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● John 3:5 . . I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God
unless he is born of water and the Spirit.
There lacks a consensus among the experts as to the meaning of the water
about which Jesus spoke. But I think it's pretty simple because he spoke of it
again in the very next chapter to a no-account woman that he met on the
road to Samaria.
● John 4:14 . .Whoever drinks the water I shall give will never thirst; the
water I shall give will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal
life.
In other words; the water that Jesus spoke of in John 3:5 isn't for baptism;
it's for drinking.
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I think it is one of those without parables Christ spoke not hiding the unseen spiritual understanding from those who are not interested in studying to search out the meaning.
Water like blood, or water and blood are used as metaphor in many parables. like that of John 4 the woman (to represent the bride of Christ) by the well to represent the pouring out from heaven (Inspiration) His unseen Spirit.
Not inspired earthly of the devil the one who turns things upside down to take away the understanding that comes from above. By that of kind of inspiration falling down publishes the authority of the Lord
In that way it would seem to help us distinguish the doctrines of God falling from form life on earth . Not earthly inspired from the devil. Water it is used in many different kinds of applications. Like for instance. . . the commandment... husbands wash your wives with the water of the word as the doctrines of God. Just as he washes his loved ones call His bride the church. Living water the gospel the source of a living faith
Again setting the standard for hearing the doctrines of men One of the purposes of living water, living will .
Deuteronomy 32:1-3 King James Version (KJV) Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
Water it would seem is used to represent the purifying work of the Spirit of Christ as a labor of love.. . . also called work of His faithfulness
Acts 15:8-10 King James Version (KJV)And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us;And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.(the water of the word or hearing of God ) Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
Interesting parable in the Old tesetemmt which also helps discover other mysteries hid in parable ... like the idea of drinking the blood used to represent the spirit of men .. Literal blood cannot be drank( cannibalism) Catholics create a illusion (you get that which is not there). and the JW's attribute blood as if it was the life of the spirit rather than the other way around.
The life of the flesh (spirit ) is in the blood but corrupted flesh and blood cannot produce spirit life as the essence of Spirit life. It comes from the father not seen .He pours it out on us as if it was H20
Literal blood without the spirit essence of life has no redeeming value. We walk by faith the unseen eternal not after the flesh the temporal .
There in the parable David in prison God defeating the enemy without David .It would seem God had given David a literal thirst for water as if giving David famine for hearing of the Spirit of God drawing David to give him rest... a prison break . Who I would think like John the Baptist was having doubts and needed some kind of confirmation the lord had not deserted him..
2 Samuel 23:14 And David was then in an hold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem.
Bethlehem = house of bread
2 Samuel 23:15 And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!
A thirst for hearing the gospel by the gate. gate represented Christ by which we enter fellowship.
2 Samuel 23:16 And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the Lord.
David after hearing the gospel would not dare take away the honor of the Lord and refused to drink the water that represents the unseen Spirit of Christ. like the work of Christ pouring out his blood
to represent the unseen work of the Spirit .it as a law must be poured out into the dust so that it can return to the corrupted rudiments of this world
2 Samuel 23: 17 And he said, Be it far from me, O Lord,
that I should do this: is not this the blood (spirit) of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mighty men.
There he defines the drinking of blood as one pouring out the work of spirit in jeopardy for another I think it is a beautiful picture of the work of the gospel .The gospel thread woven throughout the bible it as it is written kept the Old tesetemmt saint moving forward
Is it not the Spirit of Christ that the father poured Spirit life in jeapory of His own Holy Spirit? Then in respect to whos spirit .
