POTENTIALLY,
WE EACH ARE
A WELL OF LIFE-GIVING WATER
11-22-20 This message may
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God
is Thought. Only
Thought creates. Thought is the
source of all power. We are the fruit of God’s thoughts. The
brightness
(glory) of our revelations depends upon the correctness of our doctrines,
our building blocks, our Godly Thoughts laid one upon another,
ascending
into the mind of Christ. Angels are created as Spirits. Angels
are
Father God’s manifested naked thoughts (fig. seeds). Human
bodies
are manifested seed coverings (fig. seed pods) of God’s hidden
seed-thoughts,
thoughts that are deep planted to become metaphorically “a well of
water
springing up into everlasting life.” (John 4:14).
(John
4:1-5) When therefore the
Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and
baptized more
disciples than John, (Though Jesus himself baptized not, but
his
disciples,) He left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee. And he
must needs
go through Samaria [1]. Then cometh he to
a city of
Samaria, which is called Sychar [Heb: an intoxicant,
intensely
alcoholic liquor: strong drink, + drunkard], near to the parcel
of
ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
1.
Nelson’s
Illustrated Bible Dictionary: The Samaritans worshiped the God of
Isreal. But
they also continued their idolatry, worshiping the pagan gods imported
from
foreign lands.
JACOB’S
WELL
(John
4:6-9) Now Jacob's well
[1] was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied [Gk:
to feel fatigue] with his journey, sat thus on the well [on
the well’s lip, for it speaks to us]: and it was about the sixth
hour [i.e.,
noon]. There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water:
Jesus saith
unto her, Give me to drink. (For his disciples were gone away
unto the
city to buy meat.) Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it
that
thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of
Samaria? for
the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.
1.
Commentary:
Acting
as (natural) Jacob, this well was dug, symbolically, in his flesh through
introspection.
Had he then been acting in his supernatural (spiritual) persona as
Isreal, his
well would have been gushing forth revelations. Nevertheless, his well
was
deep, currently 75 feet and possibly twice that originally. How deep is
your
well? Or, do you even have a well?
a.
introspection
= Dict: looking into one’s own mind, feelings, etc.;
observation and analysis of oneself.
LIVING
WATER
(John
4:10-15) Jesus answered
and said unto her, If thou knewest [Gk: were aware,
considered,
perceived, understood] the gift of God, and who it is
that saith
to thee, Give me to drink [i.e., return to me]
[1];
thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living
water. The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw
with,
and the well is deep: from whence [where, how]
then hast
thou that living water? Art thou greater than our father Jacob,
which
gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his
cattle?
Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this [natural
life-giving] water shall thirst again [this
“life-giving”
is mortal, temporary]: But whosoever drinketh of the [spiritual
life-giving] water that I shall give him shall never thirst
[this “life-giving” is immortal, forever]; but the water that I
shall
give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into
everlasting life.
The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I
thirst not,
neither come hither to draw.
1.
(Eccl
12:7) Then
shall the dust return to the earth as it was
[Gen
2:7]: and the spirit shall return unto God who
gave it.
a.
(Gen
2:7) And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground,
and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living
soul.
(John
7:37-39) In the last day, that great day of the feast
[of
“tabernacles” (plural: comp. “tabernacle”)], Jesus stood and
cried,
saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and
drink.
He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of
his belly
[fig. for “mind” i.e., out of his thoughts] shall
flow rivers
of living water. (But this spake he of the Spirit, which
they that
believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not
yet given;
because that Jesus was not yet glorified [i.e., put to
death and
resurrected to God].)
THE
CHRISTIAN MIND:
THE
THOUGHTS OF GOD FLOWING FORTH
(Rev
22:1-3) And he [the man who was an angel (Rev 22:8,9)] [1,2]
shewed
me a pure [Gk: clean] river of water of life, clear
as
crystal [i.e., God’s Thoughts], proceeding
[strong connotations of “order”] out of the throne of God
and of the
Lamb. In the midst of the street [“the Way”]
of it,
and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life [as
the Body of Christ, with many members; symbolically, we are trees in
the Bible],
which bare twelve manner of fruits [3,4], and yielded
her fruit every month: and the leaves [Gk:
sprouts /// an
offshoot; a race or clan: kindred, tribe] of the tree
were for the
healing [of the great wound of the loss of Holiness] of
the
nations. And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of
God and of
the Lamb shall be in it [in the tree of life]; and his
servants shall serve him:
1.
Commentary:
See also another man-angel who appeared to John in
Heaven (Rev
19:9,10).
2.
(Dan
9:21) Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel
[Heb:
man of God], whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning,
being
caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening
oblation. (Dan
9:24) Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people…
a.
Commentary:
the NKJV, NIV, AMPLIFIED, and NEW AMERICAN STANDARD Bibles agree with
the KJV
on this latter phrase.
3.
(Gal
5:22,23) But the fruit of the Spirit is love,
joy,
peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness,
faith,
Meekness [Gk: humility], temperance [Gk:
self-control]:
against such there is no law. [9 fruits]
4.
(Eph
5:9) (For the fruit of
the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness
and truth;)
[3 fruits]
(Rev
22:16,17) I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you
these
things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and
the
bright and morning star. And the Spirit [of God]
and the
bride [that’s us, all believers] say, Come.
And let
him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come.
And
whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
Amen