The Church – Should Be A Fountain Of Eternal Life To Those Thirsty For God

Where do Christians find this abundance of eternal life this increasing knowledge of God?

God births people as Christians and delivers them from Satan’s kingdom, through His words of eternal life preached by other Christians. God grows these new-born Christians and prevents their spirits from dying of a lack of spiritual food, and from being devoured by their spiritual enemies, through more of His words of eternal life fed to them by other Christians – as they believe those words with their whole hearts. This is God’s primary and essential purpose for every Christian to keep coming to where His word is preached and being taught under the direct anointing, life, power and revelation of His Holy Spirit:

Ezek 36:25 Then I will sprinkle clean water on you and you shall be clean...

John 15:3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.

Eph 5:25-26 ...Christ also loved the church...that He might sanctify (make her holy)

and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word,

God frequently likens His word to living water, and when we drink some of this living water, by our hearts believing His words, eternal life is imparted to us. As we continue to drink of this living water, God’s words, it becomes a fountain of eternal life in us that now others can come and drink from – as they hear and believe God inspired words from us:

John 4:14 (Jesus) But whoever drinks (continually) of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water (the words) that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.

Church is intended to be a gathering of Christians whose hearts have been drinking these waters of eternal life, God’s living words or counsel. Then any other Christian who attends such a gathering, if they are thirsty for God, will be able both to be washed by and to drink of this water of the word, and either begin or grow in their knowledge of God.

Prov 20:5 Counsel (God’s words) in the heart of man is like deep water, But a man of understanding (one who is thirsty for God) will draw it out (and drink).

Rev 22:17 And the (Holy) Spirit and the bride (of Christ, those currently righteous) say, "Come!" And let him who hears say, "Come!" And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him come and drink the water of life freely.

What must have happened if a Christian goes to a meeting but doesn’t receive more life?

This tragically is happening in our Church meetings all the time. Christians come to the meeting and then go away without ever drinking more of the waters of eternal life; without believing in their hearts and being changed by more of God’s eternal word; without growing in their personal knowledge of God. Why? There are only two possible answers:

1. Neither the ministers present nor any of the other Christians in attendance were currently living in the Spirit, in submission to God, having been themselves constantly drinking of the waters or the words of eternal life. Therefore they had no fountain of eternal life in them with which to water others. This is a lamentable failure of the Church.