He was Thirsty
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This is the final Sunday of Lent, Palm Sunday.
Lent is a time we focus on Pray, Fasting, and Giving.
Palm Sunday the climatic moment in this journey.
Filled with praise for our King Jesus.
Yet, we know the sadness that is about to happen.
This season we have focused on Jesus being our Living Water.
From his first miracle of turning water into wine. He really showed that it is through him we are cleansed.
Then we learned that Jesus forgives even the worst of us. He gives Living Water to everyone who wants it.
The third Sunday we learned that Jesus is our healer, we do not need anyone or anything else, when He healed the lame man by the Pool of Bethzatha.
The fourth Sunday that Jesus creates all things and renews us as he healed the blind man with mud made by his own saliva.
We learned last week that Jesus serves us so we should serve others when he washed the feet of His disciples. In Him, we are cleansed.
These lessons all have the central theme that Jesus makes us new. It is through him we are cleansed of our sin and death.
Today's lesson takes a hard turn as we discover the depths our Savior went to make us new.
Read John 19:28-37 and Pray
The Living Water is running out.
“It was finished”, he said.
He came so that we would know God personally, face-to-face as a living divine being.
He came to teach the ways of the Father, our Father.
He came to redeem humanity.
“I am thirsty,” He says.
The party was running out of wine, he provided more.
He was thirsty, and asked the Samaritan woman for some water, but gave he living water that would never run dry.
He healed and restored beside still waters and with the water from his own mouth.
He washed the disciples clean, and once again showed us that through him we too can be clean.
He body was pierced and all the blood and water ran dry and He died.
Remember how a piece of Matzo looks like?
It looks that way because it is unleavened bread. Like what we take at Communion. Let us Read Leviticus
The night of the passover, as we read in Exodus 12, they were to take a lamb, young, clean and without spots.
The blood was to be poured out completely. Yet no bones were to be broken.
They were to only eat unleavened bread. Which is bread that is thin and has holes in it. Remember that with all the punishment Christ suffered.
How interesting it is that John says that a reed of Hyssop had the sponge soaked with sour wine to give our Living Water a final drink.
Read Exodus 12:22 “22 Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and touch the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood in the basin. None of you shall go outside the door of your house until morning.”
This was the night of Passover.
The blood of the lamb was then used on the doorpost of houses of God’s people was the signal for Death to passover them.
He blood and water was all poured out for us!
It wasn’t that His life was over, and that was the end.
The greatest story of Redemption was complete.
Our Salvation was poured out to cover us like a flood.
Grace poured out to forgive us of all wrong.
The Lamb’s blood was spilled to cover His people so that Sin and Death would passover us.
This is not the end!
This part of the story is over.
Our sin and shame is over
Death has now been defeated
Jesus conquered death.
He is Victorious!
We now have this victory!
The disciples may have thought that it was all over.
The pain was so great.
Grief is so great.
But this was just the beginning of something that no one could have ever imagined.
all of history can be defined by this moment.
Death was defeated.
What is that moment that death was defeated for you?
Has Sin and death been defeated for you?
What is that moment for you when you excepted this story of grace and redemption?
The old life is gone, new life is now and just beginning.
As the Saying Goes: Sunday, next Sunday, is coming.
He is worthy, and worthy to be praised.