<TITLE>14. Par 104-110</TITLE>L-104   How could you get a fresh drink out of a stagnated cistern? Why would a person... If a person goes to a stagnated cistern to get a drink, when there's an artesian well open, you would say, "There is something wrong with that man's mind."
And if a woman or a man goes to such a place to find comfort, there is something spiritually wrong with that person. They don't want the Word. It shows that their nature is still a frog, or a tadpole, or something, that's right, something of that nature that likes that stagnated pool, because them kind of things won't live in a fresh-Water pool. They can't do it; it's fresh Water. They can't do it.

L-105   Now, the complain was, "They left It." And today they've done the same thing.
Now look at the woman at the well. Well, she come up to Jacob's cistern, and she had been getting water there all the time, at Jacob's cistern. But Jacob's cistern, denomination, we would call it, 'cause he dug three of them; and this one he had dug. Now, she had a great story. She said, "Now, our father dug this well, Jacob. He drank out of it, and his cattle drank out of it, and everything. Isn't that good enough?"

L-106 He said, "But the water that you draw from there, you thirst again, have to come back here to get it. But," said, "the Water that I give you is a Fountain, a Geyser spurting up from the inside, and you don't come here to get It. It's right with you."

L-107   Notice. But when she discovered that a Scriptural Fountain had spoken to her, by a Scriptural sign that she had been looking for, she left that Jacob's denominational system and never went back to it again, because she had found the real Rock. See? She run into the city. She was through with sin. She was no more a foul woman. She said, "Come, see Who I have found, a Man Who told me the things that I've done. Isn't This the very Christ?" She... That cistern might have been all right; it had served its purpose. Now she was at the true Fountain. The cistern had been all right until the true Fountain was open. But when the true Fountain come along, the cistern lost its strength. She found there's a better place to drink.

L-108   And there is a better place. There's a better place, and that's in Christ. In Saint John 7:37 and 38, Jesus said, at the last of the feast of the tabernacles, "If any man thirst, let him come to Me, and drink."
They were all rejoicing. They had a little spurt of water coming out from under the altar, and--and there they was all drinking from this, in celebration, of the--of the feast. And said, "Our fathers drank from the spiritual rock in the wilderness." See, they had hewed themself a cistern, some stagnated water they pumped down from somewhere, and spurting it up under the temple there. And they would all get around this water and drink, and say, "Years ago, our fathers drank in the wilderness."
Jesus said, "I am that Rock that was in the wilderness."
Said, "We eat manna from Heaven, and God rained it down."

L-109 Said, "I am that Manna." He, that Fountain, was standing among them. That Bread of Life was standing among them.
And still they did not want It. They'd rather have their cistern; because, man had made this, and God had sent That. That's exactly the difference. Dug themselves cisterns!

L-110 He said, "If any man thirst, let him come to Me, and drink." He is that Fountain.
And as the Scripture has said, "Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living Water." Oh, He is that artesian well! "Out of his belly, or innermost being, shall flow rivers of living Water."


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