The Thirst Trap

0:00:01.520 --> 0:00:02.800 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 0:00:02.800 --> 0:00:05.840 I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:08.320 I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope 0:00:08.320 --> 0:00:10.680 this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:12.840 Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving 0:00:12.880 --> 0:00:13.560 in your life. 0:00:13.840 --> 0:00:14.680 Enjoy the message. 0:00:17.720 --> 0:00:22.400 We're excited because write this down. Favor flows from strange places, 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:27.240 it really does. One time the children of Israel were 0:00:27.240 --> 0:00:28.920 in the desert and water came out of a rock. 0:00:30.120 --> 0:00:30.640 That's weird. 0:00:31.880 --> 0:00:35.159 Yeah, God do something for you, but not through the 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:39.000 person that you expected him to do it through. You 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:41.440 ever had God be good to you through somebody that 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:43.879 you weren't even good to, and then somebody you were 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:45.960 good to wasn't good to you, And it's almost like God, 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:51.479 it's almost like he wants to challenge your attachments, so 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:57.960 He'll keep on moving around his supply and springing up 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:01.000 from different places so that you don't camp out where he. 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:02.000 Called you to pass through. 0:01:03.600 --> 0:01:09.240 And that's why sometimes you get frustrated. 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:10.679 But favor can flow from frustration. 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:14.280 Sometimes you have to get down to the bottom of 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:18.920 something to find God there. And you know my study 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:21.600 has been like that. It was kind of weird. Can 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:23.080 I tell y'all something that I didn't tell any of 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:24.840 the other experiences. I did not want to do a 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:28.280 seven mile Miracle series. I preached this bad Boy. I 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:30.600 preached this sermon six years ago. I think it was 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:35.000 six years ago, five or six years ago, and my 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:39.800 publisher had the rights to the material because we had 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:42.399 them pay for the study guide for our groups and whatever. 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:44.759 You don't even know all that, but we had them pay. 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:46.440 The church, and they wanted to put out a book. 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:48.480 And I didn't want to write a book about seven 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:50.680 mile Miracle because I typically like to preach something and 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:51.080 move on. 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:53.760 As a matter of fact, this is probably dysfunctional. 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:55.320 But before I came out to preach to you, I 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:57.960 was writing my sermon for the end of April because 0:01:57.960 --> 0:01:59.600 it started coming to me and I know what it 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:04.160 is telling you, because then you would skip. And but 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:06.559 the way it flows to me, I've had to learn 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:08.320 to get in the flow with God touch somebody say 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:10.320 get in the flow, get in the flow, Get in 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:13.560 the flow, because for me, creativity and insforration doesn't always flow. 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:15.440 It's not always dependable. 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:19.680 When songwriter said that creativity is like building your house, 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:23.040 from the sky down, especially when you're depending on God 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:24.400 to give it to you. So you feel kind of 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:28.079 vulnerable when you're waiting on God to give you something. 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:31.760 So it flows in strange places. Sometimes I get sermons 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:33.960 off of gatoraded commercials. 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:35.200 And I just have to do it anywhere I can. 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:38.760 And this year has been interesting because God took some 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:42.480 things that I studied years ago, like this seven mile 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:45.240 walk on the Amaeis Road, and we taught an Easter 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:47.840 sermon on it, and then a whole series and a 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:50.400 book flowed out of it. But I was kind of 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:53.200 done with it, and God took something that I was 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:56.160 done with, like a seed that I thought was gone, 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:58.440 but it really wasn't gone. It was in the ground. 0:02:58.560 --> 0:03:03.240 Some thing's in your life that you sewed in the 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:06.720 last season are going to come up out of the 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:13.040 ground when you least expect it, because favor flows from 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:16.160 strange places. So I've kind of been going through these 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:19.360 seven Statements of Jesus slowly, and I don't like to 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:22.639 go slow. If it were up to me, we would 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:25.799 study all seven of them. In the introduction to the sermon, 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:28.600 move on, you know. I like to cover a lot 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:31.480 of ground, so you don't get bored. Sometimes you gotta 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:36.560 slow down. And I started the series just talking about Cleo. 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:42.280 Were you here for that one? He's walking along with 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:48.080 a companion. Here comes Jesus, this stranger, and out of 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:53.920 this stranger's mouth comes a revelation that reverses their disappointment, 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:58.760 and they realize it when they get there, not while 0:03:58.760 --> 0:03:59.240 they're going. 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:02.680 So it started to challenge. 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:05.400 The way I saw faith, because I thought faith meant 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:07.840 that I would know why I was going through everything 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:11.560 I went through while I went through it. Now I'm thinking, 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:15.000 maybe faith means not knowing why I'm going through it, 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:17.880 but trusting the one who makes a way where there 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:21.000 is no way to feed me what I need for 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:24.280 the season that I'm in, because He's God, and he 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:30.080 knows what I need when I need it. And so 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:31.839 when we were preaching about he broke the bread and 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:33.520 gave it to them, we kind of been breaking the bread, 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:33.840 haven't we. 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:35.240 The bread represents the word of God. 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:36.839 And each week I've been giving you a little peace, 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:39.880 and I'm taking it from the last sayings. 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:40.839 That Jesus spoke on the cross. 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:43.479 There are seven Seven is the number of completion in 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:47.680 the scripture and so when we say seven, we're eventually 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:51.920 getting to resurrection, but to get there, we're going through crucifixion. 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:54.800 We're eventually getting. 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:57.000 To glory, but to get there we have to go 0:04:57.080 --> 0:05:00.360 through the sufferings of this present time and believe that 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:02.400 they are not worthy to be compared with the glory 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:05.200 that will be revealed. But it's in the ground right now. 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:11.880 It's on Saturday that our faith is proven, waiting for Sunday. 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:14.719 In the aftershock of Friday. 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:19.160 Now, we walked through a couple of different sayings, and 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:22.680 one was, Father, forgive them, for they know not what 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:26.240 they do. That one challenged me because it is the 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:29.200 exact opposite of how I think when somebody disappoints me 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:34.240 or offends me. See, you're different, You're more sanctified than me, 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:37.600 and you've arrived. But when somebody breaks my heart, I 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:39.640 don't say, Father, forgive them, for they know not what 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:44.159 they do. I say, God, get them back, hurt them 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:47.159 worse than I could ever hurt, because they know exactly 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:48.039 what they were doing. 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:52.000 But I'm challenged because, well. 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:54.040 Jesus says to a thief, he says. 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:55.720 Today you will be with me in paradise. Now I 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:56.479 don't think like that. 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:58.599 I think if the guy is going to be in paradise, 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:01.400 he needs to do some good deeds that help some 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:05.839 old ladies across the street, and take a little membership 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:09.880 class and get baptized at our Concord campus, then he 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:12.039 can be in paradise. He didn't do any of that. 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:14.960 Jesus just saved him just because he asks. And now 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:17.560 I'm thinking, this must be a gift that you can't earn. 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:19.920 It must not have to do with my works at all. 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:23.080 It must be something that God gives, not something. 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:25.679 That I get about to do his receiver. 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:30.520 Then I'm a little convicted how he's on the cross 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:34.320 and he's thinking about his mom on the cross, because 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:37.920 I don't think about others while I'm going through good times, 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:42.120 let alone hard times. I don't even like to let 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:46.400 people merge in traffic on four eighty five because I'm. 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:46.800 In a hurry. 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:51.040 Here's Jesus dying and thinking about somebody else. So all 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:53.560 of this has been challenging me. Wade gets up and 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:57.280 says that God was forsaken by God the Son, by 0:06:57.320 --> 0:06:59.920 the Father, so that we would never have to be abandoned. 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:02.400 And then I'll come to this little phrase, and I 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:04.360 don't know what to do with it, because Jesus now 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:06.040 says one of his last sayings on the cross of 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:09.280 this is mile five, commonly known as the word of distress. 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:10.520 It's called the word of distress. 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:12.960 But after today you're going to see that it's actually 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:19.080 the word of destiny. I'm gonna show you because he 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:21.240 says something strange. Let's look at it together. 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:21.880 Are you ready? 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:22.080 Say? 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:23.560 I'm ready? 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:26.080 You got your yeasyesweight laced up and ready to run. 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:32.720 What So. 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:36.920 He's been mocked, he's been flogged, he's been sentenced, handed 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:43.600 over to die. He's bleeding, he's suffocating, and he's hanging 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:48.000 there after this, John says John nineteen twenty eight. Jesus, 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:55.080 knowing that all was now finished, finality, achievement would be 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:59.800 the original language that all was achieved, that he was 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:05.120 to do his assignment was achieved. Now that he knew that, 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:11.480 he said to fulfill the scripture, I thirst, which. 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:17.200 Is ironic because this is the same voice that spoke. 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:21.640 The season too existence, and now he needs water. 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:24.040 You ever think about this? 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:28.000 How how the same voice that told the Red Sea 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:33.440 to part now needs a drink? How can the voice 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:37.400 that could command the sea peace be still, and it 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:39.360 had to shut up so he could get some sleep. 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:41.840 How could that same. 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:44.040 God, Because the Bible says that he is the one 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:46.640 Colossians tells us by whom, for whom and through whom 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:49.400 all things were created. That were created in the beginning 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:50.640 was the Word, and the word was with God, and 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:51.440 the word was God. 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:55.119 That's Jesus. Now he's wrapped in flesh, dying. 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:58.320 At the hands of sinful men, a criminal's death, and 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:04.760 he says, I thirst He's the one who said he 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:10.520 was living water. How can living water be thirsty? He 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:13.600 is the one who was Jacob's well. How can Jacob's 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:15.359 well be dry? 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:16.000 Do you see? 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:19.360 What I'm saying is just strange to me. And on 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:22.440 top of the fact that it's kind of crazy that 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:25.079 the one who called the seas to be gathered together 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:28.360 so the dry land could appear, the one whose voice 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:31.480 is above the waters, the one who separated the water 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:34.920 above the firmament the water below the firmament, the one 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:37.360 who has a throne in heaven by the way in 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:40.400 the Book of Revelation that he sits on where the 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:44.560 streams of water flow and make glad the city of God, 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:49.520 pure and brilliant as jasper and diamond. Those waters slow 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:54.160 from the throne. But here we see him thirsting. How 0:09:54.200 --> 0:10:00.400 can God be thirsty? How can water need rank y'all 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:03.080 are looking at me confused, and you should be because 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:09.839 it's confusing. I understand me being thirsty. After all, I'm 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:14.680 a thirsty man. That's what Holly said one time. She 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:16.400 told a server that in a restaurant. By the way, 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:18.000 if you're a server in a restaurant, first of all, 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:20.920 God bless you. You are an unsung hero, especially on 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:24.400 Sundays with hungry, cranky, non tip in Christians to put 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:26.440 a Bible Verse on the receipt instead of a tip. 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:29.960 Father forgive them. 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:31.840 And it's. 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:36.120 Tough for me to meet this. But I am a 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:39.320 server's worst nightmare. And it's not because I'm rude. It's 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:43.280 not because I'm rude, and I'm not rude because I'm Southern. 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:49.080 So since I'm Southern, if I'm gonna be. 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:51.040 Rude to you, I'm going to do it behind your back. 0:10:56.760 --> 0:10:58.760 I watch people from other parts of the country who 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:00.560 are so direct, and it's weird to me because I 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:03.720 can feel my mom putting soap in my mouth because 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:05.960 you we just weren't that direct. I watched somebody in 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:09.520 a restaurant. They're done. They just go check, like one word. 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:12.320 That's not how you. I can't do it like that. 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:13.920 I wish I could. I think it'd be cool just 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:16.360 holler check. I see it in the movies, and uh, 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:18.040 I'm gonna try sometime. 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:21.040 And I'm not rude like that. I'm not rude. I'm not. 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:23.959 I'm not even really that picky in a restaurant. I'm 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:26.720 really not. I'm simple. I'm basic. I like what I like, 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:28.760 but it's not that hard to fix it like I 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:29.400 like it. 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:29.599 I'm not. 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:31.800 Here's what I say. I'm not Chunk's Corbett. 0:11:34.120 --> 0:11:37.400 Chunk's Corbett is the most embarrassing person to be in 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:40.960 a restaurant with because of the specificity with which he 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:43.760 demands his food be prepared and his wife. 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:47.440 Is nodding while I'm preaching this. He'll He'll walk in 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:50.800 a restaurant. I want a bloom an onion, but no onion, 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:52.400 and can you make it in the shape of an 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:53.800 eight because that's my favorite number. 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:55.480 And when I was here to play baseball, he says, 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:56.959 got the craziest stuff. 0:11:58.480 --> 0:11:59.439 So I'm not really like that. 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:03.920 But my thing is if you can keep up with 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:12.960 me on the drinks, because I drink diet coke. Like 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:16.080 I just said, I shoot up heroin, you judgmental demon. 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:20.920 People will do it. Every time I say that, they'll 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:22.439 send me a link about aspartame. 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:25.160 But it's all right. I already read about it. And 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:25.640 I want to. 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:27.439 Go to heaven and I'm kind of in a hurry 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:30.760 to get there. I'm at peace with my mortal nature 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:34.359 and I want to sip a diet coke. 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:39.320 On the journey. So so my thing is, I tip great. 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:42.440 I tip great, especially if you bring me an Elevation 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:44.600 Church stolen ten to sign. 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:47.079 The tip with. That'll be our thing. I'll bump it 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:50.160 up at least three percent. It's just read the word. 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:54.160 But my thing is keeping my drink ful is kind 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:56.559 of hard because I'll drink five, six, seven. 0:12:56.360 --> 0:12:58.240 Eight, nine, ten, eleven. 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:02.120 I've been to twelve class is before uh in a 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:04.040 in a long meal, so I know it's horrible. But 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:07.280 one time this server came over and she was kind 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:09.720 of giggling about how many drinks I was drinking. 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:11.400 This has been years ago, and she. 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:13.920 Was probably she looked she looked like she was too 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:16.880 young to be legally uh, working at a restaurant. 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:19.360 And she comes over to. 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:22.840 The table and she's kind of giggling and uh, and 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:25.360 and I'm apologizing. I'm like, I'm sorry, I'm drinking so 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:27.480 many drinks. I'd just like to drink a lot of 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:30.360 that coke. I'm sorry about that. And I promise I'll 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:32.120 tip you good and just thank you for trying to 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:32.679 keep up with me. 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:36.920 And she goes, and she goes, and Holly, Holly, feeling 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:41.120 the need to apologize, Holly goes, He's just a thirsty man. 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:45.960 And she started laughing when Holly said that, but she 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:48.240 was laughing a little too hard. You know how people 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:50.880 can laugh a little too hard for what you said, 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:52.800 and you know that they took something different out of 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:55.440 what you said. And so she's laughing, just laughing, laughing, 0:13:55.679 --> 0:13:57.679 And I said, what what what was funny about that? 0:13:58.120 --> 0:14:01.720 And and she said, you wife just said you're thirsty 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:03.760 And I said. 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:04.160 Yeah, I am. 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:06.840 You've seen it today night here in the restaurant. 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:08.959 I like to drink. She said, no, no, you don't 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:10.200 know what thirsty means to you. 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:15.400 And I said, no, but tell me what thirsty means 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:19.160 to you, I need to know. 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:21.040 She said, you don't want to know this. 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:23.760 You're a preacher. She said, you don't. I said, no, 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:25.920 tell me. She said, well, it's kind of something we 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:29.120 would say. Younger people would say, say maybe if a 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:32.080 guy is a little too desperate, we would look at 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:36.480 him and maybe roll our eyes and say thirsty. 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:41.320 So now I knew she was laughing. 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:48.320 She said, we even when people post something on social 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:51.800 media where they want to get attention and they try 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:55.160 a little too hard, we call that a thirst trap. 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:58.080 I want to appreach to you today about the thirst trap, 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:00.480 and I want. 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:02.360 To go show my title, show my time. 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:06.040 I want to go all the way back from Bonefish 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:08.080 Grill to John nineteen. 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:10.680 And see if I can work it together. 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:16.680 Because I gotta admit sometimes I'm thirsty. Sometimes I'm thirsty 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:20.520 like the guy who sends twelve text messages and none 0:15:20.560 --> 0:15:24.040 of them get responded to those long text messes. Sometimes 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:28.760 I need too much from the wrong place. Sometimes I'm 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:32.240 thirsty because I love God and I know that he's 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:35.080 my shepherd and I'm not supposed to be in need, 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:35.840 and I. 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:36.640 Have his spirit. 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:39.720 But sometimes I gotta admit to you I'm I'm kind 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:42.720 of thirsty. Look at your neighbor and ask him, are 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:45.040 you thirsty? 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:52.360 Not you You're you're filled with the spirit of God. Oh, 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:54.000 we get thirsty. And it's no. 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:57.360 Surprise we get thirsty because we're week. He knows our friend, 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:01.680 we're made of dust, came from the dust. Get thirsty 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:05.600 in the dust, dirty thirsty people. I mean that makes sense. 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:08.960 But for Jesus to say I thirst and watch this 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:12.160 when he said it, The Bible says, they came to him, 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:15.240 those soldiers around the cross, and he said, I thirst. 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:21.120 And there was a jar full of sour wine, cheap stuff. 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:24.840 What the executioners drank while they were waiting on the 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:29.880 person to die. Now, see, this was the second drink 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:32.440 that Jesus was offered on the cross, but the first 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:34.960 one he refused. When he was on his way to 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:36.840 the cross, when he got to the spot where they 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:40.640 would drop the cross the vertical beam and attach to 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:43.840 the horizontal beam because the cross works both ways. I 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:47.200 taught you that two weeks ago. When he got to 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:49.800 that spot, they offered him a drink. This drink was, 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:53.360 the Bible says, mixed with mir which was meant to 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:55.280 drug the person going to the cross. 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:57.720 The women would prepare it, often as an act. 0:16:57.520 --> 0:17:01.680 Of compassion or kindness, and when they offered him this drink, 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:04.439 perhaps in mockery, before he called himself a king and 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:07.000 they offered him a drink, Mark tells us in Mark, 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:11.040 I think it's like fifteen twenty three. They offered him 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:13.479 wine mixed with merv but he did not take it 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:19.240 because maybe he saw it as a trap, because he 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:22.520 was focused on finishing what God gave him to do. 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:25.920 And when he got to the cross, he refused to 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:27.760 drink and said, I don't need that. Now I want 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:29.560 you to do something for me. Okay, everybody do this, 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:32.080 Everybody do this. I want you to get something in 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:35.639 your mind that's trying to keep you from being on 0:17:35.680 --> 0:17:36.760 the path of your purpose. 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:39.080 And when I say three. 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:40.880 Push it out the way like Jesus pushed the cup 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:43.240 of Myrrh and say I don't need it. One, two, three, 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:47.760 I don't need it. He said, I'm not drinking that. 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:49.679 I'm going somewhere. 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:54.960 With his gaze set on the glory of God, he 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:55.960 went toward the cross. 0:17:57.000 --> 0:18:00.000 But now it's been six hours since he first got 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:06.479 to Gugatha, and he says, I thirst Remember, this is 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:11.680 the same voice of God that created the clouds. 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:12.680 And filled them with condensation. 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:16.119 This is the voice that has the power to flood 0:18:16.119 --> 0:18:19.080 the earth and only Noah and every animal on the 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:24.439 boat gets out of it alive, and he thirst. So 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:26.439 we're surprised by it, or at least we should be. 0:18:26.440 --> 0:18:28.760 And we're surprised when they come to him and there's 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:32.359 a jar of sour wine and they offer to the 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:35.119 Lamb of God who was slain before the foundation of 0:18:35.160 --> 0:18:37.639 the earth. You need to understand that what happened on 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:40.240 the cross didn't start on the cross, and it didn't 0:18:40.359 --> 0:18:41.320 end on the cross. 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:44.320 The cross was pointing. 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:48.080 At the prophetic fulfillment of the purpose of God that 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:49.600 existed before time began. 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:52.800 So they take a hiss up branch, which was what 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:53.720 they used on. 0:18:53.920 --> 0:18:56.240 Passover back when they would take the blood of a 0:18:56.320 --> 0:18:58.840 lamb and put it on a door post. And so 0:18:58.920 --> 0:19:00.960 they took that branch they would put the blood on. 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:03.720 And now the Lamb of God is bleeding. It is 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:08.080 not the shadow anymore. It's the actuality, the revelation of God. 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:11.080 The fullness of God is hanging on a cross in 0:19:11.119 --> 0:19:14.439 the form of a man, and they give him vinegar 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:17.800 to drink for his thirst, and they put it to 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:22.159 his mouth, the same mouth that spoke them into existence, 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:27.399 and they gave him vinegar to drink. How could he 0:19:27.480 --> 0:19:35.240 be thirsty? How could God struggle with a human sensation 0:19:35.480 --> 0:19:39.040 like thirst? Struggle? If you want to write something down, 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:44.480 write down struggle, because to really understand why he said 0:19:45.160 --> 0:19:48.880 I thirst on the cross, you would have to start 0:19:49.119 --> 0:19:53.480 really in the garden of Gathsemene. Okay, the garden of 0:19:53.480 --> 0:19:58.000 got Semene is where he went out to pray before 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:01.520 he drank the cup of suffering. And it's one thing 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:04.719 to come to church and talk about a calling, because 0:20:05.440 --> 0:20:08.080 sometimes a calling is like a beautiful cup. 0:20:08.880 --> 0:20:12.160 But what's in it? Sometimes when it. 0:20:12.119 --> 0:20:15.640 Comes time to really fulfill your calling, let me break 0:20:15.640 --> 0:20:19.199 this down, because y'all are really looking at me cross 0:20:19.200 --> 0:20:21.720 eyed and stuff. It's one thing to pick out a 0:20:21.800 --> 0:20:24.000 name for your baby. It's another thing to have to 0:20:24.080 --> 0:20:25.359 raise them in middle school. 0:20:29.040 --> 0:20:30.760 It didn't work. It still didn't work. 0:20:31.000 --> 0:20:34.000 I'm trying really hard to bring this right where you are. 0:20:34.720 --> 0:20:37.320 It is one thing to write down his last name 0:20:37.359 --> 0:20:39.480 with your first name and think about how awesome it 0:20:39.520 --> 0:20:41.439 would be to be missus so and so. 0:20:41.920 --> 0:20:43.040 But it's another thing to. 0:20:42.960 --> 0:20:45.920 Deal with his bad breath and his bad spending habits 0:20:46.160 --> 0:20:48.919 and realize that his mom didn't teach him how to 0:20:48.960 --> 0:20:51.240 put the seat down on the toilet after he used it, 0:20:51.440 --> 0:20:54.679 and work out the mechanics of marriage in the context 0:20:54.720 --> 0:20:58.000 of the calling, not just the excitement of the concept 0:20:58.040 --> 0:21:01.760 of something. So sometimes why we are very excited about 0:21:01.760 --> 0:21:04.480 the concept of being used by God. Stay with me 0:21:04.480 --> 0:21:06.720 because this sermon is about to do something. 0:21:06.640 --> 0:21:08.760 In your soul. Deep down in your soul. 0:21:09.000 --> 0:21:11.639 I feel the spirit of God saying to somebody today, 0:21:13.160 --> 0:21:14.120 what will you do. 0:21:15.800 --> 0:21:16.359 With the cup? 0:21:16.520 --> 0:21:19.960 Because Jesus had a cup that he didn't want to drink, 0:21:21.359 --> 0:21:25.760 and he prayed in the garden. He prayed, Father, if 0:21:25.760 --> 0:21:31.000 there's any other way to get this done, if there's 0:21:31.080 --> 0:21:35.800 any other way, let this cup pass from me, the 0:21:35.880 --> 0:21:38.760 cup that was full of the wrath of God, the 0:21:39.040 --> 0:21:41.600 just punishment that our sin deserved. 0:21:42.800 --> 0:21:45.719 And he drank it. But he struggled to drink it. 0:21:45.960 --> 0:21:48.360 Do you know how I know he struggled because he prayed, 0:21:48.680 --> 0:21:53.480 if there's any other way, let this cup pass. But 0:21:53.640 --> 0:21:57.520 if there's not, if I have to drink it down, 0:21:58.000 --> 0:22:00.800 if I have to suffer, you have to go to 0:22:00.880 --> 0:22:04.320 the cross. I'm going to the cross. If I have 0:22:04.440 --> 0:22:07.639 to be mocked, I'll be mocked. If I have to 0:22:07.680 --> 0:22:09.879 be alone, I'll be alone. 0:22:09.920 --> 0:22:13.280 If I have to cry, I'll cry. If I have 0:22:13.480 --> 0:22:15.359 to struggle, I'll struggle. 0:22:15.720 --> 0:22:25.480 Not my will, but yours be gone. So the Son 0:22:25.520 --> 0:22:29.760 of God is thirsty, and he's thirsty because he's trapped. 0:22:31.320 --> 0:22:34.800 He's trapped in a place that we're all familiar with. 0:22:35.119 --> 0:22:40.760 He's trapped between what he wants and what God wills. 0:22:43.000 --> 0:22:44.280 Have you ever been trapped? 0:22:46.040 --> 0:22:53.320 Three honest people, three thirsty people. All the thirsty people 0:22:53.359 --> 0:22:58.400 make some noise, just be honest about it, because remember, 0:22:58.680 --> 0:23:02.080 it's only those who and thirst that can be filled. 0:23:03.520 --> 0:23:05.800 It's only those who know what it's like. I mean, 0:23:06.080 --> 0:23:06.840 he got. 0:23:06.600 --> 0:23:10.040 Down in that garden and he prayed so hard about it, 0:23:10.280 --> 0:23:13.159 and he heard so much about it while Peter. 0:23:13.080 --> 0:23:16.800 James and John slept on the side. But Jesus prayed. 0:23:16.840 --> 0:23:19.720 The Bible says he prayed to the point that his 0:23:19.880 --> 0:23:30.040 sweat was like drops of blood struggle to surrender, and 0:23:30.080 --> 0:23:36.399 he was. He was trapped in the garden between what 0:23:36.440 --> 0:23:43.080 God had spoken and what his flesh wanted. I'm thirsty, 0:23:43.160 --> 0:23:45.560 of course, he's thirsty. When you sweat like that, you're 0:23:45.600 --> 0:23:49.439 going to be thirsty. I mean, if the Son of 0:23:49.480 --> 0:23:51.679 God sweat like that, what makes you think you're going 0:23:51.760 --> 0:23:53.600 to go through life and never break one yourself? 0:23:57.400 --> 0:23:58.600 So we think we're just. 0:23:58.600 --> 0:24:01.680 Supposed to fulfill our call and never drink the cup. 0:24:03.680 --> 0:24:06.080 We think we're supposed to have a vision, but no, vinegar. 0:24:07.359 --> 0:24:09.679 I mean, the son of God is sweating drops of 0:24:09.720 --> 0:24:12.000 blood and we're supposed to be able to sleep through. 0:24:12.040 --> 0:24:17.200 Life is a struggle, he said, I thirst because he 0:24:17.320 --> 0:24:19.159 struggled people. 0:24:19.240 --> 0:24:20.600 I know he was thirsty. 0:24:20.680 --> 0:24:24.280 I mean he's fully God, yes, but he's also fully man. 0:24:25.320 --> 0:24:27.200 In other words, he's trapped. 0:24:28.280 --> 0:24:33.840 Because he's God, but he's wrapped in flesh because he's glory. 0:24:33.960 --> 0:24:38.880 But he's wrapped in frailty because he's eternity. But he's 0:24:38.960 --> 0:24:43.320 trapped in time because he's spirit, but he's trapped in 0:24:43.359 --> 0:24:47.600 a body. Sometimes I feel trapped because what I want 0:24:47.640 --> 0:24:50.440 to do I can't do, and what I do I hate, 0:24:50.800 --> 0:24:51.760 and what I want to. 0:24:51.720 --> 0:24:54.760 Do I don't have the will to do. I'm trapped. 0:24:59.119 --> 0:25:08.240 Thirsty, Hi, I'm wearying, And he struggled, And see, I'm 0:25:08.240 --> 0:25:09.240 not very comfortable with this. 0:25:09.320 --> 0:25:11.960 I don't like it because I don't want to. 0:25:13.119 --> 0:25:16.080 I don't really want to see a god who struggled 0:25:16.080 --> 0:25:18.919 like I struggle. I like that stuff where he opens 0:25:18.960 --> 0:25:23.960 his mouth and says shut up to the wind and 0:25:24.000 --> 0:25:27.119 the waves. I like that because that makes me think 0:25:27.160 --> 0:25:31.840 he's just gonna walk into my situation smooth sailing. 0:25:33.200 --> 0:25:34.879 But when he says I thirst. 0:25:36.640 --> 0:25:39.159 See, now I see him identifying with my shame, and 0:25:39.200 --> 0:25:41.080 it causes me to look at myself, not as I 0:25:41.080 --> 0:25:45.560 wish to be, but as I really am, Because now 0:25:45.560 --> 0:25:49.960 I've got to picture him carrying my shame right down. Shame, 0:25:50.080 --> 0:25:56.439 because shame will make you thirsty. Shame will make you 0:25:56.520 --> 0:25:59.159 try to fill something with the words of people that 0:25:59.200 --> 0:26:02.240 can really only be fulfilled by the word of God. 0:26:03.280 --> 0:26:07.119 Shame will make you forget who you really are. Of 0:26:07.160 --> 0:26:13.960 course he was thirsty. He was carrying your shame. Now, 0:26:14.000 --> 0:26:16.320 I mean to an untrained eye, it looked like he 0:26:16.400 --> 0:26:21.879 was carrying a beam that weighed eighty pounds and he 0:26:21.960 --> 0:26:24.760 carried it up a hill. Now this is from Pilot's Palace, 0:26:24.800 --> 0:26:27.639 where Jesus was sentenced by the Roman prelate. He had 0:26:27.640 --> 0:26:30.200 already been handed over by Caiaphas, the High priest. He's 0:26:30.200 --> 0:26:32.080 been going back and forth all night. He sweats in 0:26:32.119 --> 0:26:36.040 the garden, He heads to the cross. He gets there, 0:26:36.119 --> 0:26:38.119 they offer him something to numb the pain. He says, no, 0:26:39.200 --> 0:26:42.159 I'm focused, No, not yet. 0:26:42.640 --> 0:26:43.320 He pushes the. 0:26:43.359 --> 0:26:48.640 Drink aside, thirsty as he is carrying my shame eighty pounds. 0:26:49.960 --> 0:26:51.480 You know, it weighs a lot more than that when 0:26:51.480 --> 0:26:55.199 it's in your soul, a whole lot more than eighty pounds. 0:26:56.520 --> 0:26:57.680 It weighs a whole lot more. 0:26:58.560 --> 0:27:00.480 It'll weigh so much you can't even look people in 0:27:00.520 --> 0:27:01.800 the eye when it's in your soul. 0:27:03.240 --> 0:27:06.800 And he carried that, He carried it the length of. 0:27:06.840 --> 0:27:12.919 Six and a half football fields from Pilot's palace to Galgata. 0:27:13.320 --> 0:27:14.400 Of course he was thirsty. 0:27:15.840 --> 0:27:18.560 Come on, I can't even do a set of kettlebell 0:27:18.640 --> 0:27:20.960 swings and not take a sip. 0:27:21.880 --> 0:27:23.040 Of course he was thirsty. 0:27:25.000 --> 0:27:27.200 Of course he said, I thirst And you know what, 0:27:28.359 --> 0:27:32.919 this isn't the first time that Jesus said he was 0:27:32.960 --> 0:27:40.840 thirsty in John's gospel. No, it's not man, not at all. See, 0:27:40.840 --> 0:27:43.840 because one time, can I tell you a story from 0:27:43.840 --> 0:27:48.320 the Bible. It's a Bible story from John chapter four, 0:27:50.359 --> 0:27:56.000 And it's interesting because Jesus is going somewhere, but he 0:27:56.080 --> 0:27:59.280 goes around to get there, and the place where he 0:27:59.320 --> 0:28:02.399 goes is called Samaria. Now this is not a normal 0:28:02.480 --> 0:28:05.640 place for a Jew to go, so the fact that. 0:28:05.560 --> 0:28:07.440 He went there was kind of surprising. 0:28:07.920 --> 0:28:09.959 But nobody asked him why he was doing what he 0:28:10.000 --> 0:28:13.399 was doing, because by this time his disciples knew that 0:28:13.520 --> 0:28:16.600 everything he did he did on purpose. Let me say 0:28:16.600 --> 0:28:20.400 that again, everything he did he did on purpose. That's 0:28:20.440 --> 0:28:22.000 going to come back, and that's going to be very 0:28:22.040 --> 0:28:26.040 important when I finished this little sermonette today. Everything he 0:28:26.080 --> 0:28:28.919 did he did on purpose. So the Bible says he 0:28:29.040 --> 0:28:33.000 had to go to Samaria, he had to go. Why 0:28:33.320 --> 0:28:36.640 why did he have to go to Samaria? Why did 0:28:36.680 --> 0:28:39.080 he have to go to the cross? Why would he 0:28:39.120 --> 0:28:42.479 go out of his way to Samaria where a Jewish 0:28:42.560 --> 0:28:46.400 person would not normally go. Why would God go where 0:28:46.440 --> 0:28:49.640 he was least expected? Do you ever wonder why God 0:28:49.680 --> 0:28:51.440 would bother with someone like you? 0:28:53.920 --> 0:28:57.040 Have you ever asked that question? Why me? God? Any 0:28:57.120 --> 0:29:00.440 parents that have ever asked God? Why me? Why would 0:29:00.520 --> 0:29:01.800 you call me to raise a kid? 0:29:01.840 --> 0:29:05.960 When I feel like a little boy myself? Sometimes See 0:29:06.000 --> 0:29:09.680 the interesting thing to me about this little excursion Jesus 0:29:09.760 --> 0:29:15.400 takes is that he's going to Samaria. He sits down 0:29:15.840 --> 0:29:20.120 when he gets there, and he waits by a well 0:29:20.760 --> 0:29:22.920 for a woman. Now, let me tell you something about 0:29:22.960 --> 0:29:25.680 this woman, because she's coming out in the middle of 0:29:25.720 --> 0:29:28.280 the day. And the only reason that you would go 0:29:28.360 --> 0:29:30.720 to the well in the middle of the day in 0:29:30.760 --> 0:29:33.920 a hot climate is so nobody else would be there, 0:29:34.280 --> 0:29:38.160 because you're ashamed to be seen by people. So she's 0:29:38.200 --> 0:29:40.800 going out in the middle of the day to get 0:29:40.800 --> 0:29:44.080 some water at a time when she doesn't think anybody 0:29:44.160 --> 0:29:50.200 else will see her. Because she's thirsty. I said, she's thirsty. 0:29:51.000 --> 0:29:55.560 And she's not just thirsty for water, she's thirsty. She's 0:29:55.600 --> 0:30:00.320 thirsty in the urban dictionary thirsty kind of way. So 0:30:00.520 --> 0:30:04.200 Jesus sits by a well waiting for a woman and 0:30:04.320 --> 0:30:07.360 sets a trap for a thirsty woman. 0:30:08.600 --> 0:30:10.760 Y'all aren't even helping me appreciate this sermon. I work 0:30:10.840 --> 0:30:13.600 so hard. All that's rude. 0:30:15.880 --> 0:30:18.520 So she comes up says, oh, crap, I thought nobody 0:30:18.560 --> 0:30:19.040 would be here. 0:30:19.080 --> 0:30:19.920 I don't even know this. 0:30:19.960 --> 0:30:22.760 God, have you noticed how everything we've been studying and 0:30:22.760 --> 0:30:25.239 in the scripture says Jesus showing up to people who 0:30:25.280 --> 0:30:29.280 didn't even recognize him when he did, just showing up. 0:30:30.680 --> 0:30:34.040 And then he does something unthinkable. Okay, talk about a 0:30:34.080 --> 0:30:40.040 thirst trap. Jesus the Living Water sees this woman come in, 0:30:40.640 --> 0:30:44.000 knows what kind of life she's lived, and yet he 0:30:44.000 --> 0:30:49.680 doesn't say anything about that. He says, hey girl, modernization. 0:30:49.880 --> 0:30:53.280 But he said, give me look at for seven, give 0:30:53.320 --> 0:30:58.800 me a drink. She didn't like that very much, so 0:30:58.840 --> 0:31:00.640 she got real deep look at her. Because here's what 0:31:00.680 --> 0:31:03.360 you do when God speaks to a place in your life. 0:31:03.400 --> 0:31:06.440 When when God starts speaking to you, you get theoretical 0:31:06.480 --> 0:31:09.960 and abstract because to be specific, to really have to 0:31:10.040 --> 0:31:14.840 deal with the issue is actually sometimes painful. So she's like, hey, 0:31:15.240 --> 0:31:17.520 how is it that you a Jew asked to drink 0:31:17.520 --> 0:31:17.760 from me? 0:31:17.880 --> 0:31:20.280 A woman from Samaria? In other words, I know you're 0:31:20.280 --> 0:31:23.840 not talking to me. That's what I want to saying. 0:31:24.200 --> 0:31:27.280 I know you're not talking to me. And you can 0:31:27.320 --> 0:31:28.480 feel that way sometimes. 0:31:29.880 --> 0:31:31.400 I mean, some of you sit here and listen to 0:31:31.400 --> 0:31:34.959 me preach and you think it's for your wife. 0:31:35.800 --> 0:31:36.520 I'm talking to you. 0:31:38.080 --> 0:31:43.720 I'm talking to you, buddy, thirsty self. 0:31:44.960 --> 0:31:47.120 So everybody in here is thirsty. 0:31:47.480 --> 0:31:50.400 Everybody in here is thirsty. 0:31:50.560 --> 0:31:53.000 Some of y'all get it through sex, some of. 0:31:53.080 --> 0:31:56.040 Y'all get it through success, some of y'all get. 0:31:55.880 --> 0:31:58.280 It through religion. But I got to tell you something. 0:31:58.560 --> 0:32:01.240 The person you're sitting now is thirsty. 0:32:01.760 --> 0:32:03.640 It's not a sin to be thirsty. 0:32:04.200 --> 0:32:07.760 It's just where you go to get your fixed that 0:32:08.000 --> 0:32:09.560 determines whether or not. 0:32:11.120 --> 0:32:15.760 Your soul will be satisfied. Because I found out there's 0:32:15.840 --> 0:32:18.479 only one while that hasslewater, I need. 0:32:20.720 --> 0:32:26.280 We talk about the satisfaction, the satisfaction. Jesus says, hey, 0:32:26.800 --> 0:32:28.040 I need a drink. 0:32:28.040 --> 0:32:29.960 And the woman thinks he's talking about. 0:32:29.720 --> 0:32:32.600 Water, but he's not talking about water. And the woman 0:32:32.680 --> 0:32:35.320 is perhaps a shamed and offended, and so she goes 0:32:35.360 --> 0:32:37.120 to push him away because see. 0:32:36.920 --> 0:32:39.720 That's what she's learned how to do. She's thirsty. 0:32:40.040 --> 0:32:42.040 So she's learned how to get what she needs from 0:32:42.080 --> 0:32:45.200 who she thinks can give it. But none of it lasts. 0:32:44.960 --> 0:32:48.040 She's learned, give me your phone. She's learned how to 0:32:48.080 --> 0:32:50.120 get what she needs. So she wakes up in the 0:32:50.120 --> 0:32:53.120 morning thirsty. Did they like my picture? Did they come 0:32:53.160 --> 0:32:55.520 in on my posts? Did they frame me back? Did 0:32:55.520 --> 0:32:56.400 they follow me back? 0:32:56.600 --> 0:32:57.040 Thirsty? 0:32:57.080 --> 0:33:00.880 Somebody shall thirsty thirsty acting like that that's gonna fill you. 0:33:01.160 --> 0:33:04.160 It might for a minute, but there's one problem with this. Well, 0:33:04.440 --> 0:33:05.320 Jesus said, if you. 0:33:05.360 --> 0:33:08.680 Drink of this water, woman, you're gonna stay thirsty. And 0:33:08.760 --> 0:33:10.400 I want you to know that if you put your 0:33:10.480 --> 0:33:13.440 validation in other people's hands, you will have to go 0:33:13.560 --> 0:33:16.800 back to them for it, and you can't. Don't make 0:33:16.800 --> 0:33:23.520 me throw his phone, so Jesus, he just lays it 0:33:23.560 --> 0:33:23.960 out there. 0:33:24.080 --> 0:33:25.560 Oh yeah, I will make a work a while to 0:33:25.640 --> 0:33:26.600 come to church today. 0:33:29.440 --> 0:33:32.520 So Jesus is like, hey, you know everyone who drinks 0:33:32.520 --> 0:33:37.760 of this water, everyone who drinks of this water, I 0:33:37.800 --> 0:33:40.440 ain't a gout on Facebook. Yeah, but why do you 0:33:40.480 --> 0:33:47.480 go to the mall. Everybody drinks somewhere. Why do you 0:33:47.520 --> 0:33:53.160 eat the ritos everybody drinks somewhere. Why you put so 0:33:53.240 --> 0:33:55.400 much pressure on your kids to do what you never did. 0:33:55.880 --> 0:34:08.279 Everybody drinks somewhere. Why are you texting her back? You 0:34:08.360 --> 0:34:10.440 better take your phone. Man, something's coming over me while 0:34:10.480 --> 0:34:16.120 I heard this same something demon in that phone, So 0:34:16.200 --> 0:34:16.560 sit down. 0:34:20.960 --> 0:34:24.200 He says bye. Well, and he's like, now, I gotta 0:34:24.200 --> 0:34:24.560 be honest. 0:34:24.600 --> 0:34:26.960 On the surface, it sounds like a pickup line, but 0:34:27.040 --> 0:34:34.680 we know it's not because Jesus, he's not. He's not 0:34:34.800 --> 0:34:41.839 thirsty like Dad. He's trying to get her something, got it, 0:34:42.080 --> 0:34:44.759 He's not. He's not trying to receive something from her. 0:34:44.800 --> 0:34:48.640 He's trying to release something to her because he knows 0:34:48.680 --> 0:34:51.640 she's thirsty. So he's like, Hey, whoever drinks of the 0:34:51.680 --> 0:34:55.880 water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. 0:34:58.080 --> 0:35:00.400 That troubled me because I was contrasting at what he 0:35:00.440 --> 0:35:02.919 said fifteen chapters earlier with what he said in John 0:35:03.000 --> 0:35:06.560 nineteen on the Cross, where he said at thirst And 0:35:06.600 --> 0:35:10.280 I felt like I had caught Jesus contradicting himself because 0:35:10.280 --> 0:35:12.000 he said he had water and we would never thirst 0:35:12.040 --> 0:35:12.600 if we drank it. 0:35:12.640 --> 0:35:14.120 But he said he thirsted on the cross. 0:35:14.160 --> 0:35:17.920 But I noticed how he didn't say, you'll never feel 0:35:17.960 --> 0:35:25.279 thirsty again. He said you'll never be He didn't say 0:35:25.280 --> 0:35:29.120 you will never thirst again. You're see, you're gonna thirst. 0:35:29.120 --> 0:35:37.200 You're gonna have days that you feel discouraged. If you weren't, 0:35:38.040 --> 0:35:41.520 God wouldn't tell you not to be terrified or discouraged, 0:35:42.760 --> 0:35:44.920 if you were naturally going to always be encouraged, if 0:35:44.960 --> 0:35:48.040 you were never going to be discouraged and dehydrated. 0:35:48.520 --> 0:35:49.680 That's what the water is for. 0:35:51.760 --> 0:35:53.960 So what he's saying is you'll always have somewhere to 0:35:54.040 --> 0:36:00.440 drink from, not that you'll never have a need, but 0:36:00.560 --> 0:36:04.880 that I will meet all of your needs according to 0:36:05.040 --> 0:36:06.840 my glorious richest. 0:36:07.560 --> 0:36:08.480 That's the promise. 0:36:10.239 --> 0:36:13.759 So he tells the woman, I got something for you. 0:36:13.800 --> 0:36:15.440 That's what he tells the woman. I got something for you. 0:36:16.280 --> 0:36:19.160 And it's not like what you've been drinking. Because watch this. 0:36:19.400 --> 0:36:22.360 He traps this woman. He totally traps this woman. Jesus 0:36:22.360 --> 0:36:24.480 all through his ministry, people were trying to trap Jesus. 0:36:24.480 --> 0:36:27.560 The Sadducees and the Pharisees and Judas trapped him in 0:36:27.600 --> 0:36:31.120 the garden and the Roman official stuff. They had him 0:36:31.120 --> 0:36:33.640 trapped on the cross, but Jesus was always the one. 0:36:34.040 --> 0:36:36.000 Even when they thought they had him, they never really 0:36:36.040 --> 0:36:38.839 had him because he was always in control, even on 0:36:38.880 --> 0:36:42.360 the cross. There were over three hundred Messianic prophecies that 0:36:42.520 --> 0:36:45.279 Jesus fulfilled in his life and in his death. And 0:36:45.320 --> 0:36:49.400 so Jesus was Jesus was never he was never really trapped. 0:36:49.440 --> 0:36:51.440 See here he is with this woman and he says, 0:36:51.440 --> 0:36:53.719 I want to drink, But he's not really thirsty like that. 0:36:54.000 --> 0:36:56.839 He's trying to give her something. God doesn't really need 0:36:56.920 --> 0:36:59.680 anything from you. He can have another you in a minute. 0:36:59.680 --> 0:37:01.440 I don't mean to go back to two thousand and 0:37:01.440 --> 0:37:05.720 two because sometimes and so God really isn't needing something 0:37:05.719 --> 0:37:08.000 from you when we talk about giving in the church. 0:37:08.080 --> 0:37:10.440 How dare you, with your thirsty self get an attitude? 0:37:10.480 --> 0:37:13.480 They just want my money. God doesn't need your money. 0:37:13.760 --> 0:37:16.319 God wants to be in your heart. He wants to 0:37:16.360 --> 0:37:22.440 set you free. You're the one thirsty. You're the one. 0:37:26.400 --> 0:37:29.200 So he says, give me a drink. She says, well, 0:37:29.200 --> 0:37:30.560 we don't have a bucket, and he's trying to get 0:37:30.560 --> 0:37:32.400 her to see that she is the bucket. 0:37:34.800 --> 0:37:35.760 And he is the water. 0:37:39.320 --> 0:37:42.000 You know, I'm telling myself right now, focus verdict. You've 0:37:42.000 --> 0:37:45.120 got to finish. These people have a life. They don't 0:37:45.120 --> 0:37:49.839 want to be here with you for three more hours. 0:37:51.600 --> 0:37:58.239 Give me ten minutes. The woman said, sir, if there's 0:37:58.239 --> 0:38:01.279 some kind of water, if there's some bottomless well, if 0:38:01.280 --> 0:38:11.440 there's free refills, somebody shout free refills, give me this 0:38:11.560 --> 0:38:17.279 water so I won't have to be so I won't 0:38:17.280 --> 0:38:21.000 have to be trapped, so I won't have to keep 0:38:21.040 --> 0:38:28.279 coming back here. So so I won't have to keep 0:38:28.320 --> 0:38:34.920 texting Travis that just made up the name, so I 0:38:34.960 --> 0:38:40.400 won't have to keep performing, so I won't have to 0:38:40.480 --> 0:38:41.920 keep being so. 0:38:43.560 --> 0:38:44.000 Thirsty. 0:38:45.719 --> 0:38:51.360 And now Jesus, he's got her, all right, got her. 0:38:53.400 --> 0:38:56.719 He came to some area and sat by the well. 0:38:57.200 --> 0:38:58.800 And now she's trapped. 0:38:59.000 --> 0:38:59.400 Watch us. 0:38:59.400 --> 0:39:04.160 Hee goes, all right, go get your husband. And she 0:39:04.360 --> 0:39:16.720 says what had happened was I don't have a husband, 0:39:16.800 --> 0:39:20.640 which is true, but it's not the total truth. 0:39:20.680 --> 0:39:21.439 You know how you do. 0:39:21.520 --> 0:39:31.239 Like right, I have no husband. Jesus said, you're right 0:39:31.239 --> 0:39:33.799 and saying I have no husband, for you've had five 0:39:33.880 --> 0:39:36.480 husbands and the one you have now is not your husband. 0:39:36.480 --> 0:39:44.000 What you've said is true. And you're thirsty, thirsty, and 0:39:44.040 --> 0:39:50.759 you're trapped. And when I asked you for water, I 0:39:50.800 --> 0:39:55.080 was trying to release you from having to go all 0:39:55.120 --> 0:40:07.600 around to people and things and stuff that doesn't satisfy. 0:40:07.920 --> 0:40:11.120 I want to give you something that comes from within. 0:40:13.640 --> 0:40:16.880 I want to give you something that doesn't depend on 0:40:16.960 --> 0:40:21.879 bank accounts, It doesn't diminish. 0:40:22.560 --> 0:40:24.319 No matter how the biopsy comes back. 0:40:26.200 --> 0:40:29.719 I want to give you something that you can live 0:40:29.760 --> 0:40:35.800 off of, something that only gets stronger in your struggle 0:40:38.880 --> 0:40:44.200 I want to give you a limited supply, And she said, sir, 0:40:45.880 --> 0:40:51.600 I think you're onto something. She goes back to Samaria 0:40:52.480 --> 0:40:55.759 carrying living water that she didn't even expect to get, 0:40:57.000 --> 0:40:59.640 comes back to Jesus, and the Bible says that many 0:40:59.640 --> 0:41:05.160 and some are belief because of her testimony. See it, 0:41:05.160 --> 0:41:09.319 it was a trap. Jesus used a thirsty woman to 0:41:09.440 --> 0:41:12.960 transform an entire region. I wonder how he could use 0:41:13.040 --> 0:41:22.080 your life, if you would receive his grace today. 0:41:22.960 --> 0:41:24.600 You've been coming here a long time. Have I ever 0:41:24.640 --> 0:41:26.279 preached stronger than I'm preaching right now? 0:41:28.880 --> 0:41:32.920 I'm not even done yet, So sit back and let 0:41:32.920 --> 0:41:37.600 me give you my fourth point. I want to talk 0:41:37.640 --> 0:41:43.200 about the setup, because that's what it was. 0:41:44.800 --> 0:41:45.640 It was a setup. 0:41:46.719 --> 0:41:50.279 That's why you went through Samaria. He was setting this 0:41:50.320 --> 0:41:54.440 woman up. That's why he asked for a drink because 0:41:54.480 --> 0:41:58.360 she was thirsty. That's why you went to the cross 0:41:58.480 --> 0:42:00.800 a pill six and fifty the arts. 0:42:02.000 --> 0:42:03.759 That's why he said, I thirst. 0:42:03.480 --> 0:42:05.480 And I'm gonna tell you how I found out because 0:42:05.760 --> 0:42:07.840 I thought about that thing so long. I thought, Okay, 0:42:07.960 --> 0:42:09.160 how can living water be thirsty? 0:42:09.160 --> 0:42:10.080 How can I well need water? 0:42:10.080 --> 0:42:12.120 How can the one that spoke the oceans into existence, 0:42:12.200 --> 0:42:14.440 now need water from the very same source that he created. 0:42:14.480 --> 0:42:17.040 How could God, who rains above the waters, need water. 0:42:17.080 --> 0:42:19.279 How could it be possible that God could come down 0:42:19.320 --> 0:42:21.279 condescend to the form of human man. How could Christ 0:42:21.360 --> 0:42:23.759 be made flesh? How could he die and suffer like that? 0:42:23.920 --> 0:42:25.440 How can it be that there are seasons in my 0:42:25.480 --> 0:42:27.560 life when I call him him and nothing happens. How 0:42:27.560 --> 0:42:29.440 can it be that I have divinity but I'm trapped 0:42:29.440 --> 0:42:32.000 sometimes in my desperation. How can it be that I'm 0:42:32.040 --> 0:42:34.400 full of the spirit, but sometimes I feel so dry? 0:42:37.120 --> 0:42:40.600 So I had to read again. I read that. 0:42:40.680 --> 0:42:43.919 Verse like like twenty times in John nineteen twenty eight. 0:42:44.080 --> 0:42:47.440 And I don't read Greek, although I took Greek. I 0:42:47.440 --> 0:42:49.560 don't read Hebrew although I took Hebrew. I was not 0:42:49.719 --> 0:42:54.640 very effective in my language studies. And I don't even 0:42:54.640 --> 0:42:57.160 read Aramaic, which is what Jesus was probably speaking in 0:42:57.200 --> 0:42:59.240 at the moment when he said I thirst. 0:42:59.280 --> 0:43:01.840 But what I do read really. 0:43:01.600 --> 0:43:09.040 Well is English, and I know my punctuation marks. So 0:43:09.080 --> 0:43:11.319 when I read John nineteen twenty eight, have y'all got 0:43:11.360 --> 0:43:14.720 like seven minutes for me to tie this up? Seven minutes, 0:43:15.200 --> 0:43:21.839 seven minute miracle, and so it said that after this, 0:43:23.200 --> 0:43:27.480 after all you've been through, after all they've accused you off, 0:43:27.800 --> 0:43:30.239 after all the people who walked away who should have 0:43:30.280 --> 0:43:34.880 been there. After this, after they counted you out and 0:43:35.000 --> 0:43:38.680 said you or nothing and mocked you. After this, after 0:43:38.719 --> 0:43:41.680 a crowd of thorns was placed on his head, after 0:43:41.719 --> 0:43:45.680 the blood ran from his brow, after this, after they 0:43:45.760 --> 0:43:47.560 beat us back, after they. 0:43:47.480 --> 0:43:49.880 Released for rabbis, after this. 0:43:49.920 --> 0:43:53.440 After the cock crow and Peter denied him thrice. After this, 0:43:55.480 --> 0:44:01.520 knowing that now all things were finished, Jesus had one 0:44:01.560 --> 0:44:05.160 more thing to say, one thing to do, because there 0:44:05.160 --> 0:44:11.719 are three hundred prophecies, and he was on two ninety nine. 0:44:13.080 --> 0:44:17.759 And see everybody standing around that day thought that death. 0:44:19.200 --> 0:44:20.760 Had trapped Jesus. 0:44:21.920 --> 0:44:27.640 Right, And the cross was a setup, But it wasn't 0:44:27.680 --> 0:44:32.239 set up by Judas, and it wasn't set up by 0:44:32.239 --> 0:44:36.239 the Sadducees, and it wasn't set up by the Pharisees, 0:44:37.280 --> 0:44:39.520 and it wasn't set up by Herod. 0:44:40.200 --> 0:44:41.680 It was set up by Heaven. 0:44:42.520 --> 0:44:45.880 Listen to me preach this sermon. Listen to me preach 0:44:45.920 --> 0:44:49.400 this sermon. Listen to me preach on the parentheses. In 0:44:49.520 --> 0:44:52.440 John nineteen twenty eight. I preached on a lot of 0:44:52.440 --> 0:44:55.240 things in my little tenure preaching, but I've never preached 0:44:55.280 --> 0:44:57.480 on a punctuation mark until today. 0:44:58.280 --> 0:45:01.440 After this, knowing that all things. 0:45:01.160 --> 0:45:04.200 Had been fulfilled, knowing that he had drank down the 0:45:04.280 --> 0:45:06.920 full cup of the wrath of God so that you 0:45:06.960 --> 0:45:10.400 would never have to After knowing that he suffered like 0:45:10.440 --> 0:45:13.200 a criminal, so that he could reign like a king, 0:45:13.840 --> 0:45:18.440 after humbling himself, being obedient even to the point of 0:45:18.560 --> 0:45:19.640 death on the cross. 0:45:22.160 --> 0:45:32.239 And it was then Jesus said parentheses to fulfill the scripture. 0:45:33.960 --> 0:45:41.080 Huh. I wonder why John put it in parentheses. Probably 0:45:41.120 --> 0:45:42.960 because he didn't know. That's why it was happening at 0:45:43.000 --> 0:45:49.040 the time. See, when Jesus said I thirst, they thought 0:45:49.080 --> 0:45:53.520 he wanted water, so they gave him vinegar to mock him. 0:45:53.680 --> 0:45:57.040 And the thing they used to mock him was actually 0:45:57.080 --> 0:46:00.279 the thing that he used to finish the work God 0:46:00.320 --> 0:46:00.920 gave him to do. 0:46:04.440 --> 0:46:06.440 The thing that they put on a sponge to shame 0:46:06.520 --> 0:46:09.319 him was that. See, because listen, I got to tell 0:46:09.360 --> 0:46:14.239 you something. Stand up so I'll finish this sermon. Please. Oh, 0:46:14.239 --> 0:46:19.040 I got to show you one more thing. See, because. 0:46:20.280 --> 0:46:26.680 When Jesus said I thirst, to fulfill the scripture parentheses. 0:46:29.200 --> 0:46:31.120 Have you ever had to live in the parentheses? 0:46:31.320 --> 0:46:35.000 I mean, like not understanding why you were going through 0:46:35.040 --> 0:46:35.960 what you were going through. 0:46:36.360 --> 0:46:38.920 Please be real with me. I cannot preach this sermon 0:46:39.239 --> 0:46:40.200 to close hearts. 0:46:42.640 --> 0:46:45.840 I'm trying to give you water today for your thirsty soul. 0:46:47.320 --> 0:46:51.120 But sometimes you're in a wilderness and you don't know why. 0:46:51.880 --> 0:46:54.040 And sometimes you're looking at a red sea and you 0:46:54.160 --> 0:46:59.520 feel trapped. And Jesus looked trapped up there on that cross, 0:46:59.560 --> 0:47:02.920 but John said no, he wasn't trapped. 0:47:03.120 --> 0:47:08.400 Death didn't trap Jesus. Jesus trapped death. 0:47:14.000 --> 0:47:21.080 No, Now I know why, he said. 0:47:21.120 --> 0:47:21.680 I thirst. 0:47:23.280 --> 0:47:26.799 Now I know why why the lips that spoke the 0:47:26.920 --> 0:47:31.000 waters into their place on the earth set I thirst 0:47:31.560 --> 0:47:33.279 to fulfill the scripture. 0:47:33.760 --> 0:47:35.640 God has a purpose. 0:47:35.719 --> 0:47:45.120 For every thurst in your lives. Death didn't trap Jesus. 0:47:45.640 --> 0:47:47.480 Jesus trapped Dad. 0:47:55.200 --> 0:47:59.080 So one time David felt trapped in the Psalms and 0:47:59.120 --> 0:48:03.120 then Psalm sixteen. He describes it in vivid detail. He goes, 0:48:03.880 --> 0:48:08.160 the deep waters have engulfed me. I'm surrounded by enemies. 0:48:09.000 --> 0:48:11.600 They hurl their insults at me. Does this sound familiar? 0:48:11.600 --> 0:48:16.480 By the way, It's a messianic song. It's describing centuries 0:48:16.520 --> 0:48:19.080 before the cross, what the cross would be like for Jesus. 0:48:19.360 --> 0:48:22.600 It is David. Jesus is called the son of David. 0:48:22.719 --> 0:48:26.000 It is David, pointing to the one who now says, 0:48:26.000 --> 0:48:32.120 I thirst, And David says something that although he is 0:48:32.200 --> 0:48:36.080 surrounded by what he calls deep waters of trial, he 0:48:36.160 --> 0:48:42.080 says that the reproach has broken his heart. The shame 0:48:42.200 --> 0:48:47.279 has brought him so low to this place that he 0:48:47.320 --> 0:48:51.360 feels like he's drowning. And you can get to a 0:48:51.360 --> 0:48:55.319 place where you feel trapped in doubt, and you can't 0:48:55.320 --> 0:48:57.360 have dysfunctions in your life that have been there so 0:48:57.480 --> 0:49:01.040 long that you feel trapped inside of yourself. That's the 0:49:01.080 --> 0:49:05.120 worst place to feel trapped. Not in a bad relationship. 0:49:05.160 --> 0:49:08.400 I mean, you can always block that number, But what 0:49:08.400 --> 0:49:10.719 do you do when you're trapped inside of your own heart, 0:49:11.840 --> 0:49:17.000 your own broken heart? David said, it's it's so bad. 0:49:17.040 --> 0:49:19.520 It's broken my heart. And I am in despair. I 0:49:19.560 --> 0:49:22.520 am in distress. But watch this, he said, I look 0:49:22.600 --> 0:49:25.959 for pity. There was none for comforters. I found none. 0:49:26.160 --> 0:49:27.279 Nobody could help me. 0:49:27.320 --> 0:49:33.760 I was trapped. I was trapped. I was trapped. 0:49:35.160 --> 0:49:37.640 He said, I got to the point where I asked 0:49:37.640 --> 0:49:43.400 my friends for food. Go to the next verse, and 0:49:43.440 --> 0:49:46.440 they gave me poison for food. The people who were 0:49:46.440 --> 0:49:47.080 supposed to. 0:49:47.040 --> 0:49:52.720 Help me hurt me. They gave me poison for food. 0:49:53.040 --> 0:49:55.840 I was thirsty, But for my thirst, they gave me 0:49:56.000 --> 0:50:00.000 sour wine to drink. And now I understand why Jesus 0:50:00.120 --> 0:50:04.759 set I thirst. Go back to my scripture. It was 0:50:04.840 --> 0:50:09.040 to fulfill the scripture. It wasn't about water. Jesus was 0:50:09.120 --> 0:50:12.600 setting the trap for death. This was the last thing 0:50:13.160 --> 0:50:17.520 he had to do before the spirit could be released. 0:50:17.880 --> 0:50:18.880 It's a setup. 0:50:20.920 --> 0:50:21.960 It's a set up. 0:50:26.000 --> 0:50:29.400 If he didn't suffer, salvation could not spring up like 0:50:29.480 --> 0:50:32.080 a well. If he did not suffer, it could not 0:50:32.239 --> 0:50:35.760 flow forth. If he did not die, he could not rise. 0:50:36.840 --> 0:50:38.640 Somebody shout, it's a setup. 0:50:40.160 --> 0:50:46.920 It's not the end. It's in the parentheses. It's in 0:50:46.960 --> 0:50:47.799 the parentheses. 0:50:48.800 --> 0:50:51.560 Sometimes you gotta trust God in the parentheses, in the 0:50:51.640 --> 0:50:54.880 type places when it looks like your trap, to know 0:50:54.960 --> 0:50:58.040 that the very red sea that feels like it's gonna 0:50:58.120 --> 0:50:59.280 kill you, it's. 0:50:59.120 --> 0:51:01.600 Gonna drown your enemies behind you. 0:51:02.239 --> 0:51:13.680 Somebody shot it staring the shouting. He said, I thirsted, 0:51:13.719 --> 0:51:18.080 and they gave me vinegar. But watch this, David praying. 0:51:19.160 --> 0:51:21.600 This is what I'm praying over your life today. Every 0:51:21.880 --> 0:51:24.120 evil thing that the enemy has done to you, and 0:51:24.200 --> 0:51:26.799 every trial that feels like is sweeping over you. And 0:51:26.840 --> 0:51:29.600 for everybody who feels trapped. Listen what he prayed. Let 0:51:29.640 --> 0:51:34.720 their own table before them, the thing that they brought 0:51:34.760 --> 0:51:40.600 to destroy me. Let their own table become a snare. 0:51:41.880 --> 0:51:44.160 And when they are at peace. So just when the 0:51:44.239 --> 0:51:50.160 devil thought he had Jesus trapped, just when. 0:51:50.040 --> 0:51:52.319 He thought it was over, just. 0:51:52.280 --> 0:51:55.160 When he thought we got rid of that one, just 0:51:55.280 --> 0:51:58.080 when he thought it was the end, just when they 0:51:58.200 --> 0:52:01.160 rolled the snow become. 0:52:01.520 --> 0:52:04.520 I'm trapped, God said, I got you. 0:52:08.640 --> 0:52:14.480 Set the trap. He set the trap. He set the trap. 0:52:14.800 --> 0:52:18.200 So God brought you here into this garden so you 0:52:18.239 --> 0:52:20.520 could sweat out your insecurities. 0:52:20.920 --> 0:52:22.880 God brought you here into. 0:52:22.640 --> 0:52:26.319 This type place so that your dots could die and 0:52:26.480 --> 0:52:32.440 your faith could live, and you will never curse. 0:52:33.760 --> 0:52:34.080 Again. 0:52:35.760 --> 0:52:39.799 He said, I thirst and they brought him vinegar. And 0:52:39.840 --> 0:52:43.280 he said, good, I need that. I needed that vinegar. 0:52:44.200 --> 0:52:50.200 I needed that trial. Sometimes victory doesn't look like victory. 0:52:50.840 --> 0:52:52.640 Sometimes victory doesn't taste sweet. 0:52:54.960 --> 0:52:56.120 And when he said, I. 0:52:56.160 --> 0:53:01.279 Thirst, and they gave him the vinegar for water. After that, 0:53:02.520 --> 0:53:05.759 after he had received the sour wine, after he had 0:53:05.800 --> 0:53:08.040 set the trap on death, hell and the grave, I 0:53:08.080 --> 0:53:10.399 promise you we're gonna have the best Easter ever this year. 0:53:10.640 --> 0:53:13.160 I feel like Easter came early today. I really do. 0:53:14.120 --> 0:53:14.799 I really do. 0:53:15.440 --> 0:53:19.319 I really feel like resurrection came in an unexpected time 0:53:19.760 --> 0:53:22.400 for somebody who thought, you are trapped. 0:53:22.800 --> 0:53:24.000 Here the word of the Lord. 0:53:24.480 --> 0:53:27.680 It's not a trap, as the triumph. 0:53:27.719 --> 0:53:28.920 Shall I the God. 0:53:31.800 --> 0:53:42.920 So Friday's trap was Sunday's triumph. 0:53:47.760 --> 0:53:52.279 He set up, first, set the trap, and after he 0:53:52.320 --> 0:53:53.520 had received the sour he. 0:53:53.560 --> 0:53:57.040 Said, is finished. It's finished. 0:54:00.920 --> 0:54:06.759 The trap became the triumph. God's gonna take the thing 0:54:07.880 --> 0:54:09.920 that looks. Ask the children of Israel. They thought the 0:54:09.960 --> 0:54:12.319 red Seed was gonna be the end of them. It 0:54:12.400 --> 0:54:17.799 was the end of their enemies. You're not trapped the 0:54:17.880 --> 0:54:22.720 devil is You're not trapped, You're. 0:54:22.560 --> 0:54:25.719 Not touch Somebody say, I'm not trapped. Come on, I'm 0:54:25.760 --> 0:54:26.719 not trapped, and. 0:54:26.800 --> 0:54:35.120 I'm not your sea who the sun sets free? How 0:54:35.160 --> 0:54:38.239 many believe that the sufferings of this present time are 0:54:38.280 --> 0:54:41.279 not worthy to be compared with the glory that will 0:54:41.280 --> 0:54:41.920 be revealed. 0:54:42.120 --> 0:54:45.680 How many believe Christ is in you? The humble glory? 0:54:45.920 --> 0:54:49.320 Come on, shot like you believe that shot like you. 0:54:50.480 --> 0:54:53.359 I'm on casting, So. 0:54:55.120 --> 0:54:56.600 I'm gonna tell you one more thing, and I promise 0:54:56.600 --> 0:54:59.479 I'm gonna walk off this stage while I'm saying it. 0:55:00.000 --> 0:55:01.560 I love to preach the word to you, not because 0:55:01.560 --> 0:55:02.719 I like to hear myself talk. 0:55:02.880 --> 0:55:03.680 I love to preach the. 0:55:03.680 --> 0:55:06.480 Word of God to you because I know what this 0:55:06.640 --> 0:55:08.439 seed is going to do if you get it down 0:55:08.480 --> 0:55:10.400 in your heart. 0:55:11.520 --> 0:55:16.280 And I watched this favorite flows from unexpected places. 0:55:16.480 --> 0:55:19.759 Do you remember when we were writing the song Resurrecting 0:55:21.040 --> 0:55:24.480 And it took about nine months to write the song, 0:55:24.560 --> 0:55:27.880 and everybody on the team contributes in different ways. My 0:55:28.040 --> 0:55:30.840 thing is, I like, I always like to write. And 0:55:30.920 --> 0:55:32.640 Chris can tell you this because we've been knowing each 0:55:32.680 --> 0:55:35.360 other forever, and you'll give it up for Chris Brown. 0:55:35.400 --> 0:55:41.120 This man is a great man of God. Well, I'm 0:55:41.200 --> 0:55:43.759 kind of weird because I like it. When the song 0:55:43.800 --> 0:55:45.400 seems like it should be over, I always like to 0:55:45.400 --> 0:55:46.200 put another verse. 0:55:46.640 --> 0:55:47.319 It's true, right. 0:55:48.000 --> 0:55:49.879 So we wrote the song and it was kind of done, 0:55:49.920 --> 0:55:52.239 not really done. We thought it was done and we 0:55:52.280 --> 0:55:54.640 finished the songwrit anything, and I started. 0:55:54.320 --> 0:55:57.560 Thinking, I wanted to write this fourth verse for this song. 0:55:58.480 --> 0:56:00.440 And you know, Chris is kind of laid because he's 0:56:00.440 --> 0:56:03.040 a worship leader and uh no, I'm just kidding. He's 0:56:03.080 --> 0:56:08.239 the hardest working man in the praise biz. But so. 0:56:10.360 --> 0:56:12.359 It took six months to get the verse right. 0:56:13.600 --> 0:56:16.320 But we ended up writing a declaration for our church, 0:56:17.040 --> 0:56:21.520 lift your hands, whatever's got your trap today. We ended 0:56:21.600 --> 0:56:24.840 up writing this verse to let you know that what 0:56:25.000 --> 0:56:26.680 looks like it's got you locked in. 0:56:28.239 --> 0:56:30.160 Is going to be the place. See, that's what the 0:56:30.239 --> 0:56:30.839 grave was. 0:56:30.920 --> 0:56:33.759 The grave of Jesus Christ was a garden in disguise. 0:56:34.440 --> 0:56:37.759 That's what your trials are, That's what your weakness is. 0:56:38.560 --> 0:56:40.800 So I want you to sing this fourth verse because 0:56:40.880 --> 0:56:43.000 just when it seems like the song should be over, 0:56:44.200 --> 0:56:47.560 just when it seems like your hope is gone, just 0:56:47.600 --> 0:56:51.760 when it seems like the devil has dehydrated your. 0:56:51.640 --> 0:57:02.520 Dream the solous. So they thought they had him right, 0:57:03.000 --> 0:57:07.399 so they posted the guard right there. 0:57:13.600 --> 0:57:19.600 And now if he robbed the grave of its power, 0:57:21.120 --> 0:57:25.440 if the guards couldn't keep his body at come on, church, 0:57:26.440 --> 0:57:28.360 come on, I'm talking about. 0:57:28.120 --> 0:57:33.320 You, Rivers. I'm living water you never nurse again. 0:57:33.400 --> 0:57:38.160 Would you get this spirit feed and the same spirit 0:57:38.400 --> 0:57:39.760 He's body and. 0:57:40.000 --> 0:57:42.840 Rags some the You're got a. 0:57:42.920 --> 0:57:46.600 Stake wa God has robbed. 0:57:50.000 --> 0:58:00.840 Got up should dame? 0:58:05.480 --> 0:58:06.600 Thank you for joining us. 0:58:06.880 --> 0:58:09.360 Special thanks to those of you who give generously to 0:58:09.400 --> 0:58:12.880 this ministry. 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