Alright brethren, John chapter
7. Our Lord Jesus went up to this
feast of tabernacles and by this time He had worked many miracles. He had healed some people including
the impotent man who had been impotent for 38 years. He had
declared He is the bread. that unless a man ate his body
and drank his blood, he had no life in him. He declared that
no man could come to him except the Father drew him. And then
he had declared the thing that really offended the most. He
declared he's one with the Father, that he and the Father are one,
the Son of God, the only begotten of the Father. And then he had
told the Pharisees that none of them kept the law. And then he stood up that day,
that great day of the feast, that last day, going through
the motion of bringing pails of water up from a fountain,
imitating the scripture that says you will draw water out
of the wells of salvation, and pouring it on a rock, imitating
water coming out of the smitten rock, and there stands the smitten
rock, there stands the well of salvation. And so He says to
them, come unto Me. If any man is thirsty, let him
come unto Me and drink. Let him believe on Me, and out
of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. And when He
said this, it says in verse 43, there was a division among the
people because of Him. There was a division among the
people because of Him. There had already been much division.
It says back up there in chapter 7, it says back up there in verse
12, there was much murmuring among the people concerning him.
For some said he's a good man, others said no, but he deceived
the people. Howbeit, no man spake openly
of him for fear of the Jews. There was already quite a bit
of murmuring going on. But now that he stood and he
said this, come to me, if any man is thirsty, let him come
to me and drink. Out of his belly shall flow rivers
of living water. Now they began to speak up. They
began to say something, but they didn't agree. There was division. Now let's look at these people's
comments about Christ. My subject is division with one
exception. Division with one exception.
There was a division among the people because of Him. Now let's
look at these comments that these people were making. Now, first,
some said he's the prophet, verse 40. Many of the people, many,
many of them said this. Many of the people, therefore,
when they heard him say, come to me and out of your belly will
flow rivers of living water, when they heard this saying,
they said of a truth, this is the prophet. Some may have thought this meaning
there was a prophet that was to arise before Christ, which
He had come, that was John the Baptist. Others may have thought
He was the prophet God spoke of, but they knew something of
the Scriptures. And indeed He is the prophet. Christ is the
prophet. Christ said, My Father is true. And God promised in His Word
to raise up the prophet, His Son, who would be the prophet.
Let's go over there and look at it in Deuteronomy 18. Deuteronomy 18. And they probably knew this scripture.
And this may very well be what they were referring to. God said, The Lord thy God will
raise up unto thee a prophet from the midst of thee. Verse
15, Of thy brethren like unto me, Moses said, Him shall ye
hearken. And unto him shall you hearken, according to all that
thou desirest of the Lord thy God in Horeb in the day of the
assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord
my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die
not. And the Lord said unto me, They have well spoken that which
they have spoken. I will raise them up a prophet
from among their brethren, like unto thee, Moses. and I will
put My words in his mouth, and he shall speak unto them all
that I shall command him. And it shall come to pass that
whosoever will not hearken unto My words which he shall speak
in My name, I will require it of him." Now the Lord declared
there in John 7 that His doctrine was God the Father's who sent
Him. He declared to them, the Lord said, I'm going to raise
up a prophet and I'm going to put my word in his mouth and
he's going to speak my word in my name. And the man that will
not hearken to my word spoken in my name by the prophet, I'll
require it of him. And Christ stood up that day
and said, this doctrine is not mine, it's the Father's that
sent me. It's the fathers that sent me. That's the fruit whereby
we know Christ is the prophet sent of God. He said that, verse
18. He said, He that speaketh of
himself seeketh his own glory. But he that seeketh his glory
that sent him, the same is true and no unrighteousness is in
him. Christ is the prophet who spoke his father's word. He gave
his father all the glory. That's what he came to accomplish.
He came to glorify God the Father. And that's what his preachers
preach, that he sinned. They want God to have all the
glory. False prophets are not sin of
Christ and they don't give all the glory to Christ. They're
going to make the gate wider than Christ. They're going to
put something in the sinner's hand that the sinner has to contribute
to his salvation. Christ says plainly, this is
how we know true from false. Who gets the glory in the Word
preached? Everything Christ preached glorified
the Father. He's preaching the word the Father
gave Him to speak. He said to the Pharisees over
Matthew 12, 34, He said, O generation of vipers, how can ye, being
evil, speak good things? How can you preach good things?
For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh. A
good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good
things. An evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth
evil things. But because the prophet speaks
affectionately, he speaks affectionately, Christ the prophet, he speaks
affectionately through those he sends. And he says, therefore,
he said, false prophets shall not profit this people. I didn't
send them. They shall not profit this people at all. But He said
of those He sent, because He is the Prophet and He is going
to save through the Word of God and give God all the glory. He
said, the pastor I send, they will feed you with knowledge
and understanding. That is what He said. And He
is the Prophet who makes the Word effectual in our hearts.
Christ is. He is the Prophet. Many titles
are given to the Lord as our Prophet in the Scripture, declaring
He is the Prophet. Speaking of His power to make
His Word effectual, in Isaiah 9.9 He's called the Counselor.
He's the one that's going to give good counsel in the heart
and make us hear Him effectually. He is. He's the messenger of
the covenant. He is the covenant and He's the
messenger of it. He's the angel of the covenant.
The messenger and angel of the covenant. That's Malachi 3.3.
He's the lamp. In 2 Samuel 22, 19, He's the
light. All the light we have on the
Word comes from Christ the Prophet. He gives us light on the Word.
He's the morning star in Revelation 22, 16. He's the day star Peter
spoke about. He's the prophet. He's the one
who's going to make us hear and know and understand because He
opens the Scriptures to us. He's the one who teaches in the
heart, effectually makes a man truly believe Christ and truly
know Christ. He does that. He spoke to the
disciples on the road to Emmaus. Luke 24, 45 says, then opened
He their understanding. He not only opened the Scriptures
to them. It said that too. He opened the Scriptures. He
taught Himself beginning at Moses and all the prophets. He declared
to them all the things concerning Himself. But He also opened their
understanding. That's His office as the prophet. He said, I'm the Lord by God
who teacheth thee to profit. That's Him. He said over in Luke
4, let's go look back there. This is what He's declaring.
He's the Prophet, Son of God, Anointed of God, Luke 4.18. He said, The Spirit of the Lord
is upon me. Because he hath anointed me to
preach the gospel to the poor. He is the preeminent bishop and
shepherd of our souls. The one who speaks the word affectionately
and gathers his sheep. He sent me to preach the gospel
to the poor. He sent me to heal the brokenhearted. This is what he does through
the gospel. To preach deliverance to the captives. Recovering of
sight to the blind. To set at liberty them that are
bruised. to preach the acceptable year
of the Lord, the year of jubilee, the year of redemption. And he
closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister. And
he sat down, and the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue
were fastened on him. And he began to say to them,
This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears. And all bearing
witness and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of
his mouth. And they said, Is this not Joseph's son? They began
to question who he is. Just like they did that day when
he stood up at the Feast of Tabernacles. He's the one who preaches through
his prayer. He sent Paul. He forbid him to
go one place. He sent him down to the river
where Lydia was. And he preached the gospel. This
is Christ the prophet sending him. And it says, whose heart
the Lord opened. Paul went down there and preached.
He didn't know who the elect were. He just went there and
he just preached the word, giving Christ the glory. And the scripture
says, of Lydia, whose heart the Lord opened. How did he do that?
He's the prophet. The Lord said, those false prophets,
they won't profit this people. Why? False prophets produce fruit
just like themselves. They produce fruit who glory
in their will and their works. The fruit Christ produces through
His preachers are sinners saved by grace who glory in Christ
alone. That's the difference in the
fruit He produces through this preaching. That's why Paul said
to the Corinthians, he said, we don't need letters of commendation.
He said, we're not sufficient of ourselves for these things.
Every time the gospel is preached, it's a savor of death unto death
in some, or a savor of life unto life unto others. There was no
neutrality here when Christ preached. They were all in disagreement,
but somebody had an opinion. Everybody there did. And Paul
said, that's the case every time the gospel is preached. And when
you know that, and that's on you, who's sufficient for that? No man is. No man is. You've got to be accountable
for their blood, God said. No man is sufficient for that.
Where's the sufficiency? Christ our prophet. He's the
sufficiency. And this is why Paul said, we
don't need letters of commendation from men. You are our epistle,
manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ, of Christ
the prophet. ministered by us, written not
with ink, but with the spirit of the living God, not in tables
of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart. That's the fruit.
The prophet who is God, Christ Jesus, the shepherd and bishop
of our souls, when he sends his messenger, preaching his gospel,
he creates fruit. That fruit is a believing people
who trust Christ and give God all the glory for their salvation.
That's what he produces. That's what he produces. So you
see in these people saying he's the prophet, but that's as far
as they went. They said he's the prophet. That
doesn't give him all the glory. That's not him speaking in the
heart. Because men don't mind him being just a teacher like
other teachers. Men don't mind him being an example
to follow. But don't tell him he's the sovereign
prophet who alone makes the word effectual in the heart. Who alone
must preach it or else a man can't believe on him. That's
who he is. So that tells us these folks
didn't really understand who he was. Because if they had,
if he had spoken, if the prophet had spoken, they'd have said
he's more than a prophet. Oh, he's the prophet, all right,
but he's all. He's all. Well, others spoke
up. John 7, 41, and they said, this
is the Christ. And earlier we saw back up in
verse 31, many of the people believed on Him and said, when
Christ cometh, will He do more miracles than these which this
man hath done? These knew something of the Scriptures
too. They heard of the miracles He did, how He had healed the
blind and healed the lame and made the impotent walk. And they
heard Him speak about rivers of water coming out of the belly
of all those that come to Him believing on Him. They knew something
of the Scriptures. They knew Isaiah's prophecy.
If you want to look there, Isaiah 35 verse 5, they knew something
of this. Isaiah 35 verse 5, it says, Then the eyes of the blind shall
be opened. This is speaking of the Christ
when He comes. Then the eyes of the blind shall
be opened. The ears of the deaf shall be
unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap
as a harp, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing. For in the
wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert,
and the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty
land springs of water, and the habitation of dragons, where
each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes. This is what
Christ produces. in His child. This is what He
does in the heart of His child. Where there's just a dry desert,
He makes His lame child leap. He makes His blind child see.
He makes His deaf child hear. He heals us by His word. This is what Christ the Anointed
does. And they were right. He is the Christ. He is the anointed
of God. Anointed of God from the foundation
of the world. When God in eternity chose Him
and entrusted His people to Him, He anointed Him the Christ to
come and do everything to glorify God in saving His people from
our sin. When He was baptized, He poured
out the Holy Spirit upon Him, visibly made it known. He is
the anointed of God. He is the Christ. That is what
the Christ means. The anointed of God. The sent
one, the sealed one. And he is anointed of Christ
the Father as a man to be the man who had power given to him
to freely be able to lay down his life of himself. And then
take it again. Not just expire because He died,
but no, to release His Spirit voluntarily when He got ready
so that He died. And then to be able to raise
Himself again. And this He gave Him power to
do as the substitute of His people as the Christ laying down His
life under the justice of God in the place of His people to
save us from our sin. Look over there at John chapter
10 and look at verse 15. He said, As the Father knoweth
me, even so know I the Father, and I lay down my life for the
sheep. Look at verse 17. Therefore doth
my Father love me, because I lay down my life that I might take
it again. No man taketh it from me. He
wasn't slain by men. Men didn't take his life. He
laid it down voluntarily. No man takes it from Him, but
I'll lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down,
and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received
of my Father. He was given this glory as the
Christ before the foundation of the world. And look what happened
when He said that in John 10. Look at verse 19. Immediately
there was a division, therefore again, among the Jews for these
sayings. Well, what was the problem here
with these people? It's one thing to believe he's
the Christ. It's another thing to believe
on him as the Christ. To identify with him as the Christ. To leave all for him as the Christ. To lay down our life for him
as the Christ. to deny self for him. Self-denial
is so much more than just denying things. The Pharisees had a lot
of self-denial as far as things go. But they would not deny themselves. That is to renounce your whole
self as an incapable, unable, helpless, depraved, ruined sinner
who has committed all to Christ the Savior. Still others spoke up concerning
him. Says verse 41, John 7, 41, in the middle there. But some
said, Shall Christ come out of Galilee? Hath not the Scripture
said that Christ cometh of the seed of David out of the town
of Bethlehem where David was? Now they were quoting Scripture
too. Isaiah 11, 1. There shall come forth a rod
out of the stem of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his
roots. Christ is the root and offspring of David. That means
He was before David. He's the one that produced David.
And then through David's lineage, He came as the offspring, as
a man. He's the Son of God and the man Christ Jesus. He's that
rod. They knew that. He's coming of
the seed of David. Micah 5.2 says, Thou Bethlehem
Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah,
out of thee shall he come forth unto me, that is to be ruler
in Israel, whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting. The Scriptures are true. He said,
My Father is true. This Father promised this, and
Christ came, and indeed He is of the seed of David. He was
born in the town of Bethlehem. All according to God's Word.
They could have known this easily. This is willful ignorance right
here. They could have found that out easily. They had genealogies
up to that point that told this. And they could have asked people.
They could have went and asked Mary or Joseph. They had witnesses
that could have told them where he was born. And whose lineage
he was. Before they said, isn't this
the son of Joseph? They had said before, this is
the son of Mary. They knew where he came from. But Christ fulfilled all the
Law and the Prophets, not just those we've been looking at.
All the Law and the Prophets bore witness of Him, that He's
the One they all spoke of, and Christ came and He fulfilled
everything the Law and the Prophets said. He is the message of this
whole book, and when you're brought to Him, He is the end of the
lawful righteousness. All our acceptance with God,
because you found the One, you found the key. Verse 43, so there was a division
among the people because of him. Now some were so upset at him,
this was just the other extreme, they were ready to just vent
their enmity. Now all of this was enmity. If
these right here said they believed Christ, if they didn't really
believe Christ and they didn't really come to Christ, their
not coming to Christ was just a milder expression of the natural
enmity of the carnal heart. But this right here, they were
ready to vent the enmity of their heart. Openly, manifestly, they
didn't care who knew it. Verse 44, some of them would
have taken Him, but no man laid hands on Him. They were ready
to take him right then. But they couldn't touch him.
Why? His hour wasn't come. There was
an hour set. And God was protecting him and
he was trusting the Father to protect him. And they couldn't
touch him. Brethren, that's all your salvation right there. He's
our refuge. No matter what We flee to Christ,
the wrath of God has been settled towards us because of Christ,
and His wrath won't fall on His people because Christ satisfied
justice for us. Not only that, in this world,
the only protection we have is Christ Jesus who is protecting
His people. He is our refuge in every way,
and no man can lay a hand on one of His people if the hour
is not set by our Lord. He's all our protection. And
then we come to the officers and the priests and the Pharisees,
verse 45. Then came the officers to the
chief priests and the Pharisees. You remember, they had sent these
officers, as I said earlier, to go arrest him. These were
like the, what I read was these were like the police officers,
the security guards who guarded the temple. And the Pharisees,
the rulers now, these are people supposed to be dependent on God
and trusting God and calling God the sovereign of heaven and
earth. They sent out officers to arrest
this man. They just think he's... They
sent officers out. And it says They come back, these officers
came back to the chief priests and the Pharisees, the Sanhedrin
and the Pharisees, and they said to them, why have you not brought
him? They came back empty handed. The officers answered, never
may I speak like this man. That was an insult to those fellows
he was talking to. Because they thought they were
some fine orators and some wise men who knew the scriptures.
And these officers come back. They had heard everything these
Pharisees and these chief priests had preached before. They'd been
sitting there, standing by, just guarding the people, listening
as they preached. They come back and they said,
nobody spoke like this man. He spoke with authority. He spoke
as one who could do things that no man can do. He spoke as one
who's God, who is salvation. Now listen to what they said.
Then answered them the Pharisees. This is how the Pharisees answered.
Are you also deceived? Now listen. Have any of the rulers
or of the Pharisees believed on Him? You know what they are
saying? Look at the rulers and the Pharisees.
Look at the people who are somebody. Look at the people who are wise
and astute and been in the faith so very long. None of us have
believed on Him. You shouldn't either. We haven't
believed on Him. Look how wise we are. You shouldn't
believe on Him. It's that meekness of wisdom
that Christ gives in the heart of His people. That's pride. That's what that is. That's pride. And listen to what else He said.
But this people It's people who are out there saying, he's the
Christ, or he might be the Christ, or he's the prophet, and all
these things they're saying. These people who knoweth not
the Scriptures are cursed. It's common, nobody's don't know
the Word. We're the authorities on the
Word of God. Why are you listening to them? Well, what was the problem in
all these folks? They knew something of the Scriptures.
They knew something of the Scriptures. And some might have believed that He was the Prophet. Some
might have believed He was the Christ. But here was the problem. We don't read of them coming
to Him. They didn't come to Him. They
didn't come to Him in faith. They didn't come to Him. They
didn't come casting all their care on Him. This was a theological
question and debate ceremony they were having between one
another and they were divided. Actually they were divided but
they were all in the same camp together. Even though they were
divided amongst themselves. And a little while later they
are going to be all united in one common cause. Crucify him,
crucify him, crucify him. And it hadn't changed today.
Christ said I didn't come to send peace on this earth. where
men are divided with one another over these scriptures. You can
go in the midst of them and you can preach the sovereign God
who chose a people unto salvation and trusted them to His Son.
Christ came and laid down His life for that particular people
only and accomplished their redemption. He sends forth the irresistible
Spirit of God and He calls them to Himself and He saves them
by the power of His grace and keeps them. And Christ is our
wisdom, our righteousness, our sanctification, our redemption.
He's all and in all. He filleth all in and all, and
all salvation is Him. And a believer is not under the
law, he's under grace. And they will unite. With frank
free will, Arminians, and with fine reformed folks, they'll
reunite together. And say, you ain't nothing but
an antinomian. We don't trust you. Crucify him.
Crucify him. Seen it. Anytime. But we see
an exception. We see an exception here. Here
is one in whom Christ has begun a work of grace. Verse 50, Nicodemus
saith unto them. Now he is right there in the
midst of the Sanhedrin and the Pharisees. This is he that came
to Jesus by night. He is one of them. He is there
with them now. He said, Does our law judge any man before
it hear him and know what he doeth? Can you imagine the surprise
that gave these Pharisees and these chief priests to have one
of their own actually speak in defense of Christ and say, now
wait a minute. They answered and said to Him,
Are thou also of Galilee? Search and look. Out of Galilee
ariseth no prophet. These wise men. who knew so much
about the scriptures just proved they didn't know as much as they
boasted. There's two prophets that came out of Galilee. Two
did. Jonah was one of them, and I
believe Elijah came out of Galilee. But they didn't know near as
much as they boasted about. There was two that came out of
Galilee. And there was a third one who
did most of his ministry in Galilee, who is the prophet Christ Jesus,
and they didn't know him. Nicodemus doesn't yet identify
with Christ. He doesn't come out yet and identify
with Christ. But this is an indication something
is going on in Nicodemus. Christ said back in John 6.37,
He said, All that the Father giveth me shall come to me. And him that cometh to me, I
will in no wise cast him out. And he said in verse 44, No man
can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him,
and I will raise him up the last day. And what does the parenthesis
say? Nicodemus came to Christ. Back
there in John 3, he came by night. He still had come out. And here
he is, he's still not yet quite identified fully, but he had
come to Christ. And Christ said, if any man comes
to Me, he is going to know the doctrine. He had come to Christ,
and Christ preached to him the necessity of the new birth. He
told him, he said, a man cannot see the Kingdom of God until
he is born from above. Nicodemus said, how can a man
be born again? Is he going to enter his mother's
womb a second time? And the Lord said, Verily, verily,
I say unto you, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit,
he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of
the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit
is spirit. Marvel not that I said, You must be born again. The wind
bloweth where it will. No man can tell where it's coming
from or where it's going. So are all those that are born
of the Spirit of God. It's irresistible. And then our
Lord told him, He said, Salvation is in Christ raised up as a substitute
of His people, casting all your care on Him by faith. He said,
as Moses lifted up in the serpent in the wilderness, even so must
the Son of Man be lifted up. And all that believe on Him should
not perish but have eternal life, because it is after this manner
that God loved the world. It is in Christ. He chose His
people in Christ. Christ came and laid down His
life, made sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be made
the righteousness of God in Him. That's what was taking place
on that cross. And God did it saying that, Whosoever believeth
in Him and His only begotten Son, whosoever believeth in Him
shall not perish but have everlasting life. Christ said, this is how
God saved. This is His love. You've got
to be born of God. born of the Spirit of God by
the new birth. You've got to be brought to cast all your care
on Christ because it's only by the Son of God who laid down
His life and made His people the righteousness of God that
His people are accepted of God. He didn't send His Son to condemn
the world. We were already condemned. He
sent His Son to lay down His life and save His people. He
told Nicodemus that. He didn't identify with Him just
yet, but He did interject a word. And that word he interjected
was to turn them from sending them officers back out there
to arrest Christ. And the Lord blessed it. It says,
verse 53, every man went to his own house. That tells me that
Christ had begun a work in him. I know men like to argue about
that, but later Christ, I mean, Nicodemus is going to come and
beg the body of our Lord and take him and to prepare him for
burial. The difference between those
that divide over Christ and those who are united by faith in Him
is the difference God's grace makes. His people are united. Paul called it in Ephesians 4,
the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. One body, one
spirit, one faith, one baptism, one hope, one calling, one Lord,
one family, one God and Father, one. That's the difference God's
grace makes. God the Father draws them to
Christ. Nicodemus came to Christ. Christ doesn't refuse one. He
makes them know the doctrine. Our prophet teaches his people
affectionately in the heart. He makes them see he is our great
high priest who has entered in the holiest of holies and by
his new and living way he has consecrated for us through his
flesh. That's how we enter. The difference is these others
knew the scripture. Nicodemus had met the Savior. Christ the Prophet makes those
that come to Him know His person and work. He is the Prophet,
Priest, and King of His people. There is no salvation anywhere
but in Him because He laid down His life for His sheep. And when
He brings you to see Him and casts all your care on Him, you
are not going to look anywhere but Him. And when He gives you
that heart, His people are united. They're united. There's things
we might disagree on, but this right here, we can't disagree
on. We're united because we're taught of the same Spirit. Christ
is all. He's all. You know, our Lord
said this, He said, He that eats Christ the bread, He said, he'll
never hunger and thirst again. He said, you come to me and out
of your belly will flow rivers of living water. That thirst
will be quenched. And yet he said also, blessed is he that
hungers and thirsts after Christ our righteousness. Is that a
contradiction? You come to Christ thirsty, hungry,
and you'll be filled. He'll give you the bread and
you'll have righteousness, acceptance with God, holiness without which
no man will see the Lord. You'll have all full provision
in Christ, by Christ, through Christ, and acceptance with God.
You'll never hunger. You'll never want for that bread
ever again. And yet you're going to be hungry
and thirsty after righteousness continually. How's that? If somebody promised to feed
you the rest of your days, and they said, there's going to be
a bag of groceries on your doorstep every day when you wake up, three
square meals a day and snacks in between, everything loaded
up for you. It'll be there every day. Well, you would know, I'm
never going to hunger and thirst again. It's fully provided. Every morning when you wake up,
you're going to be hungry and thirsty. That's the gospel. He brings you to Him, and you
have this peace of knowing He's never going to let you go. You
have everything you needed except this with God. You'll never hunger
and thirst for righteousness again. And every day you wake
up, you hunger and thirst to know Him more and more and more
and more. This is what happens, brethren. When He chastens you
or anything He does that is going to teach us and admonish us,
correct us, this is the hunger right here. This is the hunger.
This is the difference. Just like it was in the first
hour. He makes His child come and say, Lord, please don't take
your spirit from me. Purge me. Wash me. Have mercy on me. Forgive me.
I need Christ. I don't have any other hope.
I commit it all into His hand. He's all. And that's the difference, brethren.
That's that hunger and thirst He gives you. And He says, happy
are those that hunger after righteousness. They shall be filled. He never
stops making you see He's all. He's all, he won't let you go.
I pray tonight he'll make you come and partake of this bread,
this well of salvation, and live forever, never hunger and thirst
again. And I pray for us who have partaken
of him, he keeps us coming to him, hungering and thirsting
for him, and longing to be filled by him alone. Amen.