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