<TITLE>06. Par 22-25</TITLE>L-22 Let me invite you tonight, as Jesus did the woman at the well, who came with a water pot to take water from the well of Jacob. Jesus said to her, "Bring Me a drink."
She said, "The well's deep, and Thou has nothing to draw with."
He said, "But if you knew Who you were talking to, and Who that it is that has asked you, you would ask Me for a drink. And I'd give you waters that you don't come here to Jacob's well to draw."
"Where is this water?" she said."
He said, "It is a spring of water, springing up in the soul to Everlasting Life."
The first taste that she got of that, when she recognized Him, and confessed Him to be the Messiah, He told her she was living in adultery; she said, "Thou must be a prophet. And we know when Messiah cometh, He will tell us these things."
He said, "I'm He that speaks to you."
She dropped her old water pot; she'd tasted something so much better. She run into the city with a message on her heart, "Come, see a Man Who told me everything I did." It was different.

L-23 If you've never tasted nothing but the water from Jacob's cold, formal well, you come to the Messiah once, to that Fountain of Life. It'll be different from then on. It's life. It gives you the hope that nothing else can. It's the only way to life.
David must've been thinking of that. David is a woodsman, shepherd. He spoke so much of green pastures and still waters. Oh, if you could just only one time get out into the woods, and watch the swaying of the great trees, hear the waters as they ripple, God will speak to you.

L-24 Up in the mountains where I hunt quite a bit, there's a certain old spring that I just love to pass by. It seems to be so happy, cold water, always fresh. One day while setting down by that spring, I said, "Little spring, what makes you so happy? Are you happy because that the animals drink from you?"
If he could've spoke back, he's said, "No, Brother Branham, that's not what makes me happy and bubble."
I said, "Then, little spring, is it because that I drink from you each year, what makes you happy and bubbling?"
If he could speak, he'd say, "No, Brother Branham, that's not what makes me happy and bubble."
I'd say, "Then what makes you so happy?"
He would say this: "You see, I am bubbling up, because there's something behind me pushing me. There's something bubbling inside. I can't hold it. It has to bubble out."
And every man that's borned of the Spirit of God has a inexhaustible fountain of Christ inside that's bubbling out, just something that you can't hold your peace.

L-25 David spoke of the waters. The Bible said, "There is a fountain open in the house of God for the cleansing of the soul."
And then again, David being a man who dealt into the woods, and he learned a lot about wildlife. And in one of the Psalms he cried, "As the hart (which is a deer), as the hart thirsts for the water brook, so my soul thirsts after Thee, O God."
I often wondered what David wrote that about, until I learned about deers. And back in that country, and in other countries, they had wolves and wild dogs. And they attacked the deer, because he's easy prey for them.


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