Sunday 10:45 Livestream

uh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] my [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] good morning good morning good to see you it is sunday september the 5th someone just bought me a starbucks how awesome is that what a great church family we're a part of so just a second very good very good so hey hope you're doing well today and i hope you are enjoying your drink of wherever you are hey so happy um labor day what are your plans for tomorrow just curious what do you got going on are you going anywhere are you going to do anything specific are you cooking out like what are you doing for tomorrow take a moment jot it down to the notes let us know hey so today we are talking about uh a festival a party that the if you were a good israelite you would have went to and we're talking about today and just talking about how how major that is how important that is um to be you know like the difference that makes the significance of that so we'll be talking about that today and i think john chapter 7 will have a whole new meaning after today so super super cool looking forward to that but hey if you have not downloaded the church center app can i encourage you to do that today on the church center app there's places to get involved there's groups to get started as a matter of fact we're looking for group leaders and so looking people to lead groups and even online groups or in-person groups if you would take a look at that um also places to to serve you can find on there so you can find places to serve the church center app there's a place that you can watch today so if you're watching facebook you can do facebook or use church center app you can go to your app store and get that and uh and also check in if if you would but hey i just want to take a moment to also i'll just pray for the service today i'm really distracted can you tell that i'm distracted i don't know if you guys can sense it i'm like my eyes are going everywhere just distracted by a lot that's happening so forgive me for that but let's pray father thank you so much for your faithfulness today thank you that you are good to us that you're working in our lives father i just thank you that um that you love us so much and that um you don't want to leave us the same that you're moving in our hearts you're changing us you're rearranging our thoughts and thank you for the work that you're doing now lord we give today to you we pray that you be glorified that you'll be honored and all that we say and all that we do and how we live our lives in jesus name amen good morning how are you guys doing today [Music] it's good to see all of you [Music] thanks for coming here to worship with us participate with the body of christ those of you we want to welcome that are watching online today guys can we give them a good warm welcome welcome if you're joining us from home we just encourage you to participate sing along lift your hands clap engage online if this is your first time here or this is your first time watching online uh we just would ask that you would do one thing really quick for us and that is text the word nlgs that's all one word nl guess to the number 97 000. we'll send you a quick link back that we'd love to be able to connect with you answer any questions you might have but let's open in prayer this morning heavenly father we just thank you for who you are we thank you for what you're going to do we thank you that we can be in your presence that we can be lifting our voices and praise and worship with the body of christ and we pray that as we focus our attention on you that holy spirit that you would begin to move in our hearts and uh you would begin to strengthen our faith today we thank you in advance for what you're gonna do prepare our hearts to hear your word today we pray this in jesus name [Music] amen it couldn't fill me hands empty praise and treasures made are never enough [Music] and every desire is now satisfied [Music] [Music] i'm not afraid [Music] to show you my weakness [Music] is [Music] [Music] there's nothing [Music] [Applause] there's nothing is better [Music] you turn more into dancing you get beauty you turn shame into glory you're the only [Music] one morning [Music] [Music] [Music] future [Music] oh there's nothing better than you there's nothing better than you lord there's nothing is [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] you turn [Applause] [Music] you [Music] [Music] let's praise him for what he can do i cast my mind to calvary where jesus planned died for me i see his horns his hands his feet my savior his body bound and drenched in tears [Music] messiahs [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] the sun [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Applause] o praises [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] he shall return in robes the blazing sun shall pierce the night and i will rise among the saints my case transfixed on jesus is [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] lord we praise you this morning lord we praise you simply because because you are god oh [Music] us god you're so good to us [Music] [Music] just praise him this morning he's good just lift your voice praise him for he's good praise him for his god just lift your voice and praise the lord [Music] him this morning he is [Music] [Music] [Music] sometimes i think we just need to lift our voices in adoration to our king because he is worthy and we get our eyes so focused on our circumstances and our situations and all the things that we can't change and this world is falling apart and it's going to keep falling apart but there is one constant and one thing that will not fall apart and one thing that will hold us together and that is our father in heaven and as we keep our eyes on him we don't need to fall apart along with the world we can be sure and confident and we can be bold and we can have faith and we can trust and we can have peace we can have peace in the midst of the storm it doesn't matter what the world is doing around us we need to learn to turn our eyes to the lord and praise him and lift our voices in adoration because he is worthy and as we praise and we worship the word of god says that as we praise the lord that the enemy is silenced says that as we lift our praises that we set up a stronghold against the enemy as children and infants praise the lord that we set up strongholds against the enemy but there's a stronghold he can't get through he can't get through some of these battles that we're fighting over and over again all we need to start doing is praising the lord and we will start to see victory [Music] i've experienced it in my own life with things that i've struggled with and i'm sitting there and i'm fighting this temptation and i'm like do i or don't i do i don't i do i hear don't i and then i turn on some worship music and i start listening to those words and i start thinking on who god is and then all of a sudden that desire for that temptation and that sin leaves the enemy flees the enemy flees we need to start turning our eyes to the lord in worship and praise setting our eyes on him walking in the spirit and walking in truth that's what he wants for each one of you each one of us this morning i'm going to call our prayer partners forward and i shared this morning of an image that is going viral and it was taken at pictured rocks or around that area there's a waterfall this waterfall was you know was falling as waterfalls do but this picture was taken when this wind of about 65 miles per hour it was hitting this waterfall and instead of falling downwards like it should have it was flipping the waterfall back over on itself so the waterfall never hit the water beneath it was flipping it backwards back over itself and reversing basically what the waterfall was supposed to do and some of us need to get we need a blast from the holy spirit and the power of god in our lives because there's some things in our life that we are fighting and it's strong and we can't reverse the course we can't change ourselves we can't change our sin or our attitudes or anything else because it's too strong it's too powerful there is nothing that can help us but god can come and by his power he can flip us around and he can change our course and he can give us victory where it should be impossible [Music] he can give us that victory guys we need to start claiming that victory and praising him for it in advance thank you lord for your victory over our sin thank you for your victory in our lives thank you for for the health in our bodies we praise you because you are god and we will claim and and hold on to all that you have promised us in jesus name so this morning as you come and receive prayer believe god for what he has promised to believe god for what he is offering you in jesus name [Music] there's nothing worth more that will never come close nothing can compare [Music] your presence changes [Music] becomes free and my shame is under [Music] your presence [Music] comfort this [Music] is [Music] presence [Music] [Music] there's your fans [Music] [Music] is [Music] oh [Music] [Music] is [Music] is [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] more aware of [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] more aware of your friends [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] i want more of you [Music] [Music] i want more i want more of you god i want more of you no place i would rather be no place i would rather be no place i would rather be than hearing your love hearing your love no place i would rather be no place i would rather be [Music] place i would rather be than here [Music] holy spirit [Music] is [Music] [Applause] holy spirit you are welcome you needed we're thankful for your presence that's with us every day every moment holy spirit we just declare our absolute dependence on you to know god closer to live the life that he called us to live to be the people that you made us to be to be freed from sin that so easily entangles us holy spirit we need you to help us make sure that our thoughts are true and honest and pure and lovely holy spirit we need you to help us i have divine appointments to pray for the sake to pray for those in need holy spirit we need you to draw us closer to the father holy spirit we need you to comfort to guide to lead in decisions that we have to make every day holy spirit we are so so in need of you so we just speak to our hearts this morning and say welcome welcome the holy spirit i speak to our minds and we say welcome the holy spirit into this place holy spirit you are welcome jesus name amen amen amen hey before you're seated um if you are a young person would you come up we want to pray for you if you're a young person meaning like you're in school elementary come this way junior high high school or if you're a teacher we want to pray for you so asking all teachers students pre-k through 12th grade teachers administrators principals whoever it might be we just school has started and we just want to pray for you all and just be in agreement that god would move in your lives and move this year father i just thank you so much for each one in this place and lord we pray two things first of all we pray that you would lead us and guide us every day i pray for our teachers our students lord that you would lead that you would guide that you would equip i pray to protect us lord protect us from things that could distract us from who you are in our life protect us from the temptations set so easily befall us lord so we need your protection we need your guidance and then lord we also need your empowerment and so i pray for each student each teacher each faculty each counselor lord that we will be empowered with your presence every moment and then we look for divine moments whether we are in kindergarten or first grade and we're like man i just jesus can make a moment or whether we are a principal in one of the schools that you can make a moment lord we are 100 dependent on you and so i just pray your guidance your blessing your protection your empowerment this year for all of our students all of our teachers all of our faculty for our schools in jesus name everyone said amen can we give them all a hand and you guys can be seated the kids are gonna head out to kidzone thank you pastor jennifer and the kidzone crew for helping to lead our kids and all that you guys do appreciate you so much there's a lot of things happening so why don't you go ahead and play the video and we'll show more of them now hey good morning church and thank you for joining us today whether you're here in person or online we're just so glad that you decided to worship with us this morning if this is your first time with us if you would text nl guests to 97 000 we would love to get connected with you and get you connected with others yes and one of the values here at new life church is everyone in ministry and we want to make that as easy as possible for you so next week we're having a special ministry fair that will happen after each service in the connections area it will be a great time for you to see all the different volunteer opportunities that we have for you getting information where you can serve what fits for your schedule and getting plugged in on that way it's almost like a buffet of ministry it's like a buff i have ministries what a great way to get connected with people here at church serving with them super fun hey and if you are interested in learning more about becoming a member here at new life church pastor monica is going to be having the discovering new life class during the 10 45 service on september 26th so if you are interested in that if you would sign up on the communication card and mark that on your calendar for september 26th yes and coming up we also have a missions opportunity we'll be taking a one-day missions trip to visit city on a hill in milwaukee and we'll be serving in their health clinic there's more information to come up but you can sign up that in your communication card hey we've been talking a lot about the communication yes so that is part of your bulletin so this is a great time to get your bulletin out and tear off that communication card fill out as much information as you're comfortable check the boxes on the back that you're interested in and put it right in the generosity boxes out in the connections areas yes and if you like technology just as much as you like paper there's also the church center app this is a great way for you to get plugged in on your phone you can sign up for events you can give you can do all sorts of things on the church center app it's available on google and on apple go ahead download that and if you already have it check into service today and check in on facebook this morning and have a wonderful sunday bye good morning my name is pastor monica so good to have you with us today hey we're going to continue our worship this morning with giving and if you are a guest with us we want to say welcome and don't feel any obligation to give we're just super excited that you are here with us today i wanted to share a verse with you from hebrews 13 16 that says do not neglect to do good and to share what you have for such sacrifices are pleasing to god so many times as believers we're wondering what can i do that pleases god well scripture is telling us when we do good and we share what we have so every time you give whether it's in your community and especially when you give here at new life so that we can do ministry here at new life and in our community and around the world you are being pleasing to god you're also partnering with god which is super exciting to be a part of that ministry so thank you so much for being generous givers i just want to remind you of the three places we have to give you can give your ties an offering towards missions and the community center and you can go online at newlife906.com you can text an amount to give at 84321 or you can simply drop off your envelope in the generosity boxes located in in the connections area and of course you can go on the church center app and it makes it super easy to get however you give thank you so much for being such generous givers and have a great sunday thank you pastor monica and uh i want to give an update briefly on some things that are happening in the community center hope to have some pictures maybe next week that will cover more stuff but uh right now we're looking at putting in the kitchen this it's kind of weird i didn't it's not awkward can you put that up is it going to work hey that was really cool was that as cool to use it was to me it wasn't was it because i could do that for like 20 minutes because like anyway sorry um so what we're hoping to do for the kitchen this is not budgeted so a lot of you like what yeah so um i i think it'd be really cool to get like a this is a 47 uh cubic foot frost free freezer 47 cubic foot two door commercial refrigerator a six burner 36 inch oven and a deep fryer right i'm just saying like chicken wings and french fries anyway so um budget wise we never really budgeted this part of the kitchen we were looking at using some stuff um that we had from the other kitchen is bringing it over and so i'm just putting this out there that maybe this cost for all this is about twelve thousand dollars and i thought maybe there's somebody or some people here that you just feel like um you haven't given maybe to the community center or you feel like maybe there's just you want to you're waiting for something to give too like like i want to do something like this could be a huge project does that make sense like you could you could be the person or the family to make this happen and that's a big part of the kitchen and so i'm just so whether you're online it's in whether you're in person i just felt like man i just need to bring this up today because i this is something we'd like to do um so maybe maybe you're just praying like you have a stock or something you're like hey i think i think i could be the one i think i could write that check not everyone can but um i think there's some people that could so maybe god will lay that on your heart to do that i just want to make you aware of it and so would you prayerfully consider that the second thing that i want to talk to you about is this week i'm hoping to spend most of this week on the playground and i'm at a point now in the playground where i could use some help with it and so but you have to be like you know you're climbing up a playground which means like you you know you're walking sometimes on four inches of metal you know of a bar and you're hanging safety ropes so other people don't have to do that and so that's kind of the person that you have to be so like if you're like that if you don't mind kind of walking on some of those stuff and we have to put up some more a protection net so people don't fall off and we had to put up uh some things around the base and so if you're interested in that you're available this week at all i will be there pretty much every day this week so if you stop by sometime during the day or if you give me a haul or call the office or something and i can kind of show you some things you can do at night but we really that thing is kind of behind schedule everything else is moving and now i'm really behind scheduled so i um i need your help if you're able to do that i would appreciate it that was just a commercial you know now back to your regularly scheduled program do they even say that anymore i don't think they do so i just aged myself that's how we used to do it now back to your regular scheduled program like we don't even do that anyway here we go so we're going through the gospel of john and so if you want to pull out your bible today's message is going to be a little bit different because it's going to be a lot of storytelling and a lot of scripture reading because it sets up john chapter seven and so i'm really gonna set up john chapter seven in in in several different ways and so i just encourage you just to kind of go back two thousand years and let's just walk through together so just some background of some things that are happen happening there was three different feasts uh and even now that are that every jewish person their family guy back in jesus day was required to attend at the temple and if you could put that up please so every every um jewish person was required to attend a passover at the temple they were required to attend the feast of unleavened bread and required to attend the feast of tabernacles or the feast of booth or sakha or a sukkot and so like in what they would so that was the three of them the feast that we're gonna deal with today in the gospel of john is sukhot which is the hebrew word for for uh like booth or it's the feast of tabernacles and this is what jesus is gonna go to and so during this feast they would celebrate um 40 years of wandering in the wilderness and so during the 40 years tents were set up similar similar to what you see and as they wanted for 40 years this is where they would stay and god miraculously provided over and over again whether it be supernatural food from heaven or whether it be water from a rock or whether it be like there was bitter water and and they had to strike it and it became sweet whatever it was like there's 40 years of wandering and sir during this festival it's a reminding that to remind you that god is faithful even in the most difficult parts of our lives as a matter of fact the same festival's happening now happens currently and so this will happen starting september 20th and so this is um rather i'm sorry i'm ahead of myself so for a week to set up boost here's what the boost looked like in in jesus's day uh i'm sorry today this is what the bruce looks like today what we have the one for jesus's day there we go so this is what they look like in jesus's day they would set these booths up and they would they would live in them and for maybe a week or something today they're still doing it and they would look something like this and so different parts of israel depending where you are there's still some booze and some people still stay there the orthodox jukes might still stay there for the entire week some people will just they'd do their meal then they might go back to their home but still this idea of celebrating the 40 years of wandering of god's faithfulness and they also celebrated like the fruits of the laborers and far the harvest time and water and so it's the celebration time that that takes place and this is what jesus is coming into seven days of celebration one of the events that took place in jesus day is the priest would descend to the southern border to the uh gihan spring or to the pool of shalom and so the priests will go down to the pool of shalom they'd wander from the temple all the way down to this pool and there'd be a huge group of people with them and they would follow with them and the priests and all these guys who were there they'd follow down here and they would go to this pool of shalom which is also called the living water because it it flowed from a living spring and they would take a golden pitcher and they would dip it in this pool of shalom and then they would march back to the temple and put it on the altar and the other thing that would happen during this is um the priests would be chanting isaiah 12 3 with joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation so they would go down and they would take this this pool and they would they would take the picture and they would bring water up and with joy with joy you will draw waters for salvation and they would carry this thing back through and everyone would come and the people would also be singing some psalms and we're going to talk about both of those by the way this pool of shalom um the next day after the event we're talking about today jesus actually heals somebody here at the pool of shalom and he if you recall he takes mud and he puts it on somebody's eyes and he says okay go to the pool of shalom and wash remember the story okay he spits on the mud puts it on his eyes and he says go to the pool and and wash and so that's what's happening the priest reads isaiah chapter uh 12 3. but there's context are you with me still so there's context to when the priest says with joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation like what what are the listeners thinking about as the priests are going and they're dipping the water and they're coming back and they walk around the altar and they pour it out like what's happening what are the people thinking about when the priest is saying with joy you will draw water from the worlds of salvation it takes us back to isaiah chapter 11. and i want to do quite a bit of reading on it but the context is imperative and i promise you you will never read john chapter 7 the same you can't so here it goes this is the context of what the priests are saying throughout this whole ritual for seven days a shoot will come from the stump of jesse ah this messianic remember the messiah would come out of the lynch of david isaiah 11 says a shoot will come up from the stump of jesse from his roots a branch will bear fruit the spirit of the lord will rest on him in a spirit of wisdom and of understanding the spirit of counsel and of might the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the lord and he will delight in the fear of the lord he will not judge rather he will not judge by what he sees with his eyes or disciple what he hears with his ears but he will but with righteousness he would judge the needy with justice he will give decision for the poor of the earth he will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth remember this in the bible somebody about in the book of revelation about out of his mouth as a sword he will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth with his breath his lips he will slay the wicked righteousness would be his belt faithfulness will be the sash around him all referring to the messiah and then look at verse six so there's something happening so verse six the wolf will lie down with the lamb anybody remember this the book of revelation the wolf will lie with the lamb the leopard will lie down with the goat the calf and the line and the yearling together a little child will lead them i don't know about you but i'm not putting my little kids in arms away of a lion anytime soon but there's a messianic thing that's going to happen the messiah is going to come and he's going to rule justly and he's going to reign supremely and there's going to be a kingdom that's set up we call it the millennial in our world today we call the millennial reign of christ where there's going to be peace and so as the priest is speaking this the hearers are going back to isaiah chapter 11 messiah the priests the king will rule they'll be reigning there'll be peace on earth and this this thing goes on and on in chapter 11 if you're not reading something i would encourage you to read isaiah chapter 11 this week it's great great reading about the messiah verse 12 comes into play in that day when all this comes apart when the messiah comes i will praise you lord although you were angry with me your anger has turned away and you have comforted me surely god is my salvation i will trust and not be afraid and then hears this phrase the lord the lord himself is my strength and my deliverer he's become my salvation with joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation oh my gosh do you get this jesus is about to go to this festival and they're chanting and looking for the messiah to come they're taking water from a living stream and dumping it on the altar the rock of salvation if you will and they're chanting for the joy of my salvation and and and drawing water from the wells of salvation they're looking forward to something listen to what the people are singing in psalm chapter 1 13 through 118 they sing this whole part i'll sing it for you [Laughter] who laughed so not appropriate if i was if i was roman catholic i would be singing the whole time but we're not so we won't um psalm chapter 113 i was gonna sing it but now i won't so much better you guys are awesome listen to 113 praise the lord they're saying this praise the lord praise the lord you his servants praise the name of the lord let the name of the lord be praised both now and forevermore like they're worshiping they're singing to god they're praising god rising from the rising of the sun to the place where it sets the name of the lord is to be praised the lord is exalted over all the nations his glory above the heavens who is like our god we sing this don't we who is like our god the one who sits and thrown on high who's who stoops down to look on the heavens and on earth like who is like our god who raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ashes who is like our god who's who sits them uh sits with princes i mean like this this goes on in psalm 113 and 114 and and then you get to like 115 and it's just like it's amazing listen to 115. 115 they're singing not to us lord not to us but to your name be the glory lord let your name be glorified let your name be honored because of your love and your faithfulness and then why do the nations um say where is your god our god is in heaven and then they start mocking their gods your god listen to verse four but their idols are silver and gold made by human hands they have mouths but can't speak they they have eyes but can't see they have ears but can't hear they have noses but can't smell they have hands but can't feel like do you remember some of this stuff as we get to the new testament this is going on the the the priests dipping the water from living water streams of living water carrying it on the altar messianic promise the people are saying how great is our lord how awesome is our god how we need him how he's how he's the real god like all this takes place when jesus steps on the scene and we'll come back to that a moment so in john chapter 7 if you were here last week we talked about how the disciples rather jesus's brothers wanted jesus to go to the feast of tabernacles to the feast of booths and begin to do some miracles remember last week we talked about that jesus said no it's not my time but jesus goes by himself and in the middle of the week he starts doing some teaching and i wish i had more time he starts talking about in verse 17 hey if you want to do my father's will you'll be able to discern it if my teaching is accurate in other words here's what he says like if you really want to know god's will you have to have a heart that wants to know his will that's pretty deep like like sometimes like i just don't know the will of god but you're not really seeking his will you're really seeking for god to bless your will don't anybody guilty like i don't know what god wants me to do you know what he wants you to do you just don't want to do what he wants you to do so you're saying god i don't know you will but hear jesus saying listen if you want to know the will of god first seek a heart that wants to obey his will and when you have a heart that wants to obey his will and then his will be made clear to you it's about the condition of our heart and so this whole teaching comes on about hey you must be willing to learn you must have a heart that's willing to listen and then he talks about judging correctly and how easy it is we judge the outside what we see in appearance and how god like you know jesus heals someone on the sabbath and they were upset because there's a sabbath and jesus is like you can circumcise a boy on the sabbath but i can't heal somebody if you don't don't know what circumcision is ask your neighbor at some other time and be an interesting story let me know how that goes for you verse 32 they try to arrest him jesus says hey i'm going away to a place you can't go and they're like where are you going great stuff again if you're not reading anything john chapter 7 this week this jesus teaches throughout this feast this festival but on the last day on the last day the priests go to the pool of shalom they take the picture the chanting about the wells of salvation they're going up to the tabernacle the people are singing about the goodness of god and the mercy of god and how great god is on the seventh day the priest will walk around the altar seven times and he'll take that picture and he'll dump it out and the water will pour down the altar this is cool prophetically speaking here's what zechariah says on that day the day the messiah comes living water will flow out from jerusalem from the altar the lord will be king over the whole earth on that day there will be one lord in his name the only name zechariah chapter 14 8 and 9. in ezekiel chapter 47 verse 1 there's a vision that ezekiel has and he says the man brought me back to the entrance of the temple the same place the priests are right now the same temple they're worshiping at i saw water come from under the threshold living water of the temple toward the east for the temple to face the east then listen to this the water was coming down just as they're pouring that water right the living water the pouring it the water was coming down from under the south side of the temple south of the altar the vision goes on it talks about how this living water begins to pour down the temple on the southern steps this is cool too because we sat on the southern steps we visited israel twice still there the same steps are still there like and we're sitting there and i'm like two hours just praying like the vision is those same steps the living water flowing down going into the dead sea and when it hits the dead sea it comes alive so as that water begins to flow through the temple from that sacrifice from the the altar everything it touches begins to alive becomes alive and alive and alive and it grows and expands and this living water flows and flows like you get it seventh day jesus steps up at some point seventh day after the celebration on the eighth day and with a loud voice scripture says like they want us to get this the people are there they're talking about the messiah the talking about the millennial reign of christ and here's what jesus says if anyone is thirsty if anyone's looking for water if anyone is looking for something to quench their thirst their spiritual thirst their hunger if anyone is thirsty let them come to me and drink whoever believes in me as the scripture has said streams of living water will flow from within him do you get it everything they have been celebrating living water flowing prophetically touching the nations healing anointing reaching people forgiveness of sins like everything they've been singing about jesus steps into place and he says here i am come to me and you'll receive living water first corinthians 10 describes jesus as the rock that gives weather water remember the rock in the in in the in the 40 years of wandering they struck the rock and out of that rock came water and corinthians paul says hey jesus is that rock jesus is the sacrifice jesus is on that on that altar when they pour the water and it begins to flow that is christ flowing out for you and for me he's that living water and so when i think about that verse there's a few things that i just want to talk to you about briefly in the next few moments that i have the first thing that is this that the first thing implied is this that like we have to recognize our thirst if anyone is thirsty come to me if you're going to be filled if you're going to have the holy spirit refresh you if you're going to receive all that god has for you you have to be thirsty you you can't drink you won't drink you won't partake you won't accept you won't receive if there's not a thirst to receive to take the first thing that jesus says is if you're thirsty come to me psalm 42 david's cry is he as a deer pants towards the streams so my soul pants for you as my my soul thirst for god and here's what's interesting about thirst do you realize that that you're naturally thirsty for the things of god ecclesiastes chapter 3 verse 11 says that god put eternity in the heart of humanity that means that you naturally are thirsty for the things of god the problem is is that your mind doesn't comprehend the spirit's wooing and calling for the things of god like your spirit man within you you are spirit man and body and your spirit man is crying for more of god it's pleading for more of god the problem is we can't articulate it as the things of god and so we say man something's wrong with me i'm not feeling right something's not good and so we get on youtube we start scrolling we're getting social media we start just flipping through things or maybe we start calling a friend or maybe we start getting into a good movie and we find all these other things and our spirits saying i need god i need god i'm not feeling fulfilled i'm not feeling what like like like like i'm like i have a purpose but we can't comprehend it so we start going to all these other things trying to fill this god void this god need listen do you realize that you are thirsty for water does anybody realize you have a natural thirst for water i mean do you wake up every morning and say to yourself you know what today i'm just going to be thirsty for water no one does that no one gets up and says yep i i don't know what's happened today but i just i can't i'm just not thirsty for water just like it's not happening i don't know why i just want to be thirsty for water it's natural but what what do we do sometimes when our body thirsts for water what what do we do we go into the cupboard we grab some twinkies does anybody else do that like you don't even know it's water you just know something's not right and your body's saying water and your mind is saying twinkies or you go in the fridge and you grab a bottle of coke or you grab a cup of coffee or grab mountain dew or whatever it is and you're like your body's screaming water but you can't articulate the fact that you need water and so you try to fill like does this make sense so you're trying to fill this this this desire for water with something that's not really water and you can kind of get some water out of it it's not like mountain dew is bad for you amen it's not like twinkies are necessarily you know bad for you per se but you but but there's something more pure and listen sometimes when we go to other things it's not that social media is bad it's not that movies are bad it's not that you know friends are bad it's not that trying to work is bad but it's in trying to find all of these things to make you feel a god need that only god can fill becomes a problem implied all you who are thirsty is we have to recognize our thirst we have to recognize that we need god and that sometimes when life seems out of sorts it's our spirit crying out for the presence of god it's our soul crying out abba father daddy god abba father you have a thirst that god wants to fill but it can't be filled until you first recognize the thirst i think the most important thing or one of the most important things you need to know about yourself is that you were made to live on god like you were made to live for god and everything else is going to distract and still and rob and distort all that god wants to do in you and through you you were made to be with god your soul is thirsty the second thing that i see all you that are thirsty come and drink is jesus never has any thought of earning he doesn't say all to you that have cleaned up your life first come to me and drink and i will give you thirst or i will give you you know what you need rivers a flow of living water he doesn't say get everything lined up first get you know make sure that you're doing the devotionals first make sure that you have no sin that you're struggling with make sure that your mindset is perfect he doesn't say make sure that your marriage is perfect he doesn't say make sure your kids are perfect he doesn't say make sure that your job is perfect he doesn't say make sure that anything's perfect he simply says be thirsty and come and so i this idea that somehow maybe i have to clean things up first or maybe i have to get things right first maybe i have to change something before i can really give god all of me is just a lie listen you can't be the person god wants you to be without the presence of god in your life like you cannot be god's person without god helping you to be that person the fruit of the spirit right is love joy peace patience long-suffering you can't have the fruit of the spirit if you don't have the spirit living in you and so the holy spirit would call us come let me fill you let me refresh you let me do a work in you let me change your heart let me change your mind come right now whether you've been saved for 80 years or you don't know christ at all the holy spirit calls us and he says come come and out of your belly will flow rivers of living water come the third thing or implication that i get out of all you who thirsty come and drink is when we ask we will be filled when we ask god is faithful to fill us each and every time each and every day out of your belly will flow rivers of living water it's interesting i'm not a greek scholar or a theologian but in the greek there is no commas there's no periods it's just the you know the sentences flow and we try to put it together as best that we can so there's two different thoughts in this verse of what happens one thought is hey it's supposed to say um all you are thirsty come and out of jesus's belly will flow rivers of living water and they get that idea that as the as the um the altar of the sacrifices waters flowing so out of jesus was flowing rivers of living water and touching everything and comes in contact and that's true that's biblically speaking the other one of the most common one is referring to you and to me that when we come to christ out of our bellies will be rivers of living water and then we touch everything we come in contact with the point is that both are accurate both are true both jesus touches everything as the river the living water but when we receive the holy spirit and we're filled with the holy spirit how many know that you also impact everybody you touch that out of your belly is rivers of living water and the bible says that that's referring to the holy spirit in john john 7 39. he said this about the spirit who those who believed in him were to receive free as yet the spirit had not been given because jesus was not yet glorified and so we know when we get saved we get the holy spirit in us and we get baptized in the holy spirit there is a river of water that begins to flow either way like jesus has a lot for you and he's faithful to fill you the day of pentecost comes six months later the holy spirit is poured on all believers tongues of fire a great outpouring this is what jesus says in john 14. i will ask the father and he will give you another helper to be with you forever even the spirit of truth the world cannot receive i'm not going to spend a lot of time on the holy spirit but i just as we get through john john spends a lot of time and we'll start spending more time the next couple weeks as we go through john but i just want to encourage you to start your recognizing that you're thirsty and simply saying holy spirit would you fill me today would you fill me today in just a moment i want to pray for a couple people first of all if you're here today and maybe you're not living for the lord maybe you're watching with us online thank you for hanging out with us but if you've not given your life completely to jesus i want to encourage you to do that right now simply god i give you my life i give you complete control i surrender my sins to you or recognize that i need you and i just give you my life accept your gift of salvation does not power in the words with this power in the heart of saying god i give you control and you can do that right now if you're here with us connection card just right hey i gave my life to jesus followed up with water baptism tell somebody i gave my life to jesus but there's a second person that i want to pray for that i just felt very heavy for and here's what it is i i just i just feel like there's somebody or some people that it's not that you're not saved you're fully saved your hunger for the things of god has begun to wane your thirst you're just as thirsty but you're not you're filling that thirst with other things than the presence of god and you know it and you're finding that every time that happens that you're hitting a wall and you're trying to find your meaning and your purpose and your significance through many other things but i just feel like the holy spirit is saying to you today that you will only find your true identity in his presence and knowing him and surrendering to him everything else is counterfeit only he can really give you what you need and so with every head bowed every eye closed this morning if you're here and you're just like you know what that's me i just i know i just need i know i've been kind of waning a little bit i just want to pray for you if you're just like yes i've just flipped my hand up real high and say yes i just know that i'm i'm just filling my life with other stuff i know that i am i know that i am thank you thank you thank you jesus i we are desperately desperately in need of you holy spirit if you don't draw us we we can't come if you don't draw us if you don't convict if you don't speak we can't come and so holy spirit i ask this morning for every hand that was raised that you would come mightily like a wave into our hearts and into our minds and that you would arrest us that you would challenge us that you would quicken us [Music] that you would increased our thirst that you had increased our hunger that you would increase our desire for the things of god holy spirit we pray that you would come and refill renew restore and do the work that only you can do in our lives so for every hand that was raised i just pray right now in jesus name for just a greater desire for the things of god a greater understanding of how much we're dependent on you every moment every day and how much our fulfillment can only be found in you jesus name do it now lord do it now lord i'm going to ask pastor scott to dismiss this in a moment and i would encourage you if you're one of the hands of slipped people slipped a hand up i would encourage you don't like don't leave too quick matter of fact if you guys would dim the house lights a little bit and i would just encourage you stay a little while stay a little while let god let the holy spirit minister to you this morning don't don't be in a rush you may not get today ever you'll never get today again you may not get this moment again don't be in a rush let the holy spirit speak to you today let his presence soak let you soak in his presence if you need prayer today for bodily healing there's prayer partners i want to pray with you you can find them right off the room i think it's number seven right out these doors to your right they want to pray with you just to remind her if you're a young adult 18 to 30 um not married as a group that wants to meet with you they didn't mean to give last couple weeks to be meeting right out those doors to the left in room number i think it's number 10. they want to meet with you briefly but stay a little while stay a little while pastor scott will dismiss us in a moment [Music] did you sing this chorus through with us a couple times [Music] your glory god is [Music] lord holy spirit [Music] [Music] is [Music] your friends [Music] let's all stand together and sing this let us become [Music] let's become more aware of your presence let us experience [Music] let us [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] let us experience [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] we'll see you next week [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] that i can't contain and i can't control i want more of you god i want more of you no place i would rather be [Music] [Music] no i would rather be [Applause] [Music] jesus [Music] [Music] [Music] by your presence [Music] god bless you guys have a great week [Music] we're getting [Music] we're ready ready [Music] [Applause] [Music] hallelujah [Music] glory for the marriage [Applause] [Music] [Music] 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