@caesar-salad
As you can see, I erased my rant.
Beating a dead horse.
What do you think about the New Jerusalem as the city of living water in Revelation 21 and 22 ?
Isn't that something?
Read that thing! That's man's destiny.
It is fascinating. You have living water as rivers flowing out of the innermost being of individual believers in John 7:38.
Yet in the end of the Bible you have a CITY whose center is a THRONE from which is pouring out the river of the water of life.
Think about it.
This means that God's eternal purpose is to cause His throne to reside in the innermost being of EACH constituent of the city. It is literally a city of life - a city of the water of life.
Now look at the two passages together:
John 7:38
"He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, out of his innermost being shall flow rivers of living water."
[b]Revelation 22:1
"And he showed me a river of water of life, bright as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb in the middle of its street."
The Triune God's eternal Spirit is installed in the innermost being of all the saved people.
And Triune God's eternal Spirit is pouring out of the central throne of God and of the Lamb.
This has to mean that each human being is totally governed by the indwelling eternal life of God. God's throne of administration is the center of the city and the center of each constituent of the city.
The river flowing down the middle of the street of gold means man walks by the divine nature of the Triune God.
The will of God is accomplished and perfectly blended with the desire, wants, enjoyment, tastes, leanings of mankind.
Praise God for such an eternal destiny.
Actually the eternal city is just the mass production of sons of God conformed to Christ the Firstborn of many brothers.
Would you like to have Jesus Christ and every neighbor in your neighborhood?
You will if you get saved and sanctified, transformed and conformed to the image of the Son of God.
@divegeester
Psalm 46:6
"There is a river whose streams gladden the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacle of the Most High."
Good enough. If Divegeester can't see a kind of "city of [living] water" in the Bible then he must be straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel - hunting for errors in a rich ministry of the word of God.
Oh dear.
Sonship you seem to think an awful lot of your ministry. Way way way too much...
Oh dear Divegeester, You seem to think way, way, way too much of your clever tactic to distract from the main point.
A city of [living] water? Sure - perhaps starting with Psalm 46:4.
What do you think is accomplished by trying to red herring your way out of YOUR under-appreciation of the importance of God's living water in His eternal city ?