I pray God humbles us in our ignorance and dependency and press in our hearts that which is truth.
Jhn 7:37 In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
Jhn 7:38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
Jhn 7:39 (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)
- What scripture is the Lord referring to in verse 38?
- Why was Jesus not yet glorified in verse 39?
“If anyone among us needs Christ in their heart come forward”, the preacher says as he concluded his service. To some this and verse 37 may look like a casual invitation to any to believe. The potential error in this is the importance of the prerequisite and condition of the man before that call. To heed this call you must first thirst. Anyone with any holiness had puddles of water and did not truly thirst. Anyone who had the means and ways of filling their pots with even a drop had no complete dependency on His water and did not truly thirst. To thirst one had to be depraved of even the smallest amount of water. To thirst one had to have no personal means of satisfying their dry soul. This call was not made to all, but to only those who, from the bottom of their belly, thirst and was helpless. Now to those in need of nourishment come. Come to me (Erchomi) in the Greek donates a single one time complete act. Come to Him; not to come down an isle, come for understanding, or come with anything you can do but come to Him alone. Not an invitation but and mandate. Not that He goes part of the way and you need to go the rest, a single one time complete act that forever fills the soul. Drink; take of the water that given freely by His grace. The grace that fills your pot until it runs over. Dear sinner if you are in this condition come to Him. He does not call everyone, only those of you who are sinners, depraved, hopeless, and lost without any self means of salvation. (Luk 5:32) “I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.” For you be humbled, for you and you alone does Christ call to, that you and you alone will come and drink the living water and not thirst again.
Jhn 4:14 “But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.”
