Water of Life (Ben Roy, 03/04/23)

Okay, gotta have water to drink.

Water's important, isn't it?

So what do we know about water?

You know, scientifically speaking,

we don't know a whole lot about water.

You might say, now wait a minute, I mean water.

What is water?

Who can tell me what water is?

H2O, thank you very much.

So we have H2, we have two hydrogen atoms,

we have one oxygen atom.

It's a bipolar molecule,

and the oxygen has a negative charge,

and the hydrogen has a positive charge, okay?

And that's good, because it likes to do some amazing things.

How many properties of water are there?

Can you think of a few?

Okay, anybody think of one?

Am I too close to you?

I'm sorry.

Anybody think of one?

I'm sorry?

Oceans, okay.

Yeah, we have a lot of ocean water, don't we?

Oh, I'm sorry, hang on.

All right, that's not supposed to do that.

Hang on, let's go back here.

Some reason I'm pushing the wrong button at the wrong time.

So, but water has a lot of different properties.

In fact, scientists are telling us

that there's about 60 some properties of water.

Now that kind of blows your mind, okay?

We know that water likes to stick to itself.

The molecules like to stick to itself.

There's a hydrogen bond that's very, very strong, okay?

That's good, that water likes to stick to itself.

So then water likes to adhere to different things.

Have you ever noticed that?

That water likes to adhere to things?

I mean, when you put your clothes in the water,

what happens to them?

They get wet, okay?

They get wet.

Water likes to stick to other things, okay?

And that's important.

And water likes to stick to itself.

The water bond like to stick to itself.

Water has one of the strongest surface tensions

of any liquid, which is amazing.

Have you ever seen those little water striders

that walk on the water?

Yeah, they're kind of interesting animals.

And I don't know if you know it, but they can't swim.

What do they do?

They're walking on the surface tension of the water.

The water bond is so, so strong that it forms a skin, okay?

It's called the surface tension.

And they're very, very interesting animals,

and we need them.

We need them.

How many of you like mosquitoes?

Oh, good, right.

We have one person that likes mosquitoes.

You know, mosquitoes are very good for us,

except when they do bite you,

because they can transmit a lot of different diseases.

But mosquitoes take care of, I'm sorry,

the water strider eats insect larva.

It'll eat the mosquito larva.

And that's good.

That's interesting.

But mosquitoes do something important for us.

They are pollinators.

You knew that.

They're pollinators.

Do we need pollinators?

Yes, we need pollinators, especially when we have bees

that are having, coming up with all kinds

of different problems with our bees.

Interesting.

Well, let's go on here a little further.

Now, the water.

This is something that we study in about third grade.

It's called the water cycle.

The water cycle.

The water is cyclic.

Now, the water that you had today,

that you're going to have today,

the water that you use today,

the water that you've used in your body today is cyclic.

It's cyclic.

That means it's a chain,

and it goes over and over and over again.

So how does that work?

Well, we have moisture in the air,

and that moisture in the air falls down to planet Earth.

We have rivers and ponds and streams and lakes.

And what does the sun do?

The sun evaporates that water,

and it goes up into the sky.

Goes up into the sky, and it also forms clouds.

When those clouds get heavy enough, what happens?

We have precipitation, don't we?

In fact, we had a lot of it yesterday.

Precipitation, the form of rain and snow and sleet and hail

falls down to back down on planet Earth.

Now, we also have something that's called transpiration.

In transpiration, we have plants.

Okay, the plants give off water.

Plants give off a ton of water every day,

and that water evaporates and goes up into the air as well.

And animals give off water.

You and I are giving off water right now.

Now, take a look at your skin.

Can you see the water molecules coming off of your skin?

Wouldn't it be interesting if we could see that?

It'd be very interesting indeed, but we do.

We lose water through our skin all day long,

and we could become what?

Dehydrated.

Dehydration is a very, very serious problem, isn't it?

If you had a choice of eating food

or drinking water to stay alive,

which would you rather choose?

We would rather choose water, wouldn't we?

When we eat food, especially certain foods,

it takes water to process that particular food,

which is amazing.

So where is most of our water?

Well, most of our water is locked up,

is on the surface of the earth.

About 71% of the water is on the surface

of the earth, approximately.

The ocean holds about 96.5% of the earth's water.

But only 3% of the earth's water is fresh.

Only 3%.

That's a very, very small amount of fresh water.

You and I need fresh water, don't we?

And some of that water is unavailable to us.

It's unavailable because it's what?

It's locked up in glaciers and in highly,

very, very deep areas,

and it's hard for us to get it out.

Interesting.

So how much of this water is available

for you and I to drink?

You have any idea?

Well, probably some of you have an idea.

Let me see if I can get something out here.

Let's see, what did I do with that?

Oh, here it is.

I have a very special kind of spoon.

And these are, excuse me,

these are hard to find sometimes

in our little drawer in the kitchen.

But I have a spoon.

This is, it says 1 1⁄4 teaspoon.

I have a drum right here.

Let's consider that that drum is all the water, okay?

All the water, all the water on planet Earth.

But how much of all of that water is good for us to drink?

Is safe for us to drink?

Is available for us to drink?

Well, this is how much.

This is how much.

Right there.

Isn't that a lot of water?

No, it's not a lot of water.

And we need fresh water.

We don't want polluted water.

We need fresh water.

So how do we use our water?

Are we good stewards of our water?

Or do you, when you brush your teeth,

you let the water run?

That's wasting water, okay?

When you take a shower, okay?

Do you lather up, get wet and lather up,

turn the water off, you know,

and do your scrubbing.

Then turn the water back on to rinse.

That's kind of like a Navy shower.

Interesting.

How much water do we waste?

We waste an awful lot of water.

But we don't have a lot of fresh water to waste.

We need to conserve our water.

We really, really do.

So let's go on here.

Let's see what we got.

So we got the water cycle.

Okay, we're gonna have a little quiz at the end

so you can take care of that.

That's a water cycle.

And this is something that God has set up.

It's automatic.

It's all set up for us.

Interesting.

Okay, there we go.

What's that?

It's an iceberg.

Now, they say that there's just the,

we only see the tip of the iceberg

unless you're going to dive underneath the water.

And then most of that iceberg,

can you imagine how much of that iceberg is underwater?

And we know what happens when a great ship hits an iceberg

like the Titanic, okay?

It can't hold up.

It's quite amazing.

But ice has a different property than other liquids.

When ice gets cold and it freezes,

it does something that no other liquid does.

What does it do?

It becomes lighter instead of heavier like most liquids.

Interesting.

And the crystalline structure of the water

causes that ice to float.

And that was by divine command

because what would happen if the ice

that forms on the surface,

what would happen if that ice sank?

It was heavier.

Then it would go to the bottom of our streams

and our oceans, okay?

And then more ice would form at the top

and it would fall down.

Pretty soon we'd have a solid lake or sea of ice.

Most of the plants and animals could not survive.

And so when God, I wanna say invented,

but when he made the water molecule,

he made it very, very special.

And probably the other molecules

just kind of like perched up their ears and said,

wow, they are so, so different than us

because ice does something,

water does something that most other liquids do not do,

which is quite amazing, it is.

Do you remember some stories in the Bible

or maybe even parables in the Bible

where Jesus talked about water?

You remember some of them?

What is this one right here?

Right, when Jesus met the woman at the well.

Now the woman at the well,

what an interesting person she was, an interesting person.

Now these were Samaritans, right, they were Samaritans.

The Samaritans and the Jews,

they didn't have much to do with each other, okay.

There was a lot of, what do you call it?

What do you call it these days

when you don't get along with people?

Yeah, a lot of that going on, interesting.

And so Jesus caused the disciples

to go right through Samaria rather than go around.

They were wondering about that most likely.

And then so Jesus was there at the well

and he was there at a specific time.

He wanted to meet this woman.

He wanted to meet the woman at the well.

What do we know about this woman at the well?

Did she need water?

Yeah, she had to go every day to get the water.

But she went every day to get the water

at the hottest time of the day.

Now you don't go out in that particular area,

especially in that time,

and you just don't go out in the heat of the day.

The heat of the day is scorching.

But why didn't she go out in the heat of the day

with the rest of the women?

They didn't like her, okay?

The rest of the women did not like her.

She had a sordid pass.

She had a sordid pass.

Now that's interesting.

I've got something right here.

Let's take a look at this.

Now I've got a little device right here.

And this is an interesting little device.

It has two tracks right here.

It has one track right here.

And this track represents,

maybe we could let it represent a life

without particular problems, okay?

And here's you or I.

And we can start right here.

And without any particular problems,

we can go from this life right here

and we can go all the way to the end and be successful.

So I'm gonna set this out here

and let's see what happens right here.

There you go.

Yep, and it goes to the end.

How cool is that?

Interesting.

But this lady didn't have a life like that.

She didn't have a life like that, okay,

without any problems.

She had all kinds of problems.

The whole city knew about her problems.

That's why she was going out

at the time of the day that she was.

So what do we end up with?

Well, here's her life.

It started out here, but boy, oh boy.

She had some dark, dark periods of time,

dark periods of time, dark periods of time.

But she wanted to get to here.

She wanted to get to here.

Everybody wants to get to here.

What's the shortest way to get from point A to point B?

It could be a straight line.

It could be a straight line.

Interesting, okay.

But she had some detours, okay.

Are detours ever good?

Well, could be.

Could be that some people need to go what?

They need to go up in the downs of life

in order for them to eventually get

to the end and be successful.

So let's see what we got.

So we have a person like this that has a nice life,

not much happening as far as no real problems in their lives.

And so if I set these off at the same time,

which one is going to get to the end first?

Is it the one that has just a shorter way to go?

Or is it the one that has going up and down

and up and down?

This one right here is about 115 centimeters long.

This one is about 125 centimeters long.

It's very, very long.

It's longer, much longer.

So make your guess, okay.

This is the Brat Christon paradigm, okay.

So here we go.

How many of you think this one's gonna reach there first?

Raise your hand.

One, two, three, four.

Okay, all right, we got a lot of smart people here.

And I'm gonna set this one down here.

Okay, I'm gonna let those go together.

Here we go, on one, three, two, and one.

Wow, now that's interesting.

Now which one got to the end first?

This one got to the end first.

This one got to the end first.

This is about what we're going to see

with this woman at the well.

We're gonna see this about the woman at the well.

This woman at the well, she was there with Jesus,

and her life was going like this,

and she was probably out of control.

And she didn't go out with the other women

because they persecuted her, okay.

And Jesus had a very good discussion with her.

Jesus wanted to try to get to know her.

Of course, he knew everything about her, okay.

And so she ended up receiving, and then we have that text.

What did the text read?

What did Jesus ask for?

Asked for a drink of water, didn't he?

He asked for a drink of water.

And he ended up telling her that if he knew who he was,

that she would ask for the water of life,

the eternal water, interesting.

That was what?

That was life eternal.

That was everlasting life, okay.

He was offering her everlasting life.

So after coming down from her life, okay,

he was offering her everlasting life,

and probably before, she was probably the first person

in that area that accepted him.

She called the others to him, okay.

And so he got to witness to all of the Samaritans,

which was amazing, just absolutely amazing.

So let's go on.

Now water, we're focusing on water here, okay,

because Jesus is the water of life.

He's the water of life.

We can't live without water.

All life forms have to have water that we're aware of.

All life forms can have, need water.

But there's some surprising things

that we can learn about water.

Did you know that water has memory?

Yes, you heard right.

Water has memory.

You and I have memory, okay, your phones have memory, okay.

Your children have, sometimes they have good memory.

But memory, water having memory,

water remembers things.

And this is what's happening in education,

because right now you can actually get a PhD

just studying water.

There's so much we don't know about God's creation, water.

It's not just simple H2O.

So what is happening with water?

Well, let me show you something.

And over in Europe, and we've got a couple

of universities here that are doing studies in water.

They're taking water droplets, okay, from different samples,

and they're drying the water droplet.

Then they use a very special microscope,

which is called a dark field microscope.

And they're taking a picture of the water print,

of the water print.

This is what they're coming up with, interesting.

If you have a container of water,

and you give it and you talk to it about love, okay,

and peace, okay, and wonderful words, okay, wonderful words,

then this is what it looks like under the microscope.

It looks just like that.

Isn't that cool?

And when you express words like thank you,

and you get crystals that look like that,

it responds to words.

Now that blows your mind.

You might say, no, wait a minute,

that's like, you know, that's really strange.

Well, it is strange, but they can actually prove this,

okay, in a laboratory.

And then when they bombard it with hate words, hate words,

and it's just not symmetrical at all.

Isn't that interesting?

That water has a memory, and it can react to that.

I think it's extremely exciting to think about that.

There you go.

Here's another structure.

Notice how pretty that looks, how interesting that looks.

And another one, exactly.

Now, this was what happens when you take water,

and you put it in an environment of music.

Now we know from plant study that you can take music,

and music will influence the growth of plants.

How many of you have ever read anything of that?

Isn't that amazing?

It is really quite amazing.

Well, they did the same type of study,

but using music with water.

And this is how the water can respond.

And look at the crystalline structure there.

Isn't that amazing?

I think that's quite amazing.

It almost looks like a snowflake, doesn't it?

That's interesting.

And this is some very, very soothing music.

This is some more soothing music.

And this right here is what?

That's rock.

That's rock music, if you wanna call it music.

That's interesting.

It's chaotic, and it doesn't respond well at all.

Interesting.

Well, who created water?

God created water.

There isn't anything that Jesus didn't create

that has been created.

He has created everything.

And it's no surprise to me to learn

about how sophisticated water really, really is

as scientists delve into the different areas of water

and how it reacts and what it's all about

and the different properties of water.

Amazing.

There's, in several countries,

they're dealing with some structured water.

What is structured water?

It's the way nature deals with water.

The way nature deals with water is different

than how our cities deal with water.

You and I get our water from the water company, okay?

And it's going through pipes and whoever knows what else,

and it goes through chlorination

and other purifications, types of services.

But in structured water, structured water is like

how nature takes care and structures the water.

And they can actually study this structure, okay,

underneath this deep field microscope.

And so somebody has come up with structured water

for industry.

And so there's some bakeries that had started out

with the structured water,

and they used this structured water in their baking,

in their business.

And they found out, the bakers found out,

that it takes, and you'll be interested to know this, Cindy,

you'll be interested in,

but it takes less water to make bread.

Less water to make bread.

And in doing this, it also takes less yeast, okay, as well.

And that's always probably a good thing.

And the crust is a lot thinner and more delicate.

I think that's quite amazing to me, it is.

Then some other industries,

like the industry where they have to use water

in order to cool, okay,

in order to cool machinery and so forth.

They found that if they use structured water,

then there's less rust in the system.

And they have to repair less pieces of pipes and fittings

because of all of the rust and the corrosion,

because they're using this very, very specialized water.

How interesting is that?

Even in swimming pools, when they use water for swimming pools,

instead of using a lot of chlorine and all of that,

that the structured water,

they don't have to use as much chlorine,

and they don't have the bacteria that they usually have.

And so it's very, very beneficial.

How interesting.

That is amazing.

Well, I've got a little experiment here.

Let's check this out here.

Now, what we're going to do is we're going to take water,

and water is so powerful,

we can make rocket fuel out of it.

That's right, you can make rocket fuel out of water

using electrolysis.

I have a little, this is a little canning jar,

and there's some water in here,

and there's some stainless steel wires in there.

And what I'm going to do is, this is not pure water,

because pure water does not conduct electricity.

So I've got a little bit of a salt in there.

That'll make it conductive.

I've got a little battery charger right here.

Let me plug this battery charger in.

We're going to put 12 volts of electricity

into those stainless steel coils.

And we have a positive and a negative terminal

on my battery charger.

And so one wire is attached to this positive terminal, okay?

And we're going to try to get hydrogen out of the water

through that wire.

And the other wire right here,

we're going to get oxygen from,

and that's going to have a negative charge.

So watch this carefully if you can see that.

And it's kind of clear you can see it,

but when I attach this to the electricity,

then it's going to look a little milky, okay?

Well, what's happening is there's going to be

hundreds of thousands, probably billions

of little teeny bubbles of hydrogen and oxygen taking place.

Let's check that out.

There you go.

Can you see that at all from there?

I know you're really a long, long ways away.

So we have all of those bubbles.

So all of those bubbles then are going to build up

a little bit of pressure,

and all of that hydrogen and oxygen gas

is going to come out of this little tube right here.

And I'm going to put that tube into this little water bottle.

And I have put some liquid detergent in here

along with some water.

So we're going to blow some bubbles.

So we want the hydrogen and the oxygen

to blow bubbles in my little container right here.

And I know probably most of you can't see that,

but it's going to start bubbling up, bubbling up.

Every bubble has a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen in it.

Now remember, hydrogen oxygen is rocket fuel.

When we use the space shuttle,

the liquid fuel tank had what?

Had liquid hydrogen in it and liquid oxygen.

But we're using gas hydrogen and gas oxygen here.

First of all, we have to get rid of all the ambient air

that was trapped in there,

and we're going to fill that tube up here.

So we're going to build up a lot of bubbles right here.

And then eventually, I'm going to unconnect this right here,

and I'm going to take a match,

and we're going to burn those bubbles.

I will warn you ahead of time

because it does make a noise.

It's rocket fuel, and it's very, very powerful.

Now recently, scientists have also come up

with some interesting facts about sea water, ocean water.

They have found out that they can use radio waves,

think about it, radio waves,

in order to take sea water, salt water, and burn it.

Can you imagine?

It's not electrolysis like this

where we're using electricity to do it,

which is very expensive,

but they're using radio waves

in order to light the ocean or salt water on fire.

Now what could this mean in the future?

Well, we have a lot.

We're dependent a lot on oil right now, aren't we,

for energy.

We need that energy.

Well, what would happen if we somehow could switch,

and then we could go and we could burn ocean water

by using radio frequencies?

Of course, I don't know what would happen

to the rest of the environment and so forth when we do that,

but that's an interesting concept.

It really is.

Okay, so let's see how we're doing right here.

All right, so we got a lot of bubbles built up right here.

Okay, and let's see.

Now, if you have small children,

you may want to just take them out to the foyer

because that makes a loud noise,

and I don't wanna hurt anybody's hearing,

and I don't wanna scare anybody,

but you can actually take your hands

and just cover them, cover your ears with them.

It is quite loud, okay?

Are we okay with that?

Okay, and I'm gonna go out in the hallway and join them.

No, we'll be fine.

Okay, so I'm gonna take this tube out, okay?

I'm gonna take the tube out,

and then I'm going to, okay, I'm gonna take this out.

Move this out of the way, all right?

Okay, three, two, one, and we'll make a little bit of noise.

All right, here we go.

All right, here we go.

Here we go, all right, hit three, two, one, and.

Oh, did you hear that?

Did you hear that?

Now, that's interesting, isn't it?

That is interesting.

Now, wouldn't that be interesting

if after we got a drink of water that happened?

That would be interesting.

Maybe some of us would drink more water.

But we do need water.

We've gotta have water.

Without water, we can't have life.

And we need life, we need water.

That's interesting.

Well, that's, let me unplug this.

Here we go.

It's not surprising that what Jesus has created,

the Bible says that in the beginning was the Word,

and the Word was with God.

And the Word was God,

and all things were created by Him and for Him.

Nothing was created that hadn't been created

by and through Jesus, nothing.

Even the things that are invisible.

We can't see all of the invisible properties of water,

but scientists are trying to show us these phenomena.

They're actually phenomena

that we just can't hardly believe.

But it is believable when you stop and consider

who created water.

It's not just simple water.

And when, what Jesus was offering that Samaritan woman

was eternal life.

And that eternal life was not simple.

Wasn't simple for Jesus to offer eternal life.

It was the hardest thing that anybody could ever imagine.

But it's the easiest thing for us to do is to accept.

Accept that salvation through Him.

That's what He's offering us today.

Whether or not we've been on that high road,

you know, not too many ups and downs.

Whether you've been on that up and down road,

up and down road, we can all get to the end.

And it doesn't matter who gets to the end first.

We just don't know, which is amazing to me.

Just amazing.