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  EXPOSITORY THOUGHTS ON JOHN - JOHN 7:37-39
  by J.C. Ryle
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Teaching about the Spirit

On the last day of the feast, the greatest day, Jesus stood up and
shouted out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me, and let the one
who believes in me drink. Just as the scripture says, ‘From within him
will flow rivers of living water.’" (Now he said this about the
Spirit, whom those who believed in him were going to receive, for the
Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.)

It has been said that there are some passages in Scripture which deserve
to be printed in letters of gold. Of such passages the verses before us
form one. They contain one of those wide, full, free invitations to
mankind, which make the Gospel of Christ so eminently the "good news of
God." Let us see of what it consists.

We have, first, in these verses, a case supposed. The Lord Jesus says,
"If any man thirst." These words no doubt were meant to have a spiritual
meaning. The thirst before us is of a purely spiritual kind. It means
anxiety of soul--conviction of sin--desire of pardon--longing after
peace of conscience. When a man feels his sins, and wants forgiveness--
is deeply sensible of his soul\

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