The Fountain of Life
Focus on Jerusalem Prophecy Ministry
By: Darrell G. Young
February, 2006
There
is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Immanuel’s veins, and sinners plunged
beneath that flow lose all their guilty stains.
Ahh, that line is a wonderful and familiar old strain, isn’t it? I love to hear
its words. I cannot think of a single sentence in the entire English language
that conveys so much Gospel!
The Old Testament prophet Isaiah prophesied in the 8th
century BC that a virgin would conceive and bear a son, and that his name shall
be called Immanuel. Matthew picked up on his name, and reiterated from Isaiah’s
prophecy that the Son would be rightly identified as “God is with us.”
Matthew rightly recognized that hope for restoration came through the house of
David and reached its ultimate fulfillment only with the coming of Jesus.
Through the coming of Jesus and through His finished mission (It is finished)
upon the old rugged cross, God is now with us in the most profound sense. And in
Jesus, God will be with us always, even to the end of the age. (Matthew 28:20)
And having visited us, the Lord now offers to each and every one of us a drink
from the fountain that shall never run dry.
A Drink of Living Water
On
one occasion as Jesus was journeying from Judea northward towards Galilee, Jesus
stopped in a village named Sychar, the place where Jacob’s well was located.
Jacob had bequeathed the well to his posterity. It is worth noting to remember
that Jacob had his name changed to Israel by the Lord. As Jesus sat on the
pillar of Jacob’s well, a woman approached to draw water. In the ensuing
encounter, Jesus revealed to the woman that he was the Messiah that she expected
to come, as she realized that the Christ would be able to tell all things when
he came, and that salvation was of the Jews.
John
4:5-14 Then cometh he
(Jesus) to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel
of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus
therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was
about the sixth hour. There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith
unto her, Give me to drink. (For his disciples were gone away unto the city
to buy meat.) Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou,
being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have
no dealings with the Samaritans. 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 saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep:
from whence then hast thou that living water? Art thou greater than our father
Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and
his cattle? esus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water
shall thirst again: 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.
The “woman at the well” drank from the fountain of the water
of eternal life that day. And Jesus, by meeting her at Jacob’s well, also
demonstrated that salvation was available to the Samaritans, and to all other
nationalities, and that the salvation of the Jews came by way of himself, as He
was manifest in the flesh as the “Branch” that grew out of the roots of Israel,
and became a light unto the Gentiles.
Isaiah 11:1-10 And there shall come forth a rod out of
the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: And the spirit of
the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit
of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord; And
shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord: and he shall not
judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his
ears: But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity
for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his
mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. And
righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of
his reins. The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie
down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and
a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young
ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the
sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put
his hand on the cockatrice' den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy
mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the
waters cover the sea. And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which
shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his
rest shall be glorious.
The flood of blood opened in the body of Jesus Christ on
Calvary opened a wellspring of life. From this wellspring God avails salvation,
free to all who wish to partake and it comes straight from the eternally flowing
River of Life in Heaven.
Proverbs
14:26-27 In the fear
of the Lord is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.
The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of
death.
Revelation 21:6-7And
he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end.
I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall
be my son.
Psalms 36:7-9
How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put
their trust under the shadow of thy wings. They shall be abundantly satisfied
with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of
thy pleasures. For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light
shall we see light.
Revelation 22:16-17
I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.
I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star. 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.
Revelation 1:5
And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of
the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved
us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
Revelation 22:1
And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out
of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
But, like the old saying goes; ”you can lead a horse to
water, but you can’t make him drink.” Why would anyone refuse to drink from
the Fountain of Life? Unfortunately, men love darkness rather than light, and
are addicted to the wine of this present world. Mankind is in a drunken stupor
from partaking of the intoxicating strong drink that Satan continually entices
people with. The world continues unabashedly during the black darkness of the
earth’s long night (spiritual darkness) night to be drunken, and it by nature
disdains the idea of taking on a life of soberness and taking upon themselves
the breastplate of faith and righteousness. (I Thessalonians 5:7-9)
John 7:38
If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as
the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
Focus on Jerusalem Prophecy Ministry
The Fountain of Life
By: Darrell G. Young
February, 2006
