Reflecting God - Embrace Holy Living The Global Church of the Nazarene of Lenexa, Kansas, United States for Friday, 15 May 2015 - "The Fountain of Life"0Scripture: John 7:37-44

Reflecting God - Embrace Holy Living The Global Church of the Nazarene of Lenexa, Kansas, United States for Friday, 15 May 2015  - "The Fountain of Life"0Scripture: John 7:37 Now on the last day of the festival, Hoshana Rabbah, Yeshua stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him keep coming to me and drinking! 38 Whoever puts his trust in me, as the Scripture says, rivers of living water will flow from his inmost being!” 39 (Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who trusted in him were to receive later — the Spirit had not yet been given, because Yeshua had not yet been glorified.)

40 On hearing his words, some people in the crowd said, “Surely this man is ‘the prophet’”; 41 others said, “This is the Messiah.” But others said, “How can the Messiah come from the Galil? 42 Doesn’t the Tanakh say that the Messiah is from the seed of David[a] and comes from Beit-Lechem,[b] the village where David lived?” 43 So the people were divided because of him. 44 Some wanted to arrest him, but no one laid a hand on him.[Footnotes:

John 7:42 2 Samuel 7:12

John 7:42 Micah 5:1(2)]

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"The Fountain of Life" by Author: Juanita Weir Nobles
During the Feast of Booths, the people remembered the Exodus, the trek their forefathers took through the barren wilderness in order to establish them in the Promised Land. The latter part of John 7 takes place on the last day of this feast, while Jesus proclaimed his ministry.
One of the basic needs at any time, but especially during the Exodus, was water. Now Jesus stood and proclaimed that He was the fulfillment of the Jewish feasts. He was the end to all the laborious rules and regulations of the Old Testament. He announced the beginning of a new way of coming to God. The ultimate sacrifice that He would give would be the final chapter. People could come to him without spilling the blood of animals to atone for their sins. By the blood of Jesus, His ultimate sacrifice, the way to God was opened to all—Jew and Gentile.
That fountain continues to flow for us today, more than two-thousand years later. We need simply to come to Him with a repentant heart and a willingness to yield to His mercy and grace.
Hymn for Toeday: "There Is a Fountain Filled with Blood" by William Cowper, 1731-1800 

1. There is a fountain filled with blood 

drawn from Emmanuel's veins; 

and sinners plunged beneath that flood 

lose all their guilty stains. 

Lose all their guilty stains, 

lose all their guilty stains; 

and sinners plunged beneath that flood 

lose all their guilty stains. 

2. The dying thief rejoiced to see 

that fountain in his day; 

and there may I, though vile as he, 

wash all my sins away. 

Wash all my sins away, 

wash all my sins away; 

and there may I, though vile as he, 

wash all my sins away. 

3. Dear dying Lamb, thy precious blood 

shall never lose its power 

till all the ransomed church of God 

be saved, to sin no more. 

Be saved, to sin no more, 

be saved, to sin no more; 

till all the ransomed church of God 

be saved, to sin no more. 

4. E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream 

thy flowing wounds supply, 

redeeming love has been my theme, 

and shall be till I die. 

And shall be till I die, 

and shall be till I die; 

redeeming love has been my theme, 

and shall be till I die. 

5. Then in a nobler, sweeter song, 

I'll sing thy power to save, 

when this poor lisping, stammering tongue 

lies silent in the grave. 

Lies silent in the grave, 

lies silent in the grave; 

when this poor lisping, stammering tongue 

lies silent in the grave. 

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