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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope

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Speaker 1: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith.

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Speaker 2: Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving

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Speaker 2: in your life.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy the message.

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Speaker 2: We're excited because write this down. Favor flows from strange places,

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Speaker 2: it really does. One time the children of Israel were

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Speaker 2: in the desert and water came out of a rock.

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Speaker 1: That's weird.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, God do something for you, but not through the

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Speaker 2: person that you expected him to do it through. You

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Speaker 2: ever had God be good to you through somebody that

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Speaker 2: you weren't even good to, and then somebody you were

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Speaker 2: good to wasn't good to you, And it's almost like God,

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Speaker 2: it's almost like he wants to challenge your attachments, so

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Speaker 2: He'll keep on moving around his supply and springing up

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Speaker 2: from different places so that you don't camp out where he.

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Speaker 1: Called you to pass through.

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Speaker 2: And that's why sometimes you get frustrated.

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Speaker 1: But favor can flow from frustration.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes you have to get down to the bottom of

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Speaker 2: something to find God there. And you know my study

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Speaker 2: has been like that. It was kind of weird. Can

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Speaker 2: I tell y'all something that I didn't tell any of

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Speaker 2: the other experiences. I did not want to do a

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Speaker 2: seven mile Miracle series. I preached this bad Boy. I

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Speaker 2: preached this sermon six years ago. I think it was

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Speaker 2: six years ago, five or six years ago, and my

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Speaker 2: publisher had the rights to the material because we had

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Speaker 2: them pay for the study guide for our groups and whatever.

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Speaker 1: You don't even know all that, but we had them pay.

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Speaker 2: The church, and they wanted to put out a book.

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Speaker 2: And I didn't want to write a book about seven

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Speaker 2: mile Miracle because I typically like to preach something and

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Speaker 2: move on.

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Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, this is probably dysfunctional.

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Speaker 2: But before I came out to preach to you, I

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Speaker 2: was writing my sermon for the end of April because

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Speaker 2: it started coming to me and I know what it

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Speaker 2: is telling you, because then you would skip. And but

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Speaker 2: the way it flows to me, I've had to learn

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Speaker 2: to get in the flow with God touch somebody say

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Speaker 2: get in the flow, get in the flow, Get in

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Speaker 2: the flow, because for me, creativity and insforration doesn't always flow.

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Speaker 1: It's not always dependable.

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Speaker 2: When songwriter said that creativity is like building your house,

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Speaker 2: from the sky down, especially when you're depending on God

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Speaker 2: to give it to you. So you feel kind of

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Speaker 2: vulnerable when you're waiting on God to give you something.

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Speaker 2: So it flows in strange places. Sometimes I get sermons

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Speaker 2: off of gatoraded commercials.

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Speaker 1: And I just have to do it anywhere I can.

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Speaker 2: And this year has been interesting because God took some

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Speaker 2: things that I studied years ago, like this seven mile

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Speaker 2: walk on the Amaeis Road, and we taught an Easter

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Speaker 2: sermon on it, and then a whole series and a

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Speaker 2: done with, like a seed that I thought was gone,

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Speaker 2: but it really wasn't gone. It was in the ground.

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Speaker 2: Some thing's in your life that you sewed in the

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Speaker 2: last season are going to come up out of the

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Speaker 2: ground when you least expect it, because favor flows from

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Speaker 2: strange places. So I've kind of been going through these

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Speaker 2: seven Statements of Jesus slowly, and I don't like to

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Speaker 2: go slow. If it were up to me, we would

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Speaker 2: study all seven of them. In the introduction to the sermon,

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Speaker 2: slow down. And I started the series just talking about Cleo.

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Speaker 2: Were you here for that one? He's walking along with

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Speaker 2: this stranger's mouth comes a revelation that reverses their disappointment,

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Speaker 2: and they realize it when they get there, not while

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Speaker 1: So it started to challenge.

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Speaker 2: The way I saw faith, because I thought faith meant

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Speaker 1: The bread represents the word of God.

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Speaker 2: And each week I've been giving you a little peace,

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Speaker 2: and I'm taking it from the last sayings.

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Speaker 1: That Jesus spoke on the cross.

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Speaker 2: There are seven Seven is the number of completion in

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Speaker 2: the scripture and so when we say seven, we're eventually

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Speaker 2: getting to resurrection, but to get there, we're going through crucifixion.

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Speaker 1: We're eventually getting.

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Speaker 2: To glory, but to get there we have to go

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Speaker 2: they are not worthy to be compared with the glory

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Speaker 2: that will be revealed. But it's in the ground right now.

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Speaker 2: It's on Saturday that our faith is proven, waiting for Sunday.

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Speaker 2: Now, we walked through a couple of different sayings, and

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Speaker 2: one was, Father, forgive them, for they know not what

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Speaker 2: they do. That one challenged me because it is the

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Speaker 2: or offends me. See, you're different, You're more sanctified than me,

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Speaker 2: don't say, Father, forgive them, for they know not what

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Speaker 2: they do. I say, God, get them back, hurt them

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Speaker 2: worse than I could ever hurt, because they know exactly

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Speaker 1: But I'm challenged because, well.

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Speaker 2: Jesus says to a thief, he says.

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Speaker 1: Today you will be with me in paradise. Now I

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Speaker 1: don't think like that.

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Speaker 2: I think if the guy is going to be in paradise,

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Speaker 2: he needs to do some good deeds that help some

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Speaker 2: class and get baptized at our Concord campus, then he

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Speaker 2: can be in paradise. He didn't do any of that.

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Speaker 2: Jesus just saved him just because he asks. And now

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Speaker 2: I'm thinking, this must be a gift that you can't earn.

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Speaker 2: It must not have to do with my works at all.

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Speaker 2: It must be something that God gives, not something.

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Speaker 1: That I get about to do his receiver.

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Speaker 2: Then I'm a little convicted how he's on the cross

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Speaker 2: I don't think about others while I'm going through good times,

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Speaker 2: Here's Jesus dying and thinking about somebody else. So all

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Speaker 2: of this has been challenging me. Wade gets up and

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Speaker 2: And then I'll come to this little phrase, and I

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Speaker 2: don't know what to do with it, because Jesus now

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Speaker 2: this is mile five, commonly known as the word of distress.

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Speaker 1: It's called the word of distress.

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Speaker 2: But after today you're going to see that it's actually

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Speaker 2: the word of destiny. I'm gonna show you because he

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Speaker 2: says something strange. Let's look at it together.

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Speaker 1: Are you ready?

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Speaker 2: Say?

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Speaker 1: I'm ready?

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Speaker 2: You got your yeasyesweight laced up and ready to run.

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Speaker 1: What So.

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Speaker 2: He's been mocked, he's been flogged, he's been sentenced, handed

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Speaker 2: over to die. He's bleeding, he's suffocating, and he's hanging

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Speaker 2: there after this, John says John nineteen twenty eight. Jesus,

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Speaker 2: knowing that all was now finished, finality, achievement would be

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Speaker 2: the original language that all was achieved, that he was

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Speaker 2: to do his assignment was achieved. Now that he knew that,

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Speaker 2: he said to fulfill the scripture, I thirst, which.

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Speaker 1: Is ironic because this is the same voice that spoke.

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Speaker 1: You ever think about this?

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Speaker 2: How how the same voice that told the Red Sea

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Speaker 1: How could that same.

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Speaker 2: God, Because the Bible says that he is the one

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Speaker 2: Colossians tells us by whom, for whom and through whom

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Speaker 2: all things were created. That were created in the beginning

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Speaker 2: was the Word, and the word was with God, and

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Speaker 2: the word was God.

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Speaker 1: That's Jesus. Now he's wrapped in flesh, dying.

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Speaker 2: At the hands of sinful men, a criminal's death, and

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Speaker 2: he says, I thirst He's the one who said he

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Speaker 2: is the one who was Jacob's well. How can Jacob's

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Speaker 2: What I'm saying is just strange to me. And on

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Speaker 2: the Book of Revelation that he sits on where the

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Speaker 2: streams of water flow and make glad the city of God,

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Speaker 2: pure and brilliant as jasper and diamond. Those waters slow

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Speaker 2: from the throne. But here we see him thirsting. How

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Speaker 2: a thirsty man. That's what Holly said one time. She

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Speaker 2: told a server that in a restaurant. By the way,

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Speaker 2: if you're a server in a restaurant, first of all,

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Speaker 2: God bless you. You are an unsung hero, especially on

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Speaker 2: Sundays with hungry, cranky, non tip in Christians to put

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Speaker 2: a Bible Verse on the receipt instead of a tip.

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Speaker 2: Father forgive them.

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Speaker 1: And it's.

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Speaker 2: Tough for me to meet this. But I am a

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Speaker 2: server's worst nightmare. And it's not because I'm rude. It's

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Speaker 2: not because I'm rude, and I'm not rude because I'm Southern.

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Speaker 2: So since I'm Southern, if I'm gonna be.

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Speaker 1: Rude to you, I'm going to do it behind your back.

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Speaker 2: I watch people from other parts of the country who

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Speaker 2: you we just weren't that direct. I watched somebody in

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Speaker 2: That's not how you. I can't do it like that.

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Speaker 2: I wish I could. I think it'd be cool just

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Speaker 2: holler check. I see it in the movies, and uh,

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna try sometime.

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Speaker 1: And I'm not rude like that. I'm not rude. I'm not.

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Speaker 1: I'm not even really that picky in a restaurant. I'm

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Speaker 1: really not. I'm simple. I'm basic. I like what I like,

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Speaker 1: but it's not that hard to fix it like I

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Speaker 1: like it.

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Speaker 2: I'm not.

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Speaker 1: Here's what I say. I'm not Chunk's Corbett.

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Speaker 2: Chunk's Corbett is the most embarrassing person to be in

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Speaker 1: Is nodding while I'm preaching this. He'll He'll walk in

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Speaker 2: And when I was here to play baseball, he says,

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Speaker 1: So I'm not really like that.

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Speaker 2: But my thing is if you can keep up with

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Speaker 2: I just said, I shoot up heroin, you judgmental demon.

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Speaker 2: People will do it. Every time I say that, they'll

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Speaker 2: send me a link about aspartame.

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Speaker 1: But it's all right. I already read about it. And

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Speaker 2: Go to heaven and I'm kind of in a hurry

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Speaker 2: I tip great, especially if you bring me an Elevation

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Speaker 1: The tip with. That'll be our thing. I'll bump it

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Speaker 2: But my thing is keeping my drink ful is kind

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Speaker 2: And I said, what what what was funny about that?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I am.

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Speaker 2: You've seen it today night here in the restaurant.

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Speaker 2: And I said, no, but tell me what thirsty means

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Speaker 2: You're a preacher. She said, you don't. I said, no,

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Speaker 2: I want to appreach to you today about the thirst trap,

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Speaker 2: I want to go all the way back from Bonefish

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Speaker 2: Because I gotta admit sometimes I'm thirsty. Sometimes I'm thirsty

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Speaker 2: But sometimes I gotta admit to you I'm I'm kind

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Speaker 2: God had spoken and what his flesh wanted. I'm thirsty,

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00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:45,560
Speaker 2: of course, he's thirsty. When you sweat like that, you're

443
00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:49,439
Speaker 2: going to be thirsty. I mean, if the Son of

444
00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:51,679
Speaker 2: God sweat like that, what makes you think you're going

445
00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:53,600
Speaker 2: to go through life and never break one yourself?

446
00:23:57,400 --> 00:23:58,600
Speaker 1: So we think we're just.

447
00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:01,680
Speaker 2: Supposed to fulfill our call and never drink the cup.

448
00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:06,080
Speaker 2: We think we're supposed to have a vision, but no, vinegar.

449
00:24:07,359 --> 00:24:09,679
Speaker 2: I mean, the son of God is sweating drops of

450
00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:12,000
Speaker 2: blood and we're supposed to be able to sleep through.

451
00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:17,200
Speaker 2: Life is a struggle, he said, I thirst because he

452
00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:19,159
Speaker 2: struggled people.

453
00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:20,600
Speaker 1: I know he was thirsty.

454
00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:24,280
Speaker 2: I mean he's fully God, yes, but he's also fully man.

455
00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:27,200
Speaker 1: In other words, he's trapped.

456
00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:33,840
Speaker 2: Because he's God, but he's wrapped in flesh because he's glory.

457
00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:38,880
Speaker 2: But he's wrapped in frailty because he's eternity. But he's

458
00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:43,320
Speaker 2: trapped in time because he's spirit, but he's trapped in

459
00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:47,600
Speaker 2: a body. Sometimes I feel trapped because what I want

460
00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:50,440
Speaker 2: to do I can't do, and what I do I hate,

461
00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:51,760
Speaker 2: and what I want to.

462
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Speaker 1: Do I don't have the will to do. I'm trapped.

463
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Speaker 2: Thirsty, Hi, I'm wearying, And he struggled, And see, I'm

464
00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:09,240
Speaker 2: not very comfortable with this.

465
00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:11,960
Speaker 1: I don't like it because I don't want to.

466
00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:16,080
Speaker 2: I don't really want to see a god who struggled

467
00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:18,919
Speaker 2: like I struggle. I like that stuff where he opens

468
00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:23,960
Speaker 2: his mouth and says shut up to the wind and

469
00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:27,119
Speaker 2: the waves. I like that because that makes me think

470
00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:31,840
Speaker 2: he's just gonna walk into my situation smooth sailing.

471
00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:34,879
Speaker 1: But when he says I thirst.

472
00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:39,159
Speaker 2: See, now I see him identifying with my shame, and

473
00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:41,080
Speaker 2: it causes me to look at myself, not as I

474
00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:45,560
Speaker 2: wish to be, but as I really am, Because now

475
00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:49,960
Speaker 2: I've got to picture him carrying my shame right down. Shame,

476
00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:56,439
Speaker 2: because shame will make you thirsty. Shame will make you

477
00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:59,159
Speaker 2: try to fill something with the words of people that

478
00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:02,240
Speaker 2: can really only be fulfilled by the word of God.

479
00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:07,119
Speaker 2: Shame will make you forget who you really are. Of

480
00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:13,960
Speaker 2: course he was thirsty. He was carrying your shame. Now,

481
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,320
Speaker 2: I mean to an untrained eye, it looked like he

482
00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:21,879
Speaker 2: was carrying a beam that weighed eighty pounds and he

483
00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:24,760
Speaker 2: carried it up a hill. Now this is from Pilot's Palace,

484
00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:27,639
Speaker 2: where Jesus was sentenced by the Roman prelate. He had

485
00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:30,200
Speaker 2: already been handed over by Caiaphas, the High priest. He's

486
00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:32,080
Speaker 2: been going back and forth all night. He sweats in

487
00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:36,040
Speaker 2: the garden, He heads to the cross. He gets there,

488
00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:38,119
Speaker 2: they offer him something to numb the pain. He says, no,

489
00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:42,159
Speaker 2: I'm focused, No, not yet.

490
00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:43,320
Speaker 1: He pushes the.

491
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Speaker 2: Drink aside, thirsty as he is carrying my shame eighty pounds.

492
00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:51,480
Speaker 2: You know, it weighs a lot more than that when

493
00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:55,199
Speaker 2: it's in your soul, a whole lot more than eighty pounds.

494
00:26:56,520 --> 00:26:57,680
Speaker 1: It weighs a whole lot more.

495
00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:00,480
Speaker 2: It'll weigh so much you can't even look people in

496
00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:01,800
Speaker 2: the eye when it's in your soul.

497
00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:06,800
Speaker 1: And he carried that, He carried it the length of.

498
00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:12,919
Speaker 2: Six and a half football fields from Pilot's palace to Galgata.

499
00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:14,400
Speaker 1: Of course he was thirsty.

500
00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:18,560
Speaker 2: Come on, I can't even do a set of kettlebell

501
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:20,960
Speaker 2: swings and not take a sip.

502
00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:23,040
Speaker 1: Of course he was thirsty.

503
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:27,200
Speaker 2: Of course he said, I thirst And you know what,

504
00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:32,919
Speaker 2: this isn't the first time that Jesus said he was

505
00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:40,840
Speaker 2: thirsty in John's gospel. No, it's not man, not at all. See,

506
00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:43,840
Speaker 2: because one time, can I tell you a story from

507
00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:48,320
Speaker 2: the Bible. It's a Bible story from John chapter four,

508
00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:56,000
Speaker 2: And it's interesting because Jesus is going somewhere, but he

509
00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:59,280
Speaker 2: goes around to get there, and the place where he

510
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:02,399
Speaker 2: goes is called Samaria. Now this is not a normal

511
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:05,640
Speaker 2: place for a Jew to go, so the fact that.

512
00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:07,440
Speaker 1: He went there was kind of surprising.

513
00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:09,959
Speaker 2: But nobody asked him why he was doing what he

514
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:13,399
Speaker 2: was doing, because by this time his disciples knew that

515
00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:16,600
Speaker 2: everything he did he did on purpose. Let me say

516
00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:20,400
Speaker 2: that again, everything he did he did on purpose. That's

517
00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:22,000
Speaker 2: going to come back, and that's going to be very

518
00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:26,040
Speaker 2: important when I finished this little sermonette today. Everything he

519
00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:28,919
Speaker 2: did he did on purpose. So the Bible says he

520
00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:33,000
Speaker 2: had to go to Samaria, he had to go. Why

521
00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:36,640
Speaker 2: why did he have to go to Samaria? Why did

522
00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:39,080
Speaker 2: he have to go to the cross? Why would he

523
00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:42,479
Speaker 2: go out of his way to Samaria where a Jewish

524
00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:46,400
Speaker 2: person would not normally go. Why would God go where

525
00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:49,640
Speaker 2: he was least expected? Do you ever wonder why God

526
00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:51,440
Speaker 2: would bother with someone like you?

527
00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:57,040
Speaker 1: Have you ever asked that question? Why me? God? Any

528
00:28:57,120 --> 00:29:00,440
Speaker 1: parents that have ever asked God? Why me? Why would

529
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:01,800
Speaker 1: you call me to raise a kid?

530
00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:05,960
Speaker 2: When I feel like a little boy myself? Sometimes See

531
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:09,680
Speaker 2: the interesting thing to me about this little excursion Jesus

532
00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:15,400
Speaker 2: takes is that he's going to Samaria. He sits down

533
00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:20,120
Speaker 2: when he gets there, and he waits by a well

534
00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:22,920
Speaker 2: for a woman. Now, let me tell you something about

535
00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:25,680
Speaker 2: this woman, because she's coming out in the middle of

536
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:28,280
Speaker 2: the day. And the only reason that you would go

537
00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:30,720
Speaker 2: to the well in the middle of the day in

538
00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:33,920
Speaker 2: a hot climate is so nobody else would be there,

539
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:38,160
Speaker 2: because you're ashamed to be seen by people. So she's

540
00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:40,800
Speaker 2: going out in the middle of the day to get

541
00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:44,080
Speaker 2: some water at a time when she doesn't think anybody

542
00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:50,200
Speaker 2: else will see her. Because she's thirsty. I said, she's thirsty.

543
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:55,560
Speaker 2: And she's not just thirsty for water, she's thirsty. She's

544
00:29:55,600 --> 00:30:00,320
Speaker 2: thirsty in the urban dictionary thirsty kind of way. So

545
00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:04,200
Speaker 2: Jesus sits by a well waiting for a woman and

546
00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:07,360
Speaker 2: sets a trap for a thirsty woman.

547
00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:10,760
Speaker 1: Y'all aren't even helping me appreciate this sermon. I work

548
00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:13,600
Speaker 1: so hard. All that's rude.

549
00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:18,520
Speaker 2: So she comes up says, oh, crap, I thought nobody

550
00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:19,040
Speaker 2: would be here.

551
00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:19,920
Speaker 1: I don't even know this.

552
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:22,760
Speaker 2: God, have you noticed how everything we've been studying and

553
00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:25,239
Speaker 2: in the scripture says Jesus showing up to people who

554
00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:29,280
Speaker 2: didn't even recognize him when he did, just showing up.

555
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:34,040
Speaker 2: And then he does something unthinkable. Okay, talk about a

556
00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:40,040
Speaker 2: thirst trap. Jesus the Living Water sees this woman come in,

557
00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:44,000
Speaker 2: knows what kind of life she's lived, and yet he

558
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:49,680
Speaker 2: doesn't say anything about that. He says, hey girl, modernization.

559
00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:53,280
Speaker 2: But he said, give me look at for seven, give

560
00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:58,800
Speaker 2: me a drink. She didn't like that very much, so

561
00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:00,640
Speaker 2: she got real deep look at her. Because here's what

562
00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:03,360
Speaker 2: you do when God speaks to a place in your life.

563
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:06,440
Speaker 2: When when God starts speaking to you, you get theoretical

564
00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:09,960
Speaker 2: and abstract because to be specific, to really have to

565
00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:14,840
Speaker 2: deal with the issue is actually sometimes painful. So she's like, hey,

566
00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:17,520
Speaker 2: how is it that you a Jew asked to drink

567
00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:17,760
Speaker 2: from me?

568
00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:20,280
Speaker 1: A woman from Samaria? In other words, I know you're

569
00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:23,840
Speaker 1: not talking to me. That's what I want to saying.

570
00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:27,280
Speaker 1: I know you're not talking to me. And you can

571
00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:28,480
Speaker 1: feel that way sometimes.

572
00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:31,400
Speaker 2: I mean, some of you sit here and listen to

573
00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:34,959
Speaker 2: me preach and you think it's for your wife.

574
00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:36,520
Speaker 1: I'm talking to you.

575
00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:43,720
Speaker 2: I'm talking to you, buddy, thirsty self.

576
00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:47,120
Speaker 1: So everybody in here is thirsty.

577
00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:50,400
Speaker 2: Everybody in here is thirsty.

578
00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:53,000
Speaker 1: Some of y'all get it through sex, some of.

579
00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:56,040
Speaker 2: Y'all get it through success, some of y'all get.

580
00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:58,280
Speaker 1: It through religion. But I got to tell you something.

581
00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:01,240
Speaker 2: The person you're sitting now is thirsty.

582
00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:03,640
Speaker 1: It's not a sin to be thirsty.

583
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:07,760
Speaker 2: It's just where you go to get your fixed that

584
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:09,560
Speaker 2: determines whether or not.

585
00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:15,760
Speaker 1: Your soul will be satisfied. Because I found out there's

586
00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:18,479
Speaker 1: only one while that hasslewater, I need.

587
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:26,280
Speaker 2: We talk about the satisfaction, the satisfaction. Jesus says, hey,

588
00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:28,040
Speaker 2: I need a drink.

589
00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:29,960
Speaker 1: And the woman thinks he's talking about.

590
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:32,600
Speaker 2: Water, but he's not talking about water. And the woman

591
00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:35,320
Speaker 2: is perhaps a shamed and offended, and so she goes

592
00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:37,120
Speaker 2: to push him away because see.

593
00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:39,720
Speaker 1: That's what she's learned how to do. She's thirsty.

594
00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:42,040
Speaker 2: So she's learned how to get what she needs from

595
00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:45,200
Speaker 2: who she thinks can give it. But none of it lasts.

596
00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:48,040
Speaker 2: She's learned, give me your phone. She's learned how to

597
00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:50,120
Speaker 2: get what she needs. So she wakes up in the

598
00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:53,120
Speaker 2: morning thirsty. Did they like my picture? Did they come

599
00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:55,520
Speaker 2: in on my posts? Did they frame me back? Did

600
00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:56,400
Speaker 2: they follow me back?

601
00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:57,040
Speaker 1: Thirsty?

602
00:32:57,080 --> 00:33:00,880
Speaker 2: Somebody shall thirsty thirsty acting like that that's gonna fill you.

603
00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:04,160
Speaker 1: It might for a minute, but there's one problem with this. Well,

604
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:05,320
Speaker 1: Jesus said, if you.

605
00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:08,680
Speaker 2: Drink of this water, woman, you're gonna stay thirsty. And

606
00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:10,400
Speaker 2: I want you to know that if you put your

607
00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:13,440
Speaker 2: validation in other people's hands, you will have to go

608
00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:16,800
Speaker 2: back to them for it, and you can't. Don't make

609
00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:23,520
Speaker 2: me throw his phone, so Jesus, he just lays it

610
00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:23,960
Speaker 2: out there.

611
00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:25,560
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I will make a work a while to

612
00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:26,600
Speaker 1: come to church today.

613
00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:32,520
Speaker 2: So Jesus is like, hey, you know everyone who drinks

614
00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:37,760
Speaker 2: of this water, everyone who drinks of this water, I

615
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:40,440
Speaker 2: ain't a gout on Facebook. Yeah, but why do you

616
00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:47,480
Speaker 2: go to the mall. Everybody drinks somewhere. Why do you

617
00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:53,160
Speaker 2: eat the ritos everybody drinks somewhere. Why you put so

618
00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:55,400
Speaker 2: much pressure on your kids to do what you never did.

619
00:33:55,880 --> 00:34:08,279
Speaker 2: Everybody drinks somewhere. Why are you texting her back? You

620
00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:10,440
Speaker 2: better take your phone. Man, something's coming over me while

621
00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:16,120
Speaker 2: I heard this same something demon in that phone, So

622
00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:16,560
Speaker 2: sit down.

623
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:24,200
Speaker 1: He says bye. Well, and he's like, now, I gotta

624
00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:24,560
Speaker 1: be honest.

625
00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:26,960
Speaker 2: On the surface, it sounds like a pickup line, but

626
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:34,680
Speaker 2: we know it's not because Jesus, he's not. He's not

627
00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:41,839
Speaker 2: thirsty like Dad. He's trying to get her something, got it,

628
00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:44,759
Speaker 2: He's not. He's not trying to receive something from her.

629
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:48,640
Speaker 2: He's trying to release something to her because he knows

630
00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:51,640
Speaker 2: she's thirsty. So he's like, Hey, whoever drinks of the

631
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:55,880
Speaker 2: water that I will give him will never be thirsty again.

632
00:34:58,080 --> 00:35:00,400
Speaker 2: That troubled me because I was contrasting at what he

633
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:02,919
Speaker 2: said fifteen chapters earlier with what he said in John

634
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:06,560
Speaker 2: nineteen on the Cross, where he said at thirst And

635
00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:10,280
Speaker 2: I felt like I had caught Jesus contradicting himself because

636
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:12,000
Speaker 2: he said he had water and we would never thirst

637
00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:12,600
Speaker 2: if we drank it.

638
00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:14,120
Speaker 1: But he said he thirsted on the cross.

639
00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:17,920
Speaker 2: But I noticed how he didn't say, you'll never feel

640
00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:25,279
Speaker 2: thirsty again. He said you'll never be He didn't say

641
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:29,120
Speaker 2: you will never thirst again. You're see, you're gonna thirst.

642
00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:37,200
Speaker 2: You're gonna have days that you feel discouraged. If you weren't,

643
00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:41,520
Speaker 2: God wouldn't tell you not to be terrified or discouraged,

644
00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:44,920
Speaker 2: if you were naturally going to always be encouraged, if

645
00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:48,040
Speaker 2: you were never going to be discouraged and dehydrated.

646
00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:49,680
Speaker 1: That's what the water is for.

647
00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:53,960
Speaker 2: So what he's saying is you'll always have somewhere to

648
00:35:54,040 --> 00:36:00,440
Speaker 2: drink from, not that you'll never have a need, but

649
00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:04,880
Speaker 2: that I will meet all of your needs according to

650
00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:06,840
Speaker 2: my glorious richest.

651
00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:08,480
Speaker 1: That's the promise.

652
00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:13,759
Speaker 2: So he tells the woman, I got something for you.

653
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:15,440
Speaker 2: That's what he tells the woman. I got something for you.

654
00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:19,160
Speaker 2: And it's not like what you've been drinking. Because watch this.

655
00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:22,360
Speaker 2: He traps this woman. He totally traps this woman. Jesus

656
00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:24,480
Speaker 2: all through his ministry, people were trying to trap Jesus.

657
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:27,560
Speaker 2: The Sadducees and the Pharisees and Judas trapped him in

658
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:31,120
Speaker 2: the garden and the Roman official stuff. They had him

659
00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:33,640
Speaker 2: trapped on the cross, but Jesus was always the one.

660
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Speaker 2: Even when they thought they had him, they never really

661
00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:38,839
Speaker 2: had him because he was always in control, even on

662
00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:42,360
Speaker 2: the cross. There were over three hundred Messianic prophecies that

663
00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:45,279
Speaker 2: Jesus fulfilled in his life and in his death. And

664
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Speaker 2: so Jesus was Jesus was never he was never really trapped.

665
00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:51,440
Speaker 2: See here he is with this woman and he says,

666
00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:53,719
Speaker 2: I want to drink, But he's not really thirsty like that.

667
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:56,839
Speaker 2: He's trying to give her something. God doesn't really need

668
00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:59,680
Speaker 2: anything from you. He can have another you in a minute.

669
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Speaker 2: I don't mean to go back to two thousand and

670
00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:05,720
Speaker 2: two because sometimes and so God really isn't needing something

671
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:08,000
Speaker 2: from you when we talk about giving in the church.

672
00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:10,440
Speaker 2: How dare you, with your thirsty self get an attitude?

673
00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:13,480
Speaker 2: They just want my money. God doesn't need your money.

674
00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:16,319
Speaker 2: God wants to be in your heart. He wants to

675
00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:22,440
Speaker 2: set you free. You're the one thirsty. You're the one.

676
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:29,200
Speaker 2: So he says, give me a drink. She says, well,

677
00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:30,560
Speaker 2: we don't have a bucket, and he's trying to get

678
00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:32,400
Speaker 2: her to see that she is the bucket.

679
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:35,760
Speaker 1: And he is the water.

680
00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:42,000
Speaker 2: You know, I'm telling myself right now, focus verdict. You've

681
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:45,120
Speaker 2: got to finish. These people have a life. They don't

682
00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:49,839
Speaker 2: want to be here with you for three more hours.

683
00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:58,239
Speaker 2: Give me ten minutes. The woman said, sir, if there's

684
00:37:58,239 --> 00:38:01,279
Speaker 2: some kind of water, if there's some bottomless well, if

685
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:11,440
Speaker 2: there's free refills, somebody shout free refills, give me this

686
00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:17,279
Speaker 2: water so I won't have to be so I won't

687
00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:21,000
Speaker 2: have to be trapped, so I won't have to keep

688
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:28,279
Speaker 2: coming back here. So so I won't have to keep

689
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:34,920
Speaker 2: texting Travis that just made up the name, so I

690
00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:40,400
Speaker 2: won't have to keep performing, so I won't have to

691
00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:41,920
Speaker 2: keep being so.

692
00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:44,000
Speaker 1: Thirsty.

693
00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:51,360
Speaker 2: And now Jesus, he's got her, all right, got her.

694
00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:56,719
Speaker 2: He came to some area and sat by the well.

695
00:38:57,200 --> 00:38:58,800
Speaker 2: And now she's trapped.

696
00:38:59,000 --> 00:38:59,400
Speaker 1: Watch us.

697
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:04,160
Speaker 2: Hee goes, all right, go get your husband. And she

698
00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:16,720
Speaker 2: says what had happened was I don't have a husband,

699
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:20,640
Speaker 2: which is true, but it's not the total truth.

700
00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:21,439
Speaker 1: You know how you do.

701
00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:31,239
Speaker 2: Like right, I have no husband. Jesus said, you're right

702
00:39:31,239 --> 00:39:33,799
Speaker 2: and saying I have no husband, for you've had five

703
00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:36,480
Speaker 2: husbands and the one you have now is not your husband.

704
00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:44,000
Speaker 2: What you've said is true. And you're thirsty, thirsty, and

705
00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:50,759
Speaker 2: you're trapped. And when I asked you for water, I

706
00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:55,080
Speaker 2: was trying to release you from having to go all

707
00:39:55,120 --> 00:40:07,600
Speaker 2: around to people and things and stuff that doesn't satisfy.

708
00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:11,120
Speaker 2: I want to give you something that comes from within.

709
00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:16,880
Speaker 2: I want to give you something that doesn't depend on

710
00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:21,879
Speaker 2: bank accounts, It doesn't diminish.

711
00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:24,319
Speaker 1: No matter how the biopsy comes back.

712
00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:29,719
Speaker 2: I want to give you something that you can live

713
00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:35,800
Speaker 2: off of, something that only gets stronger in your struggle

714
00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:44,200
Speaker 2: I want to give you a limited supply, And she said, sir,

715
00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:51,600
Speaker 2: I think you're onto something. She goes back to Samaria

716
00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:55,759
Speaker 2: carrying living water that she didn't even expect to get,

717
00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:59,640
Speaker 2: comes back to Jesus, and the Bible says that many

718
00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:05,160
Speaker 2: and some are belief because of her testimony. See it,

719
00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:09,319
Speaker 2: it was a trap. Jesus used a thirsty woman to

720
00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:12,960
Speaker 2: transform an entire region. I wonder how he could use

721
00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:22,080
Speaker 2: your life, if you would receive his grace today.

722
00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:24,600
Speaker 1: You've been coming here a long time. Have I ever

723
00:41:24,640 --> 00:41:26,279
Speaker 1: preached stronger than I'm preaching right now?

724
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:32,920
Speaker 2: I'm not even done yet, So sit back and let

725
00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:37,600
Speaker 2: me give you my fourth point. I want to talk

726
00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:43,200
Speaker 2: about the setup, because that's what it was.

727
00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:45,640
Speaker 1: It was a setup.

728
00:41:46,719 --> 00:41:50,279
Speaker 2: That's why you went through Samaria. He was setting this

729
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:54,440
Speaker 2: woman up. That's why he asked for a drink because

730
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:58,360
Speaker 2: she was thirsty. That's why you went to the cross

731
00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:00,800
Speaker 2: a pill six and fifty the arts.

732
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:03,759
Speaker 1: That's why he said, I thirst.

733
00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:05,480
Speaker 2: And I'm gonna tell you how I found out because

734
00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:07,840
Speaker 2: I thought about that thing so long. I thought, Okay,

735
00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:09,160
Speaker 2: how can living water be thirsty?

736
00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:10,080
Speaker 1: How can I well need water?

737
00:42:10,080 --> 00:42:12,120
Speaker 2: How can the one that spoke the oceans into existence,

738
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:14,440
Speaker 2: now need water from the very same source that he created.

739
00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:17,040
Speaker 2: How could God, who rains above the waters, need water.

740
00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:19,279
Speaker 2: How could it be possible that God could come down

741
00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:21,279
Speaker 2: condescend to the form of human man. How could Christ

742
00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:23,759
Speaker 2: be made flesh? How could he die and suffer like that?

743
00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:25,440
Speaker 2: How can it be that there are seasons in my

744
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:27,560
Speaker 2: life when I call him him and nothing happens. How

745
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:29,440
Speaker 2: can it be that I have divinity but I'm trapped

746
00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:32,000
Speaker 2: sometimes in my desperation. How can it be that I'm

747
00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:34,400
Speaker 2: full of the spirit, but sometimes I feel so dry?

748
00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:40,600
Speaker 1: So I had to read again. I read that.

749
00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:43,919
Speaker 2: Verse like like twenty times in John nineteen twenty eight.

750
00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:47,440
Speaker 2: And I don't read Greek, although I took Greek. I

751
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:49,560
Speaker 2: don't read Hebrew although I took Hebrew. I was not

752
00:42:49,719 --> 00:42:54,640
Speaker 2: very effective in my language studies. And I don't even

753
00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:57,160
Speaker 2: read Aramaic, which is what Jesus was probably speaking in

754
00:42:57,200 --> 00:42:59,240
Speaker 2: at the moment when he said I thirst.

755
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:01,840
Speaker 1: But what I do read really.

756
00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:09,040
Speaker 2: Well is English, and I know my punctuation marks. So

757
00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:11,319
Speaker 2: when I read John nineteen twenty eight, have y'all got

758
00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:14,720
Speaker 2: like seven minutes for me to tie this up? Seven minutes,

759
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:21,839
Speaker 2: seven minute miracle, and so it said that after this,

760
00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:27,480
Speaker 2: after all you've been through, after all they've accused you off,

761
00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:30,239
Speaker 2: after all the people who walked away who should have

762
00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:34,880
Speaker 2: been there. After this, after they counted you out and

763
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:38,680
Speaker 2: said you or nothing and mocked you. After this, after

764
00:43:38,719 --> 00:43:41,680
Speaker 2: a crowd of thorns was placed on his head, after

765
00:43:41,719 --> 00:43:45,680
Speaker 2: the blood ran from his brow, after this, after they

766
00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:47,560
Speaker 2: beat us back, after they.

767
00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:49,880
Speaker 1: Released for rabbis, after this.

768
00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:53,440
Speaker 2: After the cock crow and Peter denied him thrice. After this,

769
00:43:55,480 --> 00:44:01,520
Speaker 2: knowing that now all things were finished, Jesus had one

770
00:44:01,560 --> 00:44:05,160
Speaker 2: more thing to say, one thing to do, because there

771
00:44:05,160 --> 00:44:11,719
Speaker 2: are three hundred prophecies, and he was on two ninety nine.

772
00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:17,759
Speaker 2: And see everybody standing around that day thought that death.

773
00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:20,760
Speaker 1: Had trapped Jesus.

774
00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:27,640
Speaker 2: Right, And the cross was a setup, But it wasn't

775
00:44:27,680 --> 00:44:32,239
Speaker 2: set up by Judas, and it wasn't set up by

776
00:44:32,239 --> 00:44:36,239
Speaker 2: the Sadducees, and it wasn't set up by the Pharisees,

777
00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:39,520
Speaker 2: and it wasn't set up by Herod.

778
00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:41,680
Speaker 1: It was set up by Heaven.

779
00:44:42,520 --> 00:44:45,880
Speaker 2: Listen to me preach this sermon. Listen to me preach

780
00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:49,400
Speaker 2: this sermon. Listen to me preach on the parentheses. In

781
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:52,440
Speaker 2: John nineteen twenty eight. I preached on a lot of

782
00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:55,240
Speaker 2: things in my little tenure preaching, but I've never preached

783
00:44:55,280 --> 00:44:57,480
Speaker 2: on a punctuation mark until today.

784
00:44:58,280 --> 00:45:01,440
Speaker 1: After this, knowing that all things.

785
00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:04,200
Speaker 2: Had been fulfilled, knowing that he had drank down the

786
00:45:04,280 --> 00:45:06,920
Speaker 2: full cup of the wrath of God so that you

787
00:45:06,960 --> 00:45:10,400
Speaker 2: would never have to After knowing that he suffered like

788
00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:13,200
Speaker 2: a criminal, so that he could reign like a king,

789
00:45:13,840 --> 00:45:18,440
Speaker 2: after humbling himself, being obedient even to the point of

790
00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:19,640
Speaker 2: death on the cross.

791
00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:32,239
Speaker 1: And it was then Jesus said parentheses to fulfill the scripture.

792
00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:41,080
Speaker 2: Huh. I wonder why John put it in parentheses. Probably

793
00:45:41,120 --> 00:45:42,960
Speaker 2: because he didn't know. That's why it was happening at

794
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:49,040
Speaker 2: the time. See, when Jesus said I thirst, they thought

795
00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:53,520
Speaker 2: he wanted water, so they gave him vinegar to mock him.

796
00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:57,040
Speaker 2: And the thing they used to mock him was actually

797
00:45:57,080 --> 00:46:00,279
Speaker 2: the thing that he used to finish the work God

798
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:00,920
Speaker 2: gave him to do.

799
00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:06,440
Speaker 1: The thing that they put on a sponge to shame

800
00:46:06,520 --> 00:46:09,319
Speaker 1: him was that. See, because listen, I got to tell

801
00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:14,239
Speaker 1: you something. Stand up so I'll finish this sermon. Please. Oh,

802
00:46:14,239 --> 00:46:19,040
Speaker 1: I got to show you one more thing. See, because.

803
00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:26,680
Speaker 2: When Jesus said I thirst, to fulfill the scripture parentheses.

804
00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:31,120
Speaker 1: Have you ever had to live in the parentheses?

805
00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:35,000
Speaker 2: I mean, like not understanding why you were going through

806
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:35,960
Speaker 2: what you were going through.

807
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:38,920
Speaker 1: Please be real with me. I cannot preach this sermon

808
00:46:39,239 --> 00:46:40,200
Speaker 1: to close hearts.

809
00:46:42,640 --> 00:46:45,840
Speaker 2: I'm trying to give you water today for your thirsty soul.

810
00:46:47,320 --> 00:46:51,120
Speaker 2: But sometimes you're in a wilderness and you don't know why.

811
00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:54,040
Speaker 2: And sometimes you're looking at a red sea and you

812
00:46:54,160 --> 00:46:59,520
Speaker 2: feel trapped. And Jesus looked trapped up there on that cross,

813
00:46:59,560 --> 00:47:02,920
Speaker 2: but John said no, he wasn't trapped.

814
00:47:03,120 --> 00:47:08,400
Speaker 1: Death didn't trap Jesus. Jesus trapped death.

815
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:21,080
Speaker 2: No, Now I know why, he said.

816
00:47:21,120 --> 00:47:21,680
Speaker 1: I thirst.

817
00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:26,799
Speaker 2: Now I know why why the lips that spoke the

818
00:47:26,920 --> 00:47:31,000
Speaker 2: waters into their place on the earth set I thirst

819
00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:33,279
Speaker 2: to fulfill the scripture.

820
00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:35,640
Speaker 1: God has a purpose.

821
00:47:35,719 --> 00:47:45,120
Speaker 3: For every thurst in your lives. Death didn't trap Jesus.

822
00:47:45,640 --> 00:47:47,480
Speaker 3: Jesus trapped Dad.

823
00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:59,080
Speaker 2: So one time David felt trapped in the Psalms and

824
00:47:59,120 --> 00:48:03,120
Speaker 2: then Psalm sixteen. He describes it in vivid detail. He goes,

825
00:48:03,880 --> 00:48:08,160
Speaker 2: the deep waters have engulfed me. I'm surrounded by enemies.

826
00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:11,600
Speaker 2: They hurl their insults at me. Does this sound familiar?

827
00:48:11,600 --> 00:48:16,480
Speaker 2: By the way, It's a messianic song. It's describing centuries

828
00:48:16,520 --> 00:48:19,080
Speaker 2: before the cross, what the cross would be like for Jesus.

829
00:48:19,360 --> 00:48:22,600
Speaker 2: It is David. Jesus is called the son of David.

830
00:48:22,719 --> 00:48:26,000
Speaker 2: It is David, pointing to the one who now says,

831
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:32,120
Speaker 2: I thirst, And David says something that although he is

832
00:48:32,200 --> 00:48:36,080
Speaker 2: surrounded by what he calls deep waters of trial, he

833
00:48:36,160 --> 00:48:42,080
Speaker 2: says that the reproach has broken his heart. The shame

834
00:48:42,200 --> 00:48:47,279
Speaker 2: has brought him so low to this place that he

835
00:48:47,320 --> 00:48:51,360
Speaker 2: feels like he's drowning. And you can get to a

836
00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:55,319
Speaker 2: place where you feel trapped in doubt, and you can't

837
00:48:55,320 --> 00:48:57,360
Speaker 2: have dysfunctions in your life that have been there so

838
00:48:57,480 --> 00:49:01,040
Speaker 2: long that you feel trapped inside of yourself. That's the

839
00:49:01,080 --> 00:49:05,120
Speaker 2: worst place to feel trapped. Not in a bad relationship.

840
00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:08,400
Speaker 2: I mean, you can always block that number, But what

841
00:49:08,400 --> 00:49:10,719
Speaker 2: do you do when you're trapped inside of your own heart,

842
00:49:11,840 --> 00:49:17,000
Speaker 2: your own broken heart? David said, it's it's so bad.

843
00:49:17,040 --> 00:49:19,520
Speaker 2: It's broken my heart. And I am in despair. I

844
00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:22,520
Speaker 2: am in distress. But watch this, he said, I look

845
00:49:22,600 --> 00:49:25,959
Speaker 2: for pity. There was none for comforters. I found none.

846
00:49:26,160 --> 00:49:27,279
Speaker 2: Nobody could help me.

847
00:49:27,320 --> 00:49:33,760
Speaker 1: I was trapped. I was trapped. I was trapped.

848
00:49:35,160 --> 00:49:37,640
Speaker 2: He said, I got to the point where I asked

849
00:49:37,640 --> 00:49:43,400
Speaker 2: my friends for food. Go to the next verse, and

850
00:49:43,440 --> 00:49:46,440
Speaker 2: they gave me poison for food. The people who were

851
00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:47,080
Speaker 2: supposed to.

852
00:49:47,040 --> 00:49:52,720
Speaker 1: Help me hurt me. They gave me poison for food.

853
00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:55,840
Speaker 2: I was thirsty, But for my thirst, they gave me

854
00:49:56,000 --> 00:50:00,000
Speaker 2: sour wine to drink. And now I understand why Jesus

855
00:50:00,120 --> 00:50:04,759
Speaker 2: set I thirst. Go back to my scripture. It was

856
00:50:04,840 --> 00:50:09,040
Speaker 2: to fulfill the scripture. It wasn't about water. Jesus was

857
00:50:09,120 --> 00:50:12,600
Speaker 2: setting the trap for death. This was the last thing

858
00:50:13,160 --> 00:50:17,520
Speaker 2: he had to do before the spirit could be released.

859
00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:18,880
Speaker 1: It's a setup.

860
00:50:20,920 --> 00:50:21,960
Speaker 3: It's a set up.

861
00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:29,400
Speaker 2: If he didn't suffer, salvation could not spring up like

862
00:50:29,480 --> 00:50:32,080
Speaker 2: a well. If he did not suffer, it could not

863
00:50:32,239 --> 00:50:35,760
Speaker 2: flow forth. If he did not die, he could not rise.

864
00:50:36,840 --> 00:50:38,640
Speaker 2: Somebody shout, it's a setup.

865
00:50:40,160 --> 00:50:46,920
Speaker 1: It's not the end. It's in the parentheses. It's in

866
00:50:46,960 --> 00:50:47,799
Speaker 1: the parentheses.

867
00:50:48,800 --> 00:50:51,560
Speaker 2: Sometimes you gotta trust God in the parentheses, in the

868
00:50:51,640 --> 00:50:54,880
Speaker 2: type places when it looks like your trap, to know

869
00:50:54,960 --> 00:50:58,040
Speaker 2: that the very red sea that feels like it's gonna

870
00:50:58,120 --> 00:50:59,280
Speaker 2: kill you, it's.

871
00:50:59,120 --> 00:51:01,600
Speaker 3: Gonna drown your enemies behind you.

872
00:51:02,239 --> 00:51:13,680
Speaker 2: Somebody shot it staring the shouting. He said, I thirsted,

873
00:51:13,719 --> 00:51:18,080
Speaker 2: and they gave me vinegar. But watch this, David praying.

874
00:51:19,160 --> 00:51:21,600
Speaker 2: This is what I'm praying over your life today. Every

875
00:51:21,880 --> 00:51:24,120
Speaker 2: evil thing that the enemy has done to you, and

876
00:51:24,200 --> 00:51:26,799
Speaker 2: every trial that feels like is sweeping over you. And

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Speaker 2: for everybody who feels trapped. Listen what he prayed. Let

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Speaker 2: their own table before them, the thing that they brought

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Speaker 2: to destroy me. Let their own table become a snare.

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Speaker 2: And when they are at peace. So just when the

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Speaker 2: devil thought he had Jesus trapped, just when.

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Speaker 1: He thought it was over, just.

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Speaker 2: When he thought we got rid of that one, just

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Speaker 2: when he thought it was the end, just when they

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Speaker 2: rolled the snow become.

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Speaker 3: I'm trapped, God said, I got you.

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Speaker 1: Set the trap. He set the trap. He set the trap.

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Speaker 2: So God brought you here into this garden so you

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Speaker 2: could sweat out your insecurities.

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Speaker 1: God brought you here into.

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Speaker 2: This type place so that your dots could die and

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Speaker 2: your faith could live, and you will never curse.

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Speaker 1: Again.

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Speaker 2: He said, I thirst and they brought him vinegar. And

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Speaker 2: he said, good, I need that. I needed that vinegar.

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00:52:44,200 --> 00:52:50,200
Speaker 2: I needed that trial. Sometimes victory doesn't look like victory.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes victory doesn't taste sweet.

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Speaker 1: And when he said, I.

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Speaker 2: Thirst, and they gave him the vinegar for water. After that,

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Speaker 2: after he had received the sour wine, after he had

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Speaker 2: set the trap on death, hell and the grave, I

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Speaker 2: promise you we're gonna have the best Easter ever this year.

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Speaker 1: I feel like Easter came early today. I really do.

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Speaker 1: I really do.

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Speaker 2: I really feel like resurrection came in an unexpected time

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Speaker 2: for somebody who thought, you are trapped.

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Speaker 1: Here the word of the Lord.

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Speaker 3: It's not a trap, as the triumph.

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Speaker 4: Shall I the God.

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Speaker 1: So Friday's trap was Sunday's triumph.

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Speaker 2: He set up, first, set the trap, and after he

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Speaker 2: had received the sour he.

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Speaker 1: Said, is finished. It's finished.

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Speaker 2: The trap became the triumph. God's gonna take the thing

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Speaker 2: that looks. Ask the children of Israel. They thought the

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Speaker 2: red Seed was gonna be the end of them. It

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Speaker 2: was the end of their enemies. You're not trapped the

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00:54:17,880 --> 00:54:22,720
Speaker 2: devil is You're not trapped, You're.

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Speaker 1: Not touch Somebody say, I'm not trapped. Come on, I'm

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00:54:25,760 --> 00:54:26,719
Speaker 1: not trapped, and.

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Speaker 2: I'm not your sea who the sun sets free? How

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Speaker 2: many believe that the sufferings of this present time are

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Speaker 2: not worthy to be compared with the glory that will

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Speaker 2: be revealed.

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Speaker 1: How many believe Christ is in you? The humble glory?

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Speaker 1: Come on, shot like you believe that shot like you.

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Speaker 1: I'm on casting, So.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you one more thing, and I promise

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna walk off this stage while I'm saying it.

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Speaker 2: I love to preach the word to you, not because

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Speaker 2: I like to hear myself talk.

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Speaker 1: I love to preach the.

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Speaker 2: Word of God to you because I know what this

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Speaker 2: seed is going to do if you get it down

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Speaker 2: in your heart.

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Speaker 1: And I watched this favorite flows from unexpected places.

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Speaker 2: Do you remember when we were writing the song Resurrecting

938
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Speaker 2: And it took about nine months to write the song,

939
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Speaker 2: and everybody on the team contributes in different ways. My

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00:55:28,040 --> 00:55:30,840
Speaker 2: thing is, I like, I always like to write. And

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Speaker 2: Chris can tell you this because we've been knowing each

942
00:55:32,680 --> 00:55:35,360
Speaker 2: other forever, and you'll give it up for Chris Brown.

943
00:55:35,400 --> 00:55:41,120
Speaker 2: This man is a great man of God. Well, I'm

944
00:55:41,200 --> 00:55:43,759
Speaker 2: kind of weird because I like it. When the song

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00:55:43,800 --> 00:55:45,400
Speaker 2: seems like it should be over, I always like to

946
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Speaker 2: put another verse.

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Speaker 1: It's true, right.

948
00:55:48,000 --> 00:55:49,879
Speaker 2: So we wrote the song and it was kind of done,

949
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Speaker 2: not really done. We thought it was done and we

950
00:55:52,280 --> 00:55:54,640
Speaker 2: finished the songwrit anything, and I started.

951
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Speaker 1: Thinking, I wanted to write this fourth verse for this song.

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Speaker 2: And you know, Chris is kind of laid because he's

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Speaker 2: a worship leader and uh no, I'm just kidding. He's

954
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Speaker 2: the hardest working man in the praise biz. But so.

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Speaker 1: It took six months to get the verse right.

956
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Speaker 2: But we ended up writing a declaration for our church,

957
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Speaker 2: lift your hands, whatever's got your trap today. We ended

958
00:56:21,600 --> 00:56:24,840
Speaker 2: up writing this verse to let you know that what

959
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Speaker 2: looks like it's got you locked in.

960
00:56:28,239 --> 00:56:30,160
Speaker 1: Is going to be the place. See, that's what the

961
00:56:30,239 --> 00:56:30,839
Speaker 1: grave was.

962
00:56:30,920 --> 00:56:33,759
Speaker 2: The grave of Jesus Christ was a garden in disguise.

963
00:56:34,440 --> 00:56:37,759
Speaker 2: That's what your trials are, That's what your weakness is.

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Speaker 2: So I want you to sing this fourth verse because

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Speaker 2: just when it seems like the song should be over,

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Speaker 2: just when it seems like your hope is gone, just

967
00:56:47,600 --> 00:56:51,760
Speaker 2: when it seems like the devil has dehydrated your.

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Speaker 1: Dream the solous. So they thought they had him right,

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00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:07,399
Speaker 1: so they posted the guard right there.

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Speaker 2: And now if he robbed the grave of its power,

971
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Speaker 2: if the guards couldn't keep his body at come on, church,

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Speaker 2: come on, I'm talking about.

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Speaker 1: You, Rivers. I'm living water you never nurse again.

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Speaker 3: Would you get this spirit feed and the same spirit

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00:57:38,400 --> 00:57:39,760
Speaker 3: He's body and.

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Speaker 1: Rags some the You're got a.

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Speaker 3: Stake wa God has robbed.

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Speaker 4: Got up should dame?

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00:58:09,400 --> 00:58:12,880
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00:58:13,360 --> 00:58:15,560
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00:58:15,640 --> 00:58:19,800
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