Week 7 of 21 · John 7 · Thursday December 31 · New Year’s Eve
Rivers of Living Water
Jesus lives on His Father’s timetable, teaches the Father’s words, and offers Himself to anyone who is thirsty. He is the source of the Spirit’s rivers of living water. Everyone must decide about Him, and the crowd divides, but the man who is willing to do God’s will comes to know the truth.
“Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. “He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, ‘From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.’”John 7:37–38
MondayRead John 7 twice and mark itMon Dec 28
TuesdayStudy notes and the Observe questionsTue Dec 29
WednesdayInterpret, Weigh the Teachers and ApplyWed Dec 30
Thursday eveningTogether: the film, the worksheet, prayerThu Dec 31 · New Year’s Eve
Season 2, Episode 5 · “Spirit” (closest)Set at the end of the Feast of Tabernacles; Nicodemus stalls the report against Jesus.
Read it against John 7
- No Season 1–5 episode dramatizes John 7. Jesus’ teaching at the feast and “rivers of living water” (7:37–39) are not on screen.
- In John, Jesus goes up to the feast secretly and does not teach until the middle of the week (7:10, 14). The show has Him in Jerusalem the whole week.
- Nicodemus defending Jesus in the show echoes 7:50–51. Read what he actually says there.
The Chosen is a drama, not Scripture. Watch it to picture the people and places, then test every scene by the text — “examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so” (Acts 17:11). God’s Word is the truth; where the film differs, the Word wins.