Good evening. If you will, let's
turn to John chapter 7. John chapter 7. We don't always have visitors
on a Wednesday night. Most of the time it's just a
few people. Those that the Lord's made faithful.
But I pray every time I preach, I can preach in a manner that's
as if no one in the room has ever heard of the Lord. At the same time, I wish I could
pray in a manner of comforting and just the assumption that
everybody is the Lord's child. You've been saved. You're looking
to Him right now. You're rejoicing in Him. That's why we came here
is to praise Him Worship Him. I can't do that. He can. He can
make His Word a two-edged sword, can't He? This statement we're
going to look at, focus on, we'll see if we can get down to verse
39, but in John 7, 37, this is one of the most open and inviting
sentences of the Scriptures to me, and it's one of the most
damning. I couldn't get over it today.
I wept thinking of it. I was at a stand in amazement
at the words of our Lord. It's absolutely amazing, His
Word. Look here, let's read it. John
7, 37. In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus
stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto
me and drink." Right there is the whole gospel. Whatever doctrine
you want to take a slice at, that's it right there. I just
dwelled on it and dwelled on it and dwelled on it. That's
absolutely amazing. I hope the Lord let us enter
into it tonight. He said, if any man thirst, let
him come unto me and drink. He that believeth on me. As the
Scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living
water. But he spake he of the Spirit,
which they that believe on him should receive. For the Holy
Ghost was not yet given, because that Jesus was not yet glorified."
It says in verse 37, in the last day. Last day of what? Last day
of the feast. That's where they were. They
were at the Feast of Tabernacles, weren't they? And I wonder at that feast. It was eight days long. I wonder
if there were some, not all, if there was just a couple, if
there was a rendement, a handful of people there that came to
that feast. They set up tents. They didn't
have RVs back then. They had set up a tent. They
didn't have a Motel 6 they could stay in. I wonder if there's
a handful of people that came there looking to be blessed by
the Lord and were not. Now they sat there expecting
to be filled, have their spirit filled full, and they did not
get a full spirit. They heard doctors get up and
talk, didn't they? They heard masters of theology, masters
of divinity. What nerve somebody has to call
themselves that. You mastered that? You got a good handle? They got up and spoke, those
men did, but nothing was different. They heard these people talk
for a week. and they still lacked. They were still striving. They
still had a thirst. They weren't quenched. I assume
they felt very let down. They'd spent so much time and
so much money. You think how long they had to
save up travel that far? This wouldn't carry to you on a silver
platter. You had to work for it. That's some sweating and
labor that went into this. You had to prepare. You had to
set back. Several months of preparations were made. And here's the last
day of that feast, the last day of that conference. You know,
for us, we're in the last days. Do you know that? God has a well
in Hamoul, California right now, and I don't know how many gallons
are left in it. And I ain't gonna ration it, give all the water
we got, until there ain't none. In this world, we're in the last
days. The Hebrew writer told us, God, who at sundry time in
divers' manners spake in times past to the fathers by the prophets,
hath in these last days spoken to us by His Son. That's who's speaking to them
here. His Son's come to us. We have the Word of the Lord
Jesus Christ, and that's what His preachers declare. Christ
and Him crucified. I was thinking, in a sense, I
have the easiest job on the face of the earth. Did you know that?
To preach Christ and Him crucified. I'll just get up and tell you
what happened. I'll just tell you what He said. Being a pastor
in a sense of decision-making, in a sense. is the easiest thing
there is to do. What should I do? Here's what
God's Word says. Throw it in the trash or do it. Don't make
a difference to me. Here's what He says. That's it.
Just tell what He says. But we're warned of these last
days. There will be those that come
not telling what God has said. And they're all over. They're
all over. They tell you what they think.
They tell you what you want to hear. They tell you what they
feel. They say whatever it takes to go along and get along. And
Peter warned us of that. He said, knowing this first,
there shall come in the last days scoffers walking after their
own lusts. What does that mean? How do we
see that manifested? What's blaringly obvious to us
in our day? To just mark it and avoid it.
I don't want to have nothing to do with that. I had a restaurant
chain one time. and I got really bad food poisoning.
I didn't think I had food poisoning. I mean, I was down and out for
four days. That was 25 years ago. You know,
I haven't ate at that restaurant chain since. You can understand
that, can't you? These false teachers that come
in these last days, these scoffers, people out for their own lust.
I have no desire for that. I've been asked personally these things,
altar calls. Do you do altar calls? No, we have an altar.
Let me tell you about Hebrews 13. Christ is our altar. Go to
him. Well, can I come up and shake
your hand? No, you lay a hold of Christ's feet. You want something
to do with your hands? Grab a hold of him. Be like Ruth
did at Boaz. Lay there at his feet all night.
You're like Mary, Martha's sister, and sit at his feet. He's the
one thing evil. People ask me, do I confess my
sins to you? No, you don't. You ain't sinned
against me. I saw it. You sinned against the holy God.
Go to him. How many people have I baptized?
How many people have you baptized? Everyone measures success, don't
they, by these things? By appearances. They judge appearances
they can see. I think with Paul, for Christ
sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel. Did Paul baptize? Sure he did. He wasn't there
to baptize. He was there to preach the gospel.
That's just a result of it, isn't it? We are in the last days,
and this is a serious thing. It says in verse 37, in the last
day, that great day of the feast. Why is that separated like that?
That great day of the feast. We looked before there in Leviticus
23. This eighth day was supposed to be just like the first day.
This was a holy day of convocation. There was supposed to be no servile
work done. You're just going to sit and relax, and you're
going to prepare yourselves, as we ought to, for the word
of the Lord. You ought to come in here ready. Sit down, let
your heart rate calm down, and you get ready to hear. Ask God
to give me a word today, Lord. Allow me to praise your Son.
The first day and the last day. But there's something different
about that last day. It said this was a solemn assembly. It
was a day of holy convocation, but a solemn assembly. What's
that? In Joel 1, the Lord sent palmer worms and locusts, and
it destroyed their crops. and the congregation couldn't
give a meat offering anymore. They couldn't give a drink offering.
There's no wine to bring. There's no cornmeal to bring.
They couldn't make up cakes. There was nothing to be offered
to the house of the Lord. It wasn't possible, and his ministers
mourned. He told them, he instructed them,
he said, How, ye ministers of the altar. You talk about crying
out to the Lord, he said, dire straits, isn't it? He gives
them instruction. He says, Sanctify ye a fast.
You set apart a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather
the elders and all the inhabitants of the land of the house of the
Lord your God and cry unto the Lord. There's a comma there.
He tells them what to cry. It says, O for the day, for the
day of the Lord at hand. Lord, come. You cry unto his
presence. Lord, be with me. Howl. You ever
howled? If you kind of whimper a little
bit, it ain't gonna do you no good. You've got to howl. He's
brought you to howl for his day to come. He said, it shall come. He said, as the destruction of
the Almighty God, it shall come. Same as his destruction came
with them worms, with them palmer worms and those locusts, that's
how fast his mercies will come. That's how fast his grace will
come to his children. He said, try me. That's his word. Try
me. at this feast and their text,
how many cried after the Lord? How many howled for His day to
come? How many at this feast cried
for a solemn day of the Lord's presence with them? What are
we to do in a solemn day, in our day of mourning? Cry unto
the Lord. It says in Luke 19, this day
is salvation come to this house for as much or so much as he
also a son of Abraham. For the Son of Man came to seek
and to save them that are lost. Today is the day of salvation.
That's what Paul summarized for us. He took Isaiah 49 and Isaiah
61 and kind of made it make sense for us. He said, He saith, I
have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have
I succored thee. Behold, now is the accepted time.
Behold, now is the day of salvation. If I've ever called on him, I
want to call on him tonight. Lord, I'm alive right now. Whatever
happened yesterday, I need you now. Lord, let me have your presence
now. We'll see the result of that
Holy Ghost. I've been asked that before, too. There might be another
message. When the Holy Ghost is present, I do not know how
many truly had a solemn day that day, but I know our Lord cried
out. I don't know how many cried out to him, but I know he cried
out to them. Would you hear him? God Almighty make us stop in
our tracks and hear His Word. We put on funny little clothes
and we have funny little sayings. Will you hear Him? Will you hear
what He has to say? It says in verse 37, the last
day, in that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried. Now He's standing. In other times,
He sat and spoke. Now He's standing with a loud
voice. Our brother Gil said that was both to show His fervor and
earnestness and that all might hear. And people sitting in the
back are going to hear him. Hear what? What did he cry out?
If any man. If any man. What good news. What
good news. People get just hung up in the
gears and axles of doctrine and they ain't never riding a bicycle.
Arminianism is all door and no house, some have said. Hyper-Calvinism
is all house and no door. Thanks be to God we're not saved
by a theological position or a denomination. Ain't you happy
for that? Turn over to Genesis chapter
7. Genesis 7. Noah was a preacher of righteousness,
the Lord told us. He was a preacher of righteousness,
and he told anyone that would listen, the wrath of God is coming
against the sin of man. The wrath of God is coming against
the sin of man. Have you ever sinned? Have you
ever come short of the glory of God? You may want to pay attention.
He told them, he said, the ark God commanded, the ark God provided
is on the way of salvation. That's the only way you're going
to avoid this wrath of God you've rightly earned. Come into the
ark. And they laughed at him. They
fell asleep while he told them. Snored away. And said, oh, that's
all right, little buddy. He rubbed him on the head and
walked away. He's all right. He don't know no better. He's
just paranoid. And he continued. His message
did not change. It had never rained on this earth.
And he told all, the wrath of God is coming against the sin
of man. Come into the ark. All of you, come. It says in
Genesis 7 verse 1, And the Lord said unto Noah, Come. He told him to come, didn't he?
Come thou and all thy house into the ark. For thee have I seen
righteous before me in this generation. He tells him what will be brought
of the clean and the unclean beast and the fowl. And down
in verse four it says, for yet seven days, for yet seven days,
and I will cause it to rain upon the earth 40 days and 40 nights.
And every living substance that I have made will I destroy from
off the face of the earth. For those seven days, those seven
days, the ark was opened. That was their last days. How
many people that was? I don't know if it's millions
or billions or whatever. How many people that was? How many
people that Noah spoke to? He told them that ark was done.
It was complete and it was open. And he said, come in for seven
days. Two of every living creature walked into that ark during those
seven days. I thought about that. You think that is amazing? People
want signs and wonders. Well, there goes two ducks and
two lions. What's going on? Two bobcats. What's going on with that ark?
Noah's message never changed. God's going to punish sin. And
the only way your sin's going to... is if it's punished in
this ark. If you're in it and it absorbs that punishment for
you, you better get in the ark. His message never changed. You
think his neighbors come by and peeked inside? What's going on
in there, Noah? Noah said, come in. God's going
to judge everything outside this ark. Come in. Nah, we're okay. Well, we're busy. I'll come in
tomorrow. We got some friends coming into town we haven't seen
in a long time. We're gonna visit with them and whatever excuses
they come up with. Or most likely, that's okay. It really ain't gonna rain. I
don't know what he's talking about. Water's never come out
of the sky. It always comes up from underneath. There's a fog,
a mist in the mornings. That water's the plants. What's
he talking about? It's never thundered. It's never lightened. I don't know what he's talking
about. It's never rained. And it probably never will. Because
we haven't seen it, it couldn't come to pass. What's going on
in our day? What about these last days? This
earth has never been consumed with a fervent heat that melded
the elements. You're crazy. I have never stood in front of
a holy God in judgment. That ain't gonna happen. I got
out of jury duty. I've been called a jury duty
on every level of court you can get called on the state of California
and federally. Somebody said, don't you know how to get out
of that? That's our nature, isn't it? Get out of judgment, get
out of serving anything to do with judgment. I'm going to get
out of jury duty. I didn't try to get out of it. I didn't have to perform it.
Everybody says, we'll just keep doing what we're doing. We're
fine. It's not fine. Rain came in Noah's day while everyone
was given in marriage, and they were working, and they were planting,
and they were looking for that next job. And Noah preached the word
of the Lord. And I tell you, judgment's coming.
Get in the ark, any man. Any woman, get an ark, come to
Christ and drink. Any man. Verse 16 says there
in Genesis 7, And they that went in, went in male and female of
all flesh, as God had commanded him. And the Lord shut them in. What's good about that? That
door's been shut. In this picture we have of Christ, the ark, that
door closed. But that picture's for us today.
We're still on this earth, and the door, Christ, He's the door
to that ark. It's still open. If any man thirst,
come to Christ. Come to Him. Isn't the doctrine
of election in the Bible? How could Christ call this out?
If any man… Well, He didn't say just any man, did He? He said,
if any man that thirst. Any man that thirst. And another
party said, all you that labor and are heavy laden. There's
so many that aren't tired of working yet. There's so many
that ain't heavy laden. There's so many that don't thirst.
But we call to them regardless. I'm saying that Titanic sank.
And those boats went out. And they said, who's there? And
they cried to the people. Call out! Whistle! That didn't
make anybody alive, did it? No, but those ones that were
alive, they called out. They had a need. Help! Save! They had to whistle. Whistle!
Blow it! For many are called, but few
are chosen. What is it to thirst? If any man thirsts, physically
our Lord relates such things to us in such wonderful ways.
Have you ever been thirsty? Yep. I've been thirsty. Have you ever been really thirsty?
We can understand that, can't we? I mean real thirst, not kind
of thirsty. Have you ever just been dying
for water that your tongue just clayed to your cheek and, oh,
you fist-bite somebody for a jug of water? Only water will do. Only water will do in that situation. Light beer won't do. Wine won't
do. Lemonade won't do. Mountain dew
won't do. Nothing added, nothing that coats
the tongue I can't take it. It's already coated. I need water.
I need pure, clean water. And it's needful, and it's necessary,
and you know it. Somebody's about to die of thirst.
If they're truly about to pass out, they need water, and they
know they need water, and they'll cry for it, won't they? If we
didn't have a physical thirst, if we didn't have that sensation,
if that wasn't our nature, that wasn't our instinct to need water,
to have that craving, we would still need water, wouldn't we?
We would still die without the water, even if we were ignorant
of it, even if we didn't know we was thirsty. We still have
that need. What is it to be spiritually
thirsty? We need Christ. His blood, His atonement for
us, His righteousness. And only He will do. Nothing
added to it. He's necessary and we know it. And if you're thirsty for Him,
God's given that thirst. He's given life to give that
thirst. He's given the nature to thirst
for Christ. And just as that's a proof of
physical life. We had a little chicken hatch
today. That old thing needs water. How do we know it needs water?
It's alive. How do I know somebody's spiritually
alive? They thirst. They need Christ. They need him. That's a blessed man or woman.
Do you know that that has a thirst for Christ? A thirst for forgiveness
in Him. A thirst for mercy. A thirst
for His righteousness. That means a thirst for unity
with Him. Desire to be with Him. He told us that in the Beatitudes,
blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness.
How are they blessed? For they shall be filled. If
somebody truly wants Him, you're going to get Him. Truly. I mean, the God. The Lord, not
a Lord, not somebody that's convenient for you. If you truly seek and
desire the Lord, He's gave that desire, that thirst, and you're
gonna be filled full. That's good news. Talk about
somebody that's thirsty. If you ever drank like that,
you know what you're gonna talk about after you drink it? How good that water
tastes. You ain't gonna go, I'm dying,
give me water. You ever had Mountain Dew? I haven't had one in 30
years. I want what they taste like now."
No, you talk about how good that water tastes, don't you? That's
what happens after you drink that water. Turn to Mark 15.
He says, if. If any man thirsts. If. Most,
sadly, do not. But here's the question. Here's
a question for you. Mark 15. It's not who thirsts
and who doesn't thirst. That's not the question. The
question is, do I thirst? You leave your mommy and daddy,
you leave your children, you leave your husband and wife,
and you leave your boss and your friends down at the bowling alley,
whatever. You leave everybody. Do I thirst?
Do I thirst? And this last day, this solemn
day, do I have a need of the simplicity of Christ? Or I could
drink some attitude. I could take it or leave it.
That'd be handy, I guess, right now. I'll probably stock up. Or I
prefer a little bit of high fructose corn syrup in it. Let's get something
to sweeten that up a little bit. I like it. Or do I have a need? If I do not crave the sincere
milk of the word, I do not crave Christ, because grace hasn't
been given to me yet. Peter told us that. He said,
As newborn babes desire the sincere milk of the word, that they may
grow thereby, if so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious. How are we going to be like a
baby desiring milk? if the Lord's been gracious to us. Have you
tasted that? Have you tasted His grace, His mercy, His long-suffering? You want more of it. You got
Mark 15, verse 42. Here's a believer, a child of
God that thirsts after Christ. He has thirsted for forgiveness,
he's thirsted for righteousness, and he's been filled. Yet he
thirsts, he craves, he desires to be near Christ more. Mark
15, 42. When the evening was come, because
it was the preparation, that is, the day before the Sabbath,
Joseph of Arimathea, an honorable counselor, which also waited
for the kingdom of God, came and went in boldly unto Pilate
and craved the body of Jesus. He went to the ruler. This is
the head man that just killed the one he was following. He
went to him and he craved the body of Jesus. This is the only
place in the Word of Scripture this particular word is used.
Do you know that? A Hethio. That means to beg, to call for,
to desire, to require, to demand. I need Him. He went there for
a person. There was a time I needed the
Five Points Calvinism. Do you know that? I had to hear
it. I loved it. That was so nice.
It was so accurate. Then there was a time I needed
a person, because God done something for me. I looked for His kingdom,
and I craved it. I begged for it. I demanded it.
I won't have nothing else. No. Give me Him. We would see
Jesus. Do I have that thirst and craving?
Do you? Back at our text in John 7. In the last day, verse 37, John
7, 37. In the last day, that great day
of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst,
this is the day of salvation. Our Lord stood and cried. If
any man thirst, if there's any here tonight that thirst, if
there's any here tonight that crave, that require the forgiveness
found in Christ, require His redemption, require His righteousness,
the presence of Him. with David, my soul thirsteth
for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land
where there is no water. If any thirst, what are we to
do? Let him come unto me and drink." That is it. Let him come unto me, drink,
consume, have him as your lifeblood. Come to him. What is it to thirst? That's to need, that's to crave,
desire, to require. What is it to come? That involves
leaving something, doesn't it? We come to Him. If we drink
Him, it means we're not drinking something else. He says, come
unto me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, I'll give you
rest. What is it to leave labor? What is it to leave carrying
heavy loads? It's to start resting, to stop
working, isn't it? If any man thirsts, let him come
unto me and drink." That means stop looking for drink somewhere
else. Quit trying to dig your own well. Stop carving out your
own cisterns. I love that part in Jeremiah
2. He says, For my people have committed two evils. The Lord
spoke to Israel. He said they've committed two
evils. The first one, they have forsaken me, the fountain of
living waters. And here's the second one, hewed
out them cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water. man tries
to store up his own water. Let him come unto me. What's
the result of coming unto Christ? Isaiah wrote, incline your ear
and come unto me. Hear and your soul shall live.
If you was dying in the desert of thirst, what is it to drink
water? That's to live. That's life. That's satisfaction
and contentment. You say thank you and take another
drink. What is it to come to Christ? To have our soul live.
And he says, and I will make an everlasting covenant with
you, the sure mercies of David. That fountain ain't gonna dry
up. That majestic river we are planted by, it ain't gonna run
dry. How can I do that? How can I
come to him? How can I drink? How do I walk? Do I choose? Do I clean myself up? Do I decide? We can't do that. With man, that's
impossible, isn't it? We don't have the desire to be
thirsty. That's not our instinct, because we're dead in trespasses.
A dead man ain't never been thirsty. He's dead. The Lord told us in
John 5, and you will not come to me that you might have life.
We don't have a desire to, and we don't have the ability. He
said, no man can come to me. I thought I said it was good
news. He said, except the Father which hath sent me draw him.
He must draw it. And all that the Father gives
me shall come to me, and him that cometh to me I will in no
wise cast out. The Lord will give life. We'll
be born again, and we'll be thirsty. Our text says there in John 7,
37, In the last days, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood
and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him. If you don't have a thirst for God,
stay away, you'll be killed on sight. If you don't have a thirst
for Jesus Christ, the Lord, you don't want to be in the Lord's
presence and judgment. You'll be killed on sight. But
if you've been given a thirst, if you've been given life, He
says, let Him. We're allowed to come. We can
come boldly to His throne. Can you imagine that? It's right.
It's right to do so. If we're thirsty, what should
we do? Lord, I'm thirsty. Give me Christ
today. Give us our daily bread. Give
me water today, Lord. I wake up thirsty tomorrow and
I'll need it again. He said, let him come unto me and drink. He that believeth on me, as the
scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living
water. Brother Clay used this illustration,
and I thought it was fabulous, and I'm going to tell it to you.
He said, what's that mean? Don't you drink one time? Because
the Lord told that woman, He said, you drank this, you'll
never thirst again. Well, which is it? He said, if someone told
you, they're going to buy your groceries the rest of your life.
You'll never have to buy groceries again. You'll never have to go
buy another gallon of milk. It'll be provided. Every morning
when you wake up, it's gonna be right there on your doorstep.
Everything you need, and it ain't gonna run out. It doesn't matter
what famine comes. You're gonna have food and drink
on your doorstep every morning. It doesn't matter what government
official is in charge. It'll never change. There'll
be a bounty on your front porch every day. You'll never have
to worry about being hungry again. They said, you eat a big supper
and you get real tired and you go to sleep satisfied. But when
you wake up in the morning, that food's there, but you're hungry
for breakfast, ain't you? You're hungry again today. We're hungry
for Him. That's what it is. We have Him.
It'll never run out. It'll never run dry. Boy, I want
Him more, don't you? I need his mercies new every
day, every morning. It says in verse 38, He that
believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall
flow rivers of living water. If we drink the blood of Christ,
we have eternal life. And what comes out of us? What
comes out of your mouth if he gives a new heart that thirsts?
Christ the living water. We tell how good that water is.
We tell what life is in it, what it's done for us, how sweet it
is. how faithful that well is, that
fountain of living waters. We don't talk about Kool-Aid,
we don't talk about Coca-Cola, we talk about him out of our
belly. We talk from a belly button.
You kids get that? Speak from our belly button about
Christ and him crucified, his person and his work, what he's
done. That blind man at John 9. Lord
healed him, and he kept having shorter and shorter answers every
echelon they moved him up. Something happened to you. You're
going to church. You need to go to church. That's what's happening.
They took him in Pharisees, and everyone said, what happened?
Who was this fella? How'd he do this? And he kept
getting shorter and shorter in his responses. And finally he
said, I was blind, and now I see. So sick of you religious people.
And they kicked him out. They said, get out of here. Lord
heard that and went to him. And those Pharisees came out,
and he spoke to them, and he said, For judgment I am coming
to this world that they which see not might see, and they which
see might be made blind. We could replace all that sight
with thirst, couldn't we? All those who are thirsty, he
said, I'm going to fill them up. And those that ain't thirsty
in their mind, I'm going to make them thirsty. And they said that
some of the Pharisees and him which heard these words and said
unto him, Are we blind also? Are we thirsty? I thought about
starting this message out and getting up and said, What if
I said, you're thirsty for God and you ain't never drank of
it." And I'd end it with saying, you're
thirsty for God, you ain't never drunk of it. You say, I'm right.
Where is it? Let me come unto it. And Jesus
said unto them, if you were blind, if you were thirsty, you should
have no sin. But now you say, we see, therefore
your sin remaineth. So many people just have no thirst. I don't know if I could make
them thirsty. I'd just cry out as long as the
Lord will let me. Drink. Come unto Him. Drink. Drink. And I said that was the
whole gospel, isn't it? If any man. Thirst. You thirst? He says, come unto
me. Not to anything else. Come unto
Him. And it says, drink. Drink. My sheep, they hear my
voice. He speaks to them. We all hear
the Word of the Lord. We hear Him. He says, My sheep
will hear Him. Why? Because I know them. And
what do they do? They follow me. They drink. They drink. So many people, they
walk up and say, Boy, there's a glass of water. Look at that.
That's got water in it. That's H2O. We can test the water. We can see the pH of the water.
We can tell you what the temperature of the water is. We can say it's
wet. We can tell other people, if
you need water, that's water right there. I know it's water. There's
no contaminants in that. It's pure H2O. And they never
drink. His sheep hear His voice. He knows them. And they drink.
They drink. I pray I can be made thirsty.
He'll make me thirsty today for Him. Because He shall fill. He shall fill. Amen. Father, be with us, be with this
congregation, this gathering, local assembly that you've placed
here and allow us to proclaim in this generation, in this part
of the world, Christ the living waters, that living bread, Lord,
and give your children, as you promised you will, give them
a thirst and a hunger for Him. Lord, give us the word to say,
to comfort them and tell them to come unto your Son and tell
them to drink. Lord, make our words simple. Get us out of the way and save
your people. Thank you for this day, Lord.
Thank you. for giving us a thirst. Thank you for making us know
it. Lord, thank you for filling us, for quenching that thirst. Be with us today, be with us
always, and forgive us for what we are. It's in Christ's name
that we ask it. Amen.