The Living Water Produces Love

John 7:37–39 (CSB)

37 On the last and most important day of the festival, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.

38 The one who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, will have streams of living water flow from deep within him.”

39 He said this about the Spirit. Those who believed in Jesus were going to receive the Spirit,...

Galatians 5:13 CSB

13 For you were called to be free, brothers and sisters; only don’t use this freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but serve one another through love.

Galatians 5:14 CSB

14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one statement: Love your neighbor as yourself.

Illustration: I need 5 boys and 5 girl volunteers. (call them up to the front and bring out a fake flower. ) Tell them that the bible tells us that living water will produce love. give each boy a flower and each girl a heart. Tell them in order to help them have love we are going to help each one of them find their true love today. Tell them you will call each of their parents after the lesson and announce the good news that you all have become engaged to be married.

Do you think that the Bible was talking about this type of love?

Where does love come from?

1 John 4:8 CSB

8 The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

1 John 4:9 CSB

9 God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his one and only Son into the world so that we might live through him.

1 John 4:10 CSB

10 Love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

1 John 4:11 CSB

11 Dear friends, if God loved us in this way, we also must love one another.

If God is the source and creator of love , who created its definition?

There are a lot of people today that are very confused about what real love is. Some of you older kids may have a better idea of what I am talking about.

But sense God is love and God created love do you think somewhere in His word he tells us what love is like?

1 Corinthians 13:4–8 CSB

4 Love is patient, love is kind. Love does not envy, is not boastful, is not arrogant, 5 is not rude, is not self-seeking, is not irritable, and does not keep a record of wrongs. 6 Love finds no joy in unrighteousness but rejoices in the truth. 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end.

So back to our theme verse for the week

John 7:37–39 CSB

37 On the last and most important day of the festival, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. 38 The one who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, will have streams of living water flow from deep within him.” 39 He said this about the Spirit. Those who believed in Jesus were going to receive the Spirit, for the Spirit had not yet been given because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

If we picture this stream of water flowing out of us that comes from the holy spirit into a dry world. Then we can picture a love as an item that is always flowing out of the life of a child of God. But not love like the world defines it that isn’t love but how God created it to be.....selfless and truthful.