More Than Enough
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John 7:37-39
John 7:37-39
We can divide John 7 into 4 sections:
vv1-10 Disbelief (his own brothers did not believe in him, it is clear from the rest of the chapter that there were many others who did not believe in Him and that was the basis for the Debate and Division that followed
vv11-36 Debate
vv37-39 Declaration (the line between debate and division)
vv38-57 Division
37 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.
38 Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’ ”
39 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.
The Feast of Tabernacles represented the wandering years of Israel in the wilderness and God’s miraculous provision as they looked forward to the promised land.
For the Jews, it represented (and still does to many) the waiting until Messiah comes.
The Feast represents the temporary tents of Israel on their transitory migration to a much better living situation- a land flowing with milk and honey
It also represents this temporary tent of mortality in our transition migration to a much better living situation: Permanent dwelling in New bodies that are structurally different and much more glorious,
It further represents our temporary dwelling here on this earth and God’s miraculous provision until Jesus Messiah returns.
The temporary tents of Israel on their transitory migration to a much better living situation- a land flowing with milk and honey
It also represents this temporary tent of mortality
I'm our transition migration to a much better living situation. Permanent dwelling in New bodies that are structurally different and much more glorious,
Yet even now, we can have springs weeks and rivers flowing in us, bubbling out of us, and flowing from us watering this scorched earth
In the Wilderness wanderings they were without water numerous times. Two of the times Moses struck a rock with his staff and washed gushed forth!
1 All the congregation of the people of Israel moved on from the wilderness of Sin by stages, according to the commandment of the Lord, and camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.
2 Therefore the people quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink.” And Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the Lord?”
3 But the people thirsted there for water, and the people grumbled against Moses and said, “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?”
4 So Moses cried to the Lord, “What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me.”
5 And the Lord said to Moses, “Pass on before the people, taking with you some of the elders of Israel, and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go.
6 Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb, and you shall strike the rock, and water shall come out of it, and the people will drink.” And Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of Israel.
7 And he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the quarreling of the people of Israel, and because they tested the Lord by saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?”
Numbers 20:7–11 (ESV)
The rock is Jesus.
1 For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,
2 and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea,
3 and all ate the same spiritual food,
4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ.
The water is the Holy Spirit.
Fast forward to the Feast of Tabernacles being celebrated in John 7 and see that His appeal shows that He is the Messiah!
While His cry echoes the prophecy in Isaiah 55:1-5
1 “Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
2 Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food.
3 Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David.
4 Behold, I made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander for the peoples.
It indicates the PROVISION and therefore the PRESENCE of the MESSIAH!
20 He struck the rock so that water gushed out and streams overflowed. Can he also give bread or provide meat for his people?”
STREAMS OVERFLOWED!
This was not a small amount of water.
About 2 million people had more than enough
It looks forward to the final invitation of Revelation 22:17
17 The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come.” And let the one who hears say, “Come.” And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price.
It may also help to know what was happening during the feast during this last and greatest day of the feast.
The priests drew water from the pool of Siloam and marching seven times around the altar they would pour the water out on the altar reciting Psalm 118:17-29
17 I shall not die, but I shall live, and recount the deeds of the Lord.
18 The Lord has disciplined me severely, but he has not given me over to death.
19 Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter through them and give thanks to the Lord.
20 This is the gate of the Lord; the righteous shall enter through it.
21 I thank you that you have answered me and have become my salvation.
22 The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
23 This is the Lord’s doing; it is marvelous in our eyes.
24 This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.
25 Save us, we pray, O Lord! O Lord, we pray, give us success!
26 Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! We bless you from the house of the Lord.
27 The Lord is God, and he has made his light to shine upon us. Bind the festal sacrifice with cords, up to the horns of the altar!
28 You are my God, and I will give thanks to you; you are my God; I will extol you.
29 Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever!
2 “Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the Lord God is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation.”
3 With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation.
1 Behold, a king will reign in righteousness, and princes will rule in justice.
2 Each will be like a hiding place from the wind, a shelter from the storm, like streams of water in a dry place, like the shade of a great rock in a weary land.
3 Then the eyes of those who see will not be closed, and the ears of those who hear will give attention.
1 “But now hear, O Jacob my servant, Israel whom I have chosen!
2 Thus says the Lord who made you, who formed you from the womb and will help you: Fear not, O Jacob my servant, Jeshurun whom I have chosen.
3 For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour my Spirit upon your offspring, and my blessing on your descendants.
4 They shall spring up among the grass like willows by flowing streams.
5 This one will say, ‘I am the Lord’s,’ another will call on the name of Jacob, and another will write on his hand, ‘The Lord’s,’ and name himself by the name of Israel.”
Ezekiel 47:1-12, Joel 3:18, and Zechariah 14:8 all describe how a river and fountains will flow from the Temple and from Jerusalem. Zechariah 14:16 further explains how during the millennial reign of Christ, everyone, not just Jews, but ALL NATIONS, will go to Jerusalem to celebrate the Feast of Booths year after year!
We see here where the river is the Spirit and it will flow through God’s people!
The Holy Spirit being poured out on the Day of Pentecost was like a river through the apostles and believers flowing from Jerusalem and watering the land.
Out of hearts of stone flowing springs of living water!
What was dead is now being brought to life.
It is clear from this simple passage that:
The Holy Spirit is for every believer
The Baptism of the Spirit is for every believer
When we come to drink; when we believe whole-heartedly, not only are we satisfied, but we will cintinue to be perpetually satisfied because we can perpetually drink from the fountain that has now sprung forth within us and from that fountain the Holy Spirit can flow to others.
God’s Son Jesus is more than enough
He is the manna - the Word of God - that gives sustenance to our very beings
He is the Rock of our salvation who provides the water of the Spirit
In the desert there was more than enough manna, more than enough water! He made rivers in the wasteland
19 Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
Jesus is more than enough to cover our sins!
His work on the cross, His grace, His Spirit working in us are more than enough to keep us from sin! And when we do sin, He is more than enough to forgive our sins - (not if we don’t repent - He gives us the grace to stop sinning - but if we do not yield to Him - there is no further grace according to Hebrews 6 and 10
His Holy Spirit - is more than enough to empower you for holiness and godliness that the gifts of the spirit and the fruit of the spirit flow through your life like rivers in the wasteland!
Water every part and bringing life where all was death, hope where all was lost, and love where all was selfishness, pride, and hate.
He is more than enough!
One sip; one drink; and the water that gives you life will make you a spring of life!
Living water refers to a constantly new and fresh supply!
15 “ ‘I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot!
16 So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth.
What is the well you draw from?
Where do you go to meet your needs?
What is your source of strength? physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.
You were not designed to do it on your own. Apart from Jesus, you will never be enough. Drinking from the well of full salvation - allowing the rivers, the fountain, of living water to flow through you - you will never lack!