Welcome to Studies with Stearman. Join us as we look deeper into the Bible. Strengthen your

faith with us, even as we see the day approaching. And now, here's Gary. We love to argue.

That's the way people are. We love to say, hey, I believe so and so, what do you believe?

Well, I believe so and so.

Well, I don't believe that.

And we get these wonderful discussions started.

One of the big discussions is who is God and what kind of a person is God?

And that's been cleared up forever.

There's just absolutely no question about who he is and what he's like.

Because Jesus said, I'm God.

John chapter 8, Jesus came to the temple, and he was preaching at the temple.

Beautiful place, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.

The temple was a phenomenal place.

People came from all over the world just to see it.

And furthermore, it was considered to be the place where God met man on earth.

And that was true because Jesus was teaching at the temple.

He came and he declared himself to be the water of life

on the seventh day of the feast of tabernacles, Hoshana Rabbah.

He said, He that believeth on me, as the scriptures sayeth, out of his belly shall flow rivers of

living water. This is the same Christ who on the cross said, I thirst, but he gave everybody else water.

He was tested. They brought to him a woman taken in adultery in order to see how he would handle

the situation. Then on the next day of the feast, which is called Simkatora, Jesus stood up and

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