WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.540 My question for you after a passage like that is, have you ever been thirsty? 00:00:05.960 --> 00:00:11.700 Like seriously, seriously, dangerously, you're feeling it, you're sick, thirsty. 00:00:12.060 --> 00:00:17.320 Why don't you stand up, give yourself 20 seconds, turn to the person you've come with or people 00:00:17.320 --> 00:00:22.080 that you know around you, stand up and just share that story, share that time where you've 00:00:22.080 --> 00:00:23.640 really, really felt it right now. 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:31.879 So drinking is actually really important. 00:00:32.259 --> 00:00:38.659 I'm one of the pastors here, my name is Nick, I'm used to playing the guitar at the front 00:00:38.659 --> 00:00:42.460 and leading and doing a bit of stuff behind the scenes. 00:00:43.060 --> 00:00:47.879 I'm not used to being at the front, whenever I get up in front of people my voice just dries 00:00:47.879 --> 00:00:52.480 up, it's like a desert and I need to drink, so I'm actually really nervous and thirsty 00:00:52.480 --> 00:00:53.039 right now. 00:00:55.600 --> 00:00:57.280 But we really need water, don't we? 00:00:57.280 --> 00:01:02.820 It's actually something that gets painful pretty quick and we're dead in two or three 00:01:02.820 --> 00:01:03.700 days if we don't get it. 00:01:04.379 --> 00:01:11.939 We're completely in need and we can go without sleep or food or light, like when you go to 00:01:11.939 --> 00:01:12.980 Katoomba and go on kick. 00:01:13.879 --> 00:01:19.319 You can even go without human contact for weeks on end, but you can't go without water. 00:01:19.560 --> 00:01:24.020 After we breathe, we need to drink and everyone knows that thirst. 00:01:24.019 --> 00:01:33.159 Our thirst for water is mirrored in us in heaps of different ways, other desires in our life. 00:01:33.659 --> 00:01:40.620 And I'm sure you know a kind of thirst for other things, for practical needs and extravagant 00:01:40.620 --> 00:01:41.159 desires. 00:01:41.280 --> 00:01:48.439 Under the surface, these desires that are in us, under the surface of those, we're all chasing 00:01:48.439 --> 00:01:49.099 satisfaction. 00:01:49.099 --> 00:01:51.679 We long to be satisfied. 00:01:52.159 --> 00:01:57.299 If we can't get no satisfaction, then we're discontent. 00:01:58.439 --> 00:02:01.000 Now I know discontent and you know it too. 00:02:01.579 --> 00:02:03.859 Our discontentedness demands action. 00:02:04.060 --> 00:02:08.519 It says get happy and quick and it looks like a whole bunch of things. 00:02:08.680 --> 00:02:13.859 It can be, I think for me, it's tiredness and hunger and apathy. 00:02:14.039 --> 00:02:14.939 It's lots of things. 00:02:14.939 --> 00:02:17.620 We want to fill our lives with things. 00:02:18.699 --> 00:02:26.139 When I get tired and anxious, I raid the fridge and I put a TV show on and entertain myself. 00:02:26.280 --> 00:02:27.039 I escape. 00:02:28.280 --> 00:02:35.579 Those things I think I know won't satisfy me, but they're good distractions for my thirstiness. 00:02:35.580 --> 00:02:40.180 What does your discontent look like? 00:02:41.820 --> 00:02:49.640 Finish the sentence, I'd be satisfied if only I had. 00:02:51.040 --> 00:02:56.580 I'd be satisfied if only I was or looked like. 00:02:56.580 --> 00:03:08.280 What do you pursue to remove that discontentedness that you feel, that thirst in you? 00:03:08.280 --> 00:03:15.580 And may I suggest today, and this is actually really exciting, that there is an end available 00:03:15.580 --> 00:03:16.939 to our thirst. 00:03:17.200 --> 00:03:19.800 Somewhere to run to for water that can fill us up. 00:03:19.800 --> 00:03:27.980 A source to go to where we are satisfied forever, to return to ongoing, into eternity, and free 00:03:27.980 --> 00:03:29.420 for absolutely everyone. 00:03:30.400 --> 00:03:31.760 That's a pretty big talk. 00:03:32.080 --> 00:03:34.719 But the exciting thing is that we get to come to a pretty big God. 00:03:35.200 --> 00:03:40.000 So I need to hear about what this water is as much as you guys. 00:03:40.340 --> 00:03:41.980 And we're all among the thirsty today. 00:03:42.220 --> 00:03:43.900 You guys stood up and talked pretty loudly. 00:03:44.040 --> 00:03:45.820 So I assume you know what I'm talking about. 00:03:45.819 --> 00:03:50.680 So let's pray for God's help to hear him over what I say today. 00:03:51.659 --> 00:03:52.259 Let's pray. 00:03:54.259 --> 00:03:58.439 Lord God, we come to you as thirsty people with longing in us. 00:03:59.379 --> 00:04:03.560 We long to be satisfied, God, and I pray today that you would do that by your spirit, 00:04:05.299 --> 00:04:08.280 by the truth of your gospel. 00:04:08.639 --> 00:04:08.840 Amen. 00:04:08.840 --> 00:04:18.500 Guys, our yearning and our satisfaction, our thirst, is actually a really good thing. 00:04:19.040 --> 00:04:20.399 It's created in us. 00:04:20.720 --> 00:04:23.540 It's not an accident. 00:04:24.199 --> 00:04:25.920 It's given to us by God. 00:04:26.259 --> 00:04:30.860 And he didn't leave it as an unhelpful little burden that we have to carry. 00:04:30.860 --> 00:04:37.280 We thirst for God because he satisfies. 00:04:38.560 --> 00:04:42.660 If we only knew our creator completely, we would not have yearnings. 00:04:42.980 --> 00:04:44.340 We would not need endlessly. 00:04:45.020 --> 00:04:48.400 We would not thirst our way through this life. 00:04:48.720 --> 00:04:53.280 But naturally, humans thirst for everything but God. 00:04:53.860 --> 00:04:55.580 And we chase after the wrong things. 00:04:55.819 --> 00:04:58.860 We've got to somehow come back to God and get satisfied again. 00:04:58.860 --> 00:05:02.780 We're only ever going to be satisfied in God. 00:05:03.720 --> 00:05:04.560 And this matters. 00:05:04.939 --> 00:05:10.439 God did not come to tell us to ignore the desires in us for satisfaction. 00:05:11.080 --> 00:05:14.040 He wants our discontent quenched. 00:05:14.920 --> 00:05:20.680 He came to turn us around from our sin, to bring us back to the source that we were made to come to 00:05:20.680 --> 00:05:25.900 and provide us satisfaction and joy that's going to last. 00:05:28.860 --> 00:05:31.660 In the beginning, it was Adam and Eve. 00:05:32.480 --> 00:05:36.400 They had full access to God and full satisfaction in Him. 00:05:38.520 --> 00:05:44.000 That was a wonderful relationship where they had complete access to God. 00:05:44.080 --> 00:05:45.480 They thirsted for nothing. 00:05:45.639 --> 00:05:47.360 They worshipped with their whole lives. 00:05:47.740 --> 00:05:52.100 They were enamored by God's creation, His perfection and His presence. 00:05:52.420 --> 00:05:53.879 They were satisfied in Him. 00:05:53.879 --> 00:06:02.300 But ever since Adam and Eve chose to find their satisfaction elsewhere, we have followed them. 00:06:03.040 --> 00:06:07.620 Our sin cost us that access to God and we lost our satisfaction. 00:06:09.000 --> 00:06:10.399 Jesus knew this. 00:06:12.079 --> 00:06:16.759 He knew that we were without access to God and the satisfaction that that brings. 00:06:17.100 --> 00:06:19.620 Look at Jesus' prayer for us in Matthew 11. 00:06:19.620 --> 00:06:23.120 It's going to be on the screen. 00:06:24.340 --> 00:06:24.980 There it is. 00:06:25.639 --> 00:06:30.620 No one knows the Son except the Father and no one knows the Father except the Son 00:06:30.620 --> 00:06:36.660 and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him. 00:06:38.019 --> 00:06:45.100 Every one of us take our first breath of life into that situation. 00:06:45.100 --> 00:06:49.520 We're born without access to God. 00:06:50.000 --> 00:06:56.300 And with the discontentedness and thirst that comes from that, nobody knew Jesus when He came 00:06:56.300 --> 00:06:58.180 and only Jesus knew the Father. 00:06:58.540 --> 00:07:01.720 It's going to take God for us to know God. 00:07:02.720 --> 00:07:06.220 It's a bit confusing, but honestly, we're out of that loop. 00:07:08.379 --> 00:07:09.740 We're all undeserving. 00:07:09.860 --> 00:07:13.080 It's going to take an act of grace for us to ever know God. 00:07:13.079 --> 00:07:16.000 Unless God acts, we go on thirsting. 00:07:16.639 --> 00:07:20.399 Unless He meets our needs, we're going to stay in need. 00:07:21.500 --> 00:07:26.039 Unless God has a way for me to be satisfied beyond my abilities to do so, 00:07:26.219 --> 00:07:27.860 I'm going to stay anxious and weak. 00:07:28.779 --> 00:07:31.120 Unless God is your way to satisfaction, 00:07:32.319 --> 00:07:35.939 every underlying thirst and need in you is going to go unmet. 00:07:35.939 --> 00:07:42.360 So let's come together as thirsty people and see what God is going to offer us. 00:07:44.360 --> 00:07:45.060 John 4. 00:07:45.540 --> 00:07:49.720 If you don't have your Bible out or a screen on a phone or something in front of you, get it. 00:07:50.100 --> 00:07:50.879 Put your hand up. 00:07:51.019 --> 00:07:52.779 Someone will find you a Bible if you don't have it. 00:07:53.019 --> 00:07:54.579 I'm going to be jumping around in John 4. 00:07:54.579 --> 00:08:00.959 The situation is two people meeting near a well in Samaria. 00:08:03.539 --> 00:08:05.439 One of those was a woman getting water. 00:08:05.639 --> 00:08:06.399 The other was Jesus. 00:08:07.519 --> 00:08:10.699 The woman was a local Samaritan. 00:08:10.860 --> 00:08:11.959 Here's what we know about her. 00:08:14.019 --> 00:08:17.039 She had been in and out of marriages more than most people. 00:08:17.040 --> 00:08:24.439 She struggled with life and that wearisome daily trek to go get water. 00:08:25.700 --> 00:08:29.960 And she worried if she really knew who God was. 00:08:31.200 --> 00:08:35.700 She thirsted for much more than the water in her jar. 00:08:36.100 --> 00:08:37.039 She was discontent. 00:08:37.120 --> 00:08:38.240 She's just like us. 00:08:38.960 --> 00:08:43.460 Guys, today, right now, put yourself in her place. 00:08:43.460 --> 00:08:48.860 Because like her, we get tired of everything. 00:08:49.080 --> 00:08:50.100 We struggle with sin. 00:08:50.660 --> 00:08:52.820 And we're reaching out for God in some way. 00:08:53.940 --> 00:08:55.639 We're thirsty like her. 00:08:55.879 --> 00:08:56.740 We are her. 00:08:57.800 --> 00:09:01.840 But because God is gracious and for no merited reason, 00:09:02.700 --> 00:09:11.320 Jesus chose this woman on that day to be offered complete, lasting, eternal satisfaction. 00:09:11.320 --> 00:09:13.060 The first to be offered that. 00:09:14.259 --> 00:09:16.740 He starts the conversation. 00:09:18.080 --> 00:09:20.320 Will you give me a drink? 00:09:22.600 --> 00:09:26.340 It's astonishing that Jesus would do this. 00:09:27.139 --> 00:09:32.940 It is crazy culturally for him to step out and start that conversation. 00:09:34.019 --> 00:09:38.160 A Jew would never address a Samaritan. 00:09:38.600 --> 00:09:39.379 Wouldn't speak to them. 00:09:39.379 --> 00:09:47.460 They would never drink from a Samaritan's cup when they'd made or touched or even been seen near. 00:09:48.659 --> 00:09:51.379 A Jewish man would never address a woman in public. 00:09:51.379 --> 00:09:58.720 And in verse 27, his disciples were astonished that he'd been talking to her. 00:09:58.720 --> 00:10:02.980 But Jesus saw her. 00:10:03.060 --> 00:10:07.600 He saw and validated her need. 00:10:08.860 --> 00:10:12.420 He shows us that we're all in her place. 00:10:12.820 --> 00:10:15.399 Not just culturally, but actually without him. 00:10:16.060 --> 00:10:18.420 He came for us all. 00:10:18.419 --> 00:10:23.620 Now, when Jesus says, will he give me a drink? 00:10:23.819 --> 00:10:26.159 Do you think he's just asking for water? 00:10:26.159 --> 00:10:33.159 Honestly, I think he was actually thirsty for a drink. 00:10:33.759 --> 00:10:35.459 It's hot in that part of the world. 00:10:35.799 --> 00:10:36.939 Like, desert hot. 00:10:36.940 --> 00:10:41.140 Like, hotter than Sydney in the humidity in February. 00:10:41.460 --> 00:10:41.780 Hot. 00:10:42.300 --> 00:10:43.640 It is crazy hot there. 00:10:43.800 --> 00:10:46.460 And I bet Jesus knew a real human thirst. 00:10:47.000 --> 00:10:49.240 But he didn't thirst for God like we do. 00:10:50.300 --> 00:10:53.240 He knew God and was satisfied. 00:10:53.720 --> 00:10:58.880 He was drinking and eating like us while completely satisfied. 00:10:58.879 --> 00:11:01.700 In God. 00:11:04.080 --> 00:11:08.220 Jesus proved to this woman, 17 and 18, that's on the screen. 00:11:08.860 --> 00:11:16.519 He proved that he had access to God because he knows secrets about this woman that only God could know. 00:11:16.960 --> 00:11:19.259 Hidden things about her relationships. 00:11:20.419 --> 00:11:22.879 And we see later that that's proof for her. 00:11:23.399 --> 00:11:27.940 She says later, he told me everything about everything I'd ever done. 00:11:27.940 --> 00:11:29.020 He didn't. 00:11:29.460 --> 00:11:33.060 He gave her a short list of things that proved to her that he knew God. 00:11:33.980 --> 00:11:35.900 He is not thirsty like we are. 00:11:36.220 --> 00:11:40.780 But he is full of grace and mercy and compassion. 00:11:41.600 --> 00:11:46.560 He started the conversation that she could not start and that we can't. 00:11:47.380 --> 00:11:51.620 To show us that he offers us satisfaction. 00:11:52.500 --> 00:11:57.460 I've always been amazed at Jesus' ability with fasting and food. 00:11:57.940 --> 00:12:03.980 I can barely even make lunch for my kids with a full fridge of food. 00:12:04.380 --> 00:12:07.940 I'm useless when it comes to doing the simplest things like that. 00:12:08.320 --> 00:12:11.160 But Jesus can make food for 5,000 people. 00:12:11.400 --> 00:12:11.680 Bam! 00:12:11.800 --> 00:12:12.280 It's there. 00:12:12.640 --> 00:12:13.380 That's incredible. 00:12:14.480 --> 00:12:17.500 And he can go for weeks without eating. 00:12:17.720 --> 00:12:21.520 I can't go for more than about an hour and I feel like I'm going to die. 00:12:21.519 --> 00:12:26.139 But Jesus went weeks in the desert without food. 00:12:26.919 --> 00:12:34.579 It amazes me what physical needs Jesus could put aside while satisfied with God. 00:12:36.179 --> 00:12:38.559 He talks about it in verse 32. 00:12:39.960 --> 00:12:44.259 He says he has food that we don't understand. 00:12:44.259 --> 00:12:49.419 He is completely satisfied in God. 00:12:49.419 --> 00:12:53.399 But, and this is incredible. 00:12:53.959 --> 00:12:58.679 And if you're really tired, just catch this today because it's so incredible. 00:12:59.839 --> 00:13:03.439 He didn't hold on to that satisfaction. 00:13:04.639 --> 00:13:08.579 He actually gave it up so that we could have it. 00:13:08.580 --> 00:13:11.720 Look with me at John 19. 00:13:11.840 --> 00:13:12.639 It's going to be on the screen. 00:13:12.780 --> 00:13:15.180 Stay in John 4 on your tablet or your Bible. 00:13:15.580 --> 00:13:16.180 Look up here. 00:13:16.860 --> 00:13:20.300 Later, knowing this is Jesus on the cross. 00:13:21.520 --> 00:13:25.320 Later, knowing that everything had now been finished 00:13:25.320 --> 00:13:28.020 and so that Scripture would be fulfilled, 00:13:28.520 --> 00:13:29.400 Jesus said, 00:13:30.680 --> 00:13:33.100 I am thirsty. 00:13:38.180 --> 00:13:43.320 The God who was satisfied beyond needing anything at all, 00:13:44.620 --> 00:13:48.660 stooped down to identify with our needs and become a man 00:13:48.660 --> 00:13:52.640 and on the cross took on our thirst for God. 00:13:52.639 --> 00:13:55.860 I don't think he's saying, 00:13:56.319 --> 00:14:01.699 as he gasps for breath and bleeds out on the cross, 00:14:01.799 --> 00:14:02.759 I don't think he's saying, 00:14:03.179 --> 00:14:05.299 I'd really like a glass of cold water, guys. 00:14:05.679 --> 00:14:06.439 This sucks. 00:14:08.419 --> 00:14:12.580 He is putting his satisfaction in God aside 00:14:12.580 --> 00:14:17.299 as the Father turns his face away from him on the cross 00:14:17.299 --> 00:14:18.759 because he's wearing a sin. 00:14:18.759 --> 00:14:28.059 So we would never have to be thirsty and without God ever again. 00:14:28.679 --> 00:14:30.559 That is amazing. 00:14:33.220 --> 00:14:36.259 Jesus became thirsty for us 00:14:36.259 --> 00:14:41.799 so that he can offer us this drink 00:14:41.799 --> 00:14:44.580 that we hear about in John 4. 00:14:44.580 --> 00:14:47.920 Let's see what he's offering us exactly. 00:14:48.440 --> 00:14:49.520 John 4 verse 10. 00:14:50.180 --> 00:14:51.040 Have a look with me. 00:14:52.940 --> 00:14:54.500 If you knew the gift of God 00:14:54.500 --> 00:14:57.980 and who it is that asks you for a drink, 00:14:59.060 --> 00:15:00.160 you would have asked him 00:15:00.160 --> 00:15:03.400 and he would have given you living water. 00:15:04.220 --> 00:15:05.440 Jump to verse 13. 00:15:05.440 --> 00:15:10.320 Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 00:15:10.400 --> 00:15:13.240 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. 00:15:13.420 --> 00:15:16.340 Indeed, the water I give them will become in them 00:15:16.340 --> 00:15:20.580 a spring of living water welling up to eternal life. 00:15:22.780 --> 00:15:27.900 Jesus was promising to quench this woman's thirst forever. 00:15:28.960 --> 00:15:29.900 What did he mean? 00:15:29.899 --> 00:15:32.840 It's clear in the story 00:15:32.840 --> 00:15:36.939 that the woman thought she knew what he meant. 00:15:38.100 --> 00:15:40.240 She asks for this mysterious water 00:15:40.240 --> 00:15:44.459 so she'd no longer have to go out every day 00:15:44.459 --> 00:15:45.620 and get water for herself. 00:15:46.240 --> 00:15:47.679 That's exactly what we would do. 00:15:47.759 --> 00:15:49.639 We would take our understanding of God 00:15:49.639 --> 00:15:50.899 and then demand it of him. 00:15:51.379 --> 00:15:52.740 Give me a drink, Jesus. 00:15:54.439 --> 00:15:57.059 She's thinking like Spielberg 00:15:57.059 --> 00:15:59.360 in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. 00:15:59.899 --> 00:16:02.299 You know, the chase for the Holy Grail, 00:16:02.379 --> 00:16:03.480 the cup of Christ. 00:16:04.980 --> 00:16:07.799 Assuming that drinking from a cup that Jesus offered 00:16:07.799 --> 00:16:10.139 would keep us young and alive on earth. 00:16:10.879 --> 00:16:13.639 But Jesus is promising us so much more 00:16:13.639 --> 00:16:16.139 than something so silly as that. 00:16:16.980 --> 00:16:20.059 He's actually promising access to the living God, 00:16:20.179 --> 00:16:23.840 not just a long-term hydration solution, 00:16:24.679 --> 00:16:28.659 but a longer-than-life-long satisfaction. 00:16:29.899 --> 00:16:33.299 So how do I get this living water 00:16:33.299 --> 00:16:36.819 if it's not from a cup that Jesus offers? 00:16:37.799 --> 00:16:39.379 Not a literal cup. 00:16:40.720 --> 00:16:42.179 Look again at verse 10. 00:16:43.379 --> 00:16:44.340 Look at how it starts. 00:16:46.139 --> 00:16:46.860 It begins, 00:16:46.860 --> 00:16:48.360 if you knew. 00:16:50.259 --> 00:16:53.440 It seems that knowing God 00:16:53.440 --> 00:16:55.879 is the way to get this drink. 00:16:56.360 --> 00:16:57.820 The woman caught the cue 00:16:57.820 --> 00:16:59.600 about knowing God. 00:16:59.600 --> 00:17:02.639 When I read this passage, 00:17:02.639 --> 00:17:03.399 I didn't. 00:17:03.620 --> 00:17:05.039 I got really confused 00:17:05.039 --> 00:17:07.779 as to what this woman asked Jesus. 00:17:08.120 --> 00:17:10.039 If someone comes up to you, 00:17:10.299 --> 00:17:12.279 tells you all your hidden secrets 00:17:12.279 --> 00:17:13.420 of your life, 00:17:13.940 --> 00:17:16.920 and then kind of leaves 00:17:16.920 --> 00:17:18.559 the conversation open, 00:17:18.660 --> 00:17:19.620 you can ask them anything. 00:17:19.720 --> 00:17:20.779 What would you ask for? 00:17:21.120 --> 00:17:22.400 What answers to life 00:17:22.400 --> 00:17:24.000 would you demand from that person? 00:17:24.000 --> 00:17:25.880 And I'd probably say, 00:17:26.400 --> 00:17:27.599 how do I, 00:17:27.960 --> 00:17:29.559 you know, 00:17:29.779 --> 00:17:31.980 get more money? 00:17:33.019 --> 00:17:36.500 Or can you help me 00:17:36.500 --> 00:17:38.299 with all the stuff 00:17:38.299 --> 00:17:39.619 that I do wrong? 00:17:39.880 --> 00:17:42.440 Or can you help me? 00:17:44.119 --> 00:17:45.279 I've got a list of like 00:17:45.279 --> 00:17:47.019 a zillion practical things 00:17:47.019 --> 00:17:47.700 that I could think of. 00:17:47.799 --> 00:17:48.359 I want this, 00:17:48.460 --> 00:17:48.900 I want that, 00:17:48.980 --> 00:17:49.539 I want a guitar, 00:17:49.660 --> 00:17:50.500 I want my kids to be healthy, 00:17:50.599 --> 00:17:51.700 I want to be secure for life. 00:17:51.700 --> 00:17:55.259 But she gets this cue, 00:17:56.059 --> 00:17:57.279 she wants to know 00:17:57.279 --> 00:17:59.059 if she really knows God. 00:17:59.220 --> 00:18:01.980 She asks a religion question. 00:18:02.819 --> 00:18:04.200 I always found that really weird, 00:18:04.259 --> 00:18:05.580 but she gets this cue 00:18:05.580 --> 00:18:06.539 about knowing God. 00:18:06.860 --> 00:18:07.660 She was convinced 00:18:07.660 --> 00:18:09.039 about Jesus' connection. 00:18:10.620 --> 00:18:11.580 Why not see 00:18:11.580 --> 00:18:15.059 if she knows God 00:18:15.059 --> 00:18:16.000 like he does? 00:18:17.039 --> 00:18:18.319 So she asked him 00:18:18.319 --> 00:18:19.799 if Samaria's way 00:18:19.799 --> 00:18:20.500 of knowing God, 00:18:20.500 --> 00:18:21.859 their religious practices 00:18:21.859 --> 00:18:23.099 were correct. 00:18:23.319 --> 00:18:24.640 Because if they were right, 00:18:24.900 --> 00:18:26.059 then she'd already have access 00:18:26.059 --> 00:18:27.000 to this water, right? 00:18:27.619 --> 00:18:27.779 Right? 00:18:29.660 --> 00:18:30.819 Often people think 00:18:30.819 --> 00:18:32.279 that religion 00:18:32.279 --> 00:18:33.779 is about having our lives 00:18:33.779 --> 00:18:35.240 in order already 00:18:35.240 --> 00:18:38.759 to get us access to God. 00:18:39.099 --> 00:18:40.180 Surely Jesus will just 00:18:40.180 --> 00:18:41.200 tell us here 00:18:41.200 --> 00:18:42.240 who is right 00:18:42.240 --> 00:18:44.240 and who really knows him 00:18:44.240 --> 00:18:45.480 so we can all get on board 00:18:45.480 --> 00:18:46.359 with that one religion 00:18:46.359 --> 00:18:47.279 and then move on, right? 00:18:48.859 --> 00:18:49.339 No. 00:18:49.339 --> 00:18:51.720 He says it's no longer 00:18:51.720 --> 00:18:53.119 about how you get access 00:18:53.119 --> 00:18:53.679 to God, 00:18:53.899 --> 00:18:55.439 but who is 00:18:55.439 --> 00:18:57.199 your access to God. 00:18:57.379 --> 00:18:58.519 Not a list of things 00:18:58.519 --> 00:18:59.199 to do 00:18:59.199 --> 00:19:00.279 to know God. 00:19:00.839 --> 00:19:01.059 He 00:19:01.059 --> 00:19:02.839 is 00:19:02.839 --> 00:19:04.500 how we know God. 00:19:05.159 --> 00:19:06.000 He is 00:19:06.000 --> 00:19:07.199 our access to God 00:19:07.199 --> 00:19:08.559 and it's by his grace, 00:19:08.959 --> 00:19:10.459 not by what we do. 00:19:11.819 --> 00:19:12.819 He is offering 00:19:12.819 --> 00:19:14.119 to meet our greatest need 00:19:14.119 --> 00:19:14.619 in him. 00:19:14.619 --> 00:19:18.299 So let's look at 00:19:18.299 --> 00:19:19.139 Jesus' answer 00:19:19.139 --> 00:19:20.639 to our discontentedness. 00:19:21.039 --> 00:19:22.179 How will Jesus 00:19:22.179 --> 00:19:23.159 do for us 00:19:23.159 --> 00:19:24.839 what we need? 00:19:25.419 --> 00:19:26.239 And the answer 00:19:26.239 --> 00:19:27.479 is in two words, 00:19:27.939 --> 00:19:28.399 spirit 00:19:28.399 --> 00:19:29.739 and truth. 00:19:30.339 --> 00:19:31.279 Look at verse 21 00:19:31.279 --> 00:19:31.619 with me. 00:19:31.679 --> 00:19:32.019 It's going to be 00:19:32.019 --> 00:19:32.919 on the screen as well. 00:19:32.920 --> 00:19:36.360 Woman, 00:19:36.580 --> 00:19:37.360 Jesus replied, 00:19:37.539 --> 00:19:38.160 believe me, 00:19:38.200 --> 00:19:39.160 a time is coming 00:19:39.160 --> 00:19:40.259 when you will worship 00:19:40.259 --> 00:19:40.880 the Father 00:19:40.880 --> 00:19:41.920 neither on this mountain 00:19:41.920 --> 00:19:42.800 nor in Jerusalem. 00:19:44.340 --> 00:19:45.180 You Samaritans 00:19:45.180 --> 00:19:46.580 worship what you do not know. 00:19:46.740 --> 00:19:47.940 We worship what we do know 00:19:47.940 --> 00:19:48.940 for salvation 00:19:48.940 --> 00:19:50.120 comes from the Jews. 00:19:50.300 --> 00:19:50.740 Yet, 00:19:51.740 --> 00:19:52.980 a time is coming 00:19:52.980 --> 00:19:54.740 and has now come 00:19:54.740 --> 00:19:56.460 when the true worshippers 00:19:56.460 --> 00:19:57.779 will worship the Father 00:19:57.779 --> 00:19:59.080 in the spirit 00:19:59.080 --> 00:20:00.620 and in truth. 00:20:00.619 --> 00:20:02.299 for they are the kind 00:20:02.299 --> 00:20:02.799 of worshippers 00:20:02.799 --> 00:20:03.859 the Father seeks. 00:20:04.379 --> 00:20:05.059 God is spirit 00:20:05.059 --> 00:20:06.399 and his worshippers 00:20:06.399 --> 00:20:07.219 must worship 00:20:07.219 --> 00:20:08.079 in the spirit 00:20:08.079 --> 00:20:09.379 and in truth. 00:20:11.319 --> 00:20:12.459 In the spirit 00:20:12.459 --> 00:20:13.919 and in truth 00:20:13.919 --> 00:20:15.239 is Jesus' 00:20:15.439 --> 00:20:16.719 mysterious answer. 00:20:17.399 --> 00:20:18.539 It is 00:20:18.539 --> 00:20:20.179 how we can know 00:20:20.179 --> 00:20:20.579 God 00:20:20.579 --> 00:20:21.439 through him. 00:20:22.379 --> 00:20:22.759 So it's 00:20:22.759 --> 00:20:23.959 really important. 00:20:25.059 --> 00:20:26.000 These are the two 00:20:26.000 --> 00:20:27.339 things that we need 00:20:27.339 --> 00:20:28.619 to get satisfaction 00:20:28.619 --> 00:20:29.199 in God. 00:20:29.200 --> 00:20:30.700 So first, 00:20:31.460 --> 00:20:32.120 the spirit. 00:20:33.799 --> 00:20:35.259 God inflames 00:20:35.259 --> 00:20:36.160 our hearts 00:20:36.160 --> 00:20:36.960 to faith 00:20:36.960 --> 00:20:38.440 by the Holy Spirit. 00:20:38.840 --> 00:20:39.980 He confirms 00:20:39.980 --> 00:20:40.840 we're saved 00:20:40.840 --> 00:20:41.980 by the Holy Spirit's 00:20:41.980 --> 00:20:42.880 dwelling in us. 00:20:43.259 --> 00:20:43.880 He speaks 00:20:43.880 --> 00:20:44.720 through his word 00:20:44.720 --> 00:20:45.420 in the Bible 00:20:45.420 --> 00:20:46.580 by his spirit. 00:20:47.360 --> 00:20:48.059 And the spirit 00:20:48.059 --> 00:20:49.860 is a Christian's 00:20:49.860 --> 00:20:50.360 connection 00:20:50.360 --> 00:20:51.120 to God. 00:20:52.160 --> 00:20:52.580 The spirit 00:20:52.580 --> 00:20:53.519 does not let go. 00:20:55.400 --> 00:20:56.319 The Holy Spirit 00:20:56.319 --> 00:20:56.980 is like 00:20:56.980 --> 00:20:59.019 the hand 00:20:59.019 --> 00:21:00.240 that takes 00:21:00.240 --> 00:21:01.059 hold of ours 00:21:01.059 --> 00:21:02.279 and leads 00:21:02.279 --> 00:21:02.980 us to God. 00:21:05.400 --> 00:21:06.180 It is our 00:21:06.180 --> 00:21:07.139 constant comfort 00:21:07.139 --> 00:21:07.920 and assurance 00:21:07.920 --> 00:21:10.000 that we are saved. 00:21:10.440 --> 00:21:11.119 It's his grace 00:21:11.119 --> 00:21:11.660 in action 00:21:11.660 --> 00:21:12.460 drawing us 00:21:12.460 --> 00:21:12.879 to him. 00:21:14.500 --> 00:21:15.339 But it is 00:21:15.339 --> 00:21:16.139 the spirit 00:21:16.139 --> 00:21:17.079 and truth 00:21:17.079 --> 00:21:17.720 together 00:21:17.720 --> 00:21:18.480 that bring us 00:21:18.480 --> 00:21:18.940 to God. 00:21:19.079 --> 00:21:19.180 So 00:21:19.180 --> 00:21:20.579 the truth 00:21:20.579 --> 00:21:21.059 part of it 00:21:21.059 --> 00:21:21.460 sounds a little 00:21:21.460 --> 00:21:21.960 confusing. 00:21:22.119 --> 00:21:22.680 So let Jesus 00:21:22.680 --> 00:21:23.740 clarify it for you. 00:21:23.859 --> 00:21:24.299 Can we have 00:21:24.299 --> 00:21:25.500 John 14 00:21:25.500 --> 00:21:26.359 up on the screen? 00:21:26.359 --> 00:21:27.659 verse 6. 00:21:28.740 --> 00:21:29.559 I am the way 00:21:29.559 --> 00:21:30.740 the truth 00:21:30.740 --> 00:21:31.979 and the life. 00:21:32.819 --> 00:21:33.419 No one comes 00:21:33.419 --> 00:21:34.079 to the Father 00:21:34.079 --> 00:21:34.899 except 00:21:34.899 --> 00:21:36.000 through me. 00:21:38.000 --> 00:21:38.699 Jesus 00:21:38.699 --> 00:21:39.759 himself 00:21:39.759 --> 00:21:41.439 is 00:21:41.439 --> 00:21:43.099 the truth. 00:21:43.619 --> 00:21:44.240 Everything 00:21:44.240 --> 00:21:44.959 he was 00:21:44.959 --> 00:21:46.179 and said 00:21:46.179 --> 00:21:46.839 and achieved 00:21:46.839 --> 00:21:47.419 his life 00:21:47.419 --> 00:21:47.879 his death 00:21:47.879 --> 00:21:48.639 his resurrection 00:21:48.639 --> 00:21:49.659 it is all 00:21:49.659 --> 00:21:50.740 the truth. 00:21:51.059 --> 00:21:51.719 The truth 00:21:51.720 --> 00:21:52.440 is 00:21:52.440 --> 00:21:54.180 the gospel 00:21:54.180 --> 00:21:54.960 of Christ. 00:21:55.940 --> 00:21:56.819 All we know 00:21:56.819 --> 00:21:57.200 from him 00:21:57.200 --> 00:21:58.059 from the gospels. 00:21:59.079 --> 00:21:59.960 His perfect 00:21:59.960 --> 00:22:00.940 life for us 00:22:00.940 --> 00:22:01.460 that we might 00:22:01.460 --> 00:22:01.880 live. 00:22:02.380 --> 00:22:03.039 His death 00:22:03.039 --> 00:22:03.740 is an innocent 00:22:03.740 --> 00:22:04.400 man that he 00:22:04.400 --> 00:22:05.240 died for 00:22:05.240 --> 00:22:05.680 sinners. 00:22:06.779 --> 00:22:07.759 His resurrection 00:22:07.759 --> 00:22:09.279 that proves 00:22:09.279 --> 00:22:10.120 that Jesus 00:22:10.120 --> 00:22:10.940 won us 00:22:10.940 --> 00:22:11.380 a way 00:22:11.380 --> 00:22:12.259 back to God. 00:22:13.279 --> 00:22:14.120 The gospel 00:22:14.120 --> 00:22:14.720 is what Jesus 00:22:14.720 --> 00:22:15.299 came to live 00:22:15.299 --> 00:22:15.819 out so we 00:22:15.819 --> 00:22:16.220 could get 00:22:16.220 --> 00:22:17.319 God back. 00:22:17.660 --> 00:22:18.059 It's what we 00:22:18.059 --> 00:22:18.559 sang about 00:22:18.559 --> 00:22:19.100 in that first 00:22:19.100 --> 00:22:19.440 song 00:22:19.440 --> 00:22:20.299 from the 00:22:20.299 --> 00:22:20.700 squalor 00:22:20.700 --> 00:22:21.380 of a stable. 00:22:21.720 --> 00:22:24.259 virgin born 00:22:24.259 --> 00:22:25.559 walked our 00:22:25.559 --> 00:22:25.940 road 00:22:25.940 --> 00:22:26.920 felt our 00:22:26.920 --> 00:22:27.319 pain 00:22:27.319 --> 00:22:28.059 defeated 00:22:28.059 --> 00:22:28.660 death 00:22:28.660 --> 00:22:30.360 crowned 00:22:30.360 --> 00:22:30.900 with glory. 00:22:32.420 --> 00:22:33.400 So the 00:22:33.400 --> 00:22:33.920 truth 00:22:33.920 --> 00:22:35.140 is 00:22:35.140 --> 00:22:36.259 the whole 00:22:36.259 --> 00:22:37.000 gospel of 00:22:37.000 --> 00:22:37.440 Christ. 00:22:38.079 --> 00:22:38.819 So then 00:22:38.819 --> 00:22:39.360 we get 00:22:39.360 --> 00:22:40.720 God 00:22:40.720 --> 00:22:41.900 by the 00:22:41.900 --> 00:22:42.299 spirit 00:22:42.299 --> 00:22:43.480 by means 00:22:43.480 --> 00:22:44.440 of the 00:22:44.440 --> 00:22:44.799 gospel 00:22:44.799 --> 00:22:45.420 itself. 00:22:46.440 --> 00:22:47.240 The gospel 00:22:47.240 --> 00:22:48.039 is like 00:22:48.039 --> 00:22:49.100 an open 00:22:49.100 --> 00:22:49.500 door 00:22:49.500 --> 00:22:49.559 door. 00:22:53.720 --> 00:22:55.000 An open 00:22:55.000 --> 00:22:55.559 door 00:22:55.559 --> 00:22:56.880 to God 00:22:56.880 --> 00:22:58.140 and the 00:22:58.140 --> 00:22:58.619 spirit 00:22:58.619 --> 00:22:59.880 is like 00:22:59.880 --> 00:23:00.480 the hand 00:23:00.480 --> 00:23:01.299 that leads 00:23:01.299 --> 00:23:01.960 us through 00:23:01.960 --> 00:23:02.200 it. 00:23:05.420 --> 00:23:06.559 They go 00:23:06.559 --> 00:23:07.180 together 00:23:07.180 --> 00:23:08.200 to open 00:23:08.200 --> 00:23:08.920 access to 00:23:08.920 --> 00:23:09.480 God and 00:23:09.480 --> 00:23:09.640 to 00:23:09.640 --> 00:23:10.240 satisfaction. 00:23:11.460 --> 00:23:12.759 In spirit 00:23:12.759 --> 00:23:14.000 and in 00:23:14.000 --> 00:23:14.539 truth 00:23:14.539 --> 00:23:15.500 we are 00:23:15.500 --> 00:23:16.000 satisfied 00:23:16.000 --> 00:23:16.839 and connecting 00:23:16.839 --> 00:23:17.400 with God 00:23:17.400 --> 00:23:17.759 through the 00:23:17.759 --> 00:23:18.299 gospel by 00:23:18.299 --> 00:23:18.799 the spirit 00:23:18.799 --> 00:23:20.859 is drinking 00:23:20.859 --> 00:23:22.319 living water. 00:23:23.220 --> 00:23:23.879 It is that 00:23:23.879 --> 00:23:24.299 action. 00:23:25.059 --> 00:23:25.960 We can only 00:23:25.960 --> 00:23:26.680 come to 00:23:26.680 --> 00:23:27.579 God through 00:23:27.579 --> 00:23:28.379 the door 00:23:28.379 --> 00:23:28.599 of the 00:23:28.599 --> 00:23:28.940 gospel. 00:23:29.480 --> 00:23:29.900 We are not 00:23:29.900 --> 00:23:30.299 getting in 00:23:30.299 --> 00:23:30.839 any other 00:23:30.839 --> 00:23:31.200 way. 00:23:32.240 --> 00:23:32.640 And when we 00:23:32.640 --> 00:23:34.039 do, we 00:23:34.039 --> 00:23:35.339 revel in it 00:23:35.339 --> 00:23:36.339 and soak it 00:23:36.339 --> 00:23:36.700 up. 00:23:37.099 --> 00:23:38.099 We respond 00:23:38.099 --> 00:23:38.920 with prayers of 00:23:38.920 --> 00:23:39.700 thanksgiving and 00:23:39.700 --> 00:23:40.059 praise. 00:23:40.160 --> 00:23:40.980 Those overflow 00:23:40.980 --> 00:23:41.819 into singing 00:23:41.819 --> 00:23:42.500 and serving 00:23:42.500 --> 00:23:43.079 and loving 00:23:43.079 --> 00:23:43.759 and giving up 00:23:43.759 --> 00:23:44.339 our lives 00:23:44.339 --> 00:23:44.659 for the 00:23:44.659 --> 00:23:45.019 gospel. 00:23:45.699 --> 00:23:46.159 The gospel 00:23:46.159 --> 00:23:46.919 becomes our 00:23:46.919 --> 00:23:47.759 joy and 00:23:47.759 --> 00:23:48.439 our motivation. 00:23:49.059 --> 00:23:49.439 It becomes 00:23:49.439 --> 00:23:50.339 the source 00:23:50.339 --> 00:23:51.220 of our 00:23:51.220 --> 00:23:51.740 worship. 00:23:52.899 --> 00:23:53.559 But it is 00:23:53.559 --> 00:23:54.879 only by the 00:23:54.879 --> 00:23:55.759 spirit that we 00:23:55.759 --> 00:23:56.619 come at all. 00:23:57.819 --> 00:23:58.439 The spirit 00:23:58.439 --> 00:23:58.980 is our 00:23:58.980 --> 00:23:59.779 reminder of 00:23:59.779 --> 00:24:00.480 the gospel's 00:24:00.480 --> 00:24:01.159 effectiveness. 00:24:02.059 --> 00:24:02.599 The spirit 00:24:02.599 --> 00:24:03.539 speaks through 00:24:03.539 --> 00:24:04.199 God's word. 00:24:04.980 --> 00:24:05.439 The spirit 00:24:05.439 --> 00:24:06.500 inspires our 00:24:06.500 --> 00:24:06.980 prayers. 00:24:07.599 --> 00:24:08.019 The spirit 00:24:08.019 --> 00:24:08.759 guides us, 00:24:08.939 --> 00:24:09.419 inspires, 00:24:10.019 --> 00:24:10.740 upholds, 00:24:10.879 --> 00:24:11.419 holds, 00:24:11.419 --> 00:24:12.339 and remains 00:24:12.339 --> 00:24:13.299 with us. 00:24:14.819 --> 00:24:15.699 Together the 00:24:15.699 --> 00:24:16.240 gospel and 00:24:16.240 --> 00:24:17.159 spirit satisfy 00:24:17.159 --> 00:24:18.039 because through 00:24:18.039 --> 00:24:19.439 them, through 00:24:19.439 --> 00:24:21.139 the door, by 00:24:21.139 --> 00:24:21.759 the hand of 00:24:21.759 --> 00:24:23.659 God, we 00:24:23.659 --> 00:24:24.619 get God. 00:24:26.079 --> 00:24:26.639 And we 00:24:26.639 --> 00:24:27.179 know we're 00:24:27.179 --> 00:24:28.500 satisfied because 00:24:28.500 --> 00:24:29.759 our satisfaction 00:24:29.759 --> 00:24:32.919 overflows in 00:24:32.919 --> 00:24:33.359 worship. 00:24:33.359 --> 00:24:39.519 have you 00:24:39.519 --> 00:24:41.179 ever had a 00:24:41.179 --> 00:24:41.879 really nice 00:24:41.879 --> 00:24:44.079 cold drink of 00:24:44.079 --> 00:24:44.659 water on a 00:24:44.659 --> 00:24:45.359 sweltering day? 00:24:46.479 --> 00:24:48.000 For me, it's 00:24:48.000 --> 00:24:49.259 a cold beer 00:24:49.259 --> 00:24:50.519 with dinner 00:24:50.519 --> 00:24:51.439 because, 00:24:52.439 --> 00:24:52.839 honestly, 00:24:53.139 --> 00:24:54.419 that's as good 00:24:54.419 --> 00:24:54.959 as it gets 00:24:54.959 --> 00:24:55.779 for me. 00:24:56.719 --> 00:24:57.399 Do you know 00:24:57.399 --> 00:24:59.240 that elation, 00:24:59.740 --> 00:25:00.059 that 00:25:00.059 --> 00:25:05.619 after you've 00:25:05.619 --> 00:25:06.079 taken that 00:25:06.079 --> 00:25:06.679 first swallow? 00:25:07.720 --> 00:25:08.460 If I did 00:25:08.460 --> 00:25:08.819 that every 00:25:08.819 --> 00:25:09.220 night at 00:25:09.220 --> 00:25:09.700 dinner, I'd 00:25:09.700 --> 00:25:10.119 kind of get 00:25:10.119 --> 00:25:10.639 frowned on, 00:25:10.819 --> 00:25:12.240 but do you 00:25:12.240 --> 00:25:12.819 know that 00:25:12.819 --> 00:25:14.700 that 00:25:14.700 --> 00:25:16.819 is 00:25:16.819 --> 00:25:18.039 worship. 00:25:19.519 --> 00:25:20.000 Thankfulness, 00:25:20.460 --> 00:25:21.240 joy, and 00:25:21.240 --> 00:25:22.059 pleasure just 00:25:22.059 --> 00:25:23.159 erupt out of 00:25:23.159 --> 00:25:23.460 us. 00:25:23.460 --> 00:25:24.339 It's worship. 00:25:24.639 --> 00:25:25.639 We're responding 00:25:25.639 --> 00:25:26.279 to the 00:25:26.279 --> 00:25:27.359 satisfaction that 00:25:27.359 --> 00:25:28.200 we've found in 00:25:28.200 --> 00:25:28.700 the drink. 00:25:28.700 --> 00:25:30.460 the 00:25:30.460 --> 00:25:31.000 worshipers 00:25:31.000 --> 00:25:31.799 Jesus is 00:25:31.799 --> 00:25:33.039 after aren't 00:25:33.039 --> 00:25:34.019 doers of 00:25:34.019 --> 00:25:34.480 worship. 00:25:34.860 --> 00:25:35.819 No, Jesus 00:25:35.819 --> 00:25:36.960 was the 00:25:36.960 --> 00:25:38.220 doer for 00:25:38.220 --> 00:25:39.420 us, and 00:25:39.420 --> 00:25:40.340 now is our 00:25:40.340 --> 00:25:41.580 reason to 00:25:41.580 --> 00:25:42.660 worship. 00:25:43.420 --> 00:25:43.819 We're 00:25:43.819 --> 00:25:44.779 responders in 00:25:44.779 --> 00:25:45.420 worship, and 00:25:45.420 --> 00:25:46.180 can you see 00:25:46.180 --> 00:25:46.980 how that 00:25:46.980 --> 00:25:47.920 undoes the 00:25:47.920 --> 00:25:48.400 woman's 00:25:48.400 --> 00:25:49.160 expectations? 00:25:50.799 --> 00:25:51.080 The 00:25:51.080 --> 00:25:52.160 ah 00:25:52.160 --> 00:25:53.259 isn't a 00:25:53.259 --> 00:25:54.259 set way of 00:25:54.259 --> 00:25:54.960 doing church 00:25:54.960 --> 00:25:55.640 or life. 00:25:56.059 --> 00:25:56.819 It's entirely 00:25:56.819 --> 00:25:58.140 dependent and 00:25:58.140 --> 00:25:59.420 responsive to 00:25:59.420 --> 00:26:00.700 his provision 00:26:00.700 --> 00:26:01.540 for us. 00:26:03.300 --> 00:26:03.720 That 00:26:03.720 --> 00:26:05.520 ah 00:26:05.520 --> 00:26:08.720 is the 00:26:08.720 --> 00:26:09.480 mark of 00:26:09.480 --> 00:26:09.660 our 00:26:09.660 --> 00:26:10.259 satisfaction 00:26:10.259 --> 00:26:10.880 in Jesus. 00:26:12.280 --> 00:26:13.140 There's got 00:26:13.140 --> 00:26:13.800 to be some 00:26:13.800 --> 00:26:14.259 sort of 00:26:14.259 --> 00:26:16.020 response that 00:26:16.020 --> 00:26:16.540 has to be 00:26:16.540 --> 00:26:17.040 part of 00:26:17.040 --> 00:26:17.500 our every 00:26:17.500 --> 00:26:17.860 day. 00:26:17.980 --> 00:26:18.280 It's got 00:26:18.280 --> 00:26:18.660 to be the 00:26:18.660 --> 00:26:19.080 boldest 00:26:19.080 --> 00:26:19.580 colour of 00:26:19.580 --> 00:26:20.020 our Sunday 00:26:20.020 --> 00:26:20.560 services. 00:26:20.559 --> 00:26:23.559 if we 00:26:23.559 --> 00:26:23.899 don't 00:26:23.899 --> 00:26:25.279 look 00:26:25.279 --> 00:26:26.480 satisfied, 00:26:27.000 --> 00:26:28.099 are we? 00:26:31.899 --> 00:26:32.399 Jesus' 00:26:32.619 --> 00:26:33.000 offer to 00:26:33.000 --> 00:26:33.500 come and 00:26:33.500 --> 00:26:33.960 drink is 00:26:33.960 --> 00:26:34.379 open to 00:26:34.379 --> 00:26:34.599 you. 00:26:36.200 --> 00:26:36.619 Be 00:26:36.619 --> 00:26:37.240 satisfied 00:26:37.240 --> 00:26:38.519 once and 00:26:38.519 --> 00:26:39.059 for all. 00:26:43.619 --> 00:26:44.099 Jesus' 00:26:44.299 --> 00:26:44.980 offer does 00:26:44.980 --> 00:26:45.879 satisfy once 00:26:45.879 --> 00:26:46.259 for all. 00:26:46.399 --> 00:26:46.879 I've got to be 00:26:46.879 --> 00:26:47.460 honest, life 00:26:47.460 --> 00:26:48.579 stays hard. 00:26:49.180 --> 00:26:49.819 We're sinful 00:26:49.819 --> 00:26:51.180 and we're 00:26:51.180 --> 00:26:51.740 still kind of 00:26:51.740 --> 00:26:52.380 yearning for 00:26:52.380 --> 00:26:53.319 something. 00:26:53.500 --> 00:26:53.779 As a 00:26:53.779 --> 00:26:54.799 Christian, the 00:26:54.799 --> 00:26:55.440 yearning is 00:26:55.440 --> 00:26:56.039 still there. 00:26:57.420 --> 00:26:57.600 The 00:26:57.600 --> 00:26:58.740 discontentedness 00:26:58.740 --> 00:26:59.840 often remains. 00:27:02.400 --> 00:27:03.279 Does that 00:27:03.279 --> 00:27:04.259 mean that 00:27:04.259 --> 00:27:05.220 Jesus hasn't 00:27:05.220 --> 00:27:06.220 satisfied us? 00:27:07.620 --> 00:27:08.259 No. 00:27:08.799 --> 00:27:09.840 He has. 00:27:10.620 --> 00:27:11.180 But we 00:27:11.180 --> 00:27:11.860 yearn and 00:27:11.860 --> 00:27:12.279 hurt and 00:27:12.279 --> 00:27:13.039 struggle and 00:27:13.039 --> 00:27:13.660 even doubt 00:27:13.660 --> 00:27:14.920 because we're 00:27:14.920 --> 00:27:16.059 waiting for a 00:27:16.059 --> 00:27:17.960 final satisfaction 00:27:17.960 --> 00:27:19.079 in eternity 00:27:19.079 --> 00:27:19.740 with God. 00:27:20.700 --> 00:27:21.220 And we're 00:27:21.220 --> 00:27:21.720 not there 00:27:21.720 --> 00:27:22.019 yet. 00:27:23.200 --> 00:27:23.919 But we 00:27:23.919 --> 00:27:24.279 have the 00:27:24.279 --> 00:27:26.220 glorious 00:27:26.220 --> 00:27:27.240 opportunity to 00:27:27.240 --> 00:27:27.519 go there 00:27:27.519 --> 00:27:28.099 every day 00:27:28.099 --> 00:27:28.659 and drink. 00:27:31.480 --> 00:27:32.039 The 00:27:32.039 --> 00:27:32.519 gospel 00:27:32.519 --> 00:27:36.039 is there 00:27:36.039 --> 00:27:37.119 to satisfy 00:27:37.119 --> 00:27:37.940 us 00:27:37.940 --> 00:27:38.440 ongoing 00:27:38.440 --> 00:27:39.240 every day. 00:27:39.359 --> 00:27:39.480 Look, 00:27:39.759 --> 00:27:40.099 cover to 00:27:40.099 --> 00:27:40.299 cover, 00:27:40.419 --> 00:27:40.819 this thing 00:27:40.819 --> 00:27:42.759 is all 00:27:42.759 --> 00:27:43.240 the water 00:27:43.240 --> 00:27:43.679 you will 00:27:43.679 --> 00:27:44.419 ever need 00:27:44.419 --> 00:27:45.200 ever. 00:27:46.059 --> 00:27:48.059 that's 00:27:48.059 --> 00:27:48.299 what you 00:27:48.299 --> 00:27:48.700 need to 00:27:48.700 --> 00:27:49.279 survive as 00:27:49.279 --> 00:27:49.759 a Christian. 00:27:50.379 --> 00:27:51.240 Everything in 00:27:51.240 --> 00:27:51.879 here points 00:27:51.879 --> 00:27:52.440 to Jesus, 00:27:52.579 --> 00:27:53.460 it's about 00:27:53.460 --> 00:27:54.319 Jesus and 00:27:54.319 --> 00:27:54.919 it's leading 00:27:54.919 --> 00:27:55.579 us to look 00:27:55.579 --> 00:27:56.419 forward to 00:27:56.419 --> 00:27:57.559 an eternity 00:27:57.559 --> 00:27:58.119 with him. 00:28:01.119 --> 00:28:02.319 It provides 00:28:02.319 --> 00:28:03.179 our hope in 00:28:03.179 --> 00:28:03.659 hurt and 00:28:03.659 --> 00:28:04.679 struggle and 00:28:04.679 --> 00:28:05.940 turns back the 00:28:05.940 --> 00:28:06.799 strongest doubts 00:28:06.799 --> 00:28:07.940 and fears. 00:28:09.240 --> 00:28:09.779 This good 00:28:09.779 --> 00:28:10.919 news, this 00:28:10.919 --> 00:28:11.740 gospel, this 00:28:11.740 --> 00:28:12.460 word of God 00:28:12.460 --> 00:28:13.259 is there every 00:28:13.259 --> 00:28:14.379 day for us as 00:28:14.380 --> 00:28:15.380 a reminder of 00:28:15.380 --> 00:28:15.640 Jesus' 00:28:15.820 --> 00:28:16.740 provision for 00:28:16.740 --> 00:28:17.160 us. 00:28:19.280 --> 00:28:21.820 But as 00:28:21.820 --> 00:28:22.480 Christians, we 00:28:22.480 --> 00:28:23.000 still don't 00:28:23.000 --> 00:28:24.140 always drink from 00:28:24.140 --> 00:28:25.680 satisfying the 00:28:25.680 --> 00:28:27.040 satisfying source of 00:28:27.040 --> 00:28:27.480 the gospel. 00:28:27.600 --> 00:28:28.360 We go elsewhere. 00:28:28.580 --> 00:28:29.720 I still stand 00:28:29.720 --> 00:28:30.260 over an empty 00:28:30.260 --> 00:28:31.060 fridge and wonder 00:28:31.060 --> 00:28:32.000 why I'm standing 00:28:32.000 --> 00:28:32.320 there. 00:28:34.380 --> 00:28:35.600 We still go in 00:28:35.600 --> 00:28:35.960 all the wrong 00:28:35.960 --> 00:28:37.040 directions, chasing 00:28:37.040 --> 00:28:37.700 desires. 00:28:38.380 --> 00:28:39.400 We go to money 00:28:39.400 --> 00:28:40.280 and to power and 00:28:40.280 --> 00:28:42.160 to other stuff 00:28:42.160 --> 00:28:43.400 that will not 00:28:43.400 --> 00:28:43.960 last. 00:28:44.519 --> 00:28:45.019 And as a 00:28:45.019 --> 00:28:46.259 Christian, if 00:28:46.259 --> 00:28:46.880 you aren't 00:28:46.880 --> 00:28:48.080 drinking regularly, 00:28:49.200 --> 00:28:50.820 you're needlessly 00:28:50.820 --> 00:28:51.920 thirsty and 00:28:51.920 --> 00:28:52.860 missing out on 00:28:52.860 --> 00:28:55.220 joy that Jesus 00:28:55.220 --> 00:28:56.180 is offering you. 00:28:57.580 --> 00:28:58.240 Doubt and 00:28:58.240 --> 00:28:59.060 pain and fear 00:28:59.060 --> 00:28:59.620 and uncertainty 00:28:59.620 --> 00:29:01.000 get continually 00:29:01.000 --> 00:29:02.340 pushed aside 00:29:02.340 --> 00:29:03.240 when we drink. 00:29:06.279 --> 00:29:07.240 So why don't 00:29:07.240 --> 00:29:07.720 we do that? 00:29:08.100 --> 00:29:08.400 Why don't we 00:29:08.400 --> 00:29:09.060 drink a little 00:29:09.060 --> 00:29:09.460 together? 00:29:09.460 --> 00:29:10.860 Look with me 00:29:10.860 --> 00:29:11.660 at the 00:29:11.660 --> 00:29:12.600 culmination of 00:29:12.600 --> 00:29:13.400 the gospel's 00:29:13.400 --> 00:29:14.180 promises to 00:29:14.180 --> 00:29:14.900 us, to the 00:29:14.900 --> 00:29:15.579 end of our 00:29:15.579 --> 00:29:16.799 thirst, the 00:29:16.799 --> 00:29:18.799 satisfaction of 00:29:18.799 --> 00:29:20.720 eternity with 00:29:20.720 --> 00:29:21.259 Jesus. 00:29:22.140 --> 00:29:22.720 Guys, this is 00:29:22.720 --> 00:29:23.620 the hope for 00:29:23.620 --> 00:29:24.259 every Christian. 00:29:25.500 --> 00:29:26.420 Never again 00:29:26.420 --> 00:29:26.799 will they 00:29:26.799 --> 00:29:27.180 hunger. 00:29:28.660 --> 00:29:29.980 Never again 00:29:29.980 --> 00:29:30.559 will they 00:29:30.559 --> 00:29:31.039 thirst. 00:29:31.940 --> 00:29:32.920 The sun will 00:29:32.920 --> 00:29:34.160 not beat down 00:29:34.160 --> 00:29:34.819 on them, nor 00:29:34.819 --> 00:29:35.740 any scorching 00:29:35.740 --> 00:29:36.600 heat, for the 00:29:36.600 --> 00:29:37.240 lambs at the 00:29:37.240 --> 00:29:37.779 centre of the 00:29:37.779 --> 00:29:39.140 throne will be 00:29:39.140 --> 00:29:39.740 their shepherd. 00:29:40.880 --> 00:29:41.680 He will lead 00:29:41.680 --> 00:29:42.680 them to springs 00:29:42.680 --> 00:29:44.440 of living water 00:29:44.440 --> 00:29:45.940 and God will 00:29:45.940 --> 00:29:46.920 wipe away 00:29:46.920 --> 00:29:48.380 every tear 00:29:48.380 --> 00:29:49.600 from their 00:29:49.600 --> 00:29:50.120 eyes. 00:29:52.980 --> 00:29:53.640 Compare 00:29:53.640 --> 00:29:55.600 our 00:29:55.600 --> 00:29:56.780 discontented 00:29:56.780 --> 00:29:57.500 cries from 00:29:57.500 --> 00:29:57.960 earlier. 00:29:58.440 --> 00:29:58.880 I'd be 00:29:58.880 --> 00:29:59.520 satisfied if 00:29:59.520 --> 00:30:00.120 only I had. 00:30:00.380 --> 00:30:00.680 I'd be 00:30:00.680 --> 00:30:01.000 satisfied. 00:30:01.259 --> 00:30:01.920 That 00:30:01.920 --> 00:30:03.280 discontentedness 00:30:03.280 --> 00:30:05.360 is, how 00:30:05.360 --> 00:30:05.860 does that 00:30:05.860 --> 00:30:07.240 compare to 00:30:07.240 --> 00:30:08.779 how you 00:30:08.779 --> 00:30:09.480 are lifted 00:30:09.480 --> 00:30:10.599 up and 00:30:10.599 --> 00:30:11.620 given joy 00:30:11.620 --> 00:30:12.480 by what is 00:30:12.480 --> 00:30:12.819 there in 00:30:12.819 --> 00:30:13.759 Revelation 7? 00:30:15.859 --> 00:30:18.319 Does your 00:30:18.319 --> 00:30:19.240 lack of 00:30:19.240 --> 00:30:19.839 satisfaction 00:30:19.839 --> 00:30:20.799 now pale in 00:30:20.799 --> 00:30:21.599 comparison to 00:30:21.599 --> 00:30:21.980 how you 00:30:21.980 --> 00:30:22.599 yearn for what 00:30:22.599 --> 00:30:23.200 God will have 00:30:23.200 --> 00:30:23.740 in store in 00:30:23.740 --> 00:30:24.140 the future 00:30:24.140 --> 00:30:24.940 for you? 00:30:25.980 --> 00:30:26.819 That Jesus 00:30:26.819 --> 00:30:28.920 himself will 00:30:28.920 --> 00:30:29.400 be leading 00:30:29.400 --> 00:30:30.079 us, feeding 00:30:30.079 --> 00:30:30.740 us, and 00:30:30.740 --> 00:30:31.359 wiping away 00:30:31.359 --> 00:30:32.039 our tears? 00:30:32.039 --> 00:30:32.099 things. 00:30:33.779 --> 00:30:34.359 And the 00:30:34.359 --> 00:30:34.779 heat of the 00:30:34.779 --> 00:30:35.399 day and 00:30:35.399 --> 00:30:37.399 struggle will 00:30:37.399 --> 00:30:38.159 soon be over 00:30:38.159 --> 00:30:38.700 and we will 00:30:38.700 --> 00:30:39.839 thirst no 00:30:39.839 --> 00:30:40.159 more. 00:30:40.579 --> 00:30:41.619 That picture is 00:30:41.619 --> 00:30:42.099 complete 00:30:42.099 --> 00:30:42.879 satisfaction. 00:30:43.079 --> 00:30:43.859 Revelation 7 00:30:43.859 --> 00:30:45.319 is what we 00:30:45.319 --> 00:30:46.139 are thirsting 00:30:46.139 --> 00:30:47.119 toward. 00:30:47.920 --> 00:30:48.579 And we're 00:30:48.579 --> 00:30:51.000 crazy if we 00:30:51.000 --> 00:30:51.720 do not come to 00:30:51.720 --> 00:30:53.619 the Spirit and 00:30:53.619 --> 00:30:54.680 the truth of 00:30:54.680 --> 00:30:55.619 the gospel to 00:30:55.619 --> 00:30:55.980 drink. 00:30:55.980 --> 00:30:59.579 guys, in 00:30:59.579 --> 00:31:00.000 the last 00:31:00.000 --> 00:31:02.099 few weeks, 00:31:02.839 --> 00:31:04.160 friends of 00:31:04.160 --> 00:31:06.519 mine and 00:31:06.519 --> 00:31:08.640 Sam's lost 00:31:08.640 --> 00:31:09.960 their baby at 00:31:09.960 --> 00:31:11.200 30 weeks of 00:31:11.200 --> 00:31:11.620 pregnancy. 00:31:12.000 --> 00:31:12.360 It was a 00:31:12.360 --> 00:31:15.000 shock and it 00:31:15.000 --> 00:31:15.440 was awful. 00:31:17.680 --> 00:31:18.099 A guy I 00:31:18.099 --> 00:31:18.319 went to 00:31:18.319 --> 00:31:19.620 college with 00:31:19.620 --> 00:31:20.240 this week 00:31:20.240 --> 00:31:21.900 actually committed 00:31:21.900 --> 00:31:23.160 suicide and 00:31:23.160 --> 00:31:24.400 it's devastated 00:31:24.400 --> 00:31:25.279 everyone I 00:31:25.279 --> 00:31:25.700 knew at 00:31:25.700 --> 00:31:26.039 college. 00:31:27.779 --> 00:31:28.559 We've got a 00:31:28.559 --> 00:31:29.180 church member, 00:31:30.240 --> 00:31:31.140 530 member, 00:31:31.480 --> 00:31:32.180 staring death in 00:31:32.180 --> 00:31:32.539 the face, 00:31:32.640 --> 00:31:33.220 fighting cancer 00:31:33.220 --> 00:31:33.720 right now, 00:31:33.920 --> 00:31:34.200 tonight. 00:31:37.160 --> 00:31:38.519 How do 00:31:38.519 --> 00:31:39.860 those involved 00:31:39.860 --> 00:31:40.880 in this stuff 00:31:40.880 --> 00:31:41.920 get satisfied 00:31:41.920 --> 00:31:43.400 in God while 00:31:43.400 --> 00:31:44.180 life serves up 00:31:44.180 --> 00:31:44.840 this mess? 00:31:46.140 --> 00:31:46.779 How do we 00:31:46.779 --> 00:31:47.420 stay satisfied 00:31:47.420 --> 00:31:47.860 while we're 00:31:47.860 --> 00:31:48.440 watching it? 00:31:50.779 --> 00:31:51.580 By the 00:31:51.580 --> 00:31:52.120 Spirit of 00:31:52.120 --> 00:31:53.759 God, through 00:31:53.759 --> 00:31:55.039 the truth of 00:31:55.039 --> 00:31:55.580 the gospel, 00:31:55.700 --> 00:31:56.640 Christ. 00:31:56.640 --> 00:31:57.539 And if we 00:31:57.539 --> 00:31:58.299 go anywhere 00:31:58.299 --> 00:32:00.059 else, we're 00:32:00.059 --> 00:32:01.039 drinking dust. 00:32:02.299 --> 00:32:03.180 And it's 00:32:03.180 --> 00:32:03.559 going to leave 00:32:03.559 --> 00:32:04.059 us empty. 00:32:07.120 --> 00:32:08.299 As the band 00:32:08.299 --> 00:32:09.160 come up right 00:32:09.160 --> 00:32:12.140 now, soon 00:32:12.140 --> 00:32:12.519 we're going to 00:32:12.519 --> 00:32:14.180 sing together 00:32:14.180 --> 00:32:16.240 and respond to 00:32:16.240 --> 00:32:16.720 what we just 00:32:16.720 --> 00:32:17.600 drank in 00:32:17.600 --> 00:32:18.519 Revelation 7. 00:32:18.779 --> 00:32:19.819 But before we 00:32:19.819 --> 00:32:20.779 sing, remember, 00:32:20.779 --> 00:32:21.819 we will 00:32:21.819 --> 00:32:22.319 go to the 00:32:22.319 --> 00:32:22.779 God. 00:32:22.779 --> 00:32:23.379 We will 00:32:23.379 --> 00:32:23.920 be satisfied 00:32:23.920 --> 00:32:25.220 in God. 00:32:26.059 --> 00:32:27.259 Jesus offers 00:32:27.259 --> 00:32:29.259 satisfaction free 00:32:29.259 --> 00:32:30.399 to anyone. 00:32:30.559 --> 00:32:31.180 No matter who 00:32:31.180 --> 00:32:32.139 you are, he 00:32:32.139 --> 00:32:32.940 offers it now, 00:32:33.440 --> 00:32:34.539 once, and 00:32:34.539 --> 00:32:35.839 every day, and 00:32:35.839 --> 00:32:36.460 on into 00:32:36.460 --> 00:32:36.920 eternity. 00:32:36.920 --> 00:32:39.240 And if you 00:32:39.240 --> 00:32:40.460 find discontent 00:32:40.460 --> 00:32:41.200 in you now, 00:32:41.640 --> 00:32:42.100 and it's 00:32:42.100 --> 00:32:42.840 still raging, 00:32:43.400 --> 00:32:43.880 as a 00:32:43.880 --> 00:32:44.340 Christian, 00:32:45.140 --> 00:32:46.140 already knowing 00:32:46.140 --> 00:32:47.560 satisfaction, yet 00:32:47.560 --> 00:32:48.500 struggling, 00:32:49.860 --> 00:32:51.039 know he is 00:32:51.039 --> 00:32:51.740 ready to deal 00:32:51.740 --> 00:32:52.100 with your 00:32:52.100 --> 00:32:53.160 discontent by 00:32:53.160 --> 00:32:54.220 the Spirit and 00:32:54.220 --> 00:32:54.900 by the means of 00:32:54.900 --> 00:32:55.480 the gospel. 00:32:56.860 --> 00:32:57.380 And this, 00:32:59.980 --> 00:33:00.920 he took your 00:33:00.920 --> 00:33:01.720 discontent, 00:33:01.720 --> 00:33:05.920 thirst, and 00:33:05.920 --> 00:33:07.779 yearning for 00:33:07.779 --> 00:33:09.480 God, and he 00:33:09.480 --> 00:33:10.920 wore it on the 00:33:10.920 --> 00:33:12.420 cross, so you 00:33:12.420 --> 00:33:13.519 never have to. 00:33:15.860 --> 00:33:16.799 You can have 00:33:16.799 --> 00:33:17.700 satisfaction now, 00:33:17.819 --> 00:33:18.339 and you can have 00:33:18.339 --> 00:33:19.339 it forever, by 00:33:19.339 --> 00:33:20.220 the Spirit, by the 00:33:20.220 --> 00:33:20.860 means of the 00:33:20.860 --> 00:33:21.440 gospel and his 00:33:21.440 --> 00:33:21.720 word. 00:33:22.460 --> 00:33:23.100 So let's come to 00:33:23.100 --> 00:33:23.940 God by his 00:33:23.940 --> 00:33:25.420 grace, by his 00:33:25.420 --> 00:33:26.240 spirit through the 00:33:26.240 --> 00:33:27.579 gospel, come as 00:33:27.579 --> 00:33:29.559 thirsty people, and 00:33:29.559 --> 00:33:30.180 get satisfied.