RE-DIGGING OLD WELLS Gen 26:15-18

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RE-DIGGING OLD WELLS Gen 26:15-18 Abimelech ordered Isaac to leave Phillista Isaac re-digs Abraham's wells Gen 26:18 Philistines had filled them Gen 26:15 Isaac gave wells same name as Abraham Christianity compared with water Jhn 4:14 Christ opened way to fountain Rev 21:6 Fountain clogged by human doctrines Prophesied 1Tim 4:1-3; 2Tim 4:3,4

RE-DIGGING OLD WELLS Gen 26:15-18 WELLS OPENED BY CHRIST One head Col 1:18; Eph 1:22,23 One faith Eph 4:5 One body Eph 4:4 One baptism Eph 4:5 Local Church government Acts 14:23; 1Pet 5:2; 1Tim 3:8-13 All sufficiency of God's word 2Tim 3:16,17; Gal 1:6-9; 2Jhn 1:9-11 God given names Matt 16:18; Rom 16:16; Acts 11:26

RE-DIGGING OLD WELLS Gen 26:15-18 THINGS THAT CLOGGED THESE WELLS Changed form of church government 3Jhn 1:9,10 Began to change approximately 150 AD 318 AD Bishops met at Nicea and in 325 AD wrote creed First Pope in 606 AD Human creeds became authority instead of Bible Began to have different faiths and bodies Lutherans 1530 AD (Martin Luther) Presbyterians 1536 AD (John Calvin) Church of England 1552 AD (Henry VIII) Baptist 1609 - 1611 (John Smyth) Episcopal 1789; Holiness 1890; Pentecostal 1900 Wearing human names condemned 1Cor 1:10-13

RE-DIGGING OLD WELLS Gen 26:15-18 ATTEMPTS TO RE-DIG WELLS OF GOD Reformers resulted in denominations mentioned Restorers went back to the original pattern (the seed Lk 8:11) James O'Kelly Methodist preacher Barton W. Stone Presbyterian preacher Thomas Campbell Presbyterian preacher Alexander Campbell and others Speak where the Bible speaks and be silent where the Bible is silent 1Pet 4:11 Principle of the seed Lk 8:11; Matt 24:35; Gal 1:7 Plant same seed today and get the same plant

RE-DIGGING OLD WELLS Gen 26:15-18 Be sure we go back to the Word of God Call Bible things by Bible names, do Bible things in Bible ways Dig out the original wells of God Speak as the oracles of god 1Pet 4:11