Beyond the Sip: Drinking Deeply of the Living Water

• The Festival of Booths [00:53:35 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor explains the historical context of the Jewish festival where participants lived in temporary tents to remember God's provision and protection in the wilderness.
• Spiritual Thirst and Provision [00:54:14 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor connects the physical thirst of the Israelites in the desert (referencing Moses and the rock) to the spiritual thirst of the people, emphasizing their need for God's sustenance.
• Jesus as the Source of Living Water [00:51:37 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor introduces the scripture from John 7, where Jesus cries out that anyone who is thirsty should come to Him and drink, identifying this as the pouring out of the Holy Spirit.
• The Festival of Booths and Wilderness Provision [00:53:35 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor explains the historical context of the Jewish festival, where participants poured water over the altar to honor God's provision in the wilderness, establishing a backdrop for Jesus' invitation to the thirsty.
• The Invitation to Drink Deeply [00:57:13 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor contrasts the people's murmuring and desire for only a 'mouthful' of spiritual sustenance with Jesus' offer of abundant, transformative living water.
• The Outpouring of the Holy Spirit [01:00:34 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor connects the Old Testament imagery to Pentecost, urging the congregation to seek a full, overwhelming filling of the Spirit rather than a minimal amount.
• Transformation and Overflow [01:01:42 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor argues that the Holy Spirit fills the believer so completely that negative traits (hatred, distrust) are displaced, resulting in an overflow that impacts the community.

• Sermon Illustration [00:54:14 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor recounts the biblical account of Moses striking the rock to provide water for the Israelites in the desert, illustrating how physical thirst in the wilderness mirrored the spiritual need for God's provision.
• Sermon Illustration [00:23:06 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor uses the analogy of a dry, hard sponge to describe the human heart; when Jesus fills it with the Holy Spirit (living water), it becomes saturated and the love/joy flows out to others.
• Sermon Illustration [00:58:16 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor uses the analogy of standing under Niagara Falls and asking for only a 'mouthful' of water to illustrate the absurdity of asking God for only a small portion of the Holy Spirit when He offers an abundant, transformative outpouring.
• Sermon Illustration [01:03:08 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor recounts the historical event of Pentecost, where the disciples, previously fearful and anxious, prayed diligently in the upper room and were transformed by a 'rush of whitey wind and flames,' leading to a sermon that started a movement.

• Pastoral Charge [01:05:11 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor invites the congregation to join in a corporate prayer asking for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, empowerment for ministry, and the growth of the church.

[00:07:02] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_04]
[00:07:02] Good morning, Fairview. How is everybody today? Got a couple announcements before we get started. If you bear with me for a few minutes. First announcement is graduation season is here. If you or your child is graduating, we'd love to celebrate with you. Please let Ms. Danielle know by May 28th so we can get some more information about the situation.
[00:07:29] wanted to announce too that men it is your turn the annual fair father's day choir will begin rehearsing their anthem starting today about 15 minutes following the service so men if you would like to join the choir and sing for father's day sunday we'd love to have you also wanted to
[00:07:51] mention fifth sunday is coming up on may 31st in your bulletin is a fifth sunday hymn request so please fill this out and get that into the the offering plate so you can get your favorite hymn
[00:08:03] at least a vote for your favorite hymn uh voted for so we can sing that on fifth sunday and also after the service uh we have a youth luncheon and here's an rsv uh rsvp form inside
[00:08:18] your bulletin please fill that out as well so we can know how many are attending that would be luncheon right after service on Father's Day. I'm sorry, on May 31st. That's this Sunday.
[00:08:34] Fairview kids are once again creating a special bulletin for Father's Day, so please use this bulletin insert for registering for your favorite man in your life so that we can have them added to the bulletin for Father's Day. The collection runs through
[00:08:56] this Wednesday, through this Wednesday, June 2017. Please see Ms. Crystal if you have any questions. Also, be sure to check out our VBS table out in the North X. We'd like to see if you can sign up and help. We still have several positions ready for people to
[00:09:18] volunteer. We also have the adopt-a-prop bags with materials and instructions for items that can be made at home as well as well as donation lists and qr codes if you're able to help during the week of vbs which is july 13th through 17th please see miss crystal at the table
[00:09:37] following the service to see all the different positions that are still available a reminder that tomorrow is memorial day so the church offices will be closed but church council will be meeting Tuesday at 7 p.m., so keep that in mind. And I also wanted to mention that today's
[00:09:56] altar flowers are given in loving memory of Catherine Jones Woodard by her mother, Peggy Jones, in remembrance of Catherine's birthday on May 19th. And then I think Pastor has an

[00:10:13] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_10]
[00:10:13] announcement of his own. Last week we had a celebration of birthdays and today we also have a celebration of birthdays. We normally announce them when it is the day of their birthday. So I just want to acknowledge there is a birthday in the house. Becky Jones is having her birthday
[00:10:37] today. So how about we acknowledge that and sing happy birthday. And I want you to know it was uh we all vetoed him and not being able to make that announcement okay so um are there any other

[00:11:15] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_04]
[00:11:15] announcements that we may have missed or would like to bring forward all right if not uh as always if you're visiting with us we are thrilled to have you please make sure uh if you're here
[00:11:30] with us in in person uh to get one of our visitors packets and there's some information about the church, as well as a form to fill out so that we can get to know you better. So if you don't have
[00:11:41] one of those, please make sure you touch base with the usher to get one of those. And if you're online with us, down at the very bottom of our webpage, our main webpage, is a connection form. Please
[00:11:53] fill that out. We would love to get to know you better. With that, let us prepare our hearts and

[00:11:58] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]
[00:11:58] minds for worship. Good morning, Fairview. It is so nice to see everybody this morning. It's nice to be able to come to church this wonderful Sunday morning, and I would like for you to follow me
[00:15:30] in the responsive call to worship. Come to Jesus, you who are thirsty. Drink deeply of the Holy Spirit. Let your heart overflow with living water and renew the face of the of the earth. Thanks be to God.

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[00:16:03] In your black heminal spirit, spirit of gentleness. Not to celebrate war, but to

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[00:19:34] honor courage not to glorify conflict but to remember sacrifice today we remember the men and women who wore the uniform of our nation and stood in the gap when freedom was threatened they answered a call that required everything they ran toward danger so others could live
[00:19:58] in peace they left homes and families they carried fear and courage at the same time and some never came home because of their courage we gather freely worship openly and raise families without fear Jesus once said greater love has no one
[00:20:19] than this to lay down one's life for his friends and on Memorial Day we see that love reflected by ordinary people who chose extraordinary sacrifice so today Today we honor the fallen, we grieve with their families, we thank God for their service,
[00:20:41] and we remember their sacrifice.

[00:20:44] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_05]
[00:20:44] Good morning, I'd like to invite all the children down for a children's time.
[00:21:06] All right, good morning.
[00:21:23] How's everybody doing this morning?
[00:21:25] Good?
[00:21:26] Closer.
[00:21:27] So, it's kind of cloudy outside today, but I want you to imagine that it's the hottest day of the summer and you're outside and you're playing and running and maybe you're playing soccer or tag and you're running around with your friends for hours. Hmm, now your throat starts to
[00:21:53] feel dry. You're starting to get thirsty. What do you think you need? Water. Yeah, that sounds pretty good on a hot day, right? So we all get thirsty sometimes, but do you know that sometimes our
[00:22:09] hearts get thirsty too? So in our Bible story today, Jesus was at a big festival with lots of people. And he stood up and he told the people, if you are thirsty, come to me and drink. But he was
[00:22:26] not talking about just normal water, like in this bottle. He said, if you believe in me, rivers of living water will flow through you. And do you know what he meant by that? So he meant the Holy
[00:22:47] Spirit would be in you. So sometimes our hearts are kind of like this sponge. The sponge is just kind of hard and dry and empty, right? So sometimes we're like that too, where maybe we're kind of
[00:23:06] lonely or sad or we feel empty inside but what happens if we we pour water onto this sponge is it still empty and dry all right okay so now now what what's happening the water's coming out
[00:23:43] So that's kind of what happens with our hearts when Jesus fills our hearts with rivers of living water or the Holy Spirit. He's filling us with love and joy and that love and joy doesn't have to stay in us. It can flow out of us to other people, right? So that's pretty cool.
[00:24:07] All right. So that's what we want to remember this week from our scripture from today. So will you pray with me? Lord, thank you for filling our empty hearts and when we are thirsty for your love
[00:24:26] and your joy and help us to share that joy. Help us for that joy to overflow and that love that you give us to overflow to others as we go through this week. Amen. Worship song number 334 in your

[00:25:12] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_07]
[00:25:12] red hymnal sweet sweet spirit please stand today's first scripture reading is from psalms 104

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[00:28:31] oh lord how manifold are your works in wisdom you have made them all the earth is full of your creatures there is the sea great and wide creeping things innumerable are there living things both
[00:28:50] small and great. There go the ships and Leviathan that you formed to sport in it. These all look to you to give them their food in due season. When you give it to them, they gather it up. When you
[00:29:09] open your hand, they are filled with good things. When you hide your face, they are dismayed. When you take away their breath they die and return to their dust when you send forth your spirit
[00:29:24] they are created and you renew the face of the earth of the ground may the glory of the lord endure forever may the lord rejoice in his works who looks on the earth and it trembles who touches
[00:29:43] the mountains, and they smoke. I will sing to the Lord as long as I live. I will sing my praise to God while I have being. May my meditation be pleasing to him, for I rejoice in the Lord.
[00:30:00] Bless the Lord, O my soul. Praise the Lord. Good morning. Please join me in our affirmation of

[00:30:18] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_11]
[00:30:18] faith. I believe in God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried. The third day he rose from the dead,
[00:30:42] he ascended into heaven, and sitteth at the right hand of God, the Father Almighty.
[00:30:48] From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.
[00:30:52] I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting.
[00:31:06] Amen.

[00:31:16] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_10]
[00:31:16] Today is Memorial Day.
[00:31:17] And as we come together, we like to try to take what we're going and what we're experiencing thing throughout the year and transform it into a way in which we can engage and be about the
[00:31:33] mission of Christ during those seasons. At the beginning of Memorial Day and taking us to July 4th, we will be doing a special hands-on mission project, which you can see over here on our boards.
[00:31:48] It is Purple Heart Home. And to get us kicked off, we wanted to bring someone in that knew more about it one who actually worked with uh the company to come the the non-profit to help us
[00:32:02] uh understand what they do and and just introduce to us so that you would get an idea of how our hands and our funds are helping out a worthwhile ministry so i'm going to ask leah gutierrez to

[00:32:17] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_01]
[00:32:17] please come up and speak for us. Thank you. I'm Leah Gutierrez and I am the director of program services at Purple Heart Homes. I apologize. Today's just really hard as a veteran. Myself losing friends and family members. I wasn't expecting to do this right now. But at Purple
[00:32:49] Heart Homes we do. We have two programs. One is called the Veterans Aging in Place program which helps with critical home repair. That includes roofs, ramps, bathroom accessibility, and also HVAC. And we also have a veteran home opportunity program, which allows veterans to obtain a home
[00:33:08] at the fraction of the cost for those that qualify. So to begin, Purple Heart Homes was founded in 2008 by two combat wounded Iraqi veterans, John Galena, who was our CEO, and the late Dale Beatty. And after Dale was injured while serving overseas, he became the first
[00:33:27] double amputee in the state of North Carolina. He experienced firsthand the challenges of when returning home. And so what began as neighbors and community members coming together to help make Dale's home more accessible quickly grew into a national mission to serve other
[00:33:46] veterans in need so we are a national 501 C which means we're across the nation focusing I think we've been on all but well we've been to 47 states I think Idaho is one we're trying to get to but we also have a chapter in the
[00:34:02] Puerto Rican Puerto Rico excuse me last year our motto changed from improving hearts one home at a time to healing hearts one home at a time and the healing hearts one at a time, one home at a time, reflects the true impact of Purple Heart Homes
[00:34:20] mission. It means that every project completed is about more than construction or repairs. It's about restoring safety, dignity, independence, and hope for veterans and their families. It means that when Purple Heart Homes helps a veteran with a safer, more accessible, and more stable home,
[00:34:40] they're also restoring their dignity, their independence, their hope, and their connection.
[00:34:47] Many veterans carry physical injuries, emotional trauma, isolation, or even financial hardship after service. A repaired roof, a wheelchair ramp, accessible bathroom, or safe living space can directly improve their quality of life and remind them that they are valued and not forgotten.
[00:35:05] As of this morning, Purple Heart Homes has completed 1,767 projects.
[00:35:13] We've served 4,141 veterans, while also positively impacting countless family members and caregivers, and that number is over 8,000.
[00:35:24] Every ramp built, roof repaired, accessible modification completed, or home stabilized creates a ripple effect that extends far beyond the veteran alone.
[00:35:32] The phrase healing hearts represents the emotional and community healing that happens when veterans feel seen, valued, and supported.
[00:35:42] One home at a time reflects the commitment created in lasting impact through individual projects and each veteran served.
[00:35:49] It is estimated around $150,000 a year is spent to keep a veteran in assisted living with donations, and at a fraction of the cost, the veteran can stay in their home.
[00:36:10] So until you go to a project and see a veteran leave their house for the first time in five years because we built them a ramp, you won't understand the true impact it has on them.
[00:36:22] And donations like this really, really help our mission.
[00:36:26] It's more than just nails.
[00:36:27] It's more than just boards.
[00:36:28] It's more than just time.
[00:36:30] I mean, you're giving a veteran a new sense of life and purpose.
[00:36:34] It also helps them reduce isolation, and it does improve their quality of life.
[00:36:38] and it brings the communities together to honor those that have served and sacrificed.
[00:36:44] You're restoring pride, stability, and a peace of mind.
[00:36:48] The mission connects physical repairs with emotional and community healing because a home is often tied closely to safety, identity, and well-being.
[00:36:58] At Purple Heart Homes, every home repaired represents another life changed, another family strengthened, and another community united to service to those who have sacrificed for our country.
[00:37:09] Thank you.

[00:37:25] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_10]
[00:37:25] Memorial Day, we remember those who have fallen.
[00:37:30] We also remember those who have lost things overseas, parts of themselves, their hearts, and their souls.
[00:37:38] They've fought and they've given a sacrifice and some of them come home.
[00:37:43] Some of them come home with missing hearts, spirits, and lives, even though they've come home.
[00:37:53] So as we come together on this mission this week, I just ask you to continue to lift them up, continue to do this.
[00:38:00] This will again go until July 4th, so if you would like to give to this mission, write in a donation to Purple Hearts Home and put it in your offering plate, and we will be taking up.
[00:38:12] We have a goal of at least getting $2,500 by the end of this month, but I know that we probably can do even better than that.
[00:38:21] Let us heartfully turn toward our vets and say, we see you in this moment. As we come to this moment in our service of prayer, I just want you to transport yourself back to a time in history when there were a bunch of people who were going
[00:38:42] through a lot of trauma themselves. They had just witnessed the loss of their beloved Savior and they were sitting in a room after they had seen him ascend and they were wondering what's next and in that space and in that moment they they were met with the holy spirit god met them right
[00:39:05] where they were they didn't wait for them to get it all figured out to to get it all strong and and and battle ready for the mission ahead they were met there and uplifted and the holy spirit
[00:39:20] descended and landed on their hearts and they were empowered to go out and do the mission.
[00:39:26] That was the birth of the church. That's what Pentecost is. And as we come together in prayer today, maybe you are in one of those seasons where you're not sure. Maybe you're like one of these
[00:39:39] people that we have on our screens that are our prayer concerns. Maybe you're like one of the vets that this ministry is reaching out to.
[00:39:48] Let us pray that the Holy Spirit meets us where we are and that he empowers us to do something about it.
[00:39:58] Let us pray.
[00:40:14] Heavenly Father, in the stillness of this moment, we try to push away the noise.
[00:40:25] We try to push away our doubts, our struggles.
[00:40:29] We try to push them all away, but holy God that is not what you ask us to do. You ask us to come beside you and to listen to you in our moments of chaos, in our moments of wandering, in our moments of wilderness, in our
[00:40:49] moments of struggles, in our moments of health struggles, in our moments of financial insecurity, in our moments of wondering when our next meal will come. We are called to sit sit at your feet to know oh God that you see us
[00:41:11] and you see our hearts and even though we might have our hearts mixed up oh God and maybe a spirit that doesn't belong there in our hearts we're going to sit this morning sit with our struggles
[00:41:32] sit with our chaos and just say God this is what I have to give this is what I'm going through this this is where I'm at so holy God we come to you as a church and ask you to move
[00:41:57] move like a rushing wind like you did with your disciples move in a way that we cannot deny your presence even now help us now oh God to see that you are passionate for your children that you
[00:42:14] reach out in and through the darkness to bear light. You bring through the thirsty ground and bring forth the waters of life to bring us new life. And when we can't see, oh God, you are our
[00:42:29] eyes. When we can't feel, oh God, you're our heart. When we can't step forward, you are our feet.
[00:42:37] and when we can't see oh God and the light has dimmed you are our light the lamp unto our feet so holy God as we lift up these names as we lift up these situations we trust you because you have
[00:42:59] been faithful before you will be faithful again help us oh God praise you in this moment because the Spirit has come to dwell with us, in us, and through us. And we are soaking it up like a sponge.
[00:43:19] Holy God, let it ring us out as well, that others may be benefit from this Spirit that has come to us. And as we lift up this word of prayer, oh God, may the prayers that we lift up be the water
[00:43:34] trickling down over the wounds of those who we've lifted up and may your healing flow may your life flow and may your mission in our hearts be ever ready and restless to run oh holy god we thank you
[00:43:56] for jesus our savior our messiah who died and rose again we give thanks for god for the holy spirit that dwells and lives and breathes in us.
[00:44:13] We give thanks for your kingdom and we ask you, oh God, to send us out and let these hands, these feet, these lives be a testament and a testimony to what you have done in us.
[00:44:34] We give honor and glory to you now.
[00:44:37] And as we lift up this prayer that you taught us to pray, we ask your spirit to say it along with us. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
[00:44:51] Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not
[00:45:06] to temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever.
[00:45:15] Amen. It is now time for us to offer up our tithe and our offering before God. And as we do, I often remind you that each and every person has something, something to offer God. Because you
[00:45:32] have been given life. As you can breathe in today, you have been given a breath of life. As you can walk and breathe and get up in the morning, you have been given the ability of mobility.
[00:45:45] You have been given life. What will you give God this week? If the ushers come forward to take up our offering, I ask you as you pass the plate that you would offer up that plate as you
[00:45:57] hold on to the plate just for a moment and pass it to the next. If you would like to give a second offering to the Purple Heart Homes, put that in there too. Let us bless God's kingdom this morning.
[00:46:09] If the ushers would please come forward to receive our tithe and our offering.

[00:50:19] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[00:50:19] I've opened our hands to you and our hands have been filled with good things.
[00:50:25] Receive the gifts we bring in gratitude for your care for us and help us to bless you with dedication of our lives through Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit.
[00:50:37] Amen.

[00:50:50] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_10]
[00:50:50] Brothers and sisters, as always, I ask if you have your Bibles to take them out.
[00:50:55] you'll notice mine has got a couple extra ribbons today, as you may know, and by the beautiful altar that is behind me, that we are celebrating Pentecost. And it is a very powerful part of
[00:51:08] who we are as Christians. It is the moment where the Holy Spirit moved in our lives and gave birth to the church. And as we are reading today, we're going to be talking about Jesus speaking about
[00:51:22] this. He's talking about the Spirit being poured out over us. And so I want you to hear this. It's in the Gospel of John, the seventh chapter, and we'll be starting in verse 37. Here now, a passage
[00:51:37] you might not think is about Pentecost, but it is. On the last day of the festival, the great day, while Jesus was standing there, he cried out, anyone who is thirsty, Come to me, and let that the one who believes in me drink.
[00:52:02] As the scripture says, out of the believer's heart shall flow rivers of living water.
[00:52:09] Now he said this about the spirit, which the believers in him were to receive.
[00:52:15] For as yet they were no spirit, because Jesus had not been glorified.
[00:52:21] This is the word of God for us, the people of God.
[00:52:25] Thanks be to God.
[00:52:26] Will you pray with me? Come Holy Spirit and like tongues of fire breathe life into us.
[00:52:37] Burn away our preconceived notions and allow us to hear your words and the impact, the great impact you were saying here in your word to us. Come and be living water again and again and again for us and our thirsty souls in your mighty name we pray amen when I hear scriptures
[00:53:07] like this one preached I often find myself going off on a tangent but here's the point that I want you to hear is this passage of scripture has some pre-knowledge that you have to understand
[00:53:22] before you can understand what Jesus was doing because he was shaking things up at this moment.
[00:53:31] You see, they were at the festival and we hear about this, what festival?
[00:53:35] The festival of the booths, okay?
[00:53:38] This is a Jewish festival where they would get in the autumn season, would put up these tents, these temporary tents and they would honor God because in the wilderness, God had put up tents and they were provided for each and every day.
[00:53:58] They were not only provided for, but they were protected in the wilderness.
[00:54:03] They were given providence and given a purpose in the wilderness.
[00:54:09] And when they did this, they were always looking to God to provide.
[00:54:14] They provided this drink, the water, every day. You can hear it in those scriptures when Moses was, the people were complaining because they didn't have anything to drink. Moses goes over to a rock and says, pour forth the water
[00:54:30] and water flowed out of the rock. Later on, they complained again about the same thing.
[00:54:37] We don't have the water. We don't, we're thirsty, Moses. And he struck the rock against God's commandment. And the water came out still. See, in the desert places, we are thirsty. And I don't know about you, but a lot of these people were reminded by this festival that we are a thirsty
[00:55:01] people, that we need God's provision to be able to sustain us. And in this one, in the festival, it's a seven-day long festival where they go in and with the beginning of each and every day to
[00:55:15] honor that wilderness experience, they go to the pools of Siloam. Goes to this pool that means sent. That's what Siloam means, sent. They go to it and they get the water as they were sent from
[00:55:33] Egypt and they take the water in a jug and they process through the city of Jerusalem to the temple, and you know that altar that they have for sacrifice? They would go up to the altar,
[00:55:47] instead of putting a sacrifice in front of it, they would pour the water over it. Wasting water, right? No. Honoring God, saying, you are the one who will quench our thirst. You've done it in the
[00:56:04] past, and you will do it again. You will do it again. See, this is the preface, and this is what happens. It says at the end of the festival. So seven days they've gone to the temple and they
[00:56:17] poured it over the altar, poured it all over the altar, poured it over there. God, we want your thirst to be, we want to be quenched. We want you, God, to feed our souls. That's what they were
[00:56:31] praying for. And in this passage, God hears their prayer. Did you catch that? They prayed seven days.
[00:56:46] I don't know about you, but sometimes I say once or twice and I'm walking away from that prayer. No, they were religiously and every day praying, God, send forth your providence, send forth the harvest,
[00:56:59] Send forth your goodness.
[00:57:02] And God did it.
[00:57:04] On the seventh day, he says, all right, everyone, come, all who are thirsty, and drink.
[00:57:13] I'm here.
[00:57:17] And here's the thing.
[00:57:20] Jesus' miraculous statement in this one moment where he's reaching out and asking you guys, you're thirsty, you're parched, I'm here, is met with murmurs.
[00:57:33] dissension you see the holy spirit hadn't been poured out just yet they knew that it would and yet they still didn't understand there were still the disciples still didn't understand the people still did not understand we still do not understand how many of you try to fill your
[00:57:58] your canteens every sunday god just fill this up i'll go out and do the work all right, I'll give you some. But no, no, no, no, no. I just need just enough to make it through
[00:58:16] the week. That's not how this works. You don't go under Niagara Falls and open your mouth and say, I just need a mouthful. You don't go to God and say, I would like to be fed and take in this
[00:58:34] living water and say, but I only want a mouthful. God says, here is my Holy Spirit. I give it all to you. I want to transform your life. I want to make it impossible for you to see anything other
[00:58:48] than what I have put and blushed in your life. I want to fill your tents to overflowing so the tents can't even house the worship that you should have for me. Jesus said, here you are, drink.
[00:59:05] And how many of us, even on Pentecost, even when we celebrate the Spirit's outpouring, say only just a mouthful please i can't take it the fire came down in pentecost we talked about it in that
[00:59:24] room with the disciples what would have happened the disciples said i only want a portion of it i don't want the whole thing we've been talking about spiritual gifts in our bible study just in
[00:59:42] the other room after service for a couple weeks now how many of us think you know what i only want enough that to feel like I contributed but no I haven't asked God to pour out every bit of his
[00:59:56] spirit on me so I can be supercharged and I don't have to come back and say okay I need just a little bit more of your spirit oh my spirit is open pour it out on me pour it out on your church
[01:00:19] pour it out in your community because there are so many people who are thirsty outside these doors who don't know what they're missing because we haven't been willing to soak it up like a sponge and pour out.
[01:00:34] We have not been willing to allow that Holy Spirit to overflow from us, to let people know that there's more to life than just existing.
[01:00:45] Jesus says, hey, I'm here.
[01:00:49] Those who believe in me, drink.
[01:00:52] I like another version.
[01:00:53] It says, drink deeply.
[01:00:59] Brothers and sisters, the church cannot take sips of the Holy Spirit.
[01:01:07] It needs to drink deeply.
[01:01:10] We have to live with passion in our hearts.
[01:01:13] We have to realize that God has done something in us that's supernatural.
[01:01:21] We should not be the same when we come in contact with the living water as when we were when we were thirsty.
[01:01:30] No, I'm not saying it's a magical wand.
[01:01:32] I'm saying the Holy Spirit fills us up And when you pour things in The good things into your life You know what happens?
[01:01:42] The bad things can't exist in that space And the God movement of the Holy Spirit in your hearts Will not allow those evil and wrong spirits within you That hatred The distrust The hurt The malice
[01:02:04] Those things that we hide in our hearts that are supposed to carry that Holy Spirit cannot exist because when it pours in, it overflows.
[01:02:16] And when it overflows, all of that bad stuff goes out of us and we are called by the Holy Spirit to be transformed by the living water.
[01:02:29] So the question remains, are you ready for that outpouring?
[01:02:36] Are you ready to allow God to transform and use you?
[01:02:40] are you allowing yourself to soak in the holy living water and are you going to allow yourself to be squeezed and poured out see the disciples sat in a room fearful anxious unsure of what
[01:03:08] tomorrow would bring they just watched him go up what's next how am i gonna walk and the holy spirit when they were receptive.
[01:03:23] It says they were up in the room praying, similarly to all of these people at the festival of booths.
[01:03:31] Praying, praying.
[01:03:35] Come, God, give me the spirit.
[01:03:38] Give me my next steps.
[01:03:40] Give me the power to put one foot in front of the other.
[01:03:44] I don't know if I can do this.
[01:03:47] And God showed up in a rush of whitey wind and flames that stood above their heads.
[01:03:55] They knew the Holy Spirit had changed and they walked out and they had given a sermon that transformed the beginning of a movement of a way to why we are sitting here today.
[01:04:12] Brothers and sisters, we need a new awakening.
[01:04:15] We need people willing to pray and pray and pray that the Holy Spirit moves.
[01:04:21] And when we do, don't be there trying to tell him, I only want a mouthful.
[01:04:29] I want it all.
[01:04:32] All that you're willing to pour, pour it over me and let your will be done.
[01:04:44] You see, peoples who heard in John 7 weren't ready yet to allow that to happen.
[01:04:51] disciples in the upper room after he ascended were praying diligently and asking and god poured it out more than enough for all that the ministry would have them do are you willing to let it
[01:05:11] pour out on you will you pray with me come holy spirit come jesus savior and master come and pour out your spirit on us.
[01:05:39] Renew the face of the earth by your spirit.
[01:05:43] Empower those here in the sanctuary and those who have watched this message that they might receive your spirit.
[01:05:51] If they are willing, oh God, pour it out and allow your church to thrive and grow.
[01:06:00] For holy God, we are here at Tholome and we are ready to be sent.
[01:06:07] We are ready to be empowered.
[01:06:10] We are ready to do the work of your kingdom.
[01:06:13] So send us with your mighty power and a mighty rushing wind.
[01:06:19] Come and build your church and use our hands and feet.
[01:06:26] In your mighty name we pray.
[01:06:34] Our closing worship song is I Come With Joy.
[01:06:38] It's found on page 617.
[01:06:41] We'll be doing verses 1, 4, and 5.
[01:06:45] Please stand as you are able and sing with me.

[01:06:48] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_07]
[01:06:48] Brothers and sisters, friends and messengers of the gospel,

[01:08:11] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_10]
[01:08:11] holy vessels of his Holy Spirit, go and burn bright from this place.
[01:08:19] Go and share the message you have heard today and go be the hands and feet that are poured out of his spirit on the world around you.
[01:08:30] In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.