Blessings of Water

Brethren, we go to school to learn a lot about physical things. For instance, we learn in subjects like science, how things work, how certain laws of physics and inertia and electricity, and we learn all these things at school. Indeed, as we heard in the sermon, science can be very good teaching us physical things, the things of the five senses of touch, smell, sight, sound, taste, and experimenting with those things. But it's very poor to teach us spiritual things. We cannot learn through science spiritual principles. We cannot learn through science spiritual things. Spiritual knowledge needs to be revealed. Spiritual knowledge needs to be revealed. And that's why, right from the days of Adam and Eve, there were two trees. A tree of life, which was a tree of revealed knowledge of the evil, and a tree of the way of death, which was the tree that mankind would decide for himself what would be the knowledge of good and evil. So God has to teach us, has to reveal us the true spiritual knowledge. And we therefore have to acquire, to do easy instruction, the true knowledge. And God, being a creator, he then decided to design the physical world specifically in a way to teach us spiritual things. Because by design, by intent, that he uses the physical to teach us the spiritual. Turn how Paul explained that in Romans chapter 1. In Romans chapter 1, in verse 20, the first part there, verse 20. For since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes are clearly seen, that is by design. God is the creator. And so he designed it that way so that the spiritual, in other words, his invisible attributes, the spiritual, would be clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made by the physical creation, even his eternal power and God-head and ability. And it is amazing how God can teach us spiritual things through physical things. And so, one of the things that is very difficult for us to understand is what is God's Spirit. And he is even as physical things to teach us some. Give us some understanding of his Spirit. And turn with me briefly, for instance, to Joel chapter 2. Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos. Joel chapter 2. Joel chapter 2 verse 28 and 29. And it says, He came to pass afterwards, then I will pour my Spirit on all flesh. Now, you and I understand what pouring is through various things that God created, which basically are liquid. And for instance, water, which is liquid. And if I would pour this water, yeah, that I have over my Bible, would not really be what I wanted to do, but it shows the principle of pouring. You see, pour my Spirit on all flesh. It is something that is poured. And when you pour it, it will go all over. So if I pour it, yeah, in papers I have, yeah, and in the Bible, everything will get wet, it will spray. And it's the same thing, the analogy of God's Spirit.

My sons and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy. Your old men shall dream dreams. Your young men shall see visions. And also my servants. And also on my servants. And on my maid servants. I will pour my Spirit in those days. And that's still talking about the time in the future when God will rain on earth, in the form of Jesus Christ, raining on earth, the sting of kings, and God's Holy Spirit will be poured over the whole earth. So the act of pouring explains. It helps us to understand a little bit better the Holy Spirit. So today, brethren, I want to use the analogy of water and show you that through that analogy, a number of blessings that God gives us and a lot of teachings that He teaches us about the Holy Spirit through the analogy of water.

And the intent is that you and I may therefore become a little bit more conscientious about the power of the Holy Spirit, like water flowing, and therefore we don't extinguish or quench that flow of the Holy Spirit, so that we allow that quote-unquote water to flow freely, not stopping the flow of that water in our lives.

And therefore allow it to flow and be free.

So brethren, you and I can live many days without food. Obviously, how many days it is depends on people, depends on their condition, depends on their health, depends on where they live, and a number of factors. So it's not my intent to define how many days we can live. But I'm just comparing that you and I can live longer without food than without water. If we do not have water, we will start to live a lot quicker than just without food.

And so, water is essential for life. It really is essential for life. And without water, we will die.

In fact, we heard even in the sermon today, our people with water would change because of using and swimming in water. The whole body would change. It would be changes. But basically, water is essential for life.

So I want you to turn now with me, please, to the first Psalm, Psalm 1. First Psalm, Psalm 1. And we're starting with verse 1. Jesus is the man who walks not in the castle of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sins, nor sits in the seat of his comfort, but delights. But his delight is in the Lord of the Lord. And his Lord meditates day and night.

Now, see the meaning of meditating on God's Lord day and night. And that is compared to the first three, to a person. That it shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water.

If you and I are meditating in God's Lord day and night, if you and I are filling our mind with God's principles, God's way of life, God's valid system, and we're thinking about that day and night, will be like a tree planted by the rivers of water that brings forth its fruit in its season. And its beautiful tree, the season comes and bears the fruit ready and ripe, whose leaf shall not wither, and whatever he does shall prosper.

Dear God, they are not so. They are like a chaff which the wind drops away, because like straw dust just blows it away.

And so, brethren, being near a river causes a tree, causes greenery to flush and to bear fruit, essential for that life.

Like, whilst you and I need to be meditating on God's law, and how that, we're going to see just now, how that ties in to the receiving of God's Holy Spirit and drinking in God's instruction through the power of His Spirit.

Let's look at another example in Jeremiah 17. Jeremiah 17, verse 5 and 6.

Now, this is a scripture. We know it very well.

But, because we're quite usually quote verse 9 and 10, but I'm reading now today from verse 5 and 6, and in 7 and 8.

First, 5 and 6 says, Cursities the man who trusts in man and makes flesh and strength, whose heart departs from the eternal, from the Lord. For he shall be like a shrub in the desert.

Like a shrub, because we're not close to God, and we're not receiving that water flow, spiritual water flow on a regular basis, will become like a shrub in the desert. And shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness in a salt land which is not inhabited. And so that is a person that trusts in man, that his heart departs away from God. On the other side, look at verse 7 and 8. Blessed is a man who trusts in God, who trusts in the eternal, in the Lord, and whose hope is in the eternal. He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers, which spreads out its roots by the river, and will not fear when it comes. When those hot days come, that doesn't phase in.

But its leaf will still be green in those hot days, and will not be anxious in the year of drought.

Nor will cease from yielding fruit, even in the middle of drought, because the roots are into the river, into the riverbed, and it's receiving that ongoing flow of water.

Look also at Deuteronomy 18. Deuteronomy 11 verse 8. This is one of the scriptures about going to the Promised Land, which is also very interesting. Deuteronomy 11 verse 8.

He says, Therefore you shall keep every commandment which I command you today, that you may be strong, and go into the land which you cross over to possess. So you'll keep God's laws and principles. You stay close to God, to the source of that life given water, and you'll be strong.

You'll be fertile, like that tree near the river stream.

And then you go into the land which you cross over to possess. Verse 9. That you may prolong your days in the land which the Lord swore to give your fathers, to them in their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey, a land with all of the best.

For the land which you go to possess is not like the land of Egypt.

The land, the Promised Land, the war tomorrow is not going to be like the war today.

He says, for the land which you go to possess is not the land of Egypt, for which you have come, where you sowed your seed and watered your land by fruit.

You have to take a foot, take a watery can, or create canals, or take a house pot, and water your land as a vegetable garden, as you do in a vegetable garden. The land of Egypt, you have to do that.

But, verse 11, the land which you cross over to possess, the Promised Land, the wonderful war tomorrow, the way God will lay out the land in the war tomorrow, is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water from the rain of heaven.

So you won't have to go out and water it, because it drinks water from the rain of heaven.

And there will be rivers and valleys and little pools everywhere, water everywhere.

Now, Ephesians says that the Promised Land had to have rain, because if there was no rain, there would be drought.

And also says that the Kingdom of God requires the spiritual water, the Holy Spirit.

You see, the Holy Spirit, symbolized by physical water, is essential for eternal life.

Just like water is essential for physical life, the Holy Spirit is essential for spiritual, eternal life. Let's look at how Christ explained this in John chapter 3. So let me look at a few scriptures in John. The first one is going to be in John chapter 3. And we'll start in verse 1. John chapter 3 verse 1.

There was a man of Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher, not the teacher, just a teacher. Come from God. But at least they knew he had come from God. For no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with you.

And look how Jesus answered him and said to him, Most assuredly I say to you, unless one is born from above, the actual Greek word there means from above.

You can see that word used in verse 31. It's the same Greek word. In verse 31 it says, He who comes from above. It's the same Greek word. You can look at that Greek word in Concordia, and you can see in other places it's translated from above. But anyway, unless one is born from above, from that Holy Spirit through the power of the Holy Spirit, from God, from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God. We need the Holy Spirit. And he could even say to him, How can a man be born when he's old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born? And Jesus said, Most surely I say to you, Unless one is born of water and the Spirit. Look how they tie together. And you know what a baptism you've got to water, and then you've got the laying on of hands of the Spirit, and in analogy one ties in with the other, which is beautiful. Unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh. It's physical. It's got a physical body. That which is born of the Spirit is Spirit. It's got a spiritual body. Do not marvel that I've said that you must be born from above. You must be born by the power of God's Holy Spirit. The wind blows with its wishes. And you hear the sound of it. But you cannot tell where it comes from or where it goes. So you can't see the wind. But you can see its results. You can see its effects. You can see its fruit. And so is everyone who is born of the Spirit. They'll have a spiritual body, and when they are Spirit, you'll be able to see the fruits. And that's what we've got to be starting to show the fruits of that Spirit now. But we're not born yet of that Spirit from above. Look at verse 12. And it says, If I told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? And then it continues in verse 15 and says, That whosoever believes in him, that's in Christ, should not perish but have eternal life. So it's time, that's all that analogy are, with eternal life. It's bringing them a spiritual principle about birth, but it's actually time to eternal life. And then continue in verse 16, For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him, should not perish but have eternal life. So, keep in mind, physical water is essential for physical life. The analogy of God so loved his Spirit is essential for spiritual life. He is now bringing him the topic of eternal life. So let's move on, onto the next chapter, in chapter 4, verse 4 to 7.

It says, He have now Christ, he needed to go through Samaria. So he went to a city of Samaria, which is called Saikar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Now, Jacob's well was there. Jesus, therefore, being wearied from his journey. Now, think about it. Yes, God in flesh, and he was tired. That kind of gives us a cardiomy of them, when we get tired. So, and then he continues, And a woman of Samaria came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, Give me a drink.

Great opportunity for a spiritual lesson, and a drink. And you see how he brought that lesson in verse 10, And Jesus answered and said to her, If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, Give me a drink of water, you would have asked him, and it was Christ, you would have asked me, And he would give you living water.

Christ would give you living water.

So, now we have water, physically speaking, essential for life, And Christ is bringing the analogy of water, of living water, Which is the Holy Spirit, which is essential for life.

Now, let's continue reading in verse, um, verse 14, it says, But whoever drinks of the water that I shall give in, Will never thirst.

But the water that I shall give in, Will become to him a fountain of water, Springing into everlasting life. So you can see he's now tying in the subject to eternal life.

We saw that in earlier in the previous chapter, Water, spiritual water, the Holy Spirit, eternal life.

Now, continue reading a little further in John chapter 7. So Christ is now getting into the subject. Now, he becomes like the subject matter that he's talking, And we pick it up that he's continuously referring to this, And as he goes along, it becomes deeper And more profound the way he's explaining it. And now look at in chapter 7, verse 37 through 39. And this is at the end of the feast, verse 37, On the last day, that great day of the feast, At the end of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.

Any of you thirsts, come to me and drink.

He who believes in me, as the scripture has said, Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water. Why is this living water? It's the flow of God's Holy Spirit flowing through us onto other people. And he goes on, but this, verse 39, He spoke concerning the Spirit, the Holy Spirit. Whom those believing in him would receive, For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not here to fully find.

So it's very clear that he's talking about living water, He's talking about eternal life, And he's actually talking about God's Holy Spirit. But it's very clear that that is the analogy there. And so when we go back to Daniel Abbeparat, A solid one, where it says, Meditate daily, day and night, on God's Lord. And when you do that, it's like a tree by the riverside, Drinking in that water, spiritually speaking, We're drinking, you know, God's Holy Spirit. When you and I meditate day and night, And we fill up our mind with the right things, With the right thoughts.

And so when there are these, Let's, as the Bible puts in, There's fortresses of wrong thoughts, That keep cropping in our minds. How do we overcome it? By meditating on God's Lord, day and night, Filling our mind with something else. So if you want to take something out of your mind, The easiest way is to put something else into our mind, Concentrating, focus on something else, On God's Lord, day and night, with positive thoughts, About, for instance, you know, How can I put God first in my life? Or, how can I, you know, Speak the right thing all the time, in an honourable way?

As we were talking in the car, driving out, About, for instance, not taking God's name in vain. And make sure that we take on God's name in the right way. How can we do that in our lives? Meditate on these things day and night. And the moment this fills our minds, All those bad thoughts don't have space. And therefore, God's Spirit is flowing in us. And therefore, we're not quenching the Holy Spirit. And so, brethren, we've clearly seen from Scriptures That water is symbolic of the Holy Spirit. It's an analogy. An analogy. I mean, all analogies break down, some way.

But, in other words, there's an analogy there. Now, look at how God also uses water to bless the shoes. Or to curse. You know, when God gives reigning due season, Isn't that a blessing? In the meantime, if you lack rain and the ground is dry, Isn't that such a curse on the land? You see, when there is lack of water, If you and I don't have water, we'll soon become dehydrated.

Whilst, if you are thirsty and you take some fresh water, It actually means it's invigorating. And you know, when you get a dry day and suddenly you get the smell of rain up there, And it smells in the air, and it makes you feel good and energized, doesn't it? The analogy of God's Spirit is amazing when you look into that. I think it's very encouraging. Water is a blessing. Water, in due season, of course, is a blessing.

Lack of water is a curse. Look at, for instance, in Deuteronomy 28, verse 15. Deuteronomy 28, verse 15. He has one of the blessings and curses chapters. But in verse 15, It shall come to pass, if you do not obey the voice of the Lord your God, To observe carefully all His commandments and all His statutes, Which I command you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you.

So, as we meditate in God's law, or we don't, so we obey, or we don't obey. If we don't obey, there'll be certain punishments. And look at one of the punishments in verse 23. In verse 23 it says, And your heavens, which are over your head, will be bronze. I mean, you think about it when it's dry, and the wind is blowing, and the dust lifts up into the air, It makes the air like bronze, because of the drought.

And the earth which is under you shall be iron. I mean, it'll be hard to dig into the ground and plump things, because it's like a rock. You go with a spade, and it passes back at you, you know? And it's not easy, but if that water's in there, it's so much softer and malleable. So, what are the others? Look at in Amos chapter 4. Daniel, Orzal, Orzal, Joel, and Amos chapter 4.

Amos chapter 4.

And we'll read verse 6 through 8.

Amos chapter 4.

Orzal, give you cleanliness, cleanness, cleanness of teeth in all your cities. Well, that basically means if you don't have food, if you don't have food, your teeth will be clean, because nothing dirty in them, you know? It's just that's what it is.

And lack of bread in all your places. Yet, you have not returned to me. Yet, you don't repent. You don't come to me.

I also, without rain from you, when they were still three months to the office, at the right time, when you need the rain, there was no rain.

And I made it rain in one city, and without rain from another city. One part was rained upon, and where it did not rain, where it did not rain, the part withered. So two or three cities wandered to another city to drink water, but they were not such a spa. Yet, you still did not return to me. God is trying to teach the nation lessons with rain and all lack of rain, and people still don't repent.

Look at another example of that in Ezekiel. Ezekiel 4. Ezekiel 4, verses 11-17.

It says, you shall drink water by measure, one sixth of a hymn, from time to time you shall drink.

There will be like water restrictions, and you shall eat it as barley cakes, and bake it under fuel of human waste in the sight. So now we have a situation where it's portraying a terrible time when Jerusalem is in the received. And God is giving the other prophet an instruction to say, Well, because of that, you will drink water very little because he is giving an analogy over time that will come. And when you bake your food, you will cook it using fuel of human waste.

And the Lord said, the analogy here, the instruction is, So shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles? We're all trying to think. So the prophet had to kind of play act as a scene to teach a lesson, prophetically. So the prophet said to God, verse 14, So I said, O Lord God, indeed I have never defiled myself from my youth till now. I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has abominable flesh overcome into my mouth. So please don't make me having to cook my food over human waste. So God was merciful and said, then he said to me, See, I'm giving you cow dung instead of human waste. Then you shall prepare your bread over.

Moreover, he said to me, Son of Man, surely I'll cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem. They shall not, they shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and shall drink water by measure and with dread.

That they may lack bread and water, and be smite with one another, and waste away because of their inequity. So now is God using water to teach you a lesson.

But the spiritual lesson is also.

When you are by God, you'll receive the water of the Holy Spirit. When you don't obey God, you do not. He quenches that flow of the Holy Spirit.

Time is a key, trying to get it. Therefore, the psalm that we read meditate on God's law, and obey it, so that we have that real flow of the Holy Spirit all the time. Look at also in the New Testament how at Cern it is related to lack of water in 2nd Peter. Second Peter. So it's not just the Old Testament, in the New Testament as well. Second Peter chapter 2, at the later part of verse 9, and it says, And reserved and just unto punishment for the day of judgment. And specially, those who walk according to the flesh in the last of uncleanliness and the spies of polity, they are presumptuous, self-walled. They are not afraid to speak evil of teenagers. And then look in verse 14. Having their eyes full of adultery and cannot cease from sin, enticing and stable souls. They have a heart trained in covetous practices and are accursed children. And look at verse 17. These are wells without water, clouds carried by tempest, for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever. And so again, there is describing people that have different sins, and then saying, these are like wells without water. There's no worry. Spiritually speaking, they do not have God's Holy Spirit. They just don't, when they disobey it, when they break God's law. Look at also in Jude chapter 1. It's only chapter 7. Jude 1. Jude. And we're going to read in verse 12, talking about their polysis, says, these are spots in your life, feasts. Now, it's talking about people that are in the church, that come to the feast. They come to the feast. While they feast with you without fear, serving only themselves, they are clouds without water. In other words, they don't have God's Holy Spirit, carried about by the winds. Late autumn leaves without fruit, twice there, pulled out by the roots. You can look at also in verse 14. It says, verse 16. Verse 16. These are grumblers, complainants, walking according to their own lusts. They are mouth, great swelling words, flackering people to gain advantage. So it's talking about people that are service. They're like clouds without water. And look at how he describes that in verse 19. He says, these are sensual curses who cause divisions, not having the spirit. People that cause divisions, people that are committing sins, people that have all these different things, they don't have God's Holy Spirit. They are like clouds without water. So you can see that analogy also carried in the New Testament. The opposite of, again in the blessing and curses chapter, is in Leviticus 26. Look at Leviticus 26. In Leviticus 26. And let's look now at the blessing section, Leviticus 26, verse 3 and 4. Leviticus 26, verse 3 and 4. These... Leviticus 26, verse 3 and 4. If you walk in my statutes and keep my commandments and perform them, in other words, if you're like that tree by the river, if you are meditating on God's rules, and if you are obeying day and night, then I'll give you rain in the system. Rain in the season. The land shall yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. You will have physical rain. Spiritually, the analogy, you'll be full of God's own Spirit. That will not be questioned. Look in Zechariah 14. You all know the Scripture in Zechariah 14, that shows at the beginning of the world tomorrow, nations coming to the King. Zechariah 14, and then in verse 16 through 18, And it shall come to pass, that every one who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem, shall go up from year to year to worship the King. Who is the King? It's Jesus Christ, the Lord of hosts.

Jesus Christ, the YHWH of hosts. They'll come and worship the King, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. And it shall be that whoever of the families of the earth do not come to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, the Yower, Jesus Christ, on whom, on them, there will be no rain.

And if the family of Egypt will not come up and enter in, they shall have no rain. They shall receive the plague with each Lord's tracks and nations who do not come to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. And you can see that water is used by God as an instrument to show blessings or curses.

And when there's abundance of water in Jesus' season, there's great blessings, which brings that analogy, abundance of God's Holy Spirit, with great blessings. And so the lesson we have here is that as you and I praise God, as we do the right things, He will bless us with many blessings, physical and mindful spiritual, through His Holy Spirit. That is a lesson of pleasing God and He blesses us with rain and Jesus in other words, with the Holy Spirit. Now, let's look at another lesson of water. We look to what is essential for life and abundance of water is a blessing as we praise God in Jesus. Another one is the daddy of water in Washington. I mean, I know, for instance, when I go to Brazil, it's very hot out there. There's no air conditioning. You're out in the outside, in that northern tribal area there. And at the end of the day, it really is a pleasure to have a cold shower. Just before you go to bed, you go out and just have a cold shower. It just washes you out of bed. You take a little soap as well, and it just washes you and breaks all that stuff. And you just feel comfortable to go to bed there. But spiritually, there's a lesson there. Because God's only Spirit also washes us. Washes us. And God's only Spirit, with God's Word, symbolizing the soap, acts through that and washes us completely. Let's look at that in Hebrews chapter 10. Hebrews chapter 10, verse 19 through 22. Hebrews 10, 19 through 22. Therefore, brethren, have the boldness to enter the holiest by the blood of Jesus. The blood of Jesus paid for our sins so that we can now go through our sins being forgiven. So we can go through to the Holiness of Holiness. In other words, we can pray and go through to the Temple of God, to the Throne of God in our praise. And therefore, let's have boldness to enter that. By a new and living way. It's a new way. A way that didn't exist before, which He consecrated for us through the veil that is His flesh. So that is the meaning of blood, paid for us, and we go through His flesh, through His sacrifice, through His example. We can go in there. And having our high priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. Our bodies washed with pure water. What's that pure water? It's the Holy Spirit. And it's washed and sprinkled. Our hearts are sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

Let's look at another example in Ephesians chapter 5. Ephesians chapter 5. Let's look at that a little deeper. Ephesians chapter 5 verse 25 and 26.

Ephesians 5, 25 and 26. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for earth.

That He might sanctify and cleanse earth with the washing of water by the Word.

The washing of water by the Word.

So the washing of water which symbolizes God's Holy Spirit by the Word, which is God's Word. God's teachings, God's instructions, which we get from the Bible. In a sense, it's mixing the water with another cleansing agent, which is the Word. Like when you wash, you take a little salt and you mix it too. And the salt cuts through that dirt to take it out and you wash it with the water. The water washes it, pure water, which is the Holy Spirit. Look that a little further in chapter 6 of the same book. Chapter 6 verse 17, where it says, And take on the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God.

So the sword of the Spirit, it's the Spirit has the sword, it's got this agent that cuts, which is the Word of God. And so when you have, as you read in the previous chapter, the washing of water by the Word, so you have the washing of the Word of the Word is the Holy Spirit, and by the Word which is that sword that cuts all that dirt between the bone and a marrow cuts it completely, and we do the washing of the Word by the Word. The two work together. The two work together. Look at them at another scripture in Ezekiel chapter 36, which you know very well once you see it. Ezekiel chapter 36 verse 25.

Ezekiel 36 verse 25.

36 verse 25. Then I'll sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean. I will cleanse you from all your thoughtfulness and from all your items. I will sprinkle clean water.

What is that clean water? It's in the next verse. I'll give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you. I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I'll pour my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statues, and you'll keep my judgments and do that. You know what's that word that cleans us is God's Spirit. That is poured into us to cleanse us with the Word. The Word being the sword to cut through it. And so we have the Holy Spirit to help us to walk in His ways. So in our goings, in our dealings, in our daily lives, we walk around and during the day we get dirty. We get dirty. And we need daily washing, a daily cleansing, a regular cleansing, through prayer, through Bible study and meditation. And that prayer we communicate with the light of God. The Bible study we read God's Word. We get God's Word, the sword of the Spirit. And the meditation we put into our mind through the flow of allowing that Spirit, not quenching the Spirit day and night, meditate on a day and night.

And that, as we do that morning and evening and on regular basis as we go through, as time is needed, water in the juice season, as time is needed throughout the day, whenever we need. Moments, that is proper. And occasional fasting. As we do that, we are washing ourselves with water, pure water, and staying clean in our lives.

So, that's another interesting analogy that we can draw from water. I'll give you another one. You know, we all have seen water reservoirs, or dams, as they call it, or water areas where they store up water. And then what they do is they usually have a power station there, and then you take the water, go through turbines, etc., and you get energy coming out of it.

That water develops through what we call a hydroelectric power station. You get a lot of power in that water to get energy, get electricity, flow, and to have energy for us to have lives, to have different things, through that energy, through that power. And therefore, that creates energy, and that needs to be used to be beneficial. Maybe just leave the water out there, but now if you're using it to create some power, to spread that energy, to allow it to flow. And look at how Christ says in John 6, John 6.

John 6, verse 63. John 6, verse 63. And it says, it is the Spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life. God's words. It's God's Spirit flowing into us. And they're spirit and they're life. He says, the Spirit gives life. The Spirit has a power to give life, to energize, to give His life, to give His eternal life. That we must draw from. That power we must draw from. And thus Paul put it in Timothy, and that is a scripture you know very well.

1 Timothy chapter 1 verse 7. 2 Timothy chapter 1 verse 7. He says, I remind you to stir the gift of God, which is in you through the laying of ants. For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. So the God's Holy Spirit is power. It's like that water. We're allowed to flow. It is power. It is powerful. God's Spirit is powerful. And it's a power to eternal life. It is a power to life, to eternal life.

It is a power that will basically help us to have a sound mind. A sound mind, a controlled mind, a mind that controls ourselves. A power that will help us to have genuine, outgoing concern for others. That's the power of God's Holy Spirit. It's a power. It's an instrument of power. It is the capability to help us go through a conversion process to change from, let's think about the water, to electricity.

It's a conversion process of that energy. And we have to be converted. It's that power that will convert us, to convert us from the human nature to divine nature. It's the power that will convert us from human nature to divine nature.

And look at me, 2nd Peter, 2nd Peter, chapter 1, 2nd Peter, chapter 1, verse 3 and 4. 2nd Peter, chapter 1, verse 3 and 4. As is divine power. What power? That's the power of God's Holy Spirit. Has given us all things. It's given us, let's call it, all tools. All the instruments that we need, everything that is spiritual that we need, through that power. That pertain to life. That pertain to eternal life. Real life, eternal life. Not just physical life, eternal life. The Holy Spirit has given us all the spiritual things that we need, that we require to have eternal life. And Godliness, what is Godliness? It's to be like God.

It's to be like God. We've got to be like a sermonette. We've got to be like Christ. That's what it is. It's through the power of God's Holy Spirit. Through the knowledge of Him who calls us, who called us by glory and virtue. By which? By which what? By which value? That's for it. And those things that He's given us have been given us exceedingly great and gracious products. That through these things you may be partakers of divine nature. So God's Holy Spirit is the power that has given us all the tools that we need to convert us from human nature to divine nature.

Having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. So it's God's Holy Spirit that gives us the power. So we need God's Holy Spirit with God's Word, the two working together. And that precipitates. Like in the chemistry lesson you put things and then you get something else into it and you think, accelerate. So you get that, the precipitate, to make it go in that conversion process from human nature to divine nature.

And that comes to us from above. That's why we need to be born from above. It comes to us from God, from above. And the combination of daily bread, Bible study, meditation, on how to apply, that then must be used, must be put to actual daily use in our daily lives to help us to change, to convert, so that we become more like God, because it's a source of power.

It's a source of power. So the analogy that water has power in it, it also, God's Holy Spirit, has strong power in it. But likewise, think about still about that dam or that reservoir of water. Even when the water is there, you can have family activities. You can take children there, you can have water games, you can swim, you can have little rides on boats. It can have a lot of fun and activity, a lot of happiness and joy.

And so water can be a source of joy. Look at Isaiah chapter 12. Isaiah chapter 12. Verse 3. Perhaps we'll read the whole chapter, but I want to focus on verse 3. And in that day you will say, Oh Lord, I'll praise you. Though you were angry with me, your anger is turned away and you comfort me.

The old God is my salvation. I'll trust and not be afraid. For Yah, the Eternal, is my strength and song. He has also become my salvation. Therefore, with joy, you will draw water. With joy, you will draw water. God's Holy Spirit. You'll draw that Holy God's Holy Spirit with joy from the wells of salvation and will give us joy. And in that day you will say, Praise the Eternal, call upon His Name, declare His things among the peoples, make mention that His Name is exalted, sing to the Eternal, for He has done excellent things.

This is known in all the earth, cry out in shout, for inevitable of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel in your midst. As we heard in that special music, great is our God, and it is beautiful. He is great. And water is a source of joy. And that joy is the fruit of God's Holy Spirit. And you know, love, joy, peace, does a part of the fruit of God's Holy Spirit as we put it in practice. So we must apply, and we're going to live it, and that will be a fruit, and it will give joy to people. Not to us, alone to us, but to others as well, when we can share it, as we share it, and live with others.

There are other principles, analogies we can draw from the water. For instance, one of them is that we must seek the water. We must seek this analogy. Remember that they would draw a well, and then they said, I know this well, but not so much. So they went out, and Abram's servants drove another well, and they drove another well, and finally they said, okay, finally, we don't want that water, you can have that well.

So, you know, we're going to seek that. We need to seek God's water for our daily solutions. Seek and use God's Holy Spirit to give us daily solutions. Look in Psalm 63. Another beautiful psalm about that. Psalm 63, verse 1, it says, Oh God, you are my God.

Early I will seek you. Early in the morning, first thing, first priorities, we seek God. My soul thirsts for you, because it's God's Holy Spirit. We draw you from God, and we thirst for it. My flesh longs for you in a dry and waste land where there is no water. So I have looked for you in a century to see your power and glory. And so we thirst for it. With our human nature, it's a dry land, and we need God's nature, and we seek and we thirst for it, and we get God's Holy Spirit.

Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you. And look at verse 5. My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness, and my mouth shall praise you with joyful lips. And as we are close to God, and as we seek God's solutions and God's way of doing things, we will end up with joy. And it will be joy. It will be joyous. We hear also the story about persisting.

When Christ said, Ask, knock, seek, we gotta persist. We gotta ask. And then God will give us that, the Spirit. We gotta persist. And another point about having water, and a fountain of water, is that we need to have a reliable source of water. We need to have that reliable, because God wants to give us. And we do have a reliable source. That's God. And you know what? He wants to give us of His Holy Spirit. We just have to seek. We do have an abundant fountain there. But He wants to give it to us. But it's up to us to get closer to Him. It really is up to us to get closer to Him. Look at Isaiah chapter 44.

Verse 1-4. Here now O Jacob, my servant, and Israel, whom I have chosen. This is the Lord who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you. God wants to help us. He formed us from the womb. Here now O Jacob, my servant, and you, just your arm, whom I have chosen. I will pour water on him who is thirsty. I will pour water on him that is thirsty.

What is water? It's the Holy Spirit, right? Look at it. And it flies on the diagram. I will pour my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your spring. They will spring out among the drops, like willows by the word of Christ. God wants to pour the Holy Spirit on us in abundance. He wants to.

What's holding us back? Just ask. Just ask.

You know the story about the five, the ten virgins, five or wise, and five or foolish? And the wise virgins, they had the extra oil. They had a reservoir. They were close to God. They were full of the Spirit. And they had, they had the contact. They had that source there, close to there. And the others did not have. And that's why we now need to be ready. We need to be close to that reliable source of water every day. So, brethren, today, I try to show you through an analogy, many blessings that we can get from water. And it can teach us lessons about God's Holy Spirit. And through these lessons, I hope that we become a little more conscientious, more aware that we must not quench the flow of that living water, which is the Holy Spirit. But we, you and I, must allow it to flow abundantly in our lives and with fruit in our actions as we do things without it. How? By meditating day and night, to follow up our minds day and night, to obey, to receive the Holy Spirit, which is essential for eternal life. As we'll please God, He will bless us, He will bless us with many spiritual blessings, like writing you season, abandoned water, through His Holy Spirit. Even when we get dirty. And as we go through our daily lives, we need daily cleansing, we need daily washing, through daily prayer, Bible study, and meditation day and night, and occasional fasting to be close to Him. We will then bear fruit, bear fruit of love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, nomeness, and self-control in our lives. But remember, we have to continuously ask, seek, and not all the time. In other words, we've got to be a hundred and thirsty for God's righteousness. Because remember, God wants to pour His Spirit abundantly upon us, and it's up to us to be like the five wise virgins. We need to be ready now, while we can. Water is a source of many blessings. God's Holy Spirit is a source of many spiritual blessings. In the end, there'll be plenty of water. Think about how beautiful it will be well into beyond the world tomorrow, by looking at the few scriptures you have in Revelation, at the end of the book of Revelation, in chapter 21. Revelation chapter 21, verse 5 through 6. Revelation 21, verse 5 through 6. And now He will sat on a throne, said, Behold, I'll make all things new. And He said to me, Write, for these things are true and faithful. And He said to me, It's done. I am the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give of the fountain of the water of life, freely on Him who wants it. I'll give of the fountain of the water of life, freely on Him who wants it. That's God's Holy Spirit, the water of life, the fountain of the water of life, freely on Him who wants it. And He who overcomes shall be near to all things. And I'll believe in God, and He shall be my Son. And then, in the following chapter, chapter 22, verse 17 says, And the Spirit and the bride, and the bride is the church, say, Come, and let Him who ye are say, Come, and let Him who first come, whoever desires to let Him take, whoever desires to let Him take the water of life, freely. It is available to you and I freely. Let's come and roll from here.