All rights reserved worldwide. And all that is implicit in the statement that our Lord makes to the woman of Samaria. “The Holy Spirit dwelleth within you.” The apostle produces that as an argument for us to use in the time of temptation. These family members cannot help it; they do not understand it; it is impossible. “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, Isa 44:3; 55:1; Jer 2:13; 17:13; Zec 14:8; Jn 7:37, 38; Rev 7:17; 21:6; 22:1, 17, NIV, Beautiful Word Bible Journal, Luke, Comfort Print, NIV, Story of Jesus: Experience the Life of Jesus as One Seamless Story, NIV, Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible, Personal Size, Red Letter Edition: Bringing to Life the Ancient World of Scripture, NIV, Beautiful Word Bible Journal, Acts, Comfort Print, NIV, Biblical Theology Study Bible, Comfort Print: Follow God’s Redemptive Plan as It Unfolds throughout Scripture. That is why Scougal’s title to his book is so good—The Life of God in the Soul of Man. This is how he puts it: Put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; and be renewed in the spirit of your mind; and . 1:11–16). I have referred to false mysticism, but there is a true mysticism, and this is the mysticism that tells us that the Christian is joined to the life of God because of God dwelling in his or her soul. He cannot get over this; in a sense, he cannot believe this is true of him. In this passage our Lord is presenting a picture of this new life to the Samaritan woman. And we find the same teaching in Jesus’ high-priestly prayer: “I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one” (John 17:23). Of course, as a religious man or woman you can explain yourself. 3–4). 16 Very truly I tell you, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. LIVING WATER | John 4:10, 13-14 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.” … “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. . Now in the original creation, the man, Adam, in his perfection was righteous. And, of course, implicit in all this is the notion that we become “the children of God” (1 John 3:10; Rom. 14 If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. There is no higher teaching than this, but it is a part of New Testament teaching, and the danger is that in our slick and glib way of reading the Scriptures and hearing a whole chapter in a Bible lecture or something like that, we reduce all these things and regard them merely as phrases. Now do not try to understand this—it is the highest teaching. At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.”, Then we read in 14:23, “Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.”. The text demands this, insists upon it, particularly as we consider it in the light of other and perhaps even more explicit teaching elsewhere in Scripture. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” And you cannot expect them to. . Bible > Interlinear > John 13:14 John 13:14 John 13 - Click for Chapter. . He tells them of this great privilege that has been given him: “whereof I was made a minister” (v. 7). New International Version (NIV), “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.”. . “Christ in you, the hope of glory”—the hope of glory rests upon the fact that Christ is in us, that he is dwelling in us. For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries. He has this mystic secret. John 14:1–31 I Am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life. It means something beyond human understanding, which God in his infinite grace has revealed. He was “conceived . John 4:13-14 New International Version (NIV) 13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. There it is. 14 Wer aber von dem Wasser trinkt, das ... → Apg 8,12.14; Joh 20,30-31. John 4 English Standard Version Jesus and the Woman of Samaria 1 Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John (Joh 3:22; Joh 3:26). John 4:10. (vv. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. The name of a person can only be used when we seek to enforce his will and further his interests. Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given. The whole personality is involved. From Living Water: Studies in John 4 by Martyn Lloyd-Jones, © 2018 Monergism by CPR Foundation. Too often we are apologetic for our Christianity and are almost ashamed of it in our work or professions. Joh 4,1: Jesus erfuhr, dass die Pharisäer gehört hatten, er gewinne und taufe mehr Jünger als Johannes - Joh 4,2: allerdings taufte nicht Jesus selbst, sondern seine Jünger -; Joh 4,3: daraufhin verließ er Judäa und ging wieder nach Galiläa. It does not mean that when man was created, he was created a god. John 4:10: John 4:10: Is. 4 Sein Weg führte ihn auch durch Samarien, 5 unter anderem nach Sychar. That is why when Christian people come to talk to me about the kind of difficulty that often arises when one member of a family alone becomes a Christian, I always exhort them not to be harsh, not to be impatient. (1 Tim. . But a still more specific passage is in the First Epistle to the Corinthians. Indeed, probably from day to day none of us realizes this as we should. But it still is a mystery in the sense that we cannot understand it. Das Gespräch am Jakobsbrunnen. More and more I would say this is the ultimate test. However, the truth that was brought home to them was that Christianity is nothing less than the life of God in the souls of men. The Samaritan Woman. And it is, I am persuaded increasingly, because we as Christian people do not realize these profundities concerning ourselves, because we do not realize what we are as Christians, that the church is as she is and her witness is so weak and ineffective. Though they had been brought up in religious homes, they realized that they had never really had this life. 13 When # See ch. Christians know they have done nothing; the difference is because of what God has done to them. This, again, is said by the apostle Paul in the Epistle to the Ephesians. Paul writes to the Ephesians, “If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward: how that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery . And do other people prove it to us by telling us that we are different, perhaps even “speaking evil” of us because we can no longer live the kind of life they still live? What is happening? 1 John 4:13 "Hereby we know that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit." 1 * Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John 2 (although Jesus himself was not baptizing, just his disciples), * 3 he left Judea and returned to Galilee.. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. Then he says, “Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you” (1 Pet. How Shall Christians Relate to the President? (vv. 14 "If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it. (Joh 12:26; Joh 14:18; Joh 14:28; Joh 21:22). This new person is a new creation. Why Does The Good News Sound So Bad These Days? We are “the children of God” in a deeper sense, and because of that, we are “heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ” (Rom. . And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry; who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. Johannes 4 Elberfelder Bibel Gespräch mit der Samaritanerin 1 Als nun der Herr erkannte, dass die Pharisäer gehört hatten, dass Jesus mehr Jünger machte und taufte als Johannes (). If you can explain yourself, you are not a Christian. The new outlook is the result of the fact that they have been “born of the Spirit.”. 2:19). 4:24). put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. But these are solemn facts; these are truths that are actually put before us. Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit. Notice, “if Christ be in you.” Not only the Spirit but also the Son is in us as the children of God. John 4:10: Isa 44:3; 55:1; Jer 2:13; 17:13; Zec 14:8; Jn 7:37, 38; Rev 7:17; 21:6; 22:1, 17; John 4:10 in all English translations. It is the power of divine life, so that we are “partakers of the divine nature.” This, of course, is a great mystery. 9–10). He is saying in essence, “You have no idea— ‘If thou knewest the gift of God . It is that Christ is in him and that Christ is using him to his glory and to his praise. John 4:14(KJV) Verse Thoughts. How frequently we fail to realize this! CHARLES WESLEY (“O FOR A HEART TO PRAISE MY GOD”). Let me put it like this: we are told that at the very beginning of creation God created man in his own image and likeness. Are we amazed at it? So it is clear that not only does the Holy Spirit dwell within us but also that our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, dwells in us. The apostle Peter, in the first chapter of his second epistle, makes the same point in different language and in very striking terms. 15:9–10). 8:17). And only those who know that he is already there offer that prayer. 1:17; 14:6; Ps. John 4:14 Parallel Verses [⇓ See commentary ⇓] John 4:14, NIV: "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.'" It is only as we realize these truths that we shall become people whom God can use to his glory and praise. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” 15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty God is our Father in a sense that he is not the Father of those who are not Christians. Now this, again, is an exposition of the great, true, mystical teaching of the Scripture. NIV Reverse Interlinear Bible: English to Hebrew and English to Greek. . . Christians do not merely have a new outlook and a new disposition—they have new life in them. What is it? It is a new life within. 8:16). A good deal of this is expressed in our greatest hymns, especially the hymns of the eighteenth century. . There it is put plainly and clearly that the Spirit dwells within us. He approached her for a drink on His way to Galilee - Jn 4:3-8 b. Notice how the apostle Paul constantly says this: I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet [worthy] to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. He does not say, “Do you not know that as Christians you are those who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and know certain things about him and are trying to put his teaching into practice through the Spirit who is having an influence upon you”? The truth perceived moves the heart, and that in turn moves the will. 13 z Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that a the Father may be glorified in the Son. I believe this is the explanation of our Lord’s teaching in the tenth chapter of Matthew’s Gospel, where he says, “Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.” This is a staggering statement, and people often do not understand it. . (Col. 3:1–4). know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 13 “You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and rightly so, for that is what I am. We just know that it is true, we believe it; and as we believe it, we increasingly enter into the experience of it. He puts it in his characteristic way again in the eighth chapter of Romans, and it is exactly the same teaching: But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. 13:5). That is the burden of the teaching in the third chapter of Ephesians, which ends in that staggering, almost bewildering statement, “that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.” The apostle actually uses that language. Or, again, notice how he puts it in writing to Timothy: . 13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. But this is not like that; it includes that, but it is the result of an actual life within us. They actually go on to say—and this is all a part of what it means to have this well of water within us “springing up into everlasting life”—that not only are we partakers of the divine nature, but in addition God dwells within us. Predigt zu Philipper 4,10-13(14-20) mit Psalm 73,28 von Gerlinde Feine Predigt zu Philipper 4,10-20 von Bert Hitzegrad Gedanken zur Jahreslosung 2014 und zur künstlerischen Umsetzung von Friedhelm Welge We have been let into the secret. You find this in a negative way in that well-known hymn of poor William Cowper when he was in one of his periods of depression, with a sense of desertion. Das Evangelium nach Johannes, Kapitel 4. But we do not stop even there because we must again take this a step further. And I am trying to establish that we must realize this further truth because, after all, one of the most glorious aspects of the Christian life is that it is not merely a power in the sense of a dynamic force. What a glorious mystery! John 4:14 - but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.' They think it strange that you are not prepared to run with them now in the way you used to, and they speak evil of you. It has often been compared—and I think rightly—to our Lord’s own incarnation. John says the same thing in two verses at the beginning of the third chapter of his epistle: Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Mary Anoints Jesus at Bethany . The moment you receive this life of God in your soul, you are made different. They do not understand you now. 14 He will # See ch. 4 And he must needs go through Samaria. This is the key to true Christian living and to rejoicing in Christ. And that was what awakened these great men of God to the fact that they had never been Christians. Now the phrase “partakers of the divine nature” eludes our understanding. . 2:15). W e have been considering the particular characteristics of the great life offered us by our Lord. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear . Paul constantly talks about it as a mystery, and it is. . But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. 10:34–36). He is astounded at it. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly [out of his innermost parts] shall flow rivers of living water.” Then John explains, “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” (John 7:37–39). But, in exactly the same way, we are told that the Lord Jesus Christ also dwells within us. that the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel: whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power. It was this realization, first in Whitefield, then in the two Wesley brothers, that led, as I have mentioned, to the great Evangelical Awakening of the eighteenth century in Britain. Cross references. 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.”(A), 13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. We see one when our Lord was speaking to Nicodemus, when he says, “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God” (John 3:5). Again in verse 11 he says, “If the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.”. They are in charge; everything they have is less than themselves. . Now you must not reduce that to an influence. That is what is meant in Scripture by “the image,” and it is that image that has been defaced and partly lost by the Fall. Here are some of the particular tests, then, that we apply to know whether we are “partakers of the divine nature. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. If ever you feel at all ashamed of your Christianity, it is for one reason only—you do not realize this truth. “I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ” (v. 1). That is the guarantee. Men and women of whom Scougal’s words are true, those who have the life of God in the soul, are aware of this difference in themselves, and they are aware that they are different from who they once were, and different from those who do not have this life of God. It is an operation of the Holy Spirit; we are “born of the Spirit.” There is a new birth and a new being, and we are made “partakers of the divine nature.”. The Holy Spirit dwells in us, in our bodies. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. Christ was in the hearts of those Christians in Ephesus, and Paul is praying that they may know it, that they may be able to comprehend it more and more, “with all the saints,” that they may have an active realization that Christ is “dwelling in their hearts by faith.”. Now that does not only mean that God takes an interest in us comparable to the interest of a father in his children—it goes beyond that. He has given them the glory that the Father had given him (John 17:22). He cries out in his agony and says: This is Christian mysticism; this is the Christian life at its highest—the realization that God dwells within—God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. There is an element, of course, of moral and spiritual persuasion in it, but it is more than that. He says, “I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me.” And we find exactly the same truth in Ephesians 3:17, where the apostle prays, “that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love” and so on. Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. So one of the tests that we apply to ourselves to know whether this well of water is within us springing up into everlasting life is just this: do we know that we are different? We cannot work it out in detail, and we must not try to do so. It is a glory, a rich glory. 2 In die huis van my Vader is daar baie woonplek. John 14:13-14 Chapter Parallel Compare 13 "Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. So man has lost these particular characteristics that he had originally that made him like God. 8:8–9). 39 Aus jener Stadt aber glaubten viele Samariter an ihn um des Wortes der Frau willen, die bezeugte: Er hat mir alles gesagt, was ich getan habe. And, indeed, Galatians 5:17 makes the same point: “The flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh”—the Holy Spirit who is within us as believers. We must use the terms that are found in the Scriptures themselves. (1 John 3:1–2). 1 a When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John,. We are children of God! A famous one, of course, is in this same Gospel of John where our Lord says to the religious public what he says here privately to the woman of Samaria: “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. There is something wrong, Christian people, when we are dull and apathetic, when we are not on our feet rejoicing with our faces shining in this evil world!