The Water Always Comes
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What is Water?
What is Water?
Two parts Hydrogen, one part oxygen
It is a valuable resource. Every living thing NEEDS water to live.
Some can persist without, but not LIVE
Some can persist without, but not LIVE
seeds, tardigrades, kangeroo rats
One could say it is the most valuable resource on the planet
If you have it, you’ll live, if you don’t you’ll need to get it or die
In the ancient world water was so needed that entire cities would rise or fall based on their abilities to get and keep water.
For example: Hezekiah, One of Judah’s good kings, built and underground waterway to supply Jerusalem with water. It was a great success and it still exists today.
Water is also chaotic
In the beginning there was only water
Then later water was used to destroy the whole planet
Floods happen
Tsunamis
Hurricanes
Water is used for Deliverence as well as punishment
Red sea parted
Moses strikes a rock and water comes out
Religious element
John the baptist immersed people in water as a show of repentance
And he said, “Thus says the Lord, ‘I will make this dry streambed full of pools.’
Our passage today has a great deal to do with water
Explain the context
Jehoram, Ahab’s son, is mad because Moab is supposed to be paying him protection money. (From him)
Moab stops paying so, Jehoram gets, Jehosaphat and the unnamed king of Edom to go persuade Moab for their protection money
Right or wrong I don’t know
But Elisha is brought in to speak for God and he does
He calls in the worship team and then speaks
And he said, “Thus says the Lord, ‘I will make this dry streambed full of pools.’ For thus says the Lord, ‘You shall not see wind or rain, but that streambed shall be filled with water, so that you shall drink, you, your livestock, and your animals.’ This is a light thing in the sight of the Lord. He will also give the Moabites into your hand,
Where Does Water Come From?
Where Does Water Come From?
It comes from God. Plain and simple right.
God created it as a major and essential part of our existence.
He uses it to give life, to save lives, and to (when absolutely necessary) take lives)
We too, use water to do the same things
In addition, we live in a fallen sinful world where terrible bad things happen with water that is not God specifically judging a specific instance by destroying a place with a flood or Hurricane.
But because we live in a fallen world every natural disaster is a broad judgement that stems from Adam’s sin
God isn’t picking on people, but he is allowing these things to happen. Hopefully, so that people will turn to him.
And it does occur
In our passage
God is promising water, where there is no water
God is also telling them that nothing that causes water to come rolling in will occur either.
We live in a High Dessert, we get it right.
Water is important
When we have a snowy winter, or a rainy spring
our grass is green, that field just outside of town turns into a marsh for a period of time
And then it all dries up
Imagine this: August hits and it’s been 100 degrees for two weeks, it hasn’t rained since May. The grass is brown. And that field is dead.
Then you wake up the next morning and no rain still. Still 100 degrees, no water on the mountain, no burst pipes
And that field has 3 feet of water in it.
Who gets the credit for that one? God
That is what happened here with Elisha and the Kings was a result of God directly interacting with his people.
Who is Elisha?
Who is Elisha?
Elisha the prophet is a “man of God” who works on behalf of the nation of Israel and did so for 60 years. At the heart of Elisha’s calling is a concern for the internal and external well-being of the nation. He ministers to everyone, from the foreign leper on the edge of society to the royal household around which the nation revolves. Because of the power that the Lord places upon him, Elisha saves Israel from military threats on more than one occasion, while at the same time showing great care for the downtrodden of society.
Elisha was also known for other miracles
purifying water
Making a lost axe float in water
Raising the dead
Sicking bears of rebellious youth who made fun of his bald head
you know, the normal stuff.
Elisha was a servant of God, who fully wanted to please God and point people to Him
He did a great job, water came to the 3 kings and their armies were refreshed and they went to Moab and did everything God said they would do.
Then at some point Elisha died
He was buried and he stayed there
Who is WAY better that Elisha?
Who is WAY better that Elisha?
Jesus is WAY better than Elisha
A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” (For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.) The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying 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 water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.” Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”
The water she is looking for comes from a well
The water Jesus gives doesn’t come from a well, or rain, or a wind.
It comes directly from God.
And whatever God gives is the best.
You want water from a well? Or do you want Water from God
A it is Jesus who gives the Living water.
What is the Living Water?
What is the Living Water?
O Lord, the hope of Israel,
all who forsake you shall be put to shame;
those who turn away from you shall be written in the earth,
for they have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living water.
The Lord is the Living Water and Jesus said the believer is filled with the living water
Which is the Holy Spirit, God who is in us.
sustaining us, giving us life, and everything we need to accomplish his command of pointing people to him
even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
And What Does This Have to do With Elisha and a Bunch of Kings?
And What Does This Have to do With Elisha and a Bunch of Kings?
In our passage today, Elisha showed three kings who was the sustainer of life
Not Jehoram
Not Jehoshaphat
Not the King of Edom
God Alone
Gave them water
Gave them victory
Gave them life
Gives you water
Gives you victory
Gives you life
God provided the kings and their armies with more than enough water
The next morning, about the time of offering the sacrifice, behold, water came from the direction of Edom, till the country was filled with water.
Sometimes when God provides, he provides with abundance
Like Living water, we are giving way more than we could ever imagine wanting
Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us,
The Holy Spirit was working through Elisha, to point three Kings to Jesus
That same Holy Spirit lives in you, how is he going to use you to point people Jesus
I can’t wait to find out
Let’s Pray
Let’s Pray
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