LIVING WATER
By Tuese Ahkiong on Wednesday, May 8, 2013 at 10:53pm
1. Jeremiah 2:13 for my
people have committed two evils: they have forsaken
me, the fountain of LIVING
WATERs, and hewed out
cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.
1st EVIL: Forsaking God as their living water. Living Water meaning source of life, sustenance, provision…
2nd EVIL: Creating idols that cannot satisfy and give true life, living waters.
2.
Jeremiah 17:13 O Lord, the hope of Israel, all
who forsake you shall be put to shame; those who turn away from you shall be
written in the earth, for they have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of LIVING
WATER.
3.
Zechariah 14:8 On
that day LIVING WATERS shall flow out from Jerusalem, half
of them to the eastern sea and half of them to the western sea. It shall
continue in summer as in winter.
JOHN 4:4-34 Woman at Well
4 And he (Jesus) had to pass through
Samaria. 5 So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the
field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob's well was
there; so Jesus, wearied as
he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth
hour.
7 A woman from Samaria came to draw
water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” 8 (For his disciples
had gone away into the city to buy food.) 9 The Samaritan woman
said to him, “How is it that you, a
Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (For Jews have no dealings
with Samaritans.) 10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the
gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would
have asked him, and he would have given you LIVING WATER.” 11 The woman said to him, “Sir,
you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get
that LIVING WATER? 12 Are
you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it
himself, as did his sons and his livestock.” 13 Jesus said to her,
“Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever
drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water
that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal
life.” 15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this
water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”
16 Jesus said to her, “Go,
call your husband, and come here.” 17 The woman
answered him, “I have no husband.”
Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’;
18 for you have had five
husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is
true.” 19 The
woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive
that you are a prophet. 20 Our
fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place
where people ought to worship.” 21 Jesus said to her, “Woman,
believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem
will you worship the Father. 22 You worship what you do not know;
we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 But the
hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in
spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. 24 God is spirit, and those
who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” 25 The
woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ).
When he comes, he will tell us all things.” 26 Jesus said to her,
“I who speak to you am he.”
27 Just then his disciples came back. They
marveled that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you
seek?” or, “Why are you talking with her?” 28 So the woman left her
water jar and went away into town and said to the people, 29 “Come,
see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?” 30 They
went out of the town and were coming to him.
31 Meanwhile
the disciples were urging him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.” 32 But he said
to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” 33 So
the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought him something to
eat?” 34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of
him who sent me and to accomplish his work.
4. John 6:35 Jesus said
to them, “I am the bread of
life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes
in me shall NEVER THIRST.
5. John 7:37-38 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.
38Whoever
believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers
of LIVING WATER.’”
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