Drinking and Flowing the Water of Life

1. Living Water Out of the Smitten Rock

Exodus 17:1, 3-6 And all the assembly of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin by their stages according to the command of Jehovah and encamped in Rephidim, and there was no water for the people to drink. 3 So the people thirsted there for water, and the people murmured against Moses and said, For what reason did you bring us up out of  Egypt; to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst? 4 So Moses cried out to Jehovah, saying, What shall I do with this people? A little more, and they will stone me. 5 And Jehovah said to Moses, Pass on before the people, and take with you some of the elders of Israel; and take in your hand your staff with which you struck the River, and go. 6 I will be standing before you there upon the rock in Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it so that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. 

2. Drinking and Flowing - Two Aspects of One Thing

John 4:14 But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall by no means thirst forever; but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into eternal life. 

John 7:37-38 Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. 38 He who believes into Me, as the Scripture said, out of his innermost being shall flow rivers of living water. 

3. Drinking the Water of Life

• The water flowing out of the cleft rock typifies the Spirit

John 7:39 But this He said concerning the Spirit, whom those who believed into Him were about to receive; for the Spirit was not yet, because Jesus had not yet been glorified. 

• The water of life is the Triune God flowing out to be our life (Rev. 22:1)

• Conditions for us to drink the water of life:

  • Be positioned to drink (1 Cor. 12:13)

  • Be thirsty (Rev. 21:6)

  • Come to the Lord (John 7:37) to ask of Him (4:15), to believe in Him (7:38), and to call on His name (Isa. 12:3-4)

  • Speak to the Rock in our daily living (1 Cor. 10:4; Num. 20:7-8)

4. Flowing the Water of Life

Proverbs 11:25 The blessing soul will prosper, and he who waters will also be watered himself.

• The way to flow the living water is speaking (Eph. 5:18-20; 1 Cor. 14:26):

  • Preach the gospel to unbelievers

  • Speak the truth to believers

  • Speaking in the club and church meetings

Week 8 Bible Reading: Exodus 20-22