Apologetics

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The water of life










By Claire Button
Contents

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Introduction 3-5

Chapter 1 6-7

Chapter 2 8-10

Chapter 3 11-15

Chapter 4 16-17

Chapter 5 18-19

Chapter 6 20

Chapter 7 21-23

Chapter 8 24-25

Conclusion 26












Wherever the water flows ever sort of living creature shall live..










Introduction


“Thus says the Lord, all who are thirsty come to the water” Isaiah 55:1


Jesus said

If anyone thirst’s let him come to me as scripture has said “ out of his heart shall flow rivers of living water” John 7 37,38

The “out of his heart shall flow river’s of living water” could refer in metaphorical language to the water, which is a well of salvation from heaven flowing from the pierced heart of Jesus.

This water is symbolic to the Holy Spirit because scripture says “the spirit the water and the blood are in agreement” 1 John 5:8

Our hearts are a fertile soil and when we plant the seed which is the word of God and the heart of Jesus in our hearts, then a flood of the Holy Spirit waters our heart and our inner being.

This water comes from the word ascended and make the seed grow and it produces seven fruits within us. The seven fruits of the Holy Spirit are love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness, and self control. These holy fruits contains that same seed of god at their heart, and then we share these fruits to others so that the word of god and the seven spirits of god may dwell within other people’s hearts. This is heaven growing in us with the seed of the tree of life, the qualities of god growing in us. This seed is watered from the well of salvation which is the pierced heart of Jesus.

As we have said the water flows from the heart of Jesus pierced at the crucifixion.
“But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear and immediately blood and water came out John 19:34
But we the church are married to Jesus, we are one flesh with him. It is we who thirst for water as John 7 says, if anyone firsts let him come to me. So aren’t our hearts pierced as John 7 continued? For out of HIS (the thirsting) heart shall flow rivers of living water. This could also once again refers to Jesus on the cross when he thirsted for water or love.

But we are expected to be like Jesus and endower people with fruits of the Holy Spirit and to do that we must suffer many persecutions. For the word of God is a double edged sword it searches mans thoughts. The spear that hit Christ’s heart searched his thoughts and its verdict was a gift for mankind, salvation to those near and salvation to those far and in doing so it has broken the bars of oppression of the slavery of sin and provided us with the gift of freedom by offering the gift of son ship by us being like the son in all qualities.

By the gift and grace of the holy spirit even though we are with sin we try our best to do what is right and just. And through the forgiveness of our sins in the spirit in the blood of a lamb due to love and through love we give love to Jesus Christ.

An good example is the Samaritan woman at the well who had 5 husbands who stated that she had no husband and even though she spoke the truth that she had no husband for her true husband on simplistic terms was her first we could say that in theological terms she was with sin and true husband was not Jesus. For the truth which is love of god and neighbour was not in the Samaritan woman. However she spoke the truth and confessed to Jesus and gave him water, Jesus would thirst again and die from that water. However the water he gave meant she wouldn’t go unrewarded.

This was because Jesus is the only way and the only truth meaning that he is the opener of the gates of those in slavery to sin to give them the only way to life. In doing so he set the Samaritan woman free because he asked for a drink from her for he was thirsting not for water from the well but for love from the Samaritan woman so that she would seek justice and right and sin no more.

Therefore he wanted her to be a fountain of living water which flowed from her heart creating a paradise of life within her. He allegorically stood on the cross thirsting due to infinite love pouring out of him and pierced his heart for the Samaritan woman if only she would give him a drink or kiss of love. She did and in a sense he wiped out her adultery and made her a wise virgin and bride. She became a child of God because of the Holy Spirit of forgiveness and she was able to cry Abba father. For the truth had set her free and her sins were forgiven.

This is one example of the water of life and these next few chapters will example it deeper.























Chapter 1


But what does thirsting really mean?

Firstly to thirst is to thirst for water, now water is the element which sustains life and which gives life. God word which is the breath of god or the spirit and is Jesus is liken to water and to survive we need to drink his word, his spirit and his life which is his blood. Jesus gives us the free gift of water or salvation Water like god creates life, therefore it is metaphorically wise. It is refreshing and cleansing and it takes away dirt and pollution, In a sense we could say it makes us clean. It makes us free from sin. So this water, this God, takes away dirt or sin. So if God gives life then god like water removes death, just as a drink of water takes away the threat of death. Therefore water in metaphor means God and salvation itself.

Now out of the heart of Jesus water, blood and the Holy Spirit flows. This is God flowing into the cup of salvation . But why does scripture use blood? Basically because without blood there is no life.

The word of God is the life of the world because it relates to creation, By thy word the heavens were formed. We know the word was at the beginning. It is intrinsically a unity of persons who’s delight was the creation of man.

The life of Jesus is in his blood To drink his blood is to drink his holy spirit to have the holy spirit flowing within us. To have the delights of creation of life itself within us. The fullness of God lives in us therefore.

Because God is Love where does creation mind live? Is it not in the heart of the word of God? As scripture says the spirit searches the deep things of god for who knows mind of god but the Spirit of God. But we have the mind of Christ for we drink his spirit which has searched the mind of Christ who’s verdict is pure love pouring from Christ’s heart. Love is the foundation of the world, love is the cross victorious creating the saints victorious who have drank the risen living word of God which is the spirit of love.

But does not blood pours out of the heart? That vessel of love in all culture? It is vital for life like love is. The sustaining of man rests on that love vessel just like the sustaining of creation rests on the constant love from the heart of God.

You could also say that a candle needs oxygen to burn. Jesus the light of the world is sustained by his Holy Spirit. That light or love which dispels the darkness of our hearts (and minds) pours into the blood of Jesus fed by the oxygen of the holy spirit. It lightens our hearts when we feed off that oxygenated blood. We eat the living flesh of Jesus in the Eucharist by the spirit he has given us. It is a bit like the lungs of the father in metaphor breathing the breath of the spirit into the mouth of Jesus which forms a living and active word made flesh.
The word is then given to the world, it is broken down or shared out through love on the cross. In a sense the passion and the true act of love is “spoken” as scripture says thy word has gone out to the end of the whole earth and the speaking is the true love coming down for us. For us to eat and digest we need to listen and then are we not all silenced? Then we rejoice and speak of the word or bread within us and we speak that word and share our bread of life to the hungry. For the 12 baskets are never empty and as Jesus said You give them something to eat.

Now blood means the love of God or life and light of god. As scripture says by thy light do we see light, which means the blood or Eucharist makes us see love or Jesus and to see love we must be beautified and made into light by Jesus who is the light of the world. As scripture says thy word is a light to my steps. We walk amid the deserts of a thirsting world giving the waters of life and wisdom and love to those who thirsting and dying and provide them with the beacon of hope. We carry Jesus himself in us. As scripture says happy are the feet of those who bring good news. For those feet which carry the light burden of the world bring water and light creating a paradise in the desert to those walking in evils shadow.

Therefore “the love of god has been poured into our heart by the Holy Spirit which has been given to us.” Romans 5:5 Therefore if the love of God pours into heart then surly the love of God is revealed in the blood of Jesus by him given us his spirit when we drink the life giving word. Or Spirit filled fountain of the waters of life and peace.






























Chapter 2



Now the early church believed in transubstantiation that is that the cup of wine blessed became the real presence of Christ’s blood itself. It becomes the true blood and water which pours from the heart of Jesus himself. It is in the element of wine, but why wine? Basically for metaphor why? because wine rejoices the heart like love in a marriage does.

Wine was used in the wedding in Cana in Galilee and Jesus transferred water into wine. Therefore the water which creates life and which we thirst for is a thirsting for salvation and Jesus turns this salvation into a joy.

Salvation is interlinked to a wedding which is being one flesh with Jesus being married to Jesus.

The wedding at Cana was only a metaphor of the true wedding in heaven because Jesus said “his hour at that moment had not come John 2:1-10. when he would lay down his life for his wife As scripture says “No greater love then this that a man lay down his life for his friends.” John 15:13

Cana in Galilee occurred on the third day why? Because it is a prefigurement of when Christ would actually marry his bride, which is the church and that the two would become one flesh meaning the church would become a new risen creation like Jesus and be all loving.

The resurrection is a prefigurement of what will happen to us. Let us look at it from the point of view of the spirit. Firstly scripture says that “by one spirit we are all baptised into one body, whether Jew or gentile whether bond or free and have all been made to drink into one spirit” 1 Cor 12:13. This spirit is love pouring from the heart of Jesus, it is blood and water because “the spirit the water and the blood are in agreement” 1 John 5:8 and it is this love which marries us into one body. Jesus marries the church and makes the church into his mystical body, as scripture says “For no’ one hates his own flesh rather nourishes and cherishes it even as Christ does the church because we are member of his body for this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother and be joined to his wife and the two shall become one flesh, This is a great mystery but I speak in reference to Christ and the church” Eph 5:28-32. This is baptism of the Holy Spirit and it is the marriage of Jesus and the church. Therefore Jesus pours the spirit onto his bride by reawakening it and making it a new creation. Just like Christ was resurrected on the third day so to is the bride reawakened on the third day by being like Jesus as scripture atones “in truth I tell you, no one can be enter the kingdom of heaven without being born from water and spirit. You ought to be astonished then when I tell you that you must be born again. The wind blows where it wills : you hear the sound of I, but you do not know where it comes from so is everyone who is born from spirit.” John 2:35-10.

At the Eucharist Christ gives his church nourishment that is his Spirit which is his blood which is his pure love. He opens his pierced heart hit by cupids arrow and gives love to his bride his church, and he does this in scripture in the form of a kiss.





Firstly when we kiss we produce love itself. We embrace and produce love. The greatest love is the laying down our life for others. That is what Christ did he shed his blood for his church, his wife. His heart was “pierced for our transgressions.” Isaiah 53:5 This is the water in the blood it is the cleansing of sin through pure love. The blood was the pure love and the spirit was poured onto church through the water and the blood. In the blood pours the water, Isaiah saw the face of God and realised he was a man of unclean lips that is he realised that he had a unclean heart. As scripture says “Wow to me I am a man of unclean lips and I live amongst a people of unclean lips for my eyes have seen the king the lord of hosts.” Isaiah 6:5

It is the blood or the love or spirit of God which washes the evil from the man. It is the water in the blood in metaphor which creates the clean lips and the person is transfigured and is able to come face to face with God because they have drunk love and the spirit and are one flesh with Jesus. They are married to him and they come face to face with the bridegroom who pours out pure love itself, and the first thing that they do is kiss. To create clean lips we wash the mouth with Holy Water or Gods Word. Jesus embraces our mouth and breaths the breath of his love into us. As scripture says Lord send forth your spirit and renew the face of the earth. 1 God renews us with his spirit and creates a new creation within us. But the first thing God’s word does is silence the lips like drinking of water does. We stand face to face at God’s glory and we behold pure love itself. The silence of our lips is a revelation of our sinfulness and how dirty that is lacking in love we our and the silence is a formation of a repentant clean heart flowing with living water creating a beautiful garden within us. The blood, water and spirit pours into the mouth of the believer and that kiss of God creates an eruption of love within the individual and the person is transformed. They remove their dirty clothes of ash cloth and death and place on the garment of salvation for they are transformed and shine out god radiant love. This love pours from the heart of Jesus and that love is from the blood, salvation itself. The bride humbles themselves towards the sacred heart of Jesus and kisses the heart of Jesus and drinks the Eucharist. And it is this wine which rejoices the heart like the touch of a kiss. But this kiss is important because as we have said to drink of the spirit we become married to Christ and become one with Christ and become his body. Therefore not only do we kiss Christ’s heart but we also kiss each other’s heart. This is very important because you can’t kiss Jesus or love the lord without loving each other, as scripture says “what ever you did to the least one of these you did for me.” Matthew 25:40.
Isaiah we discussed earlier realised he had unclean lips so how could he truly embrace the lord? How could he kiss, and how could he love with a unclean heart? A clean heart means that he didn’t truly love mankind and was full of sin. But the love of God Spirit in the blood of a slain lamb in the bridegroom helped create a clean heart in the bride as scripture says “Create a clean heart within me oh lord put a steadfast spirit within me” Psalm 51:10 and again, “I will take away your stony heart and give you natural hearts.” Ezekiel 36:26 This natural heart has been formed by the finger of God which is the spirit. Notice this analogy to the law given on Mount Sinai. Firstly the law was written on stone by the finger of God. In scripture it says “I shall write my laws on the heart.” Jeremiah 31:33

So therefore from the kiss pours the spirit and writes the law of the spirit onto the heart, and the law of the spirit is there to love God and to love each other as scripture says . “Love does no harm to neighbour, therefore love is fulfilment of the law” Romans 13:10

Let us now example what flesh means in scripture firstly “the flesh is spirit and life” John 6:63 But the flesh of Jesus is bread but Jesus is also the word of God as scripture says “In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God” John 1:1-2 Therefore that word is the flesh of Christ and that word is active, it is “spirit and life” John 6:63 Therefore the word of God is alive through the holy spirit. As Jesus is “the bread from heaven” John 6:35 The word of God is food as scripture says “man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God” Mat 4:4 That word of God is “spirit and life” Deut 32:46-47 it is Jesus flesh, it is love itself. But what does the word of God mean what is the bread for? Well scripture says “my food is to do the will of the father“ John 4:34. But bread why use bread. We shall go into deep detail later, but on a lesser scale, bread contains wheat and wheat is seen in scripture as members of the church. Therefore in bread is many members of the church just as in the mystical body of Jesus contains many members of the church. All these grains of wheat are held together because of the moulding of water and heating of fire. Water and fire are symbols of the Holy Spirit therefore of love therefore this mystical body of Jesus present in the species of bread is seen as a mystical union of the church acting in love through the Holy Spirit.

Let us progress and explain the passage from scripture that says the baptism of the Holy Spirit leads to a new creation of water and the spirit. We have partly explained in the kiss let us go back onto it. When we drink of the spirit and become married to Jesus and each other and we love each over. Firstly we repent and the Holy Spirit which is love helps us to have clean heart and hence clean lips and the kiss happens and Christ breaths onto our dead bodies the Holy Spirit which has we have said is like oxygen and it reawakens us and we have a new birth. This occurs twice on earth in the new Christian but also when Christ reawakens our bodies. And in a sense it leads to a “new creation“. As scripture says when Jesus said “in truth I tell you, no one can be enter the kingdom of heaven without being born from water and spirit. You ought to be astonished then when I tell you that you must be born again. The wind blows where it wills : you hear the sound of I, but you do not know where it comes from so is everyone who is born from spirit.” John 2:35-10. This is when we drink the cup of salvation that is the wedding feast in the kingdom of heaven because we have kissed the heart of Christ and drank his blood and loved each other. In the lords prayer we say “ Thy Kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven” The kingdom of heaven comes about on earth when a Christian has a new loving heart and the Holy Spirit has been breathed onto the once dead person who had a heart of stone but now has a heart of flesh.

So to sum up the holy spirit or the living word which is the Body and Blood of Christ is a perpetual Pentecost which was set up at the last supper. Here we kiss the heart of Christ and love God and each other and become married to God and each other. It refers to Christ never stopping loving the Church by feeding it with himself which is his love by giving us his word that is Jesus himself.


















Chapter 3


Lets now examine the evidence that Christ is the water of life through scripture.

The pool of Siloam is a pool and it actually means when translated one sent.

The feast of tabernacles was to remember the water that issued from the rock which was stuck in the desert, now that rock was in metaphor to Christ himself. These next few passages will explain this

“I do not want you to be unaware, brothers that our ancestors were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea, and all of them were baptised into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. All ate the same spiritual food and all drank the same spiritual drink for they drank from a spiritual rock that followed them and that rock was Christ“. 1: Corinthians 10:1-4

This water pours from Christ’s pierced heart. The prophet Zechariah says

“And I shall pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of compassion and supplication. And they shall look upon him that they pierced. They shall mourn for him as one weeps for a first born. On that day mourning in Jerusalem shall be as great as the mourning for Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo. On that day there shall be a fountain opened for the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to cleanse them from sin and uncleanness” Zech 12: 10,11,13:1

Now Hadad Rimmon was a vegetation deity that was meant to rise again after death in the same way a wheat grain dies to make bread. This passage describes a God who dies and rises and who is pierced of which there is a fountain of water that creates salvation and it is this person which comes from the line of David.

In the book of revelation there is water flowing from the lamb Jesus Christ.

“Then the angel showed me the river of life giving water sparking like crystal flowing from the throne of God and of the lamb” Rev 22:1

“The one who sat on the throne said “ Behold I make all things new” Then he said “ write these words down for they are trustworthy and true” He said to me “ They are accomplished I am the alpha and omega the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I shall give a gift from the spring of life giving water. The victor will inherit these gifts and I shall be his god and he will be my son” Rev 21 5-8

Jesus is also seen as a temple whom God raises up whom the prophet Ezekiel see’s in as vision of having water flowing from the alter. The alter being the symbol for Christ himself.

“Jesus said Destroy his temple and in three days I will raise it up. The Jews replied “ “It has taken forty six years to build this temple are you going to raise it in three days. But he was speaking of the temple that was his body.” John 2:19-21

“Then he brought me back to the entrance of the temple and I saw water flowing out beneath the threshold of the temple towards the east for the façade of the temple was towards the east the water flowed down the southern side of the temple south of the altar.” Ezekiel 47:1



Now out of heart of Jesus flows the water of everlasting life and Jesus is also the light of the world as scripture atones. This light flows from the heart of Jesus and is like the water, because light like water metaphorically sustains life.

In the book of Sirach chapter 24 it talks about wisdom being water, which only becomes wise when it has watered it’s garden, that is creation itself. Creation becomes endowed with the wisdom of the spirit so that fruits of the spirit which is like love, joy, peace, patient, kindness, gentleness and self control.

Only when this occurs does wisdom become a river, then an ocean of wisdom. Wisdom therefore only becomes wise when it learns to love another because of this wisdom and love are beautifully combine and relates to creation being a act of love.

But coming back onto the water being light. The text says after that after this watering of the garden does light shine forth like daybreak. This is a new creation the true creation.

This is like a new genesis of the spirit likened to wisdom or Sophia hovering over the water before god says “let there be light”

The sun is like a metaphor of this new day of when the light breaks forth to lighten the world. This is Jesus coming into the world who is the light of the world. Jesus therefore is like this wisdom who waters creation with his spirit in his blood, because of his love. The piercing of his heart was when the ocean of wisdom which is love flooded out of his heart onto the world. It was this which was when the eruption of light occurred.





This was the new daybreak, the new creation. When allegorically a new heaven was formed. Light in the beauty of a garden in scripture makes us see a glimpse of heaven.

The “spiritual eyes” of the just are able to see this heaven on earth when they make a “heaven” within their hearts. The spiritual eye are in the heart because the true heaven where love dwells has a geography on earth only in one place which is the heart. The blind man in scripture who Jesus made see was not blind for some punishment for sin as some fundamental evangelists proclaim. No because all have sinned and fallen short in the glory of God. Rather it was to reveal the power of God. Blindness was an allegorical expression of a person who wasn’t able to enjoy life to the full spiritually and see heaven, because his heart was full of darkness.

The blind man represents those who don’t see light which is a metaphor of god or love itself.

Where do we meet god? But in heaven, in a love to love relationship and in communion of hearts.

The blind man represents all those who don’t love god and each other and it represents all of us who are full of sin. The blind man eyes were full of darkness for the light of god which is Jesus didn‘t dwell there, so his heart was blind. He didn’t possess light. He didn’t have the spirit, the water and the blood flowing through his heart. What does this really mean? It means he didn’t have wisdom or love in his heart, he didn’t have the living spirit or word of God within him. This occurs when the church has drank the living spirit and then the church becomes one flesh with Jesus and that person becomes the mystical body of Jesus. This blind man was full of darkness because he wasn’t like Jesus. He didn’t follow him, for he was blind. This means he wasn’t like him. But Jesus wants to come to the blind man the lost sheep, lost, amid the dark valleys of sin and death and he wants to bring him to himself, He has come into to the world to make people have clean hearts. So therefore he guides the sheep to himself, the spring of Siloam, meaning himself or one sent and washes his eyes, This means he is made clean, he drinks the spirit and it gives him a pure heart as scripture says “ create a clean heart for me put a stead fast spirit within me.” At this moment he is baptised and married to Christ and becomes one flesh and he is like him. His heart is pierced because of love and love flows onto others, and the blind man becomes light itself, like a light shining on a hilltop and his eyes are full of light. He is therefore made perfect and he sees beauty an analogy of heaven itself. But this beauty is not just outwards from the eye but the true heaven is inwards from the heart for the water and hence the light shines forth from the heart.
But why is he a light shining on a hilltop? Basically because he is a man with clean hands and a pure heart, who has climbed the mountain of the lord, the wisdom of the world is seen and understood. But once again he is a sheep on a mountain now feeding on grass which is the bread of heaven which is the word of God which at it’s heart is love. It is that love which feeds and sustains the sheep. This vision of heaven in the psalms is a vision of love between god and mankind expressed in beauty to explain that love.
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Chapter 4


In this chapter we shall examine a little bit on prayer and the 55 chapter of Isaiah

In ancient times the clouds were seen as heaven. The rain coming down from heaven was salvation for people in the desert. In a way it was like god coming down to save them. You could say metaphorically say that the rain was in fact a taste of heaven.
Look at the below passage form the prophet Isaiah

“ For just as from the heavens the rain and the snow come down and do not return there till they have watered the earth, making it fertile and fruitful, giving seed to the one who sows and bread to the one who eats, so shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth, my word shall not return to me void but shall do my will achieving the end for which I sent it” Isaiah 55








Firstly the rain and the snow makes a fertile and fruitful land and gives seeds and bread. The rain and snow is likened to the word of god. Therefore the word of god who is Jesus Christ. “In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and was God” John 1:1 does gods will and that will is to water the earth with wisdom and love as Sirach 24 attains. As we have said the water is the spirit and that Holy Spirit, that metaphorical “wind” which formed the word of god in the incarnation which comes from the mouth of the father reawakens creation. As scripture says “lord send forth your spirit and renew the face of the earth.” psalm 104:30 Therefore this water which is the Holy Spirit creates fruits. The fruits of the spirit are love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, and self control, It creates bread from wheat which is the body of Christ, which is the mystical body of the church.

Each member of the Church is seen as a grain of wheat as in scripture where the just are seen as wheat and the unjust as the weeds. As we have said bread is a communion of many wheat grains.

Therefore what this passage means is simple, Jesus came to make pour his holy spirit onto the world so that people might produce love, joy peace, patience gentleness and self control, and that people would be like Jesus, bread or food from heaven, doing the



Will of the father.

Lets briefly comment on prayer. Jesus said the true worshipper’s will pray in spirit and truth. The Holy Spirit is Love and Wisdom it is “God Like prayer”

Jesus prayed in a Trinitarian fashion that is he communed with the father through his spirit what does this mean? It means he linked his mind and heart.

The mind of someone is directly related to the thoughts which proceed from the heart. As we have said the spirit of love and of wisdom flows from the heart. Wisdom comes from the mind and yet love comes from the heart. The holy spirit is both wisdom and love. The connection between the love for god and loving each other comes from that Prayer in spirit and truth. What I mean is that the mind becomes one with heart. When this happens the prayer is spiritual and god like. God only listens to just prayers for God is all love and God is all wise. Jesus was able to converse with the father in spirit and truth because he became all loving and hence all wise. Therefore people need to digest the word of God and drink of the spirit and become the body of Christ so that they become wise and loving.





Chapter 5


In this chapter we shall go in deep depth into what baptism really means.

Jesus is the fountain of wisdom which we are all expected to drink from and to be. The prophet Barouch says

“You have forsaken the fountain of wisdom had you not walked in god’s ways you would have dwelled in peace forever“. Barouch 3

Love creates peace therefore. But there is an interlinking between true wisdom and infinite love. This water or spirit grows the fruit of the spirit which is love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness and self control and is seen as food and the food is to do the will of the father, therefore the will of the father is to be like the qualities of the fruit of the spirit. The water also creates leaves which are like medicine. They heal the nations therefore. Therefore there is a interlinking between the water and peace. This is seen in this passage from the prophet Ezekiel.

“ Along both banks of the river fruit trees of every kind shall grow: their leaves shall not fade, nor their fruit fail. Every month they shall bear fresh fruit for they shall be watered from the flow from the sanctuary. Their fruit shall serve for food and their leaves for medicine” Ezekiel 47:12

In Sirach 24 wisdom only becomes an ocean of infinite wisdom when it creates a beautiful garden. Jesus creates a heaven for us when he pierced his heart and poured his love and wisdom which is his spirit in metaphor of water onto us so that we could drink of the spirit and become one body to Jesus that is become married to Jesus and each other.

The eruption of light of love between god and mankind is in metaphor to the garden as explained earlier.

The blind man in the gospels was a prefigurement of baptism. But what is baptism really on Jesus account? Basically it is salvation for us at the expense of Jesus Christ. It is sacrificial love. A ocean of love occurred because of the ocean of suffering of Jesus. But if we become like Jesus Christ aren’t we meant to suffer to? We are meant to sacrifice our very lives for each other. Not necessary in death but by thinking of others rather then ourselves. This is death to ourselves. We dip our heads in that ocean of suffering of Christ which is really love and we die with Christ and rise with him into new life and we become a new creation. But what is baptism of fire? Our faith is like gold refined in a furnish, painful but the bad parts of us are destroys leaving only pure gold. This is a purgatory of sacrifice. But there is a relationship which is that the greater the suffering the greater the love we have within us. This washes the heart and transforms it but doesn’t destroy it. This is where the holy spirit is seen as fire. Sometimes we see pain as a punishment but in fact it is really god himself making us into himself so that we have empathy inside us which brings us closer to our brother’s and sisters and makes us into a holy people.




Baptism means washing ourselves with water and blood from the heart of Jesus. It is like being clothed with Jesus. It is like drinking of the Holy Spirit in the blood, this means drinking pure love and making ourselves like Jesus Christ, by becoming one flesh with Jesus and becoming married to him as we have explained earlier.

Being like Jesus comes from the heart. The scripture in revelation, “The saints have washed their robes white in the blood of the lamb” Revelation 7:14 refers to the saints being like Jesus who “follow the lamb wherever he goes” Revelation 14:4 Which is the streams of living waters or pool of Siloam or himself.

But why are the saints dressed in white? Firstly it relates to us being like sheep, Jesus is the good shepherd who laid down his life for his sheep. We are the sheep therefore who follow Jesus to the green pasture and the streams of living water. Jesus carries the lost sheep and holds it in his arms.

Also white reflects pure light. Pure light is a metaphor of love and wisdom which is of God himself. Light also creates all colours and beauty and perfection itself. The saints bodies reflect beauty and perfection because they are transfigured and hence are perfect.

When we drink from the heart of Jesus, we open our mouths and hearts and sing a new song which is the alleluia. A song of peace of unification of God and mankind. It is only sung by those who see God which is the beatific vision. God dwells in an unapproachable light, which is love incomprehensible.

But as scriptures says “ By thy light we see light” Psalm 36:9 This means we become love itself because of your love. We become illuminated as we have risen from the dead which is the deeds of darkness and evil and exposed them and Christ has shined upon us. The light of a new day a new creation shines forth in us and creates a beautiful garden within us.

The passage from Isaiah says

“The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light, they rejoice as at harvest time” Isaiah 9:1-7 represents people who walked in darkness, that is in evil and yet they see light and a vision of god and of heaven, of light and beauty. Beautiful grace of God of the forgiveness of our sins as we change and become more loving.

But why use harvest time?

Basically because Jesus is the bread of life. After Jesus crucifixion he revealed himself to his disciples on the way to Emmaus and his disciples only recognised him at the breaking of bread. This means two things. Firstly Jesus is the word of God therefore the disciples only saw Jesus at the opening of the scriptures which is directly related to the digesting of bread or the word of God.

Secondly the light is Christ feeding the disciples on himself it denotes the harvest, which is the cross and denotes a love and marriage feast. The disciples feed on love and become love itself. Therefore it is them who become light who see light because of Christ’s light and hence become illuminated with love and wisdom and see or recognise Jesus.























Chapter 6



In the text from Isaiah

“I will pour out water upon the thirsty ground and streams upon the dry ground: I will pour out my spirit upon your offspring they shall spring up amid the verdure beside the flowing water” Isaiah 44:3-4

We are able to correlate the thirsting ground to the heart of the sinner thirsting for god.

Take the psalm for instance.

“As a deer longs for longing streams so my soul longs for you oh lord when shall I see god face to face.” Psalm 42:1






In Christological terms it is the heart where the streams of living water flows which we have described and from here it pours from the heart of Jesus containing the Spirit of God as scripture says

“Out of his heart shall flow rivers of living water” John 7: 37,38

Now at Pentecost streams didn’t appear on dry land. We shouldn’t take the text literally rather allegorically. The streams in Isaiah refer to the river of life flowing through us. We who were once an arid desert within us are a flowering land lush with water.
If we understand what water means doesn’t this psalm make sense?

“You care for the earth, give it riches, Your river in heaven brims over to provide it’s grain. And thus you provide for the earth. You drench it’s furrows. You level it, soften it with showers. You bless it’s growth. You crown the year with your goodness. Abundance flows in your steps. In the pastures of the wilderness it flows. The hills are girdled with joy. The meadows covered with flocks. The valleys are decked with wheat. They shout for joy, yes they sing.” Ps 64:10-14

This water is as we have said in Isaiah 55 is the word of God. It is wisdom. It is the Living Spirit of the word flowing from the heart of Jesus. It is the book of love. The riches could be ascribed to the riches of love and faith. This river flows from the lamb which described as a life giving water flowing from heaven in Revelation 22. The marriage feast of the drinking of the Holy Spirit makes us one flesh with Jesus and hence into the mystical body of Jesus by us become wheat grains.

The next part looks at abundance flowing in gods steps. In the wilderness it flows. In psalms there is a passage that says “Your word is a lamp to my steps.” Psalm119:136 This water is light. This word is beauty and love and it flows into the hearts of sinners because it flows in the wilderness. It makes the hills become a light shining forth wherever the water flows and where ever God’s offspring emerge and where God’s children shine forth love and who sing for joy.

As Isaiah says

“I will pour out water upon the thirsty ground and streams upon the dry land. I will pour out my spirit upon your offspring. They shall spring up amid the verdure beside the flowing water” Isaiah 44 3-4

John is the voice crying to those with dry hearts saying prepare the way of the lord and repent as scripture says.

“A voice cries in the wilderness, prepare the way of the lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our god.“ Isaiah 40: 1-10

For the coming of God is the preparing of the heart for God’s Spirit. In metaphor to water. Which represents father, son and holy spirit.

If the desert is our hearts then John the Baptist who is the voice crying in the wilderness and also Jesus himself is saying “prepare a highway for God“ which is a highway of light and water so that grains of wheat of the harvest may grow. In the Eucharist we eat bread which are grains of wheat. We plant grains or the word of God into our hearts. Each grain is a person of the world. We plant the needs of others in our heart therefore. The seed from wheat spreads which means we are expected to evangelise nations then we make bread, which is the church. Therefore we must break our bread to the hungry which is those who haven’t digested the word of God. This doesn’t mean just creating belief itself but it actually means making others into bread or into Jesus. This means making them loving and kind. Making them therefore into the true body of Christ. We are expected to open our hearts to the thirsty. So that by having a heart that pieced like the heart of Jesus which is pure and clean because it has God’s Spirit within then we may give out love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness and self control to people who don’t possess those fruits of the spirit. So that these people may drink of the Holy Spirit within us and give us back those fruits to others.

Chapter 7


In this chapter we shall look at why Jesus actually decided to undergo baptism himself.

It is known that Jesus was without sin. Therefore why did he decide to be baptised? This is like saying Jesus was pure why make him purer?
Actually Christ’s baptism was a prefigurement of his death. On the cross Christ said that he thirsted. What does this mean? Does it mean that his mystical body, which is his people was thirsting? This means they were lacking in love? Jesus said that he thirsted and what he really meant was an invitation to his people that they would give him and each other love. He wanted them to pierce their hearts therefore. Mary his mother at the time of the crux fiction pierced her heart by remaining at the cross and also becoming the mother of the church as scripture atones.

But could the text mean something more profound? Something found in Sirach’s 24th chapter?

“And I like a conduit from a river, like a watercourse running into a garden. I said “ I am going to water my orchard. I intend to irrigate my flower beds. And see my conduit has grown into a river and my river has grown into a sea. I shall send it’s light far and wide.”

Christ’s wisdom and love will create a garden and yet this wisdom and love will be infinite because the water becomes like a sea. Therefore if this water flows from Christ’s heart then perhaps he actually does thirst? This means his love flows out at the expense of himself. For no greater love is that a man lays down his life for his friends. It is this love which created a heaven for us.

As we have said baptism is about decent into death creating death of ourselves for others so that we can rise to new life with Christ. This is rebirth of water and the holy spirit in that we are purified and made clean in heart. But we also need to be purged as this text says

“The ways of death encompassed me the torrents of perdition assailed me, the cords of shoal entangled me the snare of death confronted me and in my distress I called upon the name of the lord“. 2nd Samuel 22:5

Christ was all the time praying to the father for our sins to be forgiven and in doing so he sent the Holy Spirit to purge our sins.






Chapter 8



This final chapter is about Mary and the incarnation.

Jesus was conceived when the Holy Spirit touched the womb of Mary. As soon as the sacred heart was formed Mary became the vessel of heaven on earth because she contained the beating sacred heart of Jesus within her.

Love, wisdom, light and beauty was contained within her. Genesis 1 therefore could be taken as a prophecy of when earth was wedded to heaven because the spirit hovered over the waters of the womb of Mary and God said “let there be light“ And there was light for the light of the world Jesus was formed.

We can understand the trinity for Jesus is the light of the world and yet he was also the word or voice of God. Jesus therefore spoke at the command of the father and became flesh.

Wisdom was working within creation and the seed of the church was now growing within Mary.

As soon as the heart started to beat there was an eruption of light within Mary and she was able to taste the water of wisdom and love flowing from the heart of Jesus. She tasted the joy of the holy spirit of life within her and she tasted light and was transformed and saw the face of God within her.





But isn’t Mary a saint who is a symbol of how we are meant to live? To have an integral relationship towards Jesus. Mary loved Jesus maternally but she also didn’t hate humanity for killing her son. This reflect two things firstly it reflects the love that Jesus has for humanity for Mary couldn’t love her son unless she loved what he stood for. But also it reflects the love she has for humanity and for us.

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