Living Water Flows Thru True Worship

Main Point:  People on this earth who search for truth outside of the gospel message of Jesus will only drink water that runs dry and they will thirst again.  But Christians who truly worship Jesus will experience living water that will last for eternity and they will never thirst again.

The Unsaved are trapped in Sin

• For people who do not have salvation in Jesus, they look to be fulfilled and satisfied by filling selfish desires which leads to sin. 
• Hebrews 11:25.  Sin can be pleasurable for a season but it will lead to emptiness and destruction. 
• Numbers 32:23.  Be sure your sins will find you out.
• The reason the unsaved are trapped in sin is because before Jesus saves us, the only thing we have to guide us is our sinful carnal nature.
• The lost only have one guide, there sinful nature.

The redeemed have a Sprit Righteous nature

• But God pursues us and when we surrender to the salvation that is in Jesus then something important happens,
• The Holy Spirit comes into your heart and brings to life you righteous spirit nature so now you have a way to draw close to God and be filled with his righteousness.
• It is important to remember that our sinful carnal nature is enmity against God. 
  • Romans 8:7-9.  Not sometimes but always.
• That is why it is important to be aware that there is a battle of two natures in our heart.  Our old carnal sinful nature and our spirit righteousness nature that has been born again.

Once we are saved, we can understand what Jesus said to the woman at the well.

• John 4:5-26.  Jesus made it clear that He was offering true fulfillment, joy, peace, for all who receive Jesus as Lord and Savior.  Jesus did not say he was the living water, he said he would give us living water.
• In John 7:37-39, Jesus explains that the living water represent the Holy Spirit flowing through us which results in God’s righteousness flowing through us.  Thus are bodies become the temple of the Spirit of God.

Pastor’s Thoughts:

• What we are beginning to experience in this church is living water. 
• The spirit of God flowing in us and through us because we are hungering for true worship. 
• This kind of true worship will lead to transformed hearts desiring closeness with God.

Analyze your heart.

• Are you desiring closeness with God.  Then Worship with all your heart
• Are you desiring to grow in spirit.  Then Worship with all your heart
• Are you desiring to be filled with living water that satisfies for eternity.  Then worship with all your heart
• Are you desiring a move of God.  Then Worship with all your heart
• Are you desiring to do the will of the God.  Then worship with all your heart.
• Are you desiring more of God’s presence in this church. Then worship with all your heart
• Are you desiring more of God’s presence in your life.  Then worship with all your heart.
• Receive the living water.  Receive the Holy Spirit and you will never thirst again.

Conclusion:

• When Christians worship in spirit and in truth, the presence, the spirit of God begins to flow through us like living water and we are satisfied in his presence.