He Got Vinegar. You Want a Fingertip.

Jesus asked for a drink of water at Jacob's well. It was a simple request. He was tired, it was hot, and there was a well right there.

He never got it. The woman had questions. About race. About Jacob. About buckets and rope and how deep the well was. Anything but water.

So He goes to the cross in John 19 and says "I thirst" — and this time they hand Him vinegar mingled with gall.

He asked twice. He got nothing both times.

Now look at Luke 16. The rich man dies without Christ. He lifts his eyes in hell, sees Abraham far off with Lazarus at his side, and he's not asking for much. He just wants someone to dip a fingertip in water and touch his tongue. One fingertip. That's all. Because the torment is that bad.

He doesn't get it.

This is a man who had every opportunity to drink living water while he was alive. Jesus offered it freely — "whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst" — John 4:14. The rich man passed on it. Maybe he was too busy. Maybe religion got in the way. Maybe he just never got around to it.

But now he's begging for what lost men wouldn't give. That's the heart of mankind without Christ — too proud, too busy, too distracted to give the Lord what he asked for, and now in eternity desperate for what they refused to receive.

That's where this road goes.

Jesus asked for water at a well and didn't get it. He said He was thirsty on the cross and He still didn't get it. But He's been offering living water ever since. Don't make Him ask twice.

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Pastor Fortunato
Founding Pastor & Preacher of the Word.
Pilgrim Baptist Church — Cookeville, Tennessee

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