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Thank cheese for that fun reading.

Appreciate it.

Rivers of Living Water.

That's what we're talking about today, talking about that.

Last giving water that Jesus has provided Mankind and for all those who are willing to accept that water but we'll be looking at John chapter 7 beginning versus 3739 that we just read.

But as we think about the context, we have to go back to the background of from where this passage comes from.

In Bible class, we talked about chapter 6, a little bit and John chapter 6. Jesus told the people that they had to eat his flesh and drink his blood in order to follow him and have everlasting life.

And course he wasn't talkin, literally was talking about everything that you want in.

Jesus Christ, you want to have in your lives, devote yourselves to him, have him be a part of your lives and you'll go to heaven, but they didn't understand it that way.

And it's so they thought it literally, and so they were disgusted by it and they walked away.

So Jesus lost multitude of disciples that day.

And prior to that, even his own brothers, and family had rejected him, even the beginning of his ministry, thinking that he was out of his mind for what he was saying and up.

And of course, the Pharisees, the Sadducees, the scribes, and all of the leaders in the Jewish World had rejected him immediately.

now, we coming to John Chapter 7, And we find that.

There's rejection so much that the Jewish leaders want to kill Jesus.

And we read about that and John chapter 7 and verse one.

And of course, going back to Jesus's family and talking about his hometown, you remembered, and Luke chapter 4, we discussed some time ago, that Jesus had walked into his community into his own family, synagogue, if you will back in his hometown of Nazareth and he began reading from the scriptures and he said, the spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to preach the gospel, to the poor to give recovery of sight, to the blind, to heal the brokenhearted, to the, to the Proclaim Liberty to the captives.

And this is the acceptable year of the Lord.

And so what he was saying was, I came to give life, I Came To Give You freedom, I came to call you out.

Darkness into light and all of those metaphors that we could use to describe what he just said there.

But then his hometown rejected him.

Is Hometown rejected him.

In fact, they wanted to kill him that day too.

And so they follow him up to the top of the mountain but somehow he escaped their threats, So Jesus is being rejected, slowly, but surely, and as we coming to chapter 7, we find more rejection, we find absolutely more rejected rejection.

And so, the ones think about the fact that Jesus is talking here in chapter 7, about shutting of a door, shutting of the door.

You know, sometimes we can follow to a situation where a door could be shot.

If we can't get back in what Jesus is making that point spiritually to these Jewish leaders said, if you don't follow me, you're dying your sins.

If you don't come after me, you will die in your sins.

If you do not think that I am the Son of God, the Messiah, you will surely die in your settings.

And so, Jesus over and over again, is telling them that they will die in there.

Says that, they do not accept him as the Messiah.

And so, hell is a place prepared for those who were absolutely confused about Jesus.

That's still true today.

By the way, hell is a place prepared for people who are confused about who Jesus?

And so we have the scriptures, Jesus has given us the scriptures.

And in those scriptures, we can find out who Jesus is.

And so, some of them from Jerusalem said, is this man, he who may seek to kill But look, he speaks boldly, and they say nothing to him.

Do the rulers know, indeed that this was truly the Christ.

However, we know where this man is from.

But when the Christ comes, no one knows where he is from.

And so they understood that the leaders of the Jews wanted to kill Jesus or two groups of people hear the leaders of the Jews and the normal everyday Jews.

All right?

Yeah.

The leaders in the follower and what was going on here was that the people understood that the leaders wanted to kill Jesus.

And they were confused about the whole situation because they thought he was the Messiah.

But now since the leaders, don't think he has them.

He's a messiah.

But they want to show him the next think to themselves.

Well maybe our leaders are right, maybe he's not the Messiah.

We know where he comes from, is what they said, but they didn't know.

They wanted to Proclaim.

They knew who Jesus was, but they didn't know him.

There's a lot of us like that in our lives.

Sometimes we Proclaim.

Jesus.

And we act, as if we know him, when we don't That's all that's called hypocrisy.

You see?

Sometimes we can fall into that, well of hypocrisy, and we can act like we know Jesus.

When in fact, we don't because of the things, we said, because of the things we do and this is what was going on with the people of Jesus is dead.

and so again, In Bible class we said they could have checked the Temple Records to find out who Jesus really was.

They would have known that he was born in Bethlehem rather than Galilee rather than Nazareth and a no one took the time to check.

No one took the energy to find out the truth.

And so again, we're we are sometimes we get lazy after a long day at work or maybe a long day of doing nothing and rather than just the scriptures rather than read our scriptures would rather turn on that.

Little thing, we call the TV while I just click, right?

And we can we try to escape Your TV is just another form of escapism.

It's how we get away from the, the trials of life in the, the struggles of the day.

And we kind of entering to Fantasyland.

Then we wander away into the TV Land.

But Jesus keeps calling us to reality.

Jesus has come back and search.

My scriptures, come back and read my word come back and fill your heart with my word is what he says.

And so we need to understand that when we walk with Jesus, it is a walk about studying.

It's a walk about reading, it's about a place and it's also about living, what we read.

Sometimes we read and we don't do.

Sometimes we read, we don't follow through.

So we read, go into all the world and preach the gospel.

He that believes and is baptized shall be saved and then a Matthew wearied go, therefore Make Disciples of all the nations baptizing them in the name of the father, and of the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things.

I have commanded you well, are we doing that?

We can read it.

We can read it and then I can say, I know Jesus.

But how I really know Jesus is, if I'm doing it, if I'm doing it, that's where the rubber meets the road.

And so, that's why Jesus talks about the courts often from Isaiah, where he says, they're their lips.

Say they like me, but their hearts are far from me, right?

The lips want to serve but the heart really doesn't.

So we got to have a heart into everything play play, like you mean it, you're going to study study, like you mean it, if you're going to play football, do that whatever you do, put your heart into it because serving God.

Rather than the people that we might be working for playing 4 or whatever, whatever we do, we do it mightily, as to the Lord, he's our master and we want to please him and everything that we do.

And so that makes us better students, that makes us better leaders.

That makes us better workers, that makes us better people.

Right?

When we do the things that we need to do to the best of our abilities, giving it our, all giving it our heart, this is where the Jews were falling down.

This is why they were worried.

This was the point for why they rejected Jesus.

You see, Jesus came and he was showing them their sin.

That you were he says you were like your father's.

You send like your father's.

They didn't want to hear that.

And so, because they didn't like the indictment that Jesus pronounced upon them, they didn't want him.

And that's as simple as that.

So Jesus, he's cries out in the words here for cry.

It out, is Guild.