{"id":6862,"date":"2015-08-29T00:05:16","date_gmt":"2015-08-29T07:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/?p=6862"},"modified":"2015-08-28T13:01:55","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T20:01:55","slug":"the-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2015\/08\/29\/the-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jesus said, \u201cI am with you for only a short time, and then I go to the one who sent me. You will look for me, but you will not find me; and where I am, you cannot come.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tThe Jews said to one another, \u201cWhere does this man intend to go that we cannot find him? Will he go where our people live scattered among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks? What did he mean when he said, \u2018You will look for me, but you will not find me,\u2019 and \u2018Where I am, you cannot come\u2019?\u201d<\/p>\n

\tOn the last and greatest day of the Feast, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, \u201cIf anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him.\u201d By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.<\/p>\n

\tOn hearing his words, some of the people said, \u201cSurely this man is the Prophet.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tOthers said, \u201cHe is the Christ.\u201d (John 7:33\u201341)
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\tTo close out the Feast of Tabernacles, the priest took a gold vessel full of water from the stream of Shiloah that flowed under the temple mountain. As he poured it on the altar, he quoted Isaiah 12:3 (NIV): \u201cWith joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation.\u201d <\/p>\n

\tThat closing ceremony served as the springboard for Jesus\u2019 proclamation that anyone who was thirsty could come to him. During his speech, Jesus alluded to a group of scriptures. There were Isaiah\u2019s words about streams of living water flowing from within (Isaiah 44:3 and 58:11). Isaiah identified that living water as the Spirit of God (Isaiah 44:3). Jeremiah also spoke about living water flowing from God (Jeremiah 2:13, 7:13. And Zechariah 14:8 spoke of living water pouring from Jerusalem when the Messiah came. That\u2019s why people who heard Jesus speaking that day were willing to identify him as the Messiah. <\/p>\n

\tThe people of Israel were intimately familiar with the words of scripture. They had heard and studied them their whole lives. When they heard Jesus speak, they heard those same words. They recognized them and understood their implications when Jesus applied them to their circumstances. The more we read and study the Bible, the more it will start to make sense to us\u2014and the greater our depth of comprehension will be.<\/p>\n

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