<TITLE>10. Par 74-79</TITLE>L-74 Now, a fountain of living water, we find out, what is a fountain of living water? We find out what the cistern is, now what is a fountain of living water? It's an artesian well.
"An artesian well, what's that, Brother Branham?"
It's a well that it's always comes from beneath and pushes its water out. It's flowing all the time. It is self-supporting. Always fresh and clean, an artesian well, a fountain of living water. It's not dead and stagnated. It's living, it's constantly changing, bringing up something new all the time, moving on, coming from its resources. It draws its resources from--from its bed, which is a... still a fountain of living waters spraying up. Self-cleansing; it's clean, pure, clean water. It's self-supporting; you don't have to wait for the rains to fill its tank up. It's always a bubbling up, gives its water free. You don't have to pump it, wind it, twist it, or join it. It's just a fountain of living waters.

L-75   You know, you take these old cisterns, you have to crank it and crank it and crank it, and pump and everything, to get a little of that stagnated water out. Huh!
But a Fountain of living Water gives It out, free, without pumping, joining, anything else. Oh, I'm glad for that Fountain! Yes, sir!

L-76 It needs no strainer on It, to take the parasites out. For, It's coming so deep down, there in the Rock, until there's no parasites there.
It don't have to have a educational rag hanging on It, that's right, some worldly-made system of man-made denominational wisdom; to tell you, before a psychiatrist, whether you're able to preach or not. It don't have one of those filthy rags hanging on It. It'd push it right off as soon as you put it on there. You can't do it. That well is bubbling up, all the time. You'd put one of them rags on it, it'd throw it plumb out on the one side or the other. It don't have no time for a denominational rag on it.

L-77   It don't need no filter, no strainer, no pumping, no jerking, no nothing else. It's just there, bubbling up. It don't have to depend on local rains to fill it up. Rains are "revivals," where that Fountain... That's at that Fountain of Life. "Where the Carcass is, the eagles will gather." You don't have to pump up a revival; you don't have to pump up nothing. Only thing you have to do is just come to the Fountain. It's always full of good, fresh water, and there is no end to It. It just keeps on bubbling.

L-78 You don't have to go to the cistern, and say, "Well, if it rains and washes off the barn, we'll have something to drink." See? My, my! Not this. That artesian well is spurting forth good, cold water all the time. You can depend on it. You don't have to say, "Well, I'll go over to this old cistern. We used to drink out of it, but it hasn't rained in a long time. I tell you, it may be dry."

L-79   That's the way some of these man-made systems are. You can go in, if you got a big something going on, a big cabal of selling something, or--or some kind of a something going on, a big parties and things going on, bunco games, and parties in the basement, and everything, you might find a full house.
But where you go to where that Fountain is bubbling up, always, the people are there getting a good, cold drink of water. You can depend on It! Say, "They haven't had a revival for ten years." If you live by that Fountain, She's always got a revival going on.


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