I am Thirsty – Joseph “Skip” Ryan , JESUS Keep Me Near the CROSS with Pastor William Shifflett

Disagree, agree, or have a question: Contact us through the contact page on our website; http://www.biblebulldog.com PASTOR WILLIAM'S BOOKS: https://www.amazon.com/stores/William... John 19:28 - After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the Scripture), “I thirst.” Jesus was dying, He was hot and thirsty. Are food and water luxuries? Food and water are necessities, not luxuries; if we don’t eat or drink, we will die. And so it is in the spiritual realm: Is Jesus a luxury? Jesus Christ is not some luxury; He is a necessity. Without Him, our spirits will die. “Spiritually speaking, if God is not at the center of our souls, then we do not have that which can ultimately meet our thirst and quench it. The real danger of that thirst is eternal death in hell.” Luke 16:19-31 - The Rich Man and Lazarus – Tell us how the rich man’s heart is revealed. “The water he seeks will not fill his soul and not satisfy him.” John 4:13-14 - Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” What is the secret of satisfaction? “In the whole passion account we never once hear Jesus complaining about any of the physical torture and agony into which He was placed.” When Jesus says, “I am thirsty”, do you think He means physical thirst? John 7:37-38 – On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. 38 Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’” Is water an image of spiritual abundance? Exodus 17:5-6 - And the Lord said to Moses, “Pass on before the people, taking with you some of the elders of Israel, and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. 6 Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb, and you shall strike the rock, and water shall come out of it, and the people will drink.” And Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of Israel. 1 Corinthians 10:4 - and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ. Is it a stretch to say this was a glorious illustration of our salvation? First Corinthians 10:11 says, “All these things happened to them as examples.” Isaiah 53:4 says, “Yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.” Did that rock picture the Lord Jesus Christ, the Rock of Ages, stricken for us? Jesus, the Rock of Ages, was smitten for us. And because Jesus was smitten for us, out of His side came forth water. He was stricken and smitten, that we might be refreshed.

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