Living Water – Part 1 Are You Thirsty?

Are you thirsty?

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We experience two types of thirst:

1. Physical thirst

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Water is Life.

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We experience two types of thirst:

1. Physical thirst
2. Spiritual thirst

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“With every fiber of our being, we thirst by design.”

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Isa 12:3

 “With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation.”

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Numbers 20:1

In the first month the whole Israelite community arrived at the Desert of Zin…

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Numbers 20:2-5

² Now there was no water for the community, and the people gathered in opposition to Moses and Aaron. ³ They quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had died when our brothers fell dead before the Lord! ⁴ Why did you bring the Lord’s community into this wilderness, that we and our livestock should die here…there is no water to drink!”

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Numbers 20:6-8

⁶ Moses and Aaron went from the assembly to the entrance to the tent of meeting and fell facedown, and the glory of the Lord appeared to them. ⁷ The Lord said to Moses, ⁸ “Take the staff, and you and your brother Aaron gather the assembly together. Speak to that rock before their eyes and it will pour out its water. You will bring water out of the rock for the community so they and their livestock can drink.”

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Numbers 20:9-11

⁹ So Moses took the staff from the Lord’s presence, just as he commanded him. ¹⁰ He and Aaron gathered the assembly together in front of the rock and Moses said to them, “Listen, you rebels, must we bring you water out of this rock?” ¹¹ Then Moses raised his arm and struck the rock twice with his staff. Water gushed out, and the community and their livestock drank.

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1 Cor 10:4

“…for they drank from the spiritual rock…and that rock was Christ.”

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John 7:37

³⁷ On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink.

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John 1:12

¹² Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God

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John 6:35

…whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.

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John 7:37-39

“Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. ³⁸ Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.”

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John 7:39

³⁹ By this he meant the Spirit…

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Isa 55:1

“Come, all you who are thirsty,
come to the waters…

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Isa 55:2

Why spend money…and your labor on what does not satisfy?

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John 7:37-39

“Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. ³⁸ Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.” ³⁹ By this he meant the Spirit…

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Zech 14:8

⁸ On that day living water will flow out from Jerusalem, half of it east to the Dead Sea and half of it west to the Mediterranean Sea, in summer and in winter.

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