Title: If Anyone Thirst / John 7:37
Topic: If anyone thirsts / John 7:37-
1. On the big day that is the end of the holiday
1) The festival here means the Feast of Tabernacles.
The Feast of Tabernacles is a festival in which the whole family goes out to Jerusalem and the surrounding wilderness, builds tents with beautiful tree branches, olive trees, palm trees, and other luxuriant trees, and spends a week in the scorching wilderness. At this time, 70 cattle were burnt to God, the Law was read every day, and the trumpet was blown 21 times, and the wives performed beautiful performances at night.
This falls around October according to the Gregorian calendar, and is also a festival that also serves as an Israeli harvest festival.
2) On the last day of the holiday, a special event was held to wait for the next year's rain.
① The last day was a holy day, a day to pray for rain.
② On the last great day, there was an event to bring water from the spring of Siloam, and the priests drew water from jars of pure gold, entered the city of Jerusalem and circled the altar seven times, then poured water.
Many people also form a procession in two rows, draw water from water jars, and bring it to the temple altar.
poured
This event was to commemorate God's watering of the rock in the wilderness.
③ At this time the priests
Isaiah 12:3 With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation.
praised
④The people praised Psalms 113 and 118.
**The meaning of this day is to give thanks for watering the harvest and to pray for rain in the next year.
Deuteronomy 11:14 The LORD will give your land the early rain and the late rain.
The rain will fall at the right time.
You will get grain and wine and oil.
2. Jesus stood up and cried, saying, If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.
The Lord stood at the place where the priest brought water from a golden jar and spoke with a loud voice.
there is
1) If anyone is thirsty
①The Jews are now observing the event of wishing for rain with earnest heart, but the Lord is pointing out that they are in a state of spiritual thirst for those who only think of physical thirst.
②Everyone is in a state of [spiritual] thirst.
③ Just as the world gives you the water, just as you will become thirsty again after a while after drinking it.
Spiritual satisfaction is instantaneous and keeps you thirsty.
Ecclesiastes 5:10 A lover of silver is not satisfied with silver, but a lover of abundance with income.
There is no satisfaction; this too is in vain.
2) come to me
① It is a powerful call from the Lord.
Isaiah 55:1 Come, you who thirst, come to the waters, and he who has no money, come, buy and eat; come, buy wine and milk, without money and without price.
Revelation 22:17 The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come,” and those who hear will say, “Come.” He who is thirsty will come, and whoever wants, let him receive the water of life without price.
② It means to come to the Lord, not elsewhere.
3) Drink!
① To drink is to go to Christ and [drink], that is, [to receive].
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3. He who believes in me, as the Bible says, from his belly will flow rivers of living water.
1) He who believes in me
①To all who believe
2) Just like the name in the Bible
①Where does this word appear in the Bible?
Isaiah 35:6 Then the lame will leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute will sing,
For waters will flow from the wilderness, and streams from the desert will flow.
Isaiah 35:7 The scorching desert shall be turned into a lake, and the dry land shall be turned into a fountain;
Isaiah 44:3 For I give water to the thirsty, and streams on the dry land,
I will put my spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your descendants.
Isaiah 58:11 I, the LORD, will guide you always, and satisfy your soul in dry places.
I will strengthen your bones, and you will be like a watered garden, a fountain from which water never fails.
will be the same
Zechariah 14:8 On that day living water will spring up from Jerusalem and flow half to the East Sea and half to the West Sea, both in summer and in winter.
3) Rivers of living water will flow out of it.
① On that ship
The word [pear] originally came from the word [empty], but in humans, the stomach is always
It is a part that needs to be filled, and it is a part that is not satisfied.
[pear] can also mean a deep [inner person].
John 4:14 He who drinks the water that I give will never thirst; the water that I give
It will become a spring of water springing up into eternal life.
② River of living water
It's not that humans make living water. This is what the Lord has given.
*Jesus' words
John 3:5 Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
John 4:14 He who drinks the water that I give will never thirst; the water that I give
It will become a spring of water springing up into eternal life.
③It will flow
It is full and overflowing. Satisfy and overflow
Psalm 107:9 He satisfies the longing soul,
He fills the hungry soul with good things.
4. He spoke of the Holy Spirit, whom those who believe in him will receive.
(Because Jesus had not yet been glorified, the Holy Spirit was not yet upon them.)
1) The fact that the Holy Spirit has not yet been in us means that the Holy Spirit was there before the foundation of the world,
It is that the indwelling of the Holy Spirit through the coming of the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost after the Lord's cross and resurrection and ascension into heaven has not yet been realized.
[Kim 3:24]
He who keeps his commandments abides in the Lord, and the Lord abides in him, and we know that he abides in us by the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
[KJV] 1 John 4:13
We know that we abide in him, and he abides in us, because he gives us his Holy Spirit.
2) It is accomplished through the coming of the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost.
Acts 2:1 When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all gathered together in one place.
Acts 2:2 Suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a rushing strong wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.
Acts 2:3 And they saw them cleft like tongues of fire, and it rested upon each one.
Acts 2:4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
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1. Let us drink the living water of the Lord and be filled.
2. Let's move on to a life where we never go again