Church discipline is neither popular nor a common practice in the church, and this is to be regretted. Its absence indicates that people have lost sight of the love and tenderness that is always to be behind it and of its necessity if those who err are to be restored (Derek Prime and Alistair Begg).
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FOUNTAINS and Springs

FOUNTAINS and Springs

FOUNTAINS and Springs

  1. Created by God # Ps 74:15 104:10
  2. God to be praised for # Re 14:7
  3. Come from the great deep # Ge 7:11 Job 38:16
  4. Found in hills and valleys # De 8:7 Ps 104:10
  5. Send forth each but one kind of water # Jas 3:11
  6. AFFORD 6a) Drink to the beasts

    # Ps 104:11

6b) Refreshment to the birds # Ps 104:12 6c) Fruitfulness to the earth # 1Ki 18:5 Joe 3:18 7) Frequented by travellers # Ge 16:7 8) Abound in Canaan # De 8:7 1Ki 18:5 9) Sometimes dried up # Isa 58:11 10) Drying up of, a severe punishment # Ps 107:33,34 Ho 13:15 11) CONSTANTLY FLOWING 11a) Especially esteemed # Isa 58:11 11b) Could not be ceremonially defiled # Le 11:36 12) Sometimes stopped or turned off to distress enemies # 2Ch 32:3,4 13) MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE 13a) In the way to Shur # Ge 16:7 13b) Of the waters of Nephtoah # Jos 15:9 13c) Of Jezreel # 1Sa 29:1 13d) Of Pisgah # De 4:49 13e) Upper and nether springs # Jos 15:19 Jud 1:15 14) ILLUSTRATIVE 14a) Of God # Ps 36:9 Jer 2:13 17:13 14b) Of Christ # Zec 13:1 14c) Of the Holy Spirit # Joh 7:38,39 14d) Of constant supplies of grace # Ps 87:7 14e) Of eternal life # Joh 4:14 Re 21:6 14f) Of the means of grace # Isa 41:18 Joe 3:18 14g) Of a good wife # Pr 5:18 14h) Of a numerous posterity # De 33:28 14i) Of spiritual wisdom # Pr 16:22 18:4 14j) Of the law of the wise # Pr 13:14 14k) Of godly fear # Pr 14:27 14l) (Sealed up,) of the church # So 4:12 14m) (Not failing,) of the church # Isa 58:11 14n) (Always flowing,) of unceasing wickedness of the Jews # Jer 6:7 14o) (Corrupt,) of the natural heart # Jas 3:11 Mt 15:18,19 14p) (Troubled,) of saints led astray # Pr 25:26