I. This World Tries to Satisfy Our Thirst
John 7:37 - Now on the last day, the great day of the feast…
A. It tries through spiritualism
B. It tries through secularism
II. There Is Only One Answer to Our Thirst
John 7:37 - …Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me…”
A. Are you thirsty?
B. Go to Jesus!
III. Jesus Invites Us to Drink True Spiritual Water
John 7:37-38 - …If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me…
A. Belief in Jesus satisfies our soul
B. We can wander away from the Fountain
Jeremiah 2:11-13 - “Has a nation changed gods when they were not gods? But My people have changed their glory for that which does not profit. Be appalled, O heavens, at this, and shudder, be very desolate,” declares the Lord. “For My people have committed two evils: they have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, to hew for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water.”
IV. Those Who Believe In Jesus Will Overflow!
John 7:38-39 - “He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, ‘From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.’” But this He spoke of the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were to receive; for the Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
A. Jesus satisfies us fully
John 4:14 - …whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.
Isaiah 58:11 - And the Lord will continually guide you, and satisfy your desire in scorched places, and give strength to your bones; and you will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters do not fail.
B. The Spirit’s fullness keeps us from wandering
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