The fountain gate

 THE FOUNTAIN GATE 

Nehemiah 3:15 Shallun the son of Col-Hozeh, leader of the district of Mizpah, repaired the Fountain Gate; he built it, covered it, hung its doors with its bolts and bars, and repaired the wall of the Pool of Shelah by the King’s Garden.

The Fountain Gate was on the east wall, just north of the Dung Gate, in a very strategic location near the Pool of Siloam. The Gihon Spring that fed the water system was an important source of water in the city. In the Bible, water fountains are a picture of the Spirit.

💦John 7:37-39 If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water. But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive💦.

Only the Holy Spirit can empower the Christian life.

Jesus' command to come and drink is in the present tense.

❓What does that mean?

Christ doesn't want us to drink once and then leave. He wants us to continually drink from His unlimited source. For without Him we can do nothing

Paul gives a similar command:

🎶Ephesians 5:18-19: Be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord. 🎶

Again the command to be filled is in the present tense. The result is rivers of living water flowing from out of our hearts.

❓ How do you know when these rivers are flowing ?

🎤When you speak to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs

🎶When you sing and make melody in your heart to the Lord.

Spiritually speaking, we have moved from the Valley Gate, humility to the Dung Gate, cleansing to the Fountain Gate fullness of the Spirit.

Valley gate(humility)----> Dung gate(cleansing)-----> Fountain gate (fullness of Spirit).

APPLICATION⛲

❓ Have you come to the fountain gate?

❓ Are you continually drawing living water from Jesus Christ?

❓ Are you filled with His Holy Spirit?

❓ Do you have a song in your heart?

If you don't have a song in your heart I would suggest it is because you aren't drawing on Christ. I would suggest that you aren't spending time alone with Him and seeking Him through out the day.