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Christ The Well of Life

John 4:6
Don Fortner September, 21 2008 Audio
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And Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the high priest, were gathered together at Jerusalem (John 4:6).

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Christ, the well of life, is
my subject this morning. Christ, the well of life. Our Lord Jesus is a river flowing
from the throne of God, the river of the water of life. We read
in the scriptures, there is a river, the streams whereof shall make
glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the
Most High. Thou visitest the earth and waterest
it. Thou greatly enrichest it with
the river of God. Christ is a river of water. He is spoken of as the fountain
of life, the fountain of Israel. He's the fountain of living waters.
from whom we receive the Spirit of God who springs up in us a
well of water of life unto everlasting life. And he's described in Zechariah
as a fountain open to sinners. He's a fountain for refreshment,
but he's also a fountain open to sinners for cleansing. In
the day that God comes by his grace, in the power of his Spirit,
the Spirit of God opens to that sinner. fountain in which he
is cleansed from all sin made holy and white before God Almighty
Christ is all these things how often in the scripture he is
referred to as water a river of water a fountain of water
and in John chapter 4 verse 6 turn there if you will for our text
this morning John chapter 4 verse 6 we see our Lord Jesus meeting
a sinner at a well of water. The Lord must needs go through
Samaria and he comes to Samaria on an errand of mercy. And we
read in verse 6, now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore
being wearied with his journey sat thus on the well and it was
about the sixth hour. Now there's got to be something
special about that. I say there's got to be something
special about that because everything written in this book, everything
written in this book is by the design of God the Holy Spirit,
by the design of infallible inspiration, everything written in this book
is designed to show us something about the person and work of
the Lord Jesus Christ. Having said that, it is of immense
importance that we never read the Scriptures merely for entertainment
or merely to fulfill a day's discipline in reading. Now, don't
misunderstand me. Don't misunderstand me. We should
never neglect duties and responsibilities, whether that be reading the scripture
or worshiping God or anything else. We should never neglect
duties and responsibilities, but duty obedience ain't much. Duty obedience is just about
the lowest form of obedience there is. It is my duty to love
my wife. It's my duty to. Husbands, love your wives. That
makes it your duty, David. Makes it your duty. That's a,
how can you, love calls it your duty. Love's called commitment. We have this silly notion that
love is sloppy, syrupy emotion. Love is some kind of a effeminate
thing that just is emotional and nothing else. It involves
all that, but love is commitment. Commitment. If I love this lady
over here, I am committed to her, no matter what, no matter
what it costs me, no matter what. But if she gets the hint that
the only reason I do things for her is because it's my duty,
it's going to make life tough over at the Parsonage. That's
just the lowest form of obedience there is. No, no, don't read
the Scriptures because it's your duty. Read the scriptures looking
for the Savior. Read the scriptures looking for
the Savior. Some of you know what it is to
be absent from a husband or a wife or one you dearly love for a
long time before we had the convenience of cell phones that you would
call 24 hours a day with no extra charge. And you'd get letters. My wife still has some of them.
Wrote every day for a year we were engaged and separated. Wrote
every day, Darvin, that can cost you. She's still got some of
them. I find them and destroy them,
but she still keeps them. How come? Because she cherishes
the memory. And she'd read the letters and
look for the ones she loved. Listen to me. Read the scriptures. looking for him who loved you,
whom you love. Otherwise, reading scripture
is nothing but religious duty performed. I do not mean by that
that we are to invent something about the Savior as we read the
scripture and put it in there. It is sad and it is wrong. It
is just as wrong to read into the Scriptures some imaginary
meaning that's not there as it is not to read the meaning that
is there. We must never read into the Scriptures
what it does not mean. We must seek from God the Holy
Spirit that which He calls the passage we're reading to be written
to teach us. And that which He calls it to
be written to teach us has something to do with the person and work
of our Lord Jesus Christ. Our Savior said, search the Scriptures. Search the Scriptures. Don't
fail to do that because in them you think you have eternal life. And they are they which testify
of me. We read in Acts 10, 43, To him
give all the prophets witness. To him give all the prophets
witness. The scriptures are not written. They are not written. God, help
us not to forget this. They are not written to teach
us morality or just to teach us how to live better than other
folks live in this world. I'm so sick and tired of hearing,
focus on the family. Every time I turn on the news
anymore, I want to talk to this fellow who's head of focus on the family.
Focus on the Savior and the family will be all right. Focus on Christ. Folks, focus on prophecy, or
focus on law, or the focus on Israel, or the focus on economics. Focus on Christ crucified and
you understand this book. The message of the book is Jesus
Christ and Him crucified. To Him give all the prophets
witness that through His name That is, they give witness of
Him in all the prophets, in all the scriptures, for this purpose,
that through His name, whosoever believeth in Him shall receive
the remission of sins. The scriptures are written to
teach folks who Christ is, that they should believe on the Son
of God, and believing on the Son of God, receive the remission
of sins. Now, if the whole value of inspiration
is written to reveal the person and work of our beloved Redeemer,
and it certainly is. That means that, as A.W. Pink
observed, there is a profound significance to everything in
Scripture. There is a profound significance
to everything in Scripture, even the seemingly unimportant details. With those things in mind, let's
look again at John chapter 4 verse 6. I call your attention to the
place where the Lord Jesus met the adulterous Samaritan woman,
the place at which grace was bestowed upon her, the place
from which she found that living water which was made to be in
her soul, a well of living water springing up into everlasting
life. Now, Jacob's well was there. Whose well was that? Jacob's
well. Who is our God? He says, I'm
the God of Jacob. Who are his people? They are
described as the sons of Jacob. Jacob's well was there. Jesus
therefore. Because Jacob's well was there.
Jesus, therefore, because he must needs go through Samaria,
and he must come to this place where this sinner will meet him,
and he will meet her. Jesus, therefore, being weary
with his journey, sat thus on the well, and it was about the
sixth hour. All that transpired between Christ
and this poor sinner transpired at this well called Jacob's well.
Now frequently it's impossible for us to understand the spiritual
gospel meaning of certain events as they're recorded in scripture
until we know something about the place where those events
occurred and the meaning of that place. Let me give you some examples. Egypt, the children of Israel
sojourned in Egypt. Sojourned in Egypt as God said
they would. Sojourned in Egypt because their
father went down there in a time of terrible weakness. They sojourned
in Egypt until at last they became captives in Egypt. And they were
bondmen in the land of Egypt for 400 years. Until on the day
that God said he would do it, he brought them out of Egypt
with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Delivering them by redemption. Redemption by blood and redemption
by power. Egypt represents the world in
which we were by nature, where we lived in bondage. As Israel
lived under the tyranny of Pharaoh, we lived under the tyranny of
Satan until the Lord God brought us out, brought us out with a
stretched out hand and a mighty arm. At the appointed time of
love, he had ordained and promised in a covenant before ever the
world was made. Egypt represents darkness and
bondage in this world. And that's where we were when
God saved us by his grace. John the Baptist came preaching
in the wilderness of Judea. Not just in any wilderness, in
the wilderness of Judea. Judaism in the land of Judea. In the days that John the Baptist
preached, had been reduced to nothing but a meaningless, empty,
desolate wilderness of religion. The Lord's Passover. God commanded
the children of Israel to keep the Passover, and it is called
the Lord's Passover throughout the Scriptures until you get
to John's Gospel. And in John chapter 7, it's called
the Jews' Passover. The Jews' Passover. It was their
religion, not God's religion. Oh, they had the priesthood,
they had the temple, they had the temple services, they had
the law, they had the oracles of God, but it's no longer worshiping
God, it's the Jews' Passover. Empty, meaningless, desolate. John the Baptist came preaching
the gospel in a place of barrenness and desolation where Christ was
not known. And that wilderness represents
all religion without Christ. Empty, barren, desolate religion. All men are religious. All men
are. Men and women around the world
are all religious. Folks you know, folks I know,
folks you're kin to and folks I'm kin to are all religious. And most of our folks are all
Baptist religious folks. But religion without Christ.
wilderness, empty, meaningless, desolate, nothing else. When
our Lord Jesus began His public ministry, His first teaching,
His first preaching, His first works was all done up on a mountain
in an elevated place because our Lord Jesus comes from heaven,
the elevated throne of God. and all his doctrine and all
his works are heavenly works. This mountain displays his throne,
his power, his nature, the source of his being and the source of
his doctrine. And when he gave out his parables,
he went down to the seaside because there's something distinct
about the parables. The parables of the kingdom all
speak of the gathering of God's elect among the Jews and the
Gentiles. And throughout the scriptures,
the sea speaks of the Gentile world. The isle shall wait for
his law, the prophet said. John saw that sea surrounding
the throne of God, all speaking of the Gentile world. And so
when God sends out his gospel, the gospel of the kingdom of
his grace. He gathers his elect from the Jews and the Gentiles,
and so all Israel, the true Israel of God, all Israel are saved. In the parable of the Good Samaritan,
our Savior portrays those sinners whom he came to save as a people
who went down from Jerusalem, a certain man who went down from
Jerusalem, the place of blessedness, and peace, the city of God, to
Jericho, the place of the curse. And that's a pretty good picture
of man's fall. He taught the same thing in the
parable of the prodigal son. The prodigal son left his father's
house and ran away to a far country and brought himself into abject
poverty and utter ruin until at last he came to himself in
his ruin. And he said, how many hired servants
are there in my father's house, and they have bread enough and
to spare? He said, I will arise and go to my father, and I'll
say to my father, make me father as one of your hired servants.
I'm no worthy to be called your son. And he arose, and when he
was yet a great way off, his father saw him. He fixed his eyes on him. He
saw who he was, where he'd been. what he had done, and he saw
what he would make of him. And the only time in this book
God Almighty is ever portrayed as getting in a hurry, he ran
and fell on his neck and kissed him because he is gracious, because
he delighteth in mercy. I could give numerous other examples,
but these will suffice. The place is significant. Everything written in this book
is written by divine inspiration and is written for this purpose,
to teach us the gospel. The Lord Jesus Christ came to
Jacob's well, choosing that spot to be the place where he would
make himself known to this adulterous woman, the Samaritan, because
he himself is the well of salvation. And Jacob's well was there. Therefore the Lord Jesus sat
thus by the well. You remember we read in Isaiah
12, therefore with joy shall you draw water out of the wells
of salvation. Well now, Brother Don, you tell
us all the time there's only one well of salvation and this
message you said is titled Christ, the well of salvation. That's
right. That's right. But Isaiah said we will with
joy draw water out of the wells of salvation. That gave me a
little trouble too. Gave me some trouble too. Until
I realized that in our infinite Savior are many wells of salvation. Sometimes people get terribly
confused in their doctrine because they limit salvation to one thing
or to one work performed by Christ. Salvation is the person of our
Redeemer. It is found in Him, and it is
accomplished by numerous works performed by Him. Somebody says,
well, I believe we're saved by the Second Coming. Well, we are.
We sure are, but not by that alone. I believe we're saved
by the resurrection. We are. By all means, we dead
sure are, saved by the resurrection. And it's all right to say that,
unless you say it by that alone. You see, we draw water out of
the wells of salvation. Christ's divinity is a well of
salvation. Except He be God, He is no Savior. And we come to Him in His divinity
and trust Him as God our Savior. and we draw water out of the
well of his humanity. He is himself human being. He is himself humanity. He is himself one of us. He is God in the flesh. Not was, is. There is seated
today on the throne of glory a man who is God. And that man
is touched with the feeling of our infirmities. And he could
never have saved us except he assumed our nature and come into
this world to seek and save that which was lost. We draw water
out of the well of his righteous obedience. His obedience as our
substitute is absolutely essential to our salvation. I hear folks
talk all the time, say, because they try to defend a position
they've taken. I believe we're saved at the
cross. Righteousness, therefore, means nothing. God demands that
you obey His law. God demands perfect righteousness. God demands the perfect life
of a full human existence. And Jesus Christ came here and
obeyed the law for righteousness. Not for himself, but to bring
in everlasting righteousness for you and for me. And we're
saved by his obedience. And his obedience includes something
else. His obedience includes his death. His voluntary, willing blood
atonement. And we are saved by his blood. His obedience is imputed to us
for righteousness. His blood is that which removes
our guilt. His blood satisfies divine justice. But then our Savior comes in
His mighty power. in the indwelling power of his
grace, invades our hearts, takes up residence within us, and we
are saved in regeneration by Christ dwelling in us. We're
saved by his advocacy and his intercession in heaven, and we
shall be saved when he comes again and raises us from the
dead and brings us bodily into his heavenly kingdom. In the
Old Testament scriptures, The wells around which so many, many
important events took place were typical of Christ and this salvation. The salvation that's in Him is
ours and is represented in these wells. Let me show you six or
seven of them. We're going to go back to the
book of Genesis. Now these wells are physical,
historic, real places. They're physical, historic, real
places. Because we interpret the scriptures
spiritually, that doesn't mean we deny the literal. Because
we interpret the scriptures allegorically, that doesn't mean we deny the
literal meaning of a thing. They are literal, physical, historic
places. But Ron, if all you see is what's
literal, physical, and historic, These whales don't mean squat
to you. They're meaningless. They're meaningless. Now, I have some affinity for Southern
history because I'm a Southerner. I have some affinity for American
history because I'm an American. But I'll be honest with you,
I don't get goosebumps over either one. I really don't. And I feel sorry for you who
do. I really do. I've been into Lee's home over
in Virginia, and I've been through the military museum over there,
the Civil War, the Confederate Museum, and I appreciate things
that were sacrificed, things done. I didn't feel anything
special about it. I just didn't. I didn't feel
anything real special about it. I appreciate it. I appreciate
it. But it wasn't quite the same as worshiping my Redeemer in
this book. And these wells, if I could stand
at the place where this well was, Jacob's well, and I could
sit on the mouth of that well, it wouldn't mean much. It wouldn't
mean much of a historic fact. That's all. Folks want to go
visit the Holy Land. That land over yonder is no more
holy than land in Danville. I wish you could understand that.
We don't look for the material or worship the material. We worship
the spiritual. Christ Jesus the Lord. Genesis
16. Here is a well that is a place
where God met a sinner. Genesis 16, verse 6. Abram said to Sarah, Behold,
thy maid is in thy hand. Do with her as it pleaseth thee.
And when Sarah dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face. Verse 7. And the angel of the
Lord, read that Christ found her, by a fountain of water in
the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur. Verse 13.
And she called the name of the Lord that spake unto her, Thou,
God, seest me. For she said, Have I also here
looked after him that seeth me? Wherefore, the well was called
Berlacheroi. Behold, it is between Kadesh
and Bered. She called the angel of the Lord,
who spoke to her, Thou God seest me. This name that she called
the well, Beelaharoi, means well of him that liveth and seeth
me. And this is the first mention
of a well in scripture. That's not insignificant. This
poor outcast was found at the well. God saw her and met her
and supplied all her needs at this well. I take it then. The only place where God and
sinners can ever meet is Christ Jesus the Lord. The only place
at which God can or will look upon a sinner in favor and mercy
is in Christ. The only source from which all
the needs of our souls can be met is Christ Jesus the Lord. You don't need to turn there,
but in Numbers 21, The children of Israel named the place where
the Lord spoke to Moses and promised to give them water, beer, that
is, well of life. And when they were discouraged
because of the way, when they were discouraged because of the
way, they returned to the well. They returned to this place called
beer, well of life. And they did the strangest thing.
Now remember, these folks were not idolaters. These were men
and women worshiping God. When they were discouraged in
the way, they returned to this well called the Well of the Way,
this well called Well of Life, and they sang unto the well. Now, if you should happen to
see me standing by a well, singing to a well, yep, just call them. I've lost it. Lock me away. I
need to be put away. Now, you might see me with my
wife sitting on the well and singing to her, but not singing
to the well. But they sang unto the well. I take it to mean, then, that
they were taught of Moses to understand that the well represented
somebody. As did the water that followed
them, and the water, or the rock that followed them, and the water
flowing from the rock. Moses taught his people to understand
the well represents him who is to come, who will give you life,
springing up in your souls a well of everlasting life. Genesis
chapter 21. Let's look at Hagar again. Here
at a well. It was at a well that God met
Hagar. And at a well, the Lord God revealed
himself to this sinner. Genesis 21, 14. Abraham rose up early in the
morning, and he took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it
to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered
in the wilderness of Beersheba. God told Abraham, said, Sarah's
right. The bondwoman and her son cannot
be heir with the free woman and her son. Ishmael cannot be heir
with Isaac. Law and grace cannot dwell together
in the same house. Your works and my work cannot
abide together. And so Abraham takes his bottle
of water, puts it on her shoulder, puts the boy in her hand, says,
Hagar, goodbye. Verse 15, and the water was spit
in the bottle. And she cast the child under
one of the shrubs And she went and sat her down over against
him a good way off, as it were a bull shot, for she said, let
me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him
and lift up her voice and wept. Now watch this. And God heard
the voice of the lad. I can't spend much time here,
but I find great, great encouragement. Hagar wept and God heard Ishmael. Real prayer is not so much forming
words as is the groaning of your heart.
Hagar wept not because she was cast out and dying, she wept
because Ishmael was cast out and dying and God heard the need
of Ishmael. Oh, and the angel of God called
to Hagar out of heaven and said unto her, what aileth thee, Hagar? Fear not, for God hath heard
the voice of the lad where he is. Arise, lift up the lad, and
hold him in thine hand, for I will make him a great nation. And
God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. This well and this water, representing
Christ Jesus the Lord, was for Hagar and Ishmael a well of salvation. And she saw it. because God opened
her eyes to see it. The well was there all the time.
It was there all the time. Imagine that. She's right there
in front of it and she couldn't see it. She couldn't see it for
her distress. She couldn't see it because she
was focused on something else. She couldn't see it because God
had set the world in her heart and she couldn't see it. The
seeing eye and the hearing ear are of the Lord. Blessed are
your eyes for they see and your ears for they hear. Oh God, open the eyes of lost
ruined sinners that they may see the Son of God. Look at Genesis
21. Here's another well. It's a well
of oath. a well of promise, a well where
a covenant was made. Genesis 21 verse 27, Abraham
took sheep and oxen and gave them unto Abimelech, and both
of them made a covenant. And Abraham set seven new lambs
of the flock by themselves. And Abimelech said unto Abraham,
What mean these seven new lambs which thou hast set by themselves?
And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of
mine hand, that they may be a witness unto me that I have digged this
well. Wherefore he called the place
Beersheba, well of oath, or well of promise. These ewe lambs shall
be witness unto me that I made this promise. that I made this
oath. And he calls it here a covenant.
A covenant made between Abraham and Abimelech. Now I don't know
about you, but that reminds me of another covenant. A covenant
where God speaks of having made his son a surety and a priest
after the order of Melchizedek as no other was ever made. covenant
of promise. The promise of eternal life that
God who cannot lie made with Christ before the world began.
A covenant of oath. These wells in the days of the
patriarchs were not important. They were not important. They
were essential. They were so important that These
men, Rex, fought wars over their wells. They fought wars over
their wells. I mean, they went to war over
a well. Well, why on earth would anybody
do that? Because without it, they'd die. Without it, they'd
die. They had to have them. The fellow
who owned water owned life. and they fought wars to keep
their wells and to keep others from stealing their wells because
they were absolutely essential. They cherished them as life itself. That's what Christ is to his
people. Absolutely essential to be cherished as life itself
for he is our life. He is that one who describes
himself as the one thing needful. In Genesis 24, we see another
whale. Eliezer, Abraham's servant, is
seeking a bride for Isaac. And as he went about his business,
he stopped by a whale to pray, seeking God's direction, God's
will, and God's mercy. Verse 10. 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 a city of Nahor. 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 women come out to draw, and he
said, O Lord, God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me
good speed this day. and show kindness unto my master
Abraham. Christ, the well of salvation,
is that one in whom and through whom alone we have access to
God. He is that one in whom and through
whom alone we make intercession to God. He is that one through
whom and in whom alone we find the will of God. Let us therefore
come boldly to the throne of grace. Because we have this high
priest, whoever lives above, let us come boldly to the throne
of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time
of need. Now that throne of grace described
in Hebrews 4 is the very same thing that John saw in Revelation
5 when he saw a throne and one ascending up out of the throne
as a lamb that had been slain. It is the very same thing that
Isaiah saw in Isaiah 6 when he said, I saw the Lord high and
lifted up. It is the mercy seat, the place
of sacrifice, and on the throne of grace sits the Lamb of God,
our Redeemer, and only by Him Does God make himself known in
saving mercy and in all the works of his grace? Only by him do
we draw near to God. Turn to Exodus 2. Let me show
you another well. Exodus chapter 2. At your leisure, you can look
at Genesis 29 and find that there's a well of rest. Of course, that's
Christ Jesus, our Lord, in whom we rest. Here in Exodus 2, verse
15, when Pharaoh heard this thing, heard what Moses had done, 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 the priest of Midian had
seven daughters and they came and drew water and filled the
troughs to water their father's flock. And the shepherds came
and drove them away. But Moses stood up and helped
them and watered the flock. Moses stands up and helps the
daughters of the priest of Midian. defending them from these shepherds
who would drive them away from the well and watered their flock. Surely there's something special
here. Moses, that one by whom the law is given, here provides
refuge for these needy souls in the middle of nowhere. And Moses is here. who has made
for us a well of refuge, Christ Jesus the Lord. Moses stands
up on our behalf to give us to drink from the water of life. Moses does because Moses declares
that we are just and righteous before God. Behold, a king shall
reign in righteousness. And princes shall rule in judgment,
and a man shall be as 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. Now, look at Jacob's well in
John chapter 4. Now Jacob, verse 6, Jacob's well
was there. Jesus, therefore, being wearied
with his journey, sat thus on the well, and it was about the
sixth hour. I have to ask, who was Jacob? Jacob is that one who is spoken
of as a divinely chosen sinner. Jacob have I loved, but Esau
have I hated. Jacob is a specially redeemed
sinner. He says, Behold, but now thus
saith the Lord, that created thee, O Jacob, he that formed
thee, O Israel, fear not, for I have redeemed thee. I have
redeemed thee. If God, the Savior, has redeemed
you, you have nothing to fear. I have redeemed you. That means
the blood of Christ is effectual, shed blood, accomplishing redemption
for His people. There's nothing now to fear.
I have called thee by thy name. I have redeemed you, and I've
called you. The Scripture says, Thou hast
with thine arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob. I'm a sinner
whose name is Jacob, redeemed and called by God's free grace. Jacob was a man conquered and
broken. There wrestled a man with Jacob. I have in my office, I guess,
a dozen or more books on prayer. I can't think of a one yet. There
may be one back there, but I can't think of a one on the subject
of prayer that does not refer to Genesis 32 and talk about
Jacob wrestling with God. Wrestling with God. And people
all the time talk about prayer, wrestling with God. We're going
to get God by the arm, twist his arm up behind his back, and
if we bunch of us get hold of it one time, we'll get God to
do what we want him to do. But that's not what happened
to Jacob. Jacob wasn't wrestling with God. You start wrestling
with God, you're going to lose. No, Jacob wasn't wrestling with
God. The Lord wrestled with Jacob. There's a big difference. The
angel of the Lord wrestled with Jacob. And when you wrestle,
your object is to pin the fella, you wrestle. Your object is to
put him on his back, on the ground, and fix it so he stays there.
That's your object. And the Lord pinned Jacob to
the ground. And he broke his leg. And he
said, now tell me who you are. Why do you call that to mind?
Tell me who you are. I can't let you go. I can't let you go. Tell me who you are. And the
Lord told him his name. And he said, your name has been
Jacob. But the rest of the days that
you hobble on this broken leg I've given you, your name is
going to be called Israel, Prince with God. Jacob was broken, broken
by God's grace. And this man, Jacob, confessing
himself to be Jacob, the sinner, is declared to be Israel, the
prince. And the Lord Jesus came to meet a sinner and he sat down
on this well because he had come to give one
of the daughters of Jacob to drink of that same water from
which Jacob drank and had everlasting life, to drink of himself. He said, if you knew the gift
of God and who it was that spoke to you, you would ask of me and
I give you the drink. Oh Lord, give me that water. Give me that water. And she didn't
even know what she was asking for, but she got it. She didn't
even know what she was asking for and she got it. Oh, so much
for how much you've got to know. She knew she was thirsty and
she asked him to give her to drink. And when she got the water,
she knew she had it. How do you know when she got
it? I mean, just as soon as she. Do you know what she did with the
water pot? She left it sitting on the well.
and went and told everybody, I found the Christ. God make
it so for you. Amen.
Don Fortner
About Don Fortner
Don Fortner (1950-2020) served as teacher and pastor of Grace Baptist Church of Danville, Kentucky.
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