Wells Without Water

October 22-24, 2013 Wells Without Water – Manna by Dorothy Callies

2 Peter 2:17 “These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever” (KJV).

Jude who is a half-brother of Jesus wrote this letter. “… clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees who fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots, raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness for ever” (Jude 1:12c-13 KJV).

Peter wrote “Those false prophets are like springs without water. They are like mists driven by a storm. The blackest darkness is reserved for them” (2Pet.2:17 NIRV).

Jude wrote “They are like stains at the meals you share. They eat too much. They have no shame. They are shepherds who feed only themselves. They are like clouds without rain. They are blown along by the wind. They are like trees in the fall. Since they have no fruit, they are pulled up. So they die twice. They are like wild waves of the sea. Their shame rises up like foam. They are like falling stars. God has reserved a place of very black darkness for them. He will keep them there forever” (Jude 1:12-13 NIRV).

The commentary from the Full Life Study Bible quoted what “twice dead” means. The apostate teachers among Jude’s readers are “twice dead” (literally, “twice having died”). The false teachers were once believers in Christ who had “passed from death into life” [John 5:24] but had sometime afterward severed (separated) their union with Christ and passed out of life back into death [Eph.2:1]. The word apostate means “giving up their previous loyalty to Christ.”

Paul wrote the reason for their spiritual death. “For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify (control) the deeds of the body, ye shall live” (Rom. 8:13 KJV). It was their failure to put to death the sinful deeds of the body that leads to spiritual death and the lost of inheritance in the kingdom of God. The words “ye shall die” mean that a Christian can pass from spiritual life back into spiritual death. It means that sin is always striving to regain control over us.

Like Jude quoted the kind of teachers who had no control over their flesh, their souls were lost. So how do we avoid this? In my translation what Paul meant, “If you through the Spirit do discipline the body that often tried to tempt you, you shall live.” It means that we as believers must continually decide whether we will surrender to the ‘pulling’ of the sinful human nature or surrender to the demands of the divine nature of which we partake in Christ living in us.

Wow! Now we know what it means “wells that has no water.” This is why Jesus said, “Come and drink” the living water. It is Jesus that keeps us alive. Keep drinking the Word of God from day to day. Amen!

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