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Jul 10, 2022

John - Timing is Everything (Living Water)

Passage: John 7:37-39

Speaker: Brian Land

Series: John: Come and See

Category: Grace Brevard

Keywords: hope, salvation, spirit, water, timing

Theme: In our driest and most desperate times, as we cry out for help, Jesus stands up and invites us into the pool of rescue. And not just for ourselves, but that these healing waters (The Holy Spirit) will flow into us as well as through us, bringing healing to the nations.

CENTRAL TEXT: John 7

1 After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He would not go about in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him. 2 Now the Jews’ Feast of Booths was at hand. 3 So his brothers said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea, that your disciples also may see the works you are doing. 4 For no one works in secret if he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.” 5 For not even his brothers believed in him. 6 Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always here. 7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil. 8 You go up to the feast. I am not going up to this feast, for my time has not yet fully come.” 9 After saying this, he remained in Galilee.

 

10 But after his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly but in private. 11 The Jews were looking for him at the feast, and saying, “Where is he?” 12 And there was much muttering about him among the people. While some said, “He is a good man,” others said, “No, he is leading the people astray.”

 

37 On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. 38 Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’” 39 Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

 

Background: The Feast of Booths (also known as the Feast of Tabernacles and the Feast of the Ingathering; “Sukkot” in Hebrew) was one of the Big Three Feasts when Israelites made a journey to Jerusalem for a week-long festival. This festival happened at the very end of the dry season when the people would praise, celebrate and ask the Lord to bring rain into the desert so that the crops would grow.


Theme: In our driest and most desperate times, as we cry out for help, Jesus stands up and invites us into the pool of rescue. And not just for ourselves, but that these healing waters (The Holy Spirit) will flow into us as well as through us, bringing healing to the nations.