Those hymns that are best are those that
are most scriptural. That last verse, round each habitation,
hovering, see the cloud and fire appear. That's taken from Exodus
14 that says that fiery pillar and cloud, the cloud went before
them, the pillar of the cloud went before them, And it came
between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel. It was
cloud and darkness to Egypt. But it gave light by night to
these, the children of Israel, around each habitation, hovering. You get that? Around every believer,
a cloud and a fiery pillar. Go with me to Isaiah 55 now. Isaiah 55. Every time I read
this chapter, I believe I'm blessed. Aren't you? It's an urgent exhortation by
the Lord. He makes an exclamation here. that ought to get our attention. Verse 1, ho, ho. Everyone that
thirsteth. The word ho. I don't always look
words up. I don't see the need. The Lord
has led men, English speaking men,
to translate this well into our language. And generally, it's
just the best word. But if you reverse the letters, that's what it says in the original. Oh. Oh. Oh, everyone that thirsted. Oh. We say that sometimes. Don't
you ever say, oh, in that respect. Oh, my. Oh, my. Everyone that thirsted.
The Lord Jesus Christ said this. When he was on this earth, he
said, Oh, Jerusalem, Jerusalem. Remember that? Oh, that's the
word. Oh, Jerusalem. Not a cry of frustration. Oh, no. Oh, no. He shall not
fail nor be even discouraged. But he said that for us. Oh,
Jerusalem, Jerusalem. Oh, he says. Everyone that thirsteth. Everyone the Lord calls, they
hear this exclamation from the Lord. Oh, everyone. Everyone. Everyone. Jew or Gentile. Male or female. Old, young. Everyone that thirsteth. Everyone
that thirsteth. He says, Come ye, verse 1, to
the waters. Come on to the waters. I wish I could preach. You know
that? With man, it's impossible. It
takes the Spirit of God, doesn't it? The Spirit of God to put
in our hearts and minds a hunger, a
thirst, a desire, an insatiable desire. Have you ever spoken
to your children like that? We do it in frustration. Oh,
son. Have you? Sure you have. Oh,
honey. Oh, my. Why? Huh? Have you? You see them out there
doing all this and getting back in their thing. Oh, my. Oh, my. Won't you come? Would you listen
to me? And he goes on to say, why, why,
why? Wherefore? Why are you spending
yourself? Oh, prodigal. Wasn't that what
the father would have said had the prodigal hung around? Maybe he did say it before he
left. You reckon, Nancy, you reckon he did? I know he did.
My father said it to me. Son, don't do that. Oh. See what he's saying? This is to his people, Jeanette.
God's not pleading with the world. Here's the good news. Every single
one of his sons, they're going to hear this. And it's going
to smite them. It's going to prick them. And
it's going to make them thirsty. Like that prodigal John, the
Lord's exclamation here is going to eventually make them to know,
I'm in the hog pen. And they're going to get hungry.
They've been eating. They're thinking they're happy and filling up,
you know, with bread. But it turns out to be husks. And they say, oh, and then they
say, oh, that I worry in my father's house. And he brings them home. Oh, everyone, that thirst. Thirst is a good thing. You know
that? Thirst is a real good thing. Thirst is a sign of life. Thirst is a sign of life, like
so many other signs of life. I'm thirsty right now. Like so many other things, there's
signs of life. All manifest themselves if you're
alive. Sorrow. You cannot live without
being sorrowful at some point. Right? If you're alive physically,
you will sorrow. You will mourn. Right? Laughter. If you're alive, you're going
to laugh at some point. Joy. Weeping. Weeping. Moisture is a sign of life. David
keeps talking about his moisture dried up. And the more moisture
you are, the more it will leak out. It's a sign of life. Weeping. And thirst is a sign
of life. Thirst, hunger, thirst. If there's
no thirst, there's no life, is there? No life. No hunger, no
life. A newborn child. Here's the best
illustration. When a child is born, Now, I
don't understand this. This child, I do, it's life. But, Jenny, they come out and
they're thirsty immediately, aren't they? Immediately. That's
all. They've been drinking, they've
been living in water for nine months, but yet, as soon as they're
born, wow! They cry out. What's wrong? They're
thirsty. They're hungry. And there's one
thing that will meet it. And they can live on that. I
get fat. Can a baby get fat on milk? A newborn child no sooner born
than it begins to hunger and thirst, so it is spiritually. This is the sign of life. You
know, somebody that's dead and trespassed in sin, no life, no
Christ in them, you beg them, plead them with them and do whatever. We don't do that. But you try
and you're not going to get them to come to hear this gospel.
Right? You couldn't get me to come hear
this gospel at one time. I wasn't alive. I wasn't hungry
and thirsty. But when God Almighty... And
this is what I want for this message and every message. This
is what I want. Number one, Nancy, I want God
to be honored. His Word to be honored and glorified. Christ to be honored and glorified.
Secondly, I want somebody to get thirsty. I want our children,
I want God to just smite them. Like He did
me. Like He did you. And create in
them A hunger and a thirst that nothing can meet. That's what
I want. Go with me to John chapter 4.
Irene, let's go to John 4. Let's look at a lady who the
Lord created a thirst in. Shall we? John 4. You know there are many things
that create thirst, don't they? Many things I thought about this.
Life is, if you're alive, you're going to get thirsty. Guilt and
fear make you thirsty. If I would ask, if I would call
anybody right now, unexpectedly, to come up here and stand here
and just say something for 30 seconds, your mouth would go
dry immediately. Right? Your tongue would cleave
to the roof of your mouth. And you would wish you had the
baptistry full of water to drink. I know what I'm talking about.
Don't you get it? Guilt, fear, fear. Fear will do that. Guilt. I guess
this is true. I used to read this that some
certain Native American or Indian tribes used to try to find out
the guilty party of something. Somebody would steal something
or whatever. And they would line up the suspects and they would
take a hot knife and make them all stick the tongues
out. And lay that knife on their tongue.
Whoever was the most guilty. You know what I'm talking about.
You ever been in a fearful situation? your mouth goes dry, your throat
goes dry. And they would do that. I don't know if that's true or
not, but it's a good illustration. Sin and guilt make you thirsty. There's nothing else will. This
gospel here is for the thirsty. The sin-riddled, the guilty,
the fearful, those that fear God, this gospel is the only
thing that will satisfy you. Right? All that man-made stuff,
we're going to see in a minute, that only what God has given
from above, water comes from above, that's the only thing
that will meet this thirst. All this man-made stuff, you
can have all the Gatorade you want, and I'm getting ahead of
myself. But John chapter 4, an overindulgence will do it, then
running a race will make you thirsty, and so on and so forth.
Hard work will make you thirsty, all which have application. John 4, the Lord met this woman
at the well. You know the story. And if I'm
not careful, I won't be able to get away from it. Verse 4
said, He must needs go through Samaria. He must. I love that. Don't you? Must. He must needs
go through Samaria. Why? It's the shortest route?
No. He has a sheep that's not in
the fold. Another sheep he has, then he
must bring. And he's going after this one.
She must move to Rocky Mount. She must. She must bring this one. And make her thirsty. This is
what he's going to do to her. Make her thirsty. Make her thirsty. She's not thirsty yet. She's
going to be after he speaks to her. Now, look at verses 4 through
6. It says, verse 5, he comes to
a city, Samaria. There was a parcel of ground
there. Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
Jacob's well was there. Yes, he is now, isn't he? Jacob's well, Jacob's God, Jacob's
Savior, Jacob's Lord is here now. Isn't it? Christ sat on the well about
the sixth hour, middle of the day, and there comes a woman
of Samaria. Here comes a woman. Boy, it's
her lucky day, isn't it? Oh, my. Look, there is no such
thing. This is one of those certain
women foreknown by this certain Lord before the world began. and had her name written on the
breastplate of his heart and the broad shoulders and in his
mind engraved on the palms of his hand. He must bring this
Samaritan woman to himself. He came to call her, to save
her, to redeem her. He came and he said that he waits
to be gracious. Remember that? Brother Cody's
message. He waits. Waiting on her. And he will not
be kept waiting. None of his people, none of his
bride have ever stood him up. They're coming. All that the
Father giveth me. I've got to go on. He's sitting
there. And he says, verse 7, Give me
to drink. This woman shows up right exactly
at the time, Kelly, when he said she would. Here she comes. And
he says, Give me to drink. He does not ask her No, he does
not. Kings don't ask anybody anything.
Do they? Kings don't ask their servants,
they command them. He's calling this woman. He's
here to call this woman. There's no evidence that stands
that he ever even took a drink. You know, it says, have you ever
thought about this? I hadn't. But it says he sat
on the well, he was weary with his journey, he made himself
weary, the margin said. It doesn't say he was thirsty, does it? It doesn't say he was thirsty.
I don't think he needed a drink. I don't think he needed to eat
food. One time they reminded him, Lord, you need to eat. I'm
eating. One time though, John, He said,
I'm thirsty, didn't He? One time. When? Hanging on that
cross. When He has made us a thirst. A thirst. He never said that before, didn't
He? Isn't that something? He had a well springing up. He
didn't need this water. He wasn't asking. She did. She needed the water He had.
Didn't know it. He didn't need and didn't ask.
She didn't know and she didn't ask. She said, look at verse
9. I like this. She said, How is it that thou,
being a Jew, askest drink of me which I am a one of Samaritan?
Jews have no dealing with Samaritans. He didn't ask you. He didn't
ask you. She's all confused, Robin. She's
an Armenian right now. She's an Armenian. She thinks
she has to do something for Jesus. Doesn't she, John? She thinks
that Jesus is asking her to let her have her away. She's an Arminian. She doesn't know this one. When this is all over, she's
going to be doing the asking. When this is all over, she's
going to be the beggar. How is it that you don't have
anything to draw with? You need me, don't you? If you knew, he said, look at
verse 10. Jesus' hand says, If you knew,
The gift of God, the gospel of God's grace, sovereign grace.
You knew what you were and what you needed and what you could
not do and what you're totally incapable of, who you are, where
you are, who I am, what I have, what I must give. If you knew
the gift that salvation is a gift, and this is not my text, but
if you knew, you would ask. I'm not asking. I'm here to make
you ask. See that? I'm here. You're not
thirsty. You're dead. I'm here to give
life. I've come that they might have
life. He's not come asking. He's come giving. This is our
Lord, isn't it? He's not asking anybody to do
anything. He's coming to make them ask for Him to do everything. Who cares if we get to Isaiah
55, huh? This is good, isn't it? You like
this, Irene? Well, you heard it before. This
is what you first heard, wasn't it? Is it just as sweet now?
Must be still thirsty. Must be still alive. This thirst
is not a one-time thing. When babies are born, they don't
get thirsty and never thirst again. It's a sign of life all the way through. If you knew, you would ask and
He would give, He would give. Ask, you have not, because you
ask not. None call it for truth. Isn't that what He said in Isaiah
59? None call it for truth. If people would ask, He would
give it to them. I want to tell them that on the radio. Is anybody
interested out there in the truth? Huh? Is anybody thirsty? Anybody in religion that is tired
of this crap? Try my best to say that in those
very words. Anybody out there looking for
some sheep, anybody, ho! Everyone that thirsts this, get
out of this cesspool. We've got a well. Several blessed, God-blessed
people have drunk deep from the well and keep drinking. It's
not by coincidence that this little building on top of this
hill, the well is 35 gallons a minute. When they dug a well out here,
35 gallons a minute. Rick, is that a gusher or what? While everybody else is running
dry, we can supply Franklin County We've got a well here, don't
we? We keep just dipping and dipping and dipping deeper and
deeper, drinking to it. We drink, our cups run over. Don't they? Anyone thirsty? Come. We've got lots of water. If you
don't get enough this time, come back. the wells there. I hope it will stay there. If we lose our thirst, maybe
it won't. It will dry up. That happens to churches. Sure enough, it does. And so it ended up. Something
happened to this woman. The Lord created a thirst in
her, and when it was all over, she said, Sir, give me this water,
that I don't have to come to this well anymore. And then she wanted to talk religion.
Remember, our father said, my dad was a Methodist, my grandfather,
he was a Presbyterian, but you all say, he said, you don't know
what you believe or what you worship. And then he revealed himself
to her. He said, I am He, Christ, the water of life. And her searching was over. It
was over. Everyone that thirsts, come to
the waters. Our text says, come to the waters. And I didn't mean
to say it like that. It doesn't matter if we get to Isaiah 55. You know, I got carried away. But everyone that thirsteth,
I am so thankful the Lord knows my frame." With men of stammering lips,
he will speak to this people. I am so thankful. Come to the waters. It says waters,
waters. Christ said, I am the water of
life. Why does he say waters? Because this book here is like
an ocean in its fullness. of wisdom and glory and gospel,
full of gospel. We haven't even gone ankle deep. You and I have been doing this
together going on 19 years, but we haven't skimmed the surface. It's like standing on the ocean,
or at the shore of the ocean, and you look out and say, what
a vast ocean. You can't even see. You don't even know. How big it is. It's deep. There are deeper spots in the
ocean than Mount Everest. That's unbelievable to me. Life
that man hadn't even discovered yet. This book is an ocean in
its fullness that is God. But Christ is that water. Many waters that make up the
water. You see? Many waters. Many words. But it's the Word. It's all about Christ. He said, They are they which
testify of me, the water of life. Many waters. Come ye to the waters,
he says. Waters. Water. Nothing quenches
and satisfies thirst. I'm glad for your sake I'm thirsty
this morning. My sake. Nothing satisfies like
water, does it? If you've ever labored heavily,
a long time, or felt that guilt, that fear I was talking about,
Or overindulged in some things you shouldn't have overindulged
in, be it food or drink or whatever it is. Doesn't that make you
thirsty? Nothing meets it like water. No man-made substance can meet
it. Water. Is it any wonder the Lord said,
I am the water? I am the water. I ask you, now
that, like that woman at the well, now that the Lord has revealed
Himself to you, what, tell me? As Brother Dan would say, pray
tell me. Who or what could possibly satisfy
you now? This is a good test. Once you hear Christ, I mean
Him, preached to your heart, and you've taken a long drink
by His grace, what satisfies you from there on? What can you
listen to? Who or what can you hear? Nothing. No one. If you must
have this gospel, the gospel of Christ, if you must, if you
thirst, if you have this thirst, oh, blessed are you. Blessed
are they that hunger and thirst. Blessed is the Father. Must be
one of the chosen. And this water, he says in our
text, it's free. He that hath no money, come ye,
buy and eat. We might look at bread. I don't
know if we have time. But he says, come. It's free. Come to the water. And over in
Revelation 22, 17, it says, let him that is a thirst. Spirit
and a bride say, come. You see, God creates the thirst.
Spirit, Holy Spirit, in the context of the church, the gospel being
preached, creates this thirst, come. And him that is a thirst,
that's the rest of the people. They're thirsty too, and they
say, come. That's what we do. That's all we're doing is a bunch
of sinners telling other sinners where we got water. and bread
and beggars. We've got bread over here. And
let him that is a thirst come. Thirst it. Come. Come. He says. It's free. Whosoever will. Let him take
the water of life freely, it says. Freely. Now remember, only
thirst is required and thirst is given. It's given. That's my hope as a preacher,
you know, that is my hope. It really is. I'm so glad I've
learned this, that it's not up to me, not up to my ability to
convey this, not up to my emotions, not up to my ability, it's not
up to my diligence, it's not up to my vehemence, it's not
up to my persuasion, it's not up to me in any way, shape, form
or fashion. That just gives me so much peace.
It's up to that Spirit. Not by my power, but by my Spirit,
saith the Lord. And if your children, if you
come, if your spouse, if anybody comes, God's going to bring them.
He's going to make them thirsty. And until then, no amount of
whatever is going to make them. And that's my comfort. Whosoever
will, but God makes them willing. Yea, come, he says in our text.
Come. Either have no money, come, buy, and eat. Well, why does
he say buy if it doesn't cost money? Huh? Come buy, he said, buy water,
wine, milk, without money, without price. See if I can, as my pastor
always says, make good on this. Well, it requires nothing from
us. This salvation It requires no contribution on
our part. No wages. No works. Not by works
of righteousness, which we have done. No, no, no, no. No one
is saved by works. Keeping the law. No, no. No trade-ins
either. It doesn't come by trade-in.
Turn over a new leaf. The other side is as bad as the
first one. No, no, no, no. No bartering. No, no, no, no,
no. No barter. Well, if you do this,
I'll do that. No, sir. No bargaining. It's free. It's
salvation's free for the asking. For that free, not a free offer. No, no, no. Let me tell you, let me ask you
something. If you've ever been really thirsty,
have you ever been really thirsty? Worked real, real hard? and say
your wife or maybe your husband, you work real, real, real, real
hard, and they come to the door and say, honey, would you like
some water? Do they really have to offer
you water? Let me ask you this, have you
ever turned it down? I don't know how many times I've been
just hoping, wishing, praying, somebody bring me some water. Would you like any? Yes. Thought
you'd never ask. Huh? You don't, Sam, you don't
have to offer water to a thirsty man, do you? He'll come looking
for it. This gospel's not an offer. No,
no, no. It's a proclamation, and everyone
whom the king makes thirsty, they come begging. I'm thirsty. And it's free. It's free. Well, he says, buy it. Why? Because
it costs somebody something. A great price. It costs the Lord
Jesus Christ His life, His precious blood. Redemption's price is
Christ's precious blood. We're not redeemed with our corruptible
thing, our vain conversation, such as silver and gold and works
and so forth. We're not redeemed with it, but
with the precious blood of the Lamb. It took him 33 years to
work this out. We're not saved by our works.
It took the Son of God 33 years to work it out. Morning, noon, and night. In
thought, word, and deed. Work it out. He was working out
our salvation. It doesn't cost us a dime. We're
not going to contribute a dime. But it cost him everything, John,
didn't it? A great cost. And see, he gives us the price. Faith. This is what faith does.
Faith merely brings the price. Now, you read the article. It
doesn't make it effectual. That's not what I'm saying. What
I'm saying is that God gives this faith in Christ. And we
come to God by Him. We say, Lord, this is the cost. This is what it took to purchase
my redemption. I didn't contribute. Christ did
it all. He gave me this price. What does God require? Keeping
the law perfectly. We can't. Christ did. So we come
by faith saying, here, would you accept this? Yes. Paid in
full. See, that's what faith does.
That's what faith does. Come, buy it. But you didn't
earn the money. You didn't earn the prize, did
you? Christ did. That makes sense.
Buy it. But somebody once said, what
does salvation cost? Nothing from us, but all of us. All of us. The whole man. So faith comes. And what time did I start? He
says, come by wine and milk also. Water, wine, and milk. These
three things are God-given things. All three of them. God-given
things. Spoken of often throughout the
Scriptures. Often. God-given things. God-ordained
things. Good things. The best things. The three best drinks on earth. That's right. That's right. That's what God said. Water,
wine, and milk. Wine which maketh glad the heart. And he said it's for feasting. What is that? Well, you know,
wine of this world will leave you just thirsty for more. Get
you in trouble and all that, but now we're talking, what we're
talking about is Christ. See, all these things are Christ.
Water is Christ, wine is Christ, milk is Christ, bread is Christ.
We were over there at Jacob's well, weren't we? That's Christ. He's the well. He's the water.
Right? He's the Christ. He's all and
in all wine which maketh glad the heart. There's nothing. People
are looking for happiness. People are looking for joy. People
are looking for gladness. People are looking for satisfaction.
Forget it. It's not anywhere to be found.
Solomon said, I've tried it all. Read Ecclesiastes. Read it all,
Proverbs. Read it. He said, I've tried
it all to its fullest. Nobody can try it like I did, Solomon
said. What was his conclusion? Vanity. Try it all. It's vanity, he said. All is
vanity. I said, that's the one thing,
people. One thing will make your heart glad. Take a big, long
drink of this wine on the leaves, well refined, which is Christ
and Him crucified. Man! Anybody thirsty? Make your feast, if you want
it. It's made for feasting and laughter. Huh? Oh, you hear Christ,
the Good News, you'll laugh. That's one of my favorite songs.
When the Lord turned again our captivity, we were like them
that dream. It says that our mouths were
filled with laughter. And we said, the Lord has done
great things for us. We're glad. Let's have a party. Wednesday night we rejoiced over
one sinner that repented. Heaven does. Wine that maketh glad and merry,
wine that is for thine often infirmities. Didn't the Scripture say that?
Take a little bit for your often infirmities, Timothy. Oh, you
talk about infirmities. How about you? Anybody? Anybody just infirm with sin? Often infirm with sin? Take a little wine. Depending
on how infirm you are, it'll take a long while. Huh? Sinner? That's why this gospel
ceases to be sweet to people. They've lost their first love. They're rich and increasingly
good, haven't they? They're not hungry, not thirsty. That's why.
Why do people fall asleep on the sound of the gospel? Full! I've never fallen asleep at the
table when I was hungry. Never! Have you? It's not funny. It's just sad.
The church at Laodicea missed Christ because they were rich and increased
with goods. The church at Ephesus, a large
part of them, missed Christ. Why? Because the gospel ceased
to be their first love. They heard it all before and
they got gospel hardened and he took it away. And the same
thing has happened right before our eyes in this generation.
And it can happen in this little place. And it will. At some point, it
will. It will. I hope it doesn't while
my daughter's here. My granddaughter, I hope it doesn't. Hope God doesn't put some Balaam
up here. Man, I hope it doesn't. But it will. It always has. It always has. Why are we different? Hungry? Thirsty? It's serious. Oh, you see how he starts, oh,
oh. See when I started that way,
Nancy? Oh! And I look at people all the
time that I preach to. Really? Really? And I think,
oh! Come buy wine and milk. Milk. Milk. Blessed milk. The Lord called His Word the
breasts of consolation. He said, come sit on my knee,
and I'll dangle you, and I'll feed you. And you just suck the
breast of consolation until your heart's content. Until you're
so fat and full, your soul is fat and full, and you just lie
there like my granddaughter. What's she saying? She's making
a joyful noise. I'm just having a good time. Breasts of milk. Oh, isn't milk
wonderful? Isn't it wonderful? A sincere
milk of God's Word. One of the old writers said,
not this watered down 2% stuff. Evidently, they used to serve
it back then. Tried to pawn it off on some of the skim milk.
He said, skimming the cream off the top. You don't want any skim
milk, he said. Give me the fat stuff. Cream. Pure milk. You know, most people
don't want this milk, do they? Huh? You run into anybody that
really wants to hear what God has to say? Do you? I don't. Except when I come in here. I
run into people that love milk. Whole milk. Pure milk. Sincere
milk. Man can't seem to get enough
of it. And the same milk that you've
been drinking since the day you were born again. Huh? And it's
the same. It's the same. It's what you
first heard. The beginning of your confidence.
Here in the end, it's the same. Same milk. And you grow that
way. You grow. Oh, I pity. And I hope
some of these people will hear this somehow, some way. I hope
you hear it. I hope I hear it. You can't grow
without this. You can't grow. And you can't
feed on tapes. You can't feed on CDs. No, sir. You can't do it. I've never in my life drunk a
picture of milk. A photo of milk. You can't get any satisfaction.
I've got my granddaughter, my daughter's picture, my wife's
picture, your pictures everywhere, and I look at them and I enjoy
looking at them and all, but that doesn't satisfy me. I've got to have a warm body.
A face to look at. Presence. That's what he said
in Psalm 42. Thy presence. I'll praise you
for the help of your countenance. His presence is salvation." That's
what it said. His presence. For two or three
are gathered in my name, I'm going to be there. Me. Yes, me. To hug up to. Speak to. Oh, my. I've got to quit. And
bread. He says bread. Man doesn't live
by bread alone. That is physical bread, the bread
of this world. But Christ said all the way...
I've just read John 6 again. All the way through. We want
to look at it and don't have time. Read it for yourself. That's where Christ said, I am
that bread. He kept saying over and over
again, I am that bread. Moses didn't give you that bread.
My Father gave you the bread. I am the true bread. The bread
of life, he that eateth me and drinketh me shall never hunger,
never thirst. I am the bread of life, Christ
said. Delightful, soul satisfying in
our text says, diligently and eat that which is good and you'll
delight your soul in fatness. You know when our Lord said,
and I quit with this, when our Lord said to that woman, He that
drinketh this water that I give him shall never thirst again." Speaking of himself. He said,
this water, the water of this world will leave you thirsty,
but he that drinketh the water that I give him shall never thirst
again. There will be a wellspring springing
up unto everlasting life. It will be there. It's this life
of God in the soul of man. It's Christ in you. That's why
I said he didn't need physical water. And, but anyway, did that mean,
now listen carefully, does that mean that that woman never, she
didn't want a home, didn't want family, didn't want, never did
desire a husband or never did desire, she didn't have a husband
at the time. She was married with a low life.
She was living with a fellow in sin. The woman, the other woman, he
said, go and sin no more. So she didn't. She said, we can't
do this. But anyway, does that mean she
never desired a husband, never wanted, you know, a home or all
of that, never thirsting, never have any desire for any of these
things again? No. These things are God given. You
know that? God giveth us richly all things to enjoy. Read Ecclesiastes. We've looked at it together several
times. He said, there's nothing better for a man than to enjoy
the wife of his youth and work hard and enjoy it. Yeah, there's
nothing wrong with that. Don't let religion tell you different. A new earth is going to be created
and we're going to be doing much the same thing we're doing now.
Yeah. What he's saying is that you
won't have this insatiable, unquenchable, all-consuming desire for these
things. See what I'm saying? There's
nothing wrong with wanting a husband, wanting a wife. Nothing wrong
with that. It's not good that man should be alone. Right? This
is of God. He that obtaineth a wife, obtaineth
favor from the Lord. It's a good thing. These things
are good. But not if they consume you. Not if you just thirst and can't
get enough. You see, thirst is something
you just can't get. You've got to keep, got to keep, got to
keep. When Christ comes and gives you a thirst for Him and then
fills that need by indwelling you and coming in you and giving
you this life of God in your soul, You know, you still keep
thirsting for Him, don't you? You take a long drink and you
say, oh, I'm so... I've loved Him. This is what
I've been looking for. Right? This is who? This woman,
Robin, that woman went home and said, we've found Him. Yeah, right. Well, she did, Robin. She went home to all her family
and said, is not this the cubs see a man? I've seen a man. I'm drunk." She left her water
pot. Robin, she never got a drop of water in that bucket. She
left it all. She came to get water. She left it all. Water
and all. She found the water. It was in
her. She said, went home and said,
come drink. From that day forward, she had
needs. She had wants. She had physical needs and this
and that and the other. Nothing. She needed really nothing. Nothing and no one from Vince
Ford, Nancy, was her great desire but him. Right? That's what we
say. That's what he said. You'll never
thirst again. As a matter of fact, the older
you get, the more of these things will just start to lose your
taste. That's right. But if you're dying,
you'll sure lose your taste. And never thirst again. And we keep thirsting, as we
said, for Christ. You ever lose that thirst for
this gospel, something's bad wrong. And you keep thirsting,
but you keep coming back to the same source and have the same
fulfillment. And nothing else will satisfy
it. No one. That's what he said. Alright, Wednesday night. Where
am I preaching from Wednesday night? Isaiah 55, 2 Samuel 7, 2 Samuel 23, Psalm
89. Good. Come back. And we'll look
at the sure mercies of David. Come here. Come. You'll get the
sure mercies of David. Okay. Brother Gabe.