Many of us spend an enormous amount of time and energy fixing a body with an unresolved soul.

Dr. Tony Evans says our efforts itself improvement may need to be refocused.

You are not your body. Your body is merely a mechanism to facilitate your soul.

This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans.

Author, speaker, senior pastor of Oakcliffe Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas, and president of the Urban Alternative.

When we're thirsty, we need water from the outside to replenish and refresh us on the inside.

But today Dr. Evans talks about why the only cure for spiritual thirst starts inside us and works its way out.

Let's join him in John chapter 7 as he explains.

Jesus Christ is in a context of the feast of tabernacles.

We told in verse 37 it was the last day of the great feast.

The great feast of tabernacles was the feast that God instructed the Jewish people to do to remind them of their journey through the wilderness.

As they were journeying through the wilderness, they were banking on God for water.

He opened up the red sea to get them into the wilderness.

He let water gush out of a rock so they could drink in the wilderness.

He turned bitter water into clean water so that they could function in the wilderness.

You and I are on a journey from salvation to glory and it gets dry.

You and I are on a journey from time to eternity and it gets crusty.

You and I are on a journey from where we are to where we need to be, but sometimes it gets hot and humid.

And you need to be able to get a drink of water.

It is in the context of the feast of tabernacles where Jesus makes this statement to take us to this next truth symbol and name of the Holy Spirit.

He says to them in verse 37,

If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. He takes what they were reminded of physically when the priest would pour water on the altar during the feast of tabernacles to let the folk know that the same way they got supplied refreshment in the wilderness,

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