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Wells of Salvation
As believers, we desire a vibrant spiritual life but can find ourselves feeling dry or disconnected. Pastor Wayne shares timeless wisdom about returning to God as your true source. You’ll discover the difference between inherited faith and personal conviction, and why both are important for a healthy walk with God.
You’ll learn about the different kinds of wells we can draw from and the importance of digging wells for future generations. And you’ll also discover why it’s important to recognize when you’ve drifted so that you can take practical steps toward restoration rather than allowing your wells to become polluted through neglect.
Scriptures Referenced
Genesis 26:18a; Psalm 51, 63:1, 78:5-7a; Isaiah 12:3-5; Jeremiah 13:11b-13
Key Insights
- True spiritual life comes from God, the fountain of living water.
- Spiritual heritage must be passed down, not ignored or lost.
- Beware of polluted wells and spiritual stagnation.
- Personal responsibility is crucial for spiritual renewal.
Key Sections
00:00:00 - Welcome and Announcements
Welcome. Upcoming baby dedications and Baptism Sunday.
00:02:09 - Introduction
God has a personal word for everyone, regardless of where they are in their faith journey.
00:09:30 - Drawing Water With Joy
The foundational verse, “With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation,” reveals the essential “bucket” for receiving spiritual refreshment.
00:21:26 - Ancient Wells
Ancient wells carry the historical and doctrinal riches that previous generations have dug for us. It’s important to honor and draw from these established spiritual sources.
00:36:31 - Family Wells
Family wells represent the faith traditions and resources available within your family and church community, lovingly stewarded and personalized for your current context.
00:41:39 - Personal Wells
Personal wells are the ones we dig as we take responsibility for our faith and learn to dig through personal experience, discipline, and the leading of the Holy Spirit.
00:46:38 - Polluted Wells
Without care, our wells can become polluted and these wells carry tremendous risk. We must be careful to avoid contamination through outside influence or neglect. Once contaminated, we need to avoid the wells that no longer bring life.
00:49:07 - The Source of Living Waters
The true source of all spiritual life is God Himself. He is the fountain of living waters and that staying connected to Him is essential for ongoing renewal.
https://springhouse.captivate.fm/episode/wells-of-salvation
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Transcript
We serve a good God, don't we?
Speaker:Amen. The Creator of heavens and the earth
Speaker:and the universe around us
Speaker:knows you. He knows me. He wants to
Speaker:commune with us. He wants a relationship with
Speaker:us that would be eternal. I love that.
Speaker:It's beautiful. Um,
Speaker:and one of the beauties that we have in our church is we have lots,
Speaker:and we have lots of babies, and babies are great.
Speaker:Babies are a sign of the blessing of the Lord, the next generation.
Speaker:And, uh, so we're gonna have a baby dedication in a couple of
Speaker:weeks. Um, although there is a
Speaker:sign up by September 7th. We're gonna start
Speaker:doing baby dedications on a quarterly basis.
Speaker:So this, this next one is going to be September 13th, and if you
Speaker:have a baby and you are available to be a part of that service that
Speaker:day, please sign up. We would love to
Speaker:serve you in that way. And then that's in 2 weeks, and
Speaker:then 2 weeks after that, we will be having a Baptism Sunday,
Speaker:and that's gonna be a church-wide celebration.
Speaker:We're not having an early gathering that day. It's at 9 o'clock.
Speaker:We're not having the 12. We're gonna come in all
Speaker:together and have a worship and Baptism service. And
Speaker:there is also— I can't read it from here. I think the
Speaker:14th. Does that say— is that what it says? But there's
Speaker:also a limit for signups that ends after that day. So
Speaker:please sign up. if you're interested in being a part
Speaker:of that baptism service. There's some video
Speaker:elements that we want to incorporate that will
Speaker:require some time built into that, but we're
Speaker:planning that here in 4 weeks from today, and it's
Speaker:going to be a beautiful, beautiful service.
Speaker:I know that we serve a good and a mighty God,
Speaker:a God that has a word for us.
Speaker:God that wants to speak to us this morning. And my
Speaker:prayer for you is the same prayer that I've had for me this
Speaker:morning. And I came in with an attitude
Speaker:that I knew some people in my life that needed to hear what was being
Speaker:said this morning. And then I realized I needed to hear what was being said
Speaker:this morning. And
Speaker:And so I invite my brother, my spiritual
Speaker:pops, my elder,
Speaker:my elder of elders. I'll
Speaker:stop.
Speaker:Pastor
Speaker:Wayne.
Speaker:Good morning. I actually probably should
Speaker:stop before I start and get Dee to come back up
Speaker:here. Yeah. And I think she— I glanced up. I think
Speaker:she read it, which is fine. God can anoint reading.
Speaker:But she should just— I'm not gonna
Speaker:invite her 'cause it's— I was given the time.
Speaker:But if she gets off book, you know, I mean, she
Speaker:walked over into some water. She walked over into some flow.
Speaker:That was, you know, I didn't hear enough of that.
Speaker:So maybe we'll invite her back.
Speaker:Yeah. Maybe we could do that. It's good to be
Speaker:with you all.
Speaker:Disclaimer right here at the top.
Speaker:I don't hope that you
Speaker:believe or agree with what I'm going to try and share.
Speaker:I hope that you receive what the Holy Ghost has for you
Speaker:today because that's
Speaker:important. If you're open and
Speaker:available, the Holy Spirit can work in ways that have nothing
Speaker:to do with microphones and conversation and slides.
Speaker:Yeah. If we're open and available to
Speaker:that. So, About 2
Speaker:and a half months ago or so,
Speaker:Pastor Barbie asked me if I would
Speaker:close out this series we've been doing the last
Speaker:4 weeks, all of the month. And I told her
Speaker:I would be honored to do that. And so
Speaker:I'm going to. Amen.
Speaker:When? Shortly. No, no, no, no, no.
Speaker:This won't be a sermon. It's
Speaker:not a message. It's more
Speaker:of a review or a
Speaker:reflect of the last 4 weeks
Speaker:with a little teaching added in.
Speaker:The reason I was prompted to do that,
Speaker:when Pastor Barbie asked me to do it, you know, she just said, close it
Speaker:out. So that's sort of up to me.
Speaker:But the reason I felt like we needed to review,
Speaker:that's actually another message. But this isn't
Speaker:a message. So what needs to happen, I think, is that
Speaker:we need, just like in any other classroom
Speaker:structure, I think we just need refreshers.
Speaker:Because there's stuff that's happened in the last 4
Speaker:weeks that some of us perceive in ways that others
Speaker:don't. Some of us have been like zapped by the Holy
Speaker:Ghost. Some of us are still trying to figure out how
Speaker:to spell 'wells'. That's okay. And that's body
Speaker:life. That's the way body life works.
Speaker:Everybody's at a different place at a different moment. But
Speaker:depending upon what your learnings and depending upon how
Speaker:the Holy Ghost works in your life, you could find yourself in
Speaker:situations where something on a repetitive nature
Speaker:becomes, oh, I get it. So that's really more
Speaker:what this is about. That's how we're proceeding
Speaker:from here. And what I'm doing is basically in 3
Speaker:stages. The first being
Speaker:context. The second being content,
Speaker:and the third being conclusion. So that's where I'm going to
Speaker:proceed with this. Can you put that slide up, please?
Speaker:And I'm also going to pray
Speaker:for and with us.
Speaker:Father God, Our Abba,
Speaker:in you we live and move and have our being.
Speaker:Yes. And we are gathered
Speaker:here for your honor
Speaker:and your glory. I ask you to continue
Speaker:to lead us down the path of righteousness for the sake of
Speaker:your kingdom. And I ask that in Jesus'
Speaker:name, sanctioned by the Holy Ghost.
Speaker:So let me move. You don't mind if I
Speaker:move? Most of— some of you know I'm gonna do that anyway,
Speaker:whether you like it or not. That's just— it's sort of
Speaker:quasi-old school, I guess, but I'm more than
Speaker:quasi-old school.
Speaker:See me after, would you?
Speaker:I could push that a little bit. Old school would be a little bit more
Speaker:disciplinarian than new school would be. So come see me afterward,
Speaker:would you? Careful, Bill.
Speaker:Oh, was that— who was— oh, stop, Ellen. Stop it.
Speaker:Or you or Fred, one of you over in the amen corner.
Speaker:Most of you don't know what an amen corner is, but those 2 do.
Speaker:Yeah. Okay. About 17 or 18 years ago, just for a
Speaker:split second, just think where you were 17 or 18
Speaker:years ago. That's all. That's all. Okay. About
Speaker:17 or 18 years ago, we used to do a song here in
Speaker:this building that was part of the hymnody of
Speaker:the church. I used to stand roughly over there
Speaker:where Johnny G is. And back then, I think Barbie
Speaker:was still part of the worship team. She was
Speaker:starting to teach more than she was in terms of
Speaker:worship team ministry. But give or take, that's what was
Speaker:happening. And so when she
Speaker:asked me, to take this session, what came up in me
Speaker:is this, because the
Speaker:genesis, the starting point for that song was this verse.
Speaker:With joy will you draw water out of the wells of salvation.
Speaker:And this is the day we will say, praise the Lord. So I'm not gonna
Speaker:work that whole verse. I want you to see the verse 'cause I'm setting this
Speaker:up for content. Okay? So this is
Speaker:not up there, but this is free. And I don't have time to open it
Speaker:up. I'm just gonna call your attention to it. This says, with joy
Speaker:will you draw water. The joy
Speaker:is the bucket.
Speaker:It's not saying with celebration or with happy
Speaker:or with shout and dance. It's not defining joy.
Speaker:It's not— that verse is not telling us what joy is
Speaker:except that it says— bear with me— it says,
Speaker:with joy will we draw out.
Speaker:So if you read it that way, joy
Speaker:becomes a bucket
Speaker:because it's saying the way to get the water out of the well
Speaker:is with something. Yeah. It's not saying—
Speaker:it's not feeling an emotional way. It's not saying,
Speaker:This is how joy manifests. That's another subject
Speaker:at another time. But if you
Speaker:permit me, and I have the mic, so I guess I can,
Speaker:it's saying joy is the container
Speaker:that will help me get the water. Yeah.
Speaker:I'm leaning on that just a little bit because however you
Speaker:understand joy, I'm not getting back into the original language. That's not where I'm going.
Speaker:However you understand joy working, you can
Speaker:keep that as long as you'll add what I'm doing today.
Speaker:That says joy is how I will draw out
Speaker:water. Yeah. So you see the connect. So that
Speaker:would make, at least in Wayne speak, that would make
Speaker:joy the bucket. Okay, now
Speaker:the fact that we're living in the South makes this much easier to translate
Speaker:Okay, or to elaborate on. The passage is
Speaker:saying, with joy you, you see the asterisk?
Speaker:Okay, it's a plural. And what it really says to
Speaker:us is what y'all need to do is draw water. Yeah.
Speaker:It's not written to individuals.
Speaker:Individuals can receive it, but it's
Speaker:written to us, us'uns. It's kind of you and—
Speaker:thank you, Connie. You're not even from
Speaker:down around these parts. You're from way up
Speaker:north. I know. All right. No, it's just you and me. You know, I
Speaker:tend to get real.
Speaker:So what it's saying in the Old Testament prophetically,
Speaker:it's a prophetic directive. It's
Speaker:not a requirement. It's not a commandment.
Speaker:It's a passage that's saying— think of— put it in the
Speaker:context. It's thinking— it's saying, this is what
Speaker:y'all are gonna do.
Speaker:Look at it, okay, and wind the
Speaker:clock back a few thousand years. So the
Speaker:prophetic directive is the prophet is saying,
Speaker:this is in your future. to real people at a real
Speaker:time in history way back past us.
Speaker:But the irony is, or the
Speaker:majesty is, that it's speaking to us right now.
Speaker:Right. So it's not saying
Speaker:you need to draw water and y'all need to draw water
Speaker:and y'all need to draw water. It's saying we all need to draw water.
Speaker:Amen. But it's not saying find a well and draw water from it. It says
Speaker:wells. It's plural.
Speaker:And it's in your Bible. That's where the tune came from, and that's about
Speaker:17, 18 years ago. And real briefly, at the bottom
Speaker:of the slide, a well is a
Speaker:fountain. It's a source of satisfaction, A flowing
Speaker:spring. And salvation, if you work the language, is a
Speaker:place of deliverance. Oh, Jesus. Aid,
Speaker:victory, or prosperity. Sorry. A source of
Speaker:health and welfare from a word meaning to be
Speaker:safe or free. Those
Speaker:definitions for wells,
Speaker:those definitions for wells, Is magnificent.
Speaker:It's splendid. It's awe, A-W-E.
Speaker:It's awe-inspiring. The fact that
Speaker:we have the potential to draw from wells
Speaker:that have that in them.
Speaker:Watch. How many people want that in their lives?
Speaker:All of us. Watch this. Watch this.
Speaker:Watch, old school, old school. Since I
Speaker:didn't have any, I wasn't looking at anybody and I'm not,
Speaker:my intention is not to step on anybody's toes. It's just an interesting
Speaker:dynamic from here looking back to there.
Speaker:What would keep anybody
Speaker:when I said, how many of y'all want that in your lives?
Speaker:And I did this. What would keep you from not raising your
Speaker:hand? Right.
Speaker:I'm not talking about salvation. I'm not talking about your level of
Speaker:redemption or are you filled with the Holy Ghost. I'm going, wouldn't the
Speaker:response to those definitions,
Speaker:wouldn't the response be absolutely?
Speaker:So let me ask again, how many people want those things in
Speaker:their life? Yes. Okay, that's what
Speaker:corporate community looks like.
Speaker:That's what it looks like. Watch, watch.
Speaker:So somebody's up with a mic and somebody says what I just said, I just
Speaker:said, and somebody asks for that and raised their hand just like I did. And
Speaker:I'm sitting right here and I don't move.
Speaker:Now from up here, From up here,
Speaker:I don't know why that person didn't move. And I'm not making any
Speaker:judgment because I don't know why. So I can't fill in and go,
Speaker:oh, I bet. No, I can't do that
Speaker:because I don't know why that happened. All
Speaker:I know from this side is they didn't raise their
Speaker:hand. So I can make this assumption. Maybe they don't
Speaker:want that. Y'all excuse me. Could I
Speaker:pray for you? Is there—
Speaker:did you not read that? Do you not understand
Speaker:that? Or you want to see me after? Let me finish what I'm doing.
Speaker:Okay, thanks. Because
Speaker:from this side, that looks problematic.
Speaker:Why would you not raise your
Speaker:hand in faith? Not
Speaker:presumption, not
Speaker:artificialness.. Why would
Speaker:your hand not go up? If you were
Speaker:at a big ballgame and
Speaker:something happened, both
Speaker:your hands would go up. If
Speaker:you're at a stadium rock
Speaker:concert, you might lose your
Speaker:mind. Wayne, come back, come
Speaker:back, come back. So that's the
Speaker:context of how we got here
Speaker:today in my life, because I
Speaker:have a history with this. So
Speaker:we're going to move to content
Speaker:now. The first Sunday that
Speaker:Pastor Barbie was up when she
Speaker:opened this series, what she
Speaker:did was she started there. I
Speaker:don't mean literally that
Speaker:verse. I don't remember what verse she used, but she basically
Speaker:started at ancient wells. She
Speaker:went back historically to that. That's where she
Speaker:started 4 weeks ago. That was her starting place.
Speaker:And then she expanded from there. And what she was using
Speaker:Is she was using, for me, she was using this verse
Speaker:as a starting place. And then she brought her message. Now what
Speaker:I'm gonna do today is I've asked Rhonda
Speaker:to help translate or interpret
Speaker:on my behalf for your sake.
Speaker:Just let it sink in. Let it sink in.
Speaker:Yes. What she's reading is from
Speaker:notes from about 16 years ago that I
Speaker:wrote based on the song that I just talked to you about, Wealth of Salvation.
Speaker:And what I have been able to do because of my history, not only here
Speaker:in this building, but my history in terms of the kingdom, I've been
Speaker:able to see the last 4 services as
Speaker:astounding. Astounding.
Speaker:Yes. Here's why. Not because the sermons
Speaker:were so powerful and the Holy Ghost moved
Speaker:dynamically in an unbelievable way, but because
Speaker:all 4 messages in the last 4 weeks all marry up
Speaker:to the notes I wrote 17 years ago
Speaker:in order. It does. So
Speaker:I'll show you. She's doing this because
Speaker:she has a real gift of speaking
Speaker:so we understand, which I don't have.
Speaker:And she has a— how do I want to say this?
Speaker:She has an anointing. Oh, let's go there. She has
Speaker:an anointing to get your attention.
Speaker:Which I don't always have either.
Speaker:So, Rhonda, if you would. Ancient wells.
Speaker:Ancient wells are those which were dug out by our
Speaker:ancestors, or tribal leaders, if you will.
Speaker:These wells contain the doctrines and
Speaker:theology that have nurtured saints since the days
Speaker:when Moses and those wilderness children sojourned
Speaker:through the desert on their long journey to the Promised Land.
Speaker:They are in a very real sense the watering
Speaker:holes that all saints must drink from
Speaker:for the life of the Spirit to remain fresh and
Speaker:vital in our lives. Without such
Speaker:historical wells, all God's children would
Speaker:surely die, as Psalm 63 says,
Speaker:in a dry and weary land where there's no water.
Speaker:Such ancient wells have been provided to us by God's
Speaker:sovereign mercy and grace.
Speaker:We've done nothing to dig them or preserve
Speaker:them. They are gifts from the Father's hand,
Speaker:and we may come— we must come
Speaker:and drink freely and deeply
Speaker:and often. As the Word says, let all
Speaker:who are thirsty come.
Speaker:Ancient wells, opening service 4 weeks
Speaker:ago, 5 weeks ago today. Ancient wells are
Speaker:historical wells. I.e.,
Speaker:they're ancient. They're long before us.
Speaker:They were dug thousands of years ago.
Speaker:And some of them, some of them physically,
Speaker:geographically, we could get on a big plane if we all—
Speaker:somebody gifted us with a ton of money and we could all go to those
Speaker:wells. We could literally go to some of those wells.
Speaker:So ancient wells are historic on a
Speaker:physical level, but on a spiritual level or a
Speaker:metaphorical level, the concept of wells being
Speaker:passed down, obviously it's generational, but it's
Speaker:generational with time connected to it.
Speaker:Now, the reason I'm stressing that point is for this reason. We have
Speaker:lost all sense of— almost all sense of history. Yeah.
Speaker:Humanity has, not the people in this room,
Speaker:humanity. These folks are, yeah, these
Speaker:younger folks here, y'all's, isn't, you have
Speaker:less history on the planet. So unless
Speaker:somebody imparts it to you, you have little or
Speaker:no history of history or desire for history.
Speaker:It doesn't— look, I'm looking in your faces.
Speaker:It doesn't touch you. You don't care. I'm not
Speaker:upset. I'm not saying it's your fault.
Speaker:It's the planet you've inherited. The
Speaker:responsibility of passing on history
Speaker:isn't to the people that are supposed to be receiving history.
Speaker:Right. It's supposed to happen from the people that
Speaker:have the history that are able to pass it on. Yes.
Speaker:So if our youth don't have it, just stop dumping on the kids.
Speaker:You cannot share stuff
Speaker:authentically if you haven't experienced it.
Speaker:Now, what I mean is I don't mean these kids need to somehow go back
Speaker:to the Dark Ages to get history. What I mean is they need to
Speaker:have the experience of people that know something about the Dark
Speaker:Ages, for example, or the Renaissance. Pick something in time,
Speaker:you know, the Civil War, whatever.
Speaker:They're not liable to pick it up unless
Speaker:somebody imparts it. Yeah. So Ancient Wells,
Speaker:which is where Barbie started this, Pastor Barbie started this series, has
Speaker:to do with, if I could say it this way, looking back over our
Speaker:shoulder. And going, are these wells wells that
Speaker:we need to be connected to? And the answer to that is absolutely.
Speaker:Yeah. Okay. So
Speaker:the next thing that happened is this.
Speaker:He established his testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in
Speaker:Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach their children.
Speaker:That the next generation might know them. See the process?
Speaker:The children yet unborn, and arise and tell them to their children,
Speaker:so that they should set their hope in God. They should set their
Speaker:hope in God. They should set their hope in God and
Speaker:not forget the works of God, but keep His
Speaker:commandments. Not forget— I'm sorry.
Speaker:Set their hope in God and not forget to keep His commandments.
Speaker:Amen. This is an old passage.
Speaker:This is not a contemporary passage. This didn't happen 200
Speaker:years ago. This happened, I haven't done the
Speaker:research, but this is probably 3,000 and change. I
Speaker:don't give or take. Somebody?
Speaker:You're there. That's close, okay. So when this was said,
Speaker:when it was said to the people that heard it,
Speaker:What they were being told to do is what I just spent 10 minutes talking
Speaker:to you about just now. Yes. Yes. The
Speaker:directive here is take the old data
Speaker:and move it up to a place where the kid— where the next
Speaker:generation might know them. It's in your Bible.
Speaker:This is not provocative. This is not, gee, here's a new
Speaker:paradigm to work with. It's ancient. Yeah.
Speaker:And when it breaks down, you lose a
Speaker:whole plethora of wells because you
Speaker:don't know where they are. You don't
Speaker:know how to look for them. And they
Speaker:become irrelevant. And if I could be
Speaker:so bold, If they become irrelevant,
Speaker:then the process right there becomes
Speaker:irrelevant. So week 2, Pastor Barbee
Speaker:was up again. And this is how she
Speaker:started. She said, after the first
Speaker:message on ancient wealth, she said,
Speaker:somebody contacted me this week.
Speaker:This is 4 weeks ago, 5 weeks ago. And
Speaker:she said, they asked me,
Speaker:What's it mean to dig wells? How do you dig wells? What
Speaker:does that look like to dig wells? I don't understand.
Speaker:And then she said, I don't wanna do this,
Speaker:but the Holy Ghost has told me to do it, so I'm going to do
Speaker:it. Now, I've known Barbie for
Speaker:32, 33 years. We know each other pretty well,
Speaker:and I know a lot about her ins and outs and her habits and her
Speaker:processing. So I know how she works.
Speaker:And she goes over and she gets a blanket, gets a bag full of tools,
Speaker:and she comes over and she sets it down. Then she— bless her heart—
Speaker:she plops herself down in front of everybody for the whole message.
Speaker:Never got up. She just sits there like she does in her office
Speaker:or her house or in the woods. or in an automobile
Speaker:or on a road trip or a vacation. I'll just keep going. That's what she
Speaker:does. That's who she is. That's what she does. Not a
Speaker:genius, not a, you know, not a super Christian. That's what she
Speaker:does. And she showed us how she does it. Right. And the
Speaker:reason she did it is pastoral. Somebody
Speaker:asked her a question. What does it mean? How does— what does
Speaker:digging wells look like? And her pastor's heart
Speaker:went, if somebody— if they've sent me that email or met me
Speaker:in the hallway, that represents more than one person. There's other
Speaker:people in this church that have the same question. So what I should
Speaker:do— Holy Ghost, what should I do? Holy Ghost goes, you just need to humble
Speaker:yourself and pick up some gear. You don't want to do that. You really don't
Speaker:want to draw attention to yourself. You really don't want to sit down on stage
Speaker:for an hour. But you need to do that. And you need to show
Speaker:them how you dig wells. That's what she
Speaker:did. Everybody in this church should be thankful for that. Yes.
Speaker:That is a tool. That is a pastoral
Speaker:show-and-tell tool to explain not how
Speaker:you should do it, how she does it.
Speaker:Because the question was to her, what's it— how does that
Speaker:work? The question wasn't, can I get the philosophy behind it?
Speaker:What do theologians say? They asked her how to do it,
Speaker:and she showed us how she does it.
Speaker:Now, in the process of doing that, what she effectively was doing is this.
Speaker:Barbie grew up in the hills of
Speaker:Tennessee, up in Dolly country. Shout it down. Don't shout me
Speaker:down. And she learned to
Speaker:cook what we would call home cooking from
Speaker:generations. If she learned it from her
Speaker:mom cooking, she learned it from her mom's mom.
Speaker:That's this. I'm sorry, that's the one we just looked at,
Speaker:the process of passing it to generations. Barbie can make some
Speaker:serious cornbread. Mm.
Speaker:But Barbie didn't invent the recipe. Right.
Speaker:But Barbie can make some serious cornbread.
Speaker:So what she did as part of the family
Speaker:is she sat down here and showed us
Speaker:how to make cornbread. Come on. Come on. That's what she did.
Speaker:Now watch, watch. I want a show of hands. I'm not
Speaker:messing with you. Yes, I am. I want a show of
Speaker:hands from these 2 sections, for real. And
Speaker:you won't be embarrassed. I'm not going to put you on the spot. I want
Speaker:to see a show of hands. How many of you can make good cornbread?
Speaker:Could I see your hand? Keep your
Speaker:hand up. Keep your hand up. Oh, I meant youngin'. Stop. Oh, youngin'.
Speaker:Stop it. Stop it. You're always doing this. Can you not pull him
Speaker:back a little?
Speaker:Now, now watch, watch.
Speaker:Literally watch one more time. Not
Speaker:you, not you. Could I see a show of hands
Speaker:if you know you can make good cornbread?
Speaker:Do you see this? Do you see this? Let me say it another way.
Speaker:Do you see the lack of this? Yes. Okay, now, if
Speaker:I said to any one of these people, would you— could
Speaker:you take— could I come over maybe Saturday? Could you make me some
Speaker:cornbread? I can try. Oh, I appreciate that. She said she could try.
Speaker:Look, that's good. Bless your heart.
Speaker:The point is the process
Speaker:has broken down. I
Speaker:can't get good cornbread Other than,
Speaker:you know, my wife's help. My wife would do well to pay
Speaker:attention to Barbie. No, no, no, no. Whoa,
Speaker:whoa, whoa. Whoa.
Speaker:Whoa. Look, look, look, look. We've been married
Speaker:46 years. What I said that she heard ain't a
Speaker:problem. It's not a problem, okay?
Speaker:I'm not being deferential to my wife.
Speaker:You see, you jumped ahead of me. You heard the
Speaker:punchline when there was no punchline. What I'm
Speaker:inferring, watch, this is the way my world works.
Speaker:What I'm inferring is Jeanne grew up in St. Louis and
Speaker:her mom was Italian and her mom's mom was Italian and
Speaker:they immigrated to California. Historically in
Speaker:their life, Jeanne didn't learn how to make good
Speaker:Southern cornbread. It's not her fault. Right.
Speaker:She makes good cornbread, but it's not as good as Barbie's
Speaker:because Barbie's got several generations
Speaker:of cornbread makers. So what they know how to do
Speaker:is make some serious cornbread. And I don't even
Speaker:have to embellish that by going, Think of the other ingredients,
Speaker:y'all. Think of the— you don't— think of the other
Speaker:side items that go with that
Speaker:cornbread. If I come back over here and go,
Speaker:do you know how to start from scratch? Start from scratch
Speaker:with dried beans and make some good beans? Hands won't— they won't go up.
Speaker:Oh, stop. You're not a kid.
Speaker:You— have I made enough of that point? Where this
Speaker:breaks down is we lose ancient history
Speaker:and we lose family connectivity. Y'all want some good
Speaker:banana pudding? Yeah. Would you raise your hand?
Speaker:Look, Justin will take orders.
Speaker:And knowing him, there'll probably be a surcharge.
Speaker:It's not 99. Right. But the
Speaker:point I'm making is it's generational
Speaker:transfer. It's how to get from one
Speaker:generation to another generation. And when a break— and
Speaker:a generation I'm rounding out biblically is 35 years, give or take.
Speaker:When enough generations go by where there's been a dent or a
Speaker:violation or a gap, You look up 100 years, 200 years,
Speaker:300 years down the road and you go, I don't have a clue
Speaker:about this or this or this or this or this.
Speaker:Doesn't mean people are stupid. Doesn't mean they're not
Speaker:interested in having a fully orbed life. It means nobody
Speaker:showed them what to do. Yes. Oh my
Speaker:God.
Speaker:Our responsibility is not to grow ourselves up in the kingdom.
Speaker:Our responsibility is to help grow others up in the
Speaker:kingdom.
Speaker:Take up a note.
Speaker:So that's what she did. Now, have you?
Speaker:Would you please? Thank you. Thank you.
Speaker:Family wells are shown to us by those from within our household.
Speaker:These wells are the ones that we are led to by our family
Speaker:elders. They've been dug out or fashioned to
Speaker:suit the needs of those within a specific community.
Speaker:Throughout our generational history, these wells have been
Speaker:maintained by those who have raised us to make
Speaker:certain that we would not have to do without.
Speaker:Life-giving water from these wells have been provided
Speaker:through the direct actions and stewardship of others
Speaker:within our family of faith. They are the ones who
Speaker:paid the price so that we can have a
Speaker:spiritual life source to drink from wherever we choose.
Speaker:Like these, like ancient wells, these family wells
Speaker:were not of our doing. They too have been provided for
Speaker:us and to us. However, they're more localized and
Speaker:smaller, in size and resource. In a sense, they
Speaker:could be called chosen wells, ones which
Speaker:have been established to sustain specific family groups in
Speaker:specific areas. You could think of your local church congregation
Speaker:as a place where such family wells can be found. Right.
Speaker:Please consider this: you must go
Speaker:where they are, the wells and the
Speaker:water they contain cannot come to you.
Speaker:You must position yourself near them if you
Speaker:expect or desire to drink from them.
Speaker:Third Sunday. Sorry,
Speaker:third Sunday, my bad.
Speaker:Pastor Allen, Brought the Word that Sunday.
Speaker:And the text that came to my mind in these notes from
Speaker:15-plus years ago is this: O God, Thou art my God.
Speaker:I seek Thee. My soul thirsts for Thee. My flesh
Speaker:faints for Thee as in a dry and weary land
Speaker:where there's no water. I'll dig a well.
Speaker:Amen. It's personal wealth. Hold
Speaker:your thought.
Speaker:No, would you— did you just read this? No.
Speaker:That's what I thought. Okay. Remember elder, elder?
Speaker:In the second service when Pastor Al was up, he was
Speaker:talking to everybody. He was talking about the need
Speaker:to dig our own wells, the need to own
Speaker:up to our personal responsibility to do this
Speaker:independent— no, no, no, in conjunction with ancient wells
Speaker:and family wells. This is the next
Speaker:extension of the process.
Speaker:And in his message, he walked over here.
Speaker:Not at the expense of the rest of the church, but he walked over here
Speaker:and this is what he did. He said, I'm
Speaker:paraphrasing, he said, I just need to talk to the young folks for a minute.
Speaker:And he didn't challenge you. He wasn't heavy-handed, but
Speaker:he encouraged you all
Speaker:to learn how to dig your own wells.
Speaker:Now, the beauty of that for me, because
Speaker:I was already carrying a bunch of this before I got here today,
Speaker:is when he did that, my heart leapt
Speaker:because what he was doing as an elder, as an older man, and as a
Speaker:spiritual elder and as a pastor, what he was doing
Speaker:is he was functioning pastorally to say to the
Speaker:kids, not, I challenge you, learn to
Speaker:memorize the book of Isaiah. No, no, no, no, no. He
Speaker:was saying, it's your
Speaker:responsibility.
Speaker:Yours. And since he was saying it to y'all
Speaker:at your age, he's sowing
Speaker:into your life to get a head start so that you don't lock
Speaker:up and— 20 years or 25 years or 45 years ago, I
Speaker:wish somebody had told me. Yes.
Speaker:Because he did tell you. He told us all.
Speaker:He said, we have— do this,
Speaker:do this. Take your finger and point directly at your heart.
Speaker:Please, everybody, just talk. It's no energy involved. You'll be fine.
Speaker:If I can do it at my age, you can do
Speaker:it. He's functionally
Speaker:saying, nobody can do this
Speaker:for me except me with the help of the Holy
Speaker:Ghost. Yes. Okay? That's what he's saying.
Speaker:And I rejoice. I'm going, this is huge. This is fabulous in
Speaker:this church because we're in this church. We're not in
Speaker:another church. So, when Will mentioned something about baby
Speaker:dedications and he said, you know, a healthy sign of a church is when you
Speaker:look, there's babies everywhere. Well, he's right. That is a
Speaker:sign of a healthy church. It's also signs of an active marriage.
Speaker:They can't fire me. I'm no longer on staff.
Speaker:And to push that point, I'm speaking today because Pastor
Speaker:Barbie said, will you do it? So if this is problematic,
Speaker:take it up with her. Oh, wait, she's not here.
Speaker:Oh, no, that's no fun if you do that. Okay,
Speaker:so would you now read that? Thank you.
Speaker:Personal wells. Personal wells are those which we have dug out
Speaker:with our own hands through the power of the Holy Ghost at work in us.
Speaker:and through the revelation that God has shown us personally.
Speaker:These wells are not due to the labor of others or
Speaker:someone else's personal sacrifices.
Speaker:These wells have required a price to be
Speaker:paid by us and no one else.
Speaker:We did not stumble upon them. We followed a
Speaker:pathway which the Lord led us down. Along
Speaker:the way, we were shown by the Spirit, shown by
Speaker:the Spirit where to stop and dig.
Speaker:Not only did we have to travel some
Speaker:distance seeking and following the
Speaker:Lord, but we also had to lean in and
Speaker:learn to listen for his direction—
Speaker:where to stop, what to lay aside, to dig
Speaker:down into what he has shown us through
Speaker:Personal struggle, divine guidance,
Speaker:and holy insight. We've acquired
Speaker:blisters on our hands, muscles in our
Speaker:arms, stronger backs, deeper
Speaker:emotional and mental resolve so that
Speaker:these personal water resources have
Speaker:come into being. Although they may
Speaker:from time to time serve others by
Speaker:providing them with much-needed
Speaker:refreshment through our witness, our
Speaker:story, our song, our teaching or
Speaker:preaching, our testimony, for the
Speaker:most part these wells are for us to
Speaker:drink from and to be renewed on a
Speaker:regular basis. They are the wells that
Speaker:could— we could perhaps Hang a sign on
Speaker:that has our name on it because they're
Speaker:ours, like our own property. But that
Speaker:too is a gift from God, a gift coming
Speaker:down from the Father of lights, in whom
Speaker:there is no shadow of turning.
Speaker:3 weeks ago, at the end of Pastor Allen's
Speaker:service, between services, Justin and I ended up
Speaker:here. And
Speaker:we were having a random conversation. I have no idea how we got
Speaker:into it, but we're right here.
Speaker:And Justin turns to me and he says, I'm paraphrasing,
Speaker:He says, let me tell you
Speaker:how I'm ending my service, or the service,
Speaker:which was last week. But this is the week
Speaker:before that. You know, that's important. That's important. That's
Speaker:important to where we're going for the next 10, 12 minutes. Okay?
Speaker:Really. He says,
Speaker:he tells me, He tells— he quotes me or almost quotes
Speaker:me. He quotes me how he's going to end the service.
Speaker:So I look back at him and I said, really?
Speaker:That's how I ended my notes 15-plus years ago.
Speaker:Same verse. And Justin goes—
Speaker:Justin didn't do this often. Justin went—
Speaker:My point is, my point is his mouth is
Speaker:open, but there's no words coming out.
Speaker:I don't have my wallet. I'll pay you after. Okay.
Speaker:Not only that.
Speaker:So when he said that in me,
Speaker:I said, well, I'm not going to use that verse to end
Speaker:because, you know, however you treat it
Speaker:in Justin's universe, how— that's a dangerous
Speaker:place to hang out. However he treats it
Speaker:will be enough. I don't need to go back and push that again
Speaker:or put— Push it. Yeah, push that again. And so I told him I was
Speaker:going to change it. And then during that week
Speaker:between 3 weeks ago and the end of his message
Speaker:last week, the Holy Ghost went, no, you need to go
Speaker:back to that verse because that verse needs to be unpacked
Speaker:in a way, not right or wrong, other, in an
Speaker:other way than what Justin did.
Speaker:So would you read that?
Speaker:Polluted wells. Polluted wells are sources we
Speaker:should no longer drink from, regardless of who dug them
Speaker:or how we were led to them. Such wells are
Speaker:dangerously unhealthy and should be sealed up and left
Speaker:deserted so that no one after us can try to draw
Speaker:water from them. They are poisoned and should be
Speaker:avoided at all cost. The enemy of our soul
Speaker:knows that if he can cut off our water supply,
Speaker:he can kill us. So anything and everything he
Speaker:can do to pollute the wells in our lives, he will
Speaker:try to do. He'll sneak up and pour all sorts
Speaker:of unholy, unhealthy, impure,
Speaker:vile things into them to sicken us. Or to
Speaker:make us so spiritually ill that our souls die from
Speaker:lack of pure, clean drinking water.
Speaker:That's one way that wells get polluted, but there are other
Speaker:ways that have nothing to do with the work of the enemy.
Speaker:These other ways are pollution done by us.
Speaker:We allow stagnation to set in.
Speaker:From lack of use, we stop
Speaker:dropping the joy bucket down. We no longer stir
Speaker:up the water. We allow it to stagnate where all
Speaker:types of impurities grow and fester and spread
Speaker:into the water source. When that happens, the
Speaker:water is harmful if you drink from it again. The best thing
Speaker:to do when that happens to a well Is to board it up
Speaker:and simply walk away.
Speaker:I would be remiss if I didn't do this. Would you please
Speaker:put your hand on your forehead and say to
Speaker:yourself quietly, engage.
Speaker:Okay, for the next 10-ish minutes. Hold
Speaker:that thought.
Speaker:But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
Speaker:Be appalled, O heavens, at this. Be shocked.
Speaker:Be utterly desolate, says the Lord.
Speaker:My people have committed 2
Speaker:evils. They have forsaken
Speaker:me, the fountain of living
Speaker:waters, And they've hewn
Speaker:out cisterns, wells, for
Speaker:themselves, broken
Speaker:cisterns, wells that can
Speaker:hold no water. Now, when
Speaker:this was spoken by the
Speaker:prophet, it too is at least,
Speaker:give or take, 3,000 years
Speaker:ago. So through the
Speaker:prophet, what he's saying,
Speaker:speaking for Jehovah, is
Speaker:that's a problem.
Speaker:Hallelujah. And it's a
Speaker:problem for those people
Speaker:back then. But it's a
Speaker:problem right now.
Speaker:Yes. Okay.
Speaker:Jehovah says there are 2 problems.
Speaker:First, they have forsaken me,
Speaker:Jehovah. The fountain of living water,
Speaker:comma, and then the second problem arises.
Speaker:Now watch, please. The second
Speaker:problem only arises because of the
Speaker:first problem. Right.
Speaker:Had the first problem not arisen,
Speaker:the second problem wouldn't be in the text.
Speaker:Yes. Because in order for the people that heard this prophetically,
Speaker:in order for them to do the second part, which is
Speaker:dig their own wells or their own cisterns
Speaker:without any direction from the Holy Ghost or any scriptural
Speaker:narrative or any reflecting to the Torah or any thus saith
Speaker:the Lord from anywhere, they just went Why not?
Speaker:I'm a free agent. Oh,
Speaker:push it, Wayne. I'm free in Christ. I can do pretty much what I
Speaker:want to because Jesus loves me. He's given me all kinds of warm
Speaker:and fuzzy grace. You better come on now. You better start
Speaker:preaching.
Speaker:They wouldn't have dug wells that would
Speaker:hold no water if they hadn't forsaken the
Speaker:fountain of living waters. Right. Now,
Speaker:here's why I wanted you to put your hand on your head and engage.
Speaker:Everything that we know or think we know
Speaker:about Scripture that references water— out of your belly flow living water,
Speaker:the streams of the Lord are full— there's any number of verses that we
Speaker:sort of know or kind of know that reference how
Speaker:water works or living water works or the
Speaker:water of life works. Any of those things, they're
Speaker:not necessarily wrong. But when we have those
Speaker:things in our head, when we read passages,
Speaker:we read them in a way— help me, Jesus—
Speaker:predicated on what we think we know from these little pieces of
Speaker:Scripture. Amen. That we sort of kind of think maybe they connect.
Speaker:And they don't necessarily connect. Now I'm going to show you why.
Speaker:And I'm going to refer you back to my disclaimer. You don't have
Speaker:to believe me. I just hope you
Speaker:receive what the Holy Ghost shows you. That's where I started.
Speaker:Yes. Forsaken. can mean
Speaker:disregard. It can mean pay no attention to.
Speaker:It can mean that's irrelevant or he's
Speaker:irrelevant. That's what it—
Speaker:if you work the language, that's what forsaken— forsaken doesn't mean, oh
Speaker:gee, I overlooked. Right. Oh, will you
Speaker:forgive me? I made a boo-boo.
Speaker:That's not what it means. It means that's really
Speaker:how He wants to do this. It's not really an
Speaker:issue for us. Oh my God.
Speaker:And then He says, they have forsaken me,
Speaker:the fountain. Stop. This is what I was
Speaker:just talking about. Don't run over to living water. Don't go
Speaker:there. Stop. Back up.
Speaker:They have forsaken me, the fountain.
Speaker:Now this is what happens in our heads. Some
Speaker:of us. This is what happens. We read, they
Speaker:have forsaken me, the fountain of living
Speaker:water, and we equate living waters with
Speaker:all these little pieces of passages and
Speaker:nuances that we think we know, and we
Speaker:connect it to the fountain of living
Speaker:waters. So what, Wayne? So we make
Speaker:everything we understand about living
Speaker:waters connected directly to the
Speaker:fountain. But the living waters are
Speaker:manifestations coming from the
Speaker:fountain. Living waters, however you
Speaker:know that phrase, However you know it,
Speaker:living waters has to have someplace to
Speaker:come from. That's right. It comes from
Speaker:someplace. And in this
Speaker:series, where it comes from is it comes from
Speaker:one or more living wells of salvation,
Speaker:which is where we started about the song from almost
Speaker:20 years ago. So this is what takes place.
Speaker:Fountain can mean source.
Speaker:Out loud one time to humor me, just say, my source. My
Speaker:source. Say it again with a little more gusto. My source.
Speaker:One more time with a little more gusto. My source. Thank
Speaker:you. Now, the problem with the first difficulty
Speaker:is not an issue about living waters.
Speaker:No! It's about an issue of being unengaged or disengaged
Speaker:or unconcerned or seeing the
Speaker:fountain as being irrelevant. Right. The
Speaker:fountain is where the water is! That's
Speaker:right. You can't get water out of something that doesn't have
Speaker:water in it. Amen. And what we do is we
Speaker:take this whole thing about— now I'm jumping
Speaker:to the New Covenant— Jesus being the, you
Speaker:know, the source of living water. Right,
Speaker:right, right, right, right. I know, I know
Speaker:that's going off in your heads. But what we do
Speaker:is we disconnect— no, no. We connect the water
Speaker:itself to the source and we ignore the source.
Speaker:Which is what they did right there. And that's
Speaker:what we're doing right now in the body of
Speaker:Christ on the planet. Because talking to—
Speaker:Jesus— talking to people about the living
Speaker:water coming out of our lives when we're not
Speaker:clear about where that source is in our lives
Speaker:is a big problem. Yeah.
Speaker:Because it tears our witness to pieces. You've
Speaker:got no leg to stand on. You've got no
Speaker:sponge to squeeze out with water in it. It's
Speaker:not there in the same way that the cornbread's not there.
Speaker:Come on. It's the same dynamic.
Speaker:What they did here— how am I? Okay. What they did here
Speaker:Is they did exactly, exactly
Speaker:what happened when Moses says to Aaron,
Speaker:what's this? And Aaron goes, oh, this?
Speaker:We were— the people, really not me, Moses,
Speaker:but the people were concerned. You've been gone and
Speaker:it's dark up there. There's clouds and lightning. They were concerned, we're going to be
Speaker:stuck here in the wilderness and you're not coming back. So they
Speaker:all fell back on the history of how they dealt with
Speaker:spirituality. And they went, we need an idol.
Speaker:And so I just trying to accommodate the people, I said, give me your jewelry.
Speaker:I love this. Don't y'all? We threw it in the fire. That's
Speaker:right. And out came this calf. Yeah.
Speaker:Tower of Babel. You know what we
Speaker:should do? We got this covered. We got
Speaker:off at this bus stop and we told Yahweh
Speaker:we can get off here and we've got it
Speaker:covered. So let's build a tower. And
Speaker:you go, well, Okay, sure, we can build
Speaker:a tower. And then somebody else says,
Speaker:you know what let's do? Let's build it
Speaker:to the heavens. And
Speaker:people go, great idea. That's this. Yes,
Speaker:it is. That's what this is.
Speaker:It's idolatry.
Speaker:The broken cisterns
Speaker:are idols.
Speaker:And our lives are full of broken cisterns.
Speaker:The problem isn't the broken cisterns. The
Speaker:problem is we disengaged from our source.
Speaker:Yes. Because the outworking from the source is living water.
Speaker:It's healing. It's hope. It's salvation. It's freedom. It's all the things
Speaker:in those definitions that I asked you to raise your hand about. All of those
Speaker:things are in the source. All of those things are in the source.
Speaker:If those things are not in your life, you have a source problem. Right.
Speaker:Yeah. I didn't address your salvation. I'm
Speaker:not talking about redemption. I'm talking about
Speaker:working this out in our
Speaker:lives. So what we have to do,
Speaker:I think, is we have to sort of pony up. Can
Speaker:I— does that phrase still work? Do you have any idea what pony up would
Speaker:mean? Not a clue. Do you know what a pony is?
Speaker:We need to step up to the plate. You know what that means? Yeah.
Speaker:Okay, I'm just messing with y'all. We have to own,
Speaker:personally and corporately, we have to own
Speaker:how disengaged we've become from the source.
Speaker:Yes. I'm not talking about salvation.
Speaker:I'm not talking about redemption. I'm not talking
Speaker:about infilling of the Holy Spirit. I'm not
Speaker:talking about any of that. I'm talking about where
Speaker:is your source? When you define your source and the
Speaker:stuff that comes out of the source, not the stuff,
Speaker:not the stuff, not the stuff. The stuff is all
Speaker:byproducts from the source. You get connected to
Speaker:the source, you get the stuff. It's so quiet in
Speaker:here. See,
Speaker:at my age— don't shout me down. I might not get
Speaker:another shot at y'all.
Speaker:Michael.
Speaker:We're gonna— we're gonna open the altar up.
Speaker:If you're here to help pray, would you come please?
Speaker:Quickly, please. And the altar's open for 2
Speaker:reasons specifically. If you have a prayer request, a
Speaker:prayer need that you need to bring up,
Speaker:you should do that. If
Speaker:there's a prayer need in your life based on the
Speaker:last hour, That has to do with
Speaker:recalibrating or refocusing or realigning
Speaker:or redirect— redirecting how you
Speaker:understand your source. And you need somebody—
Speaker:you need to actually— look at, look at me, look at me— you actually need
Speaker:to open your mouth to another saint and go,
Speaker:I'm not as connected to my source as I need to be. I'm saved,
Speaker:I'm redeemed, I'm going to heaven when I die, but I'm just not
Speaker:connected to the source like I need to be. You need to
Speaker:confess that.
Speaker:Watch. Conviction—
Speaker:this is free— conviction comes
Speaker:either from the Holy Ghost or through the Holy
Speaker:Ghost in other people or circumstances. In
Speaker:other words, the Holy Ghost can go zap
Speaker:You're convicted. Or the Holy Ghost can set up
Speaker:circumstances where you go, uh-oh. Or he can put people in your
Speaker:path going, you know, that's problematic. And conviction
Speaker:sets in. Conviction moves to confession.
Speaker:You don't get to confession till you've been convicted.
Speaker:You do not confess stuff that you aren't
Speaker:feeling convicted of. problematic about. This is
Speaker:Psalm 51. If you move from conviction to
Speaker:confession, the next step after opening
Speaker:your mouth— I have a, I have a, I have a, I have a
Speaker:problem. I'm not connected to my source like I need to be.
Speaker:What would— now that I've told you that, would you pray for me about that?
Speaker:That's confession. When that happens
Speaker:The next step is repentance, and
Speaker:repentance boiled down is changing the
Speaker:way we think. Watch, and
Speaker:I'll stop. Changing the way we think—
Speaker:repentance is not flipping a light switch and
Speaker:it's done. Oh, don't shout me down.
Speaker:Repentance is— it will take whatever
Speaker:However, whenever, for how long, until how I
Speaker:think that got me into this problem is now
Speaker:corrected. Right. You can't get to
Speaker:restoration and renewal and revival without going through
Speaker:repentance. And if you think repentance is a one-shot deal,
Speaker:you make a confession, they lay hands on me and I go, I'm going
Speaker:to repent. I'm not going to do that anymore. And I turn and
Speaker:walk away. If you think you're through, you are kidding
Speaker:yourself. Amen. That's just not biblical. Repentance is a
Speaker:process. It's not an event.
Speaker:Conviction is an event, more than likely.
Speaker:Confession is an event. Will you pray? I
Speaker:messed up. Repentance is not, well, that's
Speaker:done. Excuse me, and I'm through. Youngins,
Speaker:youngins. Hear what I'm saying. If you're
Speaker:like— not today, not tomorrow. If your life—
Speaker:if you look up and go, I'm— I've kind of gotten out of kilter here.
Speaker:The process is conviction, confession,
Speaker:repentance, restoration, renewal,
Speaker:revival. Amen. That
Speaker:process, any one of those steps you break out, Messes
Speaker:the process up. So now that I've made everybody feel
Speaker:really guilty, if you want to come, come. And would you all
Speaker:please get me out of this?
Speaker:Oh my goodness.
