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Is Jesus the Messiah?
Part 3
Intro
This morning we are going to wrap up our study of John 7.
We have been looking at this passage for the the last 3 weeks and we have come to realize that the key question asked in these 52 verses is “Is Jesus the Messiah?”
How we answer that question has a tremendous amount of baring on how we live, how we act, and how we worship.
Last week I told you guys that the answer to the question Who is Jesus is the most important question you will ever have to ask and answer.
John wants us to see Jesus for who he is.
That he is the Son of God the savior of the world.
That he is the messiah who has come to seek and save the lost.
John tells us at the end of the gospel the reason why he wrote these words.
John 20:31 “31 But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.”
So the question remains what will you do with Jesus?
Who do you say that Jesus is?
In this morning’s text we will read and hear a beautiful invitation from Jesus.
A call to take him at his word.
A call to know and love him.
A call to taste and see that he is good.
And then we will look a the response from the crowd.
But before we dive in, let’s pray.
Invitation
A few weeks ago, I spent a few minutes talking about the Festival that’s going on during this and the following two chapters.
But as a quick reminder let’s talk about it.
It’s Called the Festival of Tabernacles.
This feast was a time of reflection, celebration, and anticipation.
The People would build temporary tabernacles to live in for one week.
This was to remind them of the wilderness wanderings and God’s provision.
The celebration came on the heels of harvest celebrating God’s provision.
The feast pointed them to the coming messiah/savior as God’s provision.
And Jesus, as a Jewish man, would attend this celebration feast.
And here we see that he took a stand on the last and most important day of the festival.
Now to understand what Jesus says here we have to understand one of the practices that would happen daily at the festival.
Each day the priests would leave the temple and make their way down to the Pool of Siloam.
This pool was provided running fresh water to Jerusalem.
The priests would go down each day and take some golden cisterns or pitchers to draw water from the pool.
Once the water was drawn they would make their way back up to the temple and pour out the water on the altar as a sacrifice.
Now on the last day of the feast this would take place not once but 7 times.
And as this ceremony is taking place those present at the feast would wave a tree branch in one hand and a citrus branch in the other to signify their celebration.
They would then recite what are called the Hallel Psalms.
Those found in Ps 113-118.
Remember the entirety of this celebration was to help the Jewish people focus on God’s provision.
God providing them water from the rock while they were in the wilderness in Ex 17 and Numbers 20.
God’s provision of water in Jerusalem, to drink, to water the crops, to sustain life.
We live in a time and place where we aren’t as concerned with having water as they were in that time.
Remember they lived in a desert region.
Water wasn’t always easy to come by.
They couldn’t go into their kitchen and turn on the faucet to get fresh clean water.
So they were absolutely dependent on God for their water supply.
and they were thankful for the water that he supplied.
When was the last time that you gave thanks to God for clean, fresh water.
Anyway, as this ceremony was wrapping up Jesus stood up and cried out.
Jesus stood up and shouted with a loud voice
John 7:37-38 “...“If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.
38 The one who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, will have streams of living water flow from deep within him.””
He didn’t want those at the festival to miss out on the importance of the festival.
That the festival all along focused on him.
The festival pointed to him.
The festival was looking forward to the provision of God in the Savior sent by God.
Paul tells us in 1 Cor 10:4 “4 and all drank the same spiritual drink.
For they drank from the spiritual rock that followed them, and that rock was Christ.” that Jesus was the rock in the desert that followed the Israelites around providing water for them.
Jesus is the water that satisfies.
He is the water that quenches our thirst.
He is the water that brings life.
Think about it we can’t live without water.
It is essential to our well being.
And we are not simply physical beings.
We are spiritual beings too.
Meaning that we don’t just need to drink water for our bodies, but we need to drink water for our souls.
And here Jesus offers up an invitation.
To come and drink his living water.
Who is the invitation for?
Everyone who is thirsty.
What does it mean to be thirsty?
It means that you are desperate, needy, and unsatisfied.
Your mind, body, and soul is parched and needing refreshment.
Your body sends certain signals when it is dehydrated.
Your mouth gets dry, your muscles start to ache, you get headaches, brain fog, and fatigue.
All because you aren’t drinking water to hydrate your body.
Corrie and I have a friend who suffers from intense migraines.
And if you look at her she seems healthy enough.
But all she drinks is soda.
She never drinks water and her body is reacting to that lack of hydration.
Even though there is water in the soda its not like the pure form of water.
It’s counterfeit hydration.
She never notices the dehydration b/c she filling the felt need with the counterfeit that seems to satisfy.
It tastes good.
It feels good.
But it doesn’t do what pure water would do.
The soda will never hydrate and cure thirst like pure and unadulterated water.
Likewise your soul is spiritually dry if it hasn’t been hydrated by the living water.
Your soul is thirsty, desperate, needy and unsatisfied.
So you search and feed your soul things that are going to satisfy the need.
And so what do we do, we try to cure our thirst with counterfeits.
We chase after pleasure, money, recognition, relationships, power, or satisfaction.
And as we chase after those things we believe that we are satisfied.
And they may satisfy for a while, but they end up getting old.
It ends up never being enough.
Our souls are still dehydrated.
We are still thirsty.
But here’s the thing, sometimes we don’t care if we’re thirsty.
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