SCRIPTURE: Genesis 1:1-13 (Page1);  John 4:1-15 (Page 1263)
SERMON: Water									 2 December 2001

I.	WATER IN CREATION (Gen.1)

A.	THE SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING (1:2; see Jn.1:3; 1Cor.8:6; Col.1:16; Heb.1:2)

B.	FORMED FOR FILLING (1:2a; 6f,9f; see 14f, 20; see Ps.33:7; 104:2-9; Prov.3:20; 8:27-29; see 2Pt.3:5)

C.	UNINHABITABLE/HABITABLE (1:7a,9a/1:7b,9b-13(29),24f(9:3); see Is.45:18; Ps.115:3)

II.	WATER IN PROVIDENCE (Gen.1,2)

A.	THE UNINHABITABLE DEEPS (1:2; 7:17f; 8:2(2Pt.3:5,6); Ex.15:5,8; Ps.69:14,15; 90:5; Ezk.26:19; Jon.2:3; 2Cor.11:25)

B.	THE HABITABLE LAND (Gen.1:6,7; see Gen.2:6,10-14; Ps.1:3; 104:10f; see Dt.11:10,11(Gen.1:7))

III.	WATER IN REDEMPTION

A.	FROM GARDEN TO WILDERNESS
1.	righteousness: the Garden of God (Gen.1:6-8; 2:6,10-14; see Song 4:15; Ezk.31:5,8,9; see Eph.4:24; Gen.1:26f)

2.	sin: a dry and thirsty land (Gen.3:23,24; see Ps.107:33,34; Ezk.19:10f,13)

B.	PICTURES OF PROMISE
1.	reversal and an guarded door (Gen.3:15,24; see 2:9,10f)

2.	the promised land (Dt.11:10,11; see Gen.2:10f; 13:10; 15:18; 1Kngs.4:21; Ps.72:8)

3.	the promised garden/pasture (Is.58:11; Jer.31:12; (49:19; 50:44); see 1Cor.3:6)

4.	visions of renewing waters (Ezk.47:1-12; Zech.14:8(13:1); see Ps.126:4)

C.	PROMISE FULFILLED 
1.	reversal and an opened way (Heb.10:19f; 9:8f; see Gen.3:15,24)

2.	provision of renewing waters begun (Jn.4:10,14; 7:37-39(Gen.1:2!); see Jer.2:13; 17:13; Zech.14:8)

3.	provision of renewing waters completed (Rev.7:17; 21:6; 22:1,17; see Gen.3:23,24; 2:9,10f)

4.	rain from heaven (Dt.11:10,11; see Jn.6:33,35,51 with 4:14; 7:38; see Gen.1:6-8; 2:9,10f)

D.	SUMMARY: A RENEWED CREATION (2Cor.5:17;20,21; Rev.21:1; 22:1f; see Rom.6:11; 8:13,23)

IV.	DRINK! (Jn.4:14; 7:37,38(6:54,40); Rev.7:17; 21:6; 22:1,17; Ps.36:8,9)