A Promised Fountain

 

Good day, I’m Duane Matz and this is Today’s Living Word.

 

Zec 13:1 "In that day a fountain shall be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.

So, if you follow my blog at all, you ought to know by now, that I feel very strongly about the present day church’s apathetic view of baptism. The urgency displayed by the early church concerning the command of Jesus to go and baptize is clearly missing.

 

“What are you waiting for?” (Acts 22:16) has been replaced by, “when we get around to it.”

 You can understand then, why I get a little excited when I see prophetic references to this powerful means of grace that God has put at our disposal in the New Covenant.

 

Such is the case here in Zechariah! “In that day,” the Day of the New Covenant ushered in by Jesus,  a fountain shall be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, (the New Testament church) for sin and for uncleanness. (This fountain will wash away sins and all manner of uncleanness.) This fountain is the water of baptism connected with the words and promise of Jesus. )

 

The early church was well aware of what Jesus promised to deliver in baptism and urgently brought it into play whenever the gospel was shared. Perhaps Ananias had this very passage from Zechariah in mind when he pled with Paul, Ac 22:16 'And now why are you waiting? Arise and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.'

Like I said, I love it when the Old Testament testifies to what is coming in the New, and such is the case here. Let us not waste what the Old Testament prophets wrote as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.

 

A fount was coming to the church. A means of grace that God would use to wash away sins. Let us avail ourselves of it ASAP.

 

I’m Duane Matz and that’s Today’s Living Word