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Synonyms: thirstiness, dryness, parched, craving, strong desire, longing, yearning, avidity, hunger, voracity, keenness, eagerness, lust, appetite, passion, love, crave, want, covet, desire, hunger for/after, lust for/after, hanker for/after, have one's heart set on

Antonyms: aversion, distaste, apathy, dislike, hatred, antipathy, disgust, disregard, abhorrence, acrimony, wet, animosity, animus, antagonism, bad feeling, bitterness, be averse to, detestation

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551. Who Wants to Be Your Brother?

Luke 16:19-31

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Leonard Sweet

... by angelic beings to the “bosom of Abraham” — that is, to a position of heavenly security, nurture, and love. The rich man dies and is “buried” (he obviously had the funds for a great funeral), but he finds himself in Hades. Flame-broiled and thirsty, the rich man still doesn’t “get it.” He calls upon Abraham to “send Lazarus” to serve him, to bring him water, as though his elevated status in this world still brought him some privileges in his new fiery residence. Abraham gives the rich ...

552. Be Patient

James 5:7-12

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King Duncan

... the eyes of the blind be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped. Then will the lame leap like a deer, and the mute tongue shout for joy. Water will gush forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert. The burning sand will become a pool, the thirsty ground bubbling springs. In the haunts where jackals once lay, grass and reeds and papyrus will grow. And a highway will be there; it will be called the Way of Holiness; it will be for those who walk on that Way. The unclean will not journey on it; wicked ...

553. The Foolishness of God

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

King Duncan

... to the church, no one’s too young; no one’s too educated, no one’s too humble we all have a part to play in God’s kingdom. Some of you will remember Aesop’s fable about an old crow who was out in the wilderness and was very thirsty. The old crow had not had anything to drink in a long time. He came to a jug that had a little water in the bottom of it. The old crow reached his beak into the jug to get some of that water, but his beak wouldn’t quite reach ...

554. The Woman at the Well

John 4:1-26

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King Duncan

... you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.” Do you desire that living water? Lift your cup to Christ today. 1. Jim Parsons, http://www.adventuresinrevland.com/2011/03/john-45-42-sermon-truly-thirsty.html. 2. A recent experience of King Duncan, Dynamic Preaching (the name of the young woman has been changed; otherwise all details are accurate). Please attribute the story simply to “a friend.” Thanks. 3. Quote magazine. Date unknown. 4. Steve McVey, Grace Walk ...

555. Hemlock and Hyssop

Romans 6:1-14

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Leonard Sweet

... bombers can never be called “martyrs.” They are dictating an exit from earth on their own terms. It’s all about control, and hatred. When you take other people with you in your self-choreographed death, you can never be called a “martyr.” Only a blood-thirsty louse, mouse and coward. It’s not true that Jihadists don’t drink. Blood is their brandy. Jesus never revealed his true humanity more than at his death. Jesus mourned the end of his time on earth, of his truly human life. Yet his death on ...

556. Family Re:Union - Great Expectations

Ephesians 5:22-33

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James Merritt

... does the church.” (Ephesians 5:28-29) Men, it doesn’t get much stronger than this. Think about what you do with your body. All you do all day long with your body is one thing. You satisfy it – when it is hungry you feed it and when it is thirsty you water it. When it is tired you rest it. You take your body to the gym. You take it to the finest restaurants. You take it to the movies. You take it to the golf course. You don’t mind sacrificing anything for the pleasure of your body. Paul ...

557. Satisfied Customer

John 6:25-59

Sermon

James Merritt

... after all of his success what he knew then that he would liked to have known before he was successful. Here is what he said, “I wish had known that when you get to the top there is nothing there.” The Prophet Isaiah asked a great question: “Is anyone thirsty? Come and drink – even if you have no money! Come, take your choice of wine or milk – it is all free! Why spend your money on bread that does not give you strength? Why pay for bread that does you no good? Listen and I will tell you where to ...

558. Don't Forget the Bread

John 6:25-59

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... to that which gives life. Jesus called Himself both bread and water for truly he is the giver of life (John 10:10b; John 3:16). “I am the Bread of Life . . . He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.” Certainly, Jesus was not referring to the bread and water that only fills and satisfies for a while. For as he said to the woman at the well, if she drank of the well’s water, she would surely thirst again, but the water he was offering her was Living ...

559. Tranquil: The Blessed Village on a Hillside

John 6:25-59

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R. Robert Cueni

... from the bread of this world and became hungry again. If they eat of the bread of heaven, they will not become hungry again. Then he says, "I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty" (v. 35). Thanksgiving Day is a very appropriate time to give thanks for the abundance of life's material blessings. Give thanks but do not get caught up in the mistaken notion that if you accumulate more of the wealth of this world, you will be a happier ...

560. Happiness Is A Scratched Itch

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Philip Yancey

There is an ancient Chinese philosophy which says: ‘To be dry and thirsty in a hot and dusty land—and to feel great drops of rain on my bare skin—ah, is this not happiness? To have an itch in the private parts of my body—and finally to escape from my friends and to a hiding place where I can scratch—ah, is this not happiness?’ Pain and pleasure are inextricably linked. The pleasure would not exist, or least be recognized, if it were not for pain.

561. False Teachers and Their Destruction

2 Peter 2:1-22

Understanding Series

Norman Hillyer

... much, only to deceive and disappoint. First, as teachers without true knowledge, they are springs without water. The green vegetation that attracts the weary traveller turns out to be the site of a spring that has failed. There is no cool water there to refresh a thirsty throat. Unlike these false teachers, it is only one who is truly in Christ who is in a position to offer others living water, the recreative water of life-satisfaction (John 4:13–14; 7:38). Second, these men are mists driven by a storm ...

562. Water from the Rock

Exodus 17:1-7

Understanding Series

James K. Bruckner

... If the god did not produce results, one changed gods. This was the original form of conceiving and creating a god that is one’s personal “water boy.” They challenged the Lord as if the Lord were a false god, suggesting that if they were still thirsty, then the Lord was not really there (v. 7). The quarrel degenerated to accusations that bordered on death threats. The people posed an accusatory rhetorical question: “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to make us and our children and livestock die of ...

563. How the Gold Has Lost Its Luster

Lamentations 4:1-22

One Volume

Tremper Longman III

... not hers; she cares not that her labor was in vain. . . . (39:14–16) Verse 4 then describes the sorry plight of the babies and children of God’s people who have experienced the devastating effects of the siege and capture of Jerusalem. They are thirsty and hungry, but no one, not even their own parents apparently (see also 4:10) will give them food or water. Of course supplies would be short or perhaps even non-existent, but the implication is that whatever is available is withheld from children and ...

564. Israel’s Ill-Placed Confidence

Amos 5:18-27

Understanding Series

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... this festival (Deut. 31:10–11). John 7 records Jesus’ secretive departure to Jerusalem for the Festival of Tabernacles, where he spent several days teaching in the temple courts. It was on the last and greatest day of the festival when Jesus invited those thirsty to come to him and drink. The Festival of Trumpets. Occurring on the first day of the seventh month (September–October), this feast marked the beginning of the civil and agricultural year for the Jews; it was also referred to as Rosh Hashanah ...

565. Jesus the Bread of Life

John 6:25-59

Understanding Series

J. Ramsey Michaels

... ambiguous. From the crowd’s standpoint the bread is “that which” comes from heaven (like the manna), yet the NIV translation is the appropriate one for the reader of the Gospel, who knows from the onset that the Bread is a person. 6:35 Will never be thirsty: It is important not to read back into this pronouncement the references in vv. 53–56 to drinking Jesus’ blood. Jesus is here presented simply as the giver of the water of life as in 4:14 and 7:37–38. The pronouncement is only loosely ...

566. Christian Success and Christlikeness

1 Corinthians 4:1-21

Teach the Text

Preben Vang

... in rags . . . we are homeless. To emphasize the contrast between gospel wisdom and human wisdom, Paul describes himself in the very terms Corinthian culture would consider contemptible.[10] Gospel wisdom imitates Christ; Corinthian wisdom does not. Paul is hungry and thirsty; they are satiated (4:8). He is dressed like the poorest[11] and treated like a slave;]12] they strive for prominence and honor. Like Christ, he blesses when abused, endures under persecution, and returns kind words (lit., “encourages ...

567. The Conclusion

Revelation 22:7-21

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J. Scott Duvall

... image also suggests that a new day dawns beginning with Jesus’s eternal reign, bringing an end to the long night of tribulation.5 22:17 The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let the one who hears say, “Come!” Let the one who is thirsty come; and let the one who wishes take the free gift of the water of life. It seems more natural in the immediate context to interpret all four imperatives of verse 17 (“come” and “take”) as invitations to the hearers to respond positively to Christ ...

568. “As the Deer Pants for Streams of Water, So My Soul Pants for You, My God”

Psalm 42:1-11, Psalm 43:1-5

Teach the Text

C. Hassell Bullock

... of faith as a journey is basic to understanding these twin psalms. While the suppliant is somewhere in northern Galilee, he is prevented from making his journey to worship in the Jerusalem temple. His yearning to make that journey is as severe as the thirsty deer’s panting for streams of water (42:1). To exacerbate the restrictive circumstances, the people he lives with have mocked him for his faith in God (42:3b). We should also observe that in this difficult and depressive situation, our psalmist prays ...

569. “Your Love Is Better Than Life”

Psalm 63:1-11

Teach the Text

C. Hassell Bullock

... elements of thanksgiving (63:3–7) and confidence (63:8–10),3 which is not unusual for lament psalms. The psalmist, in a “parched land where there is no water” (63:1), recounts his previous experience in the sanctuary (63:2), just as the thirsty soul of Psalm 42, isolated in a foreign land, remembers going to the house of God (42:4). In the more immediate context, Psalms 61 and 63, both attributed to David, have affinities that may be more coincidental than intentional, but the similarities are ...

570. “Endow the King with Your Justice, O God”

Psalm 72:1-20

Teach the Text

C. Hassell Bullock

... social responsibility of the church to show that grace in human relationships. We may also stress Jesus’s own emphasis on fulfilling the social needs of society in his discourse in Matthew 25. There he includes—in fact, assumes the identity of—the hungry, thirsty, stranger, naked, sick, and imprisoned (Matt. 25:34–40). In addition, we may speak about the issue of faith and works as they are considered by James (James 2:14–26) and his definition of true religion (James 1:27). Illustrating the Text ...

571. Unnoticed at Your Own Party

Isaiah 35:1-10, Matthew 11:2-11, James 5:7-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... of the blind be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped. Then will the lame leap like a deer, and the mute tongue shout for joy. Water will gush forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert. The burning sand will become a pool, the thirsty ground bubbling springs . . .” When would that day come? It would come when the Messiah would establish his reign over all the earth. A great day was coming when everything that was wrong would be set right. But first a baby would need to be born. Christmas is ...

572. Ariel

Isaiah 29:1-24

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... to come on the day of the Lord. Though Yahweh has given up Ariel to the nations, he protects the remnant of his people. The nations who rise against Judah and Jerusalem will leave empty. The prophet likens the reaction of the nations to that of a hungry or thirsty man who has dreamed of being satisfied but in the morning wakens to find he has not actually eaten or drunk (29:7–8). This will be the experience of any nation that fights against the people of God. They will have a measure of victory, but it ...

573. The Helper of Israel

Isaiah 41:1-29

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... his people to himself. The verbs (“I will make . . . I will turn . . . I will put . . . I will set”) express some of the many ways in which Yahweh shows concrete concern for his people. He will not forsake them in their need. Instead, he will provide the thirsty with water and will change conditions so that his people will see the evidences of his love. The argument of 41:21–29 is a continuation of the first section of the chapter (41:1–7). The deities of the nations are unable to do what God does ...

574. A Marriage about to Break Up

Jeremiah 2:1-3:5

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... Baals even in the valley, which, if the Hinnom Valley, would be the place for child sacrifice. In sarcasm, God warns Israel in all this pursuing of other gods not to stub her toe (to use a modern idiom) or to overexert and so become thirsty. Israel, self-consciously determined to do evil, responds in fiery language. The wood posts and stone pillars mentioned in 2:27 were both worship objects in the Baal cult. Courtroom language continues (2:29–37). God complains of breach of covenant, as exemplified by ...

575. Apostles of Christ

1 Corinthians 4:1-21

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... , Paul drops the ironic comparisons as he proceeds in his attempt to teach the Corinthians that “no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him” (John 13:16). Like Christ, the apostles “go hungry and thirsty . . . [and] homeless” even now (4:11), and in obedience to his teaching, “when we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it; when we are slandered, we answer kindly” (4:12; Matt. 5:11, 44). Thus, “to this moment,” the light ...

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