Well, welcome, everyone to the spoken gospel podcast.

Thank you so much for joining us.

We are continuing our walk through the book of John.

Last time we traced the theme of signs through the Bible because John is a book of signs

that point to Jesus and show who he is what he's like and ultimately that he is

God in the flesh come to bring his life to us.

And now we are going to trace the theme of water through the Bible, which is a humongous theme

in John.

And to give ourselves a little more breathing room, we are going to do this probably in two episodes.

One today where we walk through the Hebrew Bible, the Old Testament, and see how the theme of water develops and understanding what it's doing in the biblical imagination and how God thinks about it and uses it and references it.

And then next time we will apply all of that God God willing, to John and see all the biblical threads that John is pulling on in the many, many times that he uses water.

So that's the game plan.

Christine, are you ready to splash about in the pools of the Old Testament?

I don't know the right question to ask here.

I'm ready to dive in.

Dive in. That's so immeasurably better than mine was. That's what I should have said. Dive in. Everyone just get ready for water puns. They're going to come out. They're going to gush forth at unexpected times. They're going to hit you wave after wave. That's for sure. Yeah. I mean, I'm foaming at the mouth to get like, you know, like sea foam on the way. I just don't like that coming out of your mouth.

That's fair.

That's super fair.

All right.

So before we jump fully into the Old Testament, let's at least introduce us all and

refamiliarize us with why we're talking about

water in relation to John's gospel. I mean, let's just name a few. Like John highlights Jesus's

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