“If a person believes in me, rivers of living water will flow out from his heart. This is what the Scripture says.” Jesus was talking about the Holy Spirit. – John 7:38-39
Jesus tells us… Learn to listen to Me even while you are listening to others. When a friend trusts you enough to pour out heart, soul, and troubles to you, you are standing on holy ground. You have a holy opportunity to help. But if you use only your own thoughts and wisdom to help that person, then what you are offering is only dry crumbs. Instead, call on the Holy Spirit living inside you. Ask Him to think through you, live through you, love through you. Ask Him for the words to say. The Spirit fills you with streams of living water, My Love, Joy, and Peace. When you let Him control your listening and speaking, that living water flows through you to others.
Jesus concludes… Listen to Me while you’re listening to others. You’ll be a blessing to them and you will be blessed too.
Exodus 3:5, 1 Corinthians 6:19; Study Notes
Footnotes John 7:38-39 Jesus used the term living water in 4:10 to indicate eternal life. Here he uses the term to refer to the Holy Spirit. The two go together: Wherever the Holy Spirit is accepted, he brings eternal life. Jesus teaches more about the Holy Spirit in chapters 14–16. The Holy Spirit empowered Jesus’ followers at Pentecost (Acts 2) and has since been available to all who believe in Jesus as Savior.
Passage Exodus 3:5 “Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”
Footnotes Exodus 3:5 At God’s command, Moses removed his sandals and covered his face. Taking off his shoes was an act of reverence, conveying his own unworthiness before God. God is our friend, but he is also our sovereign Lord. To approach him frivolously shows a lack of respect and sincerity. When you come to God in worship, do you approach his casually, or do you come as though you were an invited guest before a king? If necessary, adjust your attitude so its suitable for approaching a holy God.
Passage 1 Corinthians 6:19 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own.
Footnotes 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 What did Paul mean when he said that our body belongs to God? Many people say they have the right to do whatever they want with their own bodies. Although they think that this is freedom, they are really enslaved to their own desires. When we become Christians, the Holy Spirit comes to live in us. Therefore, we no longer own our bodies. That we have been “bought at a price” (1 Corinthians 6:20) refers to slaves purchased at an auction. Christ’s death freed us from sin but also obligates us to his service. If you live in a building owned by someone else, you try not to violate the building’s rules. Because your body belongs to God, you must not violate his standards for living.
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September 8, 1636 JOHN HARVARD FOUNDING OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY 1636 LIVING BY JOHN 18:32 AND YOU SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE —
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The Puritans arrived in Massachusetts Bay by boatloads during the Great Migration of the 1630s, and many of them were well-educated graduates of England’s leading universities, especially Emmanuel College, Cambridge, England. Many were theologians, pastors, and Bible scholars. One thing was paramount on their minds as they settled into the New World: to establish a school in the colonies, especially for the training of ministerial students. As explained in the 1643 booklet New England’s First Fruits: After God had carried us safe to New England and we had built our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God’s worship, and settled the civil government: One of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.1 On September 8, 1636, the legislature of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay voted to create the first college in America.2 The records say: “The Court agree to give Four Hundred Pounds towards a School or College, whereof Two Hundred Pounds shall be paid the next year, and Two Hundred Pounds when the work is finished.”3 In 1637, the General Court appointed twelve eminent men as trustees of the college.
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That same year, a young clergyman from England arrived on American shores—John Harvard, who was described as a godly man and a lover of learning. Harvard, born in 1607, was the son of a butcher and tavern owner in a village near London. In 1625, the bubonic plague wiped out most of Harvard’s family. His mother, however, survived and was able to send him to Emmanuel College, Cambridge. John was ordained a dissenting minister, which meant he joined the Puritans who resisted the oversight of the Anglican Church. He married Ann Sadler in 1637, and the next year they emigrated to New England, where John became an assistant preacher in Boston. John was battling tuberculosis, and he died the next year at age thirty. He bequeathed half of his property and all of his library of approximately three hundred volumes to the new college.4 (Unfortunately a fire in 1764 consumed Harvard’s original library, with the exception of one book, which was in the hands of a student at the time and thus escaped the flames. The book’s title was The Christian Warfare Against the Devil, World, and Flesh . . . And Means to Obtain Victory.5) In appreciation for his generosity the new school was named for him— Harvard. The doors opened, and a student handbook was published, Laws and Statutes for Students of Harvard College, which said, let every Student be plainly instructed, and earnestly pressed to consider well, the main end of his life and studies is to know God
and Jesus Christ, which is eternal life. John 17:3. . .