The Fountain of Living Waters

(#30, Hinkley, 1944; Yermo, 1951; Imperial 1962,1968)

Read Jer. 2:1-13.

Israel is a picture of the Church.  Israel was betrothed to God, and loved by God as His bride (Jer. 2:2).  So believers are married to Christ (Rom. 7:4).  But Israel had forsaken God for another (Jer. 2:5,32; 3:1) and thus God's blessing was withheld (Jer. 3:3).  Israel's condition is summed up in Jer. 2:13.

The fountain.

w   Who is the fountain?  Christ is the fountain!  (Joel 3:18; Zech. 13:1)

w   The purpose of the fountain is for the cleansing of sin and uncleanness (Zech. 13:1; Rev. 1:5).

w   The fountain is characterized as...

    1.  Satisfying (we will never thirst, John 4:14).

    2.  Free (Rev. 21:6; Isa. 55:1).

    3.  For all ("whosoever will", Rev. 22:17).

The fountain forsaken.

How is the fountain forsaken?

w   When we cease to think of God as the chief end in life.

w   When we overlook the laws of God.

w   When we cease to cleave to the Word of God.

w   When we begin to look for the old times of bondage.

Broken cisterns.

These cisterns are man made compared with the divine fountain.  Cisterns are dependent on the rainfall.  These cisterns were broken, incapable of holding the satisfying water.  These broken cisterns might be cisterns of pleasure, cisterns of the reading of novels, or even the cisterns of going to church.

Have you come to the fountain of living waters?  the One who is satisfying, free, and for all?  Now is the time!  Come to Christ and find times of refreshing (Acts 3:19).

 

Christian: are you forsaking the fountain?