Final Words: Sayings of the Savior

“I Thirst”

Later, knowing that everything had now been finished, and so that Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.” A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it to Jesus’ lips. When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
John 19:28-30

On The Cross, Jesus’ Nature Is Revealed

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from my cries of anguish?
Psalm 22:1

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart has turned to wax; it has melted within me. My mouth is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth; you lay me in the dust of death.
Psalm 22:14-15

On The Cross, Jesus’ Mission Is Confirmed

On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.”
John 7:37-38

With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation. Isaiah 12:3

The man brought me back to the entrance to the temple, and I saw water coming out from under the threshold of the temple… He said to me, “This water flows toward the eastern region and goes down into the … Dead Sea. When it empties into the sea, the salty water there becomes fresh.
Ezekiel 47:1,8

On the Cross, Jesus’ Invitation Is Given

Whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.
John 4:14

My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
Jeremiah 2:13

How Will You Respond?
- I am thirsting after Jesus, the living water.
- I am no longer “digging my own wells.”
- I am surrendering & embracing my limits.
- I am no longer ignoring my soul thirst.

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