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Jesus Christ must be able to be exalted
in your life Jesus says I want you to
hang out with me I don’t want you
visiting me I want you living with me
and when God sees you hanging out with
Jesus the Holy Spirit turns on the water
pump so that life is flowing into the
soul because the spirit comes to glorify
Christ
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what physical water is to the necessity
of the body to function the way it was
created to
function spiritual water is essential
for the soul to function the way it was
created to
function if you starve the body of
physical
water it won’t work
right if you starve the soul of
spiritual water it won’t work right just
as physical water distributes physical
life to the well-being of our
Humanity spiritual water distributees
spiritual life to the well-being of our
souls so that our beings can be what
they were created to be when the soul is
deprived of spiritual water you can bet
your bottom dollar that there will be a
deterioration and a
Devastation in our
lives Jesus
Christ is in a context of the Feast of
Tabernacles we’re told in verse 37 it
was the last day of the great
feast the great Feast of Tabernacles was
the feast that God instructed the Jewish
people to do to remind them of their
Journey Through the
Wilderness as they were journeying
through the Wilderness they were banking
on God for water he opened up the Red
Sea get them into the Wilderness he let
water gush out of a rock so they could
drink in the wilderness he turned bitter
water into clean water so that they
could function in the wilderness he
became their H2O supplier as they went
through the dry spell of the Wilderness
on their way to the promised land you
and I are on a journey from salvation to
glory and it gets dry
you and I are on a journey from time to
Eternity and it gets crusty you and I
are on a journey from where we are to
where we need to be but sometimes it
gets hot and
humid and you need to be able to get a
drink of water it is in the context of
the Feast of
Tabernacles where Jesus makes this
statement to take us to this next truth
symbol and name of the Holy Spirit he
says to them in verse
37 if anyone is thirsty let him come to
me and drink he raises the question or
the need of
thirst Jesus says if anyone is thirsty
let him come
he takes what they were reminded of
physically when the priest would pour
water on the altar during the Feast of
Tabernacles to let the folk know that
the same way they got supplied
refreshment in the
wilderness he has come to provide
spiritually for the soul and the life of
people so the first question is are you
thirsty are you thirsty because he says
let him who thirst come now how do you
know if your soul is
thirsty if you’re living a life of
discontent it’s because you have a
thirsty Soul if you’re living a life of
confusion it’s because you have a
thirsty Soul The Thirst in the soul is
manifested by a life of
dissatisfaction
discontentment
unforgiveness or sin domination all of
those are reflective that there is a dry
spot in the soul that is begging for
water he who thirst he says if anyone is
thirsty if anyone is living a life of
discontent there is something that is
arai in the soul and if that doesn’t get
addressed you will always wind up going
for sacaran
substitutes you will always go looking
for cheap substitutions that are not
designed to be authentic thirst
quenchers and so he says if anyone is
thirsty you can even go and use religion
as water because if I’m religious enough
long enough perhaps my thirst will be
quenched only to discover that after you
get your religious Coke drink by the
time it wears off before you get home
you are thirsty again because you’ve not
gotten the water that Jesus is offering
so I want to offer you by means of our
passage today a thirst quencher he says
if anyone is thirsty
now I like the phrase he said if anyone
is thirsty because that means there’s
enough water for everyone who is he says
if anyone is thirsty in fact the group
he is talking to is made up of people
who want to kill him in verse 32 it says
the Pharisees heard the crowd muttering
these things about him Jesus and the
chief priest and the Pharisees sent
officers to seize him so they trying to
get rid of Jesus but even to his enemies
he says if anybody is
thirsty let him come
so if anyone so no one now is excluded
no matter how bad it is long it is or
deep it is all you got to do is be
thirsty if
anyone is craving in their
souls because of the
discontent the failure the weakness the
sin the the the
loss let him
come let him
come there is an invitation
here to come to Jesus and let him take
care of your spiritual thirst okay he
invites you to come to him he invites
you to
Embrace him he invites you to partake of
him now I know what you’re
saying I have already come to Jesus if
you are a Christian that means you have
come to Jesus you have accepted him as
your substitute you have believed on him
for the Forgiveness of your sins and the
gift of eternal life you have
acknowledged you are a sinner you need a
savior and you have come to Jesus for
forgiveness
he said I’ve already come I hope you’ve
already come and if you haven’t I hope
that before you leave here today you
will come to Jesus for salvation but
read what the whole passage says if
anyone is thirsty let him come to me and
drink having Jesus but not drinking
Jesus will still keep you with a dry
Soul if you are on your way to heaven
because you accepted Christ that that’s
good but that’s not sufficient for
healing a thirsty soul on
Earth he says You must come to me and
appropriate me you must take of me and
operate or allow me to operate in you
because when I drink water it’s now not
just something I have it’s something I
am utilizing taking advantage of and
benefiting from he says if anyone is
thirsty that is there is the craving of
discontent in the life or of spiritual
issues unresolved that are operating in
the soul he says I want you to come to
me God just doesn’t want to be an
information center for your head he
wants to be a life experience for your
heart and so he says come to me so
unless what you learn about him drives
you to him you’ll leave with information
and a thirsty Soul he says come to me
and drink and when he says when you come
to me and drink he says he who believes
in me that is Embraces me as it says in
the scripture from his innermost being
will flow rivers of Living Water please
notice that from his innermost being
will flow Rivers of Living Water so here
we are with the water what God wants to
do is place a pump inside the soul that
will produce water that
flows it’s Living Water meaning running
water God says what is physical for your
human body I have provided spiritually
for your soul so let me go into to your
innermost being and discuss that because
that’s where the pump
is you are not your body right your body
is merely a mechanism to facilitate your
soul you are your soul you’re not your
body when you die the soul leaves and
goes into eternity all your body does is
give function to what the soul wants so
what the soul wants is executed through
the body your soul is your
ID it is your personal signature of
existence identity you know that you are
here today because you have a soul a
dead person doesn’t know where they are
because the soul is gone so let’s get
this straight you you are not your body
you are your soul that is your
existence your body is designed to
function in the physical world through
the exercise of your five
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guard through the exercise of five
senses your body can hear and touch and
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function because your soul is operative
in your
body your soul which is the true your
self identity your personhood your
personality is sending signals now to
your body my body so that we do what we
do there is a problem however
everybody’s Soul has been
scarred everybody from the time you were
born
trying to fix the body when it’s the
soul that has been scarred can only
provide a
temporary hold back on physical
expression it cannot resolve a damaged
Soul many of us spend an enormous amount
of time and energy fixing a body with an
unresolved soul and if there’s an
unresolved Soul the body will find a new
way to express it so if you holding me
back over here so my soul can’t express
its damage after a while I’mma find a
place over here where I can express the
damage due to my soul but Jesus says if
you come to me and
drink I will place inside of you in your
innermost being a river a stream of
water water that’s alive cuz it’s
flowing in other words I’m going to send
to you a flow that will bring you life
it’s called living water so I’m going to
bring life into your soul how does he do
that well he gives you a water pump he
gives every Christian a water pump to
pump the Living Water that he says he’s
going to put in your innermost being so
if you have come to Christ you have a
pump inside of you that’s designed to
pump life living water into your soul so
where is this pump well you have a body
that addresses the physical world you
have a soul that is you but scarred due
to sin and
circumstances but you also have a
spirit while your body is designed to
communicate with the physical world and
your soul allowed you to communicate
with
yourself your spirit was created to give
you the ability to communicate with God
but the Bible tells us that because of
sin the spirit when we’re born is
spiritually dead so it needs to be made
alive when you accept Christ God puts a
pump inside your your human Spirit and
the pump verse 39 is the holy spirit he
says by this he spoke of the spirit so
the Holy Spirit invades your human
spirit and gives life spiritual life
God’s life inside your human spirit so
your body allows you to function in the
physical world your soul allows you to
function with you
your spirit allows you to function with
God the soul is inside the body and the
spirit is inside the soul so when the
Holy Spirit invades your human spirit
that is in your soul it now wants to
disseminate water living water moving
water from the spirit inside the soul
bring
healing contentment order strength into
your soul so your soul can begin giving
new information to your body so your
body begins to do different things
because it’s getting new data from the
soul because the soul is getting new
data from the spirit because the spirit
has been infused with a pump called the
person of the Holy Spirit whose job it
is to make the war water flow into the
soul that is unless the tap is turned
off in fact some of the things we’re
adding that contradicts what Christ
wants to do is stopping the flow turning
off the tap so the water can’t flow so
the soul can’t be healed so the body can
function differently but Jesus says if
you come to me and drink what I will do
is I will let the innermost water flow
so that my life living water gets
transferred to your soul Isaiah 44:3
promised even in the Old Testament that
God was going to send water send the
spirit who would address The Thirst The
Emptiness the discontent the
dissatisfaction born out of sin other
sin our sin but creating a emptiness
within the soul Jesus said it in John
10:10 he said I’ve come to give you life
and then he says I’ve come to give you
life abundantly that means extra life
that means life beyond the norm that
means contentment beyond the average I
have come to give you an overflow I’ve
come to give you life that’s salvation
but then I’ve come to give you Abundant
Life not dripping life gushing life he
says I have come to do this and I got a
pump inside you and that pump the person
of the holy spirit is designed to do
that from the inside
out so now there’s a question on the
floor how you get your pump
working how you get your pump working
how do I get this pump working I I know
I’m saved if you’re a Christian I know
I’m saved but my pump’s
off it’s
broke no pump can’t break
right pump Jesus said in verse 39 pump
is the holy spirit holy spirit is
perfect so if your soul is out of order
it’s not a pump problem nothing wrong
with the
pump that’s great that’s great here’s
what Jesus says in verse 39 he
says but this he spoke of the spirit
when he said Living Water he says I’m
speaking about the spirit whom those who
believed in him were to
receive the spirit was not yet given
because Jesus was not yet
glorified watch this
now Jesus says if you’re thirsty come he
says this all through the Book of John
he says in John 6:35 he says if you’re
thirsty come on he says so if you come
to me I’m going to put it inside you so
you’ve got enough water inside of you to
cover you me us for the rest of your
life cuz he says the well will never run
dry
you you got to well that deep every
Christian so deep that it covers you for
the rest of your life if the pump is on
so the issue is not does the pump work
he says it’s the spirit the issue is is
the pump
on that is or is it being
blocked he says in verse
39 I haven’t given the spirit yet
because I have not yet been glorified
Jesus was in his physical body on Earth
he had not yet died not yet been buried
not yet risen not yet ascended to Heaven
he had not yet been glorified which
happened after his
resurrection but after his resurrection
he sent the Holy Spirit the day of
Pentecost when he sent the Holy Spirit
they were filled with the spirit they
were gushing
out the way you keep your J
on is
by
privately and
publicly glorifying
Jesus okay we got to work with this a
little
bit the only way the pump stays on
remember we’ve already seen it that the
Spirit came to glorify the son the son
came to glorify the Father the Son left
he says I’m going to leave you some
somebody who’s going to glorify
me
okay your belief in God won’t keep the
pump
on you calling God’s name will not keep
the pump
on God has turned everything in history
over to his
son it is only by your bringing glory to
the Sun that the spirit kicks
on so if Jesus Christ is put to the side
even though you believe in God the pump
has not been energized to work because
he works for the benefit of the
son
therefore Jesus Christ privately and
publicly must be able to be exalted in
your
life this is why I want to challenge all
of us
this week maybe once a day to read John
15:
1-16 read those whole verses those
verses Jesus says I want you to hang out
with me you going to see God because
you’ve been hanging out with Jesus and
when God sees you hanging out with Jesus
the Holy Spirit turns on the water pump
so that life is flowing into the soul
because the spirit comes to glorify
Christ the more the spirit sees your
glorifying Jesus the more the pump will
flow life into your soul which will
transform your body so that you are
living the life that God has created you
to live cuz you’re now living in
contentment not discontentment you’re
living in peace not chaos because the
spirit is Flowing so don’t go to a Coke
when you need water don’t go to Sprite
when you need water don’t go to Dr when
you need water don’t go to Jack Daniels
when you need water when you need water
you need the spirit of God operating in
the soul in order to flush out the stuff
that is messing up the body so that he
can bring transformation to the life and
I like how some versions have it it says
we will give you streams of water that’s
because the water can flow in a whole in
different directions see you need one
kind of stream you need one kind of
stream you need one kind of stream I
need another kind of stream well from
your innermost being isn’t it good to
know I don’t have to go find a stream I
got a stream cuz it’s in my innermost
being but it can flow in any direction
when Jesus is glorified the pump comes
on and the transformation takes place
and the beautiful thing about it I said
it before but it’s all free Revelation
21: 5 and 6 it says if you’re thirsty
come to me without cost Revelation 22:
16 and 17 if you’re thirsty come to me
without cost ain’t it some good news to
know that you can get all this for free
and it’s already inside you you don’t
have to pay some preacher for water from
the Jordan River to bless it so you can
get your deliverance because it’s all
free and it’s built inside of you but
Jesus must be glorified now let me tell
you one last thing when the river is
Flowing you’ll know it’s flowing because
changes will be occurring in your soul
but here’s another way you’ll know it
because when it came to water when Jesus
had the woman at the
well he offered her to drink it he said
if you drink from my water you going to
have life so one of the ways you know
that this water is Flowing is other folk
want to take a drink out of your life
other folk want to say what’s happening
with you other folk want to say how can
I get what you got one of the reasons
people are so mean to other people is
they so messed up in their soul they
don’t know how to be nice one of the
reasons folk cuss out other people is
they’re so messed up in their soul they
don’t know how to speak kindly to other
folk one of the reasons so many people
don’t want to serve anybody else and
only want to be served themselves it’s
cuz they’re so messed up they don’t have
any water to share with anybody else but
if you get a whole river flowing in your
soul it gushes out and you may not have
a lot going for you but you hooked up to
a reservoir and that Reservoir can keep
it coming can keep it gushing can keep
it flowing turn that baby on and let it
gush out in your life to your life
through your life so other folk can take
a drink out of your life
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