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[audio:http://hillcc.org/sermons/SWS041814_Good_Friday_Sermon.MP3]Message Outline
Believers – Passion Week – spent time repenting
What is our greatest sin?
A failure to thirst for God
Start with the final words of Jesus while he hung on the cross
- Matt 27:45-46
- John 19:28
We read about what was happening physically? What was happening spiritually?
- Hebrew 4:14-15
- 2 Cor 5:21
- Preach the gospel
- Why have you forsaken me?
- I’m thirsty – Jesus is expressing his humanity, yes, but also Jesus is telling us what it feels like to be cut off from God
- Jesus and God connected through some type of God-fiber, not getting reduced to 28kbps
- Light is becoming dark
- Fountain is drying up
Thirst is a sign of a lack
- Physical thirst – body’s signal
- Spiritual thirst – sign that we are lacking something, rather Someone
- Thirst is a good analogy because how often do you get thirsty?
Read Psalm 42-43 – treat as one unit
- Structure – 3 despairs and 3 praises
- Land of Jordan – Promised Land – place of battle
- Mount Hermon is mentioned throughout OT. Highest pt in Israel.
- Many people believe that The Transfiguration occurred somewhere on Mount Hermon.
- Mount Mizar is a small mountain or hill near the more spectacular Mount Hermon.
- Metaphor for life: spectacular and mundane, all the days in between
- Unknown psalmist prays this
- Centuries later, Jesus would be thinking about these 2 psalms and living out and reciting Psalm 42 and 43 while on the cross
- Turmoil, thirst turning to hope and praise
- Jesus lived this out and he set a pattern for all to follow
We read about thirsting in the Psalms
We already read Psa 42-43
Psa 36:7-9
We read about thirsting in the book of Isaiah
Isa 12:1-6
v2 – He has become MY SALVATION
Pattern of salvation
- Repentance + faith
- Directionality of repentance – faith is the direction
- Wrong ways to repent – Judas, Peter initially
- Wrong way to repent – inward
- Wrong way – I got to change, I have to improve myself
- Right way to repent – faith is a direction
- Moving toward a Person
- Thirsting, longing, desiring to be with a Person
This theme of thirsting continues in the book of Isaiah
Isa 41:17-18
Isa 44:1-3
Isa 55:1-3
Isa 58:11
We read about thirsting in Jeremiah
Jer 2:13
Jer 17:13
We read about thirsting in the gospel of John
John 4:13-14
John 7:37-39
Come to me and drink – present tense
Already but not yet aspect of the kingdom
We read about thirsting in the book of Revelation
Rev 7:13-17
Rev 21:5-8
Rev 22:17
What do we do?
Ezek 36:26-27
First, we need to ask for a new heart
Psa 95:6-11
Second, we must be careful not to harden our hearts
Psalm 95 is quoted in Heb 4:5-11
Heb 4:5-11
Third, to prevent hardening, we must hear His voice and then make every effort to enter into that rest
Stay thirsty