The Prayer That Repairs

0:00:01.520 --> 0:00:02.800 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 0:00:02.800 --> 0:00:05.800 I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, and this is our podcast. 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:07.760 I wanted to thank you for joining us today. 0:00:08.080 --> 0:00:10.680 Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:12.840 Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving 0:00:12.880 --> 0:00:13.560 in your life. 0:00:13.840 --> 0:00:22.120 Enjoy the message. 0:00:23.160 --> 0:00:26.240 Thank you Lord for breath and my lungs today. 0:00:26.840 --> 0:00:30.440 Thank you Lord for waking me up this morning. Thank 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:33.200 you Lord for feeding me. Thank you Lord for keeping me. 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:37.320 Thank you Lord for loving me. God is so good. 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:40.880 I want to call your attention to a few things 0:00:40.880 --> 0:00:44.240 remain standing. For one moment, we'll be beginning our. 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:48.720 Elevation Night's tour very very shortly. Let's clap our hands 0:00:48.720 --> 0:00:57.240 and thank God for that. I want to see you. 0:00:57.280 --> 0:01:05.440 If you're near Fort Worth, Texas, Tulsa, Oklahoma, It'sburgh, Pennsylvania, Toronto, Canada, Detroit, Michigan, Hartford, Connecticut. 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:07.280 Newark, New Jersey, or Washington, DC. 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:11.600 Go to Elevation Nights dot com. 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:13.240 Limited tickets are available. 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:18.679 That'll be Tuesday, February twenty fifth through Thursday, March sixth 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:21.840 I can't wait to see you. We will be singing 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:25.760 all kinds of songs and we'll be preaching and. 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:28.480 Be sharing in God's presence together, and I'm grateful. 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:30.880 I also want to let you know that that song 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:33.160 we were just singing, I know A name is available 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:34.360 anywhere you stream. 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:40.959 Music, so you can get it and sing it and 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:41.880 just walk around the. 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:45.160 House singing the name of Jesus. Sing it off key, 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:49.080 on key, sing it loud song, whatever you got, just 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:51.560 call on his name. I was reading in the Psalms 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:54.520 this week where David said when I kept silent, the 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:58.680 attack continued, And I think that's what the devil wants 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:00.680 to do sometimes, that's shut us up inside of our 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:02.000 own heads, in our own minds. 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:04.960 So even just all of y'all that sit there in. 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:08.200 Church and don't sing anything you're missing out, open your 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:09.600 mouth wide and I will fill it. 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:10.400 Say it the Lord. 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:13.960 I'm gonna give you one more chance to praise them 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:15.200 before I move into this world. 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:17.560 Is today. 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:25.119 Wordy to God? Now? 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:27.720 Today might just be the most important day that we've 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:30.760 ever been here, because this is our first sermon of 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:32.400 our official twentieth year. 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:33.760 Of ministry as a church. 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:40.840 I want to share with you something from Luke chapter 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:43.920 twenty two, And as you find that in your Bible, 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:46.799 or just fasten your eyes on the screen for a moment, 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:48.800 and I call your attention to it. 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:51.560 I want you to just get in your posture like 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:54.400 you would get in if something important was about to 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:57.359 happen in your life. Just your physical. 0:02:56.960 --> 0:02:59.760 Posture, your emotional posture, if something important was about to 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:03.160 happen in your life. Even if you're watching this at home, 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:05.800 or even if you're watching this in a I don't know. 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:07.519 You might not even made it out the bed today. 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:10.320 And yet I want you to just get in the 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:12.440 posture that you would get in if something important was 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:13.720 about to happen in your life. 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:15.400 And listen to this. 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:18.720 In Luke chapter twenty two, verses thirty one through thirty four, 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:30.160 this is Jesus speaking Simon. Simon, Satan has asked to 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:34.480 sift you as we. In fact, he's asked to sift. 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:36.160 All of you as we. 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:41.960 But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:47.080 may not fail, and when you have turned back, strengthen 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:48.240 your brothers. 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:54.160 But he replied, Lord, I'm ready. I'm ready. Let's go. 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:57.920 I'm ready to go with you to prison and to death. 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:03.880 Jesus answered, I tell you, Peter, before the rooster crows. 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:08.840 Today you will deny three times that you know me. 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:13.680 Very heavy text, but let's focus on verse thirty two 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:16.480 for a moment. One more time. I have prayed for 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:20.239 you simon, that your faith may not fail, and when 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:21.880 you have turned back. 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:24.839 Strengthen your brothers. 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:26.760 I want to talk to you about prayer for a 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:30.200 few moments today. I want to speak to you about 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:33.599 prayer for a few moments today, but not just generic prayer. 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:36.520 I want to speak to you about a specific prayer 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:40.080 for your life. And the title of my message today 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:42.839 is the prayer that repairs. 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:49.480 The prayer that repairs, And as. 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:51.159 We talk about it today, I believe the Lord will 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:52.480 do a deep work in your soul. 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:55.640 Will you pray with me one more time? Father? 0:04:55.800 --> 0:05:00.400 Fix it in Jesus's name, Amen, and you may be 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:00.960 seated him. 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:11.320 Y'all like that, Father, fix it? Somebody shout, Lord, fix it? Yeah, 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:13.040 put it in his hands now. 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:16.920 I don't always share with you why I picked certain 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:19.159 scriptures that I want to preach, but if it's helpful, 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:20.760 I do, And today, I think is one of those 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:24.880 occasions where letting you know why I selected this text 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:29.120 may help you receive it a little bit better. I 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:31.320 want to help you hear the voice of God more 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:36.120 in your daily life. I want to help you tune 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:37.400 in to. 0:05:37.400 --> 0:05:39.560 God's voice when he talks. 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:43.280 I don't want you to be confused by all the 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:48.560 noise that's surrounding you and never really get to know 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:51.800 the God who made you. I said a whole lot 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:54.240 in that one sentence. I don't want you to be 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:58.440 so confused by the noise that's surrounding you that you 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:02.159 never know the God who made you, and never know 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:04.479 his voice. Jesus said one time, my sheep know my 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:07.480 voice and they hear me, but it's hard to hear 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:11.480 from God with so much noise all around. So I 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:14.680 was going through my Bible just thinking about how great 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:18.440 it would be to begin this twentieth year of ministry 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:21.360 in our church to show you about different people who 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:25.120 heard from God, different people that God spoke to, and 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:27.520 it happens all through the Bible, so it's kind of 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:29.960 hard to narrow down. I thought it would take me 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:33.000 twenty more years to preach every time God spoke to somebody, 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:39.200 And then I came across an interesting selection of scriptures 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:41.880 of seven times that God spoke to people in a 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:46.320 special way. Seven times were either in the Old Testament 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:52.520 or the New Testament, God, the Holy Spirit or Jesus 0:06:53.160 --> 0:07:00.880 spoke to somebody and said their name, not once, but twice. 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:04.279 I thought it was interesting. It reminded me of how 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:07.280 sometimes you have to do that to get your kids attention. 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:10.080 You know, if I. 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:16.400 Say Abby, Abby, the second one is because your gracy 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:18.840 Abrams is way too loud upstairs and you can't hear 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:25.320 me talking over it. If I say Graham, Graham, it 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:27.280 means I don't care that you can't pause your video 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:31.080 game get down here right now. Especially if I say 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:35.440 your middle name. Your middle name is like a cussword. 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:38.680 If I have to call your middle name, that means 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:40.600 you have slipped to the point that we have resorted 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:42.320 to having to say the second part of your name 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:43.840 to make sure that you understand. 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:47.120 What's your middle name? Dave Dave Rick. 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:50.600 So if they said Dave Rick, oh Rick is trouble 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:53.320 in the same way, I wondered, are there are times 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:56.760 where God has to get his children's attention, and so 0:07:56.800 --> 0:08:00.440 he has to speak in such a personal way because 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:03.640 something so pivotal is happening that he doesn't want them 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:04.160 to miss it. 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:05.600 I have a feeling. 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:07.480 There are a few thousand under the sound of my 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:09.320 voice today who need to hear the voice of the 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:12.040 Lord in this season of your life, because this is 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:13.200 a pivotal. 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:13.360 Moment for you. 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:17.880 I'd like to remind you something about pivotal moments in each. 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:21.640 Of our lives. They're not big, but they make all 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:22.280 the difference. 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:26.040 To illustrate, I want you all to zoom out with 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:29.480 the camera and just show how quickly I can pivot 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:33.520 almost where you didn't notice. And I've used this to 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:37.520 illustrate before, both in leadership and in life, how sometimes 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:41.559 you can make a small adjustment. But if I were 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:44.720 to make this small adjustment in my stance through pivoting 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:48.240 on my back foot and to walk that way, the 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:52.239 number of steps that I took would multiply the importance 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:54.880 of the decision that I made to pivot. What I 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:56.960 mean is it doesn't make much difference as long as 0:08:57.000 --> 0:09:00.000 I'm up here, But the longer I walked in that direct, 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:04.880 I would end up in such a different destination, all 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:10.160 because of a pivot. My oldest son, Elijah, my middle 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:12.240 son Graham, my youngest. 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:13.840 Abby are all here today with us. 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:19.560 We're all happy, We're all happy because Elijah is home 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:20.880 from college for a minute. 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:23.880 We're happy because Abby stays happy. 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:27.240 We're happy because Graham is on the second row with 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:29.800 his buddies who are back to back state champions in 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:30.880 the sport of wrestling. 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:37.160 I was of yesterday. He asked for that shout out 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:38.000 and I did it. 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:44.880 And my oldest son, Elijah, was asking me recently about 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:47.320 someone that he follows on social media. It's not a 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:49.679 very big personality, so don't try to guess who I'm 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:53.520 talking about. But the person is minor league famous, and 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:58.199 they made a big statement or commitment to Jesus Christ, and. 0:09:58.160 --> 0:09:59.120 Then they went back on it. 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:03.280 And they went back on it after about two years 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:07.160 of being very extreme, and the person was a very 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:12.200 worldly personality, and then they became a very godly personality. 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:14.640 And when I say godly, I don't mean like you're 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:17.280 supposed to be where you're receiving the grace of God 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:19.240 and growing in the grace of God. They were telling 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:22.200 everybody why they were better than everybody else for those 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:25.240 two years, and the moment I saw them begin to 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:32.760 boisterously declare and boldly infer and proclaim that they would 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:33.959 never sin in these. 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:36.720 Ways like other people do. Ever again, and they would 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:39.959 never struggle with what other people struggle with. Again. I've 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:43.760 told my son Elijah, watch out for the big. 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:52.040 Swings, because anytime you see something swing that far this way, 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:55.079 guess what Newton doesn't have to be here to tell 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:56.920 us is got to come back. 0:10:58.480 --> 0:10:59.840 Be careful for the big swing. 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:02.760 And I begin to tell them that even though it's 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:06.280 sad that this person was in the faith and now 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:10.760 publicly says I reject the faith, even though they said that, 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:15.400 that doesn't mean that the faith that you have is invalid. 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:19.080 It just means that you need to think steps not swings. 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:22.560 Think steps not swings. 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:25.760 And sometimes when it comes to hearing God's voice and 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:29.280 knowing God's voice, you'll see people who they swing really 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:32.640 hard and really far. God spoke to me, and I'm 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:35.000 never gonna wear pink again. Why I never gonna wear 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:36.760 pink again? Because the Lord told me that purple is 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:39.120 the color of royalty. It's like, this is a little 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:42.240 extreme for you to be eliminating colors from your wardrobes. 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:44.599 God spoke to me, and I'm never again. I'm not 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:46.120 gonna drink out of any plastic bottles. 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:48.920 I'm gonna take communion every morning at four, but I'm 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:50.920 gonna do at four am. I'm gonna work out at 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:53.000 three am, and I'm I'm gonna get up and I'm 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:53.360 a pray. 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:54.480 I'm gonna pray at two am. 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:55.880 Then I'm gonna read my Bible at three and then 0:11:55.880 --> 0:11:57.640 I'm gonna take communion at four. But I'm not gonna 0:11:57.640 --> 0:11:59.280 take it out of plastic cup because that's bad. 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:01.240 For the environment. And we're pink. I'm wear purple because 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:02.280 it's the color of royalty. 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:05.320 And when I see somebody swinging that hard in anything, 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:09.040 a diet or discipleship, it scares me a little bit. 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:15.840 Sometimes I think that a step is better than a swing. 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:19.760 Don't get me wrong. Dramatic decisions happen in the presence 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:23.000 of God. These moments where we say I'm leaving Egypt, 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:25.560 these moments where we say I'm no longer going to 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:28.400 live in this compromise, those moments where we say I'm 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:30.880 stepping into this with my whole heart, those moments where 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:33.520 we say I'm burning the bridges behind me because I 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:36.559 can't keep playing with this. Those moments are important. Ah, 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:45.160 But think steps, not swings. I think pivots those little moves. 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:47.439 In your life that can lead to great purpose. 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:50.440 I try to build my ten minutes of my sermon 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:52.240 that I start with well enough that if you had 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:54.520 to leave, you would have already gotten something worth coming 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:55.280 out in the rain for. 0:12:55.800 --> 0:13:00.440 And I think you just got it. And yet we 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:02.320 haven't even touched this text. 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:06.040 The tension in this text is difficult for me to 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:09.280 communicate to you through just reading the four verses that 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:14.400 I selected. This moment in Jesus's life is pivotal. He's 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:18.720 going to the cross. It's the Thursday before the Friday 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:22.800 where he will die, and as such, he's preparing hold 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:23.600 that word. 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:27.360 He's preparing his disciples for what they will face. 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:30.640 And yet there's really no way to prepare them for 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:34.000 the loss of his physical presence. There's really no way 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:38.080 for him to prepare them for the pressure of watching 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:41.320 him die like a criminal. There's really no way to 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:44.760 prepare them for the soul searching that will happen when 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:48.360 they watch him laid in Joseph of Arimathea's grave. There's 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:52.320 really no preparing them for this, and so he has 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:56.600 a meal with them, the Passover meal. It was a 0:13:56.640 --> 0:14:00.600 Jewish tradition but Jesus was using it for a purpose. 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:03.360 And as he gets ready to serve the bread, he 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:06.400 breaks it at the table, And as he gets ready 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:08.840 to serve the wine, he pours it, and he says, 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:10.040 this is symbolic of. 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:13.360 What you're about to watch happen. He's preparing them. 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:16.720 As he pours the wine, he says, this is my 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:19.960 blood poured out for you, the blood of my covenant. 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:22.520 As he breaks the bread, he says, this is my 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:26.680 body broken for you, and he feeds them and for 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:28.440 a moment. If you were just to look in on 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:31.880 this scene without any knowledge of the background, or without 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:34.880 any knowledge of what's coming next, you would think this 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:37.920 is a very happy moment, because the Bible says that 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:41.480 Jesus looked at his disciplesdaring this and said, I've been 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:44.560 looking forward to sharing this meal with you. In fact, 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:49.120 he says, I've eagerly anticipated sharing this meal with you. 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:55.520 I have eagerly longed for this moment with you. And 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:57.640 they're at the table. The Bible says that Jesus and 0:14:57.680 --> 0:15:01.560 his disciples reclined. So if we were to just walk 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:04.360 in and watch the scene, cut out a sequence on mute, 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:08.280 we would think this was a family meal, but it's 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:12.080 now commonly known as the Last Supper because it's the 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:15.240 last time that they'll eat with him like this, and 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:18.800 think about everything that's happening at the table, Jesus is 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:22.160 sharing with them that he's about to suffer. So now 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:27.480 put the two together, supper and suffering all at the 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:33.880 same table. Jesus and Judas all at the same table, 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:40.480 the bread and the breaking all at the same table, 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:45.480 the wine and the pouring all at the same table. 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:49.440 And on one hand, this is a happy moment for Jesus. 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:53.040 I've looked forward to sharing this with you. I've looked 0:15:53.040 --> 0:15:55.880 forward to this moment. I came for this moment. This 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:59.280 is the moment I was sent because as they're preparing 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:02.720 to eat the past over lamb. He is what they're 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:06.800 about to eat. He is the Lamb of God, slain 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:10.720 from the foundations of the world. He was prepared for this. 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:15.000 They weren't. He was looking forward to this, but they 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:18.280 could not know to anticipate it. Even if mentally they 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:20.800 understood it, emotionally they couldn't comprehend it. 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:24.520 So it's a happy moment, but it's a heavy moment. 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:26.320 And isn't it crazy? 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:30.360 How a lot of times the heaviest moments and the 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:36.200 happiest moments are happening all at the same table. If 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:39.360 there's one thing I could get across to you about 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:44.080 life as a follower of Christ is that you would 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:48.600 not be surprised to find that sometimes the happiest times 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:55.600 and the heaviest times happen at the same time. See, 0:16:55.600 --> 0:17:00.480 it's not like we just have happy seasons and heavy seasons. 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:01.760 It might be a. 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:05.400 Season for you where you're sitting at a table surrounded 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:09.320 by all of the things that you love, carrying all 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:12.479 of the things that you must endure. There are times 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:15.840 in all of our lives, especially as grown ups, where 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:18.840 we have to learn to take the happiness and the 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:24.399 heaviness in the same hour. The happiness and the heaviness 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:29.000 in the same seat. Everybody in this room, everybody watching 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:33.240 me online, has something to be happy about and something 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:34.200 to be heavy about. 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:37.280 And the thing about prayer I told you I'm going 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:37.679 to talk to you. 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:40.960 About prayer today is that it helps me not to 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:46.760 let the happiness hide itself behind the heaviness. So it 0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:49.800 means that I can carry heavy situations in my heart 0:17:50.600 --> 0:17:54.280 and still find happiness in Jesus. 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:56.520 Because I prayed my way through. 0:17:56.320 --> 0:17:59.840 The heaviness to the point that I realized He's in 0:17:59.840 --> 0:18:03.639 the heaviness and he's in the happiness. In fact, if 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:05.800 I could take it one step further, let me tell 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:09.240 you why I love Jesus. He is my happiness in 0:18:09.280 --> 0:18:14.520 my heaviness. He is the one that is seated at 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:17.600 the table, and even while the bread is breaking, I 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:20.840 know it's in his hands. So that's why I lift 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:25.440 my hands, because I know my life is in his hands. 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:32.679 Happiness and heaviness all at the same table. 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:35.959 Don't you see it in your life? Aren't you a 0:18:36.000 --> 0:18:37.080 witness of it? Today? 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:40.240 You got that one thing in your life that you're 0:18:40.280 --> 0:18:43.040 happy about and proud of, and that one thing in 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:44.760 your life that you don't really want to talk about, 0:18:46.040 --> 0:18:48.800 that one thing in your life that you're right now hoping. 0:18:48.840 --> 0:18:51.360 I don't mention it that right now. 0:18:51.400 --> 0:18:53.680 If I started listing stuff, you would hope that I 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:54.480 would skip the. 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:55.159 Thing on the list. 0:18:56.240 --> 0:18:59.399 I mean, I just got done with Valentine's Day. So 0:18:59.440 --> 0:19:01.159 there's a lot of people who come to church on 0:19:01.200 --> 0:19:03.720 the Sunday after Valentine's Day just kind of bracing for 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:07.200 a fight, thinking about all God, if he talks about 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:10.320 one more time that God is preparing somebody for you, 0:19:10.560 --> 0:19:13.280 and God is preparing you for somebody, and God's going 0:19:13.359 --> 0:19:14.800 to send the right person when you're. 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:16.960 Ready and touch three people and say get ready. 0:19:17.080 --> 0:19:19.160 And if you make me touch anybody today, they better 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:21.560 be my husband in about six months, because I can't 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:24.040 take one more sermon while you talk about that thing 0:19:24.080 --> 0:19:24.800 in my life. 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:26.200 But yet there's a married person going. 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:27.800 I hope he doesn't talk about how to get along 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:30.520 in the house because watch this, and now I'm a 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:31.159 shift on you. 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:34.640 She's not even here with me today. We're not even 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:35.480 speaking right now. 0:19:35.800 --> 0:19:37.919 And that doesn't mean that you're not happy anywhere in 0:19:37.960 --> 0:19:41.680 your life. Just because you're heavy somewhere doesn't mean you're 0:19:41.680 --> 0:19:46.639 not happy anywhere. And just because you're happy somewhere doesn't. 0:19:46.400 --> 0:19:49.560 Mean you're not heavy anywhere. I wonder if he gives 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:50.680 me that for a balance. 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:55.040 I wonder if the happy things are to lift me 0:19:55.119 --> 0:19:58.000 up so I don't quit, and the heavy things are 0:19:58.040 --> 0:20:07.639 to keep me grounded so I don't get prideful. And 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:11.320 I just wish for you today, knowing that happiness and 0:20:11.359 --> 0:20:15.720 heaviness always come in pairs. Walk in Nordstrom and ask 0:20:15.760 --> 0:20:17.840 them to sell you one shoe for the price of half. 0:20:19.040 --> 0:20:21.879 See if they'll do it. See if they'll sell you 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:24.159 one shoe. Now, I don't really want the left one. 0:20:24.200 --> 0:20:26.320 I just want the right one. They're gonna say, sir, 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:31.359 they come in a pair. You got to buy them both. 0:20:35.160 --> 0:20:38.199 And when it comes to your calling and your relationship 0:20:38.240 --> 0:20:41.480 with God, you don't get to pick the right one 0:20:41.520 --> 0:20:45.280 and leave the left one and pay half price. The 0:20:45.320 --> 0:20:49.479 happiness and the heaviness go hand in hand, and this 0:20:49.520 --> 0:20:52.080 will help you to understand why sometimes you're having a 0:20:52.119 --> 0:20:57.440 great moment, somewhere in that moment you still feel kind 0:20:57.440 --> 0:21:00.679 of down, and then you think, well, I'm not rightful. No, 0:21:00.960 --> 0:21:03.560 it's not that you're not grateful. You're just grown up. 0:21:05.720 --> 0:21:08.760 And to be grown up is to take responsibility. And 0:21:08.800 --> 0:21:12.840 to take responsibility is to be like Jesus, and to 0:21:12.920 --> 0:21:16.520 sit at a table knowing that John, who loves you 0:21:17.000 --> 0:21:20.280 and Judas who will betray you, are both close enough 0:21:20.320 --> 0:21:24.679 to touch at the same table. To sit at the table 0:21:25.200 --> 0:21:28.199 and to know that my desire for freedom and my 0:21:28.240 --> 0:21:32.000 struggle with the addiction are at the same table. To 0:21:32.080 --> 0:21:35.720 sit at the table and to feast on Jesus, knowing 0:21:35.760 --> 0:21:38.880 that my hope for my future and my regret about 0:21:38.880 --> 0:21:42.520 the past are sitting at the same table. To know 0:21:42.560 --> 0:21:45.159 that my excitement about what God is calling me to 0:21:45.200 --> 0:21:47.359 do and my fear about whether I'm going to be 0:21:47.400 --> 0:21:49.879 able to do it are sitting at the same table. 0:21:49.920 --> 0:21:52.639 Who am I talking to? Come, well, let's have a 0:21:52.680 --> 0:22:02.480 little table talk today, because into this context, Jesus speaks Simon, Simon, 0:22:03.280 --> 0:22:05.480 and he says his name twice. Now we'll do a 0:22:05.520 --> 0:22:07.960 little quiz, okay, and I'll let all of those online 0:22:08.040 --> 0:22:12.040 play along. There are seven times in the Bible that 0:22:12.280 --> 0:22:16.800 God or Jesus and Jesus is God, but I'm saying 0:22:17.040 --> 0:22:20.560 Old Testament where God speaks in different ways, or in 0:22:20.600 --> 0:22:23.159 the New Testament where Jesus would just lean over and tell. 0:22:23.000 --> 0:22:24.159 You because he's physically present. 0:22:24.359 --> 0:22:26.720 There are seven times, and this is one of them 0:22:26.920 --> 0:22:30.719 where someone is called by their name, but they're called twice. Now, 0:22:30.760 --> 0:22:32.760 first of all, put your name in the comments real quick, 0:22:33.080 --> 0:22:35.400 and put it twice, all right, And say your name 0:22:35.440 --> 0:22:36.359 out loud in the room. 0:22:36.200 --> 0:22:40.760 And say it twice. Chris, Chris, say your name out 0:22:40.800 --> 0:22:42.480 loud and say it twice. 0:22:42.920 --> 0:22:45.440 Brad, Brad, say your first name and middle name, like 0:22:45.480 --> 0:22:49.120 you're in trouble, Like your mom has got a switch. 0:22:50.280 --> 0:22:53.840 Your mama didn't break off a switch. If your mom 0:22:53.880 --> 0:22:55.280 didn't break off a switch. 0:22:55.040 --> 0:22:56.119 That was child abuse. 0:22:56.160 --> 0:22:59.280 You need a switch sometimes we need to get back 0:22:59.320 --> 0:22:59.960 to these switch. 0:23:00.960 --> 0:23:06.239 I ain't gonna say nothing else about it. Touch your 0:23:06.240 --> 0:23:10.960 neighbors say get back to the switches. That meant nothing. 0:23:12.520 --> 0:23:15.760 I'm gonna see on the comments, can you guess? Can 0:23:15.800 --> 0:23:17.600 you guess one of the others? 0:23:17.640 --> 0:23:20.480 I'm on YouTube right now, live and if you're watching later, 0:23:20.880 --> 0:23:25.639 don't google it, do not chat GPT it. If you 0:23:25.760 --> 0:23:29.080 chat GPT my sermon question you goes to H E 0:23:29.240 --> 0:23:34.600 L L. This is not an open book test. 0:23:34.760 --> 0:23:36.240 Just guess. I won't make fun of you if you 0:23:36.280 --> 0:23:45.720 get it wrong. That's right. Saul Saul, not just Saul Saul, Saul? 0:23:45.840 --> 0:23:49.320 What does? What does sal? What is Saul doing? This 0:23:49.480 --> 0:23:52.280 so important that he has to get named named twice? 0:23:52.400 --> 0:23:55.760 Called called by Saul Saul, not just saw saw saw. 0:23:56.160 --> 0:24:00.760 He's riding on his horse going to persecute Christians, and 0:24:00.880 --> 0:24:04.000 Jesus is about to turn him into Paul. You ever 0:24:04.040 --> 0:24:07.280 heard of Paul? You ever heard of Philippians? Four thirteen. Paul, 0:24:07.320 --> 0:24:09.240 I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me. 0:24:09.800 --> 0:24:10.800 Well before he was. 0:24:10.720 --> 0:24:14.960 Paul, y'all, he was saw Saul, Saul, Saul. 0:24:15.240 --> 0:24:17.160 He called his name to get his attention. He knocked 0:24:17.200 --> 0:24:19.000 him off his horse to get his attention. He blinded 0:24:19.040 --> 0:24:20.800 him with a light to get his attention. He restored 0:24:20.800 --> 0:24:23.000 his sight and gave him a vision. And the gospel 0:24:23.080 --> 0:24:26.040 came to the Gentiles because it was a pivotal moment. 0:24:26.200 --> 0:24:29.240 Saw Saul put it in the chat, Saw Saul, what 0:24:29.320 --> 0:24:32.800 else y'all got? Why y'all are guests and touch your neighbors? 0:24:32.840 --> 0:24:36.280 Say better, call Saul? What else you got? 0:24:38.600 --> 0:24:39.520 Guns n' roses? 0:24:40.760 --> 0:24:47.560 Oh Moses, Moses, I worldly pray for me, Moses, Moses. 0:24:47.600 --> 0:24:48.080 That's right. 0:24:48.440 --> 0:24:52.000 Take off your shoes, Moses, because you're about to pivot. 0:24:53.520 --> 0:24:57.359 Take off your shoes, Moses, because the place you stand 0:24:57.440 --> 0:25:01.520 is holy. This is a pivotal moment. This is a 0:25:01.520 --> 0:25:06.440 personal moment, Moses. When God calls your name once, that's personal. 0:25:06.720 --> 0:25:10.200 When he calls your name twice, that's pivotal. When he 0:25:10.280 --> 0:25:13.520 calls your name once is powerful. When he calls your 0:25:13.600 --> 0:25:16.439 name twice, it's a pattern. There are some of you 0:25:16.560 --> 0:25:19.600 under the sound of my voice, and God is trying. 0:25:19.320 --> 0:25:23.160 To get your attention. He is repeating patterns in your life. 0:25:23.720 --> 0:25:26.119 And it's not just that you keep seeing range rovers 0:25:26.160 --> 0:25:28.000 on the road so you think you need to buy one. 0:25:28.560 --> 0:25:31.600 It's deeper than that. God keeps sending you the same 0:25:31.640 --> 0:25:37.040 message different ways. Saul, Saul, Moses, Moses. Have you got 0:25:37.080 --> 0:25:40.680 another one? Samuel? Samuel. 0:25:41.080 --> 0:25:43.399 That's my favorite of them, because this is when he 0:25:43.480 --> 0:25:45.320 was learning to hear God's voice, and he was a 0:25:45.320 --> 0:25:45.880 little boy. 0:25:46.440 --> 0:25:48.520 And some of you, since you've been a child, God 0:25:48.560 --> 0:25:51.760 has been calling you, and he keeps calling you, and some. 0:25:51.720 --> 0:25:54.040 Of you you even spent half of your adult life 0:25:54.160 --> 0:25:56.119 running from the God that was calling. 0:25:55.880 --> 0:25:57.040 You when you were a little kid. 0:25:57.880 --> 0:26:01.119 And he kept calling, and he kept calling, and he 0:26:01.200 --> 0:26:01.800 kept calling. 0:26:01.920 --> 0:26:03.320 Samuel, Samuel. 0:26:03.480 --> 0:26:05.040 He had to come back to him and say it 0:26:05.080 --> 0:26:07.240 again because the first time he thought it was the 0:26:07.320 --> 0:26:12.240 voice of his mentor Eli, So he said it again, Samuel, Samuel, 0:26:12.280 --> 0:26:19.200 you got another one? Martha Martha, Martha, Martha. I didn't 0:26:19.200 --> 0:26:21.080 think anybody would get that, did you get that? 0:26:21.240 --> 0:26:21.600 Nicole? 0:26:22.440 --> 0:26:27.280 Nicole Nicole Martha Martha Luke Chapter ten. 0:26:27.359 --> 0:26:30.240 Talking about Martha Martha, You're worried and distracted. 0:26:30.880 --> 0:26:33.399 You keep trying to do dishes while your sister Mary 0:26:33.480 --> 0:26:34.360 is having a devotion. 0:26:35.359 --> 0:26:37.000 Martha Martha. 0:26:37.040 --> 0:26:38.960 I know why he said her name twice because she 0:26:39.040 --> 0:26:40.240 wasn't listening the first time. 0:26:40.920 --> 0:26:43.040 She was too busy running the vacuum cleaner. 0:26:43.160 --> 0:26:46.440 Martha Martha, Martha middle name. 0:26:48.000 --> 0:26:49.520 I don't want to spend time with you. I want 0:26:49.520 --> 0:26:49.960 to be with you. 0:26:50.040 --> 0:26:51.840 I don't want you to just run around so consumed 0:26:51.840 --> 0:26:53.480 by what you can do for me. So I'm gonna 0:26:53.480 --> 0:26:56.720 say your name twice because I'm more concerned about your 0:26:56.920 --> 0:26:58.840 person than your plans. 0:27:00.480 --> 0:27:06.280 What's another one? Well, that one doesn't count. I guess 0:27:06.320 --> 0:27:08.640 that makes eight. My God, my God. 0:27:11.320 --> 0:27:14.680 But it's technically true because when Jesus was on the cross, 0:27:15.760 --> 0:27:21.119 he was God. So God said to God, my God, 0:27:21.520 --> 0:27:26.399 my God, by and prepare that one. 0:27:27.119 --> 0:27:35.000 Is that Orangeburg? In the house is Orangeburg? In the house, Ormsburg, Orangeburn. 0:27:37.000 --> 0:27:40.439 I got so much family in Orangeburg. I do. 0:27:43.640 --> 0:27:49.240 The one I really struggle with this Abraham, Abraham, because 0:27:49.240 --> 0:27:51.359 that's where God called Abraham and said, go to the 0:27:51.400 --> 0:27:55.639 place I will show you. And then when Abraham set out, 0:27:55.280 --> 0:27:57.399 he didn't give him. 0:27:57.320 --> 0:27:59.080 The exact GPS pen. 0:28:00.640 --> 0:28:03.440 You know how sometimes you just feel like you're taking 0:28:03.440 --> 0:28:09.720 a step, not a swing, just a step. And when 0:28:09.760 --> 0:28:11.199 he called him, he called him Abraham. But then he 0:28:11.200 --> 0:28:12.840 called him to do something very difficult. Now sometimes and 0:28:12.880 --> 0:28:14.720 you're like, God will call you to give up something 0:28:14.760 --> 0:28:19.359 you love. God will call you to give up something 0:28:19.600 --> 0:28:21.800 that you love. Usually when we come to God in prayer, 0:28:22.520 --> 0:28:24.000 we ask him to take away the things that we 0:28:24.040 --> 0:28:24.399 don't like. 0:28:24.440 --> 0:28:26.240 Anyway. 0:28:27.200 --> 0:28:30.600 See, prayer is two ways. It's not just me talking 0:28:30.600 --> 0:28:33.080 to God, it's me listening. 0:28:35.200 --> 0:28:35.720 When I was. 0:28:35.680 --> 0:28:38.479 Taught to pray, I was mostly taught to pray a 0:28:38.520 --> 0:28:39.240 prayer list. 0:28:40.320 --> 0:28:42.280 So I start naming all the things that I want 0:28:42.360 --> 0:28:45.040 God to do, like I'm giving him his checklist for the. 0:28:45.080 --> 0:28:50.160 Day and the date I need him to do it by. 0:28:50.880 --> 0:28:57.600 But prayer is not just listing, it's listening. It's listening, and. 0:28:57.560 --> 0:28:59.400 Sometimes what God says is hard to hear. When he 0:28:59.400 --> 0:29:04.280 said Abraham, Abraham, now in this specific case, God had 0:29:04.280 --> 0:29:07.280 called Abraham to sacrifice his only son, Isaac, that he 0:29:07.320 --> 0:29:10.960 waited twenty five years for. He tied him down and 0:29:11.000 --> 0:29:13.840 he was going to plunge the knife in obedience to God. 0:29:14.320 --> 0:29:16.800 And just as the knife was raised, there was a 0:29:16.840 --> 0:29:21.680 pause that led to provision, and God said, don't lay 0:29:21.680 --> 0:29:24.560 a hand on the boy. There's a ram in the bush. 0:29:25.240 --> 0:29:28.680 You passed the test. I didn't want you to kill 0:29:28.720 --> 0:29:33.080 your son. I wanted you to trust me. And he 0:29:33.120 --> 0:29:37.080 sacrificed the ram instead. And at that pivotal moment, just 0:29:37.120 --> 0:29:42.160 before Abraham was about to do it, God said, Abraham, Abraham, 0:29:42.720 --> 0:29:44.600 and he called it twice. 0:29:45.000 --> 0:29:45.120 Now. 0:29:45.120 --> 0:29:46.680 I think we ought to go through all of these 0:29:46.720 --> 0:29:53.280 over the next few weeks in church. Each of these times, Abraham, Abraham, Moses, Moses. 0:29:53.320 --> 0:29:56.840 I didn't even tell you about Jacob, Jacob, but I 0:29:56.880 --> 0:30:00.280 will how he was going to Egypt to see his 0:30:00.320 --> 0:30:02.200 son Joseph, that he thought was dead, and he had 0:30:02.200 --> 0:30:04.640 so given up on Joseph being alive that he had 0:30:04.800 --> 0:30:07.840 resigned himself to the despair. And God had to call 0:30:07.880 --> 0:30:11.080 his name twice, Jacob Jacob, to tell him that Joseph's 0:30:11.120 --> 0:30:14.120 own hands would close his eyes. That the thing that 0:30:14.200 --> 0:30:17.520 you thought was dead is very much alive. I said, 0:30:17.560 --> 0:30:19.920 The thing that you thought was dead was very much alive. 0:30:21.080 --> 0:30:22.880 I said that the thing that you thought was dead 0:30:22.960 --> 0:30:24.080 is very much alive. 0:30:26.680 --> 0:30:27.520 Jacob, Jacob. 0:30:28.920 --> 0:30:31.360 And today we find ourselves in a pivotal moment for 0:30:31.480 --> 0:30:35.120 Jesus in a pivotal moment for an apostle named Simon Peter, 0:30:36.240 --> 0:30:39.680 and don't you wonder why in Luke chapter twenty two, 0:30:39.800 --> 0:30:44.840 verse thirty one, and I'm almost there, Holly, Holly, Holly, 0:30:45.040 --> 0:30:48.040 I'm almost to the part that inspired me to get 0:30:48.080 --> 0:30:49.160 up and preach this text. 0:30:50.200 --> 0:30:51.200 Because as Jesus is. 0:30:51.200 --> 0:30:54.480 Speaking to all of the disciples, telling them, I must suffer, 0:30:55.080 --> 0:30:55.600 while he is. 0:30:55.560 --> 0:30:57.920 Telling them you are going to rule one. 0:30:57.800 --> 0:31:01.480 Day, while he is preparing them for what the cross 0:31:01.840 --> 0:31:08.040 and the kingdom will be, he pivots his attention from 0:31:08.040 --> 0:31:13.240 the entire table the twelve to one man, and when 0:31:13.280 --> 0:31:16.040 he calls his name, he says, verse thirty one, Luke, 0:31:16.080 --> 0:31:22.479 chapter twenty two, right back where we started, Simon Simon. Question, 0:31:23.760 --> 0:31:29.240 does Simon have another name? What's Simon's other name? Talk 0:31:29.280 --> 0:31:32.440 to me out loud, shout it like you're mad at him? 0:31:33.800 --> 0:31:35.040 Why Simon, Simon? 0:31:36.720 --> 0:31:40.880 Why not Peter Peter. In this moment. 0:31:42.400 --> 0:31:48.280 Of pivotal and necessary instruction for the disciples, and specifically Peter, 0:31:49.120 --> 0:31:53.280 Jesus does something very interesting and to really tease out 0:31:53.280 --> 0:31:56.520 of the text the truth that is lying just under 0:31:56.560 --> 0:32:00.400 the surface. Go back to Luke chapter six In Luke 0:32:00.440 --> 0:32:04.680 Chapter six, verses twelve through sixteen, the author Luke, with 0:32:04.880 --> 0:32:08.800 meticulous detail, tells us that one of those days Jesus 0:32:08.880 --> 0:32:11.960 went out to a mountainside to pray. What did he 0:32:12.040 --> 0:32:15.920 go to do to pray? This is at the very 0:32:15.960 --> 0:32:19.600 beginning of his public ministry. And he goes to pray, 0:32:20.080 --> 0:32:24.560 and he spent the night praying to God. When morning came, 0:32:24.600 --> 0:32:27.080 he called his disciples to him and chose twelve of them, 0:32:27.360 --> 0:32:31.480 who he also designated apostles, Simon whom he named Peter, 0:32:31.840 --> 0:32:36.400 and his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew Thomas, 0:32:36.480 --> 0:32:39.320 James son of Alpheus, Simon who was called the zealot, 0:32:40.280 --> 0:32:45.160 Judas son of James, and Judas Ascaria, who became a trader. 0:32:45.200 --> 0:32:46.560 But there's a sandwich here. 0:32:46.480 --> 0:32:48.400 Because if you go back to verse fourteen, the first 0:32:48.440 --> 0:32:52.800 one that it names is Simon, who he named Peter. 0:32:53.320 --> 0:32:56.560 And this is a very curious conflict as we study 0:32:56.600 --> 0:32:58.400 the text, because if. 0:32:58.360 --> 0:33:02.360 Jesus named him Peter, and it's recorded in Luke Chapter six, 0:33:03.160 --> 0:33:07.360 and if he's referred to as Peter all throughout Luke's gospel, 0:33:08.000 --> 0:33:10.680 then why at the most pivotal moment in his life. 0:33:11.160 --> 0:33:13.320 When Jesus turns his attention from. 0:33:13.200 --> 0:33:15.800 All the twelve at the table to focus on the 0:33:15.840 --> 0:33:18.320 one and to give a personal word, does he not 0:33:18.400 --> 0:33:22.680 address him as Peter Peter. That would be the way 0:33:22.720 --> 0:33:26.200 to build confidence in the one that you called Peter. 0:33:26.720 --> 0:33:27.000 Peter. 0:33:27.120 --> 0:33:29.480 Don't remember, don't forget to remember when we get to 0:33:29.520 --> 0:33:32.560 the cross, You're the rock. Don't forget to remember when 0:33:32.560 --> 0:33:34.920 we get to the cross, You're the one. Don't forget 0:33:34.920 --> 0:33:36.800 to remember when we get to the cross, how I 0:33:36.840 --> 0:33:39.520 helped you walk on water. Don't forget to remember when 0:33:39.560 --> 0:33:42.120 we get to the cross, how I called you by name. 0:33:42.320 --> 0:33:45.120 Don't forget to remember how we fed five thousand Peter, 0:33:45.400 --> 0:33:46.200 Peter Peter. 0:33:46.400 --> 0:33:50.080 But he doesn't say Peter twice. He doesn't even say 0:33:50.120 --> 0:33:55.160 Simon middle named Peter. He says Simon, Simon. 0:33:56.080 --> 0:33:57.880 So let's look at the cast of characters for. 0:33:57.840 --> 0:34:04.920 A moment, shall we? Simon, you got Satan and you've 0:34:04.960 --> 0:34:09.360 got the Savior, And I believe Verse thirty one really 0:34:09.440 --> 0:34:12.040 describes where a lot of our church is at today 0:34:12.080 --> 0:34:13.640 all over the world. I don't mean our church just 0:34:13.680 --> 0:34:15.680 in this one room. I mean our church all over 0:34:15.719 --> 0:34:20.480 this world. Verse thirty one says Simon. Satan has asked 0:34:20.760 --> 0:34:23.719 to sift you, and so what's about to happen? Let 0:34:23.800 --> 0:34:26.000 me set it up for you. Over the next night, 0:34:26.120 --> 0:34:28.880 over the next few days, is going to be Simon 0:34:29.760 --> 0:34:39.120 versus Satan, Simon versus Satan, and spoiler alert, Simon doesn't win. 0:34:40.280 --> 0:34:41.440 As a matter of fact, when it comes to the 0:34:41.480 --> 0:34:44.680 most crucial moment of Simon's life, when he will deny 0:34:44.800 --> 0:34:48.160 Jesus Christ, he does not only deny his power, he 0:34:48.239 --> 0:34:52.680 denies the relationship altogether. He says, I don't even know him, 0:34:52.880 --> 0:34:55.560 and Jesus looks him in his eyes and says Simon, Simon, 0:34:55.640 --> 0:34:59.000 Satan asked to sift you. The answer that we would 0:34:59.080 --> 0:35:02.120 expect from Jesus if Satan asked to sift, and let 0:35:02.120 --> 0:35:02.960 me just slip in here. 0:35:03.280 --> 0:35:08.799 He doesn't get to do it without permission. Whatever the 0:35:08.840 --> 0:35:11.160 devil does to you, he had to go through Jesus 0:35:11.200 --> 0:35:15.040 to do it. So even if Jesus. 0:35:14.680 --> 0:35:17.279 Didn't do that thing for you, it had to go 0:35:17.320 --> 0:35:20.960 through Jesus before it got to you, which means that 0:35:21.440 --> 0:35:25.719 sifting is a process of separation. We don't sift that 0:35:25.880 --> 0:35:28.239 much in our daily lives, so maybe we can't really 0:35:28.239 --> 0:35:31.200 imagine this, but this word used for sift when he 0:35:31.239 --> 0:35:33.080 said Satan desires to sift you. 0:35:33.400 --> 0:35:36.080 This is the only time that word is used. 0:35:35.880 --> 0:35:39.680 In the whole Bible, because it is a shaking so violent, 0:35:40.760 --> 0:35:44.680 it's only used one time. It's shaking out the stuff 0:35:44.719 --> 0:35:47.719 that shouldn't be there to leave the stuff that will 0:35:47.760 --> 0:35:51.520 produce the bread that can feed. And I was interested 0:35:51.560 --> 0:35:54.759 in the fact that Simon Peter was a fisherman and 0:35:54.960 --> 0:35:57.799 Jesus is sifting a fisherman. I thought it was a 0:35:57.840 --> 0:36:02.160 mixed metaphor until I remember that Jesus told Peter feed 0:36:02.239 --> 0:36:05.520 my sheep in John twenty one. So that makes me 0:36:05.600 --> 0:36:09.160 think that he's trying to turn a fisherman into a shepherd. 0:36:09.640 --> 0:36:13.760 And before a fisherman can become a shepherd, before somebody 0:36:13.760 --> 0:36:17.640 who catches fish can become somebody who feeds sheep, there 0:36:17.719 --> 0:36:19.240 must be a sifting. 0:36:20.160 --> 0:36:22.920 Sometimes the sifting in your life is a sign. 0:36:23.440 --> 0:36:26.640 It is a signal that this is a pivotal moment 0:36:27.080 --> 0:36:30.680 that God is changing the season and the stage of 0:36:30.719 --> 0:36:35.360 your life. And before the season shifts, there is a sifting. 0:36:36.080 --> 0:36:38.719 The interesting thing about the sifting, and y'all, I'm so 0:36:38.960 --> 0:36:41.680 full of this word to preach for somebody. 0:36:41.760 --> 0:36:45.520 Is because it doesn't say that Jesus sifted Simon. It 0:36:45.600 --> 0:36:47.640 says that Satan sifted Simon. 0:36:48.480 --> 0:36:52.160 But no matter who sifted him, the one who sifted 0:36:52.239 --> 0:36:55.480 had to get permission to do it. So it means 0:36:55.520 --> 0:36:58.600 that even if I'm being attacked by the enemy, even 0:36:58.640 --> 0:37:02.080 if I'm being attacked by anxiety, even if my body 0:37:02.160 --> 0:37:05.360 is under attack right now, the attack didn't have to 0:37:05.400 --> 0:37:09.400 come from God for the grace to be received by faith. 0:37:10.120 --> 0:37:14.360 It means, simply put, that this sifting season in your. 0:37:14.200 --> 0:37:26.920 Life is only that a season. News flash. 0:37:27.400 --> 0:37:34.560 The more gifted you are, the more sifted you must be. 0:37:36.920 --> 0:37:45.160 Because why Simon Simon? Why not Bartholomew Bartholomew? Why not Judas? Judas? 0:37:46.160 --> 0:37:47.520 Why not Philip? Philip? 0:37:47.520 --> 0:37:52.640 Why not Nathaniel Nathaniel? Why Simon Simon? And this is 0:37:52.760 --> 0:37:55.759 the critical thing for you to understand. Oh, if you 0:37:55.760 --> 0:37:58.759 could understand this, you wouldn't be like, why am I 0:37:58.760 --> 0:38:01.560 getting picked on? Why is my life so hard? Why 0:38:01.640 --> 0:38:04.320 is this happening to me? It would still be heavy, 0:38:04.600 --> 0:38:07.360 it would still be hard, but you would understand this 0:38:07.480 --> 0:38:10.720 simple principle of the kingdom. And it's this the reason 0:38:10.800 --> 0:38:14.040 that he pivoted to Peter in this moment and called 0:38:14.120 --> 0:38:17.759 him Simon. Is because Simon was the most significant one 0:38:17.800 --> 0:38:24.520 sitting at the table. The reason he was singled out 0:38:24.680 --> 0:38:28.799 to be sifted is because he was singled out to 0:38:28.840 --> 0:38:35.480 be significant. This sifting in my life? 0:38:36.000 --> 0:38:39.520 What is it about? What is a sifting about? In 0:38:39.560 --> 0:38:42.719 a sifting season, you will notice your motives are exposed. 0:38:44.040 --> 0:38:46.760 In a sifting season. You will notice that fake friends 0:38:46.880 --> 0:38:51.120 are exposed in a sifting season of your life. You 0:38:51.160 --> 0:38:55.520 will notice that dependencies are exposed. In a sifting season 0:38:55.560 --> 0:38:57.960 of your life. You will notice that things that used. 0:38:57.840 --> 0:39:01.000 To work don't work anymore, and you will wonder is 0:39:01.040 --> 0:39:04.000 this the end? And yet, to think that this is 0:39:04.040 --> 0:39:04.680 the end. 0:39:05.080 --> 0:39:08.719 When you're still sitting at the table and Jesus knows 0:39:08.760 --> 0:39:10.799 you're going to be preaching on the day of Pentecost 0:39:12.400 --> 0:39:17.520 is to miss the message of the gospel. I don't 0:39:17.560 --> 0:39:20.680 think the disciples knew the pressure that Jesus was under. 0:39:21.719 --> 0:39:25.200 While he's busy breaking bread and pouring wine, He's preparing 0:39:25.239 --> 0:39:28.520 his heart, and they really didn't see it until he 0:39:28.640 --> 0:39:31.000 knelt in the garden of Gutsemone. Now I gotta tell 0:39:31.000 --> 0:39:33.239 you about guestsemony because Guesthsemone was the place of the 0:39:33.280 --> 0:39:35.200 olive press, but it was also the place where the 0:39:35.239 --> 0:39:39.600 Savior prayed. And in Guessemone he prayed something very powerful 0:39:39.640 --> 0:39:43.200 to prayers. He prayed, Father, if it's possible, take this 0:39:43.280 --> 0:39:46.239 cup from me, write this down in your notes. That's 0:39:46.239 --> 0:39:53.360 called the prayer that prevents. Sometimes prayer prevents. Sometimes in 0:39:53.400 --> 0:39:56.279 the Bible, will see somebody pray and what was going 0:39:56.320 --> 0:40:00.040 to happen didn't happen because they prayed. It's important that 0:40:00.080 --> 0:40:03.160 we pray and plead the blood of Jesus over our lives, 0:40:03.920 --> 0:40:05.960 because there are some things that your prayers can stop. 0:40:06.920 --> 0:40:10.080 There are when Moses prayed to God, God said, i 0:40:10.120 --> 0:40:12.719 am not going to wipe out the Israelites even though 0:40:12.719 --> 0:40:17.319 they sinned, because you prayed and it prevented it. Moses said, God, 0:40:17.360 --> 0:40:20.880 if you wipe them out, it will defame your glory. 0:40:21.800 --> 0:40:23.239 God said, I'm going to do what you asked, and 0:40:23.280 --> 0:40:24.799 I'm not going to kill them because you asked. You 0:40:24.840 --> 0:40:27.560 can pray things for your children, you can pray things 0:40:27.560 --> 0:40:30.200 for your friends, you can pray things for those you love. 0:40:30.480 --> 0:40:35.760 You can pray things for your own life. But Jesus 0:40:35.760 --> 0:40:38.000 came to drink the cup, and so the father didn't 0:40:38.000 --> 0:40:38.680 take the cup away. 0:40:38.719 --> 0:40:42.160 So after he moves past the prayer that prevents. 0:40:42.400 --> 0:40:46.840 He moved into the prayer that prepares. There is a 0:40:46.840 --> 0:40:49.879 prayer that you can pray that will prepare you. There 0:40:49.920 --> 0:40:51.799 is a prayer that you can pray that God would 0:40:51.840 --> 0:40:53.799 enlighten you. There is a prayer that you could pray 0:40:54.360 --> 0:40:56.400 that God would show you the doors to go through. 0:40:56.560 --> 0:40:58.840 There is a prayer that you can pray before you 0:40:58.920 --> 0:41:01.520 leave your house in the morning. There is a prayer 0:41:01.520 --> 0:41:03.840 you can pray in the bathroom at the office before 0:41:03.880 --> 0:41:05.560 you have to come back out for the next meeting. 0:41:06.480 --> 0:41:08.879 Sometimes you better dead bolt the bathroom door and tell 0:41:08.920 --> 0:41:12.080 the Lord, please clean out my mouth, please cleanse my thoughts, 0:41:12.320 --> 0:41:13.719 Please help me go back in here. 0:41:14.000 --> 0:41:14.680 God give me a. 0:41:14.600 --> 0:41:17.360 Supernatural smile, because I hate every single one of these people. 0:41:17.560 --> 0:41:19.200 There is a prayer that you can pray that will 0:41:19.200 --> 0:41:22.680 prepare you, And sometimes we miss it because I'm gonna 0:41:22.680 --> 0:41:24.759 just be honest, We don't really give the day to God. 0:41:24.800 --> 0:41:26.480 We just get caught off guard by the day. 0:41:27.320 --> 0:41:29.080 Just get caught off guard by the fact that your 0:41:29.080 --> 0:41:30.399 back hurts when you get out of bed. 0:41:30.400 --> 0:41:32.480 Your back hurts every day. Just pray about it. 0:41:32.640 --> 0:41:35.839 And get up and do a stretch and pray and 0:41:35.880 --> 0:41:38.960 pray and prepare. There is a prayer that prepares, and 0:41:39.000 --> 0:41:42.279 so Jesus moves into that prayer. Next he prays, God, 0:41:42.280 --> 0:41:44.440 if it's possible, take this cup from me. 0:41:44.520 --> 0:41:46.000 But God does not remove the cup. 0:41:46.080 --> 0:41:50.320 So then he says, nevertheless, not my will, but yours 0:41:50.920 --> 0:41:51.399 be done. 0:41:51.440 --> 0:41:55.280 What's that. That's the prayer of preparation. It's the prayer 0:41:55.280 --> 0:41:57.759 that gets him ready. It's the prayer that some of 0:41:57.800 --> 0:41:59.640 you have to pray right now. God, this is gonna 0:41:59.640 --> 0:42:00.000 be hard. 0:42:00.120 --> 0:42:03.000 What's coming up next is gonna be heavy, What's coming 0:42:03.080 --> 0:42:03.560 up next? 0:42:03.920 --> 0:42:06.440 This is not going to be easy. What I'm walking into. 0:42:06.880 --> 0:42:09.239 I'm gonna have to walk into this knowing that it's 0:42:09.280 --> 0:42:12.000 going to be painful and it's going to be costly, 0:42:12.280 --> 0:42:14.440 and there is no easy way around this. 0:42:14.560 --> 0:42:16.040 I'm just gonna have to go through it. 0:42:16.080 --> 0:42:19.640 So God, prepare me, like Paul prayed for the church 0:42:19.680 --> 0:42:23.719 at Ephesus, Strengthen me in my inner man, that the 0:42:23.760 --> 0:42:26.680 eyes of my understanding may be open, so I can 0:42:26.840 --> 0:42:30.600 understand the inheritance that I have in Him, so that 0:42:30.640 --> 0:42:33.839 when I'm up against the impossible demands of this situation. 0:42:34.320 --> 0:42:34.799 I have a. 0:42:34.760 --> 0:42:38.080 Supply to draw from and a resource to reach for. 0:42:38.719 --> 0:42:42.319 So I'm prepared for this. So when Goliath gets up 0:42:42.360 --> 0:42:44.920 in my face tomorrow, even though I don't even know 0:42:45.040 --> 0:42:48.120 his name yet, I know a name that is greater 0:42:48.200 --> 0:42:50.920 than a giant, and that can bring him down with 0:42:51.080 --> 0:42:54.600 a single stone. Because I've been killing bears and i've 0:42:54.600 --> 0:42:57.600 been killing sheep. I've been keeping sheep, and I've been 0:42:57.680 --> 0:43:01.400 killing lions, and I'm prepared for this. And as a 0:43:01.440 --> 0:43:03.840 matter of fact, that's why I had to come in 0:43:03.960 --> 0:43:07.800 church today even though the rain was pouring sideways. 0:43:08.360 --> 0:43:10.640 I don't even know what was happening, but. 0:43:10.520 --> 0:43:14.160 The Lord dump dumped a bucket of rain sideways out 0:43:14.160 --> 0:43:17.840 of heaven. That's the meteorological explanation for today. 0:43:18.320 --> 0:43:20.560 But some of y'all had to come anyway. 0:43:20.520 --> 0:43:24.279 Because I came to prepare for the fight that I'm in, 0:43:24.640 --> 0:43:30.080 for the season that I'm stepping into, because I'm being 0:43:30.200 --> 0:43:31.320 shaken right now. 0:43:33.080 --> 0:43:35.719 But upon this rock I will build my church. 0:43:40.960 --> 0:43:44.080 Somebody shall God get me ready. 0:43:44.800 --> 0:43:47.280 God get me ready. I don't know what's coming next, 0:43:47.320 --> 0:43:52.799 but God get me ready. It's the prayer that prepares. 0:43:54.400 --> 0:44:00.000 But then sit down, my sermon is about the prayer, 0:44:01.800 --> 0:44:11.359 not that prevents, not that prepairs, but the prayer that repairs. 0:44:11.400 --> 0:44:13.200 And this is for all of you who weren't ready 0:44:13.200 --> 0:44:16.200 for it. This is for all of you who didn't 0:44:16.239 --> 0:44:19.080 see it come in. This is for all of you, 0:44:19.600 --> 0:44:25.080 Simon Simon, who hit a point in your life and 0:44:25.239 --> 0:44:27.000 you didn't pray about it. 0:44:28.440 --> 0:44:31.200 See the thing about Jesus's words in this situation, when 0:44:31.239 --> 0:44:35.799 he says, Simon Simon, that is so meaningful to me 0:44:36.880 --> 0:44:38.880 is that when Satan asked to sift him as we, 0:44:39.880 --> 0:44:45.600 Jesus didn't tell him no. And even standing on the 0:44:45.640 --> 0:44:50.640 eve of Peter's disappointment, Jesus prophesies his destiny. 0:44:51.200 --> 0:44:52.200 Look at verse thirty two. 0:44:52.239 --> 0:45:01.160 Please, when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers. 0:45:01.760 --> 0:45:11.200 When not if, when not if you turn back. 0:45:11.560 --> 0:45:13.560 Jesus knew in that moment that there would come a 0:45:13.600 --> 0:45:17.160 point in your life, a pivotal point, when the pressure 0:45:17.200 --> 0:45:20.640 would be too great, when the future would be too uncertain, 0:45:21.200 --> 0:45:23.440 when you would not be able to do it like 0:45:23.480 --> 0:45:26.520 you used to do it. And he said, in that moment, 0:45:26.640 --> 0:45:31.359 when you turn back, not if you turn back. When 0:45:31.400 --> 0:45:33.319 you turn back, he knew that there would be a 0:45:33.360 --> 0:45:36.920 moment where you would pray and say, God, fix it. 0:45:38.280 --> 0:45:41.319 I made a mess of this. I have made a 0:45:41.440 --> 0:45:43.040 complete mess of this. 0:45:43.960 --> 0:45:44.440 Fix it. 0:45:44.800 --> 0:45:47.640 And that's the moment he's been waiting for. When my 0:45:47.760 --> 0:45:50.680 kids were very small, I made up a little lie, 0:45:50.840 --> 0:45:52.799 and you could judge me for it. But anytime they 0:45:52.800 --> 0:45:54.879 would get hurt and they would come to me about it, 0:45:55.120 --> 0:45:57.480 I would tell them, Oh, if it was a minor injury. 0:45:57.800 --> 0:45:59.600 If it was a major injury, see your mom. If 0:45:59.600 --> 0:46:02.399 it's a I'll say, don't worry about it. I can 0:46:02.440 --> 0:46:05.480 fix it. And whatever was hurt on their body, I 0:46:05.520 --> 0:46:08.080 would pretend like I knew how to fix it. I'm 0:46:08.120 --> 0:46:11.920 talking when they were very small. So my elbow hurts, Oh, 0:46:11.960 --> 0:46:14.480 come here, I'll fix it. I went to elbow school. 0:46:17.320 --> 0:46:20.800 Oh your big toe hurts. I went to big toe school. 0:46:21.000 --> 0:46:23.600 I went to pinky toe school also, but big toe 0:46:23.680 --> 0:46:25.120 school is the one you need right now. 0:46:25.400 --> 0:46:27.160 Big toe school is what you get. 0:46:27.560 --> 0:46:32.240 Oh your ear hurts, I went to ear school. Oh, 0:46:32.280 --> 0:46:34.399 and if it was a minor injury, I'm telling you. 0:46:34.640 --> 0:46:39.160 Every time it would work. Every time they'd stop crying. 0:46:39.920 --> 0:46:42.000 One time, Graham looked at me and said, you went 0:46:42.080 --> 0:46:43.600 to a lot of schools. 0:46:46.320 --> 0:46:50.480 I went to ear school, I school hand school, every school. 0:46:50.600 --> 0:46:53.200 I went to every school, And even though I didn't 0:46:53.239 --> 0:46:57.680 really have the competency to fix it, their faith made 0:46:57.719 --> 0:47:02.760 them feel better. I didn't even really have the ability 0:47:02.800 --> 0:47:06.319 to fix it. Just their faith that I could was 0:47:06.440 --> 0:47:09.000 enough to make the pain go away. 0:47:09.640 --> 0:47:11.320 If I, as a father. 0:47:11.800 --> 0:47:15.439 With no ability to fix it, can make my kid 0:47:15.520 --> 0:47:19.919 better just by telling them I went to school, how 0:47:20.080 --> 0:47:25.840 much more can your mother, who didn't just go to school, 0:47:26.280 --> 0:47:29.160 he started the university. 0:47:29.880 --> 0:47:33.279 How much more can your father, who. 0:47:33.040 --> 0:47:36.200 Knows how he puts you together, who knows how he 0:47:36.280 --> 0:47:41.200 made you, who knows your temperament, knows your personality, knows 0:47:41.280 --> 0:47:47.280 your background, knows your insecurity, knows your resume, knows your hope, 0:47:47.320 --> 0:47:51.080 nobody find out abouts knows everything that you carry on 0:47:51.120 --> 0:47:56.880 the inside of you. Call your name and say, Simon, Simon. 0:47:57.880 --> 0:48:01.040 I see who you were, I see who you're gonna be. 0:48:01.640 --> 0:48:03.840 And I stand in the middle to let you know 0:48:04.520 --> 0:48:09.440 that Peter is how I see you, and Simon is 0:48:09.520 --> 0:48:12.520 how I found you. And for the next night you 0:48:12.560 --> 0:48:15.640 are gonna be in a Simon state of mind, and 0:48:15.680 --> 0:48:21.360 you're gonna deny me Simon Simon, and you're gonna betray me, Simon, Simon, 0:48:21.600 --> 0:48:25.120 and you're gonna let me down, Simon Simon. But when 0:48:25.200 --> 0:48:29.600 I look at you, I still see Peter, because that's 0:48:29.640 --> 0:48:32.319 the name I gave you, because that's the name I 0:48:32.480 --> 0:48:37.960 called you, because that's the name I chose for you. Now, 0:48:38.000 --> 0:48:40.160 help me preach. Tell your neighbor. He knows your name. 0:48:41.760 --> 0:48:45.279 He knows your name and your other name. He knows 0:48:45.320 --> 0:48:47.960 your name you bring to church and your other name 0:48:48.000 --> 0:48:48.840 you're taking home. 0:48:49.200 --> 0:48:52.360 He knows your name, Simon, Simon. 0:48:52.800 --> 0:48:55.399 Just to remind you that he will speak to your 0:48:55.520 --> 0:48:57.640 Simon until you see your Peter again. 0:49:04.239 --> 0:49:12.240 Praise Ray. So give me a little more vogues. 0:49:13.239 --> 0:49:17.480 Yea, what I'm trying to say, Okay, what I'm trying 0:49:17.520 --> 0:49:23.440 to say, watch this, Simon. 0:49:23.120 --> 0:49:27.560 Is what you're acting like. Peter is what God called you. 0:49:28.400 --> 0:49:35.839 The two are a pair, a pair, everybody say pair 0:49:36.960 --> 0:49:40.799 like boots. They are a pair, like earrings, they are 0:49:40.800 --> 0:49:43.040 a pair, like gloves. 0:49:43.120 --> 0:49:44.640 They are a pair. 0:49:45.200 --> 0:49:49.720 And so when Peter doesn't prevent it, when Peter doesn't 0:49:49.960 --> 0:49:53.680 persevere through it, when Peter isn't prepared for it, and 0:49:53.840 --> 0:49:58.480 Simon sings slow, watch what happens. 0:49:58.360 --> 0:50:08.040 Next, Jesus said I prayed for you, Simon. 0:50:12.120 --> 0:50:17.160 So if this is Simon's faith versus Satan's attack, Satan wins. 0:50:18.560 --> 0:50:21.720 But apparently this is not a fight between Simon's faith 0:50:22.640 --> 0:50:27.520 and Satan's attack. This is a fight between Satan's attack 0:50:28.520 --> 0:50:36.920 and a savior's prayer. And this is not just any prayer. 0:50:37.880 --> 0:50:43.880 This is the prayer that read pairs. This is the 0:50:43.960 --> 0:50:48.360 prayer not that you pray, because sometimes you can't pray, 0:50:48.680 --> 0:50:51.880 and sometimes you don't pray, and sometimes you didn't pray. 0:50:52.200 --> 0:50:56.080 This is not the prayer that prevents, because Peter went 0:50:56.120 --> 0:51:00.560 on to deny Jesus. But when it doesn't prevent, and 0:51:00.600 --> 0:51:04.480 when it doesn't prepare, Jesus says, I got a prayer 0:51:04.480 --> 0:51:07.319 for you, not the one that you pray, the one 0:51:07.360 --> 0:51:11.200 that I prayed. When you are acting like Simon, but 0:51:11.360 --> 0:51:12.560 I know you to be Peter. 0:51:13.560 --> 0:51:14.640 It is the. 0:51:14.440 --> 0:51:19.719 Prayer that Rea pears, the prayer that reminds you who 0:51:19.760 --> 0:51:22.680 you really are, the prayer that reminds you what he 0:51:22.800 --> 0:51:23.919 really spoke. 0:51:23.960 --> 0:51:25.680 The prayer that calls you back to. 0:51:25.600 --> 0:51:28.600 The essence of His spirit and his presence, away from 0:51:28.680 --> 0:51:31.600 the dictates of your flesh. The prayer that brings you 0:51:31.640 --> 0:51:34.200 back to your right mind, the prayer that, like the 0:51:34.239 --> 0:51:37.759 prodigal son, says, how am I starving to death when 0:51:37.800 --> 0:51:40.879 my father has enough food to feed an entire household 0:51:41.120 --> 0:51:44.319 and every employee. I will arise and go back to 0:51:44.360 --> 0:51:48.920 my father. I will repair you. I will bring you 0:51:49.080 --> 0:51:53.320 back into alignment. I am praying for you. I am 0:51:53.360 --> 0:51:58.000 pairing you, because as long as Jesus is your prayer partner, 0:51:58.440 --> 0:52:00.759 your prayers are gonna get in third. 0:52:08.760 --> 0:52:11.960 It is the prayer that repairs. 0:52:12.400 --> 0:52:15.759 So Chris, come here, Come here, So Chris, Chris, come 0:52:15.840 --> 0:52:16.640 up on the stage. 0:52:16.920 --> 0:52:20.720 Chris, Chris. How many of y'all think that Chris lifts? 0:52:23.960 --> 0:52:28.480 How many y'all think Chris lifts? Chris? Chris lists lists, 0:52:29.520 --> 0:52:30.200 and as. 0:52:30.000 --> 0:52:32.200 He is lifting, the Lord gave me a very specific 0:52:32.280 --> 0:52:35.880 picture of this to make it make sense. When he 0:52:35.960 --> 0:52:41.799 is lifting weights, he is hopefully lifting more weight than 0:52:41.840 --> 0:52:46.200 he can successfully complete repetitions for which is called lifting 0:52:46.239 --> 0:52:49.640 to the point of failure for hypertrophy, so that he 0:52:49.680 --> 0:52:53.480 can have muscle gain. When he is lifting weights, to 0:52:53.640 --> 0:52:56.960 the average eye, it appears that he is building muscle, 0:52:57.320 --> 0:53:01.360 but that is not technically true. He does not build 0:53:01.440 --> 0:53:06.200 muscle when he lifts weights. He builds muscles after he 0:53:06.239 --> 0:53:10.880 has lifted weights to the point of failure and goes home. 0:53:11.600 --> 0:53:13.880 While he is lifting weights, not only is he not 0:53:14.040 --> 0:53:17.759 building muscles, he is actually doing the opposite in that 0:53:18.000 --> 0:53:21.759 the muscle fibers are tearing, little micro tears that are 0:53:21.760 --> 0:53:23.120 tearing the muscle fibers. 0:53:23.560 --> 0:53:25.319 So now he's got a tear in there. 0:53:25.920 --> 0:53:28.200 And so when he goes home, his body starts talking 0:53:28.239 --> 0:53:30.680 to itself, saying, we got to do something about this. 0:53:31.239 --> 0:53:32.880 Did you see what he just put us through? 0:53:33.280 --> 0:53:36.520 He made us curl sixty pound dumbbells today, he made 0:53:36.600 --> 0:53:38.440 us do six, seven, eight reps. 0:53:38.719 --> 0:53:40.839 Last time we only did nine. Today he made us 0:53:40.880 --> 0:53:41.400 do ten. 0:53:41.640 --> 0:53:44.160 And he barely got there and he struggled and he 0:53:44.200 --> 0:53:46.920 couldn't get the last one. So since he got to 0:53:47.040 --> 0:53:53.279 that point and started shaking and started shaking, three of 0:53:53.360 --> 0:53:55.480 y'all are listening to my sermons, so I'll preach it 0:53:55.560 --> 0:53:59.560 for three. Since he got to that point, because this 0:53:59.600 --> 0:54:03.800 is the that repairs. Since he got to that point 0:54:03.840 --> 0:54:06.799 and started shaking and couldn't do another one and drop 0:54:06.880 --> 0:54:10.239 the weight, then the body sends a signal to itself 0:54:10.520 --> 0:54:13.360 and it starts sending out satellite cells to the torn 0:54:13.440 --> 0:54:16.640 fibers with the little microtel cells and all the stuff 0:54:16.640 --> 0:54:17.840 that I went to school learned about. 0:54:19.200 --> 0:54:22.839 I went to muscle school too, and I was about 0:54:22.880 --> 0:54:24.000 said the Bible said. 0:54:23.960 --> 0:54:27.440 But the body says, we gotta send more cells to 0:54:27.480 --> 0:54:28.320 build that back. 0:54:29.600 --> 0:54:32.960 Now, I know what Jesus meant in verse thirty two. 0:54:33.040 --> 0:54:36.040 Put it on the screen, please, he said, I prayed 0:54:36.080 --> 0:54:38.720 for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. 0:54:38.880 --> 0:54:39.479 But it did. 0:54:40.600 --> 0:54:48.120 No, it didn't. It didn't fail. It was broken down 0:54:49.640 --> 0:54:50.600 to be built back up. 0:54:53.320 --> 0:54:56.160 Because after you've finished that lift, why y'all take my 0:54:56.239 --> 0:54:59.520 verse down, give me my verse back. I prayed that 0:54:59.640 --> 0:55:01.560 your faith would not fail. 0:55:02.440 --> 0:55:09.439 And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers. This 0:55:10.480 --> 0:55:16.560 is the prayer that repairs. Is that after you have 0:55:16.640 --> 0:55:21.560 been broken down, after you were surprised what came out of. 0:55:21.520 --> 0:55:28.120 Yourself, after you made the mistake, you say, God, strengthen 0:55:28.200 --> 0:55:33.800 me for this, And Jesus says, all right, I'm already 0:55:33.840 --> 0:55:40.760 praying for you, and I'm already sending satellite cells all. 0:55:40.360 --> 0:55:44.759 To your torn muscles, all to your broken heart. I'm 0:55:44.800 --> 0:55:46.440 already sending new cells. 0:55:50.880 --> 0:55:54.719 But I'm not just gonna build it back. I'm gonna 0:55:54.719 --> 0:56:00.480 build it back better. On the other side of this night, 0:56:00.600 --> 0:56:04.880 Peter will go on to preach the first sermon that 0:56:05.040 --> 0:56:07.600 was called a sermon in the New Testament Church. 0:56:09.040 --> 0:56:10.840 And I got to think that while he was shaken, 0:56:12.960 --> 0:56:16.319 he didn't feel very strong. I gotta think that while 0:56:16.360 --> 0:56:20.600 he was shaken, while he was sifted, he felt like, 0:56:20.680 --> 0:56:21.239 this is it. 0:56:22.680 --> 0:56:24.160 But Jesus said, Peter, this is. 0:56:24.120 --> 0:56:31.680 Not about your prayer, Simon, It's about my prayer. As 0:56:31.680 --> 0:56:34.120 long as you keep thinking it's about your faith versus 0:56:34.120 --> 0:56:36.480 Satan's attack, you will always feel weak. 0:56:37.560 --> 0:56:41.319 Chris, Chris, I'm done with you coming back down. But 0:56:41.400 --> 0:56:44.920 the moment you realize that this is not. 0:56:47.360 --> 0:56:53.680 Simon's faith versus Satan's attack, this is Satan's attack versus 0:56:53.719 --> 0:56:56.959 the Savior's prayer, the. 0:56:56.880 --> 0:57:02.560 Prayer of repair is his prayer. He's saying, I see you, Simon, 0:57:03.520 --> 0:57:07.759 I see you, Peter. I am repairing you. I'm reminding 0:57:08.640 --> 0:57:09.600 I'm going to use you. 0:57:10.320 --> 0:57:12.520 And don't you think for one moment that when you 0:57:12.560 --> 0:57:14.399 get to this point, you're going to always. 0:57:14.040 --> 0:57:15.279 Be Peter Peter. 0:57:16.880 --> 0:57:20.400 At best, you're going to be Simon Peter, and sometimes 0:57:20.400 --> 0:57:25.280 you're Simon Simon. But don't you love to know that 0:57:25.440 --> 0:57:30.280 the Savior prayed for simonyes That just hit me, man. 0:57:31.200 --> 0:57:36.120 That the Savior prayed Simon. Simon, stand to your feet 0:57:36.200 --> 0:57:40.400 so I can pray for you, the prayer. 0:57:41.680 --> 0:57:46.200 That repairs. See how me and Holly are standing together 0:57:46.280 --> 0:57:46.520 like this. 0:57:48.160 --> 0:57:53.120 We're a pair, We're a couple. That's a visual illustration 0:57:54.040 --> 0:57:58.040 for you and Jesus. If any of you would want 0:57:58.080 --> 0:58:00.680 to come after her, you would. 0:58:00.560 --> 0:58:03.040 Have to go through me, and you might be able 0:58:03.040 --> 0:58:03.480 to do it. 0:58:04.560 --> 0:58:08.960 But I promise you I'll pick up a chair, and 0:58:09.040 --> 0:58:11.160 if the chair didn't do it, I got three state 0:58:11.240 --> 0:58:14.760 champions on the second row and a full security team, 0:58:15.120 --> 0:58:18.640 and I want you to know I would do everything 0:58:18.760 --> 0:58:24.360 in my power to keep you from getting to who 0:58:24.440 --> 0:58:28.320 I'm paired with. You keep thinking that you are paired 0:58:28.360 --> 0:58:31.320 with people, and so when people leave, you think it's over. 0:58:32.240 --> 0:58:39.000 You are a joint heir with Jesus. And in the 0:58:39.000 --> 0:58:44.400 Book of Hebrews, I got to give them Hebrews seven 0:58:44.520 --> 0:58:47.000 day because they'll think that Jesus just prayed for Simon, 0:58:47.440 --> 0:58:49.920 but they won't believe that he's praying for them. In 0:58:49.960 --> 0:58:53.360 the Book of Hebrews, Chapter seven, verse fifteen or verse 0:58:53.480 --> 0:58:57.800 twenty five, the author says Therefore he is able to 0:58:57.840 --> 0:59:03.720 save completely those who come to God through him because 0:59:03.760 --> 0:59:05.640 He always lives. 0:59:06.920 --> 0:59:11.680 To intercede for them. What does it mean that he's interceding. 0:59:12.280 --> 0:59:16.760 He is standing in your shaking place saying, if you 0:59:16.840 --> 0:59:23.000 want to get to them, you've got to go through me. 0:59:23.960 --> 0:59:25.080 That's Jesus speaking. 0:59:27.720 --> 0:59:34.600 Now. There is the prayer Graham helped me down from 0:59:34.640 --> 0:59:41.640 this chair. There is the prayer that prevents. There is 0:59:41.680 --> 0:59:44.280 the prayer that prepares. But I have a feeling I'm 0:59:44.280 --> 0:59:47.000 speaking to a few people online today and even if 0:59:47.040 --> 0:59:50.600 you in the room who prayer didn't prevent it, prayer 0:59:50.640 --> 0:59:55.480 didn't prepare. And like Simon, Simon, you are going through 0:59:55.520 --> 0:59:58.240 something right now, or you've been through something where you 0:59:58.280 --> 0:59:59.280 need the prayer that. 1:00:01.680 --> 1:00:02.800 And the prayer that repairs. 1:00:02.880 --> 1:00:09.520 Is this, Lord, if everything else goes away, if everything 1:00:09.560 --> 1:00:15.320 else is sifted, don't let this trial take my faith. 1:00:17.280 --> 1:00:20.040 Because if my faith doesn't fail, I can make it. 1:00:20.880 --> 1:00:23.920 If my faith doesn't fail, I can come back from this. 1:00:24.640 --> 1:00:28.200 If my faith doesn't fail, I can get resourceful. If 1:00:28.200 --> 1:00:30.880 my faith doesn't fail, I can reach out. If my 1:00:31.040 --> 1:00:36.040 faith doesn't fail, I can pivot. And so, just like 1:00:36.120 --> 1:00:40.680 the Savior, pray for Peter, we want to write now 1:00:40.760 --> 1:00:44.480 pray for you, those of you who are Simon. 1:00:44.720 --> 1:00:45.160 Simon. 1:00:46.240 --> 1:00:48.720 Oh I followed him at a distance. Oh I let 1:00:48.760 --> 1:00:51.520 the pressure get the best of me. But this is 1:00:51.560 --> 1:00:55.640 the prayer that repairs. This is the prayer that brings 1:00:55.640 --> 1:00:59.320 you back to God right now. I believe there are 1:00:59.560 --> 1:01:03.320 many today who have never made the decision to make 1:01:03.440 --> 1:01:04.120 Jesus the. 1:01:04.080 --> 1:01:06.040 Lord of your life. 1:01:06.160 --> 1:01:08.360 I want to lead you in a prayer right now, 1:01:09.120 --> 1:01:12.280 and this is the prayer not only that repairs, but 1:01:12.360 --> 1:01:13.880 this is the prayer that saves. 1:01:14.880 --> 1:01:16.680 The Bible says that if you will. 1:01:16.480 --> 1:01:20.040 Call on the name of the Lord, you will be saved. 1:01:21.000 --> 1:01:24.160 He knows your name, and now it's time for you 1:01:24.240 --> 1:01:28.560 to call his name, the name of Jesus. There is 1:01:28.640 --> 1:01:31.479 no other name in heaven, or on earth or under 1:01:31.520 --> 1:01:33.600 the earth by which man must be saved. 1:01:34.120 --> 1:01:35.080 It is in this name. 1:01:36.240 --> 1:01:38.160 So right now, if God is speaking to you, and 1:01:38.240 --> 1:01:41.920 you realize in your heart, this is my day to 1:01:42.000 --> 1:01:43.920 come to God. This is my day to give him 1:01:43.920 --> 1:01:46.560 my life. I want you to pray this prayer with 1:01:46.640 --> 1:01:49.480 me out loud, and repeat after me. And if you 1:01:49.520 --> 1:01:52.360 mean this with your heart. The Bible says that if 1:01:52.400 --> 1:01:56.480 you confess your sins. He will forgive you of all unrighteousness. 1:01:57.040 --> 1:01:58.960 So right now, if you're ready for a new beginning, 1:01:59.240 --> 1:02:00.800 I'm by you to pray this prayer with me. 1:02:00.880 --> 1:02:05.760 Heavenly Father. I am a sinner in need of a savior. 1:02:06.960 --> 1:02:11.360 I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God 1:02:12.320 --> 1:02:16.240 and the savior of the world. And today I make 1:02:16.360 --> 1:02:20.360 Jesus the Lord of my life. I believe he died 1:02:21.280 --> 1:02:25.439 that I would be forgiven and rose again to give 1:02:25.480 --> 1:02:31.200 me life. I receive this new life. This is my 1:02:31.320 --> 1:02:34.120 new beginning. Throw your hand up on the count of three. 1:02:34.120 --> 1:02:37.280 If you prayed that one, two, three, we celebrate too. 1:02:43.800 --> 1:02:46.800 That's amazing. Let's clap a little louder. 1:02:46.840 --> 1:02:51.240 Please, let's welcome leave into the family of God. 1:02:58.400 --> 1:02:59.520 Can you give the Lord. 1:02:59.280 --> 1:03:02.240 A praise if he let vote something to you today? 1:03:03.920 --> 1:03:08.560 Take Lord, Amen. 1:03:09.200 --> 1:03:12.960 I think we're gonna do another one next week. Another one. 1:03:13.000 --> 1:03:18.560 I don't know. It'd be Abraham, Abraham, Moses, Moses, Jacob Jacob. 1:03:18.760 --> 1:03:21.600 Let's take a church vote right now in the comments, 1:03:21.640 --> 1:03:22.840 which one do you want next? 1:03:23.880 --> 1:03:26.120 Make some noise if you want Abraham. 1:03:25.600 --> 1:03:34.680 Abraham, Moses, Moses, Jacob Jacob, Martha, Martha. 1:03:37.200 --> 1:03:45.720 Saul Saul, Samuel Samuel. It's a close call. We'll have 1:03:45.760 --> 1:03:48.880 to come back and see. All over the room. 1:03:48.920 --> 1:03:51.800 People are receiving orange Bibles at each of our campuses. 1:03:51.880 --> 1:03:53.520 Less thank God for every new beginning. 1:03:55.520 --> 1:03:58.240 Raise the Lord. That's so good man. 1:04:03.120 --> 1:04:04.960 One more thing I want to tell you before our 1:04:05.000 --> 1:04:07.840 campus pastors take it. I got such a good illustration 1:04:07.960 --> 1:04:10.520 today of this message that I thought I would give 1:04:10.520 --> 1:04:13.680 you as a take home. It was raining really hard 1:04:13.720 --> 1:04:16.960 today in Charlotte. The rain, as I mentioned earlier, was 1:04:17.000 --> 1:04:20.400 coming so hard and coming from such a strange direction 1:04:21.280 --> 1:04:23.920 that even in my back room there was water that 1:04:24.000 --> 1:04:25.280 came under the doors. 1:04:25.680 --> 1:04:29.720 Now these are good doors, these aren't cheap doors. 1:04:30.520 --> 1:04:32.440 It's not like we have a budget crisis at the 1:04:32.520 --> 1:04:35.760 church and we have to put some weak doors. They 1:04:35.880 --> 1:04:39.640 just weren't prepared for what came in in that direction, 1:04:40.520 --> 1:04:43.720 and so they didn't prevent it. So they weren't prepared, 1:04:43.720 --> 1:04:47.760 they didn't prevent There's water on the floor, and I 1:04:47.880 --> 1:04:50.960 hope they cleaned it up while I was preaching, But 1:04:51.040 --> 1:04:55.360 I didn't slip the thing about it is as silly 1:04:55.400 --> 1:04:58.240 as it would be for me to never come back 1:04:58.280 --> 1:04:58.960 to church again. 1:05:00.360 --> 1:05:01.960 Didn't stop the water from coming in. 1:05:03.040 --> 1:05:06.520 That would be how ridiculous it would be for you 1:05:06.640 --> 1:05:10.840 to let some stupid storm keep you from fulfilling what 1:05:10.920 --> 1:05:19.400 God has for your life and for your family. So 1:05:19.480 --> 1:05:23.000 what am I gonna do? Close down the church? Never 1:05:23.080 --> 1:05:26.280 come again. No, we're gonna fix the doors this week, 1:05:26.960 --> 1:05:30.160 because if they didn't prevent and they didn't prepare, we're 1:05:30.160 --> 1:05:33.320 gonna repair them. 1:05:33.360 --> 1:05:36.080 So I call you back to your right self. I 1:05:36.200 --> 1:05:38.960 call you back to your right mind. I call you 1:05:39.120 --> 1:05:42.240 back to your childlike faith. I call you back to 1:05:42.320 --> 1:05:47.320 your sincere spirit. Thank you for joining us. 1:05:47.640 --> 1:05:50.080 Special thanks to those of you who give generously to 1:05:50.160 --> 1:05:53.640 this ministry. Is because of you that this ministry is possible. 1:05:54.080 --> 1:05:56.280 You can click the link in the description to give 1:05:56.360 --> 1:06:00.320 now or visit Elevation Church dot org slash podcast for 1:06:00.360 --> 1:06:04.200 more information and if you enjoyed the podcast, you can subscribe. 1:06:04.640 --> 1:06:06.680 You can share it with your friends. 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