Friday, August 25, 2017

How Sweet It Is - John 19:28-30

John 19:28-30 ESV 


After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the Scripture), “I thirst.” A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to his mouth. When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is finished,” and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.


Jesus received the sour wine of our sin as He hung from the tree of the cross. The waters of mankind can now be made sweet. 


Just as Moses sweetened the water on the wilderness with a log thrown in the water, God throws the cross in our midst of our wilderness to change our bitter water to the living waters of life. 


Exodus 15:22-25

Bitter Water Made Sweet

Then Moses made Israel set out from the Red Sea, and they went into the wilderness of Shur. They went three days in the wilderness and found no water. When they came to Marah, they could not drink the water of Marah because it was bitter; therefore it was named Marah. And the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?” And he cried to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a log, and he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet.

There the Lord made for them a statute and a rule, and there he tested them,


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