Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.
Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.
Speaker 1: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope
Speaker 1: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith.
Speaker 2: Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving
Speaker 2: in your life.
Speaker 1: Enjoy the message.
Speaker 2: We're excited because write this down. Favor flows from strange places,
Speaker 2: it really does. One time the children of Israel were
Speaker 2: in the desert and water came out of a rock.
Speaker 1: That's weird.
Speaker 2: Yeah, God do something for you, but not through the
Speaker 2: person that you expected him to do it through. You
Speaker 2: ever had God be good to you through somebody that
Speaker 2: you weren't even good to, and then somebody you were
Speaker 2: good to wasn't good to you, And it's almost like God,
Speaker 2: it's almost like he wants to challenge your attachments, so
Speaker 2: He'll keep on moving around his supply and springing up
Speaker 2: from different places so that you don't camp out where he.
Speaker 1: Called you to pass through.
Speaker 2: And that's why sometimes you get frustrated.
Speaker 1: But favor can flow from frustration.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you have to get down to the bottom of
Speaker 2: something to find God there. And you know my study
Speaker 2: has been like that. It was kind of weird. Can
Speaker 2: I tell y'all something that I didn't tell any of
Speaker 2: the other experiences. I did not want to do a
Speaker 2: seven mile Miracle series. I preached this bad Boy. I
Speaker 2: preached this sermon six years ago. I think it was
Speaker 2: six years ago, five or six years ago, and my
Speaker 2: publisher had the rights to the material because we had
Speaker 2: them pay for the study guide for our groups and whatever.
Speaker 1: You don't even know all that, but we had them pay.
Speaker 2: The church, and they wanted to put out a book.
Speaker 2: And I didn't want to write a book about seven
Speaker 2: mile Miracle because I typically like to preach something and
Speaker 2: move on.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, this is probably dysfunctional.
Speaker 2: But before I came out to preach to you, I
Speaker 2: was writing my sermon for the end of April because
Speaker 2: it started coming to me and I know what it
Speaker 2: is telling you, because then you would skip. And but
Speaker 2: the way it flows to me, I've had to learn
Speaker 2: to get in the flow with God touch somebody say
Speaker 2: get in the flow, get in the flow, Get in
Speaker 2: the flow, because for me, creativity and insforration doesn't always flow.
Speaker 1: It's not always dependable.
Speaker 2: When songwriter said that creativity is like building your house,
Speaker 2: from the sky down, especially when you're depending on God
Speaker 2: to give it to you. So you feel kind of
Speaker 2: vulnerable when you're waiting on God to give you something.
Speaker 2: So it flows in strange places. Sometimes I get sermons
Speaker 2: off of gatoraded commercials.
Speaker 1: And I just have to do it anywhere I can.
Speaker 2: And this year has been interesting because God took some
Speaker 2: things that I studied years ago, like this seven mile
Speaker 2: walk on the Amaeis Road, and we taught an Easter
Speaker 2: sermon on it, and then a whole series and a
Speaker 2: book flowed out of it. But I was kind of
Speaker 2: done with it, and God took something that I was
Speaker 2: done with, like a seed that I thought was gone,
Speaker 2: but it really wasn't gone. It was in the ground.
Speaker 2: Some thing's in your life that you sewed in the
Speaker 2: last season are going to come up out of the
Speaker 2: ground when you least expect it, because favor flows from
Speaker 2: strange places. So I've kind of been going through these
Speaker 2: seven Statements of Jesus slowly, and I don't like to
Speaker 2: go slow. If it were up to me, we would
Speaker 2: study all seven of them. In the introduction to the sermon,
Speaker 2: move on, you know. I like to cover a lot
Speaker 2: of ground, so you don't get bored. Sometimes you gotta
Speaker 2: slow down. And I started the series just talking about Cleo.
Speaker 2: Were you here for that one? He's walking along with
Speaker 2: a companion. Here comes Jesus, this stranger, and out of
Speaker 2: this stranger's mouth comes a revelation that reverses their disappointment,
Speaker 2: and they realize it when they get there, not while
Speaker 2: they're going.
Speaker 1: So it started to challenge.
Speaker 2: The way I saw faith, because I thought faith meant
Speaker 2: that I would know why I was going through everything
Speaker 2: I went through while I went through it. Now I'm thinking,
Speaker 2: maybe faith means not knowing why I'm going through it,
Speaker 2: but trusting the one who makes a way where there
Speaker 2: is no way to feed me what I need for
Speaker 2: the season that I'm in, because He's God, and he
Speaker 2: knows what I need when I need it. And so
Speaker 2: when we were preaching about he broke the bread and
Speaker 2: gave it to them, we kind of been breaking the bread,
Speaker 2: haven't we.
Speaker 1: The bread represents the word of God.
Speaker 2: And each week I've been giving you a little peace,
Speaker 2: and I'm taking it from the last sayings.
Speaker 1: That Jesus spoke on the cross.
Speaker 2: There are seven Seven is the number of completion in
Speaker 2: the scripture and so when we say seven, we're eventually
Speaker 2: getting to resurrection, but to get there, we're going through crucifixion.
Speaker 1: We're eventually getting.
Speaker 2: To glory, but to get there we have to go
Speaker 2: through the sufferings of this present time and believe that
Speaker 2: they are not worthy to be compared with the glory
Speaker 2: that will be revealed. But it's in the ground right now.
Speaker 2: It's on Saturday that our faith is proven, waiting for Sunday.
Speaker 1: In the aftershock of Friday.
Speaker 2: Now, we walked through a couple of different sayings, and
Speaker 2: one was, Father, forgive them, for they know not what
Speaker 2: they do. That one challenged me because it is the
Speaker 2: exact opposite of how I think when somebody disappoints me
Speaker 2: or offends me. See, you're different, You're more sanctified than me,
Speaker 2: and you've arrived. But when somebody breaks my heart, I
Speaker 2: don't say, Father, forgive them, for they know not what
Speaker 2: they do. I say, God, get them back, hurt them
Speaker 2: worse than I could ever hurt, because they know exactly
Speaker 2: what they were doing.
Speaker 1: But I'm challenged because, well.
Speaker 2: Jesus says to a thief, he says.
Speaker 1: Today you will be with me in paradise. Now I
Speaker 1: don't think like that.
Speaker 2: I think if the guy is going to be in paradise,
Speaker 2: he needs to do some good deeds that help some
Speaker 2: old ladies across the street, and take a little membership
Speaker 2: class and get baptized at our Concord campus, then he
Speaker 2: can be in paradise. He didn't do any of that.
Speaker 2: Jesus just saved him just because he asks. And now
Speaker 2: I'm thinking, this must be a gift that you can't earn.
Speaker 2: It must not have to do with my works at all.
Speaker 2: It must be something that God gives, not something.
Speaker 1: That I get about to do his receiver.
Speaker 2: Then I'm a little convicted how he's on the cross
Speaker 2: and he's thinking about his mom on the cross, because
Speaker 2: I don't think about others while I'm going through good times,
Speaker 2: let alone hard times. I don't even like to let
Speaker 2: people merge in traffic on four eighty five because I'm.
Speaker 1: In a hurry.
Speaker 2: Here's Jesus dying and thinking about somebody else. So all
Speaker 2: of this has been challenging me. Wade gets up and
Speaker 2: says that God was forsaken by God the Son, by
Speaker 2: the Father, so that we would never have to be abandoned.
Speaker 2: And then I'll come to this little phrase, and I
Speaker 2: don't know what to do with it, because Jesus now
Speaker 2: says one of his last sayings on the cross of
Speaker 2: this is mile five, commonly known as the word of distress.
Speaker 1: It's called the word of distress.
Speaker 2: But after today you're going to see that it's actually
Speaker 2: the word of destiny. I'm gonna show you because he
Speaker 2: says something strange. Let's look at it together.
Speaker 1: Are you ready?
Speaker 2: Say?
Speaker 1: I'm ready?
Speaker 2: You got your yeasyesweight laced up and ready to run.
Speaker 1: What So.
Speaker 2: He's been mocked, he's been flogged, he's been sentenced, handed
Speaker 2: over to die. He's bleeding, he's suffocating, and he's hanging
Speaker 2: there after this, John says John nineteen twenty eight. Jesus,
Speaker 2: knowing that all was now finished, finality, achievement would be
Speaker 2: the original language that all was achieved, that he was
Speaker 2: to do his assignment was achieved. Now that he knew that,
Speaker 2: he said to fulfill the scripture, I thirst, which.
Speaker 1: Is ironic because this is the same voice that spoke.
Speaker 2: The season too existence, and now he needs water.
Speaker 1: You ever think about this?
Speaker 2: How how the same voice that told the Red Sea
Speaker 2: to part now needs a drink? How can the voice
Speaker 2: that could command the sea peace be still, and it
Speaker 2: had to shut up so he could get some sleep.
Speaker 1: How could that same.
Speaker 2: God, Because the Bible says that he is the one
Speaker 2: Colossians tells us by whom, for whom and through whom
Speaker 2: all things were created. That were created in the beginning
Speaker 2: was the Word, and the word was with God, and
Speaker 2: the word was God.
Speaker 1: That's Jesus. Now he's wrapped in flesh, dying.
Speaker 2: At the hands of sinful men, a criminal's death, and
Speaker 2: he says, I thirst He's the one who said he
Speaker 2: was living water. How can living water be thirsty? He
Speaker 2: is the one who was Jacob's well. How can Jacob's
Speaker 2: well be dry?
Speaker 1: Do you see?
Speaker 2: What I'm saying is just strange to me. And on
Speaker 2: top of the fact that it's kind of crazy that
Speaker 2: the one who called the seas to be gathered together
Speaker 2: so the dry land could appear, the one whose voice
Speaker 2: is above the waters, the one who separated the water
Speaker 2: above the firmament the water below the firmament, the one
Speaker 2: who has a throne in heaven by the way in
Speaker 2: the Book of Revelation that he sits on where the
Speaker 2: streams of water flow and make glad the city of God,
Speaker 2: pure and brilliant as jasper and diamond. Those waters slow
Speaker 2: from the throne. But here we see him thirsting. How
Speaker 2: can God be thirsty? How can water need rank y'all
Speaker 2: are looking at me confused, and you should be because
Speaker 2: it's confusing. I understand me being thirsty. After all, I'm
Speaker 2: a thirsty man. That's what Holly said one time. She
Speaker 2: told a server that in a restaurant. By the way,
Speaker 2: if you're a server in a restaurant, first of all,
Speaker 2: God bless you. You are an unsung hero, especially on
Speaker 2: Sundays with hungry, cranky, non tip in Christians to put
Speaker 2: a Bible Verse on the receipt instead of a tip.
Speaker 2: Father forgive them.
Speaker 1: And it's.
Speaker 2: Tough for me to meet this. But I am a
Speaker 2: server's worst nightmare. And it's not because I'm rude. It's
Speaker 2: not because I'm rude, and I'm not rude because I'm Southern.
Speaker 2: So since I'm Southern, if I'm gonna be.
Speaker 1: Rude to you, I'm going to do it behind your back.
Speaker 2: I watch people from other parts of the country who
Speaker 2: are so direct, and it's weird to me because I
Speaker 2: can feel my mom putting soap in my mouth because
Speaker 2: you we just weren't that direct. I watched somebody in
Speaker 2: a restaurant. They're done. They just go check, like one word.
Speaker 2: That's not how you. I can't do it like that.
Speaker 2: I wish I could. I think it'd be cool just
Speaker 2: holler check. I see it in the movies, and uh,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna try sometime.
Speaker 1: And I'm not rude like that. I'm not rude. I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm not even really that picky in a restaurant. I'm
Speaker 1: really not. I'm simple. I'm basic. I like what I like,
Speaker 1: but it's not that hard to fix it like I
Speaker 1: like it.
Speaker 2: I'm not.
Speaker 1: Here's what I say. I'm not Chunk's Corbett.
Speaker 2: Chunk's Corbett is the most embarrassing person to be in
Speaker 2: a restaurant with because of the specificity with which he
Speaker 2: demands his food be prepared and his wife.
Speaker 1: Is nodding while I'm preaching this. He'll He'll walk in
Speaker 1: a restaurant. I want a bloom an onion, but no onion,
Speaker 1: and can you make it in the shape of an
Speaker 1: eight because that's my favorite number.
Speaker 2: And when I was here to play baseball, he says,
Speaker 2: got the craziest stuff.
Speaker 1: So I'm not really like that.
Speaker 2: But my thing is if you can keep up with
Speaker 2: me on the drinks, because I drink diet coke. Like
Speaker 2: I just said, I shoot up heroin, you judgmental demon.
Speaker 2: People will do it. Every time I say that, they'll
Speaker 2: send me a link about aspartame.
Speaker 1: But it's all right. I already read about it. And
Speaker 1: I want to.
Speaker 2: Go to heaven and I'm kind of in a hurry
Speaker 2: to get there. I'm at peace with my mortal nature
Speaker 2: and I want to sip a diet coke.
Speaker 1: On the journey. So so my thing is, I tip great.
Speaker 2: I tip great, especially if you bring me an Elevation
Speaker 2: Church stolen ten to sign.
Speaker 1: The tip with. That'll be our thing. I'll bump it
Speaker 1: up at least three percent. It's just read the word.
Speaker 2: But my thing is keeping my drink ful is kind
Speaker 2: of hard because I'll drink five, six, seven.
Speaker 1: Eight, nine, ten, eleven.
Speaker 2: I've been to twelve class is before uh in a
Speaker 2: in a long meal, so I know it's horrible. But
Speaker 2: one time this server came over and she was kind
Speaker 2: of giggling about how many drinks I was drinking.
Speaker 1: This has been years ago, and she.
Speaker 2: Was probably she looked she looked like she was too
Speaker 2: young to be legally uh, working at a restaurant.
Speaker 1: And she comes over to.
Speaker 2: The table and she's kind of giggling and uh, and
Speaker 2: and I'm apologizing. I'm like, I'm sorry, I'm drinking so
Speaker 2: many drinks. I'd just like to drink a lot of
Speaker 2: that coke. I'm sorry about that. And I promise I'll
Speaker 2: tip you good and just thank you for trying to
Speaker 2: keep up with me.
Speaker 1: And she goes, and she goes, and Holly, Holly, feeling
Speaker 1: the need to apologize, Holly goes, He's just a thirsty man.
Speaker 2: And she started laughing when Holly said that, but she
Speaker 2: was laughing a little too hard. You know how people
Speaker 2: can laugh a little too hard for what you said,
Speaker 2: and you know that they took something different out of
Speaker 2: what you said. And so she's laughing, just laughing, laughing,
Speaker 2: And I said, what what what was funny about that?
Speaker 2: And and she said, you wife just said you're thirsty
Speaker 2: And I said.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I am.
Speaker 2: You've seen it today night here in the restaurant.
Speaker 1: I like to drink. She said, no, no, you don't
Speaker 1: know what thirsty means to you.
Speaker 2: And I said, no, but tell me what thirsty means
Speaker 2: to you, I need to know.
Speaker 1: She said, you don't want to know this.
Speaker 2: You're a preacher. She said, you don't. I said, no,
Speaker 2: tell me. She said, well, it's kind of something we
Speaker 2: would say. Younger people would say, say maybe if a
Speaker 2: guy is a little too desperate, we would look at
Speaker 2: him and maybe roll our eyes and say thirsty.
Speaker 1: So now I knew she was laughing.
Speaker 2: She said, we even when people post something on social
Speaker 2: media where they want to get attention and they try
Speaker 2: a little too hard, we call that a thirst trap.
Speaker 2: I want to appreach to you today about the thirst trap,
Speaker 2: and I want.
Speaker 1: To go show my title, show my time.
Speaker 2: I want to go all the way back from Bonefish
Speaker 2: Grill to John nineteen.
Speaker 1: And see if I can work it together.
Speaker 2: Because I gotta admit sometimes I'm thirsty. Sometimes I'm thirsty
Speaker 2: like the guy who sends twelve text messages and none
Speaker 2: of them get responded to those long text messes. Sometimes
Speaker 2: I need too much from the wrong place. Sometimes I'm
Speaker 2: thirsty because I love God and I know that he's
Speaker 2: my shepherd and I'm not supposed to be in need,
Speaker 2: and I.
Speaker 1: Have his spirit.
Speaker 2: But sometimes I gotta admit to you I'm I'm kind
Speaker 2: of thirsty. Look at your neighbor and ask him, are
Speaker 2: you thirsty?
Speaker 1: Not you You're you're filled with the spirit of God. Oh,
Speaker 1: we get thirsty. And it's no.
Speaker 2: Surprise we get thirsty because we're week. He knows our friend,
Speaker 2: we're made of dust, came from the dust. Get thirsty
Speaker 2: in the dust, dirty thirsty people. I mean that makes sense.
Speaker 2: But for Jesus to say I thirst and watch this
Speaker 2: when he said it, The Bible says, they came to him,
Speaker 2: those soldiers around the cross, and he said, I thirst.
Speaker 1: And there was a jar full of sour wine, cheap stuff.
Speaker 2: What the executioners drank while they were waiting on the
Speaker 2: person to die. Now, see, this was the second drink
Speaker 2: that Jesus was offered on the cross, but the first
Speaker 2: one he refused. When he was on his way to
Speaker 2: the cross, when he got to the spot where they
Speaker 2: would drop the cross the vertical beam and attach to
Speaker 2: the horizontal beam because the cross works both ways. I
Speaker 2: taught you that two weeks ago. When he got to
Speaker 2: that spot, they offered him a drink. This drink was,
Speaker 2: the Bible says, mixed with mir which was meant to
Speaker 2: drug the person going to the cross.
Speaker 1: The women would prepare it, often as an act.
Speaker 2: Of compassion or kindness, and when they offered him this drink,
Speaker 2: perhaps in mockery, before he called himself a king and
Speaker 2: they offered him a drink, Mark tells us in Mark,
Speaker 2: I think it's like fifteen twenty three. They offered him
Speaker 2: wine mixed with merv but he did not take it
Speaker 2: because maybe he saw it as a trap, because he
Speaker 2: was focused on finishing what God gave him to do.
Speaker 2: And when he got to the cross, he refused to
Speaker 2: drink and said, I don't need that. Now I want
Speaker 2: you to do something for me. Okay, everybody do this,
Speaker 2: Everybody do this. I want you to get something in
Speaker 2: your mind that's trying to keep you from being on
Speaker 2: the path of your purpose.
Speaker 1: And when I say three.
Speaker 2: Push it out the way like Jesus pushed the cup
Speaker 2: of Myrrh and say I don't need it. One, two, three,
Speaker 2: I don't need it. He said, I'm not drinking that.
Speaker 2: I'm going somewhere.
Speaker 1: With his gaze set on the glory of God, he
Speaker 1: went toward the cross.
Speaker 2: But now it's been six hours since he first got
Speaker 2: to Gugatha, and he says, I thirst Remember, this is
Speaker 2: the same voice of God that created the clouds.
Speaker 1: And filled them with condensation.
Speaker 2: This is the voice that has the power to flood
Speaker 2: the earth and only Noah and every animal on the
Speaker 2: boat gets out of it alive, and he thirst. So
Speaker 2: we're surprised by it, or at least we should be.
Speaker 2: And we're surprised when they come to him and there's
Speaker 2: a jar of sour wine and they offer to the
Speaker 2: Lamb of God who was slain before the foundation of
Speaker 2: the earth. You need to understand that what happened on
Speaker 2: the cross didn't start on the cross, and it didn't
Speaker 2: end on the cross.
Speaker 1: The cross was pointing.
Speaker 2: At the prophetic fulfillment of the purpose of God that
Speaker 2: existed before time began.
Speaker 1: So they take a hiss up branch, which was what
Speaker 1: they used on.
Speaker 2: Passover back when they would take the blood of a
Speaker 2: lamb and put it on a door post. And so
Speaker 2: they took that branch they would put the blood on.
Speaker 2: And now the Lamb of God is bleeding. It is
Speaker 2: not the shadow anymore. It's the actuality, the revelation of God.
Speaker 2: The fullness of God is hanging on a cross in
Speaker 2: the form of a man, and they give him vinegar
Speaker 2: to drink for his thirst, and they put it to
Speaker 2: his mouth, the same mouth that spoke them into existence,
Speaker 2: and they gave him vinegar to drink. How could he
Speaker 2: be thirsty? How could God struggle with a human sensation
Speaker 2: like thirst? Struggle? If you want to write something down,
Speaker 2: write down struggle, because to really understand why he said
Speaker 2: I thirst on the cross, you would have to start
Speaker 2: really in the garden of Gathsemene. Okay, the garden of
Speaker 2: got Semene is where he went out to pray before
Speaker 2: he drank the cup of suffering. And it's one thing
Speaker 2: to come to church and talk about a calling, because
Speaker 2: sometimes a calling is like a beautiful cup.
Speaker 1: But what's in it? Sometimes when it.
Speaker 2: Comes time to really fulfill your calling, let me break
Speaker 2: this down, because y'all are really looking at me cross
Speaker 2: eyed and stuff. It's one thing to pick out a
Speaker 2: name for your baby. It's another thing to have to
Speaker 2: raise them in middle school.
Speaker 1: It didn't work. It still didn't work.
Speaker 2: I'm trying really hard to bring this right where you are.
Speaker 2: It is one thing to write down his last name
Speaker 2: with your first name and think about how awesome it
Speaker 2: would be to be missus so and so.
Speaker 1: But it's another thing to.
Speaker 2: Deal with his bad breath and his bad spending habits
Speaker 2: and realize that his mom didn't teach him how to
Speaker 2: put the seat down on the toilet after he used it,
Speaker 2: and work out the mechanics of marriage in the context
Speaker 2: of the calling, not just the excitement of the concept
Speaker 2: of something. So sometimes why we are very excited about
Speaker 2: the concept of being used by God. Stay with me
Speaker 2: because this sermon is about to do something.
Speaker 1: In your soul. Deep down in your soul.
Speaker 2: I feel the spirit of God saying to somebody today,
Speaker 2: what will you do.
Speaker 1: With the cup?
Speaker 2: Because Jesus had a cup that he didn't want to drink,
Speaker 2: and he prayed in the garden. He prayed, Father, if
Speaker 2: there's any other way to get this done, if there's
Speaker 2: any other way, let this cup pass from me, the
Speaker 2: cup that was full of the wrath of God, the
Speaker 2: just punishment that our sin deserved.
Speaker 1: And he drank it. But he struggled to drink it.
Speaker 2: Do you know how I know he struggled because he prayed,
Speaker 2: if there's any other way, let this cup pass. But
Speaker 2: if there's not, if I have to drink it down,
Speaker 2: if I have to suffer, you have to go to
Speaker 2: the cross. I'm going to the cross. If I have
Speaker 2: to be mocked, I'll be mocked. If I have to
Speaker 2: be alone, I'll be alone.
Speaker 1: If I have to cry, I'll cry. If I have
Speaker 1: to struggle, I'll struggle.
Speaker 2: Not my will, but yours be gone. So the Son
Speaker 2: of God is thirsty, and he's thirsty because he's trapped.
Speaker 2: He's trapped in a place that we're all familiar with.
Speaker 2: He's trapped between what he wants and what God wills.
Speaker 1: Have you ever been trapped?
Speaker 2: Three honest people, three thirsty people. All the thirsty people
Speaker 2: make some noise, just be honest about it, because remember,
Speaker 2: it's only those who and thirst that can be filled.
Speaker 1: It's only those who know what it's like. I mean,
Speaker 1: he got.
Speaker 2: Down in that garden and he prayed so hard about it,
Speaker 2: and he heard so much about it while Peter.
Speaker 1: James and John slept on the side. But Jesus prayed.
Speaker 2: The Bible says he prayed to the point that his
Speaker 2: sweat was like drops of blood struggle to surrender, and
Speaker 2: he was. He was trapped in the garden between what
Speaker 2: God had spoken and what his flesh wanted. I'm thirsty,
Speaker 2: of course, he's thirsty. When you sweat like that, you're
Speaker 2: going to be thirsty. I mean, if the Son of
Speaker 2: God sweat like that, what makes you think you're going
Speaker 2: to go through life and never break one yourself?
Speaker 1: So we think we're just.
Speaker 2: Supposed to fulfill our call and never drink the cup.
Speaker 2: We think we're supposed to have a vision, but no, vinegar.
Speaker 2: I mean, the son of God is sweating drops of
Speaker 2: blood and we're supposed to be able to sleep through.
Speaker 2: Life is a struggle, he said, I thirst because he
Speaker 2: struggled people.
Speaker 1: I know he was thirsty.
Speaker 2: I mean he's fully God, yes, but he's also fully man.
Speaker 1: In other words, he's trapped.
Speaker 2: Because he's God, but he's wrapped in flesh because he's glory.
Speaker 2: But he's wrapped in frailty because he's eternity. But he's
Speaker 2: trapped in time because he's spirit, but he's trapped in
Speaker 2: a body. Sometimes I feel trapped because what I want
Speaker 2: to do I can't do, and what I do I hate,
Speaker 2: and what I want to.
Speaker 1: Do I don't have the will to do. I'm trapped.
Speaker 2: Thirsty, Hi, I'm wearying, And he struggled, And see, I'm
Speaker 2: not very comfortable with this.
Speaker 1: I don't like it because I don't want to.
Speaker 2: I don't really want to see a god who struggled
Speaker 2: like I struggle. I like that stuff where he opens
Speaker 2: his mouth and says shut up to the wind and
Speaker 2: the waves. I like that because that makes me think
Speaker 2: he's just gonna walk into my situation smooth sailing.
Speaker 1: But when he says I thirst.
Speaker 2: See, now I see him identifying with my shame, and
Speaker 2: it causes me to look at myself, not as I
Speaker 2: wish to be, but as I really am, Because now
Speaker 2: I've got to picture him carrying my shame right down. Shame,
Speaker 2: because shame will make you thirsty. Shame will make you
Speaker 2: try to fill something with the words of people that
Speaker 2: can really only be fulfilled by the word of God.
Speaker 2: Shame will make you forget who you really are. Of
Speaker 2: course he was thirsty. He was carrying your shame. Now,
Speaker 2: I mean to an untrained eye, it looked like he
Speaker 2: was carrying a beam that weighed eighty pounds and he
Speaker 2: carried it up a hill. Now this is from Pilot's Palace,
Speaker 2: where Jesus was sentenced by the Roman prelate. He had
Speaker 2: already been handed over by Caiaphas, the High priest. He's
Speaker 2: been going back and forth all night. He sweats in
Speaker 2: the garden, He heads to the cross. He gets there,
Speaker 2: they offer him something to numb the pain. He says, no,
Speaker 2: I'm focused, No, not yet.
Speaker 1: He pushes the.
Speaker 2: Drink aside, thirsty as he is carrying my shame eighty pounds.
Speaker 2: You know, it weighs a lot more than that when
Speaker 2: it's in your soul, a whole lot more than eighty pounds.
Speaker 1: It weighs a whole lot more.
Speaker 2: It'll weigh so much you can't even look people in
Speaker 2: the eye when it's in your soul.
Speaker 1: And he carried that, He carried it the length of.
Speaker 2: Six and a half football fields from Pilot's palace to Galgata.
Speaker 1: Of course he was thirsty.
Speaker 2: Come on, I can't even do a set of kettlebell
Speaker 2: swings and not take a sip.
Speaker 1: Of course he was thirsty.
Speaker 2: Of course he said, I thirst And you know what,
Speaker 2: this isn't the first time that Jesus said he was
Speaker 2: thirsty in John's gospel. No, it's not man, not at all. See,
Speaker 2: because one time, can I tell you a story from
Speaker 2: the Bible. It's a Bible story from John chapter four,
Speaker 2: And it's interesting because Jesus is going somewhere, but he
Speaker 2: goes around to get there, and the place where he
Speaker 2: goes is called Samaria. Now this is not a normal
Speaker 2: place for a Jew to go, so the fact that.
Speaker 1: He went there was kind of surprising.
Speaker 2: But nobody asked him why he was doing what he
Speaker 2: was doing, because by this time his disciples knew that
Speaker 2: everything he did he did on purpose. Let me say
Speaker 2: that again, everything he did he did on purpose. That's
Speaker 2: going to come back, and that's going to be very
Speaker 2: important when I finished this little sermonette today. Everything he
Speaker 2: did he did on purpose. So the Bible says he
Speaker 2: had to go to Samaria, he had to go. Why
Speaker 2: why did he have to go to Samaria? Why did
Speaker 2: he have to go to the cross? Why would he
Speaker 2: go out of his way to Samaria where a Jewish
Speaker 2: person would not normally go. Why would God go where
Speaker 2: he was least expected? Do you ever wonder why God
Speaker 2: would bother with someone like you?
Speaker 1: Have you ever asked that question? Why me? God? Any
Speaker 1: parents that have ever asked God? Why me? Why would
Speaker 1: you call me to raise a kid?
Speaker 2: When I feel like a little boy myself? Sometimes See
Speaker 2: the interesting thing to me about this little excursion Jesus
Speaker 2: takes is that he's going to Samaria. He sits down
Speaker 2: when he gets there, and he waits by a well
Speaker 2: for a woman. Now, let me tell you something about
Speaker 2: this woman, because she's coming out in the middle of
Speaker 2: the day. And the only reason that you would go
Speaker 2: to the well in the middle of the day in
Speaker 2: a hot climate is so nobody else would be there,
Speaker 2: because you're ashamed to be seen by people. So she's
Speaker 2: going out in the middle of the day to get
Speaker 2: some water at a time when she doesn't think anybody
Speaker 2: else will see her. Because she's thirsty. I said, she's thirsty.
Speaker 2: And she's not just thirsty for water, she's thirsty. She's
Speaker 2: thirsty in the urban dictionary thirsty kind of way. So
Speaker 2: Jesus sits by a well waiting for a woman and
Speaker 2: sets a trap for a thirsty woman.
Speaker 1: Y'all aren't even helping me appreciate this sermon. I work
Speaker 1: so hard. All that's rude.
Speaker 2: So she comes up says, oh, crap, I thought nobody
Speaker 2: would be here.
Speaker 1: I don't even know this.
Speaker 2: God, have you noticed how everything we've been studying and
Speaker 2: in the scripture says Jesus showing up to people who
Speaker 2: didn't even recognize him when he did, just showing up.
Speaker 2: And then he does something unthinkable. Okay, talk about a
Speaker 2: thirst trap. Jesus the Living Water sees this woman come in,
Speaker 2: knows what kind of life she's lived, and yet he
Speaker 2: doesn't say anything about that. He says, hey girl, modernization.
Speaker 2: But he said, give me look at for seven, give
Speaker 2: me a drink. She didn't like that very much, so
Speaker 2: she got real deep look at her. Because here's what
Speaker 2: you do when God speaks to a place in your life.
Speaker 2: When when God starts speaking to you, you get theoretical
Speaker 2: and abstract because to be specific, to really have to
Speaker 2: deal with the issue is actually sometimes painful. So she's like, hey,
Speaker 2: how is it that you a Jew asked to drink
Speaker 2: from me?
Speaker 1: A woman from Samaria? In other words, I know you're
Speaker 1: not talking to me. That's what I want to saying.
Speaker 1: I know you're not talking to me. And you can
Speaker 1: feel that way sometimes.
Speaker 2: I mean, some of you sit here and listen to
Speaker 2: me preach and you think it's for your wife.
Speaker 1: I'm talking to you.
Speaker 2: I'm talking to you, buddy, thirsty self.
Speaker 1: So everybody in here is thirsty.
Speaker 2: Everybody in here is thirsty.
Speaker 1: Some of y'all get it through sex, some of.
Speaker 2: Y'all get it through success, some of y'all get.
Speaker 1: It through religion. But I got to tell you something.
Speaker 2: The person you're sitting now is thirsty.
Speaker 1: It's not a sin to be thirsty.
Speaker 2: It's just where you go to get your fixed that
Speaker 2: determines whether or not.
Speaker 1: Your soul will be satisfied. Because I found out there's
Speaker 1: only one while that hasslewater, I need.
Speaker 2: We talk about the satisfaction, the satisfaction. Jesus says, hey,
Speaker 2: I need a drink.
Speaker 1: And the woman thinks he's talking about.
Speaker 2: Water, but he's not talking about water. And the woman
Speaker 2: is perhaps a shamed and offended, and so she goes
Speaker 2: to push him away because see.
Speaker 1: That's what she's learned how to do. She's thirsty.
Speaker 2: So she's learned how to get what she needs from
Speaker 2: who she thinks can give it. But none of it lasts.
Speaker 2: She's learned, give me your phone. She's learned how to
Speaker 2: get what she needs. So she wakes up in the
Speaker 2: morning thirsty. Did they like my picture? Did they come
Speaker 2: in on my posts? Did they frame me back? Did
Speaker 2: they follow me back?
Speaker 1: Thirsty?
Speaker 2: Somebody shall thirsty thirsty acting like that that's gonna fill you.
Speaker 1: It might for a minute, but there's one problem with this. Well,
Speaker 1: Jesus said, if you.
Speaker 2: Drink of this water, woman, you're gonna stay thirsty. And
Speaker 2: I want you to know that if you put your
Speaker 2: validation in other people's hands, you will have to go
Speaker 2: back to them for it, and you can't. Don't make
Speaker 2: me throw his phone, so Jesus, he just lays it
Speaker 2: out there.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I will make a work a while to
Speaker 1: come to church today.
Speaker 2: So Jesus is like, hey, you know everyone who drinks
Speaker 2: of this water, everyone who drinks of this water, I
Speaker 2: ain't a gout on Facebook. Yeah, but why do you
Speaker 2: go to the mall. Everybody drinks somewhere. Why do you
Speaker 2: eat the ritos everybody drinks somewhere. Why you put so
Speaker 2: much pressure on your kids to do what you never did.
Speaker 2: Everybody drinks somewhere. Why are you texting her back? You
Speaker 2: better take your phone. Man, something's coming over me while
Speaker 2: I heard this same something demon in that phone, So
Speaker 2: sit down.
Speaker 1: He says bye. Well, and he's like, now, I gotta
Speaker 1: be honest.
Speaker 2: On the surface, it sounds like a pickup line, but
Speaker 2: we know it's not because Jesus, he's not. He's not
Speaker 2: thirsty like Dad. He's trying to get her something, got it,
Speaker 2: He's not. He's not trying to receive something from her.
Speaker 2: He's trying to release something to her because he knows
Speaker 2: she's thirsty. So he's like, Hey, whoever drinks of the
Speaker 2: water that I will give him will never be thirsty again.
Speaker 2: That troubled me because I was contrasting at what he
Speaker 2: said fifteen chapters earlier with what he said in John
Speaker 2: nineteen on the Cross, where he said at thirst And
Speaker 2: I felt like I had caught Jesus contradicting himself because
Speaker 2: he said he had water and we would never thirst
Speaker 2: if we drank it.
Speaker 1: But he said he thirsted on the cross.
Speaker 2: But I noticed how he didn't say, you'll never feel
Speaker 2: thirsty again. He said you'll never be He didn't say
Speaker 2: you will never thirst again. You're see, you're gonna thirst.
Speaker 2: You're gonna have days that you feel discouraged. If you weren't,
Speaker 2: God wouldn't tell you not to be terrified or discouraged,
Speaker 2: if you were naturally going to always be encouraged, if
Speaker 2: you were never going to be discouraged and dehydrated.
Speaker 1: That's what the water is for.
Speaker 2: So what he's saying is you'll always have somewhere to
Speaker 2: drink from, not that you'll never have a need, but
Speaker 2: that I will meet all of your needs according to
Speaker 2: my glorious richest.
Speaker 1: That's the promise.
Speaker 2: So he tells the woman, I got something for you.
Speaker 2: That's what he tells the woman. I got something for you.
Speaker 2: And it's not like what you've been drinking. Because watch this.
Speaker 2: He traps this woman. He totally traps this woman. Jesus
Speaker 2: all through his ministry, people were trying to trap Jesus.
Speaker 2: The Sadducees and the Pharisees and Judas trapped him in
Speaker 2: the garden and the Roman official stuff. They had him
Speaker 2: trapped on the cross, but Jesus was always the one.
Speaker 2: Even when they thought they had him, they never really
Speaker 2: had him because he was always in control, even on
Speaker 2: the cross. There were over three hundred Messianic prophecies that
Speaker 2: Jesus fulfilled in his life and in his death. And
Speaker 2: so Jesus was Jesus was never he was never really trapped.
Speaker 2: See here he is with this woman and he says,
Speaker 2: I want to drink, But he's not really thirsty like that.
Speaker 2: He's trying to give her something. God doesn't really need
Speaker 2: anything from you. He can have another you in a minute.
Speaker 2: I don't mean to go back to two thousand and
Speaker 2: two because sometimes and so God really isn't needing something
Speaker 2: from you when we talk about giving in the church.
Speaker 2: How dare you, with your thirsty self get an attitude?
Speaker 2: They just want my money. God doesn't need your money.
Speaker 2: God wants to be in your heart. He wants to
Speaker 2: set you free. You're the one thirsty. You're the one.
Speaker 2: So he says, give me a drink. She says, well,
Speaker 2: we don't have a bucket, and he's trying to get
Speaker 2: her to see that she is the bucket.
Speaker 1: And he is the water.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm telling myself right now, focus verdict. You've
Speaker 2: got to finish. These people have a life. They don't
Speaker 2: want to be here with you for three more hours.
Speaker 2: Give me ten minutes. The woman said, sir, if there's
Speaker 2: some kind of water, if there's some bottomless well, if
Speaker 2: there's free refills, somebody shout free refills, give me this
Speaker 2: water so I won't have to be so I won't
Speaker 2: have to be trapped, so I won't have to keep
Speaker 2: coming back here. So so I won't have to keep
Speaker 2: texting Travis that just made up the name, so I
Speaker 2: won't have to keep performing, so I won't have to
Speaker 2: keep being so.
Speaker 1: Thirsty.
Speaker 2: And now Jesus, he's got her, all right, got her.
Speaker 2: He came to some area and sat by the well.
Speaker 2: And now she's trapped.
Speaker 1: Watch us.
Speaker 2: Hee goes, all right, go get your husband. And she
Speaker 2: says what had happened was I don't have a husband,
Speaker 2: which is true, but it's not the total truth.
Speaker 1: You know how you do.
Speaker 2: Like right, I have no husband. Jesus said, you're right
Speaker 2: and saying I have no husband, for you've had five
Speaker 2: husbands and the one you have now is not your husband.
Speaker 2: What you've said is true. And you're thirsty, thirsty, and
Speaker 2: you're trapped. And when I asked you for water, I
Speaker 2: was trying to release you from having to go all
Speaker 2: around to people and things and stuff that doesn't satisfy.
Speaker 2: I want to give you something that comes from within.
Speaker 2: I want to give you something that doesn't depend on
Speaker 2: bank accounts, It doesn't diminish.
Speaker 1: No matter how the biopsy comes back.
Speaker 2: I want to give you something that you can live
Speaker 2: off of, something that only gets stronger in your struggle
Speaker 2: I want to give you a limited supply, And she said, sir,
Speaker 2: I think you're onto something. She goes back to Samaria
Speaker 2: carrying living water that she didn't even expect to get,
Speaker 2: comes back to Jesus, and the Bible says that many
Speaker 2: and some are belief because of her testimony. See it,
Speaker 2: it was a trap. Jesus used a thirsty woman to
Speaker 2: transform an entire region. I wonder how he could use
Speaker 2: your life, if you would receive his grace today.
Speaker 1: You've been coming here a long time. Have I ever
Speaker 1: preached stronger than I'm preaching right now?
Speaker 2: I'm not even done yet, So sit back and let
Speaker 2: me give you my fourth point. I want to talk
Speaker 2: about the setup, because that's what it was.
Speaker 1: It was a setup.
Speaker 2: That's why you went through Samaria. He was setting this
Speaker 2: woman up. That's why he asked for a drink because
Speaker 2: she was thirsty. That's why you went to the cross
Speaker 2: a pill six and fifty the arts.
Speaker 1: That's why he said, I thirst.
Speaker 2: And I'm gonna tell you how I found out because
Speaker 2: I thought about that thing so long. I thought, Okay,
Speaker 2: how can living water be thirsty?
Speaker 1: How can I well need water?
Speaker 2: How can the one that spoke the oceans into existence,
Speaker 2: now need water from the very same source that he created.
Speaker 2: How could God, who rains above the waters, need water.
Speaker 2: How could it be possible that God could come down
Speaker 2: condescend to the form of human man. How could Christ
Speaker 2: be made flesh? How could he die and suffer like that?
Speaker 2: How can it be that there are seasons in my
Speaker 2: life when I call him him and nothing happens. How
Speaker 2: can it be that I have divinity but I'm trapped
Speaker 2: sometimes in my desperation. How can it be that I'm
Speaker 2: full of the spirit, but sometimes I feel so dry?
Speaker 1: So I had to read again. I read that.
Speaker 2: Verse like like twenty times in John nineteen twenty eight.
Speaker 2: And I don't read Greek, although I took Greek. I
Speaker 2: don't read Hebrew although I took Hebrew. I was not
Speaker 2: very effective in my language studies. And I don't even
Speaker 2: read Aramaic, which is what Jesus was probably speaking in
Speaker 2: at the moment when he said I thirst.
Speaker 1: But what I do read really.
Speaker 2: Well is English, and I know my punctuation marks. So
Speaker 2: when I read John nineteen twenty eight, have y'all got
Speaker 2: like seven minutes for me to tie this up? Seven minutes,
Speaker 2: seven minute miracle, and so it said that after this,
Speaker 2: after all you've been through, after all they've accused you off,
Speaker 2: after all the people who walked away who should have
Speaker 2: been there. After this, after they counted you out and
Speaker 2: said you or nothing and mocked you. After this, after
Speaker 2: a crowd of thorns was placed on his head, after
Speaker 2: the blood ran from his brow, after this, after they
Speaker 2: beat us back, after they.
Speaker 1: Released for rabbis, after this.
Speaker 2: After the cock crow and Peter denied him thrice. After this,
Speaker 2: knowing that now all things were finished, Jesus had one
Speaker 2: more thing to say, one thing to do, because there
Speaker 2: are three hundred prophecies, and he was on two ninety nine.
Speaker 2: And see everybody standing around that day thought that death.
Speaker 1: Had trapped Jesus.
Speaker 2: Right, And the cross was a setup, But it wasn't
Speaker 2: set up by Judas, and it wasn't set up by
Speaker 2: the Sadducees, and it wasn't set up by the Pharisees,
Speaker 2: and it wasn't set up by Herod.
Speaker 1: It was set up by Heaven.
Speaker 2: Listen to me preach this sermon. Listen to me preach
Speaker 2: this sermon. Listen to me preach on the parentheses. In
Speaker 2: John nineteen twenty eight. I preached on a lot of
Speaker 2: things in my little tenure preaching, but I've never preached
Speaker 2: on a punctuation mark until today.
Speaker 1: After this, knowing that all things.
Speaker 2: Had been fulfilled, knowing that he had drank down the
Speaker 2: full cup of the wrath of God so that you
Speaker 2: would never have to After knowing that he suffered like
Speaker 2: a criminal, so that he could reign like a king,
Speaker 2: after humbling himself, being obedient even to the point of
Speaker 2: death on the cross.
Speaker 1: And it was then Jesus said parentheses to fulfill the scripture.
Speaker 2: Huh. I wonder why John put it in parentheses. Probably
Speaker 2: because he didn't know. That's why it was happening at
Speaker 2: the time. See, when Jesus said I thirst, they thought
Speaker 2: he wanted water, so they gave him vinegar to mock him.
Speaker 2: And the thing they used to mock him was actually
Speaker 2: the thing that he used to finish the work God
Speaker 2: gave him to do.
Speaker 1: The thing that they put on a sponge to shame
Speaker 1: him was that. See, because listen, I got to tell
Speaker 1: you something. Stand up so I'll finish this sermon. Please. Oh,
Speaker 1: I got to show you one more thing. See, because.
Speaker 2: When Jesus said I thirst, to fulfill the scripture parentheses.
Speaker 1: Have you ever had to live in the parentheses?
Speaker 2: I mean, like not understanding why you were going through
Speaker 2: what you were going through.
Speaker 1: Please be real with me. I cannot preach this sermon
Speaker 1: to close hearts.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to give you water today for your thirsty soul.
Speaker 2: But sometimes you're in a wilderness and you don't know why.
Speaker 2: And sometimes you're looking at a red sea and you
Speaker 2: feel trapped. And Jesus looked trapped up there on that cross,
Speaker 2: but John said no, he wasn't trapped.
Speaker 1: Death didn't trap Jesus. Jesus trapped death.
Speaker 2: No, Now I know why, he said.
Speaker 1: I thirst.
Speaker 2: Now I know why why the lips that spoke the
Speaker 2: waters into their place on the earth set I thirst
Speaker 2: to fulfill the scripture.
Speaker 1: God has a purpose.
Speaker 3: For every thurst in your lives. Death didn't trap Jesus.
Speaker 3: Jesus trapped Dad.
Speaker 2: So one time David felt trapped in the Psalms and
Speaker 2: then Psalm sixteen. He describes it in vivid detail. He goes,
Speaker 2: the deep waters have engulfed me. I'm surrounded by enemies.
Speaker 2: They hurl their insults at me. Does this sound familiar?
Speaker 2: By the way, It's a messianic song. It's describing centuries
Speaker 2: before the cross, what the cross would be like for Jesus.
Speaker 2: It is David. Jesus is called the son of David.
Speaker 2: It is David, pointing to the one who now says,
Speaker 2: I thirst, And David says something that although he is
Speaker 2: surrounded by what he calls deep waters of trial, he
Speaker 2: says that the reproach has broken his heart. The shame
Speaker 2: has brought him so low to this place that he
Speaker 2: feels like he's drowning. And you can get to a
Speaker 2: place where you feel trapped in doubt, and you can't
Speaker 2: have dysfunctions in your life that have been there so
Speaker 2: long that you feel trapped inside of yourself. That's the
Speaker 2: worst place to feel trapped. Not in a bad relationship.
Speaker 2: I mean, you can always block that number, But what
Speaker 2: do you do when you're trapped inside of your own heart,
Speaker 2: your own broken heart? David said, it's it's so bad.
Speaker 2: It's broken my heart. And I am in despair. I
Speaker 2: am in distress. But watch this, he said, I look
Speaker 2: for pity. There was none for comforters. I found none.
Speaker 2: Nobody could help me.
Speaker 1: I was trapped. I was trapped. I was trapped.
Speaker 2: He said, I got to the point where I asked
Speaker 2: my friends for food. Go to the next verse, and
Speaker 2: they gave me poison for food. The people who were
Speaker 2: supposed to.
Speaker 1: Help me hurt me. They gave me poison for food.
Speaker 2: I was thirsty, But for my thirst, they gave me
Speaker 2: sour wine to drink. And now I understand why Jesus
Speaker 2: set I thirst. Go back to my scripture. It was
Speaker 2: to fulfill the scripture. It wasn't about water. Jesus was
Speaker 2: setting the trap for death. This was the last thing
Speaker 2: he had to do before the spirit could be released.
Speaker 1: It's a setup.
Speaker 3: It's a set up.
Speaker 2: If he didn't suffer, salvation could not spring up like
Speaker 2: a well. If he did not suffer, it could not
Speaker 2: flow forth. If he did not die, he could not rise.
Speaker 2: Somebody shout, it's a setup.
Speaker 1: It's not the end. It's in the parentheses. It's in
Speaker 1: the parentheses.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you gotta trust God in the parentheses, in the
Speaker 2: type places when it looks like your trap, to know
Speaker 2: that the very red sea that feels like it's gonna
Speaker 2: kill you, it's.
Speaker 3: Gonna drown your enemies behind you.
Speaker 2: Somebody shot it staring the shouting. He said, I thirsted,
Speaker 2: and they gave me vinegar. But watch this, David praying.
Speaker 2: This is what I'm praying over your life today. Every
Speaker 2: evil thing that the enemy has done to you, and
Speaker 2: every trial that feels like is sweeping over you. And
Speaker 2: for everybody who feels trapped. Listen what he prayed. Let
Speaker 2: their own table before them, the thing that they brought
Speaker 2: to destroy me. Let their own table become a snare.
Speaker 2: And when they are at peace. So just when the
Speaker 2: devil thought he had Jesus trapped, just when.
Speaker 1: He thought it was over, just.
Speaker 2: When he thought we got rid of that one, just
Speaker 2: when he thought it was the end, just when they
Speaker 2: rolled the snow become.
Speaker 3: I'm trapped, God said, I got you.
Speaker 1: Set the trap. He set the trap. He set the trap.
Speaker 2: So God brought you here into this garden so you
Speaker 2: could sweat out your insecurities.
Speaker 1: God brought you here into.
Speaker 2: This type place so that your dots could die and
Speaker 2: your faith could live, and you will never curse.
Speaker 1: Again.
Speaker 2: He said, I thirst and they brought him vinegar. And
Speaker 2: he said, good, I need that. I needed that vinegar.
Speaker 2: I needed that trial. Sometimes victory doesn't look like victory.
Speaker 2: Sometimes victory doesn't taste sweet.
Speaker 1: And when he said, I.
Speaker 2: Thirst, and they gave him the vinegar for water. After that,
Speaker 2: after he had received the sour wine, after he had
Speaker 2: set the trap on death, hell and the grave, I
Speaker 2: promise you we're gonna have the best Easter ever this year.
Speaker 1: I feel like Easter came early today. I really do.
Speaker 1: I really do.
Speaker 2: I really feel like resurrection came in an unexpected time
Speaker 2: for somebody who thought, you are trapped.
Speaker 1: Here the word of the Lord.
Speaker 3: It's not a trap, as the triumph.
Speaker 4: Shall I the God.
Speaker 1: So Friday's trap was Sunday's triumph.
Speaker 2: He set up, first, set the trap, and after he
Speaker 2: had received the sour he.
Speaker 1: Said, is finished. It's finished.
Speaker 2: The trap became the triumph. God's gonna take the thing
Speaker 2: that looks. Ask the children of Israel. They thought the
Speaker 2: red Seed was gonna be the end of them. It
Speaker 2: was the end of their enemies. You're not trapped the
Speaker 2: devil is You're not trapped, You're.
Speaker 1: Not touch Somebody say, I'm not trapped. Come on, I'm
Speaker 1: not trapped, and.
Speaker 2: I'm not your sea who the sun sets free? How
Speaker 2: many believe that the sufferings of this present time are
Speaker 2: not worthy to be compared with the glory that will
Speaker 2: be revealed.
Speaker 1: How many believe Christ is in you? The humble glory?
Speaker 1: Come on, shot like you believe that shot like you.
Speaker 1: I'm on casting, So.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you one more thing, and I promise
Speaker 2: I'm gonna walk off this stage while I'm saying it.
Speaker 2: I love to preach the word to you, not because
Speaker 2: I like to hear myself talk.
Speaker 1: I love to preach the.
Speaker 2: Word of God to you because I know what this
Speaker 2: seed is going to do if you get it down
Speaker 2: in your heart.
Speaker 1: And I watched this favorite flows from unexpected places.
Speaker 2: Do you remember when we were writing the song Resurrecting
Speaker 2: And it took about nine months to write the song,
Speaker 2: and everybody on the team contributes in different ways. My
Speaker 2: thing is, I like, I always like to write. And
Speaker 2: Chris can tell you this because we've been knowing each
Speaker 2: other forever, and you'll give it up for Chris Brown.
Speaker 2: This man is a great man of God. Well, I'm
Speaker 2: kind of weird because I like it. When the song
Speaker 2: seems like it should be over, I always like to
Speaker 2: put another verse.
Speaker 1: It's true, right.
Speaker 2: So we wrote the song and it was kind of done,
Speaker 2: not really done. We thought it was done and we
Speaker 2: finished the songwrit anything, and I started.
Speaker 1: Thinking, I wanted to write this fourth verse for this song.
Speaker 2: And you know, Chris is kind of laid because he's
Speaker 2: a worship leader and uh no, I'm just kidding. He's
Speaker 2: the hardest working man in the praise biz. But so.
Speaker 1: It took six months to get the verse right.
Speaker 2: But we ended up writing a declaration for our church,
Speaker 2: lift your hands, whatever's got your trap today. We ended
Speaker 2: up writing this verse to let you know that what
Speaker 2: looks like it's got you locked in.
Speaker 1: Is going to be the place. See, that's what the
Speaker 1: grave was.
Speaker 2: The grave of Jesus Christ was a garden in disguise.
Speaker 2: That's what your trials are, That's what your weakness is.
Speaker 2: So I want you to sing this fourth verse because
Speaker 2: just when it seems like the song should be over,
Speaker 2: just when it seems like your hope is gone, just
Speaker 2: when it seems like the devil has dehydrated your.
Speaker 1: Dream the solous. So they thought they had him right,
Speaker 1: so they posted the guard right there.
Speaker 2: And now if he robbed the grave of its power,
Speaker 2: if the guards couldn't keep his body at come on, church,
Speaker 2: come on, I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: You, Rivers. I'm living water you never nurse again.
Speaker 3: Would you get this spirit feed and the same spirit
Speaker 3: He's body and.
Speaker 1: Rags some the You're got a.
Speaker 3: Stake wa God has robbed.
Speaker 4: Got up should dame?
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