Jesus Promised His People the Spirit of Life

Jesus called the Holy Ghost our Comforter, Whom the Father would send in Christ's name after He rose from the grave and ascended to Heaven.

Jesus promised us that the Holy Ghost within us would help us to reply to our persecutors, and that indeed, it would be the Spirit speaking through and for us, to defend the honor and right of our Savior.

Jesus also promised that the Holy Ghost would come to all those who believe in Him, and would be as a river of living water, which is life unto His people! This would happen after the ascension of Christ into glory, after His sacrifice and resurrection.

Water is essential for life, and dehydration is often the cause of sickness and even death. It can come upon a person suddenly, and they will turn weak and disoriented and faint.

But Christ's promise of living water had previously been revealed to the woman at the well. She misunderstood Christ's meaning, thinking that she would never have to draw from the well again.

But Christ was speaking of new life in Him, by the Holy Ghost, which is pictured by a boundless supply of living water.

That water is described as living – not a pond, or some body of stale water with scum and algae growing in it!

No, it is LIVING water, fresh flowing water, indicating an abundant and perpetual life provided by the Holy Ghost in believers!

Christ's promise to us is God's Spirit in us, reviving us, regenerating us, making us born again unto spiritual life, as Jesus had described to Nicodemus.

Our new life in Christ is not something we receive, and then uphold by ourselves. Rather, our new life is animated and purified and sustained by the Holy Ghost within us!