Jacob's Well, Satisfying Your Deepest Thirst

We are such a blessed body. Have you guys had a good

summer? I'm only asking 'cause I know the kiddos go back to school this

week and— Well, they came

partially last week, but parents are counting down till tomorrow.

When Ephesians 4 talks about the gifts that God has given us on

this planet, one of them that he speaks of is teachers.

And I think we would do a grave disservice to think that those

teachers are only in the body of Christ. These teachers are

everywhere, and they are making such a huge difference in the

lives of our kids and in our lives. I had a teacher

named Betty Langston, and she— I could not

tell you whether she was actually serving the Lord or not,

but what she did served the Lord, whether she meant to or not,

because she would call out things in me. And she would say, you're

better than that. You can do this. You're smarter.

And have you ever thought about this? I think you should. You know what I

see in you? And I was just like this little human

sponge picking it up. And

so much of what God birthed in my life,

he birthed through teachers on a Monday through

Friday schedule, who loved me, who

spoke into my life and ministered to me. And

that's why we'd like to take a second. Elders, I'm gonna call on you guys

too. If we have teachers or students,

can you just come? We wanna pray for you for just a minute and cover

you and bless you. We're so grateful for you. Students, come on, you're

going back too. Amen. They're like, no, we're not. I'm

like, yes, you are. Come on, we wanna pray for all of

you. And if I could get the elders to come behind me, And let's just

pray covering over them and strength and wisdom.

Guys, it's gonna be a good year.

It's gonna be a good year because God has plans for you in this

year. Jeremy, will you come out?

And guys, let's pray for them.

If the body— if the body will stand, just raise your hands towards these

people, students and teachers.

Lord, we thank you for what a, what

a blessed group that we are, Father God. But Father, we thank

you for the, for the teachers, and we thank you for the students. And we,

we just ask that you, that you guard their steps going in and

guide them going out. And we pray for a great year with—

for all of them to have high expectations for this year, Lord. Amen.

We pray for supernatural favor, for your covering

for each one of our teachers. We pray for

supernatural favor for each one of our students. Lord, help them to be

able to show the light of Christ to others. Help them to feel

encouraged. Bring our students great friends.

Bring them great— help them have great favor with teachers or

coaches or anybody as they come in contact with. Father God, give

them— help them to be able to have a great Great

parents and people around them that they can talk to about anything that's going on.

Father, help them to know that they are, they are your children and that they

are covered for those things regardless of what their age is, from kindergarten through

college, that you have what's best for them, Lord. Father,

help each one of our teachers to know that each point of impact is a

huge impact for that student, whether they are a

believer or whether they have never heard the gospel at all whatsoever.

We are planting seeds, Father God. Help us to be able to

be a body that can help to be able to water those and to

be able to help in all aspects, Father.

Lord, help us to be a light into the world. In Jesus' name, amen.

My 5- and 6-year-old grandchildren are in the car, and I'll say this to you

guys, teens. They were arguing in the back

seat and Nora said, you can be

anything you want to be. And the 6-year-old

looked at her and said, actually— and when a 6-year-old says,

actually, you should listen. She said, actually,

Nora, you should be what God wants you to be.

And you can thank the teachers in that end of the building

and their parents for pouring that into them. But, guys, Be what

God designed you to be. Every single day,

be what God designed you to be. I cannot wait

to see what he does with you in this coming year. And

speaking of not— can't wait to see what God is going to do, we

are blessed with teachers in this house, so blessed. And this

morning, we get to share in the wisdom that God has

given Pastor Allen Smith. Would you come, Allen?

Good morning, good morning.

I don't— I'll ask you guys. Do they still— I'll ask you guys. Y'all would

know. Do y'all still get sent to the principal's office? Is that a thing you

still— okay. Yes.

For what is it? Oh, okay. I felt like I was in the

principal's office this morning. Before I go there, let's

do this. It's on my heart. Those that know,

Cole and Kaylin. Her father went home to be with the

Lord Thursday. Cole and Kaylin Burkett. And we'll

be remembering him this coming Saturday. And then also Chris

has had to leave. They're trying to get another

transplant for him. He needs a transplant. And so

he's out there because he's working on his throat,

swallowing difficulties. And I don't think Cole

and Kaylin are here, but can we just pray for them?

Father, I ask that Amen. The Holy Spirit, the

Comforter of comforters, God,, would be with the

Burkett family. Lord, be with Darby and, and the

children and the grandchildren, Lord. To lose

their patriarch at 56 years of age, I can't

imagine. And so I just ask, Holy Spirit, that you fill that family

with your comfort, surround them With people that will love and uphold

them and strengthen them in this season of grief. Walk with them,

Holy Spirit. And Lord, let them have the fondness and the joys of the

memories of a life well lived. God, be with that family. And Lord, just

touch Chris right now, God. Help him to be able to swallow

and help Jeannie as she procures that with him right now. And Lord, for

favor in this opportunity for a transplant, Lord,

I just ask that you would put his name in front of the right doctors,

Lord, that it would go through. Amen. and that his precious little body would be

strong enough to be able to undergo that. In Christ's name, amen.

I say I felt like I was in the

principal's office. My family was up for the weekend. My

daughter-in-law Eden, they had a graduation for her. A

graduation, golly, Allen. The older I get, the more I

worry about myself.

Is that a laughter because it's funny or you bear witness?

Okay. I do, man. Words that I used to

know, I forget. But anyway, I digress. Eden, my

daughter-in-law, was having a baby shower. My

first grandchild's due in November. So my mother

and my father and sister surprised me and came up

for the weekend to go to the baby shower. And we

usually have a rule in our family. We love each

other immensely. We really do. But 3

days, it's like fish or trash. In 3 days, you need to take it out

because we— you just overstay your welcome. Some of you know what I'm talking

about. Everybody didn't have a wonderful childhood growing up. We love each other

deeply, but you know, the first, first day you're all excited about

seeing each other. Second day you catch up on, well, how's Aunt Sarah? And how's

Uncle Bill? And how are you doing? Blah, blah. Day 3, then you kind of

start nitpicking on each other. So we gotta go.

So typically when we go there or they come here,

Sunday's the get-off day. You leave early, and especially them, 'cause

it's about a 6-hour drive. And so usually you're leaving by 7 o'clock,

8 o'clock in the morning. And so we did our hugs and kisses goodbye

last night after visiting and dinner. We celebrated their 80th birthday,

and they were supposed to be gone. So...

First gathering, I'm sitting down here by Carol, and we're chatting, and

it's like quarter till 9, and I feel a presence come

behind me in the row behind me, and I could see,

but I've had a crick in my neck this past week, so I can't really

turn. I have to turn, and I heard a voice say, good morning.

And so I was polite and just went, good morning,

and carried on my conversation. And then a little bit later— Good morning.

Unbeknownst to me, my mother said, good morning, son.

And I went, oh my goodness! Y'all are supposed to be past

Bellbuckle right now. What are you doing here? And I

just— I'll be honest with you. If you were in first

service and if you've gone and you're going to watch

this, I apologize. I was so nervous preaching and

teaching in front of my parents. I got off my notes. I was—

I— I apologize to you first service people.

I just stumbled and felt so— but you know what?

The altar was weird,

but my sister came down and recommitted her

life to Christ this morning.

We've been praying for her family. She's been Thinking about

leaving, and I've got 2 nephews that are so

far from Jesus. One is

transgender, and we've just been praying for that family.

And my sister— in all my inadequacies and

everything that was so disjumbled, God still worked.

And so it was worth my sister this

morning. And I'm just going to apologize to you too, because

I'm not this guy.

I'm not the techie guy. I'm not the— can I just do like we

used to do in the '70s and '80s and just do my notes in the

Bible and preach? Come on. And here's the other thing.

It's not long. I only got 20—

did I mess it up? About 25 minutes

worth of stuff. But you know what? God can do

something in 25 minutes and take the other time while you're talking and

going home to move. Father, in the name of Jesus,

use this inadequate vessel and you

speak to your people. Whatever is mine that's

foolish or silly, that's not worthy of remembering, let it fall,

Lord, but let your word that is life refreshing

water, living water, let it remain to

minister to your people. Amen.

If you have one of these, bring it. If you have one of

those, you can look up Genesis

33 starting with verse

16, and it says,

I'll give you a second. It says, on that day Esau started on his way

back to Seir, but Jacob went on to Succoth. He built a

house for himself and stalls for his cattle. That is why the place

was called Succoth. That word means shelter or

structure. Excuse me.

After Jacob came from Paddan-aram, he

arrived safely at the Canaanite city of

Shechem, and he camped in front of the city,

and he purchased a section of the field From

the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, for

100— mine says kesitas. Who has a different

translation besides the Holman? Whatever

that word is. It's about— my scripture says

the value is unknown. So he paid a priceless

amount for it, where he pitched his tent, he

set up an altar, and there he called it God,

the God of Israel, El Elohim. And then if

you'll turn to John 4:1-6. Give you a second.

John 4:1–6

That's in the skinny part on the other side

for those that are looking. In my book it's

page 1547. When Jesus knew

that the Pharisees heard He was making and baptizing more disciples than

John, Though Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his

disciples were. He left Judea and went again to

Galilee. He had to travel through Samaria,

so he came to a town of Samaria named Sychar, near the property that

Jacob had given his son Joseph. Jacob's well was

there, and Jesus, worn out from his journey, sat

down at the well. It was about 6 in the evening.

Amen.

I don't know about y'all, but I've enjoyed this

series of Getting to the Wells.

Pastor Barbie set us up in the first week, and she was sharing

about Isaac and Abraham's wells, and they kept filling them

in, and finally Isaac had to go dig his own well.

And then we see later because of

confrontation, if you know the story about

Jacob and Esau, there's— Jacob was not

quite always forthright, we'll say it that way.

Well, his name originally meant the thiever or usurper,

supplanter. So he kind of basically lied

and stole the blessing and Esau wasn't real happy so confrontation

happened. And Jacob moved out of fear. So

he was in the northern part of the country, and Esau

settled in the southern part. And

Jacob was scared for his life. But God finally spoke to Jacob,

and he had to move, so he moved south, as we heard. And when he

settled there for his family and his people, he made

a dwelling place. And he dug a well.

But he had to go reconcile with Esau. And Esau was

in Seir, and Jacob was in Haran in the northern part.

And so if you look at the distance, Jacob was the one that made the

sacrifice. He's the one that came the further distance of the two to

reconcile. Did you know that sometimes in our life we have

to go a little bit further than the other person?

Whether we're in the wrong which he was,

or whether we're in the right, sometimes we

have to make the sacrifice. We have to humble ourselves and go the

extra distance to make reconciliation in our

life. So he goes south and then he's— they

meet, they reconcile, and he goes to Shechem and he's

settled in Sychar between Mount Ebal

and Mount Gerizim. And how

many know that in the desert— or I'm sorry if that was me—

or in the country, to survive you've

got to have water? And one of the first things

you've got to do is find water and dig a well. Now

historically, Jacob's Well

was dug around 1900 BC. That's what

historians, biblical scholars would tell you, between

1904 and 1910, or the other way, it counts backwards, you

know. So he digs this well

and it's provided for him, his family, his servants, his

livestock, his cattle.

Most wells— there's 3 main

classifications, let's do that. There's a shallow water well, Depends

on rainwater and runoff, so it's pretty surface level. You can hit it

at about 25, 40 feet. Problem with a shallow

well is when the sun comes out

like it's been for 2 weeks here— sidebar,

if Hades is any hotter than Middle Tennessee in August,

I will not be there. I am— Lord, whatever it is,

I confess all my sins that you are faithful and just. Amen. To cleanse

me from all unrighteousness, the ones I don't know about, because I don't want to

be there. I sweat now and it's 78 in

here. But anyway, shallow wells are

good for a moment because it's a quick nourishment,

but they're not sustaining. They're not going to last you.

Young people, these friendships you have,

these peers you have in school, And you think they feed you

and make you feel so, so in certain ways. Those are

surface-level wells. They're only going to carry you so

far because they can't speak to the deep place in your life.

And those wells will dry up, and the wells that you thought you draw encouragement

from, you thought you got your

acceptance and things from, when they dry up,

you'll be like they never knew you. Be careful who you draw from.

Then you got aquifer wells. They're deeper, usually around

100, sometimes 75, but they're sustained by

porous rocks, limestone in the earth.

And that's great because it's usually a

longer-lasting well. It'll supply you for a longer time. But the

problem is, if the ground around that well gets

contaminated, that water source becomes contaminated.

Pesticides, oil spills, anything that can contaminate and seep

through the earth will eventually get to the

porous rock, and it'll affect that water,

and that cool sweet water one day you're going to draw up and

go because it's bitter,

it's contaminated. And then there's a third main classification of

a well, and those are wells that are spring-fed

Are live underwater rivers, and

those are deeper to get to. I wonder why.

You think it's ironic? Pastor Barbie was talking about— boy,

I almost wore overalls and had shovels out here because she's been

talking to us about sometimes you got to work

to dig that well. Listen, God provided

The source. He's provided the water for you, both natural

and living, but we've got to do some work. Isaac

and Jacob just didn't go, hey, boy, it'd be nice to have a well.

I need a well. They had to get out and

dig the earth to get to the

resource that Jehovah had provided for. If you

think— You includes me.

We have English lessons. You know, English in America is— you read it and it's

masculine-driven, but many times it means everybody.

Where's Kurt from Memphis? It means all of us.

When I say you, I mean me, all of us. If you

think just coming here on Sunday

and singing for about 20, 25 minutes,

and I mean with your whole heart, you're engaged, you're in it.

But if you think just doing that once a week

and you think 2 or 3 scriptures on the board or

you got to look up your— Come on.

Instagram or Facebook or all the other little

WhatsApps and knickknacks and paddywhacks that

give you your encouraging motivational

scripture of the day, first of all, they're

cherry-picked. Many times they're not in a

context, because then when you go back and read

why it's there, you go, uh-oh, there's something

more to this. So if you think all that is digging

your well, you're in a shallow well, and trust me,

when the winds of this earth and the drought of

this world come, that well will run dry. It will

not sustain you. Amen. Pastor Barbie

taught us. I'm not even going to attempt to get on my hands

and knees because 4 or 5 of you are going to come up here and

lay hands on me suddenly to help me get up. But she gave you

a beautiful example last week, and can I tell you this?

That example she laid out is not for pastors learning how

to teach a sermon the next week. That's not for a speaker

on Wednesday night preparing for a class or Whoever's

teaching the 12. That's for us'uns.

Yes. We need to get out Strong's

and the Blue Letter and the Bible Hub

because I was one for a long time, lazy Christian.

Whatever the preacher preached and whatever I could get from somebody, hey, I need you

to pray for me, I need a scripture, was all I lived on. And you

know what? I was thirsty a lot of the times. When I

needed to quench a thirst. She showed us

how we ought to daily— listen, I know there's 24 hours

in a day, but you can't tell me you can't find 20 to 30 minutes.

You can't. I told— there was a young lady, I think she's in

the room. She was like, I just have a hard time

praying and connecting to God. I can't find time in my day. I

said, honey, when you're driving to the grocery store, and you ain't

got the kids, you can pray. When you're sitting in line at the bank

and you're waiting for that return receipt to come back, you can

pray. When you're standing in the grocery waiting behind

Meemaw with 53 coupons and paying with pennies, you

can pray. And I said, if you'll start with just those, I

can promise you they will grow. And before long,

you'll be going, man, I got to find time to do other things, because it's

going to become so rich to you that 5 minutes becomes 20, 20

becomes 30, Yeah. It's like Barbie said, she's having to write sidebar things

because I'm coming back to that, but right now I'll go out and focus on

this, but this was so out of the place or unordinary that I want to

research more about that, and you'll find yourself digging a

deeper well because He's already supplied the

source, but we got to do the work. I

don't want to be a lazy Christian. I want to dig a

well. She's talking about Abraham, Isaac, and now we're getting to

Jacob. Because here's the thing, how many in here are parents? Give me an oh

me or an amen. Oh me. Yeah,

I kind of figured Justin would give me that. Grandparents? Oh me

or aye? Possibly any great-grandparents in here? A

few. I'm talking to y'all right now.

Actually, everybody under 30 I'm talking to, but specifically y'all.

You can only live— let me get here in your face so

I can sweat on you.

If I smell real good,

it's horse liniment from Tractor Supply for all my old

joints. If I stink, it's horse liniment, just so you know why the smell

is. I hugged a lady between service. She went, oh, you smell

good. And I Said, well, that's old-day horse liniment from Doc.

Here's the deal. Your parents and your

grandparents that are believers,

their faith has dug wells,

and they've dug deeper than surface. They're digging deep

because they want to sustain you, because right now

you're developing your faith. And you may not be

really great at digging your own well yet. You're gonna make mistakes.

You're gonna hit dry spots and have to go find a different

place to dig. And so right now

you're living on your parents' and your grandparents'

and maybe grandparents' wells. But there's gonna come a

time that you have to dig your own well. You've got

to dig your well so that the resource from God is yours.

You can't depend because one day the way this world is,

Because of sin, your grandparents are going to go home.

Your parents are going to pass, and you're not going to be able to go

back to those wells. You've got to have your own well to

sustain you and to hold you up. I've been digging a well

for 37 years with Renee for my children, and now

I've got a grandbaby coming. But one day little

Annie's got to dig her own well because she can't come to mine. Amen.

Parents and grandparents, great-grandparents.

We've got to keep our well pure. Pastor Barbie talked about she

had to be careful going to that well, not bumping the

walls and things, because your dirt becomes—

That's right. Becomes our dirt. We've got

to keep our wells pure. This ain't a

You know, we used to— everybody over 50 knows the phrase, a

clothesline sermon, where we talked about how you dress and all that.

You and God got to settle this out, but you better be careful what you

let your kids watch on TV.

I don't watch— I guess I'm going to have to start in

8 months, but I don't know Bluey from Peppa

to any of them. But that

TV is not a babysitter. You

better watch what your children are watching. Come on. Because the

era I had kids, Rugrats and Simpsons and some of these,

all it taught was the dad was an idiot, the mama was some

kind of something usurping authority, and the kids

talked back. Don't you let your kids watch that junk.

You gotta protect that well. 'Cause that dirt will

dirty that water. You better be careful what you

listen to on the radio while they're— I love, I love

when Pastor Barbie uses Rowan and Nora's examples.

Sitting in the back seat, Nana, did you know? They're

not talking about all the stuff in this world. They're

talking about God and Jesus and how to do God this and

Jesus that. You better be careful what you play on that

radio. Listen, I love the '70s and '80s rock and

roll. I love it. But some of the message, even though the groove

is good, I turn that

off. I don't want my little precious daughter hearing some of them women

songs that were degrading to women. Gotta be careful. You gotta protect that

well. Gotta keep that water pure. Amen.

You got to dig your wells, and y'all

aren't the little ones in those classes out there. Y'all are big

enough that your hands work. You

better crack that Bible open. Come

on. Don't you depend on Pastor Doug and Pastor Jody. Don't you

depend on the Andersons, the

Horners. You got to do it. You

got time to scroll and play and do other things, You got time

to open a Bible and say, Holy Spirit, I need you to teach

me and show me how to dig. Patty

cake worship ain't gonna get it. You gotta be able to sing.

She talked about it her first week, well, the week setting up

about worship anyway. You better get a song. You

better have a song. When I find myself in a dry

season, I love the songs we do today, But Alan

throws on them hymns and I go back to the stuff

that got me through as a kid and a teenager. I

gotta find that song that I can draw the

resource from that will refresh my soul and

better my soul. Jesus meets her. The

disciples go off to get food. It says Jesus was

tired. Anybody been tired? He's the Son of

God, but Jesus knows what it's like to be

tired. I wonder how His knees are or were

because He walked everywhere. My knees are terrible.

I'm bone on bone. I hurt all the time. I can't imagine walking everywhere

Jesus did, but it says He was tired. That means

He understands how we feel sometimes.

He was just as much flesh as He was deity. Amen. He knows how

you feel. And as He comes, the Scripture

says Jesus had—

I emphasize it, capitalize it— He had to go through Samaria.

But if you know your Bible, Jews didn't go

through Samaria. They were considered half-breed.

They were less than because they weren't pure Jews. Amen. And a

good Jew traveling north to south or south to north

would go almost as far as the Jordan, 'cause there's mountains through

there, almost as far as the Jordan, even crossing the Jordan,

and add about a day and a half to their journey. Or they go

almost to the Mediterranean of the West Bank of Israel to

avoid encountering Samaritans.

Versus the direct, quickest way. My God, how many times

have I taken the long way to avoid somebody because I

didn't view them worthy of time with me?

Forgive me, Jesus.

But Jesus said, I had to go to Samaria. He gets

there and He's at the well. This well

is almost 2,000 years at that time.

Still with fresh water. Because it—

there's a gentleman that went, Mr. W. F.

Albright, I think it's E. Dub, but you'll

have to look it up. He died in '74, but from

'56 to '71 he did a lot of excavations and

things in Israel, and he went to Jacob's

Well, and it was proven that that well is

built or drawn from a live spring. Running

water. They would call it living water

because it never stagnated, it never sat,

it was continually flowing. So Jesus meets

her. Isn't that like God? I'll send Jacob

2,000 years ago south to reconcile, send

him west toward the ocean, settle him in

where he shouldn't be, And digs a well so

that his son would meet a woman one day.

Can I tell you, if he will do that for her, what he won't do

for you? He

has already put into place things before you can even think

to meet you in a place that you have been or you have yet to

be. He has already set the situation up for you for

the provision. Amen. For your salvation, for

whatever your need is. That's my kind of God.

Don't mean you don't get away with— you got to work. It takes some time.

You're going to have to put in some effort, but he's already resourced it and

he's waiting on you. He's waiting on you to get there.

Jesus goes on and talks with her and he asks

for water. What are you

But you asking me, a Samaritan woman, to give you

drink? You don't even have

anything to draw with, and this well,

Jacob's well, our father's well, is deep.

Are you greater than him?

And He gives her an answer that starts something on

the inside of her. That changes this from drinking water to

drinking water.

If you knew who it was, if you knew the

gift before you and who he is that

has spoken this to you, you would have asked me

for water.

See, you know the story. You know about her life and we don't have to

go there. Read it. Verse

16, John 4:16 through about 24.

John 4:16

Jesus explains it to her. I know who you are.

And then He offers her that water. And the

Scripture goes on to say in verse 27, 28,

That she left her pitcher,

what she needed to gather water, and she went

back to the city and told them, come and meet a man

that told me everything about me. Could He be the

Messiah? See, she had to come to the well at that time of

day. There was a reason.

But He was already waiting. She had a thirst that

was far beyond what earthly water will fill.

She could have drunk from that well and had been for who knows how long,

but that day, if you read it and I read it

correctly, she never got a drink of that water again.

I'm not talking about going forward. That day she didn't drink that water. That's right.

The interchange happens. She doesn't draw. It says she left her pitcher.

But because of the encounter with him, the

deepest thirst— there ain't nothing like a good cold

drop of water. We had a well

on both of my parents'— grandparents' property. They had city

water by the time I was born and old enough. And I got in trouble—

well, some of my cousins got in trouble for throwing

stuff in the well. But on hot summer days,

pulling that metal ladle out of that well and drinking that water.

You talk about quenching a thirst.

But Jacob's well could not quench the thirst that she had,

but Jesus did. I don't

know what your vessel is today. Musicians,

come out. I don't

know what kind of well you have,

I hope you got one. And you know what? If it's a shallow well,

praise God, you're starting to dig.

But I can tell you from life experience, it won't last.

My well was shallow when my son was born.

He was preemie, and my well was not where it needed

to be. And I went back to my mama.

You gotta pray for Jeremy. I went to

older people in the faith that I knew had deeper wells than me.

I need you to pray. I need what you've got because

mine's dry.

So if you've got a shallow well, don't be ashamed of it, but

today's an opportunity for you to dig deeper. He's

not going to dig it for you. He's not going to

guard your eyes and protect your mouth and the things.

You've got to do that. You've got to ask Holy Spirit to

do that for you. He don't just do it. There

is an encounter or an interaction that takes

place. But the great thing is he's already

provided. We just gotta— Amen. Pardon the pun, we gotta tap

in. It's one thing to have a well where you gotta crank.

Now we got people that have wells that are on pumps and it

constantly comes. He's better than a pump well,

'cause, and I'm not gonna preach his message, he's got it next week,

but he can put living water. It says later,

he told her that I'll give you a wellspring.

of living water that wells up from within you that you'll

never— We're taught in

counseling never use the words never and always

in counseling. But when it comes to Jehovah

and it comes to God, He will put in you, if

you'll let Him, a wellspring that will never

Run dry. As you get ready

to— elders, I'm going to— I didn't do it first service. Elders,

those that'll pray,

please come down. Come

down. Come on. Wide open

altarcall. My well is not

sufficient. Come down.

Find the deep well. I've

contaminated my well. I'm

allowing things to get into my well that contaminates the water.

I've been there. I've sat in this room and gone thirsty. Great worship,

great message, and I've sat here thirsty because I've allowed things in my

life. That's why 1 John 1:9 is so important.

1 John 1:9

It's not just a memory verse you say, because if I will

confess my sins,

He'll forgive them. And cleanse me from all

unrighteousness. He refreshes that water.

So maybe you're there, and maybe you're in the

room and you've never started a well. Are you

like my sister this morning who used to drink

from the well, but she strayed from it? Maybe

today you need to come back to the well. That's

this altarcall. Just say, worship, allow the

Holy Spirit to lead you and just come. Here's

the deal. You could sit there and you may well

sit there and that's fine. Jacob would have

never had a well if he didn't go and dig.

Sometimes it takes a physical response.

Team.