Finding Life in the Inverted World (John 7:32-52 Jeff Kliewer)

Psalm 93, God’s Kingship, and Church Announcements

Thank you. Before I get into what I want to talk about this morning, I want to at least acknowledge, if there are anybody here who's in high school, that's a little bit before your time. Sorry, man. But if you're in high school, there is a high school Sunday school class that is kicked off today, so feel free to please join in with them.

I want to open us in Psalm 93. Now before I do that, a little bit of history lesson about the nation of Israel. As they are in the promised land, and God is their king, and they have judges. The people get jealous, and they look around at the other nations, and they start to grumble.

And they say, we want to be like the other nations. We want a king. And this is an unfortunate profession. But the psalmist in Psalm 95 verse three says, for the Lord is a great God, and a great king above all other gods.

If we choose to not let him be sovereign in our life, we are accepting another god as perhaps our king. Israel had grown jealous. They wanted to be like other nations. But we do have a Lord and our king, and he is above all.

I just want you to realize, there is nothing the world can give you to offer you that is in any way better. We do not need another king. We have our king, and he is in heaven. The psalmist goes on then in verse six.

Let us kneel before the Lord, our maker. This morning as we were praying before the first service, the first, Phil was actually praying that we would be in awe because we are actually in the presence of our very God.

The psalmist said, let us kneel before the Lord, our maker. But this morning as we gather together, in fact, all week long, every day, we should be in awe, and we should be kneeling before the Lord, our maker.

That's who we are. We gather together in that way. I have some announcements. There are some amazing things going on for you to be aware of. This thing just did finish. Between the first and second service, my wife had different women come together who are willing to participate, planning for a women's tea that's coming up very soon.

If you are interested in participating in planning for the women's tea, you weren't able to make this meeting this morning, contact my wife. She would love to have as many women participate in that as they could, but that tea is coming up.

There is a congregational meeting tomorrow, seven o 'clock, here in the church. We invite members and people who are just part of us.

To come.

Several things are gonna happen. It's going to be a great meeting. We're gonna be presenting and looking for affirmation for individuals, new members of our church. We also have a topic that we want to bring up for discussion, a potential bylaw amendment having to do with the office of deacon, and there's gonna be some discussion regarding the ministries of our church, of our denomination.

So please, if you have that opportunity, please come and be part of that meeting. Today, and right now, as I said, the second service, Sunday school, is starting. The high school are being taught. Eric Meyer is teaching a two-week class.

So if you're in high school, please join with Eric today and next Sunday. After that, the Sunday school offering will be a starting point class. If you are new to us, you would like to learn more about us, it's a great place to go.

It's three weeks. You will learn about our statement of faith,.

What we believe.

You will learn about the Evangelical Free Church of America, who they are, and what they are all about. And then you will eventually learn about our own church here at Cornerstone. It's a great place to learn and to get aware of who we are.

If you are interested in membership, it's also a great place to start out. So that will be the first three weeks of February. There is going to be, next Sunday, following second service, a planning meeting for VBS, Vacation Bible School.

We are already anticipating a VBS this summer, and we're going to do it together with The Rock. So next Sunday, if you are at all interested in being part of it, please stay after second service. There will be a brief initial meeting organizing that.

The men, next Sunday, are going to have a fellowship. This has been going on for a while, but there is one change. The men have been meeting on the Championship Sunday, the AFC Championship game, the NFC Championship game.

I guess this is predominantly an NFC church.

Yes.

Okay.

The Eagles, the Giants, the Redskins, the Cowboys, I'm a Bears fan, don't judge me, but we have always, for many, many years now, probably for like 20 years, we've been getting together on Sunday, AFC Championship Sunday, and the NFC has always been the second game.

So that was what the plan was. But the NFC has changed up, and this year, the NFC is the early game. So the men's fellowship next Sunday will be at three o 'clock and they can't show up at one o 'clock.

No, okay.

Kickoff is at three, you can come a little before. We're going to be eating halftime and onward. So it gives you a chance to kind of digest your lunch. So because we changed it, it was easier to do later.

And we still request that you go online, either on the app or on the website, sign up. It's, I believe, $12 for adults and five for 14 and under. So it will be at the Stockland House, gentlemen, a great time of fellowship.

We had such an amazing response to the Options Pregnancy Center with the bottles that would be filled with change checks. I don't know that they're accepting Bitcoin, but we ran out of bottles, but we have more.

So we contacted them and there are more bottles out there. If you want to partake in it, couldn't get a bottle, they are out there. So be part of that. There is a workday being planned in the middle of February on a Saturday, the 18th.

You will hear more information about that, but you can put that on your schedule. It will be a morning event indoors doing things like paint and spackling and stuff like that. We have a ministry that's been going on, a fellowship that started here in January.

We're on a Wednesday, there was to be a game night, and then two weeks later there would be a movie night and they alternate like that. This week is a scheduled movie night at the Wednesday Night Affair.

But because of the movie that's out now, the left-behind movie, Rise of the Antichrist, which starts on Thursday, don't come here Wednesday. If you want to be part of our movie fellowship, go to the Morristown Regal for the seven o 'clock showing of the left-behind movie, Rise of the Antichrist.

That's where we will have our fellowship. Everybody just buy your own tickets when you get there. That's when that fellowship will be. Time to turn to prayer. Father, we come before you in awe. We come before you not because we earned the privilege, but because of your love.

God is love. We come before you because even when we were sinners, you loved us and sent your Son. We come to you bowing to you, our Lord and our King. And we come to you confessing your sovereignty. Lord, in this world we will encounter trials and tribulations, we will be tempted by this world to move in the wrong direction.

Our heart's desire is to follow you. And so, oh Lord, we need the power of your Holy Spirit within us to remain true to you, true to your word. We need the power of your Holy Spirit so that we will be bold in following you, saying no to the pressures of this world.

Let the world see us stand for you. And as the psalmist says, let us bow the knee before the Lord, our maker. Father, this morning we come desiring to know you, desiring to draw closer to you. We pray, Lord, for those many in our midst who are in need, perhaps suffering the loss, perhaps having physical ailments.

We don't forget, Lord, we pray. Father, this morning we pray, even as Jesus taught us the way we should pray, we say, Lord, your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Let us kneel before the Lord, our maker.

Speak to us, we pray, this morning, Lord, that your spirit opens our hearts and prepare our pastor Jeff with the words that we should hear. We pray these things in Jesus' name, amen.

Praise, Mercy, and Psalm 51:6

Let's stand together. I hope you had time this past week, as I encouraged you last week, to read Psalm 148. I wanna read something that allows us to just hone in on the concepts and the truth that's in Psalm 148.

It's one of those psalms that starts off with praise Yah, just like Psalm 113 that I read a few weeks ago. And in this psalm, the psalmist calls the heavens and the earth and all the elements within the heavens and the earth to praise Yahweh.

He calls everyone and everything in the realm of the heavens to praise Yahweh, the angels, the hosts, the moon, the light, the waters in the heavens, because Yahweh is their wondrous creator. And then it goes on, and it calls everyone and everything in the realm of the earth to praise Yahweh.

Sea monsters, the deep abyss, fire, hail, snow, clouds, wind, mountains, hills, trees, animals, creeping things, birds, and all of his people, because Yahweh is their salvation, and his name is to be praised.

So let's sing together, praise his name.

Peace of heaven

Starry heights of thee Dancing in signs of morning Breaking desks, works

To stand together and declare his praise as we think and ponder all the things that he blesses us with. We are rich beyond our wildest dreams. We are blessed in this country and in our lives, even though we go through difficult times.

We are, unfortunately, sometimes we can think.

That being well off is also how our heart condition is. We are wretched people. I am a sinner, just like you. We come before a king, we come before our Lord, and say, save me within his mercy. I love you, and I've always have, no matter what.

Let's sing together, his mercy is more. Praise the Lord, his mercy is more.

Praise the Lord, his mercy is more Stronger than darkness, new every morn Our sins, they are many, his mercy is more Remember the wrongs we have done knowing He counts not their sum thrown into a sea without bottom

His mercy is more, he constantly will

What father so tender is calling us home He welcomes the weakest, the vilest, the poor Our many, his mercy is more Praise the Lord, his mercy is more Every morn, our sins, they are many, his mercy is more Riches of kindness he lavished on us His blood was the payment of life, was the cost We stood neath the death we could never afford Our many, his mercy is more Praise the Lord, his mercy is more Than darkness, new every morn Our sins, they are many, his mercy is more

Thank you for your mercy. Thank you that we can call you father, that we can call you king. Lord, it is our greatest desire to not only sing these praises to you, but Lord, to live a life that you have called us to.

Lord, we want to trust in you with all of our heart and lean not on our own understanding. We want to follow your ways. We want to follow your desires for our life. Lord, we know that it may not be easy.

Lord, we are willing to follow you anywhere.

The fire that pleases to draw nothing to be for you I'll follow you

Did you all do your homework last week? It was to memorize Psalm 51 .6. So if you didn't, you could probably do it right now. Just in your own head, try to remember this. Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.

Let's pray for that.

Heavenly father, your word has taught us that you delight in truth in the inward being and you teach us wisdom in the secret heart. We pray that you would do that for us now by your word. Your word is truth.

We have no other way of knowing you, of knowing all that you have revealed about yourself.

But by the scripture.

And so now, Lord, we pray that as we open the scripture, you would teach us wisdom in the secret heart. And Lord, a wisdom that applies the things that we're learning. We pray, Lord, that as we leave here today, the fruit of the spirit would be evident in our lives.

We pray, Lord, for the river of life, of living water that flows in the hearts of those who believe in Christ. For that water to flow in us, that it would produce an ocean of love for you and an ocean of love for others.

That you would create a fountain of joy, that we would be joyful Christians day in and day out. That this living water would produce peace like a river that just flows in us, Lord. You can do that by your word.

The Inverted Reasoning of the Fallen World

No one ever spoke the way you do. Words of life, words of power that change us from the inside out, speak to us that way this morning by your word. We ask in Jesus' name, amen. Because of the fall of man, people reason upside down.

There was an inversion that took place at the fall. Remember that Adam was to lead his wife Eve. But in the fall, Eve led Adam into sin. And at the fall of man, the minds of all of Adam and Eve's posterity were corrupted and even inverted to reason wrongly.

So it's not that all people are born into the world like blank slates, neutral. Rather, the problem is the human mind has become depraved and it does not reason rationally, but rather is darkened. The mind has become darkened because of the fall.

Isaiah 5 .20 well sums up this inversion. Isaiah writes, "'Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, "'who put darkness for light and light for darkness, "'who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.

"'Do you see the inversion in the thinking of the world? "'Sweet is called bitter and bitter is called sweet. "'Right is wrong and wrong is right. "'Up is down and down is up, left is right. "'Everything is upside down and inverted "'in the thinking of the world.'".

And you can look at the world in which we live and nothing has changed. Sometimes as we see how the world is progressing towards the end times, we get discouraged because it seems pretty chaotic, doesn't it?

And that's true. However, the inverted thinking of the world has been this way since the fall of man. People in Jesus' day were completely upside down in how they deal with him in John chapter seven. So look at the world, how people think morally regarding different issues, regarding life.

They persecute the lives of unborn children in the womb and yet believe themselves to be crusading for rights. It's completely upside down. And of course, the wrong assumption there is that this human life in the womb is something less than human.

That's the simple misunderstanding. It's a twisting, an inversion of the truth. Consider liberty, issues of liberty. They persecute those who refuse to do as told by the government. And some would try to force people to inject a vaccine into their bodies.

Yet they claim that they're looking out for the good of all people while they try to take authority over the life of an individual and what that person either does or does not take into their body. According to Romans 14 verse 23, a person must be obedient to God in their conscience in these matters.

It's a matter of individual liberty and freedom and yet those who try to enforce their agenda on others think they're crusading for the good of all. It's complete upside down inverted thinking. Consider the issue of gender.

They believe, the world believes, that they are liberating children from the prison of being trapped in the wrong body. Not recognizing that it's their indoctrination over time that's convincing these very children that they're in the wrong body in the first place.

So they see themselves as liberators when in fact they're the very ones who are enslaving and imprisoning people with wrong thinking. I think this last week we saw a great example of the inverted thinking of the world when it comes to this hockey player from the Flyers whose name is Ivan Provorov.

He said, I respect everyone. I'm gonna stay true to my religion and not wear a rainbow pride flag as his warmup jersey. He said nothing beyond that I will respect everybody but I'm gonna stay true to my religion.

And yet people commenting on him call him a hater. That one sports writer calls him obnoxious and ignorant and homophobic and the list of slurs goes on and on. Meanwhile that very person surely thinks that she's a crusader for justice.

Everything is upside down. Everything is inverted. When it comes to economics, you'll hear cries for giving to people what they need. And the idea is that we can surely as a society take care of everybody's healthcare needs and housing needs and food needs and every need that a person has.

But what they fail to understand is that the government has no resources except what they extract from the people by force. See the government does not bear the sword in vain. According to the scriptures, government has been given a sword by God in order to punish wrongdoing.

But the only way that people can take money, a government can take money from others is by the edge of the sword. If you don't pay the taxes, you go to jail. The government will force that. And so they confiscate the labor of people who have worked for their income.

They confiscate that by force in order to give it to others. It is really that masquerading as virtue. But in the inverted thinking of the world, the social justice warrior or the socialist who's pushing these kind of things actually thinks that they're just.

In their mind, they are convinced that they are helping and not understanding that they must first steal private property in order to do their crusading work. Let's get one more example before we get to John, chapter seven in the inverted logic of the Pharisees.

Look with me at Genesis chapter nine, verse six. Genesis nine, six. Sure, believe in the death penalty for the murder of the innocent. Worse still, many who claim to be Christian teachers are saying that because all people bear the image of God, because all people are image bearers, there should never be capital punishment even for first degree unjust murder of the innocent.

Because the murderer is still an image bearer. And so they say because the image of God is in every person, there should be no such thing as capital punishment. Look at the word of God. Genesis nine, six.

Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed. Couldn't be any more clear. But notice the next phrase. And I heard this, I think it was A .D. Robles was talking about this. It's amazing that the very rationale that a person on the left who has rejected the authority of God's word, the very rationale that they'll use masquerading to be a Christian teacher is the word of God itself now twisted on its head.

Look at the rationale for capital punishment. It's the image of God in man. For God made man in his own image. Because this innocent, image bearing creation of God who is to be a vice regent, a representative of God on earth, because this one has been unjustly slaughtered, that's why the murderer must be put to death according to God's word.

But in the inverted thinking of the world, the image of God in the murderer prevents the execution of the murderer. You see? It is inverted reasoning. What God said is absolutely turned on its head. And where did this inverted reasoning begin?

In the Garden of Eden when Satan said, did God really say? And then goes on to quote God just twisting his word a little bit, eating from any tree in the garden rather than the one tree. There is always a twisting of God's word at some point to make it say the exact opposite of what God has said.

This is the inverted reasoning of humankind as a result of the fall. So we come back to John chapter seven this morning. We were talking just casually about a teacher who came to our church to train preachers.

His name was Timothy Warren from Dallas Seminary. And Dr. Warren helped many of our preachers remember to find the thrust of a passage, the main idea of a passage. And as we were talking about Dr. Warren, somebody said, well, what was Pastor Jeff's thrust last week?

What was the main idea? And this person said, truth.

And she nailed it.

In a word, John chapter seven, the thrust of the passage is truth. Last week we talked about how we are not to judge by mere appearances but judge with right judgment. But how do you know the truth? How is one to know the truth?

Well, the answer to that, according to Jesus in John chapter seven verses 19 to 23 is consistency with all that God has said. Every word that God has spoken must be held consistently without throwing some out to justify a wrong belief.

Jesus, of course, in that case, justifies his own healing of a man by circumcision on the Sabbath. If a man can be circumcised on the eighth day, how much more can a man's whole body be healed on the Sabbath?

And by that consistent reasoning, he was right to heal on the Sabbath. He never broke God's law. So that's what we saw last week. Don't just judge by appearances but make a right judgment. Take all of God's word into account.

Handle it consistently and obey every word as written. Well, we continue in John seven verses 32 to 52 and we see now the example of some who come to believe the truth. On the other hand, some whose inverted reasoning, their upside down brain uses information to rationalize their rejection.

So there really are only two groups in John chapter seven. It's those who submit to the truth and believe and those who reject the truth. Let's read it, John seven, 32 to 52. The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these things about him and the chief priests and Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.

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. The Jews said to one another, where does this man intend to go that we will not find him?

Does he intend to go to the dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks? What does he mean by saying, you will seek me and you will not find me? And where I am, you cannot come. We'll pause there and we'll continue to read the passage as we exposit through it this morning.

Jesus’ Authority, the Inability to Come, and Living Water

In verses 32 to 37, you see the inverted reasoning of the Pharisees and the chief priests. And you see the teaching of Jesus that they cannot come to God. They're muttering, the crowd is muttering things about him, some approvingly and others disapproving of Jesus and the chief priests have made up their minds.

What do they do in verse 32? They send officers to arrest him. Now what we'll see at the end of the passage is that Jesus returns to sender. They're sent to arrest him and they come back empty handed because his word in their hearts is so powerful that it turns them back.

And I think these particular soldiers are becoming believers. He's converting their heart. He has the power to do that. So who's in control here? When they sent soldiers to arrest him and the time had come, those soldiers came seeking Jesus of Nazareth and Jesus said, ego e me, I am.

Which is a reference to Exodus three, I am who I am. I am Jesus of Nazareth and at the power of his word, the Bible says the soldiers drew back or fell back. His word mowed them down to the ground and then he went willingly with them.

Notice this theme developing in John chapter seven. No one takes my life, I give it willingly. Early in John chapter seven, verse six, the brothers are urging him to go on their timetable and in verse six, he says, my time has not yet come.

Who's in control? Jesus. Later on in verse 30, it says, so they were seeking to arrest him but no one laid a hand on him. Why? Because his hour had not yet come. He's the one with control. Although the Pharisees seem to have all the power.

They're the ones that sent the soldiers to arrest him but he's the one in control and so he says, I will be with you a little longer. Who's controlling that timetable? God is, not them. He's the one in control and then, notice what he says, I am going to him who sent me.

So has Jesus here told them where he's going? Fairly well, he has. He's called himself the bread of heaven that comes down and he's going to ascend the same way that they saw him come in John chapter six.

Here, he again says, I'm going to him who sent me. He's saying he's going to heaven and then he says, you will seek me and you will not find me. Where I am, you cannot come. Now, look at the inverted reasoning of those who hear his word.

The Jews said to one another, where does this man intend to go that we will not find him? Does he intend to go to the dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks? What does he mean by saying, you will seek me then you will find me and where I am, you cannot come.

They're all worked up, they're in a tizzy. Where's he gonna go? They're thinking he's gonna go to the Gentiles, to the dispersion and hide from them because maybe he'll try to escape being killed. They miss the fact that he said he's going to his father, which implies heaven.

They're not reasoning rightly. Their mind is upside down and they're missing what he's saying. What does he mean that you cannot come? Strangely, many evangelical teachers will say, this passage is all about the ability of man to come to God, the power of free will to come.

However, what does it say in verse 34? Where I am, you cannot come. What's the problem? According to 2 Corinthians chapter four, verse four, the God of this age that does not refer to Yahweh, that refers to the pseudo, the false God who asserted himself in the garden and mankind submitted to the devil and so came under the prince of this age.

2 Corinthians 4, four says the God of this age, referring to Satan, has blinded the minds of unbelievers so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of God in the face of Christ. They cannot see, their minds are blinded.

It's like they're wearing a veil. They are blind, although they think that they see. Just a chapter earlier in John chapter six, verse 44, Jesus said, no one can come to me unless the father draws him and I will raise him up on the last day.

The drawn one will be raised up. God is able to do it, but they cannot come. John 6, 65, he then doubles down on that teaching, coupling it with John 6, 37 and he says, no one can come to me unless it is granted by the father.

You see, the consistent teaching of Jesus throughout John is the inability of man to come. Their minds have been blinded. They're veiled and they cannot see and they cannot come. They always reason wrongly.

They can't handle the evidence. They reject their maker. You see that in the text? Now, of course, Jesus here is referring to physical location. You cannot get from earth to heaven. You can't get to the father, but he's referring also to coming to the father and to him because he is the way to heaven.

They cannot come. This is a problem, the inverted mind of man. The reasoning of man has become darkened and dim and they cannot see, which leads us to verses 37 to 39, which is such glorious truth. It is the invitation to come and it's a genuine offer because the power of the word can awaken thirst.

In the heart of the listener, the power of the word of Jesus draws the person. The father uses as an instrument the preaching of the word, hear the words of Jesus, to draw that dead heart, to enliven the heart, to make thirsty, and then to satisfy the thirst of a dry and dead heart.

Let's read it.

On the last day of the feasts, 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, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.

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. Well, this is a startling scene. And you have to understand something about the Feast of Tabernacles.

Israel had three major feasts. The first, Passover, would bring all of the men to Jerusalem to gather for the Passover. 50 days later, there would be Pentecost, and then in the fall, there was the Feast of Booths.

Tabernacles, shelters. That seventh month began with the Feast of Trumpets. It was just 100 trumpet blows that each were significant. Five days later was the Day of Atonement. And then midway through the month, there was this seven-day period called the Feast of Tabernacles.

And here's what would happen. All of Israel would come. The men were required, but the women could come as well, and children. And Israel would come to Jerusalem and live in little makeshift shelters.

They would make the roofs out of willow branches and palm branches and myrtle branches and bundle them together tightly and make a roof in case it rained. And also to provide, this is important, shade from the sun.

They'd live in these little booths. So what would they do for that week when you're living in your little hut in Jerusalem? Well, in the morning, there was an important ritual. The priest would leave by the water gate, and all the people would follow the priest out to the Pool of Siloam.

And there he would draw water as Moses was drawn out. They would sing Psalm 113 to 117, or possibly 18. They would sing this way, and as the priest drew out the water from the Pool of Siloam, he would recite Isaiah 12, verse three.

So flip back there. This is important because you'll understand why Jesus says what he said at this moment on the great day. So in Isaiah chapter 12, verse three, I like that we have the pages turning.

I can hear that. Can't hear the digits, so it doesn't have the same effect if you're using a phone. Isaiah 12, three, with joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation. That's what the priest would say every day for seven days.

And then he would come back through the water gate, the people would gather, and in a solemn, quiet moment, he would pour the water out on the altar. Why are they doing this? What does water have to do with it?

Well, when you're wandering in the wilderness, you're parched. Now, of course, there was a rock that accompanied them. God would open the rock, and water poured forth from the rock as Moses hit that rock with the stick, first touching it, obediently the second time in anger, striking the rock.

In any case, the rock represents Christ. Water from the rock. But all through the wilderness, without Christ, they're parched. They have no home. They're not in the land flowing with milk and honey. When they come into the promised land, they cross the Jordan River, they circle Jericho seven times, the walls fall down, they win the battle, and they enter into their rest.

And they have water in the land that's flowing with milk and honey. It's flourishing. So for the seven days, they pour out water on the altar. On the seventh day, look again now, with John 7, verse 37, on the last day of the feast, the great day, this day was different, and yet the same.

It was the culmination of the Feast of Tabernacles. On the seventh day, they circle the altar seven times. Of course, reminding them of Jericho. And then, at the culmination, everybody falls silent, they lift their tabernacle branches and wave in thanksgiving.

It's a wave offering. And then they tabernacle the whole courtyard. They use their branches to make a covering, picturing God's salvation covering them. Tabernacling with them. And the priest pours out the water as everybody sits silently, hearing the wind, thinking about the provision of water to the thirsty heart, and the rejoicing and the joy that comes from the waters of salvation, the well of salvation.

And at that moment, I'm convinced, although the Bible doesn't say the precise moment, but I think the context of this festival points to it. Look with me. Just at that moment, verse 37, Jesus stands up and cries out.

His voice like a shofar, a trumpet piercing the silence of the ritual. They're seeing this water ritual, the pouring out of the water from the wells of salvation. And he yells, at that moment, I think, if anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.

Whoever believes in me, as the scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water. This is an amazing moment. He claims to offer salvation, eternal life, living water. And by this, we're told he means the spirit.