Yes You!

0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:02.639 Well, we're gonna get to the message in just a moment, 0:00:02.759 --> 0:00:05.880 but I wanted to make sure you knew about Elevation Nights. 0:00:06.400 --> 0:00:11.319 It's gonna be amazing eight cities October twenty sixth through 0:00:11.320 --> 0:00:14.120 November fourth. You gotta go to Elevation Nights dot com 0:00:14.120 --> 0:00:16.400 to see if we're coming to a city near you. 0:00:16.880 --> 0:00:21.239 It's gonna be me, Elevation Worship, a few friends, and you. 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:22.680 I want to see you there. I want to see 0:00:22.720 --> 0:00:25.000 you and everybody that you know there. Go to Elevation 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:27.680 Nights dot com. I can't wait to see you soon. 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:33.400 Here's the message. Most of all, Lord, we ask you 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:36.720 to give us the faith to receive your grace in 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:41.120 this moment, and we believe that it's already ours in 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:44.320 the name of Jesus. Put it in the chat, say 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:49.880 it with your mouth. It's already mine right now. It's 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:54.960 already mine, right now. Come on, clap your hands like 0:00:55.040 --> 0:01:05.559 you know your father. Let do some goodness Taiah. Lord. 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:10.880 You know what I feel, dude, I feel that free 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:16.880 tour anointing. It's that free tour anointing. We're getting ready. Man. 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:19.920 By the time you see this, we'll probably already be 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:23.960 in Atlanta. We're taking Elevation Church on the road this week. 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:26.680 How many of you will pray for us at least once? 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:36.759 Come on, now, you can pray once. You pray over 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:40.720 your French fries. Once. We'll bless these potatoes to the 0:01:40.840 --> 0:01:46.000 nourishment of my body. That's a miracle. But just pray 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:48.520 for us this week. We want to have a good time. 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:50.880 I don't want any of them fighting on the buses. 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:53.320 And you know what I mean. I don't want Jenna 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:56.160 and Johnson having marriage problems when they get back from tour. 0:01:57.080 --> 0:02:02.120 What happened to your marriage? We went out to lead worship, y'all? 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:07.480 Sharing a bunk? You should talk to somebody. Yeah, that'd 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:10.280 be pretty good strategy. Share a bunk, you know what 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:14.920 I mean? Right, I get the cuddle. But it's gonna 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:19.400 be amazing. It's gonna be amazing and will be for 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:20.880 those of you who still want to come. There are 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:23.040 still some tickets left, and if you know somebody in 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:25.120 the following areas, there's still time to tell them to 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:31.360 come out. Atlanta Tuesday one month, is this October twenty sixth, 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:39.480 Nashville the next night. Then I don't want to give 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:46.799 them the nights, just the towns Tulsa, Dallas, Houston. So 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:50.400 that's gonna be awesome because when I'm in Atlanta Tuesday, 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:54.280 I'm in the Seco Braves. When I'm in Houston, I'm 0:02:54.280 --> 0:03:00.239 gonna say go Astros because I'm an inmphocrit rry. I 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:03.040 will pander, I will. I won't even know I did it. 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:06.440 I guess they will now, but I'm gonna do it anyway. Houston, 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:17.040 Fort Worth, Houston, Orlando, Fort Lauderdale, Jacksonville. So if you 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:22.200 can make it Elevation Nights dot Com, we are gonna bring. 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:27.160 It's gonna be Game seven every night. The World Series, 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:32.160 the World Series of Worship. That's what we should call 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:35.520 the tour, the World Series of Worship. But no, seriously, 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:39.680 we're so excited. Pray for us. Gonna be amazing, absolutely amazing. 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:44.280 And today, guess what, there is a word from the 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:49.440 Lord for you in the house. I'd like you to 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:53.080 say that by faith and say there is a word 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:59.560 from the Lord for me. Now look at somebody else 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:04.440 and say there is a word. Put it in the chat. 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:06.600 Why are you not putting it in the chat? All right? 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:09.560 Everybody in the room saying I'm on every location, there 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:12.920 is a word. Look at your neighbor. You can't catch 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:18.400 coronavirus looking at him. Y'all are so insulated. There is 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:26.840 a word from the Lord for you. Yes you, yes you. 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:32.080 That's my title today. We're going deeper. We're gonna pick 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:35.479 up on last week. We're going deeper. This message is calm. 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:45.160 Yes you, look at somebody else, say yes you. You 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:48.680 may be seated, Yes you. Did you get to hear 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:55.680 the word from last week? He's noddy, he really heard it. 0:04:56.360 --> 0:04:58.479 That was the message. It was about the God nod, 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:08.520 how God chooses you. Yes you, dirty you, sorry, beautiful you. 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:14.080 I want to affirm you today. But seriously, it took 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:17.920 me back to I'm gonna be in Luke five one 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:19.920 through eleven to start with again. That won't be where 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:24.240 we end, but we'll start there. The best sermon I 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:26.799 think was ever preached here was the one Holly preached 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:32.600 for the church anniversary. It was still before everybody was 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:35.480 able to come back in the room fully and all 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:39.880 of those things. So you know, it's weird times. But 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:43.680 I'll usually come over with her when she preaches and 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:46.200 listen to her do the sermon before she does it, 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:52.040 and then I culture afterwards. But I've learned not to 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:53.720 try to coach here, to preach it like I would 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:57.360 preach it just to help her find, you know the best. 0:05:57.480 --> 0:06:01.320 And yes, there have been tears during those coaching sessions, 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:05.560 and we have gone home in separate cars before after 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:08.640 those coaching sessions. Now I'm just kiddingessed it's usually pretty good. 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:10.760 But when I came for that one, I don't remember 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:12.920 what she called the message, but I remember one part 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:15.559 about it where she was standing in the pulpit looking 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:21.880 so attractive and annointed. They're not mutually exclusive, and she said, 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:24.040 in the middle of her message, she's preaching about Gideon 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:25.760 and God calling him a warrior when he felt like 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:29.000 a whim and he's and he had to become what 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:32.479 God saw that he already was. And she said during 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:39.000 the runthrough, she said, yes you, and I couldn't. I 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:42.440 couldn't take any more notes after she said that, because 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:44.320 you know, you've ever been in church where it felt 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:51.480 like God was speaking just to you. And so when 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:53.960 she preached it, she said, put it in the chat, 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:56.320 yes you going to do it right now? Put in chat, 0:06:56.440 --> 0:06:59.440 yes you. And when she said that, I thought they 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:01.400 can put it in the chat all they want, but 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:07.520 that's my word. She's talking to me right now. I 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:10.280 think what made it powerful really was not only what 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:13.600 she spoke, but who spoke it, because I also know 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:16.080 what it cost her to stand in front of our 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:20.680 church and preach with such power. I go back to 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:24.960 like these outtakes in my mind of her telling me, 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:29.600 I'll never preach like so and so. Oh, I know 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:31.680 that I should be able to be a leader, but 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:34.440 you know, I'm really not a leader like so and so. 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:37.360 And to see that one I'm not gonna lie, y'all. 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:39.360 It was kind of sexy and spiritual at the same 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:41.720 time to see her up there going yes you. But 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:44.000 I knew that for her to say that to the 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:47.000 whole church, she had to first say it to herself 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:55.160 that she had to push through all of these preferences 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:58.440 and even push through what she considered to be her 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:02.000 own personality, to step out of her comfort zone and 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:07.560 to walk in her calling yes you. But it hit 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:11.160 me right in my heart. I struggle with the same thing, 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:14.640 like I tell you all the time. And it was 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:17.040 like we were just right there and she was saying, 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:22.800 you are the one that God has chosen to do 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:28.480 the thing that God assigned for you to do. Yes, you, 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:32.600 she just said. It is one line. I'm gonna make 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:36.760 a whole sermon out of it today from Luke chapter five, 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:40.680 verse one through eleven. And I want to read it again. 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:44.880 And if you come out to Elevation nights, I might 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:48.520 still be in Luke chapter five, because this is really 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:53.640 good to me. Of course, we were noticing some things 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:55.800 about the text last week, but let me just read 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:59.360 it through briefly. One day, as Jesus was standing by 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:02.200 the lake of Ganes Sarette, the people were crowding around 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:05.040 him and listening to the word of God. And he 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:11.000 saw at the water's edge two boats. How many boats? Also, 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:13.599 he can get in either one he wants to, but 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:17.400 he got in the one belonging to Simon. Now, notice 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:19.800 what it says They were left there verse two, part 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:23.079 B by the fishermen who were washing their nets, mending 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:26.640 their nets, kind of like calling it a night. You know, 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:29.320 we didn't catch anything. Ah, let's just get the nets ready. 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:31.920 We'll go again. You know, get them next time, slugger, 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:35.040 good game. He got into one of the boats, the 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:40.280 one belonging to Simon. That's the phrase right there, the 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:47.760 one belonging to Simon. The one belonging to Simon, whose 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:52.400 name was changed later to Peter. Okay, so if you're 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:54.240 a little confused right now, you're like, wait a minute, 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:57.520 I thought that Jesus used Peter's boat. He did, but 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:01.040 he's still Simon. Because you know, we sing a song 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:06.240 at church haar Lot called Waymaker miracle Worker. We didn't 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:07.960 write it. I wish we did. That's a good song, 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:11.199 but it says a promise keeper. It lists all these 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:16.080 things that God is. He's a waymaker, he's a chain breaker. 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:18.480 But I'm gonna tell you what. We could write another 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:28.760 verse on it. He's a name changer. He's a name changer, 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:32.719 something people have called you all your life. God will 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:35.400 get down on the inside of you and show you 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:44.040 that your something else, something totally different. Name changer, miracle worker. 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:49.160 I like it. Let's work it up. But he gave 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:51.800 an instruction, and this is cool. Look at verse four. 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:54.560 It's what I was just describing. When God speaks directly 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:58.000 to you. When he had finished verse four, when he 0:10:58.120 --> 0:11:03.439 had finished speaking, he said to Simon, So that's the 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:06.480 personal word. You got to listen for that. When the 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:10.920 sermon ends. Sometimes that's where God will speak the most 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:14.680 to you. So Jesus is teaching all these deep things. 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:16.599 All The Kingdom of God is like a pearl. The 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:18.920 Kingdom of God is like. The Kingdom of God is 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:22.480 like And then he turns to Simon and says, there's 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:25.760 something that I want you to do based on what 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:28.199 you've just heard. And a lot of times when I 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:32.040 stop preaching, you stop listening, and that's where God would 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:35.120 give you the breakthrough. So you got to listen real good, 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:37.120 and be careful who you go to lunch with after 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:41.760 I preach, because they'll be talking about something so stupid 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:45.280 and something so off subject. And sometimes you need to 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:50.080 be like I need fifteen minutes, I need fifteen seconds. 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:53.240 It doesn't even take God long he's speaking. The Kingdom 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:55.000 of God is like. He sits down in the boat. 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:58.720 He teaches the crowds, and then he turns to Simon. 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:03.719 I'll later be named Peter, but he's already Peter. But 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:08.520 he's still Simon. And the process of discipleship is not 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:17.839 God changing you into something else, it's him revealing who 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:24.120 you've been all along. So he tells Simon, amen, if 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:27.400 you put out into the deep water and let down 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:31.439 the nets. There's something down there. You can't see it, 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:34.760 but I can't. And so this is kind of freaky 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:40.760 because God sees things we don't see. Notice he didn't 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:44.400 speak the fish into the water at that moment. He 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:48.280 just knew they were already there. It wasn't about God 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:50.679 putting something there that wasn't there. It was about him 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:54.760 alerting Simon to what was there beneath the surface. And 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:57.640 that's how it is in your life. There are things 0:12:57.720 --> 0:13:02.719 that God is bringing forth. Everybody say bring forth. That's 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:06.479 what God spoke to the earth. He said, bring forth, vegetation, 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:11.280 bring forth. He didn't speak something that wasn't there to 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:14.520 the earth. He brought forth what was in the earth 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:17.200 all along. And he's doing that in your life right now. 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:21.719 He is bringing forth. Even the word parent is from 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:26.120 the Latin, which means to bring forth. And our job 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:28.839 as a parent is not to make our kids a 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:33.000 better version of us. It's the partner with God in 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:36.800 bringing forth the unique thing that he put inside of them. 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:42.040 If one more person tells me abb he's going to 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:44.520 be a preacher, I can tell you can't tell nothing. 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:49.880 She might be, she might run, she might be the president. 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:52.959 I'm not going to limit her potential based on what 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:58.360 I did up here shall bring forth. God has been 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:02.240 bringing forth in your life lately, some stuff that you 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:05.200 really didn't want to see. God has been bringing forth 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:07.839 in your life lately, some issues you didn't want to 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:11.600 deal with. But He brings those things for a greater purpose. 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:15.400 And this is what we see with Simon. Y'are with 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:19.600 me so far. I'm just reading my scripture reviewing from 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:25.760 last week. There is a word from God for you. Yes, 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:33.400 you right now. So he goes, Simon, if you'll do 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:38.160 what I say, you can have what I see that 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:45.240 you can't see. And so Simon answered, Master, we've worked 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:47.800 hard all night and haven't caught anything. But because you 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:49.760 say so, I will let down the nets. And when 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:52.640 they had done so, they caught such a large number 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:56.200 of fish that their nets began to break. So they 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:59.920 signal The word is nod because their hands are full. 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:02.880 So Peter nods at John, Hey get over here and 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:05.440 help me. Man need some backup. And by the way, 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:08.280 some of us can only receive so much of what 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:11.320 God wants to do because we don't have the right partners, 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:15.280 or we don't have the right network to use a 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:17.920 little play on words. The nets were breaking, well, you 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:24.800 need more nets, y'all weren't ready for me today. But 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:28.800 the partners came over to help them, and they came 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:32.920 and filled both boats so full that they began to sing. 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:35.680 And when this is the surprising part of the text. Okay, 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:37.760 and this one I want to pick up. When Simon 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:42.840 Peter which one boat, the one that he was before 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:46.040 he met Jesus and the one that he can be 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:50.800 as he follows Jesus. Simon Peter. You thought that was 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:54.040 like a first name in a middle name. Ah, He's 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:58.400 a name changer, a miracle worker. And the miracle of 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:03.320 it was that God saw the Peter in Simon even 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:10.760 before Peter did. And God sees the patient, kind, loving, joyful, 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:17.320 free you before you even believe that you exists. And 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:21.000 the surprising part of the text is that Simon Peter, 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:24.840 they're both in the same boat. Kind of represents the 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:27.160 flesh and the spirit to me when I think about it. 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:33.680 When he sees all the fish in his boat, you 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:38.479 would think he'd be happy, Oh, thank you Jesus, PTL 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:47.440 praise emojis. But he he fell at Jesus's knees and said, first, 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:51.280 say go away from me, Lord, I am a sinful man. 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:56.360 For he and his companions were astonished at what God 0:16:56.480 --> 0:16:59.640 saw beneath the surface and brought forth to his boat. 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:03.880 They were astonished at the catch a fish they had taken, 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:06.800 and so were James and John. Nobody expected this, the 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:11.679 sons of Zebedee, Simon's partners. Then Jesus said to Simon, 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:16.119 don't be afraid. From now on, you will fish for people. 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:19.040 That's not what you want him to say, you know 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:21.360 you want him to be like, don't be afraid, Peter. 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:25.840 From now on, I'm gonna go fishing with you every time, 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:30.720 and I'm gonna show you every spot. You're not gonna 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:32.879 have to fish all night and catch nothing anymore. You 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:35.000 have some five minute fishing trips. I'm gonna just tell 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:37.480 you where to put down the next and boom. Because 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:40.200 that's what we want God to do, right, That's what 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:46.520 we want God to do right. No, Pastor Steven, I 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:50.200 want God to take fifteen years to fix my problem, 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:55.960 No Pastor Stephen. But I give Simon credit. I give 0:17:56.080 --> 0:18:01.000 Simon Peter credit for his self awareness. Self awareness is 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:05.640 a wonderful thing. Self awareness will save you from doing 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:10.360 stupid things. But self awareness, as you're about to see 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:13.200 in this text, it can only take you so far. 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:18.600 Because Simon is aware of his sinfulness, but he is 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:23.480 not yet aware of his peterness. I'm making up a 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:27.520 word just to make a point. Simon says, go away 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:32.400 from me. Lord, I'm a sinful man, and he's scared 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:35.359 because you would be too. Like, how did you see 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:38.280 that at the bottom of the ocean. We've been fishing 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:40.800 here all night. We've been fishing our whole lives. You're 0:18:40.800 --> 0:18:43.920 a rampi, you're a carpenter. You know more about the 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:46.359 water than we do, and you've worked with what your 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:51.359 whole life. If you saw that beneath the surface, I 0:18:51.480 --> 0:18:55.199 wonder what you see in me. Most of us are 0:18:55.240 --> 0:18:59.320 still scared of God. We are. That's why we pray. 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:05.240 Fake you. You you use some words when you pray. Well, 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:07.159 I just never heard you use those words till I 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:10.159 ask you to say the blessing that was thou ist 0:19:10.280 --> 0:19:13.960 pray That is mightiest goddest I pray is that Thou 0:19:14.080 --> 0:19:18.240 wast with visitist us usn't in this moment? Just what 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:23.280 is this superlativist neestness that you are. I've never even 0:19:23.320 --> 0:19:26.480 heard your voice drop that loh, Oh, Mighty God. You 0:19:26.560 --> 0:19:32.040 are a soprano. You're a basis faith prayer. You pray God. 0:19:32.119 --> 0:19:37.600 I just want your glory. You're glory, God, You're glory. Now. 0:19:37.680 --> 0:19:43.000 You don't now yet. You have to start where you 0:19:43.080 --> 0:19:50.920 are when you come to God. I praise Peter for 0:19:51.080 --> 0:19:56.639 his awareness of how simon he still is. His first 0:19:56.760 --> 0:20:00.360 instinct was not, that's right, Jesus, you pick the right 0:20:00.440 --> 0:20:03.480 boat this time, brother, and I'll tell you what. This 0:20:03.640 --> 0:20:07.520 boat's gonna carry you all around. I'm gonna take you 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:10.560 places to preach. You pick the right boat. Jesus, you 0:20:10.680 --> 0:20:16.360 got the right captain, he said. I'm I'm a sinful man. 0:20:17.560 --> 0:20:22.080 I'm a sinful man. You spoke about what was beneath 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:25.320 the surface of the waters, but I don't want to. 0:20:26.600 --> 0:20:31.119 I don't want to let you too close. You might 0:20:31.200 --> 0:20:37.919 see what's beneath the surface of me. I don't get 0:20:37.960 --> 0:20:41.600 to see the real you when I'm preaching. I see 0:20:41.640 --> 0:20:51.920 the surface Sunday, Sanctify, you're sitting in that seat. My 0:20:52.040 --> 0:20:55.240 preaching began to change when I realized I'm really preaching 0:20:55.359 --> 0:21:05.040 to to us Simon and Peter, help me, precious please. 0:21:07.200 --> 0:21:14.119 The Peter was praising God in you during worship. You 0:21:14.320 --> 0:21:19.440 turned graves into gardens. The Simon, you will try to 0:21:19.520 --> 0:21:24.240 turn a garden into a grave and kill something that 0:21:24.400 --> 0:21:26.480 God is growing in your life before it has the 0:21:26.560 --> 0:21:30.880 opportunity to manifest. And this is why we spoke last 0:21:30.920 --> 0:21:33.600 week about the importance of knowing that both are in 0:21:33.680 --> 0:21:35.680 the boat. And what attracted me to the text was 0:21:35.720 --> 0:21:37.800 not like, oh, pull up the mets and you'll have 0:21:37.880 --> 0:21:39.920 a catch. Pull up the mets and praise them and 0:21:39.960 --> 0:21:42.200 you'll get a promotion. You might, you might not. That's 0:21:42.320 --> 0:21:45.040 not what attracted me to the text for our study. 0:21:46.000 --> 0:21:51.680 It was the contrast. It was the contrast between Jesus, 0:21:52.359 --> 0:21:58.720 who knew everything and needed nothing, and Peter, who needed 0:21:58.760 --> 0:22:04.000 everything and knew nothing. He didn't know, He didn't know 0:22:04.160 --> 0:22:06.639 the fish were down there. He didn't know that the 0:22:06.840 --> 0:22:10.720 power was in him to be a rock that God 0:22:10.800 --> 0:22:13.840 could build on. As he took the Gospel to Cornelius, 0:22:14.119 --> 0:22:16.760 which unleashed the Word of God into the gentile world. 0:22:16.920 --> 0:22:19.280 He didn't know any of that in that moment. And 0:22:19.480 --> 0:22:25.000 yet Peter was already in the boat. Purpose was already 0:22:25.080 --> 0:22:30.520 in the boat that that creature that was in Peter. 0:22:30.800 --> 0:22:33.440 He was in the same boat with Simon. But but 0:22:33.600 --> 0:22:36.520 you know, you could spend your whole life playing. Simon says, 0:22:36.880 --> 0:22:39.840 like we said last week. Not Simon says, touch your nose. 0:22:40.160 --> 0:22:42.960 Simon says, touch your ear. Simon says, touch your head. 0:22:43.160 --> 0:22:46.560 But Simon, my inner. Simon tells me much worse stuff 0:22:46.600 --> 0:22:50.600 than that, you know, Simon says, cuss him out. Simon says, 0:22:50.880 --> 0:22:53.320 don't call him back. Simon says, don't try to do it. 0:22:53.400 --> 0:22:55.920 You're gonna look stupid. Simon says, give him a piece 0:22:55.960 --> 0:22:58.320 of your mind. And we use excuses. Here's what we do. 0:22:58.600 --> 0:23:04.320 We use excuses and say I'm just being me. You 0:23:04.520 --> 0:23:09.479 are being the me that you have seen. But that's Simon, 0:23:11.160 --> 0:23:14.600 and Simon doesn't get to say who you are. That's 0:23:14.720 --> 0:23:20.119 called immaturity, not self awareness. Now I'm a fan of 0:23:20.200 --> 0:23:23.320 self awareness. I think it's great if you brush your teeth. 0:23:23.480 --> 0:23:25.240 I think it's great to have people who will say, 0:23:25.440 --> 0:23:28.000 you know, your zippers down, or you're talking too loud, 0:23:28.080 --> 0:23:31.119 you're talking too much. That's great. Self awareness is amazing. 0:23:31.200 --> 0:23:32.560 It'll make you walk in the room and go you 0:23:32.680 --> 0:23:34.399 know what. I'm probably taking this the wrong way right now. 0:23:34.440 --> 0:23:37.879 They probably don't mean anything by it. Self awareness is 0:23:38.160 --> 0:23:42.560 a wonderful baseline. A lot of us don't really know ourselves. 0:23:43.640 --> 0:23:46.720 We're filled with prejudices, like Peter was when he was Simon, 0:23:46.760 --> 0:23:48.600 when he thought it was only for the Jewish people, 0:23:48.640 --> 0:23:50.520 and he didn't know that God wanted to use him 0:23:50.520 --> 0:23:58.560 as an instrument to the gentiles. Yeah, you, the you 0:23:58.800 --> 0:24:03.359 you knew before Jesus is not the only you that 0:24:03.520 --> 0:24:07.879 you can be God. This is so good, This is 0:24:08.040 --> 0:24:12.440 so good. I'm so glad. Self awareness will tell you 0:24:12.600 --> 0:24:17.359 about your proclivities. It'll tell you about your past, it'll 0:24:17.400 --> 0:24:20.320 tell you about your background, it'll tell you which way 0:24:20.359 --> 0:24:25.000 you lean. Self awareness is an awesome baseline so you 0:24:25.080 --> 0:24:28.439 can know where you're starting. But it's a horrible ceiling 0:24:29.480 --> 0:24:33.280 to show you how far you can go. Now, this 0:24:33.560 --> 0:24:35.720 is what I put on a pink sweater to say today, 0:24:37.400 --> 0:24:50.560 like pink, you haven't really met you yet. No, no, no, 0:24:50.960 --> 0:24:56.520 that's not a golf clap line. You haven't really met 0:24:57.080 --> 0:25:04.159 you yet. You know what I'm clapping. I'm excited to 0:25:04.359 --> 0:25:13.600 meet the meek Domseys. All right, all right, let's work 0:25:13.640 --> 0:25:15.760 on this turn to somebody say, nice to meet you, 0:25:17.200 --> 0:25:19.440 Nice to meet you. But I understand, as I'm meeting you, 0:25:19.680 --> 0:25:23.240 I'm really meeting two us. I'm really meeting two us. 0:25:23.800 --> 0:25:26.359 I'm meeting the nice, polite you. They just looked at 0:25:26.400 --> 0:25:28.800 me and said what the pastor said to say. But 0:25:28.880 --> 0:25:31.159 I understand. If I get stuck behind you on forty 0:25:31.240 --> 0:25:36.920 five tomorrow in traffic, I might meet Simon. A lot 0:25:36.960 --> 0:25:41.240 of preachers, they're sermons are so plastic, so candy coated. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:25:41.320 --> 0:25:43.680 yeah yeah. But we don't need to just preach to Peter. 0:25:44.000 --> 0:25:46.880 I gotta talk to Simon because you gotta walk this out. 0:25:47.880 --> 0:25:52.159 And they are both in the same boat, both in 0:25:52.280 --> 0:25:58.280 the same body. Pull out your phone. You got apps 0:25:58.320 --> 0:26:01.320 on there that can grow you in your faith. You 0:26:01.520 --> 0:26:04.840 got apps on there that can lead you off a cliff. 0:26:05.880 --> 0:26:09.720 Go to your contacts. You got contacts in there that 0:26:09.880 --> 0:26:14.919 can strengthen you in faith. You got contacted. You got 0:26:15.040 --> 0:26:18.040 Delilah in that phone somewhere who will cut your hair 0:26:18.480 --> 0:26:23.320 and leave you shaken and blind. Yes, you do, in 0:26:23.440 --> 0:26:28.160 the same phone, in the same boat, in the same Stephen. 0:26:28.359 --> 0:26:30.080 Now let me tell you this is how it works 0:26:30.160 --> 0:26:33.119 for me. It's not all this face for me either. 0:26:33.640 --> 0:26:36.119 It can be like before I came out here today, 0:26:36.200 --> 0:26:38.560 I was walking around the green room, speaking in tongues, 0:26:38.600 --> 0:26:41.200 just wanting to get out here so bad. Three minutes later, 0:26:42.320 --> 0:26:52.800 I thought, oh god, I don't know. Before I could 0:26:52.960 --> 0:26:56.640 even get the microphone on, my batteries wanted to die. 0:26:57.119 --> 0:26:59.800 Not the batteries on the microphone, the batteries in me. 0:27:01.080 --> 0:27:06.119 But that doesn't cancel what God spoke, because Peter Simon 0:27:06.320 --> 0:27:10.560 had enough sense to say, because you say so, it 0:27:10.720 --> 0:27:13.879 doesn't matter how I feel about it. I can go 0:27:14.000 --> 0:27:22.000 off your word. Oh yeah, By the way, I want 0:27:22.040 --> 0:27:26.400 to tell you something. Jesus didn't need Peter's vote. That's 0:27:26.440 --> 0:27:28.840 why it was so powerful. When hollyod was looking talking 0:27:28.880 --> 0:27:30.840 to me and y'all were listening, she said, yes you 0:27:32.560 --> 0:27:34.680 y'allre like, oh, that's my word, and I'm like, that's cute. 0:27:34.800 --> 0:27:37.680 It's my word because what I heard in that word 0:27:37.920 --> 0:27:43.040 was he wants you. That's hard for me to believe. 0:27:45.280 --> 0:27:48.439 People don't use you because they want you. They use 0:27:48.480 --> 0:27:54.399 you because they need you. I give Peter credit for 0:27:54.440 --> 0:27:59.680 a self awareness. I'm a sinful man. Now. That's exactly 0:27:59.760 --> 0:28:04.800 what Jesus knew when he went to the cross. All 0:28:04.880 --> 0:28:09.520 that was in you, that's what he died for. He's 0:28:09.560 --> 0:28:12.800 going to take care of that in Jerusalem. But for now, 0:28:14.400 --> 0:28:16.480 and I may say it this way. On Elevation Nights 0:28:16.560 --> 0:28:24.159 tour this week, he stepped in grace, got in the 0:28:24.280 --> 0:28:35.720 boat knowing, knowing Jesus needed nothing, knew everything. He knew. 0:28:36.760 --> 0:28:39.080 Peter would sleep in the garden of Gemini while he 0:28:39.200 --> 0:28:42.160 was over there preying light drops of blood. No, no, 0:28:42.480 --> 0:28:44.760 not how it is for us. We wouldn't let people 0:28:44.840 --> 0:28:47.640 close if only we had known what they were going 0:28:47.720 --> 0:28:53.160 to do. So Peter signon. Peter is like Jesus, go away. 0:28:54.720 --> 0:28:59.720 If I let you close, I will let you down. Go. 0:29:02.000 --> 0:29:05.160 If I let you close, I will let you down. 0:29:07.280 --> 0:29:11.840 Jesus said, let down the nets. That wasn't the only 0:29:11.920 --> 0:29:21.960 letdown in Peter's future. Jesus knew at the moment he 0:29:22.040 --> 0:29:25.960 got in Peter's boat that Peter would deny ever knowing him. 0:29:28.560 --> 0:29:34.960 Why I praise God is he got in anyway fully 0:29:35.080 --> 0:29:40.000 knowing what Peter thinks. He's telling Jesus. No, Jesus, you 0:29:40.120 --> 0:29:42.880 don't know. I'm a sinful man. You should get in 0:29:43.040 --> 0:29:45.640 John's boat. John will lean on your chest. At the 0:29:45.760 --> 0:29:49.040 last supper, I'll cut off an ear. I'm a sinful man, 0:29:49.360 --> 0:29:53.280 I'm a crazy God. Get away, Jesus. You don't want 0:29:53.320 --> 0:29:55.120 to know, as I promise you. My boat's good, but 0:29:55.240 --> 0:30:01.080 my heart isn't. Because I want, I want. Can I 0:30:01.240 --> 0:30:04.320 prove to you that Jesus didn't need Peter's boat because 0:30:04.320 --> 0:30:06.640 I know you don't believe me. You're like he totally 0:30:06.680 --> 0:30:08.920 needed the boat the crowd was pressing. It says that 0:30:09.040 --> 0:30:12.000 in verse one he needed the amplification to be out 0:30:12.040 --> 0:30:15.040 on the water because there was no microphone or battery pack. 0:30:15.360 --> 0:30:18.360 He totally needed Peter's boat. But I saw in Matthew 0:30:18.400 --> 0:30:21.040 fourteen something, just that one little verse in Matthew fourteen, 0:30:21.080 --> 0:30:22.000 give it to me real quick, Give it to me, 0:30:22.040 --> 0:30:24.080 real quick, real quick, real quick, real quick. This is 0:30:24.160 --> 0:30:27.360 later in the Ministry of Jesus, shortly before dawn. Jesus 0:30:27.440 --> 0:30:36.160 went out to them walking on the lake. So I 0:30:36.280 --> 0:30:38.280 know this might not feel good to say it, but say, 0:30:39.040 --> 0:30:44.240 God doesn't need me. That sent me free man, because 0:30:44.240 --> 0:30:46.360 when I thought he needed me, it felt like a 0:30:46.520 --> 0:30:48.920 burden to serve him. When I thought he needed me, 0:30:49.000 --> 0:30:51.600 I thought I'm letting him down. God needs me so much. 0:30:51.720 --> 0:31:00.560 Not really, not really, he wants me, haha, won't you 0:31:00.640 --> 0:31:05.800 hear that devil? He wants me. Stephen first, Larry Stephens 0:31:06.000 --> 0:31:14.000 Verdick Junior, he wants me. He wants me. That is 0:31:14.120 --> 0:31:17.400 a revelation. Yo yo yo, yo yo yo. Y'all, self 0:31:17.480 --> 0:31:21.840 awareness can only get you so far. You need divine guidance. 0:31:23.600 --> 0:31:27.440 You need a god who spoke the sea into existence 0:31:27.800 --> 0:31:30.400 to show you where the fish are. You need a 0:31:30.600 --> 0:31:34.360 god who need you together. In your mother's womb before 0:31:34.440 --> 0:31:38.640 you were born, I formed you and set you apart. Simon. 0:31:40.320 --> 0:31:45.280 I got in your boat knowing. I got in your 0:31:45.440 --> 0:31:49.520 boat knowing I wasn't feeling my way around. I didn't 0:31:49.520 --> 0:31:51.720 need him any miney Moore. I knew what was in 0:31:51.840 --> 0:31:53.880 your boat. I knew what was in your heart. I 0:31:53.960 --> 0:31:56.120 knew what was in your bloodline. I knew what was 0:31:56.160 --> 0:31:58.600 in your background. I knew what was in your temperament. 0:31:58.880 --> 0:32:02.200 I knew what was in you. And I got in 0:32:02.800 --> 0:32:11.640 because I wanted to. When you can walk on the water, 0:32:12.320 --> 0:32:17.880 you don't really need a boat. Be a much more 0:32:17.920 --> 0:32:21.400 effective way to preach if you were standing on top 0:32:21.440 --> 0:32:24.840 of the water versus sitting in the boat of the 0:32:24.880 --> 0:32:29.520 dude didn't even catch anything five minutes earlier. And he 0:32:29.640 --> 0:32:33.960 got in and he sat down and he said something. 0:32:34.840 --> 0:32:37.960 And when Peter did what he said, Simon saw something 0:32:38.000 --> 0:32:41.880 that scared him to death. Now, I don't know if 0:32:41.880 --> 0:32:44.400 I've been explicit about this, So let me make sure 0:32:44.440 --> 0:32:49.960 I get my point across. He's still Simon, and he's 0:32:50.040 --> 0:32:57.640 already Peter. You already got it, You already got it. 0:33:01.400 --> 0:33:06.080 Go away from me. I'm a sinful man. I'm a 0:33:06.120 --> 0:33:10.960 petty person. And then we brag about it. Oh, that's 0:33:11.080 --> 0:33:16.280 just how I am. That's just how I am. And 0:33:16.440 --> 0:33:18.440 so Simon says, throw a fit. You throw a fit 0:33:18.480 --> 0:33:22.800 because that's just how I am. Simon says, for you 0:33:22.920 --> 0:33:26.760 to isolate yourself and you know, hide and just kind 0:33:26.800 --> 0:33:30.400 of like set yourself over here because you're defective. That's 0:33:30.560 --> 0:33:34.960 just how I am. That's just my lot. That's just 0:33:35.080 --> 0:33:37.920 the way it's always been. If it wasn't for bad luck, 0:33:37.960 --> 0:33:45.800 I wouldn't have no look at all. But he's permanently Peter, 0:33:46.560 --> 0:33:53.360 temporarily Simon and so and so. God brings the partners, 0:33:53.520 --> 0:33:55.520 God mends the nets. All the things I talked to 0:33:55.520 --> 0:33:57.640 you about last week, did you hear last week, God 0:33:57.720 --> 0:34:02.760 gives you the nod to say, yes you, I'm gonna 0:34:02.800 --> 0:34:06.080 mend your nets. I'm gonna bring you partners. I'm gonna 0:34:06.120 --> 0:34:08.359 show you where to fish. And by the way, I'm 0:34:08.400 --> 0:34:10.360 not gonna just show you how to catch more fish. 0:34:10.960 --> 0:34:15.080 I'm gonna teach you to fish for something different. I'm 0:34:15.080 --> 0:34:17.200 gonna teach you how to fish for what really matters. 0:34:19.160 --> 0:34:22.799 That's what you're going through right now. God is drawing out, 0:34:23.480 --> 0:34:26.840 bringing forth. God is parenting you. They say that Jesus 0:34:27.000 --> 0:34:30.880 was teaching Peter, but really he was parenting Peter. He 0:34:31.120 --> 0:34:35.160 was bringing forth Peter. Peter means petross, Peter means rock, 0:34:35.400 --> 0:34:43.799 Peter means solid, and that's you, yes, you not John 0:34:43.920 --> 0:34:47.759 this time. I don't think Peter ever really understood this though, 0:34:47.800 --> 0:34:53.239 because after Jesus rose from the dead, said Jesus looked 0:34:53.280 --> 0:34:56.759 back at John, who was kind of like stalking them. 0:34:57.000 --> 0:34:58.680 John's kind of creepy, you know, and saying something a 0:34:58.680 --> 0:35:01.000 lot of times, calls himself the one Jesus loved and 0:35:01.080 --> 0:35:04.400 stuff like that in the scripture, and the Lord is 0:35:04.440 --> 0:35:08.520 telling Simon Peter, he's still both You know, you ain't 0:35:08.560 --> 0:35:09.800 can come this point in your life. I don't know, 0:35:09.920 --> 0:35:13.239 maybe maybe you never thought this. I'm gonna come to 0:35:13.320 --> 0:35:18.240 a place where I'm gonna be completely Peter, completely solid, 0:35:19.600 --> 0:35:24.040 completely on Christ, the solid rock I stand. And that's 0:35:24.200 --> 0:35:26.239 be wonderful. And if you have the book that tells 0:35:26.280 --> 0:35:30.040 me how to always be Peter, would you please autograph 0:35:30.120 --> 0:35:32.120 it Jesus and hand it to me and I will 0:35:32.160 --> 0:35:35.920 buy it. I'm so sick of fake pe Mike thing 0:35:36.040 --> 0:35:40.960 like they are never Simon. I wish I had five 0:35:41.040 --> 0:35:43.680 minutes to find your Simon and then I could expose 0:35:43.719 --> 0:35:49.320 you in front of the Holy fam. But but Jesus 0:35:49.480 --> 0:35:52.720 is so good to Peter. He said, don't be afraid. 0:35:52.760 --> 0:35:58.400 Give me verse ten from now on, Luke, five to 0:35:58.480 --> 0:36:06.600 ten from now on. There you go from now on. Yeah, 0:36:07.200 --> 0:36:12.480 he's already Peter. But if he stays stuck in Simon, 0:36:14.160 --> 0:36:19.680 he will never see Peter. Jesus sees Peter in every assignment. Yes, you, 0:36:22.040 --> 0:36:27.600 Jesus sees the Peter. You think he can see the 0:36:27.680 --> 0:36:30.040 fish at the bottom of the lake of Gannessaret and 0:36:30.120 --> 0:36:33.279 he can't see the Peter at the bottom of you. 0:36:35.239 --> 0:36:38.759 But he's going to have to draw it out. Peter 0:36:38.880 --> 0:36:41.840 looked back at John and said what about him? And 0:36:42.000 --> 0:36:45.759 Jesus said to Peter, what about him? You leave that 0:36:45.840 --> 0:36:55.279 to me? You must follow me? You yes, yeah, yes, yeah. 0:36:57.480 --> 0:37:00.560 Do you have a little thing in you? Says not me. 0:37:02.400 --> 0:37:07.080 I do. Sometimes I'll hear somebody, even another preacher, will 0:37:07.080 --> 0:37:11.120 be saying you're more than a conqueror, And my innersignment 0:37:11.239 --> 0:37:19.479 is like now you. I think that's a good place 0:37:19.600 --> 0:37:22.759 to start, because it puts you on your knees, like 0:37:22.880 --> 0:37:26.080 Peter at Jesus' feet, which is something God can use. 0:37:27.520 --> 0:37:31.000 But I think it's a bad place to stop. And 0:37:31.120 --> 0:37:33.080 the Lord gave me a message today to preach to 0:37:33.160 --> 0:37:41.880 somebody who feels stuck where you started, stuck where you 0:37:42.000 --> 0:37:48.880 started stuck in Simon stuck. I'm a sinful man, you are, 0:37:49.000 --> 0:37:52.120 But he died for you, so that's what you were. 0:37:53.440 --> 0:37:58.360 Now you're a saint, a holy saint. Still got some patterns. 0:37:58.480 --> 0:38:01.640 That's called the flesh. Simon never leaves. You just have 0:38:01.719 --> 0:38:06.440 to tell him where to sit. I'm glad I learned this. 0:38:08.520 --> 0:38:10.680 I thought if I had doubt in the car, I 0:38:10.680 --> 0:38:13.439 couldn't go anywhere. I found out you can have doubt 0:38:13.480 --> 0:38:18.000 in the car. Just don't let it drive. Just don't 0:38:18.080 --> 0:38:20.839 let it drive. Look at somebody and say, just don't 0:38:20.920 --> 0:38:26.200 let it drive. I'm confiscating your driver's license. All the 0:38:26.400 --> 0:38:29.640 lies you've been telling yourself, all the limitations you've been 0:38:29.680 --> 0:38:32.640 telling yourself, all the labels that have been given you, 0:38:33.120 --> 0:38:39.719 all the sinfulness that is keeping you from See. You 0:38:39.840 --> 0:38:44.520 can ride, Simon, but you can't drive. You can stay around, 0:38:44.560 --> 0:38:48.200 but you can't tell me how far to go. You 0:38:48.320 --> 0:38:50.879 can have anywhere, but not the last word. And see, 0:38:50.960 --> 0:38:53.000 this is the season that some of us have been in. 0:38:53.280 --> 0:38:55.919 We've been stuck where we started. But God said something 0:38:56.040 --> 0:38:59.040 very powerful to me. He said, remind them you're not 0:38:59.320 --> 0:39:09.839 stuck where you started. You're stuck where you stopped. Play 0:39:09.880 --> 0:39:16.719 my own Oregon. You are not stuck. I'm a sinful man. 0:39:17.760 --> 0:39:20.440 But Jesus said, don't be afraid of what you were. 0:39:21.560 --> 0:39:25.080 That's what you were before I stepped in your boat. 0:39:25.520 --> 0:39:28.960 Knowing exactly what you are, knowing exactly what you did, 0:39:29.320 --> 0:39:32.839 knowing exactly where you've been, knowing exactly what you're enough, 0:39:33.120 --> 0:39:39.720 I want the boat belonging to Simon. Yes you see, Simon. 0:39:40.160 --> 0:39:47.560 Yes you you're not stuck where you started. I'm a 0:39:47.680 --> 0:39:51.400 sinful man. Yeah, but you are also the righteousness of 0:39:51.600 --> 0:39:56.040 God in Christ Jesus, because what happened on that cross 0:39:56.560 --> 0:40:06.600 was more than a physical act. It was a new name. Wow, Wow, 0:40:09.880 --> 0:40:14.480 you are only stuck where you stop. I just gotta 0:40:14.560 --> 0:40:18.799 be me. Well, there's a new me I need to meet. 0:40:22.719 --> 0:40:28.719 Oh man, Peter has so much potential. Simon has so 0:40:28.920 --> 0:40:36.080 much baggage. Peter has so much purpose. Simon has so 0:40:36.239 --> 0:40:40.320 many problems. And they're both in the same boat. So 0:40:40.400 --> 0:40:46.879 all we gotta been telling Simon sit down. Peter needs 0:40:46.920 --> 0:40:51.799 to pilot this boat. That's what Jesus called him. It's Peter. Okay. 0:40:51.840 --> 0:40:54.840 So Simon says, you are the Christ, the son of 0:40:54.880 --> 0:40:57.799 the Living God. And Jesus said, flesh and blood did 0:40:57.840 --> 0:41:01.040 not reveal this to you, Simon, son of On, But 0:41:01.160 --> 0:41:03.360 I tell you that you are Peter, and upon this 0:41:03.480 --> 0:41:05.520 rock I'll build my church. Let's clap that he gave 0:41:05.560 --> 0:41:10.239 him the no name the noon. All right, but y'all 0:41:10.280 --> 0:41:13.799 look in Matthew sixteen later today. A minute later, Jesus said, 0:41:13.960 --> 0:41:16.239 I gotta go to Jerusalem. I'm gonna need about three 0:41:16.320 --> 0:41:19.120 days for y'all to think everything went wrong, and then 0:41:19.120 --> 0:41:22.439 I'm gonna get up out of the ground. Peter said never, Lord, 0:41:23.440 --> 0:41:27.359 this isin't gonna happen to you. Jesus said something real weird. 0:41:27.400 --> 0:41:30.240 Now He's already called him Peter just a minute earlier. 0:41:30.960 --> 0:41:35.040 But then he looked at him and said, get behind me, Satan. 0:41:36.280 --> 0:41:40.920 Oh god, we're going backwards. This is the wrong direction, 0:41:40.960 --> 0:41:44.239 all right. I started as Simon, then I was Peter. 0:41:45.120 --> 0:41:49.399 Now I'm Satan. Lord, this is going the wrong way. 0:41:50.640 --> 0:41:53.520 You've been feeling like you've been going backwards lately, right right, 0:41:54.280 --> 0:41:57.040 I was like it it's somebody, maybe not everybody, but somebody, somebody, somebody, somebody. 0:41:57.040 --> 0:41:59.160 I just feel like I'm going backwards. Oh god, I'm 0:41:59.200 --> 0:42:02.400 feeling like more now. Oh God, I'm feeling like it's harder. Now, 0:42:02.520 --> 0:42:04.960 I'm feeling less sure. I'm feeling less certain. I don't 0:42:04.960 --> 0:42:06.279 know what to do. I used to know. I don't 0:42:06.360 --> 0:42:12.120 know anymore. You're not going backwards. That's called the sifting. 0:42:15.280 --> 0:42:19.600 The sifting. When Jesus got in Peter's spoke, he not 0:42:19.760 --> 0:42:23.640 only knew there were fish in that spot where there 0:42:23.680 --> 0:42:26.680 weren't a little while ago, he knew about the sin 0:42:27.040 --> 0:42:29.719 that was in Simon. And Simon's only speaking about the 0:42:29.760 --> 0:42:33.520 sin he knows about Jesus knows the future ones you 0:42:33.560 --> 0:42:36.719 didn't even think to include on your resume, and he 0:42:36.840 --> 0:42:40.279 still got in. So I want to take you for 0:42:40.320 --> 0:42:42.600 a moment to pass overnight before Jesus goes to the 0:42:42.680 --> 0:42:49.800 cross to die for Simon and James and John and 0:42:49.920 --> 0:42:56.879 Judas and you too, yes you well, no, we'll see 0:42:56.920 --> 0:42:59.960 their preacher. I've been going to church since six years old. 0:43:01.000 --> 0:43:02.640 Mamma used to tick me over there to the vacation 0:43:02.800 --> 0:43:06.239 Bible school. I'm not really one of these sinners. You 0:43:06.360 --> 0:43:10.000 ever heard of self righteousness? That's a pretty good sin too. 0:43:10.640 --> 0:43:12.680 Now you can't see it on the surface, but if 0:43:12.680 --> 0:43:16.600 you let down the nets far enough, there's a signon 0:43:16.680 --> 0:43:19.360 inside all of us. Don't let him make you feel inferior, 0:43:19.480 --> 0:43:21.480 like you can't praise God, like you can't worship God, 0:43:21.719 --> 0:43:24.040 like God can't use you. Don't you ever let them 0:43:24.080 --> 0:43:32.080 do that to you? And at the moment you think 0:43:32.120 --> 0:43:36.400 Peter is so self aware, he's seen miracles, he's seen blessings, 0:43:37.880 --> 0:43:42.439 he's seen healings. Jesus healed Peter's own mother in law. 0:43:43.560 --> 0:43:45.640 Did you know that that's why many scholars think Peter 0:43:45.719 --> 0:43:50.839 denied him. Okay, okay, okay, Joe just JOm just checking 0:43:50.880 --> 0:43:54.120 you up. So, but he really did. He healed his 0:43:54.239 --> 0:43:56.719 mother in law. He saw him heal blind people by 0:43:56.800 --> 0:43:59.520 spitting in the ground, putting mud on their eyes. Other 0:43:59.600 --> 0:44:02.040 times he see Jesus just speak a word anyway you 0:44:02.080 --> 0:44:05.960 put it. Peter had seen a lot because God was 0:44:06.040 --> 0:44:12.160 drawing out what was there all along, drawing out Ah, 0:44:12.239 --> 0:44:14.080 yeahs a baby, stay with me, Stay with just a baby. 0:44:14.120 --> 0:44:17.719 Grind's all right. God was pulling out what was there 0:44:17.760 --> 0:44:23.120 all along. Now this is a blessing of what God 0:44:23.200 --> 0:44:26.359 brings up out of you. Here's something I never quite 0:44:26.360 --> 0:44:29.000 saw it like this before till I was studying for 0:44:29.080 --> 0:44:33.080 this message called yes You in Luke twenty two. Give 0:44:33.120 --> 0:44:36.640 me that real quick, Luke twenty two. And I didn't 0:44:36.680 --> 0:44:38.560 mean to do a whole series on Peter in one week, 0:44:38.600 --> 0:44:43.160 but that's what we're apparently what we're doing today. Jesus 0:44:43.280 --> 0:44:46.480 looks at Simon, who has been named Peter but he's 0:44:46.480 --> 0:44:50.800 still Simon, and says, do you remember last week Simon 0:44:50.960 --> 0:44:56.680 Simon twice as covenant Simon Simon, who you were, your 0:44:56.719 --> 0:44:58.879 given name, who you were before I got in your boat? 0:44:58.960 --> 0:45:06.680 Simon Simon. Satan has asked to sift you. That means 0:45:06.760 --> 0:45:09.720 to tear apart, to separate the useful from the useless, 0:45:11.440 --> 0:45:14.160 to separate who was truly the followers of Jesus from 0:45:14.200 --> 0:45:18.800 those who were just the fans. So now let's be 0:45:18.840 --> 0:45:24.480 Peter for a moment. Peter, Jesus just says to you, Simon, Simon. 0:45:25.000 --> 0:45:29.120 First of all, you're like, you're talking to I'm Peter. 0:45:29.760 --> 0:45:33.919 Remember you told me ceaphist Peter Dwayne Johnson the Rock. 0:45:37.800 --> 0:45:42.040 He's still calling him Simon because he's still Simon. You're 0:45:42.080 --> 0:45:49.879 still flesh strong. Faith still has weak moments. He said, 0:45:49.920 --> 0:45:51.960 Satan asked to sift all of you. He's talking about 0:45:51.960 --> 0:45:54.560 the Cross, he's talking about the testing, he's talking about 0:45:54.600 --> 0:45:56.680 those crises of faith that we all have. Do I 0:45:56.800 --> 0:46:02.239 really still believe that God with me? Well? I really 0:46:02.360 --> 0:46:06.960 still follow even through the via dolorosa, the way of suffering. 0:46:09.320 --> 0:46:13.560 He asked to sift all of you as wheat. And 0:46:13.680 --> 0:46:16.840 then I'm thinking, Peter, you're Peter, you'd like and you 0:46:16.960 --> 0:46:24.880 told him no, right, No, I didn't tell him no. 0:46:26.880 --> 0:46:29.239 But look at first starting two, all this beautiful. But 0:46:29.400 --> 0:46:35.200 I prayed for you, Simon. I'm gonna let you go 0:46:35.320 --> 0:46:44.360 through this season of sifting. But not alone, not alone. 0:46:46.760 --> 0:46:50.080 Just like I didn't leave your boat, I'm not gonna 0:46:50.160 --> 0:46:54.160 leave you. Now you're gonna be sifted, all of you. 0:46:54.800 --> 0:46:59.839 But I prayed for your weak place, Simon. It's one 0:46:59.840 --> 0:47:03.520 thing to pray for Peter, but how many thank God 0:47:03.600 --> 0:47:17.440 that you have a savior who will pray for Simon. Now, 0:47:17.480 --> 0:47:20.120 God said you needed to hear this. I have prayed 0:47:20.160 --> 0:47:25.719 for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. But 0:47:25.840 --> 0:47:34.240 didn't it didn't Peter deny knowing Jesus three times? Didn't 0:47:34.400 --> 0:47:36.319 Peter look at the servant girl and say, I don't 0:47:36.320 --> 0:47:38.560 even know what you're talking about. I'm not one of them, 0:47:38.920 --> 0:47:42.400 Yes you, not me? Weren't you one of his followers? No? 0:47:42.640 --> 0:47:45.960 Not me, not me? He has gone from saying to Jesus, 0:47:46.360 --> 0:47:50.120 even if everybody denies you, I won't do They say, 0:47:50.160 --> 0:47:52.360 weren't you following this God? No, not me, one of 0:47:52.440 --> 0:47:56.440 your boat, knowing mine. And yet Jesus says, I prayed 0:47:57.719 --> 0:48:05.040 that your faith survive the sifting. Receive this word. You 0:48:05.239 --> 0:48:13.800 will survive the sifting. God help me. I'm not playing 0:48:13.840 --> 0:48:17.560 with you. I'm not playing with you. I'm prophesying to you. 0:48:18.280 --> 0:48:24.479 You will survive the sifting. God said, I'm not gonna 0:48:24.520 --> 0:48:28.440 stop it from happening. I'm going to allow it, but 0:48:28.600 --> 0:48:32.200 you will survive it. Oh God, I feel like we 0:48:32.280 --> 0:48:35.399 should just praise God right now for what we're going 0:48:35.520 --> 0:48:39.640 to survive. And watch this, watch this, watch this who 0:48:39.719 --> 0:48:44.200 we're gonna be on the other side. Because Viesus said, 0:48:44.640 --> 0:48:52.560 after you have turned back, strengthen your brothers. So God said, 0:48:52.680 --> 0:48:56.279 not only are you gonna survive it, you're gonna have 0:48:56.560 --> 0:49:04.960 strength to show for it. I'm gonna use Yes, Lord, 0:49:05.960 --> 0:49:10.640 I received that. That's my word. That's my word. That's 0:49:11.000 --> 0:49:18.400 just for you, Simon, Simon. I'm gonna get testimonies for 0:49:18.520 --> 0:49:21.280 this for months after I preach it. I'm the Simon 0:49:21.320 --> 0:49:23.600 you were talking to. I'm the shaking one. I was 0:49:23.680 --> 0:49:26.239 being sifted. The devil was coming after my kids. The 0:49:26.360 --> 0:49:28.680 devil was coming after my mind. The devil was coming 0:49:28.719 --> 0:49:31.319 after everything I ever knew myself as. The devil came 0:49:31.360 --> 0:49:34.080 after my career. The devil came after my sleep. The 0:49:34.200 --> 0:49:37.279 devil came after my sanity. The devil came after mine, 0:49:37.480 --> 0:49:40.400 my memories. The devil came after everything I was carrying. 0:49:41.560 --> 0:49:49.680 And I survived the shifted. I survived the sifting. This 0:49:49.920 --> 0:49:54.320 is the sifting. And if you survive the sifting, Simon, 0:49:54.880 --> 0:49:59.200 you can be Peter. You can stand blackfooted and No, 0:50:00.000 --> 0:50:04.480 the rain fell, and the winds came, and the streams rose, 0:50:04.960 --> 0:50:12.600 but the rocks stayed solid, and God is faithful. I 0:50:12.680 --> 0:50:15.800 gotta make it through this to find out who I 0:50:15.880 --> 0:50:18.959 really am. I gotta make it through this to find 0:50:19.000 --> 0:50:21.480 out who my kids can be. I gotta make it 0:50:21.640 --> 0:50:25.080 through this to set an example that you can survive 0:50:25.239 --> 0:50:28.719 the sifting and come out solid. You can survive the 0:50:28.920 --> 0:50:32.920 sifting and come out praising. You can survive the sifting. 0:50:37.360 --> 0:50:44.040 How else would God reveal Peter if he didn't sift, Simon, 0:50:44.760 --> 0:50:47.040 And even if he had to use the enemy to 0:50:47.160 --> 0:50:52.719 do it, he who began a good work in you, 0:50:54.360 --> 0:51:03.799 whoa will be faithful. All I'm trying to say. If 0:51:03.880 --> 0:51:09.120 he got in the boat, he's not getting out, That's 0:51:09.160 --> 0:51:13.320 all I'm trying to say. And after you have survived 0:51:13.360 --> 0:51:19.400 the sifty, Simon, you know what's amazing. From the moment 0:51:19.560 --> 0:51:24.560 Jesus saw Peter's boat, he knew about everything that Peter 0:51:24.880 --> 0:51:29.480 would go through, and even at the worst moment. All right, 0:51:29.680 --> 0:51:32.120 maybe this word didn't for you Right now, put it 0:51:32.239 --> 0:51:35.560 on standby. Put it on stand by. I had a 0:51:35.600 --> 0:51:40.480 pretty good week. I ate clean this week. I had 0:51:40.520 --> 0:51:43.200 a You know, I don't care about this week because 0:51:43.200 --> 0:51:49.279 I'm telling you fate fluctuates. And one more thing. Do 0:51:49.360 --> 0:51:51.080 you want this little teaching thing or you want me 0:51:51.120 --> 0:51:52.799 to go on to Atlanta and give it to them, 0:51:52.880 --> 0:51:54.520 because I got one more thing I want to show you, 0:51:55.280 --> 0:51:59.239 all right, but I swear man, I want to be 0:51:59.320 --> 0:52:01.400 obedient to the Lord. And there was one thing he 0:52:01.520 --> 0:52:06.839 showed me that totally surprised me from second Peter one Now, 0:52:08.000 --> 0:52:11.000 so passing, why are you going to second Peter? Because 0:52:11.000 --> 0:52:14.319 I want to show you what was in Simon even 0:52:14.400 --> 0:52:18.560 as he sat by the fire and denied Jesus. Now 0:52:18.640 --> 0:52:24.040 listen to Peter, not sixteen year old Peter, not shakey Simon, 0:52:26.360 --> 0:52:32.000 senior citizens. Swag Peter, come on, praise God like you're 0:52:32.040 --> 0:52:34.200 eighty three and you already made it through all your trial. 0:52:35.560 --> 0:52:37.560 Come on, praise him like you got a bad hip, 0:52:38.840 --> 0:52:42.760 but you lived like jacob On into the promise. Ah. 0:52:46.480 --> 0:52:48.319 A lot of people that walk with confidence. It looks 0:52:48.360 --> 0:52:53.080 like swag, but it's really a limb. All right. Now, 0:52:54.000 --> 0:52:56.080 when you've been through enough, you can say stuff like this, 0:52:57.080 --> 0:52:59.320 this is what God is doing in me and you 0:53:00.160 --> 0:53:01.600 to make it really clear, because we're not just talking 0:53:01.640 --> 0:53:04.799 about boats and fish and nets and metaphors. Ah, I'm 0:53:04.880 --> 0:53:11.880 talking about character. I'm talking about you. Yes, you, not 0:53:12.040 --> 0:53:14.719 the stuff. They didn't even eat the fish they caught. 0:53:15.760 --> 0:53:18.520 They left it on the shore and followed Jesus. When 0:53:18.640 --> 0:53:20.080 the bowel was in the water, it was a bowel 0:53:20.239 --> 0:53:29.399 was in them. And here's Peter encouraging a struggling church 0:53:30.400 --> 0:53:34.359 in Second Peter. This this letter that he wrote after 0:53:34.400 --> 0:53:39.640 he'd insisted assignment, and after he had stood solid as Peter. 0:53:40.640 --> 0:53:45.360 He goes, for this very reason, make every effort to 0:53:45.480 --> 0:53:50.600 add to your faith. How many have faith? I'm talking 0:53:50.600 --> 0:53:53.759 about even a little droppy, drippy, droppy faith, a little 0:53:53.800 --> 0:53:58.640 like boop, you got blood faith? Okay, if you got 0:53:58.680 --> 0:54:01.479 that much, fait j said, faith of a mustard seed 0:54:01.600 --> 0:54:05.160 size on that scale can move a mountain and watch 0:54:05.200 --> 0:54:08.160 how it happens. This is the word. This is the word. 0:54:08.760 --> 0:54:14.359 You're not stuck where you started, Simon, You're stuck where 0:54:14.400 --> 0:54:19.759 you stop. Judas hung himself. Peter preached on the day 0:54:19.760 --> 0:54:24.400 of Pentecost. It is still not decided yet what your 0:54:24.440 --> 0:54:27.680 life will accomplish. You have no idea. You don't know 0:54:28.080 --> 0:54:29.839 any more than Peter knew when he said go away. 0:54:29.840 --> 0:54:33.560 I'm a sinful man. You don't know what's under your boat, 0:54:34.280 --> 0:54:38.040 right You'll know. You don't know what God's going to 0:54:38.080 --> 0:54:40.080 bring forth out of you in a future season. That's 0:54:40.120 --> 0:54:44.239 why the enemy wants to kill you right now. But 0:54:44.440 --> 0:54:47.400 Jesus prayed for you, Simon. He prayed for you, Simon. 0:54:47.600 --> 0:54:50.160 He prayed for you, Simon. He prayed for you, Simon, 0:54:50.360 --> 0:54:54.399 he prayed for He prayed for Simon to bring forth Peter. 0:54:55.840 --> 0:54:58.000 And Peter's looking back on it, and he said, I 0:54:58.080 --> 0:55:03.279 want to encourage you every effort to add. Everybody say add. 0:55:04.840 --> 0:55:08.520 You're not stuck where you start it. You're stuck where 0:55:08.520 --> 0:55:13.960 you stopped. Add to your faith. Now raise your hand 0:55:14.000 --> 0:55:16.080 if you need a little help with one of these. 0:55:16.120 --> 0:55:21.040 I'm a listed goodness. How many need a little more goodness? 0:55:22.160 --> 0:55:25.480 All the negative people like me who see the glass 0:55:25.600 --> 0:55:27.719 not half full but want to slap in the face 0:55:27.719 --> 0:55:29.880 whoever spilled it. All right, I don't see the glass 0:55:29.920 --> 0:55:31.600 half empty. I see it as spilled, and I want 0:55:31.640 --> 0:55:34.000 to know who did it. I can be very negative sometimes, 0:55:34.200 --> 0:55:37.880 but I need some goodness. I am preaching deeper than 0:55:37.960 --> 0:55:41.600 y'all are shouting today. I need a shouting simon on 0:55:41.680 --> 0:55:48.400 am good. I need some goodness? All right, all right, 0:55:48.440 --> 0:55:53.839 you need that. It's in the water, but it's got 0:55:53.960 --> 0:55:56.919 to be drawn out. Because he said, you got the faith. 0:55:56.920 --> 0:55:58.480 If you've got the faith, you can get the goodness. 0:55:59.040 --> 0:56:01.440 Give me next one. This is just the Bible. I 0:56:01.480 --> 0:56:05.080 didn't make this list up. Add to your goodness. Go 0:56:05.200 --> 0:56:06.680 back to the other verse, y'all. There's somewhere in the 0:56:06.680 --> 0:56:09.560 other verse. Yeah, yeah, and to goodness knowledge. How many 0:56:09.600 --> 0:56:12.279 of y'all did something stupid in the last six days 0:56:12.320 --> 0:56:15.400 since I last saw you in church, Something so stupid, 0:56:15.640 --> 0:56:17.719 I mean so stupid you don't even want to think 0:56:17.760 --> 0:56:21.200 about it again. It's like a Ah, I did some stupid. 0:56:21.520 --> 0:56:26.520 You can get smarter. You can read the book you 0:56:26.680 --> 0:56:31.880 bought that's still on your phone unopened. Lead the verse up. 0:56:31.920 --> 0:56:33.440 I want to show you this from the Bible. I'm 0:56:33.480 --> 0:56:36.120 not just making it up. I'm not a motivational speaker. 0:56:36.360 --> 0:56:38.919 I'm telling you what is in you, by the word 0:56:38.960 --> 0:56:43.960 of God, the implanted word that's in you. But you 0:56:44.080 --> 0:56:47.279 gotta draw it out. You gotta let down the next 0:56:47.440 --> 0:56:50.040 for a catch. It's down in you. You can get 0:56:50.120 --> 0:56:52.400 more knowledge. You need more knowledge? How many need more knowledge? 0:56:52.440 --> 0:56:54.319 Any more knowledge? Because I know God, I don't even 0:56:54.360 --> 0:56:56.520 know what to believe anymore on the news or anything 0:56:56.600 --> 0:56:58.719 like that. I don't know what's true. I don't know 0:56:58.840 --> 0:57:00.759 who did it. I don't know who didn't do it. 0:57:00.960 --> 0:57:02.560 I don't know if they're about to do it. I 0:57:02.600 --> 0:57:04.560 don't know if Elon Musk is gonna fly a car 0:57:04.680 --> 0:57:07.040 over my house and drop a kim trip. I don't 0:57:07.080 --> 0:57:09.200 know anything anymore. I don't know about any of it. 0:57:09.400 --> 0:57:11.160 But I need the knowledge. God said, I'll put my 0:57:11.239 --> 0:57:13.080 spirit in you and I'll give you the knowledge. But 0:57:13.200 --> 0:57:17.760 it's beneath the surface. Silence, Oh God, what else, Peter? 0:57:17.880 --> 0:57:20.920 What else? Peter? Peter's talking so so mature now and 0:57:21.080 --> 0:57:31.120 to knowledge self control? Is this, Peter? What you mean? 0:57:31.160 --> 0:57:34.920 You could be so reckless that Peter just said everything 0:57:35.000 --> 0:57:37.240 he ever wanted to say when he was walking with Jesus. 0:57:38.240 --> 0:57:44.720 But watch this, You're not stuck where you started. Peter said, 0:57:44.720 --> 0:57:47.800 I used to have no self control. Jesus was praying 0:57:47.880 --> 0:57:52.000 on the amount of olives and I was sleeping. I 0:57:52.200 --> 0:57:56.640 ate the whole bag. Peter said, I was just gonna 0:57:56.680 --> 0:57:59.520 have one. I ate the whole bag, and stop saying 0:57:59.560 --> 0:58:01.840 stuff like this. By the way, Oh, I'm just not 0:58:01.960 --> 0:58:04.320 a morning person, or I'm just not a night person 0:58:04.440 --> 0:58:07.919 or whatever they make caffeine for that. Y'all, you didn't 0:58:07.920 --> 0:58:12.400 get up. Stop saying I'm a sinful man. That's where 0:58:12.440 --> 0:58:17.200 you started. That's not where it stops. That's not where 0:58:17.240 --> 0:58:22.400 it stops. I feel a LRD speaking to me about 0:58:22.440 --> 0:58:24.160 that thing I've been saying lately. I'm not an author. 0:58:24.440 --> 0:58:26.240 I've been saying it again. It gets back in you. 0:58:27.120 --> 0:58:28.800 I'm not an author. I can't write. I hear the 0:58:28.840 --> 0:58:36.160 Lord speaking to me. It's not yours yet, Yes, oh god, 0:58:40.280 --> 0:58:44.600 it's not yours yet. You don't know it yet. You 0:58:44.680 --> 0:58:47.800 haven't done it yet, you haven't broken it yet, you 0:58:47.880 --> 0:58:52.640 haven't been consistent with it yet. But if you want 0:58:52.680 --> 0:58:55.480 to put your faith in the water, there's a Peter 0:58:55.640 --> 0:58:57.920 on the inside assignment. I'm telling you that there's a 0:58:58.000 --> 0:59:01.600 Peter on the inside of side. I'm not a good 0:59:01.680 --> 0:59:07.640 dad yet, I can't keep a relationship together. Y'all are 0:59:07.720 --> 0:59:10.320 real slow to say what I'm telling you to say. Today, 0:59:12.360 --> 0:59:15.000 he said, I got some self control, and it would 0:59:15.000 --> 0:59:16.720 have been this would have meant nothing to me. If 0:59:16.760 --> 0:59:19.520 John had said it, I would have said, yeah, you 0:59:19.680 --> 0:59:22.439 are one of those enneagram nines or whatever it's called 0:59:22.640 --> 0:59:25.200 the peacemaker or whatever. But when Peter is for my 0:59:25.280 --> 0:59:29.439 self control, I'm like, okay, I could get some too. Yeah, 0:59:29.520 --> 0:59:34.400 you could get some too. Just don't let the sifting 0:59:34.920 --> 0:59:40.720 kill you. Just don't stop here. Just don't say I'm 0:59:40.760 --> 0:59:43.280 a sinful man. Get out of the boat. Just let 0:59:43.360 --> 0:59:47.160 the grace of God keep working in your life. Can 0:59:47.240 --> 0:59:50.240 I say something to everybody in the room, keep coming. 0:59:51.840 --> 0:59:55.520 You did good to come. You didn't come to church, 0:59:56.400 --> 1:00:01.120 you came to fish. God is pulling as I speak 1:00:01.400 --> 1:00:05.600 right now. He is pulling promises that you bury down 1:00:05.720 --> 1:00:12.880 jeep to the surface and to self control, perseverance. Every 1:00:12.960 --> 1:00:16.240 quitter in here who's hanging up your nets for the 1:00:16.320 --> 1:00:19.640 night thus said, drop him one more time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 1:00:21.160 --> 1:00:23.240 I don't care. It didn't work five years ago. It's 1:00:23.280 --> 1:00:27.000 not five years ago now. And you're not twenty five, 1:00:27.760 --> 1:00:32.480 you're thirty, and you're thirty. You can do it everything right. 1:00:34.120 --> 1:00:35.960 Just because the fish weren't there a minute ago doesn't 1:00:35.960 --> 1:00:46.680 mean they aren't now. And to perseverance, godliness. Peter, stay 1:00:46.720 --> 1:00:51.840 with it, Simon, because there is a Peter on the 1:00:51.880 --> 1:00:57.200 inside of you that Jesus died to bring forth. That 1:00:57.320 --> 1:01:03.360 he died to bring forth. So when Peter was sitting 1:01:04.640 --> 1:01:08.160 look twenty two sixty something, fifty something sixty something, I 1:01:08.200 --> 1:01:16.880 don't remember. Can you put it up please, They took 1:01:16.960 --> 1:01:18.920 Jesus away to the house of the High Priest, and 1:01:19.000 --> 1:01:23.120 Peter followed at a distance. And when Peter had and 1:01:23.200 --> 1:01:25.520 when some there had kindled a fire in the middle 1:01:25.520 --> 1:01:31.479 of the courtyard and had sat down together, Peter sat 1:01:31.560 --> 1:01:34.080 down with them. This is the moment I want you 1:01:34.200 --> 1:01:40.880 to see. While Peter was sitting by the fire denying Christ, 1:01:42.600 --> 1:01:44.080 and that may have been you lately. I don't mean 1:01:44.080 --> 1:01:46.720 you deny believing in God. I mean you are denying 1:01:46.840 --> 1:01:49.520 his purpose in your life. You are denying what he 1:01:49.680 --> 1:01:51.800 spoke over you. You are you're not playing your part. 1:01:51.840 --> 1:01:55.480 You're not showing up. You're sitting by comfort fire, waiting 1:01:55.560 --> 1:01:59.360 to see what's going to happen next. This was crazy 1:01:59.440 --> 1:02:02.440 to me. This was crazy to me. I thought the 1:02:02.520 --> 1:02:05.160 message was prepared, y'all. I came out to preach it. 1:02:05.360 --> 1:02:08.560 The Lord said, look, one more time Peter sat by 1:02:08.600 --> 1:02:13.080 the fire next verse, please, And the servant girl saw 1:02:13.160 --> 1:02:14.840 him and said, this man was with him next verse, 1:02:15.880 --> 1:02:19.000 and he denied it. Woman, I don't know him, not me. 1:02:20.560 --> 1:02:24.520 Yes you. A little later someone said you are one 1:02:24.600 --> 1:02:29.160 of them? He said, not me. Has that been the 1:02:29.200 --> 1:02:32.080 posture of your heart? I can't do it. God, I 1:02:32.120 --> 1:02:33.920 don't have that knowledge. I don't have that perseverance. I 1:02:33.920 --> 1:02:37.920 don't have that self control. I'm stuck. Nobody showed me how. 1:02:39.200 --> 1:02:42.800 A third time a little later, next verse, please another 1:02:42.880 --> 1:02:44.800 certain certain fellows with him, for he is a Galilean. 1:02:46.000 --> 1:02:48.240 Peter replied, man, I don't know what you're talking about. 1:02:48.320 --> 1:02:50.000 Just as he was speaking, the rooster crow, this is 1:02:50.040 --> 1:02:52.640 what I saw verse sixty one, the Lord turned and 1:02:52.720 --> 1:03:06.520 looked straight at Peter. What did he see, Peter, even 1:03:06.800 --> 1:03:12.400 as Simon sat by the fire, even in your addiction, 1:03:14.240 --> 1:03:18.320 even in your mistake, even in your denial. Oh, he 1:03:18.440 --> 1:03:23.480 can't deny himself if we are faithless, he is faithful. 1:03:24.720 --> 1:03:29.520 What did Jesus see when he looked at Simon sitting 1:03:29.600 --> 1:03:35.400 by the fire? He saw Acts Chapter two, verse fourteen. 1:03:36.640 --> 1:03:39.360 I'm gonna tell you exactly what Jesus sees in that 1:03:39.520 --> 1:03:41.440 moment he looks at Peter, he doesn't look at him. 1:03:41.520 --> 1:03:43.920 What a failure, what a waste. I never should have 1:03:43.960 --> 1:03:45.880 saved him. I never should have gave him a chance. 1:03:46.040 --> 1:03:47.880 I never should have put him there. I never saw 1:03:47.960 --> 1:03:51.440 that come in. Jesus looks at Peter by the fire 1:03:51.560 --> 1:03:54.600 in the courtyard outside the office of the High Priest, 1:03:54.840 --> 1:04:00.400 and he sees the Peter in Simon, because at two 1:04:00.480 --> 1:04:12.000 verse fourteen says something amazing. Then Peter stood up. Then 1:04:12.160 --> 1:04:21.440 Peter stood up. Only Jesus can look at Peter and 1:04:21.600 --> 1:04:25.040 see through the Simon that's sitting by the fire, and 1:04:25.200 --> 1:04:29.640 see the Peter who will preach the first sermon on 1:04:29.760 --> 1:04:35.360 the day of Pentecost that will build the church. So 1:04:35.480 --> 1:04:39.080 I wonder, will you stand up, Peter? Now? I mean 1:04:39.160 --> 1:04:47.000 stand up like right now I'm closing. But see, when 1:04:47.040 --> 1:04:51.600 I finished speaking, sometimes that's when God starts talking. That's 1:04:51.600 --> 1:04:53.440 why I don't understand y'all who slip out when I'm 1:04:53.480 --> 1:04:56.680 doing this part of the message makes no sense to me, 1:04:58.480 --> 1:05:01.800 because when I finished talking, that's when God starts and 1:05:01.880 --> 1:05:07.000 he says, that was your word, Yes you, I'm gonna 1:05:07.080 --> 1:05:10.480 use you to preach on the day of Pentecost. And 1:05:10.600 --> 1:05:12.560 I see it even while you're sitting by the fire. 1:05:13.800 --> 1:05:19.000 So God, this is a moment for you to bring 1:05:19.240 --> 1:05:28.040 forth out of broken nets. Amazing glory, amazing purpose, amazing grace. 1:05:29.280 --> 1:05:32.880 I have spoken today to the Simon, but you see 1:05:32.920 --> 1:05:36.640 the Peter. I thank you Lord that everybody under the 1:05:36.760 --> 1:05:40.040 sound of my voice right now is going to survive 1:05:40.200 --> 1:05:43.640 the sifting because you're praying for it, because you live 1:05:43.760 --> 1:05:47.640 to make intercession, because you are a great high Priest Jesus. 1:05:48.040 --> 1:05:49.920 And just lift your hands right now and say, I 1:05:50.080 --> 1:05:54.240 will survive the sifting. Not only that, but I'm gonna 1:05:54.240 --> 1:05:59.120 get knowledge and self control and perseverance. I went in Simon, 1:05:59.360 --> 1:06:02.920 and I'm coming out Peter, because God knows what's in me. 1:06:04.840 --> 1:06:12.480 Yes me, yes you. I want you to claim it 1:06:12.560 --> 1:06:16.080 by faith right now. Say that word was for me. 1:06:17.280 --> 1:06:19.520 Now receive it, receive it, receive it, receive it, receive it, 1:06:19.600 --> 1:06:30.360 receive it, receive it. I'm already chosen. I know who 1:06:30.520 --> 1:06:38.680 I am, I know what you've spoken. Can I'm already 1:06:38.840 --> 1:06:52.640 love more than I could a man. Well, if you 1:06:52.760 --> 1:06:55.160 enjoyed today's podcast, there are a couple of things I'd 1:06:55.240 --> 1:06:58.240 love for you to do. Make sure to subscribe rate 1:06:58.560 --> 1:07:01.520 and review this podcast. 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