Water Of Life For The Thirsty

Q: What does the Bible say about the water of life?

The water of life symbolizes the Word of God, which is Jesus Christ himself. In Revelation 22, the water of life is described as a pure river, symbolizing the life-giving Word of God, which ultimately points to Jesus Christ. Throughout Scripture, we see water being used as a metaphor for life and sustenance, particularly in Isaiah 55:1-3 where it invites the thirsty to come and drink freely. This illustrates that the water of life is not just physical water, but the spiritual nourishment found in Christ, who declared Himself as the living water in John 4:10-14. The essence of this living water is that it quenches spiritual thirst eternally and leads to everlasting life.

Q: How do we know that Christ is the living water?

Christ refers to Himself as the living water in John 4, emphasizing the eternal satisfaction He provides. In John 4:10-14, Jesus speaks to the Samaritan woman at the well, explaining that He can provide living water that will satisfy her thirst forever. This living water represents not only the truth and grace found in the Gospel but ultimately Christ himself as the source of eternal life. In the context of Revelation 22, the metaphor of water reflects the profound relationship between Christ and Scripture, confirming that He is the fulfillment of everything God has promised. The living water encapsulates the sufficiency of Christ for the believer's spiritual needs, affirming His role as the central figure in redemptive history.

Q: Why is the Word of God important for Christians?

The Word of God is essential for spiritual growth, revealing Christ and God’s will. For Christians, the Word of God is crucial because it reveals the nature of God, the character of Christ, and the depths of human sinfulness and the need for salvation. As noted in Amos 8:11, there is a famine of the hearing of God's Word in these last days, signifying the importance of preaching and understanding Scripture. The Word equips believers for growth and maturity in faith, as it is through the Holy Spirit that we are enlightened to understand and apply God's truths. Furthermore, Romans 10:17 tells us that faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God, underscoring its role in the believer's life and faith journey.

Q: How does the Holy Spirit help us understand the Bible?

The Holy Spirit guides believers into all truth, helping them to understand and apply the Scriptures. The role of the Holy Spirit in understanding the Bible is foundational for Christians. As stated in John 16:13, the Holy Spirit guides believers into all truth, enabling them to discern and interpret Scripture correctly. The Spirit reveals the deeper meanings of the Word, often connecting it to the character and work of Christ, which is essential for a true understanding of the Gospel. Believers, through the Spirit, can experience illumination regarding their personal spiritual truths and the community of faith. This divine assistance is vital, particularly in a time when there is widespread confusion and a famine of hearing God's Word.

I almost didn't attempt this message.
I began to look at it and it just
kept getting bigger and bigger. But really, that's the way it
is with any of God's Word. The Apostle Paul, who was probably
the greatest, humanly speaking, the greatest preacher ever, he
said, Who is sufficient for these things? Who is sufficient for these things? The Word of God is just too big,
just too big. I got to thinking about the study
in God, what we're doing. Spurgeon used to say, I don't want a God that I can
figure out. This world, this is what's so
What's so shallow about this world's religion? What's so shallow about preachers?
What's going on today in religion? What's so absolutely foolish
about it? Everybody's got God all figured
out, don't they? They've got God, they've brought
God down to a man's level. They got him all figured out,
and they can tell everybody just exactly what God thinks and acts
and does. He's just like us, and they say. God, I remind you, said in Psalm
50, he said, Thou thoughtest thou was altogether such a one
as yourself, but I am not. I haven't got the God of the
Bible figured out. Paul the Apostle said, we know
in part. We preach in part. The Word of God, I haven't got
it all figured out. I know who it's about. I know that much. I know who it's
about. And I didn't say what. I said who it's about. Because
Christ said, they are they. Speaking of the Scriptures, they
are they which testify of me, Christ said. I know who this
book is about. See, this book is called the
Word, isn't it? It's the Word of God. The Word
of God. Well, John chapter 1, verse 1
says, In the beginning was the Word. The Word was with God and
the Word, can you quote the rest of it? was God. So here you have this book, this
written book, yet it's a person. Now figure that out. It's a person. You have this
written book, yet the Word was made flesh, John 1 said, and
dwelt among us. Like that simpleton said, three
is one, one is three. That's beyond me. I can't figure
it out. It's so, isn't it? Christ is
the Word, and the Word is Christ. And it's totally up to the Holy
Spirit to reveal that to you this morning. That's what I'm
going to try to talk about this morning. Christ is the Word, and the Word
is Christ. OK, all right, let's look at
let's begin here in chapter 22 and just verse one. Let's begin
right there. OK, it says he showed me a pure
river of water of life. Now, who's who's speaking here?
This is John. This is John. And it says he
who's the he that's Christ or the angel of God. That's God
himself showed me a pure river. the angel of God, the messenger
of God, which is Christ speaking through him, he showed me a pure
river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of
the throne of God and of the Lamb. Water of life. Now look down at verse seventeen.
Verse seventeen, the last line of verse seventeen says, Whosoever
will, let him take the water of life freely." What is this
water of life? What is this water of life that
he's talking about here? Do you know? Well, look back
at Isaiah chapter fifty-five. Okay? Isaiah fifty-five. We, if we're wise, We'll do as Paul said, we'll
compare spiritual things with spiritual things. We'll compare
scripture with scripture. I'm not going to tell you what
so-and-so says. I'm not going to tell you what
George Whitefield says or Charles Spurgeon says or whoever says.
It doesn't matter. They're just men like we are. What we need to do is see what
God says. All right? Well, so-and-so is of the opinion
that this means I don't care what his opinion is. Everybody
has an opinion. I don't care. I want to get to
the root of what God says. What is this? Water of life.
Water of life. Look at Isaiah 55 verse 1 through
3. Ho, everyone that thirsteth,
come ye to the waters. He that hath no money, come ye,
buy and eat. Yea, come, buy wine and milk
without price. Without money, without price,
wherefore, or why do you spend money for that which is not bread,
and your labor for that which satisfies not? Hearken diligently unto me, he
said. Eat that which is good. Let your soul delight itself
in fattening. Incline your ear and come unto
me. Herein your soul shall live. So he says, Everyone that thirsteth,
come ye to the waters." And in verse 3, he says, "...incline
your ear, and come unto me." What is this water of life? Turn
over to the book of Amos. All right? Amos. Turn over there. Amos chapter 8. And you'll find
that Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel Amos, that's where you'll
find it. A little book over there. Turn
over there, real quickly. Amos chapter 8. What is this
water of life, if you don't already know from Isaiah 55? Amos chapter 8. All right, look
at this. This is so important. This is
right now. This is reading right now. Verse 11. Amos 8 verse 11, Behold,
the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine
in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water,"
that is, this kind of water. But of what? Hearing the words of God. What is the water of life? It's
the word of God. It's the word of God. The word of God which speaks
of who? Christ the word. What he said
was the water of life. We'll turn over to John chapter
four. All right, it's the word of God. We read that in Amos
8. It says there's going to be a
famine. in the last days, and we're in them, folks. We're in
them. A famine not of bread or of water,
but of the hearing of the Word of God. I told you, well, you
were there. Some of you went with us to a
place, a so-called church, where we had a meeting, and very few
people, if any, had a Bible with them. The pastor of the church
did not have a Bible. The pastor of the church did
not have a Bible. Where's he going to lead them?
Where's the shepherd going to lead the sheep to if he doesn't
have any green pastures? Or make them lie down beside
if there's no still water? This is it. My, my, my. We're in it. We're
in a day of famine. Who was it? Somebody was just
telling me this. who's been working for a funeral
home here in town. And he said that one of the men
is involved in the Gideons, you know, which passes out Bibles
everywhere. And didn't he say this to you,
Stan? He said, you know, nobody uses
a Bible anymore. Wasn't it you who was telling
me that? Somebody was telling me that. It may not have been
you. Somebody who's involved with the Gideons. And I think
it was one of the fellows you worked with that you were saying
this about. He said, you know, preachers
don't even use the Bible anymore. There's a famine going on. We're
right in the middle of it. The famine of the hearing of
the Word of God. And the Word is the Word. The
Word is the Word. The water is the Word. Look at
what Christ says here in John chapter four. John chapter 4,
you remember this woman who was religious? Oh, she was religious,
you know. She had it all figured out, what
she believed and all that. Christ said, you don't know what
you believe. And most people don't either, you know. They
say, well, I believe it says somewhere in the Bible that such
and such. Where does it say that's from?
They don't know. Verse 10, Christ answered this
woman and said, If you knew the gift of God and who it is that
saith to you, Give me drink, you would have asked him, and
he would have given thee living water. The woman said, Well, sir, you
don't have anything to draw with. The well is deep, and where are
you going to get this living water? She didn't know. She didn't know what the living
water was. She said, Are you greater than
our father Jacob? You know, most people don't know
much more than that about the one they call Jesus, the one
they believe in. He isn't much greater than Jacob
or Abraham or Moses, the way just a man like they are. Not
much greater. Their God's not much greater,
is He? That's about what they believe in. Are you greater than
our father Jacob? Not knowing, Joe, that this is
the God of Jacob standing here. She said, Where are you going
to get this water? Do you have anything to draw with? This is the water. I am the water. This is what he says here. Christ
said unto her, and he pointed at the well, I'm sure. He said,
Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again. I just took
a drink of this a moment ago. I'm still thirsty. But he said, re-on, he said,
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 unto everlasting life. What's the water of life? Do
you know now? Well, it's the Word of God. Well, what's the Word of God?
It's Christ, the Word of God. It's Christ who is written of
in the pages of these books. All right? This is as it were,
Brother John, this is as it were the glass, the vessel in which
is contained the water. You understand what I'm saying?
This is the vessel wherein is contained the water, which is
Christ, the water of life. Now go back to Revelation 22. Well, I can't. I can't stand that. But our Lord said, Anybody thirsts
after this water, he'll thirst again. thirst for the knowledge
in this world, thirst for knowledge. People have an insatiable thirst
for knowledge, don't they? That's the reason they go to
school for twelve, sixteen, eighteen, twenty years. You know, they
keep getting this degree, and that is just not enough. Why? Because once they gain certain
knowledge, they think it's obsolete the next week, something new
coming along. They've got to study that, thirst
for knowledge. Religion is the same way today.
There's always something new coming along. And people that
are real religious and are thirsting to be religious, you know, whatever
new comes along, they go after it. Have you got this blessing
yet? Some preacher will say. Have you got the Toronto blessing
yet, people? You ain't got the Toronto blessing?
Do you even know what the Toronto blessing is? Good. I hope you don't. But it's
something that happened up in Toronto, Canada, you know, this
so-called outpouring of the Holy Spirit that everybody got it.
And if you don't have it, you ain't got it. I don't need it. There's one thing I need, Paul. Well, look here in Revelation
22, all right, look at verses 16 and 17. The Lord Jesus Christ is speaking,
and he says, I, Jesus, have sent mine angel to testify unto you
these things in the churches. He's writing to the churches,
not writing to every single person. This is not written to every
single person, is it? Does your Bible read that way?
Testify unto you these things in the churches. Bible's not written to every
single person. God's not trying to get everybody
to believe in him. God doesn't try anything. God's not like that. He doesn't
try things. God does what he will. That's
the God of the Bible. He doesn't try. He's not trying
to get people to believe him. That's the reason Jesus Christ
Scripture says, I'll not cry or cause his voice to be lifted
up in the street. He's not looking for believers
or trying to get people to believe on him. He said, I've come to
call my sheep. He said, I know my sheep and
they'll know me too. I'll call them and they'll come.
I'm not trying to get anybody to believe. He said, you believe
now because you're not my sheep. He said that to some religious
fellows. He didn't try to get them to
believe him. Pilate said, What's truth? Christ didn't answer him.
Why? He's not trying to get Pilate to understand, is he? This is not written to everybody. God's not trying to get everybody
to believe in him. No, sir. No, ma'am. God has a people that he chose,
as Scripture says, for the foundation of the world, and they will believe
him. Our people say, well, wait, what
are you talking about? Then why preach? Because I don't
know who they are. That's why. That's why. So if I believe that, why preach? Because God said so. That's why
God told me to preach. And God said that's what he'll
use to call them. You understand that? All right. So this is written to the churches.
And that's who will hear it. That's who will hear it. He says
in verse 16, I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright
and morning star. I wish we had an hour and a half
this morning, people, to go into all this. I am the root, that
root out of dry ground in Isaiah 53. The offspring of David, the
son of David. You've got to have the right
Christ. The Bride in Morning Star, what's that? That's the
Son of Righteousness arisen with healing in His way. All right,
read on. Here's what I wanted you to see.
And the Spirit, verse 17, the Spirit and the Bride say, Come. The Spirit and the Bride say,
Come. Who's the Spirit there? That's
the Holy Spirit written to the churches. That was said, John,
written to the churches, and the Spirit saith in and to the
churches, Come. The Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit
says, Come. Come where? Come where? Or come down the front and rededicate
and reconsecrate and shake the preacher's hand or come to the
baptism, get baptized. Spirit and the Bible say, Come.
What's the Spirit say? The Holy Spirit says this. Over
in John 14, John 16, this is what Christ said about the Holy
Spirit. He said, He will guide into all truth. That is, lead
God's people to the truth. It says, He shall hear something. The Holy Spirit will hear. He
won't speak of himself, but that which he heareth, that's what
he'll speak. And it says, he'll hear and he'll speak, and whatsoever
I have said, he'll show it to you. He'll bring it to remembrance. So, here's the point. The Holy
Spirit takes the things of Christ and shows them to God's people. The Holy Spirit takes the things
of Christ and shows them to God's people. He reveals the Word in
the world. So many of you here grew up in
different religions, didn't you? Whether it be Southern Baptists
or Methodists or whatever, whatever you came out of. God's people
come out of all this stuff, out of the camp of modern religion.
And they come to the true and living God and the true gospel.
But you grew up hearing stories like Noah's Ark, didn't you?
Huh? You heard Noah's Ark. You heard
that story. And about all you thought about was what a great
man Noah was, you know, what a faithful man Noah was and so
forth, didn't you? Huh? Oh, but that whole story. Huh? That whole thing, what's it all
about? What's Noah's ark? Rather, what is Noah's ark? It's a person. It's a person. Christ is that ark of safety. If you're in the ark, if you're
in Christ, you're safe from the overflowing scourge of God's
wrath. Huh? It's pitched. That ark was pitched
within and without. What's pitched? That's where
you get the New Testament word propitiation. That's where the
whole word atonement means. That means covered. That boat
was covered in tar. What's a believer covered in?
Blood. Blood. Ark. You grew up hearing stories
like that. You didn't see Christ in it,
did you? But now you do. the word in the word. The Spirit
says, Come, come to Christ. John 6.45 said, They shall all
be taught of God, and everybody that is taught of God, every
one of his children that hath heard and learned of the Father,
they come, where? Join the church. People, I'm not looking for church
members. I'm trying to get people to join
this church. If we were, we'd be slipping
ten-dollar bills under the pulpit and announcing it, you know,
come and find the hidden bill, you know, or we'd be sending
out buses. Church, that's not what this
is all about. He said, Every man that hath
heard and learned of the Father cometh unto me, Christ said. Me. They come to Christ. They
come to Christ by faith. That's who they come to. Don't
come to join anything or to do anything. They come to Christ.
And look at it. Read on here. He says in verse
seventeen, Let him that heareth and the bride saith come. The
bride saith come. Who's the bride? Who's the bride
here that says come? So the Holy Spirit says come.
Come to Christ. It's with the Holy Spirit bringing
people to Christ. Bringing people to Christ. convincing
of sin, righteousness, and judgment as it pertains to Christ. It says the bride says come.
Who's the bride? Who's the bride? It's the church,
right? The bride, the church. Well,
that's what the church is all about. What's the church all
about? It's not like we were saying, trying to get church
members. Trying to get people to believe Christ. It's like I told that one preacher
one time, I said, if you preach the gospel and I preach the gospel, I could care less if you had
a thousand members and I had two. That's not important. I don't care. If people come
here to the gospel and sit there, fine. It doesn't matter which
suit they're in. What matters is what building
they're in. What matters is that they're
in Christ or not. We're not keeping a running count
of how many are baptized. I don't have any idea. That's
not important. What we want is them to be numbered
by God himself, among that number. And the Bible says, come. Come
where? Come to our church. No, don't tell anybody that. Come to our church. Don't tell
them that. Say, come hear the gospel. Come
to Christ. Come. Read on here. It says,
Spirit and the bride say, come, and let him that heareth say,
come. Who hears? Well, who's hearing
here? Who's hearing here? Who is this
right here? Who's hearing there? John. And
John said, come. I've heard, and I'm saying, come.
I'm saying, let him that heareth Say, Come. All right? Now, our Lord said this. Listen carefully. Our Lord said, An evil and adulterous
generation seeketh after a sign. I told you this was big. I'm
having trouble putting it all together like I want to. Our Lord said, an evil and adulterous
generation seeketh a sign. People say, show me something,
let me see something. I was riding down 220 south one
day, and there was one of these portable signs advertising some
so-called church. And it said, here's what it said,
and this sums up religion today. This is what religion is all
about. Okay, listen. This sign said, come see what's
happening. Come see what's happening. So-and-so church, come see what's
happening. That sums up what's going on
in religion today. Come see what's happening. Come see our choir. We've got the biggest one in
town. Come see our building. Why, it's made of glass and stone,
native stones from all over the area. We'll put your name on
one if you come. Come see this. Come see that. Come see our guest
speaker. Why, he is a former football
player or beauty queen or whoever. Come see. Come see. You know
what the church says. You know what the Holy Spirit says.
You want one who stands up to preach, who is truly in it, sent by God, like John
here. You know what he says? Come here. H-E-A-R. Come hear the word of
the Lord. Come hear, not come see. Come hear. Are you following me? And religion
today is practically void of what I'm doing right now. Verse
by verse by verse, line upon line, line upon line, precept
upon precept, precept upon precept. The Word of God, but not the
church. God has a church. It's not the only one. I'm not
saying it's the only one, but he does have a few here and there.
that says, come hear the word of God, not come see anything. That's what we do without this
choir. I like choirs like the next man. I don't have anything
against choirs. I like hearing occasionally a choir, but that's
not why we come here. And I, you know, I like, what
do I like? I like to see, I like beautiful
architecture, but we don't need that here. That's not what this
is all about. We don't do all this to attract
people. We want one thing to attract
people, the gospel. I hesitated about putting this
tile on this morning. I thought it was too loud. It
was too fancy. You ever notice how I try to
wear toned-down ties? Well, to keep from wearing the
same one over and over again, I grabbed this one. Todd Nyberg.
I didn't buy this. Todd Nyberg. This is Todd's tie. He gave it
to me. He gave it to me. Kind of a wild, dressed, dark
grab. I don't want you to come here
to see me. We don't have special guest speakers,
you know, or guest stars, you know, former this and former
that. Who cares? There's one person I'm interested
in seeing this morning. One person I'm interested in
men coming to behold and admire and wonder at and want his autograph,
if you will. Jesus Christ. You won't find my name all over
anything, neither will you find the name of any true preacher
all over anything. There's one name that he wants
to proclaim, Jesus Christ. Well, the church says, and he
that hears says, come, come, come hear the word of the Lord,
come hear the gospel of Christ. Look at the next line, and let
him that is a thirst, come, let him that is thirsty, Come, and
this is the problem. Are you thirsty right now, Sherry?
Are you physically thirsty? Just say yes or no, are you? That wasn't the answer I wanted.
Somebody who's not thirsty, answer me. Are you thirsty, Henry? No?
You don't need this, do you? You blew it, Sherry, my illustration.
Are you thirsty, Henry? No, you're not, are you? You
don't need this. I am. I need this. The reason Brother John supplies
me with this every time. There's times when, if you stood
up and talked for forty minutes, if you thought you had to stand
up here for five minutes, you'd want me to fill the baptistery.
Believe me. If you had to stand up and talk
in front of people, you'd get dry in the mouth. Unless God's with you then, you
forget all about it. But the point I'm trying to make
is you don't need this right now. I do. I do. I keep drinking it, Don. And there's a problem. You know
why this is not being preached today? You know why? Nobody needs them. Nobody's thirsty. You know why Christ is not the
central message being preached today? Nobody needs Him. And we say this, we say, it said
in one place there in Revelation 3, it says, the people said,
we're rich and increasingly good, we have need of nothing. He said, you don't know it, but
you're poor and miserable and naked and blind. We say, I say
things like this, come hear Christ crucified. Do you tell people
you work with, come hear the gospel? What they ask you, what
they say to you, Brother John, is how many you got down there? What they're interested in really
is, Rick, they ask you things. You got curtains on your windows,
don't you? I noticed that as I was driving by. You got curtains
on your windows. Why? I don't know. Do we have curtains? No. How many? What's going on down
there? And we say things like this,
come hear the gospel. What are you doing down there?
We're going through the Word of God, verse by verse, preaching
the gospel. I want you to come hear the gospel
being preached. What do they say, John? Oh, I
accepted Jesus years ago. I accepted Jesus as my personal
Savior years ago. You think I'm lost or something? Well, you know, I trusted Christ.
By the way, accepting Jesus as your personal Savior is not in
the Bible anywhere. Nowhere does it say accept Jesus
as your personal Savior. And preachers that say that are
phonies. And people that believe that's
how they were saved, they're lost. Nowhere does it say, except
Jesus as our personal Savior. Jesus Christ is not standing
there wanting people to accept him. Salvation is him accepting
us. That's what Ephesians 1, 6 says,
doesn't it, Brother John? That's what this book says. It
says, We are accepted in the beloved. It doesn't say to us,
Won't you please accept him? Sinners cry out and say, won't
you please accept us? That's the difference in salvation
and condemnation. That's the difference between
just being religious and being saved. Religion says, I got saved the
other day. I accepted Jesus. Somebody who's really been saved
says, he found me! Not I got anything. I saw the
light. I got this. I did this. It's
not I, I, I, anything. It's he found me. He chose me. He saved me. He revealed the
gospel to me. He called me. He gave me repentance. He gave me faith. He's all. I'm nothing at all. He said, come and hear the gospel
of Christ crucified. I said to Jesus years ago, So come and hear about eternal
righteousness imputed to sinners. If they have the foggiest idea
what that means, which they won't, come and hear about the eternal
righteousness imputed to guilty sinners, they'll say, oh, I quit
my drinking years ago. Or they'll say, well, liquor's
never touched my liquor. But bless God, some people he
makes thirsty. Go and learn what this means. When our Lord said in his Sermon
on the Mount, Matthew 5, when he said, Blessed are they which
do hunger and thirst for righteousness. Blessed are they which do hunger
and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled." Go
learn what that means. What's he talking about? Blessed are they who want to
quit their drinking, who want to quit their smoking, who want
to quit running around and all that. I'm not condoning those things
at all, but it means it goes much deeper than that. What is
righteousness? Romans 10 says it. It says, Many
are ignorant of the righteousness of God, and are going about to
establish their own righteousness. That is, they quit this, and
they quit that, and they think, no, God's going to be pleased
with me now. And they start going to church, you know. And surely,
I'm going to church now, and God's going to accept me. No,
sir. That's not it. This righteousness
is a person. This righteousness is a person. Hungering and thirsting after
righteousness, this imputed, this righteousness wanting to
be covered in this righteousness is not... People, if you have
been covered in this righteousness, You know, you'll feel, you won't feel like you're now
holy. You won't feel like, hey, I'm
a good Christian now. I'm holy. You'll feel the opposite. You'll feel the opposite. You can catch me explaining that. When Christ said, he that is
blind sees. When Christ said he that hath sin, to say he is sin, he
doesn't have any. Jesus says he doesn't have any.
It's charged to him. Explain that. Somebody else come
up here and try that. Try that. He that is thirsty shall be filled, and then your thirst is gone,
yet you are thirstier than ever." Explain that. Huh? You see what I'm saying? You see why this is too big?
He that is thirsty is filled, but yet he now then becomes thirstier
than ever. and he can't get enough to drink. He that comes to Christ is made
righteous and holy, yet he feels himself to be the biggest sinner
on the face of the earth. That's why he keeps coming to
Christ. Does that explain what I'm trying to say? Huh? He that
sees the Word in the Word Sees the Word in every word.
The Word finally opens up. The Word. I was looking at that
water of life there, you know, and all the way through I kept
seeing the Word. Go back and read it for yourself
sometime. He goes on through there, keeps
saying, My words, My words, the Word, the Word, the Word, the
Word. Christ is the Word, the Word of God. And I got to quit. And look down at verse two, and
let me just quit. Let me just run through here
and tell you a few things, all right? He says in verse two, he said,
verse one, he says, this word, this river of water of life is
pure. It's pure. That's the reason
all we want to do, basically, is preach the word. I don't want
to mix up my thoughts and opinions with it. It ruins it, doesn't
it? That's like water today, city
water. City water, they claim is pure
water, don't they? Huh? Don't they? And now they're
coming to the conclusion that it's killing everybody. It's
killing everybody. What? What they're putting in? What's the best water, Rick?
Spring water. That's what he said this pure
water is. It's springing up. Who creates
spring water? Did you dig a well? Oh, no. Was it already there
when you got there? Pure water. Spring water. Modern man says that'll kill
you. He tested and tested. It's bad for you. It'll kill
you. It'll give you what? What about
those people? Thousands of years, you know,
prior to this time. Man, the point I'm trying to
make is, man gets this, this, and, you know, he adds to it.
Keeps adding to it, and adding to it, adding to it. His thoughts,
his opinions. So-and-so said this, so-and-so said that. Get
that out of there. Get that out of there. This is
pure. This is all we need. It's clean. It enacts. It's clean. The Word
of God is clean. pure from man's thoughts and
opinions and biases and prejudices and so forth. This Word tells
it like it is. Do you like somebody tell you
like it is? Do you? Tell it like it is. Call a spade
a spade. That's what God's Word does.
He calls man what he is. Well then some eloquent preacher
will get up and say, well, what he really means by that is, you
know, you have propensity to be a butterfly if you improve
your situation. Why? What if God calls man dead and
trespasses in sin? Some eloquent preacher will get
up and say, well, what he really means by that is, if you're deadened,
if you let things deaden you, Barney, you say, graveyard dead. We know what that means, don't
we, Roberta? Man, he's graveyard dead. So, consequently, what's
that mean? It means he's dead. And then what's that mean? How's
he going to have life? What's the Word say? Well, preachers
say, you know, well, if you'll get born again, wait a minute. Get born again? And Nicodemus
said, Can I enter into my mother's womb again? You didn't get born the first time,
did you? Christ said, You must be born from above. If you're
dead, Christ said, I have come that they might have life. And everybody, nobody's going
to live unless Christ comes by their grave like he did Lazarus,
unless Christ himself personally said, Live. And it ain't the
preacher. It ain't the soul winner. It's
the sole Savior, Jesus Christ, dead. This Word is pure, and
it proceeds out of the throne of God and the Lamb. It comes
from God. It's His Word, not man's. No
scriptures of any private interpretation. And in it is, it says, a river,
and it bears fruit, and there's a tree. I had that we were going to look
at all that time. Twelve Manor fruits. Wish we had time. I will say this.

Water Of Life For The Thirsty

What does the Bible say about the water of life?

How do we know that Christ is the living water?

Why is the Word of God important for Christians?

How does the Holy Spirit help us understand the Bible?

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What does the Bible say about the water of life?

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How does the Holy Spirit help us understand the Bible?

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