We have talked about how the Feast of Tabernacles is the only feast that isn’t complete. We have talked about after feeding the five thousand, Jesus sent the disciples over the Sea of Galilee or the Jordan River. We have talked about how Jesus and Joshua are the same name. How it was Joshua that lead us from the wilderness to the promised land or this world and how it is Jesus that will lead us to the promised land of the next.
Perhaps we should have brought out more how after the crossing of the Jordan there is the Battle of Jericho. The battle where God tells them to march around the city and to blow trumpets. The battle where the mighty walls of Jericho fell. The battle where Rahab places the scarlet thread out her window and she and her family were spared and brought into the house of Israel. The scarlet thread that symbolized the blood of the Lamb. That Blood that can save you even if you are in the midst of a mighty battle and even if you started out on the wrong side. Rahab had heard of the might works of our Father and she believed.
Do you believe? Today we pick it up on that last day before the battle.
John 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.
This is it. This is what it all comes down to. Will you go to him or will you follow the false one? Will you be one of those that think the walls of Jericho will keep you safe or do you know that the only thing that will never pass away is the Word of the Lord?
John 7:38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
If you have the Word of the living God inside of you, it cannot be contained. If that water inside of you has grown stagnant then you need to reconnect with your Father. He doesn’t want a once a year relationship with you. He wasn’t an everyday relationship with you.
John 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.)
When Christ said this we hadn’t received the Holy Spirit yet, that was given on Pentecost and we have It today.
John 7:40 Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, Of a truth this is the Prophet.
When that Holy Spirit flows and it touches someone they will know it. Even the demons know that touch. It is only because God has blinded some, as Paul tells us in Romans 11, that they cannot see His power, His love and hear His word. But we don’t need to worry, God has a plan. He has a plan for each and every one of his children. He is a Father and knows that each of His children are different. Some are hardheaded and some weak but He loves them all the same. It is God’s will that all come to repentance.
John 7:41 Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, Shall Christ come out of Galilee? (42) Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was?
We know where Christ was born.
John 7:43 So there was a division among the people because of him.
This is what Christ came to do remember? Luke 12:51 Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division:
John 7:44 And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him.
Note this in your mind well because the same applies to you. If you’re doing a job for God, no one may touch you or take you until that job is finished.
John 7:45 Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why have ye not brought him?
Why indeed. Remember you are a child of God as well and NO ONE brings you where HE doesn’t want you to go if you are following Him.
John 7:46 The officers answered, Never man spake like this man.
These men, even the chief priests men, hadn’t heard what a true man or woman of God sounds like. The word of God has power and Christ has described it like living water. That is moving water. Have you ever tried to stand in a fast moving river? The power of moving water is an awesome thing and if you try to stand against it, it will knock you over no matter how big you think you are.
John 7:47 Then answered them the Pharisees, Are ye also deceived?
The Pharisees are the ones that added a bunch of garbage to the word and they don’t like it when a wave comes to erode away their junk. People, it isn’t any different today. If you take the pure Word of God and use it to blow away the traditions that many churches today have hung on the people like heavy blankets that stifle the Light of God they wont like it.
John 7:48 Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him?
They are no doubt worried that if this Jesus guy has gotten to clergy then they are going to have a hard time getting the people covered in their crap again when Jesus leaves town. Also I don’t want you to forget, this is what is going to be happening right before the end and Satan is playing big daddy in God’s seat and those that have stayed true to the Father, those who have stayed IN the field working like He commanded, are winning over the hearts and minds of those Satan and his entourage has taken will be saying and doing at that time.
John 7:49 But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed.
Whose law? God’s law or Satan’s. God’s law that says love God with all your heart and your neighbor as yourself or their law which says to murder anyone who stands in their way?
John 7:50 Nicodemus saith unto them, (he that came to Jesus by night, being one of them,)
Remember Nicodemus went to Jesus and Christ explained how you had to be born from above.
John 7:51 Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth?
Notice he said “our” law, not God’s law or even the law of Moses, but “our law.”
John 7:52 They answered and said unto him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search, and look: for out of Galilee ariseth no prophet.
Oh really? They should take their own advice and search, for both Jonah and Hosea came from Galilee which is interesting because Jonah is the very sign that Christ said would be the only one this generation will see, which is what? That Jonah was an Israelite prophet who was sent to a gentile nation to preach a way for salvation, but didn’t get there until after he had been in the fish’s belly for three days. Hosea is another interesting one because as you will see in the next chapter he too is a sign. God told him to marry a prostitute, which is an example of God’s children that go astray. He wanted to show us his emotions when we stray, but again remember this is the last day and the last call and all those that don’t answer that call will be caught with child when Christ returns meaning they had not stayed chased virgins by waiting for Him to return.
John 7:53 And every man went unto his own house.
What house are you in? God’s or Satan’s? That’s the only choice you have. I’m sorry, but your either doing God’s work or your doing Satan’s.
“But I don’t believe their is a God,” says the atheist.
“That’s exactly the confusion I want,” says Satan.
