WEBVTT - The God Of Again 0:00:05.040 --> 0:00:06.280 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:09.360 I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 0:00:09.520 --> 0:00:10.000 Be sure to. 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:13.720 Subscribe so we can get you these new sermons every week. 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:14.720 I hope you're blessed. 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:15.040 Today. 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:21.960 We want to welcome our EPAM around the world, our 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:25.880 global community of men and women, boys and girls, cats 0:00:25.920 --> 0:00:34.000 and dogs, fish and lizards. Whoever's watching, all of y'all welcome, Welcome. 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:36.200 Let us know where you're watching from in the comments. 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:39.520 I have a word for you today. God has really 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:43.519 been speaking to me. I shared last week a message 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:50.920 about how God is the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:55.760 and then I said he's the God of also also, 0:00:56.720 --> 0:01:01.480 meaning that God is bigger than your box, whatever you 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:03.840 have seen him as so far. He's more than that. 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:09.720 Your past is not greater than your potential. He's the 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:12.759 God of also who you are still unfolding, you're still becoming, 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:16.960 and that God's purpose is bigger than your plan. 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:19.920 And so we talked about the God of also. 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:23.320 This week, I'd like to continue in that same theme 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:28.000 and so also, not only is he the God of also, 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:29.880 but there's another thing I want to show you and 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:31.480 the Holy Spirit showed me how to do it. 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:33.959 He told me to use one verse and that this 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:35.600 one verse would help me launch my talk. 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:38.280 And then we'll talk about it, and we'll talk about 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:41.320 some more, and we'll talk about some more. But the 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:43.080 verse I want to show you to get started is 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:46.839 John chapter twenty one, Verse one. 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:53.400 Just real quick, setting this foundation, the writer says. 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:57.600 Afterward, Jesus appeared again to his disciples by the Sea 0:01:57.640 --> 0:01:58.280 of Galilee. 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:04.440 It happened afterward Jesus appeared again. 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:06.600 So today I want to talk to you about the 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:12.800 God of Again, the God of Again. I think this 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:14.440 is going to help you with some of the heaviness 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:20.680 you've been feeling from regrets and fears. He's the God 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:27.400 of also, and he's also the God of again, Spirit 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:29.120 of the Living God. Have your way now. I yield 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:31.320 myself to you. You are the music. I am the 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:36.600 instrument reach your people through me. I offer myself to you. 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:41.400 Speak to them through me. You get the glory, you 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:42.480 get the praise. 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:51.560 In Jesus' name. Amen, Amen, and they be seated. Just 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:52.320 something I don't normally do. 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:53.880 I'm going to give you all three of my points 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:59.360 at the beginning of my message. Number one God is 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:04.400 really into repetition. That's point number one. I'll give you 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:09.160 a minute to write that down. God is really into repetition. 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:16.120 All right, you got that number two, God is really 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:17.000 into repetition. 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:25.760 And point three, God. 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:32.320 Is really really really really really really really really into repetition. 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:35.840 Prove it to you. 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:40.800 We'll go to Jericho and ask the Israelites if God 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:44.440 is into repetition. When they had to walk around those 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:50.480 walls not only seven times, but seven days, Boom taking 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:54.680 a lap seeing nothing happen, Boom taking a lap seeing 0:03:54.680 --> 0:03:59.560 nothing happening. Boom taking a lap seeing nothing happen, like 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:02.680 on that fourth day. Are you sure you heard from God, Joshua? 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:06.000 Or are we marching around the right walls? But God 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:08.160 is really into repetition? 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:12.040 Or if you don't. 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:15.760 Believe those people that God is really into repetition, ask 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:19.000 name in the Syrian commander who had leprosy. 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:22.919 You know I'm going with this. He had to dip 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:28.200 in the Jordan river seven times to be healed of 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:28.920 his leprosy. 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:33.000 You know about the fifth dip, you'd be kind of 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:36.560 embarrassed if you still had the same spots on your 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:40.479 skin that you had when it got started. But God 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:47.640 is really into repetition. Or ask that servant of the 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:50.480 Man of God, Elijah. Now this story is in one 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:54.320 King's eighteen. There's been a drought and Elijah, the prophet, says, hey, 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:57.160 there's a cloud starting to fill up with rain. And 0:04:57.200 --> 0:04:59.760 the man is like where. He's like, go look, He's like, 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:02.839 there's nothing there. It's like look again, It's like there's 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:06.200 nothing there. It's like, look again, there's nothing there. Seven 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:13.080 times he looked seven times. God is really into repetition. 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:19.800 I bring it up because maybe you're frustrated that you're 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:24.039 still going through something in your life that you thought 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:27.400 you would have gone through by now. 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:36.240 No zero percent frustration at Elevation Church today, just me. 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:44.880 I'm gonna repeat that again. Maybe you're frustrated because there's 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:49.120 something in your life. Maybe you're like Graham. Graham's real picky. 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:53.240 Holly is such a good cook that our kids have 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:54.320 gotten really picky. 0:05:55.000 --> 0:05:56.880 Let me think how that works. She's too consistent in 0:05:56.880 --> 0:05:57.360 the kitchen. 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:02.719 I told her to clear the pantries and shut down 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:05.200 the kitchen for a month to get Graham to shut up, 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:09.839 because she said the other day, we're having chili tonight, 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:17.720 and he goes really again chili, and I'm like, yeah, 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:24.159 really again, chili. The chili is good if she wants 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:30.400 to cook it every night. But he's gotten picky because 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:37.040 she's too consistent. She's so consistent that he's gotten picky 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:40.880 with it. And the truth is, some of us God 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:44.839 has been too good to us, if I can say 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:49.960 it that way, that he's so consistent and he's so 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:53.480 good at being God that it's hard for us to 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:56.960 stay grateful because of all the stuff he just did. 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:03.080 They're like the sun came up the morning and nobody 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:08.839 praised him for it. I mean, most of us walked 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:09.840 into church today. 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:14.160 Our legs got us in here, and you know, and 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:17.320 then three songs in my feet are hurting. 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:19.000 When are we gonna sit down? 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:22.320 Are we gonna sing the same thing over and over 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:22.960 and over? 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:27.440 How much more? Does he know? Much more? How much more? 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:30.880 Much more? I don't know much more? Tell me how 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:31.960 much more are we gonna sing? 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:38.240 But God is into repetition, So sometimes I think it's 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:41.600 good when we just sing and give thanks to the Lord. 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:45.080 You know, Paul said, rejoice in the Lord always again. 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:51.120 I say rejoice, And sometimes we have to rejoice again 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:54.640 and again in order to remind our souls that God 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:59.000 has been good again and again. I mean, how many 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:04.680 have the testimony that he kept on blessing me. He 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:08.000 kept on blessing me many times. I even tried to 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:12.600 push God away, but he kept on blessing me. Sometimes 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:15.040 I ran so far I thought I couldn't receive it. 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:15.400 But he. 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:20.080 A lot of times, I was actually living a life 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:23.120 that was completely contradictory to the character in his word. 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:23.600 But he. 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:30.480 I'm using repetition to talk to you about the repetitious 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:34.960 nature of the grace of God. I mean, thank god, 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:39.720 he's into repetition. Thank God he's into continuing to wake 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:42.559 me up every morning and start me. 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:43.160 On my way. 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:47.040 Thank God, he's into just over and over again. Watch 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:53.000 this breathing out so that I can breathe in. And 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:55.640 that's why I don't mind praising him, because let everything 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:59.839 that has praise the Lord, and I figure that if 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:01.800 He's good enough to give the breath, I ought to 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:05.520 be grateful enough to give it back. I don't mind 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:09.600 giving him glory. I don't mind singing it one more time. 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:13.040 God is really into repetition. 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:15.000 If you don't ever know what to say to God. 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:18.360 Just start saying thank you Jesus, and then just say 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:21.040 it again, thank you Jesus. And then if you can't 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:22.520 think of anything to thank him for, it to say 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:26.520 thank you Jesus for your love, thank you Jesus for 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:27.800 the cross, thank you Jesus. 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:29.199 Because God is into repetition. 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:31.679 Now I don't just mean vain repetition where we just 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:34.280 say a lot of stuff, but I mean that kind 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:38.760 of I need to slow down. God is into repetition, 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:42.120 and I'm glad that he is because the fact that 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:46.640 he's into repetition means that he will keep on sustaining 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:54.040 me and keep on blessing me over and over again. 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:56.920 That's why I read you the scripture that I read you. 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:06.960 That afterward Jesus appeared again to his disciples. I prayed 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:10.880 today that he would show up again to you. I 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:13.960 assume that you want to be his disciple and that 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:15.520 you want to see him, so I prayed that he 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:17.360 would show up again. 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:22.160 Everybody say again, that's the thing about it. 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:27.120 He's resurrected from the dead, and he already showed up 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:27.760 two other. 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:29.840 Times to his disciples. 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:33.040 They were kind of scared, so they were hiding behind 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:34.760 locked doors and he just walks through. 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:37.520 So he shows up. 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:41.240 Again to see Thomas because Thomas wasn't there the first time. 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:48.520 And then John said afterward, Jesus appeared again to his disciples, 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:52.280 which kind of makes you wonder, how many times do 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:54.640 you have to show up after you're raised from the 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:57.800 dead to get somebody convinced that you're the son of God. 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:02.760 We remembering in a funny memory with Elijah this week 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:05.040 because he turned eighteen and we're to my lawlest birthday 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:07.200 parties in the past, and that guy was talking about 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:12.280 family pictures and that made me traumatized. I hate nothing 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:18.760 more than taking family pictures. I'm telling you, man. I Well, 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:21.600 I'll just tell you one example. There was one time 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:25.240 when they were real little and Elijah kept picking on 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:28.840 Abby and Holly looks at him. And you know, when 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:33.680 Holly's in front of y'all, she's very sweet, there's another side. 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:35.640 She looks at him, and I was scared. And she 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:36.600 wasn't even talking to me. 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:41.000 She said, how many times do I have to tell 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:45.480 you keep your heads off your sister? He's terrified. He's 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:48.080 only like, you know, seven at the time. He's terrified. 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:50.559 He looks at her goes three times. 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:52.920 I don't know. 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:57.480 Well, it's so funny. Three times, Like. 0:11:58.280 --> 0:12:03.720 How many times will it take for you to hear 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:07.079 the words that are coming out of my mouth? 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:11.440 He's like, oh no, maybe three red. 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:18.679 And I wonder how many times does God have to. 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:26.559 Tell us certain things? Why'd you just squeal? Maybe God 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:28.800 has been trying to tell you something. And this is 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:30.760 a central question I really want to ask. 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:35.920 This will probably send some of you off and you 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:37.600 won't hear anything else in the sermon, But it's fine 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:39.800 because I want to give it to you. What does 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:44.000 God keep repeating that you keep resisting? 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:49.640 He said, say it again. I love when people say 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:52.720 that in my sermon. Like sometimes they'll say say it again, 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:54.240 and I'm like, I don't know what I just said. 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:58.199 I'm just following the Holy Spirit, but I will say 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:04.560 that again. Ask God been repeating that you have been resisting. 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:10.240 In the passage that I read you, Peter has gone fishing, 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:13.880 even though God is going to call him to be 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:16.760 a great apostle, Like Peter is going to go on 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:19.000 to be kind of like a pope to the. 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:21.240 Church in that day. You would have seen it that way. 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:23.599 Peter is going to go on to preach on the 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:24.520 day of Pentecost. 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:28.199 None of that has happened yet. The Holy Spirit hasn't come. 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:33.880 He's already seen Jesus, but Peter still needs something else, 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:35.000 and it's called. 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:40.080 Restoration. Restoration. 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:44.880 Not only does he need to see that Jesus is resurrected, 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:51.040 but he needs to personally be restored. The Holy Spirit 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:55.800 said that I would be ministering to people today who 0:13:55.920 --> 0:13:59.560 you have seen the revelation of God, meaning that you 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:04.680 know you've experienced Him in your life. He has seen 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:08.839 you through certain seasons, but you are finding yourself in 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:12.640 a season today as I speak this message that things 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:16.960 have been so different and so difficult that you need 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:22.440 to see Him again in order to go forward. And 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:27.400 the good news is he is the God of again. 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:31.800 He's the God who will show up once and walk 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:36.960 through locked doors, show up twice, so doubting Thomas can believe. 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:40.720 And if that's not enough, he'll show up. 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:47.600 How many times? Three times? Three times? If that's what 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:48.720 it takes. 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:54.000 To get Peter to see not who Jesus is. Peter 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:57.920 already saw that, But what if what Peter needs to 0:14:57.960 --> 0:15:02.800 see in this moment is who Peter is? There are 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:06.400 times in your life where God needs to show you 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:07.520 again who you are. 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:08.240 Because you forget. 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:14.280 God needs to show you what you're capable of because 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:17.440 you've talked yourself out of it. God needs to show 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:21.040 you that there's a future ahead of you, greater than 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:26.720 anything that is behind you. He's the God of again, 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:30.800 and he will tell you as many times as he 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:33.880 needs to tell you in order to get you to 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:36.760 see this truth. And that's because he's full of grace 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:40.360 and he's full of mercy, and he will bless you 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:41.160 again and again. 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:42.800 The same thing that is. 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:45.080 True of the blessing of God is also true of 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:49.080 the lessons of God. He will do it over and 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:54.080 over again until you get it. God will teach you 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:57.400 things over and over again until you learn them. 0:15:58.720 --> 0:15:58.800 Now. 0:15:58.760 --> 0:15:59.760 I don't know if you want to hear that or 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:00.480 not he will. 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:05.720 God will allow certain things in your life to stay 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:09.480 that way until you finally learn what He actually wants 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:10.000 you to learn. 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:11.120 Right. 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:13.880 God doesn't cancel the class because you burn the books. 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:18.640 God doesn't avinst you to the next level because you're tired. 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:22.080 There are certain things in our lives that God will 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:23.000 teach us over and over again. 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:23.640 In this passage. 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:26.480 Here is a pretty cool example of that, because let 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:28.360 me read a little bit more of it. It said, afterward, 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:34.040 Jesus appeared again to his disciples by the sea of Galilee. 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:37.160 It happened this way. I read you that verse. But 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:38.360 let's hear what happened. 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:42.160 Simon Peter Thomas, also known as Didamus Nathaniel, from cana 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:45.479 and Galilee. The sons of Zebedee and two other disciples 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:48.760 were together. I'm going out to fish, Simon Peter told them, 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:51.080 and they said, we'll go with you. So they went out, 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:54.640 got in the boat, but that night they caught nothing. 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:57.680 Early in the morning, Jesus stood on the shore, but 0:16:57.720 --> 0:17:00.640 the disciples did not realize that it was Jesus. 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:03.840 He called out to them, friends, haven't you any fish? 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:06.560 No, they answered. He said, throw your nets on the 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:09.520 right side of the boat and you will find some. 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:12.920 When they did, they were unable to haul the net 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:16.960 in because of the large number of fish. Then the 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:20.280 disciple whom Jesus loved as John, who's riding this gospel, 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:23.280 said to Peter, is the Lord you think? As soon 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:25.520 as Simon Peter heard him say it's the Lord, he 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:28.080 wrapped his outer garment around him, for you're taking it off, 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:30.919 and jumped in the water. The other disciples followed in 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:33.600 the boat, towing the net full of fish, for they 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:36.680 were not far from shore, about one hundred yards. 0:17:36.680 --> 0:17:40.320 And when they landed they saw a fire of burning coals. 0:17:39.920 --> 0:17:42.280 There with fish on it and some bread. And Jesus 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:44.679 said to them, bring some of the fish you have 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:48.240 just caught. So Simon Peter climbed back in the boat 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:51.160 dragged the net ashore. It was full of large fish, 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:53.520 one hundred and fifty three. But even with so many, 0:17:53.600 --> 0:17:57.080 the net was not torn. Jesus said to them, come 0:17:57.119 --> 0:18:00.280 and have breakfast. None of the disciples dared ask who 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:05.160 are you? They knew it was the Lord. Jesus came, 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:07.359 took the bread, gave it to them. This wasn't the 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:09.320 first time they'd seen him do this. By the way, 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:12.960 Jesus came, took the bread, gave it to them, did 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:16.680 the same with the fish. This was now the third 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:20.600 time Jesus appeared to the disciples. 0:18:20.640 --> 0:18:23.320 How many third time? Three times? 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:27.080 This was the third time Jesus appeared to his disciples 0:18:27.119 --> 0:18:30.600 after he was raised from the dead. When they finished eating, 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:35.000 Jesus said to Simon Peter. Now here's the moment, Simon, 0:18:36.000 --> 0:18:40.440 son of John, do you love me more than these? 0:18:41.240 --> 0:18:41.440 Yes? 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:45.720 Lord, he said, you know I love you. Jesus said, 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:58.560 feed my lambs verse sixteen. Again, Jesus said, Simon, son 0:18:58.600 --> 0:19:06.400 of John, do you love me? And Peter said, yes, Lord, 0:19:06.400 --> 0:19:08.000 you know that I love you. Is this like a 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:12.360 riddle or something? Pete and repeat, We're on a boat, 0:19:13.400 --> 0:19:14.040 Pete fell off? 0:19:14.080 --> 0:19:19.440 Who was left? Pete and repeat? Were on a boat? 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:24.440 Pete fell off? Who was left? Pete and repeat, We're 0:19:24.440 --> 0:19:30.639 on a boat. Are you messing with me? Jesus? Is 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:34.159 this a riddle? No, it's not a riddle. It's a restoration. 0:19:36.920 --> 0:19:37.720 Paul me follow me. 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:48.960 How many times did Peter deny Jesus? So how many 0:19:49.040 --> 0:19:52.360 times does Jesus restore. 0:19:51.960 --> 0:20:02.560 Him to his first love? Somebody shout again. 0:20:04.200 --> 0:20:09.960 I hear God saying again, over your life again, We're. 0:20:09.840 --> 0:20:12.240 Going to do this until you get it. 0:20:13.400 --> 0:20:16.679 I'm going to prove that I'm powerful until you believe 0:20:16.760 --> 0:20:20.520 me to be faithful. I'm going to show you that 0:20:20.520 --> 0:20:25.080 there's nothing too hard for me. Until you stop worrying 0:20:25.160 --> 0:20:34.000 about stuff that I'm already working out in your life. 0:20:34.920 --> 0:20:38.840 Shout again, Shout again, shout again. 0:20:39.640 --> 0:20:42.040 I'm using the message to preach the message because I 0:20:42.040 --> 0:20:42.880 want you to get. 0:20:42.680 --> 0:20:45.240 This word in your spirit. He's not the god of 0:20:45.280 --> 0:20:46.720 one time. You better get it right. 0:20:47.520 --> 0:20:49.480 He's not the god of Well, if you haven't learned 0:20:49.480 --> 0:20:50.560 it by now, I guess. 0:20:50.320 --> 0:20:53.359 You're just stupid. I mean, in that what we tell ourselves. 0:20:53.960 --> 0:20:56.240 That's what I tell myself sometimes. How do I not 0:20:56.440 --> 0:20:59.880 know this by now? How am I not over this 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:03.760 by now? How can I not do this by now? 0:21:04.400 --> 0:21:08.200 That's usually why we stop getting smarter, because we stop 0:21:08.320 --> 0:21:11.919 asking stuff because something in us thinks I should know 0:21:12.000 --> 0:21:12.879 this by now. 0:21:13.480 --> 0:21:14.760 That's why we stay. 0:21:14.520 --> 0:21:19.240 Broke, because we think we shouldn't know this about money 0:21:19.280 --> 0:21:23.239 by now, so we pretend like we know, rather than 0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:26.280 admitting that we don't know. And because we think we 0:21:26.320 --> 0:21:29.000 should know by now, we never know because we won't 0:21:29.040 --> 0:21:31.280 ask because we think. 0:21:31.119 --> 0:21:32.960 That God is frustrated with us. 0:21:33.040 --> 0:21:35.359 And you know, we get this for a good reason, 0:21:36.760 --> 0:21:41.399 because we're frustrated with us. So then we project the 0:21:41.520 --> 0:21:47.040 same attitude on God that we carry within us. And 0:21:47.119 --> 0:21:49.199 for many of us, the figure of God that we 0:21:49.320 --> 0:21:58.280 have is an exasperated father saying, really again, you're praying 0:21:58.280 --> 0:22:05.840 to me about this again. You lost your temper again? Really, 0:22:07.080 --> 0:22:11.800 you're asking me to help you with this again. That's 0:22:11.880 --> 0:22:13.920 kind of how God sounds in my mind when I'm 0:22:13.920 --> 0:22:17.280 in a bad place, when I haven't been spending time 0:22:17.320 --> 0:22:19.280 in his presence, when I've just been letting the devil 0:22:19.320 --> 0:22:20.040 get the best of me. 0:22:20.720 --> 0:22:21.320 It's like I. 0:22:21.240 --> 0:22:23.199 Almost want to go to God for stuff, but I 0:22:23.240 --> 0:22:29.160 almost picture him going again. You need me to feel 0:22:29.200 --> 0:22:34.119 you again. You mean to walk you through this again? 0:22:34.520 --> 0:22:38.639 How many times are you gonna come to me and 0:22:38.840 --> 0:22:43.199 ask me to forgive you for this? But I found 0:22:43.200 --> 0:22:48.040 out that every time I come to God, it's a 0:22:48.080 --> 0:22:51.840 compliment to him. 0:22:52.000 --> 0:22:55.320 This changed my life. 0:22:55.040 --> 0:22:57.320 Because when I come to Him and say, oh, I 0:22:57.359 --> 0:23:01.760 need more grace, he goes, I'm good at grace, And 0:23:01.840 --> 0:23:05.800 when you ask me for grace, you presume my power 0:23:06.160 --> 0:23:06.840 that I'm. 0:23:06.680 --> 0:23:08.280 Good at what you asked me for. 0:23:09.359 --> 0:23:11.960 High five the preacher jed Johnny some encouragement out there, 0:23:13.920 --> 0:23:16.800 because when I come to God, he's not up there 0:23:16.840 --> 0:23:18.720 going again. 0:23:19.119 --> 0:23:22.359 I gotta show you again how to go and apologize. 0:23:22.640 --> 0:23:25.920 I gotta show you again how to work through this insecurity. 0:23:26.240 --> 0:23:29.400 I've been teaching you this since you were fifteen. Are 0:23:29.480 --> 0:23:37.560 you stupid. That's not the language of Heaven. God goes. 0:23:39.359 --> 0:23:56.240 Again. You hear the difference. Jesus appeared again again again. 0:23:57.600 --> 0:24:01.760 One of my kids, who shall remain nameless, asked, probably 0:24:01.760 --> 0:24:03.760 when they were really little, she was telling them, when's 0:24:03.800 --> 0:24:04.320 the last time. 0:24:04.240 --> 0:24:08.120 You changed clothes? They said four days ago? And she said, 0:24:08.280 --> 0:24:11.159 does that include your underwear? And this particular kid of 0:24:11.160 --> 0:24:13.440 ours said, you. 0:24:13.400 --> 0:24:21.440 Mean I have to change my underwear every day. When 0:24:21.480 --> 0:24:26.040 you do something over and over again in behavior, it's 0:24:26.080 --> 0:24:32.880 called a habit. When you do something again in music 0:24:33.680 --> 0:24:37.240 and it's a pattern that is pleasing, it's called a hook. 0:24:39.320 --> 0:24:45.480 When you do it again and again and again and again, 0:24:46.960 --> 0:24:50.880 it's a hook. And it just so happens that I'm 0:24:50.920 --> 0:24:56.280 preaching today about fishing, and they weren't fishing with a hook. 0:24:56.280 --> 0:24:58.320 They were fishing with a net. 0:25:00.080 --> 0:25:05.399 The principle is the same, is that God wanted Peter 0:25:06.040 --> 0:25:10.879 to know I've hooked you, I've got you. 0:25:12.440 --> 0:25:15.560 I'm not letting you go. I'm not letting you off 0:25:15.560 --> 0:25:19.520 the hook. And you keep coming back to God, telling 0:25:19.600 --> 0:25:22.240 him over and over again in your mind. 0:25:21.960 --> 0:25:26.119 Why he should choose someone else, And as many times 0:25:26.119 --> 0:25:29.000