The Importance of Wells in the Bible

All right, let's pray. Father, thank you for the opportunity to serve you. We thank you, God, for your word. We thank you, God, that we are so excited to learn more about you in the water of your word. We ask that you would expose and expunge and teach us your ways, your statutes, and give us life, take away death, give us joy and not sadness, and everybody said... Turn with me to Exodus chapter 20, excuse me, chapter 2, verse 15. I'm going to read this for you as we discover the ancient mystery of the well. I'm going to take you back in time, and I'm going to show you how powerful of an instrument that this is, that the Creator, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob used, and we're going to see some connections on how it relates to our life. How many believe that God puts everything in the Bible for a reason? Nothing is there without a reason. That's exactly right. We're going to do that. So let's begin in Exodus chapter 2, verse 15. It says this, When Pharaoh heard of this matter, he sought to kill Moses. This is the time where Moses is about ready to... take on his mission. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh and dwelt in the land of Midian. And he sat down by what? A well. What I want to point out here in Exodus chapter 2 is the beginning of Moses's journey. happened with something significant of chaos in his life, a traumatic moment where he thought he was going, he knew he was in big trouble. He had killed a man, he fled into the wilderness, and then he sat down by a well. Moses'entire life begins, his mission begins at a well. I want to show you this. Everything, it seems in the Bible significant, started with an encounter at a well. One, Rebecca was chosen for Isaac by a well. Jacob met Rachel at a well. Moses met Zipporah at a well. Hagar was visited by an angel at a well. Joseph's entire journey to power started when he was thrown into a well. And incredibly, Jesus, Yeshua, met the Samaritan woman at the well. And not just any well. We're going to find out exactly what well it was. Because it doesn't say... I mean, it says, but we read right past it, we don't know the significance of what that well actually was. There's a prophetic, huge prophetic parallel to Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well. All these incredible things happen at a well. I want to ask, why? Why not meet at the local Hebrew diner? But they're meeting at a well. There's a significant reason behind this. So I'm just going to go through a few things. Wells were the sustainer of life in the ancient Middle East. They lived pretty much in a desert. Everywhere you went was desert. I mean, there's mountains, there's hills, there's valleys, but for the most part, the most significant thing that kept you alive was a well. If you didn't live by fresh water, a well was your only sustenance for life. So everything revolved around the well. Wells spoke of access and supply. You see, when you are connected to a well, you have access to something. You have access to life. There is a supply of life that never ends when you have access to a well. Amazingly, though, unfortunately, wells were the... Focus of an enemy attack. Now why would that be? Because if the well is the access for life, and it's the sustenance for life, and your entire family's existence revolves around it, then it makes perfect sense that an enemy would focus their attention on hijacking the well. I'm going to suggest to you right off the bat That the well is the word of God. It is the water that comes from underneath the earth. You can't see it, you don't know where it comes from, but it just shows up and it's all the way in the bottom and you can't see the bottom of it, but it's dark down there, but it's pure water from the well. And the enemy knows it's the sustenance of your life. He knows it's your power supply. He knows that the entire village depends on it. He knows that everything that you cook, what you drink, the... 70% of your body is made up of water. If he can remove the water of the well or pollute that cistern, you die. And at the very least, you'll be poisoned. And I believe that this is exactly what the enemy did. Thousands of years ago, from the beginning... of God's people being introduced to this new God called Yahweh, the enemy has been trying to attack the water in the well. How do we know that? Because the enemies of Israel would attack the well. If you can cut off the well, you just sit out there and play dice in the desert and the people will eventually shrivel up and die. And I suggest to you that there has been a famine Within God's people around the world, for about 1,700 years, the enemy has been trying to poison the well and steal the pure water of the Word. Amen? But see, the enemy is smart enough in America to know that we're a little bit more educated than most. So the first world countries, he does things a little bit differently. In third world countries, he just shows up. Witchcraft, warlocks. demons, it's real. But in first world countries, he's figured us out a little bit. So he boils us like a frog in the water just a little bit at a time, just poisoned a little bit at a time. Oh, they can keep some of the water of the word. Let's keep this part kind of pure. But let's add this tradition here that comes from something that God hates and just add a little bit at a time. So by the time their stomachs get used to the poison, they won't realize that the water that they're drinking is downstream and it's affecting every fiber and cell and DNA strand in their body. It's changing them. And that's where we've been. We've been drinking from the well of man. Do you know the difference between a cistern and a well? A well has water that's coming from the earth, from underneath. Where a cistern can be from rainwater, it can be from a river, and it goes into a man-made compartment, above ground or underground. And underground, they were made of stone and then plastered. And so when the Bible says in Jeremiah that God's people were drinking from broken cisterns, when you break a cistern, the water leaks out. So you go there and there's almost nothing there. You have a little bit of trickle on the bottom. And I'm going to suggest to you that what we've been doing for literally 1,700 years, and the reason why I say that is because that's when everything began to fall apart within traditional, authentic, raw Christianity, which none of us have even entered into. When the Roman church began to bend us away from the roots that went into the well and got their nourishment from the well. We began to build cisterns. And so now we go down in the cistern and we play in a little bit of water. We say, oh, the power of God, the power of God. Can I say something out loud? We don't even know what that looks like. Because that cistern, we've never seen it full. You're not supposed to be walking in the bottom of a cistern. You should be drowning if you go to the bottom of a cistern. The enemy... Wants to destroy the well. God wants you to meet him at the well. Brides and bridegrooms meet at a well. Young people, if you want to get married, what you should do is hang out by the well. You get into the Word of God, you focus on the Word of God, and you find yourself a mate by just looking into the well. Turn your back on the well and start looking at all the beautiful women that's coming to the well, and you'll miss your mate. Because when Eleazar came from Abraham to find the bride, she was at the well. Not at the playground. She was at the well. So let me just speak to the young people for just a minute. There's only two birds in my universe, and I teach my kids this. You're either a starling. Parents, you know what starlings are, the most annoying bird. And how do they fly? In herds of a million. And they're just flying like a cloud. It's kind of cool. And the other day, not the other day, a few months ago, I was watching these starlings from my truck. It was fascinating. They're like just a giant black cloud in the sky, and they're just all over the place. And when one moves, all of them move. It's how in the world do they do that? I have no idea. But they're all just following each other, and they did all this, and they came off the power lines, and they're doing all this, and they ended up right down 20 feet from where they started. They did nothing. Sounds like teenagers, doesn't it? You send them to the room to clean the room two hours later you go up there. There's like three toys put away What in the world you do? So you got starlings that follow everyone else with the wind they just go wherever they want to go and adults We do the same thing too because we were trained as teenagers to follow But I teach my kids you have a choice You can be a starling, and you can follow the world, you can follow your friends, you can say, oh, I think this is okay, that's okay, and it might be okay, but starlings can fly too, but there's a difference between a nine-inch wingspan and a six-foot wingspan of an eagle. You want to be a starling? All they do is go about 50 foot above the power lines and poop everywhere. But a bald eagle flies alone and sometimes it's not fun. And young people, sometimes it's not fun to go against the crowd when someone's making a coarse joke. Someone's doing something on their phone that they shouldn't be doing. You're in a friend group and something happens and no one says anything. Let me tell you something. Parents, please clap if you agree with this. But if you don't say something when one of your friends does something wrong, you're a starling. It is your responsibility to say, hey guys, I don't think that's okay. I don't think we need to go in that direction. You know what that is? That's an eagle. And every one of you are contagious. Adults, you too. You want to be an eagle? You want to be contagious in the right way? When you stand up for righteousness, someone's going to respect you in the moment. I told my daughter this today. The moment you step out from the group, you self-differentiate. You become the eagle. Now you're showing them what an eagle looks like. And someone, maybe not all, maybe some will make fun, but someone is going to be inspired to get off the power line and get on the line of power and be an eagle. The problem with wells, though, is they have to be dug. Turn with me to Genesis chapter 21, verse 30 and 32. It says this, And he said, You will take these seven ewe lambs from my hand. That they may be my witness, I'll explain in a minute, that I have dug this well. Therefore he called that place Beersheba because the two of them swore an oath there. Okay, so here we go. We've got King Amalek and we've got Abraham. There's a giant disagreement between his people and Abraham's people because Abraham dug this well and there is, and the Philistine people that kind of work for Amalek, these soldiers are trying to take it over. So Abraham brings seven lambs to Amalek and says, look, Abimelech, I think, actually, I keep saying Amalek, I think it's Abimelech. And he says, we need to make a treaty. I'm the one who dug this well. And I guarantee you that some of it was more subconscious because Abraham had an army. He could whoop this king if he wanted to. But he chose not to use his force. He chose instead to make a covenant with the king. He brings seven lambs, says, here's the deal. This is what we're going to do. He's telling the king what he's going to do. We're going to make a covenant. This is my will. And he called it Be'er Sheba. Now what's fascinating about the word Be'er Sheba, and all of you likely have heard that word, it's made up of two Hebrew words. Be'er, which means... well, and Sheba, which literally means sevens. Be'er means well. Sheba means oath or covenant, but really it doesn't. It's fascinating in Hebrew because the word Sheba literally means seven, which is where we get Shavuot from. Shava, seven. Ot is the suffix that makes it plural. So Shavuot, or better known in Greek as Pentecost, is the feast. of the sevens. Seven what? Weeks. Seven weeks. From first fruits to Pentecost, 49 days, 50th day, we have a big party. Holy Spirit came down that day. In here, Abraham, by a well, gives seven lambs and ends up calling the well, the well of the sevens. Or if I could say it correctly, they got sevened. That's actually how they would say it. And what that means to us, which is why they translate it as oath or covenant, is they got covenant. They made covenant or they cut covenant. And how they did that? With seven. Why seven? Because seven in Hebrew numerology means perfection, but we know that. Seven is perfection, six is the number of man, eight is the number of new beginnings, which is why there's 7,000 years of mankind, 6,000 of man on earth, 1,000 of the millennial reign of Christ, a day is 1,000 years. The entire timeline of man on this earth is the creation week. Man is created on the sixth day. There's six days of creation. God rests on the seventh. Wow, that's amazing. On the seventh millennium of earth, God comes again and rests his people on the Shabbat. The very Shabbat that we've been told in Christianity for 1,800 years that we don't need to do, it's done away with, but God comes back and rests on it again. And then says, by the way, if you don't come up to Jerusalem on the Feast of Tabernacles, I'm going to cut off rain in your land. The point is that when we make a covenant with God happening at a well, we become sevened. We become part of the eternal timeline of rest in God's kingdom. You're entering into shalom when you enter into covenant at a well. This is why you cannot get to God through anything else. Nothing else. Except for the well water. And the well water is Yeshua himself. When you enter into that and drink of his water, you get sevened. You get covenant. You get an oath is made. You've been wrapped in the talisman. of Rabbi Yeshua. And now you follow him with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength. You know what one of the biggest problems we have in religion today, religion being the umbrella of Christianity as a religion in the 45,000 different denominations, is everybody decides whatever's right in their own eyes. There's no standard. So the Pentecostals say this, the Catholics say this, the Baptists say this, the Nazarenes say this. Low here is Christ, low here is Christ. But there's no standard for what's right or wrong. We've got homosexual churches coming into Christianity, twisting the scriptures and throwing out what they don't want. I'm sorry if you don't like it. God said homosexuals, drunkards, those that are perverse will not enter the kingdom of heaven. Period. You can cancel me off YouTube. I'm just quoting scripture. I don't care. But God loves them. Amen? He loves the drunkard because, by the way, it doesn't isolate the homosexual. They're all in line. Sin is sin, amen? I'm not the judge, but God says this isn't good for you. You might say, well, this is how I am. No, this is the result of the background of the hurt of your life and a decaying earth from sin of Adam, 6,000 years of sin, is bringing us to a point of perversity. God loves the sinner, but he does not accept them into his kingdom for eternity. It is a perversion of the truth. Is it okay to speak the truth in here? We cannot create a well and say this is from God and drink from it and create our own Torah. Around it. This is what the Pharisees did. They created their own well, and they said, this is our exclusive club. Everyone drink from here, or you're not in our club. Baptists create their club. Everybody's got their club. I'm here to tell you there's only one club, and it's the hand of the judgment seat of Christ on judgment day. And he judges by one law. And one law only. And does he love? Absolutely. But you know how he defines love? First John chapter 5 says, here is those who love God. Listen carefully. Those who keep his commandments. Parents, how do you know when your kids love you? When they decide to say, you know what, mom, I know that you say that, you know, I can't date until I'm 18 or I can't get married till I'm 52. I know that you have these rules. And I know I'm only seven, but I'm going out by myself with my girlfriend. And we decided we're going to drive to Colorado on our bikes and spend the weekend there. Imagine a child telling a parent, I'm making a set of my own rules. I know those are your rules, and that's what you believe it works for you, and I'm so glad it works for you, but your rules ain't working for me. I'm creating my own well. Here's the way my dad put it. Anybody else out there had a dad that'd say this? Son, understand what you're saying. I respect what you're saying, but if you want to live in my house, What's the rest of it go? You got to play by my rules. So it's your call. Well, the moment that he put it in that language, I'm like, well, your rules aren't too bad. I mean, it's not bad. I might be able to do that. I can do the dishes, I guess. Sleeping outside was not exactly something I was excited about. The point is, is that Abraham had to dig a well. You gotta dig a well. You can't feed off of somebody else's well. The most powerful well that will sustain you for life is the one that you dig. And how many feel like you've been digging in the sand for a long time? My Bible tells me that if you seek, you will find. But the first thing you've got to do is recognize that the water is not yours. You don't get to say what the water is. You don't get to say what the rules are. You don't get to agree or disagree with God. Because I can tell you right now that when you die on Judgment Day, when you stand before Him, you won't be standing. There's a reason why He says every knee will bow. The atheist is not going to have a choice. Because the cells in their body will recognize where they came from and the cells themselves will force him to the ground The inner man that's dead will come alive and the outer man will be submitted to the inner man and the atheist won't know why He's licking dirt Listen the well is for generations When you dig a well, I'm not playing with my kids. I Didn't have kids just to make good family pictures I want to raise giant killers. I want to raise bald eagles that soar and make a difference for the kingdom of God. And that means that I've got to dig a well for my family because a well that's dug properly will last for generations. Check this out. Genesis chapter 1, verse 21, 31. Abraham dug a well at Beersheba. Genesis 26, 23 to 25, I was going to go through all these, but you can look them up later on your own time. Isaac had a vision there. Abraham's son has a vision at the well that Abraham dug. Wow! Your children are going to be on your back, developing their walk with God and having encounters with God at your well. What are you drinking from? They will have an encounter at whatever you're drinking from. What do you consider life? That's your well. Is it modern pop culture? Is it entertainment? Are you out of balance and put a focus on the worldly world? My friends, I'm sorry for being like a pastor mode, but I can't even consume the thought that Christians are going to Taylor Swift concerts. A witch professed on stage. And Christians are drinking from that well. And then they want to come home and play church. Don't tell me that you love the Lord God and sit at the feet of his enemy and drink from the water of that poison well. We are to be set apart, ladies and gentlemen. Genesis chapter 46 verse 1 says, When Jacob went to Beersheba to offer sacrifices on the altar that his father built, he had a vision. Unbelievable! Abraham builds a well. Isaac has a vision. Jacob has a vision at the same well. We're three generations now. All from Abraham building a well, digging a well. And unbelievable when we get to John 4. We discover that Yeshua is meeting the woman at the same well. Thousands of years later, this well is being visited by the Messiah. Wells are important. Family wells are important. That's why the Shabbat is so critical. That table is the opening of our well. When we sit around that table, it's a well. What's in it? What's on it? Light, bread, juice, food, sustenance. We're consuming around this well. It's becoming generation after generation a blessing. Yeshua met the woman at Jacob's well. I find that incredibly fascinating. Can I ask a question? What happens if Abraham doesn't build the well? If he doesn't get his shovel out and dig that well? If he doesn't fight for the well that he dug because the enemy tried to take it and then offer peace with the understanding that I'm making covenant with this king because this is my well? In Abraham's bosom was his children, his grandchildren, and you. Abraham digs a well. You are the benefactor. You see, one of the things that we don't have in America, and Steve Penny, who is teaching our financial classes here in the afternoon, he will tell you this. We haven't even talked about this, but being a former financial consultant, I can tell you that we don't create legacy in America. We consume everything for ourselves, but we don't create a legacy. What's a legacy? That I'm pulling back from my consumption to leave more to the next generation who then builds upon that with the principles that I teach them so that they leave a head start and no one's starting off at zero. There's a financial legacy. By the third generation, there's millions of dollars that are there to get them to a place where they need to be. And that's a financial well. That's how the spiritual world works. What's the spiritual legacy that you're leaving? Because I'm promising you, your children are drinking from what's important to you. If they see you doing this and doing that, unbelievable. I meet kids all the time that have the very similar interest of their parents, and I don't understand it. Why do these kids love these movies? And these kids love these movies, and amazingly, their parents like the same thing. They're feeding from the same trough. They're drinking from the same well. But is it the waters of life? And I'm not saying it's evil. I'm saying there's good, better, and best. When your kids get by, they'll get by. Do you want your kids to get by? Do you want them to wander around in the wilderness like starlings, following every wind of doctrine? Or do you want them to be eagles? People come up to me all the time. RJ texted me today. Most amazing audio. It almost brought me to tears. He's told me before, I've worked with thousands of kids, I've never seen kids like yours. People tell me that all the time. We'll go to restaurants and waitresses will say, I've never seen this before. I've never seen kids like this. How do you have six kids and then behave like this? And our first response is, well, first of all, we threaten them far more when we're outside than we do inside. No. It's real simple. It's not us only. We're simply drinking from a well that my mom dug. And I dug it deeper. And when your kids see miracles before their eyes, they're not turning around. I could take, I don't have my kids in public school, but I could take all of them, especially my youngest, Selah. I pity the fool that messed with Selah. She'd be coming up to me all the time, Dad, that girl right there, she's dressed in modest. What do we do? Her shirt's too tight, I can see her chest, and if I can see it, every boy in this place sees it. I don't mean to totally embarrass her, but she has an ethical temperature barometer about her of godliness. And she's not afraid. She's a 12-year-old eagle in preparation to lead eagles. Because if at 12 you can have an ethical boundary to notice things that are not okay, what happens at 22? 32? 42, leading an international ministry. I don't know what God has for her. But we need to be thinking beyond ourselves. When you're fighting with your spouse in the middle of the afternoon in the living room, they're drinking from that well. I'm guilty of it too, but it ought not to be that way. Can we show Jacob's well, please? This is a picture, an actual archaeological picture of Jacob's well. You can't even see the bottom of this well. I believe if I recall, my number's right, it's like 155 feet deep. Drop, splash. What happens if they dig this well and they stop finding it? It's just too much work. There's no water in the well. I'm telling you, God has called you to dig. But don't stop digging. Don't stop trying. Don't stop the motivation of your heart to meet God because I'm telling you, you're going to meet him at the bottom of that well. Just ask Joseph. Joseph's entire journey starts at the bottom of a well that he didn't ask to be thrown into. But if Joseph doesn't find himself at the bottom of a well, he doesn't find himself on the Ishmaelite bandwagon, and he doesn't find himself inside of a... a military commander's house and he doesn't find himself in prison and he doesn't find himself as second command in all of Egypt and a prototype, the only prototype outside of King David that is the perfect prototype for the Messiah that would come. How would you like to have a resume like that? But it starts off in the bottom of a well. Some of you feel like you're in the bottom of a well. Maybe you're the prototype of the Messiah in the making. Have you considered Or let me just say, consider getting rid of the American Christian mentality that blessing looks like prosperity. Because sometimes the greatest blessing is the curse that you seem to find yourself in at the moment. And sometimes the greatest curse is the blessing that you don't even know you missed. Because the difference between a starling and an eagle is almost six feet, but hundreds of feet in the air, where you get to see so much more. Because you know what the starlings are looking at? Have you ever discovered why or wonder why they're so amazing? Acrobats, you think they're acrobats? No, they're just looking at the bird next to them. And as soon as they feel and see them leaning, they lean. If one of them decides to buck the system, they all fall to the ground, I would imagine. I'm asking you, no, God is asking you tonight, buck the system. God's people have been going in the wrong direction for 40 years. Can I say that prophetically? We've been in the desert for 40 years. Some of you have been years since you've been connected to God. God's calling you out. A young man came to me tonight that I just met, and he said that God gave him a prophetic word through somebody that he was a priest. He said, what does that mean? I said, we don't have five hours. But God is calling priests. You know why the Levites became the Levites? Because at the base of Mount Sinai, they're waiting for 40 days. They're like, what in the world? Moses is gone. He ain't never coming back. We lost our mediator between God and us. We know we have to have a mediator. We can't go directly to God. We learned that in Egypt. So let's build this golden calf, and maybe God will speak to us through the golden calf. That's why Aaron said, take all the gold off your earrings that we plundered the Egyptians with. Let's make a golden calf. Tomorrow will be a feast of Yahweh. From their intentions, they were doing the right thing. But from God's perspective, he looks down and says, Mo, get out of my way, I'm killing every one of them. They're in idolatry. Two perspectives in life, God's and ours. This is what's messed up in the church today. And I'm not picking on the church, I'm just saying exactly what Jesus did. In the first century, what did Paul say? What did Jesus say? My church is messed up. They're drinking from the wrong well. They're making golden idols, but they don't know it's a golden idol. The Israelites didn't know. This is just what they learned. They thought this was how they're going to get connected to God again. God brings them out there. Moses goes up. He disappears. They have no, God's not talking. Let's get him to talk. This is how we do it. And today in Christianity, in our individual lives, we're trying to get God to talk, but we're doing it the wrong way. Because we don't know the ancient paths. We've got to go back to the well. You know what we're doing? The water starts in the mountain. The spring comes out of the mountain. And we're drinking downstream of the cattle that's upstream. And we go, you see it's brown water. But you grew up drinking brown water. Nobody told you why the water's brown. Until somebody decided to go, you know what? I think there's better water out there. I read in a book that the water is not supposed to, you're supposed to see through the water in your glass. I don't see through the water in the glass. Somebody found the ancient manual of how to drink water and what it should look like, and the manual said you're supposed to see the bottom of the glass. And the manual says if you don't see the bottom of the glass, you're drinking too far downstream, take a right walk. So the guy goes, he's dumb enough to go, okay, well, my ancestors didn't do this, but I'm just going to keep walking. Brown, brown, brown, a little less brown. Interesting. He passes cattle and he goes, huh. He sees somebody do something in the water and goes, I wonder, oh, that's why the water's brown. But he keeps walking and eventually gets to the place where it's crystal clear. He begins to drink from the water upstream. And you know what happens on the inside? He starts to get healed automatically. Different diseases, bacterias are not showing up in his bloodstream. anymore on a physical level. He begins to have more strength. He feels something different. So he decides to camp out here and he builds a little cistern from the clean water, raises a family, and somehow these kids are stronger, brighter, faster than the ones miles downstream. Where do you want to raise your kids? Downstream or upstream? John chapter 4 verse 1 through 6, let's read it together, would you please? It says, Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus, therefore, being wearied, from his journey sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour. I find that so amazingly. Let's read the rest of that. Where was I? John chapter 4. And let's just keep reading. So Numbers chapter verse 7. A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, give me a drink. For his disciples, now you guys all know this story, but you're about to see a new twist. For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. Then the woman of Samaria said to him, How is it that you, being a Jew, asked a drink from me? A Samaritan woman. Who's a Samaritan woman? These were the people from the northern kingdom of Israel, the ten tribes of Israel that had mixed with the nations. And remember, Jeroboam. When the tribes, the ten tribes split away from the two tribes in the south and the two kingdoms were created, Jeroboam said, hey, I don't want you guys going down to Jerusalem to worship, so we're going to create two altars, two tabernacles at Bethel and Dan, and that's where we're going to worship. And that's why the Samaritan woman says, well, our fathers say that we were supposed to worship here, and Jesus said, well, you kind of got it wrong. It's supposed to be down here. So let's just keep reading, see what happens. How is it that you, a Jew, ask him to drink for me, a Samaritan woman, because the Jews look at the Samaritans as mixed breeds? And they were. For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. Jesus answered and said to her, if you knew the gift of God and who is it that says to you, give me a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water. The woman said to him, sir, you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where then do you get that living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob who gave us this well and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock? Jesus answered and said to her, whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I'm going to give will never thirst, but the water that I shall give him will become in him like a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life. Then the woman said to him, Give me this water that I may not thirst nor come here to draw. Now something fascinating about the woman at the well, this is the sixth hour. The sixth hour in Hebrew time, Israelite time, this is 12 o'clock noon. You don't go to the well at 12 o'clock noon. And this is a huge twist to the story. Because they always came to the well in the freshness of the morning or the evening. You don't go to a well in 98 degree weather in the middle of the afternoon. So by the mere fact that she's the only one at the well tells us something significant. She is an outcast because she would not have been allowed to be with the other women at the well. When Isaac, excuse me, when Abraham sent his servant to go find a bride for his son, guess what? There's all kinds of women at the well in the beginning of the day. But she's not allowed because she's an outcast. Likely because she was, because she had so many husbands and so much sexual immorality, she was shunned and prevented from going to the well. So she doesn't want to come to the well because the only time she gets to go to the well in the middle of the desert is when it's 100 degrees outside. So she says, give me this water. How many of you feel like outcasts in your life? God is the only one. Yeshua is the only one. His well is the only one that never runs dry. Now turn with me to Isaiah chapter 12 to see the connection. Because Isaiah 12 goes like this, and in that day you will say, Oh Lord. I praise you, though you were angry with me, your anger is turned away and you comfort me. Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust and not be afraid. For Yah, the Yahweh, is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. Therefore, with joy, you will draw water from the wells of salvation. What did Yeshua just say? I am the well of salvation. If you drink of me, you will never be thirsty again. And he says, praise the Lord, call upon his name, declare his deeds among the peoples, make mention that his name is exalted, sing to the Lord for he has done excellent things. This is known in all the earth. Cry out and shout, O inhabitants of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel in your midst. This chapter, whether you know it or not, is very, very, very important during the feast of Sukkot and ancient Israel because every single day they read this entire chapter. when they did the water libation ceremony. What's the water libation ceremony? The water libation ceremony, because all of Israel depended on water, is they would go down to the Pool of Siloam. You might be familiar with it. It's the Pool of Siloam. But they go down to the Pool of Siloam, and the priests, with grace, bands and instruments and singers would grab the water from the pool of Siloam and they would go parade it all the way up the Ophel to the stairs to the temple. They would come over to the altar and there was two grooves on the side of the altar. One was for blood and one was for water. And they would take it. water, and they would, from the pool of Siloam, they would take the blood in symbolism of wine, and they would pour them down the side of the altar at the same time. The orifice of the one that held the blood was thicker than the one with the water, because water is thinner. And incredibly, they had figured out engineer. Wise that when they would pour them simultaneously at the same time, they would arrive at the bottom of this giant altar at the same time and go into the bowl, drip at the same time. In the same way, in the ninth hour, when the Messiah was hanging on the cross and they took a spear and they put it into his side, what came out? Blood and water flowed together. down the side of the most important altar this world has ever seen. So when we come to John chapter 4, verse 23 and 24, they'll put this up for you. It says, But the hour is coming, and now is when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such to worship him. Not spirit only, love only. We love each other. We love each other. Love is the most amazing thing. As long as you love everybody, God's happy with you. Nope. sorry, love has to be connected to his definition of love, and it has to be connected to truth, or you're not a true worshiper. I met sex offenders in prison that molested three-year-olds, and they said it was just mutual. It was love. Wrong definition of love landed you in jail. In the same way God says, you don't get to make the definition of love. I'm the one that's love. I get to make the definition. If you don't like it, that's fine. But if you want to hit your full potential and live in my kingdom for all eternity, you need to know my definition. Amen? So watch this. They're going to show you this on the screen. But the word Torah, which means instructions, It actually comes from the Hebrew word yara. And I wish I had a bucket to do this with because the people in the front row would love me for this. But the word Torah, the root word is yara, and the word literally means to throw water on someone. So you see, when you come to the well, and you're dry, and you don't know what's going on, when someone's sleeping, what's the fastest way to wake them up? Throw water on them. You see, that's what I'm doing. My daughter thinks I'm spitting on her. I'm giving the water of the word. And it wakes them up every time. The water wakes people up. Do it in love, but the water wakes people up. The difference between a spring and a river, you know what it is? A river can be polluted by men because it comes from without. But a spring is pure because it comes from within. Unfortunately, some leaders take the spring water and create their own river. And this is why we want to go upstream. This is why the scriptures talk about... The spring that comes from within you. Numbers chapter 21 says this in verse 16. In following it says, From there they went to Be'er, which is the well, where the Lord said to Moses, Gather the people together and I will give them water. Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well. O well. All of you sing to it. The well that the princes made, that the nobles of the people dug, with the scepter and with their staffs, and from the wilderness they went on to Matanah. You see, what's fascinating, if you know anything about some of the culture here, is it doesn't say, like, with the shovel that you bought from Home Depot. It says this. It says that the nobles... The noblemen dug the well with their scepter and with their staffs. They didn't use the scepter and the staff, their authority to beat their people into submission. They were using the scepter and their authority to dig a well. This is my whole entire motivation for helping you drink from the well of Sukkot is building a well. This is nothing but our team digging a well for you and your children. We're digging a well and we do it all year for one eight-day feast so that you can come and drink and experience the power of God. What are you using your authority for, parents? Me and my wife see parents every day make the mistake of dropping the hammer. With their authority, they're going to make their kids obey. Oh, you can for a while. How many had abusive fathers in the house? And they used their authority. Oh, they used their scepter. I led a guy to Christ not too long ago, and he literally said, my dad beat me with a baseball bat. His mother, one time at eight years old, waterboarded him in the front yard because of disobedience. He had to do push-ups as she shoved a hose in his mouth. His wife grew up where her father picked her up in the front yard. They did it in public on purpose in the neighborhood, the rough neighborhood that they were in, by her throat. And we'd drop her to the floor and then pick her up again by her throat until she almost passed out. When they got saved and they came to our house, it was the first time that either one of them had ever been to dinner at someone's house. where there wasn't a drug party. We're helping them dig a new well. Revelation 22, one, we're almost finished. He showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God. and of the Lamb. Guys, this whole concept of water and wells and springs, it pervades Scripture from Genesis to Revelation. The very last chapter of the Bible is built around a river of life that's Crystal clear. Do you think that the author is giving description for no reason? It's crystal clear. He's trying to give a message. There's nothing in it but purity. And it's proceeding from what? The throne of God. If you dig deep enough, you walk far enough, you'll be alone. You'll be an eagle. But every step, your scepter gets taller and thicker. He gives you more authority because the more strength of the water of his word that's in you, the more influence he will give you. And the greatest influence you could ever have is senior citizen, is parent, is with children and grandchildren. They don't know the difference. They're going to do what you teach them. And so you're promulgating your belief system, and I'm challenging you to say, are you sure you got it right? We don't let our kids listen to secular music. I'm sorry, call me overbearing, call me a control freak. My kids love God more than most kids. I'm sorry, not that they're not perfect. They make mistakes, but we learn through those mistakes. But I don't want them drinking from those wells. Oh, but dad, we've had these conversations. But dad, there's some good songs out there. Okay, that's great. You want to go to a buffet and you've got a good steak. You've got another thing that will give you some sort of disease and you want to just pick and choose? How about we just get rid of it and praise God the whole day? How about we just say, you know what, yeah, there's probably some good stuff out there, and this and that and the other, but how about we just be holy and set apart and be the Joshua and Caleb generation? Guys, I'm tired. I'm serious. I'm 50 years old. I've been doing this for almost 25 years, and I'm so tired of people telling me, well, my Bible says that I can do this. Or this is not that bad. Or it worked for me. Did you know that Paul said all things are permissible, but not everything's profitable? You know what he's talking about? Not all things are permissible. Sexual immorality is not permissible. He's talking about all things that God said that you can do are permissible. Let me blow your mind for a moment. From Paul's perspective, everything that God said that you can do is permissible, but not everything that God said that you can do is profitable in that moment. He said that a woman can be intimate with a man, but that doesn't mean that it's profitable when you're 13. So there are times, there's seasons, there's wells that you need to be at at certain times in your life. And one of the biggest problems that we have in the church today is we don't want to draw a line in the sand and just be holy. Oh, I don't want to be holier than thou. Trust me, you can't be holier than thou. But when I read my Bible, it says, be holy as I am holy. That means that you can. You can be different. There was a commercial back in the 80s for Arby's that said, different is good. Everybody say, different is good. It's okay to be different. God is different than all the other gods. This is a God who told the high priest to dress up in an outfit that some of us would go, this looks like a genie. This is a weird guy. He's got a turban on his head, a little crown and sash and weird looking chest plate. God likes different. He likes different. Young people, you don't have to be a starling. God likes different. He supports different. He gets behind different. He's looking for someone to say, God, I'll be that guy. As for me and my house, we're going to serve the Lord. You can serve the church. Like I said in a national debate once about the Sabbath. As my opponent quoted the church fathers non-stop, and I ended debate, and I didn't even know what I was saying, and it was just inspiration by God, and I said, Sir, you can follow the church fathers, but for me in my house, I'm going to follow the father of the church. Are you following the father of the church? Are you digging a well for your family each and every week? Are you living for God? Dad, you can't, you can't lead your children if you're addicted to pornography. You can't do it. You might say, my kids don't even know. You're digging a well that they're drinking from. It's spiritual well. So it doesn't matter if they see you. It's a spiritual well that their spirit is drinking from. The sins of the fathers. And he showed me a pure river of water of life, crystal clear, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb. And in the middle of the street and on either side of the river was a tree of life, which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. Ephesians 5 says that he might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of the water of the word. When you get in the river of God, it will heal everything about you. When you put aside American Christian, when you put aside your petty stuff and pursue God and get up in the morning and spend time with him and fast and pray, If you're not fasting twice a week, you're not even a normal Christian in the first century. Did you know that? Every Christian in the first century was fasting twice a week. Most of us in this room and across the country don't fast twice a year. You can't sin when you're fasting really hard, when you're denying your flesh at that level. Imagine the power of God that would enter your life if we start being like the first century Christians who gave up their material possessions. They didn't care. God says, don't come before me empty-handed. Don't come, he says, to my feast and come before me empty-handed. You've always got your hands up asking God for something. He said, one time a year I want you to come and I want you to give me something that costs you something. Don't reach in your pocket and give a dollar to God if you got seven million in the bank. That means nothing to God. That is not a, it's just an altar. You bring a sacrifice. You should feel it. When you're digging a water, a well for your family, you should feel the sacrifice of having to sit down and teach your children. Maybe you're not a teacher. You don't have to be. Lead them in the Shabbat and let them honor you by going, wow, dad is being a spiritual leader. Learn something. Do something. Get out a spoon if you have to and start just taking a little bit of sand at a time. You may not get to it in your lifetime, but your children will keep digging. And they will find it. And it will transform a generation. Amen? me please I'm gonna end by asking one single question what is your source of water what's in your well are you playing around your well What's coming through your eye gate? What's coming through your ear gate? What are you letting your kids do that you don't even know is digging a well that's mixing it with the traditions of men and with paganism but more importantly from the world because they got sprinklers out everywhere with poison water everywhere you go. And guys, we know this, man. We get so bombarded with impure things that are put before our eyes all the time. Facebook is listening to everything that you say and do. And up come the ads. Think of the prophetic implications. It's a fact. Just go to your phone and start talking about something and you will see ads for that within a week. Did you know the spiritual realm works the same way? Whatever you think, Dorcas, whatever you say, whatever you do, the enemy starts giving you ads. You start praising God every day. Turn off the secular radio stations. If I could have my way, I would wave my, what some people say is my control freak wand. But I'm telling you, as a leader, I get to see how the water gets diluted and people justify everything. And they wonder why they don't see the power of God. They wonder why they got anger inside of them, bitterness, because they're drinking from it. The water of the world. Put it aside. I challenge you right now for 30 days after Sukkot, stop listening to anything secular. I don't care if it's the Star Spangled Banger. Turn off your television. Oh my goodness, I just literally ticked people off right there. Put aside Facebook, your social media. I dare you for 30 days to fast twice a week and see what happens. You fast from all of your pop culture, from whatever, you have no idea how much life will come into your life when you take two days a week and fast, and those evenings you bring your family together, and you know what you do? We pray. I'll do it. Anybody want to do it with me? I'll do it right now. I'll do it. I'm not going to ask you to do something that I won't do. For 30 days, I'm going to fast twice a week. And my family's going to come together and we're going to pray. And we're going to pray for you. Let's be eagles and change the world.

We ask that you would expose and expunge and teach us your ways, your statutes, and give us life, take away death, give us joy and not sadness, and everybody said... Turn with me to Exodus chapter 20, excuse me, chapter 2, verse 15. I'm going to read this for you as we discover the ancient mystery of the well. I'm going to take you back in time, and I'm going to show you how powerful of an instrument that this is, that the Creator, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob used, and we're going to see some connections on how it relates to our life. How many believe that God puts everything in the Bible for a reason? Nothing is there without a reason.

That's exactly right. We're going to do that. So let's begin in Exodus chapter 2, verse 15. It says this, When Pharaoh heard of this matter, he sought to kill Moses. This is the time where Moses is about ready to... take on his mission.

But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh and dwelt in the land of Midian. And he sat down by what? A well. What I want to point out here in Exodus chapter 2 is the beginning of Moses's journey.

happened with something significant of chaos in his life, a traumatic moment where he thought he was going, he knew he was in big trouble. He had killed a man, he fled into the wilderness, and then he sat down by a well. Moses'entire life begins, his mission begins at a well. I want to show you this.

Everything, it seems in the Bible significant, started with an encounter at a well. One, Rebecca was chosen for Isaac by a well. Jacob met Rachel at a well.

Moses met Zipporah at a well. Hagar was visited by an angel at a well. Joseph's entire journey to power started when he was thrown into a well. And incredibly, Jesus, Yeshua, met the Samaritan woman at the well.

And not just any well. We're going to find out exactly what well it was. Because it doesn't say...

I mean, it says, but we read right past it, we don't know the significance of what that well actually was. There's a prophetic, huge prophetic parallel to Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well. All these incredible things happen at a well. I want to ask, why? Why not meet at the local Hebrew diner?

But they're meeting at a well. There's a significant reason behind this. So I'm just going to go through a few things. Wells were the sustainer of life in the ancient Middle East.

They lived pretty much in a desert. Everywhere you went was desert. I mean, there's mountains, there's hills, there's valleys, but for the most part, the most significant thing that kept you alive was a well. If you didn't live by fresh water, a well was your only sustenance for life. So everything revolved around the well.

Wells spoke of access and supply. You see, when you are connected to a well, you have access to something. You have access to life. There is a supply of life that never ends when you have access to a well. Amazingly, though, unfortunately, wells were the...

Focus of an enemy attack. Now why would that be? Because if the well is the access for life, and it's the sustenance for life, and your entire family's existence revolves around it, then it makes perfect sense that an enemy would focus their attention on hijacking the well.

I'm going to suggest to you right off the bat That the well is the word of God. It is the water that comes from underneath the earth. You can't see it, you don't know where it comes from, but it just shows up and it's all the way in the bottom and you can't see the bottom of it, but it's dark down there, but it's pure water from the well. And the enemy knows it's the sustenance of your life.

He knows it's your power supply. He knows that the entire village depends on it. He knows that everything that you cook, what you drink, the...

70% of your body is made up of water. If he can remove the water of the well or pollute that cistern, you die. And at the very least, you'll be poisoned. And I believe that this is exactly what the enemy did. Thousands of years ago, from the beginning...

of God's people being introduced to this new God called Yahweh, the enemy has been trying to attack the water in the well. How do we know that? Because the enemies of Israel would attack the well. If you can cut off the well, you just sit out there and play dice in the desert and the people will eventually shrivel up and die.

And I suggest to you that there has been a famine Within God's people around the world, for about 1,700 years, the enemy has been trying to poison the well and steal the pure water of the Word. Amen? But see, the enemy is smart enough in America to know that we're a little bit more educated than most.

So the first world countries, he does things a little bit differently. In third world countries, he just shows up. Witchcraft, warlocks. demons, it's real. But in first world countries, he's figured us out a little bit.

So he boils us like a frog in the water just a little bit at a time, just poisoned a little bit at a time. Oh, they can keep some of the water of the word. Let's keep this part kind of pure.

But let's add this tradition here that comes from something that God hates and just add a little bit at a time. So by the time their stomachs get used to the poison, they won't realize that the water that they're drinking is downstream and it's affecting every fiber and cell and DNA strand in their body. It's changing them.

And that's where we've been. We've been drinking from the well of man. Do you know the difference between a cistern and a well? A well has water that's coming from the earth, from underneath. Where a cistern can be from rainwater, it can be from a river, and it goes into a man-made compartment, above ground or underground.

And underground, they were made of stone and then plastered. And so when the Bible says in Jeremiah that God's people were drinking from broken cisterns, when you break a cistern, the water leaks out. So you go there and there's almost nothing there. You have a little bit of trickle on the bottom.

And I'm going to suggest to you that what we've been doing for literally 1,700 years, and the reason why I say that is because that's when everything began to fall apart within traditional, authentic, raw Christianity, which none of us have even entered into. When the Roman church began to bend us away from the roots that went into the well and got their nourishment from the well. We began to build cisterns. And so now we go down in the cistern and we play in a little bit of water. We say, oh, the power of God, the power of God.

Can I say something out loud? We don't even know what that looks like. Because that cistern, we've never seen it full. You're not supposed to be walking in the bottom of a cistern. You should be drowning if you go to the bottom of a cistern.

The enemy... Wants to destroy the well. God wants you to meet him at the well.

Brides and bridegrooms meet at a well. Young people, if you want to get married, what you should do is hang out by the well. You get into the Word of God, you focus on the Word of God, and you find yourself a mate by just looking into the well.

Turn your back on the well and start looking at all the beautiful women that's coming to the well, and you'll miss your mate. Because when Eleazar came from Abraham to find the bride, she was at the well. Not at the playground.

She was at the well. So let me just speak to the young people for just a minute. There's only two birds in my universe, and I teach my kids this. You're either a starling.

Parents, you know what starlings are, the most annoying bird. And how do they fly? In herds of a million. And they're just flying like a cloud.

It's kind of cool. And the other day, not the other day, a few months ago, I was watching these starlings from my truck. It was fascinating. They're like just a giant black cloud in the sky, and they're just all over the place. And when one moves, all of them move.

It's how in the world do they do that? I have no idea. But they're all just following each other, and they did all this, and they came off the power lines, and they're doing all this, and they ended up right down 20 feet from where they started. They did nothing. Sounds like teenagers, doesn't it?

You send them to the room to clean the room two hours later you go up there. There's like three toys put away What in the world you do? So you got starlings that follow everyone else with the wind they just go wherever they want to go and adults We do the same thing too because we were trained as teenagers to follow But I teach my kids you have a choice You can be a starling, and you can follow the world, you can follow your friends, you can say, oh, I think this is okay, that's okay, and it might be okay, but starlings can fly too, but there's a difference between a nine-inch wingspan and a six-foot wingspan of an eagle. You want to be a starling?

All they do is go about 50 foot above the power lines and poop everywhere. But a bald eagle flies alone and sometimes it's not fun. And young people, sometimes it's not fun to go against the crowd when someone's making a coarse joke.

Someone's doing something on their phone that they shouldn't be doing. You're in a friend group and something happens and no one says anything. Let me tell you something.

Parents, please clap if you agree with this. But if you don't say something when one of your friends does something wrong, you're a starling. It is your responsibility to say, hey guys, I don't think that's okay. I don't think we need to go in that direction.

You know what that is? That's an eagle. And every one of you are contagious. Adults, you too.

You want to be an eagle? You want to be contagious in the right way? When you stand up for righteousness, someone's going to respect you in the moment. I told my daughter this today.

The moment you step out from the group, you self-differentiate. You become the eagle. Now you're showing them what an eagle looks like. And someone, maybe not all, maybe some will make fun, but someone is going to be inspired to get off the power line and get on the line of power and be an eagle. The problem with wells, though, is they have to be dug.

Turn with me to Genesis chapter 21, verse 30 and 32. It says this, And he said, You will take these seven ewe lambs from my hand. That they may be my witness, I'll explain in a minute, that I have dug this well. Therefore he called that place Beersheba because the two of them swore an oath there. Okay, so here we go.

We've got King Amalek and we've got Abraham. There's a giant disagreement between his people and Abraham's people because Abraham dug this well and there is, and the Philistine people that kind of work for Amalek, these soldiers are trying to take it over. So Abraham brings seven lambs to Amalek and says, look, Abimelech, I think, actually, I keep saying Amalek, I think it's Abimelech. And he says, we need to make a treaty. I'm the one who dug this well.

And I guarantee you that some of it was more subconscious because Abraham had an army. He could whoop this king if he wanted to. But he chose not to use his force. He chose instead to make a covenant with the king. He brings seven lambs, says, here's the deal.

This is what we're going to do. He's telling the king what he's going to do. We're going to make a covenant.

This is my will. And he called it Be'er Sheba. Now what's fascinating about the word Be'er Sheba, and all of you likely have heard that word, it's made up of two Hebrew words.

Be'er, which means... well, and Sheba, which literally means sevens. Be'er means well. Sheba means oath or covenant, but really it doesn't.

It's fascinating in Hebrew because the word Sheba literally means seven, which is where we get Shavuot from. Shava, seven. Ot is the suffix that makes it plural.

So Shavuot, or better known in Greek as Pentecost, is the feast. of the sevens. Seven what? Weeks. Seven weeks.

From first fruits to Pentecost, 49 days, 50th day, we have a big party. Holy Spirit came down that day. In here, Abraham, by a well, gives seven lambs and ends up calling the well, the well of the sevens.

Or if I could say it correctly, they got sevened. That's actually how they would say it. And what that means to us, which is why they translate it as oath or covenant, is they got covenant. They made covenant or they cut covenant. And how they did that?

With seven. Why seven? Because seven in Hebrew numerology means perfection, but we know that.

Seven is perfection, six is the number of man, eight is the number of new beginnings, which is why there's 7,000 years of mankind, 6,000 of man on earth, 1,000 of the millennial reign of Christ, a day is 1,000 years. The entire timeline of man on this earth is the creation week. Man is created on the sixth day. There's six days of creation.

God rests on the seventh. Wow, that's amazing. On the seventh millennium of earth, God comes again and rests his people on the Shabbat.

The very Shabbat that we've been told in Christianity for 1,800 years that we don't need to do, it's done away with, but God comes back and rests on it again. And then says, by the way, if you don't come up to Jerusalem on the Feast of Tabernacles, I'm going to cut off rain in your land. The point is that when we make a covenant with God happening at a well, we become sevened. We become part of the eternal timeline of rest in God's kingdom.

You're entering into shalom when you enter into covenant at a well. This is why you cannot get to God through anything else. Nothing else. Except for the well water.

And the well water is Yeshua himself. When you enter into that and drink of his water, you get sevened. You get covenant.

You get an oath is made. You've been wrapped in the talisman. of Rabbi Yeshua. And now you follow him with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength.

You know what one of the biggest problems we have in religion today, religion being the umbrella of Christianity as a religion in the 45,000 different denominations, is everybody decides whatever's right in their own eyes. There's no standard. So the Pentecostals say this, the Catholics say this, the Baptists say this, the Nazarenes say this. Low here is Christ, low here is Christ. But there's no standard for what's right or wrong.

We've got homosexual churches coming into Christianity, twisting the scriptures and throwing out what they don't want. I'm sorry if you don't like it. God said homosexuals, drunkards, those that are perverse will not enter the kingdom of heaven. Period. You can cancel me off YouTube.

I'm just quoting scripture. I don't care. But God loves them.

Amen? He loves the drunkard because, by the way, it doesn't isolate the homosexual. They're all in line.

Sin is sin, amen? I'm not the judge, but God says this isn't good for you. You might say, well, this is how I am.

No, this is the result of the background of the hurt of your life and a decaying earth from sin of Adam, 6,000 years of sin, is bringing us to a point of perversity. God loves the sinner, but he does not accept them into his kingdom for eternity. It is a perversion of the truth.

Is it okay to speak the truth in here? We cannot create a well and say this is from God and drink from it and create our own Torah. Around it. This is what the Pharisees did. They created their own well, and they said, this is our exclusive club.

Everyone drink from here, or you're not in our club. Baptists create their club. Everybody's got their club. I'm here to tell you there's only one club, and it's the hand of the judgment seat of Christ on judgment day. And he judges by one law.

And one law only. And does he love? Absolutely.

But you know how he defines love? First John chapter 5 says, here is those who love God. Listen carefully. Those who keep his commandments. Parents, how do you know when your kids love you?

When they decide to say, you know what, mom, I know that you say that, you know, I can't date until I'm 18 or I can't get married till I'm 52. I know that you have these rules. And I know I'm only seven, but I'm going out by myself with my girlfriend. And we decided we're going to drive to Colorado on our bikes and spend the weekend there.

Imagine a child telling a parent, I'm making a set of my own rules. I know those are your rules, and that's what you believe it works for you, and I'm so glad it works for you, but your rules ain't working for me. I'm creating my own well. Here's the way my dad put it. Anybody else out there had a dad that'd say this?

Son, understand what you're saying. I respect what you're saying, but if you want to live in my house, What's the rest of it go? You got to play by my rules. So it's your call.

Well, the moment that he put it in that language, I'm like, well, your rules aren't too bad. I mean, it's not bad. I might be able to do that. I can do the dishes, I guess.

Sleeping outside was not exactly something I was excited about. The point is, is that Abraham had to dig a well. You gotta dig a well. You can't feed off of somebody else's well. The most powerful well that will sustain you for life is the one that you dig.

And how many feel like you've been digging in the sand for a long time? My Bible tells me that if you seek, you will find. But the first thing you've got to do is recognize that the water is not yours.

You don't get to say what the water is. You don't get to say what the rules are. You don't get to agree or disagree with God. Because I can tell you right now that when you die on Judgment Day, when you stand before Him, you won't be standing. There's a reason why He says every knee will bow.

The atheist is not going to have a choice. Because the cells in their body will recognize where they came from and the cells themselves will force him to the ground The inner man that's dead will come alive and the outer man will be submitted to the inner man and the atheist won't know why He's licking dirt Listen the well is for generations When you dig a well, I'm not playing with my kids. I Didn't have kids just to make good family pictures I want to raise giant killers. I want to raise bald eagles that soar and make a difference for the kingdom of God. And that means that I've got to dig a well for my family because a well that's dug properly will last for generations.

Check this out. Genesis chapter 1, verse 21, 31. Abraham dug a well at Beersheba. Genesis 26, 23 to 25, I was going to go through all these, but you can look them up later on your own time.

Isaac had a vision there. Abraham's son has a vision at the well that Abraham dug. Wow!

Your children are going to be on your back, developing their walk with God and having encounters with God at your well. What are you drinking from? They will have an encounter at whatever you're drinking from. What do you consider life? That's your well.

Is it modern pop culture? Is it entertainment? Are you out of balance and put a focus on the worldly world? My friends, I'm sorry for being like a pastor mode, but I can't even consume the thought that Christians are going to Taylor Swift concerts.

A witch professed on stage. And Christians are drinking from that well. And then they want to come home and play church.

Don't tell me that you love the Lord God and sit at the feet of his enemy and drink from the water of that poison well. We are to be set apart, ladies and gentlemen. Genesis chapter 46 verse 1 says, When Jacob went to Beersheba to offer sacrifices on the altar that his father built, he had a vision.

Unbelievable! Abraham builds a well. Isaac has a vision. Jacob has a vision at the same well.

We're three generations now. All from Abraham building a well, digging a well. And unbelievable when we get to John 4. We discover that Yeshua is meeting the woman at the same well. Thousands of years later, this well is being visited by the Messiah.

Wells are important. Family wells are important. That's why the Shabbat is so critical. That table is the opening of our well.

When we sit around that table, it's a well. What's in it? What's on it?

Light, bread, juice, food, sustenance. We're consuming around this well. It's becoming generation after generation a blessing.

Yeshua met the woman at Jacob's well. I find that incredibly fascinating. Can I ask a question?

What happens if Abraham doesn't build the well? If he doesn't get his shovel out and dig that well? If he doesn't fight for the well that he dug because the enemy tried to take it and then offer peace with the understanding that I'm making covenant with this king because this is my well? In Abraham's bosom was his children, his grandchildren, and you. Abraham digs a well.

You are the benefactor. You see, one of the things that we don't have in America, and Steve Penny, who is teaching our financial classes here in the afternoon, he will tell you this. We haven't even talked about this, but being a former financial consultant, I can tell you that we don't create legacy in America. We consume everything for ourselves, but we don't create a legacy.

What's a legacy? That I'm pulling back from my consumption to leave more to the next generation who then builds upon that with the principles that I teach them so that they leave a head start and no one's starting off at zero. There's a financial legacy. By the third generation, there's millions of dollars that are there to get them to a place where they need to be.

And that's a financial well. That's how the spiritual world works. What's the spiritual legacy that you're leaving? Because I'm promising you, your children are drinking from what's important to you.

If they see you doing this and doing that, unbelievable. I meet kids all the time that have the very similar interest of their parents, and I don't understand it. Why do these kids love these movies? And these kids love these movies, and amazingly, their parents like the same thing.

They're feeding from the same trough. They're drinking from the same well. But is it the waters of life?

And I'm not saying it's evil. I'm saying there's good, better, and best. When your kids get by, they'll get by.

Do you want your kids to get by? Do you want them to wander around in the wilderness like starlings, following every wind of doctrine? Or do you want them to be eagles?

People come up to me all the time. RJ texted me today. Most amazing audio.

It almost brought me to tears. He's told me before, I've worked with thousands of kids, I've never seen kids like yours. People tell me that all the time. We'll go to restaurants and waitresses will say, I've never seen this before.

I've never seen kids like this. How do you have six kids and then behave like this? And our first response is, well, first of all, we threaten them far more when we're outside than we do inside. No. It's real simple.

It's not us only. We're simply drinking from a well that my mom dug. And I dug it deeper.

And when your kids see miracles before their eyes, they're not turning around. I could take, I don't have my kids in public school, but I could take all of them, especially my youngest, Selah. I pity the fool that messed with Selah. She'd be coming up to me all the time, Dad, that girl right there, she's dressed in modest.

What do we do? Her shirt's too tight, I can see her chest, and if I can see it, every boy in this place sees it. I don't mean to totally embarrass her, but she has an ethical temperature barometer about her of godliness.

And she's not afraid. She's a 12-year-old eagle in preparation to lead eagles. Because if at 12 you can have an ethical boundary to notice things that are not okay, what happens at 22?

32? 42, leading an international ministry. I don't know what God has for her. But we need to be thinking beyond ourselves. When you're fighting with your spouse in the middle of the afternoon in the living room, they're drinking from that well.

I'm guilty of it too, but it ought not to be that way. Can we show Jacob's well, please? This is a picture, an actual archaeological picture of Jacob's well. You can't even see the bottom of this well. I believe if I recall, my number's right, it's like 155 feet deep.

Drop, splash. What happens if they dig this well and they stop finding it? It's just too much work.

There's no water in the well. I'm telling you, God has called you to dig. But don't stop digging.

Don't stop trying. Don't stop the motivation of your heart to meet God because I'm telling you, you're going to meet him at the bottom of that well. Just ask Joseph. Joseph's entire journey starts at the bottom of a well that he didn't ask to be thrown into. But if Joseph doesn't find himself at the bottom of a well, he doesn't find himself on the Ishmaelite bandwagon, and he doesn't find himself inside of a...

a military commander's house and he doesn't find himself in prison and he doesn't find himself as second command in all of Egypt and a prototype, the only prototype outside of King David that is the perfect prototype for the Messiah that would come. How would you like to have a resume like that? But it starts off in the bottom of a well.

Some of you feel like you're in the bottom of a well. Maybe you're the prototype of the Messiah in the making. Have you considered Or let me just say, consider getting rid of the American Christian mentality that blessing looks like prosperity.

Because sometimes the greatest blessing is the curse that you seem to find yourself in at the moment. And sometimes the greatest curse is the blessing that you don't even know you missed. Because the difference between a starling and an eagle is almost six feet, but hundreds of feet in the air, where you get to see so much more. Because you know what the starlings are looking at?

Have you ever discovered why or wonder why they're so amazing? Acrobats, you think they're acrobats? No, they're just looking at the bird next to them.

And as soon as they feel and see them leaning, they lean. If one of them decides to buck the system, they all fall to the ground, I would imagine. I'm asking you, no, God is asking you tonight, buck the system. God's people have been going in the wrong direction for 40 years.

Can I say that prophetically? We've been in the desert for 40 years. Some of you have been years since you've been connected to God.

God's calling you out. A young man came to me tonight that I just met, and he said that God gave him a prophetic word through somebody that he was a priest. He said, what does that mean? I said, we don't have five hours. But God is calling priests.

You know why the Levites became the Levites? Because at the base of Mount Sinai, they're waiting for 40 days. They're like, what in the world?

Moses is gone. He ain't never coming back. We lost our mediator between God and us.

We know we have to have a mediator. We can't go directly to God. We learned that in Egypt. So let's build this golden calf, and maybe God will speak to us through the golden calf.

That's why Aaron said, take all the gold off your earrings that we plundered the Egyptians with. Let's make a golden calf. Tomorrow will be a feast of Yahweh.

From their intentions, they were doing the right thing. But from God's perspective, he looks down and says, Mo, get out of my way, I'm killing every one of them. They're in idolatry. Two perspectives in life, God's and ours.

This is what's messed up in the church today. And I'm not picking on the church, I'm just saying exactly what Jesus did. In the first century, what did Paul say? What did Jesus say?

My church is messed up. They're drinking from the wrong well. They're making golden idols, but they don't know it's a golden idol. The Israelites didn't know.

This is just what they learned. They thought this was how they're going to get connected to God again. God brings them out there. Moses goes up. He disappears.

They have no, God's not talking. Let's get him to talk. This is how we do it. And today in Christianity, in our individual lives, we're trying to get God to talk, but we're doing it the wrong way. Because we don't know the ancient paths.

We've got to go back to the well. You know what we're doing? The water starts in the mountain. The spring comes out of the mountain.

And we're drinking downstream of the cattle that's upstream. And we go, you see it's brown water. But you grew up drinking brown water.

Nobody told you why the water's brown. Until somebody decided to go, you know what? I think there's better water out there.

I read in a book that the water is not supposed to, you're supposed to see through the water in your glass. I don't see through the water in the glass. Somebody found the ancient manual of how to drink water and what it should look like, and the manual said you're supposed to see the bottom of the glass.

And the manual says if you don't see the bottom of the glass, you're drinking too far downstream, take a right walk. So the guy goes, he's dumb enough to go, okay, well, my ancestors didn't do this, but I'm just going to keep walking. Brown, brown, brown, a little less brown. Interesting.

He passes cattle and he goes, huh. He sees somebody do something in the water and goes, I wonder, oh, that's why the water's brown. But he keeps walking and eventually gets to the place where it's crystal clear.

He begins to drink from the water upstream. And you know what happens on the inside? He starts to get healed automatically. Different diseases, bacterias are not showing up in his bloodstream.

anymore on a physical level. He begins to have more strength. He feels something different. So he decides to camp out here and he builds a little cistern from the clean water, raises a family, and somehow these kids are stronger, brighter, faster than the ones miles downstream.

Where do you want to raise your kids? Downstream or upstream? John chapter 4 verse 1 through 6, let's read it together, would you please? It says, Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus, therefore, being wearied, from his journey sat thus by the well.

It was about the sixth hour. I find that so amazingly. Let's read the rest of that.

Where was I? John chapter 4. And let's just keep reading. So Numbers chapter verse 7. A woman from Samaria came to draw water.

Jesus said to her, give me a drink. For his disciples, now you guys all know this story, but you're about to see a new twist. For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.

Then the woman of Samaria said to him, How is it that you, being a Jew, asked a drink from me? A Samaritan woman. Who's a Samaritan woman? These were the people from the northern kingdom of Israel, the ten tribes of Israel that had mixed with the nations.

And remember, Jeroboam. When the tribes, the ten tribes split away from the two tribes in the south and the two kingdoms were created, Jeroboam said, hey, I don't want you guys going down to Jerusalem to worship, so we're going to create two altars, two tabernacles at Bethel and Dan, and that's where we're going to worship. And that's why the Samaritan woman says, well, our fathers say that we were supposed to worship here, and Jesus said, well, you kind of got it wrong.

It's supposed to be down here. So let's just keep reading, see what happens. How is it that you, a Jew, ask him to drink for me, a Samaritan woman, because the Jews look at the Samaritans as mixed breeds?

And they were. For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. Jesus answered and said to her, if you knew the gift of God and who is it that says to you, give me a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water. The woman said to him, sir, you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where then do you get that living water?

Are you greater than our father Jacob who gave us this well and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock? Jesus answered and said to her, whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I'm going to give will never thirst, but the water that I shall give him will become in him like a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life. Then the woman said to him, Give me this water that I may not thirst nor come here to draw. Now something fascinating about the woman at the well, this is the sixth hour. The sixth hour in Hebrew time, Israelite time, this is 12 o'clock noon.

You don't go to the well at 12 o'clock noon. And this is a huge twist to the story. Because they always came to the well in the freshness of the morning or the evening.

You don't go to a well in 98 degree weather in the middle of the afternoon. So by the mere fact that she's the only one at the well tells us something significant. She is an outcast because she would not have been allowed to be with the other women at the well.

When Isaac, excuse me, when Abraham sent his servant to go find a bride for his son, guess what? There's all kinds of women at the well in the beginning of the day. But she's not allowed because she's an outcast. Likely because she was, because she had so many husbands and so much sexual immorality, she was shunned and prevented from going to the well.

So she doesn't want to come to the well because the only time she gets to go to the well in the middle of the desert is when it's 100 degrees outside. So she says, give me this water. How many of you feel like outcasts in your life?

God is the only one. Yeshua is the only one. His well is the only one that never runs dry.

Now turn with me to Isaiah chapter 12 to see the connection. Because Isaiah 12 goes like this, and in that day you will say, Oh Lord. I praise you, though you were angry with me, your anger is turned away and you comfort me. Behold, God is my salvation.

I will trust and not be afraid. For Yah, the Yahweh, is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. Therefore, with joy, you will draw water from the wells of salvation.

What did Yeshua just say? I am the well of salvation. If you drink of me, you will never be thirsty again.

And he says, praise the Lord, call upon his name, declare his deeds among the peoples, make mention that his name is exalted, sing to the Lord for he has done excellent things. This is known in all the earth. Cry out and shout, O inhabitants of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel in your midst. This chapter, whether you know it or not, is very, very, very important during the feast of Sukkot and ancient Israel because every single day they read this entire chapter.

when they did the water libation ceremony. What's the water libation ceremony? The water libation ceremony, because all of Israel depended on water, is they would go down to the Pool of Siloam. You might be familiar with it.

It's the Pool of Siloam. But they go down to the Pool of Siloam, and the priests, with grace, bands and instruments and singers would grab the water from the pool of Siloam and they would go parade it all the way up the Ophel to the stairs to the temple. They would come over to the altar and there was two grooves on the side of the altar.

One was for blood and one was for water. And they would take it. water, and they would, from the pool of Siloam, they would take the blood in symbolism of wine, and they would pour them down the side of the altar at the same time. The orifice of the one that held the blood was thicker than the one with the water, because water is thinner.

And incredibly, they had figured out engineer. Wise that when they would pour them simultaneously at the same time, they would arrive at the bottom of this giant altar at the same time and go into the bowl, drip at the same time. In the same way, in the ninth hour, when the Messiah was hanging on the cross and they took a spear and they put it into his side, what came out? Blood and water flowed together. down the side of the most important altar this world has ever seen.

So when we come to John chapter 4, verse 23 and 24, they'll put this up for you. It says, But the hour is coming, and now is when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such to worship him. Not spirit only, love only.

We love each other. We love each other. Love is the most amazing thing. As long as you love everybody, God's happy with you. Nope.

sorry, love has to be connected to his definition of love, and it has to be connected to truth, or you're not a true worshiper. I met sex offenders in prison that molested three-year-olds, and they said it was just mutual. It was love. Wrong definition of love landed you in jail. In the same way God says, you don't get to make the definition of love.

I'm the one that's love. I get to make the definition. If you don't like it, that's fine. But if you want to hit your full potential and live in my kingdom for all eternity, you need to know my definition.

Amen? So watch this. They're going to show you this on the screen. But the word Torah, which means instructions, It actually comes from the Hebrew word yara.

And I wish I had a bucket to do this with because the people in the front row would love me for this. But the word Torah, the root word is yara, and the word literally means to throw water on someone. So you see, when you come to the well, and you're dry, and you don't know what's going on, when someone's sleeping, what's the fastest way to wake them up? Throw water on them. You see, that's what I'm doing.

My daughter thinks I'm spitting on her. I'm giving the water of the word. And it wakes them up every time. The water wakes people up. Do it in love, but the water wakes people up.

The difference between a spring and a river, you know what it is? A river can be polluted by men because it comes from without. But a spring is pure because it comes from within. Unfortunately, some leaders take the spring water and create their own river. And this is why we want to go upstream.

This is why the scriptures talk about... The spring that comes from within you. Numbers chapter 21 says this in verse 16. In following it says, From there they went to Be'er, which is the well, where the Lord said to Moses, Gather the people together and I will give them water.

Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well. O well. All of you sing to it.

The well that the princes made, that the nobles of the people dug, with the scepter and with their staffs, and from the wilderness they went on to Matanah. You see, what's fascinating, if you know anything about some of the culture here, is it doesn't say, like, with the shovel that you bought from Home Depot. It says this.

It says that the nobles... The noblemen dug the well with their scepter and with their staffs. They didn't use the scepter and the staff, their authority to beat their people into submission. They were using the scepter and their authority to dig a well. This is my whole entire motivation for helping you drink from the well of Sukkot is building a well.

This is nothing but our team digging a well for you and your children. We're digging a well and we do it all year for one eight-day feast so that you can come and drink and experience the power of God. What are you using your authority for, parents?

Me and my wife see parents every day make the mistake of dropping the hammer. With their authority, they're going to make their kids obey. Oh, you can for a while. How many had abusive fathers in the house? And they used their authority.

Oh, they used their scepter. I led a guy to Christ not too long ago, and he literally said, my dad beat me with a baseball bat. His mother, one time at eight years old, waterboarded him in the front yard because of disobedience. He had to do push-ups as she shoved a hose in his mouth.

His wife grew up where her father picked her up in the front yard. They did it in public on purpose in the neighborhood, the rough neighborhood that they were in, by her throat. And we'd drop her to the floor and then pick her up again by her throat until she almost passed out. When they got saved and they came to our house, it was the first time that either one of them had ever been to dinner at someone's house.

where there wasn't a drug party. We're helping them dig a new well. Revelation 22, one, we're almost finished. He showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God.

and of the Lamb. Guys, this whole concept of water and wells and springs, it pervades Scripture from Genesis to Revelation. The very last chapter of the Bible is built around a river of life that's Crystal clear.

Do you think that the author is giving description for no reason? It's crystal clear. He's trying to give a message. There's nothing in it but purity. And it's proceeding from what?

The throne of God. If you dig deep enough, you walk far enough, you'll be alone. You'll be an eagle. But every step, your scepter gets taller and thicker. He gives you more authority because the more strength of the water of his word that's in you, the more influence he will give you.

And the greatest influence you could ever have is senior citizen, is parent, is with children and grandchildren. They don't know the difference. They're going to do what you teach them. And so you're promulgating your belief system, and I'm challenging you to say, are you sure you got it right? We don't let our kids listen to secular music.

I'm sorry, call me overbearing, call me a control freak. My kids love God more than most kids. I'm sorry, not that they're not perfect. They make mistakes, but we learn through those mistakes. But I don't want them drinking from those wells.

Oh, but dad, we've had these conversations. But dad, there's some good songs out there. Okay, that's great. You want to go to a buffet and you've got a good steak.

You've got another thing that will give you some sort of disease and you want to just pick and choose? How about we just get rid of it and praise God the whole day? How about we just say, you know what, yeah, there's probably some good stuff out there, and this and that and the other, but how about we just be holy and set apart and be the Joshua and Caleb generation?

Guys, I'm tired. I'm serious. I'm 50 years old.

I've been doing this for almost 25 years, and I'm so tired of people telling me, well, my Bible says that I can do this. Or this is not that bad. Or it worked for me.

Did you know that Paul said all things are permissible, but not everything's profitable? You know what he's talking about? Not all things are permissible. Sexual immorality is not permissible.

He's talking about all things that God said that you can do are permissible. Let me blow your mind for a moment. From Paul's perspective, everything that God said that you can do is permissible, but not everything that God said that you can do is profitable in that moment.

He said that a woman can be intimate with a man, but that doesn't mean that it's profitable when you're 13. So there are times, there's seasons, there's wells that you need to be at at certain times in your life. And one of the biggest problems that we have in the church today is we don't want to draw a line in the sand and just be holy. Oh, I don't want to be holier than thou. Trust me, you can't be holier than thou. But when I read my Bible, it says, be holy as I am holy.

That means that you can. You can be different. There was a commercial back in the 80s for Arby's that said, different is good.

Everybody say, different is good. It's okay to be different. God is different than all the other gods. This is a God who told the high priest to dress up in an outfit that some of us would go, this looks like a genie.

This is a weird guy. He's got a turban on his head, a little crown and sash and weird looking chest plate. God likes different.

He likes different. Young people, you don't have to be a starling. God likes different.

He supports different. He gets behind different. He's looking for someone to say, God, I'll be that guy.

As for me and my house, we're going to serve the Lord. You can serve the church. Like I said in a national debate once about the Sabbath. As my opponent quoted the church fathers non-stop, and I ended debate, and I didn't even know what I was saying, and it was just inspiration by God, and I said, Sir, you can follow the church fathers, but for me in my house, I'm going to follow the father of the church.

Are you following the father of the church? Are you digging a well for your family each and every week? Are you living for God?

Dad, you can't, you can't lead your children if you're addicted to pornography. You can't do it. You might say, my kids don't even know.

You're digging a well that they're drinking from. It's spiritual well. So it doesn't matter if they see you.

It's a spiritual well that their spirit is drinking from. The sins of the fathers. And he showed me a pure river of water of life, crystal clear, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb.

And in the middle of the street and on either side of the river was a tree of life, which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. Ephesians 5 says that he might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of the water of the word. When you get in the river of God, it will heal everything about you.

When you put aside American Christian, when you put aside your petty stuff and pursue God and get up in the morning and spend time with him and fast and pray, If you're not fasting twice a week, you're not even a normal Christian in the first century. Did you know that? Every Christian in the first century was fasting twice a week. Most of us in this room and across the country don't fast twice a year.

You can't sin when you're fasting really hard, when you're denying your flesh at that level. Imagine the power of God that would enter your life if we start being like the first century Christians who gave up their material possessions. They didn't care. God says, don't come before me empty-handed.

Don't come, he says, to my feast and come before me empty-handed. You've always got your hands up asking God for something. He said, one time a year I want you to come and I want you to give me something that costs you something.

Don't reach in your pocket and give a dollar to God if you got seven million in the bank. That means nothing to God. That is not a, it's just an altar.

You bring a sacrifice. You should feel it. When you're digging a water, a well for your family, you should feel the sacrifice of having to sit down and teach your children.

Maybe you're not a teacher. You don't have to be. Lead them in the Shabbat and let them honor you by going, wow, dad is being a spiritual leader.

Learn something. Do something. Get out a spoon if you have to and start just taking a little bit of sand at a time. You may not get to it in your lifetime, but your children will keep digging.

And they will find it. And it will transform a generation. Amen? me please I'm gonna end by asking one single question what is your source of water what's in your well are you playing around your well What's coming through your eye gate?

What's coming through your ear gate? What are you letting your kids do that you don't even know is digging a well that's mixing it with the traditions of men and with paganism but more importantly from the world because they got sprinklers out everywhere with poison water everywhere you go. And guys, we know this, man. We get so bombarded with impure things that are put before our eyes all the time. Facebook is listening to everything that you say and do.

And up come the ads. Think of the prophetic implications. It's a fact.

Just go to your phone and start talking about something and you will see ads for that within a week. Did you know the spiritual realm works the same way? Whatever you think, Dorcas, whatever you say, whatever you do, the enemy starts giving you ads.

You start praising God every day. Turn off the secular radio stations. If I could have my way, I would wave my, what some people say is my control freak wand. But I'm telling you, as a leader, I get to see how the water gets diluted and people justify everything. And they wonder why they don't see the power of God.

They wonder why they got anger inside of them, bitterness, because they're drinking from it. The water of the world. Put it aside. I challenge you right now for 30 days after Sukkot, stop listening to anything secular. I don't care if it's the Star Spangled Banger.

Turn off your television. Oh my goodness, I just literally ticked people off right there. Put aside Facebook, your social media.

I dare you for 30 days to fast twice a week and see what happens. You fast from all of your pop culture, from whatever, you have no idea how much life will come into your life when you take two days a week and fast, and those evenings you bring your family together, and you know what you do? We pray. I'll do it.

Anybody want to do it with me? I'll do it right now. I'll do it. I'm not going to ask you to do something that I won't do.

For 30 days, I'm going to fast twice a week. And my family's going to come together and we're going to pray. And we're going to pray for you. Let's be eagles and change the world.

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The Importance of Wells in the Bible