The Wells Of Salvation.

The Wells Of Salvation. (2)

Isaiah 12:3 Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.

Life in the natural state cannot be sustained without water, and in the spiritual, life with God is not possible without Salvation through the Lord Jesus Christ.

As we mentioned in our introduction, Christ is the only key, He is the only One that can open up the 'wells of Salvation'.

Some may ask, what is the need for these wells? And what exactly is their purpose? Perhaps some would ask, is there no other way to obtain sustenance for life? Well then, to answer these questions we want to understand the real basis for this fundamental need. We have to get to the root of the problem, and that is mankind, we are the problem.

The wells in Scripture were meeting places, different people with different life styles and different burdens, all met around the wells with a common need, they all without exception needed water to live.

And so, this brings us to study man's greatest spiritual need, to be reconciled to God. In turning our attention to man we invariably reach into a section of systematic theology called anthropology (the study or the science of man).

According to the Scriptures of Truth, man is created in the image of God. Man consists of body, soul and spirit and is accountable to his Creator and responsible for all of his actions.

When God created Adam and Eve, they were brought into a Covenant of Works. This covenant between God and them guaranteed life on the grounds of obedience to God's Word. To break that Covenant of works meant death.

Genesis 2:16-17 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: [17] but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

Man broke that Covenant and so death passed upon Adam and his posterity. Consequently man became sinful and that sin separated him from God. That original sin wrecked man's will, rendering him unwilling to turn to God, but very willing to choose sin. This is known as sinful man's total depravity, being 'dead in trespasses and in sins', utterly spiritually ruined by the fall.

Now we come to understand sinful man's need for Salvation, we begin to learn how the 'wells of Salvation' have become the meeting place where sinful man might approach unto God.

This great truth of man's need of Salvation is borne out at Sychar,s well.

(John 4:5-26)

John 4:7, 10 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.

[10] Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.

The woman of Samaria, laden with guilt, sin and shame, met the Saviour at the well. The illustration here brings us all to see that only Christ could draw from the 'wells of Salvation' to meet the sinner's great need.

John 4:13-14 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: [14] but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

Today, multitudes of sinners gather around the 'wells of Salvation' but utterly fail to cry out to God in faith saying,

'GIVE ME THIS WATER' We pray that the Holy Spirit of God might so move you to cry mightily unto God to partake of the life giving flow from the 'wells of Salvation'

Blessings in Christ. Rev Mervyn Cotton.