LifeFlow: Which Well?

LifeFlow: Which Well?
Jeremiah 2:13, John 4:10-14
Pastor Miles
January 26, 2014

1. God is the source of all life.

Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. (Revelation 22:1, 2 ESV)

On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, "If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, 'Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.'" (John 7:37, 38 ESV)

... for my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water. (Jeremiah 2:13 ESV)

- we have forsaken the true God, the spring of living water, and go to other places to find fulfillment. Why? Because we have been deceived.

2. We go to other places to find life.

Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water." The woman said to him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock." (John 4:10-12 ESV)

What are the false wells that we go to to satisfy ourselves?
- money, sex, power, things, relationships, career, drugs, etc

You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life. (John 5:39, 40 ESV)

- if it doesn't lead to Jesus, it doesn't lead to life

3. Come to Jesus and drink the water of life.

Jesus said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." (John 4:13, 14 ESV)

- all other wells will leave us thirsty except for the water that Jesus gives (spiritual artisan well that continually springs within us)