1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:04,800 That seems hard to believe. My figuring is correct that it's 2 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:08,600 been six years since I've been the congregation here at plans 3 00:00:08,600 --> 00:00:13,100 road that would make Joey about five and Serena about three the 4 00:00:13,100 --> 00:00:15,700 last time we're here. But I believe that's right, so 5 00:00:15,700 --> 00:00:19,700 good to be here and it's so good to see the family of God at this 6 00:00:19,700 --> 00:00:23,400 place. I received a I was having a 7 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:27,100 visit by phone with a sister the other day and told her about our 8 00:00:27,100 --> 00:00:30,500 plans to come here. And she asked me how the 9 00:00:30,500 --> 00:00:34,100 congregation was doing and I said well, you know what, I 10 00:00:34,108 --> 00:00:37,400 think the congregation here at plans road is one of the hottest 11 00:00:37,400 --> 00:00:40,000 places in the Brotherhood not that. 12 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:43,300 You're the biggest congregation but that you're working, you're 13 00:00:43,300 --> 00:00:45,500 growing, you're growing spiritually and you're growing 14 00:00:45,500 --> 00:00:47,900 numerically and so it's exciting to be here. 15 00:00:47,900 --> 00:00:50,300 Sometimes I go to a meeting not knowing how it's all going to 16 00:00:50,308 --> 00:00:54,200 go, but Confident this week with your enthusiasm and your 17 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:57,100 interest in spiritual things, your interest for the Lost, 18 00:00:57,500 --> 00:00:58,600 they're going to have a great meeting. 19 00:00:58,700 --> 00:01:01,400 I'm certainly going to do my best to do my part in presenting 20 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:04,700 the word of God to you clearly and forcefully in a way, you can 21 00:01:04,700 --> 00:01:07,400 understand it. Our text this morning, we're 22 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:10,300 going to take from Revelation chapter 22. 23 00:01:10,700 --> 00:01:15,100 We're going to read just one verse and that'll suffice for 24 00:01:15,100 --> 00:01:18,300 our introduction. This morning, revelation 22 25 00:01:18,300 --> 00:01:21,300 verse 17 later. In our lesson, we'll be talking 26 00:01:21,500 --> 00:01:24,600 Quite a bit from Ezekiel. The 37th chapter one of the most 27 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:27,500 fascinating chapters to me in all the Bible. 28 00:01:30,100 --> 00:01:38,600 Revelation 22 verse 17. And the spirit and the bride, 29 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:43,100 say come, and let him who hears say come and let him who 30 00:01:43,100 --> 00:01:50,200 thirsts, come whoever desires. Let him take the Water of Life 31 00:01:50,500 --> 00:01:54,600 freely. You've heard it said you can't, 32 00:01:55,100 --> 00:01:59,300 you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. 33 00:02:00,100 --> 00:02:04,100 And as a good friend of mine used to say, but you can make 34 00:02:04,100 --> 00:02:06,100 him thirsty. And that's what we want to do 35 00:02:06,100 --> 00:02:08,699 this morning. We want to make you thirsty for 36 00:02:08,699 --> 00:02:12,400 the Water of Life, you know. There are a lot of areas in 37 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:17,500 which the idea of being all wet is used to express something - 38 00:02:17,500 --> 00:02:19,400 something that you want to avoid. 39 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:22,500 It's a derogatory or derisive term. 40 00:02:22,700 --> 00:02:25,800 Term. Describing one who is completely 41 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:29,200 mistaken. All wet is used in England to 42 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:34,400 describe someone who's weak or unassertive or indecisive. 43 00:02:36,500 --> 00:02:41,600 In Texas where I grew up, there were wet counties and those were 44 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:45,900 counties, where alcohol was consumed freely and sold without 45 00:02:45,900 --> 00:02:50,200 any, any hindrances that all and then there were dry counties and 46 00:02:50,200 --> 00:02:53,600 the dry counties were the places that you thought was the best 47 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:57,400 place to live, but in the context of our lesson this 48 00:02:57,400 --> 00:03:02,000 morning, what we want to avoid is being dry. 49 00:03:02,700 --> 00:03:06,500 Want to go to The Living Water. We want the Living Water welling 50 00:03:06,500 --> 00:03:10,200 up within our hearts and in our lives. 51 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:12,000 This morning. When asked the question, we want 52 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:15,400 to explore the question we want. I want you to explore the 53 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:18,600 question. Are you dry? 54 00:03:19,700 --> 00:03:23,400 As you go through the New Testament and learn more about 55 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:27,700 God's will and you study about the illustrations, the imagery 56 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:31,700 the symbols, the analogies that you see in the Scriptures, it 57 00:03:31,700 --> 00:03:36,400 appears as if in creation God already had in mind. 58 00:03:37,500 --> 00:03:41,100 The analogies that he would use in the comparisons that he would 59 00:03:41,100 --> 00:03:43,500 use because they fit so beautifully. 60 00:03:43,500 --> 00:03:46,300 And they are so powerful. And the one that we're noticing 61 00:03:46,300 --> 00:03:49,100 this morning is certainly no exception. 62 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:52,300 Want to give a little background, a little bit more 63 00:03:52,300 --> 00:03:55,100 background than I usually do too. 64 00:03:56,600 --> 00:03:59,600 The analogy that the the symbol that we're going to be looking 65 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:04,800 at a very material symbol, but one that carries such spiritual 66 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:07,300 weight and is used. So in so many places in the old, 67 00:04:07,300 --> 00:04:10,700 and as well as the New Testament, we're going to be 68 00:04:10,708 --> 00:04:16,500 talking about this morning is zekiel and drive Bones from 69 00:04:16,500 --> 00:04:20,300 Ezekiel chapter 37, but I want to set this up by noticing how 70 00:04:20,300 --> 00:04:24,300 God through creation and the critical ongoing need of all, 71 00:04:24,300 --> 00:04:29,200 living things 4. Water sets up so beautifully, 72 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:32,300 the compelling picture. There, it's amazing. 73 00:04:32,700 --> 00:04:36,700 How many processes on Earth, require water, but we want to 74 00:04:36,700 --> 00:04:42,100 talk for just a couple minutes about our need as human beings. 75 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:48,400 Are you aware today that 75% of Americans with all that we have 76 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:54,000 with all of our wealth? Walk around dehydrated and 37% 77 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:56,800 of Americans. The Thirst mechanism is so weak 78 00:04:56,800 --> 00:04:59,000 that it is often mistaken for Hunger. 79 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:01,700 Even mild. Dehydration will slow down one's 80 00:05:01,700 --> 00:05:06,200 metabolism as much as 3%. One glass of water will shut 81 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:09,100 down midnight. Hunger pangs for almost 100% of 82 00:05:09,108 --> 00:05:13,000 the dieters, studied in the University of Washington study. 83 00:05:14,100 --> 00:05:15,900 Yeah, we won't drink enough water. 84 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:20,600 A lack of water is the number one trigger of daytime fatigue, 85 00:05:20,700 --> 00:05:24,200 preliminary Research indicates that 8 to 10 glasses of water a 86 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:26,900 day. Could significantly, he's back 87 00:05:26,900 --> 00:05:30,600 and joint pain for up to eighty percent of those who suffer with 88 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:34,500 those ailments. I'm here, 2% drop and body 89 00:05:34,500 --> 00:05:37,600 water. Can trigger fuzzy, short term, 90 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:42,000 memory trouble with basic math and difficulty focusing on the 91 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:45,500 computer screen, or the printed page. 92 00:05:46,900 --> 00:05:50,300 And we don't drink enough water. Drinking five glasses of water, 93 00:05:50,300 --> 00:05:55,000 daily decreases, the risk of colon cancer by 45%. 94 00:05:55,500 --> 00:06:00,700 It can slash the risk of breast cancer by 79% and one is 50 95 00:06:00,700 --> 00:06:03,800 percent less likely to develop bladder cancer. 96 00:06:04,300 --> 00:06:08,600 If they'll do something as simple as drink, five glasses of 97 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:14,200 water, Funny about us, isn't it? Even though we are aware of the 98 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:17,000 great physical need that we have for water. 99 00:06:18,500 --> 00:06:21,900 And we're aware of the physical benefits of water. 100 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:26,800 Many of us will stubbornly go through our lives. 101 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:32,300 Maybe our entire lives refusing, to increase our water 102 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:34,500 consumption. We're not going to drink more 103 00:06:34,500 --> 00:06:37,900 water. We're not going to do it doesn't 104 00:06:37,900 --> 00:06:40,400 matter what it means or what the benefits might be. 105 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:42,800 And you know what? As we're going to see. 106 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:48,000 That's true spiritually, too. We need, we know we need the 107 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:55,500 Living Water to be what we need to be. but we avoided We don't 108 00:06:55,500 --> 00:07:00,200 get enough dehydration symptoms generally become noticeable, 109 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:02,500 after two percent of one's normal water. 110 00:07:02,500 --> 00:07:05,800 Volume has been lost. And initially, of course, when 111 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:09,300 experiences thirst and discomfort, then eventually, 112 00:07:09,300 --> 00:07:13,500 there is a loss of appetite and dry skin athletes may suffer a 113 00:07:13,508 --> 00:07:17,700 loss of performance of up to 50% with dehydration. 114 00:07:18,100 --> 00:07:22,300 They may experience flushing low endurance, rapid heart rates and 115 00:07:22,300 --> 00:07:26,400 elevated body temperature, and then a rapid onset of fatigue 116 00:07:27,100 --> 00:07:32,000 symptoms becoming increasingly severe with greater what water 117 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:34,600 loss, once heart and respiratory rates. 118 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:38,700 Begin to increase the body, temperature continues to rise. 119 00:07:39,700 --> 00:07:43,900 Because of decreased sweating at around five to six percent water 120 00:07:43,900 --> 00:07:45,900 loss. One might become groggy or 121 00:07:45,900 --> 00:07:50,900 extremely sleepy experience headaches, dizziness nausea 122 00:07:51,100 --> 00:07:54,400 seizures fainting. Sunken eyes and may feel 123 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:59,500 tingling in one's limbs with 10 to 15% fluid loss, muscles 124 00:07:59,500 --> 00:08:04,300 become spastic, Shin skin, May shrivel and wrinkle Vision made 125 00:08:04,300 --> 00:08:08,600 them and then delirium sets in losses. 126 00:08:09,500 --> 00:08:13,000 Greater than 15% are usually fatal. 127 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:20,100 Judge Lynch of the Massachusetts Supreme, Judicial Court, argued 128 00:08:20,100 --> 00:08:24,700 that death by dehydration was cruel and violent. 129 00:08:24,700 --> 00:08:30,500 In his opinion, in a 1986 case reminds me of Psalm 22, reminds 130 00:08:30,500 --> 00:08:32,900 me of the was a prophecy of the crucifixion. 131 00:08:32,900 --> 00:08:34,900 Some of the things that Jesus experienced, remember what he 132 00:08:34,900 --> 00:08:38,600 said on the cross at one point. I thirst. 133 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:41,100 This is part of what made? What Jesus went through. 134 00:08:41,100 --> 00:08:48,200 So agonizing and so cruel. That reminds me of Psalm 22, but 135 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:52,100 listen to this, the process of death by dehydration part of 136 00:08:52,108 --> 00:08:55,600 what happened to Jesus, the mouth dries out and becomes 137 00:08:55,600 --> 00:08:57,800 caked, or coated with thick material. 138 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:01,900 The lips become parched and cracked the tongue swells and 139 00:09:01,900 --> 00:09:06,500 might crack the eyes recede back into their orbits and the cheeks 140 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:09,800 become Hollow. The lining of the nose May Crack 141 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:13,300 and cause the nose to bleed. The skin will hang loose on the 142 00:09:13,300 --> 00:09:17,100 body and become dry and scaling. The bladder will Burn the 143 00:09:17,100 --> 00:09:20,700 stomach lining dries out in the sufferer will experience dry 144 00:09:20,700 --> 00:09:23,400 heaves. And perhaps vomiting the body 145 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:27,700 temperature becomes very high, the brain cells dry out causing 146 00:09:27,700 --> 00:09:31,900 convulsions, the respiratory tract will dry out and the thick 147 00:09:31,900 --> 00:09:36,600 secretions that would result could plug the lungs and cause 148 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:40,400 death. At some point, within five days 149 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:43,100 to three weeks. The major organs, including the 150 00:09:43,100 --> 00:09:46,900 lungs heart, and brain would give out and the patient died. 151 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:51,700 No one normally lives more than about five or six days without 152 00:09:51,700 --> 00:09:57,500 water. Rather, lengthy discussion on 153 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:00,700 water and our need for water, and the effects of not having 154 00:10:00,700 --> 00:10:05,600 water, I think it's important. Are you thirsty yet? 155 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:08,300 Go with me to Ezekiel chapter 37. 156 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:14,000 Keeping this in mind. When it comes to physical 157 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:17,700 dehydration, one of the greatest one of the greatest dangers 158 00:10:17,700 --> 00:10:22,700 about dehydration is that people are often unaware when they 159 00:10:22,700 --> 00:10:28,700 become dehydrated and you probably heard this said to, if 160 00:10:28,700 --> 00:10:33,900 you wait till you get thirsty to start drinking water, you're 161 00:10:33,900 --> 00:10:38,600 probably already dehydrated. Keep that in mind because that's 162 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:43,800 what happens to us, spiritually. Before we know it, we are 163 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:49,500 spiritually dehydrated. And we're in danger, and the 164 00:10:49,500 --> 00:10:55,200 devil has got as it were his hand around our throat and we're 165 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:58,900 not aware of it. Ezekiel 37. 166 00:10:58,900 --> 00:11:01,100 Read with me this very interesting. 167 00:11:01,100 --> 00:11:06,300 Fascinating Passage. The hand of the Lord Came Upon 168 00:11:06,300 --> 00:11:10,100 me and brought me out in the spirit of the Lord and said me 169 00:11:10,100 --> 00:11:16,000 out in the midst of the valley. And it was full of Bones. 170 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:22,100 Imagine that this this massive ossuary above-ground graveyard 171 00:11:22,100 --> 00:11:24,100 if you please. Can you imagine as a preacher? 172 00:11:24,100 --> 00:11:26,900 What is God doing with me? Taking me to this place, whether 173 00:11:26,900 --> 00:11:29,900 it's in Vision or actual a real-life place or some 174 00:11:29,900 --> 00:11:32,100 discussion over that God's taking you there. 175 00:11:33,300 --> 00:11:35,000 But it's giving me the creeps. What am I? 176 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:37,300 What am I here for? What are we doing? 177 00:11:37,300 --> 00:11:41,500 God. Read on verse two, then he 178 00:11:41,500 --> 00:11:43,900 caused me to pass by them all around. 179 00:11:44,100 --> 00:11:47,700 And behold there were very many in the open Valley and indeed 180 00:11:47,700 --> 00:11:51,900 they were very dry. So it didn't just take the 181 00:11:51,900 --> 00:11:54,900 preacher. The prophet to this valley of 182 00:11:54,908 --> 00:11:58,800 dry, bones and said, look at it, but he has him walk all around. 183 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:02,200 These bones and has him noticed that they're dry and they're not 184 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:05,500 just dry, they're very dry. Verse 3. 185 00:12:07,600 --> 00:12:12,400 And he said to me, son of man. Can these bones live? 186 00:12:15,100 --> 00:12:17,600 I imagine Ezekiel be like most of us. 187 00:12:17,700 --> 00:12:20,100 He doesn't know what's going on. He doesn't understand and maybe 188 00:12:20,100 --> 00:12:22,900 doesn't know exactly what the right answer is. 189 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:30,700 So I answered O Lord God you know, verse 4. 190 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:35,500 Again he said to me prophesy to these bones. 191 00:12:35,500 --> 00:12:38,500 So first he's he's taking his equal to this place and he's had 192 00:12:38,500 --> 00:12:42,100 him walk all around these bones. Yes, Lord I see they're dry and 193 00:12:42,100 --> 00:12:45,400 they're very dry. But now he wants the preacher to 194 00:12:45,400 --> 00:12:52,000 preach to the dry bones but like any man of faith and strange 195 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:55,100 having a request is this is he's going to preach, he's going to 196 00:12:55,108 --> 00:12:57,600 preach exactly what God tells him to preach. 197 00:12:57,600 --> 00:13:02,200 He's going to preach the word. And say to them old dry bones, 198 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:06,600 hear the word of the Lord, thus says, the Lord God of these 199 00:13:06,600 --> 00:13:08,300 bones. Surely, I will cause breath to 200 00:13:08,300 --> 00:13:10,700 enter into you and you shall live. 201 00:13:10,700 --> 00:13:13,400 I will put sinews on you and bring flesh upon. 202 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:17,200 You cover you with skin and put breath in you and you shall 203 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:20,900 live. Then you shall know that I am 204 00:13:20,900 --> 00:13:25,400 the Lord. Quickly on the messages, we get 205 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:31,300 in this story is that God could bring the spiritually dead to 206 00:13:31,300 --> 00:13:33,800 life talking about is will see shortly. 207 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:38,700 These are God's people but God's people can dry up and need to be 208 00:13:38,700 --> 00:13:41,100 brought back to life and God can do that. 209 00:13:42,900 --> 00:13:46,300 The Sadducees you remember supposed to believe in God 210 00:13:46,300 --> 00:13:48,000 supposed to believe in the Old Testament? 211 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:52,000 They denied that God could bring the dead back to life, but it's 212 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:54,300 quite clear here. Oh, yes. 213 00:13:54,300 --> 00:14:01,100 God can do this. So, I prophesied as I was 214 00:14:01,100 --> 00:14:04,900 commanded and as I prophesied there was a noise and suddenly a 215 00:14:04,900 --> 00:14:08,700 rattling and the bones came together, bone to bone. 216 00:14:10,300 --> 00:14:13,900 I see here, also the idea of division and, and within the 217 00:14:13,900 --> 00:14:17,800 body, things being healed in a bringing together. 218 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:21,100 Indeed, as I look the sinews, and the flesh come upon them and 219 00:14:21,100 --> 00:14:24,200 the skin covered them over, but there was no breath in them. 220 00:14:25,400 --> 00:14:28,400 The bodies had flesh, they had muscle, but they weren't alive. 221 00:14:29,300 --> 00:14:33,100 Also, he said to me, prophesy to the breath prophesy, son of man. 222 00:14:33,100 --> 00:14:36,100 And say to the breath, thus says, the Lord God come from the 223 00:14:36,100 --> 00:14:39,000 Four Winds o breath and breathe on these slain that they may 224 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:41,500 live. So, I prophesied, as he 225 00:14:41,500 --> 00:14:45,400 commanded me and breath came into them and they lived and 226 00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:49,600 stood upon their feet, an exceedingly, great Army. 227 00:14:50,900 --> 00:14:57,900 This suggests to me. what God can do with so little And with 228 00:14:57,900 --> 00:15:03,900 something that seems so weak and so powerless it suggests to me 229 00:15:03,900 --> 00:15:08,100 potential and it suggests to me the potential Within Me and the 230 00:15:08,100 --> 00:15:13,200 potential within you and the potential within us all of us 231 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:17,100 together. We can be like a great Army. 232 00:15:18,700 --> 00:15:22,700 And God can do that through your weakness and through my 233 00:15:22,700 --> 00:15:26,200 weakness. He did it here with just a pile 234 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:31,200 of dry bones verse 11, then he said to me, son of man, these 235 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:32,800 bones are the whole house of Israel. 236 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:35,100 That's right. That's God's people, these 237 00:15:35,100 --> 00:15:39,400 represent and this story represents the people of God. 238 00:15:40,500 --> 00:15:42,100 They weren't like they were supposed to be. 239 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:44,500 They weren't living. Like they were supposed to be 240 00:15:44,700 --> 00:15:46,900 God, wasn't the center of their lives. 241 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:51,700 Oh, they were God's people. They were the chosen people but 242 00:15:51,700 --> 00:15:54,400 they weren't living like it. They were so caught up in the 243 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:58,200 things around them, the world that to God, they were like dry 244 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:04,900 bones. They indeed, say, our bones are 245 00:16:04,900 --> 00:16:09,700 dry. Our hope is lost and we 246 00:16:09,700 --> 00:16:12,800 ourselves are cut off. They were discouraged, they were 247 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:14,400 downtrodden. They were depressed. 248 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:18,700 No wonder they had straight away from the Lord therefore prophesy 249 00:16:18,700 --> 00:16:20,700 and say to them. Thus says the Lord God, behold 250 00:16:20,700 --> 00:16:24,400 on my people, I will open your Graves and cause you to come up 251 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:27,100 from your Graves and bring you into the land of Israel. 252 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:28,900 Then you shall know that I am the Lord. 253 00:16:28,900 --> 00:16:32,000 When I have opened your Graves on my people and brought you up 254 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:34,700 from In your Graves. Listen here, verse 14. 255 00:16:34,700 --> 00:16:37,200 Certainly speaking about what's going to happen through Jesus, 256 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:42,700 in the New Testament, I will put my spirit in you and you shall 257 00:16:42,700 --> 00:16:44,900 live. I will place you in your own 258 00:16:44,900 --> 00:16:49,800 land, and you shall know that I, the Lord have spoken it and 259 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:56,800 performed it says the Lord. What a beautiful passage power. 260 00:16:57,300 --> 00:16:59,500 There's power in that inspirational, isn't it? 261 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:05,599 This morning brother sister, are you? 262 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:09,400 Dry. I'm asking myself. 263 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:12,000 I need to ask myself. We need to ask ourselves about 264 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:15,300 that from time to time. How are we doing spiritually? 265 00:17:15,300 --> 00:17:18,800 I'm not talking about some superficial check, we do that 266 00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:22,500 sometimes. We need to do a complete 267 00:17:22,500 --> 00:17:25,000 physical on our spiritual selves. 268 00:17:25,599 --> 00:17:28,800 Call it a spiritual if you will, but we need to do it when you 269 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:31,900 take a deep look inside, we need to take a close look at where 270 00:17:31,900 --> 00:17:35,900 we're at and in which direction we're going. 271 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:41,100 As one man, put it it's important where you are today 272 00:17:41,500 --> 00:17:44,400 and it is and it's great that you're here at the house of the 273 00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:46,200 Lord. It's important where you are but 274 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:49,100 it's more important. What's more important is the 275 00:17:49,100 --> 00:17:53,000 direction in which you were headed, where you go, are you 276 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:55,800 dry this morning again? One of the greatest dangers of 277 00:17:55,800 --> 00:17:59,200 dehydration is that people are often unaware that they are 278 00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:04,600 becoming dehydrated and you could be dehydrated this morning 279 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:08,800 spiritually dying. And not be aware of what is 280 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:12,600 happening. Or adversary, Satan wants to 281 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:18,400 fill you up with the saltwater of sin, the lust of the eyes, 282 00:18:18,700 --> 00:18:22,800 the lust of the Flesh and the pride of life. 283 00:18:23,300 --> 00:18:26,800 He wants to suck the life, spiritual it right out of you. 284 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:31,200 And some Christians today and maybe some that are here today 285 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:35,800 are allowing the Devil to do just that the devil wants you to 286 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:39,900 become so self-absorbed. And all this world has to offer 287 00:18:39,900 --> 00:18:41,200 that. You forget about what really 288 00:18:41,200 --> 00:18:46,100 matters and then to you neglect, who and what you should be 289 00:18:46,100 --> 00:18:51,400 focused on this morning. There may be Christians in this 290 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:56,000 room who were just like that pile of dry bones. 291 00:18:56,000 --> 00:19:00,800 And when God looks at you, He sees nothing but dry bones, 292 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:06,800 bones that are very dry. What are some of the symptoms? 293 00:19:07,900 --> 00:19:12,500 if you have dry bones this morning, there's your life seem 294 00:19:12,500 --> 00:19:16,800 empty. Hopeless dry has your 295 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:19,500 relationship with God. Dried up your relationship with 296 00:19:19,500 --> 00:19:21,400 your brothers and sisters. How is that? 297 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:23,400 This morning? That's a symptom. 298 00:19:24,200 --> 00:19:27,000 If you don't see your brothers and sisters during the week, if 299 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:29,500 you don't talk to them, if you don't communicate with them, if 300 00:19:29,500 --> 00:19:33,900 you don't have a relationship with them, it's a symptom, your 301 00:19:33,900 --> 00:19:40,500 bones are going dry, you're becoming dehydrated if you're 302 00:19:40,500 --> 00:19:42,100 dry it. Maybe because you haven't been 303 00:19:42,100 --> 00:19:45,900 to the Fountain lately, you may be suffering from dryness and 304 00:19:45,900 --> 00:19:49,600 spiritual stagnation, your spiritual life, may be as dry. 305 00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:53,800 And lifeless as the Sahara Desert, you may be suffering 306 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:57,400 from From emptiness and spiritual dehydration. 307 00:19:57,500 --> 00:20:00,500 And what I'm asking you this morning is when was the last 308 00:20:00,500 --> 00:20:05,300 time that you and your private life in your prayer closet, so, 309 00:20:05,300 --> 00:20:11,000 to speak poured out, your heart to God In Prayer, Not just going 310 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:14,500 through the rituals not just saying that same recorded prayer 311 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:17,300 that you've got memorized. But I mean, pouring out your 312 00:20:17,300 --> 00:20:22,700 heart to God not just going through the motions But your 313 00:20:22,700 --> 00:20:25,600 heart was totally centered on the Beauty and the benefits of 314 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:30,000 talking to God in prayer and of what he's done for you and for 315 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:32,200 your family through Jesus Christ. 316 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:36,700 If it's been a while, no wonder, you feel dry, no wonder, you 317 00:20:36,700 --> 00:20:40,300 feel empty people of Israel. The house of Israel knew that 318 00:20:40,300 --> 00:20:43,900 something was wrong. They just didn't know what to do 319 00:20:43,900 --> 00:20:48,200 to fix it. They'd become nothing more than 320 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:52,800 just a pile of dry bones. They were just a bunch of 321 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:58,600 spiritual skeletons up, a big pile of skulls and crossbones. 322 00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:01,600 The devil had his mark on them and they never even knew what 323 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:04,200 was going on. They got to the point where they 324 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:09,500 weren't doing anything because they couldn't do anything. 325 00:21:10,900 --> 00:21:13,500 How is it with you today? Have you dried up 326 00:21:13,900 --> 00:21:18,200 evangelistically? Meeting starts today. 327 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:21,600 There, maybe even somebody here. Who'd forgot. 328 00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:24,000 There was even a meeting going on this week. 329 00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:28,300 That happens a couple times, maybe more in a congregation. 330 00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:34,400 This should be one of the highlights of our year because 331 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:38,700 the church this this shining bright light this light house. 332 00:21:38,700 --> 00:21:42,200 If you please that keeps the light shining throughout the 333 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:44,700 year is now focused on this week. 334 00:21:44,700 --> 00:21:47,400 For these eight days, we are going to shine the light 335 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:51,400 brighter and in a more concentrated fashion than we 336 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:54,500 have done. Everybody needs to be a part of 337 00:21:54,508 --> 00:21:57,300 that. But you can be a part of that, 338 00:21:57,300 --> 00:21:59,300 what you've been thinking about the last week and last few 339 00:21:59,300 --> 00:22:01,600 weeks, I know some of you because I've heard from you, 340 00:22:02,500 --> 00:22:04,700 this is the highlight of the month. 341 00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:09,300 One of the highlights of this season is getting ready for this 342 00:22:09,300 --> 00:22:10,900 meeting. Going to talk to people been 343 00:22:10,900 --> 00:22:13,400 talking to people about the meeting, going to invite people 344 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:15,000 going to bring people to the meeting. 345 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:19,000 Those people back then they couldn't Influence People. 346 00:22:20,100 --> 00:22:23,100 They couldn't even influence their own children because they 347 00:22:23,100 --> 00:22:28,300 were just a big pile of calcified clubs exposed for all 348 00:22:28,300 --> 00:22:30,400 to see. And if it's been a while, since 349 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:32,100 you poured out, your heart and prayer. 350 00:22:32,900 --> 00:22:36,100 And if you're not praying without ceasing and you you were 351 00:22:36,100 --> 00:22:38,900 dry. You are dehydrated, whether you 352 00:22:38,900 --> 00:22:42,100 know it or not, you need to go to the rock. 353 00:22:42,500 --> 00:22:45,300 You need some Living Water. How do you know if your dry? 354 00:22:45,300 --> 00:22:48,600 How do you know if you're spiritually dehydrated Check 355 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:52,800 what you're doing. when you're not working, and when you're not 356 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:57,700 sleeping, If you're working over those 50 or 60 hours a week, 357 00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:00,500 you're probably working too much. 358 00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:02,500 Where's the Lord fit in to your time? 359 00:23:02,500 --> 00:23:06,100 What are you doing during your what we call sometimes free 360 00:23:06,100 --> 00:23:09,700 time? So many Christians are just 361 00:23:09,700 --> 00:23:15,800 wandering and stumbling about in a desert of selfishness and 362 00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:19,800 slothfulness, why are we growing in some congregation? 363 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:22,900 You've been growing here, but you could probably grow more. 364 00:23:22,900 --> 00:23:26,500 If more people were on fire, like they should be and many 365 00:23:26,500 --> 00:23:28,600 congregation. There are members of the Lord's 366 00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:34,200 Church who wouldn't attend a regular weekly Bible study. 367 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:36,900 If the Apostle Paul was there to conduct it. 368 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:42,400 That's dry. That's dry, brother, that's dry 369 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:44,500 sister, and in most congregations, there are 370 00:23:44,500 --> 00:23:50,000 Christians. So, busy going about With other 371 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:54,800 things in life. So busy gorging themselves, 372 00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:58,800 spiritually, speaking on the carbonated caffeinated, corn 373 00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:04,800 syrup e, colas of this world that they can't make time for 374 00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:07,900 any more than just a sip or two of Living Water on Sunday 375 00:24:07,900 --> 00:24:13,900 morning brother sister. If that's you, you're dry, you 376 00:24:13,900 --> 00:24:17,700 need to do something about that, you're dehydrating yourself 377 00:24:17,700 --> 00:24:21,000 spiritually. When you look in the mirror this 378 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:26,100 morning, You probably look the same way you did last week last 379 00:24:26,100 --> 00:24:29,300 year, but there may be a different you today than there 380 00:24:29,300 --> 00:24:34,400 was last year or a few years ago you're changing on the outside. 381 00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:39,600 You may look the same but your soul is shrinking, it shriveling 382 00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:42,900 up because you've not had the Living Water. 383 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:44,700 You're not getting to the Living Water. 384 00:24:44,900 --> 00:24:47,700 Like you need to. You need to go to the well. 385 00:24:48,900 --> 00:24:51,200 You better get back to the well soon before. 386 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:56,100 It's too late. While he can make your dry bones 387 00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:59,800 live. How many people here today? 388 00:25:01,700 --> 00:25:07,400 Have been saying, you know what? I really need to start reading 389 00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:09,700 the Bible every day. How many times that happened 390 00:25:09,700 --> 00:25:11,400 during a meeting? Or maybe a cyst? 391 00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:15,600 Maybe a brother has a shared with you from the pulpit and 392 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:17,600 probably, you know, when you start reading the Bible daily 393 00:25:17,700 --> 00:25:20,000 and you say yeah you know that's right and you start up and you 394 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,300 go for a week or two or maybe three weeks and you go back to 395 00:25:22,308 --> 00:25:28,000 the same old self. We need to stick with it. 396 00:25:28,500 --> 00:25:30,700 There's some things that you knew, you know, you need to be 397 00:25:30,700 --> 00:25:32,900 doing you to get at it. You stay with it. 398 00:25:33,100 --> 00:25:37,200 You stay keep feeding yourself, feeling yourself. 399 00:25:38,300 --> 00:25:41,600 With the Water of Life. There's somebody here. 400 00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:44,800 Maybe today. Who's been saying, you know, one 401 00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:47,200 of these days. How do you obey the gospel? 402 00:25:47,900 --> 00:25:50,200 I need to get my sins washed away. 403 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:54,100 I need to get in the water but you've been putting it off. 404 00:25:56,100 --> 00:25:59,500 You take care of that, you take care of that today, there's 405 00:25:59,500 --> 00:26:01,700 probably somebody here that in some other way, there's some 406 00:26:01,708 --> 00:26:05,300 things going on in your life that are wrong that you need to 407 00:26:05,300 --> 00:26:07,000 fix and you know, you need to fix them. 408 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:08,900 You just say well I'm going to take care of that one of these 409 00:26:08,900 --> 00:26:10,500 days. Days. 410 00:26:10,500 --> 00:26:13,200 You need to turn that one of these days into today. 411 00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:14,600 You need to come to the Fountain. 412 00:26:14,700 --> 00:26:18,600 You need to come for The Living, Water need to stop playing games 413 00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:21,100 with God, and get to the Fountain. 414 00:26:21,700 --> 00:26:23,400 Let's go back to our text verse 2. 415 00:26:26,700 --> 00:26:33,200 Back to Ezekiel, 37 verse 2. Then he caused me to pass by 416 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:35,500 them all around. And behold there were very many 417 00:26:35,500 --> 00:26:42,000 in the open Valley. And indeed, they were very dry. 418 00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:47,400 I get the idea here that when we're dry that we discuss God, 419 00:26:47,500 --> 00:26:53,400 we disappoint God, we upset God, we disappoint, Jesus verse 3, 420 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:58,000 And he said to me, son of man can these bones live? 421 00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:01,300 So I answered O Lord God, you know. 422 00:27:03,500 --> 00:27:06,000 The preachers optimistic. If God says, these bones are 423 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:08,500 going to live, he believes it, but from where he look, he's 424 00:27:08,500 --> 00:27:14,000 looking these bones are awful, dry, you know, God you tell me, 425 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:19,000 It's our job as leaders and teachers spiritual leaders as in 426 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:22,500 our homes, father's to be optimistic and to be positive 427 00:27:22,500 --> 00:27:24,100 and stretch forward and reach forward. 428 00:27:24,100 --> 00:27:28,100 Ephesians 3 verse 21 says that you're able to do exceedingly, 429 00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:31,800 God is able to do in you exceedingly, abundantly above 430 00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:36,700 all that we ask or think. Are you weak today? 431 00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:40,600 God wants you, strong Ephesians 6, verse 12. 432 00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:42,500 He didn't want you to be a Christian wants to be a strong 433 00:27:42,500 --> 00:27:44,700 Christian, and he can make you a strong Christian. 434 00:27:45,100 --> 00:27:49,100 If you let him Why are you so dry today? 435 00:27:49,300 --> 00:27:52,500 If you're dry, you have a dead marriage. 436 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:58,100 Is your marriage dying? God doesn't want it that way. 437 00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:03,000 You know, the world is overrun with divorce adultery divorce, 438 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:07,500 remarriage and divorce, and remarriage and divorce. 439 00:28:07,500 --> 00:28:08,900 And remarriage, that's not God's way. 440 00:28:11,100 --> 00:28:14,000 But sometimes in our homes, we think we're, okay? 441 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:21,100 As long as we're still married, But a relationship is dying or 442 00:28:21,100 --> 00:28:22,600 dead. That's not God's way either, 443 00:28:23,700 --> 00:28:26,700 that's not the way God ever intended for it to be. 444 00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:29,800 And if that's the way it is in your marriage, your bones are 445 00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:33,500 dry. Need to go to the well, What 446 00:28:33,500 --> 00:28:36,100 about your relationships within the body? 447 00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:40,600 Some people, some people say, well, I just don't feel like I'm 448 00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:44,800 a part. I feel like I've kind of been 449 00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:48,400 pushed out to the edge. I don't feel like I'm a member 450 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:52,300 of the body. And sometimes when I watch and 451 00:28:52,300 --> 00:28:55,700 when I listen to way people, behave and interact with their 452 00:28:55,700 --> 00:28:58,900 brothers and sisters, I'm not surprised the way they feel that 453 00:28:58,900 --> 00:29:01,500 way. Need to go to the well, Matthew 454 00:29:01,500 --> 00:29:10,500 7 verse 12, The Golden Rule. Do you treat your brother the 455 00:29:10,500 --> 00:29:14,700 way you want to be treated? You talk to them, your sister, 456 00:29:14,700 --> 00:29:17,300 the way you want them to talk to you, sometimes. 457 00:29:17,300 --> 00:29:20,000 We don't, no wonder our relationships are dying. 458 00:29:20,300 --> 00:29:23,700 If you don't want others to be hypercritical of you, if you 459 00:29:23,708 --> 00:29:29,300 don't want others to be backbiting about you or on, you 460 00:29:29,500 --> 00:29:32,200 don't do that to them. How are you treating other 461 00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:34,500 people? Do you just use people, or do 462 00:29:34,500 --> 00:29:39,200 you really care? If you invest your lives in 463 00:29:39,300 --> 00:29:41,300 other people, do you support them? 464 00:29:41,300 --> 00:29:46,600 Do you help them? If not, you're dry, it's not 465 00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:50,700 what Jesus wants out of you. God looks down, he sees dry 466 00:29:50,700 --> 00:29:53,700 bones and he's disappointed and he's disgusting. 467 00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:58,500 Go to the well are you cuddling sin this morning, is there some 468 00:29:58,500 --> 00:30:03,400 begetting sin that like a blood sucking leech is sucking the 469 00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:07,900 life right out of you? I can kill a marriage, it can 470 00:30:07,900 --> 00:30:10,900 kill any relationship with your brother or sister, you need to 471 00:30:10,900 --> 00:30:13,000 repent if that's you this morning. 472 00:30:14,100 --> 00:30:17,700 You need to repent of your dry, bone ways and come to the 473 00:30:17,700 --> 00:30:20,900 fountain. Know this. 474 00:30:22,100 --> 00:30:24,200 It's Disobedience that creates dissing. 475 00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:25,900 You feel like you're distant from God. 476 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:27,600 You feel like he's not really with you. 477 00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:31,500 It's Disobedience somewhere in your life, distance creates 478 00:30:31,500 --> 00:30:34,700 dryness and drifting and backsliding. 479 00:30:34,700 --> 00:30:39,300 If you're dry this morning, it may very well be because there's 480 00:30:39,300 --> 00:30:41,500 too much distance between you and God. 481 00:30:41,900 --> 00:30:45,300 You got to get the sin out, you got to get the sin out of your 482 00:30:45,300 --> 00:30:50,200 life and Let Jesus come in. Most dead bones will rise. 483 00:30:53,900 --> 00:30:58,100 We all have dry moments, but if you're living in the valley of 484 00:30:58,100 --> 00:31:02,800 dry bones, if you've lost the joy of your salvation, if 485 00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:07,100 dryness is the rule and rejoicing is the exception, it's 486 00:31:07,100 --> 00:31:10,500 probably because their sin somewhere in your life, maybe 487 00:31:10,500 --> 00:31:12,400 there's a relationship that, you know, you need to do something 488 00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:15,600 to fix and you've not done it. You've been stubborn, you've 489 00:31:15,608 --> 00:31:19,600 been proud. I like the way Tony Evans 490 00:31:19,900 --> 00:31:25,900 elaborated on this idea. He says Pluto is the ninth 491 00:31:25,900 --> 00:31:30,500 planet from the sun and it's cold on Pluto. 492 00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:37,800 It's so cold because it's so far from the Sun s un Distance makes 493 00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:42,200 us cold Mercury is so hot because it's so close to the 494 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:46,100 Sun. Our distance to the Sun. 495 00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:50,100 Affects our temperature and that's true. 496 00:31:50,300 --> 00:31:54,000 Also spiritually, the closer you are to the Sun. 497 00:31:54,000 --> 00:32:00,700 S 0n, the warmer you become How warmer you, how warm are you 498 00:32:00,700 --> 00:32:03,600 toward the members of the family of God, that's an indication of 499 00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:08,800 how close you are to the Sun. The question, we're asking this 500 00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:12,000 morning is, do you have the living water? 501 00:32:12,300 --> 00:32:15,200 Do you have Jesus? And are you feeling yourself up 502 00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:17,700 with Jesus Christ? His word? 503 00:32:17,700 --> 00:32:21,600 His will and his ways. If not brother or sister, you 504 00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:26,100 are spiritually, spiritually, dehydrated, your dry, your dry 505 00:32:26,100 --> 00:32:28,200 bones. And that's not what God wants 506 00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:30,600 you to be, but you don't have to be that way. 507 00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:34,900 You don't have to die, you can come to Jesus Christ. 508 00:32:34,900 --> 00:32:37,200 There's a happy. Ending to the story, no matter. 509 00:32:37,500 --> 00:32:41,900 How dry you are, no matter how dehydrated you are, no matter 510 00:32:41,900 --> 00:32:45,600 how deep you are in the valley of dry bones, or how long you've 511 00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:48,000 been there, God can bring you back. 512 00:32:48,900 --> 00:32:51,100 God could put flesh on you, spiritually speaking. 513 00:32:51,300 --> 00:32:54,900 He can put the breath back in. You, he can set you on higher 514 00:32:54,900 --> 00:32:57,500 ground and you can go back to the Fountain. 515 00:32:58,300 --> 00:33:04,600 If you just decide that you will listen to John 4 verse 14, Jesus 516 00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:07,900 speaking. But whoever drinks of the water 517 00:33:07,900 --> 00:33:10,800 that I shall give him will never thirst. 518 00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:14,500 But the water that I shall give him will become a fountain of 519 00:33:14,500 --> 00:33:18,500 water springing up. And everlasting God. 520 00:33:19,500 --> 00:33:24,500 God wants for you to have the Abundant Life, The Good Life. 521 00:33:25,500 --> 00:33:27,200 If that's not the way your life is. 522 00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:32,700 If you're dry. Because you need to go to the 523 00:33:32,700 --> 00:33:35,000 Fountain. You need to go to the well, 524 00:33:37,900 --> 00:33:42,500 Something else you're talking about, dryness dehydration, 525 00:33:42,700 --> 00:33:48,000 there are people today pulpits in this city on televisions and 526 00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:53,100 on radio stations. Who are dehydrating The Plan of 527 00:33:53,100 --> 00:33:58,800 Salvation taking the water right out of the Plan of Salvation. 528 00:34:00,500 --> 00:34:01,400 You know what? That's like. 529 00:34:01,900 --> 00:34:04,700 You know how effective that is? And taking care of sin. 530 00:34:04,700 --> 00:34:06,400 I'll tell you how effective that is. 531 00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:10,600 That's like you going home today and you putting in a load of 532 00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:16,000 laundry and do your washing machine and you unhooking the 533 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:18,699 water. What's gonna happen? 534 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:22,500 You know, how to get those stains out. 535 00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:27,500 And when you take water out of the Plan of Salvation, you can 536 00:34:27,500 --> 00:34:30,400 be sure you're not going to get the stains of sin out of your 537 00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:31,500 life. That's what's going on in the 538 00:34:31,500 --> 00:34:37,100 world today, that won't work. You got to put the water in 539 00:34:38,500 --> 00:34:43,199 Jesus said in John 3 verse 5 except a man be born of water 540 00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:48,400 and of the spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of heaven. 541 00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:53,500 There's water in the plant can any man forbid water. 542 00:34:54,500 --> 00:34:56,800 See here is water. What doth hinder me to be 543 00:34:56,800 --> 00:35:00,200 baptized? There's water in the Plan of 544 00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:04,400 Salvation. So if you have per ticket per 545 00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:07,700 taken of one of these plans of Salvation that is taken the 546 00:35:07,700 --> 00:35:09,800 water out. That's no good. 547 00:35:10,300 --> 00:35:15,100 The stain of sin is still there. Need to go to the fountain. 548 00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:20,900 Need to go to the water. You'd have your sins washed away 549 00:35:21,100 --> 00:35:26,500 and the watery grave of baptism. Even the Apostle Paul had to go 550 00:35:26,500 --> 00:35:33,700 that route and Acts 22:16. He was told and now why tarriest 551 00:35:33,700 --> 00:35:39,800 thou arise and be baptized and wash away? 552 00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:42,400 Your sins? Calling on the name of the Lord 553 00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:46,600 if you're dry this morning. Maybe because You're still not a 554 00:35:46,607 --> 00:35:49,900 Christian. You tried to get saved at some 555 00:35:49,900 --> 00:35:54,200 point in your life, but somebody took the water out, put the 556 00:35:54,207 --> 00:35:58,200 water in, then you get in the water wash. 557 00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:01,700 Those sins away, gotta put the Flesh on those bones. 558 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:06,600 Put the breath in your life. You can be alive and you can 559 00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:11,800 serve God and you can please God and you can stay At the 560 00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:15,100 fountain, there's someone here this morning who straight away 561 00:36:15,100 --> 00:36:18,300 from God. Who's left, the fold won't you 562 00:36:18,300 --> 00:36:20,800 come back? Get the sin out of your life? 563 00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:26,100 If you've never become a Christian, you've tried some 564 00:36:26,100 --> 00:36:30,600 kind of substitute or shortcut Plan of Salvation, come to the 565 00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:34,100 water. The water, the spirit and the 566 00:36:34,100 --> 00:36:37,300 blood. The Bible says, in first John 567 00:36:37,300 --> 00:36:40,300 five or six through eight, the water spirit and the blood. 568 00:36:40,300 --> 00:36:43,400 These are the three witness they'll bear testimony to your 569 00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:47,200 salvation. 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