Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us here today on Pastor Rick's Daily Hope,
Speaker 1: the audio broadcast ministry of Pastor Rick Warren. Today we
Speaker 1: continue in a series called the Seven Greatest Words of Love.
Speaker 2: There are seven.
Speaker 1: Words, in particular that Jesus spoke during his final hours
Speaker 1: on the Cross that hold the keys for finding fulfillment
Speaker 1: in your life, relationships, and even your career. Right now,
Speaker 1: here's Pastor Rick with part one of a message called
Speaker 1: the Word of Humanity.
Speaker 3: You know your body is about sixty percent water.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you knew that.
Speaker 3: In fact, if you weigh one hundred and fifty pounds,
Speaker 3: you're actually caring about twelve pounds of water in your body.
Speaker 2: Some of us are carrying a little bit more than that.
Speaker 2: But you can't live without water.
Speaker 3: In fact, people don't realize how bad dehydration is for you.
Speaker 3: When you're get dehydrated, you get headaches, you get muscle cramps,
Speaker 3: your brain just shuts down. Your brain has to have
Speaker 3: water to think. And in fact, most people don't realize this.
Speaker 3: The number one cause of fatigue. When you're fatigued, you
Speaker 3: need a drink of water. Dehydration is the number one
Speaker 3: cause of fatigue because you're not getting enough water, and
Speaker 3: your body runs on water and you become lethargic and
Speaker 3: you can't think clearly, and it shuts down. If you've
Speaker 3: ever had surgery, you know what I'm talking about when
Speaker 3: I tell you that the least fun part to me
Speaker 3: is after the surgery. You know, they put that tube
Speaker 3: down your throat while you're sleeping, and when you wake
Speaker 3: up from the anesthesia and your throat is sore and
Speaker 3: your mouth is parched and your lips are dry, and
Speaker 3: they won't give you anything to drink. They give you
Speaker 3: a little glycerine swab. They go, are you kidding me?
Speaker 3: I want a big gulp, you know, because when you're thirsty,
Speaker 3: you're thirsty. Now we come to the fifth word of
Speaker 3: Jesus on the cross. Now, the first four words were
Speaker 3: in the first three hours on the cross. He's now
Speaker 3: been on the cross for six hours. Jesus hung on
Speaker 3: the cross for six hours, which actually isn't long because
Speaker 3: sometimes crucifixion would take days before somebody would die. It's
Speaker 3: a very foul form of torture. But Jesus gave up
Speaker 3: his body, gave up his life, and he's in the
Speaker 3: final moments and in the final seconds of his hanging
Speaker 3: on the cross, he makes three more statements, and this
Speaker 3: one I call the word of humanity. It's simply the
Speaker 3: fifth word is I'm thirsty. And Jesus says this after
Speaker 3: hanging on the cross for six hours. Now, Jesus said
Speaker 3: a lot of things in life that only God could say.
Speaker 2: And we couldn't say him. But this is.
Speaker 3: Something you say all the time. I'm thirsty. I'm thirsty.
Speaker 3: Everybody says that I'm thirsty. And so this is what
Speaker 3: I call the word of humanity because anybody could say
Speaker 3: this one. Not everybody could say, you know, you're gonna
Speaker 3: be today with me in paradise, but anybody could say
Speaker 3: I'm thirsty. And so this is actually the word of humanity.
Speaker 3: And actually, in the Greek and the original translation, it's
Speaker 3: only one word. It's dip s dif so o means
Speaker 3: I'm thirsty.
Speaker 2: I'm thirsty.
Speaker 3: Simple word, but literally packed with significance.
Speaker 2: And we're going to unpack that today.
Speaker 3: John nineteen tells us the context John nineteen, verse twenty eight,
Speaker 3: twenty nine. Jesus is hanging on the cross here, it says,
Speaker 3: after this, we'll come back to that minute, after what
Speaker 3: After this, Jesus knew that everything had been completed, so
Speaker 3: so that the scriptures would come true, he said, I thirsty.
Speaker 3: Now there was a jar full of vinegar there at
Speaker 3: the foot of the cross, so the soldiers soaked a
Speaker 3: sponge in it, put the sponge on a branch of
Speaker 3: a hissup plant and lifted it to Jesus' mouth. Now
Speaker 3: here's an interesting thing about this. Here Jesus says at
Speaker 3: the end of six hours, he says, I'm thirsty. Earlier,
Speaker 3: actually earlier in the cross, the Roman soldiers had offered
Speaker 3: him something to drink and he turned it down. So
Speaker 3: what's going on here? What's going why is he doing?
Speaker 3: Let me show your verse on the screen. In Mark
Speaker 3: fifteen twenty three, it says this. This is after they
Speaker 3: immediately put him out the cross. The soldiers tried to
Speaker 3: give Jesus wine mixed with Mrr to drink, but he
Speaker 3: refused it. This is six hours earlier he refused wine
Speaker 3: mixed with mr to drink.
Speaker 2: Now why did.
Speaker 3: Jesus refuse it? Well, because what was in the drink?
Speaker 3: And it was that that spice called mr. Murr is
Speaker 3: a narcotic. Murr is a painkiller and remember when Jesus
Speaker 3: was born and the wise men came and they brought gold,
Speaker 3: Frankenson's and muhr. Yeah, and each of those were predicting
Speaker 3: that he would be a king, and he would be
Speaker 3: a priest and he would die because murr was what.
Speaker 2: You gave to people as they were dying in pain.
Speaker 3: There was no advil, there was no narcotics, you know,
Speaker 3: no vicodin, no OxyContin or anything else, and so people
Speaker 3: would mix muhr, a narcotic with.
Speaker 2: Wine and give it to people who were in pain.
Speaker 3: Now, why in the world with the Roman executioners offer
Speaker 3: a drug to Jesus hanging on the cross, Well, it
Speaker 3: certainly wasn't out of humanitarian effort. They weren't trying to
Speaker 3: ease his pain. Here was the real reason. Crucifixion was excruciating,
Speaker 3: and it often went hours and hours and hours and
Speaker 3: often days, and they had to stay there until the
Speaker 3: guy died. And often the criminal who was being hung
Speaker 3: on the cross would scream for hours. They didn't want
Speaker 3: to hear the screams, and so they offer Jesus when
Speaker 3: they nail him to the cross, they offer him a drug.
Speaker 2: So he won't scream. It's not for his benefit. It's
Speaker 2: for their benefit.
Speaker 3: They just don't want to hear Jesus screaming for hours
Speaker 3: in the agony of the Cross. It was long and
Speaker 3: drawn out. Now, why did Jesus refuse it? Because Jesus
Speaker 3: wanted to feel the full impact of the pain of
Speaker 3: carrying the sins of mankind. He was not going to
Speaker 3: go into his dying for the world to drug. He
Speaker 3: was going to go into it with his full faculties.
Speaker 3: He was gonna feel every ounce of physical and emotional pain.
Speaker 2: So he refuses a.
Speaker 3: Drink that is drugged at the beginning, But now at
Speaker 3: the end, he's in a final moments. Now he says,
Speaker 3: I'm thirsty. It says now, notice on your outline, it says,
Speaker 3: after this circle, after this, after what well, after he
Speaker 3: had finished paying for our sins, after the needs of
Speaker 3: all humanity had been met, after God's justice had been satisfied,
Speaker 3: after the scripture had been fulfilled. He's paid for the
Speaker 3: sins of mankind now and he's been separated from God. Remember,
Speaker 3: my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Speaker 2: We looked at that last week. You know.
Speaker 3: One of the Christian creeds of classic Christianity says he died,
Speaker 3: was buried in the ground, went to Hell, and then
Speaker 3: rose again. Well, there's not really anything in scripture that
Speaker 3: talks about Jesus going to Hell.
Speaker 2: He didn't need to go to Hell.
Speaker 3: He went through Hell on the cross, and he experienced
Speaker 3: all the judgment and all the separation from God on
Speaker 3: the cross, not needing to go to Hell because he
Speaker 3: experienced it there.
Speaker 2: Why have you forsaken me?
Speaker 3: When he cries out, I thirst, that's the word of
Speaker 3: somebody who's gone through hell. You see, the Bible says
Speaker 3: that in heaven.
Speaker 2: There's a river.
Speaker 3: The Bible says there's a river in heaven, but there's
Speaker 3: no water in hell. There's no water in hell. And
Speaker 3: he's been going through how hell for these many many hours,
Speaker 3: and he now knows everything has been completed, and so
Speaker 3: he says the word of humanity, I thirst. Now what
Speaker 3: I want to do this weekend is quickly do three things.
Speaker 3: What does this mean about Jesus? What does this mean
Speaker 3: about the people around you? And what does it mean
Speaker 3: to you? What does it mean about Jesus saying I thirst?
Speaker 3: What does it mean about the people around you who
Speaker 3: are thirsty spiritually? And what does it tell you about
Speaker 3: your own spiritual thirst and your hunger for fulfillment and
Speaker 3: unsatisfaction and cravings in your own life. Let's look at
Speaker 3: these three things. First, what do we learn from this
Speaker 3: statement when Jesus that I thirst? What do we learned
Speaker 3: about Jesus? Well, the thirst of Jesus shows us three things.
Speaker 2: Write these down.
Speaker 3: You see, by the way, this is the only statement
Speaker 3: Jesus makes about his pain.
Speaker 2: Now think about this. Jesus was beaten, he was tortured.
Speaker 3: They took made a crown of thorns and crushed it
Speaker 3: into his skull, and those thorns are going into his head.
Speaker 3: They spit on him. The Bible says, they plucked his beard.
Speaker 3: The Bible says he was scourged, which means you get
Speaker 3: whipped forty times with the cat of nine tails. That's
Speaker 3: three hundred and sixty lacerations on your back before you
Speaker 3: even go to the cross. His back is a bloody
Speaker 3: pulp even before he hadn't even gone the cross. Yet,
Speaker 3: he's been beaten, he's been gone twelve hours without water,
Speaker 3: he's dehydrated, he's had a loss of blood. He hadn't
Speaker 3: been asleep in twenty four hours. And so there's a
Speaker 3: why does he say I thirst, Well, there's a couple reasons.
Speaker 3: There's a practical reason, and that is he wanted to
Speaker 3: have enough energy to say the final words coming up
Speaker 3: in the next two weeks. He wanted to be able
Speaker 3: to shout out his last two words. But there's also
Speaker 3: a theological reason, and there's a prophetic reason, and there's
Speaker 3: a personal reason.
Speaker 2: Here are the three reasons. Number one.
Speaker 3: First thing happens when Jesus says I thirst is it
Speaker 3: showed Jesus was truly human. It showed that Jesus was
Speaker 3: truly human. Now some people think, actually that Jesus was
Speaker 3: not really human. He was just God with human skin on.
Speaker 3: But he wasn't really fully human. Some people think he
Speaker 3: was like half human and half God. No, he was
Speaker 3: not half human and half God. He was one hundred
Speaker 3: percent human and one hundred percent God at the same time,
Speaker 3: and so he fully experienced the pain. The Bible says
Speaker 3: this in Philippians chapter two. Jesus gave up his place
Speaker 3: with God and he made himself nothing.
Speaker 2: He was born to be a man, and he became
Speaker 2: a servant.
Speaker 3: And when he was living as a man, he humbled
Speaker 3: himself and was full obedient to God, even when that
Speaker 3: caused his death on the cross. Now, this word i
Speaker 3: thirst counters a false belief. In ancient times, it was
Speaker 3: called docetism, and dosetism was the idea that jesus body
Speaker 3: was just an illusion that it.
Speaker 2: Was, that he wasn't really a man.
Speaker 3: And the doset comes from the Greek word which means
Speaker 3: to seem. He appeared to be human being, but he
Speaker 3: wasn't really a human being because God would never become
Speaker 3: a man. And that idea was called docetism. Well, this
Speaker 3: is obviously disproving because Jesus was a man with real thirst,
Speaker 3: real desires. Now today nobody even hears about dosetism. But
Speaker 3: there's another belief that believes that Jesus, that God would never.
Speaker 2: Become a man. It's called Islam. Anybody heard of that one?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Islam teaches the same truth as dosetism. In fact,
Speaker 3: let me read it to you from the Koran quote
Speaker 3: Suruh for one fifty seven.
Speaker 2: Quote. This is from the Koran.
Speaker 3: They say, indeed, we have killed the Messiah, Jesus, the
Speaker 3: son of Mary, the messenger of Allah. But they did
Speaker 3: not kill him, nor did they crucify him. But it
Speaker 3: was an another person who was made to resemble him
Speaker 3: to them. And indeed those who differ over it are
Speaker 3: in doubt about it. They have no knowledge of it
Speaker 3: except the following assumption. And they did not kill him,
Speaker 3: that's for certain. That's what the Koran says. Okay, the
Speaker 3: Koran does. Koran believes that Jesus existed, and they believe
Speaker 3: he was a prophet. But they do not believe that
Speaker 3: God would ever become a human being, and God would
Speaker 3: never die in across. So they say that when the
Speaker 3: cross happened, that they switched bodies and somebody, a fake,
Speaker 3: took Jesus place. That's what Islam believes. Two thousand years ago.
Speaker 3: It was called docetism. Today it's one of the beliefs
Speaker 3: of Islam. But Jesus clearly was human being. He says,
Speaker 3: I thirst, I thirst. If he wasn't fully man, he
Speaker 3: couldn't have died. If he wasn't fully man, he couldn't
Speaker 3: have gotten thirsty. He say, well, God can't die. Well,
Speaker 3: God can't die, but a human being can die. And
Speaker 3: it's just as what I'm trying to teach you is this,
Speaker 3: It's just as wrong to deny Jesus humanity as it
Speaker 3: is to deny Jesus divinity.
Speaker 2: Does that make sense.
Speaker 3: Jesus was both fully God and he was fully man
Speaker 3: at the same time. All right, so it shows that
Speaker 3: Jesus is human. Second thing we learned from this phrase,
Speaker 3: I thirst is it showed he was the promised savior.
Speaker 3: It showed that he was the promised Savior. And verse
Speaker 3: twenty eight John nineteen says, so that the scripture would
Speaker 3: be fulfilled, Jesus.
Speaker 2: Said, I am thirsty. What's that all about?
Speaker 3: In the Old Testament, fors of years, God had been
Speaker 3: telling humanity, I'm going to send a savior. I'm going
Speaker 3: to send a Messiah. I'm going to send the anointed one.
Speaker 3: I'm going to send the savior of the world. And
Speaker 3: in those thousands of years, and they're all in the
Speaker 3: Old Testament, there are over three hundred and eighty predictions
Speaker 3: about what the Messiah would be, and what he would do,
Speaker 3: where he'd be born, and all these different things. Three
Speaker 3: hundred and eighty predictions. And this was so people would
Speaker 3: know this is the guy, because there were lots of
Speaker 3: people who claimed to be the son of God. But
Speaker 3: how did you know it really was him? Well, there
Speaker 3: were three hundred and eighty prophecies, and you had to
Speaker 3: fulfill every one of them. For instance, you know that
Speaker 3: the Bible says he would be born in Bethlehem. It's
Speaker 3: kind of hard to pick your birthplace, Okay, he had
Speaker 3: no control over that.
Speaker 2: They said he would.
Speaker 3: Be taken to Egypt as a young baby, and he was.
Speaker 3: They said that he will be raised in Nazareth. They said,
Speaker 3: the prophecy said he'll do miracles, he'll raise the dead.
Speaker 3: And there were prophecies in the Old Testament that say
Speaker 3: he'll be betrayed by a friend, he'll be falsely accused,
Speaker 3: but he'll be innocent. And then there's prophecies that he'll
Speaker 3: be hung on a cross.
Speaker 2: Now here's a problem.
Speaker 3: That prediction in the Bible was a thousand years before
Speaker 3: the Romans invented crucifixion.
Speaker 2: Nobody had even heard of it.
Speaker 3: What's a cross? And so for hundreds of years nobody
Speaker 3: would even know what that meant. But it was predicted
Speaker 3: he will die on a cross. They said the tortures
Speaker 3: will gamble for his clothes, which they did. They said
Speaker 3: his bones will not be broken, which they weren't.
Speaker 2: Why would he.
Speaker 3: Say that, because often to hasten a person's death on
Speaker 3: the cross, they would nail your hands against cross, venerly
Speaker 3: knees a little bit, and nail your feet's cross, because
Speaker 3: in this position you can breathe in, but you can't
Speaker 3: breathe out. So you have to pull yourself up to
Speaker 3: stand up on your feet that are nailed across to
Speaker 3: breathe out. And you hold that position till you can't
Speaker 3: stand it anymore, and then you let yourself down again,
Speaker 3: and then you hold it to the pain in your
Speaker 3: lungs is unbearable, and you stand up again. And the
Speaker 3: death of the Cross was up and down and up
Speaker 3: and down, and often took hours. It was a vile
Speaker 3: form of torture. When the Romans wanted to end it quickly,
Speaker 3: they'd break the legs because you couldn't stand up anymore,
Speaker 3: and you'd suffocate. But Jesus didn't have any bones broken,
Speaker 3: because he died sooner than they expected him to die.
Speaker 3: The Bible says he will be buried in a rich
Speaker 3: man's tomb that's never been used. Wh's true, and he
Speaker 3: will come back to life three days later. That's the
Speaker 3: hard one, and he did. Now at this point, Jesus
Speaker 3: is dying on the cross. There's still a couple of
Speaker 3: prophecies or predictions to be fulfilled, and one of them
Speaker 3: was He'll say in his dying moments, I'm thirsty, And
Speaker 3: so that's just another signs there's an interesting little thing
Speaker 3: here that you may not know about that I need
Speaker 3: explain to you, and will come to it in a minute.
Speaker 3: On how they used the hissop. Notice a thousand years
Speaker 3: before Psalm sixty nine. Look at this on the screen.
Speaker 3: He says, when I was thirsty, they offered me vinegar.
Speaker 3: That would be one of the predictions. What in the
Speaker 3: world is a jar of vinegar doing at an execution site?
Speaker 3: Isn't that kind of a wild, out of the way prediction?
Speaker 3: He will He'll be He'll be giving vinegar to drink
Speaker 3: in his final moments. What is that jar vinegar doing there? Well,
Speaker 3: let me explain it to you. They didn't understand that
Speaker 3: thousands of years earlier. But what Jesus was offered by
Speaker 3: the soldiers was commonly known as posca posca pasca. Pasca
Speaker 3: was the drink of poor people for three hundred years
Speaker 3: in the Roman Empire. The Greeks drank it and the
Speaker 3: Romans drank it. And what pasca was is It was
Speaker 3: sour wine, wine that had gone spoiled, and they would
Speaker 3: mix it with herbs and water and they would drink it.
Speaker 3: It was the common canteen drink of the Roman legion.
Speaker 3: Now it was a very popular drink because it was cheap,
Speaker 3: and it was a standard canteen drink, as I said,
Speaker 3: in Greece and Rome.
Speaker 2: And people liked it for a couple of reasons.
Speaker 3: One, it used wine that had gone bad, wine that
Speaker 3: had gone sour, that had spoiled, was turning acidic and vinegary.
Speaker 3: They would dilute it with water and they would put
Speaker 3: herbs in it.
Speaker 2: And there are actually some benefits in this.
Speaker 3: The sourness hid the bad taste of water because water
Speaker 3: wasn't as purified as the kind of water we drink today.
Speaker 3: And that sourness actually quenched thirst for a soldier better
Speaker 3: than water did, because it had that sleeking up thing
Speaker 3: to it. And there are actually other benefits they know
Speaker 3: at the time, but they're actually the acid and the
Speaker 3: in pasca killed harmful bacterias inside of you.
Speaker 2: Now they didn't know that then, but we know it now.
Speaker 2: Now here's the important part.
Speaker 3: It says that when Jesus says, I thirst. They took
Speaker 3: a hissop stick, they put a sponge on it, they
Speaker 3: dipped it in the pasca, this vinegary water, and they
Speaker 3: hold it to his lips so he can slay his
Speaker 3: thirst and cool his parched lips. Now, what is the
Speaker 3: significance of a hissup stick? Any Jew standing around the
Speaker 3: cross would know the meaning.
Speaker 2: Of that, because fifteen.
Speaker 3: Hundred years earlier, when Moses led the children of Israel
Speaker 3: out of Egypt and they had the passovernight, and remember
Speaker 3: all the firstborn were going to die in Egypt, and
Speaker 3: God said, I want you to take a lamb, and
Speaker 3: I want you to go, and I want you to
Speaker 3: spread the blood on the doors of every Jewish family,
Speaker 3: and then we'll pass over. That's where the word passover
Speaker 3: comes from. Will pass over these homes and they'll go free,
Speaker 3: and they won't be touched by the death and the destruction.
Speaker 3: And in Exodus twelve, this is fifteen hundred years earlier.
Speaker 2: Here's what it says.
Speaker 3: God tells Moses, and Moses tells the people take a
Speaker 3: branch of the hissip plant, same plant, dip it into
Speaker 3: the bowl filled with blood, and then wipe the blood
Speaker 3: on the sides and top of the door frames, and
Speaker 3: that's the symbol. This is not an Egyptian family, this
Speaker 3: is a Jewish family. This is a believing family. They're
Speaker 3: the ones that are going free and they get passed
Speaker 3: over from the death and destruction. Now when the Roman
Speaker 3: soldiers do this, they don't have any idea the symbolism's
Speaker 3: going on. But they take the same hissop stick, dip
Speaker 3: it in the water, and when they hold it to
Speaker 3: Jesus's mouth, every jew around the cross knew what that meant.
Speaker 3: It was a fulfillment, another symbol. It was another metaphor
Speaker 3: that the passover lamb who saved the lives many years
Speaker 3: before because of its blood, Jesus blood was going to
Speaker 3: save them with a very powerful symbol. So through these
Speaker 3: two words I thirst, we know Jesus is truly a man.
Speaker 3: And to second, we know Jesus is truly God. He's
Speaker 3: the Messiah. He's then anointed one. He's the one that
Speaker 3: all these three hundred and eighty predictions, even that one
Speaker 3: comes down to being fulfilled in the last seconds.
Speaker 2: But there's a third one. This is important.
Speaker 3: It shows how much Jesus loves me. It shows how
Speaker 3: much Jesus loves me. That Jesus Christ would go through
Speaker 3: all of this pain for me is an amazing thing.
Speaker 3: Have you ever gone thirsty to save the life of
Speaker 3: somebody else? I kind of doubt that, but Jesus did.
Speaker 3: And Jesus what he's doing here, the suffering he's going
Speaker 3: through on the cross is called redemptive suffering.
Speaker 1: That was such an encouraging message from Pastor Rick. And
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