Pastor's Sermon Notes
May 16, 2010
Jeremiah 4:22
For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none
understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
This is the natural condition of mankind. It’s ugly, messed up and thinks wrong.
Jeremiah 13:23
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are
accustomed to do evil.
The real problem with humanity is not just that we’re messed up, but that we have no ability to
make ourselves otherwise.
Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
The problem is not just external rebellion, but an inner, heart issue. Our very being, the way we
think and choose is wicked. It is so wicked it defies our ability to understand, it’s worse than
you think.
Matthew 5:8
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
The real problem with our heart condition is that it prevents us from seeing God. We will never
be with him if our heart is impure, which our heart naturally is and we can’t change it. So we’re
stuck! No hope!
Jeremiah 17:7,8
Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is. 8For he shall be
as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see
when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought,
neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
But there is hope! The hope is not in teaching man to think better, educating or legislating his
morality, our hope is in the Lord. No matter the external conditions about us, drought or heat,
we will flourish because God gives us new life.
Jeremiah 17:9-14
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? 10I the
LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and
according to the fruit of his doings. 11As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so
he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end
shall be a fool. 12A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary. 13O
LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me
shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living
waters. 14Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art
my praise.
The only hope is the fountain of living water, that brings us life to endure the troubles of this
world. The Lord heals and saves, we can do neither by ourselves. We are too wicked and
powerless to heal or save, but God does so abundantly.
John 4--woman at the well--she’s morally all over the place, outcast from her people, following
a wrong religious bent. Does Jesus teach her theology, argue religion, give her sex ed classes?
Nope, he offers her living water
John 4:10,11
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. 11The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep:
from whence then hast thou that living water?
It’s the living water the washes, sanctifies, heals, gives life and redeems.
John 4:13, 14
Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: 14But
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.
The water never stops quenching thirst, thirst ceases to exist. Once I got my water, my
questions are being answered, I don’t have to worry because the water came and the water still
flows and it flows from those who have it to those who need it.
John 7:37-39
In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let
him come unto me, and drink. 38He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his
belly shall flow rivers of living water. 39(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe
on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet
glorified.)
It’s the water that people need. John explains that the water is the Spirit of God Himself who
can enter us, teach us, guide us and make us right.
Revelation 22:17
And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is
athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
Luke 16--Rich man and Lazarus--dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue
Jeremiah 4:22
For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none
understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
This is the natural condition of mankind. It’s ugly, messed up and thinks wrong.
Jeremiah 13:23
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are
accustomed to do evil.
The real problem with humanity is not just that we’re messed up, but that we have no ability to
make ourselves otherwise.
Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
The problem is not just external rebellion, but an inner, heart issue. Our very being, the way we
think and choose is wicked. It is so wicked it defies our ability to understand, it’s worse than
you think.
Matthew 5:8
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
The real problem with our heart condition is that it prevents us from seeing God. We will never
be with him if our heart is impure, which our heart naturally is and we can’t change it. So we’re
stuck! No hope!
Jeremiah 17:7,8
Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is. 8For he shall be
as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see
when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought,
neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
But there is hope! The hope is not in teaching man to think better, educating or legislating his
morality, our hope is in the Lord. No matter the external conditions about us, drought or heat,
we will flourish because God gives us new life.
Jeremiah 17:9-14
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? 10I the
LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and
according to the fruit of his doings. 11As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so
he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end
shall be a fool. 12A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary. 13O
LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me
shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living
waters. 14Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art
my praise.
The only hope is the fountain of living water, that brings us life to endure the troubles of this
world. The Lord heals and saves, we can do neither by ourselves. We are too wicked and
powerless to heal or save, but God does so abundantly.
John 4--woman at the well--she’s morally all over the place, outcast from her people, following
a wrong religious bent. Does Jesus teach her theology, argue religion, give her sex ed classes?
Nope, he offers her living water
John 4:10,11
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. 11The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep:
from whence then hast thou that living water?
It’s the living water the washes, sanctifies, heals, gives life and redeems.
John 4:13, 14
Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: 14But
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.
The water never stops quenching thirst, thirst ceases to exist. Once I got my water, my
questions are being answered, I don’t have to worry because the water came and the water still
flows and it flows from those who have it to those who need it.
John 7:37-39
In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let
him come unto me, and drink. 38He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his
belly shall flow rivers of living water. 39(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe
on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet
glorified.)
It’s the water that people need. John explains that the water is the Spirit of God Himself who
can enter us, teach us, guide us and make us right.
Revelation 22:17
And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is
athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
Luke 16--Rich man and Lazarus--dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue