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Why am I so dry? - Bro Jeremy Howell 5-12-2024

Bethel Holiness Church - Sunday Evening Services

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  1. We miss Sister Donna tonight. We missed her this morning she lets us to

  2. howell know that she was going to be out of town. So we miss

  3. you, Sister Donald's so much. It's been so good to have our visitors

  4. today. Appreciate everybody doing their part. If you have your bibles, will

  5. you turn with me to Saint John's Gospel. Mad direct her attention to the

  6. fourth chapter and the thirteenth verse. Brother Nathaniel John chapter number four and verse

  7. number fourteen, and Brother Jesse John chapter number nineteen and verse number twenty eight.

  8. If you're happy, and you know what say, I am happy in

  9. Jesus, Praise the Lord, all right, Brother Nathaniel John, chapter number

  10. four, verse number fourteen. Please, my brother, But who's whoever drinking

  11. of the water that I shall give him, shall never thirst With the water

  12. that I shall give him, shall be in him well of water springing up

  13. into every asking life. Oh, praise the Lord for that satisfying well out

  14. of which comes living water. I want to preach a message the Holy Ghost

  15. titled why am I so try? Why am I so try? And I

  16. want to be honest with you. While I'm a little bit concerned about how

  17. this may go, Because only about an hour and a half before service started

  18. tonight did the Lord give me this text that I'll be using here momentarily,

  19. Brother Jesse John, chapter number nineteen and verse number twenty eight. After this,

  20. Jesus, knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture my

  21. beafulfilled saith I thirst Jesus Christ himself, speaking on behalf of every person within

  22. humanity, past, present, future, They say, I'm thirst And immediately

  23. after that proclamation and declaration of the need of humanity, thirst, I am

  24. thirsty, Jesus cried out. It is finished in the well erupted living water

  25. came forth. Let's stand for the reading of our text. John, chapter

  26. number four, verse number thirteen. The Bible said, Jesus answered and said,

  27. unto her, whoever believes that church is not for women too on to

  28. look at this verse. Jesus answered and said, unto her, whost whoever

  29. drinketh of this water shall thirst again. I want to tell you why you're

  30. so thirsty and why you're so dry. You're not where the well is,

  31. You're not at the oasis. Let's pray Heaven and Father, we love it,

  32. We praise you. We thank you for the opportunity to be in your

  33. house. I pray, Lord, that you would annoy this thy servant,

  34. set a guard in my mouth and help me to say the things that you

  35. would have me to say, nothing more or less. Anoint the ears of

  36. this thy peaceful that they might hear what it is the spirit of God say

  37. it under the church through the preach word of God, through your blessed both.

  38. Not of my words, God, but let them hear your words.

  39. I pray and use me. I desire you called me to do this.

  40. I ask you to enable me. You have every time you've equipped us through

  41. your holy ghost power. Would you help us, Lord, not only to

  42. hear, but to heed. And may we depart this place joyfully and not

  43. sorrowly in Jesus name. And the church says amen again. Reading our text,

  44. the Bible says Jesus answered and said it to her, whosoever drinketh of

  45. this water shall thirst again without a doubt. If you drink of the water

  46. coming from that physical well, you well, without a doubt, get thirsty

  47. yet again. Our text is found in a New Testament book of the Holy

  48. Bible. This is the fourth book of the New Testament. The Book of

  49. John, the writer of the Fourth Gospel, did not have much to say

  50. about the nativity of our Savior Jesus Christ. Again, the author of John,

  51. he did not have a lot to say about the nativity of our Lord

  52. and Savior Jesus Christ, but he had so much to say about his divinity.

  53. He believed in the unity of the triune Godhead and the divinity of Jesus

  54. Christ. In the twentieth chapter of the Book of John, the author John

  55. said that Jesus did many things in the presence of his disciples, which are

  56. not written in this holy book. But he said concerning the things that were

  57. written in this Gospel, and they were given to us the believers, that

  58. we might believe that Jesus Christ is in fact the Son of God. Our

  59. text has found in the fourth chapter of this Gospel. This chapter begins with

  60. the Son of God, knowing that some of the religious leaders of his day

  61. had heard some things about him, things that have been told about Jesus.

  62. Hoving of you are glad that you have heard the stories of Jesus. When

  63. I was a little boy, I would be ushered into a Sunday school classroom,

  64. and there I would hear about Jesus. I have privileged in that I

  65. can say that I did not hear of Jesus first in a Sunday school classroom.

  66. But I heard of Jesus first in my mother's lap, as her arms

  67. were wrapped around men, as she held in her arms the blessed word of

  68. God, and her child heard her tell me first about Jesus. This man

  69. had heard so many things about Jesus. He had been an eye and an

  70. ear witness to the wonderful workings of Jesus. This man knew that Jesus was

  71. the son of God, his cohort, his partner in crime, if you

  72. would, Because most of the religious leaders of that day considered the disciples of

  73. Jesus Christ, the Apostolic Brethren, to be criminals, men that were going

  74. against the law. They did not approve of these men and their ministries.

  75. This man John, he let them know that Jesus had brought joy to the

  76. hearts of many. He let them know that Jesus had caused people to be

  77. very happy. Those that were laying were healed. Those who brought their wounded

  78. family members to Christ walked away with their wounded faith. Remember having been made

  79. whole. Those that were demon possessed had been delivered, and Jesus had brought

  80. smiles to many people's faces. You see, this man knew how to tell

  81. a good story. John the Beloved had stayed close to the bosom of Jesus,

  82. and he had heard every word that Jesus uttered out of his mouth when

  83. he was nearby. I would say that John was a careful listener. He

  84. was also a student of our Lord's character. I'm talking about the author of

  85. this book of the Bible again. I want to point out that the Lord

  86. and Savior Jesus Christ, did not impress upon the heart of John, the

  87. author of Disguspel, to record or to write hardly anything at all about the

  88. Nativity. But John's focus was on the deity of Christ, the divinity.

  89. I believe the road cap that there are people today, and so Brother ray

  90. Asher has told me there are people within the Holiness and Pentecostal movements that do

  91. not believe in the deity of Christ. Heaven of you know that the divinity

  92. of Christ, the deity of Christ, is so important. Jesus was divine.

  93. Jesus was divine. This is the divine library, the sweet word of

  94. God, it's the Word himself, and the Word himself put the emphasis on

  95. himself. And in this book of the Bible we see this. And Brother

  96. Nathaniel, I was so encouraged and so happy to find some of the things

  97. I've found about an hour and a half before this service started. Those things

  98. that I found were in dis Gospel, and I got to looking at the

  99. beginning of this Fourth Child. In the very beginning, at the first verse,

  100. you see that Jesus had been busy helping people. They have praying through

  101. in a sense, they had not been butt off or born again, but

  102. they had accepted an answer to a message of repentance. We found here at

  103. the very beginning of this fourth chapter where the Lord had been busy alone with

  104. his disciples. Even though he himself had not done any baptizing, his disciples

  105. had baptized more people than John the Baptists. Concerning this fourth chapter, it

  106. begins with a sumptal reference to water. I was sitting there in my office

  107. about an hour before church, and I said, God, all that I

  108. had to go on is this thought that you have impregnated in myself. Why

  109. am I so drive? And I got to thinking about this fourth chapter of

  110. the Book of Charm, and God brought this text to mine our golden text

  111. answer Jesus entering and speaking to a woman and saying, whosoever drinking up this

  112. water shall thirst again again. At the beginning of this chapter we get this

  113. subtle hint, a reference of water. The imagery is seekers and followers of

  114. truth are descending into the muddy river Jordan, and after they were baptized,

  115. they climb up the base until they are back off solid ground. Undoubtedly,

  116. these candidates for baptism and entered into the muddy Jordan river drive that poons and

  117. their persons were drive. But after that they had been baptized, they came

  118. out and walked out drenched, unmoaning this somebody that God ws me preach to

  119. the night, and you're asking yourself this question, why am I so tried?

  120. Every person within humanity who is an honest person will say, as some

  121. boy they've asked her themself this question as well. Why do I feel so

  122. parts to inside? Why is there this in schuble desire for something more?

  123. Oh? Come on now, why are so many today content to be tried

  124. when they can be did and come up drenched? I'm seeking by and puts

  125. it out hearing from people that attend churches, and they call themselves the children

  126. of God. They admit that they are professors, but they are not possessors.

  127. They profess to have her the living water inside of them, but yet

  128. there is her. Just try us why hain't tried her and not trinched her?

  129. It's because her. They're not dipping trip in their proper places. If

  130. you're dipping her in a try, whoever did, you cannot expect them to

  131. come up corect. As we read on now we see that they came to

  132. a place of called Sykar for their road camper. We find the son of

  133. Goddam being desirous to get to the scene named Sakar. A scenario and some

  134. of you in this building to say, I go to a church in the

  135. bear fordam and there is a well there and that way is her? Not

  136. try who purchased the who say in eighteen years she's never been to her?

  137. A try? My servant say that befalls in the sing Pisa for this oasis.

  138. So he is saying, a wal, it's a living wail. He

  139. ain't not living well, there is living water. I want you to know

  140. if you're going. Well, hey, call suit you Todd. You will

  141. find that a well there. You see, this morning she had an appointment

  142. with a muster, and the muster he had an appointment with this woman.

  143. It's y car A Samaria. I must come there. Somebody saying I can't

  144. go there? Here can I go there? I know that geographic location,

  145. a certain place where there is gall I want you to know. You cannot

  146. tell her and could a been okay for the desert and a strict to fight

  147. a wall. It's somebody. As I tell you that there's somebody that they're

  148. not purpose, then there would be a water sauce there. Well, I

  149. want to go over here. It should work for me. I want to

  150. go over there. It shouldn't work for me. But at that purpose,

  151. it's not that there would be water there. If the purpose is not that

  152. there would be a well there. Oh, I'm telling you you can't get

  153. much out of the sand if you don't dig deep enough, if you don't

  154. work hard enough, that sand is not going to turn into a well,

  155. nor is he going to turn into a water surface of what a surcer you

  156. see, we find the son of God desiring to go through Samaria and one

  157. person had a need that needed to be met. I think it was Wednesday

  158. night. I preached a servant, tellawell God, may it was who needs?

  159. And God knows how to meet dozen needs. Somebody would say, it's

  160. not CONT's real. Let you do this, it's not CON's wallet. You

  161. do that because we've got a well here. But my question is is it

  162. a reliable water sauce? Sure leave us out to service. Can your deep

  163. crystal clear water and nurse's a soul and satisfies him? Here? You leave

  164. how to dip and turn out tricks? Say he come on now, I'm

  165. telling somebody to lie there can be that's certain sive that you're supposed to be

  166. at the water yourself could not have been anywhere utter that morning time. He

  167. had to be there. Well, I'll just trot the road. The preacher

  168. said something a hair lift me. The preacher said something to cut me.

  169. Upsets my sitting down on him. I WoT say, amen, do you

  170. want God to try up for a well while you sitting a saving news?

  171. The power not? Come on? Now? You a well to try.

  172. Jesus needed to be in Sakar of Samaria. Jesus had to be there.

  173. The Bible said that the son of God that knew all things that could be

  174. at every place at every time, he had to go there. I feel

  175. like some of you have made strategic moods, and you have moved here because

  176. you feel like her it is a well watered place. I hope that is

  177. true. I know that my wife and I some eighteen plus years ago,

  178. we set out trying to get that the mind of color and follow the play,

  179. and that God hath given us a sister. How what we felt like

  180. God desired for us to have was a spiritual oasis, a place may beware

  181. the desert surround it, in that we knew that we were with it her.

  182. He'll wear a water place. Notice our golden text John for at thirteen,

  183. who's ever drinking of this water shall thirst again. Whoever attends a holiness

  184. in a Pentecostal church where they're pumping and priming and empty, well, they

  185. shall walk out and satisfied, And the very next day they will feel parts

  186. of Herand's sister won't say. Many times, several days after the good service,

  187. she would say, I'm still feasting, and what God did for me

  188. Sunday nine, And perhaps it was Wednesday night. Don't come on now,

  189. hey the productal sun news. If you can get in the Father's house,

  190. don't be bred enhing and enough to stare. Then I feel like the same

  191. thing to be said that about the Lord's way. This never mean the kindness

  192. somebody man leaves that service. It may say there was nothing enough for me.

  193. Oh yes, sir, that's thing. Just get out of this spout.

  194. There's Norman, what come out? Just par cat hopping underneath it.

  195. I'm telling you there's no reason whatsoever for you to be dry? Why am

  196. I so dry? When they turn that gospel music and the singing of the

  197. red black huminal songs into rock and roll tunes with gospel music lyrics, you

  198. can walk out of there being thirsty again. Who you go somewhere where the

  199. Norton it's not pays. It's okay for you to walk out of there and

  200. say I am thirsty again. Where they're out of dusty and roll. Who

  201. waits up in the morning and they saying her, I gotta quick fixed last

  202. night when a kidnaped, Sir that I'm thirsty again. That promiscuous loming that's

  203. giving us something. So many at the end of the day see can say

  204. out a deep takes her that I'm deeper steel, I'm as thirsty now as

  205. I've ever been. I just cannot be satisfied. Who try the saxon can?

  206. All of these are top me things. We'll never have the satisfied somebody,

  207. No, won't forever be a fighter in the heart of the unsatisfier of

  208. hi doors. I remember attendant services that were dry. I remember visiting church

  209. people's houses and leaving feeling so parched because of the things that they talked about.

  210. Text my soul. You don't know the story of this woman of Samaria.

  211. Y'all know a little bit about this city of Sokar. This woman is

  212. a Samaritan. She's half Jewish and half Gentile. She's torn between two nationalities.

  213. She is an outcast. She is unaccepted. They do not want to

  214. have him her around. In fact, apparently one husband after another did not

  215. want to have him her around. Brother, dear Lave. We find that

  216. she had had five husbands, and the one that she had then was not

  217. necessarily desires to enter a commitment with her. You know what she interested her

  218. and entering a commitment with him. Oh come on, now, somebody listening

  219. to the preacher hereing in life, she was dissatisfied that she had been drinking

  220. out of was not a satisfying well. And I know that the words of

  221. Jesus are true. His words to this woman is whosoever, it does not

  222. matter if you're a conscious king or a popular It must not matter for a

  223. preacher or a little boy or a little prayer in that chas if you're not

  224. where the way he is. If you're not where the what a says is

  225. that you're going back to thirst again. The nature heck ho, the spiritual

  226. man and the natural man is the same in this regard. You real allways,

  227. me thirsty. Her deal you have to use the fucking you alive pray

  228. for me. That's a little bit discerned about preaching this. You're at the

  229. last minute. You know the story of the woman of Samaria in this city

  230. of Psyclon, and you know that she was one that frequented the well called

  231. Jacob's well. The patriarch of the Israelites. Hath of her ancestry would have

  232. been buried for me or with Jacob's well, Jacob dog or well, with

  233. good intentions that those who would come on behind him would have some sorcer to

  234. go to in order to draw water out of it. It was there to

  235. sustain the descendants of Jacob and how old boys, let me tell you something.

  236. The purpose of this well that your mother and I have dog is to

  237. sustain you and your children and your family said for many, many, many

  238. days, this is not Jeremy's well. Have come on now. It will

  239. not be enough for somebody to say this Jeremy's well, no more than for

  240. somebody to say it was Jacob's well. This woman that was an outcast,

  241. somebody that was unabcectable man and lost Ayle was unctab on that she comes out

  242. during the day and the head of the day the time Dona Geral. But

  243. it's not conducive to draw water. You know why, because she did not

  244. want to be seen. There's a lot of people drawing water from things they

  245. don't want nobody to see. I'm telling somebody there right now. Instead of

  246. turning the living water, some turn ahead to alcohol, Some turn to fortification.

  247. Now, some turn to drums nor earnest, turned to gambling, some

  248. even research to overeating, some just shining. Some need to new long tabler,

  249. and some need to mood tip. No, do you not turn to

  250. the living water instead of ending apera in the money waters, try some drives

  251. because you have a DiPT. It's because you have a dept. It's been

  252. a while since I've been in a good service, and so I'll live an

  253. hour for the podcast of this holdness church over here, this holdness church over

  254. here, this podcast from this to the custom of church over there, this

  255. program from this holdingess churchill overseas. I get a little drip heaper now and

  256. then Why would you be satisfied with a trip when you can get depth or

  257. come on down? If you knew that the well spring of life was only

  258. an hour up to road and you can have a satisfied through all your soul?

  259. Who did not be worth throwing to it? And defer from you rather

  260. than being satisfied with a trip, tell a story. Listening to this message

  261. tonight, you don't only need to need depth. You mean to be tricks.

  262. That's father Sundry. Why if I wanted to do things I've never wanted

  263. to do before, why am I battling in ways I've never fought before?

  264. Who swear and drinking to this water? Shall sirs again? Jacob had good

  265. intentions. Some pastors had good intentions. Some parents have good intentions. But

  266. I know where the water source is for come Noll. She had drinking from

  267. the water taken from Jacob's well numerous times. Let after she did the preaching.

  268. After a while, she wants drive again. And I'm a sure I

  269. heard no who it ghost to whispering this expression her while I was playing in

  270. my office parts parishioneries, how pinapont partsche parishioneries, how pitapot? If I

  271. was that preacher, and especially a postor, then we not on week I

  272. did not have to water that I needed to pour into the spiritual trussle on

  273. my people. I would talk to the saucer near water. Oh, come

  274. on now, Price Musting did the trick? Thirsty before you a minister for

  275. somebody else? We rest our, stay, you shall thirst again, you

  276. shall thirst a your how many people in this building locked water? Sister Hannah,

  277. my precious daughter, said to Daniels fast dead, teach her how to

  278. lock water. For years she did not lock water. What a lot of

  279. you know. I don't particularly care for water, but you let me get

  280. dry enough, you won't see it. Usually after I get done preaching,

  281. I slump down one of these bottles of Zepha Hills water. I don't know

  282. how many ounces that is, brother, The thing gonna tell me how many

  283. it is? How about that? How many is it? Brother, Lathamiel?

  284. He answers, And usually I took one of them down right quickly,

  285. and then I grab another one. And I'm almost tempted to chug in as

  286. well, because I'm drying after excerning myself, after preaching, after pushing.

  287. This is why i gotta come back to church. You go out into this

  288. world. Oh come on, now, you're rough shoulders with him as you're

  289. working with him, and you say, I feel part, sir, I

  290. feel tried. I'm in such pinniper shape. I need some water. Somebody

  291. find me some water. Back when George w Busher, he was trying to

  292. be reinterting as president, I took my family to her one of his rallies

  293. in Lakeland Forwarda And I believe the name of that stadium was Dodger Stadium.

  294. I can't really remember. But he, George Bush showed up and we had

  295. waited for Solona for him to get there. There he was there at his

  296. side was his brother chip bussher and we listened to person after person, politician

  297. after politician talk until we got parts and somebody in the crowd they started crying

  298. out her water, I need water, and I want you to know.

  299. The security team made sure that they started moving bottles her of water to that

  300. person's crime. They couldn't see the short lady that was standing her in front

  301. of me, but she said, I'm hot, I'm feeling dry, I'm

  302. parts up and don't even water. She got so much water given to her.

  303. She gave something to me. She gave son to sister Howell, and

  304. then with a slip little spy man, she said, I fe the little

  305. baby needing some water. She could not get to it, but she could

  306. cry out after it. And that shut this morning. This the wheel she

  307. could not put down to the water sasa that she needed to get to.

  308. She couldn't make attack to Chaco's water, but she needed more. He no,

  309. what was here Chaco's way and control. They need more, They need

  310. more. They don't put out, they need something coming ahead to the living

  311. water sauce. How many people in this field rock gatorade? Huh. When

  312. you need to rehydrate, you get Gatorade. How many of you like dot

  313. coke? How many of you lock sweet tea? I don't want to ask

  314. any of you diabetics APT don't dare raise your hand? Whatever do you do?

  315. Well? How? And if you lock these new cells? These drinks

  316. the pastors been turned on too. I love them. I have not found

  317. a flavor that I do not lock. I lock them off. Some a

  318. lot better than others. And you know, some of them drinks that I

  319. just mention you will quench your thirst. And old timers used to say,

  320. you can drink this cold drink. Some would call it soda, some would

  321. call it pop, some would call it this, and some call it that.

  322. They depending on where you were from. But they would tell us you

  323. can drink all that pop and all that soda that you want to, but

  324. until you get some water in you, you are not going to be satisfied,

  325. and your thirst is not going to be quinch You might go to a

  326. gospel music concert. You might go here, and you might go there,

  327. and if that lift and water is not falling, now, oh come,

  328. I've seen holding us churches holding us, meaning that the custom churches resort to

  329. rock and roar, beata and concert top sounds in the church truck, trying

  330. to get a world that bust up. The only thing laying up with is

  331. a spiritual Quaker and a concis tamper in the armful of the song. You

  332. can split the earth, you can split the emotions, you can split the

  333. affection. You can split it. But that doesn't mean the water is gonna

  334. be there. What are you drinking? I'm tired of trying preaching. I'm

  335. tired of try singing. I'm tired of it. I'm preaching the message the

  336. Holy Ghost, tired of fly and my soul dry. I used to tell

  337. people when we first come down here, I'd say, the reason why you

  338. don't get satisfied during the surface, it is because of what you're sunking on

  339. and what you're drinking and ingesting and knowlging in before you come to church.

  340. You come to church so satisfied on the things of this world. You're literally

  341. trunking on the cares of this life and trunking on the cares of this world

  342. that you don't even have a desire to get anything from God. Your richer

  343. increast look good tool. You have need of nothing, but you don't realize

  344. her just how parts your soul is, how parts of your family is.

  345. Parts parishoners are pitiful. How many walk to the middle of the church property

  346. today with a bucket in your hand. How man, ever, you filled

  347. that bucket up with water from the water well in the pump house out there

  348. behind the fellowship hall. No one you went to the refrigerator today, or

  349. you went to the little tank over there that the brothers had sat on that

  350. table and you open that's about that nose when you pour that unsweet sweet tea

  351. into your cup. The people of this day have runing water. The people

  352. of this day have refrigerators with all types of drinks in it, all kind

  353. of choices for hydration. The people of the Son of God's day, they

  354. did not have running water in the house. And this is what God gave

  355. me today. They did not have running water in the house, and they

  356. had to run to the water. And it's okay. When you feel the

  357. need, you got to run to the water. This woman could not get

  358. to the water where she was staying out, but she came with her bucket

  359. to the well. She came and running to the water. This samititant woman

  360. came to the well with a bucket, but Jesus had no need of a

  361. bucket. I remember reading some years ago they said that these these type of

  362. buckets that they had were lied with goat and sheepskin, and they would retrieve

  363. the water from the well and then they would carry it many miles back into

  364. the city. Now, I guess that jesus disciples had went into town to

  365. buy some things that they had a need of. Apparently they took the bucket

  366. with them. Because Jesus did not have a bucket. This woman did.

  367. And there's a lot of people in the church today they come without them their

  368. bucket. You are not the well water? Is he your bucket? Come

  369. to the house and come up expecting something from the Lord, and take home

  370. with you a satisfying as This woman had a divine appointment with Jesus at the

  371. water well, not of her choice, but at the water well of his

  372. divine appointment. Certainly she needed water for herself and the others in her household.

  373. Bonnie, it's not okay that you're drying. Your children are gonna need

  374. you to find the water. So she is in your living room. Your

  375. children are gonna need you to find that water source. That's besides your bed.

  376. It was around three o'clock this morning. I heard my wife get out

  377. of bed. And recently we've had some security concerns concerning things in our yard,

  378. and I hear about anything that moves, and so I got up to

  379. investigate, and I said, wait a minute, where are you at?

  380. She said, I'm down here, and she was up praying. She was

  381. visiting that satisfying well, no doubt. She was praying for somebody that's been

  382. in these services today. No doubt. There was a divine appointment for her

  383. to keep, and she met that appointment. Now, what was the reason

  384. for this woman being there? I'm telling you it was not a mistake.

  385. She had not got lost to bing the thing that she showed up right here

  386. because she had a need. She was thirsty. This woman was thirsty.

  387. A lot of you have showed up at the House of Garda, and you

  388. have admitted I am thirsty, the Bible said in John chapter number nineteen and

  389. Most number twenty eight. After this, Jesus, knowing that all things were

  390. accomplishing that the scripture might be fulfilled, he said, ah, thirst at

  391. this moment, in the final moment of his life, while upon the cross.

  392. The Lord Jesus, who knows everything, he knew the scripture had been

  393. fulfilled. And then he concluded with this my first he declared. Shortly after

  394. that statement, it has finished. He completed the work. The well had

  395. been instituted and placed perfectly in this world. It is to be the centerpiece

  396. of the oasis of life. There's a place for thirsty souls to quench their

  397. thirst with living water. The story of a dog comes to myrin. I

  398. heard this story many many, many many years ago. This man stumbled upon

  399. a dog that had been kicked out at in a rural area where an old

  400. pinty lived, where farmers owned hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of acres. Brother

  401. Richard Jacob would say, I'm no stranger to that, for he told me

  402. today that you could go fifteen miles in about any direction before you really saw

  403. anything in one of the areas that he was raised in. And somebody,

  404. in their cruelty, had kicked this little dog off. And it's a terrible

  405. sight to see a dog suffering because of malnourishment, if it hasn't had any

  406. water to drink, if it hasn't had anything to eat since the Howell has

  407. been trying to revive a puppy that has come down with the palm of a

  408. virus. And I showed her years ago that if you mixed the right minerals

  409. and vitamins, and you give them the right into accids and keep that stuff

  410. from burning them up, and give them the right concoction, you will get

  411. that stomach heated up just enough that they will drink water that they do not

  412. want to drink. Sister Howard was saying, when she put the food bowl

  413. down, the dog would literally run the other way. Is that right?

  414. Says the howl. When she would put the water bowl down, the dog

  415. would run the other way. But now we've got that little puppy whose sides

  416. are caving in, and I mean, it just looks like one of them

  417. victims of the Holocaust. That dog, just five days a dog was so

  418. good and so beautiful, but now it's shriveling up to nothing. And then

  419. you have ever visited somebody or been somewhere, been to a church somewhere,

  420. and you walked in and you said, Wow, these are not the well

  421. fed calfs of the stall that I remember. Why is there a famine in

  422. the land? Why are people so thirsty? Why are they so hungry?

  423. For a genuine, true move of God on to say that this dog,

  424. when they picked it up, it could not even lap any water in their

  425. hand that they poured into their hand from the canteen, because it was so

  426. weak. And one man he said, it's thirsty. Nevertheless, even though

  427. it doesn't have the strength to drink, it's thirsty. It is still there

  428. and still needs the water. It knows it needs the water, but it

  429. just doesn't have enough strength. And I remember hearing this, and they said

  430. that that man would put his finger in the water and he would put it

  431. in the dog's mouth, and he kept doing that till it got that old

  432. dry tongue hydrated, and it got things limbered up and loosen up, and

  433. the old dog could get that larnix and all the esophagus to work. And

  434. again that thing's got the functioning properly, and pretty soon he was able to

  435. pull for a little bit down. How many of you have ever been so

  436. try? I'm telling you you get't try enough. Even the water of a

  437. mud puddle will look good. I've been on some chop sites before, and

  438. being what the com bear caught to the point that you have caught in mouth

  439. and your temperatures elevating and your I'm feeling terrible at that time, and somebody

  440. brings you something cool to drink, brother Anu, and at that point you

  441. know you better not chuck it. You're thirsty, but you better not pour

  442. the eurs cold water into that overheat body. You better sip it just a

  443. a little bit at a time. The same thing, when you're coming off

  444. of a fast, you better just start introducing food and liquids to your diet

  445. and yourself. I put it at a pretty slow rate, otherwise you're gonna

  446. have some consequences. But now, when you come to the House of God

  447. and you come to this water source of you come to this satisfying well.

  448. And nowhere can I find in the Bible where you are not allowed to drink.

  449. Come on that you want to. I come from a generation to drink

  450. out of a water hoser, and I know what it's like to drink water

  451. that tastes suff like it was flavored with rubber, and drinking until my belly

  452. was floating, and when I ran off, I could hear her it's slashing

  453. in there. There's anybody know what I'm talking about you can get a better

  454. fool longing. They set it out to a while. That man was pouring

  455. that water into that dog, and that dog was being rehydrated. That's what

  456. a samaritan they considered themself to me right in the world, Who too?

  457. A you? He talking to me? A gentile, A samaritan? A

  458. dog? Ho? Come on, now, you ought to receive what God

  459. is telling you here tonight. You don't have to wither alone. You don't

  460. I up to be pots up. We can't be satisfied, sir pitifore look

  461. at that little dog at the house. Soon as we go in the house,

  462. Sister Howell heads straight to it. She opens that back door and she

  463. calls out to see is it's still alive? I told her yesterday. I

  464. said that part of ovirus lasts for about seventy two hours. If you can

  465. keep them alive for seventy two hours, they usually survive. My first experience

  466. with that, I saved the puppy name Oreo. Oreo had got where he

  467. could keep food down or liquids or anything. As soon as it went in,

  468. it came out. And I decided that even though I had certain responsibilities,

  469. that I was gonna just take this upart of myself to see if I

  470. could save this dog. And the vet said, if you'll pass one thousand

  471. dollars, we'll put it in our vent and we'll hook it up to an

  472. IV. We'll put it to sleep, and we'll rehydrate it, try to

  473. keep it alive or seven two hours. I said, no, I'm gonna

  474. go the cheaper route, and I'm gonna try to see if I can keep

  475. this dog alive. And it was about every hour and a half. Every

  476. two hours, I would get that dog up and I'd put it in my

  477. arms and I just put it in there and hold it and caress it and

  478. rub on it and try to just get that blood flowing. And sister Hell,

  479. try to get a little nutrients in it, a little liquid in it.

  480. And I remember one night in particular, that dog was literally teeter tottering

  481. at the point of death, at the brink of destruction, and I said,

  482. oreo, and that old dog looked up with me with the biggest brown

  483. eyes you've ever seen in your life, and they were pitiful eyes. And

  484. I said, buddy, if you'll just hold on just a few more hours,

  485. I'm gonna help you live. Oreo lived, and that wouldcome a gloved

  486. dog of our community. The Howl children remember him very well. He lived

  487. and became a horse of a dog. If you want, these kids would

  488. rideing like a horse. But I remember a time and over those life.

  489. If you would, brother, you're a mind. When if he could have

  490. spoken to said master, I thirst, And that's what Jesus was saying.

  491. Here, who'soever drenated of this water? Shall thirst again? Talking about that

  492. natural water. But Jesus is saying tonight, why sit you there until you

  493. die? Talk to the oasis any college here. An oasis is a fertile

  494. area of desert environment. This sustains plant, animal and human life. It

  495. provides habitime for those who care enough to stay. If you care enough to

  496. stay, you will find enough that there is water for you. And you're

  497. a family if you care enough to stay alone with us. The woman not

  498. just an ordinary world. When this special woman, the woman of psychar the

  499. outcast, she could leave that well and forget her bucket and walk away with

  500. a well and her soul. That woman who had been parched emotionally and mentally,

  501. she's walking away satisfied. How many religious people have made it their practice

  502. to shun people. I felt the Holy goes so strong when he began to

  503. minister to me in my office at last hour and a half she sent me

  504. down this direction. He began to minister to me about these people in the

  505. holiness of Pentecostal movements and of course within other denominations and organizations, they think

  506. that it's their privilege and their honor to shun people. These religious leaders had

  507. no doubt shunned to this woman. She was surprised that she's that's what he

  508. would talk to her. Why are you but you talking to me who's half

  509. jew and half gentile. Now I've seen some self righteous religious people to call

  510. themselves holding this in Pentecostal act just like the two good charismatic charlies and the

  511. Roman Catholic popes and his parishioners and followers. It seems like it brings them

  512. great joy to shun people. That's what the armist do. That's not what

  513. the good Samaritan does. There's some people, and I can preach a message

  514. title right now titled shunning the Samaritan. Jesus didn't shun this woman. Here's

  515. what Jesus said I've got some water for you. If you've got some water,

  516. give it to him. Don't shun them. If you've got some living

  517. water, give it to them and share it where I'm going. Matthew ten

  518. and Eh said, he'll the sick. Mister Shunner cleans the lepers. Mister

  519. Shunner raised the dead. Mister Shunner cast out devils. Mister Shunner, freely

  520. ye have received. Freely give mister all powerful Shunner. John four and fourteen

  521. says, but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never

  522. thirst. But the water that I shall give him shall be in him a

  523. well of water springing up into everlasting life. Not to take anything from Jacob

  524. and as well. But if Jacob's well isn't cutting it, then try Jesus

  525. as well. If where you're a wondering at it isn't working, then try

  526. Jesus as well. The water Jesus told the woman of Samary about could not

  527. be drawn from the earth of well. But the water that she got a

  528. hold of refreshed her, It renewed her, it restored her. So why

  529. are you so dry? Because when I look at sister Howl When I look

  530. at Sister Wood, when I look at these other brothers and sisters, they

  531. don't appear to be dry. So why are you dry? Because our preach

  532. tonight there's water in this way. But if you're getting satisfied, And I

  533. used to tell them down here when we were helping some people that were coming

  534. from the world into Christianity, I used to tell them, if you're getting

  535. satisfied with the rodeos on Friday night, you get satisfied with a shop of

  536. bar Saturday night, then you had no desire to show up on Sunday morning

  537. because you're so full of the world. You don't mean what the church has

  538. on Sunday school. But that will leave you parched. That will leave you

  539. parched. Let's stand tonight, that will leave you marched. Well, what

  540. I need is a new relationship. Now, you know what I need is

  541. a new church. Maybe I think it was in October in nineteen ninety three,

  542. November of maybe nineteen ninety three, about ninety fourth, November ninety fourth,

  543. I'm not sure, but God spoke to us about that worldly church of

  544. God we were in. It's just to how and I was married, so

  545. it would have been in October and November ninety four told us to get up

  546. and get out because the head was sick. The Church of God, denomination

  547. of the Church of God, fellowship that we had was not holding us.

  548. I understand there's a few good brothers and sisters here and there that are living

  549. good and there's a couple of Church of God's here and there were good people.

  550. They loved Jesus. But God told us way back then, over thirty

  551. years ago to get out because the head was sick. And Sister how and

  552. I newly married, brother would That's where my granddaddy's went to church was within

  553. the Church of God. But God is letting us know, Brother Jeremiah,

  554. the well, the water in the well of his tamed and we had to

  555. ease on. Now. I want us to bow our heads tonight, and

  556. I need to pray in church. You've asked the question, why am I

  557. say drive? And you're turning to YouTube, turning Amazon. You're turning into

  558. this relationship, and this relationship when you need to come to the water and

  559. drink, Go to the well, take some water and drink. We saw

  560. a young women pray today this morning, and these alls. I thank God

  561. for that. Brother stare at song. Someone trail the street corner this record,

  562. and I thank God for them. But somebody to kite needs to pray

  563. the way the service is gone to them. Somebody needs to drive. If

  564. that is you, as we all close our eyes, bow our heads,

  565. if that is you, I want you to come knee at these altars.

  566. Brothers on this side, sisters on the side that dissatisfaction. Why am I

  567. so dry? You should be walking out of every service here have a DiPT

  568. and being drunks every service. But if you're feeling dry, come to the

  569. well. Tonight is the somebody in this building that needs to come to the

  570. well. It is full of the Holy ghost. Everybody filled with the Holy

  571. ghost. If you're not your dry, everybody's saying to five, we could

  572. not be drying because and I shouldn't have to tell you that for you to

  573. move, you'll sit there and dry. If you don't learn her, come

  574. to the well on your own. And that's what we're dealing with tonight,

  575. sister weakness, dealing with you waiting until you're being watched. Right now,

  576. We're gonna give the musicians a break tonight, the singers a break. I

  577. want us just to do some soul searching, and I want us to ask

  578. God, why do we have these silly substitutes. Why are you drinking diet

  579. coke? Why are you drinking sweet tea? Why are you drinking red bull?

  580. So to speak, expirits and speaking instead of living water. I'm not

  581. speaking against the natural drinks, dot coke or gave Way. Understand what I'm

  582. saying. Why are you satisfying yourself on YouTube and videos and shock them?

  583. Alcohol, drugs, gambling? Why are you so drunk? Woman? If

  584. you knew who it is standing around with, you would ask me to give

  585. you a drink when you ask the Lord to give you a drink tonight