John 3:16-21
God LOVES the World
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. 19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. 21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.
Jeremiah 17:13
Written in the Dust
13 Lord, you are the hope of Israel;
all who forsake you will be put to shame.
Those who turn away from you will be written in the dust
because they have forsaken the Lord,
the spring of living water.
John 4:10-14
Jesus is the Living Water
10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”
11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”
13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
John 7:37-44
Jesus is the Living Water
37 On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. 38 Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.” 39 By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.
40 On hearing his words, some of the people said, “Surely this man is the Prophet.”
41 Others said, “He is the Messiah.”
Still others asked, “How can the Messiah come from Galilee? 42 Does not Scripture say that the Messiah will come from David’s descendants and from Bethlehem, the town where David lived?” 43 Thus the people were divided because of Jesus. 44 Some wanted to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him.
John 8:2-11
Jesus Forgives a Woman
2 At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. 3 The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group 4 and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. 5 In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?” 6 They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him.
But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. 7 When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” 8 Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.
9 At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. 10 Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”
11 “No one, sir,” she said.
“Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”
Acts 2:1-4
The Holy Spirit Comes on the Day of the Pentecost
1 When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place.2 Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. 3 They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. 4 All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.
Jesus is the hope of Israel and the hope of the whole world...The Prophet Jeremiah wrote that all who forsake Him will be put to shame...Those who turn away from Him will have their names written in the dust, because they have forsaken the LORD and our God...He is the Spring of Living Water....He is our Living Water...When we drink His water, we will never be thirsty again...Once when He was talking to a Samaritan woman at a well He said, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked Him and He would have given you Living Water.”...“Sir,” the Samaritan woman said, “You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep...Where can You get this Living Water?...Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”...Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst... Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”...Jesus gives us eternal life, because He is this Living Water...
One day on the last day of the Feast and a great day for believers, Jesus stood up and said in a loud voice so many could hear Him...And no doubt some of the Pharisees and teachers of the law heard Him say this in such a loud voice...Jesus said, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to Me and drink...Whoever believes in Me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.”...By this He meant the Holy Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were later to receive...And His Disciples did receive the Holy Spirit at the Pentecost...And others received it later...Up to that time the Holy Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified, been crucified, been raised from the dead, or ascended back to heaven...On hearing His words, some of the people said, “Surely this Man is the Prophet.”...Others said, “He is the Messiah.”...Still others asked, “How can the Messiah come from Galilee?...Does not Scripture say that the Messiah will come from David’s descendants and from Bethlehem, the town where David lived?”...Thus the people were divided because of Jesus...Some wanted to seize Him, but no one laid a hand on Him...
And Jesus continued His teaching this day soon He would be standing with a girl at His feet in the middle of a controversy and problem...The Pharisees and teachers of the law, were holding their stones of morality in the temple courts ready to stone this girl…The pressure was on this girl who was caught in the act of adultery…And in this stressful and most tumultuous time with her beside Him, Jesus slowly crouches down and writes something on the ground, as she stands there not moving…(There are traditions that He wrote each of the names standing from youngest to oldest…Another tradition says He wrote out some of their own sins)...We do not know what He wrote, but we do know it was important and it diffused the anger of this mob like crowd…
The angry crowd was testing Him…And the story unfolds this way in John's gospel: The Pharisees and teachers ask Him, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery…In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women…Now what do You say?”…They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing Him…But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with His finger…When they kept on questioning Him, He straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.”…Again He stooped down now for a second time in the heat of this moment and writes on the ground again…And for some reason each of the Pharisees and teachers of the law drop there stones and leave the girl and Him alone...What has He written?...And He knowingly asks the girl, where has the crowd gone…She tells Him they have left…He reminds her that no one has accused her and neither will He…He tells her to leave her life of sin…Jesus has forgiven her...
Those who thirst for the Truth should follow Him...God LOVES the world...He gave us his One and Only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life...For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the woman or others, but God sent His Son to save the woman and us through His Son....So whoever believes in Him is not condemned...The Light has come into the world, but people still love the darkness instead of this Light because their deeds are evil...Mankind is flawed with sin...In His spoken word and His written word that day, He got the Pharisees and the teachers of the law attention as they examined their own hearts...He gave them a Greater Awareness of what was to be, and in a way how the world can be with a greater forgiveness...