ray choi

Christian husband, father of 3 and bi-vocational pastor

Good Friday (Psalm 42 and 43)

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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