It's A Setup

Luke 22:31–38 NIV

31 “Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift all of you as wheat. 32 But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.” 33 But he replied, “Lord, I am ready to go with you to prison and to death.” 34 Jesus answered, “I tell you, Peter, before the rooster crows today, you will deny three times that you know me.” 35 Then Jesus asked them, “When I sent you without purse, bag or sandals, did you lack anything?” “Nothing,” they answered. 36 He said to them, “But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don’t have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one. 37 It is written: ‘And he was numbered with the transgressors’; and I tell you that this must be fulfilled in me. Yes, what is written about me is reaching its fulfillment.” 38 The disciples said, “See, Lord, here are two swords.” “That’s enough!” he replied.

1. God is in Control

2. Your failure is not final

Your failure is not fatal

Your failure will not keep you from your future

Your failure is fuel for your future

3. Your setback was a setup

Your setback is not God forgetting about you

Your setback is not God setting you aside

Your setback is not God putting you down

Your setback was a setup for your comeback

4. Now is the time for your comeback

You are in position to make a comeback

A comeback is a return

A comeback is a resurgence

A comeback is going back to your destined position

Time for the rally caps

5. Your comeback will strengthen others

Your comeback will be the reason others come to the Lord

Your comeback will reveal the sovereignty of God

Your comeback will reveal the Power of God

Your comeback will bring life to others

Your comeback starts right now