Title I am thirsty / John 19:28-30
Content: I'm thirsty
John 19:28-30
Hallelujah!
It was 9 am when our Lord was crucified and 3 pm when he died.
The Lord hung on the cross for six hours.
During those six hours, our Lord did not struggle, complain, or curse others, but only seven words left to us.
The first word was for intercession.
"Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing" (Luke 23:34).
For the ignorant people who crucified themselves and shared their clothes there, the Lord did not promise vengeance, but instead offered an intercessory prayer to forgive them.
The second word was for salvation.
“I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise” (Luke 23:43).
It was an amazing event that saved a repentant thief on the cross at the last moment. Our Lord has spoken words to save even one person until the last moment on this earth.
The third word was a word of comfort.
"Woman, behold, your son. Behold, your mother."
Even in the midst of his last and last suffering, Jesus comforted his mother by entrusting him to his beloved disciple John.
Until the last moment, he showed us the image of the Lord who performed the duty of becoming the son of man.
The fourth word was a cry for abandonment.
“Eli, Eli, Lama, Sabachthani.” (Matthew 27:46)
“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
Although the Lord had been in deep fellowship with God the Father until now, He cried out to God who had abandoned Himself on the cross.
Because of my sins, the Lord took the punishment I deserved and was cast away first to save me.
The fifth verse was about thirst.
“I am thirsty” (John 19:28).
On the cross, Jesus shed all his water and blood through his torn body.
Our Lord was tormented by an intense thirst.
“After this, Jesus, knowing that all things had already been accomplished, wanted the scriptures to be fulfilled, saying, I am thirsty” (John 19:28).
Although the Lord was physically thirsty, He said, "I am thirsty" (John 19:28) to fulfill the words of the Bible.
It is said that the first monks memorized this aphorism more than once a day, saying, "Remember death." That death means the death of Jesus Christ.
However, modern people living today are trying to change direction, saying, "Let's forget death."
I don't know if living best means dying best.
What is the meaning of thirst when the Lord said on the cross, "I am thirsty" (John 19:28)?
The thirst of the Lord was a thirst for fulfilling the Word of God.
“The Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth” (John 1:14).
Jesus came to this earth in the flesh to fulfill the word of God.
The entire life of Jesus was prophesied by the Bible.
Jesus is the descendant of Abraham and David, and it was prophesied that he would be born through a virgin on this earth, and the place where Jesus would be born. After he was born, he fled to Egypt and rode a colt into Jerusalem and suffered and suffered for thirty pieces of silver. Everything is prophesied that he will be sold and crucified to death. Also, the Lord will be treated as one of the criminals, and the words He will say in His suffering on the cross, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you far from helping me, and from listening to my groaning?" (Psalm 22:1) even the Word was prophesied.
The problem is that no matter how prophesied in the Bible, it is your problem to obey.
If you do not obey because it does not fit your taste, and if you obey if it suits your taste, you cannot fulfill the Word of God.
Only absolute obedience that does not care whether obedience to God's Word causes harm or pain can fulfill God's Word.
The Lord obeyed even to the cross to fulfill the Word of God.
The Lord's thirst was a thirst to fulfill God's love.
“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment, and the second is like it. You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” It is the Spirit.” (Matthew 22:37-40)
The Lord said that to love God and to love our neighbor is the basic meaning of all laws and the original will of the prophets.
According to the record of the text, people tied a seaweed containing the sour wine to Jesus to hyssop and brought it to Jesus' mouth, and it is recorded that the Lord drank the sour wine.
This also fulfilled the prophecies of the Old Testament.
“They gave gall for my food, and they gave me vinegar for thirst” (Psalm 69:21).
The Lord did not drink the first wine.
“When they came to a place called Golgotha, which is called the Place of the Skull, they gave Jesus wine mixed with gall to drink, but when Jesus tasted it, he refused to drink it” (Matthew 27:34).
It was a kind of anesthetic to relieve the pain to drink wine mixed with gall, but the Lord initially refused it.
Why didn't the Lord drink?
The Lord did not bear the crucifixion in a hazy state, but received the crucifixion in a perfect mind.
The Lord first prayed with a clear mind to forgive the Roman soldiers who crucified Him.
Also, the Lord granted paradise to the thief who sat at his right hand with a clear mind. And he asked the disciple John for his mother Mary.
The Lord wanted to accomplish the great love of God through Himself.
The Roman centurion and those who kept Jesus, who saw this to the end, confessed to Jesus, "Truly this was the Son of God."
The Lord's thirst was a thirst to accomplish God's salvation.
Our Lord told us to be thirsty to fulfill the word of God throughout our lives.
Our Lord told us to be thirsty all our lives to achieve God's salvation.
Our Lord told us to be thirsty to fulfill God's love for the rest of our lives.
“God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through him” (John 3:17).
The history of mankind is the history of the fallen man.
However, from another perspective, it can be said that it is God's work to save mankind.
The Lord wanted to accomplish this salvation.
Our Lord came to this earth and suffered all the suffering that a human being can experience.
The Lord suffered hunger and fatigue, thirst and pain, loneliness and betrayal, and even the last death on the cross.
Why did the Lord suffer all this suffering?
Even though we have no sin, the Lord suffered all the suffering to save us.
The Lord said to a woman who had been thirsty for all her life, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but the water I will give will in her become a spring of water springing up to eternal life" (John 4:14). .
Our human greed is like a "bottom of poison" and cannot be filled with anything, just as no matter how much water is poured, it cannot be filled.
Human greed has to come to an end only when it has to taste death.
“When lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death” (Agos 1:15).
But all our thirst can be quenched when we have the One who made the whole world in our hearts.
In a sense, our lives are a continuation of our daily thirst.
Some are thirsty for money, others for fame.
Zacchaeus was earning money until he was called a peasant, but money was not satisfied.
Solomon had many women, but he confessed that everything was in vain.
"If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the scripture says, out of his belly will flow rivers of living water" (John 7:37-38).
The Lord told us to be thirsty to work out the salvation of God.
Dear saints!
Two people were talking.
"Business is going well these days." "Good."
“But I got into a car accident while doing business.” "No."
"I fell in love with the nurse because I was hospitalized." "Good."
"But I had to break up with my parents' opposition." "No."
Life can be said to be a series of good and bad like this.
There is no standard of living.
However, our Lord made us know the starting point of our life and the starting point of history through the cross.
During Lent, we also thirst for the Lord's thirst, and we earnestly pray that we will become saints who participate in the Lord's work of salvation.