DRINK
OF THE LIVING WATER
AND
YOU SHALL LIVE WITH LOVE ETERNALLY
07-17-22
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DRINK
OF THE LIVING WATER
(John
4:1-8)
When therefore the Lord [Jesus Christ] knew how the
Pharisees [Heb: separatists, exclusively religious] [no
interaction
with “sinners”] had heard that Jesus [Heb:
Jehovah-saved
/// (the) self Existent or eternal] made and baptized [Gk:
to make whelmed (fully wet)] [i.e., fully immersed]
more
disciples than John [the Baptist], (Though Jesus
himself baptized
not [because He is the water of the word of God (John 1:14,
the
Bible) into which we are baptized (immersed)], but
his
disciples [baptized],) He left Judaea [Heb:
celebrated], and departed again into Galilee [Heb:
the
heathen circle] [i.e., born in sin, die in sin]. And he
must needs
go through Samaria [Heb: a watch station]
[geographically located
between Judaea and Galilee]. Then cometh he to a city of
Samaria,
which is called Sychar [Heb: an intoxicant, intensely
alcoholic
liquor: strong drink, drunkard] [Dake’s: “falsehood and
drunkenness”],
near to the parcel of ground that Jacob [Heb:
heel-catcher
(supplanter)] [a trickster, later renamed, upon his conversion
(Gen
32:28), as “Israel” (Heb: he will rule as God)] gave to his son Joseph
[Heb: let him add, adding] [a seemingly perfect
type and
shadow of Jesus Christ]. Now Jacob's well [Gk:
(through the idea of gushing plumply); a fount, a source or supply of
water:
fountain] was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied
with
his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth
hour [about
noon]. There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw
[Gk:
to bale up, (with a bucket, pitcher, etc.)] water: Jesus
saith
unto her, Give me to drink [i.e., Jesus is
quietly but
clearly demanding a personal sacrifice from the woman]. (For
his
disciples [Gk: learners, pupils] [students] were gone
away unto
the [Samaritan] city to buy meat [Gk: food].)
(John
4:9-12)
Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it
that thou,
being a Jew [Heb: belonging to Judah], askest
drink of me,
which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings [Dake’s:
“familiar intercourse or hospitality. Ordinary buying and selling were
carried
on” v.8] with the Samaritans. Jesus answered and said unto
her, If
thou knewest the gift of God [i.e., the Holy Spirit,
like
(as evidenced by) Lot who knew (perceived) the two men entering Sodom
as Angels],
and who it is that saith to thee [i.e.,
who recognized
Me as Holy, as did Lot], Give me to drink; thou
wouldest
have asked of him, and he would have given thee [Dake’s:
“unfailing and
eternal”] living water
[1,2]. The woman [not yet understanding; still
being naturally
minded] saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw [the
water] with [Gk: a baling vessel /// bucket,
pitcher],
and the well [Gk: a hole in the ground, a cistern or
well; fig.
an abyss (as a prison): pit] is deep [Gk:
profound (as
going down)]: from whence then [inferring: How then? You
certainly can’t reach it with your hands] hast thou that living water? Art thou greater
than our
father Jacob [Heb: heel-catcher (supplanter)] [vs. Israel],
which gave us the well [(herein a type and
shadow of the
natural world)] [vs. the spiritual world], and drank
thereof
himself, and his children, and his cattle?
1.
(Jer 2:11-13) Hath a nation changed
[Heb:
disposed
of: removed] their gods, which are yet no
gods? but my people [Heb:
fig. flock] have changed [Heb:
disposed of: removed] their glory [Heb:
weight, fig. splendor or copiousness (syn:
abundance, prosperity)] for that which doth not
profit
[themselves
or Me]. Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be
horribly afraid, be
ye very desolate [Heb:
parched
(through drought)], saith the LORD. For my people have
committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain
[Heb:
the source of flowing water; fig. happiness,
wisdom: well, spring] of living waters, and hewed them out [made
for themselves] cisterns [Heb:
containers] [the “traditions” (rules,
regulations, policies) of men)], broken [flawed,
defective, imperfect] cisterns, that can hold no
water [a
type and
shadow of the Holy Spirit of God].
2.
(Jer
17:13) O LORD [Heb:
Jehovah], the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee
shall be
ashamed [Heb: become dry], and they that depart
from me
shall be written [Heb: to grave] [en-graved]
in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the
fountain [Heb:
the
source of flowing water; fig. happiness, wisdom: well, spring] of
living waters.
THE
BIBLE IS A WELL OF WATER
(John
4:13-15)
Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever
drinketh
of this water [from Jacob’s well (the natural
man)]
shall thirst again: But whosoever
drinketh of the
water that I shall give him [1] shall never thirst; but the water that I
shall give him shall be in
him [IN HIM] a well of
water [that
Jesus Christ (John 1:14) hath dug]
springing up
into everlasting life. The woman saith unto him,
Sir, give
me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to
draw.
1.
Commentary:
“I shall give him” = the water
of the Word of God
(Eph 5:26); “the water that was made wine” (John 2:9); the logos
(seed) water that was converted into rhema (fruit)
revelations
gushing forth from the well of Jesus Christ, i.e., from the Bible (John
1:14);
the water of the word of God transformed into the (intoxicating) wine
of the
Holy Spirit which was inside Jesus Christ who is the Bible
(well) made
flesh.
IN
THE LAST DAY
(John
7:37-39)
In the last day [i.e., the 8th day,
symbolizing a
new beginning], that great day of the feast [of
Tabernacles,
the feast of “the fruit of the land” Lev 23:39, i.e.,
revelations],
Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me [the
Bible], and drink
[Gk:
imbibe]. He
that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said [1],
out of his belly [“Out
from his innermost being” Amplif. Bible] shall
flow rivers of living water. (But this spake he of the
Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for
the Holy
Ghost was not yet given; becaus that Jesus was not yet glorified.)
1.
(Joel
2:28-32) And it shall come
to pass afterward that [i.e., after
the
Great Tribulation, then shall begin the thousand years Millennium reign
when],
I will pour out [the
living water of] my
[Holy] spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your
daughters shall
prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men
shall see
visions: And also upon the servants and upon the
handmaids in
those days will I pour out my [Holy] spirit. And I will shew wonders
in the
heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of
smoke. The
sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood,
before the [very]
great [for
us] and the [very] terrible [for
them]
day of [the “great white throne” judgment (Rev 20:11) of]
the
LORD come [Joel 2:1-3]. And it shall come to
pass, that whosoever shall call on
the name of the LORD shall be delivered [Heb:
escape, rescued: (be)
saved]: for in mount Zion [shepherds] and in
Jerusalem [sheep]
shall be deliverance [Heb: an escaped portion] [of
people],
as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant [Heb:
survivors]
[outliers] whom the LORD shall call.
“God is love”