" I Thirst"

KEY POINTS & KEY CONCEPTS:

Thirst or Thirsty “Yisemah” THIRST: To Know & Understand... Water is basic to all human life. In scriptures the physical need to drink is often used as a picture of human spiritual need that only God can satisfy. Ladies & gentlemen, boys & girls; especially to the house of faith of sons & daughters-this was the THIRST that Christ-Yeshua was seeking; to be reunited back with HIS FATHER...THE TRUE LIVING WATER! THIRST, THURST: One of the most powerful natural appetites, the craving for water or other drinks. Besides its natural significance, thirst is figuratively used of strong desires. The soul thirsts for God [ Psalms 42:2; 63:1] Jesus-Yeshua-Yehousa meets the soul’s thirst with water of life [ John 4:13; 6:35; 7:37] In the book of Revelation...our heavenly abodes “They shall hunger no more; neither thirst anymore” Rev 7:1617 cf Isa 49:10] KEY PASSAGES... On two different occasions Jesus declared that those who drank of His living water would never thirst again. Jn. 4:14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. Jn. 6:35—And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.

INTRODUCTION:

Christ’s Spiritual Thirst Was Due To His Separation From His & Our Father

Thirst or; thirsty, overwhelming desire for either the natural, or for the hidden knowledge of God. The physical thirst that Jesus endured was divinely fashion for this moment. Christ never thirsted naturally or physical before in the scriptures; but this was the first and only time that Christ-Yeshua experienced separation from the Father. Remember, Christ was the living water; because Christ was always in harmony and agreement with His Father; the source of all things on earth and in heaven. WORD STUDY – THIRSTY Exodus 17:13; “And the people thirsted there for water and the people murmured there for water.” Thirst – Hebrew: Yisemah – thirsty, overwhelming desire for either the natural, or for the hidden knowledge of God. This verse follows the story of Israel crossing through the desert on their way to the promised land. In Exodus 17:1 God commands the children of Israel to stop and make camp at Raphidim.  It is a wonder that God asked them to camp in this area.   Not only was there no water but they were later attacked by the Amalekites at Raphidim.  From all human reasoning, this was not the place to set up camp.  Now the Bible only says that there was no water at Raphidim, it does not say Israel was without water. Obviously they carried water with them and one reason to stop and setup camp would be to replenish your supply of water.  But here God had them camp at a place where there was no water.   They were to stay until God said it was ok to move on. The Bible say in Exodus 17:3 that the people thirsted there.  The word “thirst” in Hebrew is “Yisemah” which comes from the root word “tsamah” and means thirsty but it also means an overwhelming desire for things either of the natural world or of God.  Here’s what caught my attention.  Every English translation says the “people were thirsty”  past tense.  One version even says they were tormented by thirst.    The word in the Hebrew is “yisemah.” That “yod” in front of the word, that little “tittle” that we are commanded not to remove gives some very important insight into this story.  That “yod” puts this word into a simple qal imperfect form.   Qal (simple), not piel (intensive).  Imperfect (incompleted action often rendered as a future tense).  They were not tormented by thirst, they were not dying of thirst, and in fact they were not thirsty at all. But they were filled with desire, desire for the flesh.  Being in an imperfect or future tense suggest that they were going to be thirsty.  The question was, what were they going to be thirsty for?  They had enough water for the day, maybe the next day or maybe longer.  They were not thirsty yet, they had not reached the crisis stage yet, but it was looming out there in front of them.  Moses was thirsty just like the rest, only his thirst was for the hidden knowledge of God where the others thirsted for natural things, like security for your own fleshly gizzard. Moses was just focused on obedience to God. If God wanted them to camp at Raphidim, then by golly they were camping at Raphidim water or no water. But the people were focused on the natural world and not on eternal things and they began to murmur out of fear.

Psalm 63:1–11

{Word Study} Thirsty “Yisemah”

THIRST: To Know & Understand...

1. Water is basic to all human life. In scriptures the physical need to drink is often used as a picture of human spiritual need that only God can satisfy.

Ladies & gentlemen, boys & girls; especially to the house of faith of sons & daughters-this was the THIRST that Christ-Yeshua was seeking; to be reunited back with HIS FATHER...THE TRUE LIVING WATER!

THIRST, THURST: One of the most powerful natural appetites, the craving for water or other drinks. Besides its natural significance, thirst is figuratively used of strong desires.

There is within every soul a thirst for happiness and meaning.

Thomas Aquinas

Even the heart of God thirsts after love.

Abraham Kuyper

In His thirst we see the true humanity of Christ.

John F. MacArthur

Psalm 63:1–11

The soul thirsts for God [ Psalms 42:2; 63:1]

Jesus-Yeshua-Yehousa meets the soul’s thirst with water of life [ John 4:13; 6:35; 7:37]

In the book of Revelation...our heavenly abodes “They shall hunger no more; neither thirst anymore” Rev 7:1617 cf Isa 49:10]

KEY CONCEPTS: I THIRST: The Phrase “I Thirst” Implications & Applications...

Q: Why Did Christ-Yeshua Thirst? O God, You are my God; I shall seek You earnestly; My soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You, In a dry and weary land where there is no water. Psalm 63:1  NASB

Thirsts– Water is life and when you don’t WATER have it for a long time, the body tells you that you’re in real trouble.  Thirst is an early warning signal for death.  In King David’s reign and testimonies from his battles against friends & foes, King David realizes that God’s “THIRST” is a THIRST; we all want. We want that EVER-PRESENT THIRSTING…AND REALITY OF GOD’S PRESENCE WITH US… HEBREW WORD STUDY – MY SOUL THIRST HEBREW WORD STUDY – MY SOUL THIRST HEBREW WORD STUDY – MY SOUL THIRST – NEPHESHI KAMAH  נפשׁי כמה Psalm 63: 1 A psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. “ O God, thou art my God, I seek thee,  my soul thirsts for thee; my flesh faints for thee,  as in a dry and weary land where no water is.”  Psalms 63:1 Psalms 63:1: “Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, thou [art] my God; earnestly will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;” “My soul thirsteth for thee,” The word for thirst that is used in the Hebrew here is kamah which means thirst but stop and consider that this was written in the Middle East in ancient times where water came only for a well or a spring at an oasis.  Water was scarce in ancient times.  Not like today.  We have an abundance of water, enough to not only drink our fill when we are thirsty but to bath or shower in it as often as we like, wash our clothes, dishes, and water our lawns. David even explains it further by saying that he longs for God in a dry and thirsty – kamah (there is that word again) land where there is no water. A parched land. Have you even ever seen a parched land with the bones of animals laying around?  That is what David feels like without the presence of God.

Much more interesting about that word kamah thirst is that it not only means an obsession for water but the Septuagint uses the Greek word imeipetai which is sometimes used in extra-Biblical literature for a longing to fulfill one’s love, a passion that agonizes for fulfillment.  David not only compares his longing as a desire for God like a man dying of thirst and obsessed with just a cup of water, but as one who is so filled with passion for a lover that he just cannot wait for his lover to put her arms around him and let him fulfill that burning passion.

The Thirst in the Greek vernacular is the word Dipsao. Dipsao is the realistic Desire of the kind of suffering Jesus was enduring for His Final refreshment. It was the last Physical request of our dying Savior. If I would have been there I would have given him some water.3x

Somebody say No you wouldn’t have. Let me tell you why.  Somebody tell me say it Rev.

1. They had armed Roman Soldiers making sure that nobody in the crowd gave any type of comfort to the ones being crucified. it was forbidden

Then 2. Crucifixion 3x

was  invented by  the Persians and Phoenicians, but! it was perfected by the Romans. Them Romans made crucifixion gruesome and gasly and This mode of capital punishment was reserved for the lowest kind of criminals. It was the most cruel and shameful death a person could die.       And 3. They’ve got my Jesus between two criminals and with an inscription that say Jesus of Nazareth King of the Jews  written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek. They’ve got the King of Kings, The lord of Lords, The Alpha and the Omega The beginning and the Ending the First and the Last They’ve got  the One who put the wet in water Here he is, Jesus is thirsty.

Jesus is thirsty For Spiritual Renewal and Revival and Restoration. Brothers and sisters it’s time to get back to have a real relationship with the Lord because he one knows the day or the hour when the Lord shall call your soul away.

I THIRST

Jesus talked a lot about being thirsty, such as when he spoke to the woman at the well.  If you remember that story, Jesus asked the woman to give him a drink.  The woman responded, “How is it, that you, a Jew, asks a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?” Jesus answered, “if you knew who that is saying to you ‘give me a drink’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water… (and went on) Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty.” Their conversation continued, but Jesus, through this illustration, demonstrated to the woman her own need, her own ‘thirst’ if you will, for something more than water.  She was in need of a savior, but Jesus used a physical sign to help the woman recognize her own need.  It’s interesting to me that when Jesus asked the Samaritan woman to give him a drink, he used the same word for thirst in the Greek as he spoke from the cross.