Redigging Old Wells
A. PATRIARCHAL PERIOD – LAND POSSESSED BY CANAANITES & PHILISTINES.
1. Abraham a sojourner in the Negev – Southern Desert.
a. Little water, frequent moves to pasturage.
b. Hostile neighbors , hemmed in, moved a lot.
2. Abraham dug wells wherever he went.
B. PHILISTINES FEARED ISAAC – PLUGGED WELLS TO RUN HIM OFF.
1. Plugged well is useless.
2. Isaac re-dug wells and gave them the “old names.”
C. John 4:7-14. JESUS OFFERS “LIVING WATER” WHEREBY WE NEVER THIRST.
1. Same lesson – different analogy (John 6:35).
2. Living water, “bread of life” identified (John 6:63, 68). His Teaching.
3. Have men plugged the well today?
We Must Re-dig the Wells
A. AUTHORITY. A. AUTHORITY.
1. Creeds 1. 2 Tim. 3:16-17; 2 John 9
2. Tradition 2. Matt. 28:18; Eph. 1:22-23
3. Human Rule. 3. Matt. 15:6, 13-14.
B. THE CHURCH. B. THE CHURCH.
1. Denominations, sects, names 1. Eph. 1:22-23; 4:4; 1 Cor. 1:10-12
2. Corrupt Organization 2. Col. 1:18; Phil. 1:1; Acts 14:23
a. Pastors, b. institutions.
3. Work of the Church. 3. 1 Thess. 1:8; 1 Cor. 16:1-2; Eph. 4:12.
a. Recreation, b. Entertainment
c. Social Gospel, d. Business
C. DOCTRINE. C. DOCTRINE.
1. Baptism 1. bapto, Mark 16:16; Acts 2:38; 8:36.
a. sprinkling & pouring
b. Infants c. Purpose,
2. Calvinism. 2. Jas. 2:24; Gal. 5:6, 4; Ez. 18:20;
a. Faith only, Rev. 22:17.
b. once saved,
c. Original sin,
d. Predestination.
D. WORSHIP D. WORSHIP.
1. Lord’s Supper 1. Acts 20:7; 1 Cor. 11.
2. Instruments 2. Eph. 5:19; 2 John 9
3. Emotionalism 3. John 4:24.
E. SIN. E. SIN.
1. Worldliness 1. 1 John 2:15-17; Rom. 12:1-2.
2. Immorality (D&R). 2. Gal. 5:19-21.
A. ISAAC REACHED BACK TO REDIG OLD WELLS.
1. He found them full of water AFTER he dug out the debris.
2. He gave them the old names.
B. LET US REDIG THE OLD WELLS – GO BACK TO THE BIBLE!
1. We will find them full of “Living Water.”
2. We can then use the “Old Name.”