1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:04,439 Speaker 1: I am so excited with like ten extra o's about 2 00:00:04,480 --> 00:00:07,480 Speaker 1: this message that you're about to hear today that God 3 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:11,799 Speaker 1: gave me for you. But before that special message, I 4 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:14,560 Speaker 1: have this special message. I want to see you at 5 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:19,439 Speaker 1: Elevation Nights. Go to Elevation Nights dot Com. Our tour 6 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:25,320 Speaker 1: starts soon. It's me Elevation Worship the Holy Ghost. Oh, 7 00:00:25,360 --> 00:00:27,760 Speaker 1: it's going to be amazing. Right. Here are the dates, 8 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:34,559 Speaker 1: April twenty sixth through May fifth. 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Jesus Christ, 16 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:15,319 Speaker 1: King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Savior of the world. 17 00:01:16,240 --> 00:01:19,800 Speaker 1: We came today to crown you, not like you need 18 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:22,720 Speaker 1: our crown to be worthy, but we just want to 19 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:27,120 Speaker 1: join in with what Heaven already knows, what has already 20 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:34,480 Speaker 1: been demonstrated by your sinless life, your unjust death, You're 21 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:39,320 Speaker 1: unprecedented resurrection from the dead, your ascension into heaven, where 22 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:41,320 Speaker 1: we know that now you are seated at the right 23 00:01:41,319 --> 00:01:45,640 Speaker 1: hand of God. We lift our hands to acknowledge that 24 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:49,000 Speaker 1: there is no one higher than you, no one greater 25 00:01:49,080 --> 00:01:53,600 Speaker 1: than you. We lift our hands to acknowledge that all 26 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:57,280 Speaker 1: authority in heaven and on earth has been given to you. 27 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:00,720 Speaker 1: And when we proclaim the name of Jesus, we are 28 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:05,120 Speaker 1: seated in heavenly places with you today, forgiven of our sin, 29 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:10,080 Speaker 1: filled with your spirit, assured of our place in your family, 30 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:14,720 Speaker 1: and called to be your friends. Now, God, I pray 31 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:18,040 Speaker 1: for the sleeper to wake up. I thank you that 32 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:22,200 Speaker 1: today is a divine wake up call. God. I pray 33 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:24,560 Speaker 1: that today, as we have been singing the truth of 34 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:28,320 Speaker 1: the Gospel, that people have been shaking and they can't 35 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:31,519 Speaker 1: hit the snooze button one more time, because the King 36 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:36,320 Speaker 1: is here and resurrection is real and nothing is impossible 37 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:39,800 Speaker 1: for him who believes so. Half your way in this house, God, 38 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:43,240 Speaker 1: we're full of faith. We give you praise and honor. 39 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:48,679 Speaker 1: Employ in Jesus' name, a man clap those hands and 40 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:58,200 Speaker 1: give him, praise good to see you. Welcome all of 41 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:01,359 Speaker 1: our EPAM around the world the Easter to our etham 42 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:08,840 Speaker 1: all over the world. Good grief. If I told you 43 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:11,680 Speaker 1: where everyone was joining us from, you would think I 44 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:14,760 Speaker 1: was just making stuff up. But when they go on 45 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:16,880 Speaker 1: the chat and say here's where I'm watching from, do 46 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:19,799 Speaker 1: that right now. Okay, those of you watching on YouTube 47 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:22,840 Speaker 1: and Facebook, let us know where you're joining us from. 48 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:28,680 Speaker 1: And we from We're from the country. We're here from Charlotte, 49 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:31,720 Speaker 1: North Carolina, just to welcome you into the presence of God. 50 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:40,320 Speaker 1: Such an exciting day. Man, Chris, I've rounded the corner 51 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:46,880 Speaker 1: and you were preaching. Man, whoa you were preaching? You 52 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:51,000 Speaker 1: were preaching like the devil is defeated. I was impressed. 53 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:54,480 Speaker 1: He was going on and on about the scripture, and 54 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:56,480 Speaker 1: I was like, man, he really knows the word. And 55 00:03:56,520 --> 00:03:58,120 Speaker 1: then I got around the corner and he was holding 56 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:02,400 Speaker 1: a Bible. I thought he hid it in his heart 57 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:05,800 Speaker 1: that he might not sin against God. Now he was 58 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:11,680 Speaker 1: holding it in his hand. Well, I can't possibly name 59 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:14,960 Speaker 1: everyone who's joining us, but just from all over the world, 60 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:19,960 Speaker 1: whether Missouri, UK Houston Abbey shouted out a few people 61 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:22,719 Speaker 1: during the welcome, and I just want to join in 62 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:27,000 Speaker 1: welcoming you into the presence of God. Sometimes the question 63 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:31,279 Speaker 1: is not whether we are welcome in his presence, it's 64 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:34,480 Speaker 1: whether we will really let Him into the places of 65 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:39,080 Speaker 1: our life that we hide from others. So there's always 66 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:41,559 Speaker 1: a guilt trip that preachers put on people on Easter 67 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:44,640 Speaker 1: and Christmas. And they call them. They say, it's good 68 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:50,080 Speaker 1: to see all the CEOs the Christmas and Easter, only Christians, 69 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:52,800 Speaker 1: and everybody goes ha ha, and they laugh, so nobody 70 00:04:52,839 --> 00:04:57,159 Speaker 1: will know it's them, and a fear you might sink 71 00:04:57,200 --> 00:04:59,320 Speaker 1: through the floor because you know you haven't been here. 72 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:03,839 Speaker 1: But that's not our message today. Our message today is 73 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:07,400 Speaker 1: you are welcome in the presence of God, and you're 74 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:15,839 Speaker 1: welcome in our church. But the song that we were singing, 75 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:19,200 Speaker 1: that's the real question of Easter. Will you welcome resurrection 76 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:24,000 Speaker 1: and listen in an irony and ironic twist of fake, 77 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:29,039 Speaker 1: cruel twist of faith on the biggest Sunday that we 78 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:31,680 Speaker 1: have is the church Easter. I have the shortest preaching 79 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:35,240 Speaker 1: time because the most people come and if I go 80 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:39,120 Speaker 1: too long, it will cause confusion, and then people will 81 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:41,440 Speaker 1: in the parking lot will get violent and somebody might 82 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:44,040 Speaker 1: get shot, and I can't raise you from the dead. 83 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 1: I'm not Jesus. So what I have to do is 84 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:50,960 Speaker 1: stay on my clock today. Y'all know how difficult that 85 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:54,240 Speaker 1: is for me to do. So rather than get into 86 00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:56,960 Speaker 1: the formalities, any information you need, you'll have to get 87 00:05:57,000 --> 00:05:59,760 Speaker 1: it from somebody else. I'm going to get right into 88 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:05,400 Speaker 1: the word God gave me today. I'm gonna get right 89 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:11,360 Speaker 1: into it. Praise the Lord. We've been singing, and I 90 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:13,600 Speaker 1: don't know if you missed the singing and missed the worship, 91 00:06:13,839 --> 00:06:16,560 Speaker 1: but it was glorious. And now we want to turn 92 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:19,760 Speaker 1: our attention to the word that God has for us today. 93 00:06:20,279 --> 00:06:24,000 Speaker 1: And I want to start in John chapter twenty, pick 94 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:26,719 Speaker 1: up two verses from the end of that chapter, and 95 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:28,160 Speaker 1: then I want to read a little story from the 96 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:36,000 Speaker 1: next chapter. At the Easter Man at the Eastern you 97 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:42,280 Speaker 1: made it. You made it, You made it. Tell somebody, 98 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:44,600 Speaker 1: I'm so proud to be sitting next to somebody who 99 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:49,599 Speaker 1: looks as good as you on Easter Sunday. Makes me 100 00:06:49,680 --> 00:07:01,000 Speaker 1: feel beautiful. Now listen to this from John twenty, verse thirty. 101 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:06,640 Speaker 1: John says Jesus performed many other signs in the presence 102 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:10,080 Speaker 1: of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book, 103 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:16,080 Speaker 1: but these are written that you may believe, believe what 104 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:21,560 Speaker 1: that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and 105 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:26,800 Speaker 1: that by believing you may have life in his name. Y'all. 106 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:29,520 Speaker 1: I'm so glad it doesn't say by behaving, I may 107 00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:33,440 Speaker 1: have life in his name, because I know you're on 108 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:36,120 Speaker 1: your best behavior today. But if we would have followed 109 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:41,040 Speaker 1: you this week, you'd be shouting over that verse by believing, 110 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:44,760 Speaker 1: because if we based it on your behavior, you might 111 00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:48,920 Speaker 1: go to the other place. But by believing you may 112 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:52,280 Speaker 1: have life in his name. Now it would appear that 113 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:55,840 Speaker 1: John is drawing his gospel count to a close with 114 00:07:55,920 --> 00:07:59,840 Speaker 1: those verses. But there is an entire chapter that follows, 115 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:03,320 Speaker 1: and I won't read the whole thing, but I'm so 116 00:08:03,480 --> 00:08:05,480 Speaker 1: glad that it was put in as an epilogue or 117 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:08,440 Speaker 1: as a ps in John twenty one, because I think 118 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:11,760 Speaker 1: there's something very important for you to know today. That 119 00:08:11,880 --> 00:08:14,800 Speaker 1: John really ended his gospel account and he said, hey, 120 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:16,280 Speaker 1: Jesus did a lot of other things. I can't tell 121 00:08:16,280 --> 00:08:20,200 Speaker 1: you everything, and then he opens back up, Oh, by 122 00:08:20,280 --> 00:08:22,760 Speaker 1: the way, let me tell you one other thing he 123 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:30,520 Speaker 1: did he's not finished yet. He's not finished yet. That's 124 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:32,760 Speaker 1: what I need you to know. More than you know 125 00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:36,959 Speaker 1: anything that you know or think you know. I need 126 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:38,680 Speaker 1: you to know that better than you know your name. 127 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:40,800 Speaker 1: I need you to know that, better than you know 128 00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:43,800 Speaker 1: your Social Security number. I need you to know that better. 129 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:45,599 Speaker 1: You don't even know your phone number anymore because you 130 00:08:45,640 --> 00:08:48,679 Speaker 1: don't have to. But I need you to know that. 131 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:53,600 Speaker 1: You know that he's not finished. I need every single 132 00:08:53,679 --> 00:08:56,240 Speaker 1: solitary person under the sound of my voice to find 133 00:08:56,320 --> 00:08:59,440 Speaker 1: one person and tell him he's not finished and put 134 00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:02,000 Speaker 1: it in the chat too. Put it in the chat 135 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:08,000 Speaker 1: right now. He's not finished. He's not finished. Now listen 136 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:10,320 Speaker 1: to the next part. This is where my sermon comes from. 137 00:09:10,880 --> 00:09:16,160 Speaker 1: That was the frame. Here's the picture. Afterward, Jesus appeared 138 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:19,959 Speaker 1: again to his disciples by the Sea of Galilee. It 139 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:25,720 Speaker 1: happened this way. Simon Peter Thomas, also known as Didamus. 140 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:28,880 Speaker 1: He gets called douting Thomas in a lot of churches. 141 00:09:28,920 --> 00:09:30,760 Speaker 1: Not here, we don't call him that. We call him 142 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:34,400 Speaker 1: honest Thomas, because he had the faith to say, I 143 00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:36,440 Speaker 1: need to see for myself and guess what Jesus did. 144 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:42,640 Speaker 1: Showed up. So it was Simon Peter Thomas also known 145 00:09:42,640 --> 00:09:46,360 Speaker 1: as Didamus Nathaniel from Cana and Galilee. The sons of Zebedee, 146 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:49,120 Speaker 1: James and John, and two other disciples were together, so 147 00:09:49,160 --> 00:09:53,280 Speaker 1: that's seven total they were all together. Verse three. I'm 148 00:09:53,320 --> 00:09:57,640 Speaker 1: going out to fish, Simon Peter told them, and they said, 149 00:09:57,679 --> 00:10:03,040 Speaker 1: we'll go with you. No to do, got to eat somehow, 150 00:10:04,480 --> 00:10:06,400 Speaker 1: So they went out, got in the boat, but that 151 00:10:06,559 --> 00:10:12,880 Speaker 1: night they caught nothing. Early in the morning, Jesus stood 152 00:10:12,920 --> 00:10:16,439 Speaker 1: on the shore, but the disciples didn't realize it was Jesus. 153 00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:26,920 Speaker 1: He called out to them, friends, friends, friends, keep that 154 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:31,160 Speaker 1: right there in your reticular activating system that were friends. 155 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:43,960 Speaker 1: Haven't you any fish? No? The answer no no. When 156 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:46,920 Speaker 1: I was like, do you you know? Do you have 157 00:10:47,040 --> 00:10:51,920 Speaker 1: joy today? No? Do you have peace in your heart? 158 00:10:51,960 --> 00:10:55,840 Speaker 1: How many of you have faith? To No? Sometimes the 159 00:10:55,880 --> 00:10:58,440 Speaker 1: greatest way you can invite God into your life is 160 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:03,480 Speaker 1: with an honest no yeah. Practice one time, just say 161 00:11:03,559 --> 00:11:06,320 Speaker 1: no yeah. And if you would get better at saying 162 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:08,160 Speaker 1: that in your everyday life, you wouldn't have so much 163 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:09,959 Speaker 1: ulcers from committing to so many things that you don't 164 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:14,320 Speaker 1: even need to be doing to begin with. So now 165 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:18,200 Speaker 1: let's really zone in here we need to focus. He said, 166 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:22,199 Speaker 1: throw your net on the right side of the boat 167 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:25,480 Speaker 1: and you will find some. And when they did, they 168 00:11:25,520 --> 00:11:28,840 Speaker 1: were unable to haul the net in because of the 169 00:11:28,960 --> 00:11:34,040 Speaker 1: large number of fish. Then the disciple whom Jesus loved, 170 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:40,960 Speaker 1: that's the nickname John gave himself, said to Peter, it 171 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:44,800 Speaker 1: is the Lord. As soon as Simon Peter heard him 172 00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:48,079 Speaker 1: say it is the Lord, he wrapped his outer garment 173 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:51,240 Speaker 1: around him, for he had taken it off, and jumped 174 00:11:51,280 --> 00:11:54,439 Speaker 1: into the water. And the other disciples followed in the boat, 175 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:57,280 Speaker 1: towing the net full of fish, for they were not 176 00:11:57,440 --> 00:11:59,760 Speaker 1: far from the shore, about one hundred yards. Peter, you 177 00:11:59,760 --> 00:12:04,079 Speaker 1: could wait one hundred yards now. When they landed, they 178 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:07,200 Speaker 1: saw a fire of burning coals there with fish on 179 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:12,000 Speaker 1: it and some bread, and Jesus said to them, bring 180 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:16,760 Speaker 1: some of the fish you have just caught. So Simon 181 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:21,320 Speaker 1: Peter climbed back into the boat and dragged the net ashore. 182 00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:26,320 Speaker 1: It was full of large fish one hundred and fifty three. 183 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:29,760 Speaker 1: But even with so many live fish. You know how 184 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:32,480 Speaker 1: hard it is to haul in live fish. I never 185 00:12:32,520 --> 00:12:34,880 Speaker 1: did it, but it sounds hard. One guy said it 186 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:38,240 Speaker 1: was three hundred pounds of fish, and Peter hauled it 187 00:12:38,280 --> 00:12:44,199 Speaker 1: in all by him self. When he saw Jesus, some 188 00:12:44,280 --> 00:12:46,480 Speaker 1: kind of strength kicked in that he didn't have when 189 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:51,480 Speaker 1: the rooster was crowing. When he saw Jesus, he dragged 190 00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:54,400 Speaker 1: three hundred pounds of fish behind him, And even with 191 00:12:54,559 --> 00:12:58,160 Speaker 1: so many, the net was not torn. And Jesus said 192 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:02,360 Speaker 1: to them, come have bread, bakfast. None of the disciples 193 00:13:02,440 --> 00:13:05,880 Speaker 1: dared ask him, who are you? They knew it was 194 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:11,720 Speaker 1: the Lord. Jesus came, took the bread, gave it to them, 195 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:16,920 Speaker 1: and did the same with the fish. This was now 196 00:13:17,280 --> 00:13:21,680 Speaker 1: the third time Jesus appeared to his disciples after he 197 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:24,240 Speaker 1: was raised from the dead. So here's what we're going 198 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:27,720 Speaker 1: to talk about today. We're going to talk about life 199 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:38,920 Speaker 1: after the letdown, Life after the letdown. Thank you for 200 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:41,160 Speaker 1: the ministry of your word as it goes forth today, 201 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:47,560 Speaker 1: May it do so with convicting power and with life giving, changing, 202 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:57,120 Speaker 1: saving resurrection power. In Jesus' name, Amen, you may be seated. 203 00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:05,280 Speaker 1: I collect Easter sermon ideas because it comes around once 204 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:08,760 Speaker 1: a year. I have big lists going into this Easter. 205 00:14:09,880 --> 00:14:13,280 Speaker 1: And the Lord said, this will not be your sermon text. 206 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:17,240 Speaker 1: You're going to talk to the people about life after 207 00:14:17,960 --> 00:14:22,960 Speaker 1: the letdown. And it was weird for me yesterday because 208 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:26,840 Speaker 1: I wanted to be happy about Easter, excited about Easter. 209 00:14:28,680 --> 00:14:31,680 Speaker 1: I wanted to be I wanted to be full of energy. 210 00:14:32,240 --> 00:14:38,000 Speaker 1: But I felt like I spent all day living in 211 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:43,600 Speaker 1: your letdowns. Because I've studied my text, right, I already 212 00:14:43,600 --> 00:14:47,360 Speaker 1: figured out what the Hebrew and the Greek means down 213 00:14:47,400 --> 00:14:50,160 Speaker 1: in John chapter twenty one, where Jesus says to Peter 214 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:52,800 Speaker 1: three times. We didn't read this part do you love me? 215 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:55,480 Speaker 1: And he said yes? And he said do you love me? 216 00:14:55,760 --> 00:14:57,920 Speaker 1: And he said yes, And he said do you love me? 217 00:14:58,160 --> 00:15:00,840 Speaker 1: And he said yes? And I had already read how 218 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:03,800 Speaker 1: that's not really about what I heard growing up, where 219 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:07,360 Speaker 1: Jesus was saying different words for love, the Greek words 220 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:10,160 Speaker 1: for love, you know, fialo which is like a brotherly love, 221 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:12,720 Speaker 1: and agape, which is the god kind of love, And 222 00:15:12,760 --> 00:15:14,480 Speaker 1: he was really trying to get Peter to a new 223 00:15:14,560 --> 00:15:19,720 Speaker 1: level of love because Jesus didn't speak Greek, so I'd 224 00:15:19,760 --> 00:15:23,880 Speaker 1: already studied that part about how really, when Jesus asked 225 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:26,960 Speaker 1: three times Peter, do you love me? It wasn't really 226 00:15:27,120 --> 00:15:29,560 Speaker 1: so he could give him a vocabulary lesson about different 227 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:35,000 Speaker 1: types of love. Really, the meaning in that three times 228 00:15:35,120 --> 00:15:36,560 Speaker 1: is not in the words he uses it at all. 229 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:41,560 Speaker 1: It's in the math, because if you go back just 230 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:45,120 Speaker 1: a few verses before Jesus comes to Peter on the shore, 231 00:15:46,920 --> 00:15:51,320 Speaker 1: Peter has just denied Jesus three times. And it helped 232 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:53,120 Speaker 1: me to see that it was a full circle moment 233 00:15:53,960 --> 00:15:57,520 Speaker 1: for Jesus and Peter, that he was giving him grace 234 00:15:57,920 --> 00:16:02,120 Speaker 1: to cover all of his failure, and that Peter didn't 235 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:07,520 Speaker 1: have more denial than Jesus had grace, that Peter didn't 236 00:16:07,520 --> 00:16:12,800 Speaker 1: have more doubt than Jesus had mercy. But after studying 237 00:16:12,880 --> 00:16:15,520 Speaker 1: all of those nice things about Greek and Hebrew and 238 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:17,920 Speaker 1: numbers and all of the things that I studied during 239 00:16:17,920 --> 00:16:19,840 Speaker 1: the week so that I can be prepared to serve 240 00:16:19,880 --> 00:16:22,080 Speaker 1: you a good meal and you don't choke on the 241 00:16:22,120 --> 00:16:25,880 Speaker 1: bones of a sermon that I didn't prepare correctly, it 242 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:28,840 Speaker 1: came to me that, really, unless we make this message 243 00:16:28,960 --> 00:16:32,680 Speaker 1: very personal for you, it will be yet another superstitious 244 00:16:32,720 --> 00:16:35,080 Speaker 1: activity that you fulfill. Thinking God, you did him a 245 00:16:35,120 --> 00:16:37,560 Speaker 1: favor by putting on perfume and sitting still for an 246 00:16:37,560 --> 00:16:41,200 Speaker 1: hour in fifteen minutes and we don't want this Easter 247 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:43,920 Speaker 1: to pass us by and it just be another ticket 248 00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:46,560 Speaker 1: punching thing on our list in case we die before 249 00:16:46,560 --> 00:16:51,480 Speaker 1: the next one. Now, I believe that because of what 250 00:16:51,640 --> 00:16:54,680 Speaker 1: Jesus did for me, I'm going to get to go 251 00:16:54,760 --> 00:16:59,600 Speaker 1: to Heaven when I die. I believe that, And I 252 00:16:59,640 --> 00:17:02,760 Speaker 1: believe that even if you don't like me, I get 253 00:17:02,760 --> 00:17:07,880 Speaker 1: to go. I believe that even if you don't think 254 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:11,320 Speaker 1: my theology is exactly correct, or you don't think that 255 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:14,800 Speaker 1: my Easter attire is dressy enough, because the Lord deserves 256 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:17,520 Speaker 1: our best, I still get to go to Heaven. And 257 00:17:17,560 --> 00:17:19,480 Speaker 1: so you should be nice to me and what you 258 00:17:19,520 --> 00:17:21,639 Speaker 1: say to me, because when we get to Heaven, I 259 00:17:21,720 --> 00:17:26,439 Speaker 1: might be your neighbor. And wouldn't it be weird for 260 00:17:26,600 --> 00:17:29,239 Speaker 1: all the people that you didn't like on Earth and 261 00:17:29,280 --> 00:17:35,120 Speaker 1: you get to Heaven and they say, hi, neighbor, all 262 00:17:35,200 --> 00:17:38,160 Speaker 1: the people that you thought they didn't have the correct 263 00:17:38,359 --> 00:17:41,760 Speaker 1: you know, the all of the theological suppositions and share 264 00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:45,640 Speaker 1: all the same common beliefs. You might get next door 265 00:17:45,680 --> 00:17:47,320 Speaker 1: to them in heaven and realize you have to spend 266 00:17:47,320 --> 00:17:51,280 Speaker 1: eternity with them. Yet, as much as I believe that 267 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:55,159 Speaker 1: what Jesus did for me prepares me for heaven. I 268 00:17:55,200 --> 00:18:01,359 Speaker 1: think that often the message of resurrection gets weaken in 269 00:18:01,440 --> 00:18:06,600 Speaker 1: our tendency to defer its implications to the next life. 270 00:18:08,040 --> 00:18:11,480 Speaker 1: For us to think that John is saying believing gives 271 00:18:11,560 --> 00:18:15,399 Speaker 1: us life in Jesus' name after we die is an 272 00:18:15,440 --> 00:18:21,240 Speaker 1: unnecessary limitation of the finished work of Christ. For me 273 00:18:21,320 --> 00:18:23,720 Speaker 1: to believe that I'm gonna get to heaven one day 274 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:25,960 Speaker 1: and play a harp and whatever they're doing in heaven, 275 00:18:25,960 --> 00:18:28,080 Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it with them, all right. If they're 276 00:18:28,080 --> 00:18:31,480 Speaker 1: playing hearts, I'm gonna take heart lessons. If they're dancing, 277 00:18:31,680 --> 00:18:34,440 Speaker 1: I'm gonna take dancing lessons. There will not be any 278 00:18:34,440 --> 00:18:36,439 Speaker 1: TikTok in heaven, so I will not have to be 279 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:38,720 Speaker 1: shown to the world. But if they're dancing in heaven, 280 00:18:38,880 --> 00:18:41,000 Speaker 1: I'm gonna find a corner and practice how to dance. 281 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:43,760 Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it all when I get to heaven. Yet, 282 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:47,480 Speaker 1: there are some things that I need Jesus for while 283 00:18:47,640 --> 00:18:57,800 Speaker 1: I am still here right now. That's why John twenty one, listen, Jody, 284 00:18:58,080 --> 00:18:59,760 Speaker 1: That's why John twenty one had to be in the 285 00:18:59,800 --> 00:19:05,359 Speaker 1: b Because if it just ended on this note of 286 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:11,360 Speaker 1: abstract universal reality called belief in life. We would kick 287 00:19:11,440 --> 00:19:14,000 Speaker 1: it somewhere someday to amazing grace and the sweet by 288 00:19:14,040 --> 00:19:16,440 Speaker 1: and by and potato pie in the sky, and then 289 00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:22,240 Speaker 1: here on earth we would continue to suppress the questions 290 00:19:23,200 --> 00:19:26,840 Speaker 1: that we have and the fears that we wrestle with, 291 00:19:27,680 --> 00:19:30,600 Speaker 1: and the ugliness that mars our own self concept and 292 00:19:30,640 --> 00:19:35,159 Speaker 1: our identity. Just press it down and keep pressing it 293 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:39,920 Speaker 1: down and hope that it never comes out. That's why 294 00:19:39,920 --> 00:19:44,960 Speaker 1: I wanted to talk to you about life after the letdown. 295 00:19:46,320 --> 00:19:49,760 Speaker 1: When I say the letdown, I am leaving it open 296 00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:55,600 Speaker 1: ended so that you can supply your own event, experience, 297 00:19:55,760 --> 00:19:59,400 Speaker 1: or condition. Where I say the term letdown, it's kind 298 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:02,200 Speaker 1: of like a code li language. Okay. I have secret 299 00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:04,160 Speaker 1: hand signals with my family that mean things when we're 300 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:06,400 Speaker 1: in public and for the rest of our time. Today 301 00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:08,240 Speaker 1: you are my family, and this is going to be 302 00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:11,480 Speaker 1: our secret signal to each other. When I say let down, 303 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:15,119 Speaker 1: you put the one in there that you don't talk about. 304 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:21,040 Speaker 1: So when I say let down, you will have something 305 00:20:21,040 --> 00:20:23,640 Speaker 1: that you may not even have language for that will 306 00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:27,120 Speaker 1: come up when I talk about the letdown. We are 307 00:20:27,320 --> 00:20:29,960 Speaker 1: so quick not only to want to get to heaven 308 00:20:29,960 --> 00:20:33,119 Speaker 1: when we die one day, but to want to get 309 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:36,680 Speaker 1: to the part of the story where Jesus got up 310 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:42,560 Speaker 1: that we will waltz right past the part where he 311 00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:46,000 Speaker 1: went to Jerusalem to be handed over and crucified at 312 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:49,560 Speaker 1: the hands of sinful men. There is really no way 313 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:54,240 Speaker 1: for us to experience Easter, the events of Easter, without 314 00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:58,240 Speaker 1: experiencing the events of the Cross. And there is really 315 00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:00,399 Speaker 1: no way for us to experience the event of the 316 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:04,840 Speaker 1: Cross like the Disciples did, because for us the cross 317 00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:08,400 Speaker 1: has a certain measure of comfort. We know that our 318 00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:11,199 Speaker 1: sin is nailed to that cross. We know that it 319 00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:14,800 Speaker 1: canceled the written regulation that stood against us. We know 320 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:17,679 Speaker 1: that the power of shame was broken on the cross 321 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:20,720 Speaker 1: of Christ. We know all of that. So when we 322 00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:25,520 Speaker 1: sing the Wonderful Cross, when we survey the wondrous Cross, 323 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:28,680 Speaker 1: we see the promise of redemption and atonement and his 324 00:21:28,840 --> 00:21:31,760 Speaker 1: blood that was shed for us. But that same blood 325 00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:36,200 Speaker 1: that we rejoice in represented for the disciples a broken 326 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:40,560 Speaker 1: promise and an unmet expectation of the kingdom that Jesus 327 00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:46,760 Speaker 1: came to bring. These were his friends. Peter was a 328 00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:50,840 Speaker 1: friend of Jesus. Everybody has crazy friends, and Peter was 329 00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:57,399 Speaker 1: Jesus's crazy friend. Who's your crazy friend? I don't have 330 00:21:57,440 --> 00:22:08,000 Speaker 1: any crazy friend. Then you are the crazy Peter was, 331 00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:11,000 Speaker 1: Jesus is kind of crazy. One dude came over to 332 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:13,000 Speaker 1: the church. He said, I just followed my kids over 333 00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:15,879 Speaker 1: here to see if you were running a cult. My 334 00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:18,399 Speaker 1: kid came over. We was so excited about church. I said, 335 00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:21,359 Speaker 1: my kid is excited about church, that must be a cult. 336 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:24,320 Speaker 1: And I came over to find out if you were crazy. 337 00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:27,960 Speaker 1: I said, well, was I? And he said yeah, it 338 00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:30,879 Speaker 1: wasn't a cult, but you are crazy, But you're my 339 00:22:31,080 --> 00:22:35,200 Speaker 1: kind of crazy. And I gave him a Fis bump, 340 00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:38,439 Speaker 1: and I was like, that's all right, because this whole 341 00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:45,840 Speaker 1: thing that we're celebrating today is kind of crazy. Try 342 00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:47,920 Speaker 1: the side of the room. This side of the room 343 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:53,679 Speaker 1: has no anointing of honesty whatsoever. Today. This is kind 344 00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:58,399 Speaker 1: of crazy. I'm gonna have to ap preach to the 345 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:01,960 Speaker 1: people in the back who got here late. This. I'm 346 00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:04,360 Speaker 1: gonna have to go out and preach it in the overflow. 347 00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:10,600 Speaker 1: This is kind of crazy. It's crazy. It didn't seem 348 00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:13,640 Speaker 1: crazy at first. When Peter met Jesus. All Jesus said 349 00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:15,520 Speaker 1: was can I use your boat to preach. There's nothing 350 00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:18,080 Speaker 1: crazy about preaching, and there's nothing crazy about doing it 351 00:23:18,119 --> 00:23:21,760 Speaker 1: from a boat, because that would provide natural amplification for 352 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:26,680 Speaker 1: Jesus's voice. Matter of fact, if you really liked the Bible, 353 00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:28,919 Speaker 1: you were confused when I read the story, because you're like, 354 00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:32,719 Speaker 1: is this a resurrection scripture? Isn't this what happened when 355 00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:38,080 Speaker 1: Jesus first called Peter? And you're right, it's the same 356 00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:45,120 Speaker 1: story from the other side. It's the same story from 357 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:48,119 Speaker 1: the other side. But let me show you how it started. 358 00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:51,080 Speaker 1: When Peter was out fishing one night and he caught nothing. 359 00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:53,720 Speaker 1: The only thing that the stories have in common really 360 00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:57,480 Speaker 1: is that Peter wasn't a very good fisherman, and either one. 361 00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:00,240 Speaker 1: The only thing that I can really find that it's 362 00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:05,280 Speaker 1: exactly the same as empty nets, right, And there's a 363 00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:09,040 Speaker 1: message in that. There is a message in that about 364 00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:12,159 Speaker 1: the God who loves to feel what is empty and 365 00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:16,439 Speaker 1: the God who loves empty what is full. One is 366 00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:21,439 Speaker 1: the nets, the other is the tomb. My faith is 367 00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:25,520 Speaker 1: not in my own fullness. My faith is not in 368 00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:29,680 Speaker 1: my own ability, My faith is not in my own righteousness. 369 00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:32,439 Speaker 1: That's not how I'm getting to heaven. You get to 370 00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:34,639 Speaker 1: heaven how you want to get to heaven. But I 371 00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:37,440 Speaker 1: don't have the perfection pass. It's not going to let 372 00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:40,160 Speaker 1: me through. I don't have my card punched. Not all 373 00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:42,880 Speaker 1: the time. I'm honest, I'm sincere, I love the Lord 374 00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:45,680 Speaker 1: in all of that. But sometimes I slip, and sometimes 375 00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:48,600 Speaker 1: I'm crazy, and not in the Christian way of crazy. Okay, 376 00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:51,280 Speaker 1: now that that's out of the way, let me show you. 377 00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:54,639 Speaker 1: When Jesus called Peter, look at this. It says that 378 00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:57,960 Speaker 1: Jesus looked five verst for had finished speaking, and he 379 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:02,639 Speaker 1: said to Simon, that's's given name, not the name Jesus 380 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:05,320 Speaker 1: gave him, but the name is parents gave him. He said, 381 00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:12,520 Speaker 1: put out into deep water and let down the nets 382 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:18,560 Speaker 1: for a catch. Everybody say let down. Next verse, Peter said, 383 00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:22,040 Speaker 1: this makes no sense. We fished all night, We've caught nothing. 384 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:24,000 Speaker 1: We're hanging it up for the night. There's no need 385 00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:26,120 Speaker 1: for us to keep fishing in the daytime. The fish 386 00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:28,200 Speaker 1: won't come to the surface when the water gets hot. 387 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:36,320 Speaker 1: But because you say so, I will let down the nets. 388 00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:42,359 Speaker 1: I will let down the nets. This was the beginning 389 00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:47,040 Speaker 1: of Peter's participation in the ministry of Jesus, and I 390 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:49,439 Speaker 1: preached about it many times in the church, so I 391 00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:51,879 Speaker 1: won't bore you with the review today. But when he 392 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:55,119 Speaker 1: let down the nets in that passage of Scripture, he 393 00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:58,240 Speaker 1: could have had no way of knowing how his life 394 00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:02,000 Speaker 1: would change because of the moment that he let down 395 00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:06,879 Speaker 1: the nets. He could have had no idea that he 396 00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:10,480 Speaker 1: would be front row seat to blind eyes open when 397 00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:13,639 Speaker 1: he let down the nets. He could have had no 398 00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:16,520 Speaker 1: way of knowing that he would see the widow from 399 00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:20,080 Speaker 1: named son raised from the dead when he let down 400 00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:23,320 Speaker 1: the nets. He could have had no idea that he 401 00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:26,119 Speaker 1: would have seen a roof come off a house. Because 402 00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:29,639 Speaker 1: the ministry of Jesus would be so popular that people 403 00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:32,680 Speaker 1: watch this on an Easter Sunday. If they couldn't get 404 00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:35,560 Speaker 1: in the overflow, they would repel down the roof to 405 00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:38,159 Speaker 1: see Jesus. I don't preach as good as Jesus, so 406 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:41,560 Speaker 1: the roof is still here. But Jesus had so much 407 00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:45,520 Speaker 1: power that stuff started falling from the ceiling. When they 408 00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:47,639 Speaker 1: said I'm so sorry, you'll have to sit in overflow, 409 00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:50,080 Speaker 1: they were like, oh, I'm not sitting in overflow, I'm 410 00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:52,359 Speaker 1: sitting in the room. I got a need, and I 411 00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:54,880 Speaker 1: got a friend who has a need, and I'm gonna 412 00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:57,320 Speaker 1: get my friend to the feet of the one who 413 00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:00,920 Speaker 1: has the word. He talked with so much tower and 414 00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:05,439 Speaker 1: authority that the crowds and crowds loved him until he 415 00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:10,879 Speaker 1: got to the park that they couldn't stomach until he 416 00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:15,720 Speaker 1: let them down. Now, this is something I want to 417 00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:18,440 Speaker 1: bring you today and see if it resonates with your heart. 418 00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:27,359 Speaker 1: Are you a come up Christian? Only you know what 419 00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:32,080 Speaker 1: I mean by come up. In the original Hebrew, come 420 00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:37,800 Speaker 1: up means the part of the story where the success 421 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:42,479 Speaker 1: is accumulating and the benefits of a crue. It seems 422 00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:46,840 Speaker 1: that Peter, as he followed Jesus through a certain season, 423 00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:52,120 Speaker 1: was experiencing the come up, which made it the ultimate 424 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:57,440 Speaker 1: betrayal of Peter's faith when Jesus went to the cross. 425 00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:01,520 Speaker 1: When Jesus said I'm going to the Peter said, no, 426 00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:08,280 Speaker 1: not you, and the cross interrupted the come up. Now, 427 00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:11,879 Speaker 1: we experienced the cross in the knowledge that Jesus isn't 428 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:17,560 Speaker 1: there anymore. We experienced the cross with the knowledge that 429 00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:22,920 Speaker 1: the ultimate destruction can be transformed into the ultimate redemption. 430 00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:27,520 Speaker 1: We experienced the cross that way, but for the disciples 431 00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:34,119 Speaker 1: the cross was shaped like a question mark. Did we 432 00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:40,760 Speaker 1: waste our lives? Did we throw our careers away? Should 433 00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:43,280 Speaker 1: I have listened to my mom and not followed this 434 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:49,320 Speaker 1: carpenter's son all through the Galilean region? So I think 435 00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:51,600 Speaker 1: before we rushed to the part where he got up, 436 00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:54,240 Speaker 1: that's the eastern part. I can make everybody in the 437 00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:56,640 Speaker 1: room claud real quick, high five or three people and say, 438 00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:58,280 Speaker 1: he got up, he got up, he got up, he 439 00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:02,840 Speaker 1: got up. What you won't see while they're high fiving 440 00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:10,720 Speaker 1: you is the letdown that they pushed down. And that's 441 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:13,200 Speaker 1: why yesterday was hard for me, because I was imagining 442 00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:16,240 Speaker 1: us together, and I knew you were going to wear 443 00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:19,720 Speaker 1: your best button down shirt because Mom came to church 444 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:21,560 Speaker 1: with you today and you don't tell her you normally 445 00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:23,480 Speaker 1: come to Elevation Church in a tank top, but you 446 00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:32,320 Speaker 1: dressed up today. And I spent yesterday thinking about the 447 00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:36,960 Speaker 1: fact that before he got up, they were let down. 448 00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:43,400 Speaker 1: And the Lord was ministering to me about my letdowns. Yeah, 449 00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:47,200 Speaker 1: I have some. I went through my camera role recently 450 00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:53,080 Speaker 1: and I was laughing at some pictures and smiling at 451 00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:57,440 Speaker 1: some pictures, and some of them made me want to cry, 452 00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:00,880 Speaker 1: made me want to cry because I I could almost 453 00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:06,240 Speaker 1: I could almost divide my camera roll into halves based 454 00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:15,880 Speaker 1: on certain things, people, plans, and places where I experienced 455 00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:20,320 Speaker 1: a letdown. One of them, in particular, was right in 456 00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:24,280 Speaker 1: the middle of the summer twenty thirteen, when Dad died. 457 00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:28,840 Speaker 1: I could see a dividing line almost between that year. 458 00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:30,320 Speaker 1: That was a hard year for me in general. A 459 00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:33,760 Speaker 1: lot of things happened that year. I'm not here to 460 00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:35,680 Speaker 1: have you do therapy for me, and I want you 461 00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:39,040 Speaker 1: to send me a bill, but I could almost see 462 00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:44,280 Speaker 1: my eyes change in the pictures before and after. You 463 00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:46,760 Speaker 1: know how we say that the birth of Jesus Christ 464 00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:52,320 Speaker 1: changed everything, that's an incomplete statement because if he didn't die, 465 00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:58,040 Speaker 1: it changed nothing. His teachings wouldn't be here, they wouldn't 466 00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:02,120 Speaker 1: be recorded, and if he died and didn't rise, then 467 00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:06,400 Speaker 1: his death was in vain. So really, the dividing line 468 00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:10,080 Speaker 1: for for my understanding of my relationship with God is 469 00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:12,840 Speaker 1: not that he was born in a manger, and not 470 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,520 Speaker 1: even that he died on a tree. As much as 471 00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:19,120 Speaker 1: both of those things informed my faith, the fact that 472 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:23,040 Speaker 1: he got up is what divides my life. And yet 473 00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:27,440 Speaker 1: don't don't, don't don't clap, because that's the part. Don't 474 00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:29,480 Speaker 1: want me there so bad. Yes, yes, he got up, 475 00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:30,840 Speaker 1: he got up, he got up, he got up, He 476 00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:33,160 Speaker 1: got up like popcorn going up all over the church. 477 00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:37,360 Speaker 1: The Lord directed me. Before we can really get to 478 00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:40,760 Speaker 1: that in a way that matters more than a motivational speech. 479 00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:45,840 Speaker 1: We need to decide. Is he the lord of your letdowns? 480 00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:52,480 Speaker 1: Why did you give me this message for Easter or Sunday? Lord? 481 00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:57,280 Speaker 1: This isn't both of the appy day. I was looking 482 00:31:57,280 --> 00:32:01,320 Speaker 1: through the pictures and I thought, Man, that guy who 483 00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:05,400 Speaker 1: was twenty eight didn't know what that guy knew who's 484 00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:08,680 Speaker 1: forty two. And some of it, I feel like this 485 00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:13,560 Speaker 1: gray hair gave me a little bit of authority wisdom. Yeah, 486 00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:17,640 Speaker 1: can't you feel it? But some of it I saw. 487 00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:22,560 Speaker 1: Something had changed in my eyes after I found out 488 00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:27,520 Speaker 1: what people can do to you, after I found out 489 00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:30,120 Speaker 1: that not everything I'm gonna put on my wish list 490 00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:33,160 Speaker 1: of God to do is gonna come. And here's the 491 00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:35,040 Speaker 1: biggest one. Okay, Because a lot of times we talk 492 00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:37,400 Speaker 1: about letdowns in terms of the thing that you went 493 00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:40,560 Speaker 1: after that you wanted that you didn't get. Some of 494 00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:45,720 Speaker 1: the biggest letdowns are the things that you wanted and 495 00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:49,840 Speaker 1: you went after and you got them, and you can't 496 00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:56,880 Speaker 1: send them back. Your letdown. I got one honest organist 497 00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:00,640 Speaker 1: some of the things that you asked for. Do you 498 00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:02,680 Speaker 1: know why I feel so uncomfortable when we get to 499 00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:05,400 Speaker 1: this part of the story because we know the ending, 500 00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:07,800 Speaker 1: so we just want to skip there. Peter did it. 501 00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:14,680 Speaker 1: He went fishing. There's nothing wrong with fishing. Do you 502 00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:19,240 Speaker 1: hate fishing? Princher, Are you saying fishing is the sin? No, 503 00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:23,120 Speaker 1: Peter didn't do anything sinful. There's nothing wrong with fishing. 504 00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:25,920 Speaker 1: Peter didn't go open a strip club. Oh well, I 505 00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:28,400 Speaker 1: guess if God isn't gonna do what I want, I'm 506 00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:31,200 Speaker 1: just gonna go sell drugs. I gotta perform. I gotta 507 00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:34,360 Speaker 1: provide for my my baby's I gotta I gotta take 508 00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:36,680 Speaker 1: care of my family. I gotta do what I gotta do. 509 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:42,040 Speaker 1: Peter went back to what he knew. It's not what 510 00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:45,360 Speaker 1: he did that shocked me, it's when he did it. 511 00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:50,840 Speaker 1: This is the third time he's seen Jesus since he's 512 00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:56,200 Speaker 1: been alive from the dead. I can totally understand Peter 513 00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:59,800 Speaker 1: goes fishing because Jesus hasn't made a special appearance yet. 514 00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:07,600 Speaker 1: But he's already seen Jesus, and he's backfishing because he's 515 00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:13,839 Speaker 1: still living in the letdown. I don't know what you're 516 00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:20,520 Speaker 1: talking about, preacher. I trust God, So when God says yes, 517 00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:25,560 Speaker 1: I accept it. But when he says no, I equally 518 00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:31,279 Speaker 1: accept it, knowing that he knows what's best for me. 519 00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:39,600 Speaker 1: This is not your Easter sermon. The Lord didn't give 520 00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:43,440 Speaker 1: me a message for you, because apparently you are already 521 00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:50,080 Speaker 1: in heaven. The rest of us, the rest of us 522 00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:57,200 Speaker 1: need a message about the low moments of our faith. 523 00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:01,360 Speaker 1: I don't just need than This is so powerful, It 524 00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:04,200 Speaker 1: is so powerful, This is so powerful. How can you 525 00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:07,360 Speaker 1: go fishing when there's a whole world to be reached? 526 00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:10,320 Speaker 1: How can you go fishing when Jesus hasn't even a 527 00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:13,040 Speaker 1: sending to heaven yet. This is only the second week 528 00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:16,600 Speaker 1: after his resurrection. We've still got weeks to go. And 529 00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:21,799 Speaker 1: Peter's fishing and Jesus has nothing better to do than 530 00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:28,200 Speaker 1: to cook breakfast. What about that? Jesus needs a time 531 00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:32,680 Speaker 1: management class. You want to change the whole world, and 532 00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:35,840 Speaker 1: you have a message of resurrection, and you are wasting 533 00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:39,799 Speaker 1: time here cooking for these jokers who forsook you on 534 00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:51,080 Speaker 1: the cross, and not only that, he calls them his friends. 535 00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:54,080 Speaker 1: I need God to help me to give me that 536 00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:58,360 Speaker 1: kind of love because I have this certain line that 537 00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:01,399 Speaker 1: when people cross it, I have a really hard time 538 00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:04,400 Speaker 1: letting them back in again. I don't know if this 539 00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:09,000 Speaker 1: is right or wrong, but there is a certain line 540 00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:12,239 Speaker 1: where if somebody lets me down long enough, I'll just 541 00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:16,680 Speaker 1: start working around them. I won't cuss them out, i 542 00:36:16,719 --> 00:36:20,440 Speaker 1: won't call down curses from Heaven on him. I'll just stop. 543 00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:24,960 Speaker 1: I'll just stop letting them in. I'll just kill my 544 00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:28,720 Speaker 1: expectation of you if you let me down long enough. 545 00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:33,120 Speaker 1: I'm the same way about life. If I pray for something, 546 00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:36,480 Speaker 1: or go after something, or work towards something, and I 547 00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:39,800 Speaker 1: do it long enough, if I get let down long enough, 548 00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:45,640 Speaker 1: I will not let hope in anymore. So Jesus stands 549 00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:51,640 Speaker 1: as my model, and Peter stands as my message. Jesus 550 00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:57,240 Speaker 1: is standing on the shore calling to the same disciples 551 00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:00,960 Speaker 1: who let him down in his lowest moment, and he 552 00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:05,640 Speaker 1: approaches them with empty nets and says, would you like 553 00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:12,160 Speaker 1: to eat some breakfast? Now? This passage I selected because 554 00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:15,160 Speaker 1: the resurrection of Jesus Christ is a well documented event. 555 00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:18,799 Speaker 1: You believe it or you don't, But this part will 556 00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:23,480 Speaker 1: redefine your relationship with the resurrected Christ, because if you 557 00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:26,759 Speaker 1: think that he only got up for the moments where 558 00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:30,640 Speaker 1: your faith is high, you have missed the message of 559 00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:34,799 Speaker 1: John chapter twenty one, which says that before Jesus could 560 00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:38,399 Speaker 1: go forward, before Jesus could be taken, before Jesus could 561 00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:40,880 Speaker 1: be seated at the right hand of God, before Jesus 562 00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:44,080 Speaker 1: could sit down and call his work on earth finished, 563 00:37:44,719 --> 00:37:48,960 Speaker 1: he had defined Peter. This is not the first time, 564 00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:52,120 Speaker 1: the second time, or the last time, but there is 565 00:37:52,239 --> 00:37:57,359 Speaker 1: something significant about the third time. Peter had three denials. 566 00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:02,359 Speaker 1: Jesus was dead for three days three times. This is 567 00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:05,600 Speaker 1: the third time. It represents the point at which their 568 00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:09,760 Speaker 1: expectation had run out, and Jesus steps into this moment, 569 00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:12,920 Speaker 1: the moment at which they still had no fish. Jesus 570 00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:15,240 Speaker 1: steps into the moment where the fog in the mist 571 00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:17,320 Speaker 1: is so cold on the sea that it is blowing 572 00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:20,480 Speaker 1: against their face and they cannot even recognize his presence. 573 00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:24,040 Speaker 1: And he chooses the lowest moment of your life sometimes 574 00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:31,200 Speaker 1: to reveal the greatest love. He chooses the lowest moment 575 00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:36,600 Speaker 1: of your life sometimes to reveal His greatest love. So 576 00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:39,440 Speaker 1: while we can praise God for all the great things 577 00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:41,920 Speaker 1: that he has done, and while we can praise him 578 00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:44,760 Speaker 1: that he got up because we read that part because 579 00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:46,920 Speaker 1: it's in the Bible, but it wasn't in their Bible 580 00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:49,399 Speaker 1: because this book hadn't been written yet, So they had 581 00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:52,200 Speaker 1: to sit there in the boat and wonder in the 582 00:38:52,239 --> 00:38:54,840 Speaker 1: middle of the storm. Just because he got up doesn't 583 00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:58,799 Speaker 1: mean they knew what to do next. We preach it 584 00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:01,680 Speaker 1: like that, like except Jesus and life will be wonderful. 585 00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:07,120 Speaker 1: What I had found my Christian experience doesn't help me 586 00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:12,719 Speaker 1: to avoid any of the disappointments of life. It's not avoidance. 587 00:39:14,040 --> 00:39:16,520 Speaker 1: You keep thinking that more and more if you pray, 588 00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:20,600 Speaker 1: God will help you avoid certain storms. No, no, no, 589 00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:26,640 Speaker 1: Faith doesn't make me avoid it. It helps me transform it. 590 00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:33,239 Speaker 1: I can preach a little bit on Easter ride. I 591 00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:36,680 Speaker 1: could teach a little bit on Easter, right. That's what 592 00:39:36,719 --> 00:39:43,160 Speaker 1: the Cross means to us. It happened, he died, It happened, 593 00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:47,719 Speaker 1: they buried him, it happened they mocked him. So for 594 00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:49,719 Speaker 1: all of you who are coming to church for the 595 00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:56,239 Speaker 1: message that God will never let you down. Peter wanted 596 00:39:56,239 --> 00:40:00,319 Speaker 1: me to tell you sometimes he does a little bit, 597 00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:05,759 Speaker 1: because see, you keep basing it on your expectation and 598 00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:15,600 Speaker 1: calling it faith. You you customize the Bible to the 599 00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:18,680 Speaker 1: parts that made you feel good and cut out all 600 00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:21,799 Speaker 1: the parts where they fished and caught nothing like what 601 00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:24,680 Speaker 1: I love about this message, what I really love about 602 00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:25,880 Speaker 1: this message. If you want to know what I really 603 00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:29,160 Speaker 1: love about this message, it can apply to the capital 604 00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:33,400 Speaker 1: L letdown or the lowercase l letdown, capital l letdown. 605 00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:36,400 Speaker 1: Jesus went to the cross and died. That's about as 606 00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:39,040 Speaker 1: bad as it gets. The guy that you lost everything 607 00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:42,200 Speaker 1: to follow dies and he's supposed to overthrow Rome and 608 00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:44,719 Speaker 1: get the oppression out of the Yeah, he's supposed to. Yeah, 609 00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:48,480 Speaker 1: but he doesn't. He dies. That's pretty bad. That's why 610 00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:51,200 Speaker 1: I got to clarify. This is not man. I had 611 00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:53,960 Speaker 1: really hoped they were going to do amazing grace at 612 00:40:54,040 --> 00:41:02,920 Speaker 1: church today. This is not a I really hope, This 613 00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:05,960 Speaker 1: is a I risk everything now. Some people are not 614 00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:08,600 Speaker 1: disappointed in God because they never really hoped in him 615 00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:14,719 Speaker 1: to begin with. Peter was the leader. When he said 616 00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:17,319 Speaker 1: I'm fishing, they said we're fishing too. When he jumped 617 00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:18,719 Speaker 1: off the boat. They were like, come on, let's go 618 00:41:18,719 --> 00:41:20,839 Speaker 1: to the shore. Peter's going to the shore. They were 619 00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:23,399 Speaker 1: following Peter more than they were following Jesus at that point. 620 00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:29,000 Speaker 1: And the one with the greatest potential also experienced the 621 00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:36,080 Speaker 1: greatest pain. Now that's a word for somebody. The more 622 00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:39,160 Speaker 1: you hope and trust in God, the greater vulnerability there 623 00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:41,640 Speaker 1: will be for those moments in your life where the 624 00:41:41,719 --> 00:41:48,160 Speaker 1: enemy whispers God is not with you, for those low moments. 625 00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:55,080 Speaker 1: Who's been in a low moment lately? He's the lord 626 00:41:55,120 --> 00:41:58,120 Speaker 1: of those low moments. I know. Everybody tells you he's 627 00:41:58,160 --> 00:42:02,239 Speaker 1: the resurrected Christ, and he is. But before he got up, 628 00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:11,759 Speaker 1: he was laid down. See how this is cyclical. See 629 00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:14,280 Speaker 1: how when Peter says I will let down the nets, 630 00:42:14,680 --> 00:42:20,040 Speaker 1: that wasn't the last letdown in the scripture. If only 631 00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:24,680 Speaker 1: that were the last letdown, If only Jesus didn't let 632 00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:29,120 Speaker 1: Lazarus die. See, they've had practice for this, and so 633 00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:33,080 Speaker 1: if you have had practice to know that what you're 634 00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:35,120 Speaker 1: going through right now, that you don't think you're going 635 00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:37,000 Speaker 1: to make it through, you thought you wouldn't make it 636 00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:38,600 Speaker 1: through the last thing that you were going through that 637 00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:40,359 Speaker 1: you thought you wouldn't make it through, and you made 638 00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:42,560 Speaker 1: it through that. And so even you being here today 639 00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:47,480 Speaker 1: is evidence of the fact that life will let you down. 640 00:42:48,680 --> 00:42:52,640 Speaker 1: People will let you down. That's what I told Elijah 641 00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:55,360 Speaker 1: the other day. I said, being a dad is my 642 00:42:55,680 --> 00:43:03,239 Speaker 1: greatest privilege, next to being Holly's husband. Next to that. 643 00:43:03,239 --> 00:43:07,160 Speaker 1: That's like, that's the main thing in my life because 644 00:43:07,360 --> 00:43:09,480 Speaker 1: even me being a dad, I wouldn't be able to 645 00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:11,239 Speaker 1: do it without her. I mean, she's the only thing 646 00:43:11,239 --> 00:43:14,759 Speaker 1: that makes me look good most days anyway. But being 647 00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:19,600 Speaker 1: a dad is amazing. But I'm disappointed in being a 648 00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:22,520 Speaker 1: dad from this perspective. Not because of you, not because 649 00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:24,680 Speaker 1: of you. Not because of you. You surprise me every 650 00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:31,120 Speaker 1: day in good ways. No, I love it. I really 651 00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:32,960 Speaker 1: love it. I really love it. I really love it. 652 00:43:33,120 --> 00:43:37,839 Speaker 1: I love being a dad. But it's almost like when 653 00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:41,440 Speaker 1: I thought of myself as a dad, I thought of 654 00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:44,920 Speaker 1: myself like I would be coaching the players in a game, 655 00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:50,000 Speaker 1: and I would be on the sidelines, calling the place, 656 00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:55,759 Speaker 1: telling them how to follow God and telling them how 657 00:43:55,760 --> 00:43:58,160 Speaker 1: to be disciplined and teaching them in the ways that 658 00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:00,520 Speaker 1: they should go and training up a child. But in 659 00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:02,960 Speaker 1: my picture of being a dad. I was doing all 660 00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:08,040 Speaker 1: of this from the sidelines of parenthood. Nobody told me 661 00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:15,600 Speaker 1: that they leave you in the game to get hit 662 00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:20,960 Speaker 1: while you try to coach this team that is running 663 00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:25,319 Speaker 1: down the field in the wrong direction. Nobody told me 664 00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:27,640 Speaker 1: you don't get to take off the pads to be 665 00:44:27,680 --> 00:44:32,680 Speaker 1: a parent. You still are getting hit, You're still dealing 666 00:44:32,719 --> 00:44:36,440 Speaker 1: with whatever you brought into parenthood. There was no one. 667 00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:39,000 Speaker 1: In fact, is there any couple in the room that 668 00:44:39,040 --> 00:44:42,719 Speaker 1: has been married for a year or less? A yet 669 00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:47,880 Speaker 1: you got that newly wet holy ghost love? Stand up 670 00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:50,960 Speaker 1: right now, stand up right now. Oh let's give them 671 00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:56,080 Speaker 1: my hand, y'all, let's give them my hand. Let's give 672 00:44:56,120 --> 00:45:04,920 Speaker 1: on my hand or absolutely nothing. I ain't that wonderful? 673 00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:07,960 Speaker 1: Oh that's wonderful. Did you know the marriage vals? Did 674 00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:09,719 Speaker 1: you write your own valuse? Did you write your own valuse? 675 00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:11,640 Speaker 1: Did you put this part in? Look at each other 676 00:45:11,719 --> 00:45:13,160 Speaker 1: right now? I'm gona real quick, Im gonna quick. I'm 677 00:45:13,160 --> 00:45:15,080 Speaker 1: a day, I'm gone, I'm ore, day, I'm ordained to something. 678 00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:19,440 Speaker 1: I'm more day. Say. I will let you down, now, 679 00:45:19,560 --> 00:45:25,000 Speaker 1: sit down. I bet you didn't put it in. You 680 00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:28,680 Speaker 1: didn't know to put it in. So what you haf 681 00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:43,320 Speaker 1: in your relationship will not be known until after after after. 682 00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:46,279 Speaker 1: I thought I'd be amazing parent because I thought I 683 00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:48,560 Speaker 1: would have a box in the sky in a headset 684 00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:51,160 Speaker 1: to call the place they would give to the quarterback. 685 00:45:51,520 --> 00:45:53,839 Speaker 1: I didn't know I'd be out here getting hit too. 686 00:45:56,560 --> 00:46:08,560 Speaker 1: I didn't no that I would let them down. Because 687 00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:13,120 Speaker 1: the biggest thing in the passage to preach about isn't 688 00:46:13,120 --> 00:46:18,000 Speaker 1: that Jesus let Peter down because he got up and 689 00:46:18,040 --> 00:46:20,759 Speaker 1: he walked in locked doors to show Peter I told you. 690 00:46:22,120 --> 00:46:25,560 Speaker 1: I told you. He walked through locked doors to show 691 00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:29,480 Speaker 1: Thomas I died for you. But now this is the 692 00:46:29,480 --> 00:46:33,480 Speaker 1: third appearance, and it seems that Jesus is no longer 693 00:46:33,520 --> 00:46:38,560 Speaker 1: dealing with the fact that he let Peter down. Seems 694 00:46:38,600 --> 00:46:41,839 Speaker 1: like now he's trying to deal with the fact that 695 00:46:41,880 --> 00:46:49,640 Speaker 1: Peter let him down and denied that he even knew Jesus. 696 00:46:52,239 --> 00:46:55,480 Speaker 1: And that's what Peter had to move through. He could 697 00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:57,239 Speaker 1: get through the fact that it didn't end like I 698 00:46:57,280 --> 00:47:00,960 Speaker 1: wanted because he saw the resurrected Christ. John twenty one 699 00:47:01,040 --> 00:47:04,480 Speaker 1: is added in the Bible. Help me, Holy Spirit to 700 00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:10,520 Speaker 1: show you that God knew the ways that you would 701 00:47:10,640 --> 00:47:17,000 Speaker 1: let him down before he ever called your name to 702 00:47:17,120 --> 00:47:22,840 Speaker 1: follow him, and that Jesus had gone back up to 703 00:47:22,920 --> 00:47:27,240 Speaker 1: heaven before John twenty one. Peter could not have preached 704 00:47:27,480 --> 00:47:31,920 Speaker 1: on the day of Pentecost. He was no longer living 705 00:47:32,080 --> 00:47:35,239 Speaker 1: in the letdown of what Jesus didn't do. He was 706 00:47:35,360 --> 00:47:39,480 Speaker 1: living in the letdown of what he didn't do for Jesus. 707 00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:42,920 Speaker 1: And that is why it was important for Jesus to 708 00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:47,640 Speaker 1: take time to cook breakfast for these disciples who denied him. 709 00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:51,560 Speaker 1: Even the ones who didn't deny him, they disassociated from him, 710 00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:54,280 Speaker 1: even the ones who said I will follow you to death, 711 00:47:54,600 --> 00:47:57,719 Speaker 1: even loud mouthed Peter, who was willing to cut off 712 00:47:57,760 --> 00:48:00,239 Speaker 1: an ear in the garden so that no one would 713 00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:03,440 Speaker 1: take his Lord away, Even Peter who was willing to 714 00:48:03,440 --> 00:48:06,000 Speaker 1: give Jesus his vote, not even knowing yet where this 715 00:48:06,080 --> 00:48:09,319 Speaker 1: journey would lead. Even Peter, in the moment of crisis, 716 00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:17,040 Speaker 1: he let him down. That's what I'm upset about, not 717 00:48:17,160 --> 00:48:21,080 Speaker 1: that God let me down. If I'm honest, the biggest 718 00:48:21,080 --> 00:48:24,320 Speaker 1: thing I have to process is that I constantly feel 719 00:48:24,520 --> 00:48:31,440 Speaker 1: like I'm letting him down. That's why I go back fishing, 720 00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:36,000 Speaker 1: doing what I know to do, because I don't want 721 00:48:36,040 --> 00:48:40,080 Speaker 1: to let you down. God. I'm sorry, I'm here again. 722 00:48:40,360 --> 00:48:43,040 Speaker 1: Here I am struggling with this again. I've already had 723 00:48:43,080 --> 00:48:45,760 Speaker 1: help with this. I've already prayed about this. You already 724 00:48:45,800 --> 00:48:48,600 Speaker 1: taught me about this. I remember Write's scripture. And here 725 00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:54,600 Speaker 1: I am again. I let you down. I let you down. 726 00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:59,640 Speaker 1: God said, Really, I wasn't aware that you were holding 727 00:48:59,680 --> 00:49:10,120 Speaker 1: me up. That's why he got up out of the grave, 728 00:49:11,719 --> 00:49:15,120 Speaker 1: not only holding his own not only he wasn't holding 729 00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:18,040 Speaker 1: anything but the keys to death, Hell and the grave, 730 00:49:20,880 --> 00:49:24,040 Speaker 1: all of your sin, all of your say, all of 731 00:49:24,080 --> 00:49:27,200 Speaker 1: the record, all of the guilty stain. It was in 732 00:49:27,280 --> 00:49:29,960 Speaker 1: the grave that he left. The only thing he was 733 00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:36,840 Speaker 1: holding was the keys to let you know, Peter, that 734 00:49:36,960 --> 00:49:44,439 Speaker 1: you can't let me down, because to disappoint God would 735 00:49:44,560 --> 00:49:46,960 Speaker 1: mean that you had something deep down inside that he 736 00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:52,640 Speaker 1: didn't see. And since God is this thing called omniscient, 737 00:49:53,680 --> 00:49:57,400 Speaker 1: which means all knowing, and since he is all seeing, 738 00:49:58,560 --> 00:50:01,200 Speaker 1: and since he fills everything in every space, even the 739 00:50:01,239 --> 00:50:03,520 Speaker 1: spaces in between the things you show him, even the 740 00:50:03,560 --> 00:50:06,560 Speaker 1: spaces between sundays where you struggle, even the spaces in 741 00:50:06,600 --> 00:50:10,040 Speaker 1: between your great burst of faith, since he fills that space, 742 00:50:11,680 --> 00:50:14,279 Speaker 1: he came to the shore to show you something that 743 00:50:14,320 --> 00:50:16,640 Speaker 1: I want you to get, the revelation for today, not 744 00:50:16,920 --> 00:50:19,319 Speaker 1: just that he got up. He got up. Oh isn't 745 00:50:19,320 --> 00:50:25,000 Speaker 1: that wonderful? Not unless you believe that you can too. 746 00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:28,439 Speaker 1: You've got to get up. You must it up. Your 747 00:50:28,560 --> 00:50:32,839 Speaker 1: purpose demands it, your faith commends it. You must it up. 748 00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:37,080 Speaker 1: You must it up. This is not a suggestion. It's 749 00:50:37,120 --> 00:50:40,200 Speaker 1: a command. If you if you got to jump in 750 00:50:40,239 --> 00:50:44,200 Speaker 1: the water, you musk it up. You must it up. 751 00:50:48,320 --> 00:50:53,520 Speaker 1: It's a summons to faith. You musk it up because 752 00:50:53,600 --> 00:51:01,240 Speaker 1: there is life after the letdown. There is life after 753 00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:04,760 Speaker 1: the letdown, and confess it by faith with your own mouth. 754 00:51:04,920 --> 00:51:09,919 Speaker 1: There is life after the letdown. Yeah, this didn't turn 755 00:51:09,920 --> 00:51:13,520 Speaker 1: out how I wanted, But I'm going forward by faith 756 00:51:13,800 --> 00:51:18,279 Speaker 1: because there is life after the letdown. A lot of 757 00:51:18,280 --> 00:51:22,120 Speaker 1: people left me. They left Jesus too. He called them friends. 758 00:51:22,360 --> 00:51:25,879 Speaker 1: He didn't get bitter. He fed them breakfast, because there 759 00:51:25,960 --> 00:51:30,520 Speaker 1: is life after the leftown. That lets me know He 760 00:51:30,560 --> 00:51:34,080 Speaker 1: can forgive any dirty, rotten, stinking, sinful thing I do. 761 00:51:39,360 --> 00:51:41,560 Speaker 1: How do you know that? How do you know that? 762 00:51:41,719 --> 00:51:43,520 Speaker 1: How do you know he can still use me? How 763 00:51:43,520 --> 00:51:45,600 Speaker 1: do you know God's not disappointed in me. How do 764 00:51:45,600 --> 00:51:47,440 Speaker 1: you know he hasn't changed his mind? How do you 765 00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:48,920 Speaker 1: know I didn't blow it? How do you know the 766 00:51:48,920 --> 00:51:50,560 Speaker 1: best things aren't behind me? How do you know I 767 00:51:50,560 --> 00:51:52,640 Speaker 1: didn't make a mistake I can't come back from How 768 00:51:52,640 --> 00:51:56,360 Speaker 1: do I know it? Because the fish told me so. 769 00:51:59,320 --> 00:52:04,280 Speaker 1: Not the ones caught, the ones that Jesus was already 770 00:52:04,320 --> 00:52:09,799 Speaker 1: cooking when he got to the shore. See, he's not 771 00:52:10,200 --> 00:52:15,280 Speaker 1: finished with you yet. That's why you didn't die yet. 772 00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:19,239 Speaker 1: That's why some of you made a plan to kill yourself, 773 00:52:19,560 --> 00:52:23,200 Speaker 1: but you couldn't. That was the grace of God to 774 00:52:23,360 --> 00:52:28,480 Speaker 1: hold you up. He won't let you down that far. No, no, no, 775 00:52:28,880 --> 00:52:32,040 Speaker 1: that's where my solid rock kicks it. He got a 776 00:52:32,160 --> 00:52:39,480 Speaker 1: purpose from me. He's got something to build through my life. 777 00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:47,000 Speaker 1: And Jesus said, bring me some fish, and then they ate? 778 00:52:48,640 --> 00:52:54,759 Speaker 1: Which fish did they eat? Not the ones that Peter caught, 779 00:52:56,400 --> 00:53:02,600 Speaker 1: but the ones that Jesus had already cleaned. Was he 780 00:53:02,640 --> 00:53:06,240 Speaker 1: trying to give us a little message this Easter about 781 00:53:06,280 --> 00:53:09,360 Speaker 1: the ways that we think we've disqualified ourselves from his grace? 782 00:53:10,800 --> 00:53:17,160 Speaker 1: Was he trying to tell you it's already clean? Was 783 00:53:17,160 --> 00:53:20,560 Speaker 1: he trying to show you? Did he bring us here 784 00:53:20,600 --> 00:53:23,799 Speaker 1: for this moment, for all the ways that life has 785 00:53:23,880 --> 00:53:28,480 Speaker 1: let you down. I'm sorry for all the ways that 786 00:53:28,560 --> 00:53:33,200 Speaker 1: you've let God down. He already knows. But he still 787 00:53:33,239 --> 00:53:43,279 Speaker 1: got up, and he still called you friend. What would 788 00:53:43,280 --> 00:53:47,960 Speaker 1: that have sounded like through the ears of failure? What 789 00:53:48,040 --> 00:53:52,200 Speaker 1: would that have sounded like? What would that have looked 790 00:53:52,239 --> 00:53:54,640 Speaker 1: like through the eyes of frustration of fishing all night 791 00:53:55,719 --> 00:54:01,440 Speaker 1: catching nothing? Did God bring you to this moment to 792 00:54:01,480 --> 00:54:05,520 Speaker 1: show you who he really is? They recognize Jesus after 793 00:54:06,560 --> 00:54:11,080 Speaker 1: the letdown. I believe God is calling new life forth 794 00:54:11,320 --> 00:54:16,280 Speaker 1: in this moment. Everyone's standing, everyone's standing, nobody moving, every 795 00:54:16,320 --> 00:54:19,720 Speaker 1: head bow, every eye close. I invite you right now 796 00:54:19,880 --> 00:54:22,239 Speaker 1: to come out of your grave and meet Jesus. I 797 00:54:22,360 --> 00:54:25,520 Speaker 1: invite you right now to see the Christ upon the cross, 798 00:54:25,719 --> 00:54:29,120 Speaker 1: who was wounded for your transgression, who was bruised for 799 00:54:29,200 --> 00:54:32,359 Speaker 1: your iniquity. The chastisement that brought us peace was upon 800 00:54:32,440 --> 00:54:36,280 Speaker 1: him by his stripes. We are healed. It's already done, 801 00:54:36,360 --> 00:54:39,440 Speaker 1: it's already clean. The price has already been paid, the 802 00:54:39,480 --> 00:54:41,839 Speaker 1: blood has already been shed. It is not that we 803 00:54:41,880 --> 00:54:44,359 Speaker 1: are righteous that enables us to come to God. It 804 00:54:44,440 --> 00:54:46,200 Speaker 1: is not that we will do better. It is my 805 00:54:46,360 --> 00:54:48,960 Speaker 1: believing that you have life in his name. The scripture 806 00:54:49,000 --> 00:54:51,120 Speaker 1: says that if you will confess with your mouth that 807 00:54:51,239 --> 00:54:53,920 Speaker 1: Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that he 808 00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:56,440 Speaker 1: got up, that God raised him from the dead, that 809 00:54:56,520 --> 00:54:58,840 Speaker 1: you can get up to and you can be saved, 810 00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:00,920 Speaker 1: and you can have a new but and you can 811 00:55:00,960 --> 00:55:03,200 Speaker 1: have a fresh start. And he will call you friend, 812 00:55:03,400 --> 00:55:05,520 Speaker 1: and he will call you a child. And he never 813 00:55:05,600 --> 00:55:08,520 Speaker 1: stopped loving you, and he never stopped pursuing you, and 814 00:55:08,560 --> 00:55:11,480 Speaker 1: he never stopped wanting you, and he never stopped calling you, 815 00:55:11,680 --> 00:55:14,120 Speaker 1: and he's still gonna use you. But this is your 816 00:55:14,160 --> 00:55:24,719 Speaker 1: moment of decision. There is life after the letdown, after 817 00:55:24,760 --> 00:55:30,680 Speaker 1: the worst possible thing, after the greatest possible pain. There 818 00:55:30,760 --> 00:55:37,200 Speaker 1: is life after the letdown. This is the part of 819 00:55:37,239 --> 00:55:39,400 Speaker 1: the sermon where you decide whether to walk out that 820 00:55:39,480 --> 00:55:43,120 Speaker 1: door just like you can, or really let God into 821 00:55:43,160 --> 00:55:45,840 Speaker 1: that place in your life where you need to be 822 00:55:45,920 --> 00:55:50,360 Speaker 1: forgiven and save. With every head bowed in every eye closed. 823 00:55:51,680 --> 00:55:53,600 Speaker 1: I'm going to lead you in a prayer right now. 824 00:55:55,360 --> 00:56:02,319 Speaker 1: This prayer is not just magical words strung together. It's 825 00:56:02,320 --> 00:56:06,239 Speaker 1: an actual declaration of faith for those of you who 826 00:56:06,239 --> 00:56:08,680 Speaker 1: are standing there, and you're going God's speaking to me today. 827 00:56:08,920 --> 00:56:12,319 Speaker 1: He's calling me to come out of my sin, to 828 00:56:12,360 --> 00:56:16,279 Speaker 1: come out of my shame, and to receive him. This 829 00:56:16,360 --> 00:56:18,360 Speaker 1: is your moment to be saved, and we're going to 830 00:56:18,400 --> 00:56:21,040 Speaker 1: pray it all out loud together for the benefit of 831 00:56:21,040 --> 00:56:23,839 Speaker 1: those who are making a decision to do what Peter 832 00:56:23,960 --> 00:56:29,120 Speaker 1: did and follow Jesus Christ to receive his grace and 833 00:56:29,200 --> 00:56:32,640 Speaker 1: new life and the forgiveness of sin. This is your 834 00:56:32,680 --> 00:56:35,839 Speaker 1: resurrection moment for all of you who want to give 835 00:56:35,880 --> 00:56:37,399 Speaker 1: your life to God, or you've been far from Him 836 00:56:37,400 --> 00:56:38,719 Speaker 1: for a long time and you want to come back. 837 00:56:38,800 --> 00:56:41,279 Speaker 1: Right now, repeat this prayer after me, Church family, praying 838 00:56:41,320 --> 00:56:47,360 Speaker 1: out loud, Heavenly Father, today is my day of salvation. 839 00:56:48,320 --> 00:56:52,000 Speaker 1: I am a sinner in need of a savior, and 840 00:56:52,040 --> 00:56:56,120 Speaker 1: I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God 841 00:56:56,840 --> 00:57:00,920 Speaker 1: and the savior of the world. And today I make 842 00:57:01,040 --> 00:57:05,200 Speaker 1: Jesus the Lord of my life. I believe you died 843 00:57:06,280 --> 00:57:10,480 Speaker 1: that I would be forgiven and rose again to give 844 00:57:10,560 --> 00:57:16,080 Speaker 1: me life. I receive this new life. This is my 845 00:57:16,240 --> 00:57:18,760 Speaker 1: new beginning. On the counter of three shoots, your hand 846 00:57:18,880 --> 00:57:21,800 Speaker 1: up if you prayed that one, two, three, all over 847 00:57:21,840 --> 00:57:26,640 Speaker 1: this room, all over our campuses, come on Mouth, shoot 848 00:57:26,640 --> 00:57:29,360 Speaker 1: it Up Hot, shoot it Up Hot for a third 849 00:57:29,440 --> 00:57:34,760 Speaker 1: Day miracle, and the rest of us. Let's celebrate the 850 00:57:34,880 --> 00:57:40,920 Speaker 1: resurrection of our gang today. Well, if you enjoy today's podcast, 851 00:57:40,960 --> 00:57:43,040 Speaker 1: there are a couple things I'd love for you to do. 852 00:57:43,160 --> 00:57:47,480 Speaker 1: Make sure to subscribe, rate, and review this podcast. 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