Rivers of living water

With reference to John 7:37-39—That the water of life represents the Spirit in all its relations and effects, is evident from the words of Jesus in John 7:37-39: “if any man thirst,” saith he, “let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the Scripture hath said, out of his body shall flow rivers of living water. This spake he,” adds John, “of the Spirit which they that believe on him should receive; for Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus had not yet been glorified”. A stream of this pure, transparent water of life was poured out upon the apostles on the Day of Pentecost. That, however, though great and marvelous in its effects, was only the earnest of what is yet to follow. It anointed them with knowledge, wisdom, and power; but it left them as it found them, subject to disease, sorrow, pain, and death. Now, people have so much Holy Spirit in them as they have of the words and ideas of the Deity understood, affectionately believed, and obeyed (John 6:63). But, when the time of the great Pentecostian outflow of Holy Spirit shall arrive, the assembled multitude of the approved convened before the judgment seat of Christ, will be filled, and covered over, and thoroughly saturated in all the atoms of their substance, with the flood of downpouring Spirit from unapproachable light; whereby they will be changed, and all that is in them of earthiness and mortality “swallowed up of life”. Henceforth, the pure, transparent stream of living water is distributed through them as its channel to mankind, until the knowledge of YAHWEH the fountain of living waters, shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea (Isa.45:8)