Red Letter Day - I Thirst

I Thirst

Was Jesus Thirsty?

Exodus story - Exodus 7-8

Rock struck for water

Jesus - I am that rock, I quench your thirst

Matthew 5:6 ESV

“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.

What do you thirst for?

Samaritan - enemy of Jews

Woman had baggage

We all are thirsty

How do you quench your thirst?

Don’t get it - look in the wrong places

Everything else makes us thirsty

Jesus quenches

vs 16-26 - dealing with the sin - caused the thirst

From needy to needed

vs 14 - not just quenched - become an artisan well

vs 39 - flowed out to the whole town

we will do more

John 14:12 ESV

“Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father.

Need, Seed, & Feed

need - Jesus meets us out of love

we see it because of love

seed - Jesus is our seed hope that will grow

we cast our seeds -

feed - move from needy to needed

faith move us to action

James 2:18 ESV

But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.

Thirst no more

dying of thirst

drowning

pouring out

The key to Christian living is a thirst and hunger for God. And one of the main reasons people do not understand or experience the sovereignty of grace and the way it works through the awakening of sovereign joy is that their hunger and thirst for God is so small.

John Piper