Whatever you’re going through right now could be a setup. Learn how God sometimes sets up your struggles for a greater purpose.
Geez all through his ministry people were trying to trap Jesus the Sadducees and the Pharisees and
Judas trapped him in the garden and and and and the and the Roman official stuff
They had him trapped on the cross
But Jesus was always the one even when they thought they had him they never really had him because he was always in control
Even on the cross there were over 300
Messianic prophecies that Jesus fulfilled in his life and in his death and so Jesus was Jesus was never
He was never really trapped see here
He is with this woman, and he says I want to drink, but he’s not really thirsty like that
He’s trying to give her something God doesn’t really need anything from you. He can have another you in a minute
I don’t mean to go back to
2002 but sometimes and so God God God really isn’t needing something from you when we talk about giving in the church
How dare you with your thirsty self get an attitude they just want my money
God doesn’t need your money God wants to be in your heart. He wants to set you free. You’re the one thirsty
You’re the one
So
He says give me a drink. She says well
We don’t have a bucket, and he’s trying to get her to see that. She is the bucket
And he is the water
the woman said sir
if if if there’s if there’s some kind of water
If there’s some bottomless well, if there’s free refills
Somebody shout free refills
Give me this water, so I won’t have to be
So I won’t have to be trapped, so I won’t have to keep coming back here so on
So I won’t have to keep texting Travis, I’ve just made up the name truck
Swabbin have to keep performing
So I won’t have to keep being so
Thirsty and
Now Jesus. He’s got her all right got her
He came to some area and sat by the well
and now she’s trying just watch I see us all right go get your husband and
She says what had happened was
I’ll have a husband which is true, but it’s not a total truth. You know how you do late
Right I
Have no husband jesus said you’re right saying I have no husband for you have had five husbands
And the one you have now is not your husband what you’ve said in is true, and you’re thirsty
Thirsty and you’re trapped
And when I asked you for water, I was trying to release you from
Having to go all around the people and things
And stuff that doesn’t satisfy I
Want to give you something that comes from within I
Want to give you something that doesn’t depend on bank accounts that doesn’t diminish
No matter how the biopsy comes back I
Want to give you something that you can live off of?
Something that only gets stronger in your struggle I
Want to give you unlimited supply, and she said sir, I think you’re onto something
She goes back to Samaria
Carrying living water that she didn’t even expect again
Comes back to Jesus and the Bible says that many in Samaria believed because of her testimony
See it what it was a trap
Jesus used the thirsty woman to transform an entire region I wonder how he could use your life
If he would receive this grace today I
Want to talk about
the setup
Because that’s what it was
It was a setup
That’s why he went through Samaria
He was setting this woman up
That’s why he asked for a drink
Cuz she was thirsty
That’s why he went to the cross hill 650 yards
That’s why he said I thirst and I’m gonna tell you how I found out
Cuz I thought about that thing so long
I thought okay
How can living water be thirsty how can a well need water how can the one that spoke the oceans into existence now need water
From the very same source that he created. How could God who reigns above the waters need water
How could it be possible that God could come down plunge us into the form of human man?
How could Christ be made flesh?
How could he die and suffer like that how could it be that their seasons in my life when I call on him and nothing?
Happens how could it be that I have divinity, but I’m trapped sometimes in my desperation
How can it be that I’m full of the spirit, but sometimes I feel so dry so
I had to read again. I
Read that verse like like 20 times in John 1928 and that don’t read Greek although. I took Greek I
Don’t read Hebrew, although. I took Hebrew. I was not very effective in my language studies
and
And and and I don’t even read Aramaic
Which is what Jesus was probably speaking in at the moment when he said I thirst but?
But what will I do read really well as English
And I know I know my punctuation marks
So when I read John 1928 have y’all got like seven minutes for me to tie this up
seven minutes seven minute miracle
And and and so it said that after this
After all you’ve been through
After all they’ve accuse you off after all the people who walked away who should have been there after this
After they counted you out and sent you or nothing and mocked you after this
After a crown of thorns was placed on his head after the blood ran from his brow after this
After they beat us back after they released
Barabbas after this after the cock crowed and Peter denied him thrice after this
Knowing that now all things were finished Jesus had one more thing to say
One thing to do because there are 300 prophecies
And he was on 299
And see everybody standing around that day thought that death
Had trapped Jesus
right and
The cross was a set up
But it wasn’t set up by Judas
and
it wasn’t set up by the Sadducees and
It wasn’t set up by the Pharisees, and it wasn’t set up by Herod. It was set up by heaven
Listen to me preach this sermon
Listen to me preach this sermon
Listen to me preach on the parenthesis in John
1928 I preached on a lot of things in my little tenure preaching, but I never preached on a punctuation mark until today
after this
Knowing that all things have been fulfilled
Knowing that he had drank down the full cup of the wrath of God so that you would never have to
After knowing that he suffered like a criminal so that he can reign like a king after humbling himself
Being obedient even to the point of death on a cross
And it was saying Jesus said
Parentheses
To fulfill the scripture
Huh I
Wonder why John put it in parentheses
Probably cuz he didn’t know that’s why it was happening at the time
See when Jesus said I thirst
They thought he wanted water
so they gave him vinegar to mock him, and
The thing they used to mock him
Was actually the thing that he used
To finish the work God gave him to do
The thing that they put on a sponge to shame him
Was the sea because listen I got to tell you something stand up, so I’ll finish this sermon please oh
I got to show you one more thing
See because
When Jesus said I thirst?
to fulfill the scripture
Parenthesis
Have you ever had to live in the parentheses I mean like not
Understanding why you were going through what you were going through. Please be real with me. I cannot preach this sermon to closed hearts
I’m trying to give you water today for your thirsty soul
But sometimes you’re in a wilderness, and you don’t know why?
and
Sometimes you’re looking at a red sea and you feel trapped
Jesus looked trapped up there on that cross, but John said no
He wasn’t trapped death didn’t trap Jesus
Jesus trapped death
Nah
Now I know why he said I thirst
Now I know why why the lips that spoke the waters into their place on the earth said I thirst
to fulfill the scripture
God has a purpose for every thirst in your life
Death didn’t trap Jesus, Jesus trapped death!
Jesus was setting the trap for death this was the last thing he had to do
Before the spirit would be released. It’s a setup. It’s
a setup
If he didn’t suffer
Salvation could not spring up like a well if he did not suffer
It could not flow forward if he did not die he could not rise
Somebody shout it’s a setup
It’s not the end
It’s in the parentheses
It’s in the parentheses
Sometimes you got to trust God in the parentheses in the tight places
When it looks like you’re trapped to know that the very red sea that feels like it’s gonna kill you is gonna drown your enemies
behind you somebody shout
Just when the devil thought he had Jesus trapped
Just when he thought it was over
Just when he thought we got rid of that one
Just when he thought it was the end just when they wrote the stuff let it become a trap
God said I got you
The trap they set the trap
To set the trap so God brought you here into this garden
so you could sweat out your insecurities
God brought you here into this tight place so that your doubts could die and your faith could live
and never thirst again