a delight to be able to get out of the hustle
and bustle of everything and to get in a quiet place and pour
your heart out to God. Don't you long, and he makes
you thirst more for that as you go. We thirst to be conformed to
Him. He makes you thirst to be saved from our sin nature. Sadly,
we still delight in our sin nature. That old man is enmity and loves
sin and only always will. But he keeps you thirsting to
be freed from him, thirsting for Christ to subdue him, thirsting
to be more Conform to Christ to walk in holiness and honor
him and he makes you so thirsty when you see yesterday's failures
And he makes you beg Lord don't let me fail tomorrow don't let
me fail tomorrow I'll bear the reproach Lord.
I sinned against you you will you defend me will you protect
me and keep me? You've done your work, Lord.
You made me thirsty. I'm drinking. Lord, save me. Save me. Every believer is thirsty
in our soul for Christ because Christ keeps making us thirsty. In one of the Psalms, he said,
I stretch forth my hands unto thee. My soul thirsteth after
thee as a thirsty lamb. You ever done that? Have you
ever just stretched your hands out, just begged God, please,
Lord, please, Lord, make yourself known in my heart? David experienced that over and
over and over. God's people do too. Every one
of them do. Not a one of them don't. Christ promised though, we'll
be filled. Listen to this, Isaiah 41, 17, when the poor and needy,
that's when we're thirsty right there. When we see in myself,
I'm poor. What does that mean? poor. We don't just mean lower class.
The poor class. That's not. Poor means I don't
have two red cents to rub together. I don't have anything to bring
to God. I'm poor and I'm needy. And when
the poor needy seek water and there is none and their tongue
faileth for thirst, I the Lord will hear them. I the God of
Israel will not forsake them. I will open rivers in high places,
and fountains in the midst of the valleys. I will make the
wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water."
Who says that? The very Lord who hung on that
cross and said, I'm in the dust of death, and when He knew it
was accomplished, He knew it was finished, and He cried, it's
finished, He said, And because he knows what that is better
than you and me know what it is. He knows what it is in perfection
to thirst for God. And he said, I'm going to open
up rivers and high places for you. I'm going to give you water. He's coming and he'll make you
know his presence. God promised that he would set
up one shepherd over the church and that shepherd is Christ Jesus. He's our shepherd. He promised
he would do that. Remember what the psalmist wrote?
He said, he leads me beside still waters. Going to lead you to
the water, deep water where you can drink, where it's not rushing
like a rapid and scaring you, where you can lay down and drink.
And this is what else he said, when I set up David my shepherd,
he said in Ezekiel 34, 26, I'll make them and the places round
about my hill, that's his church, I'll make it a blessing. I'll
make them and the places around my hill a blessing and I will
cause the shower to come down in his season and there shall
be showers of blessing. Showers of blessing. He said in Revelation 7, 16,
They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more. Neither shall
the sun light on them, nor any heat. For the lamb which is in
the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them
unto living fountains of waters. You see there, it doesn't mean
you're not going to be thirsty or he wouldn't be leading you
to the fountain of living water. But when he says they won't thirst
anymore, it means he's going to lead you to the fountain of
water. He's going to keep you drinking, quenching your thirst. The Lord shall guide thee continually
and satisfy thy soul in drought. You ever get in a drought? He'll
satisfy thy soul in drought. He'll make fat thy bones and
you'll be like a watered garden, like a spring of water whose
waters fails not. And you know what he said? through
Isaiah, he said, therefore with joy, therefore with joy, Christ
said, my joy I've given to you and no man's gonna take it from
you. And this was that water we're talking about, his joy.
Knowing I'm in his hand, I'm being provided for by him. I
have been, I am being, I shall be. He said, and with joy shall
you draw water out of the wells of salvation, with joy. You know, we become thirsty.
I do. I know you do. We become thirsty
wondering if the Lord is going to call out any more of His sheep. Thirsting to see Him call more
out. I thirst to see Him call the last one. Wouldn't it be
something if right here, right now, tonight, He called the last
of His sheep? Wouldn't it be something? If you walked out of here and
looked up tonight and you saw Him coming, Would you delight? Would you rejoice? He said, in Isaiah 44, 2, thus
saith the Lord that made thee and formed thee from the womb,
which will help thee. Fear not, O Jacob, my servant,
and thou, Jephthah, whom I have chosen. 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, and they shall spring up as among the grass as well
as by the watercourses. See, right now we got some seed,
we got some offspring that we don't even know who they are. The mother's got some seed, some
children that are going to be born, we don't even know who
they are. But the Lord said, don't you worry, I'm going to
pour the water upon them. They're going to spring up just
like a plant springing up out of the ground. A well, when it's filled with
water, it tries to provide water, or it does provide water to others.
And when God's filled us with Christ, and He truly is our life
and our righteousness, that's what we're trying to do, is give
others the water. Give others the water. Only one who's going to be able
to teach and give this water to others and say, without any
doubt whatsoever, that there is no water in us. There is no
water in us. Nothing of us. Before or after
conversion, nothing of us. The only one that's going to
be able to do that is somebody who knows that your sinful nature is a
dry well. This body of death's a dry well.
It won't do anything but create mirages for you that will not
be oases. And the only one that can speak
that from experience is somebody who's been made to know who they
are. And the only way you know who you are is when Christ made
you a well of living water. and fills you with Him, and makes
you know He's your salvation. He's your salvation. That's when
love starts covering a multitude of sin. When He quenches your
weary soul, when you don't deserve it to be quenched, you don't
deserve one thing from Him, and He keeps doing it. And He makes you know that, and
you're so thankful. You're so thankful. This is why our Lord said, happy
are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for
they shall be filled. They shall be filled. I pray
tonight that he's filled you some tonight, and I pray that
he'll keep doing it. And you know what? You keep going
to the fountain of living waters, and I know this, he'll keep drawing
you to him, and he will keep filling you. And you know why
I can say that? I believe him. And he promised it. He promised
it. He will help. When you're on
your way to the well, and you see one of your brothers falling,
maybe you see him over there digging in sand, trying to get
water out of sand, and I'm saying sin, when you see him sin, pick
him up, lift him up, say, come on, brother, let's go to the
well together and help him get to the well. Don't put your foot
on him and stomp on him. Pick him up and say, come on,
let me help you to the fountain. Let me help you to the well.
All right, brethren.