Life After The Let Down

0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:04.439 I am so excited with like ten extra o's about 0:00:04.480 --> 0:00:07.480 this message that you're about to hear today that God 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:11.799 gave me for you. But before that special message, I 0:00:11.800 --> 0:00:14.560 have this special message. I want to see you at 0:00:14.600 --> 0:00:19.439 Elevation Nights. Go to Elevation Nights dot Com. Our tour 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:25.320 starts soon. It's me Elevation Worship the Holy Ghost. Oh, 0:00:25.360 --> 0:00:27.760 it's going to be amazing. Right. Here are the dates, 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:34.559 April twenty sixth through May fifth. Here are the cities Chicago, Indy, Washington, 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:39.159 d C, Newark, New Jersey, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Columbus, Ohio, 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:43.800 Reading Pennsylvania, and Boston, Massachusetts. Yes, I'm reading them on 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:47.159 my screen. Yes I'm excited. 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We lift our hands to acknowledge that 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:49.000 there is no one higher than you, no one greater 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:53.600 than you. We lift our hands to acknowledge that all 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:57.280 authority in heaven and on earth has been given to you. 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:00.720 And when we proclaim the name of Jesus, we are 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:05.120 seated in heavenly places with you today, forgiven of our sin, 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:10.080 filled with your spirit, assured of our place in your family, 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:14.720 and called to be your friends. Now, God, I pray 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:18.040 for the sleeper to wake up. I thank you that 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:22.200 today is a divine wake up call. God. I pray 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:24.560 that today, as we have been singing the truth of 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:28.320 the Gospel, that people have been shaking and they can't 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:31.519 hit the snooze button one more time, because the King 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:36.320 is here and resurrection is real and nothing is impossible 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:39.800 for him who believes so. Half your way in this house, God, 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:43.240 we're full of faith. We give you praise and honor. 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:48.679 Employ in Jesus' name, a man clap those hands and 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:58.200 give him, praise good to see you. Welcome all of 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:01.359 our EPAM around the world the Easter to our etham 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:08.840 all over the world. Good grief. If I told you 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:11.680 where everyone was joining us from, you would think I 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:14.760 was just making stuff up. But when they go on 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:16.880 the chat and say here's where I'm watching from, do 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:19.799 that right now. Okay, those of you watching on YouTube 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:22.840 and Facebook, let us know where you're joining us from. 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:28.680 And we from We're from the country. We're here from Charlotte, 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:31.720 North Carolina, just to welcome you into the presence of God. 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:40.320 Such an exciting day. Man, Chris, I've rounded the corner 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:46.880 and you were preaching. Man, whoa you were preaching? You 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:51.000 were preaching like the devil is defeated. I was impressed. 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:54.480 He was going on and on about the scripture, and 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:56.480 I was like, man, he really knows the word. And 0:03:56.520 --> 0:03:58.120 then I got around the corner and he was holding 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:02.400 a Bible. I thought he hid it in his heart 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:05.800 that he might not sin against God. Now he was 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:11.680 holding it in his hand. Well, I can't possibly name 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:14.960 everyone who's joining us, but just from all over the world, 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:19.960 whether Missouri, UK Houston Abbey shouted out a few people 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:22.719 during the welcome, and I just want to join in 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:27.000 welcoming you into the presence of God. Sometimes the question 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:31.279 is not whether we are welcome in his presence, it's 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:34.480 whether we will really let Him into the places of 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:39.080 our life that we hide from others. So there's always 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:41.559 a guilt trip that preachers put on people on Easter 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:44.640 and Christmas. And they call them. They say, it's good 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:50.080 to see all the CEOs the Christmas and Easter, only Christians, 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:52.800 and everybody goes ha ha, and they laugh, so nobody 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:57.159 will know it's them, and a fear you might sink 0:04:57.200 --> 0:04:59.320 through the floor because you know you haven't been here. 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:03.839 But that's not our message today. Our message today is 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:07.400 you are welcome in the presence of God, and you're 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:15.839 welcome in our church. But the song that we were singing, 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:19.200 that's the real question of Easter. Will you welcome resurrection 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:24.000 and listen in an irony and ironic twist of fake, 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:29.039 cruel twist of faith on the biggest Sunday that we 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:31.680 have is the church Easter. I have the shortest preaching 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:35.240 time because the most people come and if I go 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:39.120 too long, it will cause confusion, and then people will 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:41.440 in the parking lot will get violent and somebody might 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:44.040 get shot, and I can't raise you from the dead. 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:47.520 I'm not Jesus. So what I have to do is 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:50.960 stay on my clock today. Y'all know how difficult that 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:54.240 is for me to do. So rather than get into 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:56.960 the formalities, any information you need, you'll have to get 0:05:57.000 --> 0:05:59.760 it from somebody else. I'm going to get right into 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:05.400 the word God gave me today. I'm gonna get right 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:11.360 into it. Praise the Lord. We've been singing, and I 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:13.600 don't know if you missed the singing and missed the worship, 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:16.560 but it was glorious. And now we want to turn 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:19.760 our attention to the word that God has for us today. 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:24.000 And I want to start in John chapter twenty, pick 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:26.719 up two verses from the end of that chapter, and 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:28.160 then I want to read a little story from the 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:36.000 next chapter. At the Easter Man at the Eastern you 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:42.280 made it. You made it, You made it. Tell somebody, 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:44.600 I'm so proud to be sitting next to somebody who 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:49.599 looks as good as you on Easter Sunday. Makes me 0:06:49.680 --> 0:07:01.000 feel beautiful. Now listen to this from John twenty, verse thirty. 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:06.640 John says Jesus performed many other signs in the presence 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:10.080 of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book, 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:16.080 but these are written that you may believe, believe what 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:21.560 that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:26.800 that by believing you may have life in his name. Y'all. 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:29.520 I'm so glad it doesn't say by behaving, I may 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:33.440 have life in his name, because I know you're on 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:36.120 your best behavior today. But if we would have followed 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:41.040 you this week, you'd be shouting over that verse by believing, 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:44.760 because if we based it on your behavior, you might 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:48.920 go to the other place. But by believing you may 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:52.280 have life in his name. Now it would appear that 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:55.840 John is drawing his gospel count to a close with 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:59.840 those verses. But there is an entire chapter that follows, 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:03.320 and I won't read the whole thing, but I'm so 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:05.480 glad that it was put in as an epilogue or 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:08.440 as a ps in John twenty one, because I think 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:11.760 there's something very important for you to know today. That 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:14.800 John really ended his gospel account and he said, hey, 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:16.280 Jesus did a lot of other things. I can't tell 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:20.200 you everything, and then he opens back up, Oh, by 0:08:20.280 --> 0:08:22.760 the way, let me tell you one other thing he 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:30.520 did he's not finished yet. He's not finished yet. That's 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:32.760 what I need you to know. More than you know 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:36.959 anything that you know or think you know. I need 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:38.680 you to know that better than you know your name. 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:40.800 I need you to know that, better than you know 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:43.800 your Social Security number. I need you to know that better. 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:45.599 You don't even know your phone number anymore because you 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:48.679 don't have to. But I need you to know that. 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:53.600 You know that he's not finished. I need every single 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:56.240 solitary person under the sound of my voice to find 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:59.440 one person and tell him he's not finished and put 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:02.000 it in the chat too. Put it in the chat 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:08.000 right now. He's not finished. He's not finished. Now listen 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:10.320 to the next part. This is where my sermon comes from. 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:16.160 That was the frame. Here's the picture. Afterward, Jesus appeared 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:19.959 again to his disciples by the Sea of Galilee. It 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:25.720 happened this way. Simon Peter Thomas, also known as Didamus. 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:28.880 He gets called douting Thomas in a lot of churches. 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:30.760 Not here, we don't call him that. We call him 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:34.400 honest Thomas, because he had the faith to say, I 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:36.440 need to see for myself and guess what Jesus did. 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:42.640 Showed up. So it was Simon Peter Thomas also known 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:46.360 as Didamus Nathaniel from Cana and Galilee. The sons of Zebedee, 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:49.120 James and John, and two other disciples were together, so 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:53.280 that's seven total they were all together. Verse three. I'm 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:57.640 going out to fish, Simon Peter told them, and they said, 0:09:57.679 --> 0:10:03.040 we'll go with you. No to do, got to eat somehow, 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:06.400 So they went out, got in the boat, but that 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:12.880 night they caught nothing. Early in the morning, Jesus stood 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:16.439 on the shore, but the disciples didn't realize it was Jesus. 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:26.920 He called out to them, friends, friends, friends, keep that 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:31.160 right there in your reticular activating system that were friends. 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:43.960 Haven't you any fish? No? The answer no no. When 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:46.920 I was like, do you you know? Do you have 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:51.920 joy today? No? Do you have peace in your heart? 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:55.840 How many of you have faith? To No? Sometimes the 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:58.440 greatest way you can invite God into your life is 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:03.480 with an honest no yeah. Practice one time, just say 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:06.320 no yeah. And if you would get better at saying 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:08.160 that in your everyday life, you wouldn't have so much 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:09.959 ulcers from committing to so many things that you don't 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:14.320 even need to be doing to begin with. So now 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:18.200 let's really zone in here we need to focus. He said, 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:22.199 throw your net on the right side of the boat 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:25.480 and you will find some. And when they did, they 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:28.840 were unable to haul the net in because of the 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:34.040 large number of fish. Then the disciple whom Jesus loved, 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:40.960 that's the nickname John gave himself, said to Peter, it 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:44.800 is the Lord. As soon as Simon Peter heard him 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:48.079 say it is the Lord, he wrapped his outer garment 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:51.240 around him, for he had taken it off, and jumped 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:54.439 into the water. And the other disciples followed in the boat, 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:57.280 towing the net full of fish, for they were not 0:11:57.440 --> 0:11:59.760 far from the shore, about one hundred yards. Peter, you 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:04.079 could wait one hundred yards now. When they landed, they 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:07.200 saw a fire of burning coals there with fish on 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:12.000 it and some bread, and Jesus said to them, bring 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:16.760 some of the fish you have just caught. So Simon 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:21.320 Peter climbed back into the boat and dragged the net ashore. 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:26.320 It was full of large fish one hundred and fifty three. 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:29.760 But even with so many live fish. You know how 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:32.480 hard it is to haul in live fish. I never 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:34.880 did it, but it sounds hard. One guy said it 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:38.240 was three hundred pounds of fish, and Peter hauled it 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:44.199 in all by him self. When he saw Jesus, some 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:46.480 kind of strength kicked in that he didn't have when 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:51.480 the rooster was crowing. When he saw Jesus, he dragged 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:54.400 three hundred pounds of fish behind him, And even with 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:58.160 so many, the net was not torn. And Jesus said 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:02.360 to them, come have bread, bakfast. None of the disciples 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:05.880 dared ask him, who are you? They knew it was 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:11.720 the Lord. Jesus came, took the bread, gave it to them, 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:16.920 and did the same with the fish. This was now 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:21.680 the third time Jesus appeared to his disciples after he 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:24.240 was raised from the dead. So here's what we're going 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:27.720 to talk about today. We're going to talk about life 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:38.920 after the letdown, Life after the letdown. Thank you for 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:41.160 the ministry of your word as it goes forth today, 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:47.560 May it do so with convicting power and with life giving, changing, 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:57.120 saving resurrection power. In Jesus' name, Amen, you may be seated. 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:05.280 I collect Easter sermon ideas because it comes around once 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:08.760 a year. I have big lists going into this Easter. 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:13.280 And the Lord said, this will not be your sermon text. 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:17.240 You're going to talk to the people about life after 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:22.960 the letdown. And it was weird for me yesterday because 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:26.840 I wanted to be happy about Easter, excited about Easter. 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:31.680 I wanted to be I wanted to be full of energy. 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:38.000 But I felt like I spent all day living in 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:43.600 your letdowns. Because I've studied my text, right, I already 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:47.360 figured out what the Hebrew and the Greek means down 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:50.160 in John chapter twenty one, where Jesus says to Peter 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:52.800 three times. We didn't read this part do you love me? 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:55.480 And he said yes? And he said do you love me? 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:57.920 And he said yes, And he said do you love me? 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:00.840 And he said yes? And I had already read how 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:03.800 that's not really about what I heard growing up, where 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:07.360 Jesus was saying different words for love, the Greek words 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:10.160 for love, you know, fialo which is like a brotherly love, 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:12.720 and agape, which is the god kind of love, And 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:14.480 he was really trying to get Peter to a new 0:15:14.560 --> 0:15:19.720 level of love because Jesus didn't speak Greek, so I'd 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:23.880 already studied that part about how really, when Jesus asked 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:26.960 three times Peter, do you love me? It wasn't really 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:29.560 so he could give him a vocabulary lesson about different 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:35.000 types of love. Really, the meaning in that three times 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:36.560 is not in the words he uses it at all. 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:41.560 It's in the math, because if you go back just 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:45.120 a few verses before Jesus comes to Peter on the shore, 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:51.320 Peter has just denied Jesus three times. And it helped 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:53.120 me to see that it was a full circle moment 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:57.520 for Jesus and Peter, that he was giving him grace 0:15:57.920 --> 0:16:02.120 to cover all of his failure, and that Peter didn't 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:07.520 have more denial than Jesus had grace, that Peter didn't 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:12.800 have more doubt than Jesus had mercy. But after studying 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:15.520 all of those nice things about Greek and Hebrew and 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:17.920 numbers and all of the things that I studied during 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:19.840 the week so that I can be prepared to serve 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:22.080 you a good meal and you don't choke on the 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:25.880 bones of a sermon that I didn't prepare correctly, it 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:28.840 came to me that, really, unless we make this message 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:32.680 very personal for you, it will be yet another superstitious 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:35.080 activity that you fulfill. Thinking God, you did him a 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:37.560 favor by putting on perfume and sitting still for an 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:41.200 hour in fifteen minutes and we don't want this Easter 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:43.920 to pass us by and it just be another ticket 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:46.560 punching thing on our list in case we die before 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:51.480 the next one. Now, I believe that because of what 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:54.680 Jesus did for me, I'm going to get to go 0:16:54.760 --> 0:16:59.600 to Heaven when I die. I believe that, And I 0:16:59.640 --> 0:17:02.760 believe that even if you don't like me, I get 0:17:02.760 --> 0:17:07.880 to go. I believe that even if you don't think 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:11.320 my theology is exactly correct, or you don't think that 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:14.800 my Easter attire is dressy enough, because the Lord deserves 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:17.520 our best, I still get to go to Heaven. And 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:19.480 so you should be nice to me and what you 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:21.639 say to me, because when we get to Heaven, I 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:26.439 might be your neighbor. And wouldn't it be weird for 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:29.239 all the people that you didn't like on Earth and 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:35.120 you get to Heaven and they say, hi, neighbor, all 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:38.160 the people that you thought they didn't have the correct 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:41.760 you know, the all of the theological suppositions and share 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:45.640 all the same common beliefs. You might get next door 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:47.320 to them in heaven and realize you have to spend 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:51.280 eternity with them. Yet, as much as I believe that 0:17:51.320 --> 0:17:55.159 what Jesus did for me prepares me for heaven. I 0:17:55.200 --> 0:18:01.359 think that often the message of resurrection gets weaken in 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:06.600 our tendency to defer its implications to the next life. 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:11.480 For us to think that John is saying believing gives 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:15.399 us life in Jesus' name after we die is an 0:18:15.440 --> 0:18:21.240 unnecessary limitation of the finished work of Christ. For me 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:23.720 to believe that I'm gonna get to heaven one day 0:18:23.880 --> 0:18:25.960 and play a harp and whatever they're doing in heaven, 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:28.080 I'm gonna do it with them, all right. If they're 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:31.480 playing hearts, I'm gonna take heart lessons. If they're dancing, 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:34.440 I'm gonna take dancing lessons. There will not be any 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:36.439 TikTok in heaven, so I will not have to be 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:38.720 shown to the world. But if they're dancing in heaven, 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:41.000 I'm gonna find a corner and practice how to dance. 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:43.760 I'm gonna do it all when I get to heaven. Yet, 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:47.480 there are some things that I need Jesus for while 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:57.800 I am still here right now. That's why John twenty one, listen, Jody, 0:18:58.080 --> 0:18:59.760 That's why John twenty one had to be in the 0:18:59.800 --> 0:19:05.359 b Because if it just ended on this note of 0:19:05.600 --> 0:19:11.360 abstract universal reality called belief in life. We would kick 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:14.000 it somewhere someday to amazing grace and the sweet by 0:19:14.040 --> 0:19:16.440 and by and potato pie in the sky, and then 0:19:16.560 --> 0:19:22.240 here on earth we would continue to suppress the questions 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:26.840 that we have and the fears that we wrestle with, 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:30.600 and the ugliness that mars our own self concept and 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:35.159 our identity. Just press it down and keep pressing it 0:19:35.200 --> 0:19:39.920 down and hope that it never comes out. That's why 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:44.960 I wanted to talk to you about life after the letdown. 0:19:46.320 --> 0:19:49.760 When I say the letdown, I am leaving it open 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:55.600 ended so that you can supply your own event, experience, 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:59.400 or condition. Where I say the term letdown, it's kind 0:19:59.400 --> 0:20:02.200 of like a code li language. Okay. I have secret 0:20:02.200 --> 0:20:04.160 hand signals with my family that mean things when we're 0:20:04.160 --> 0:20:06.400 in public and for the rest of our time. Today 0:20:06.440 --> 0:20:08.240 you are my family, and this is going to be 0:20:08.320 --> 0:20:11.480 our secret signal to each other. When I say let down, 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:15.119 you put the one in there that you don't talk about. 0:20:17.320 --> 0:20:21.040 So when I say let down, you will have something 0:20:21.040 --> 0:20:23.640 that you may not even have language for that will 0:20:23.680 --> 0:20:27.120 come up when I talk about the letdown. We are 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:29.960 so quick not only to want to get to heaven 0:20:29.960 --> 0:20:33.119 when we die one day, but to want to get 0:20:33.480 --> 0:20:36.680 to the part of the story where Jesus got up 0:20:37.840 --> 0:20:42.560 that we will waltz right past the part where he 0:20:42.640 --> 0:20:46.000 went to Jerusalem to be handed over and crucified at 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:49.560 the hands of sinful men. There is really no way 0:20:49.680 --> 0:20:54.240 for us to experience Easter, the events of Easter, without 0:20:54.280 --> 0:20:58.240 experiencing the events of the Cross. And there is really 0:20:58.240 --> 0:21:00.399 no way for us to experience the event of the 0:21:00.440 --> 0:21:04.840 Cross like the Disciples did, because for us the cross 0:21:04.840 --> 0:21:08.400 has a certain measure of comfort. We know that our 0:21:08.480 --> 0:21:11.199 sin is nailed to that cross. We know that it 0:21:11.320 --> 0:21:14.800 canceled the written regulation that stood against us. We know 0:21:14.920 --> 0:21:17.679 that the power of shame was broken on the cross 0:21:17.720 --> 0:21:20.720 of Christ. We know all of that. So when we 0:21:20.760 --> 0:21:25.520 sing the Wonderful Cross, when we survey the wondrous Cross, 0:21:25.760 --> 0:21:28.680 we see the promise of redemption and atonement and his 0:21:28.840 --> 0:21:31.760 blood that was shed for us. But that same blood 0:21:31.760 --> 0:21:36.200 that we rejoice in represented for the disciples a broken 0:21:36.320 --> 0:21:40.560 promise and an unmet expectation of the kingdom that Jesus 0:21:40.600 --> 0:21:46.760 came to bring. These were his friends. Peter was a 0:21:46.760 --> 0:21:50.840 friend of Jesus. Everybody has crazy friends, and Peter was 0:21:50.920 --> 0:21:57.399 Jesus's crazy friend. Who's your crazy friend? I don't have 0:21:57.440 --> 0:22:08.000 any crazy friend. Then you are the crazy Peter was, 0:22:08.080 --> 0:22:11.000 Jesus is kind of crazy. One dude came over to 0:22:11.040 --> 0:22:13.000 the church. He said, I just followed my kids over 0:22:13.040 --> 0:22:15.879 here to see if you were running a cult. My 0:22:15.960 --> 0:22:18.399 kid came over. We was so excited about church. I said, 0:22:18.640 --> 0:22:21.359 my kid is excited about church, that must be a cult. 0:22:22.200 --> 0:22:24.320 And I came over to find out if you were crazy. 0:22:25.240 --> 0:22:27.960 I said, well, was I? And he said yeah, it 0:22:28.080 --> 0:22:30.879 wasn't a cult, but you are crazy, But you're my 0:22:31.080 --> 0:22:35.200 kind of crazy. And I gave him a Fis bump, 0:22:35.200 --> 0:22:38.439 and I was like, that's all right, because this whole 0:22:38.440 --> 0:22:45.840 thing that we're celebrating today is kind of crazy. Try 0:22:45.880 --> 0:22:47.920 the side of the room. This side of the room 0:22:48.200 --> 0:22:53.679 has no anointing of honesty whatsoever. Today. This is kind 0:22:53.720 --> 0:22:58.399 of crazy. I'm gonna have to ap preach to the 0:22:58.400 --> 0:23:01.960 people in the back who got here late. This. I'm 0:23:01.960 --> 0:23:04.360 gonna have to go out and preach it in the overflow. 0:23:04.720 --> 0:23:10.600 This is kind of crazy. It's crazy. It didn't seem 0:23:10.640 --> 0:23:13.640 crazy at first. When Peter met Jesus. All Jesus said 0:23:13.720 --> 0:23:15.520 was can I use your boat to preach. There's nothing 0:23:15.560 --> 0:23:18.080 crazy about preaching, and there's nothing crazy about doing it 0:23:18.119 --> 0:23:21.760 from a boat, because that would provide natural amplification for 0:23:21.880 --> 0:23:26.680 Jesus's voice. Matter of fact, if you really liked the Bible, 0:23:26.840 --> 0:23:28.919 you were confused when I read the story, because you're like, 0:23:29.480 --> 0:23:32.719 is this a resurrection scripture? Isn't this what happened when 0:23:32.800 --> 0:23:38.080 Jesus first called Peter? And you're right, it's the same 0:23:38.119 --> 0:23:45.120 story from the other side. It's the same story from 0:23:45.200 --> 0:23:48.119 the other side. But let me show you how it started. 0:23:48.320 --> 0:23:51.080 When Peter was out fishing one night and he caught nothing. 0:23:51.359 --> 0:23:53.720 The only thing that the stories have in common really 0:23:54.800 --> 0:23:57.480 is that Peter wasn't a very good fisherman, and either one. 0:23:58.280 --> 0:24:00.240 The only thing that I can really find that it's 0:24:00.280 --> 0:24:05.280 exactly the same as empty nets, right, And there's a 0:24:05.280 --> 0:24:09.040 message in that. There is a message in that about 0:24:09.160 --> 0:24:12.159 the God who loves to feel what is empty and 0:24:12.200 --> 0:24:16.439 the God who loves empty what is full. One is 0:24:16.480 --> 0:24:21.439 the nets, the other is the tomb. My faith is 0:24:21.480 --> 0:24:25.520 not in my own fullness. My faith is not in 0:24:25.560 --> 0:24:29.680 my own ability, My faith is not in my own righteousness. 0:24:30.040 --> 0:24:32.439 That's not how I'm getting to heaven. You get to 0:24:32.480 --> 0:24:34.639 heaven how you want to get to heaven. But I 0:24:34.640 --> 0:24:37.440 don't have the perfection pass. It's not going to let 0:24:37.440 --> 0:24:40.160 me through. I don't have my card punched. Not all 0:24:40.200 --> 0:24:42.880 the time. I'm honest, I'm sincere, I love the Lord 0:24:42.960 --> 0:24:45.680 in all of that. But sometimes I slip, and sometimes 0:24:45.760 --> 0:24:48.600 I'm crazy, and not in the Christian way of crazy. Okay, 0:24:48.840 --> 0:24:51.280 now that that's out of the way, let me show you. 0:24:51.680 --> 0:24:54.639 When Jesus called Peter, look at this. It says that 0:24:55.040 --> 0:24:57.960 Jesus looked five verst for had finished speaking, and he 0:24:58.000 --> 0:25:02.639 said to Simon, that's's given name, not the name Jesus 0:25:02.680 --> 0:25:05.320 gave him, but the name is parents gave him. He said, 0:25:05.720 --> 0:25:12.520 put out into deep water and let down the nets 0:25:13.000 --> 0:25:18.560 for a catch. Everybody say let down. Next verse, Peter said, 0:25:18.720 --> 0:25:22.040 this makes no sense. We fished all night, We've caught nothing. 0:25:22.160 --> 0:25:24.000 We're hanging it up for the night. There's no need 0:25:24.040 --> 0:25:26.120 for us to keep fishing in the daytime. The fish 0:25:26.160 --> 0:25:28.200 won't come to the surface when the water gets hot. 0:25:28.400 --> 0:25:36.320 But because you say so, I will let down the nets. 0:25:37.560 --> 0:25:42.359 I will let down the nets. This was the beginning 0:25:42.880 --> 0:25:47.040 of Peter's participation in the ministry of Jesus, and I 0:25:47.160 --> 0:25:49.439 preached about it many times in the church, so I 0:25:49.480 --> 0:25:51.879 won't bore you with the review today. But when he 0:25:52.000 --> 0:25:55.119 let down the nets in that passage of Scripture, he 0:25:55.160 --> 0:25:58.240 could have had no way of knowing how his life 0:25:58.280 --> 0:26:02.000 would change because of the moment that he let down 0:26:02.520 --> 0:26:06.879 the nets. He could have had no idea that he 0:26:06.920 --> 0:26:10.480 would be front row seat to blind eyes open when 0:26:10.520 --> 0:26:13.639 he let down the nets. He could have had no 0:26:13.720 --> 0:26:16.520 way of knowing that he would see the widow from 0:26:16.600 --> 0:26:20.080 named son raised from the dead when he let down 0:26:20.119 --> 0:26:23.320 the nets. He could have had no idea that he 0:26:23.359 --> 0:26:26.119 would have seen a roof come off a house. Because 0:26:26.160 --> 0:26:29.639 the ministry of Jesus would be so popular that people 0:26:29.680 --> 0:26:32.680 watch this on an Easter Sunday. If they couldn't get 0:26:32.680 --> 0:26:35.560 in the overflow, they would repel down the roof to 0:26:35.560 --> 0:26:38.159 see Jesus. I don't preach as good as Jesus, so 0:26:38.200 --> 0:26:41.560 the roof is still here. But Jesus had so much 0:26:41.760 --> 0:26:45.520 power that stuff started falling from the ceiling. When they 0:26:45.560 --> 0:26:47.639 said I'm so sorry, you'll have to sit in overflow, 0:26:47.760 --> 0:26:50.080 they were like, oh, I'm not sitting in overflow, I'm 0:26:50.119 --> 0:26:52.359 sitting in the room. I got a need, and I 0:26:52.680 --> 0:26:54.880 got a friend who has a need, and I'm gonna 0:26:54.880 --> 0:26:57.320 get my friend to the feet of the one who 0:26:57.400 --> 0:27:00.920 has the word. He talked with so much tower and 0:27:01.119 --> 0:27:05.439 authority that the crowds and crowds loved him until he 0:27:05.600 --> 0:27:10.879 got to the park that they couldn't stomach until he 0:27:11.960 --> 0:27:15.720 let them down. Now, this is something I want to 0:27:15.720 --> 0:27:18.440 bring you today and see if it resonates with your heart. 0:27:21.160 --> 0:27:27.359 Are you a come up Christian? Only you know what 0:27:27.400 --> 0:27:32.080 I mean by come up. In the original Hebrew, come 0:27:32.160 --> 0:27:37.800 up means the part of the story where the success 0:27:38.240 --> 0:27:42.479 is accumulating and the benefits of a crue. It seems 0:27:42.480 --> 0:27:46.840 that Peter, as he followed Jesus through a certain season, 0:27:47.880 --> 0:27:52.120 was experiencing the come up, which made it the ultimate 0:27:52.280 --> 0:27:57.440 betrayal of Peter's faith when Jesus went to the cross. 0:27:58.600 --> 0:28:01.520 When Jesus said I'm going to the Peter said, no, 0:28:02.880 --> 0:28:08.280 not you, and the cross interrupted the come up. Now, 0:28:08.560 --> 0:28:11.879 we experienced the cross in the knowledge that Jesus isn't 0:28:11.920 --> 0:28:17.560 there anymore. We experienced the cross with the knowledge that 0:28:17.600 --> 0:28:22.920 the ultimate destruction can be transformed into the ultimate redemption. 0:28:23.880 --> 0:28:27.520 We experienced the cross that way, but for the disciples 0:28:28.119 --> 0:28:34.119 the cross was shaped like a question mark. Did we 0:28:34.160 --> 0:28:40.760 waste our lives? Did we throw our careers away? Should 0:28:40.760 --> 0:28:43.280 I have listened to my mom and not followed this 0:28:43.400 --> 0:28:49.320 carpenter's son all through the Galilean region? So I think 0:28:49.360 --> 0:28:51.600 before we rushed to the part where he got up, 0:28:52.480 --> 0:28:54.240 that's the eastern part. I can make everybody in the 0:28:54.280 --> 0:28:56.640 room claud real quick, high five or three people and say, 0:28:56.640 --> 0:28:58.280 he got up, he got up, he got up, he 0:28:58.320 --> 0:29:02.840 got up. What you won't see while they're high fiving 0:29:02.880 --> 0:29:10.720 you is the letdown that they pushed down. And that's 0:29:10.720 --> 0:29:13.200 why yesterday was hard for me, because I was imagining 0:29:13.240 --> 0:29:16.240 us together, and I knew you were going to wear 0:29:16.240 --> 0:29:19.720 your best button down shirt because Mom came to church 0:29:19.720 --> 0:29:21.560 with you today and you don't tell her you normally 0:29:21.560 --> 0:29:23.480 come to Elevation Church in a tank top, but you 0:29:23.560 --> 0:29:32.320 dressed up today. And I spent yesterday thinking about the 0:29:32.400 --> 0:29:36.960 fact that before he got up, they were let down. 0:29:38.640 --> 0:29:43.400 And the Lord was ministering to me about my letdowns. Yeah, 0:29:43.400 --> 0:29:47.200 I have some. I went through my camera role recently 0:29:48.920 --> 0:29:53.080 and I was laughing at some pictures and smiling at 0:29:53.080 --> 0:29:57.440 some pictures, and some of them made me want to cry, 0:29:58.120 --> 0:30:00.880 made me want to cry because I I could almost 0:30:01.320 --> 0:30:06.240 I could almost divide my camera roll into halves based 0:30:06.280 --> 0:30:15.880 on certain things, people, plans, and places where I experienced 0:30:15.880 --> 0:30:20.320 a letdown. One of them, in particular, was right in 0:30:20.360 --> 0:30:24.280 the middle of the summer twenty thirteen, when Dad died. 0:30:25.640 --> 0:30:28.840 I could see a dividing line almost between that year. 0:30:28.880 --> 0:30:30.320 That was a hard year for me in general. A 0:30:30.360 --> 0:30:33.760 lot of things happened that year. I'm not here to 0:30:33.920 --> 0:30:35.680 have you do therapy for me, and I want you 0:30:35.720 --> 0:30:39.040 to send me a bill, but I could almost see 0:30:39.040 --> 0:30:44.280 my eyes change in the pictures before and after. You 0:30:44.320 --> 0:30:46.760 know how we say that the birth of Jesus Christ 0:30:46.840 --> 0:30:52.320 changed everything, that's an incomplete statement because if he didn't die, 0:30:52.600 --> 0:30:58.040 it changed nothing. His teachings wouldn't be here, they wouldn't 0:30:58.040 --> 0:31:02.120 be recorded, and if he died and didn't rise, then 0:31:02.160 --> 0:31:06.400 his death was in vain. So really, the dividing line 0:31:06.480 --> 0:31:10.080 for for my understanding of my relationship with God is 0:31:10.120 --> 0:31:12.840 not that he was born in a manger, and not 0:31:13.000 --> 0:31:15.520 even that he died on a tree. As much as 0:31:15.560 --> 0:31:19.120 both of those things informed my faith, the fact that 0:31:19.200 --> 0:31:23.040 he got up is what divides my life. And yet 0:31:23.360 --> 0:31:27.440 don't don't, don't don't clap, because that's the part. Don't 0:31:27.480 --> 0:31:29.480 want me there so bad. Yes, yes, he got up, 0:31:29.520 --> 0:31:30.840 he got up, he got up, he got up, He 0:31:30.880 --> 0:31:33.160 got up like popcorn going up all over the church. 0:31:33.840 --> 0:31:37.360 The Lord directed me. Before we can really get to 0:31:37.440 --> 0:31:40.760 that in a way that matters more than a motivational speech. 0:31:41.280 --> 0:31:45.840 We need to decide. Is he the lord of your letdowns? 0:31:49.880 --> 0:31:52.480 Why did you give me this message for Easter or Sunday? Lord? 0:31:52.520 --> 0:31:57.280 This isn't both of the appy day. I was looking 0:31:57.280 --> 0:32:01.320 through the pictures and I thought, Man, that guy who 0:32:01.400 --> 0:32:05.400 was twenty eight didn't know what that guy knew who's 0:32:05.440 --> 0:32:08.680 forty two. And some of it, I feel like this 0:32:08.760 --> 0:32:13.560 gray hair gave me a little bit of authority wisdom. Yeah, 0:32:13.640 --> 0:32:17.640 can't you feel it? But some of it I saw. 0:32:17.680 --> 0:32:22.560 Something had changed in my eyes after I found out 0:32:22.840 --> 0:32:27.520 what people can do to you, after I found out 0:32:27.720 --> 0:32:30.120 that not everything I'm gonna put on my wish list 0:32:30.160 --> 0:32:33.160 of God to do is gonna come. And here's the 0:32:33.200 --> 0:32:35.040 biggest one. Okay, Because a lot of times we talk 0:32:35.080 --> 0:32:37.400 about letdowns in terms of the thing that you went 0:32:37.480 --> 0:32:40.560 after that you wanted that you didn't get. Some of 0:32:40.600 --> 0:32:45.720 the biggest letdowns are the things that you wanted and 0:32:45.760 --> 0:32:49.840 you went after and you got them, and you can't 0:32:49.880 --> 0:32:56.880 send them back. Your letdown. I got one honest organist 0:32:58.000 --> 0:33:00.640 some of the things that you asked for. Do you 0:33:00.640 --> 0:33:02.680 know why I feel so uncomfortable when we get to 0:33:02.760 --> 0:33:05.400 this part of the story because we know the ending, 0:33:05.440 --> 0:33:07.800 so we just want to skip there. Peter did it. 0:33:10.240 --> 0:33:14.680 He went fishing. There's nothing wrong with fishing. Do you 0:33:14.760 --> 0:33:19.240 hate fishing? Princher, Are you saying fishing is the sin? No, 0:33:19.400 --> 0:33:23.120 Peter didn't do anything sinful. There's nothing wrong with fishing. 0:33:23.280 --> 0:33:25.920 Peter didn't go open a strip club. Oh well, I 0:33:25.960 --> 0:33:28.400 guess if God isn't gonna do what I want, I'm 0:33:28.440 --> 0:33:31.200 just gonna go sell drugs. I gotta perform. I gotta 0:33:31.200 --> 0:33:34.360 provide for my my baby's I gotta I gotta take 0:33:34.400 --> 0:33:36.680 care of my family. I gotta do what I gotta do. 0:33:37.000 --> 0:33:42.040 Peter went back to what he knew. It's not what 0:33:42.200 --> 0:33:45.360 he did that shocked me, it's when he did it. 0:33:47.240 --> 0:33:50.840 This is the third time he's seen Jesus since he's 0:33:50.880 --> 0:33:56.200 been alive from the dead. I can totally understand Peter 0:33:56.360 --> 0:33:59.800 goes fishing because Jesus hasn't made a special appearance yet. 0:34:01.480 --> 0:34:07.600 But he's already seen Jesus, and he's backfishing because he's 0:34:07.640 --> 0:34:13.839 still living in the letdown. I don't know what you're 0:34:13.840 --> 0:34:20.520 talking about, preacher. I trust God, So when God says yes, 0:34:21.520 --> 0:34:25.560 I accept it. But when he says no, I equally 0:34:25.600 --> 0:34:31.279 accept it, knowing that he knows what's best for me. 0:34:35.520 --> 0:34:39.600 This is not your Easter sermon. The Lord didn't give 0:34:39.640 --> 0:34:43.440 me a message for you, because apparently you are already 0:34:43.560 --> 0:34:50.080 in heaven. The rest of us, the rest of us 0:34:51.719 --> 0:34:57.200 need a message about the low moments of our faith. 0:34:58.200 --> 0:35:01.360 I don't just need than This is so powerful, It 0:35:01.400 --> 0:35:04.200 is so powerful, This is so powerful. How can you 0:35:04.360 --> 0:35:07.360 go fishing when there's a whole world to be reached? 0:35:07.640 --> 0:35:10.320 How can you go fishing when Jesus hasn't even a 0:35:10.440 --> 0:35:13.040 sending to heaven yet. This is only the second week 0:35:13.080 --> 0:35:16.600 after his resurrection. We've still got weeks to go. And 0:35:16.640 --> 0:35:21.799 Peter's fishing and Jesus has nothing better to do than 0:35:21.840 --> 0:35:28.200 to cook breakfast. What about that? Jesus needs a time 0:35:28.239 --> 0:35:32.680 management class. You want to change the whole world, and 0:35:32.719 --> 0:35:35.840 you have a message of resurrection, and you are wasting 0:35:35.920 --> 0:35:39.799 time here cooking for these jokers who forsook you on 0:35:39.840 --> 0:35:51.080 the cross, and not only that, he calls them his friends. 0:35:52.600 --> 0:35:54.080 I need God to help me to give me that 0:35:54.160 --> 0:35:58.360 kind of love because I have this certain line that 0:35:58.440 --> 0:36:01.399 when people cross it, I have a really hard time 0:36:01.480 --> 0:36:04.400 letting them back in again. I don't know if this 0:36:04.480 --> 0:36:09.000 is right or wrong, but there is a certain line 0:36:09.040 --> 0:36:12.239 where if somebody lets me down long enough, I'll just 0:36:12.239 --> 0:36:16.680 start working around them. I won't cuss them out, i 0:36:16.719 --> 0:36:20.440 won't call down curses from Heaven on him. I'll just stop. 0:36:21.320 --> 0:36:24.960 I'll just stop letting them in. I'll just kill my 0:36:25.080 --> 0:36:28.720 expectation of you if you let me down long enough. 0:36:29.800 --> 0:36:33.120 I'm the same way about life. If I pray for something, 0:36:33.600 --> 0:36:36.480 or go after something, or work towards something, and I 0:36:36.560 --> 0:36:39.800 do it long enough, if I get let down long enough, 0:36:40.080 --> 0:36:45.640 I will not let hope in anymore. So Jesus stands 0:36:45.640 --> 0:36:51.640 as my model, and Peter stands as my message. Jesus 0:36:51.760 --> 0:36:57.240 is standing on the shore calling to the same disciples 0:36:57.800 --> 0:37:00.960 who let him down in his lowest moment, and he 0:37:01.040 --> 0:37:05.640 approaches them with empty nets and says, would you like 0:37:05.960 --> 0:37:12.160 to eat some breakfast? Now? This passage I selected because 0:37:12.200 --> 0:37:15.160 the resurrection of Jesus Christ is a well documented event. 0:37:15.400 --> 0:37:18.799 You believe it or you don't, But this part will 0:37:18.880 --> 0:37:23.480 redefine your relationship with the resurrected Christ, because if you 0:37:23.560 --> 0:37:26.759 think that he only got up for the moments where 0:37:26.800 --> 0:37:30.640 your faith is high, you have missed the message of 0:37:30.760 --> 0:37:34.799 John chapter twenty one, which says that before Jesus could 0:37:34.880 --> 0:37:38.399 go forward, before Jesus could be taken, before Jesus could 0:37:38.440 --> 0:37:40.880 be seated at the right hand of God, before Jesus 0:37:40.960 --> 0:37:44.080 could sit down and call his work on earth finished, 0:37:44.719 --> 0:37:48.960 he had defined Peter. This is not the first time, 0:37:49.280 --> 0:37:52.120 the second time, or the last time, but there is 0:37:52.239 --> 0:37:57.359 something significant about the third time. Peter had three denials. 0:37:57.640 --> 0:38:02.359 Jesus was dead for three days three times. This is 0:38:02.400 --> 0:38:05.600 the third time. It represents the point at which their 0:38:05.680 --> 0:38:09.760 expectation had run out, and Jesus steps into this moment, 0:38:09.840 --> 0:38:12.920 the moment at which they still had no fish. Jesus 0:38:12.920 --> 0:38:15.240 steps into the moment where the fog in the mist 0:38:15.320 --> 0:38:17.320 is so cold on the sea that it is blowing 0:38:17.360 --> 0:38:20.480 against their face and they cannot even recognize his presence. 0:38:20.680 --> 0:38:24.040 And he chooses the lowest moment of your life sometimes 0:38:24.680 --> 0:38:31.200 to reveal the greatest love. He chooses the lowest moment 0:38:31.320 --> 0:38:36.600 of your life sometimes to reveal His greatest love. So 0:38:36.719 --> 0:38:39.440 while we can praise God for all the great things 0:38:39.480 --> 0:38:41.920 that he has done, and while we can praise him 0:38:41.960 --> 0:38:44.760 that he got up because we read that part because 0:38:44.760 --> 0:38:46.920 it's in the Bible, but it wasn't in their Bible 0:38:47.080 --> 0:38:49.399 because this book hadn't been written yet, So they had 0:38:49.440 --> 0:38:52.200 to sit there in the boat and wonder in the 0:38:52.239 --> 0:38:54.840 middle of the storm. Just because he got up doesn't 0:38:54.880 --> 0:38:58.799 mean they knew what to do next. We preach it 0:38:58.880 --> 0:39:01.680 like that, like except Jesus and life will be wonderful. 0:39:01.760 --> 0:39:07.120 What I had found my Christian experience doesn't help me 0:39:07.200 --> 0:39:12.719 to avoid any of the disappointments of life. It's not avoidance. 0:39:14.040 --> 0:39:16.520 You keep thinking that more and more if you pray, 0:39:16.600 --> 0:39:20.600 God will help you avoid certain storms. No, no, no, 0:39:21.160 --> 0:39:26.640 Faith doesn't make me avoid it. It helps me transform it. 0:39:29.800 --> 0:39:33.239 I can preach a little bit on Easter ride. I 0:39:33.280 --> 0:39:36.680 could teach a little bit on Easter, right. That's what 0:39:36.719 --> 0:39:43.160 the Cross means to us. It happened, he died, It happened, 0:39:43.640 --> 0:39:47.719 they buried him, it happened they mocked him. So for 0:39:47.880 --> 0:39:49.719 all of you who are coming to church for the 0:39:49.760 --> 0:39:56.239 message that God will never let you down. Peter wanted 0:39:56.239 --> 0:40:00.319 me to tell you sometimes he does a little bit, 0:40:02.200 --> 0:40:05.759 because see, you keep basing it on your expectation and 0:40:05.800 --> 0:40:15.600 calling it faith. You you customize the Bible to the 0:40:15.640 --> 0:40:18.680 parts that made you feel good and cut out all 0:40:18.680 --> 0:40:21.799 the parts where they fished and caught nothing like what 0:40:21.840 --> 0:40:24.680 I love about this message, what I really love about 0:40:24.680 --> 0:40:25.880 this message. If you want to know what I really 0:40:25.920 --> 0:40:29.160 love about this message, it can apply to the capital 0:40:29.320 --> 0:40:33.400 L letdown or the lowercase l letdown, capital l letdown. 0:40:34.040 --> 0:40:36.400 Jesus went to the cross and died. That's about as 0:40:36.440 --> 0:40:39.040 bad as it gets. The guy that you lost everything 0:40:39.040 --> 0:40:42.200 to follow dies and he's supposed to overthrow Rome and 0:40:42.239 --> 0:40:44.719 get the oppression out of the Yeah, he's supposed to. Yeah, 0:40:44.760 --> 0:40:48.480 but he doesn't. He dies. That's pretty bad. That's why 0:40:48.480 --> 0:40:51.200 I got to clarify. This is not man. I had 0:40:51.320 --> 0:40:53.960 really hoped they were going to do amazing grace at 0:40:54.040 --> 0:41:02.920 church today. This is not a I really hope, This 0:41:03.080 --> 0:41:05.960 is a I risk everything now. Some people are not 0:41:06.040 --> 0:41:08.600 disappointed in God because they never really hoped in him 0:41:08.600 --> 0:41:14.719 to begin with. Peter was the leader. When he said 0:41:14.719 --> 0:41:17.319 I'm fishing, they said we're fishing too. When he jumped 0:41:17.360 --> 0:41:18.719 off the boat. They were like, come on, let's go 0:41:18.719 --> 0:41:20.839 to the shore. Peter's going to the shore. They were 0:41:20.880 --> 0:41:23.399 following Peter more than they were following Jesus at that point. 0:41:24.920 --> 0:41:29.000 And the one with the greatest potential also experienced the 0:41:29.040 --> 0:41:36.080 greatest pain. Now that's a word for somebody. The more 0:41:36.120 --> 0:41:39.160 you hope and trust in God, the greater vulnerability there 0:41:39.160 --> 0:41:41.640 will be for those moments in your life where the 0:41:41.719 --> 0:41:48.160 enemy whispers God is not with you, for those low moments. 0:41:50.000 --> 0:41:55.080 Who's been in a low moment lately? He's the lord 0:41:55.120 --> 0:41:58.120 of those low moments. I know. Everybody tells you he's 0:41:58.160 --> 0:42:02.239 the resurrected Christ, and he is. But before he got up, 0:42:05.320 --> 0:42:11.759 he was laid down. See how this is cyclical. See 0:42:11.760 --> 0:42:14.280 how when Peter says I will let down the nets, 0:42:14.680 --> 0:42:20.040 that wasn't the last letdown in the scripture. If only 0:42:20.080 --> 0:42:24.680 that were the last letdown, If only Jesus didn't let 0:42:24.800 --> 0:42:29.120 Lazarus die. See, they've had practice for this, and so 0:42:29.200 --> 0:42:33.080 if you have had practice to know that what you're 0:42:33.120 --> 0:42:35.120 going through right now, that you don't think you're going 0:42:35.200 --> 0:42:37.000 to make it through, you thought you wouldn't make it 0:42:37.040 --> 0:42:38.600 through the last thing that you were going through that 0:42:38.640 --> 0:42:40.359 you thought you wouldn't make it through, and you made 0:42:40.360 --> 0:42:42.560 it through that. And so even you being here today 0:42:43.560 --> 0:42:47.480 is evidence of the fact that life will let you down. 0:42:48.680 --> 0:42:52.640 People will let you down. That's what I told Elijah 0:42:52.640 --> 0:42:55.360 the other day. I said, being a dad is my 0:42:55.680 --> 0:43:03.239 greatest privilege, next to being Holly's husband. Next to that. 0:43:03.239 --> 0:43:07.160 That's like, that's the main thing in my life because 0:43:07.360 --> 0:43:09.480 even me being a dad, I wouldn't be able to 0:43:09.520 --> 0:43:11.239 do it without her. I mean, she's the only thing 0:43:11.239 --> 0:43:14.759 that makes me look good most days anyway. But being 0:43:14.760 --> 0:43:19.600 a dad is amazing. But I'm disappointed in being a 0:43:19.680 --> 0:43:22.520 dad from this perspective. Not because of you, not because 0:43:22.560 --> 0:43:24.680 of you. Not because of you. You surprise me every 0:43:24.760 --> 0:43:31.120 day in good ways. No, I love it. I really 0:43:31.120 --> 0:43:32.960 love it. I really love it. I really love it. 0:43:33.120 --> 0:43:37.839 I love being a dad. But it's almost like when 0:43:37.880 --> 0:43:41.440 I thought of myself as a dad, I thought of 0:43:41.480 --> 0:43:44.920 myself like I would be coaching the players in a game, 0:43:46.560 --> 0:43:50.000 and I would be on the sidelines, calling the place, 0:43:51.360 --> 0:43:55.759 telling them how to follow God and telling them how 0:43:55.760 --> 0:43:58.160 to be disciplined and teaching them in the ways that 0:43:58.200 --> 0:44:00.520 they should go and training up a child. But in 0:44:00.560 --> 0:44:02.960 my picture of being a dad. I was doing all 0:44:03.000 --> 0:44:08.040 of this from the sidelines of parenthood. Nobody told me 0:44:09.920 --> 0:44:15.600 that they leave you in the game to get hit 0:44:17.000 --> 0:44:20.960 while you try to coach this team that is running 0:44:21.000 --> 0:44:25.319 down the field in the wrong direction. Nobody told me 0:44:25.800 --> 0:44:27.640 you don't get to take off the pads to be 0:44:27.680 --> 0:44:32.680 a parent. You still are getting hit, You're still dealing 0:44:32.719 --> 0:44:36.440 with whatever you brought into parenthood. There was no one. 0:44:36.760 --> 0:44:39.000 In fact, is there any couple in the room that 0:44:39.040 --> 0:44:42.719 has been married for a year or less? A yet 0:44:42.760 --> 0:44:47.880 you got that newly wet holy ghost love? Stand up 0:44:47.960 --> 0:44:50.960 right now, stand up right now. Oh let's give them 0:44:51.000 --> 0:44:56.080 my hand, y'all, let's give them my hand. Let's give 0:44:56.120 --> 0:45:04.920 on my hand or absolutely nothing. I ain't that wonderful? 0:45:05.160 --> 0:45:07.960 Oh that's wonderful. Did you know the marriage vals? Did 0:45:07.960 --> 0:45:09.719 you write your own valuse? Did you write your own valuse? 0:45:09.800 --> 0:45:11.640 Did you put this part in? Look at each other 0:45:11.719 --> 0:45:13.160 right now? I'm gona real quick, Im gonna quick. I'm 0:45:13.160 --> 0:45:15.080 a day, I'm gone, I'm ore, day, I'm ordained to something. 0:45:15.280 --> 0:45:19.440 I'm more day. Say. I will let you down, now, 0:45:19.560 --> 0:45:25.000 sit down. I bet you didn't put it in. You 0:45:25.000 --> 0:45:28.680 didn't know to put it in. So what you haf 0:45:28.800 --> 0:45:43.320 in your relationship will not be known until after after after. 0:45:44.000 --> 0:45:46.279 I thought I'd be amazing parent because I thought I 0:45:46.280 --> 0:45:48.560 would have a box in the sky in a headset 0:45:48.800 --> 0:45:51.160 to call the place they would give to the quarterback. 0:45:51.520 --> 0:45:53.839 I didn't know I'd be out here getting hit too. 0:45:56.560 --> 0:46:08.560 I didn't no that I would let them down. Because 0:46:08.600 --> 0:46:13.120 the biggest thing in the passage to preach about isn't 0:46:13.120 --> 0:46:18.000 that Jesus let Peter down because he got up and 0:46:18.040 --> 0:46:20.759 he walked in locked doors to show Peter I told you. 0:46:22.120 --> 0:46:25.560 I told you. He walked through locked doors to show 0:46:25.600 --> 0:46:29.480 Thomas I died for you. But now this is the 0:46:29.480 --> 0:46:33.480 third appearance, and it seems that Jesus is no longer 0:46:33.520 --> 0:46:38.560 dealing with the fact that he let Peter down. Seems 0:46:38.600 --> 0:46:41.839 like now he's trying to deal with the fact that 0:46:41.880 --> 0:46:49.640 Peter let him down and denied that he even knew Jesus. 0:46:52.239 --> 0:46:55.480 And that's what Peter had to move through. He could 0:46:55.480 --> 0:46:57.239 get through the fact that it didn't end like I 0:46:57.280 --> 0:47:00.960 wanted because he saw the resurrected Christ. John twenty one 0:47:01.040 --> 0:47:04.480 is added in the Bible. Help me, Holy Spirit to 0:47:04.640 --> 0:47:10.520 show you that God knew the ways that you would 0:47:10.640 --> 0:47:17.000 let him down before he ever called your name to 0:47:17.120 --> 0:47:22.840 follow him, and that Jesus had gone back up to 0:47:22.920 --> 0:47:27.240 heaven before John twenty one. Peter could not have preached 0:47:27.480 --> 0:47:31.920 on the day of Pentecost. He was no longer living 0:47:32.080 --> 0:47:35.239 in the letdown of what Jesus didn't do. He was 0:47:35.360 --> 0:47:39.480 living in the letdown of what he didn't do for Jesus. 0:47:39.840 --> 0:47:42.920 And that is why it was important for Jesus to 0:47:42.960 --> 0:47:47.640 take time to cook breakfast for these disciples who denied him. 0:47:47.880 --> 0:47:51.560 Even the ones who didn't deny him, they disassociated from him, 0:47:51.840 --> 0:47:54.280 even the ones who said I will follow you to death, 0:47:54.600 --> 0:47:57.719 even loud mouthed Peter, who was willing to cut off 0:47:57.760 --> 0:48:00.239 an ear in the garden so that no one would 0:48:00.280 --> 0:48:03.440 take his Lord away, Even Peter who was willing to 0:48:03.440 --> 0:48:06.000 give Jesus his vote, not even knowing yet where this 0:48:06.080 --> 0:48:09.319 journey would lead. Even Peter, in the moment of crisis, 0:48:09.560 --> 0:48:17.040 he let him down. That's what I'm upset about, not 0:48:17.160 --> 0:48:21.080 that God let me down. If I'm honest, the biggest 0:48:21.080 --> 0:48:24.320 thing I have to process is that I constantly feel 0:48:24.520 --> 0:48:31.440 like I'm letting him down. That's why I go back fishing, 0:48:32.760 --> 0:48:36.000 doing what I know to do, because I don't want 0:48:36.040 --> 0:48:40.080 to let you down. God. I'm sorry, I'm here again. 0:48:40.360 --> 0:48:43.040 Here I am struggling with this again. I've already had 0:48:43.080 --> 0:48:45.760 help with this. I've already prayed about this. You already 0:48:45.800 --> 0:48:48.600 taught me about this. I remember Write's scripture. And here 0:48:48.960 --> 0:48:54.600 I am again. I let you down. I let you down. 0:48:56.000 --> 0:48:59.640 God said, Really, I wasn't aware that you were holding 0:48:59.680 --> 0:49:10.120 me up. That's why he got up out of the grave, 0:49:11.719 --> 0:49:15.120 not only holding his own not only he wasn't holding 0:49:15.160 --> 0:49:18.040 anything but the keys to death, Hell and the grave, 0:49:20.880 --> 0:49:24.040 all of your sin, all of your say, all of 0:49:24.080 --> 0:49:27.200 the record, all of the guilty stain. It was in 0:49:27.280 --> 0:49:29.960 the grave that he left. The only thing he was 0:49:30.040 --> 0:49:36.840 holding was the keys to let you know, Peter, that 0:49:36.960 --> 0:49:44.439 you can't let me down, because to disappoint God would 0:49:44.560 --> 0:49:46.960 mean that you had something deep down inside that he 0:49:47.000 --> 0:49:52.640 didn't see. And since God is this thing called omniscient, 0:49:53.680 --> 0:49:57.400 which means all knowing, and since he is all seeing, 0:49:58.560 --> 0:50:01.200 and since he fills everything in every space, even the 0:50:01.239 --> 0:50:03.520 spaces in between the things you show him, even the 0:50:03.560 --> 0:50:06.560 spaces between sundays where you struggle, even the spaces in 0:50:06.600 --> 0:50:10.040 between your great burst of faith, since he fills that space, 0:50:11.680 --> 0:50:14.279 he came to the shore to show you something that 0:50:14.320 --> 0:50:16.640 I want you to get, the revelation for today, not 0:50:16.920 --> 0:50:19.319 just that he got up. He got up. Oh isn't 0:50:19.320 --> 0:50:25.000 that wonderful? Not unless you believe that you can too. 0:50:25.320 --> 0:50:28.439 You've got to get up. You must it up. Your 0:50:28.560 --> 0:50:32.839 purpose demands it, your faith commends it. You must it up. 0:50:33.160 --> 0:50:37.080 You must it up. This is not a suggestion. It's 0:50:37.120 --> 0:50:40.200 a command. If you if you got to jump in 0:50:40.239 --> 0:50:44.200 the water, you musk it up. You must it up. 0:50:48.320 --> 0:50:53.520 It's a summons to faith. You musk it up because 0:50:53.600 --> 0:51:01.240 there is life after the letdown. There is life after 0:51:02.000 --> 0:51:04.760 the letdown, and confess it by faith with your own mouth. 0:51:04.920 --> 0:51:09.919 There is life after the letdown. Yeah, this didn't turn 0:51:09.920 --> 0:51:13.520 out how I wanted, But I'm going forward by faith 0:51:13.800 --> 0:51:18.279 because there is life after the letdown. A lot of 0:51:18.280 --> 0:51:22.120 people left me. They left Jesus too. He called them friends. 0:51:22.360 --> 0:51:25.879 He didn't get bitter. He fed them breakfast, because there 0:51:25.960 --> 0:51:30.520 is life after the leftown. That lets me know He 0:51:30.560 --> 0:51:34.080 can forgive any dirty, rotten, stinking, sinful thing I do. 0:51:39.360 --> 0:51:41.560 How do you know that? How do you know that? 0:51:41.719 --> 0:51:43.520 How do you know he can still use me? How 0:51:43.520 --> 0:51:45.600 do you know God's not disappointed in me. How do 0:51:45.600 --> 0:51:47.440 you know he hasn't changed his mind? How do you 0:51:47.480 --> 0:51:48.920 know I didn't blow it? How do you know the 0:51:48.920 --> 0:51:50.560 best things aren't behind me? How do you know I 0:51:50.560 --> 0:51:52.640 didn't make a mistake I can't come back from How 0:51:52.640 --> 0:51:56.360 do I know it? Because the fish told me so. 0:51:59.320 --> 0:52:04.280 Not the ones caught, the ones that Jesus was already 0:52:04.320 --> 0:52:09.799 cooking when he got to the shore. See, he's not 0:52:10.200 --> 0:52:15.280 finished with you yet. That's why you didn't die yet. 0:52:16.000 --> 0:52:19.239 That's why some of you made a plan to kill yourself, 0:52:19.560 --> 0:52:23.200 but you couldn't. That was the grace of God to 0:52:23.360 --> 0:52:28.480 hold you up. He won't let you down that far. No, no, no, 0:52:28.880 --> 0:52:32.040 that's where my solid rock kicks it. He got a 0:52:32.160 --> 0:52:39.480 purpose from me. He's got something to build through my life. 0:52:40.440 --> 0:52:47.000 And Jesus said, bring me some fish, and then they ate? 0:52:48.640 --> 0:52:54.759 Which fish did they eat? Not the ones that Peter caught, 0:52:56.400 --> 0:53:02.600 but the ones that Jesus had already cleaned. Was he 0:53:02.640 --> 0:53:06.240 trying to give us a little message this Easter about 0:53:06.280 --> 0:53:09.360 the ways that we think we've disqualified ourselves from his grace? 0:53:10.800 --> 0:53:17.160 Was he trying to tell you it's already clean? Was 0:53:17.160 --> 0:53:20.560 he trying to show you? Did he bring us here 0:53:20.600 --> 0:53:23.799 for this moment, for all the ways that life has 0:53:23.880 --> 0:53:28.480 let you down. I'm sorry for all the ways that 0:53:28.560 --> 0:53:33.200 you've let God down. He already knows. But he still 0:53:33.239 --> 0:53:43.279 got up, and he still called you friend. What would 0:53:43.280 --> 0:53:47.960 that have sounded like through the ears of failure? What 0:53:48.040 --> 0:53:52.200 would that have sounded like? What would that have looked 0:53:52.239 --> 0:53:54.640 like through the eyes of frustration of fishing all night 0:53:55.719 --> 0:54:01.440 catching nothing? Did God bring you to this moment to 0:54:01.480 --> 0:54:05.520 show you who he really is? They recognize Jesus after 0:54:06.560 --> 0:54:11.080 the letdown. I believe God is calling new life forth 0:54:11.320 --> 0:54:16.280 in this moment. Everyone's standing, everyone's standing, nobody moving, every 0:54:16.320 --> 0:54:19.720 head bow, every eye close. I invite you right now 0:54:19.880 --> 0:54:22.239 to come out of your grave and meet Jesus. I 0:54:22.360 --> 0:54:25.520 invite you right now to see the Christ upon the cross, 0:54:25.719 --> 0:54:29.120 who was wounded for your transgression, who was bruised for 0:54:29.200 --> 0:54:32.359 your iniquity. The chastisement that brought us peace was upon 0:54:32.440 --> 0:54:36.280 him by his stripes. We are healed. It's already done, 0:54:36.360 --> 0:54:39.440 it's already clean. The price has already been paid, the 0:54:39.480 --> 0:54:41.839 blood has already been shed. It is not that we 0:54:41.880 --> 0:54:44.359 are righteous that enables us to come to God. It 0:54:44.440 --> 0:54:46.200 is not that we will do better. It is my 0:54:46.360 --> 0:54:48.960 believing that you have life in his name. The scripture 0:54:49.000 --> 0:54:51.120 says that if you will confess with your mouth that 0:54:51.239 --> 0:54:53.920 Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that he 0:54:54.000 --> 0:54:56.440 got up, that God raised him from the dead, that 0:54:56.520 --> 0:54:58.840 you can get up to and you can be saved, 0:54:59.000 --> 0:55:00.920 and you can have a new but and you can 0:55:00.960 --> 0:55:03.200 have a fresh start. And he will call you friend, 0:55:03.400 --> 0:55:05.520 and he will call you a child. And he never 0:55:05.600 --> 0:55:08.520 stopped loving you, and he never stopped pursuing you, and 0:55:08.560 --> 0:55:11.480 he never stopped wanting you, and he never stopped calling you, 0:55:11.680 --> 0:55:14.120 and he's still gonna use you. But this is your 0:55:14.160 --> 0:55:24.719 moment of decision. There is life after the letdown, after 0:55:24.760 --> 0:55:30.680 the worst possible thing, after the greatest possible pain. There 0:55:30.760 --> 0:55:37.200 is life after the letdown. This is the part of 0:55:37.239 --> 0:55:39.400 the sermon where you decide whether to walk out that 0:55:39.480 --> 0:55:43.120 door just like you can, or really let God into 0:55:43.160 --> 0:55:45.840 that place in your life where you need to be 0:55:45.920 --> 0:55:50.360 forgiven and save. With every head bowed in every eye closed. 0:55:51.680 --> 0:55:53.600 I'm going to lead you in a prayer right now. 0:55:55.360 --> 0:56:02.319 This prayer is not just magical words strung together. It's 0:56:02.320 --> 0:56:06.239 an actual declaration of faith for those of you who 0:56:06.239 --> 0:56:08.680 are standing there, and you're going God's speaking to me today. 0:56:08.920 --> 0:56:12.319 He's calling me to come out of my sin, to 0:56:12.360 --> 0:56:16.279 come out of my shame, and to receive him. This 0:56:16.360 --> 0:56:18.360 is your moment to be saved, and we're going to 0:56:18.400 --> 0:56:21.040 pray it all out loud together for the benefit of 0:56:21.040 --> 0:56:23.839 those who are making a decision to do what Peter 0:56:23.960 --> 0:56:29.120 did and follow Jesus Christ to receive his grace and 0:56:29.200 --> 0:56:32.640 new life and the forgiveness of sin. This is your 0:56:32.680 --> 0:56:35.839 resurrection moment for all of you who want to give 0:56:35.880 --> 0:56:37.399 your life to God, or you've been far from Him 0:56:37.400 --> 0:56:38.719 for a long time and you want to come back. 0:56:38.800 --> 0:56:41.279 Right now, repeat this prayer after me, Church family, praying 0:56:41.320 --> 0:56:47.360 out loud, Heavenly Father, today is my day of salvation. 0:56:48.320 --> 0:56:52.000 I am a sinner in need of a savior, and 0:56:52.040 --> 0:56:56.120 I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God 0:56:56.840 --> 0:57:00.920 and the savior of the world. And today I make 0:57:01.040 --> 0:57:05.200 Jesus the Lord of my life. I believe you died 0:57:06.280 --> 0:57:10.480 that I would be forgiven and rose again to give 0:57:10.560 --> 0:57:16.080 me life. I receive this new life. This is my 0:57:16.240 --> 0:57:18.760 new beginning. On the counter of three shoots, your hand 0:57:18.880 --> 0:57:21.800 up if you prayed that one, two, three, all over 0:57:21.840 --> 0:57:26.640 this room, all over our campuses, come on Mouth, shoot 0:57:26.640 --> 0:57:29.360 it Up Hot, shoot it Up Hot for a third 0:57:29.440 --> 0:57:34.760 Day miracle, and the rest of us. Let's celebrate the 0:57:34.880 --> 0:57:40.920 resurrection of our gang today. Well, if you enjoy today's podcast, 0:57:40.960 --> 0:57:43.040 there are a couple things I'd love for you to do. 0:57:43.160 --> 0:57:47.480 Make sure to subscribe, rate, and review this podcast. 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