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If Anyone Thirsts - John 7:1-52 - June 14, 2026
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Matthew Poole: Good morning, Harvest Church. You are called by God, adopted into his family, to live with him forever and ever. It is my joy this morning to serve you with the word of Christ on your way to glory. I hope you are encouraged. Believer, same thing for you. And unbeliever, this morning, it is my joy to serve you that the offer of Christ would be made clear to you. Life forever with God. Let's pray for his help as we get into his word this morning. Heavenly Father, we thank you that you are a God that is full of mercy, full of grace, full of words of life, and that you give them to your people. You're not a stingy God, you're a gracious, abundant God that loves to provide for your people. Thank you, Lord, that this morning, right now, we have hope that you are our provider and our provision. God, we come in here. All different types of places, stories, and narratives. And I pray that this word that you would satisfy us, God, this morning speak to us, transform our hearts and our lives, and may Christ be magnified. It's in His name that we pray for His glory and our joy. Amen. This week has been brutal for the weather. Brought maybe some other things, but the heat has been brutal. ⁓ I know I've been watching the plants. I love plants, I love flowers, but the but everything out in my yard is turning brown ⁓ day after day. And you know the thing is, I was hopeful for this week because the weather said we were gonna get ten days of thunderstorms. So was ready. We made it through. I'd planted some new grass. This is like this is the point. I need to make it through the summer. So I'm ready. We're making it through. And then wake up, whatever it was, Sunday, Monday, no rain. Tuesday, no rain. Wednesday, no rain. Like, what is happening? And so day after day, it's like the grass and the plants are just like. To a crisp. You can go out to my my this Japanese red Japanese maple that I love. You touch the leaf, it crumbles and falls off. Don't touch the leaves. They're so fragile right now. There's no water in them. They are bone dry. And you know what? The Bible says that spiritually in our natural selves, we're the same. Spiritually bone-dry, thirsty, and nothing can quench our thirst. Right? We give ourselves to all kinds of things spiritually to try to satisfy our thirst, try to quench our thirst. And we generally go in two directions, or maybe we go in all the directions, but we generally go into religious performance or we seek worldly pleasure. To try to give us life, to try to quench that inner ache that we all have, made in the image of God. We all have this ache for God, and we try to fill it and satisfy it with a million things. And we generally run in religious directions or irreligious directions. And none of it satisfies. And here's where we might be a little bit different. Well, we are different than the plants. You see. Our thirst is the consequence of our actions. Our thirst is moral. My red Japanese maple, it's not thirsty because it has a morality issue, morality problem. You and I are thirsty, and it's due to our moral actions. Intrinsic in our thirst is the judgment of God. It's what happens when you're not drinking water. You get thirsty. This is the way this ⁓ Jeremiah, God is speaking to the prophet Jeremiah, is fitting for us. And he says this to them Old Testament is my people have committed two evils. Number one, they have forsaken me. Fountain. They've forsaken the fountain of life. And the second evil, they've gone out and they've dug and they've hewed out their own cisterns, broken cisterns, that cannot carry water. This is a rebuke and challenge, and this is fitting for us. That's what's said to us as we chased, trying to quench our thirst in any other way, other than God. And so the question then that we have facing this reality in our flesh, in our fallenness, in our confusion, and in our wandering and our digging, is there any hope for us that we can actually have water? Is there a water that can quench the parched land of our souls? Let's see what God has for us in John chapter 7. And a big header here, the first of our headers, is this fact: Jesus is. Enters a thirsty world. Jesus enters a thirsty world. We'll start here in verse 1. After this, Jesus went about in Galilee. He would not go about in Judea because the Jews were seeking to kill him. Now the Jews' feast of booths was at hand. So his brothers said to him, Hey Jesus, Leave here and go to Judea, that your disciples also may see the works that you are doing. For no one works in secret. If he seeks to be known openly, if you do these things, show yourself to the world. For not even his brothers believed in him. And Jesus said to them, My time has not yet come, but your time is always here. The world is Cannot hate you, but it hates me. And listen to this, because I testify about it that its works are evil. So you go on up to the feast. I'm not going to this feast, for my time has not yet fully come. Context here that we're gonna wrap our heads around, opposition to Jesus is growing. It's mounting. There are people that want him killed. Where is this guy? We want him killed. And what's happening here is the Feast of Booths is going on. Like we all know what the Feast of Booths is. I don't imply that you do. I had to look up some of this stuff. Feast of Booths, also called Feast of Tabernacles. Feast of Tabernacles This is one of the biggest feasts that the Jews would celebrate annually. Massive, massive party and feast. It's a week long party, week long feast. And what they are doing is they are celebrating and remembering a few things. What God, or primarily w when God brought the Israelites out of Egypt in slavery, they're on the way to the promised land, but while they are in the wilderness, God supplies supernatural water. God provides water in the wilderness, and they're looking back, and this is a celebration of that. Our God has provided water. We're remembering that. They're also looking forward. Because all the prophecies are about this day when the land won't be parched anymore. There will be an abundance of water, an age to come when water is just flowing freely. Life freely is here and also they're celebrating this there's a seasonal reality in their calendar. The harvest has already happened, so they're celebrating that, and they're praying. And what are they praying for? They're praying for rain. Send us rain for next year. We need it, God. So praying, all this festival and prayer going on, and the center of it is about water. God's provision for water. So no one wants to miss this party. I mean, imagine like the NC State Fair, and every artery around here gets filled up with cars from I 40, Chapel. Everybody's trying to get in to the fair. That's like what this is. Everybody from all around are descending on Jerusalem. Here to celebrate this big feast. And then so the so the brothers, Jesus' brothers, they get this idea. They're like, ⁓ okay, everyone's here. We're ready for the kingdom of God to come. So, hey Jesus, bro, it's time. It's time. This is a great opportunity for you to come on, come like let's get this kingdom thing into gear. This whole Messiah thing, kick it up a notch. Let's go. But Jesus rebukes them. They're a bit like Veruca Salt from Willy Waka that's like, now, I want it now. That's like these brothers, and Jesus is like, you're not understanding what I'm talking about. You don't understand my mission. You don't understand the hour that's here. And he tells us that they do not believe. So there's a rebuke there. And he says, you don't, basically, you don't tell me what to do. That's one way Jesus exerting his power here. You don't tell me what to do. My hour is not coming because you say so. I'm on a different timeline. That's one way he's rebuking them, and second, he says, you're part of the world. You are part of the world system that does not recognize me, does not see me, does not believe in me, does not want me. I mean, it's pretty dramatic, pretty blunt. The world cannot hate you, but it hates me. Saying this to them. Y'all are of the world, y'all hate me. Jesus is laying it on thick here, and then he goes even a layer below that. Why does the world hate Jesus? Because Jesus exposes that the world's deeds are evil. Why do people have a problem with Jesus? Because Jesus convicts them. And we don't like to be convicted, do we? We like to be right. We don't like to be wrong. We don't like to be shown that we are evil. This is like us hating the doctor and not wanting to go to the doctor because the doctor tells us that we're sick. Let's get rid of the doctor. Get them out of here. Destroy the x-ray machine. Get rid of all the instruments we don't know. Get that away. That's what they are doing. So Jesus tells them, All right, guys, y'all go up to the feast. I'm not going. But then Jesus ends up going. Just kind of like an apparent contradiction. I think this is resolved in a couple ways. Jesus says, this feast, some of these scholars point out that there's a grammatical twist here. Jesus said, Y'all go up to this feast, or I'm not going to this feast. Kind of what he's saying is, ⁓ yeah, we'll be gathered at the same place, but we're going for two different reasons. Y'all go, and then the second way is like, y'all go up and do this whole public thing, this whole religious show. That's not what I'm going for. I don't know what y'all are celebrating there, but it ain't what I'm celebrating there. So then Jesus, he sends them up in public, and then it says Jesus went up in secret. So he's heading right into the hornet's nest. Right into enemy territory, Jesus goes. And then this leads us to our second point here. Jesus teaches a thirsty world. So he enters a thirsty world, and now he teaches a thirsty world. Verse 14. About the middle of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and began teaching. This is huge. This is absolutely huge. I mean, there like this is the absolute center spot, center spot on the entire globe. All the focus is right here if you're thinking spiritually, if you're thinking theologically, and Jesus is standing at the absolute center of God's presence in the temple. He's standing here, and then he starts to speak. The true prophet is speaking. The true teacher is here. The revelation of God is here, and he begins teaching authoritatively. Now, this ain't gonna be pretty. I don't know if you've ever seen the show American Gladiators. I love that show. Anybody seen this? It's kind of an older show, really? Nope, it's a good show. It's just like Hebrew gladiators going on right here. So you have a gladiator who's the real deal, and then you have all the contenders. Or Imagine this like king of the hill. Maybe y'all got that. Is that better? King of the hill. Somebody is standing on top of the hill, and you're going to have contenders say, I'm going to take you down. You don't belong up there. We belong up there. We're going to see four groups of people try to take Jesus off of the hill. Okay? That's what's happening here. This gives us some organizing principle here. The first group that comes are the Jews. And they question his authority. What are you doing teaching us? You've been to school anywhere. It's literally what they say. How's this guy got any teaching? What school's he been to? Jesus responds. Verse 16: My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me. If anyone's will is to do God's will, he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own authority. Jesus says my authority to teach isn't God. Divinity doesn't need a diploma. I'm straight from the source. God is his authority, Jesus says. Jesus fully submitted here. And he's no softy, and he rebukes them. All these challengers get rebukes in their own little way. He says this. Y'all would know that my teaching is from God if you would actually listen to me. If you could hear anything that I'm saying, you would understand that I come from God. And yet you don't. And then he challenges them again. He says, and here's why. You seek your own glory. Wherever you place authority, that's the glory that you're chasing. And the glory that you want is the glory of yourself. Sharp rebuke to these guys. You're obsessed with yourselves. And you say, You can't see me. You can't understand this teaching. All right, the second challenger to jump in the ring is the crowd. And the crowd challenges Jesus' character. They say, This guy, he's got a demon. Right? He's he's gone crazy. He thinks people are out to kill him, which they truly are. And they consider that he's a a lawbreaker, he's inconsistent with the law. Jesus flips that right back on them. He says, You guys are the lawbreakers. Y'all don't obey the law. What are y'all getting on me about? And y'all applied the law in very inconsistent ways. And this is where he drives the stinging challenge back to them. Verse 23. If on the Sabbath a man receives circumcision, so that the law of Moses may not be broken. Are you angry with me that I make a whole man's body well? Okay. So the challenge here, this goes back to when Jesus healed the guy on the Sabbath and everybody's in an uproar about it. And so what what's going on with circumcision? Circumcision had to take place on the eighth day after birth. But sometimes that circumcision, the eighth day, would take place on the Sabbath. What are you going to do? And the Jews said, Well, that's an acceptable reason. Because Sabbath, you're not supposed to do any work. They would say it's an acceptable reason to circumcise on the Sabbath when you're not supposed to be doing anything. So that's fine. So Jesus' argument is from the lesser to the greater. So let me get this straight, guys. It's okay for you to do this procedure of circumcision, and it's not okay for me to make a whole man well. Like that text is even like salvation comes to this man. Wholeness comes to this man. Not just get the cripple crippled's legs working. And so you're gonna get mad at me for making a whole man's So he's saying, You're the inconsistent ones. I'm actually the one that's fulfilling the law, doing all the law, doing what the law is supposed to be pointing us to. All right. Next challenger, the Jerusalem people. So they jump in the ring and they challenge Jesus' origin. It's a question of messiahship. Is he the Christ? About where he's coming from. And so they think, and this is wrong, but they think we're not supposed to know where the Christ comes from. He's supposed to just sort of poof out of the air. They don't even understand some of the prophecies about Jesus being born and knowing where he's gonna come from. And so they're questioning this. They're questioning his origin, and they're saying this can't be the Messiah because we know where he's from. We know he's got a human origin, so it can't be the Messiah. Jesus proclaims verse twenty eight You know me and you know where I come from, but I have not come of my own accord. He who sent me is true, and him you do not know. So it's kind of like some play on words going on here. Jesus saying, Okay, you might know, you're questioning my human origin, but what you can't see is My origin comes before I even showed up. My origin is from heaven. So Jesus pointing him back to God. He's saying, and you don't know him. That's why you can't see where I'm actually from. He's claiming to be God and from God here. So the response is then, okay, that's enough. Let's get rid of this guy. And they seek to arrest him. So that's going on, but Jesus' hour is not yet here. And then we see the Pharisees, another challenger, steps up, but instead of the Pharisees like attacking Jesus verbally, which are these other ones, it's interesting. They're like, All right, we're not going to win this battle. Let's not try to teach him. He's obviously the teacher. Let's just arrest him. So the Pharisees just go for the jugular physically. Let's just get rid of him and remove him and arrest him. So and that that's how Jesus now responds to them, he says in verse 33. Then Jesus said, I will be with you a little longer, and then I am going to him who sent me. You will seek me then, and you will not find me, because there where I'm going, you cannot come. So he's he's rebuking them for seeking to try to grab him right now in this present moment. He's okay, I'll rebuke your attempt here in this way. You're seeking me now while I actually can be found. But there's coming a time that's gonna be literally impossible. Because I'm going to be back with God. And you're not gonna be there, and you can't come. So it's like he's saying, you know, we're playing hide and seek right now, but at that point there is no, there's no seeking. You're done. You're done seeking at that point. It's it's cryptic to them because they can't understand what Jesus is talking about. And they throw a little mockery his way. It's like, what was he talking about? He's gonna, ⁓ he's gonna go to the Gentiles? Right. And it's a little bit of a mockery. Because they don't associate with the Gentiles. Irony is like, you better believe Jesus is gonna be going to the Gentiles by his spirit. Pentecost and the mission of God. So they can't see it. They're getting more and more angry. This whole scene, confrontation, intensity, hostility, division, it's all just mounting. All the knobs are turning up on conflict. You've got this man, Jesus, standing in the center of the theological reality and the focus of the earth. And the people around him, they don't like that he's on this. Hostility is mounting. Where is this gonna go? What's gonna happen? We see this. Is Jesus gonna unload on them? He sure could. The third point here, Jesus quenches a thirsty world. Jesus enters a thirsty world. Jesus teaches a thirsty world. And he quenches a thirsty world. Verse 37. On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and he cried out. If any one thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the scriptures have said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water. Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive. For as yet the Spirit had not been given because Jesus was not yet glorified. Jesus makes And if we remember the reason for this festival of tabernacles, this Feast of Tabernacles, it's about water, celebrating God's miraculous provision of water in the wilderness. And they're looking forward to a new age that's going to come, that's going to be characterized by the abundant blessing and provision of God. Life forever. And they're looking at rain coming. They need help now. So that's the nature of this festival. But what are they actually doing? This is really interesting. You see, what they will do every single day of this feast, they would go down to this pool, and the high priest, I believe, would take this big pitcher and scoop up the water from the pool, and then the high priest would march it back to the temple. And all the people would be out there. I mean, and it would be going nuts. Music, praising God, they're reciting scriptures. And they get in, and then he takes this pitcher of water and he pours it out on the altar. And there's trumpet blasts going on. I mean, it's it's off the charts. One Jewish historian said, if you have not seen the rejoicing in this festival, this feast, then you've never seen rejoicing in your life. The rejoicing is off the charts. That happened every single day. On the seventh day, it was more of the same, just more intense. Everything was picked up a notch. I think the priest would maybe even like walk around the altar seven times at the end, like there was just more anticipation, more building. It's all building. Every single day has been building up to this climactic moment. And it's at this moment. Somewhere in there, we don't really know. Jesus stands up. Out. If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. What's he saying? What's he doing? This is the absolute mic drop in this moment. It's an absolute mic drop. He's saying, This entire feast of tabernacles is about me. I'm the one it's about. And I am here. And water is not down there in that pool. Water is right here. Calling. Offering, inviting everyone to himself, come and drink. Jesus does not snap in revenge or to venge his righteousness. If he snaps, he snaps in grace. offering himself to this hostile world. Come and drink. Come and drink. Anyone. What's the condition here? What's the condition that Jesus holds out for you and these people? Thirst. If you thirst, come and drink. And I imagine him in this temple setting. It's like, doesn't matter how many punches you've just thrown. Does it matter your hostility, trying to seek me and arrest me, trying to kill me? Come and drink. Come and drink. What grace. What unbelievable grace Jesus has here in this offer to come and drink. We have to understand what this drinking really means. We see in this text, it means believing, but believing in what? What's going on? We have to track John's gospel a little bit more and The fullness of biblical revelation Believing in Jesus right here is like a ⁓ little microcosm. What's happening in this temple here? It's like a microcosm for the whole story of redemption. Jesus entering into a hostile world. Thirsty world. And so we track this gospel rejection or rejection, hostility keeps happening. It keeps happening, and at some point Jesus gets arrested. He gets caught. But listen, it's not because Jesus got sloppy. Got sloppy, missed a turn, ended up somewhere he wasn't supposed to be. Didn't get a good night's sleep. He just lost his edge and got caught. No. It's because it's hours. Because his mission had arrived and the focus of it. He didn't get caught. John will say clearly, no, the the Son of Man lays down his life. No one takes it from him. He willingly goes and surrender and out of love. Where this ultimately would go is he gets caught and what's startling and shocking in the gospel, in all the accounts of the gospels, he doesn't fight back. He doesn't defend himself, he doesn't fight back. He instead is like a sheep, quiet, silent before his shears. He's not fighting back. The hour has come, which leads him to a different type of altar, a different type of pouring out of water, not in a glorious temple. Music and fanfare and rejoicing and songs and trumpets. It's not the altar he goes to. He goes outside the city gate. There's no music. He dies in agony. All alone. No multitudes, no music. The only sound that's out there is his own cries. Where he would even say, on the cross, I thirst. I'm thirsty. Yeah, I'm sure he was physically thirsty. That's the tip of the iceberg. I'm thirsty for the presence of God, the life of God. And he's going without in that moment. Why? So that he can quench our thirst. He had every right to rebuke us? Call down legions of angel armies. He doesn't. He keeps moving forward in love. Give himself for those of us that deserve death. It's the only way life can be given. He goes thirsty, so you and I Only in the cross can we be shown just how sinful and evil we But only in the cross can we be shown just how loved we are. Only the cross does that. Remember they hated Jesus because he shows that their works are evil. The cross of Christ shows that our works are evil. Look what it deserves. Look what we've done. But right there is also the glory of God's grace and his mercy on clear display. The love of God and the mercy of God triumphing over judgment. Redemption triumphing over sinners. Praise God. There is plenty here to drink. There is an endless well to drink when we are gazing at Christ for us. He is unlike the town of Kerry, who charges money for water, who puts restrictions on what days you can water your yard. Jesus is not like that. The price has been paid, and the well is endless, and you may drink all you want all day, forever and ever and ever. There's no cap. It doesn't diminish his resources as you drink it. You don't have to worry that a neighbor is not going to be able to water their yard because you are. It's an abundant, never-ending blessing. In fact, our text says, we're gonna spend a lot of time on this, but the resurrected Jesus, he's glorified in one way on the cross, he dies, he's raised from the dead, he goes up to heaven, he sends the Holy Spirit. He sends down the Holy Spirit, and it says a river, a river of life is now in us. Right? Not a not a drop, not a puddle, not a pond, a river of life is in us. Sourced in Jesus, flowing in our hearts by the power of the Holy Spirit. And this is the Messianic Age. Life in the Spirit of God has been given to the people of God. We are living in that age. Praise God. There is life and water for the people of God. The parched land is over. There is refreshment and life in Jesus. And here's the question I want to ask you. Are you thirsty for this grace? Are you thirsty for Jesus? If you are, will you come and drink? Will you come? And satisfy and quench your thirst. Will you do that? No one else can do it for you. You've got to come to Jesus and believe in him. This text demands a response. We we're not getting into the rest of it, but where this heads is more and more division. What we see is the Jewish authorities, they double down on their hostility. But you see a door opening for the crowds. And we see Nicodemus back here in our text. Nicodemus was back there in chapter three, and he was opposed to Jesus as like the preeminent religious leader. He was in opposition. You know what he's doing here? He's standing up for Jesus. His heart has been moved to see and pay attention to what Jesus is teaching. I don't know what level his belief is here yet, but he is moving. And the question is: are you moving towards Jesus this morning? How do you respond to his offer to come to him and to drink? It doesn't matter what the broken cisterns are that you've been trying to satisfy your thirst at. It doesn't matter. Is that what Jesus says here in this text? No. It doesn't matter where you've been. It doesn't matter what cisterns you have been trying to get life out of, whether you have been pursuing Religious performance or seeking the pleasures of the world, law keeping or law breaking. Doesn't matter. It's not what Jesus asking. He's just asking, are you thirsty? Are you thirsty? Because we know that those things leave us thirsty, do thirsty, do they not? Exhausting to be chasing anything other than Jesus. They don't satisfy, over promise, under deliver every single thing. Only Jesus quenches. Nothing, absolutely nothing, once we taste and see refreshes us like Jesus. Refreshing, life-giving power of Jesus to us. It's the fulfillment of Isaiah's prophecy. Chapter 12, verse 3, he says, With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation. This text is being fulfilled. Isaiah is being fulfilled in our text today. With joy you will draw from the wells of salvation, people of God, harvest church. This is what we are doing. With joy, drawing from the endless well that is Christ. We are happy about it. We are happy about it. There is a well that satisfies. There is a well that never runs dry. There is a well that will never leave me and forsake me. And what this means for us, church believer, this morning, tomorrow morning, we don't have to wake up and check the weather. We don't have to go digging around trying to find water. We don't have to give ourselves to the millions of things that we give ourselves trying to find life. Why? Because water has already been given and it is not going anywhere. We don't have to do that. The weather is good. We're in the age of refreshment right now in the Spirit of God. And that means we're free. We are free to not be enslaved to the passions of our flesh and to the pleasures of this world. We are free from that. We have our pleasure in God, and it more than satisfies. It actually means then we actually can enjoy properly the good gifts that God gives us. You will never enjoy his good gifts as long as they are idols. But when you see they come from his gracious hand, you receive them with gratitude and thanks, and they're in their right spot in your life. This also frees us to truly love one another. To love without needing something in return, because we have it. We have the love of God. And this frees us from shame and guilt. We don't have to walk with the cloud of shame and guilt and fear about judgment. It's taken. We're free from And lastly, this sends us out. We have real purpose here. We can serve and live for God. The sent one in our text is sending us. We have a great joy, a worship filled, worship fueled, grace empowered mission that we are on to carry this water, the water of Christ in the gospel, to a thirsty world, to the ends of the earth. All souls would have their thirst quenched in Jesus Christ to his praise and to his glory alone and alone. Alone forever. Harvest Church, would we be about this? Would it be said of us? Would it be true about us that we truly celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles? The one who tabernacled among us, dwelling with us. And dying in our place and being raised to life. This gospel, the focus of this feast, would it be said about us that our joy was in Him? And that increasingly, day after day after day, that joy would be rich and deep in our hearts and in our church and in our world. All to his glory. And we do that by his grace, in his power. Let's pray. Father, we thank you for your grace and your mercy, God. That comes into this dark world, that comes into a thirsty world. You could have left us alone, but you did not. You came. You came and you did not come into the world to judge the world, but that through you, through your sacrifice, through the sending of your son, you might save the world. God, and we see the glory now. What a revelation of teaching. The tr the true teacher, the true revealer of God, revealing the love of God and the grace of God on a cross, dying in the place of sinners. God, we consider this the best news. Thank you that this well satisfies us. God, may you satisfy us. May we drink deeper from this well than we have ever drank before. Maybe even for the first time, would we turn, would we turn this morning from our broken cisterns? And may we drink from the well that is Christ. Grace upon grace. Even now, Lord, satisfy. Satisfy us now as we look to you as the only one that can to do for us what we cannot do ourselves. Father, we ask to lead us to Christ now. Lead us to drink, to have our fill, to be satisfied. God thank you that in the gospel the weather is good. Rains of abundance are here. We taste it now by faith. But one day we know it's coming. Where there are rivers that make glad the people of God flowing out from this city of God. We thank you that we are headed towards a city. Where the leaf does not wither, and every tree bears fruit. And we ourselves will bear fruit in the presence of our God. May our hope be sure this morning, God. As the arrows of distraction and defeat and despair surround us, God, would we take hope now? Christ didn't just die, he rose from the dead. He's reigning right now, and he's coming back to give us a beautiful inheritance beyond all comparison. Help us long for that day, and as we long, in joy and in gratitude. And empowered by your Spirit, may we live to make much of Jesus. God, would it be said that Harvest Church spent itself well, poured itself out, that others might have their thirst quenched. All for your glory, God. It's in your name that we pray. Amen.
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