WEBVTT - The Thirst Trap

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<v Speaker 1>Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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

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<v Speaker 1>I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope

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<v Speaker 1>this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith.

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<v Speaker 2>Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving

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<v Speaker 2>in your life.

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<v Speaker 1>Enjoy the message.

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

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<v Speaker 2>it really does. One time the children of Israel were

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<v Speaker 2>in the desert and water came out of a rock.

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<v Speaker 1>That's weird.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, God do something for you, but not through the

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<v Speaker 2>person that you expected him to do it through. You

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<v Speaker 2>ever had God be good to you through somebody that

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<v Speaker 2>you weren't even good to, and then somebody you were

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<v Speaker 2>good to wasn't good to you, And it's almost like God,

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<v Speaker 2>it's almost like he wants to challenge your attachments, so

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<v Speaker 2>He'll keep on moving around his supply and springing up

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

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<v Speaker 1>Called you to pass through.

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<v Speaker 2>And that's why sometimes you get frustrated.

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<v Speaker 1>But favor can flow from frustration.

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<v Speaker 2>Sometimes you have to get down to the bottom of

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<v Speaker 2>something to find God there. And you know my study

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<v Speaker 2>has been like that. It was kind of weird. Can

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<v Speaker 2>I tell y'all something that I didn't tell any of

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<v Speaker 2>the other experiences. I did not want to do a

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<v Speaker 2>seven mile Miracle series. I preached this bad Boy. I

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<v Speaker 2>preached this sermon six years ago. I think it was

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<v Speaker 2>six years ago, five or six years ago, and my

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<v Speaker 2>publisher had the rights to the material because we had

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<v Speaker 2>them pay for the study guide for our groups and whatever.

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

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<v Speaker 2>The church, and they wanted to put out a book.

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<v Speaker 2>And I didn't want to write a book about seven

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<v Speaker 2>mile Miracle because I typically like to preach something and

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<v Speaker 2>move on.

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<v Speaker 1>As a matter of fact, this is probably dysfunctional.

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<v Speaker 2>But before I came out to preach to you, I

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<v Speaker 2>was writing my sermon for the end of April because

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<v Speaker 2>it started coming to me and I know what it

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<v Speaker 2>is telling you, because then you would skip. And but

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<v Speaker 2>the way it flows to me, I've had to learn

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<v Speaker 2>to get in the flow with God touch somebody say

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<v Speaker 2>get in the flow, get in the flow, Get in

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

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<v Speaker 1>It's not always dependable.

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<v Speaker 2>When songwriter said that creativity is like building your house,

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<v Speaker 2>from the sky down, especially when you're depending on God

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<v Speaker 2>to give it to you. So you feel kind of

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<v Speaker 2>vulnerable when you're waiting on God to give you something.

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<v Speaker 2>So it flows in strange places. Sometimes I get sermons

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<v Speaker 2>off of gatoraded commercials.

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<v Speaker 1>And I just have to do it anywhere I can.

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<v Speaker 2>And this year has been interesting because God took some

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<v Speaker 2>things that I studied years ago, like this seven mile

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<v Speaker 2>walk on the Amaeis Road, and we taught an Easter

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<v Speaker 2>sermon on it, and then a whole series and a

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<v Speaker 2>book flowed out of it. But I was kind of

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<v Speaker 2>done with it, and God took something that I was

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<v Speaker 2>done with, like a seed that I thought was gone,

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<v Speaker 2>but it really wasn't gone. It was in the ground.

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<v Speaker 2>Some thing's in your life that you sewed in the

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<v Speaker 2>last season are going to come up out of the

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<v Speaker 2>ground when you least expect it, because favor flows from

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<v Speaker 2>strange places. So I've kind of been going through these

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<v Speaker 2>seven Statements of Jesus slowly, and I don't like to

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<v Speaker 2>go slow. If it were up to me, we would

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<v Speaker 2>study all seven of them. In the introduction to the sermon,

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<v Speaker 2>move on, you know. I like to cover a lot

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<v Speaker 2>of ground, so you don't get bored. Sometimes you gotta

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<v Speaker 2>slow down. And I started the series just talking about Cleo.

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<v Speaker 2>Were you here for that one? He's walking along with

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<v Speaker 2>a companion. Here comes Jesus, this stranger, and out of

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<v Speaker 2>this stranger's mouth comes a revelation that reverses their disappointment,

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<v Speaker 2>and they realize it when they get there, not while

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<v Speaker 2>they're going.

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<v Speaker 1>So it started to challenge.

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<v Speaker 2>The way I saw faith, because I thought faith meant

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<v Speaker 2>that I would know why I was going through everything

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<v Speaker 2>I went through while I went through it. Now I'm thinking,

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<v Speaker 2>maybe faith means not knowing why I'm going through it,

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<v Speaker 2>but trusting the one who makes a way where there

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<v Speaker 2>is no way to feed me what I need for

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<v Speaker 2>the season that I'm in, because He's God, and he

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<v Speaker 2>knows what I need when I need it. And so

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<v Speaker 2>when we were preaching about he broke the bread and

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<v Speaker 2>gave it to them, we kind of been breaking the bread,

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<v Speaker 2>haven't we.

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<v Speaker 1>The bread represents the word of God.

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<v Speaker 2>And each week I've been giving you a little peace,

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<v Speaker 2>and I'm taking it from the last sayings.

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<v Speaker 1>That Jesus spoke on the cross.

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<v Speaker 2>There are seven Seven is the number of completion in

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<v Speaker 2>the scripture and so when we say seven, we're eventually

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

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<v Speaker 1>We're eventually getting.

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<v Speaker 2>To glory, but to get there we have to go

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<v Speaker 2>through the sufferings of this present time and believe that

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<v Speaker 2>they are not worthy to be compared with the glory

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

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

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<v Speaker 1>In the aftershock of Friday.

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<v Speaker 2>Now, we walked through a couple of different sayings, and

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<v Speaker 2>one was, Father, forgive them, for they know not what

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<v Speaker 2>they do. That one challenged me because it is the

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<v Speaker 2>exact opposite of how I think when somebody disappoints me

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

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<v Speaker 2>and you've arrived. But when somebody breaks my heart, I

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<v Speaker 2>don't say, Father, forgive them, for they know not what

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<v Speaker 2>they do. I say, God, get them back, hurt them

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<v Speaker 2>worse than I could ever hurt, because they know exactly

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<v Speaker 2>what they were doing.

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<v Speaker 1>But I'm challenged because, well.

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<v Speaker 2>Jesus says to a thief, he says.

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<v Speaker 1>Today you will be with me in paradise. Now I

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<v Speaker 1>don't think like that.

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<v Speaker 2>I think if the guy is going to be in paradise,

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<v Speaker 2>he needs to do some good deeds that help some

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<v Speaker 2>old ladies across the street, and take a little membership

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<v Speaker 2>class and get baptized at our Concord campus, then he

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<v Speaker 2>can be in paradise. He didn't do any of that.

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<v Speaker 2>Jesus just saved him just because he asks. And now

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

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<v Speaker 2>It must not have to do with my works at all.

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<v Speaker 2>It must be something that God gives, not something.

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<v Speaker 1>That I get about to do his receiver.

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<v Speaker 2>Then I'm a little convicted how he's on the cross

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<v Speaker 2>and he's thinking about his mom on the cross, because

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

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<v Speaker 2>let alone hard times. I don't even like to let

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<v Speaker 2>people merge in traffic on four eighty five because I'm.

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<v Speaker 1>In a hurry.

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<v Speaker 2>Here's Jesus dying and thinking about somebody else. So all

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<v Speaker 2>of this has been challenging me. Wade gets up and

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<v Speaker 2>says that God was forsaken by God the Son, by

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<v Speaker 2>the Father, so that we would never have to be abandoned.

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<v Speaker 2>And then I'll come to this little phrase, and I

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<v Speaker 2>don't know what to do with it, because Jesus now

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<v Speaker 2>says one of his last sayings on the cross of

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<v Speaker 2>this is mile five, commonly known as the word of distress.

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<v Speaker 1>It's called the word of distress.

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<v Speaker 2>But after today you're going to see that it's actually

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<v Speaker 2>the word of destiny. I'm gonna show you because he

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<v Speaker 2>says something strange. Let's look at it together.

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<v Speaker 1>Are you ready?

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<v Speaker 2>Say?

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<v Speaker 1>I'm ready?

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<v Speaker 2>You got your yeasyesweight laced up and ready to run.

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<v Speaker 1>What So.

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<v Speaker 2>He's been mocked, he's been flogged, he's been sentenced, handed

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<v Speaker 2>over to die. He's bleeding, he's suffocating, and he's hanging

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<v Speaker 2>there after this, John says John nineteen twenty eight. Jesus,

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<v Speaker 2>knowing that all was now finished, finality, achievement would be

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<v Speaker 2>the original language that all was achieved, that he was

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<v Speaker 2>to do his assignment was achieved. Now that he knew that,

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<v Speaker 2>he said to fulfill the scripture, I thirst, which.

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<v Speaker 1>Is ironic because this is the same voice that spoke.

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<v Speaker 2>The season too existence, and now he needs water.

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<v Speaker 1>You ever think about this?

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<v Speaker 2>How how the same voice that told the Red Sea

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<v Speaker 2>to part now needs a drink? How can the voice

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<v Speaker 2>that could command the sea peace be still, and it

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<v Speaker 2>had to shut up so he could get some sleep.

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<v Speaker 1>How could that same.

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<v Speaker 2>God, Because the Bible says that he is the one

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<v Speaker 2>Colossians tells us by whom, for whom and through whom

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<v Speaker 2>all things were created. That were created in the beginning

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<v Speaker 2>was the Word, and the word was with God, and

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<v Speaker 2>the word was God.

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<v Speaker 1>That's Jesus. Now he's wrapped in flesh, dying.

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<v Speaker 2>At the hands of sinful men, a criminal's death, and

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<v Speaker 2>he says, I thirst He's the one who said he

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<v Speaker 2>was living water. How can living water be thirsty? He

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<v Speaker 2>is the one who was Jacob's well. How can Jacob's

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<v Speaker 2>well be dry?

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<v Speaker 1>Do you see?

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<v Speaker 2>What I'm saying is just strange to me. And on

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<v Speaker 2>top of the fact that it's kind of crazy that

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<v Speaker 2>the one who called the seas to be gathered together

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<v Speaker 2>so the dry land could appear, the one whose voice

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<v Speaker 2>is above the waters, the one who separated the water

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<v Speaker 2>above the firmament the water below the firmament, the one

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<v Speaker 2>who has a throne in heaven by the way in

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<v Speaker 2>the Book of Revelation that he sits on where the

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<v Speaker 2>streams of water flow and make glad the city of God,

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<v Speaker 2>pure and brilliant as jasper and diamond. Those waters slow

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<v Speaker 2>from the throne. But here we see him thirsting. How

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<v Speaker 2>can God be thirsty? How can water need rank y'all

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<v Speaker 2>are looking at me confused, and you should be because

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<v Speaker 2>it's confusing. I understand me being thirsty. After all, I'm

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<v Speaker 2>a thirsty man. That's what Holly said one time. She

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<v Speaker 2>told a server that in a restaurant. By the way,

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<v Speaker 2>if you're a server in a restaurant, first of all,

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<v Speaker 2>God bless you. You are an unsung hero, especially on

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<v Speaker 2>Sundays with hungry, cranky, non tip in Christians to put

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<v Speaker 2>a Bible Verse on the receipt instead of a tip.

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<v Speaker 2>Father forgive them.

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<v Speaker 1>And it's.

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<v Speaker 2>Tough for me to meet this. But I am a

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

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<v Speaker 2>not because I'm rude, and I'm not rude because I'm Southern.

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<v Speaker 2>So since I'm Southern, if I'm gonna be.

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

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<v Speaker 2>I watch people from other parts of the country who

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<v Speaker 2>are so direct, and it's weird to me because I

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<v Speaker 2>can feel my mom putting soap in my mouth because

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<v Speaker 2>you we just weren't that direct. I watched somebody in

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<v Speaker 2>a restaurant. They're done. They just go check, like one word.

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

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<v Speaker 2>I wish I could. I think it'd be cool just

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<v Speaker 2>holler check. I see it in the movies, and uh,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna try sometime.

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<v Speaker 1>And I'm not rude like that. I'm not rude. I'm not.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not even really that picky in a restaurant. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>really not. I'm simple. I'm basic. I like what I like,

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<v Speaker 1>but it's not that hard to fix it like I

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<v Speaker 1>like it.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not.

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<v Speaker 1>Here's what I say. I'm not Chunk's Corbett.

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<v Speaker 2>Chunk's Corbett is the most embarrassing person to be in

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<v Speaker 2>a restaurant with because of the specificity with which he

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<v Speaker 2>demands his food be prepared and his wife.

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<v Speaker 1>Is nodding while I'm preaching this. He'll He'll walk in

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<v Speaker 1>a restaurant. I want a bloom an onion, but no onion,

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<v Speaker 1>and can you make it in the shape of an

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<v Speaker 1>eight because that's my favorite number.

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<v Speaker 2>And when I was here to play baseball, he says,

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<v Speaker 2>got the craziest stuff.

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<v Speaker 1>So I'm not really like that.

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<v Speaker 2>But my thing is if you can keep up with

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<v Speaker 2>me on the drinks, because I drink diet coke. Like

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<v Speaker 2>I just said, I shoot up heroin, you judgmental demon.

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

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<v Speaker 2>send me a link about aspartame.

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<v Speaker 1>But it's all right. I already read about it. And

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<v Speaker 1>I want to.

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<v Speaker 2>Go to heaven and I'm kind of in a hurry

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<v Speaker 2>to get there. I'm at peace with my mortal nature

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<v Speaker 2>and I want to sip a diet coke.

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<v Speaker 1>On the journey. So so my thing is, I tip great.

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<v Speaker 2>I tip great, especially if you bring me an Elevation

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<v Speaker 2>Church stolen ten to sign.

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<v Speaker 1>The tip with. That'll be our thing. I'll bump it

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<v Speaker 1>up at least three percent. It's just read the word.

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<v Speaker 2>But my thing is keeping my drink ful is kind

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<v Speaker 2>of hard because I'll drink five, six, seven.

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<v Speaker 1>Eight, nine, ten, eleven.

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<v Speaker 2>I've been to twelve class is before uh in a

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<v Speaker 2>in a long meal, so I know it's horrible. But

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<v Speaker 2>one time this server came over and she was kind

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<v Speaker 2>of giggling about how many drinks I was drinking.

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<v Speaker 1>This has been years ago, and she.

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<v Speaker 2>Was probably she looked she looked like she was too

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<v Speaker 2>young to be legally uh, working at a restaurant.

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<v Speaker 1>And she comes over to.

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<v Speaker 2>The table and she's kind of giggling and uh, and

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<v Speaker 2>and I'm apologizing. I'm like, I'm sorry, I'm drinking so

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<v Speaker 2>many drinks. I'd just like to drink a lot of

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<v Speaker 2>that coke. I'm sorry about that. And I promise I'll

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<v Speaker 2>tip you good and just thank you for trying to

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<v Speaker 2>keep up with me.

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<v Speaker 1>And she goes, and she goes, and Holly, Holly, feeling

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<v Speaker 1>the need to apologize, Holly goes, He's just a thirsty man.

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<v Speaker 2>And she started laughing when Holly said that, but she

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<v Speaker 2>was laughing a little too hard. You know how people

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<v Speaker 2>can laugh a little too hard for what you said,

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<v Speaker 2>and you know that they took something different out of

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<v Speaker 2>what you said. And so she's laughing, just laughing, laughing,

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<v Speaker 2>And I said, what what what was funny about that?

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<v Speaker 2>And and she said, you wife just said you're thirsty

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<v Speaker 2>And I said.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I am.

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<v Speaker 2>You've seen it today night here in the restaurant.

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<v Speaker 1>I like to drink. She said, no, no, you don't

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<v Speaker 1>know what thirsty means to you.

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<v Speaker 2>And I said, no, but tell me what thirsty means

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<v Speaker 2>to you, I need to know.

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<v Speaker 1>She said, you don't want to know this.

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

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<v Speaker 2>tell me. She said, well, it's kind of something we

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<v Speaker 2>would say. Younger people would say, say maybe if a

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<v Speaker 2>guy is a little too desperate, we would look at

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<v Speaker 2>him and maybe roll our eyes and say thirsty.

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<v Speaker 1>So now I knew she was laughing.

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<v Speaker 2>She said, we even when people post something on social

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<v Speaker 2>media where they want to get attention and they try

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<v Speaker 2>a little too hard, we call that a thirst trap.

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<v Speaker 2>I want to appreach to you today about the thirst trap,

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<v Speaker 2>and I want.

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<v Speaker 1>To go show my title, show my time.

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<v Speaker 2>I want to go all the way back from Bonefish

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<v Speaker 2>Grill to John nineteen.

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<v Speaker 1>And see if I can work it together.

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<v Speaker 2>Because I gotta admit sometimes I'm thirsty. Sometimes I'm thirsty

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<v Speaker 2>like the guy who sends twelve text messages and none

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<v Speaker 2>of them get responded to those long text messes. Sometimes

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<v Speaker 2>I need too much from the wrong place. Sometimes I'm

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<v Speaker 2>thirsty because I love God and I know that he's

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<v Speaker 2>my shepherd and I'm not supposed to be in need,

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<v Speaker 2>and I.

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<v Speaker 1>Have his spirit.

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<v Speaker 2>But sometimes I gotta admit to you I'm I'm kind

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<v Speaker 2>of thirsty. Look at your neighbor and ask him, are

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<v Speaker 2>you thirsty?

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<v Speaker 1>Not you You're you're filled with the spirit of God. Oh,

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<v Speaker 1>we get thirsty. And it's no.

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<v Speaker 2>Surprise we get thirsty because we're week. He knows our friend,

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<v Speaker 2>we're made of dust, came from the dust. Get thirsty

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<v Speaker 2>in the dust, dirty thirsty people. I mean that makes sense.

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<v Speaker 2>But for Jesus to say I thirst and watch this

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<v Speaker 2>when he said it, The Bible says, they came to him,

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<v Speaker 2>those soldiers around the cross, and he said, I thirst.

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<v Speaker 1>And there was a jar full of sour wine, cheap stuff.

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<v Speaker 2>What the executioners drank while they were waiting on the

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<v Speaker 2>person to die. Now, see, this was the second drink

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<v Speaker 2>that Jesus was offered on the cross, but the first

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<v Speaker 2>one he refused. When he was on his way to

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<v Speaker 2>the cross, when he got to the spot where they

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<v Speaker 2>would drop the cross the vertical beam and attach to

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<v Speaker 2>the horizontal beam because the cross works both ways. I

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<v Speaker 2>taught you that two weeks ago. When he got to

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<v Speaker 2>that spot, they offered him a drink. This drink was,

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<v Speaker 2>the Bible says, mixed with mir which was meant to

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<v Speaker 2>drug the person going to the cross.

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<v Speaker 1>The women would prepare it, often as an act.

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<v Speaker 2>Of compassion or kindness, and when they offered him this drink,

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<v Speaker 2>perhaps in mockery, before he called himself a king and

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<v Speaker 2>they offered him a drink, Mark tells us in Mark,

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<v Speaker 2>I think it's like fifteen twenty three. They offered him

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<v Speaker 2>wine mixed with merv but he did not take it

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<v Speaker 2>because maybe he saw it as a trap, because he

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<v Speaker 2>was focused on finishing what God gave him to do.

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<v Speaker 2>And when he got to the cross, he refused to

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<v Speaker 2>drink and said, I don't need that. Now I want

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<v Speaker 2>you to do something for me. Okay, everybody do this,

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<v Speaker 2>Everybody do this. I want you to get something in

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<v Speaker 2>your mind that's trying to keep you from being on

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<v Speaker 2>the path of your purpose.

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<v Speaker 1>And when I say three.

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<v Speaker 2>Push it out the way like Jesus pushed the cup

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<v Speaker 2>of Myrrh and say I don't need it. One, two, three,

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<v Speaker 2>I don't need it. He said, I'm not drinking that.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm going somewhere.

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<v Speaker 1>With his gaze set on the glory of God, he

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<v Speaker 1>went toward the cross.

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<v Speaker 2>But now it's been six hours since he first got

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<v Speaker 2>to Gugatha, and he says, I thirst Remember, this is

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<v Speaker 2>the same voice of God that created the clouds.

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<v Speaker 1>And filled them with condensation.

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<v Speaker 2>This is the voice that has the power to flood

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<v Speaker 2>the earth and only Noah and every animal on the

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<v Speaker 2>boat gets out of it alive, and he thirst. So

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<v Speaker 2>we're surprised by it, or at least we should be.

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<v Speaker 2>And we're surprised when they come to him and there's

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<v Speaker 2>a jar of sour wine and they offer to the

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<v Speaker 2>Lamb of God who was slain before the foundation of

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<v Speaker 2>the earth. You need to understand that what happened on

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<v Speaker 2>the cross didn't start on the cross, and it didn't

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<v Speaker 2>end on the cross.

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<v Speaker 1>The cross was pointing.

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<v Speaker 2>At the prophetic fulfillment of the purpose of God that

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<v Speaker 2>existed before time began.

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<v Speaker 1>So they take a hiss up branch, which was what

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<v Speaker 1>they used on.

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<v Speaker 2>Passover back when they would take the blood of a

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<v Speaker 2>lamb and put it on a door post. And so

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<v Speaker 2>they took that branch they would put the blood on.

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<v Speaker 2>And now the Lamb of God is bleeding. It is

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<v Speaker 2>not the shadow anymore. It's the actuality, the revelation of God.

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<v Speaker 2>The fullness of God is hanging on a cross in

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<v Speaker 2>the form of a man, and they give him vinegar

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<v Speaker 2>to drink for his thirst, and they put it to

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<v Speaker 2>his mouth, the same mouth that spoke them into existence,

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<v Speaker 2>and they gave him vinegar to drink. How could he

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<v Speaker 2>be thirsty? How could God struggle with a human sensation

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<v Speaker 2>like thirst? Struggle? If you want to write something down,

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<v Speaker 2>write down struggle, because to really understand why he said

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<v Speaker 2>I thirst on the cross, you would have to start

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<v Speaker 2>really in the garden of Gathsemene. Okay, the garden of

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<v Speaker 2>got Semene is where he went out to pray before

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<v Speaker 2>he drank the cup of suffering. And it's one thing

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<v Speaker 2>to come to church and talk about a calling, because

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<v Speaker 2>sometimes a calling is like a beautiful cup.

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<v Speaker 1>But what's in it? Sometimes when it.

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<v Speaker 2>Comes time to really fulfill your calling, let me break

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<v Speaker 2>this down, because y'all are really looking at me cross

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<v Speaker 2>eyed and stuff. It's one thing to pick out a

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<v Speaker 2>name for your baby. It's another thing to have to

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<v Speaker 2>raise them in middle school.

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<v Speaker 1>It didn't work. It still didn't work.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm trying really hard to bring this right where you are.

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<v Speaker 2>It is one thing to write down his last name

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<v Speaker 2>with your first name and think about how awesome it

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<v Speaker 2>would be to be missus so and so.

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<v Speaker 1>But it's another thing to.

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<v Speaker 2>Deal with his bad breath and his bad spending habits

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<v Speaker 2>and realize that his mom didn't teach him how to

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<v Speaker 2>put the seat down on the toilet after he used it,

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<v Speaker 2>and work out the mechanics of marriage in the context

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<v Speaker 2>of the calling, not just the excitement of the concept

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<v Speaker 2>of something. So sometimes why we are very excited about

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<v Speaker 2>the concept of being used by God. Stay with me

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<v Speaker 2>because this sermon is about to do something.

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<v Speaker 1>In your soul. Deep down in your soul.

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<v Speaker 2>I feel the spirit of God saying to somebody today,

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<v Speaker 2>what will you do.

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<v Speaker 1>With the cup?

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<v Speaker 2>Because Jesus had a cup that he didn't want to drink,

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<v Speaker 2>and he prayed in the garden. He prayed, Father, if

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<v Speaker 2>there's any other way to get this done, if there's

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<v Speaker 2>any other way, let this cup pass from me, the

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<v Speaker 2>cup that was full of the wrath of God, the

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<v Speaker 2>just punishment that our sin deserved.

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<v Speaker 1>And he drank it. But he struggled to drink it.

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<v Speaker 2>Do you know how I know he struggled because he prayed,

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<v Speaker 2>if there's any other way, let this cup pass. But

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<v Speaker 2>if there's not, if I have to drink it down,

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<v Speaker 2>if I have to suffer, you have to go to

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<v Speaker 2>the cross. I'm going to the cross. If I have

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<v Speaker 2>to be mocked, I'll be mocked. If I have to

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<v Speaker 2>be alone, I'll be alone.

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<v Speaker 1>If I have to cry, I'll cry. If I have

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<v Speaker 1>to struggle, I'll struggle.

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<v Speaker 2>Not my will, but yours be gone. So the Son

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<v Speaker 2>of God is thirsty, and he's thirsty because he's trapped.

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<v Speaker 2>He's trapped in a place that we're all familiar with.

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<v Speaker 2>He's trapped between what he wants and what God wills.

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<v Speaker 1>Have you ever been trapped?

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<v Speaker 2>Three honest people, three thirsty people. All the thirsty people

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<v Speaker 2>make some noise, just be honest about it, because remember,

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<v Speaker 2>it's only those who and thirst that can be filled.

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<v Speaker 1>It's only those who know what it's like. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>he got.

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<v Speaker 2>Down in that garden and he prayed so hard about it,

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<v Speaker 2>and he heard so much about it while Peter.

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<v Speaker 1>James and John slept on the side. But Jesus prayed.

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<v Speaker 2>The Bible says he prayed to the point that his

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<v Speaker 2>sweat was like drops of blood struggle to surrender, and

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<v Speaker 2>he was. He was trapped in the garden between what

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

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<v Speaker 2>of course, he's thirsty. When you sweat like that, you're

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<v Speaker 2>going to be thirsty. I mean, if the Son of

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<v Speaker 2>God sweat like that, what makes you think you're going

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<v Speaker 2>to go through life and never break one yourself?

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<v Speaker 1>So we think we're just.

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<v Speaker 2>Supposed to fulfill our call and never drink the cup.

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<v Speaker 2>We think we're supposed to have a vision, but no, vinegar.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, the son of God is sweating drops of

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<v Speaker 2>blood and we're supposed to be able to sleep through.

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<v Speaker 2>Life is a struggle, he said, I thirst because he

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<v Speaker 2>struggled people.

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<v Speaker 1>I know he was thirsty.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean he's fully God, yes, but he's also fully man.

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<v Speaker 1>In other words, he's trapped.

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<v Speaker 2>Because he's God, but he's wrapped in flesh because he's glory.

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<v Speaker 2>But he's wrapped in frailty because he's eternity. But he's

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<v Speaker 2>trapped in time because he's spirit, but he's trapped in

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<v Speaker 2>a body. Sometimes I feel trapped because what I want

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<v Speaker 2>to do I can't do, and what I do I hate,

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<v Speaker 2>and what I want to.

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<v Speaker 1>Do I don't have the will to do. I'm trapped.

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<v Speaker 2>Thirsty, Hi, I'm wearying, And he struggled, And see, I'm

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<v Speaker 2>not very comfortable with this.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't like it because I don't want to.

0:25:13.119 --> 0:25:16.080
<v Speaker 2>I don't really want to see a god who struggled

0:25:16.080 --> 0:25:18.919
<v Speaker 2>like I struggle. I like that stuff where he opens

0:25:18.960 --> 0:25:23.960
<v Speaker 2>his mouth and says shut up to the wind and

0:25:24.000 --> 0:25:27.119
<v Speaker 2>the waves. I like that because that makes me think

0:25:27.160 --> 0:25:31.840
<v Speaker 2>he's just gonna walk into my situation smooth sailing.

0:25:33.200 --> 0:25:34.879
<v Speaker 1>But when he says I thirst.

0:25:36.640 --> 0:25:39.159
<v Speaker 2>See, now I see him identifying with my shame, and

0:25:39.200 --> 0:25:41.080
<v Speaker 2>it causes me to look at myself, not as I

0:25:41.080 --> 0:25:45.560
<v Speaker 2>wish to be, but as I really am, Because now

0:25:45.560 --> 0:25:49.960
<v Speaker 2>I've got to picture him carrying my shame right down. Shame,

0:25:50.080 --> 0:25:56.439
<v Speaker 2>because shame will make you thirsty. Shame will make you

0:25:56.520 --> 0:25:59.159
<v Speaker 2>try to fill something with the words of people that

0:25:59.200 --> 0:26:02.240
<v Speaker 2>can really only be fulfilled by the word of God.

0:26:03.280 --> 0:26:07.119
<v Speaker 2>Shame will make you forget who you really are. Of

0:26:07.160 --> 0:26:13.960
<v Speaker 2>course he was thirsty. He was carrying your shame. Now,

0:26:14.000 --> 0:26:16.320
<v Speaker 2>I mean to an untrained eye, it looked like he

0:26:16.400 --> 0:26:21.879
<v Speaker 2>was carrying a beam that weighed eighty pounds and he

0:26:21.960 --> 0:26:24.760
<v Speaker 2>carried it up a hill. Now this is from Pilot's Palace,

0:26:24.800 --> 0:26:27.639
<v Speaker 2>where Jesus was sentenced by the Roman prelate. He had

0:26:27.640 --> 0:26:30.200
<v Speaker 2>already been handed over by Caiaphas, the High priest. He's

0:26:30.200 --> 0:26:32.080
<v Speaker 2>been going back and forth all night. He sweats in

0:26:32.119 --> 0:26:36.040
<v Speaker 2>the garden, He heads to the cross. He gets there,

0:26:36.119 --> 0:26:38.119
<v Speaker 2>they offer him something to numb the pain. He says, no,

0:26:39.200 --> 0:26:42.159
<v Speaker 2>I'm focused, No, not yet.

0:26:42.640 --> 0:26:43.320
<v Speaker 1>He pushes the.

0:26:43.359 --> 0:26:48.640
<v Speaker 2>Drink aside, thirsty as he is carrying my shame eighty pounds.

0:26:49.960 --> 0:26:51.480
<v Speaker 2>You know, it weighs a lot more than that when

0:26:51.480 --> 0:26:55.199
<v Speaker 2>it's in your soul, a whole lot more than eighty pounds.

0:26:56.520 --> 0:26:57.680
<v Speaker 1>It weighs a whole lot more.

0:26:58.560 --> 0:27:00.480
<v Speaker 2>It'll weigh so much you can't even look people in

0:27:00.520 --> 0:27:01.800
<v Speaker 2>the eye when it's in your soul.

0:27:03.240 --> 0:27:06.800
<v Speaker 1>And he carried that, He carried it the length of.

0:27:06.840 --> 0:27:12.919
<v Speaker 2>Six and a half football fields from Pilot's palace to Galgata.

0:27:13.320 --> 0:27:14.400
<v Speaker 1>Of course he was thirsty.

0:27:15.840 --> 0:27:18.560
<v Speaker 2>Come on, I can't even do a set of kettlebell

0:27:18.640 --> 0:27:20.960
<v Speaker 2>swings and not take a sip.

0:27:21.880 --> 0:27:23.040
<v Speaker 1>Of course he was thirsty.

0:27:25.000 --> 0:27:27.200
<v Speaker 2>Of course he said, I thirst And you know what,

0:27:28.359 --> 0:27:32.919
<v Speaker 2>this isn't the first time that Jesus said he was

0:27:32.960 --> 0:27:40.840
<v Speaker 2>thirsty in John's gospel. No, it's not man, not at all. See,

0:27:40.840 --> 0:27:43.840
<v Speaker 2>because one time, can I tell you a story from

0:27:43.840 --> 0:27:48.320
<v Speaker 2>the Bible. It's a Bible story from John chapter four,

0:27:50.359 --> 0:27:56.000
<v Speaker 2>And it's interesting because Jesus is going somewhere, but he

0:27:56.080 --> 0:27:59.280
<v Speaker 2>goes around to get there, and the place where he

0:27:59.320 --> 0:28:02.399
<v Speaker 2>goes is called Samaria. Now this is not a normal

0:28:02.480 --> 0:28:05.640
<v Speaker 2>place for a Jew to go, so the fact that.

0:28:05.560 --> 0:28:07.440
<v Speaker 1>He went there was kind of surprising.

0:28:07.920 --> 0:28:09.959
<v Speaker 2>But nobody asked him why he was doing what he

0:28:10.000 --> 0:28:13.399
<v Speaker 2>was doing, because by this time his disciples knew that

0:28:13.520 --> 0:28:16.600
<v Speaker 2>everything he did he did on purpose. Let me say

0:28:16.600 --> 0:28:20.400
<v Speaker 2>that again, everything he did he did on purpose. That's

0:28:20.440 --> 0:28:22.000
<v Speaker 2>going to come back, and that's going to be very

0:28:22.040 --> 0:28:26.040
<v Speaker 2>important when I finished this little sermonette today. Everything he

0:28:26.080 --> 0:28:28.919
<v Speaker 2>did he did on purpose. So the Bible says he

0:28:29.040 --> 0:28:33.000
<v Speaker 2>had to go to Samaria, he had to go. Why

0:28:33.320 --> 0:28:36.640
<v Speaker 2>why did he have to go to Samaria? Why did

0:28:36.680 --> 0:28:39.080
<v Speaker 2>he have to go to the cross? Why would he

0:28:39.120 --> 0:28:42.479
<v Speaker 2>go out of his way to Samaria where a Jewish

0:28:42.560 --> 0:28:46.400
<v Speaker 2>person would not normally go. Why would God go where

0:28:46.440 --> 0:28:49.640
<v Speaker 2>he was least expected? Do you ever wonder why God

0:28:49.680 --> 0:28:51.440
<v Speaker 2>would bother with someone like you?

0:28:53.920 --> 0:28:57.040
<v Speaker 1>Have you ever asked that question? Why me? God? Any

0:28:57.120 --> 0:29:00.440
<v Speaker 1>parents that have ever asked God? Why me? Why would

0:29:00.520 --> 0:29:01.800
<v Speaker 1>you call me to raise a kid?

0:29:01.840 --> 0:29:05.960
<v Speaker 2>When I feel like a little boy myself? Sometimes See

0:29:06.000 --> 0:29:09.680
<v Speaker 2>the interesting thing to me about this little excursion Jesus

0:29:09.760 --> 0:29:15.400
<v Speaker 2>takes is that he's going to Samaria. He sits down

0:29:15.840 --> 0:29:20.120
<v Speaker 2>when he gets there, and he waits by a well

0:29:20.760 --> 0:29:22.920
<v Speaker 2>for a woman. Now, let me tell you something about

0:29:22.960 --> 0:29:25.680
<v Speaker 2>this woman, because she's coming out in the middle of

0:29:25.720 --> 0:29:28.280
<v Speaker 2>the day. And the only reason that you would go

0:29:28.360 --> 0:29:30.720
<v Speaker 2>to the well in the middle of the day in

0:29:30.760 --> 0:29:33.920
<v Speaker 2>a hot climate is so nobody else would be there,

0:29:34.280 --> 0:29:38.160
<v Speaker 2>because you're ashamed to be seen by people. So she's

0:29:38.200 --> 0:29:40.800
<v Speaker 2>going out in the middle of the day to get

0:29:40.800 --> 0:29:44.080
<v Speaker 2>some water at a time when she doesn't think anybody

0:29:44.160 --> 0:29:50.200
<v Speaker 2>else will see her. Because she's thirsty. I said, she's thirsty.

0:29:51.000 --> 0:29:55.560
<v Speaker 2>And she's not just thirsty for water, she's thirsty. She's

0:29:55.600 --> 0:30:00.320
<v Speaker 2>thirsty in the urban dictionary thirsty kind of way. So

0:30:00.520 --> 0:30:04.200
<v Speaker 2>Jesus sits by a well waiting for a woman and

0:30:04.320 --> 0:30:07.360
<v Speaker 2>sets a trap for a thirsty woman.

0:30:08.600 --> 0:30:10.760
<v Speaker 1>Y'all aren't even helping me appreciate this sermon. I work

0:30:10.840 --> 0:30:13.600
<v Speaker 1>so hard. All that's rude.

0:30:15.880 --> 0:30:18.520
<v Speaker 2>So she comes up says, oh, crap, I thought nobody

0:30:18.560 --> 0:30:19.040
<v Speaker 2>would be here.

0:30:19.080 --> 0:30:19.920
<v Speaker 1>I don't even know this.

0:30:19.960 --> 0:30:22.760
<v Speaker 2>God, have you noticed how everything we've been studying and

0:30:22.760 --> 0:30:25.239
<v Speaker 2>in the scripture says Jesus showing up to people who

0:30:25.280 --> 0:30:29.280
<v Speaker 2>didn't even recognize him when he did, just showing up.

0:30:30.680 --> 0:30:34.040
<v Speaker 2>And then he does something unthinkable. Okay, talk about a

0:30:34.080 --> 0:30:40.040
<v Speaker 2>thirst trap. Jesus the Living Water sees this woman come in,

0:30:40.640 --> 0:30:44.000
<v Speaker 2>knows what kind of life she's lived, and yet he

0:30:44.000 --> 0:30:49.680
<v Speaker 2>doesn't say anything about that. He says, hey girl, modernization.

0:30:49.880 --> 0:30:53.280
<v Speaker 2>But he said, give me look at for seven, give

0:30:53.320 --> 0:30:58.800
<v Speaker 2>me a drink. She didn't like that very much, so

0:30:58.840 --> 0:31:00.640
<v Speaker 2>she got real deep look at her. Because here's what

0:31:00.680 --> 0:31:03.360
<v Speaker 2>you do when God speaks to a place in your life.

0:31:03.400 --> 0:31:06.440
<v Speaker 2>When when God starts speaking to you, you get theoretical

0:31:06.480 --> 0:31:09.960
<v Speaker 2>and abstract because to be specific, to really have to

0:31:10.040 --> 0:31:14.840
<v Speaker 2>deal with the issue is actually sometimes painful. So she's like, hey,

0:31:15.240 --> 0:31:17.520
<v Speaker 2>how is it that you a Jew asked to drink

0:31:17.520 --> 0:31:17.760
<v Speaker 2>from me?

0:31:17.880 --> 0:31:20.280
<v Speaker 1>A woman from Samaria? In other words, I know you're

0:31:20.280 --> 0:31:23.840
<v Speaker 1>not talking to me. That's what I want to saying.

0:31:24.200 --> 0:31:27.280
<v Speaker 1>I know you're not talking to me. And you can

0:31:27.320 --> 0:31:28.480
<v Speaker 1>feel that way sometimes.

0:31:29.880 --> 0:31:31.400
<v Speaker 2>I mean, some of you sit here and listen to

0:31:31.400 --> 0:31:34.959
<v Speaker 2>me preach and you think it's for your wife.

0:31:35.800 --> 0:31:36.520
<v Speaker 1>I'm talking to you.

0:31:38.080 --> 0:31:43.720
<v Speaker 2>I'm talking to you, buddy, thirsty self.

0:31:44.960 --> 0:31:47.120
<v Speaker 1>So everybody in here is thirsty.

0:31:47.480 --> 0:31:50.400
<v Speaker 2>Everybody in here is thirsty.

0:31:50.560 --> 0:31:53.000
<v Speaker 1>Some of y'all get it through sex, some of.

0:31:53.080 --> 0:31:56.040
<v Speaker 2>Y'all get it through success, some of y'all get.

0:31:55.880 --> 0:31:58.280
<v Speaker 1>It through religion. But I got to tell you something.

0:31:58.560 --> 0:32:01.240
<v Speaker 2>The person you're sitting now is thirsty.

0:32:01.760 --> 0:32:03.640
<v Speaker 1>It's not a sin to be thirsty.

0:32:04.200 --> 0:32:07.760
<v Speaker 2>It's just where you go to get your fixed that

0:32:08.000 --> 0:32:09.560
<v Speaker 2>determines whether or not.

0:32:11.120 --> 0:32:15.760
<v Speaker 1>Your soul will be satisfied. Because I found out there's

0:32:15.840 --> 0:32:18.479
<v Speaker 1>only one while that hasslewater, I need.

0:32:20.720 --> 0:32:26.280
<v Speaker 2>We talk about the satisfaction, the satisfaction. Jesus says, hey,

0:32:26.800 --> 0:32:28.040
<v Speaker 2>I need a drink.

0:32:28.040 --> 0:32:29.960
<v Speaker 1>And the woman thinks he's talking about.

0:32:29.720 --> 0:32:32.600
<v Speaker 2>Water, but he's not talking about water. And the woman

0:32:32.680 --> 0:32:35.320
<v Speaker 2>is perhaps a shamed and offended, and so she goes

0:32:35.360 --> 0:32:37.120
<v Speaker 2>to push him away because see.

0:32:36.920 --> 0:32:39.720
<v Speaker 1>That's what she's learned how to do. She's thirsty.

0:32:40.040 --> 0:32:42.040
<v Speaker 2>So she's learned how to get what she needs from

0:32:42.080 --> 0:32:45.200
<v Speaker 2>who she thinks can give it. But none of it lasts.

0:32:44.960 --> 0:32:48.040
<v Speaker 2>She's learned, give me your phone. She's learned how to

0:32:48.080 --> 0:32:50.120
<v Speaker 2>get what she needs. So she wakes up in the

0:32:50.120 --> 0:32:53.120
<v Speaker 2>morning thirsty. Did they like my picture? Did they come

0:32:53.160 --> 0:32:55.520
<v Speaker 2>in on my posts? Did they frame me back? Did

0:32:55.520 --> 0:32:56.400
<v Speaker 2>they follow me back?

0:32:56.600 --> 0:32:57.040
<v Speaker 1>Thirsty?

0:32:57.080 --> 0:33:00.880
<v Speaker 2>Somebody shall thirsty thirsty acting like that that's gonna fill you.

0:33:01.160 --> 0:33:04.160
<v Speaker 1>It might for a minute, but there's one problem with this. Well,

0:33:04.440 --> 0:33:05.320
<v Speaker 1>Jesus said, if you.

0:33:05.360 --> 0:33:08.680
<v Speaker 2>Drink of this water, woman, you're gonna stay thirsty. And

0:33:08.760 --> 0:33:10.400
<v Speaker 2>I want you to know that if you put your

0:33:10.480 --> 0:33:13.440
<v Speaker 2>validation in other people's hands, you will have to go

0:33:13.560 --> 0:33:16.800
<v Speaker 2>back to them for it, and you can't. Don't make

0:33:16.800 --> 0:33:23.520
<v Speaker 2>me throw his phone, so Jesus, he just lays it

0:33:23.560 --> 0:33:23.960
<v Speaker 2>out there.

0:33:24.080 --> 0:33:25.560
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, I will make a work a while to

0:33:25.640 --> 0:33:26.600
<v Speaker 1>come to church today.

0:33:29.440 --> 0:33:32.520
<v Speaker 2>So Jesus is like, hey, you know everyone who drinks

0:33:32.520 --> 0:33:37.760
<v Speaker 2>of this water, everyone who drinks of this water, I

0:33:37.800 --> 0:33:40.440
<v Speaker 2>ain't a gout on Facebook. Yeah, but why do you

0:33:40.480 --> 0:33:47.480
<v Speaker 2>go to the mall. Everybody drinks somewhere. Why do you

0:33:47.520 --> 0:33:53.160
<v Speaker 2>eat the ritos everybody drinks somewhere. Why you put so

0:33:53.240 --> 0:33:55.400
<v Speaker 2>much pressure on your kids to do what you never did.

0:33:55.880 --> 0:34:08.279
<v Speaker 2>Everybody drinks somewhere. Why are you texting her back? You

0:34:08.360 --> 0:34:10.440
<v Speaker 2>better take your phone. Man, something's coming over me while

0:34:10.480 --> 0:34:16.120
<v Speaker 2>I heard this same something demon in that phone, So

0:34:16.200 --> 0:34:16.560
<v Speaker 2>sit down.

0:34:20.960 --> 0:34:24.200
<v Speaker 1>He says bye. Well, and he's like, now, I gotta

0:34:24.200 --> 0:34:24.560
<v Speaker 1>be honest.

0:34:24.600 --> 0:34:26.960
<v Speaker 2>On the surface, it sounds like a pickup line, but

0:34:27.040 --> 0:34:34.680
<v Speaker 2>we know it's not because Jesus, he's not. He's not

0:34:34.800 --> 0:34:41.839
<v Speaker 2>thirsty like Dad. He's trying to get her something, got it,

0:34:42.080 --> 0:34:44.759
<v Speaker 2>He's not. He's not trying to receive something from her.

0:34:44.800 --> 0:34:48.640
<v Speaker 2>He's trying to release something to her because he knows

0:34:48.680 --> 0:34:51.640
<v Speaker 2>she's thirsty. So he's like, Hey, whoever drinks of the

0:34:51.680 --> 0:34:55.880
<v Speaker 2>water that I will give him will never be thirsty again.

0:34:58.080 --> 0:35:00.400
<v Speaker 2>That troubled me because I was contrasting at what he

0:35:00.440 --> 0:35:02.919
<v Speaker 2>said fifteen chapters earlier with what he said in John

0:35:03.000 --> 0:35:06.560
<v Speaker 2>nineteen on the Cross, where he said at thirst And

0:35:06.600 --> 0:35:10.280
<v Speaker 2>I felt like I had caught Jesus contradicting himself because

0:35:10.280 --> 0:35:12.000
<v Speaker 2>he said he had water and we would never thirst

0:35:12.040 --> 0:35:12.600
<v Speaker 2>if we drank it.

0:35:12.640 --> 0:35:14.120
<v Speaker 1>But he said he thirsted on the cross.

0:35:14.160 --> 0:35:17.920
<v Speaker 2>But I noticed how he didn't say, you'll never feel

0:35:17.960 --> 0:35:25.279
<v Speaker 2>thirsty again. He said you'll never be He didn't say

0:35:25.280 --> 0:35:29.120
<v Speaker 2>you will never thirst again. You're see, you're gonna thirst.

0:35:29.120 --> 0:35:37.200
<v Speaker 2>You're gonna have days that you feel discouraged. If you weren't,

0:35:38.040 --> 0:35:41.520
<v Speaker 2>God wouldn't tell you not to be terrified or discouraged,

0:35:42.760 --> 0:35:44.920
<v Speaker 2>if you were naturally going to always be encouraged, if

0:35:44.960 --> 0:35:48.040
<v Speaker 2>you were never going to be discouraged and dehydrated.

0:35:48.520 --> 0:35:49.680
<v Speaker 1>That's what the water is for.

0:35:51.760 --> 0:35:53.960
<v Speaker 2>So what he's saying is you'll always have somewhere to

0:35:54.040 --> 0:36:00.440
<v Speaker 2>drink from, not that you'll never have a need, but

0:36:00.560 --> 0:36:04.880
<v Speaker 2>that I will meet all of your needs according to

0:36:05.040 --> 0:36:06.840
<v Speaker 2>my glorious richest.

0:36:07.560 --> 0:36:08.480
<v Speaker 1>That's the promise.

0:36:10.239 --> 0:36:13.759
<v Speaker 2>So he tells the woman, I got something for you.

0:36:13.800 --> 0:36:15.440
<v Speaker 2>That's what he tells the woman. I got something for you.

0:36:16.280 --> 0:36:19.160
<v Speaker 2>And it's not like what you've been drinking. Because watch this.

0:36:19.400 --> 0:36:22.360
<v Speaker 2>He traps this woman. He totally traps this woman. Jesus

0:36:22.360 --> 0:36:24.480
<v Speaker 2>all through his ministry, people were trying to trap Jesus.

0:36:24.480 --> 0:36:27.560
<v Speaker 2>The Sadducees and the Pharisees and Judas trapped him in

0:36:27.600 --> 0:36:31.120
<v Speaker 2>the garden and the Roman official stuff. They had him

0:36:31.120 --> 0:36:33.640
<v Speaker 2>trapped on the cross, but Jesus was always the one.

0:36:34.040 --> 0:36:36.000
<v Speaker 2>Even when they thought they had him, they never really

0:36:36.040 --> 0:36:38.839
<v Speaker 2>had him because he was always in control, even on

0:36:38.880 --> 0:36:42.360
<v Speaker 2>the cross. There were over three hundred Messianic prophecies that

0:36:42.520 --> 0:36:45.279
<v Speaker 2>Jesus fulfilled in his life and in his death. And

0:36:45.320 --> 0:36:49.400
<v Speaker 2>so Jesus was Jesus was never he was never really trapped.

0:36:49.440 --> 0:36:51.440
<v Speaker 2>See here he is with this woman and he says,

0:36:51.440 --> 0:36:53.719
<v Speaker 2>I want to drink, But he's not really thirsty like that.

0:36:54.000 --> 0:36:56.839
<v Speaker 2>He's trying to give her something. God doesn't really need

0:36:56.920 --> 0:36:59.680
<v Speaker 2>anything from you. He can have another you in a minute.

0:36:59.680 --> 0:37:01.440
<v Speaker 2>I don't mean to go back to two thousand and

0:37:01.440 --> 0:37:05.720
<v Speaker 2>two because sometimes and so God really isn't needing something

0:37:05.719 --> 0:37:08.000
<v Speaker 2>from you when we talk about giving in the church.

0:37:08.080 --> 0:37:10.440
<v Speaker 2>How dare you, with your thirsty self get an attitude?

0:37:10.480 --> 0:37:13.480
<v Speaker 2>They just want my money. God doesn't need your money.

0:37:13.760 --> 0:37:16.319
<v Speaker 2>God wants to be in your heart. He wants to

0:37:16.360 --> 0:37:22.440
<v Speaker 2>set you free. You're the one thirsty. You're the one.

0:37:26.400 --> 0:37:29.200
<v Speaker 2>So he says, give me a drink. She says, well,

0:37:29.200 --> 0:37:30.560
<v Speaker 2>we don't have a bucket, and he's trying to get

0:37:30.560 --> 0:37:32.400
<v Speaker 2>her to see that she is the bucket.

0:37:34.800 --> 0:37:35.760
<v Speaker 1>And he is the water.

0:37:39.320 --> 0:37:42.000
<v Speaker 2>You know, I'm telling myself right now, focus verdict. You've

0:37:42.000 --> 0:37:45.120
<v Speaker 2>got to finish. These people have a life. They don't

0:37:45.120 --> 0:37:49.839
<v Speaker 2>want to be here with you for three more hours.

0:37:51.600 --> 0:37:58.239
<v Speaker 2>Give me ten minutes. The woman said, sir, if there's

0:37:58.239 --> 0:38:01.279
<v Speaker 2>some kind of water, if there's some bottomless well, if

0:38:01.280 --> 0:38:11.440
<v Speaker 2>there's free refills, somebody shout free refills, give me this

0:38:11.560 --> 0:38:17.279
<v Speaker 2>water so I won't have to be so I won't

0:38:17.280 --> 0:38:21.000
<v Speaker 2>have to be trapped, so I won't have to keep

0:38:21.040 --> 0:38:28.279
<v Speaker 2>coming back here. So so I won't have to keep

0:38:28.320 --> 0:38:34.920
<v Speaker 2>texting Travis that just made up the name, so I

0:38:34.960 --> 0:38:40.400
<v Speaker 2>won't have to keep performing, so I won't have to

0:38:40.480 --> 0:38:41.920
<v Speaker 2>keep being so.

0:38:43.560 --> 0:38:44.000
<v Speaker 1>Thirsty.

0:38:45.719 --> 0:38:51.360
<v Speaker 2>And now Jesus, he's got her, all right, got her.

0:38:53.400 --> 0:38:56.719
<v Speaker 2>He came to some area and sat by the well.

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<v Speaker 2>And now she's trapped.

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<v Speaker 1>Watch us.

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<v Speaker 2>Hee goes, all right, go get your husband. And she

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<v Speaker 2>says what had happened was I don't have a husband,

0:39:16.800 --> 0:39:20.640
<v Speaker 2>which is true, but it's not the total truth.

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<v Speaker 1>You know how you do.

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<v Speaker 2>Like right, I have no husband. Jesus said, you're right

0:39:31.239 --> 0:39:33.799
<v Speaker 2>and saying I have no husband, for you've had five

0:39:33.880 --> 0:39:36.480
<v Speaker 2>husbands and the one you have now is not your husband.

0:39:36.480 --> 0:39:44.000
<v Speaker 2>What you've said is true. And you're thirsty, thirsty, and

0:39:44.040 --> 0:39:50.759
<v Speaker 2>you're trapped. And when I asked you for water, I

0:39:50.800 --> 0:39:55.080
<v Speaker 2>was trying to release you from having to go all

0:39:55.120 --> 0:40:07.600
<v Speaker 2>around to people and things and stuff that doesn't satisfy.

0:40:07.920 --> 0:40:11.120
<v Speaker 2>I want to give you something that comes from within.

0:40:13.640 --> 0:40:16.880
<v Speaker 2>I want to give you something that doesn't depend on

0:40:16.960 --> 0:40:21.879
<v Speaker 2>bank accounts, It doesn't diminish.

0:40:22.560 --> 0:40:24.319
<v Speaker 1>No matter how the biopsy comes back.

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<v Speaker 2>I want to give you something that you can live

0:40:29.760 --> 0:40:35.800
<v Speaker 2>off of, something that only gets stronger in your struggle

0:40:38.880 --> 0:40:44.200
<v Speaker 2>I want to give you a limited supply, And she said, sir,

0:40:45.880 --> 0:40:51.600
<v Speaker 2>I think you're onto something. She goes back to Samaria

0:40:52.480 --> 0:40:55.759
<v Speaker 2>carrying living water that she didn't even expect to get,

0:40:57.000 --> 0:40:59.640
<v Speaker 2>comes back to Jesus, and the Bible says that many

0:40:59.640 --> 0:41:05.160
<v Speaker 2>and some are belief because of her testimony. See it,

0:41:05.160 --> 0:41:09.319
<v Speaker 2>it was a trap. Jesus used a thirsty woman to

0:41:09.440 --> 0:41:12.960
<v Speaker 2>transform an entire region. I wonder how he could use

0:41:13.040 --> 0:41:22.080
<v Speaker 2>your life, if you would receive his grace today.

0:41:22.960 --> 0:41:24.600
<v Speaker 1>You've been coming here a long time. Have I ever

0:41:24.640 --> 0:41:26.279
<v Speaker 1>preached stronger than I'm preaching right now?

0:41:28.880 --> 0:41:32.920
<v Speaker 2>I'm not even done yet, So sit back and let

0:41:32.920 --> 0:41:37.600
<v Speaker 2>me give you my fourth point. I want to talk

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<v Speaker 2>about the setup, because that's what it was.

0:41:44.800 --> 0:41:45.640
<v Speaker 1>It was a setup.

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<v Speaker 2>That's why you went through Samaria. He was setting this

0:41:50.320 --> 0:41:54.440
<v Speaker 2>woman up. That's why he asked for a drink because

0:41:54.480 --> 0:41:58.360
<v Speaker 2>she was thirsty. That's why you went to the cross

0:41:58.480 --> 0:42:00.800
<v Speaker 2>a pill six and fifty the arts.

0:42:02.000 --> 0:42:03.759
<v Speaker 1>That's why he said, I thirst.

0:42:03.480 --> 0:42:05.480
<v Speaker 2>And I'm gonna tell you how I found out because

0:42:05.760 --> 0:42:07.840
<v Speaker 2>I thought about that thing so long. I thought, Okay,

0:42:07.960 --> 0:42:09.160
<v Speaker 2>how can living water be thirsty?

0:42:09.160 --> 0:42:10.080
<v Speaker 1>How can I well need water?

0:42:10.080 --> 0:42:12.120
<v Speaker 2>How can the one that spoke the oceans into existence,

0:42:12.200 --> 0:42:14.440
<v Speaker 2>now need water from the very same source that he created.

0:42:14.480 --> 0:42:17.040
<v Speaker 2>How could God, who rains above the waters, need water.

0:42:17.080 --> 0:42:19.279
<v Speaker 2>How could it be possible that God could come down

0:42:19.320 --> 0:42:21.279
<v Speaker 2>condescend to the form of human man. How could Christ

0:42:21.360 --> 0:42:23.759
<v Speaker 2>be made flesh? How could he die and suffer like that?

0:42:23.920 --> 0:42:25.440
<v Speaker 2>How can it be that there are seasons in my

0:42:25.480 --> 0:42:27.560
<v Speaker 2>life when I call him him and nothing happens. How

0:42:27.560 --> 0:42:29.440
<v Speaker 2>can it be that I have divinity but I'm trapped

0:42:29.440 --> 0:42:32.000
<v Speaker 2>sometimes in my desperation. How can it be that I'm

0:42:32.040 --> 0:42:34.400
<v Speaker 2>full of the spirit, but sometimes I feel so dry?

0:42:37.120 --> 0:42:40.600
<v Speaker 1>So I had to read again. I read that.

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<v Speaker 2>Verse like like twenty times in John nineteen twenty eight.

0:42:44.080 --> 0:42:47.440
<v Speaker 2>And I don't read Greek, although I took Greek. I

0:42:47.440 --> 0:42:49.560
<v Speaker 2>don't read Hebrew although I took Hebrew. I was not

0:42:49.719 --> 0:42:54.640
<v Speaker 2>very effective in my language studies. And I don't even

0:42:54.640 --> 0:42:57.160
<v Speaker 2>read Aramaic, which is what Jesus was probably speaking in

0:42:57.200 --> 0:42:59.240
<v Speaker 2>at the moment when he said I thirst.

0:42:59.280 --> 0:43:01.840
<v Speaker 1>But what I do read really.

0:43:01.600 --> 0:43:09.040
<v Speaker 2>Well is English, and I know my punctuation marks. So

0:43:09.080 --> 0:43:11.319
<v Speaker 2>when I read John nineteen twenty eight, have y'all got

0:43:11.360 --> 0:43:14.720
<v Speaker 2>like seven minutes for me to tie this up? Seven minutes,

0:43:15.200 --> 0:43:21.839
<v Speaker 2>seven minute miracle, and so it said that after this,

0:43:23.200 --> 0:43:27.480
<v Speaker 2>after all you've been through, after all they've accused you off,

0:43:27.800 --> 0:43:30.239
<v Speaker 2>after all the people who walked away who should have

0:43:30.280 --> 0:43:34.880
<v Speaker 2>been there. After this, after they counted you out and

0:43:35.000 --> 0:43:38.680
<v Speaker 2>said you or nothing and mocked you. After this, after

0:43:38.719 --> 0:43:41.680
<v Speaker 2>a crowd of thorns was placed on his head, after

0:43:41.719 --> 0:43:45.680
<v Speaker 2>the blood ran from his brow, after this, after they

0:43:45.760 --> 0:43:47.560
<v Speaker 2>beat us back, after they.

0:43:47.480 --> 0:43:49.880
<v Speaker 1>Released for rabbis, after this.

0:43:49.920 --> 0:43:53.440
<v Speaker 2>After the cock crow and Peter denied him thrice. After this,

0:43:55.480 --> 0:44:01.520
<v Speaker 2>knowing that now all things were finished, Jesus had one

0:44:01.560 --> 0:44:05.160
<v Speaker 2>more thing to say, one thing to do, because there

0:44:05.160 --> 0:44:11.719
<v Speaker 2>are three hundred prophecies, and he was on two ninety nine.

0:44:13.080 --> 0:44:17.759
<v Speaker 2>And see everybody standing around that day thought that death.

0:44:19.200 --> 0:44:20.760
<v Speaker 1>Had trapped Jesus.

0:44:21.920 --> 0:44:27.640
<v Speaker 2>Right, And the cross was a setup, But it wasn't

0:44:27.680 --> 0:44:32.239
<v Speaker 2>set up by Judas, and it wasn't set up by

0:44:32.239 --> 0:44:36.239
<v Speaker 2>the Sadducees, and it wasn't set up by the Pharisees,

0:44:37.280 --> 0:44:39.520
<v Speaker 2>and it wasn't set up by Herod.

0:44:40.200 --> 0:44:41.680
<v Speaker 1>It was set up by Heaven.

0:44:42.520 --> 0:44:45.880
<v Speaker 2>Listen to me preach this sermon. Listen to me preach

0:44:45.920 --> 0:44:49.400
<v Speaker 2>this sermon. Listen to me preach on the parentheses. In

0:44:49.520 --> 0:44:52.440
<v Speaker 2>John nineteen twenty eight. I preached on a lot of

0:44:52.440 --> 0:44:55.240
<v Speaker 2>things in my little tenure preaching, but I've never preached

0:44:55.280 --> 0:44:57.480
<v Speaker 2>on a punctuation mark until today.

0:44:58.280 --> 0:45:01.440
<v Speaker 1>After this, knowing that all things.

0:45:01.160 --> 0:45:04.200
<v Speaker 2>Had been fulfilled, knowing that he had drank down the

0:45:04.280 --> 0:45:06.920
<v Speaker 2>full cup of the wrath of God so that you

0:45:06.960 --> 0:45:10.400
<v Speaker 2>would never have to After knowing that he suffered like

0:45:10.440 --> 0:45:13.200
<v Speaker 2>a criminal, so that he could reign like a king,

0:45:13.840 --> 0:45:18.440
<v Speaker 2>after humbling himself, being obedient even to the point of

0:45:18.560 --> 0:45:19.640
<v Speaker 2>death on the cross.

0:45:22.160 --> 0:45:32.239
<v Speaker 1>And it was then Jesus said parentheses to fulfill the scripture.

0:45:33.960 --> 0:45:41.080
<v Speaker 2>Huh. I wonder why John put it in parentheses. Probably

0:45:41.120 --> 0:45:42.960
<v Speaker 2>because he didn't know. That's why it was happening at

0:45:43.000 --> 0:45:49.040
<v Speaker 2>the time. See, when Jesus said I thirst, they thought

0:45:49.080 --> 0:45:53.520
<v Speaker 2>he wanted water, so they gave him vinegar to mock him.

0:45:53.680 --> 0:45:57.040
<v Speaker 2>And the thing they used to mock him was actually

0:45:57.080 --> 0:46:00.279
<v Speaker 2>the thing that he used to finish the work God

0:46:00.320 --> 0:46:00.920
<v Speaker 2>gave him to do.

0:46:04.440 --> 0:46:06.440
<v Speaker 1>The thing that they put on a sponge to shame

0:46:06.520 --> 0:46:09.319
<v Speaker 1>him was that. See, because listen, I got to tell

0:46:09.360 --> 0:46:14.239
<v Speaker 1>you something. Stand up so I'll finish this sermon. Please. Oh,

0:46:14.239 --> 0:46:19.040
<v Speaker 1>I got to show you one more thing. See, because.

0:46:20.280 --> 0:46:26.680
<v Speaker 2>When Jesus said I thirst, to fulfill the scripture parentheses.

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<v Speaker 1>Have you ever had to live in the parentheses?

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, like not understanding why you were going through

0:46:35.040 --> 0:46:35.960
<v Speaker 2>what you were going through.

0:46:36.360 --> 0:46:38.920
<v Speaker 1>Please be real with me. I cannot preach this sermon

0:46:39.239 --> 0:46:40.200
<v Speaker 1>to close hearts.

0:46:42.640 --> 0:46:45.840
<v Speaker 2>I'm trying to give you water today for your thirsty soul.

0:46:47.320 --> 0:46:51.120
<v Speaker 2>But sometimes you're in a wilderness and you don't know why.

0:46:51.880 --> 0:46:54.040
<v Speaker 2>And sometimes you're looking at a red sea and you

0:46:54.160 --> 0:46:59.520
<v Speaker 2>feel trapped. And Jesus looked trapped up there on that cross,

0:46:59.560 --> 0:47:02.920
<v Speaker 2>but John said no, he wasn't trapped.

0:47:03.120 --> 0:47:08.400
<v Speaker 1>Death didn't trap Jesus. Jesus trapped death.

0:47:14.000 --> 0:47:21.080
<v Speaker 2>No, Now I know why, he said.

0:47:21.120 --> 0:47:21.680
<v Speaker 1>I thirst.

0:47:23.280 --> 0:47:26.799
<v Speaker 2>Now I know why why the lips that spoke the

0:47:26.920 --> 0:47:31.000
<v Speaker 2>waters into their place on the earth set I thirst

0:47:31.560 --> 0:47:33.279
<v Speaker 2>to fulfill the scripture.

0:47:33.760 --> 0:47:35.640
<v Speaker 1>God has a purpose.

0:47:35.719 --> 0:47:45.120
<v Speaker 3>For every thurst in your lives. Death didn't trap Jesus.

0:47:45.640 --> 0:47:47.480
<v Speaker 3>Jesus trapped Dad.

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<v Speaker 2>So one time David felt trapped in the Psalms and

0:47:59.120 --> 0:48:03.120
<v Speaker 2>then Psalm sixteen. He describes it in vivid detail. He goes,

0:48:03.880 --> 0:48:08.160
<v Speaker 2>the deep waters have engulfed me. I'm surrounded by enemies.

0:48:09.000 --> 0:48:11.600
<v Speaker 2>They hurl their insults at me. Does this sound familiar?

0:48:11.600 --> 0:48:16.480
<v Speaker 2>By the way, It's a messianic song. It's describing centuries

0:48:16.520 --> 0:48:19.080
<v Speaker 2>before the cross, what the cross would be like for Jesus.

0:48:19.360 --> 0:48:22.600
<v Speaker 2>It is David. Jesus is called the son of David.

0:48:22.719 --> 0:48:26.000
<v Speaker 2>It is David, pointing to the one who now says,

0:48:26.000 --> 0:48:32.120
<v Speaker 2>I thirst, And David says something that although he is

0:48:32.200 --> 0:48:36.080
<v Speaker 2>surrounded by what he calls deep waters of trial, he

0:48:36.160 --> 0:48:42.080
<v Speaker 2>says that the reproach has broken his heart. The shame

0:48:42.200 --> 0:48:47.279
<v Speaker 2>has brought him so low to this place that he

0:48:47.320 --> 0:48:51.360
<v Speaker 2>feels like he's drowning. And you can get to a

0:48:51.360 --> 0:48:55.319
<v Speaker 2>place where you feel trapped in doubt, and you can't

0:48:55.320 --> 0:48:57.360
<v Speaker 2>have dysfunctions in your life that have been there so

0:48:57.480 --> 0:49:01.040
<v Speaker 2>long that you feel trapped inside of yourself. That's the

0:49:01.080 --> 0:49:05.120
<v Speaker 2>worst place to feel trapped. Not in a bad relationship.

0:49:05.160 --> 0:49:08.400
<v Speaker 2>I mean, you can always block that number, But what

0:49:08.400 --> 0:49:10.719
<v Speaker 2>do you do when you're trapped inside of your own heart,

0:49:11.840 --> 0:49:17.000
<v Speaker 2>your own broken heart? David said, it's it's so bad.

0:49:17.040 --> 0:49:19.520
<v Speaker 2>It's broken my heart. And I am in despair. I

0:49:19.560 --> 0:49:22.520
<v Speaker 2>am in distress. But watch this, he said, I look

0:49:22.600 --> 0:49:25.959
<v Speaker 2>for pity. There was none for comforters. I found none.

0:49:26.160 --> 0:49:27.279
<v Speaker 2>Nobody could help me.

0:49:27.320 --> 0:49:33.760
<v Speaker 1>I was trapped. I was trapped. I was trapped.

0:49:35.160 --> 0:49:37.640
<v Speaker 2>He said, I got to the point where I asked

0:49:37.640 --> 0:49:43.400
<v Speaker 2>my friends for food. Go to the next verse, and

0:49:43.440 --> 0:49:46.440
<v Speaker 2>they gave me poison for food. The people who were

0:49:46.440 --> 0:49:47.080
<v Speaker 2>supposed to.

0:49:47.040 --> 0:49:52.720
<v Speaker 1>Help me hurt me. They gave me poison for food.

0:49:53.040 --> 0:49:55.840
<v Speaker 2>I was thirsty, But for my thirst, they gave me

0:49:56.000 --> 0:50:00.000
<v Speaker 2>sour wine to drink. And now I understand why Jesus

0:50:00.120 --> 0:50:04.759
<v Speaker 2>set I thirst. Go back to my scripture. It was

0:50:04.840 --> 0:50:09.040
<v Speaker 2>to fulfill the scripture. It wasn't about water. Jesus was

0:50:09.120 --> 0:50:12.600
<v Speaker 2>setting the trap for death. This was the last thing

0:50:13.160 --> 0:50:17.520
<v Speaker 2>he had to do before the spirit could be released.

0:50:17.880 --> 0:50:18.880
<v Speaker 1>It's a setup.

0:50:20.920 --> 0:50:21.960
<v Speaker 3>It's a set up.

0:50:26.000 --> 0:50:29.400
<v Speaker 2>If he didn't suffer, salvation could not spring up like

0:50:29.480 --> 0:50:32.080
<v Speaker 2>a well. If he did not suffer, it could not

0:50:32.239 --> 0:50:35.760
<v Speaker 2>flow forth. If he did not die, he could not rise.

0:50:36.840 --> 0:50:38.640
<v Speaker 2>Somebody shout, it's a setup.

0:50:40.160 --> 0:50:46.920
<v Speaker 1>It's not the end. It's in the parentheses. It's in

0:50:46.960 --> 0:50:47.799
<v Speaker 1>the parentheses.

0:50:48.800 --> 0:50:51.560
<v Speaker 2>Sometimes you gotta trust God in the parentheses, in the

0:50:51.640 --> 0:50:54.880
<v Speaker 2>type places when it looks like your trap, to know

0:50:54.960 --> 0:50:58.040
<v Speaker 2>that the very red sea that feels like it's gonna

0:50:58.120 --> 0:50:59.280
<v Speaker 2>kill you, it's.

0:50:59.120 --> 0:51:01.600
<v Speaker 3>Gonna drown your enemies behind you.

0:51:02.239 --> 0:51:13.680
<v Speaker 2>Somebody shot it staring the shouting. He said, I thirsted,

0:51:13.719 --> 0:51:18.080
<v Speaker 2>and they gave me vinegar. But watch this, David praying.

0:51:19.160 --> 0:51:21.600
<v Speaker 2>This is what I'm praying over your life today. Every

0:51:21.880 --> 0:51:24.120
<v Speaker 2>evil thing that the enemy has done to you, and

0:51:24.200 --> 0:51:26.799
<v Speaker 2>every trial that feels like is sweeping over you. And

0:51:26.840 --> 0:51:29.600
<v Speaker 2>for everybody who feels trapped. Listen what he prayed. Let

0:51:29.640 --> 0:51:34.720
<v Speaker 2>their own table before them, the thing that they brought

0:51:34.760 --> 0:51:40.600
<v Speaker 2>to destroy me. Let their own table become a snare.

0:51:41.880 --> 0:51:44.160
<v Speaker 2>And when they are at peace. So just when the

0:51:44.239 --> 0:51:50.160
<v Speaker 2>devil thought he had Jesus trapped, just when.

0:51:50.040 --> 0:51:52.319
<v Speaker 1>He thought it was over, just.

0:51:52.280 --> 0:51:55.160
<v Speaker 2>When he thought we got rid of that one, just

0:51:55.280 --> 0:51:58.080
<v Speaker 2>when he thought it was the end, just when they

0:51:58.200 --> 0:52:01.160
<v Speaker 2>rolled the snow become.

0:52:01.520 --> 0:52:04.520
<v Speaker 3>I'm trapped, God said, I got you.

0:52:08.640 --> 0:52:14.480
<v Speaker 1>Set the trap. He set the trap. He set the trap.

0:52:14.800 --> 0:52:18.200
<v Speaker 2>So God brought you here into this garden so you

0:52:18.239 --> 0:52:20.520
<v Speaker 2>could sweat out your insecurities.

0:52:20.920 --> 0:52:22.880
<v Speaker 1>God brought you here into.

0:52:22.640 --> 0:52:26.319
<v Speaker 2>This type place so that your dots could die and

0:52:26.480 --> 0:52:32.440
<v Speaker 2>your faith could live, and you will never curse.

0:52:33.760 --> 0:52:34.080
<v Speaker 1>Again.

0:52:35.760 --> 0:52:39.799
<v Speaker 2>He said, I thirst and they brought him vinegar. And

0:52:39.840 --> 0:52:43.280
<v Speaker 2>he said, good, I need that. I needed that vinegar.

0:52:44.200 --> 0:52:50.200
<v Speaker 2>I needed that trial. Sometimes victory doesn't look like victory.

0:52:50.840 --> 0:52:52.640
<v Speaker 2>Sometimes victory doesn't taste sweet.

0:52:54.960 --> 0:52:56.120
<v Speaker 1>And when he said, I.

0:52:56.160 --> 0:53:01.279
<v Speaker 2>Thirst, and they gave him the vinegar for water. After that,

0:53:02.520 --> 0:53:05.759
<v Speaker 2>after he had received the sour wine, after he had

0:53:05.800 --> 0:53:08.040
<v Speaker 2>set the trap on death, hell and the grave, I

0:53:08.080 --> 0:53:10.399
<v Speaker 2>promise you we're gonna have the best Easter ever this year.

0:53:10.640 --> 0:53:13.160
<v Speaker 1>I feel like Easter came early today. I really do.

0:53:14.120 --> 0:53:14.799
<v Speaker 1>I really do.

0:53:15.440 --> 0:53:19.319
<v Speaker 2>I really feel like resurrection came in an unexpected time

0:53:19.760 --> 0:53:22.400
<v Speaker 2>for somebody who thought, you are trapped.

0:53:22.800 --> 0:53:24.000
<v Speaker 1>Here the word of the Lord.

0:53:24.480 --> 0:53:27.680
<v Speaker 3>It's not a trap, as the triumph.

0:53:27.719 --> 0:53:28.920
<v Speaker 4>Shall I the God.

0:53:31.800 --> 0:53:42.920
<v Speaker 1>So Friday's trap was Sunday's triumph.

0:53:47.760 --> 0:53:52.279
<v Speaker 2>He set up, first, set the trap, and after he

0:53:52.320 --> 0:53:53.520
<v Speaker 2>had received the sour he.

0:53:53.560 --> 0:53:57.040
<v Speaker 1>Said, is finished. It's finished.

0:54:00.920 --> 0:54:06.759
<v Speaker 2>The trap became the triumph. God's gonna take the thing

0:54:07.880 --> 0:54:09.920
<v Speaker 2>that looks. Ask the children of Israel. They thought the

0:54:09.960 --> 0:54:12.319
<v Speaker 2>red Seed was gonna be the end of them. It

0:54:12.400 --> 0:54:17.799
<v Speaker 2>was the end of their enemies. You're not trapped the

0:54:17.880 --> 0:54:22.720
<v Speaker 2>devil is You're not trapped, You're.

0:54:22.560 --> 0:54:25.719
<v Speaker 1>Not touch Somebody say, I'm not trapped. Come on, I'm

0:54:25.760 --> 0:54:26.719
<v Speaker 1>not trapped, and.

0:54:26.800 --> 0:54:35.120
<v Speaker 2>I'm not your sea who the sun sets free? How

0:54:35.160 --> 0:54:38.239
<v Speaker 2>many believe that the sufferings of this present time are

0:54:38.280 --> 0:54:41.279
<v Speaker 2>not worthy to be compared with the glory that will

0:54:41.280 --> 0:54:41.920
<v Speaker 2>be revealed.

0:54:42.120 --> 0:54:45.680
<v Speaker 1>How many believe Christ is in you? The humble glory?

0:54:45.920 --> 0:54:49.320
<v Speaker 1>Come on, shot like you believe that shot like you.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm on casting, So.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna tell you one more thing, and I promise

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<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna walk off this stage while I'm saying it.

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<v Speaker 2>I love to preach the word to you, not because

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<v Speaker 2>I like to hear myself talk.

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<v Speaker 1>I love to preach the.

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<v Speaker 2>Word of God to you because I know what this

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<v Speaker 2>seed is going to do if you get it down

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<v Speaker 2>in your heart.

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<v Speaker 1>And I watched this favorite flows from unexpected places.

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<v Speaker 2>Do you remember when we were writing the song Resurrecting

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<v Speaker 2>And it took about nine months to write the song,

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<v Speaker 2>and everybody on the team contributes in different ways. My

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<v Speaker 2>thing is, I like, I always like to write. And

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<v Speaker 2>Chris can tell you this because we've been knowing each

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<v Speaker 2>other forever, and you'll give it up for Chris Brown.

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<v Speaker 2>This man is a great man of God. Well, I'm

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<v Speaker 2>kind of weird because I like it. When the song

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<v Speaker 2>seems like it should be over, I always like to

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<v Speaker 2>put another verse.

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<v Speaker 1>It's true, right.

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<v Speaker 2>So we wrote the song and it was kind of done,

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<v Speaker 2>not really done. We thought it was done and we

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<v Speaker 2>finished the songwrit anything, and I started.

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<v Speaker 1>Thinking, I wanted to write this fourth verse for this song.

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<v Speaker 2>And you know, Chris is kind of laid because he's

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

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<v Speaker 2>the hardest working man in the praise biz. But so.

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<v Speaker 1>It took six months to get the verse right.

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<v Speaker 2>But we ended up writing a declaration for our church,

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<v Speaker 2>lift your hands, whatever's got your trap today. We ended

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<v Speaker 2>up writing this verse to let you know that what

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<v Speaker 2>looks like it's got you locked in.

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<v Speaker 1>Is going to be the place. See, that's what the

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<v Speaker 1>grave was.

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<v Speaker 2>The grave of Jesus Christ was a garden in disguise.

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<v Speaker 2>That's what your trials are, That's what your weakness is.

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<v Speaker 2>So I want you to sing this fourth verse because

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<v Speaker 2>just when it seems like the song should be over,

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<v Speaker 2>just when it seems like your hope is gone, just

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<v Speaker 2>when it seems like the devil has dehydrated your.

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<v Speaker 1>Dream the solous. So they thought they had him right,

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<v Speaker 1>so they posted the guard right there.

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<v Speaker 2>And now if he robbed the grave of its power,

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<v Speaker 2>if the guards couldn't keep his body at come on, church,

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<v Speaker 2>come on, I'm talking about.

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<v Speaker 1>You, Rivers. I'm living water you never nurse again.

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<v Speaker 3>Would you get this spirit feed and the same spirit

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<v Speaker 3>He's body and.

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<v Speaker 1>Rags some the You're got a.

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<v Speaker 3>Stake wa God has robbed.

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<v Speaker 4>Got up should dame?

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