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Are U Thirsty Ep 2818 · Challenges of Faith Radio Program

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  Speaker 1: You're hav Any, gracious God. As we're come before your
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  Speaker 1: holy presence, we thank you for who you are and
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  Speaker 1: who you continue to be in each of our lives.
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  Speaker 1: We thank you for what Jesus Christ did at the
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  Speaker 1: cross the Calvary for each one of us. As we
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  Speaker 1: enter the message, we ask you a lot of your
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  Speaker 1: holy spirit to take it and make it real, help
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  Speaker 1: us to understand it no matter what trials we're going through.
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  Speaker 1: WHI are in a trial, waiting for one, or coming
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  Speaker 1: out of one, but irrespective of the trials, may we
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  Speaker 1: recognize and understand and appreciate that you're with us. In
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  Speaker 1: Jesus' name, we ask you and thank you all man,
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to Challenges Faith Radio program. I'm Gary mccam's.
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  Speaker 1: During the challenging time and disappointment of our lives, the
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  Speaker 1: question is who do we turn to? Who have you
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  Speaker 1: been turning to all this time? Turning to today? So
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  Speaker 1: Moses and you do remember him, don't you? He brought
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  Speaker 1: Israel out of the Red Sea. You remember. Then they
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  Speaker 1: went out into the wilderness of Sure and he went
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  Speaker 1: three days in the willderness and found no water. Now,
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  Speaker 1: when it came to Marah, they couldn't drink the waters
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  Speaker 1: of Mirror, for they were bitter. Therefore the name of
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  Speaker 1: it was called Mirror. And the people complained against Moses,
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  Speaker 1: saying what shall we drink? So he cried out to
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  Speaker 1: the Lord, and the Lord showed him a tree. When
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  Speaker 1: he cast it into the waters, the waters were made sweet.
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  Speaker 1: And you can find it in extras chapter fifteen, verse
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  Speaker 1: twenty two through twenty five. I know you wrote it down,
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  Speaker 1: but do you notice this experiences of the people of Israel.
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  Speaker 1: Remember now, all scripture is not to you and I,
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  Speaker 1: but we can apply it to our life if it
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  Speaker 1: is applicable. But the apostle Paul had sent a letter
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  Speaker 1: to the Christians in corinth and in First Corinthians, chapter ten,
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  Speaker 1: verse eleven. Now all these things happened to them as examples,
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  Speaker 1: and they were written for adnomission upon whom the ends
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  Speaker 1: of the ages have come. Do you notice before Paul
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  Speaker 1: recited how God provided both food and drink for Israel
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  Speaker 1: during their loans sojourned through the wilderness. And then he
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  Speaker 1: makes a surprising declaration that their experiences were recorded for
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  Speaker 1: you and you and you and me with question his wife.
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  Speaker 1: And you see that there are examples in the world
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  Speaker 1: for you and me, especially as we walk through this
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  Speaker 1: world's wilderness onness adjourned that we're calling life. And before
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  Speaker 1: you can even fathom that, do you notice Paul gives
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  Speaker 1: us a warning in First Conscience, Chapter ten, verse twelve.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore let him is applicable to her as well. Generic
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  Speaker 1: who thinks he stands take heed unless he fall. Do
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  Speaker 1: you notice that what the children of Israel experience while
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  Speaker 1: going through the wilderness corresponds to yours and mind mine
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  Speaker 1: and yours experiencing the Christian life? And if you're really
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  Speaker 1: looking at it, you notice how you can translate what
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  Speaker 1: happened in them directly over to the life of any
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  Speaker 1: believer today. But better the household of Faith understanding, you
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  Speaker 1: and I can expect to go through the same challenging
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  Speaker 1: problems and expect the same solutions, the same answers to
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  Speaker 1: work for us in our life, because again, remember, every
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  Speaker 1: believer of the Household of Faith is going to experience
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  Speaker 1: your own particular version of what has happened to the
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  Speaker 1: Israelites and the wilderness the memory you're either in aer trial,
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  Speaker 1: waiting for one, or coming out of one. I don't
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  Speaker 1: believe any child of God can escape going through these
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  Speaker 1: challenging trials because they're normal or natural in this life
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  Speaker 1: of Christ. And therefore, as you and I are looking
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  Speaker 1: at the words, it's help for us to follow the
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  Speaker 1: children of Israel for just a little way until that wilderness,
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  Speaker 1: so that you and I can learn something valuable from
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  Speaker 1: their experience if you want too. And again you're either
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  Speaker 1: enter trial, coming out of one, or waiting for us.
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  Speaker 1: So when the children of His were crossed the Red Sea,
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  Speaker 1: they crossed as a redeemed people. Are you and you
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  Speaker 1: got to remember God had redeemed them by blood and
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  Speaker 1: by power out of the land of Egypt. And when
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  Speaker 1: they crossed over the Red Sea and came safety to
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  Speaker 1: the other side, they sang the Song of Moses. Because
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  Speaker 1: up to that point they murmured and complained. Do you
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  Speaker 1: remember how you're murmuring and complaining in your trial. But
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  Speaker 1: they actually wanted to go back to slavery, you know,
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  Speaker 1: back to the brickyards of Egypt. But then God powerfully
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  Speaker 1: and miraculously opened the Red Sea thanks to Moses's faith,
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  Speaker 1: and they crossed over. How about in your own life
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  Speaker 1: in that trial, do you remember, are you seeing how
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  Speaker 1: God it's powerfully and miraculously in your life, provided a
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  Speaker 1: solution for you. And was it done because of something
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  Speaker 1: you're doing, something you're sining, or have done because of
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  Speaker 1: your faith or somebody else's faith. But do you notice
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  Speaker 1: what the children of then, they believed, entered the wilderness
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  Speaker 1: by faith and could sing the song of Moses. And
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  Speaker 1: those of you who loved the sing, and those of
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  Speaker 1: you who don't love the sing? Are you singing? I'd
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  Speaker 1: appreciation to God. But they entered the wilderness by faith,
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  Speaker 1: and they could sing the song of Moses. You remember
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  Speaker 1: some of the verses that showed that they were redeemed
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  Speaker 1: people and understood that. Do you understand, my brother, of
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  Speaker 1: my household of faith, that you and I are redeemed
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  Speaker 1: because of what Jesus Christ did, that to cross the
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  Speaker 1: calvary with you, and you and you and you and
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  Speaker 1: me too. But in after the chapter fifteen, verse two,
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  Speaker 1: the word not Gary, the Lord is my strength and song.
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  Speaker 1: He has become my salvation. He is my God, and
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  Speaker 1: I will praise him my father's God, and I would
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  Speaker 1: exalt him. Continue in verse thirteen. Think about they were
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  Speaker 1: saved people singing, God is my salvation. You and your
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  Speaker 1: mercy have led for the people whom you have redeemed.
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  Speaker 1: You have guided them in your strength to your holy abitation.
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  Speaker 1: Do you see that, my brother? Do you notice they've
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  Speaker 1: crossed the red sea and are singing, calling themselves a
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  Speaker 1: redeemed people. You know, it's interesting as you go through
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  Speaker 1: the Word of God, you find that only redeemed people
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  Speaker 1: can sing praise to God from the heart. So's the
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  Speaker 1: household of faith. And those of you who are sitting
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  Speaker 1: in the pews and behind the poor fifth, are you
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  Speaker 1: singing praise to God from the heart? Is it really
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  Speaker 1: from the heart? Because anybody can sing the blues, But
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  Speaker 1: to sing from the heart with joy, you have to
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  Speaker 1: be a redeemed person. You must be a redeemed person.
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  Speaker 1: And guess what. So they began their march, and they
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  Speaker 1: began that march through the wilderness with a song and
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  Speaker 1: a great joy. You're going to go out there in
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  Speaker 1: that cold and different world. You don't know who's who.
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  Speaker 1: Have you taken a moment and asked God to reveal
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  Speaker 1: the motives and hearts of people their true intense towards
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  Speaker 1: you and you and you and me too. But in
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  Speaker 1: respect of you know what God has done in your life.
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  Speaker 1: Are you still able to sing a song with great joy?
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  Speaker 1: Because you gotta remember what the Israelites all their lives,
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  Speaker 1: they had been slaves in the land of Egypt, without
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  Speaker 1: a ray of hope on the horizon that they would
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  Speaker 1: ever be free. Thank in my community. Remember they were
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  Speaker 1: born into the brickyards of Egypt. For all they knew,
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  Speaker 1: they would stay there until death because there was not hope.
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  Speaker 1: A friend of my household of paiper for those of
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  Speaker 1: you who don't know him, who die for you? Were
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  Speaker 1: you walking around helpless, hopeless, hurting and homeless today? But
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  Speaker 1: something happened. Moses appeared back in the land of Egypt
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  Speaker 1: and said, God has sent me. Think about that. Who
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  Speaker 1: has God brought into your life and your life and
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  Speaker 1: your life for such a time as now. God brought
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  Speaker 1: these people out through the place of judgment upon Egypt,
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  Speaker 1: redeeming them by blood on that night of the Passover
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  Speaker 1: and by power at the Red Sea. Can you imagine
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  Speaker 1: the people starting off through the wilderness. Could you imagine you?
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  Speaker 1: Do you remember when you started off on your sojourn?
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  Speaker 1: I do, but think about it. They don't have to
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  Speaker 1: go back into the brickyards and make a single brick
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  Speaker 1: do you think about they No longer will they feel
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  Speaker 1: the lash of the task Master. No longer were they
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  Speaker 1: grown under the burdens of Egypt. They're free and they're
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  Speaker 1: singing a powerful song of redemption. And you can see
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  Speaker 1: all that in Exodus chapter fifteen. It's fitting here you
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  Speaker 1: have in the United States, and I don't know about
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  Speaker 1: your country and your country and your country for Black
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  Speaker 1: History months. There's a reason for that. Do you remember?
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  Speaker 1: Do you remember? Do you remember the reasons? But then
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  Speaker 1: the children of Israel were confronted with their wilderness, challenging experience,
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  Speaker 1: and so on extradu chapter fifteen, verse twenty two. So
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  Speaker 1: Moses brought Israel from the Red Sea. Then they went
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  Speaker 1: out into the wilderness or sure, and they went three
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  Speaker 1: days in the wilderness and found the water. Now that's bad,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it. These redeemed people, they start out through the
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  Speaker 1: wilderness according to God's instructure, and after three days they
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  Speaker 1: still haven't found any water. They're crossing the desert as
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  Speaker 1: dry as anything, you know, like out there in Arizona
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  Speaker 1: or California. It's bad. But you know what, though, Moses,
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  Speaker 1: maybe that's you. He came to know that wilderness as well.
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  Speaker 1: Think about it. After living in it for forty years
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  Speaker 1: keeping sheep for his father in law, he spent another
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  Speaker 1: forty years there with the people of Israel. Eighty years
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  Speaker 1: in the wilderness makes one an authority with your agree.
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  Speaker 1: And near the end of those years, Moses labeled a
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  Speaker 1: place that great and terrible wilderness and the wasteland a
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  Speaker 1: howling wilderness over in Deuteronomy chapter one, verse nineteen and
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  Speaker 1: Deuteronomy chapter thirty two, verse ten, Because that's what it was.
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  Speaker 1: Could you imagine someone coming along trying to tell you
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  Speaker 1: after being in us ajourn or being somewhere for eighty years,
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  Speaker 1: or have the long it's been, and they have not
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  Speaker 1: been so think about it. After traveling for three days,
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  Speaker 1: all of the water supply was exalted, and I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: most of the family started off with something filled with water,
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  Speaker 1: but it's all going now. And they got this powerful
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  Speaker 1: craving for something to drink their parts and desperate, and
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  Speaker 1: if our loving God then providing for them, guess what
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  Speaker 1: would happen? They would perish? Do you remember that if
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  Speaker 1: God didn't provide something for you? I didn't say some man, woman, woman,
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  Speaker 1: some man, But could you remember what would have happened
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  Speaker 1: with you and you and you my brother and love
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  Speaker 1: the house ord of Faith. Their experience is contrary to
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  Speaker 1: what people today believe how life should be for the
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  Speaker 1: child of God. Then you excuse me, then your past
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  Speaker 1: to tell you as a grab a sip of my water.
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  Speaker 1: Then when you came to know Jesus Christ, what was
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  Speaker 1: going to occur. So here's the way it would have
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  Speaker 1: played out. If you were reading a fairy tale. Every
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  Speaker 1: throwing on, every cactus in their wilderness would be taken off,
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  Speaker 1: every sharp stone would be removed from their pathway. The
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  Speaker 1: mountains would be smoothed out, the valleys filled in, and
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  Speaker 1: God's chosen people would go through the wilderness with no problems,
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  Speaker 1: no challenging trials, no hardships, not a care, not a bird,
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  Speaker 1: nor sign nor tears. Isn't that the way? Maybe your
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  Speaker 1: pastor presented the Christian life to you, but then you
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  Speaker 1: learn the truth. But think about it. According to them,
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  Speaker 1: becoming the Christian solves all our problems, resolves all of
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  Speaker 1: our challenges, and everything else is easy selling. But you
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  Speaker 1: know what, the moment the children of Israel were redeemed
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  Speaker 1: and got on the other side of the d see, they
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  Speaker 1: faced larger problems that they ever had in the land
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  Speaker 1: of Egypt. Do you remember the moment after you came
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  Speaker 1: to New Christ what happened after that? Think about it,
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  Speaker 1: the moment somebody else takes responsibility of charge of you,
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  Speaker 1: the very moment you lose your liberty and become a slave.
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  Speaker 1: Egypt was called the bread basket of the ancient world,
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  Speaker 1: and that was the reason Jacob and his sons moved
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  Speaker 1: there in the first place. You remember the story how
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  Speaker 1: that the famine was throughout the world and they went
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  Speaker 1: to Egypt because that was the only place where they
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  Speaker 1: could get grain. And in the land of Egypt there
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  Speaker 1: was water and grain and abundance. Think about it. Egypt
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  Speaker 1: didn't have to depend on rainfall. They depended on the river.
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  Speaker 1: Now they even worshiped it. Remember how it overflowed its
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  Speaker 1: banks every spring. And in Egypt you could feel your
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  Speaker 1: tea kettle anytime you wanted to. But you got to remember,
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  Speaker 1: for the people of Israel, they're on that desert. The
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  Speaker 1: sisters of Egypt were far behind them, and suddenly the
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  Speaker 1: source of supplies cut off. Do you remember now that
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  Speaker 1: you're out there on that's adjourned, But here you got
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  Speaker 1: to Israelites. They find themselves under a different trial or
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  Speaker 1: different circumstance, and the wilderness, there's always the scarcity of water,
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  Speaker 1: and it's a long way from one oasis to another.
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  Speaker 1: But they've not yet found the fountain of living waters.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna take them a little while to do that.
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  Speaker 1: How about it? In your life? Have you found the
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  Speaker 1: fountain of living waters in Christ? What have you? Because
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  Speaker 1: the interesting thing is that here you got the children
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  Speaker 1: of Israel having a legitimate experience because it was normal,
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  Speaker 1: natural and there's nothing wrong with thirsty. And they're not
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  Speaker 1: out there in that wilderness because of some sin that's
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  Speaker 1: in their lives. Nor are they out of the will
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  Speaker 1: of God. They are in the will of God. And
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  Speaker 1: yet think about it, they went three days Thursday. Can
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  Speaker 1: you explain that? When you look at the Word, the
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  Speaker 1: Word of God, do you notice how it's a mirror
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  Speaker 1: for every child of God to look into. When was
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  Speaker 1: the last time you looked into the Word of God
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  Speaker 1: and saw yourself? Every time I read it, excuse me,
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  Speaker 1: I see myself. Paul said, all these things happened to
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  Speaker 1: them as examples for us, there are thousand other experiences.
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  Speaker 1: Moses could have recorded, but do you notice he recorded
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  Speaker 1: only seven. Because there are examples for you and you
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  Speaker 1: and you and me too. And with these examples, you
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  Speaker 1: notice how you and I should learn the lessons because
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  Speaker 1: this thirsting is the experience of every born again child
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  Speaker 1: of God. And you got to think about it. If
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  Speaker 1: you're a child of God, you already know I'm describing
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  Speaker 1: your challenging trials that you've undergone. Will of the go
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  Speaker 1: think about it. After you were redeemed, after that time
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  Speaker 1: you came to Christ, you received them as savior. Remember
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  Speaker 1: how things became different. Then you find that the systems
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  Speaker 1: of Egypt failed to satisfy you. Isn't that what happened
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  Speaker 1: in your trial? Remember how right after you were saved
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  Speaker 1: you attempted to continue the same lifestyle and it didn't work,
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  Speaker 1: It didn't satisfy. Wasn't that your challenging experience, my brother,
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  Speaker 1: and of house or of faith? And then there was
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  Speaker 1: that period of soul you know, or you yearning and
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  Speaker 1: a passion for the things of God. Because at first,
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  Speaker 1: remember you had trouble finding satisfaction, and maybe you still
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  Speaker 1: haven't found it, but sooner or later, though, you gotta remember,
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  Speaker 1: if you're a child of God, You're gonna find a fountain,
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  Speaker 1: a brother of the household of faith. Are you somewhere thirsty,
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  Speaker 1: sitting somewhere at the place of worship, sending those pews
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  Speaker 1: a pastor not providing the word of life to you?
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  Speaker 1: You know the water of the word. Remember when John
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  Speaker 1: chapter sixth, verse sixty eight. You know when many other
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  Speaker 1: the lords of sife was left him. Our Lord asked
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  Speaker 1: Simon Peter if he would leave as well? You know what,
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  Speaker 1: Simon Peter replied, Lord, to whom she we go, you
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  Speaker 1: have the words of eternal life. And later Peter wrote
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  Speaker 1: over in First Peter chapter two, verse two, as new
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  Speaker 1: more and babes desire the pure milk of the words.
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  Speaker 1: Let me ask you a question. You don't mind, do you?
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever seen a baby's muscles move when the
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  Speaker 1: baby's mom holds up the bottles that they great to
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  Speaker 1: drink of formula. You notice everything is saying through that
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  Speaker 1: baby's muscles. Give it to me. The apostle Paul said
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  Speaker 1: after he was converted, But what things were gained to me?
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  Speaker 1: Those I have counted loss for Christ. Yet indeed I
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  Speaker 1: so count all things loss for the excellence of the
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  Speaker 1: knowledge of Christ, Jesus my Lord. And then Paul goes
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  Speaker 1: on to share his great longing and thirst open Philippians
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  Speaker 1: chapter three, verse seven and eight and ten. He said
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  Speaker 1: that I may know him and the power of his
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  Speaker 1: resurrection and the fellowship of his suffrags. And I share
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  Speaker 1: with people today because I remember when I prayed that prayer.
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  Speaker 1: You want to be careful, and then you want to
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  Speaker 1: hold on to your seat, Paul said, when I came
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  Speaker 1: to Christ, said, revolutionized my book keeping system. He said,
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  Speaker 1: what was the loss became gain, and what was gain
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  Speaker 1: became a loss. It turned me inside out. Oh, that
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  Speaker 1: I might know him, I remember. And the question is
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  Speaker 1: and was was Paul thirsty? And even for your own life?
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  Speaker 1: Are you again? I remember that same prayer, And boy again,
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  Speaker 1: I tell you today, I tell people, don't pray that
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  Speaker 1: prayer if you don't mean it. But Paul knew what
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  Speaker 1: it was to go three days into wilderness without water.
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  Speaker 1: And our Lord spoke to the woman of Samara, you
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  Speaker 1: remember over in John chapter four, verse thirteen through fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus answered and said to her, whoever drinks of this
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  Speaker 1: water will thirst again. But whoever drinks of the water
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  Speaker 1: that I shall give him will never thirst. But the
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  Speaker 1: water that I shall give him will be come in him,
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  Speaker 1: a fountain of water, springing up into everlasting life. And
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  Speaker 1: a woman said to him, Sir, give me this water.
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  Speaker 1: She was thirsty, And again the question is are you
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  Speaker 1: our savior. The Lord Jesus Christ stood on that great
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  Speaker 1: day of the feast and the temple and said, in
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  Speaker 1: John chapter seven, verse thirty seven, if any one thirst,
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  Speaker 1: let him come to me and drink. Are you thirsty?