Out of Your Heart Will Flow Rivers of Living Water. Jesus is in Jerusalem teaching a divided crowd of listeners. Some want him arrested. Verse 3. 0: “So they were seeking to arrest him.” Why? Because they saw him as a pretender who can’t possibly be the Messiah. Notice how they argue in verse 2. But we know where this man comes from, and when the Christ . But here Jesus is, a man from Nazareth, with no sudden appearance, and looking nothing like a Messiah. But others thought he was the Messiah — at least it was a good chance. Verse 3. 1: “Yet many of the people believed in him. Maybe their faith was real; maybe it wasn’t (like his brothers’ in verse 5). Divided Crowd, Opposition Intensifying. So they were divided. But the reason the opposition intensified in verse 3. Messiah, but because of what he said — and the most offensive part (and it remains offensive 2,0. Look at verses 2. So Jesus proclaimed, as he taught in the temple . But I have not come of my own accord. He who sent me is true, and him you do not know. I know him, for I come from him, and he sent me.”Don’t miss the words “him you do not know.” You, the most religious, the most privileged, the most well- taught people in the world, the people with the very oracles of God, the Jewish Scriptures — you do not know God. Watch TV shows and movies anytime, anywhere. Start your free month. Yookidoo - Flow 'N Fill Spout The Yookidoo Flow 'n Fill Spout water is drawn up through the spout creating an endless stream. There are 3 interchangeable tumblers. What can the Clear Flow? Walsh Inventor of the Clear Flow Enter here for a chance to win a Tutima M2 Seven Seas watch in this month's awesome aBlogtoWatch watch giveaway! A totally FREE powerful Customer Management Tool for all pool & spa pros. You can access Pleatco poolmate online or via the mobile app. A powerful, easy to use. The English version offers selected articles from. This is why you want to kill me. And since you don’t know him, you can’t recognize me. If You Reject Jesus, You Reject God. Over and over in this Gospel, Jesus makes plain that if you reject him as God’s Son, his Messiah, and as the supreme Treasure of your life, you don’t know God or honor God or love God or have God as your Father — no matter what your religion, and no matter what you say your relationship with God is. Is Game of Thrones on Redbox? Don’t bother checking your local Redbox for Game of Thrones episodes either, or any other HBO series for that matter. Here are five examples: John 5: 2. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.”John 5: 4. I know that you do not have the love of God within you. I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not receive me.”John 6: 4. Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me.”John 8: 1. You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”John 8: 4. If God were your Father, you would love me.”If you want to help somebody discern if he really knows God or not — say a Muslim or a Buddhist or a Hindu or a Jewish person, present him with Jesus Christ, the Son of God, crucified for sinners as the only hope of the world. What they make of him reveals whether they truly know God, or honor God, or love God, or have God as their Father. If they will not have Jesus as Lord and Savior, they do not have God as Father. Jesus’s Answer: Calm and Authoritative. This is why the crowds wanted him arrested in verse 3. Christ). But some thought he just might be the Messiah. And when the Pharisees got wind of that positive response, verse 3. The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these things about him, and the chief priests and Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.”We are not told until verses 4. Jesus responds with calm and authoritative words in verses 3. Jesus then said, “I will be with you a little longer, and then I am going to him who sent me. You will seek me and you will not find me. Where I am you cannot come.”In other words, you may try to arrest me but I will choose where I go, when I go, and who will follow. You can’t take me early. You won’t keep me here when I choose to leave. And you can’t follow me later. Your plans with me are futile. I have come to do my Father’s will, not yours. And in the way he has designed it. Their Clueless Response. In response to this calm authority, they are clueless. Verse 3. 6: “What does he mean by saying, . The Feast of Tabernacles, that brought him up to Jerusalem in the first place, is almost over. He is surrounded by people that want him arrested. The Pharisees have sent officers to do it. No One Speaks Like Jesus. Perhaps those officers are standing there in front of him waiting for him to slip. The officers that the Pharisees sent in verse 3. Pharisees in verses 4. Listen to what happens: “The officers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, . No one ever spoke like this man. So what Jesus is about to do at this moment into the face of Pharisees and chief priests and hostile crowds and arresting officers is speak words that no one has ever spoken. And these are the main focus of our message. Verses 3. 7–3. 9: 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. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, . Remember, he said,If anyone’s will is to do God’s will, he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own authority. The one who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true. Today the issue is: Why should you care? There are many true things that just don’t matter. You could believe them or not believe them, and it wouldn’t make much difference. So why should we care if Jesus is true? What difference will it make if we come to him as true or not? That’s what he tells us now. So you should ask now not only: Is he true? But also: Would I want him if he were true? What would it mean if I did come to him? What would it be like? Those are the questions Jesus is answering now. Extending an Open- Ended Invitation to His Enemies. And I hope you see that part of the answer to whether he is the kind of person you might want to come to is that he is speaking these words to his enemies. He is issuing a totally open- ended invitation to everyone in the sound of his voice, and in the sound of mine, to come to him and drink. And the only qualification he mentions is thirst. Verse 3. 7: “If anyone (anyone!) — any Pharisee, any chief priest, any officer trying to arrest me, any offended person — if anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.”Do you remember how near the end of his life Jesus looked out over this city and cried,O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not! This is one of those times. How many times have you heard him say this to you in your life? He is saying this to his enemies. And he is saying to you. What Coming to Him Means. And what would it mean if you came? Let’s answer that by looking at five things: the thirst, the coming to drink, the rivers that flow from the heart, the reference to the Spirit coming after Jesus is glorified, and the fact that this was prophesied in Scripture. Three Things Implied in Thirsting. Verse 3. 7: “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.” It seems to me that there are three wonderful things implied in the words “if anyone thirsts.” First is that the gift of the water is free. The condition you must meet is need. And the action you must take is to drink. There is no thought here of earning or meriting. Anyone who knows his own thirst is invited. Second, the human soul has thirst. We know he is not talking about physical thirst. But what he is saying is that the soul has something like physical thirst. When you go without water your body gets thirsty. And the soul, when it goes without God, gets thirsty. Your body was made to live on water. Your soul was made to live on God. This is the most important thing to know about yourself. You were made to live on God. You have a soul, a spirit. There is a you that is more than a body. And that you, if it does not drink from the greatness and wisdom and power and goodness and justice and holiness and love of God, will die of thirst. Third, implied in the word “thirst” is that what Jesus offers is satisfying. The aim of all theology, all study, all biblical learning, all preaching is to spread the satisfying banquet for you to eat with joy, and to protect the kitchen from poison. The aim of cooking is eating. The aim of digging wells and clearing springs is drinking. Everything Jesus came to do and teach is aimed at providing the soul with food and drink that satisfy forever. That’s what I see in the word “thirst.” The water is free. The soul has a thirst. And Jesus aims to satisfy the soul forever. Three Observations About Coming to Jesus to Drink. Versed 3. 7–3. 8: “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, . Recall John 6: 3. I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.” He is the bread of life. He is the living water. Our souls were made for Jesus. The ache in our hearts is at root an ache for Jesus. This is how the soul lives on God. It lives on Jesus. Second, the soul can drink. He is speaking spiritually, not materially, when he says, “Come to me and drink.” This drinking is not something you do with your mouth and your throat. You do it with your soul. You do it spiritually. You were made to do this. You are not a mere animal. You were made for this — coming, not physically, but spiritually, to Jesus, and drinking, swallowing the water for your soul that he is. Third, this coming and drinking are what it means to believe on Jesus. Verses 3. 7–3. 8: “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me . Coming and drinking Jesus is what happens when we believe. It’s what believe means. We saw it in the parallel structure of John 6: 3. I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.” Believing on Jesus is coming to him to eat and drink for our soul’s deepest satisfaction. So be done forever with the sad notion that saving faith — that believing on Jesus — is a mere decision to believe facts. It is a coming to him as a feast. A spring in the desert when we are dying of thirst. This is what the apostle John meant when he connected believing on Jesus and receiving Jesus in John 1: 1. Believing is receiving him as water, food, life for the soul. Richard Jordan. This collection is copyright . Richard Jordan, all rights reserved. Copyright administered by On Jordan's Banks Music Publishingon the web at www. On. Jordans. Banks. By request we are adding . They feature a consistent set of settings prepared especially for this purpose. These are original arrangements of all of the public. 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King's Lynn - Ralph Vaughn Williams 1. Arise, Your Light Has Come 6. Festal Song - W Walter 1. Jesus on the Mountain Peak 6. St Albinus - H Gauntlett 1. Alleluia, Song of Gladness 6. Praise, My Soul - J Goss 1. By the Babylonian Rivers 6. Kas Dziedaja - Latvian Folk. The Glory of These Forty Days 6. Erhalt Uns Herr - M Luther. O Sun of Justice 6. Jesu Dulcis Memoria - Plainsong mode 1. I Want Jesus to Walk with Me 6. Sojourner - American Spiritual. My Song is Love Unknown 6. Love Unknown - J Ireland 1. A New Commandment 6. New Commandment - Anonymous. Great God, Your Love Has Called us 6. Ryburn - N Crocker 1. Come Away to the Skies 6. Middlebury - Kentucky Harmony 1. When Israel Was in Egypt's Land 6. Tubmann - American Spiritual. I'm So Glad Jesus Lifted Me 6. Jesus Lifted Me - American Spiritual. We Walk by Faith and Not by Sight 6. Dunlap's Creek - S Mc. Farland 1. 81. 6 This Joyful Eastertide 6. Vruechten - Dutch Folk Alleluia Cannon 6. Mozart Alleluia - W Mozart 1. Christ Has Arisen, Alleluia 6. Mfurahini Haleluya - Tanzanian traditional O Spirit of Life 6. O Jesulein Suss - 1. O Holy Spirit, Root of Life 6. Puer Nobis - German folk. Shall We Gather at the River 6. Hanson Place - R Lowry 1. Baptized in Water 6. Bunessan - Gaelic tune I've Just Come from the Fountain 6. His Name So Sweet - American Spiritual. Wash, O God, Our Sons and Daughters 6. Beach Springs - Sacred Harp 1. Blessed Assurance 6. Assurance - P Knapp 1. I Received the Living God 7. Living God - Anonymous. What Feast of Love 7. Greensleeves - English ballad Father, We Thank You 7. Rendez A Dieu - L Bourgeois 1. Listen, God is Calling 7. Neno Lakem Mungu - Tanzanian Traditional. Open Your Ears, O Faithful People 7. Yisrael Y'oraita - Hassidic tune Word of God, Come Down on Earth 7. Liebster Jesu, Wir Sind Hier - J Ahle 1. Go, My Children, with My Blessing 7. Ar Hyd Y Nos - Welsh The Spirit Sends Us Forth to Serve 7. Chesterfield - T Haweis 1. Shalom 7. 24 - Shalom - Israeli traditional 1. O Light Whose Splendor Thrills 7. St Clement - C Scholefield 1. My Soul Proclaims Your Greatness 7. Kingsfold - English melody Create in Me a Clean Heart 7. Francke - J Freylinghausen 1. Our Father, We Have Wandered 7. Herzlich Tut Mich Verlangen - H Hassler 1. Softly and Tenderly Jesus is Calling 7. Thompson - W Thompson 1. God! When Human Bonds Are Broken 7. Merton - W Monk 1. There Is a Balm in Gilead 7. Balm in Gilead - American Spiritual. Thy Holy Wings 7. Bred Dina Vida Vingar - Swedish folk Come, We That Love the Lord 7. Marching to Zion - R Lowry 1. Awake, O Sleeper 7. Azmon - C Glaser 1. Day by Day 7. 46 - Blott en Dag - O Ahnfelt 1. Christ Is Made the Sure Foundation 7. Westminster Abbey - H Purcell 1. When Love Is Found 7. O Waly Waly - English tune. As Man and Woman We Were Made 7. Sussex Carol - English folk We All Are One in Mission 7. Kuortane - Finnish folk Accept, O Lord, the Gifts We Bring 7. Barbara Allen - English folk. For the Fruit of All Creatures 7. Ar Hyd Y Nos - Welsh Now We Offer 7. Te Ofrecemos - Nicaraguan folk O Day of Peace 7. Jerusalem - C Parry 1. Let Justice Flow like Streams 7. St Thomas - A Williams 1. All Things Bright and Beautiful 7. Royal Oak - English folk He Comes to Us as One Unknown 7. Repton - C Parry 1. Dona Nobis Pacem 7. Donna Nobis Pacem - traditional Be Thou My Vision 7. Slane - Irish folk In the Morning When I Rise 7. Give Me Jesus - American spiritual. O Christ the Same 7. Londonderry Air - Irish folk What a Fellowship, What a Joy Divine 7. Showalter - A Showalter 1. My Life Flows on in Endless Song 7. How Can I Keep From Singing - R Lowry 1. Glory to God, Glory in the Highest 7. Gloria Peru - Peruvian traditional Amen, Hallelujah 7. Amin Haleluya - Javanese Shout for Joy Loud and Long 7. Personent Hodie - Piae cantiones 1. Many and Great, O God, Are Your Works 7. Lac Qui Parle - Dakota traditional Oh Sing to the Lord 7. Cantad Al Senor - Brazilian folk My Lord of Light 7. Barbara Allen - English folk O God Beyond All Praising 7. Thaxted - G Holst 1. Bless the Lord, O My Soul 7. Praise Psalm 1. 03 - traditional. When in Our Music God Is Glorified 8. Engelberg - C Stanford 1.
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