We've come now quite a ways. This is the 16th message on the subject of the One Baptism. And I guess the further we go, either you'll get more interested or you'll get more disinterested. And we'll either reach the point where we say, you're not going to change me, or we'll say, I will consent to be changed. I don't know which will be the case, but I believe one or the other. will happen. We'll either become softened to the Lord's will, or we'll become more stubborn against the Lord's will. These series of messages will put us right where God sees us. They'll ask us to do exactly what God asks of us, and that's about all, I guess, that can be done. I've entitled the morning messages, The Little Drip Will Never Do. The Little Drip will never do. Oftentimes people wonder why their prayers go unanswered, and somebody comes up with a suggestion, well maybe you have not because you ask not. I think when it comes to this matter of being filled with God's Spirit, it's not a matter of asking more, it's a matter of you have not because you thirst not. That is, we have not because we just don't want it, and we fear we can get by without it. And yet I know there are times when some of us casually or glibly or coldly just say, God, fill me with thy spirit, amen. And whether you get filled or not is really immaterial. Don't really care. We've gone through the situation, the formula, the ritual, and that's that. But you know the word thirst. When you use that word, you think of a desire even greater than hunger. I understand you can go without water three days. and you can go without food 40 days, which means that the pangs of thirst are far more severe than the pangs from hunger. Now with this thought in mind, I want us to consider some words that Jesus found in the book of John in the 7th chapter. And if you have your Bibles, turn there with me and we'll read beginning with the 37th verse of the 7th chapter of the book of John. Jesus makes the comment, and I want you to notice there is an if. If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink." Well, what's he going to get? He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, now here's what he's going to drink. Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. This spoke Christ of the Holy Spirit, which they that believed on him should receive. But at this time, of course, the Holy Spirit had not yet been given because Christ had not yet gone back to heaven. But you see, Christ is now back in heaven, and this is the promise that Christ gives to all of his followers. What is it? If you'll thirst, and you'll come unto Jesus, and you'll drink, then forth with shall come rivers of living water, speaking of the Holy Spirit. Look at Isaiah 44.3 for one more text before we move on in this sermon. 44.3, notice God's promise. For I will pour water upon him that is needy. No. upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground, I will pour my Spirit upon thy seed. Which ones? The thirsty ones. And my blessing upon their offsprings. Which ones? The thirsty ones. Now, the question is not the availability or the abundant stream that is able to produce the abundant life. You know, Jesus said, follow me and I'll give you an abundant life. That abundant life comes from the abundant flow from the Holy Spirit. Now, there's no problem with the availability of such an abundance. The problem is, do you want to drink it? There's no problem with the availability of salvation for lost folks. The problem is, do they want it? It's do they get thirsty to escape hell? If they don't, they don't want it. And they don't get it. Salvation is not given point-blank to everybody. It's to those who want it. It's to those who want it bad enough to pay the price of giving their life to Christ and making Him Lord and Savior. If they don't want it that bad, they don't get it. A man came to Jesus one time to be saved, and he said, I want to follow you and be saved. And Jesus said, alright, then go and sell everything you've got and give away to the poor. And the story seems to say that the man wouldn't do it. He didn't want salvation that day. You see, he had a God already. He was already following something. He was following his money, his gold. That was his idol. And Jesus said, listen, I'm going to be Lord, not your money. And if you come to follow me and you want salvation, that's going to be a real hang-up between you and me because you love your money too much. And you'll always look after your money before you will me. So therefore, I am going to have to be the Lord. And I'll tell you right now to get rid of your money. The man said, no. And Jesus said, you can't have salvation. The man wanted salvation, but he didn't want it bad enough. You see, he was not thirsty. When a man gets thirsty, he'll do anything to satisfy his thirst. He wasn't that thirsty. Now a lot of folks are not thirsty for the Holy Spirit, and therefore they never will get what is known in the Bible as the river gushing up and flowing into the abundant life. You've got to want it. Now the supply is never in doubt. It's there, it's refreshing, it's yours, it's every Christian's and Jesus said every Christian needs it and ought to have it. Your life can never change if you don't have the abundant flow from the Holy Spirit. cannot change. There is no hope of improvement in any situation in our life until we begin to have the flow of the abundance of the Holy Spirit. It's impossible. And the Bible speaks as though the Spirit within us is like an artesian well that flows to such a capacity that you end up not with a pool, but you end up with a river flowing. We don't need more of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit came into your life when you became a Christian. You don't need a bigger well. You don't need more water. You just need to let the water flow that's already within you trying to get out. You see, it'll run river deep if you just let it go. Well, that's the problem. The Holy Spirit's capacity is at full measure at any moment in our life. It was given to us the day we were saved. Full capacity to flow freely was ours the moment we accepted Christ as Lord and our Savior. I believe a person receives three benefits the moment he's saved. We talked about this in the past, and I'll not go through it again. I believe number one, he's baptized with Christ's Spirit, and what that means is he's given a new heart, which you call salvation. He's given a new vision, he's given a new relationship, and he's given a new pardon. Secondly, I believe every Christian, at the moment he is saved, is given a gift by God. Maybe one, maybe two, maybe three, maybe more. I don't know how many. There are many gifts, and I believe also the third thing every Christian gets, he gets filled with the capacity of the Holy Spirit's flow. I believe you begin your Christian walk filled to capacity with God's Spirit. Look at John 1, 12 and 16. John 1, 12 and 16. But as many as received Christ, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. Now verse 16. And this is the record. Notice what it says now. And of his fullness have we all received. Not something I hope to receive. It's not a second blessing. I received in verse 12, I received salvation. Verse 16, I've got the fullness. Look at 1 Corinthians 12, 13. For by one spirit have we all been baptized into one body that's salvation, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, free or bond, and we've all, notice this now, not part of us, but we have all been made to drink into the one Holy Spirit. We have all began or started our walk with Christ drinking from the river that's flowing from in. Now that's the beginning of every Christian's life. That's part of the salvation blessing. So boy I recall going to the oil field one day My daddy used to work for Reed Rollerbit Company, and I would sometimes go out in oil fields with him. He'd deliver bits. I wasn't going to my own oil field. And I noticed what caught my attention was a pipe. And this was the summertime, and it was hot, and that pipe was completely coated with ice. And that really fascinated me. I could not feature how, in the middle of that hot sun, you could have a piece of pipe out in the open with ice all over that pipe. That fascinated me. As I understand it, I think my daddy explained to me, he said, there is such pressure of oil and gas flowing through that pipe that it forms ice on the outside. That's tremendous pressure. Well, months went by and I went back to that same oil field again, but this time there was no ice on the pipe, and over the well there was a pumper, that old crane-looking thing that goes down and back up pumping the oil out. The power is gone. The ability to bring up the oil by itself from the ground was gone. All there was now was a pumper having to pump the oil out of the ground. You know, dear brethren, a lot of times, I believe, when we begin the Christian life, if you look back, there was a tremendous, powerful flow that first day, and second day, and third day of your Christian life. In a couple of weeks, or a couple of months, you go back and you look at yourself, and the flow's gone. And now you say, I've got to pump up my religion. I've got to revive myself. I've got to pump up my spirit. Did you ever say that? I've got to pump up my Bible reading. I've got to pump up my prayer habits. The natural flow and the power that God's Spirit was giving us to begin with disappears. And now we're on the pumping system. Got to keep us pumped up, pumped up. And I think a lot of church services do nothing but just keep pumping the people up, pumping the people up, pumping the enthusiasm up. And they live from one church service to the next church service, just trying to get them pumped up. It doesn't last. And that's what's wrong with a lot of Christians today. They started out with a truly flowing river, and they ended up dribbling. And that's the state most Christians find themselves in. But you see, the Spirit hasn't lost its power. The well hasn't gone dry. Not like that at all. Well, the spirit doesn't lose his power. It's all still there. The only problem simply is get your foot off the wood. You have stopped up the flow. The flow is possible. The flow is there. Just we have to let it out. We are blocking the opening to the fountain that Christ has put within us, and that is the Holy Spirit. And I believe it's because of the way we treat Jesus. If the Holy Spirit gets grieved, and then He begins to withdraw, you see, the kind of life you and I first experienced, and His refreshing power begins to dwindle, and pretty soon you're a has-been. Pretty soon you are disgraced to Christ, and to the church, and to the Holy Spirit. Pretty soon you're a walking embarrassment, and you don't exemplify a flowing river of new life, but you exemplify a ditch of dirty stagnant water. And we as Christians say, well, I guess I'll just remain stagnant. Have you forgotten why you ever came to Christ in the first place? You got tired of being stagnant. I don't believe the Holy Spirit wants the life he gives us to come to us in dribbles and in trickles. And you may think the well is gone dry, but God is just as powerful and as present and as real as he ever was. We may think, well, God is not nearby anymore, but he is. But he is. We may not see any of the water flowing anymore, but it's there. It's there. One of our recent mission dinners, the women who were cleaning up the dishes after it was all over were in the kitchen and they were turned on the faucet. And the water came out in a very slow little stream. The first comment was, I wonder what's wrong with the city water pressure. We have no water. And then one lady unscrewed the little strainer on the filter, on the faucet, and when she did, the water came out full force all into the sink. And in the stopper or in the little strainer, there was a lot of little grit and sand and rock which stopped the flow. There was nothing wrong with the pressure. There was nothing wrong with the power supply of the water company. It was the faucet was stopped up. And a lot of Christians, well, why God don't you do something? And God said, get your foot off the wheel, open that wheel. Unclog the faucet, and I will. Let me flow. Let me loose. Let me work. We keep saying, something wrong with my God. Something wrong with the Holy Spirit. Something wrong with my Bible. It doesn't work. Sure it works. If you'll drink, if you'll drink. And I believe those Christians today found themselves in the same spot that we found in that kitchen. If you undo the faucet, strainer, and let the water flow, it'll do it. Now Christ pictures the Holy Spirit as an artesian well that just gushes up unceasingly. You all remember the pictures of a water trough in the old country farms and at the end of the trough was a little water well with a pump on the end of it. Sometimes you picture in your mind a young boy going out there and pumping up the water and it goes in the trough and as it begins to pump the water gets higher and higher and higher and you sit there and look at the boy and, hey kid, quit pumping, you're going to get water all over the ground. But you see with an artesian well, you don't cut off the pumping. It just flows automatically. And you know what you have, folks? The Holy Spirit fills you up till you have overflow. Overflow. We wonder, why aren't more Christians bubbly and happy? Why don't we see Christ in their lives? Brethren, that's the overflow. We're so far from the overflow, it's pathetic. You see, we've got to be filled up ourselves with Christ's likeness in our life before you can ever have an overflow. And you're never going to do it on pumping up and little dribbles. You'll never make it on church one Sunday every three months. Brethren, you'll never make it. Nobody will ever see in your life the Lord Jesus Christ. It cannot be done. You can't fill a bucket with one drop a day when the evaporation takes away 50 drops a day. You know, our daily life taxes away more of the refreshing Spirit of God than we ever get. We may begin the day with Christ, but we stop right there. If we even begin the day. And by 10 o'clock in the morning, we've done shut all the water up. Brethren, the stream is supposed to flow continually, hourly, momentarily, every second. Are we going to use it all up? We're supposed to have an overflow. I don't know whether you have an overflow or not. If you have to go up and tell people, hey, I'm a Christian, you don't have the overflow, brother. Somebody's going to say to you, well that's good news, I've never known it by looking at you. Someone's wearing a badge. Try God. That's a new badge out. Try God. A little pin. Tiffany's getting rich off of it. Try God. Well brethren, I tell you, if you've got the overflow, I'll come up and see what you've got I don't have. And if you tell me, well try God, I'll say okay. That's a pretty good idea. If it's doing that for you, it'll do something for me. Maybe a lot of folks don't want to try your gut. It's not doing anything for you. Why should they mess with it? The Bible says we're supposed to offer people good news and hope. Well, it's the overflow that's going to attract them. Jesus said, if you'll lift me up, I'll draw all men. What one? Overflow. Overflow. And when a person talks about being filled with God's Spirit, he's talking about letting the influence of God's Spirit come into my life in a full capacity. That's all we're saying. It's letting the life of Christ come alive in my life. That's all we're talking about. The Spirit fills me with Christ's likeness. The Spirit fills me with Christ's life. It's the life of Jesus that is put on display through the power of the Holy Spirit that is the overflow. That's all it is. It's the kind of life that is produced by the flowing water that counts, not how high the water can shoot. A lot of folks are more interested in how high a guy can jump than how straight he can walk. I'm not. You can jump and holler all you want to, I want to see how you walk. The overflow doesn't affect the jumping and the hollering, it affects the walking. That's what I want to see. Now what is a man filled with? When a man is filled with the Holy Spirit. It's not too difficult to figure this out. Look at Philippians 1.11. Philippians 1.11. Look what it says. Being filled with what? I'm not saying you don't get joy, but that's not the main thing you're filled with. What are you filled with? I don't say you don't get benefits and blessings and encouragement and all these things. I don't say that, but that's not the main thing that goes along with being filled. Paul says, be filled with the fruits of righteousness. What is that? Christ's likeness. What are you and I lacking in our life? Righteousness. Which are by Christ Jesus, under the glory and praise of God. Look at Ephesians 3.19. Ephesians 3.19. And to know the love of Christ, which passes knowledge that you might be filled with what? with the fullness of God, the fullness of God. And 518 of the same book, notice what it says, be filled with the Spirit. If you're filled with the Spirit, you're filled with God-likeness and you're filled with righteousness. Now the Spirit is the source of power that produces this kind of life. It's the life of Christ that flows so freely in the well. It's not power. It's the life of Christ that flows. It's the power that pushed up the oil. It's the Holy Spirit's power that pushes up Christ's life into my life. That's not fulfilling His power. The Christ's life produced by the Spirit, who is all-powerful, is what is taking place when a man is filled with Spirit. I think every Christian sees a time in his life when the Holy Spirit's flow begins to come forth. He sees changes take place. And then if he doesn't, captivate on this. Then he sees his flow begin to die and begin to trickle and soon begin to almost die out as though there is a total blockage. No brethren, when you are barren like that, you're in the desert. Going gets pretty rough, I'll guarantee you. And life gets pretty miserable for you. When you miss the refreshing, flowing spring of the Holy Spirit, I tell you, it gets to times when you don't even live anymore. You get so frustrated because the well is dry and you can't get the well flowing and things just don't work right anymore. And you know, we as Christians can get our life so messed up and so mixed up and so tied up and so fouled up that we just reached the point that we completely neglect the well, completely neglect it. Christians can get that low when all the time they've got a well of water springing up, if they would just let it go. And before you and I know it, the old abundant life just seems to have disappeared. And you don't think much about Christ anymore, let's be honest about it. A lot of folks can't even think about Christ sitting in the church house, much less outside of it. And you don't get much out of prayer and Bible reading anymore. And we don't feel very sensitive anymore about doing wrong. We can find more excuses than we ever found. And we don't have any more zeal for the Lord's place and the Lord's will and the Lord's plans. We just become really blah. And the Christian life, the Christ life, just begins to dwindle. And you know what happens then? I'll tell you what happens then. Old self-life begins to flow in. There is flowing in your life today one of two things. There's one or two rivers flowing today in your life. It's either the Christ life or the self-life. I'll guarantee you one or two is flowing. One or two are really bubbling up strong this morning. And let me tell you about the self-life, if you don't know what it means. The self-life is self-confident. It has a disposition to over-rate its abilities. I don't need God. I don't need Him to get a job. I don't need Him to make my money. I don't need God for nothing. Have you ever felt that way? I mean, I can get along without God if I don't see Him on Monday or Tuesday or Sunday. I don't need God. You're pretty self-confident, aren't you? I can do what I want to do and I don't need Him. Yeah, that's real great. Jesus said, without me you can do nothing. That may be you, fella, but I can do without Him. That's self-love. I guarantee as long as you think you can do without Him, you're not going to have the Christ's life flowing. And how many of us think we can get along without Him? I don't have to go see Jesus. Alright? I'm talking about Christians now, folks. I'm not talking about ungodly, lost, heathen. Christians can get self-will. You know what self-will is? I'm going to have my way or bust. Going to have my way. I don't care who it hurts. I'm just going to have my way. You ever get that? What? I don't want to watch television tonight, I don't care who marries me. I'm going to have my way. You go right ahead. Because when you do that, you see old self-love and self-will just flows up and I see it flowing. Brethren, I'll tell you, I can see the overflow of self-will too. You can see it in children, but we can't see it in ourselves. This position I'm going to have my way. You know what Jesus said? I come to do the will of my Father. I don't have my own way. That's the Christ's life. One flows or the other. It doesn't take me five minutes to figure it out. In myself and in you, either one. Then there's self-seeking. This is a disposition to seek fame and power and glory and praise. A lot of folks have been on that, you know, everybody going out looking for somebody to pat them on the back. Self-seeking. All I'm interested in is what's going to get me another star, another raise, another car. Just self-seeking. I don't care what God's seeking. I don't care what God needs. I've got my needs. So now I need to be recognized. I need to be somebody great. I'm ambitious. Well, you won't have much time for God, will you? No, because I'm self-seeking. I'm too, you ever heard this? I'm too busy. That's self-seeking. We never want God to get self-seeking. Well, I'm too busy, fella. You go find some other God right now. Oh, no way. God can't play that game like that. Self-pleasure. The only happiness I care about is my happiness. A lot of divorces come as a result of this, you know. Well, I have a right to be happy too, honey. He said, well, I do too, honey. Well, you know what the saying is, I'm the only one that wants to be happy and my happiness is all that matters. Well, if you're the only one that cares about being happy, you're not going to try to make the Lord happy. Then there's self-pity. How we like to do this one. Always complaining, always seeking sympathy. We exaggerate our sorrows, exaggerate our discomforts. And this will go on all day, I guess. There's self-love. Disposition is, I care only about those things that will benefit me and I'll love only if I get love in return. Self-justification, a lot of us use this one. We have disposition to excuse ourselves. If we do wrong and are caught and make a failure, we always give a real good reason for it. We can always justify it, you know. Always justify it. Don't go to church. I don't like to preach a sermon. Well dear brethren, there's about 500 other preachers in this town. I don't go because I don't like sermons down there, and I don't like the songs they sing. That's what you call self-justification. And if that's the kind of life you see you get hung up on, Christ doesn't have a chance, brethren. There's no way. Now the Christ life counteracts all this self-life. Our self-life destroys Christ's love. I think that's pretty obvious and pretty simple for us to understand, and I won't go any further into that. Now back to our beginning statement, Jesus said the only person who is going to have the river flowing is a person who thirsts, who thirsts for the Spirit to flow. I think sometimes we get hung up with the wrong kind of thirsting. A lot of folks thirst for the Holy Spirit, sad to say, even today, for self-esteem. I got it, have you got it? We compare our experiences or we say, well now, I've got the Spirit. Everybody applaud me. You admire me now. I'm something super-duper. A lot of folks, you know, get that idea and they go around, I'm Spirit-filled. I'm Spirit-filled. Well, big deal. We should all be Spirit-filled. That's like saying, I love Jesus. I love Jesus. Well, everybody ought to love Jesus. I'm a man. I'm a man. Well a big deal. All men who are men are men. What's so good excited about? Again, I said you got to overflow. You don't have to tell me I got the Holy Spirit. We all got the Holy Spirit. The only point is some of us let him go and some of us hold him down. That's the difference in the two of us. But a lot of folks going around, why you won't tell me this for? You want me to brag on you? If that's what you want, alright. Great. Praise the Lord you got the Holy Spirit. If that's what you want, but that you see not what Jesus said. I want to know, do you have the Christ's love? I want to see the Christ's love. I'm glad you got the Holy Spirit. Everybody say they got the Holy Spirit. How about the Christ's love? That's what I want to see. Then some folks, you know, they thirst for self-gratification. This is an immediate pepper-upper. Some youngsters say, it's the meat high. I want to know about the Christ line. I think joy is wonderful, but is that the only thing you want out of it, is joy? Now what kind of thirsting did Jesus mean when He said, you have to thirst? What have you got to thirst for? Now let's look at Matthew 5, 6. There's no guesswork to it. Now notice. Blessed are they which hunger and thirst. There's a word now. Blessed are they who thirst after what? Righteousness. And if they have that kind of thirst, what will they get? They shall be filled. Now, the man who sincerely thirsts is a man who sincerely thirsts for Christ's likeness. That's righteousness. Now Jesus said he could do three things. You had to thirst, you had to come to him, and you had to drink. But what he's saying is the river keeps flowing, and you have to keep thirsting. And you have to keep coming, and you have to keep drinking. It's not a once and for all deal. It's a thing you have to keep doing every moment of every day. I don't believe the fullness of God's Spirit in our life is ever going to be possible until we reach the point where we have a revived thirsting. So long as you're not thirsty for God's best, so long as you're not thirsty for the better way, so long as you're not burdened over any of your sins, And so long as you're not interested in fleeing the desert in which you find your life being spent, then I say the fullness of the Holy Spirit is never going to be possible. And you may come up with a cheap imitation, but you'll never have the real thing. For you see, the man who is thirsty for the river to flow is a man who is thirsty for freedom, and that is freedom from sin. And if you're not thirsty for that freedom, then you'll never have the river flowing in your life. And let me say this, before the Spirit can fill you, I think you're going to have to make another prayer. Spirit, empty me. Because most of us are full of self-love. And when we're already full of self, there's no place for the Holy Spirit to put Christ. And the Spirit must therefore empty me of self-love, and all that I might be filled with Christ-love. If you're already full of the brim of yourself, there's no room for Jesus. And so we have to begin by saying, Spirit, empty me. And that's not always too easy for a lot of folks to say. A lot of them say, well, he can fill me if he can catch me. Well, he'll never fill you then. Now, Spirit flows. when the self stops flowing. Until I and you and every Christian begins to view the situation in which we find ourselves, and I have a list of D's here, as disgusting, as dissatisfying, as degrading, as desperate, as depressing, as despicable, and as detestable, until you view life like that, you'll never be filled, and you'll never be changed. That's the only way. What leads a person to, what you might say, conversion, is a conviction of guilt. And what one is, or how one is led to feeling, is by a conviction of want. A conviction of want. You know what I'm really saying to you? It's like walking up to Jesus and saying, Jesus, I want you. Or, Jesus, I don't want you. That puts it down to a pretty level, you see. Pretty simple level. I don't want you. I want you. Because when you take a person, you take their life. You can't help without it. If the Spirit can't work on you and I at filling us, He won't retire. He'll work at convicting us. And you and I won't find that very enjoyable either. And that won't be pleasant. What's He gonna do? He's gonna try to get you to the point of self-despair. Sometimes that takes weeks, sometimes that takes years. God will do His best to make you so miserable that you'll get thirsty. If I might put it in a vernacular, He'll try to drive you up the wall to get you to the point that you'll finally say, I want Jesus at any cost. Now, He'll either fill you or He'll convict you. Now, you can take your pick as Christians. He's going to get you to the point where one day you'll cry out for relief. He'll finally get you to the point you say, God, I'm thirsty, and you've got to do something, and you've got to do it now. I don't know how many people in this church have ever reached that lower level. I might say this, God has you on the way and you'll either let the river flow or you'll wish you had. God will make your life more and more like a desert, barren and wasteland. All you gain shall turn to spoil and shall turn to torment. You wait and see. God gets us to the point that we thirst. How do you know this morning if you're getting thirsty? I want to give you seven ways you can know and we'll close out with that. How do I know I'm thirsty this morning? Here we go. Are you sick and tired of the old way you're living? Are you sick and tired? Or the way the old self ruins your life and runs it? I'm not saying are you sick and tired of the way your wife is doing, or husband, or children, or boss. I'm saying are you sick and tired of the way you live? You say no, you're not thirsty. You will be. Number two, are you hoping and praying that God will keep sin away from your front door? Or are you inviting it in? I don't know. If you're hoping and praying God will keep it away, you're thirsting. But if you're inviting it in, you're not thirsty. That sin will bite you, but you'll get it in. Thirdly, I want to think more about Jesus. Especially how He would meet with my daily trials. I want to know what Jesus Himself would do. You're getting thirsty when you talk like that. But when you say, I don't know what Jesus wants to do and I don't care what He wants to do, you're not thirsty. You will be. But you're going to make some real good blunders one of these days and you're going to need them then. Alright? Fourthly, I want to get with people every chance I can that will encourage me and help me to find God's best for my life. Are you eager to be among God's people? To get help? To get the river flowing? Seven o'clock tonight we can answer that question real simple. Real easy. I'm not thirsty. Okay. Fifthly, I have a deep down longing in my life just to give it all up to Christ. I'm tired. Nothing's going right. I'm ready to give up. And if God doesn't do something soon, it's going to be a total disaster. You're getting thirsty. You're getting thirsty. If you're not tired of the daily old grind, you're not thirsty yet. You wait, you will be. If you're saying to yourself, I'm ashamed of the way that I think and the way that I act, and I'm shocked by the things that I do, and I've got to stop, you're getting thirsty. If you're saying, I'm satisfied with the way I am, you're not thirsty yet. And lastly, if you want to hear more and more about how to have the new life in Christ, if you're interested, you're thirsty, But if you're bored with the morning messages, you're not thirsty. That's a pretty simple test, isn't it? Jesus said, if you thirst, you shall have a river of water flowing up within your life, if you thirst. Father, we give Thee thanks this morning, and know that You won't just let us rock on without trying to produce a thirst within us, a thirst so intense that it'll drive us to our knees in search of refreshing, cool waters, which we know are available. Father, we ask this morning that You touch the hearts of the people and the minds. God, help us to realize that there's something better this side of salvation than we've known. Help us to come into the point where we know that Christ's life begins to flow and we rejoice in it. God, change us. Make us thirsty this morning and don't let up on any of us if it takes 30 years, but we hope it just takes three minutes. We pray these things in Jesus' name. Amen.